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[alexandros]

As the thread title says, this is purely a rumor and it should be treated as such. Nevertheless, it should be fun to speculate on how an open-world Half-Life 3 would work. French gaming site Journal Du Gamer claims to have insider information on Half-Life 3's new direction. Here are some (Google-translated) tidbits:

A trusted source who wishes to remain anonymous told us yet confidential details the development of Half-Life 3. According to her, Valve has decided to make his legendary shooter game ... open-world!

According to her, Half-Life 3 FPS will always be a very action-oriented, but with many RPG elements: open-world, quests and NPCs will be waiting for you! One of the inspirations the developers would also be the series of Elder Scrolls (Skyrim, Oblivion).

You can read the whole (again, google-translated) article here.

Half-Life 3 an open-world game! What do you think people?

 

[oatmeal]

An open world City 17 would be aweeeesome.

Atmosphere will be killer, whatever it is.

 

[civilstrife]

I can dig it.

 

[Man]

They said 'her'. Should limit down the search greatly.

And if true it's good that Source 2.0 can handle proper streaming.

 

[Fistwell]

At this point, just Half-Life 3 to actually be is good enough for me.

 

[Hanmik]

I´ll just wait for Eat children to change the thread title..

 

[Acosta]

yessssssss

Dreaming is free.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

wait, what's the rumor? that H3 is real or that it's open world? still wouldn't excuse the long ass time it's taking (if it's being made)

 

[SpaceDrake]

My body would be accepting.

Also given the closeness of Bethesda and Valve and Valve's obvious love of Skyrim (and how it ripped up the charts for ages), there's a level on which this wouldn't be surprising. It does run counter to some things Gabe and others have said about the general direction Valve's interested in going, though.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Rumor: Half-Life 3 exists

 

[SovanJedi]

Ewww, no thanks. I want more rollercoaster rides please Valve.

 

[Auto_aim1]

Nah, they wouldn't change the formula so drastically. Great, if true.

 

[bloodforge]

Rumor: Half-Life 3 exists

Lies!

 

[SparkTR]

I doubt it, in fact I'm certain this isn't true. It'll be more open sure, but open-world with Skyrim style quests? Nah, but gotta get dem page views.

 

[jgminto]

That would actually get me interested in Half-Life 3.

 

[EatChildren]

Morrowind style zone loading returns, only on Source.

 

[Teknoman]

Just let me play the game.

 

[subversus]

Clint Hocking is on it.

and may be Doug Church?


FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAA

 

[MrCunningham]

Ewww, no thanks. I want more rollercoaster rides please Valve.

The idea of an open world Half-Life 3 does intrigue me, but yeah, kind of this. I want Valve to finish the story... I want to know what happens on the Borealis...

 

[TheOddOne]

I've been expecting you, Mr. Freeman.

 

[Dennis]

If it is open world you have my permission to spend as long time as you like Valve.

If it is linear like Half-Life 2 just push it out the door.

Call of Pripyat >>>> Half-Baked 2

 

[Relyt]

Hum, I'm french and this site is all but professionnal, just another unknown blog. I don't think this so called source can be trusted...

 

["God's Beard!"]

Morrowind style zone loading returns, only on Source.

Black Mesa released to get us accustomed to random loads all over again.

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

Would be a great way to show they got their shit together in terms of map load/streaming, instead of running into an invisible LOADING wall every 2 minutes.

Would still prefer the way the games were more focused and adventure-y but In Valve I Trust.

 

[lilltias]

I hope it's true. I really really want to see Valve take a shot on an open world action shooter. Bring it on.

 

[Lakitu]

That time of the month is it? A new Half-Life 3 rumour appears and is debunked within 3 days by some tweet from someone associated with Valve. Then we all go back to sobbing into our drinks.

 

[Dennis]

That time of the month is it? A new Half-Life 3 rumour appears and is debunked within 3 days by some tweet from someone associated with Valve. Then we all go back to shrugging our shoulders.

fixed

Valvebots are the worst. Half-Life 3 would have to be the Second Coming of Christ at this point.

 

[Truant]

Morrowind style zone loading returns, only on Source.

I chuckled, but we all know HL3 will be a game-changer in terms of both gameplay and technology.

Open world seems like a logical step. Valve mastered the linear shooter twice, they don't have to prove themselves. We already saw hints at open world with Episode 2.

 

[TUROK]

That's fine. It can be a train sim for all I care, as long as it advances the storyline.

 

[Jarmel]

When I actually see anything from the game, I'll start giving a shit.

 

[JoeInky]

Open world half-life with quests? No thanks.

 

[Buckethead]

I enjoyed the atmosphere of C17 at the beginning of HL2 but I didn't really care for the more open-areas as much.

No thanks.

 

[Ushojax]

That sounds horrible. Hopefully it isn't true.

 

[EatChildren]

brb filtering through Dennis' post history to find a thinly veiled excuse to perma ban

 

[Teletraan1]

I just hope they don't add Gordon's annoying cousin who keeps phoning you to go to a strip club to go see some big Vortigaunt titties.

 

[DieH@rd]

Ahhh Gordon Freeman! Im in trouble, can you kill 5 head-crabs and bring their claws to me? I need to make some experiments on them. Reward is 50 shotgun shells or 100 combinebucks.

Accept
YES/NO

 

[Hanmik]

brb filtering through Dennis' post history to find a thinly veiled excuse to perma ban

don´t bother.. he will just shrug his shoulders at it..

 

[Dennis]

brb filtering through Dennis' post history to find a thinly veiled excuse to perma ban

Yeah well, then I may just have to email EviLore that folder I have on you. I hope he likes Mass Effect porn.

 

[KareBear]

An open world City 17 would be aweeeesome.

Atmosphere will be killer, whatever it is.

Was City 17 not destroyed?

 

[TheOddOne]

brb filtering through Dennis' post history to find a thinly veiled excuse to perma ban

He said Mario sucks. Just trust me.

Spoiler

Kidding Dennis

 

[Vilam]

Not too enthused about the idea of making Half-Life open world, but I'm sure Valve would craft a good game regardless.

Of course I'm still ticked off at the inevitability that we're not getting Episode 3 and instead jumping straight to HL3.

 

[TheCongressman1]

Sounds awesome. I hope it's true.

 

[Buckethead]

My only hope is that it's purely a single player game.

No Alyx tarting about and things like that.

I'm all for playing with friends but in franchises that did that from the ground-up.

 

[Dennis]

Fully voiced Gordon Freeman is of course a must.

 

[Nibel]

brb filtering through Dennis' post history to find a thinly veiled excuse to perma ban

Damn :lol

And yeah, I don't believe any rumors - I trust Valve only

Just release it in my lifetime if you can

 

[Bomber Bob]

open world + f2p + rift oculus + hats

 

[Darklord]

Fully voiced Gordon Freeman is of course a must.

God no.

 

[alexandros]

Open world seems like a logical step. Valve mastered the linear shooter twice, they don't have to prove themselves. We already saw hints at open world with Episode 2.

Yup. Much of Half-Life 2 and most of Episode 2 were more like a road trip than a traditional linear campaign. There were clear indications that Valve wanted people to explore, but maybe their tech wasn't ready at the time.

 

[disappeared]

I could dig it. Valve typically knows what they're doing.

 

[maniac-kun]

That would be awesome. So the evolution of the FPS genre will be open world.

Good that we can see the end of this: