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Valve has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever now that GTA 6 is delayed bros

>>725181575 (OP)
Underage hands made this thread

IT IS HAPPENING
DOUBTERS WILL ACK THEMSELVES

You are allowed to be as excited as people were for HL3 in 2009. You are not allowed to be more excited than that.

Half Life 1 and 2 are garbage redditor games, the worst games Valve has ever made. I would much rather see a Left for Dead 3 or a Team Fortress 3 or even a Portal 3 because those games were actually fun. The crowbar is the lamest, most ugly looking melee weapon of all time.

It's coming today and if not it will be next week and if not the week after and if not the week after that then Tyler McVicker has a lot of explaining to do considering he was saying it would be announced in the summer and released in the winter of this year.

>>725181891
I dunno I found them fun

Gameawards get more viewers than the super bowl now so perfect timing coming up.

>>725181891
>Says half life reddit
>Implies portal, team fortress and left 4 dead are not

Teh cake is a lie xD

>>725181575 (OP)
Honestly announcing it at the VGA's and having a November 2026 release would be pretty fucking funny and based, though if they announce anything next its just gonna be Deadlock.

If HL3 is announced at Game Awards. Geoff needs to get on his knees and cry uncontrollably for at least 3 minutes before he opens the envelope.

>>725181957
I don't even like Muttball but I don't believe this for a goddamn second

You will get wacky platformer, JRPGs, farm sims and wholesome-turned-horror game announcements for 4 fucking hours and you will LIKE IT.

>>725181957
they're not gonna do a TGA announcement, they'll just make a tweet/post or whatever exactly like Alyx and CS2

HL3 is gon' b good. Too bad I'm a poorfag and will never be able to run it for several years.

>>725182241
>valve randomly shadow-dropping the most mythical game announcement probably ever
I doubt it.

>>725182331
>Valve randomly shadow dropping a game
>doubt it
>after Alyx
>after CS2
>after Deadlock literally not even being spoken about at all
A post announcing existence, and a date for gameplay and/or trailer reveal, exactly like all their other announcements in recent years.

>>725181651
The worst part is, this joke post reads like a much more proper G-Man line than anything he had in Half Life Alyx, and probably whatever will be in HL3 if it comes out.

>gabe doesn't show up
>geoff doesn't even know the developer of the last game announcement
>lambda logo for 5 seconds and date
>some throw away g-man line
that's all they need to do, that would make 4 hours of pain and commercials worth it in the end

>>725182459
>after alyx
We know that Alyx was originally meant to be announced at TGA.
>CS2
Glorified remake.
>Deadlock
Which isn't done yet. You don't announce something that isn't finished, what is this, Rockstar?

>>725181575 (OP)
>Nu valve making games
lol, lmao even
All of the talent that made their great games have already left the company long time ago.
Valve isn't a video game developer company anymore, they rebranded to a Platform as a service, last decade.

>>725182575
>all valve needs is a "its time, mr freeeman." over the lambda logo at TGA to completely break the internet
pretty funny when you think about it.

>>725181619
If you’re underage you’re unlikely to be a half-life fan considering you weren’t alive when the last game in the series released (not counting that shitty VR game)

>>725182791
Valve could show a paint.net copy paste image of any fucking game logo, L4D, Portal, TF, HL etc. and make a gazillion dollerydoos.

>>725181891
Half life 1 was great, half life 2 sucked ass

>>725181575 (OP)
this was planned the entire time

>>725181957
>>725182224
lmao ur retarded

>>725182872
in what world, dude

>>725182182
And the obligatory FromSoftware game. They love announcing their games in TGA.

ALIEN SWARM 2 BABY
YOU'VE BEEN WAITING BUT NOW IT'S FUCKING HERE
ALIEN SWARM TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
VALVES BACK MOTHERFUCKER

>>725182657
>We know that Alyx was originally meant to be announced at TGA.
No we don't? Alyx was meant to release alongside the Index before the rewrite, so that puts it at April 2019 original announcement before the delay. Then Alyx was announced in a tweet, https://x.com/valvesoftware/status/1197575830219583488, originally meant to reveal gameplay at TGA but then the reveal was delayed to add in locomotion.

>glorified remake
Doesn't matter, announced in a tweet again, https://x.com/CSGO/status/1638580074126659584

>Which isn't done yet. You don't announce something that isn't finished, what is this, Rockstar?
which further proves Valve don't do big flashy announcements anymore, as they literally havent said anything about Deadlock other than making it playable.

Valve don't do big announcements ever since Artifact's reveal, they just tweet out the announcement. If Valve haven't said anything before TGA do not expect it at TGA.

>>725182006
>Announce Deadlock at early part of the show to make people think that was it from Valve
>Then announce HL3 as THE last announcement of the show as a surprise

>there will never be a fun HL ARG
I know there was a few hints in steam sale ARGs but thats not the same

Fatfuck gabencunt won't do shit. He'd rather steal indie devs money than make games.

>>725183026
That would be sick but I playtested Deadlock again recently and its a lot more complete than it was originally but I don't think it will be officially announced within the next two months.
I think HL3 is "more done" than Deadlock.

>HL ALyx announcement, Nov 19 2019
>HL1 Anniversary celebration and documentary, Nov 18 2023
>HL2 Anniversary and documentary, Nov 16 2024
I'm starting to believe in the November rumors

>>725183121
>steal indie devs money
how, exactly?

Reminder the Raising the Bar reprint still says on its website "printing in 2025".
I'm totally guessing here but if I was working for the HLX project, I would make the announcement publicly, including the Raising the Bar book in one big juicy announcement.
Fucking throw in an official Co-Op mode and a Deathmatch game not many will play but will still be appreciated and boom.

>>725183270
Of course a steamie steamcuck wouldn't know.

>>725183342
nobody cares that your game failed, anon

>>725183342
They can just put their game on EG-OH NO NO NO NO

>>725182872
Neo-/v/ contrarian, typical.

>>725182904
Half life 1: actual interesting puzzle game with fun combat, trying to navigate through th facility takes some thought, but there’s also almost always another path through any area

Half life 2: PEWWWW SPERG KABOOM HOLY SHIT COMBINE KABOOOOSH SHOOT SHOOT KABOOOOOM BANG EXPLOOOODE WOAH LOOK OUT MY QUIRKY FEMALE SIDEKICK KABOOOOSH WOAH KABOOOOM

>>725183186
Now that you say it...

>>725183947
yeah I like kaboosh shoot shoot bang explode

>>725184039
Halo does that, just infinitely better

>>725184064
I like both.

>>725183083
Yeah, the build-up to Portal 2 with the ARG was great. I'm hoping that Valve would do that again with HL3 but who knows.

>>725184240
There was a lambda in a steam sale arg last year or something

It's not going to be any specific date, Valve doesn't want people reading into numerology stuff and showing up to their headquarters because someone thought an ARG told them to.

It's getting announced TODAY TONIGHT THIS IS THE DAY ITS HAPPENING NOW

Half Life 3 in 2 minutes.

>>725184365
I'm going to the valve office

where is the valve office
I thought they moved recently

>>725183947
According to some of the code leaks in their other source 2 games, it seems like HL3 might have a larger emphasis on puzzle gameplay and level traversal with randomized events that is tied into their "new" physics engine. Although I don't think that it's any more advanced than:
>This blue barrel can spawn ANYWHERE! Within this 200m radius...
>You know that locked door that you couldn't get through last time you were here? It's been moved 10 meters away and now blocks another random room!
>This random assortment of "trash" props are now randomly scattered in a different pattern than last time you were here!

I'd imagine that we will get a merger between the physics engine used in Alyx, the swarm AI and Director AI from L4D 1/2, the more advanced enemy/combine chatter system from EP2 and Alyx with maybe a new AI system for more humanoid enemies since the one they had in Alyx was essentially just a lobotomized version of the one we've seen in all of the HL2 entries.

half life 3 was yesterday actually, you all missed it like the poser fans you are.

>>725184483
Here's hoping they'll actually make the shooting part good this time too.

>>725181575 (OP)
Gabe Newell rolls on stage. Rips the wettest, most loudest fart ever. Rolls away.
That would be funny.

make the magnum three times as loud this time and make the cocking handle more meaty

>>725184649
I would pay money for that. Thanks G-Fat.

16 more weekdays to go in November that something could happen. Keep the faith.

Valves already made the game but I hope it has
>linear, not fully open world levels
>revival of helicopter/gunship chase sections with a car or boat if its true forza team worked on the vehicles in this game we're in for a treat
>xen levels aren't too long and platformy
>actual answers on who the combine are and who gman is
>an official coop mode for shits and giggles
>alyx hugs me

>>725182224
>Believing Geoff's obvious lies

>>725181575 (OP)
They don't have a game.

Geoff will post on Twitter "what would be the dream announcement for you at the game awards" and then goes on to announce a shitty clone of Celeste.

>>725185138
Why the fuck would it be open world?

>>725181978
Pootis!

>>725185280
They have many games. They just don't finish them.

>>725185321
Datamines suggest the game will be more "open area" so it will still be linear but the player will have various options to progress instead of the one path.

>>725184649
Classic Gaben maneuver.

>>725185280
They do bitch STFU no one is even talking about Half Life 3 anymore we are now considering what comes next such as Portal 3, TF3, L4D3, Alyx 2, all of which will release in the next 15 years.

>>725184483
hl3 being the sum of every source game before it would be the actual best thing

HL3 is great. But I expect it to be the moment Source 2 is "finished". I demand the SDK and a revamped SFM.

>>725185463
At most the open maps will be as big as Metro Exodus or Crysis given the vehicle part.

>>725185851
I won't be mad if the open area stuff is relegated only to the cool new forza style vehicles.

>>725185463
OMG DEUS LIFE 3? JC FREEMAN CONFIRMED?

>>725183186
>19
>18
>16
It's clear we are going to get something on either the 14th or 13th

>>725182575
Gabe is going to drop down on stage in a fully functioning HEV suit and release genetically engineered headcrabs into the audience, killing hundreds. Then the screen will show
>Deadlock: coming summer 2032

>>725187540
>metrocops barge through the convention centres doors and beat random developers and audience members with stunsticks
>please let me know what you think I can be reached at: gaben@valvesoftware.com

>>725187540
>>725187641
kek

>>725187494
>1
>2
>3
Yeah I'm gonna go with 13th. Though I dunno if Valve actually thought of this as a pattern or this is all going to end up as another of those HL3 schizoism.

guys it's not clear at all we only know a half life game is somewhat finished thats it
could be hunt down the freeman 2 for all we know

>>725188406
well it's from valve and it's using source 2 so the worst case scenario is half life: barney

>>725182224
I'd rather watch the Super Bowl and I don't even care about sports.

I'd rather watch the super bowl if Gordon Freeman was there.

All they have to do is recreate this
https://youtu.be/r42TJQwQI6I

>>725188675
Wait that was real?
That aired on TV?

>>725184483
Don't forget the smoke voxel thing. Valve has been wanting to have sentient cloud enemy for the longest time, that's why they kept referencing it since HL2.

will the funny blob thing return or has that been totally scrapped

>>725188406
there is no way they do a Half Life Alyx twice

How do we know HLX is "done"? What part of the dataleaks provide that?

>>725189702
I'd like to think the Episode 3 footage from the documentary was Valve giving out feelers on what they may include in the new game. They didn't say they were failed prototypes or anything. And the tech still exists in Source 2.

>>725189962
nobody thinks it's done. nobody said it's done.

>>725188550
I'd rather watch the Game Awards and I don't even care about video games.

>>725190063
Then why is everyone and their pet dog saying its being announced this month or next month?

>>725190089
>watch super bowl
>empty nothingness for several hours
>watch game awards
>empty nothingness for several hours

>>725190137
Blame Tyler for that and with him saying that Valve is editing a trailer for it.

>>725189962
late stage code optimizations and refactoring

>>725189962
It's just people speculating because there's some optimization related strings in the code. There's no actual confirmation of anything.

>>725181651
>Hhhh
>You are allowed
>to be
>as
>hhh
>excited
>as people were for
>HL3
>in 2009...
>You are
>not allowed to
>hh
>be more excited
>than that...

>>725190205
and dont forget:
>for some fucking reason normalfags love that crap

>>725190137
>>725190242
games get announced many months before they are released. none of this implies an imminent release of the game. just that they might announce soon.

Year number 5 of "this year is it HL3 is done for real"
And each year I fall for it and I never learn.

would you guys join civil protection if you somehow managed to survive the invasion

>>725183947
Half life 1: boring nerd shit

>Half life 2: PEWWWW SPERG KABOOM HOLY SHIT COMBINE KABOOOOSH SHOOT SHOOT KABOOOOOM BANG EXPLOOOODE WOAH LOOK OUT MY QUIRKY FEMALE SIDEKICK KABOOOOSH WOAH KABOOOOM

>>725190378
>Year number 5
You're as bad at counting as GabeN himself

>>725190473
he just threw out a number so unbelievably large it boggles the mind. like 3.

>>725190378
No one was expecting Half Life 3 until 2024 at the earliest, Alyx only came out in 2020 so obviously they didn't magically develop a new game right away. Do you still think it's 2015 where games take 2 years to make? Dumbass.

Half Life 1: BOOM PATANG *ear orgasming metallic footsteps* GRENADE GO GO H.E.C.U MARINE MY ASS IS HEAVY BOOM what is that smell SHOOT SHOOT
Half Life 2: BOOM PATANG *shit-water squelching footsteps* BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP COPY OVERWATCH COMBINE SOLDIER YOUR FAMILY COHESION IS PRESERVED BOOM you lucky dog you SHOOT SHOOT alyx hug

>>725190675
well memed my friend, well memed

chompski is a key to all this
we need to get chompski working

>I AM SO HONORED TO PRESENT THIS NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT
>sobs quietly
>wipes eyes with sleeve
>opens envelop
>*inhales*
>SUPER COOLIO SPRIGHTLY ANGEL ADVENTURE, THE WACKY SOUL COLLECTAPHON 2D PLATFORMER BY LITERALLY WHO PRODUCTIONS

>>725183641
>Half Life 3 sold as an Epic Games exclusive
would be absolutely hilarious

>>725187641
>rounds of applause and encores after the entire bethesda and riot games teams are beaten to a bloody pulp

will they also re-open the valve store when HL3 is announced

One of the latest CS2 updates had a massive update to the asset browser. 11000+ new lines in assetpreview_strings.txt. Read it and you too can feel like a dataminer.
https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CS2/commit/68d4aa24b6b722828349d446c8e67e64e8b37366
Not documented anywhere yet, most of it is just reinforcement of what we already knew, but it does provide a clearer picture of a lot of things. Most notable are the cloth physics strings, some of which are new and show a much more sophisticated system for HLX than the one used in Alyx.

>>725192995
My job is to have people tell me what datamines mean, not to read datamines. I'm too stupid. That's why Tyler does it for me.

>>725193058
Just put the datamined strings and speculation in the bag Tyler (who is reading this thread right now, high on life and outer worlds suck btw)

>>725181575 (OP)
Nothing will happen retard

>>725193678
It will happen. And if it doesn't happen, it will happen next year. And if it doesn't happen then, it will happen the year after.
You gotta believe.

>>725193817
That's how Duke of Nukes For all eternity happened

YOU FUCKED UP MY GAME AWARDS

HL3 at the game awards would be divine comedy because it'd overshadow everything.
all the other announcements? nope, HL3
the lesser award winners? who cares, HL3
the winner of the biggest journalist circle jerk award? might as well just be HL3
player's voice? sorry, HL3
the bit they're doing for this year? yeah the bit is HL3
the literal only memory of the event would be "HOLY SHIT HALF LIFE 3!"

>>725195962
nobody will ever watch the game awards again
I will be too busy going to the Borealis in my soviet helicopter.

>>725181891
Portal 2 was the epitome of reddit. Try harder, faggot

>>725196247
Portal 2 created Reddit. I enjoy it but holy fuck the consequences have been devastating.

Why would Valve announce HLX at the game awards? The whole "geoff debt" is nothing and they can do whatever the fuck they want because unironically they are the most successful game company in the world

I like Portal 2. I just hate people who like Portal 2.
Also nobody plays coop anymore.

>>725196393
Portal 1 created reddit, try again zoomie

>>725196508
Because it's the only major game announcement platform left? I mean Valve isn't going to announce it at Tokyo Game Show, are they?

>>725182836
I'm poor btw

That's right, Geoff. Hunt Down The Freeman 2.

>>725196596
P1 wasn't as bad as 2. It still had atmosphere and felt way more desolate than the second game.

>>725196645
this anon is a seething tranny btw

>>725181575 (OP)
i hooe we get to sail a yacht in hl3, to reflect gay ben's love of yachts, and to rub it in all the faces of the faggots who always incessantly seethe at him

>>725196613
>major game announcement platform left
Steam alone is bigger than TGA, they can just announce it via store event or their own youtube livestream

>>725197303
combine sucked the sea, anon.

>>725195962
That's why I wanted it to happen. At least it would redeem the show.

I want Valve to go ham on pretty landscapes like Episode 2. I want to see one of the machines that drinks up the sea.

>>725196705
I really hope Valve never makes L4D or Portal again because those games were hard carried by the humour and good characters, something nuValve is incapable of

>>725197431
there is no need to redeem what has been dead for many years, anon

>>725197431
>>725197689
HL3 being announced at the GA is not a redemption, its a painless euthanasia.

>>725181575 (OP)
Valve is profitable unlike all the other AAA USAID devs

>>725197512
boosh

>>725197502
Episode 3 is supposed to feature this Combine train the size of skyscrapers. Hope they'll still have it in the next game.

>>725197867
I think Valve will find a way to keep Gordon moving from different location to different location. I don't think (or want) it all to take place in the North Pole.

>>725197420
I didn't know your mom is the combine

>>725197858
I want to get in deadlock but moba shit is filtering me hard, when they are gonna add a CTF and payload modes?

>>725198000
datamines show they plan on adding a casual mode

>>725198000
valve managed to make a moba that's fun to play that in itself is revolutionary

>>725198042
when?

>>725198000
Just copy the builds and watch gameplay of your main on youtube to get an idea on how to play.

>>725198078
Soon™ (in Valve Time)

deadlock, hl3, raising the bar and hl2 rtx all on the same night

>>725198068
Considering the absolute state of Dota I think that Yoshi(Icefrog) alone is responsible for Deadlock's success, Valve can go fuck itself

>all the people who worked on HL2 including Gabe have said years ago they want to make HL3 asap before they get too old to work
That was 15 years ago.

>>725198078
likely next month
it's not going to be CTF or payload though, just round-based fighting on one lane without the farming part of the game

>>725198447
can you leave whenever you want in casual mode
because the think about mobas I hate is that the game expects me to have hours of free time in one sitting

>>725198084
I tried maining the Mcginnis girl and I watched FUNKe video about her, still too complicated
I can't keep up with the timings, schmovement techniques, which lane pairing work well and which don't, solo que is filled with drunk russians who either throw the game or treat it like as sweatiest e-sports, can rarely find some chill guys who are good but they usually play supports heroes too
Also the balance is a bit wonky too

>>725198573
that's thing, mobas expect you to be a NEET to master all of it, if you have a job, friends or family you can forget about them, that's the price you need to pay to get good at Deadlock

>>725198573
no, it'll have 15 min rounds but leaving still gets punished because you're going to ruin the game for 7 other players
only games that don't have leave penalties these days are battle royale

>>725198431
Yeah and they made it and it's done so they can all retire next year

>>725196705
Nothing you said contradicts what I said

>>725198945
>casual
>not actually casual
many such cases!

>>725198953
b-but
what about ricochet 2?

>>725199034
>a fixed round length and you aren't punished for feeding
more casual than a moba

>>725199215
Coming right after HLX, VR exclusive

>>725181891
Computer, beam this man 200 meters off the port bow.

>>725199274
Ricochet seems fitting for VR actually.

Ricochet 2 would be a good VR game. And it would be easy to make.

If Valve is at TGA they're going to announce a lot more than HLX judging by all the hardware leaks. They're not only working on a new VR headset, they're also working on a new Steam Machine and a new Steam Controller.

>>725181575 (OP)
... and delay HL3 even further

>>725199470
Oh yeah they've got that steam box thing that's basically a console for your steam library and the controller is just a steam deck without a screen which is probably a lot better than the original stream controller with its weird touch pad.

>>725181575 (OP)
Stop kidding yourself. Half life 3 CANNOT compete with gta 6.
15 years ago? Absolutely. Nowadays? No chance.

Won't Disney get angry with Valve if they made a new Ricochet game since it's basically Tron?

>>725199620
If GTA 6 ever actually comes out

>>725199620
What's a GTA?

>>725199215
ricochet 2 is going to be a vr game, you have to motiin control throw the discs

>>725199768
Its some car stealing nonsense i guess, i dunno i never played it

>>725199620
shame that HL3 is allegedly near finished so they won't be competing at all

>>725199620
HL3 will come out in March-May
GTA 6 will come out in November 2027

>>725199620
Maybe not in sales, but should HL3 exist and actually be released next year, it has a chance to sweep those vidya industry GOTY awards now that GTA 6 releases beyond the usual admission date for those things. Not that it matters to either Valve or Rockstar, but I guess it should matter for some people who track that kind of stuff.

Ricochet 2: Electric Boogaloo coming out alongside the release of Steam VR 2 for the low low price of $2000.

>half life 3
>before opposing force 2, ricochet 2, left 4 dead 3, counter strike 2.2, sven coop 2, deadlock, dota 3

get your priorities straight

>>725199620
GTA6 is definitively going to beat out HL3 in the graphics and rendering department, but in actual gameplay I seriously doubt GTA6 will hold a candle to HL3.

>>725200423
>opposing force 2
that will never happen I'm afraid

>>725199620
>Implying union busting r* jeets can make a good game

look at the LOVE for this game

>>725199620
one word: skibidi
BILLIONS of zoomies will buy hl3 just for this word, gta 6 will be a woke slop with a boring story

>>725182224
People go watch the Gay Awards to
1.See Game Announcements
2.Laugh at how terrible it is

>>725181891
I replayed Half Life 1 last year, with the intention of finally playing through the whole series, which has been sitting in my Steam account for over a decade. I fucking hated it. I don't understand the hype around this series at all. I had fun dicking around with cheat codes in HL1 when I was a kid, but playing it in earnest as an adult was a total slog.

>Gabe rolls on stage
>”Today I would like to share an announcement for a title a lot of you have been waiting quite a long time for”
>crowd erupts in screams and applause
>announces that GTA6 has been delayed even further
>Gabe rolls off stage and gets on his escape yacht

>>725200987
I watch for the reveals... and Sydnee Goodman.

I don't know why I watch GA. I just watch like an empty shell.

>>725199272
>4v4, a single player still carries a lot of weight
meh.
lemme know when they add a 12v12 mode, a matchmaker that can handle dumping players into existing games, and 2fort.

>>725200423
The good thing with HL3 being finished is that it will open the door for more games to be made with Source 2 finally being more feature-complete. I just want them to make that Dune-esque space pirate game.

If HLX is a success, please god. Maybe Valve will use Source 2 to make new things other than expected sequels to popular properties. They are the crazy experimental company after all. Make weird shit. I want to see new shit. Deadlock is a step foward, I guess.

>>725201015
It is genuine "you had to be there" game
Once you play a lot of modern shooters, half life 1 becomes very boring in comparison to them

>>725199620
>Half life 3 CANNOT compete with gta 6
It has already won, more Gen Z and Alpha don't give a shit about GTA, they are however still playing GMOD and watching Skibidi Toilet.

All Valve needs to do to be successful is to let it's community thrive.

>>725181619
>if your under 30 years old YOURUNDERAGED
thats you, thats how you sound

Gen Z are very source-orientated. They've played L4D2, Portal, Half Life, Gmod and Sven CoOp because that shit gets constantly regurgitated by waves of rediscovery. New mods and fangames are made for it constantly and that shit gets eaten up.

>>725201393
HL series is the epitome of those "you had to be there" kind of games. I just hope HL3 will be a more long-lasting kind of game gameplay-wise.

>>725201015
I played it again recently and it's fine, you're just an awkward bitch


>>725201393
Reddit ass opinion, games do not age, if its bad now it was bad then

>>725201438
EVERYTHING I DON'T LIKE IS ZOOMERS!!!

I'm not worried about the gameplay being shit. I'm worried about the story being shit. The whole point of episode 3 was to wrap shit up. Without Laidlaw, I'm worried.

>>725201694
Laidlaw wouldn't come back even if they asked him to, he's completely done with Half-Life.

>>725201645
>You had to be there
No you didn't, Half Life is still top tier, you're just as retarded as the Halo faggots who spout that nonsense to pretend like their series wasn't absolute shit since the first sequel.

>>725201669
>games do not age
They do, it's just those who genuinely love old games usually don't notice it, they only see the magic that captivated them as a kid

>>725201808
Good

>>725181891
Most influential FPS series of all time. That's a hell of a lot of cope. COD wouldn't even exist without Half-Life1. COD used to use a fork of the Source engine up until like 10 years ago.

>>725201172
12v12 is hard to make work when the game is designed around black holes and lighting storms

>>725201976
chaos is fun. thats enough to make it work.

>>725201964
COD never used Source, it used idtech 3

>>725201963
How is that good?

>>725201671
dude hl3 is such a old meme, no one cares anymore, atlest I dont. If the story is not epistle 3 for HALF LIFE 2: EPISODE 3, than I dont care. Valve made a placeholder for episode 3 for the orange box in the xbox 360, there was supposed to be a episode 3, dont try to bull shit you way into saying "they never planed a episode 3".

Why am I gearing with a literarel boomer?

>>725201826
Try replaying half life 2 and it's episodes back to back, it aged like milk, especially physic puzzles and vehicle segments

>>725201808
Hopefully Laidlaw provided some kind of story framework at least. I'm sure Epistle 3 isn't the only draft he worked on.

>>725202056
Marc Laidlaw was responsible for the hl2 ep2 cliffhanger and Borealis right at the end, his version of episode 3 would've sucked dick

>>725202172
>I'm sure Epistle 3 isn't the only draft he worked on
Its the only one I like.

>>725201964
COD was based off a highly modified Quake 3/idtech3 retardo, not Goldsource

>>725202236
And Half-Life Alyx was a downgrade from that, so I ask you again, how is that good?

>>725187641
expectations so high, gaben makes half life 3 REAL to meet the hype?
fuarking sign me up, brother

>>725201669
You're 45 years old.

>>725202236
>Marc Laidlaw was responsible for the hl2 ep2 cliffhanger
No that was Gabe. He wanted a major character's death to up the ante for Episode 3.

>>725202019
maybe as a custom gamemode when they get around to that, but it's a fools errand wasting dev time on a 12v12 mode when the game isn't even announced

>>725202124
I replay them every year you retarded faggot.
Half Life 2 physics, atmosphere and open ended vehicle sections shit all over modern trash.

>>725202296
Alyx is literally not canon, writers just went with whatever they wanted because they expected only few people to care about VR exclusive

>>725202405
>Alyx is literally not canon
According to who? And the people who wrote it are writing the next game too.

>>725202328
I don't see Gabe anywhere on the writing team staff list so you're wrong

>>725202487
>And the people who wrote it are writing the next game too
Source?

>>725202394
what disingenuous post
maybe you should take off your rose tinted nostalgia glasses

>>725202512
https://youtu.be/YCjNT9qGjh4?si=vs6gJ46-l3AzrQUW&t=6722

No game will ever live up to the hype of a 20 year development process that took place after a cliffhanger ending.
Half Life 3 will be trash and only the industry itself will pretend otherwise.

>>725202689
>NOOOOO STOP LIKING OLDER GAMES!!!

>>725201964
>Most influential FPS series of all time
That was Doom retard, followed by Quake and later Halo CE. Admittedly without the Half Life mod Counter Strike, most modern multiplayer shooters wouldn't be sudo realistic military "sims" but that was more half life tech than the game it's self.

>>725202689
I'll do that once you take that dick out of your mouth

This thread is absolute garbage.

There is nothing HL3 can do that other FPS games have not done already by this point.

>>725202761
>Gaylo
Gaylo wouldn't even exist without Half Life

>>725202109
>If the story is not epistle 3 for HALF LIFE 2: EPISODE 3
epistle 3 fucking sucked thoughbeit

>>725202814
>This thread is absolute garbage.
Then why the fuck are you here, fuck off

>>725202814
*board
FTFY

>>725202852
No, it was the best story of all time for half life 2. It left the sotry for a new writer at the end, and the dysphon sphere ending is the best.
Have you even bothered to read epistle 3?

>>725202852
https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Epistle_Three

>>725202832
Just being good would be enough
We are in a doom: the dark ages for linear high budget fps games.

>>725202983
>Have you even bothered to read epistle 3?
Yeah and it's shit. The only thing great about it is the Dyson Sphere reveal.

>>725203078
I liked how Judith was an alley the whore time, how she was a double agent the whole time really made the story more in depth, and the fact that alex refused to believe her, due to her own grief makes excellent dramatic story writing.
Normal fags and normre cattle could never comprehend how good this story is, so if you dont like because its "too indepth" or "to complicated wahhh" it go back.

>>725181891
>left 4 dead
Go back

>>725203565
You can just tell he started gaymin with an Xbox 360

>>725202747
Stop getting pissy when people rightfully criticize your geriatric game.

>>725203921
but this is 4chan

>>725202983
It fucking sucked - with the vortigaunt plot armor, of course, coming in to epicly save Gordon too.
>>725203310
>alley
>alex
You must be over 18 to use this site. Also, Mossman being a double agent has been known since HL2 already. It sounds like that shitty script is all you've seen of the franchise.
>makes excellent dramatic story writing
Zoomers are incredibly easy to please, it's hilarious. None of her relationship or conflict with Mossman is explored with any depth in epistle 3, it uses cliche shock value with Alyx killing Mossman.
>its "too indepth"
it sucks because it's NOT in-depth, that's the issue. Basically the whole first third of the arctic sequence is glossed over, nothing about the Advisors is explored or explained. No mention of Xen either. It's just incredibly unimaginative.

>>725182251
Their games aren't poorly optimized. Most people can run HL2 on their shitty potato PCs

>>725203921
ok then, criticize it instead of saying "its just bad, ok?"