Is Half-Life 3 really that anticipated?

[Phlogiston]

Ah! I will be sure to read more thoroughly next time

Speaking of Half Life, what's the situation with Source 2 so far anyway? I feel the closer we get to that the bigger the chances are we'll start seeing some Half Life related news, hell it would be pretty cool if it's actually the first game to use that engine. Alas a man can dream.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/07/rps-verifies-those-left-4-dead-3source-2-images-more/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/05/gabe-newell-dishes-on-source-2-more-in-reddit-ama/
http://www.pcgamer.com/uk/2014/01/28/these-might-be-images-of-valves-source-2-0-engine/

Nothing concrete except that L4D3 is gonna be on it and it is actually in development...

Valve CAN count to 3 - confirmed.

 

[AgedGrunt]

I've played the first two, including mods, and have always thought the mods were more fun than trudging through a single-player FPS/puzzle game in really drab, depressing worlds. If there's anything I'd anticipate it would be a new generation of games built off HL3.

Never understood what the legions of die-hard fans see in the adventure series or even Gordon Freeman. It's one of those things that's pretty awesome for everything it is and did a lot for the game industry, but way overrated and ruined by hype.

 

[DementedSheep]

I think that now its just a long running joke that people play into. It will probably do really well if its released but I don't think many people are actually waiting with baited breath.

 

[OManoghue]

I'll play it if it's released, but I find it easier to anticipate games I know exist

 

[Doom972]

I don't expect the next Half Life game (whether it's Episode 3 or Half Life 3) to ever be released. At this point it's obvious that Valve has put it on hold indefinitely.

If they do decide to actually make it, I'll be very excited, but I'm not holding my breath and waiting for any announcements.

 

[HellbirdIV]

Given how Half-Life 2 came out of nowhere and blew the entire industry and gamer community away after several years of mostly silence, I think Half-Life 3 is expected to be the same way.

Nobody's giddy with anticipation because we haven't heard anything about it yet, but you can bet your ass that when real news actually hits, it's going to get people in in flames.

 

[Reaper195]

It's been so long since anything happened with Half-Life that a lot of fans have stopped caring. Not to mention that when HL2 came out, the physics system and graphics in that game were completely revolutionary. Nothing had been done like it to that quality.

I don't think Valve can do that with the Half-Life games anymore short of becoming like Crysis when it came out (I.E. Very few computers, even high end ones, could run it on full settings, highest resolution, etc, without it stuttering like a nervous kid giving a speech). Not to mention that unlike Duke Nukem which was in development for a decade or nearly two, HL3 hasn't had anything about it ever mentioned. And at the recent leak (Well...nearly a year old) that suggested they were working on Left 4 Dead 3, I don't think they're going to be doing anything Half-Life for a while. I also don't understand as to why they'd be working on L4D3 instead of HL, but trying to find logic in the brain of Valve seems impossible, since they seem to do rather...dumb...things. "Yeah, Left 4 Dead was pretty good. Better make another one a year later. Portal did pretty well. Better make a second one which dragged like the ************ after a third of the way through the game. Team Fortress 2? No new maps, just hats. A few years later, we should add 'robots'. Maybe a new map or two. What's that? People are just clamoring for a new installation in our most popular franchise, which used to make us the most money? Nah...fuck that."