Valve Guy Makes His Half-Life 3 T-Shirt Talk

[Arppis]

God DAMMIT this game better not be coming out in the next 6 months. I've got too much shit to play already.

Don't worry, if it's Valve, it's gonna be like 3 more years. OR MORE!

But anyhows, the game is propably short as hell too!

 

[Zanaxal]

Well its better then a episode 3 anyway. If ppl read the potential story for episode 3 anyhow it was just going to be some hogwash about running around on a derilict oil tanker. So from top secret military facility "cool area" to some river/beach, mountain roa and generic city streets/houses "pretty uninteresting and silly that soldiers would even be there" to Gray Brownish tight corridor ship "crap generic area" explained for the layman player. OH valve what did you do to your genious level designers from hl1.

I say go ahead valve make a entire new game as Hl 2 was a total mess. and really made absolutely no sense and just prolonged the ending after the original game ended.

Hopefully they add more then 6 Enemy units this time around but i highly doubt it. As they download player stats and anything remotely difficult or different or interresting is sure to be dumbed down and replaced by a see-saw physics puzzle and just a swarm of enemy units attacking as a cheap diversion from boredom.

 

[FURY_007]

Even if it's not trolling, I'm really past the point of caring about the Half-Life series by this point.

You kept us waiting for too long, Gaben. Mr. Freeman means nothing to me now.

After only four years, really? Guys like you are why we get yearly installments.

Half-Life 2 took 6 years and it turned out fine.

"Guys like me" includes most of the gaming community. I'm not being unreasonable. Generally it takes a AAA developer (and YES, Valve is one) circa two years to make a great sequel, especially in a genre as straightforward as an FPS. Hell, even smaller dev teams sometimes need less time than that. Take Uncharted, for example.

It's been four years since the bite-sized add-on that was Episode 2. I may not be as big a Valve fan as you, but it will take more than that to revive the series for me that's been buried under the dust of waiting so long. It's already been seven years since Half-Life 2. And this is just at time of writing! Valve are infamous for their development time, but that shouldn't give them an unlimited development time allotment in my eyes. They can only put it off for so long before it enters the realm of absurdity. Really, besides Duke Nukem Forever, what's the most infamously delayed game in history that's already spawned internet memes?

Forgive me for being skeptical, but I'm not sure how much Valve can improve the FPS formula that they've got for Dr. Freeman. Valve may have opened the door for FPS experimentation, but with the glut of shooters on the market that have experimented with different engine and design concepts since Half-Life 2, I can see very little that Valve can innovate that hasn't already been done by someone else.

meh at this point its not about innovation, it's a bout the story and gameplay, they didnt innovate after HL2 anyways with the 2 episodes

 

[JakBandit2208]

Please stop playing with my emotions Valve...

 

[The Youth Counselor]

Half-Life 3? More like 3 to the Half-Life power!

 

[Kapol]

Why does this deserve a news story? I mean honestly, are people that desperate for HL3 that their willing to act like one shirt means it's actually being worked on or will come out in the not too distant future? Seriously, how do we know the guy actually works for Valve? Is it someone who the person who tweeted it (which twitter is such a good source of info anyways) knows of, or someone who said they work for Valve? And the shirt only has the Half-Life logo with 3 replacing 2. Not something that would be hard to make yourself or get someone to print.

Honestly, I don't like the HL series anyways, so this 'news' does nothing for me. But seriously? This isn't even a rumor. It's just some random person wearing a shirt. Not a huge deal, and not something I would take as a sign of release. I don't mean to seem like I'm trolling, but this really does seem pointless to me.

I will admit that the shirt does look fairly neat though.

 

[trollogic]

Oh Valve, you and your trolling...

Well, at least there's t-shirts.

 

[bismarck55]

This is getting ridiculous. Valve has a product anticipated with such eager, slavering zeal that a T-shirt (that looks unofficial) sighting has people begging for an announcement.

Seriously, is there something wrong with this company? Do I need to be a big time share-holder to find out if they've decided to ditch their most iconic brand?

It seems to me that the sooner it's confirmed, the bigger the hype (which seems to mean bigger sales).

So why don't they just let us know if its in the works?

 

[Vitiositas]

Im just hoping with the release of CS:GO there will be a new orange box of some sort, maybe, just maybe, with HL3 within it

 

[AbstractStream]

Hahaha, Valve can't count to three. That's a good one.

*crosses fingers* Please don't let it be a troll. Pleeeease!

 

[hooksashands]

Honestly, I don't like the HL series anyways, so this 'news' does nothing for me. But seriously? This isn't even a rumor. It's just some random person wearing a shirt. Not a huge deal, and not something I would take as a sign of release. I don't mean to seem like I'm trolling, but this really does seem pointless to me.

Seriously. It's a fucking t-shirt with a 3 on it. Thank you. Thank you for not being a Valve drone. I'm almost ready to weep tears of joy. Thank you for finally setting yourself apart from the legions of pathetic people who like reminding Gabe Newel how good he smells every time he farts.

 

[duchaked]

"I did try to smother my face in his chest on the HL3 logo. He didn't even spoon me back. Jerk."

HAHAHA oh man that was too funny

I'm gonna have to assume he found a bunch of shirts from 07 though :/ not to get my hopes up (not that I'm in a rush, I have yet to finish Episodes 1 and 2...)

 

[javelinstark]

Valve is a good example why games should take forever to make. 5 years or a year *cough*cod*cough* is not enough.

yeah but look at what happened to duke nukem forever. give a developer too much time and they'll start to get lazy

 

[javelinstark]

You guys know that half-life wouldn't even be good any more right? The gaming world isn't the same place it was a decade ago, and there have been a looooot of shooters since then. Just saying.

so just because a shooter is old we shouldnt play it for the excellent, superb, and masterful storyline or the cool innovative physics puzzles along with the simple and fun gameplay style?

i guess doom just stopped being good when other shooters decided to have better graphics

 

[javelinstark]

when did r

You guys know that half-life wouldn't even be good any more right? The gaming world isn't the same place it was a decade ago, and there have been a looooot of shooters since then. Just saying.

so just because a shooter is old we shouldnt play it for the excellent, superb, and masterful storyline or the cool innovative physics puzzles along with the simple and fun gameplay style?

i guess doom just stopped being good when other shooters decided to have better graphics

Keep it real dude, the only people that still actually play Doom are nostalgia fiends. It was a great leap forward in its day but that day is dead. Now, HL isn't in the same boat as Doom, but given the amount of sheer furour created over a t-shirt, you'd think it was a shirt showing the date of the rapture... But I think it best if we draw the line here. You used the words 'excellent, superb and masterful' in a row, talking about a story about aliens from another dimension brought here by one ballsy science maguffin. And see-saws. You just aren't ready for a realistic conversation about half-life 3 maybe not being the greatest thing that's ever happened. Or even a thing that will exist.

ill admit my language was exaggerated. but since when has needing to have a "realistic" discussion been necessary thing when talking about a video-game that wasn't involved in a supreme court case or part of bullshit slander on fox news. when i think half-life i think fun, enjoyment, and good storytelling, not whether it can compete with "modern shooters"

 

[VanityGirl]

Um...

Or Troll.


Seriously, I won't believe it until Valve shows me gameplay footage that ends with "Coming X day of X month of X year"

 

[honeybakedham]

that guy must be the biggest troll ever

No, he isn't.

The shirt in question is just a standard Men's Large

 

[honeybakedham]

Half Life 3 is the name of the new big update for TF2, silly people that don't know that.

Gordon Freeman can now wear an assortment of hats for unlocking achievements.