Gabe Newell: Valve E3 Surprise Isn't Episode 3
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Maybe it's really a surprise and something totally out there.
Sort of like
"Hey guys, after March Madness we here at Valve have realized there is no money in catering to 'gamers' anymore, so we are cancelling all of our franchises and will be instead re-focusing our development efforts on casual, browster based, play as you go type games.. using a similar format and philsophy to our March Madness rival Zynga. Our first new project will be a farming simulation tenatively set on the 'Half Life' universe, where you have to try and grow crops to feed the starving rural populations of a combine ravaged earth. It will be a lot like Farmville, but periodically giant walkers will show up and destroy your crops, unless you pay real money to bribe them to stay away... we're excited this will be an entirely new gaming experience, unlike anything else before. While we've all seen farming, this will be the first proper simulation of being an OPPRESSED farmer in a truely unfair, conflict ravaged world. Sort of like that happens with farmers in Africa when the warlords come around... except you know, with space aliens, and you paying us the bribes via credit cards."
NOBODY would see that coming.
All told though, I get a bit tired of sequel-itis, I'm sort of hoping it's a new property rather than a new chapter of an existing franchise.
Sort of like
"Hey guys, after March Madness we here at Valve have realized there is no money in catering to 'gamers' anymore, so we are cancelling all of our franchises and will be instead re-focusing our development efforts on casual, browster based, play as you go type games.. using a similar format and philsophy to our March Madness rival Zynga. Our first new project will be a farming simulation tenatively set on the 'Half Life' universe, where you have to try and grow crops to feed the starving rural populations of a combine ravaged earth. It will be a lot like Farmville, but periodically giant walkers will show up and destroy your crops, unless you pay real money to bribe them to stay away... we're excited this will be an entirely new gaming experience, unlike anything else before. While we've all seen farming, this will be the first proper simulation of being an OPPRESSED farmer in a truely unfair, conflict ravaged world. Sort of like that happens with farmers in Africa when the warlords come around... except you know, with space aliens, and you paying us the bribes via credit cards."
NOBODY would see that coming.
All told though, I get a bit tired of sequel-itis, I'm sort of hoping it's a new property rather than a new chapter of an existing franchise.
I don't know if I'm the first to say it, but it might be the revamped DotA. Icefrog said he teamed up with Valve last year.John Funk said:Gabe Newell: Valve E3 Surprise Isn't Episode 3
If you'd been hoping that Valve's June 14th "surprise" would be an unexpected reveal of the long-dormant Half-Life 2: Episode 3, time to hope a little bit harder.
Not too long ago, Valve kicked the internet hype machine into a frenzy by announcing that it was unexpectedly canceling its Portal 2 E3 event - and replacing it with a "surprise." Naturally, this stirred the Valve fanboys into a frothing fury of excitement: What else could this surprise be but a glorious announcement of the seemingly-forgotten Episode 3?!
Well, I don't know what it is - but it's not Episode 3. And that "Freeman: June 14th" picture that's been floating around the tubes? It's fake.
Both of these were confirmed via no less a reputable source than Valve head honcho Gabe Newell, reports Halflife2.net [http://www.halflife2.net/2010/06/05/freeman-14th-picture-confirmed-fake-by-gabe/]. So sorry, people, time to take off your party hats and put the bubbly away - Episode 3 is still unlikely to see the light of day any time soon.
On the bright side, PC gamers will probably have a damn good year when both Episode 3 and Diablo III release in 2014.
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Damn, ninja'd on L4D3. Imagine if they announced the super-epic-awesome new DLC! And the already announced Engineer update! Meet the Pyro or Medic perhaps?thenumberthirteen said:
Maybe they reinitiated Prospero... who knows.
Or the ridiculous DoTA thing...(please God, no)
But you apparently did.Therumancer said:NOBODY would see that coming.
While we're speaking sequel-itis, some truly ridiculous ideas pop up. Counter-Strike 2? Day of Defeat: The Second Day? HL2DM2? I saw somewhere that the creator of CS is working on a new game, so that could be it.
Fanboy rage will rip a hole in the space/time continuum if it's L4D3. And to be honest i'll probably join them 2 seems to be dead as a dodo most times i try getting a game on.
Increment the number! Double the boycott! Triple the fanboys! Drama! Love! MURDER!Darth Sea Bass said:
I skimmed the whole thread to see if anyone posted this "image", if it is on another thread i mush have missed that too, i found this looking for the fake picture the article mentioned:
I'm about as much of a valve fanboy as i can be, considering among other things that the only game i legally own from this decade is the orange box. And i recon that i'm a horrible horrible person for this, but when i saw it i just couldn't stop myself from laughing.
This is why we don't have HL2:EP3 yet
I'm about as much of a valve fanboy as i can be, considering among other things that the only game i legally own from this decade is the orange box. And i recon that i'm a horrible horrible person for this, but when i saw it i just couldn't stop myself from laughing.
This is why we don't have HL2:EP3 yet
Fanboy brains would explode all over the place, wouldn't want to clean that up.emily123 said:
This is officially becoming sad.Bek359 said:
Damnit, Valve... look, either tell the fanbase what's going on with the Half-Life franchise at this point, or walk away from it fully. If you don't have anything to say, say that. If you've given up on Freeman & Co., say that! It's pretty damn dickish to play coy and not even HINT at anything, meanwhile you've clearly got the time and resources to make a plethora of other titles and occasionally ***** at the PS3 for daring to exist. Cripes, at this point, I think the fans would settle for an 8-bit Final Fantasy-style RPG if it'd just finish the damn story.