Thread 718848328

Half-Lifebros...Is it over?

No we actually have a lot of reason to believe a new half-life game is on the way.

>>718848328 (OP)
When has it not been over?

Post your best/rarest chuds before mods prune

Hopefully. The world doesn't need another sweet baby moviegame.

>>718848328 (OP)
Is it true Gaben is waiting for true VR aka a neural interface to be developed in order to make a new Half-Life?
I almost respect him for that if it's true, even if it'll never happen cause the only people putting money into it are grifters like Musk.

>>718848509
>caring about sweetbaby in the big '25
Go home unc.

>>718848328 (OP)
It's been over since Epistle 3, big guy.

no, it's half-over

>>718848734
>Gets employed
>Given no job
>Just chill in the void all day
Sounds pretty good considering the fate of humanity, tbqh

>>718848734
>>718849115
man the ravenholm game looked so cool why did they cancel it

OH SHIT

>>718848645
Kill yourself, faggot shill.

G-man to Alyx:
>We have struggled to find a suitable replacement
wtf is he even saying? Gordon doesn't need replacing.

>>718849483
They were just doing their jobs and it wasn't right for Gordon to slaughter them all.

>>718849486
I could kill myself tomorrow and still outlive you, unc. Get back in the retirement home.

>>718848645
Why couldn't zoomers just say gramps or something? Why'd it have to be this dumb chimpspeak level nu-speak?

>>718849623
>cares about HL at all in 2025
There's no bigger unc than you ITT

>>718849716
TS PMO ICL. Just learn the language unc.

>>718849608
He witnessed first hand them mercilessly killing unarmed scientists in their attempts to cover up, they were continually laying traps trying to ambush Gordon, they deserved to die.

Was the Medpack & HEV charging station some kind of liquid pain-numbing drug? Some scientists even inject you with morphine if you bother them when damaged

>>718849828
All the scientists and Gordon signed contracts. It's not the marines fault they didn't read the fine print.

>>718848328 (OP)
Did you play Alyx? It's been over.
It's a straight-to-dvd version of Half-Life developed by the Portal team.

>>718848734
it would be cool to see a spin off of Shepard in one of the other combiner cities

>>718849608
their "jobs" were to slaughter literally every person in the facility. gordon was in the right to kill them

>>718849213
I don't like how disjointed it is.
>G-Man dropping Adrian into Ravenholm for no reason
>Suddenly zombies don't need headcrabs anymore
>Grigori is addicted to headcrab extract and turns into BOW from RE games
Aside from the gameplay, the story didn't make much sense.

>>718850715
yeah this honestly i think its worse than op4 in retarded canon breaking shit

>>718848328 (OP)
Let's go play Sven /v/

>>718848509
>>718849486
SweetBaby is dead you retard

>>718848328 (OP)
People still care about half-life?

>>718848328 (OP)
It's been over

>>718852830
I never stopped.

I legitimately dont care anymore

>>718848328 (OP)
It's clear they don't want to make HL3. When it comes to creative work you can't just drag someone kicking and screaming into making a new game. If you do it will be passionless slop you won't enjoy anyway.

>>718848328 (OP)
Yes

>>718848328 (OP)
ofc Gabe got his wealth and doesn't give af about games now

>>718854923
Yeah I mean it's clear that HL1 and HL2 and Unreal Tournament and Quake were all products of their time. When they release these games in 2025 you also get a product of your time. The only way you can go back is to play the original games.

Are ANY of the voice actors still alive? If they do continue it they're just going to have to throw Gordon into a whole new scenario

>>718855218
IDK Legacy of Rust feels like it could've come out like 10 odd years ago

>>718855456
But the Doom games themselves haven't been good since Doom 3.

>>718855398
I hear Gordon's is.

>>718848328 (OP)
>...
- Grodon Freeman, 20XX

>>718848509
Valve didn't die with Sweet Baby, they died when Jay Pinkerton became a main writer. He was the one who made Portal 2 into a reddit humor game (and I heavily doubt he wrote the good parts like Cave Johnson and the Announcer), the guy who made the TF2 comicslop that had Sniper be NZ Superman and ruined the ScoutxPauling arc, and the guy who fucking destroyed Alyx by having retard Russell constantly annoying you about BLTs and floppy disks. SBI is just the icing on the cake

>>718849573
Gordon does not do what gman wants, he wants another slave agent to push his agenda, he takes Alyx for this, the ending of alyx has you picking up the crowbar from Gordon's perspective while Eli rants you need to save his daughter implying you now need to go save alyx. but you would know this had you played the game you massive fucking faggot secondary.

>>718857517
you're just assuming he's responsible for everything you don't like and others are responsible for everything you do like
but you actually give a shit about TF2 shipping so there's no reasoning with you, your mind is mush

>>718858202
>you're just assuming he's responsible for everything you don't like and others are responsible for everything you do like
You fucking retard, you can tell when he starts taking over writing duties. Portal 2 is when he begins, and it has symptoms of Pinkerton's lack of talent but still has input from other writers. Then as the years go by he gets more and more control until nu-Valve with HLA and Desk Job. Also note that he has taken credit for a lot of this shit on Twitter
>you actually give a shit about TF2 shipping
I give a shit about arcs. Scout and Pauling were an arc set up in Expiration Date and developed in later comics. It was meant to build Scout's character beyond being a fucking joke who fails at everything. Meanwhile Pinkerton is the one who straight up said Pauling was a dyke for no reason other than he's probably a yurifag. He's the one who cares about "TF2 shipping" since he actively sabotaged a massive plot point for his personal fetish or whatever you twat

Its mesaover

>>718848645
reminder that Baby Ghost and Sweet Baby by financial association is built upon Alec Howoka's death, which was enacted by Zoey Quinn's harassment campaign to ruin his life.

>>718858883
>pinkerton ruined valve
>not the raging hacks who worked on firewatch with anita sarkeesian
fake schizo

>>718860234
Firewatchtards may have helped ruin Alyx a bit more but ground zero is 100% Pinkerton. Campo Santo was acquired by Valve in 2018, long after their downfall started really
Though that is not to say that they're innocent. Really anyone from Telltale is suspicious. That company is well-known for some of the earliest soification of franchise games like Sam & Max and Batman.

>>718860451
i think valve is still capable of designing fun gameplay, but i am concerned about the departure of many of their old writers. retaining their style after replacing them will surely be a challenge

that being said they're still capable of designing great graphics with superb optimization. usually when a studio goes to shit, those two things are the first casualties

>>718858883
>official animation content: too busy with work, but agrees to go on 'dates' with Scout anyway because it was fun. budding relationship
>some faggot writer: "we never actually implied it anywhere, but she's a faggot"
We really needed more cases like the fired Rivet writer getting absolutely lynched publicly by former co-workers.

>>718860975
Valve is too busy with tech demos nowadays imo. I'll need a good HL3 to see if they've retained their way. Classic Valve games were tech demos partially as well but they weren't as limited as Alyx and Desk Job, even if HLA is quite polished gameplay-wise. Their graphics are great quality wise but the artstyle is fucking awful, HLA looks like a cartoon. It's too perfect and the grime doesn't feel anywhere as realistic as HL2. But overall the writing took the biggest loss

>>718861103
I think there was an intent to develop Pauling and Scout's characters with their relationship, particularly if the Adult Swim show had sailed though it was being followed through in the comics regardless. Pauling learnt to stop being as dependent on the Admin and Scout became much more of a man rather than staying a manchild. Note that Pinkerton did not help write Expiration Date or any of the classic comics, his first contributions were the post-MvM comics with all the retarded lore like confirming Soldier was right about his history or making ghost Merasmus and ghost Tom Jones (who hasn't even been born yet) live in a brick.

>>718861643
Scout growing up and having 3 kids is based in all but he should've had a wife

>all these boomers trying to talk about a 20 year old game that was never good
the future is now, play overwatch

>>718848328 (OP)
The release of Silksong appears to have waken you people up from your beauty sleep lol

Half Life 2 is one of the only games that I installed on my new gaming rig that just worked out the box graphically with no fucking around.

they don't need to make episode 3 because entropy zero 2 already exists

>>718862474
Scout in the new comics is not based at all and obviously written by a feminist faggot like Pinkerton. He's a single dad who fucks whorish women and then has to deal with the responsibilities alone while those women go on to live out the rest of their days carefree. It's obviously a woke redo of the bullshit feminist victimhood fantasy of men leaving single mothers behind with kids (which they hate because they're soulless monsters). Fuck the post-MvM comics

>>718861643
Valve are still making video games, you're just too old to play it.

>>718862751
If i had to follow up the end i'd have him with the bucket of chicken chick he screwed before Expiration Date as his wife

>>718862710
Entropy Zero is genuinely worse than Pinkerton. It's a badly designed game starring essentially the unfunny Gianni version of Duke Nukem in a Combine suit but quoting shitty overdone memes which were dead long before the mod existed. The lore is horrendous, the atmosphere is bad and the only good thing is the effort put into the Wilson quest but even that is kinda ruined ultimately

Few good HL2 mods have properly been released, none are deserving of being called HL3. None

Your time is over, make way for the new hotness.

Anyone else want to have sex with abrams?

>>718862841
Nah if I could I'd make a comic where Scout ends up with Pauling in the most chad way possible and she completely falls for him. That'd fucking trigger all the Redditards and DEItroons who think men shouldn't be doing heroic things and women shouldn't be falling for them

>>718862909
>new hero release
>new hero is broken
>new hero will be eventually made into a shadow of its past self
I'm tired, boss.

>>718863152
Just git gud, they're releasing 6 heroes anyways.

>>718862909
>They hit ivy with the cute stick
It's over. I'm never playing that game again.

>>718862909
Give Yamato a new model. Please.

>Thread is now overrun by neon prime rejects walking in league of overwatch skin
Half-Lifebros... it's so over

>>718863569
They've been shilling that game hard for like 3 or 4 days now.

>literally cannibalizing on a half-life thread to get away from me
Deadcuck shills just never learn.

Vindicta's cute feet!

>>718863678
Yep, the same shills from the last year April, discord raids are so fucking obvious.
This is how it always starts. First a thread, then the whole page.

>>718863678
They're seriously desperate kek
Sad how Valve has fallen, but tbf it's expected, no company has really managed to save itself from neogaming corruption. I guess we'll just have to rely on mods to enjoy classic Valve-style products

>>718863978
Rent free, the game just got a gigantic patch and people want to talk about it

>>718863860
blue barefoot wife

>>718864067
>he didn't play during may 2024
coping newfag
you missed out
deadlock is already dead
heh

>>718848328 (OP)
I just want them to re-capture the feeling and atmosphere of highway 17. And make it like 3x longer.

>Welcome. Welcome to Thread 17.
>You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining discussion centers. I thought so much of Thread 17 that I elected to establish my deadlock general here, in the boards.4chan.org/v/ so thoughtfully provided by Our Advertisers. I have been proud to call Thread 17 my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to Thread 17. It's safer here.

>>718864660
>the game is already dead
cope and seethe, the game is peaking right now

>shep comes back
>spore launcher has matured into a shock trooper
gimme gimme gimme

>>718864740
it peaked before redditors like yourself found about it before the official reveal

>>718864680
You seem upset anon, do you want an invite to deadlock so you can stop obsessing over a literal tunnel?

>>718864680
Highway 17 was so fucking good. Though imo peak HL atmosphere has always been Episode 2

>>718864781
>implying valve has ever officially acknowledged deadlock even exists
It's invite only right now and it's going to pull more number than tf2 next week, cope and seethe

>>718864876
What's your point? My post was about how good highway 17 felt to play through and how I want to experience something similar
>do you want an invite to deadlock so you can stop obsessing over a literal tunnel?
I've played this game since before you were born little zoom zoom and decided it's not worth my time already. Which tunnel are you talking about?

>>718865264
lololololololol you are brown phoneposter gtfo from my board, deadlock is the future of Valve, Gaben doesn't give a fuck about Dogshit life 3, it's time to move on boomie

>>718865264
Anon stop feeding the shills. They aren't here to genuinely converse with you, they're here because they're retarded enough that they believe that by insulting people they'll play their retarded zoomer shooter game nobody gives a shit about. It's as simple as that

>>718865264
I'm talking about the tunnel in highway 17 section, the one that you'd know about if you actually played half-life 2, TF2tranny.

>>718865417
Based Deadlock Enjoyer
Doorman is the best Valve character, gman is a like a wet fart compared to him

>>718865479
>shill
lmao tf2troon is still mad, go back to your ERP session on brony server with rest of your estrogen pumped sissy clowns

>>718848328 (OP)
>wojak
kys sharty

>>718864660
>tranime
kys pedo

>>718848437
>t. waited 13 years for a VR gimmick spinoff which retcons hl2
KWAB

>>718848482
>auto-sage
it's fucking over, /lgbt/ will pay for this
second blackout soon, this time it will be permanent

This thread summarizes the quality of modern 4chan quite well
UK, US, EU, just nuke this shithole already

Is this thread now just one samefag who forgot his pills and attacks anyone for engagement?
>inb4 he responds to me
could you try lash ulting yourself to one of your deadgame threads?

>>718867071
Thanks for the bump, nigga
picrel is you

>>718867071
i'm starting to think its that one TF2 schizo falseflag gayops who also spams on the deadlock threads. it reeks of the same kind of seething autism

Why is the Valve fanbase so full of doomers? Every discussion of any Valve title just devolves into a circlejerk of misery and rage. I like Valve games and I’m not particularly upset or mad at the fact that there’s no new Half Life game. I just don’t have room in my heart for those feelings. Why can’t Valve fans find something good in their lives to look forward to?

>>718868497
I'm happy at the fact that there isn't a HL3 yet because I know for a fact it won't ever live up to expectations. Valve has fallen far too much for that to be the case. I'm content ignoring modern Valve and enjoying their classic products, making mods and maps for them

>>718868497
>valve fans are completely apathetic and dead on the inside
sad!

>>718862909
YAAAAAAAAAAAAS CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY GENERIC HERO SHOOTER #3429349843893488932489342489442898934898349892383477483742892897428989 GLORP SLURP SLOP SLOP!

Source 2 SDK when?

>>718868497
These stupid fucks just shoved a moba into team fortress 2 and made it third person so they can show off the hats.

And their fanboys can't stop sucking them off because it's valve.

Being a valve fan is suffering.

>>718869303
>reddit spacing

>>718869396
Yes, valve is reddit now chud.

Deal with it.

Half life 3 takes place after another time skip where Alyx is in like her early 50’s and everyone thought the freeman died cod real this time

>HL3 is in development
>it gets quietly cancelled again due to gabens autism
There’s a high chance the games legacy is cursed and we’ll never see it in any capacity because Gaben wants it to be the literal holy grail of gaming or else why bother

>>718869303
>ABLOOBLOOBLOOBLOO THEY MADE A GAME THAT ISN'T TF2 WOE IS ME
shut the fuck up faggot
i hope your game fucking chokes and die from the cancer that is your game's fanbase
in fact, it already is choking on all that
i hope it happens quicker

With my brains and your brawn we'll make an excellent team!

Even silksong got rid of the clown makeup...

HL3 will shadow drop with no teaser at all. It will just appear on steam one day and fans will do the rest

>>718854458
No it isn't you gullible faggot.

>>718868497
It all started when valve, instead of making episode 3 focused on tf2 cosmetics and adding other people's game to their steam store.
Valve was criticized from the day hl2 had a forced steam requirement.
Steam drones never learn.

Alyx was a fantastic game and I'm tired of pretending it wasn't

>>718867071
Bro you just described half the board these days. Every thread feels like it’s one dude in a padded room with a VPN and unlimited hotpockets. The second someone says anything remotely positive they get crucified in all caps with an attached wojak. You can’t even mention enjoying a game without being labeled a shill now lmao.

>>718870290
Said no one ever

>>718849716
your family had a family (wife and kids) but you don't, unc

too many uncs around ruining society

>>718870078
unlikely

>>718870290
>HL game where the protag never shuts up
>barely advances the story
>forced to play as le strong mystery meat girl
No.

>>718870293
I agree, by the way what's your rank in deadlock? I'm currently at emissary 5 and I can't think of any great way to proceed to a higher rank.

While the ingame guides and the great community surrounding this game are great, I still find myself struggling to get better at deadlock.

Deadlock is just not like anything I've ever played before, it requires excellent reflexes, great map awareness, and flawless execution.

I think everyone should give this game a try.

>>718848734
if it makes you feel any better, the moment Gman puts him out of sleep it will be like no time passed at all, just like gordon.
One moment inside the cargo plane of the ending, the next 100 years into the future.

>>718870550
>muh silent protagonist
neck yourself

>>718864774
>Shocktrooper does a Vortigaunt and saves him from G-man's contract
>You now fight Combine remnants with your Shocktrooper buddy

KINO

>>718870840
>says this in a HL thread
kys now

>>718858202
Literally, who asked you?

>>718870840
>old HL bad now
You first.

>>718870550
why did they make her look like that

>>718857517
>and I heavily doubt he wrote the good parts like Cave Johnson and the Announcer
You know the schizo babble is good when their meltdown relies on head canon.

>>718849608
>be hecu
>get deployed for a cleaning job in black mesa thanks to some creepy goverment spook orders
>expect some gay shit like actual clean up or something
>OH SHIT I CAN KILL REAL ALIENS, THATS AWESO...wait what do you mean i gotta kill scientists too?
>kill everything on sight
>heard rumors of an orange icepop wandering around the base killing all of your teammates and pretty much being invincible
FFW DAY 3
>shit hit the fan
>the aliens are now overpowering us
>we literally cannot fight back since they can teleport and breach our defenses effortesly
>and thats not counting the building tall monster that got a dual flamethrower as arms
>oh and bigger ones who can shot murder bees are starting to teleport too
>remember the orange ice pop? he wiped out half of our team
>we received orders to forget about him and ditch the place since they are gonna nuke it but apparently this shit is turning worldwide
Man the HECU had it bad since they arrived, im glad the fan remake actually showed us a bit of their side.

>>718871196
More like relies on Cave and the Announcer's dialogue having far more quality than anything else in the game

>>718848328 (OP)
>Gordon hasn't slept from the start of HL1
I really hope Valve has the balls to give Gordon a good ending. That means no more sequels. Gordon didn't ask for any of this and deserves some rest

>>718871794
it was a dream all along

>>718871794
Gordon has more value to the corporation as an unending protagonist, Mr. Anon. Why, what other remarkable specimen can maintain our image for more than 20 years?

He's effective even while away. More effective, even, while away. I'm sure you understand.

>>718866561
>autosage
take your meds

1 and 2 might as well be a different series

>>718868889
Right, but why is this? The only Valve fans that seem somewhat satisfied are Left 4 Dead and Portal fans, and even then you’ve still got some shitters that are unhappy.

>>718848328 (OP)
No. Half Life will continue as a repository for new Deadlock characters, expect Freeman to be added soon.

>>718871794
he did sleep a bit during the start of the chapter aprehension and when he got buried alive under debris of the citadel at the end of HL2

>>718870840
Nah, fuck you and follow your own advice, faggot.

>>718871196
>schizo babble
Literally, who asked you?

>>718870892
Would be cool. As Valve always tries to innovate wit their releases, the next move could very well be a smart NPC companion.

>>718873120
Me

>>718870086
Yes it is you gullible faggot

>>718848734
Any minute now Mitch will come and get me. Any minute…

>>718875362
Adrian sucks balls, Mitchell is the fucking worst and Berkan deserves to be shot in the balls (tbf anyone at Activision does)

valve is dead and ran by indians now from what i hear

>>718877173
you should clean your ears then

>>718877173
From what I'm told Valve is extremely male and extremely white

>>718861103
yeah

>>718877790
sounds like bullshit, pretty sure thats illegal in the jewsa