I said before, and I will say it again, Half Life 3 is the new Duke Nukem Forever. I was never a fan of the series, but I do feel bad for them. It's like when Viewtiful Joe 3 was cancelled and Clover disbanded from Capcom.
All Half life writers have left Valve
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People still begging for Half-Life 3 are so pathetic that Valve just ignores them now. Really though, Valve is shit, I bet if people had whined as much to Square Enix about another game in the Chrono franchise as they did to Valve about getting HL3, we would have a new game in the Chrono franchise.
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Don't think anyone's begging them for it. Maybe a handfull.WeepingAngels said:
I'm definitely a fan and I believe it'll get done, but I just do other things meanwhile. Like any sane person.
Eh, doesn't mean L4D2, or Portal 1 and 2 suddenly dissappear. Or Half Life 1 and expansions for that matter. I stil play those games fondly.
The problem is that NONE of those series are finished. You could argue that Left 4 Dead was never really meant to have an end point, but the second game revealed some interesting story points about the four heroes, and it was pretty clear they were going to give us more in the next game.Poetic Nova said:
And while Chell's adventure seems to be over, and thus possibly Portal as a whole, it's still really easy to make more in the series especially considering Chell is now outside and quite possibly going to run into beings from the Half-Life story now.
And as for Half-Life itself, well...you play those games still. You've seen that horrible ending in Episode 2.
Yeah, those games haven't disappeared and they're still all really amazing, but they also serve as not only a painful reminder of what Valve was once, but also as a reminder that we are never going to see them concluded.
On the cliffhanger ending of Episode 2:Sniper Team 4 said:
I used to be very annoyed that it doesnt seem to be getting a conclusion, but in recent years I started to think less of HL2 + episodes. I don't hate them, but I dont think they hold up aswell as HL1 and its expansions.
Portal (2), well, I honestly feel its story came to and end. Chell is outside the facility, and GLADOS can keep on going with her experiments. And a fan mod already gives a diffirent perspective on things, I just don't recall the name.
Eh, don't really care. I played the Half Life games. They were ok. I don't see what the gaming community's obsession with them is to be frank. They were decently built FPS's, that helped shape the genre, but I didn't get any feeling that they were the second coming of video game jesus or anything.
The final mission, when you need to cross the bridge, you are on the radio with the military. They start asking if the four characters are carriers or whatever. They respond by saying that they're not infected, and the military stresses that they don't want to know that, they want to know if these people have come in contact with infected and not turned. When the military finds this out, they suddenly become very driven to get those people out of there, but never explain why. To me, this implies that there was supposed to be another game, perhaps one dealing with a chance to find a cure. But all we get is a cutscene of a helicopter taking off and then credits.Ezekiel said:
And those are.....not videogames?B-Cell said:
Plus they make dota and tf and isn't there talk of a L4D3? Yes yes, I know lots of those originated at mods. But here's the thing. When you take an idea, buy the idea, hire the creator onto staff and flesh that mod out into a fully fledged game, you're a game developer.
On the plus side, with the all Half-Life writers gone, we can look forward to future products actually being finished
I just realised that i don't really care all that much about HL3. I wasn't really a big fan of the first one and what i liked most about the second game was it's revolutionary engine which allowed you to play with physics in ways never seen before. If they released their next game now i would probably be left dissapointed no matter what they do, it would be very hard to replicate that WOW! factor that the 2nd game had at the time.
Wasn't Valve the creator of Steam? Iv'e just read an article talking about how they got 75,000 complaints in a day? Was that why the people left?
The problem with DNF (and A:CM) was not inherent to the concept of finishing a long and troubled development cycle (though expectations added fuel to the inferno). The problem was a managing director who saw it as an opportunity to procure funds for his company's branded projects.CoCage said:
As for HL3, it can still happen. It may not have the original crew aboard but that doesn't mean it'll be terrible or won't happen. The point is to be creative with the concept you have an understanding and appreciation of, not to just have worked on it for a long time or since the beginning.
Half-Life 3 is the IRL, non-drug version of chasing the dragon. You'll never actually get it but it's gonna be teased until the day you die.
Don't worry, i am not implying that HL3 will be bad or worse than those two God awful title, but at this point, it is replacement of a game that should have been out years ago, but for some reason or another, the creators sit on their asses and do nothing. Or the publisher/developers keeps switching developers do the job for them; in the case of DNF & A:CM. So in essence, HL3 has taken on that mantle in a way.PainInTheAssInternet said:
Kingdom Hearts III might as well almost be in the same spot despite having a minor trailer back in E3 2013 with still no release date in site, since Square just loves announcing games more than completing them. Shoot, I remember when people were pre-ordering PS3s, assuming KH III would be on the system. At the end of day, if HL3 ever does come out, it will have to meet impossibly high expectations regardless of quality.
