Valve: There Is No Half-Life 3

[brainslurper]

Those "clues" are weak sauce, whoever thought they were genuinely hints at at new HL game is an idiot.

I mean "5+7=12 and the dates of the next E3 are 6/5/12 and 6/7/12" WTF?! That's retarded!

Watch the video.
Wait for one of the random red flashes on the screen.
Pause it.
It is a head crab.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Wheatley's speech was set in Portal 2 fiction - that is all

But Valve originally intented for HL and Portal to exist in the same universe. They dropped the idea about the same time Portal 2 came out.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

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Spoiler: No, they are hoping we do look for Half-Life 3 with reverse physcilogy so we don't know the TRUTH!!!

OT: Are they going to announce Episode 3 any time soon?

 

[Robert Ewing]

I shat bricks. I thought Valve were discontinuing it... Phew...

 

[Maze1125]

Wheatley's speech was set in Portal 2 fiction - that is all

But Valve originally intented for HL and Portal to exist in the same universe. They dropped the idea about the same time Portal 2 came out.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Portal and Half-life games all take place in the same universe. That's always been true.
However, they have never interacted beyond references to each other. Anything more has only ever been speculation by the fans.

So, I'm not sure which part has been dropped?

 

[The Virgo]

Sigh. I really hope HL3 doesn't go the way of Duke.

I hope you aren't hinting that HL3 will go the way of Duke as in "vaporware and shit" rather than just "vaporware".

You leave your game sitting on the cooler for half a decade and see how good it is.

That's a good point, but the problem with that is Duke was still worked on over that 14 years. It was passed from dev to dev, yes, but nonetheless, each dev was still doing something to further the development of the game.

Besides, it was 6 years between the release of HL1 and HL2, so half a decade isn't really anything to fret about. It's a long time by today's standards because of all the 1 or 2 year development times for various games and their sequels being put out these days. That's just my opinion anyways; I really don't think this much time will kill Half-Life's quality, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, but you cannot compare the time difference between Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two and Episode Three.

For starters, Half-Life 1 didn't really end on a cliffhanger. Episode Two did. Also, VALVe never said in 1999 that the next game would come out in about a year. (That was the point of the episodes, shorter development times).

Also, when did Half-Life 2 get announced? At E3 2003. From November 1999 to May 2003 is almost three-and-a-half years. Which means that it has taken longer for VALVe to announce Ep3 than Half-Life 2.

But the real kicker for me is that it took them five years to make Half-Life 2. BUT they were a much smaller company and were, simultaneously, working on the Source engine, Team Fortress 2, motherfucking Steam, working with Turtle Rock Studios with Counter-Strike: Source ... and they may have even been already working on DoD: Source and Half-Life 2 Deathmatch. really, when you look at how many people work at VALVe now, it doesn't make any sense as to why it took this long to even just announce the son-of-a-*****, except that they are either not going to make it or they just completely fucked everything up. Plain and simple.

And besides, Gearbox was making Half-Life 1 expansions in the meantime, so we had something to hold us off.

... Sigh. Sorry. Had to get that off my chest. :-|

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Valve fanboys, redouble your efforts! You are definitely on to something.

You're a cruel, cruel man, Greg.

 

[USSR]

Very misleading forum title...

OT- The extent these valve fans go for their games..
Amazing.

 

[duchaked]

next thing we know, Gabe will be saying that Portal 2 is canonically Episode 3

 

[Frostbite3789]

Dammit, "No Half-Life 3 ARG" does not mean "No Half-Life 3" This is how modern journalism works. For real news, go to the Steam Forums.

Do not ever tell anyone to go to the Steam forums. You might as well be telling them to go burn in hell.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

I've noticed a shocking similarity between HL3 prediction methods and Doomsday prediction methods...

 

[Nieroshai]

This is where Gabe needs to man up and say at least whether or not it is in the works. If anyone is trolling the fans, I hate to say it Valve, but it's you.

Sigh. I really hope HL3 doesn't go the way of Duke. After all this build up now I really doubt it can live up to my hopes.

What buildup? All the hype has been purely from the fans. I honestly think Valve are just sitting there waiting to see how long the community will go on trolling their selves before everyone either stops caring or dies of old age.

How about the end of Episode 2?

Anyway, everyone already knew what they said in the OP.

HOWEVER, it doesn't deny this. [http://store.valvesoftware.com/holiday_comic/?p=3] Note the shape of the Christmas tree lights, which, if you think about it, don't quite make sense.

What, the fact that they zigzag? I have seen tree lights drawn thusly since people started drawing electric tree lights. I just don't see any symbolism, if you see it please explain.

 

[Nieroshai]

Wheatley's speech was set in Portal 2 fiction - that is all

But Valve originally intented for HL and Portal to exist in the same universe. They dropped the idea about the same time Portal 2 came out.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Portal and Half-life games all take place in the same universe. That's always been true.
However, they have never interacted beyond references to each other. Anything more has only ever been speculation by the fans.

So, I'm not sure which part has been dropped?

Yes, let us remember the Aperture Science vessel Borealis that was discovered encased in ice in Episode 2, and the Borealis dry dock Chell discovers in Portal 2. So we know for a fact that HL3 (or Episode 3) will directly involve Aperture Science since the last thing mentioned in Ep2 was the Borealis and how freaking important whatever-it-was onboard would be in stopping the Combine.

 

[Galaxy Roll]

They're stepping it up for Half-Life 3. It's scheduled for release on 12/21/2012. They're bringing the game into real life. Hope you've practiced with your crowbar arm!

 

[Strazdas]

whats the deal about HL3 anyway? am i the only not not anticipating it in any way?

They're stepping it up for Half-Life 3. It's scheduled for release on 12/21/2012. They're bringing the game into real life. Hope you've practiced with your crowbar arm!

i think you got the date wrong, its 20/12/2010

 

[Sampler]

Wheatley's speech was set in Portal 2 fiction

Is this the same Portal fiction that co-exists in the Half-life universe?

Also he opens that with "You are being trolled." <- notice the period, end of the sentence, he does not state whom he trolling you, it could be a subtle "everything after this statement is trolling you" play on words.

Though if not a hint at Half-life 3 could it be a hint at Portal 3, I'd like that (though not sure where the story could go).

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Dammit, "No Half-Life 3 ARG" does not mean "No Half-Life 3" This is how modern journalism works. For real news, go to the Steam Forums.

Do not ever tell anyone to go to the Steam forums. You might as well be telling them to go burn in hell.

This man speaks the truth. It's like R&P in there.

Wheatley's speech was set in Portal 2 fiction

Is this the same Portal fiction that co-exists in the Half-life universe?

Yeah, but like a few thousand years in the future now.

 

[wooty]

The...wrong tshirt in theee right place..canmake aaaall thedifffference...in the world.

Sssoo wake up...Mr Newell, wake up aaand make a sequel

 

[00slash00]

Sigh. I really hope HL3 doesn't go the way of Duke. After all this build up now I really doubt it can live up to my hopes.

i was just thinking that. as much as i want to see half life 2 episode 3, i feel like after all this time and all this build up (by fans, not valve), it isnt going to be worth the wait. i mean, it seems clear to me that valve doesnt really care about half-life anymore

 

[ArchAngelKira]

I'm not a half life fan,but I understand what it feels when a games sequel or next instalment isn't or is legiet. It feels like the duke nukem forever mess again. A game that takes loads of time to be made,while waiting so long. Just how different half life 3 would be if it was made? Maybe gabe knows something we don't