But that would be silly.
About as silly as attaching a narrative to their puzzle game's community levels that toys with several possibilities in the extended half-life continuity.
But that would be silly.
Last night we launched our most fiendishly difficult ARG yet, involving roughly 5000 individual pieces of data that had to be painstakingly collected and decoded by equipping specific items and then performing even more specific actions in-game. It was diabolically, even needlessly complex, and there was some concern among the TF team that this time we might have gone a little overboard. It would take the community weeks to sort through this, we worried.
We shouldn't have. In just twelve hours, the master-class code breakers in the community put their collective brainpower to the puzzle and cracked it wide open, uncovering a mysterious link at 2:46AM PST this morning that promised a small taste of things to come in TF2. We couldn't be more proud of you guys. Also, if we're being honest, a little giddy at the possibilities, because if you can apply yourselves this commandingly to a goofy online puzzle for a war-themed hat simulator, next time we'll think big and ask you to construct a manned space shuttle to Mars or something.
About as silly as attaching a narrative to their puzzle game's community levels that toys with several possibilities in the extended half-life continuity.
Last night we launched our most fiendishly difficult ARG yet, involving roughly 5000 individual pieces of data that had to be painstakingly collected and decoded by equipping specific items and then performing even more specific actions in-game. It was diabolically, even needlessly complex, and there was some concern among the TF team that this time we might have gone a little overboard. It would take the community weeks to sort through this, we worried.
We shouldn't have. In just twelve hours, the master-class code breakers in the community put their collective brainpower to the puzzle and cracked it wide open, uncovering a mysterious link at 2:46AM PST this morning that promised a small taste of things to come in TF2. We couldn't be more proud of you guys. Also, if we're being honest, a little giddy at the possibilities, because if you can apply yourselves this commandingly to a goofy online puzzle for a war-themed hat simulator, next time we'll think big and ask you to construct a manned space shuttle to Mars or something.
everyone keeps asking for Half Life 3....what no one knew is that we've been playing it this whole time
directed by M. Night Shyamalan
What? It's over?
Tie in with Portal I'm cool with - and it was a surprise no one saw coming.
TF2 is a different matter altogether though. The game is set in the sort of absurd world where Australians all have moustaches and stereotyping is more apparent than feasibly possible. And babies could fluently talk from age 0.
It's a cool concept, but Grey being G-man would grind far too much with Half-Life's serious narrative and (mostly) grounded reality.
Edit:
To put it in another perspective: would you really want the history of Half-Life's enigmatic G-man to end up being a baby who learnt algebra in his mother's womb, only to be snatched by an American Bald-Eagle when born and later in his life have machinery implanted in him, and eventually kill his brothers in order to usurp Hale.Co and then eventually plan to botch up a portal experiment in a Nevada science branch, to which he spectates Gordon Freeman? D:
It doesn't even make sense. Why dilute the entire decades-long earnest, gritty Half-Life universe and brand which already have multiple game tie-ins, by tying it together with their absurdist universe, whacky art style game?TF2 merging into the Half-Life universe would be incredible.
I hope the actual update is next week and they didn't really expect the internet to take a while to work everything out.
I agree. It's insanely good stuff.
I think one of the first details that blew me away trying the beta for my first games was the first time I tried Ursa.
Seeing this bear's face speaking with perfect lip sync in the portrait made me stop for a moment in awe.
Since then I lost count of the amount of stunning details I noticed playing DOTA 2.
And everytime they are introducing a new hero it's always a little masterpiece.
In the last months I've started to point the game as the model which any "isometric" title (RTS, RPG, etc) should strive to match in quality.
To put it in another perspective: would you really want the history of Half-Life's enigmatic G-man to end up being a baby who learnt algebra in his mother's womb, only to be snatched by an American Bald-Eagle when born and later in his life have machinery implanted in him, and eventually kill his brothers in order to usurp Hale.Co and then eventually plan to botch up a portal experiment in a Nevada science branch, to which he spectates Gordon Freeman? D:
What makes you say this?
they have 8-10 people working full time on TF2 now, and that number will only dwindle further. They have one map maker and one programmer and the rest are artists/misc task people.
Compare that to when they had 30-40 people a few years ago and produced large updates, I don't see this team being able to keep up and releasing updates at a good pace. Eventually updates will become smaller and smaller, and I think this update will be the last huge tons of items, maps, etc updates that we get for TF2, pending a huge surge of interest from Valve.
next time we'll think big and ask you to construct a manned space shuttle to Mars or something.
everyone keeps asking for Half Life 3....what no one knew is that we've been playing it this whole time
directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Why does Grey look dissimilar to his two brothers? I think that's the strongest hint that there's more to the character who justthan what the comic says.facestabbed his two brothers
I have a few suspicions.
To add to my crazy sentence theory, isn't it coincidental that they would word the next thing they'll ask players to do to construct a rocket to mars when the last big update we got involved introducing a new game mode involving a rocket? With that, involving Australium (which is sort of a big deal in TF2 world and I'm guessing it likely what Gray is after).
Maybe I'm just thinking a rocket and mars can fit into an update that involves take-over, robots, giant tanks with antennas, and a man like Gray who is focused on building things. So for them to mention building something, it being a rocket, and to mars sort of just seems like connecting the dots to me, with the recent updates and hints...
Also predicting Gray is, in fact, a robot. Or at least a cyborg.
That line about "an idiotic crime against nature".... So good.
Volnutt Megaman, who will secure passage once they reach the Moon.What if valve finished HL3 years ago, and it's waiting for us on Mars.
Who will lead the team to bring HL3 back to earth?
What if valve finished HL3 years ago, and it's waiting for us on Mars.
Who will lead the team to bring HL3 back to earth?
If we're thinking about the same thing, that was Pauline.
Volnutt Megaman, who will secure passage once they reach the Moon.
I hope they shake things up heavily, I wanna enjoy TF2 again.
Well, there is:
R: You there! Young man! Are you mechanically inclined?
G: Aheh. Yes. You could say that.
That's got my theory muscles going - and raises some interesting questions with interesting conclusions about the third baby (See also: Barnabas Hale's reactions in the historical segment) - but it comes to one crucial question: Who created him?
"War-themed hat simulator".
Yep. Our lives are over.
"War-themed hat simulator".
Yep. Our lives are over.
You hold W and Mouse1.how do you play as the arsonist
how do you play as the arsonist
You hold W and Mouse1.
You hold W and Mouse1.