The_Player
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I don't really know what to make of this except that I'm rather uneasy.
Anonymity level: Darcy.
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Anonymity level: Darcy.
I don't really know what to make of this except that I'm rather uneasy.
It's kind of difficult to see how to read that, really difficult.
TheForceWithin
Banned
OHHHHHHH YEAH
Drats!
The_Player
Member
Top to bottom.
No no, I'm "twitter fluent" - I mean it's difficult to interpret where he's coming from in his reply.
So my guess is that this thread is the reason Gaf went down last night?
Nicely done!
Cant say I am surprised by this news though. We all know Valve is working on it
My guess is that they want to let people cool down before announcing it. Its probably the most hyped up game all time
Its a good thing I am not that interested in HL because if I were this waiting would be hell
Nicely done!
Cant say I am surprised by this news though. We all know Valve is working on it
My guess is that they want to let people cool down before announcing it. Its probably the most hyped up game all time
Its a good thing I am not that interested in HL because if I were this waiting would be hell
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Deleted member 125677
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So this is why Gaf was down like forever
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
680k views and 14 pages loooool dat reddit linking.
killatopak
Member
MY WALLET IS CRYING!!!!!!!
If they release this only on steam box... oh my.. oh my..
PS4/Xbox One/ Wii U/ Steambox
3 jobs it is.
If they release this only on steam box... oh my.. oh my..
PS4/Xbox One/ Wii U/ Steambox
3 jobs it is.
Tarin02543
Member
But how will I run Steam Bow on my Windows pc?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Maybe we'd be better off not knowing, Half-Life 3 sitting forever in limbo, us never exposed to the horror it may have become, comforted by dreams and fantasies of what can never be.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=688711
Valve's bug tracking email groups were briefly available to the public and 46 people are in the Half Life 3 group.
Metalmurphy
Member
The timing for this is very fishy. Chances of it being SteamOS exclusive?
Oh well... it's a free OS anyway.
Oh well... it's a free OS anyway.
2014 is going to be a great year for PC.
Source 2, SteamOS, Steam Machines, Steam Controller, L4D3, and Half-Life 2. Can't wait.
0% chance.
Source 2, SteamOS, Steam Machines, Steam Controller, L4D3, and Half-Life 2. Can't wait.
0% chance.
Sidewinder
Member
As long as I can install SteamOS on my PC and don't need a SteemBox to play HL3 I don't care (dual boot ftw!). But if it's Steambox exclusive (0% chance of happening) I'd say goodbye to Gaben.
Where is this a thing? You can't do this in the USA, hence some firms like Apple and Bungie creating shell companies for applications. And I dunno doesn't that sort of go against the idea of the trademark process?
Image is dated April 14, 2011.*Note* I've had this avatar for years, I'm not a HL3 ARG.
Afaik you can do this in the EU - only to the extend to keep the application secret until the opposition date.
I asked that myself too earlier. But I guess If you intend to use the whole name "Half-Life 3" you have to register that trademark ... at least that's what I got from the discussion in that thread and over at reddit.
polyh3dron
Banned
Hi Darcy.
ashecitism
Member
But didn't someone say Half-Life 2 never got registered?
hm... that's odd indeed.
Hullo To U
Banned
I wonder what type of game it will be when it does come out.. I mean FPS' have changed considerably since HL2.
Cover shooting in HL3... I think I'll hand in my 'PC Master Race Card' if that happens..
Cover shooting in HL3... I think I'll hand in my 'PC Master Race Card' if that happens..
MarkMclovin
Member
Valve announce SteamOS, Steam Machine and their shitty controller, then they 'protect' HalfLife 3.
Very well played Valve, very well played.
Very well played Valve, very well played.
ashecitism
Member
This is what I've been wondering. How much will they conform to modern standards, if they'll do that at all.
Very good question. What would you like to see? I for one am of course hopeful that they can reinvent the genre somehow, but it's not realistic to think that they will reinvent all aspects of the genre of course. So the question becomes, will we want something very similar to HL2 with some added elements or do we want something similar to the best shooters of today (and which are they?), with added inventions and Half-Life-ish elements?
For example, I really, really, really don't want a Bioshock Infinite with a Half-Life twist. Dare I say it; I would rather have a game similar to CoD SP than Bioshock Infinite. The shooting and movement of that game is just so offputting and boring to me.
ashecitism
Member
If they can achieve something akin to F.E.A.R. then I'll be happy. No need for covers and ironsights. Not that I don't like HL combat, I recently played the mod called Minerva and thought it held up more than well.
Interestingly enough I enjoyed Infinite's combat a lot more than other modern shooters I played. Then again I haven't exactly been overdoing it with modern shooters. But in Infinite the combat was fast-paced, had lots of mobility, it included verticality and hip fire wasn't gimped in favor of ironsights.
Interestingly enough I enjoyed Infinite's combat a lot more than other modern shooters I played. Then again I haven't exactly been overdoing it with modern shooters. But in Infinite the combat was fast-paced, had lots of mobility, it included verticality and hip fire wasn't gimped in favor of ironsights.
DainBramage
Neo Member
HAHAHA Mother F***ING Half Life 3...
Do I dare hope that it's finally coming?
Do I dare hope that it's finally coming?
For me Infinite was a game that:
* Didn't have enough ammo and weapon fun-factor to be a side-strafe-shooter akin to Serious Sam
* Didn't have good enough weapons and general precision to be a cover shooter (or the level design for it)
* Didn't have fun or varied enough spells to be a "makes you feel like a god"-action game like the Jedi Knight/Jedi Academy games
* Wasn't very varied at all. Few guns, very little progression (the gun progression system was underdeveloped and un-interesting)
* Too tedious on harder difficulties. I usually always play on "hardest" in games, but here there weren't enough tactics available to use to support this. The ammo ran out all the time, and getting new weapons from fallen enemies meant giving up the few good guns you have, and also getting hit by tons of stray fire. Usually meant I saw the "come back to life"-scene way too many times.
* Too easy on easier difficulties. Suddenly the spells in combination with the guns becomes a god mode fest.
* Some really terribad fights. The ghost-fights and even more so the final battle which was truly annoying.
Could list more, but this isn't a Infinite-thread
I just really, really don't want other games to go down that path. I'd say it's around as bad a shooter as Skyrim is a fantasy action game. (A great RPG though)
This is what I would like to see:
Instead of upping the scale and size of the setting, how about a return to a smaller, more intimate -- but also more fully realized -- setting? Somewhere that feels like a real place. Somewhere like Black Mesa.
It would be a nice contrast to Half-Life 2, which took us across City 17, countryside highways, antlion subterranean tunnels, and forests.
It would be great for them to take advantage of Adam Foster's talent for creating believable and focused level designs. In his mod Minerva, you start off on the beach of an island and gradually work your way underground into a Combine-ized WW2 bunker. And it all feels very logical.
AdmiralPain
Banned
I want to see an open world Half-Life 3 where Freeman liberates the earth from the Combine piece by piece.
https://twitter.com/BenjaminCousins/status/385380417848635392
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HL3 bundled with SteamOS download, right?
he is this guy:
http://www.bencousins.com/
No, HL3 is the official name for Steam OS. It's not a game at all.