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I believe

 

[iMax]

If Half-Life 3 is actually ever announced, the internet will implode. The whole communications system will go offline.

Depends when they announce it. I think we're still in the "fever pitch" zone but not for much longer. If they leave it another couple of years, it'll be like Duke Nukem Forever and literally nobody will give a shit.

 

[GavinUK86]

I'm not sure I even want a Half-Life game from the current Valve team. I wanted 3 from the original bunch, not long after Episode 2. At this point, it probably won't contain any of that magic that made the others so fantastic.

 

[KarasuEXE]

I thought Telltale Games are already developing it.

I can totally see "Half-Life: A Telltale Games Series" happening.

Spoiler

Maybe as a bridge to 3.

 

[xAlias]

A little early aren't we for April fool stuff?

 

[Tecnniqe]

What is Half-Life

Spoiler

3

?

Half-Life 3 VR E3 2016.

 

[Dennis]

I thought Telltale Games are already developing it.


Alex Vance: Don't you have anything to say, Gordon?
Gordon: .....
* Alex will remember that *

OK, let Telltale make it. At least we will have a conclusion to the story and closure.

 

[Tecnniqe]

OK, let Telltale make it. At least we will have a conclusion to the story and closure.

You know, it would be amazing if it was a 3 part story and they stopped after the 2nd part and just left the 3rd one TBD 20..

 

[fvng]

Silently gets released on Steam on the 24th.

No fanfare, here u go nerds

 

[Estocolmo]

If Half-Life 3 is ever sold by Valve. I really hope they'll include HL1 & 2 because of the massive delay.

 

[Conkerkid11]

That's probably one of the worst titles I've ever seen.

Please tell me this was edited...

 

[speedomodel]

 

[Itachi87]

If Half-Life 3 is ever sold by Valve. I really hope they'll include HL1 & 2 because of the massive delay.

At this point who doesn't own those 2 games though.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

I believe hl3 will be focused in vr.

 

[Machina]

At this point who doesn't own those 2 games though.

Exactly. I saw Half Life 2 going for 1 dollar in a steam sale once

 

[Fehyd]

We're at the point where an entire generation doesn't even know what Half-Life is.

 

[Arkanius]

Half Life (1) is my favorite game ever. Black Mesa for me, is one of the best game settings ever. I love that place.

I didn't enjoy Half Life 2 as much...
I just wanted Half Life 3 to go back to the roots, maybe go to a decrepit Black Mesa or a type of giant laboratory, but it seems it's going to be an Open RPG...

 

[-MD-]

If Half-Life 3 is ever sold by Valve. I really hope they'll include HL1 & 2 because of the massive delay.

That's a weird thing to hope for, as others already said those games can be had for a dollar or two these days.

 

[ekim]

I believe hl3 will be focused in vr.

Nope. Valve declined this.
http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-writer-says-half-life-3-will-not-be-a-vr-game/

 

[swarley64]

Weird, I thought it would come out on uPlay.

 

[Estocolmo]

That's a weird thing to hope for, as others already said those games can be had for a dollar or two these days.

I dont own a PC and have never played HL1. Would like to play the first game on my Xbox One. A remaster would be nice.

 

[R0nn]

Depends when they announce it. I think we're still in the "fever pitch" zone but not for much longer. If they leave it another couple of years, it'll be like Duke Nukem Forever and literally nobody will give a shit.

I don't know man. Remember Shenmue 3? That took even longer to finally get announced and it was still a big deal to quite a lot of people.

 

[Nullabe]

I still believe in HL3, but it cant be real.

Spoiler

it cant

 

[Lux R7]

Half Life (1) is my favorite game ever. Black Mesa for me, is one of the best game settings ever. I love that place.

I didn't enjoy Half Life 2 as much...
I just wanted Half Life 3 to go back to the roots, maybe go to a decrepit Black Mesa or a type of giant laboratory, but it seems it's going to be an Open RPG...

Fall-Life 3

 

[injurai]

Half Life (1) is my favorite game ever. Black Mesa for me, is one of the best game settings ever. I love that place.

I didn't enjoy Half Life 2 as much...
I just wanted Half Life 3 to go back to the roots, maybe go to a decrepit Black Mesa or a type of giant laboratory, but it seems it's going to be an Open RPG...

What...

 

[spectator]

I love the new thread title. Isn't that a bit like postulating that Halo 6 might be released on the Xbox platform?

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Nope. Valve declined this.
http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-writer-says-half-life-3-will-not-be-a-vr-game/

So it being developed right now if he says no to vr.

 

[DrForester]

Nope. Valve declined this.
http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-writer-says-half-life-3-will-not-be-a-vr-game/

I'm willing to bet that's a misquote and should read "Half Life 3 will not be a game"

 

[Nzyme32]

Nope. Valve declined this.
http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-writer-says-half-life-3-will-not-be-a-vr-game/

So it being developed right now if he says no to vr.

We know it has been in development as shown by the 2 JIRA leaks a couple of years back, showing the team behind it actually grew between the two leaks. L4D3 was by far the biggest at the time. And then the day before the 8th anniversary of HL2EP2's launch, Valve "leaked" (accidentally of course) files into Dota2 that show a bunch of HL3 info about the game for the first time, such as open world, quests, ziplines and such. I'm of the opinion that they "leaked" all that on purpose just to keep the chin up of all the die hard fans who took in the rumours that Valve ceased development.

I'm willing to bet that's a misquote and should read "Half Life 3 will not be a game"

Well, hard to be a misquote when you can watch it; especially so when the question was asked twice and got the same answer

Edit - And again just 2 weeks ago this was reiterated - with no response haha

 

[Bluth54]

I'm of the opinion that they "leaked" all that on purpose just to keep the chin up of all the die hard fans who took in the rumours that Valve ceased development.

Yeah I'm sure they leaked it on purpose, during one of the Steam dev day talks (I believe the one with Robin Walker about games as services) they talk about how they know that their fans will rip apart any patch to look for hints of future content so they started to intentionally put stuff in patches for fans to find.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I thought Telltale Games are already developing it.


Alex Vance: Don't you have anything to say, Gordon?
Gordon: .....
* Alex will remember that *

OK, let Telltale make it. At least we will have a conclusion to the story and closure.

You know, it would be amazing if it was a 3 part story and they stopped after the 2nd part and just left the 3rd one TBD 20..

I am cracking up over here.

If Half-Life 3 is ever sold by Valve. I really hope they'll include HL1 & 2 because of the massive delay.

We're at the point where an entire generation doesn't even know what Half-Life is.

Hahaha, that truly is sad :/

And oh how that generation would probably shred it.

 

[How About No]

I thought Telltale Games are already developing it.


Alex Vance: Don't you have anything to say, Gordon?
Gordon: .....
* Alex will remember that *

I'd rather see Telltale do Full Life Consequences

                               Y:  Shoot zombie goasts
X:  Burn home of zombie goasts          B:  Becon zombie goasts to leave
                               A:  Flee Ravenholdm

 

[injurai]

We know it has been in development as shown by the 2 JIRA leaks a couple of years back, showing the team behind it actually grew between the two leaks. L4D3 was by far the biggest at the time. And then the day before the 8th anniversary of HL2EP2's launch, Valve "leaked" (accidentally of course) files into Dota2 that show a bunch of HL3 info about the game for the first time, such as open world, quests, ziplines and such.

Not sure how I feel about open world. But I do want HL3 to push itself and it's game design. Some of the more open areas in HL2 especially in ep.2 where really cool. But the linear progression has also always been very well done and enjoyed.

I feel like quests may detract from the experience, but I'm open to seeing what Valve can do. I just really hope they achieve that same quality of narrative story telling from a "lived in experience" of events around you. I feel like in an open world the illusion of this bigger conflict may diminish a bit as you basically become this harbinger of the landscape.

 

[dripdripsplash]

Depends when they announce it. I think we're still in the "fever pitch" zone but not for much longer. If they leave it another couple of years, it'll be like Duke Nukem Forever and literally nobody will give a shit.

This.

I used to be jumping every time I saw a half life rumour thread, now I'm like meh most of the time. Give it a couple of years and I wouldn't give a shit.

Until they release a game play trailer showing tid bits of the story evolving, God dang it...


I want half life 3

 

[Nzyme32]

Not sure how I feel about open world. But I do want HL3 to push itself and it's game design. Some of the more open areas in HL2 especially in ep.2 where really cool. But the linear progression has also always been very well done and enjoyed.

I feel like quests may detract from the experience, but I'm open to seeing what Valve can do. I just really hope they achieve that same quality of narrative story telling from a "lived in experience" of events around you. I feel like in an open world the illusion of this bigger conflict may diminish a bit as you basically become this harbinger of the landscape.

From Geoff Keighley's interview with Gabe Newell regarding Source 2

It's to make it possible for thousands of people or billions of people to be all generating this shared entertaining universe. You can look at the properties that we have and probably say oh I would see how having a whole bunch of people extending and annotating and storytelling in this particular universe would make sense. But now that we got Source 2 out now you'll start to see us start to lay out some of the pieces so that we have this really large shared collaborative entertainment space that allows people to be as productive as they want to be in terms of building entertainment value for other people. That's something that we started four years ago. We had these ideas about how you build these large endless entertainment experiences and one of the dependencies was getting a bunch of economy stuff working there's a bunch of tools work to do, those are baked now. Now we are going start capitalizing with with how that actually translates into entertainment experiences for people.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a HL3 game that has a main Valve made story that gets added to now and then, along side a ton of community made off shoots that are more like an RPG with your own character, that are occasional brought into the main story. Sounds wacky enough for Valve to do, and it can involve hats and micro-transactions / that multiplayer aspect they love. It would also fit with the 2 leaked files split between hl3 and rpg.txt

 

[Tyl3n0L85]

What would be the chance of Valve releasing Half-Life 3 alongside it's upcoming HTC-VR Headset?

Like pretty much every PC Gamer I'm a huge Half-Life fan and 'm interested in VR stuff however I haven't see anything yet to convince me to jump on the VR Bandwagon.

Bundling it with the VR Headset would be a huge system seller IMO and would help pushing those early units if they want VR to succeed.

 

[8-Bit Sunset]

What would be the chance of Valve releasing Half-Life 3 alongside it's upcoming HTC-VR Headset?

Like pretty much every PC Gamer I'm a huge Half-Life fan and 'm interested in VR stuff however I haven't see anything yet to convince me to jump on the VR Bandwagon.

Bundling it with the VR Headset would be a huge system seller IMO and would help pushing those early units if they want VR to succeed.

There is the (speculated/supposed) launch event TODAY in London. We shall see what happens!

 

[Ferrio]

What would be the chance of Valve releasing Half-Life 3 alongside it's upcoming HTC-VR Headset?

Like pretty much every PC Gamer I'm a huge Half-Life fan and 'm interested in VR stuff however I haven't see anything yet to convince me to jump on the VR Bandwagon.

Bundling it with the VR Headset would be a huge system seller IMO and would help pushing those early units if they want VR to succeed.

They'd have to change the game completely. FPS are very disorientating in VR, you can get nauseous very easily. So not a good idea, unless you want a HL3 that doesn't play like HL.

 

[injurai]

From Geoff Keighley's interview with Gabe Newell regarding Source 2



I wouldn't be surprised to see a HL3 game that has a main Valve made story that gets added to now and then, along side a ton of community made off shoots that are more like an RPG with your own character, that are occasional brought into the main story. Sounds wacky enough for Valve to do, and it can involve hats and micro-transactions / that multiplayer aspect they love. It would also fit with the 2 leaked files split between hl3 and rpg.txt

Good god. Gaben is like a mad alchemist. It might just work. Source mods were amazing, and making the main game open world enough so that primary entity could be extended would be pretty fantastic. The Bethesda fan community sure loves it.

I'm starting to think back to all that stuff about experimenting with a deaf character, and making games more accessible and varied in their story telling approach. I wonder how much stuff they have been successfully building up to over the years.

I've heard accounts of multiple vertical slices made internal solely for the purpose of experimenting with possible game play experiences and set pieces that would be used to piece together the progression through HL3's story.

At this point L4D3 seems to be 2016/2017 (surely right?) and HL3 2018/2019 maybe. Still a wait, but it's about where I have been placing the game for a couple years now.

 

[sn00zer]

I am (was) legit one of the biggest Half-Life fans. Spent years on Half Life forums, bought every game day 1. I dont care if HL3 come out anymore.

 

[Guri]

They'd have to change the game completely. FPS are very disorientating in VR, you can get nauseous very easily. So not a good idea, unless you want a HL3 that doesn't play like HL.

I remember one interview with someone who worked at Valve at the VR department and they were completely sure FPSs were the best games to try in VR... until they tried them and it became very disorientating. Which is why we see other members like Chet also denying it. HL3 won't be a VR game, if it happens.

 

[RustyNails]

Dont do this gaf

 

[Dmax3901]

People are so weird with this. It's been so long since there's been any news I don't understand how you can still be this attached. HL2 is one of my favourite games. If hl3 happens I want it to happen for a good reason, not just to appease fans and end the story.

 

[Einchy]

I am (was) legit one of the biggest Half-Life fans. Spent years on Half Life forums, bought every game day 1. I dont care if HL3 come out anymore.

Part of me hopes Half-life 3 comes out and it's a total financial and critical failure.

 

[8-Bit Sunset]

Dont do this gaf

After all the years of the (old and mature) fanbase being treated worse than dog filth, what else can we do! We gotta grab and hold onto anything we can get!

And to be honest, it is starting to get tiring!

 

[Heavy_D206]

I hope they never formally announce it.

I just want it to randomly appear on the Steam Store at 3:33 AM on the 3rd day of the 3rd month in the year 2033.

 

[Instro]

Part of me hopes Half-life 3 comes out and it's a total financial and critical failure.

Seems weird.

 

[Tyl3n0L85]

Part of me hopes Half-life 3 comes out and it's a total financial and critical failure.

Why would anyone want this?

 

[Einchy]

Seems weird.

I would get a lot of schadenfreude from it.

Why would anyone want this?

Because they've hanged their fans out to dry for 8 years without ever acknowledge what's going on.

Either it's being worked on or it's not, they should at least say which it is.

 

[injurai]

Part of me hopes Half-life 3 comes out and it's a total financial and critical failure.

You'd look HL3 in the eye and say "Down the tracks, not across."