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Game Informer's Andrew Reiner on Alleged Half-Life 3 Prototypes (Live Action? RTS?)
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superNESjoe
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They tried to turn it into a single player turn based real estate sim.
Apoleptica
Banned
Honestly if half life 3 actually released at this point it would just be an insult to all the people that have been waiting for it. At this point it's just a meme and should die as a meme.
The worst tragedy.
There is such huge potential just from a multiplayer perspective. They're just sitting on gold.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Threads like this amuse me. Just be patient things will happen when they are ready. I believe 2017 will be a good year for valve
I've got some beachfront property in Nebraska to sell you.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
In today's era of gaming, I think it would need to be.
I'd guess that the seemingly protracted absence of L4D3's unveiling is a simple case of Valve Time. It'd be a good fit for the games as a service model, so I doubt it's been tossed aside.
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Deleted member 286591
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This. After that sweet sweet DOOM we got, I'd say anything's possible.
Comfort Jones
Banned
I'd love to believe, but Doom was made by a team who wanted to actually make that game. Valve seems straight up apathetic to HL3.
AHA-Lambda
Member
I just wish they'd admit it at this point. I've been beaten into submission so much by now that that's all I want from Valve - just admit it's not being made.
ashecitism
Member
The part that's suspicious is the person speculating about SteamOS exclusives. The multi-prototypes part however doesn't sound odd.
Eh, they clearly put their weight behind VR and Dota.
It (and Source 2) took a backseat to VR and Dota is my guess.
yeah I don't believe this at all. This is someone having him on because he won't stop pestering them.
Baron_Calamity
Member
Schrödinger's Half-Life 3. Its both is and isn't in development.
I think the types of prototypes he mentioned are what make it hard to believe.
Maybe small teams were working on prototypes that use the Half-life universe, but to completely change the game type for the continuation of the mainline story seems incredibly risky and would lead to a ton of disappointment.
Adam_Roman
Member
Maybe it's just because I've been following Valve since I was a kid but the idea of the different prototypes doesn't seem too weird to me at all. Valve was a company known for just FPS games until 2010 with Alien Swarm. We know they were working on stuff from other genres before that, like Prospero and the fairy RPG, but it hasn't been until recently that they broke away from that with an actual release. And since then we've had Dota 2 and learned of Stars of Blood, one of which wasn't an FPS and the other I'd have to imagine would be third person unless it was in development early in their VR experimentation.
Valve seems like a company that cornered itself into one specific genre for the first decade of its life, and now they're trying to get away from that. Even though they were really small teams working on those prototypes, they don't seem out of line for Valve to me. Also with Lambda Wars being a very popular source mod, and Dota's roots being from Warcraft, experimenting with an RTS makes a lot of sense to me.
Honestly, it all comes down to one simple fact:
Valve is no longer a developer that gives two shits about making revolutionary games.
Supporting Steam and their handful of competitive titles (that stemmed from mods) is their full-time job now. I doubt we'll ever see another ambitious game from Valve again, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
SUPARSTARX
Member
Well if this is really true, it's a shame.
Read the whole article. Still sad but we'll move on.
Read the whole article. Still sad but we'll move on.