Rumor Mill: Half Life 3 To Have Open-World, Quests

[VanQ]

Gaben was on SpikeTV? Oh, that poor man. I can't imagine the horrorible feeling that a man that genuinely loves video games had to endure while he had to deal with those presenters. I can only hope he wasn't so deeply scarred that he cancelled Episode 3 out of sheer spite.

If there will be anything extraordinary about HL3, other than just being a great shooter, then considering the rumors about Valve's hardware development and their hype of the Oculus Rift, it will be VR based.

You know, with the money Valve invested in VR tech recently, that could be a very distinct and very cool possibility. It means you can actually hold the crowbar in your own hands for once.

 

[Zing]

A common fan theory holds that Episode 3 has in fact been canceled, and Valve is hard at work integrating its content into Half Life 3.

I thoroughly hope so, as much as I have been anxious for that shit forever, it would be so anti-climatic for everyone if valve just put out Episode 3 after all this time. They killed 'episodic gaming' by neglecting episode 3 ages ago.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Really? I heard it was going to become a turn based strategy game.

 

[Anachronism]

What is not Half-Life 3 is open-world, but there will be an open-world game in the Half-Life universe?
I'd totally buy that.

Agreed. I'd say this is much more plausible than Half-Life 3 being open world. What makes the Half-Life series great is the aforementioned tight scripting and linear level design, because it means that everything can be put together with much more precision; an open-world game would completely nullify that. Plus, NPC interaction would mean the end of Gordon as a silent protagonist, and nobody wants that.

 

[The Hungry Samurai]

This 2014....Gordon Freeman's going to Pandora (cue: "Ain't no Rest for the Wicked" intro music, Cut to Freeman and Brick screaming through the desert brandishing crowbars)

 

[Orks da best]

What this about half life 3? rumors? Bah humbug, I'll contiue playing the games I have right now and wait for games I know are coming.

Lets face it, half life three will become the next Duke Nukem forever. only ten times the result at the end. I.e we wait 100 years, or maybe a 1,000 years.

 

[ninjajoeman]

Didn't valve state after finishing Portal 2 that they were done with making single player games?

 

[ResonanceGames]

...and somewhere the owner of an obscure French gaming blog is laughing his ass off and counting all his new page views.

 

[Yopaz]

I have sources that say the game will make you shit gold and cure cancer.

You're wrong. It only cures AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. They plan to save cancer for the sequel.

I don't believe in rumours about Half-Life 3. It might happen, but I wont trust rumours about a game that the developers haven't even announced that they are actually working on.

 

[SajuukKhar]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2942869
Marc Laidlaw

"Keep in mind that there are people on the internet claiming to be me, and a number of posts purportedly by sources at Valve (including emails such as this one) are forged and propagated for someone's amusement. This is what I refer to as the community trolling itself."

Yeah, the community really needs to stop trolling itself.

 

[bafrali]

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I wouldn't bother with Bhaalspawn bro. Encouraging him will just waste your time with pointless arguments

 

[RJ Dalton]

Oh, yes, Valve will risk disappointing their fans with their most loved and anticipated franchise by doing something they've never done before with it and therefore don't necessarily know how to do. Brilliant.

No, I think if Valve wanted to try open-world gaming, they'd practice it first with a few original games before risking putting the mechanics into their best-selling franchise with the most dedicated fanbase.

 

[Olas]

Anonymous sources ftw.

 

[Folji]

More interesting are the claims that the latest incarnation of the game sports an open-world, quests and NPCs the player can interact with. If true, that would not only be a departure from Half Life's established gameplay, but from the tightly-structured, linear narrative style that's become synonymous with Valve's single player games.

In the nearly 20 years Valve has been in business now, I can't recall a single instance of open-world gameplay in anything they've made. Closest thing they ever got was an early concept of Left 4 Dead as a sandbox city players had to find their own way through, but them bringing it back in order to overhaul their oldest franchise is so far out even Salvador Dali would wet his pants.