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Rumor: Half-Life 3 may use Steam as a release platform
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Bl@de
Member
Yep. Half-Life is the official name.
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Gaben bought some knives from my uncle recently and they had a little chat about the series, so I can say with 100% certainty that this time it's probably real... the chances are 35 to 68!
I don't think that HL3 has been officially announced. Half-Life 2 Episode Three is pure vaporware at this point though. The original release time for that was "Christmas 2007".
Ceadeus
Gold Member
Ahah oh god
cyberheater
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VR or no sale for me.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
NX exclusive.
Snore Crime
Neo Member
No. I'm not sure they'd want to risk losing mass market appeal by gating the game behind VR.
Then again, I guess they have money and it would help get people onboard with VR, but I don't think it would be exclusive to it.
Did you know there is a game that was originally announced for the Atari Jaguar, then was moved to the Sega Dreamcast, and is now slated to come to PC, that has been in active development this entire time?
Like seriously 19 years of development.
nothing will ever beat it.
nope
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
Believe.
After yesterdays murder of VR, we're going to need HL3 to jump start it back to life.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Half-Life 3 sits in limbo, nothing more than a collection of prototypes and ideas predominantly built during the Episode 1 and 2 era before the team, creatively burned out by laborious back-to-back work on the Half-Life franchise, moved on to Portal 2 for more stimulating, fresh creative endeavours. Intentions to move back to Half-Life post-Portal 2 were continually put on the backburner, staff still feeling apprehension returning to something so familiar and difficult, telling themselves "just one more game". As time passed senior staff less and less interested in returning to Half-Life, in turn encouraging younger staff to follow them forward into different projects, with only a handful on-and-off returning temporarily to Half-Life 3 to create half finished prototypes and ideas, none of which coherently linked together, before too moving on to other projects.
Aimless and never really committed to one particular vision or singular dedicated team, Half-Life 3 data stands unfinished, unfocused, and will remain as such forever. A situation so dire that veterans like Marc Laidlaw, writer on the series, had to resort to twitter Breen fan fiction of his own series in order to satisfying his urge to continue creating.
Aimless and never really committed to one particular vision or singular dedicated team, Half-Life 3 data stands unfinished, unfocused, and will remain as such forever. A situation so dire that veterans like Marc Laidlaw, writer on the series, had to resort to twitter Breen fan fiction of his own series in order to satisfying his urge to continue creating.
I don't know what this is. Someone who made this site is probably trolling.
Sounds interesting! Do you have some more info (title, developer, genre, etc.)?
Half-Life 3 sits in limbo, nothing more than a collection of prototypes and ideas predominantly built during the Episode 1 and 2 era before the team, creatively burned out by laborious back-to-back work on the Half-Life franchise, moved on to Portal 2 for more stimulating, fresh creative endeavours. Intentions to move back to Half-Life post-Portal 2 were continually put on the backburner, staff still feeling apprehension returning to something so familiar and difficult, telling themselves "just one more game". As time passed senior staff less and less interested in returning to Half-Life, in turn encouraging younger staff to follow them forward into different projects, with only a handful on-and-off returning temporarily to Half-Life 3 to create half finished prototypes and ideas, none of which coherently linked together, before too moving on to other projects.
Aimless and never really committed to one particular vision or singular dedicated team, Half-Life 3 data stands unfinished, unfocused, and will remain as such forever. A situation so dire that veterans like Marc Laidlaw, writer on the series, had to resort to twitter Breen fan fiction of his own series in order to satisfying his urge to continue creating.
If it was it could die for all i care, and it probably would.
Various Artists
Banned
Sure, why the heck not. December 2015 release after all.
Funyarinpa
Member
Wake up OP... Wake up and smell the ashes.
not HL3
It's not somebody randomly assigning names, as per my quoted post in the OP. When you confirm you want to remove a licence from your account, the Steam Help site mentions the package name in full; an oversight in this function has allowed the names of all packages to leak.
Half-Life 3 sits in limbo, nothing more than a collection of prototypes and ideas predominantly built during the Episode 1 and 2 era before the team, creatively burned out by laborious back-to-back work on the Half-Life franchise, moved on to Portal 2 for more stimulating, fresh creative endeavours. Intentions to move back to Half-Life post-Portal 2 were continually put on the backburner, staff still feeling apprehension returning to something so familiar and difficult, telling themselves "just one more game". As time passed senior staff less and less interested in returning to Half-Life, in turn encouraging younger staff to follow them forward into different projects, with only a handful on-and-off returning temporarily to Half-Life 3 to create half finished prototypes and ideas, none of which coherently linked together, before too moving on to other projects.
Aimless and never really committed to one particular vision or singular dedicated team, Half-Life 3 data stands unfinished, unfocused, and will remain as such forever. A situation so dire that veterans like Marc Laidlaw, writer on the series, had to resort to twitter Breen fan fiction of his own series in order to satisfying his urge to continue creating.
This just sounds so real that it hurts. I really doubt that the situation is anything OTHER than this.
It was originally called Native:
It's an r-type clone, but one of the more visually impressive jaguar games, with lots of huge sprites and many layers of parallax. The devs sold beta copies for the Jag CD a few years ago, I have one of them.
The game later changed names to Sturmwind when it went to the dreamcast, this being a bit of promotional material:
As you can see, it's the same enemy from when the game was shown off for the very first time on the Jaguar, back at CES 1993:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmKCOMWmfWg
Here is video of the dreamcast build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsqu6x40ys0
It's now coming out for PC, with a dreamcast release still planned.
from 1993, to 2015, and still in development.
I know Half Life 3 just recently surpassed Team Fortress 2 as the longesta Valve game has been in development and I don't think TF2 was in development as long as DNF.
Of course unlike DNF TF2 was a good game when it eventually came out.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Years of secrecy and, whoopsy, they leaked it on accident through their own network.
Seems likely.
Seems likely.
It has been confirmed. You need to clear out a 12'x20' empty space in your home for valve's VR sensors to play the game.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
I don't know what to say to this. I know it's nothing, but stuff like this reminds how necessary it is for HL3 to happen. It's so dumb they haven't continued the story.
AdmiralSnackbar
Member
If I worked at Valve I would put junk lines of code referencing Half-Life 3 in everything I did.