Half-Life 3 Development "Confirmed" By Project Tool Error
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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I get the strange feeling that someone is going to be fired over this.
And thus starts the long list of Valve themed ways a person can be fired.
And thus starts the long list of Valve themed ways a person can be fired.
Ah, the good old Valve. who needs announcements when all the info is obtained from leaks and bugs in the system!
Thats how they anounce things, "unintwentionaly" leaking stuff. nothing new here even if they did 3 biog announcements, lets be honest we knew about them from leaks before this didnt we.
Thats how they anounce things, "unintwentionaly" leaking stuff. nothing new here even if they did 3 biog announcements, lets be honest we knew about them from leaks before this didnt we.
For years Valve have been saying they wanted to hold off on episode 3 until they could do something fresh with it and not just mod Half Life 2. Left 4 Dead is also a very popular franchise. With the new systems and source 2 coming out it makes perfect sense that it's legit. Considering how long Valve takes to fine tune games. I have no doubt that people were working on it over the last year. At least in writing and concept.
Considering how things have been, when we finally get a confirmation, it will be through the most assanine of methods to let us know about it, with a small bread crumb trail to lead us on. It will be the "there are 21 days over which 7 people died of beryllium poisoning. 21/7=3. The half life of beryllium is 8 years. Half-Life 3 confirmed to be out in 2015, 8 years after the last one." That will be our confirmation.
This is a bit of an underwhelming story.
If Valve actually held a press conference to announce formally that HL3 was in development, that would be news - not because the information provided itself so much, but because they'd made a landmark change to how Valve communicate on upcoming games development.
But as it is, it changes nothing really. Unless Valve were changing to developing *exclusively* "games a service" games, then there's little reason to expect otherwise. Halting Half Life as a series doesn't make sense; there's demand for more.
So what we have is
- an accidental, though not unprecidented "slip of the veil"
- further evidence that "Half Life 3 confirmed!" meme users will wildly speculate on anything tangentally related to the games release
- no change to how Valve communicate (or more accurately do not communicate) on any upcoming Half Life 3 development.
- what was always a very save assumption having more supporting evidence to continue to make it a very save assumption.
If Valve actually held a press conference to announce formally that HL3 was in development, that would be news - not because the information provided itself so much, but because they'd made a landmark change to how Valve communicate on upcoming games development.
But as it is, it changes nothing really. Unless Valve were changing to developing *exclusively* "games a service" games, then there's little reason to expect otherwise. Halting Half Life as a series doesn't make sense; there's demand for more.
So what we have is
- an accidental, though not unprecidented "slip of the veil"
- further evidence that "Half Life 3 confirmed!" meme users will wildly speculate on anything tangentally related to the games release
- no change to how Valve communicate (or more accurately do not communicate) on any upcoming Half Life 3 development.
- what was always a very save assumption having more supporting evidence to continue to make it a very save assumption.
I know, right? How dare other people like something you don't! The gall of those bastards! Everyone knows the only things we're allowed to enjoy are what "Orks da best" deems worthy!Orks da best said:
Those damn Half-Life fans had better get their minds right...
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I love your incredibly condescending use of "Valvies".
Keep it classy Orks. Don't ever change.
Oh, okay. It's 'in development'
This doesn't sound like news to me.
I'm sorry, but when has it ever been doubted that they are working on it? The thing we've been fuzzy on is whether they'll ever FINISH working on it.
This doesn't sound like news to me.
I'm sorry, but when has it ever been doubted that they are working on it? The thing we've been fuzzy on is whether they'll ever FINISH working on it.
I wish Valve would just make the damn game and release it so we can stop hearing about it. It has to be the most over-hyped unreleased game and you know that it can't possibly live up to the hype.
Valve should release anything and name it Half Life 3, disappoint people and get it over with. Maybe then we'll get some peace.
Valve should release anything and name it Half Life 3, disappoint people and get it over with. Maybe then we'll get some peace.
Christ, give it a few more years and Half-Life 3 will reach Big Foot/Loch Ness Monster/UFO status.
Hell, give it a few more decades and once Gabe Newell has died we'll be hearing legends about a Half Life 3 prototype buried in the deepest depths of his tomb and is protected by the 3 trials from the "The Last Crusade".
Hell, give it a few more decades and once Gabe Newell has died we'll be hearing legends about a Half Life 3 prototype buried in the deepest depths of his tomb and is protected by the 3 trials from the "The Last Crusade".
