Valve Nixes Half-Life 3 Rumors

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Zirat said:
Going for a money swim?

So now he's Scrooge McDuck? Hmm, oddly fitting all things considered.


Though on topic, I honestly don't care too much about Half Life 3 anymore, all this waiting and rumors have made me pretty much made me apathetic to the whole idea.
Well if valve leave things for too long perhaps half life will have the same effect as the new duke, i honestally hope not but please give us a date at least valve!
 

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They will end up making it after year of speculation, after all does anyone actually believe they are tired of making money?
 

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Dr.Cereal1 said:
Does noone understand that they are very likely developing a new game engine for half life 3? That they are trying to harvest hype and also make the game as good as possible? That this is their first "3" game? If you can think, you can easily understand the reasons for the delay.
Surprisingly, they aren't developing a new game engine. They have stressed this several times in the last year.

They also said (in one of the interviews that they did for Develop Magazine) that they are NOT just trying to hype up the game by staying silent, and that they would never do that to their fans. The reason we haven't heard anything is because they have nothing to tell us, except that we will indeed "ever" see Gordon Freeman again.

The lack of announcement tells me that they aren't quite sure what the game is going to be yet, so they're holding off on announcing anything until they know major things about it aren't going to change.
 

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Me: what happedn why am i on the floor why is my head wet
friend: you fainted when you read the episode 3 has been condfirmed
me:*faints*
 

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Yeah, that's a good idea, let's all push Valve into releasing something. ALWAYS WORKED OUT JUST FINE SO FAR, RIGHT TF2?

Seriously, I thought by now we'd all have learned how to be patient with Valve. Look up the HL2 "Beta" leak on the Combine... overwatch.. whatever wiki. And count how many chapters and concepts they completely cut. And interesting sounding ones, too.
If a game is a tree and the branches are its chapters, Valve is cutting all the good ones to make room for the rare excellent ones. That's why their games take so long and are so good. Really, they make like 3 games worth of content each time, but only stick with the top.

And I wouldn't have it any other way. Let them release it in 2020, I'm not in haste. I know it'll be a good game and (especially without details) I won't get hyped - I just trust in Valve's abilities.

Can we now all hold hands and puke rainbows, yes?
 

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Honestly, I'd rather see what they can do with new IP. Slacken the reins and see what these boys are capable of instead of demanding sequels all the time. Maybe we end up with something even better.
 

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Speakercone said:
Honestly, I'd rather see what they can do with new IP. Slacken the reins and see what these boys are capable of instead of demanding sequels all the time. Maybe we end up with something even better.
I really like that idea too. All of Valve's new IPs over the last few years have been great. Granted, none of them started as in-house ideas (though Portal was close; it's very different than Narbacular Drop) but still. I'd be just as happy with a new IP as I would a HL game. And by "new IP," I don't mean something like Dota 2, of course.
 

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After what happened with DNF last week, anyone else think Valve might have outright CANCELLED any plans they had for Half-Life? I hope not, but that wouldn't surprise me.
 

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You know what my favorite thing about the ENTIRE Half Life series?

The fact that each game came out with little to no actual details. the first game came out without hype, blew everyone away, then the second game came out without anything but "there's a car" in it (that's literally all I remember from the articles I read on it). I think all I hear about EP1 was that it had some new graphical whizz bangs, and that EP2 has a car.

Which, of course, makes all the totally kick ass set pieces and stellar pacing all the more clever and interesting.

I'm fine with mystery and being patient.
 

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newguy77 said:

OT: Oh, well. Haven't really liked the Half Life series for what I've played of it.
I knew I was going to find that picture.
 

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Woodsey said:
"Episode 3 is well poised to take its crown as gaming's most infamous vaporware."

4-year-old game with no official announcement beyond, "we plan to do 3 episodes" versus game in development for 14 years that suffered many release dates, launch trailers, developers and official announcements.

I really don't see the point of comparison that everyone seems to.

Anyway, they probably are working on HL3, let's face it. Just because they say they aren't doesn't mean they aren't.

Yeah, we just need Half life to change hands half a dozen more times.
 

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DAMMIT! GIVE US SOMETHING! LIKE GORDON FREEMAN's HEV SLIGHTLY FROZEN, SMIRKING AT THE CAMERA SENSURROUND ONE ONE HALF BY THE COMBINE AND THE OTHER BY REBELS!
 

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Zirat said:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I screwed up the wording thanks for pointing that out.

But what I said still stands for both Episode 3 and Half Life 3, thank you very much for pointing out my horrid fallacy, I will now go flog myself for my horrid mistake.


Anyways, to be fair, it's not like Valve is giving false hopes to their fans like Gearbox did with DNF. One way or another, we all now they're doing something related to Half-Life, but it's the fans' fault for thinking it's vaporware, when Valve hasn't done anything on their own to hype it up.
 

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Octorok said:
Nouw said:
John Funk said:
(aside from the fact that Mike D is a real person)
Mike D huhaa with the master plan. There doesn't seem to be much love for the Beastie Boys >.>

No one knows Mike D?
Get on the mic Mike let's be real and don't cloud the issue!


His name's Mike D. not Fat Morton Jelly Roll!

Everyone knows Mike D. And if they don't, they can Ch-Ch-Ch-Check out the Beastie Boys.

OT : Valve? No. None of this. Get rid of your hat fetish, release Half-Life 3 and stop fucking up TF2 with your insane weapons store.
Meh, I'd just be happy if they fixed the fucking soldier class. Everytime I join a game there's at LEAST one soldier using the black box and dominating entire teams.