Poll: worried about half-life3
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No, they are EVENTUALLY going to release it. But the question should not be IF they are going to make it .. but IF the game is actually going to have any relevance or if it will have even been, to quote Gabe, "Worth the weight." (See what I did there?)
I think it's been way too long between games for the cliffhanger at the end of Episode Two to have any kind of meaning. Unless VALVe makes the game super fucking awesome, I don't plan on buying it. Sorry.
Oh! And speaking of quoting Gabe Newell ...
Back when Portal 2 was coming out and we were all wondering what the Borealis achievement was going to be and if it was going to have meaning, someone created a picture that showed someone loading up Portal 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Three booted up. Then, the person had every reaction picture before saying, "TOO MANY EMOTIONS!" That's what would happen.
Since everyone there is still alive, that means there is no E3 announcement. And if there is, I want to see the link. >:-|
I think it's been way too long between games for the cliffhanger at the end of Episode Two to have any kind of meaning. Unless VALVe makes the game super fucking awesome, I don't plan on buying it. Sorry.
Oh! And speaking of quoting Gabe Newell ...
Nope. He never said that. And I can tell because all I have to do is look on the Half-Life 2: Episode Two forums to see that there is no thread about it and that people haven't exploded into a ball of hysteria of so much power that it would cause a small big bang.Lilani said:
Back when Portal 2 was coming out and we were all wondering what the Borealis achievement was going to be and if it was going to have meaning, someone created a picture that showed someone loading up Portal 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Three booted up. Then, the person had every reaction picture before saying, "TOO MANY EMOTIONS!" That's what would happen.
Since everyone there is still alive, that means there is no E3 announcement. And if there is, I want to see the link. >:-|
I'd be willing to bet that's exactly what's been keeping the game for so long, Valve and their concern that they've got to somehow one-up everyone's already sky-high expectations for another entry into the Half-Life franchise.
As for whether that concern will translate into a good game... probably, this *is* Valve we're talking about here. Still we'll see!
As for whether that concern will translate into a good game... probably, this *is* Valve we're talking about here. Still we'll see!
If you don't belong here, then why are you here? Just to piss on VALVe games? That's like walking into a ladies room (if your a man) knowing full well you don't have any reason to and then say you hate all womens' restrooms to the shocked women inside. There is no reason for it.LilithSlave said:
As for a VALVe game that isn't an FPS: Defense of the Ancients 2. DotA 2. There. A non-FPS game made by VALVe. Also, I feel bad for any gamer who hates FPSes. Their game collections must be thin. <:-(
I played Half-Life 1 after playing the Orange Box and I will say that Half-Life 1 sucked. The game being overly padded was my biggest gripe. The one thing I liked about Half-Life 1 was that it paved the way for Half-Life 2, which was a much better game.dogstile said:
And since I had never really known anything about the Half-Life games save for a demo for the original Xbox I got from the Official Xbox Magazine that was a demo of just Ravenholm, which says jack-shit about the story, I played Half-Life 2 without any preconceived ideas. And I thought it was a great game.
VALVe will have to do something amazing to rekindle my interest in the series. You know what I'm looking forward to? Hitman: Absolution!
Even though they have a new voice actor for Agent 47 ... <:'-(
Its mainly the padding that pisses me off too. No expectations from me either, but so much of the game was spent pissing about while characters explained shit to you that you either already knew that it grew tedious. Also terrible the terrible cliche' of "nobody goes to ravenholme".The Virgo said:
Its all about doing a quality job. I bet they are waiting for the next big jump in motion capture and making sure it doesn't look like an add-on gimmick or something of that "tack-on" nature. (e.x. MW/BF clones of dirt brown fps's(dont get me wrong, both great series but they are extremely repetitive))
Valve is ALWAYS late with EVERYTHING.
And dont you forget it.
Valve is ALWAYS late with EVERYTHING.
And dont you forget it.
Valve is a bit of a clusterfuck, aren't they. There are a whole lot of different people working "with" them or "for" them... I'm sure HL3 exists as a project somewhere, but how many man-hours are actually being put into it is impossible to tell. They might be waiting for Activision to finally milk CoD to death and toss away the carcass before releasing it.
I'm currently under the impression that they're just taking their time developing it, waiting for the right moment to show what ridiculous stuff they've come up with and blow our minds.
Think about how long it took for the FPS industry to catch up with HL2; in some aspects they still haven't caught up. Valve probably wants the same giant leap forward with HL3.
Think about how long it took for the FPS industry to catch up with HL2; in some aspects they still haven't caught up. Valve probably wants the same giant leap forward with HL3.
Yes. Let's all debate about the hypothetical quality of a game that, for all intents and purposes, does not actually exist in any way, shape, or form. This will obviously be a hugely productive discussion.
Seriously, Escapist. Even for you, this is pretty bad.
Seriously, Escapist. Even for you, this is pretty bad.
Here's the escapist article, readLilani said:You don't remember the 4 chan email thing?ohnoitsabear said:
And then later to be even clearer about what he said in that email, he later said "Something with a three" would be announced at E3. They have said the wild claims of ARG are false (which is pretty obvious with how far-fetched it got), but nobody from Valve has said anything about this being false.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114986-Valve-There-Is-No-Half-Life-3
