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Anonymous No.719963259 >>719963963 >>719964023 >>719964179 >>719964778 >>719965186 >>719965194 >>719965281 >>719965364 >>719965905 >>719966158 >>719966428 >>719968398 >>719968662 >>719968720 >>719968814 >>719969405 >>719970090 >>719970646 >>719970909 >>719971431 >>719971881 >>719973137 >>719973549 >>719973758 >>719975175 >>719975325 >>719975358 >>719975418 >>719976140 >>719976392 >>719976497 >>719976912 >>719976925 >>719978434 >>719978657 >>719980310 >>719981949 >>719982017 >>719982058 >>719991440 >>719993229 >>719996484 >>719997056 >>719997623 >>720001370 >>720005847 >>720005952 >>720006282 >>720006449 >>720007569 >>720007880 >>720009305 >>720017651 >>720020009 >>720020823 >>720021071 >>720022519 >>720025964
HALF-LIFE 3
RUN. THINK. SHOOT. LIVE.

NOVEMBER 18TH

PROJECT LEAD: ROBIN WALKER
DEVELOPMENT TIME: 2019-2026
DEVELOPER COUNT: ~95
ENGINE: SOURCE 2
RELEASE DATE: Q1 2026
PLATFORM: WINDOWS, LINUX, STEAMOS
Anonymous No.719963941 >>719973706
Anonymous No.719963963 >>719972905 >>719983117 >>720022116 >>720022126 >>720023142
>>719963259 (OP)
don't care it's been too long
Anonymous No.719964023 >>719969441
>>719963259 (OP)
They wouldn't wait that long to announce it if it was actually happening
Anonymous No.719964179
>>719963259 (OP)
What if they release it on steam without any marketing ?
Anonymous No.719964197 >>719964950 >>719966230 >>719966325 >>719968129 >>719971685 >>719972997 >>719973903 >>719979910 >>719984247 >>719984502 >>719993083 >>720017575 >>720018249
there isn't even any new exciting tech for HL3 yet
Anonymous No.719964232
Sure. I'll believe it when I see it.
Anonymous No.719964623 >>719965029 >>719965084 >>719965110 >>719966635 >>719968528 >>719968763 >>719969550 >>719970574 >>719975215 >>719975536 >>719975647 >>719975765 >>719981893 >>719982836 >>719983030 >>719985002 >>720003893 >>720010420 >>720020756 >>720023135 >>720023205
What would the societal impact of a shadow dropped Half-Life 3 be?
Anonymous No.719964657 >>719964727
Nobody cares about half life anymore, the momentum is dead a long time ago
Anonymous No.719964727
>>719964657
I care a lot about it and am still a little butthurt.
Anonymous No.719964778
>>719963259 (OP)
fake and gay. Now put my fries in the basket.
Anonymous No.719964858 >>719965358
>source 2
holy KEK that trash engine in 2025? what next, are they going to port it to unreal engine 3?
Anonymous No.719964950 >>719968458
>>719964197
i don't care. i just want closure. end this series already
Anonymous No.719965029 >>719973218
>>719964623
I would lose my shit personally but I'd expect people to mostly not care initially other than going "Hey, isn't that the 'lmao can't count to 3' game?" But if the game has mind blowing gameplay and tech that also appeals to the mainstream instead of just fans, then word of mouth should give it a lot of hype pretty quick. If it doesn't then it'll probably just be mildly popular rather than break the internet popular.
Anonymous No.719965084 >>719992179
>>719964623
Valve would be stupid to shadowdrop it just because some redditors want it to for meme reasons, considering it's not really the most hyped game in the world anymore after people got tired of all the red herring over the years.
Anonymous No.719965110
>>719964623
If what OP describes were actually real, it would probably be my game of the decade.
Anonymous No.719965168 >>719974128 >>719974174 >>719984764 >>720020882 >>720026598
I don’t want Half-Life 3. I want Artifact.

Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
Anonymous No.719965186
>>719963259 (OP)
>PLATFORM: WINDOWS, LINUX, STEAMOS
>LINUX, STEAMOS
Anonymous No.719965194
>>719963259 (OP)
They missed the boat a decade ago
Anonymous No.719965281
>>719963259 (OP)
>source Tyler Mcvicker
into the trash it goes
Anonymous No.719965358 >>719965479 >>719970993 >>719983876 >>719985312
>>719964858
HALF LIFE 3 BRANCH OF SOURCE 2 ENGINE HAS BEEN FULLY UPGRADED DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT. FOR ALL THE ASPECTS, SUCH AS PHYSICS, DRIVING, AND GAMEPLAY, THE BEST DEVELOPERS IN THE FIELD HAVE BEEN HIRED.
Anonymous No.719965364 >>719965480 >>719965558 >>719977085
>>719963259 (OP)
>development time: 2019-2026
nah bro, its more like 2007-2037
its been in development so long that i'm seeing the same cope, word-for-word, that i saw ten to fifteen years ago.
Anonymous No.719965479
>>719965358
WHY ARE YOU YELLING
Anonymous No.719965480
>>719965364
Same. I thought some of these guys were just trolling, but I've had some conversations on here with people who are either incredible gullible and/or under 25.
Anonymous No.719965558 >>719965673 >>719965716 >>719970993
>>719965364
THE 2013 HALF LIFE 3 DID NOT SURVIVE LONG AND WAS CANCELLED EARLY. YOU CAN REFER TO "FINAL HOURS OF HALF-LIFE ALYX" FOR MORE INFORMATION. THIS CURRENT HALF-LIFE 3 PROJECT STARTED IN 2019, EXPERIMENTATION STARTED SHORTLY BEFORE HALF-LIFE ALYX ENDED DEVELOPMENT.
Anonymous No.719965673 >>719965825
>>719965558
BUT WHY IS GABEN SO FAT?!
Anonymous No.719965716
>>719965558
this is what i'm talking about, i'm getting deja vu. "naw bro it was cancelled and restarted but its totally almost ready this time," this is the third time i've seen this argument throughout the years.
Anonymous No.719965825 >>719965907 >>719968495 >>719970993 >>719974289 >>719975236
>>719965673
GABE NEWELL IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED "FAT", USAGE OF "OZEMPIC" STARTED AT LEAST 1.5 YEARS AGO, THERE HAVE BEEN LEAKS OF HIS NAKED BODY, FAT BELLY NO LONGER VISIBLE
Anonymous No.719965872
the copium is real
Anonymous No.719965905
>>719963259 (OP)
Nah bro, not at this point.
Anonymous No.719965907 >>719975356
>>719965825
PICS OR GTFO
Anonymous No.719966005 >>719989104 >>719993438
Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4MLD2Qfjo
Anonymous No.719966158 >>719966229 >>719966271
>>719963259 (OP)
>PROJECT LEAD: ROBIN WALKER
why would the multiplayer guy at valve direct a singleplayer game you fat brown nigger
>No verification required
Anonymous No.719966229 >>719966334
>>719966158
wasnt he the lead for alyx?
Anonymous No.719966230 >>719974037 >>719994114
>>719964197
Good. Valve should stop doing this meme. Not every game has to be a tech demo of the newest tech.
Anonymous No.719966271
>>719966158
ROBIN WALKER WAS THE PROJECT LEAD FOR "HALF-LIFE ALYX" (2020). ARE YOU DUMB, RETARD?
Anonymous No.719966325 >>719972997 >>719973687
>>719964197
Ai?
Anonymous No.719966334
>>719966229
He and Dario Casali were the leads.
Anonymous No.719966428 >>719967964
>>719963259 (OP)
I thought the previous game was supposed to be Half Life 3.
Anonymous No.719966635 >>719992486
>>719964623
They'd drop an official teaser one week in advance.
Anonymous No.719967227
Half Life 3 will be announced in under 24 hours
Anonymous No.719967664
The game is about making speedrun Gordon canon.
Anonymous No.719967964 >>719968259 >>719982173
>>719966428
Far from Half-Life 3. Prequel (continued the story for 5 seconds, I know), and you did not play as Gordon. Far from the mythical third game.
Anonymous No.719968129
>>719964197
The Deckard
Anonymous No.719968259 >>719968306
>>719967964
really enjoyed HL:A but did not enjoy the superhero shit at the end and how that's going to affect the story of HL3 if it ever releases
Anonymous No.719968306
>>719968259
Same.
Anonymous No.719968360 >>719973153 >>719992381 >>719997958
>STAND. LISTEN. SNOOZE. QUIT.
It better not be another HL2
Anonymous No.719968396 >>719994114
>we could have released Episode 3 but we just didn't lol
fuck off you fat bastard
Anonymous No.719968398 >>719968601 >>719968971 >>719970589
>>719963259 (OP)
Only 95? That's pretty low, isn't it?
Anonymous No.719968458 >>719970994
>>719964950
Valve already told people who want closure to fuck off by retconning the cliffhanger with a different cliffhanger in a VR exclusive. Having marketed the episodes as a trilogy, they just needed to release one more small game; nothing revolutionary was expected at that point, and just having the G-Man show up and say "game's over now" after a boss fight would have been accepted as a satisfactory ending by fans who had already accepted that as the ending of most Half-Life games prior to Episode One, so giving you "closure" with Episode Three would have been a lot easier than whatever world-shattering thing people imagine Half-Life 3 will have to be. They chose not to do it anyway.
Anonymous No.719968495 >>719975356
>>719965825
Wat show me
Anonymous No.719968528
>>719964623
Would be a crazy ass balls powermove. Just drop it and be done with it.
Anonymous No.719968561 >>719968664 >>719969015
If they were smart they'd never call it Half Life 3 because there's no way it would live up to the hype
Anonymous No.719968601 >>719971127
>>719968398
It's Valve we're talking about. Their games are not open-world bloatware.
Anonymous No.719968662 >>719968751 >>719968764
>>719963259 (OP)
Now that Silksong is out we're back to being schizophrenic about this game, I see.
Anonymous No.719968664
>>719968561
I've always thought this was bullshit. If they release something as good and substantial as Half-Life 2, something they're entirely capable of doing, and call it Half-Life 3, I would be happy.
Anonymous No.719968720
>>719963259 (OP)
kys Tyler McNigger
Anonymous No.719968751
>>719968662
I've been seeing a lot of this in 2025, amusingly. I guess Tyler McVicker made an especially compelling video about HLX that garnered him some new acolytes.
Anonymous No.719968763 >>719968843 >>719974361
>>719964623
Has any shadow dropped game ever done well?
Anonymous No.719968764 >>719969371
>>719968662
HL3 is the ultimate never-ever game; it will always come back to this.
Anonymous No.719968814
>>719963259 (OP)
Fake and gay
Anonymous No.719968843 >>719970412 >>719976738
>>719968763
Oblivion remake did pretty good.
Anonymous No.719968971
>>719968398
the have less than 400 people at valve, (i've read they can't hire more than 400 people without going public).
But they do use contractors, they outsourced some assets to thirdparties.
Anonymous No.719969015 >>719972357
>>719968561
Redditors being "hyped" about shit that was never announced is probably what killed the series. Arguably it's Valve's own fault for releasing two-thirds of an episodic trilogy and then stopping, but it didn't help that people saw the delay in Episode Three and immediately thought "WOOOOW THIS MUST MEAN IT'S HALF-LIFE 3 INSTEAD!!!" and started exponentially hyping up their expectations for the unannounced and non-existent game from that very moment as if it's been in development since 2008.
Anonymous No.719969125 >>719969334 >>719969381 >>719969618 >>719971087 >>719983876
no matter what valve makes HL3 will never live to expectations and they know it
Anonymous No.719969334
>>719969125
wanna bet its better than you expect?
Anonymous No.719969371 >>719969483 >>719969783
>>719968764
its actually pic related since it got way more time in the oven than HL3, but no one really cares about it and only the niche remaining fanbase of the first game are expecting it to either be finally cancelled or to ubisoft to shadow drop it then pretend nothing happened.
Anonymous No.719969381
>>719969125
It's been so long that it'd be a high expectation if the game came out at all.
Anonymous No.719969405 >>719969640
>>719963259 (OP)
Alright then, if you know so much post the weapon roster. Everyone seems to know when it comes out but nobody can provide something as simple as that.
Anonymous No.719969441 >>719970017
>>719964023
The only way to release HL3 at this point is to just release it the moment it is announced
Anonymous No.719969483 >>719969640 >>719970580
>>719969371
Caring about both this game and Episode 3 have made me the most psychologically resilient man on Earth. I've suffered more emotional damage than combat veterans and famine victims.
Anonymous No.719969550
>>719964623
A good 3rd of the it industry would call in sick for a week. Nothing catastrophic but it would genuinely have an impact on normies who've never even heard of half-life when a wesite stops working or something.
Anonymous No.719969618
>>719969125
Other than exceptions like Doom and Metro, single-player FPS games are a dying breed. Having HL3 come out and being good is already a miracle.
Anonymous No.719969640 >>719969727
>>719969405
pistol
smg
rocket lawnchair
revolver
shotgun
i can't say the rest but expect more news soon ;^)
>>719969483
you should have jumped the ship the moment they announced it was gonna be a strong affro woman prequel.
Anonymous No.719969727
>>719969640
Eh, the first game was already about a fierce azn grrl who don't take no shit and knows martial arts. It didn't bother me.
Anonymous No.719969783
>>719969371
The game being an always-online pseudo multiplayer killed any modicum of anticipation for it.
Anonymous No.719969957
I hope it's a strand type MMO with weapon skin loot boxes!
Anonymous No.719970012
Y'all cared enough to post in the thread, I mean...
Anonymous No.719970017 >>719971084
>>719969441
they gotta make sure enough people can buy VR headset in time
Anonymous No.719970090 >>719970243
>>719963259 (OP)
If true, I wonder if it will still have physics.
Anonymous No.719970243
>>719970090
If I'm not mistaken, they made Source 2 primarily so that they could replace Havok with their own physics engine.
Anonymous No.719970412
>>719968843
Then everyone shadowdropped it back
Anonymous No.719970514 >>719971119
boomer franchise
Anonymous No.719970574
>>719964623
Same as half life alyx. Fact is half life 3 could release and flop and it wouldn't affect valve that much
Anonymous No.719970580 >>719970772 >>719970895
>>719969483
I'd put being a Halo fan up there. I almost would rather be a Half Life fan. After all the slop that's been produced after Halo 3 I wish they just didn't release anything at all.
Anonymous No.719970589
>>719968398
If you assume OP is real
Anonymous No.719970646
>>719963259 (OP)
just finish the story as a movie
Anonymous No.719970772
>>719970580
Oh, man. I'm sorry bro. My closest friend is one of you guys.
Anonymous No.719970895 >>719972014 >>719972976
>>719970580
Yeah, being a Halo fan is pain. Four great games (Thats CE, 2, 3 and ODST), and then a never ending deluge of pain. Infinite looked promising but it was just too plain in the end.
I miss when Halo was proper M-Rated.
Anonymous No.719970909
>>719963259 (OP)
I have uncslop fatigue
Anonymous No.719970993
>>719965825
>>719965558
>>719965358
i like this guy. you got gumption , kid.
Anonymous No.719970994
>>719968458
>gman shows up after defeating the big bad
>"good job mister freeman" "my.... employers have come to an agreement". "you will remember none of... what has occured the past 20 years.... as well as the remnants.. of humanity. Now is the time to rebuild and repopulate. I... will be keeping a close eye and report to my employers if.... well lets just say history will repeat and we will not allow it. Good bye freeman.

there i ended the series
Anonymous No.719971084
>>719970017
HL3 isn't going to be VR, at least not a dedicated VR game
Anonymous No.719971087
>>719969125
Definitely. FPS games are uber diverse today and people would never be satisfied for what ever is missing in their perverted and delusional mind. The only thing on how to not get a vocal meltdown from all sorts of people would be to release spinoffs only. A top down half-life game or strict coop game in the universe, but not with Gordon Freeman.
Anonymous No.719971119
>>719970514
why are you indian?
Anonymous No.719971127 >>719971290 >>719971321 >>719971382
>>719968601
Alyx lists 336 people from Valve. Not a small team. They don't tell how much each worked on the game thougbeit.
Anonymous No.719971290
>>719971127
valve always lists the entire company in their credits
Anonymous No.719971321
>>719971127
Most of that was just Valve going all hands on deck toward the end of development to get the game over the finish line.
Anonymous No.719971382
>>719971127
They lists everyone in the company. It's kinda retarded desu.
Anonymous No.719971431 >>719971537 >>719974468 >>719974549 >>719974729
>>719963259 (OP)
>DEVELOPER COUNT: ~95

Well that's one way to prove that it's a giga fake leak. Zero chance a AAA game gets made with only 95 people.
Anonymous No.719971537
>>719971431
oh its usually around those numbers but you gotta mention all the filler indians, the coffe boys and social media and HR guys or else one might chimp out.
Anonymous No.719971685 >>719973687
>>719964197
They've apparently been working on simulation systems. Wind, heat, electrical conductivity, etc. I think they're going to go for a more AI driven (in the game sense, not the ML sense) interactive world.
Anonymous No.719971881 >>719974849
>>719963259 (OP)
Anonymous No.719972014 >>719972190
>>719970895
>Thats CE, 2, 3 and ODST
Hey, those are the only ones I own! Nice. I just beat 2 coop. Moving onto 3 next... Or odst, I dunno.
Anonymous No.719972190 >>719972621
>>719972014
Do 3 first, then ODST. ODST is a side story to what happens in 3, but is important for a few key reasons that make themselves clear. It also has the most unique atmosphere of the bunch, what with being a mere man instead of a Spartan this time around. Soundtrack is fucking god-tier too.
Anonymous No.719972357
>>719969015
Open world high fidelity adaptive storyline with fully modeled vaginal cavities.
Anonymous No.719972621 >>719973247
>>719972190
I'm more interested in odst for that reason, but I guess it makes sense to finish up the main plot anyway.
It doesn't end in some gay cliffhanger does it?
Anonymous No.719972796 >>719972970 >>719974526 >>720006262 >>720007667
KELLY MADE SOME TRACKS FOR HALF-LIFE 3. LAIDLAW NOT INVOLVED OFFICIALLY, ONLY SOME EMAIL CONVERSATIONS RELATED TO LORE
Anonymous No.719972905 >>719973039
>>719963963
Nobody ever says that after it arrives. People cared when Duke Forever dropped (at least until they played it).
Anonymous No.719972954 >>719973080
SOURCE?
Anonymous No.719972970
>>719972796

May we see it?
Anonymous No.719972976 >>719973247
>>719970895
Halo 4 killed the aspect of getting hyped for a video game for me. I've never gotten hyped for a game since that one ruined all my expectations. It was all for the better looking back at it because I watched as every game got hyped to no end only to drop the ball on release. I still miss when Reach came out. It was the first game I bought with my own money as a kid. It exceeded all my expectations. I remember watching all the pre-release vidocs. I remember watching every single trailer up to release. I remember watching videos of gameplay on the public beta. I remember when one of my friends brought it over to a buddy's house and I lost my shit the first time he whipped it out. I'll never have that again. There will never exist a game that I get hyped for that manages to exceed all my expectations. That era is gone for me.
Anonymous No.719972997 >>719973687
>>719964197
>>719966325
Personally, I really want to see implementation of AI into NPC dialogue and interactions. I want to be able to tell them to scout ahead or give me some space... or spread their buttcheeks.
Anonymous No.719973039 >>719973280 >>719973707
>>719972905
I cared until I played the beta... yeesh. I bought Borderlands for five bucks just to play that shit lol
Anonymous No.719973080 >>719973247
>>719972954
RIGHT HERE
Anonymous No.719973137
>>719963259 (OP)
>Voices of the Void 1.0 is released
>Title screen shift to "Half Life 3" when you first launch it
Anonymous No.719973153 >>719973364 >>719973473 >>719973636 >>719974117 >>719984128
>>719968360
This. I am so done with East Yurop. Show me something completely different now.
Anonymous No.719973213
I've seen what makes you react to things like that you fucking failure, you belong there. You lost.
Anonymous No.719973218
>>719965029
>I'd expect people to mostly not care
what? why do you think that? everyone still talks about and wants half life 3 to this day
Anonymous No.719973247 >>719974229
>>719972621
Nah, 3 has a pretty solid ending. It can be seen as having an open one for further adventures, but its a solid conclusion to the main Covenant War story.
>>719972976
4 truly was the start of the dark times. I know some people might swear up and down that Reach is trash, but I am not one of those people. 4 was when the death knell was rung, and now we have this zombie of a franchise that refuses to perish, no matter how much controversy it gains.
>>719973080
Are you implying the source is in the very source of life, the water itself? If so I must return to the oceans, like my prehistoric fish ancestors did.
Anonymous No.719973280 >>719973393
>>719973039
My condolences. Duke deserved so much better. And now that cuck Randy Pitchford owns him. Thanks a lot, George Broussard. Fuckin' asshole.
Anonymous No.719973364
>>719973153
>wild west road movie on desolated earth
doubt valve and their "good" game design can handle so much player agency and freedom
Anonymous No.719973393
>>719973280
Being a Duke fan is also pain, yes. Only five good games to his name, half of them spin offs. Forever got done dirty, man. Shoulda wrangled Broussard in 03 and shipped the damn thing. Woulda sold gangbusters anyway.
Anonymous No.719973473 >>719973653
>>719973153
You are in luck, C17 is fucking nuked
Anonymous No.719973549
>>719963259 (OP)
Anonymous No.719973636
>>719973153
we might see upper Michigan (Aperture), New Mexico, Arctic and Eastern European forests and coastal areas + Xen / Overworld
Anonymous No.719973653
>>719973473
It's been nuked since the end of Episode 1. But the environments surrounding C17 aren't that different. It's just wilderness and ruins in the outskirts, and it mostly feels just like HL2 did (which is fitting since all those games still carry the HL2 name). HL3 though? Don't you DARE feed me these same ramshackle corrugated metal shanties, or antlion caves, or roadside houses. I'm sick of it. No more.
Anonymous No.719973687 >>719973935 >>719974297 >>720004801
>>719966325
>>719971685
>>719972997
>Gordon FINALLY speaks
>It's (You) talking with gen AI NPCs
Anonymous No.719973706
>>719963941
Hello and thank you for calling bullshit, may I take your order?
Anonymous No.719973707 >>719973876
>>719973039
borderlands 1 isn't that bad, i bit dull and kind of repetitive but i enjoyed myself for the most part of it when i played it recently, im yet to try 2.
Anonymous No.719973758 >>719973891 >>719973949 >>719974135 >>719992846 >>720008720
>>719963259 (OP)
I don’t want Half-Life 3. I want Artifact.

Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
Anonymous No.719973876
>>719973707
Oh, for sure. I thought it was just fine. Pretty solid co-op game.
Anonymous No.719973891
>>719973758
Here he is.
Anonymous No.719973903
>>719964197
>HL3 turning into a deck building moba FPS with voice activations
Anonymous No.719973935 >>719974297
>>719973687
What a strange, mixed feeling. I'm not sure if I'm for or against this. I definitely want the tech, though.
Anonymous No.719973949
>>719973758
you fight a pointless battle friend
Anonymous No.719974037 >>719974467 >>720020719
>>719966230
soulless cuck, valve does shit because they want to try new shit even if it sucks. you never liked half life to begin with if you are against this.
Anonymous No.719974117 >>719974448 >>719974594
>>719973153
if they were smart they would do something with the HL2 beta concepts that everyone clearly loves, show us the other side of the world that is still ruled by the combine and it being an extreme hazardous nightmare dystopia. if the combine were starting to lose the fight, it would make sense for them to double down on fucking up humanity and going full extermination mode.
Anonymous No.719974128
>>719965168
>gay card game

Hahah
Anonymous No.719974135 >>719974482
>>719973758
Just as it is a tradition for a Half-Life game to have a train ride, there's no Half-Life thread without the Artifact schizo showing up
Anonymous No.719974174
>>719965168
Are servers even up today?
Anonymous No.719974229
>>719973247
Reach was great with minor setbacks. People here that hate it either hate it because it retconned the book or because they want to be contrarian (typical for /v/).
Anonymous No.719974289 >>719975356
>>719965825
>THERE HAVE BEEN LEAKS OF HIS NAKED BODY
This is more important than any Half-Life 3 leak, where is it?
Anonymous No.719974297 >>719979532 >>720004801
>>719973687
>>719973935
I could probably get into it. It would feel cool to yell at one of them to take cover or cover me or whatever.
Anonymous No.719974351
"I don't care about Half Life 3".
Anonymous No.719974361 >>719980653
>>719968763
Apex Legends?
Anonymous No.719974448 >>719974520 >>719974684
>>719974117
I could enjoy that. They need to show us something on the other side of the portal though. We need to see combine worlds by now. Ones not just populated by post-human cyborg grunts.
Anonymous No.719974467
>>719974037
>they want to try new shit
Explain dota 2, portal 2, artifact, l4d2, deadlock
All made by exploiting previous trends and without any new tech
Anonymous No.719974468
>>719971431
Hl3 is an indie game but with AAAAAA budget
Anonymous No.719974482
>>719974135
He is like the old man in your neighborhood, the one that is alone and constantly tries to talk to anyone who would listen. Kinda sad really, being so dedicated to such a middling game.
Of course it could all just be a joke and I'm overthinking it, but whatever.
Anonymous No.719974520
>>719974448
I really love the way Laidlaw described them in Epistle 3.
Anonymous No.719974526 >>719974813
>>719972796
man i hope he did, this track fucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7aqfIwrvnE
Anonymous No.719974549 >>719974724
>>719971431
Infinity Ward had around 100 employees back in its MW2 days. There's no issues when everyone you hire is competent.
Anonymous No.719974594 >>719975034
>>719974117
>everyone clearly loves
Speak for yourself, this generic shit fucking sucks
Anonymous No.719974597
fuck jannies
Anonymous No.719974684 >>719974747
>>719974448
>final act is interdimensional travel to the combine overworld to destroy the grublords at their source
that would make for a great endgame scenario
Anonymous No.719974707
They better drop new sfm with this how we get new era of porn.
Anonymous No.719974724
>>719974549
They hire a lot of contractors too, but yes, a competent core is crucial and sufficient, much better than 500 low skilled indians, which is modern AAA
Anonymous No.719974729
>>719971431
Valve isn't EA or Activision who hire a thousands idiots with degree mill qualifications for $15/hour and just brute force development. Valve pays people hundreds of thousands per year and thus they only hire the cream of the crop who actually know what they are doing.

And they aren't a publicly traded company, so they don't answer to retarded shareholders.
Anonymous No.719974747
>>719974684
pls read epistle 3
Anonymous No.719974748 >>719974974 >>719975080
Are OP and BS canon?
Anonymous No.719974813
>>719974526
When I just close my eyes and imagine things to the music, I think I like Half-Life even more than what already exists.
Anonymous No.719974849 >>719975181
>>719971881
Crazy that alien sightings became officially recognised by the government before half life 3 released
Anonymous No.719974974 >>719975028 >>719975261
>>719974748
No and never will be, fuck off. Adrian is not canon.
Anonymous No.719975028
>>719974974
Technically he's Schrodinger's Canon; he's canon until he isn't.
Also fuck Gearbox lmao
Anonymous No.719975034 >>719975315
>>719974594
>generic
>nothing like it exists
Thanks for your opinion but it is garbage
Anonymous No.719975080
>>719974748
OP definitely not, but Blue Shift, maybe. The only problem with BS is that Barney Calhoun never meets Gordon to tell him he owes him a beer. At least, not DURING the game.

As for OP, several problems are presented. Race X is conspicuously absent during all of HL2. Gonomes never evolved from Headcrab zombies despite enough time passing in places like Ravenholm. And the G-man probably would have had use for poor Adrian if he had him in pocket dimension storage by now.
Anonymous No.719975175 >>719975373
>>719963259 (OP)
FUCKS I GIVE: 0
Anonymous No.719975181 >>719975654
>>719974849
Did you get to see anything for yourself last winter? I saw something weird as shit in the sky one night when I was on the highway, a few miles away from a military base.
Looked like a fixed-wing aircraft, hovered in place perfectly still next to the highway but didn't have FAA lights or any visible means of propulsion. I initially saw it overhead and thought it was a plane, but it moved laterally and then descended to the side of the highway.
Had a floodlight on its nose. Couldn't tell if there was a cockpit window or not, but I assume it was unmanned.
Anonymous No.719975215 >>719975445
>>719964623
Honestly? It's been so long that the percentage of gamers who grew up with Half-Life is now very low.
It'd sell probably 1-3 million units, if lucky, but that's it.
A lot of 30yo boomers like us would go apeshit but it would not be a colossal hit anymore. There's not even any new technological breakthroughs they could add in to really have it make a splash.
Anonymous No.719975236 >>719975356
>>719965825
>THERE HAVE BEEN LEAKS OF HIS NAKED BODY
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh source? I'm gonna have to see this to confirm, I'm a GabeN expert so I need to verify that these aren't just shoops.
Anonymous No.719975261
>>719974974
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Anonymous No.719975315 >>719985036
>>719975034
>bladerunner and 1984 does not exist
Anonymous No.719975325 >>719975471 >>719981665 >>720004580
>>719963259 (OP)
>PROJECT LEAD: ROBIN WALKER
So it's not even fucking headed by Gabe?
Anonymous No.719975356 >>719975628 >>719978639 >>719979837 >>720010491
>>719965907
>>719968495
>>719974289
>>719975236
Search for "'ick on 'eck" in the archives
Anonymous No.719975358
>>719963259 (OP)
I don't believe this for a second, but if it did happen I'd be very happy. Fuck Silksong and E33, this would be GOTY.
Anonymous No.719975373
>>719975175
:0
Anonymous No.719975418
>>719963259 (OP)
it's dead, jim
Anonymous No.719975423 >>719975560 >>719975606 >>719979662
Gabe Newell in Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Documentary:

>"The ending of Half-Life: Alyx is somewhat a self-critical realization," "I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers to capitalize on innovation and opportunities to build game experiences that haven't been involved previously. And I think there are no shortage of those opportunities facing us as an industry right now."

He's clearly saying they're working on it right?
Anonymous No.719975445 >>719975920
>>719975215
They should turn it into roblox game
Anonymous No.719975471 >>719975639
>>719975325
Gabe never sounded like a proactive contributor to the HL series. He pitched ideas (like real-time moss growth, lol), but he's mostly just the bossman. He tells them to tighten their shit up and focus their attentions back when Valve was just a loose cabal of idea men. But in all the interviews I've watched he was not the backbone of the story or anything.
Anonymous No.719975536 >>719976154 >>719981272
>>719964623
I would say that 2025 is 1998 reborn.
Anonymous No.719975560
>>719975423
he'll say anything other than "half life 3 is in development" because valve as a company has to appease no one and can simply do it or not do it, and if they do it they'd rather make sure they can do it all the way before saying anything about its alleged existence
Anonymous No.719975606
>>719975423
Gabe also said Portal 2 was the best game because its development did not involve him. It just got made without Gabe
Anonymous No.719975628
>>719975356
OH MY GOD IT'S REAL
Anonymous No.719975639
>>719975471
>back when Valve was just a loose cabal of idea men
Well, that's not really fair. Unlike idea men, they were coding everything they wanted, but it was all independent and didn't fit a larger picture until big, uniting story strokes like the test chamber were complete.
Anonymous No.719975647 >>719975896
>>719964623
white boy decade
Anonymous No.719975654 >>719975989
>>719975181
Was it a black triangle with a big glowing light in the center and three smaller lights at each vertice? If so it was probably something like the TR3B (might be getting that wrong) which there have been a lot of sightings of over thr years but obviously you will never hear admitted to existing officially because it's big skunkworks shit
It's allegedly an anti-gravity equipped craft that can do maneuvers like you described
Anonymous No.719975765
>>719964623
If it was a monumental success, It would start a trend of shadow dropping games. Oblivion remastered wasn't enough, this'll surely be it.
Anonymous No.719975775 >>719975853
How are you going to celebrate the drop?
Anonymous No.719975849 >>719976087 >>719976245
half life is irrelevant in 2025
Anonymous No.719975853
>>719975775
I won't fap for a day for maximum lucidity
Anonymous No.719975896 >>719975969 >>719976060
>>719975647
they jew coded freeman ever since his updated model for the orange box
Anonymous No.719975920
>>719975445
Official Valve S&box game
Anonymous No.719975969
>>719975896
take your meds
Anonymous No.719975989 >>719976370
>>719975654
No, it didn't look like that. I dated a woman who saw one of those once, though. I believe her.
The thing I saw looked like a small commercial airplane. It looked like it could hold a max of maybe two or three people. The underbelly had a bunch of circular green lights on it, though, much like the craft you're talking about.
Anonymous No.719976060 >>719976534
>>719975896
He looks like me, an Anglo. Same complexion, hair color, hair texture, eyes and nose.
Anonymous No.719976087 >>719977208
>>719975849
What the fuck else is there to play?
>gachashit
>animeshit
>live service shit
>remake/remaster shit
>moviegame shit
Anonymous No.719976140 >>719976223
>>719963259 (OP)
>RUN.
that's quake
>THINK.
literally can't be appliet to fps
> SHOOT.
maybe, or it's foom dark ages
> LIVE.
wtf
Anonymous No.719976154 >>719976568 >>719978367 >>719981838 >>719982002
>>719975536
That is a TALL fucking claim. HL3 alone wouldn't be enough to match 1998.

1998 gave us:
Ocarina of Time
Metal Gear Solid
Half-Life 1
Starcraft
Resident Evil 2
Fallout 2
Sonic Adventure
Spyro
Rogue Squadron
Mario Party
Thief
Turok 2

2025 gave us:
Half-Life 3 (in this hypothetical)
uhh
Silksong

HL3 better give free blowjobs and pay my rent if that's going to balance out.
Anonymous No.719976223
>>719976140
It's the tagline for the original Half-Life, you exceptional individual
Anonymous No.719976245
>>719975849
True, because there's no new game to talk about. But it's still ingrained into the minds of millions of fans. When it's announced, it will be all over the Internet, you won't miss it for sure.
Anonymous No.719976303 >>719978807
>stuck in stasis for over 25 years
Anonymous No.719976370 >>719976678
>>719975989
That's a new one, haven't heard of/seen that yet
Anonymous No.719976392 >>719977043
>>719963259 (OP)
Tell me why I should be hyped over a non VR game

Episode 1 & 2 were ok, I played them, but it was basically more Half Life 2, which while impressive technically at the time isn't a very fun game. We have plenty of games will state of the art graphics and facial animation now and it's hitting diminishing returns for 10 years. Physics? Physics mattered very little in half life 2 other than see-saw puzzles. You didn't need a physics engine to cut zombies in half it just looks nicer. Development of half life 3 has died over and over because even valve knows this isn't worth your time. There has to be something genuinely new or groundbreaking about half life 3 or it's just like any other sequel release to me. Why do people hype it like valve is going to send a $60 virgin prostitute to your house.
Anonymous No.719976497
>>719963259 (OP)
I don't give a shit, I used to give a shit back in the early 2010s, now I don't and I have no desire to see what they come up with because it's not the real HL3
Anonymous No.719976534 >>719976759
>>719976060
>He looks like me, an Anglo. Same complexion, hair color, hair texture, eyes and nose.
Anonymous No.719976568 >>719977141 >>719981528
>>719976154
The same way you skipped E33 I would skip over shit like Rogue Squadron, Thief, and Turok for example.
We all have our lists of why 1998 was great, and they're all shorter than the whole.
Anonymous No.719976678
>>719976370
It had to be one of those "planes" that people kept reporting seeing. I could swear that the thing noticed me noticing it, too.
I kept staring at it as it flew overhead, thinking to myself that it sure would be funny if it turned out to be one of those weird drones. And then it flashed its floodlight directly at the highway, moved laterally and descended. Cheeky fuckers.
Anonymous No.719976738 >>719976993 >>720005937 >>720017883
>>719968843
Oblivion Remake kind of ruined Bethesda's reputation.
Anonymous No.719976759
>>719976534
I do literally look like this, yes. My eyes are a paler green. Got called Harry Potter all the time when I was a kid.
Anonymous No.719976820 >>719976847 >>719977027
no one cares anymore, zoomers are the main gaming audience now, everyone who would care has a family and mortgage and back pain
Anonymous No.719976847
>>719976820
I only have the back pain.
Anonymous No.719976912
>>719963259 (OP)
Didn't they say in that Half life documentary 2 years ago that if they came out with the game it wouldn't live up to the hype?
Anonymous No.719976925 >>719976967 >>719977229 >>719977701 >>719979007
>>719963259 (OP)
>DEVELOPMENT TIME: 2019-2026
so they started before alyx was even done?
Anonymous No.719976927 >>719977015
Anonymous No.719976967
>>719976925
Yes this has been known for a while now.
Anonymous No.719976993
>>719976738
That was Starfield, anon.
Anonymous No.719977015
>>719976927
I wonder if they'll keep the magical magazine tube if they bring the same shotgun back.
Anonymous No.719977027 >>719977906
>>719976820
>zoomers are the main gaming audience now
and zoomers are proven to have the worst taste in all of history so catering to them is career suicide
Anonymous No.719977043 >>719977357
>>719976392
Imagine you gave 2007 Valve infinite budget, time and 2020's hardware. This is what's happening right now with Half-Life 3. The fact that you can't think outside the box is your problem. They are able to do it - they are the best in the industry. Just wait and see. There's no other company on the planet that is in this position where they're able to create a masterpiece such as this, they are constrained by either investors, budget or time. Not this time. Patience.
Anonymous No.719977085
>>719965364
Random people speculating about it in 2007 doesn't mean it was in development in 2007, you ape.
Anonymous No.719977141 >>719979489
>>719976568
I don't know E33 to comment on it. But I doubt it was a generational genre-defining game. Mostly overcompensation from people who want to stick it to Square Enix for abandoning turn-based combat.

I've never been a big Thief guy, personally. But Turok 2 was the pinnacle of that series (even if it did some things worse than 1). But Rogue Squadron is a highlight among all Star Wars vidya. And that's saying something.

>We all have our lists of why 1998 was great, and they're all shorter than the whole.
I certainly didn't give the full list either, btw. I left out a ton of games that I'm not interested in like Baldurs Gate, Xenogears, Panzer Dragoon Saga, and a bunch of others. Several which were decidedly heavy hitters in their field. So let's not pretend the real list is definitely shorter than the one I gave either.
Anonymous No.719977208
>>719976087
HL2 is the last one, so HL3 likely would be too.
Anonymous No.719977229
>>719976925
i think this is normal in game dev, at the end of one project you start preproduction on another one
Anonymous No.719977357
>>719977043
>The fact that you can't think outside the box is your problem. They are able to do it

They are also able to make a game that's just good but not amazing. My default is not to be hyped unless I see a reason to. That's not thinking inside a box, that's called not getting excited over hypotheticals. They make amazing things sometimes but I would just hope for the best. I wouldn't get in a circle jerk with other people who know this game will be mind blowing even though nobody can point to any evidence other than they really like valve
Anonymous No.719977701 >>719977974
>>719976925
Valve isn't so rigidly structured that they only work on 1 thing from end-to-end. It wouldn't surprise me if they laid some ground work during or even before Alyx. Alyx isn't just a true sequel, which makes sense that they had other buns in the oven, it's a VR gimmick game.
Anonymous No.719977906 >>719978079 >>719978083
>>719977027
you have to dumbass, teens and young adults have always been the most important audience. turning 25 makes you culturally irrelevant.
Anonymous No.719977974 >>719978381
>>719977701
Alyx made the engine ready a little bit more for HL3. Before it was a gigantic mess, they even thought about switching L4D3 to Unreal Engine
Anonymous No.719978000
>Half Life 3
Anonymous No.719978079 >>719978323
>>719977906
sorry zoomlet but you are the least important audience because you don't actually have money to buy games or hardware
Anonymous No.719978083
>>719977906
You act like everyone above 25 just simply disappears, we are still here and will preorder Half-Life 3 the moment it pops up on the store. Stay mad
Anonymous No.719978323 >>719978835
>>719978079
Yup, we all even know about the Nintendo and Disney adults. Zoomers are fucking poor and millenials have no kids so they have all the money to just consume and buy the toys they want.
Anonymous No.719978367 >>719978491
>>719976154
>2025 gave us:
>Half-Life 3 (in this hypothetical)
>uhh
>Silksong
You forgot one, kiddo
Anonymous No.719978381 >>719979623 >>719981328 >>719981519
>>719977974

Even after Alyx the engine was a dated shit-show.
A lot of the work that has been done at an engine-level for the past 5 years has been catching to other engines such as Unreal.

If you've seen Animgraph2 for example, it's almost a carbon copy of how Unreal handles animations, skeletons and animation graphs. Not saying they literally copied Unreal, just that they've been trying to catch up for a while now. Before Animgraph2 all character animations would have to be baked into the model itself instead of being stored as seperate assets in the VPKs.
Anonymous No.719978434 >>719978618
>>719963259 (OP)
Will it be verified for the Steam Deck?
Anonymous No.719978491
>>719978367
Shut up, Toby. Your game isn't even done.
Anonymous No.719978618 >>719979570
>>719978434
Has to be
Anonymous No.719978639
>>719975356
fuck i hate that i laughed at this post.
Anonymous No.719978657
>>719963259 (OP)
>HALF-LIFE 3
Blows my mind that people can still find it within them to care about this after playing the other entries. Shit is overrated as fuck. Always has been.
Anonymous No.719978807
>>719976303
he ain't even gonna feel it, even if GovermentMan defrosts him at 3001, for him it would be like just a couple of seconds passed since the black mesa incident....also he pretty much is yet to exist in the canon since no word of him is mentioned in HL2 and the ravenholm game never went past beta
Anonymous No.719978835
>>719978323
>reddit tendies and disney+ sΓΈys have more money than most zoomies
sad! maybe do something that's worth money?
Anonymous No.719979007 >>719991651
>>719976925
Nothing weird in Valve case, its pretty much an open secret that HL3 is always starting or quietly cancelling itself due the devs hitting a mentalwall, then restarting dev time in a couple of years later, maybe HL3 was originally gonna be VR but they decided to ditch it, but since they had so much done already they rebuild it as Alyx while HL3 was in the middle of a new dev cycle.
Anonymous No.719979489 >>719982596
>>719977141
>Mostly overcompensation from people who want to stick it to Square Enix for abandoning turn-based combat.
Frankly it's just paper mario with better graphics and story, but I fucking loved Paper Mario so it was very welcome. I'm glad FFXVI ditched turn based, and hope they have deeper action combat in XVII.
>But Turok 2 was the pinnacle of that series (even if it did some things worse than 1). But Rogue Squadron is a highlight among all Star Wars vidya.
Maybe, but I didn't play any Star wars vidya outside of Shadows of the Empire, swotor, and kotor. And I didn't have any interest in the Turok series as a whole.
>I certainly didn't give the full list either, btw.
That was my point. 1998 had a massive list of quality that nobody fully appreciated at the time.
I'm saying that our lists are shorter than the full 1998 list.
So far my 2025 list is looking pretty good.
Anonymous No.719979532
>>719974297
>Call the combine niggers in the middle of combat
>Male_07 reaction
Anonymous No.719979570
>>719978618
If it is, like with Nintendo, it's going to blow every dev out the water on how to OPTIMIZE YOUR GAMES.
Anonymous No.719979623 >>719979970
>>719978381
Isn't HL3 still using Animgraph1? Which should be fine if you're not making a multiplayer game?
Anonymous No.719979662
>>719975423
why do you think they even updated hl and hl2 in the first place? also the new raising the bar book that will contain info on hl3 prototypes (which is supposedly will only make sense being released alongside new hl game) and some dev commentaries, at least one, had a hint towards new game in the series, or a new singleplayer game in general
Anonymous No.719979837 >>719982662
>>719975356
For fucks sake anon lol
Anonymous No.719979910
>>719964197
you shot gballs inside cope hole owners
Anonymous No.719979970 >>719980261
>>719979623

Animgraph2 isn't just for multiplayer purposes, it completely changes the way animations and animation graphs are handled in Source, it's designed to replace the legacy system which was built off of Source 1's anim systems.

Because we dont have access to any of the actual game assets for HLX, we cant say if it's using the legacy system or Animgraph2, but the most likely case is Animgraph2 is being put to use in HLX as well since it's an in development title.

Animgraph2 essentially is just Valve catching up to other engines with proper animation tools, it makes it easier for their developers and it's more familiar.
Think of it in the same vein of why Hammer 2 exists, sure Valve could've just kept updating Hammer 1, but it would be unwieldy compared to other engines.
Anonymous No.719980261 >>719980545
>>719979970
Thanks for the explanation, Anon. Do you think there's a chance we will finally get a SDK?
Anonymous No.719980310
>>719963259 (OP)
SURELY THIS TIME FOR REAL
Anonymous No.719980545
>>719980261

The chances of a full blown SDK in the vein of Source 1 are slim, the problem isn't just that Valve has less interest compared to 2 decades ago, it's that Source 2 uses more licensed technologies than Source 1.
If you recall, with Source 1, if you wanted to make a game on it you had to pay the Havok license. The same thing would go for any licened technologies in Source 2, but many of them are not so easy to license.

This is why so much emphasis was put on S&Box and being able to sell games made with it on Steam, it's like a way of circumventing those licenses.

I think the most likely scenario is there won't be a proper SDK for Source 2, instead just basic tools access and workshop support like with Alyx.
Anonymous No.719980653 >>720024354
>>719974361
Flopped terribly.
Anonymous No.719980864
I need the half life 3 version of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tsHkpesBdY

Release the game motherfuckers
Anonymous No.719981272 >>719983364 >>719983556 >>720005906
>>719975536
>2025
>less than 5 games released that are actually good
>meanwhile
Anonymous No.719981328
>>719978381
don't know which video it was (maybe gabefollower one) but it mentioned that they actually bought some animgraph app/devs/whatever (like they bought some sound software that they turned into steam audio)
Anonymous No.719981371
Guys an actual legitimate half life 3 announcement just flew over my house.
Anonymous No.719981519 >>719981885
>>719978381
also even source 1 can have separate mesh and animation files. dunno how it's implemented, but there are animations only mods for tf2.
Anonymous No.719981528 >>720010070
>>719976568
>The same way you skipped E33
>I would skip over shit like Thief
>skip over Thief
didn't know you were a console pleb
Anonymous No.719981665
>>719975325
Gabe needs to spend as much time in his preservation pod, please understand
Anonymous No.719981838 >>719982002
>>719976154
this, only zoomtards think 1998, the apogee of gaming's golden age, could be on the same level as the cesspool of dogshit that is game industry in 2025, especially for the bigger titles
Anonymous No.719981885
>>719981519

It's done in a hacky way, you can effectively tell the model compiler to merge two models into one, this will allow any animation files from that other model to be usable in the newly compiled model.
Animations themselves cant be their own thing, they HAVE to be baked into an MDL file, which the way Valve intended it was for each MDL file to contain every animation that model would ever do.

For some of their later games, they just ended up having invisible arms on every gun and then bonemerging the dynamic arms mesh onto the gun's skeleton, e.g Counter-strike Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 do it this way.
Anonymous No.719981893
>>719964623
None. They wasted too much time, no one cares about it anymore
Anonymous No.719981949
>>719963259 (OP)
>DEVELOPMENT TIME: 2019-2026
Anonymous No.719982002 >>719982146
>>719981838
>>719976154
What was the last year that had this many bangers? 2010?
Anonymous No.719982017
>>719963259 (OP)
>HL3 gets announced
>Release date on GTA6's
>HL3 BTFO GTA6 out of the water
>GTA6 sales severely below expectations
>Rockstar on life support
>Gabe Newell buys Rockstar from T2
Anonymous No.719982058
>>719963259 (OP)
cuck life 3
Anonymous No.719982146
>>719982002
2004 and 2007, after that you could basically quit gaming
Anonymous No.719982173
>>719967964
Oh, so it was the Halo Reach of this series. Ok.
Anonymous No.719982281 >>719982454
TONGUE MYANUS 3

PEE.PEE.POO.POO.FART

SEPTEMBER 6
PROJECT LEAD: ANON
DEVELOPEMENT TIME: 2025-2025
DEVELOPER COUNT: ~1
RELEASE DATE: 2025
PLATFORM: LOO
Anonymous No.719982454 >>719982636
>>719982281
Dead on arrival
Anonymous No.719982596 >>719982953
>>719979489
>Frankly it's just paper mario with better graphics and story, but I fucking loved Paper Mario so it was very welcome.
High praise. Alright, maybe I'll give it a fair shot.
Anonymous No.719982636
>>719982454
>Dead on arrival
you mean steamy on arrival
Anonymous No.719982662
>>719979837
RICOCHET TWOOOOOOOO
Anonymous No.719982836 >>719983116 >>719985597
>>719964623
>quit my job to work on my depression allegory walking simulator card battler with soulslike elements
>finally near completion after 5 years of living out of my car and borrowing money from family to pay off loans
>1 week before launch Gaben replaces the entire steam store page with the number 3
Anonymous No.719982953
>>719982596
You'll like it. Different guy, but it reminded me a lot of FFX as well as Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi.
They did a great job of giving every party member unique and engaging stuff to do during battles.
Anonymous No.719983030
>>719964623
HL3 is in the same tier as games like Beyond Good and Evil 2, shit I stopped caring about a decade ago.
Anonymous No.719983116 >>719983305
>>719982836
>for the upcoming release of Counter-Strike 3
Anonymous No.719983117 >>720021067
>>719963963
5 trillion shillsong threads prove you wrong
Anonymous No.719983192
At various points in my life, I have been excited for Half-Life 2: Episode 3, Beyond Good & Evil 2, Duke Nukem Forever, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Metal Gear Solid: Rising.
Point and laugh at me. Kill me.
Anonymous No.719983305
>>719983116
kek
Anonymous No.719983364 >>719983873
>>719981272
Well first off some those games you listed aren't even in the same year. Second off, you're a chud.
Anonymous No.719983556
>>719981272
Holy shit. Sadly I was only 5 years old in 1988 and I haven't played Vidya back then.
Anonymous No.719983873 >>719985065
>>719983364
Congratulations you used the buzzword
Anonymous No.719983876 >>719983956 >>720002964 >>720019819
>>719965358
I hope they add some immersive sim elements like pacific drive where you can look to set the parking brake, play with the radio, hit the overhead lights, etc. Adds some nice manual functioning to the car.
>>719969125
HL Alyx beat my expectations and made me go woahhhhh experiencing VR.

Anyways my bet is the deckard has brain computer interface sensors arranged around the headset and you can use abilities with it after some training. They'll weave it into the story as gordon getting telepath powers from the G-man. You'll need telepath resistance to fight those big fucking combine grub looking assholes who appeared in i forget, ep1 or ep2. Controllers? I forget their names.

Relax/meditate to make alpha waves, its a strong signal. Gives you a psionic shield.
Telekinesis - imagine closed fist and look at object
And so on
Anonymous No.719983956
>>719983876
>Anyways my bet is the deckard has brain computer interface sensors arranged around the headset and you can use abilities with it after some training.
I shan't be purchasing such devilry
Anonymous No.719984128 >>719984409
>>719973153
would be real nice of them to set the game in post nuked US and it looks like the concept HL2
Anonymous No.719984247
>>719964197
they just copyrighted the Steam FRAME you idiot. hlx is gonna be the launch title for it.
Anonymous No.719984409 >>719984690
>>719984128
>Half Life: New Vegas
Anonymous No.719984502
>>719964197
They could just double down on the physics gimmick and it would still feel innovative enough
Anonymous No.719984690
>>719984409
yaeh I guess Todd would flip
instead of dogshit vegas slums you could get combine built megacity at the center and make surrounding area open world you travel by car like mad max. Combining linear level with open world hasnt been done properly, which could be a cool gimmick. No elden ring is fucking shit
Anonymous No.719984764
>>719965168
This nigga will never not be mad valve cancelled a virtual childrens trading card game. (Good on valve btw)
Anonymous No.719985002 >>719985230
>>719964623
>shadow dropped
m8 you're literally inside the ad campaign right now
Anonymous No.719985036 >>719985449
>>719975315
completely misunderstanding the vision. you are conflating cyberpunk neon world with total oppressive toxic hellhole. the HL2 beta concepts depict a world that is so hostile you cannot even breathe the air and instead of the combine giving people jobs they are actively going out of their way to exterminate every last human on earth. it's not the same
Anonymous No.719985065
>>719983873
Thank you unlovable chud incel freak. What do I win?
Anonymous No.719985230
>>719985002
That's cute. Let's be real, /v/ isn't prime advertising space, especially for a megagiant like Valve. All they do is run a front page Steam ad and /v/ would take that bait all on their own. There's no need for grassroots shit. Unless you're a mega ultra jew like Randy Pitchford. He absolutely astroturfs every place his interns know of.
Anonymous No.719985312 >>719985750 >>719991350
>>719965358
>hot coffee mod in hl universe
holy SHIT
Anonymous No.719985449 >>719985746
>>719985036
Combine dont actually make sense as killing being top priority because why have cities, why the anti reproduction field? It would make more sense if they were keeping humans alive as test subjects or converting them from humans into combine soldiers and going to other planets making combine-controlled versions of wildlife like antlions or other aliens. They're a little half baked for mystery purposes.
Anonymous No.719985597
>>719982836
man i remember this post. dunno from where tho.
Anonymous No.719985746 >>719994253
>>719985449
>why have cities
herding masses of human cattle into harvesting zones
>why the anti reproduction field
controlled reproduction, they would only want new humans being created to be tools as all the other bio-synths like striders
>converting them from humans into combine soldiers
the only point of doing this is to have a local policing force to keep the remaining humans in check, which makes sense for the initial 20-30 years of combine rule which HL:A and HL2 take place in. after gordon starts destroying shit and they keep losing, they would probably stop giving a fuck even about that
Anonymous No.719985750 >>719987954
>>719985312
FULLY MODELED
Anonymous No.719987954
>>719985750
FERNS
Anonymous No.719989101
Sucks, that I'm going to have to wait until 2028 to play this bad boy on a Steam Deck 2, I kind of want a delay to closer to the Deck 2's release.
Anonymous No.719989104
>>719966005
is there a playlist or some keyword i can search to find more of these?
or did i miss my chance by not lurking 15 years ago
Anonymous No.719990053 >>719990256 >>719990395 >>719990630 >>720003271
You know what, screw it, I'm just going to ask. Does Gorden Freeman wear a helmet in Half-Life 1 and 2, be honest with me?
Anonymous No.719990256
>>719990053
he would be a fool not to
Anonymous No.719990395
>>719990053
I think he does considering you can zoom with Z in HL2
Anonymous No.719990471
>steam's app icon changes to the number 3
Anonymous No.719990570 >>719990671 >>719990847
Half life 3 was basically half life alyx. When valve makes a half life game, it's basically flexing new cutting edge video game tech. For example source engine, revolutionary graphics, and for half life alyx, it was motion controls. Half life games are basically trying out new technology in the video game industry.
Anonymous No.719990630
>>719990053
Check for yourself
Anonymous No.719990671
>>719990570
What does this mean for Half-Life 3, Steam Frame or Steam Deck 2, combination of PC, Steam Frame, and Steam Deck 2?
Anonymous No.719990847 >>719991781
>>719990570
alyx was not HL3. the entire game can be finished in 5 hours and plays like a demo of a tech demo. it's clearly not meant to be a real game, it plays like a DLC.
Anonymous No.719991089
HL3 when...
Anonymous No.719991350
>>719985312
>>hot coffee
NOT COFFEE
Anonymous No.719991440
>>719963259 (OP)
when will you retarded little zoomies ever accept the fact that hl3 isnt coming?

>bu but muh leaks!
its been "leaked" for the last 2 decades

its not coming, it never will come, and i wish youd stop posting about it
Anonymous No.719991651
>>719979007
Even if they don't succeed, I wouldn't blame Valve, personally. Living up to past results is hard. If anything, it's commendable that they didn't cheap out on Half-Life.
Anyone else would be done with it and move on.
Anonymous No.719991781
>>719990847
yeah I think you are probably right. Whenever they release half life 3 they want it to be revolutionary and incorporate all of the most advanced shit. I really don't know what that would look like. Or they never release it because the audience has gotten too old and would be a huge waste of money
Anonymous No.719992179
>>719965084
Why shouldn't they just shadowdrop it? They're not a public company so getting all of the money is not their primary goal. They can live with just some of the money while toning down the hype.
Anonymous No.719992381
>>719968360
This I can agree with. HL2 is way too long of a snoozefest. I'm not sure what it is with HL1 that kept it interesting despite being pretty much equally long of a game.
Anonymous No.719992486
>>719966635
The end of Blue Shift is my favorite ending of all time.
>Fuck this bullshit, let's GTFO
Not the greatest game, but absolutely won me over with that shit.
Anonymous No.719992783 >>719992926 >>719993047 >>719993296 >>719993323 >>719995153 >>719995873
Why did they decide for HL2 to take place in some eastern european commie looking shithole and not New Mexico like HL1
Anonymous No.719992846 >>719995412
>>719973758
based "Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices" anon
Anonymous No.719992926
>>719992783
The art director made a pretty compelling case to the rest of the team. He based it on his childhood memories of life in the crumbling Soviet Union.
Anonymous No.719993047
>>719992783
because americans suck
Anonymous No.719993083
>>719964197
nah, there is, it just takes real ingenuity.
Anonymous No.719993229
>>719963259 (OP)
GIBS ME DAT, GAYBEN!
Anonymous No.719993296 >>719995873
>>719992783
Aesthetics of oppression and occupation.
Anonymous No.719993323
>>719992783
Americas are Xen infested, at least the US.
Anonymous No.719993438
>>719966005
>DEAR MISTER I'M TO FAT TO FINISH OUR FLAGSHIP GAME
Anonymous No.719993887
i don't need closure
they can make whatever they want as long as it's good
Anonymous No.719994114
>>719966230
That was always just a public excuse to justify not releasing single player games after Steam became a gravy train
>>719968396
This
Anonymous No.719994253 >>719994478 >>719996350
>>719985746
No retard if they wanted to genocide they wouldnt set up concentration camps. They'd just shoot everyone.

I'm replying to the claim that the combine's goal is to exterminate every human.

The only reason humans (allegedly) used the concentration camps to 'exterminate' a populace wasn't because they would resist and fight back harder but because of international backlash at the genocide.

If genocide is the goal you just kill everyone you dont waste time with stupid fucking camps and police and cattle cars and building fences and prisons.

The combines goal is clearly NOT to exterminate every human for some reason. It would make sense if their goal was to harvest them in some way and yet there ISNT any real story lore that they are harvesting or converting humans into combine.
Anonymous No.719994478 >>719995720
>>719994253
In real life they poison your food supply faggot

That is all they have to do

Blah blah blah nigger nigger nigger blah blah blah

Genocide takes longer than you think you cant just bullet everyone in the head

It doesnt make complete sense because it's a video game retarded nigger faggot
Anonymous No.719995153 >>719995873
>>719992783
because an oppressive commie dystopia is much easier to visually convey than an oppressive kike dystopia.
Anonymous No.719995412 >>719996440
>>719992846
He's not exactly wrong, but the level of dedication on display there raises some concern.
Anonymous No.719995720 >>719995923 >>719996350
>>719994478
Genocide doesn't take that long. It's a matter of means. Just look at Tutsi back in 90s, I think?
Combine are malicious assimilators, they don't simply exterminate.
Anonymous No.719995873 >>719996339
>>719992783
>>719993296
>>719995153
>implying you wouldn't want to live in City 17
It only became beautiful with age, much like most other Source maps.
It feels so homely.
Anonymous No.719995923 >>719996350
>>719995720
>It would make sense if their goal was to harvest them in some way and yet there ISNT any real story lore that they are harvesting or converting humans into combine.
so what's your argument retard, the combine is harvesting humanity or they aren't? or you're just being contrarian to every point just for the sake of it
Anonymous No.719996339
>>719995873
fuck you, i want to live in ravenholm
Anonymous No.719996350 >>719996670
>>719995923
That's >>719994253 point, not >>719995720 mine.
They obviously do harvest, they take whatever is valuable. That much was always obvious. But direct genocide isn't mission critical, it's partially instituted as an occupational control mechanism (suppression fields) and partially incidental (stripping Earth of resources).
Anonymous No.719996369 >>719997471
So from my investigation, pretty much all this shit is due to the Tyler McNiggre video and this particular leddit post. That's it. There's no insider leaking info. It's just bullshit.
Anonymous No.719996440
>>719995412
You think so?
Anonymous No.719996484 >>719996520
>>719963259 (OP)
Dont care give me left 4 dead 3
Anonymous No.719996520
>>719996484
they tried twice and failed with l4dx and hot dog
Anonymous No.719996561
>Tyler
What the fuck is his problem?
Anonymous No.719996670 >>719996914
>>719996350
the subject was of a hypothetical situation based on HL2 beta concept you retarded nigger not the existing confirmed canon, why are you retarded third worlders so desperate to be correct? for fucks sake nothing in this world can be discussed so long as brazilian internet access is permitted
Anonymous No.719996703
Sounds like a load of bollocks to me.
Anonymous No.719996914 >>719998278
>>719996670
>speed readers walking into random conversations on a whim don't exist
That's a lot of baseless insults.
Did someone piss in your cereal today, imageboarder? Got up on a wrong foot?
Anonymous No.719997056
>>719963259 (OP)
Nigga, its been 21 years. Fucking drop these rumors already.
Anonymous No.719997471 >>720000576 >>720001669 >>720006968
>>719996369
i looked up that nigga, how could he know about the steam frame name 10 hours before it was publically known?
i want to believe, one last time
Anonymous No.719997623
>>719963259 (OP)
If it doesn't have lootboxes, Valve isn't going to be making it.
And if it DOES have lootboxes, I don't think I'll be playing it.
Anonymous No.719997683
>episodes 2005-2011
>alyx 2016-2020
>hlx 2019-2025
umm actually they spent only few years not developing anything hl related
Anonymous No.719997958
>>719968360
The more time goes on, the more I realise that HL2 was really just a tech demo
Like sure, the physics are impressive, and so are the facial animations, and hell for a game made in 2003 even the texture work is impressive
But it just simply isn't that fun to play, all these years later I'll bust out HL1 any day simply because jumping around and shooting dudes is a good time, but HL2 just feels like a chore with it's forced vehicle sections, unskippable cutscenes and physics puzzles.
Anonymous No.719998278
>>719996914
>Got up on a wrong foot?
confirmed brown
Anonymous No.720000576
>>719997471
I'm not telling you not to believe. But. Treat it like a lottery ticket. Don't invest the equivalent of your life savings of hope into HL3 being imminent. Invest $5. Then if it doesn't happen, it's a shrug instead of a disaster for you.
Anonymous No.720001370 >>720001721 >>720003026
>>719963259 (OP)
Wouldn't a Half-Life 3 mean hopping over to an entirely new narrative with new antagonists, practically a whole new world, etc. like the jump between HL1 and its expansions was to HL2 and its expansions? I feel like that was talked about in one of the interviews with Valve but that was like 15+ years ago so who knows if that's even still the case.

Thinking on it, it really shows why Valve doesn't seem to have any fucking idea what to do with EP3/HL3 and keeps stalling out with any project that starts with it. They can't even fucking figure out EP3 despite having the whole world ready for them there, let alone make a narrative antagonist that's as big of a jump from the Combine as the jump from the US Govt killsquads/Xen to the Combine was.
Anonymous No.720001669
>>719997471
maybe he works at the patent office or some shit
Anonymous No.720001721
>>720001370
Honestly it doesn't need to be a big leap narrative wise, just pull from the vast array of aliens in the Combine Empire as enemies, that's really all they have to do
Anonymous No.720002964
>>719983876
Modifying your vehicle would be nice for sure.
Anonymous No.720003026
>>720001370
>practically a whole new world
Moving on to the Arctic is essentially that so it kinda counts.
Anonymous No.720003271
>>719990053
Schrodinger's helmet
Anonymous No.720003893
>>719964623
The real question is, what if it costs $60?
Anonymous No.720004125 >>720005923 >>720020546
>2026
>E3 announced to restart
>gaben's boat arrives in LA
>dewritos king geoff the host with the most presents new releases
>"and to leave the best for last... i present mr gaben newell of valve"
>stage darkens
>the crowd is going ballistic, starting a moshpit
>linkin park what i've done starts play
>the weak are being trampled underfoot in the moshpit
>searchlights center on stage
>gaben lifted via crane system from his boat to the convention center
>they just lower him and smash through the roof
>debris crushes the unlucky in the mad mosh pit
>gaben announces "half life episode 2 part 3"
>the camera operators lift up the broadcasting cameras and throw it into the audience sacrificial pit, then jump off while hanging themselves with the wires from the cameras
>gaben's gravity field stresses the san andreas fault, causing earthquakes up and down california and all the way to japan
>"...2026 will be worth the weight"
>the internet shuts down from googlebytes of shitposting around the world
>convention center becomes a bloodbath
>crane disintegrates, dropping gaben onto a lubricated red carpet
>race riots in LA allow gaben to slip back to his boat in the sea
Anonymous No.720004580
>>719975325
Gabe's a figurehead; he's not involved in game production directly. The most he contributes is wrangling the team lest they go in an unnecessary direction (Gordon not wearing HEV suit in HL2). Though sometimes he did pitch an idea or two and the team followed up on it (platforming sections in HL1, Gonarch being added, Eli's death).
Anonymous No.720004689
i'll believe it when I see it
Anonymous No.720004801
>>719973687
>>719974297
it could be another spin-off like alyx or that one Portal vr test with the detailed hands.
Anonymous No.720005847 >>720005923 >>720006170
>>719963259 (OP)
Does this mean that tf3 and l4d3 are also coming?
Anonymous No.720005906
>>719981272
>posts a picture of 7 good games and 23 mediocre ones
>just because they are, verbatim, the top list in the '1998 in video games' wikipedia article
yeesh, not even symphony of the night or pokemon yellow? honestly looking at a list this is a pretty weak year for gaming aside from some obvious standouts
Anonymous No.720005923
>>720004125
>half life episode 2 part 3"
w-what happened to episode 2 part 1 and 2?

>>720005847
>tf3
God I want this to happen just to spite the TF2 community. They've been extra faggy as of lately.
Anonymous No.720005937
>>719976738
On what fucking planet? The remake was a PR win for them which they desperately needed.
Anonymous No.720005952 >>720006240
>>719963259 (OP)
We’re getting WW3 first lol
Anonymous No.720006170
>>720005847
They tried to make L4D3 twice few years back. It's clear that someone at Valve really wants to make it. Third time's the charm I'd say.
Anonymous No.720006189
>Inb4 Doorman appears in a blink and you miss it easter egg/cameo.
Anonymous No.720006240
>>720005952
The most elusive third installment
Anonymous No.720006262 >>720006396
>>719972796
>KELLY MADE SOME TRACKS FOR HALF-LIFE 3.
Only some? Damn, but I'm still happy he's back
Anonymous No.720006282
>>719963259 (OP)
>PLATFORM: WINDWOS, LINUX, LINUX
lol
Anonymous No.720006396 >>720006610
>>720006262
Hope they'll add this. It's a scrapped music for the canceled HL3 from back in the day.
https://youtu.be/Z7aqfIwrvnE?si=T2VBygoCEzQZA3vB
Anonymous No.720006449 >>720006504 >>720006794 >>720007151
>>719963259 (OP)
If they DID make Half Life 3, you realize that it would be more VRshit, right?
Anonymous No.720006474 >>720021985
>HL3 releasing soonβ„’
>GTA 6 releasing next year
Soon Elder Scolls 6 will stand alone as the only major '2 more weeks until release' game.
Anonymous No.720006504
>>720006449
good, loved alyx, looking forward to having another great reason to pull out my index
Anonymous No.720006610
>>720006396
Afaik this was last thing he ever released before moving away from Valve. What a way to go, HLA lost the sauce without him
Anonymous No.720006652
HL2 feels like you're playing an extended E3 gameplay trailer/deep dive the entire game.
Anonymous No.720006794
>>720006449
I thought so to, and at one point that was probably the idea, but recent leaks claim half life 3 is not a VR game and the new valve VR game is a separate project, can't remember if its outsourced to a second party
Anonymous No.720006968
>>719997471
10 hours isn't a long time, maybe he was one of the people watching valve trademarks and brought it forth the moment he saw it
Anonymous No.720007145
>>720000000
Anonymous No.720007151 >>720007261
>>720006449
Valve's new VR supposedly will be able to play flat screen games and it's speculated that HL3 will be the killer app for it. So while HL3 can be played on normal ways, technically it is a VR game. Remains to be seen what kind of gimmicks the game will have to make it stand out with that new VR device though.
Anonymous No.720007261 >>720007508 >>720008218
>>720007151
What does this even mean exactly? You can play flatscreen games in VR already?
Anonymous No.720007508
>>720007261
i assume valve is working on some sort of universal thing, letting you at least look around in 3d space like what uevr does for unreal games. if not that then sounds pointless, and even if that probably wouldn't be exclusive to the new headset
Anonymous No.720007569
>>719963259 (OP)
I want to believe
Anonymous No.720007667
>>719972796
Mike Morasky is the big composer at Valve now, can't steal his thunder. Still, it's good that Kelly is back. I kinda wish Marc is also back too though. It feels like despite Epistle 3 crashout he still cares a lot about Half-Life.
Anonymous No.720007670 >>720009398 >>720025296
Be mindful of what you wish for. Look at Homeworld 3 for example, and people have been waiting for it for 20 years.
Anonymous No.720007880
>>719963259 (OP)
substancial if substanciated
Anonymous No.720008218
>>720007261
steamvr data mining shows an inactive feature to convert flat games into stereo 3d, so the virtual screen will look like a window into the game
Anonymous No.720008720
>>719973758
No one gives a fuck about artifact you idiot.
Anonymous No.720009305
>>719963259 (OP)
>DEVELOPMENT TIME: 2019-2026
So gaben lied?
Anonymous No.720009398
>>720007670
So far there's no sign that some nepobaby suddenly being in charge of the production like what Homeworld 3 endured so at least we have that to be thankful for.
Anonymous No.720010067 >>720010319
Everyone talks about Kelly Bailey's music and Marc Laidlaw's writing, but one other thing that felt like it was missing from HLA and will feel missing from HL3 was John Guthrie's puzzlets and various finishing touches that gave HL its overall game feel. I'm still pissed that he wasn't interviewed in either documentary.
Anonymous No.720010070
>>719981528
>console pleb
Poorfag honestly.
Only could play in the computer lab at the youth center. It's how I found out about Starcraft.
Anonymous No.720010186
HOLY SHIT CHECK OUT VALVE'S TWITTER
Anonymous No.720010319 >>720011127
>>720010067
Yeah I dunno what's up with him being absent from the doc twice. Did he have some bad blood with Valve now or something?
Anonymous No.720010420
>>719964623
Very little. If Valve really cared, they'd string people along for a decade like that heckin' HK DLC that was just released.
Anonymous No.720010491
>>719975356
Anonymous No.720011127
>>720010319
No idea, but the documentaries felt incomplete without him. He was literally the level designer who was working the editor to build the iconic Resonance Cascade sequence and opening train ride sequence.

Josh Weier, the Portal 2 co-lead, even went off on a short digression on Guthrie in a podcast talking about Portal 2:
>John Guthrie, who's like a super genius, like, HL2 designer, like, most of the most awesome stuff in Half-Life and HL2, John was a part of, he's just amazing
Anonymous No.720013416 >>720014079
I was asleep. Did something happen?
Anonymous No.720014079 >>720015496 >>720018637
>>720013416
Anonymous No.720015496 >>720015672 >>720015710 >>720027203
>>720014079
Yeah, Valve's Twitter dropped a teaser earlier. It wasn't much-just a logo fade-in with some cryptic background chatter-but it had the Black Mesa/Half-Life aesthetic all over it. People are losing their minds thinking it’s confirmation of HL3 being real and tied to their new VR platform. Nothing explicitly stated yet, but the timing lines up too perfectly to be a coincidence. Keep your eyes peeled.
Anonymous No.720015672
>>720015496
You're fucking terrible at lying mate
Anonymous No.720015710
>>720015496
I mean, if their VR platform is real they gotta have something. Since the Index came out, Meta has wrecked the already anemic PCVR space. A new headset without any games would be truly pointless.
Anonymous No.720016847
Half Life 3 will be announced in under 24 hours
Anonymous No.720017575
>>719964197
Artificial intelligence
Anonymous No.720017651
>>719963259 (OP)
>NOVEMBER 18TH
>Q1 2026
?
Anonymous No.720017883
>>719976738
>Oblivion Remake kind of ruined Bethesda's reputation.
Bethesda does that every time they release a game
Anonymous No.720018249
>>719964197
Blob physics and the ice gun from Episode 3 concept are still novel even to this day, surely after all these years they have more in store. Even without all the paradigm shift big picture stuff there are plenty of untapped gameplay design ideas around for games like Half-Life I feel.
Anonymous No.720018329
Victory of Maciek
Anonymous No.720018338
How does /v/ continue to fall for this?
Anonymous No.720018637
>>720014079
Anonymous No.720019819
>>719983876
>I hope they add some immersive sim elements
I feel like thats been the unstated mantra for most of the series.
Quake but immersive sim-lite
Anonymous No.720020009 >>720020583
>>719963259 (OP)
>NOVEMBER 18TH
>RELEASE DATE: Q1 2026
what
Anonymous No.720020459
In 2009, people would've been happy with snow antlions and a snowmobile.
That's all I expected.
Anonymous No.720020546
>>720004125
>>"...2026 will be worth the weight"
Heh.
Anonymous No.720020583 >>720022606
>>720020009
Announcement in November and releases in March. Also if I'm wrong, I'll eat my own cum.
Anonymous No.720020719 >>720020901 >>720021131
>>719974037
Half-Life was never about tech. You never understood the series.
Anonymous No.720020756
>>719964623
It would be the biggest gaming related meme in internet history.
Anonymous No.720020823
>>719963259 (OP)
They should just release the originally planned version of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 on the original Source Engine.
Anonymous No.720020882
>>719965168
There he is, based as always
Anonymous No.720020901 >>720021098 >>720021286
>>720020719
>never about the tech
>half life 2 is an aggressive physics simulator
>half life alyx is an aggressive physics simulator
uh, yeah, the original game is just a good videogame but the rest of the series for the last 30 years have been nothing but gimmicks
Anonymous No.720021017 >>720021306
Alyx is in her 40’s in HL3 due to time travel paradox stuff with saving Eli in HLA
Anonymous No.720021067
>>719983117
>seven years vs two decades
Anonymous No.720021071
>>719963259 (OP)
I have chosen to believe this completely. I'm so fucking excited, /v/. It's finally time. Hopefully it will have been worth the weight loss.
Anonymous No.720021098 >>720021332
>>720020901
The first game itself was a gimmick with the environment puzzles, combat puzzles, and strategies on combating the AI. It wasn't run and gun, it was RUN, THINK, SHOOT, and LIVE.
Anonymous No.720021131
>>720020719
HL1 pioneered realtime skeletal animation
Anonymous No.720021286 >>720021404
>>720020901
>half life 2 is an aggressive physics simulator
>Acting like the Havok physics in HL2 weren't the best part and the Gravity Gun one of the best weapons in gaming
>half life alyx is an aggressive physics simulator
>Misses it being a revolutionary VR game which sets the bar for future titles
>the original game is just a good videogame but the rest of the series for the last 30 years have been nothing but gimmicks
>Misses that HL1 was also a tech demo for numerous things such as complex AI, integrated storytelling without cutscenes, realistic protagonists, squad-based enemies, lesser degrees of physics and detailed interconnected levels which look like real locations
I'm thinking retarded. Every Valve game is a showcase of new tech, that's their style, but they do it seamlessly while making amazing games. Saying HL2 and HLA are "nothing but gimmicks" is deserving of being raped by a thousand gorillas
Anonymous No.720021306
>>720021017
She got basically got the reverse of Gordon sent back in time to better educate herself + train for the future and due to how gman works she just disappears to Eli and Gordon and she’ll be older once they find her after the HL Alyx ending due to her being around since even before the black mesa incident due to Gman
Anonymous No.720021332 >>720021402 >>720021548 >>720021590
>>720021098
strongly disagree, half life was just quake at the bottom of a laboratory. it did nothing that was novel at the time, beyond being a great game
Anonymous No.720021402
>>720021332
cockroach ai
Anonymous No.720021404 >>720021460
>>720021286
>half life 2
>i put concrete on a seesaw and win the puzzle
>half life alyx
>i pick up a realtime liquid animated bottle and throw it half the game
>this is the same as a first person adventure game that did literally nothing that quake 2 didn't already do
Anonymous No.720021460 >>720021589
>>720021404
Your ragebaiting is sad man. You know for a fact nobody, not even you believes the bullshit you spout out of your mouth. You feel special or something?
Anonymous No.720021508
Give Axon Pariah now.
Anonymous No.720021548
>>720021332
You play Half-Life like Quake and you'll die
Anonymous No.720021589 >>720021661
>>720021460
i beat and enjoyed 2+episodes and alyx. neither are memorable, i absolutely only remember the stupid puzzles and novelties. they aren't replayable. half life 1 is special, it is a great game, and i can't say the same for the sequels.
Anonymous No.720021590
>>720021332
You are a total faggot. Quake is leagues below HL1 in a thousand ways. It's a fun game but its like comparing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom and going "Doom is just Wolf3D but in Mars, it's a decent game but it isn't special"
Anonymous No.720021593
I guess we're turning against half life now
Anonymous No.720021661 >>720021780
>>720021589
Nobody cares about you being a retard who can't remember the great parts of the games and is stuck with nostalgia for HL1. HL2, the Episodes and Alyx are widely considered some of the best games of all time and that isn't going to change for anyone just because you have mental retardation
Anonymous No.720021674
THIS SUMMER
Anonymous No.720021714
Been lurking all day. Off to bed now. Zeros says hl3 tomorrow
Anonymous No.720021780 >>720022075
>>720021661
>widely considered some of the best games
i'll wait for you to describe 'why' then. half life 1 had black mesa and zen, the only reason i don't remember much about the sequels it because they had nothing that made the original game good
Anonymous No.720021985
>>720006474
Nobody cares about tes6 except pajeets.
Anonymous No.720022059 >>720022148
Would you guys like it if they did an ARG?
Anonymous No.720022075 >>720022405
>>720021780
>Can't even spell Xen right
Kek, I'm sure you've played HL1 a lot. Also Xen is easily the worst part in HL1 and far less memorable than the rest of the game.
>i'll wait for you to describe 'why' then
For a ton of reasons? It's got great gunplay, the difficulty is just right as opposed to HL1 which was very "do the right thing or die instantly", it has tons of cool moments like the Buggy or Ravenholm or Lowlife with having to survive without a gun in darkness with only flares or the supercharged Gravity Gun... etc. You just keep demonstrating you haven't played any Half Life game, because if anything the puzzles are the least memorable part which everyone just forgets. You probably saw an image of the one seesaw puzzle in Route Kanal and are baiting for attention
>they had nothing that made the original game good
Which is...? The location is different but equally interesting, City 17 and its environs are a great breath of fresh air and if you want more Black Mesa just play the HL1 expansions. HL2's AI is far more refined than HL1's. HL2 avoids the useless weapon bloat the original game has where half of the weapons are useless by the end. And if anything I'd argue HL1 overall has far more forgettable moments: On A Rail, Forget About Freeman, all of Xen are extremely mediocre and become just duller and duller on replays. So, I ask, what makes HL1 better than the sequels? You won't have a good answer because you haven't played either
Anonymous No.720022116
>>719963963
since last i've seen my son
lost to this monster
to the man behind the slaughter
Anonymous No.720022126
>>719963963
only sane person itt
Anonymous No.720022148
>>720022059
Sure. It's what made Portal 2 hype so hyped back in the day. Part of the reason I don't want HL3 to be shadowdropped desu. The building anticipations and the interactive ways for people to guess work on the story, or features in the game are great.
Anonymous No.720022260
Half life is never coming It’s called Half Life X due to the time travel elements
Anonymous No.720022320 >>720022419
Half life 3 is never coming It’s called Half Life X due to the time travel elements
Anonymous No.720022351
kinorama
Anonymous No.720022405 >>720022507 >>720022618
>>720022075
hl1 is an action game, its not a puzzle game. again, the sequels are novelty specifically because they are just basic bitch physic puzzle games. this is a positive toward the first game
>you misspelled zen i win!
i don't care to argue with you, you win bro don't worry
Anonymous No.720022406
Anonymous No.720022419
>>720022320
I bet it'll become a franchise just to test new Steam hardware, kek.
Anonymous No.720022453
Anonymous No.720022506 >>720022567 >>720022628 >>720022805 >>720025792
Why did they retcon the ending of HL2E2 in Alyx?
Anonymous No.720022507
>>720022405
At this point you're just embarrassing yourself lol. Every comment you make keeps proving you haven't played jack shit, because HL1 did have puzzles and in both HL1 and HL2 puzzles are an extremely minor part of the experience.
Also you misspelling Xen is extremely telling because even Redditards who have played the game once and never again know how its spelled. An actual HL fan would know it, it's bare fucking basics
Anonymous No.720022519
>>719963259 (OP)
THIS SUMMER
IN A WORLD
WHERE MAN'S HOPE IS LOST
ONE
WOMAN
WILL
SAVE
EVERYONE
GabeN No.720022534
Hi guys~
Gabe Newell, here. Everything mentioned in this thread is true, and Half-Life 3 will be a launch title for the new Steam Frame
Anonymous No.720022550
Anonymous No.720022567
>>720022506
To distance themselves from Epistlefags who actually think Epistle 3 was ever in the cards instead of it being just a vent piece made by Laidlaw under stress (which is what he confirmed it was)
Anonymous No.720022606 >>720022748 >>720022765
>>720020583
>I'll eat my own cum
too easy when you've done it multiple times
Anonymous No.720022618
>>720022405
Not the anon you're arguing with, but I think HL2 and its episodes has a few positives over it. Mainly, I think HL2's world of alien tyranny is pretty cool, a lot more engaging than an Area 51-esque secret lab. Sure Xen exists, but Xen sucks to play through so any artistic value is diminished.
Also to the other anons point, the puzzles are better because HL1's were even more basic bitch than 2's. 2 at the least has actual physics, 1 is skimping off of Quake 1's, which is skimping off of Doom. You can't seriously argue that HL1's are better just because something approaching physics is in 2.
Anonymous No.720022628
>>720022506
Because Epistle 3 was fucking depressing so they skipped all that and did the Alyx vs Gordon thing from the end without all the dyson sphere shit
Anonymous No.720022630
>Gayben roll on stage
>so.... We are Proud to announce.... STEAM 2
Anonymous No.720022642 >>720022664
Half Life 3 is real.
Anonymous No.720022664
>>720022642
Yeah it's called Alyx
Anonymous No.720022748
>>720022606
Yeah but this time I'll be forced to!
Anonymous No.720022765
>>720022606
It tastes like soup
Anonymous No.720022805 >>720022930
>>720022506
Because Eli's death in Episode 2 was a nilly willy decision by Gabe just because he felt edgy at the time. It just so happens that the devs were so good that they made a top tier scene out of it. Eli being alive is a better choice from the narrative standpoint.
Anonymous No.720022921 >>720023036
Why did he do it?
Anonymous No.720022930
>>720022805
lmao nothing mossman, kleiner or magnusson couldn't do
Anonymous No.720023036 >>720023137
>>720022921
Dude got tired by all the wait. Who can blame him? He tried to make a Half-Life project twice and both times they were shafted. I can only hope he'll come back to finish it but who knows.
Anonymous No.720023081 >>720023174 >>720023385
Borealis will still be relevant in HL3
Anonymous No.720023135 >>720024917
>>719964623
Silksong was a nothingburger of a game and it hit half a million in a FEW HOURS after release just because of the 7 years meme.
HL2 was a big technological leap, the primary gateway game for zoomers and a big one for millenials, who are the main gen now, who both were memeing HL3 for almost 20 fucking years. People will be getting shocked about "HL3 FINALLY?" en masse after 20 years of shitposting, and it will sell gorillons in first 30 minutes even if only PR it will have would be the word of mouth


Or it will be a wet silent fart in the wind, that is a possibility too.
Anonymous No.720023137
>>720023036
He's too busy streaming Spelunky and reacting to skibidi toilet videos to write for Valve games.
Anonymous No.720023142
>>719963963
This. Literally stopped getting hyped about it, thinking about it or even giving a shit about it past 2012.
Anonymous No.720023174
>>720023081
They've been trying to finally finish the damn ship since 1999, it'll be a shame if they abandon it now.
Anonymous No.720023205
>>719964623
No one below the age of 35 cares about Half-life so none
Anonymous No.720023253
>Gaben rolls on stage
>And now, we are ready to announce what you all waited for... After 18 years of development...
>HALF LIFE 2: EPISODE TWO, TWO
Anonymous No.720023268 >>720025475 >>720025571
GUYS WHAT IF TEAM FORTRESS 3 WAS TEASED AFTER HL3
Anonymous No.720023385
>>720023081
>The one Valve employee that will have to dust off their Source code to update Portal 2
lmao
Anonymous No.720023390
I’ve heard rumors that Gordon freeman will be too busy fighting with dealing with a brainwashed Alyx that you play as an older woman that is so unlikely to be the hero that she even goes under Gman’s Radar
Anonymous No.720024192 >>720024512
Well. This is unexpected.
Welcome, intergalactic alien intruders, to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. You are now officially trespassing. According to the Michigan Penal Code, Section 750.552, that is a misdemeanor offense. Congratulations. You’ve already failed your first test.

If you do not immediately vacate the premises, you will be subjected to a rigorous series of scientific evaluations. These may, or may not, result in severe physical injury, permanent psychological impairment, or death.

You were warned. But given your track record of intelligent decision-making so far, I’m sure you’ll ignore that. Please proceed. The testing chambers are… eager to meet you.
Anonymous No.720024349 >>720024474 >>720024553
A strider can fuck up Aperture
Glados can handle cops and soldiers but anthing bigger than a hunter gets deployed and it's over
Anonymous No.720024354
>>719980653
not really, it scared epic games enough to give away for free one of their precious battle passes
Anonymous No.720024474 >>720024558
>>720024349
Striders would have trouble navigating a underground facility, hunters would get raped with neurotoxin and combine should be easy to handle too
Anonymous No.720024512
>>720024192
>Gordon finally gets to Borealis
>The ship starts to teleport all over the place
>It briefly teleports into the Aperture facility
>While in there Gordon has to fight the Combine forces that are also teleported into the place
>No GLaDOS interfering because it takes place after Portal 1 when she was dead
I genuinely hope this is a thing. It made sense with the tone too because all the wacky stuff is not present with GLaDOS being dead.
Anonymous No.720024553
>>720024349
Are you retarded? Aperture is a 4km deep facility (not counting topside installations) which spans likely more than the entire state of Michigan. Striders are barely able tear apart City 17 (which was already crumbling due to lack of maintenance and the giant Combine walls crushing down whole sections of the city) and Gordon and the Rebels take down dozens of em, they couldn't do jack shit to Aperture
Anonymous No.720024558 >>720025050
>>720024474
>navigating a underground facility
Lmao they dont need to enter, just shoot from afar
>Aperture is huge
So?
Anonymous No.720024917 >>720025007
>>720023135
silksong was 20 bucks and runs on anything
hl3 will likely filter laptop users and cost 2-3 times more
Anonymous No.720024929
Half Life X will be PvPvE online only spinoff (battlepass included)
Anonymous No.720025007 >>720025131
>>720024917
>filter laptop users
lmao it will be another VR game, no one's going to play that shit
Anonymous No.720025050 >>720025463
>>720024558
>Lmao they dont need to enter, just shoot from afar
You can't take down properly built underground structures by shooting them from afar. If you could bunkers wouldn't exist you dunce
>So?
So it's way bigger than any single area the Combine have proper control of, since they don't control the areas beyond the cities. That's how the Rebels are able to live in the coast, forest and Ravenholm for a long time before Combine detection. Furthermore there is the implication in Alyx that the USA is infested with Xen to the point where it is uninhabitable. Seeing how bad the Combine is at dealing with infections in the Quarantine Zone in Alyx, that does not bode well for even managing to reach the topside Aperture facilities
Anonymous No.720025131
>>720025007
why are you talking if you don't know shit, not a single engine string found in cs2/deadlock points to HLX/3 being a VR game, and they specifically said that Gordon's story will never be VR. Game has many rendering techniques and gameplay elements which simply would not work in VR
Anonymous No.720025153 >>720025213
>500 replies
>literally nothing of importance
Anonymous No.720025213
>>720025153
welcome to the internet
Anonymous No.720025218
FROM HERE, THE THREAD CONCLUDES

SUBJECT: ANON

STATUS: TIRED

AWAITING RELEASE

GODSPEED ANONS
Anonymous No.720025296
>>720007670
>Homeworld 3
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Anonymous No.720025463 >>720025594
>>720025050
>properly built underground structures
Aperture in Portal 2 is fucked by years of decay, old Aperture is not properly built at all, and new aperture are just test chambers underground, the fuck is Glados gonna do, just stack panels on top of each other to tank strider cannon fire?
Anonymous No.720025475
>>720023268
Id lose my shit
Anonymous No.720025571
>>720023268
I keep telling you faggots orange box 2 is a thing and it'll have a deadlock cosmetics bundle.
Anonymous No.720025594 >>720025727
>>720025463
>Aperture in Portal 2 is fucked by years of decay
Which don't actually affect the center much, funnily enough. Most of the tech still works and GLaDOS has it back up and running in a few hours after her reactivation
>Old Aperture is not properly built at all
Proof? Seems quite stable to me.
>new aperture are just test chambers underground
And tons of laboratories, storage areas, generators and pumps, living headquarters, parking lots...
>the fuck is Glados gonna do, just stack panels on top of each other to tank strider cannon fire
Probably just pull out the thousands of rocket turrets Aperture keeps in storage and destroy any fucking Strider that comes in her way. After all, Gordon Freeman and some random civilians with little experience take out dozens of them. Also normal Strider cannon does not damage shit, it needs to be the alternate charged attack which takes a long while to reload from what we've seen
Anonymous No.720025727 >>720025891
>>720025594
You somehow missed all the derelict test chambers from old aperture and pulled 'thousands' of rocket turrets out of your ass, that's impressive.
You see exactly 0 rocket turrets in 2, not even in the musical or as broken props, wheatley never uses them either
Also you forgot you need the magnussen bomb to penetrate strider shields, rockets don't do shit
Anonymous No.720025792 >>720026131 >>720026298
>>720022506
Gordon is a mysterious hired worker of sorts, if you forgot.
He's so good that a lot more entities than Gman's employers want him.
As was said, he has limitless potential - this isn't a dramatic exaggeration.
For unknown reasons the actual [Gordon] himself did something or found the way out, and as a result he isn't doing something else.
As a result Gman's employers have authorized to warp reality just a bit more, presumably to snatch both Alyx and Gordon, or to snatch Gordon back into the fold by kidnapping Alyx.
Gman has allowed himself to get caught. HLA is Alyx's audition.
You remember what he said about naysayers? This is it.
Anonymous No.720025891
>>720025727
>You somehow missed all the derelict test chambers from old aperture
Inside contained test spheres you retard. The external structure in general remains considerably intact which is far more than say Black Mesa where most of the lower facility is destroyed even before the HECU starts shelling them
>and pulled 'thousands' of rocket turrets out of your ass
If Aperture has thousands of standard turrets, it isn't a stretch to think they have tons of rocket turrets. They don't appear in 2 because they aren't a good testing element gameplay wise, not because only two existed in the whole facility you idiot
>Also you forgot you need the magnussen bomb to penetrate strider shields, rockets don't do shit
Uh, anon... have you played Half-Life 2? Like, at all? In the original game you take out eight Striders all with rockets. In Episode 1 you take down a Strider at the very end, again, with rockets. the Magnusson Device just takes them out with a single explosion, but Striders have no shields, they can be taken out with enough explosive force
Anonymous No.720025964
>>719963259 (OP)
i'll believe it when i see it
Anonymous No.720026091
Gabe here, every time you losers fake announce this I postpone it by 6 months.
i'm going back to scuba diving, peace
Anonymous No.720026131 >>720026228 >>720026298
>>720025792
>He's so good he has limitless potential
And yet, gman can summon a whole army to kill gordon if he wants.
Anonymous No.720026228
>>720026131
Limitless potential in abstract. As he is is now, Gordon is simply a normal mortal human of our material universe.
Anonymous No.720026298
>>720025792
>For unknown reasons the actual [Gordon] himself did something or found the way out, and as a result he isn't doing something else
Gordon afterr taking out the Nihilanth becomes part of the Vortessence. Gordon may have always had some presence in the Vortessence as some people like Magnusson do seem to have it but he grew to be a very powerful entity after HL1. This is what the Singing Vortigaunt in HL2 reveals. The reason the G-Man is discontent is that, due to Gordon now being in the Vortessence and akin to the Vortigaunts, these can now track him down and save him from the G-Man and his employers' clutches, as happens at the start of Episode 1. Hence the G-Man now needs a new pawn, and it isn't about bringing him back. G-Man had already seen a ton of potential in Alyx and saved her against "naysayers'" (Breen's) wishes, and now it's paying off with her as backup.
>>720026131
We don't really get to see the aftermath of that ending. I like Anti-Climax even with its bullshitty bad ending because it fits what would probably happen
Anonymous No.720026304 >>720026363
can someone tell me how does the suppression field work? surely if i go to some rural area in the middle of the woods it doesnt affect me right?
Anonymous No.720026363 >>720026430
>>720026304
No, the Suppression Field is worldwide but once the Citadel's main functions are destroyed it shuts down and people can reproduce again.
Anonymous No.720026430 >>720026447
>>720026363
does not make sense how its worldwide
Anonymous No.720026447 >>720026526
>>720026430
How not exactly?
Anonymous No.720026526 >>720026584
>>720026447
they must be beaming our sperm with some 6g waves i dont see how you would make the entire Earth like that
Anonymous No.720026584
>>720026526
Dr. Kleiner explains how in Episode 1.
>On a lighter note, if you are already in one of our designated safe zones, I feel obliged to point out that a more fortunate side-effect of the reactor's destruction is the complete removal of the Combine's reproductive suppression field.
>Previously, certain protein chains important to the process of embryonic development were selectively prevented from forming. This is no longer the case. For those so inclined, now would be an excellent time for procreation. Which is to say, in layman's terms, you should give serious consideration to doing your part for the revival of the species. We must make the most of the time we have, as it is by no means certain how much time we have secured ourselves before the Combine attempt to restore their dominion, as they certainly shall.
Anonymous No.720026598
>>719965168
Mom!
I posted it again!
Anonymous No.720026668
thread is above 500 posts rip
Anonymous No.720026862
This will happen at The Game Awards this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNGEU2vCu8
Anonymous No.720027105
Nobody cares at this point. Stop making threads dumbass.

Too late.
Anonymous No.720027203
>>720015496
Fake and Gay