Half-Life 2: Episode 4 Could Have Looked Like This
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Except that none of what you said agrees with what the producers of XII have said, nor the official timeline of the games.Capitano Segnaposto said:
Officially, XII takes place in Ivalice before Tactics. Vagrant Story takes place after Tactics as well, followed by Tactics Advance.
Having far more experience with lab equipment than the average human I can safely say... That I have no idea what that lab setup would do.
But her's my stab in the dark anyway: it seems to involve separately vaporizing 2 chemicals and then funneling both gasses into that metallic cylinder in the middle. I'd guess it's set up that way because the gasses react into something quite dangerous once they meet. Furthermore I'd bet the cylinder is made of metal, as opposed to glass, because it's supposed to be taken out of the setup once the gasses are in. Conclusion: it makes some kind of makeshift grenades. Depending on the chemicals involved they could be anything from smokebombs to poison gas grenades.
OT: Working at valve has to be so weird. You wouldn't even be able to doodle on a napkin without it turning up on the internet one week later, complete with 4 page in-depth analysis of how it may be related to a new valve IP.
But her's my stab in the dark anyway: it seems to involve separately vaporizing 2 chemicals and then funneling both gasses into that metallic cylinder in the middle. I'd guess it's set up that way because the gasses react into something quite dangerous once they meet. Furthermore I'd bet the cylinder is made of metal, as opposed to glass, because it's supposed to be taken out of the setup once the gasses are in. Conclusion: it makes some kind of makeshift grenades. Depending on the chemicals involved they could be anything from smokebombs to poison gas grenades.
OT: Working at valve has to be so weird. You wouldn't even be able to doodle on a napkin without it turning up on the internet one week later, complete with 4 page in-depth analysis of how it may be related to a new valve IP.
There aren't any mentions on the Half Life wiki page about that. But all things considered, a game developer that doesn't bring out any news about it's current projects, might just as well shut down their entire operation.Capitano Segnaposto said:
Because when you don't get that you are not making just a game for yourself, but for all those fans who are waiting in anticipation for the follow up... and don't deliver any kind of information, then it's just no good PR at all.
So here for I declare Half Life 2: Episode 3 / Half Life 3 dead. It's time to move on and if it does surface somehow, I hope people will boycott the game. Companies need to learn that they can't dick us around any more.
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No, its not. Valve's baby turns 15 years old this year. That's the same length of time Duke Nukem Forever spend in development.Steven Bogos said:
Valve tried the episodic thing and have seemingly decided it wasn't for them. If we're going to hear anything regarding Episode 3 or Half-Life 3 this year it might be around November.
I held on to hope for new HL stuff for quite some time, but then I realized that there was plenty else out there in gaming land to look forward to, including a whole lineage of games that had been influenced by the sorts of things HL introduced. So while I would still like to see more Half Life at some point, I've had to stop thinking it would be any time soon. My current, wildly unsubstantiated wishful thinking is that it's going to release with the Steambox.
I don't know that "there was a significant amount of work done on advancing the series that has since been abandoned" is an improvement on "there may or may not be work going on with Half-Life franchise that Valve is being singularly cagey about."
I recognize that, given the amount of time that has passed, it would be hard for any version of HL to be introduced at this point that wouldn't be a crushing disappointment. Still, it's frustrating to be left hanging.
I recognize that, given the amount of time that has passed, it would be hard for any version of HL to be introduced at this point that wouldn't be a crushing disappointment. Still, it's frustrating to be left hanging.
Oh dear... it seems some people got a little overeager to voice themselves.
Episode 3 was planned to finish gordon's story, while additional episodes further fleshed out the world. The first of these background world ones was evidently adding more to ravenholm's story.
this 'half life 2: episode 4' project, shut down in 2007.
Also i don't quite get it, are you attacking valve or attacking the article? Either way you're not making much sense, and are acting needlessly hostile.
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Always great seeing this behind the scenes stuff, learning about a game's development. Although, i disagree on the models indicating it was late in development. You have to keep in mind, they have an art team they're paying, and a game engine that already comes with nearly all the functionality and assets ready to use, making prototyping fairly quick.
It's quite likely that they would set their modellers to work straight away on building new pieces, to make best use of the development time/money.
No need to waste the modeller's time making rough/placeholder pieces given the engine already has stuff that can serve that purpose, they'd go straight onto finalised assets.
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Try reading right there in the article, it tells you about that >.<MASTACHIEFPWN said:
Episode 3 was planned to finish gordon's story, while additional episodes further fleshed out the world. The first of these background world ones was evidently adding more to ravenholm's story.
'left 4 dead', acquired from turtlerock in 2008.Mr.Tea said:
this 'half life 2: episode 4' project, shut down in 2007.
Also i don't quite get it, are you attacking valve or attacking the article? Either way you're not making much sense, and are acting needlessly hostile.
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For the topic itself:
Always great seeing this behind the scenes stuff, learning about a game's development. Although, i disagree on the models indicating it was late in development. You have to keep in mind, they have an art team they're paying, and a game engine that already comes with nearly all the functionality and assets ready to use, making prototyping fairly quick.
It's quite likely that they would set their modellers to work straight away on building new pieces, to make best use of the development time/money.
No need to waste the modeller's time making rough/placeholder pieces given the engine already has stuff that can serve that purpose, they'd go straight onto finalised assets.
No, it hasn't been known. Valve have never said that they are working on a new version of Source or Half-Life 3.Capitano Segnaposto said:
Might not want "Fame" capitalised and in italics after "Dishonored", OP? Ignore if intentional.Steven Bogos said:
I still have hope there will be a new Half-Life. If it ever comes out I'll buy it in a second. It's a shame they didn't release the third episode a few years back after that cliffhanger.