All Half life writers have left Valve

[JUMBO PALACE]

Half Life 3 will come out at the exact moment when VR becomes good enough to allow a true AAA title. Half Life games are tech demos with nice gameplay, that's why no third part has come out, tech on first person games has been stagnant ever since physics engines were introduced.

Yeah, Valve won't even consider a new Half Life game until they have a way to really bring something new to the table. With Half Life 2 they introduced realistic physics systems. Half Life 3 won't have a prayer into until there's new technology of that caliber that can be introduced- maybe VR is it.

That being said, I don't think it'll ever come out and I don't understand why people even bother to keep track of it anymore.

 

[MonsterCrit]

http://www.pcmag.com/news/353428/all-half-life-writers-have-left-valve

Every writer that worked on a Half-Life title has now left Valve for fresh pastures. We really aren't going to get a Half-Life 3, are we?

And here goes any hopes of another valve game. not that we had. but this time I would like to say. RIP valve as video game developer. now they are officially digital distributor.Not only Half life 3 will never ever going to release. but also left 4 dead 3 will never going to release too.

Uhm... well for starters HL has been a series where the narrative is woven around the gameplay. If it were the other way around they could easily just churn out the same game ala CoD or MW and tell slight variations on the same story with the same mechanics.

Valve actually was smart enough to realize that. It's no big task to get new writers. How deeply were any of the characters to begin with. Lets be frank. This won't affect the HL3 chances. Valve has always stated they'd work on it when they come up with an idea for it worth working on.

Here's an example. VCalve never had any ideas regarding the Portal story until they saw that demo of some developers course project that showed off the portal mechanics. They liked that and decided to build a game. The narrative and story came later.

Fun, innovative core mechanic first; then narrative.
They tried it the other way around twice and generally found the results unsatisfying and the task unrewarding.

 

[Vigormortis]

How do you know the script isn't already finished? Gaben confirmed on Reddit a while ago that they're working on a full-fledged single player game. Of course they're still a video game developer. That article is alarmist and unprofessional.

Besides, they can hire new writers. People move on. It's normal.

They've announced that they're also making three, full VR games. Not tech demos or samples, they're full-on, full-fledged games that'll cost money at release.

And, more over, claiming "all Half-Life writers have left Valve" shows a woefully inept understanding of how Valve develops their games and stories generally and the Half-Life series specifically.

I mean, for fuck's sake, Valve released their actual fucking guide book on their development process, and have done numerous interviews, discussions, panels, and behind-the-scenes books on how they went about making the Half-Life and Portal games. This assumption that the series [footnote]And all future story-driven games from Valve[/footnote] is completely dead in the water because Erik Wolpaw, Chet Faliszek, and Mark Laidlaw have left is just...stupid. Only way to sum it up. Stupid. Willfully ignorant and stupid.

Is there some opinion that those three are the ONLY writers in the game industry? Is there some assumption that Valve can't hire new writers? Is there some assumption that those three were the ONLY people at Valve capable of writing and creating characters and stories?

I just don't get this alarmist bullshit. It's confusing. Maybe this is just how everyone reacts to ANY news story nowadays. You either lose your mind with rage or you shrug with absolute apathy.

Besides, it's not like they can't come back. Kelly Bailey left Valve years ago and he eventually came back for a time. What prevents Erik, Chet, or Mark from doing the same?

 

[hermes]

Not going to say "it will never happen", because we live in a world were a sequel to Shenmue was announced. However, I think we are as likely to see Valve get behind one as we are to see Nintendo leave the console business to go back to producing Hanafuda cards as their main source of revenue, or Napster and Kazaa becoming relevant again.

In other words: we are not in 2004, they are not in the business of AAA single player games any more, and the investment they would need to produce a game that could get even close to players expectations is far too big to be worthy.

 

[Vigormortis]

I wonder what you're talking about with the four heroes having interesting stories that needed to be expanded. If there's another L4D, I want it to have an original cast of main characters.

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.

They covered part of that in the Left 4 Dead comic(s).

Turns out many of the military units still in operation on the East coast were rounding up the carries so they could use some to find a cure while killing the rest and burning them in mass graves to keep them from spreading the disease to those not immune.

They also explained why so few women seemed to be immune. It was a recessive gene passed down from the father.

It's a fantastic comic well worth the read - http://www.l4d.com/comic/

 

[Qoajo]

I didn't care for Half-Life. There were other, much better Valve games.

Also, as noted, this article is rather alarmist and unprofessional. It's making too big a deal out if this.