And, as years go by and no EP3/HL3 is announced, the mystery

>>253359049
Let it go kid.
Let it go.

>>253359558
This.

I wish I had the Bart Simpson Loss.jpg

>>253359049
Just wait until E3 2015. Valve will announce it then; I'm sure of it.

>>253359049

I still think it's weird that the more serious HL universe is now actually actually linked with the cartoony ass Portal universe. It just seems weird.

>>253359850

>Just wait until E3 2014
>Just wait until E3 2013
>Just wait until E3 2012
>Just wait until E3 2011
>Just wait until E3 2010
>Just wait until E3 2009
>Just wait until E3 2008
>Just wait 7 months

HL3 is the Duke Nukem of Video Games

>>253359558
dude its coming out next year, my uncle works for half life

>>253360000
Well, its quite possible that the aperture sciences seen in the portal games are not from the same dimension as the Half Life games.
Half life could have the only serious Aperture Science.

>>253360093
Valve it's just taking it slowly. Perfection requires time.

I think the borealis has some kind of weaponized portal / teleport hybrid technology. Something incredibly dangerous.

>>253359049
I remember ep3 model names appeared in the alien swarm files, or something

>>253360000
Nice quads.

Valve understands the impact and the hype the game has so they are waiting until the technology can catch up for the high standards the game will have.

>>253360509
shut up niger

>>253359049

These things, they take time.

>>253359049

It's teleporter technology presumably, the Combine can only teleport between dimensions, not within them like Aperture Science and the Resistance.

When there is talk of a new source engine, than only then HL3 can be discussed.
Source 2.0 doesn't count.

>>253360584
but the longer they take the more hype it generates at this rate we'll all have to be dead a buried for that to happen but by then all the kiddies wont even give a fuck about valve or half life

>>253359049
Half Life 3 hasn't been made yet because Source Engine 2 ins't complete. How hard it that to understand?

>>253359049
Remember how mindfucked you were when you saw the amazing detail of Gman's face in 2004 and couldn't believe that graphics could look like that?

That's what they're going for. Source 2.

>>253360909
>acts as if he knows anything
Stop.

>>253360584

It's been 7 years since ep2

they had their chance they blew it, if it ever does come out it will not live up to peoples expectations after 7+ years

>>253360672
What? They already had a teleporter in Nova Prospekt.

Not only that, but they also have Eli's mind so they know everything about human technology.

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>>253359049
>What is inside it, /v/?

>>253360000
Nice quads, but no. The Portal universe revolves around a scientific organization who, after a certain point of despair, lured homeless people into sadistic experiments that almost always resulted in death, and was later taken oven by a turned-psychotic AI who murdered every employee with neurotoxine.

So no, just because it has a horrible fanbase of "le cake and potatoe maymays XDDD" 12-year-olds, that doesn't mean it isn't an incredibly dark universe.

>>253360584
Which is basically just the Oculus Rift

Not even shitting, whether you or I think it's a gimmick or not, VR technology is the next big thing in gaming to the masses and the enthusiasts

Now that it's known about, you can bet HL3 will be launched and primarily advertised on this stuff

>>253360991
What? Are you stupid? It's fucking obviously. Valve already announced Source 2
Do you think they'd do HL3 on fucking Source 1?

>>253360000
Portal is not that cartoony ass.
It's much more creepier than Portal 2.
The whole facility felt creepy and isolated even before Glados tried to kill you. Those empty observation rooms gave me the creep because it felt like someone might be me.

With Portal 2 it became evident that Valve doesn't give one shit about HL3 or the Half-Life universe and they're just fucking with you.

>>253360000

Have you played through portal 1-2 lately? It's pretty fucking dark with gallows humor.

>>253361042
This in my opinion I thought glados would be in the ship, but now I think its something portal/teleporting related

Valve has no commercial incentive to release Ep.3 or HL 3. They make enough money with steam, Hat Simulator 2 and pretty pretty princess gun dressup. Why would they take the risk with a big AAA title when their current shekel farming scheme is far more profitable than it could ever be?

>>253361042
But the way it presented was fucking clownshoes.

>>253360372
I think they confirmed that portal 1 takes place around the same time as the half life series.
Glados even comments about the surface being fucked.

It's why they shoved portal 2 an undefined time into the future, to disconnect it from half life.
So, spoilers, no matter what happens at the end of half life 3, the planet will have a breathable atmosphere, still be mostly covered in water and will have at least one field of crops.

>>253360650

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6yBHDvKUw&feature=kp

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>>253359049

It contains my hope for the future of video games, It's been lost for quite some time now.

>>253361393
>It's why they shoved portal 2 an undefined time into the future, to disconnect it from half life.

Except for the references to Black Mesa and the Borealis being in the game.

I thought it was revealed to be dimensional portal technology

>>253360902

i already don't give a fuck about half life. its games were great in the context of when they came out, but pretty mediocre by today's standards. /v/ would call it shit if you all didn't have nostalgia goggles on

>>253361573
>>253361493
2 years ago already.

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>>253361493
>>253361573

Someone with webm post next.

>>253361342
HL3 will be released when Valve need a quick influx of customers for whatever reason.

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>>253359049
Valve doesn't make games anymore, they rely on trading cards and other market items purchased by the legion of idiots that make up the majority of steam.

>mfw CS:GO fags that don't play for fun but for crate/sticker/weaponskin drops (to not sell but to show-off) are in the same game with me.

>>253360380
>perfection
Valve hasn't made a game in years that isn't shitty multiplayer FPS, Portal, or MOBA shit. Wager HL3 will be garbage.

never really understood why people keep saying ep3, gabe n already confirmed they were dropping the episodic model years ago

i think what was supposed to happen is source engine was supposed to get phased out by some bigger and better engine, and hl3 was going to feature it. but, with the way they've been playing it (or at least the way it seems) they have been upgrading source engine so much that they probably outgrew their interests in continuing the series. instead theyre focusing on le dota and steamOS

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>>253360000

Agreed, seems like a clash of tones

>all these people not checking them

/v/ step it up

>>253361651
I meant that they shoved the portal canon so far into the future that nothing from it (Beyond the events of portal 1 and the events that happen inbetween the games) will effect the half life canon unless they involve time travel.

HL3 is coming out this year, and it's going to be a surprise announcement with no fanfare, no press junkets, no anything.

1. Valve has released a game literally every year since 2001. They haven't released anything yet, and all the major game conventions have passed.
2. Why does everyone forget about that leaked JIRA that fucking confirmed that at 56 people at Valve are actively developing HL3? And that was last year!
3. All of those "3" hints in all of the Valve videos.

>>253362058
>leaked JIRA

more like "leaked"

it is no doubt a fake

>>253362058

L4D 3 is the next game i bet. That or something new.

>>253362058
>All of those "3" hints in all of the Valve videos.
You realize that is now just a running joke and it's probably safe to bet that it doesn't actually mean anything other than Valve goes on the internet, right?

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>>253359049

>implying its not going to be a launch title for steam machine or source 2 or both

they know people are going to eat this shit up no matter how disappointing half life 3 is. they also know its been way over hyped and there is no way it will live up to expectations. so they're holding off to generate maximum hype so they can make a ton of money selling hl3 along with as much other hardware/software they can. because after that its over, golden age of pc gaming will be finished and valve will never be the same again.

>>253360000
Not this shit again, kill yourself you worthless sack of putrid garbage.

>>253362058

>56 people

It's never coming out, is it?

:(

>>253361042
Also, >>253361134. The feeling of isolation and constant observation in the first game is brilliantly well-done. While it's hard to deny that Portal 2 is a better game in nearly every aspect, it just wasn't that immersive when it comes to displaying the loneliness of being in a huge abandoned laboratory.

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You've heard of Half Life 3. We all have, the legend, the curses. Some foolishness about it releasing just next year. A year of hopes. Buried beneath a blood-red steam... a bright, shining monument luring gamers to their doom. An illusion that you can play again, get your closure. Waiting for it, though, that's not the hard part. It's letting go...

>>253362048
God he's such a good actor.

>>253362058
>They haven't released anything yet, and all the major game conventions have passed.
Gamescom is still coming

valve literally created an infinite hype generator

they dont even have to touch hl3, they just need to keep toying with us to make us grip onto false hope so we keep using valve things

not that i mind using valve things, but i mean cmon...

>>253362496
Becaue you always have someone with you like Wheatley or Glados, and they talk a fucking lot.

gordons wife was a spy for BM.
they had a daughter by the name of chell.
wife infiltrates AS.
AS bring your daughter to work day.
cave dies but puts his trusted cowoker (gordons wife) into glados FORCEFULLY and against her will.
glados kills all of AS.
gordon loses his wife and daughter in one day.
he becomes mute and distant of his coworkers at BM.

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>yfw you load up steam and the announcement is a hl3 logo, countdown timer and a preload button.

>>253362872
>tfw it hits zero and the site is DDOSed by all the refreshing

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>>253362872
>yfw HL3 mods

>>253362449

Care to elaborate faggot? Or do you want to jump straight to the part where you slit your wrists on that edge.

>>253362872
>preload button
oy Vey, it'd be another shoa if Valve made HL3 free!

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>>253359049
A giant portal gun. The kind that can transport the entire combine empire in one swoop. Thats why the combine want/need it. Theyre not having great success taking over earth, so they need more numbers.

>>253363239
oh.

fuck that's right i forgot

>>253363239
That... that makes an alarming amount of sense.

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>>253362234
If it was a fake Valve would say something about it, Valve gave Valvetime those leaks just like they did the Episode 3 concept art. I'm almost positive Valve is "leaking" shit like this themselves to let the dedicated know its coming

>>253362058
Gamescom, its coming

>>253361393
>>253360000
how come the combine havent figured out about aperture and Glados?

youd think that since they rule earth they would find that shit pretty quick

>>253362058
>active development
>being released soon
do you even duke nukem?

>>253363548
Cause everyone that worked at Aperture is dead.

>>253363548
how many salt mines are they gonna be searching

>>253363649
there is still a bunch of black mesa guys left,plus with the explosion of the facility in the first one and all that commotion

its gotta stir something

>>253363609
Duke switched publishers and engines 3 times, Half-Life 3 switched engines once and was re-written approximately 2 times.

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>>253362872

>>253363548
>how come the combine havent figured out about aperture and Glados?
How come you know they didn't?

>>253363239
>>253363304

The player and Alex eventually discover that the entire ship (interior hull) is actually the device!

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Valve's 2014 game already came out though.

It's obvious L4D3 will come out before HL3.
And it'll be the first game using Source 2.

Valve will probably port HL+HL2 and episodes to Source 2 before announcing anything.

>>253364271
that's from 2013 anon

>>253363437

Do you guys think they're going to include a dynamic lighting element to their engine? I don't know how it works: are a lot of modern engines built with that capacity, and devs just don't bother or is it vice-versa?

All I know is that I would thrust my money down Gabe's pants if they make that an active inclusion in their games. Playing L4D3 with dynamic lightning in and of itself makes the game more immersive, despite the less-realistic feel the series has been going towards.

>>253362872
i kinda want it to come out,but then again i dont.


no doubt it will not live up to the hype,the series is really great so far,but there is the chance Valve could fuck it up.


i dont know man its just weird,this is a series to be considered one of the best of all time,its kinda hard to make sequeals while keeping that kind of prestige

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Obligatory

>>253364476
Actually the documentary is from 2011

What do you think the big gimmick that HL3 will have be? HL2 had physics, Portal had portals, L4D was a co-op shooter, DOTA is a cash in and doesn't count.

>>253364476
F2P came out in 2014.

>>253364770

F-stop.

>>253360372
>Alternate dimension bullshit
HL3 confirmed for having the same terrible cop-out writing as Bioshock Infinite.

>>253364770
what did HL1 have?

>>253364770

Dynamic lighting --> >>253364537

>>253364886
any decent writer could take BI's plot and make it good,

its just that fucking SJW brony Kevin levine that fucked things up

>>253364770
>having co-op in an FPS is a gimmick

>>253364770
probably something revolutionary
or just
fully destructable world or something

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>>253364852
>we'll never know what it was

>a new Half Life will never be as revolutionary as 2 was in its time
You know it inside you, Anon.

>>253364929

Being a fucking amazing game for its time? I wasn't around PC gaming at the time but watching a lot of videos I think it was just the quality of their product build... and probably it was just a really fun game and great story.

>>253364929
HL1 was the first FPS to have any sort of interesting story.

>>253364770
Water physics.

>>253363938
Portal 1 was before the 7 hour war, Portal 2 was years after. Reactivated Glados talks about the Combine in Portal 2 and how you really don't want to know what's going on up there.

>>253360000
good lord this bait is hardcore today

>>253364537
>Do you guys think they're going to include a dynamic lighting element to their engine?
HL2/Source already has dynamic lights and shadows, turn the flashlight on.

>>253365070
are you implying that portals were a gimmick

>>253364929
AI? There was plenty of attention to detail there.

>>253362862

That's bull. Gordon's only in his twenties. To graduate high school, get a PhD, get married, have children, and find a job with a crazy science facility in such a short time, and balance all that shit? Next to impossible.

>>253364929
interesting story for FPS

>>253364981
Dynamic lighting isn't revolutionary, FEAR used it alot if I remember.

>>253364770
Dynamic Environments.

>>253365170

Yeah my fear is that it's going to be infected with motion blur and bloom characteristics but I don't really think Valve can stoop that low, despite their recent business practices.

>>253363239
But the Combine had already won and taken over the planet years before Gordon showed up at the train station. With Aperture involved, would assume that there is some sort of portal technology on the ship though.

>>253364981
CSGO has it for environmental lighting finally, and with the way Portal 2 uses env_projectedtexture to light indoor levels you can bet HL3 will too.

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>>253365185
>Implying it won't be snow physics
The future is now, anon
Also >>253364981, dynamic lighting is the holy grail

>>253365194
really?in what part?

Valve is still figuring out their event security to make sure Gaben doesn't eat anyone.

>>253359049
I wish people would stop clamoring about HL3, I know some of you have woken up to the idea that Valve isnt the developer it once was, but the everyday shitter still wants HL3 and thinks it will hold up to the previous titles.
Expect a "cinematic experience"

>>253365194
>Glados talks about the Combine in Portal 2
[citation needed]

>>253364929
>what did HL1 have?

Telling a story only through environmental exploration and scripted events. Kinda revolutionary for it's time.

>>253365185

hah nice try, anything on the doom engine cant have water physics.

>>253365094
There was a game that tried this and IIRC it was a multiplayer game as well. It used those Physx dedicated physics cards, and the entire map was blown to shit every single time. It was a disaster, players just cannot use a fully destructible environment in any way that is fun.

Don't you understand? The half life series ended, the Combine won, on Earth at least.

After closing the portal, the advisors sucked out Eli's brain and learned all the secrets of the resistance. From this they were able to crush the remaining human force and re-open the portal. Gordon was either killed or put in stasis by the G-man in order to fight on another world the combine try to invade.

But humanity didn't die out, just civilization. After potentially thousands of years Chell wakes up in the Aperture labs deep underground. The field she sees is the result of the agricultural revolution of a new human civilization.

Humanity will never evolve further than this due to the presence of headcrabs and other nasties and the lack of water from draining the oceans.

>>253365194
Glados said that at the end of Portal 1. It likely took place immediately after the 7 hour war. Portal 2 takes place who fucking knows how long after, because like >>253361393 said, it's so all the fucking crazy shenanigans like moon portals and whatnot don't become part of HL canon.

>>253365070
zombie co-op i mean. It was a gimmick that no other game had at the time.

>>253365284

That's a technicality and doesn't address my question about modern engine standards.

Real dynamic lighting would be something akin to that F.E.A.R. .gif that's always posted, but on a larger scale in respects to how tech has advanced since then.

When they first added Portal to the HL universe it wasn't a problem. But then Portal 2 came out. And Portal 2 added this stupid le funny xD backstory to Aperture Science that I feel ruins the mood of the Half-Life universe.

>>253365153

We will, in Half Life 3.

>This experiment completely enraptured the audience. Upon seeing it, Newell remembers thinking, "F**k yeah!". This one experiment is said to have been worth stalling everything else at Valve for the three months of brainstorming.

>A few days after the science fair, Newell summoned Weier and the team to his office to ask them if they would be willing to look into making F-STOP a prequel to Portal, as he thought it was probably the big, unexpected idea that Valve needed for a sequel.

muh tingles

>>253363548
>imbleing aperture labs is even on earth

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>>253365646
>players just cannot use a fully destructible environment in any way that is fun.

I disagree.

>Valve makes pretty cool Half-Life universe
>does nothing with it
This is the part that upsets me.

>>253364929
Top-notch graphics for its time (Not as revolutionary as 2's graphics but still great for the time), good gameplay and one of the craziest trips ever in a videogame, from a scientific laboratory to the weirdest dimension ever.

In many ways, it was truly the 2001: A Space Odyssey of vidya, mostly for how unique it was and for how fucking sensless and mind-fucking it got towards the end.

>>253365313
>Next to impossible
...you DO KNOW this Half-Life and Portal we're all talking about, right?

>>253365690
>lack of water
>agricultural revolution

Shit bait attempt.

Anyone have a print of the Borealis is alive idea? (As in, the boat is a living creature)

>>253365328
>>253365397

Yeah I understand it's implemented all the time but it's always minor.

Is full blown dynamic lighting in a single-player game, for example, really costly to do?

>>253365534
If anybody can pull off a cinematic experience, it's Valve. I mean, they basically fucking invented it with HL1 anyway. I guarantee you, all the crazy shit that Valve's been working on behind closed doors, like, I don't know, VR and sign language, will come together to turn the modern "cinematic game" formula on its head.

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So basically HL3 will never get released now because they've waited too long and built up too much hype and expectations by letting it stay conspicuously silent.

But let's rewind the story. What happened with Episode 3 that caused it to originally get delayed eternally and then drop off the face of the earth? Everything was going great beforehand. Valve quickly releases episodes 1 and 2 at the proper times, and then... nothing. What was it about episode 3?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdeY1v6jC7Q

>>253365047
I disagree. Writing a GOOD time travel story is hard as hell. You have to determine what sort of time travel your story will use and the ramifications of what that entails, and keep the entire thing logically consistent.

Now, if you're talking about removing the multiple universe time travel shit and just taking the setting of Columbia and making a good story out of that, then yeah pretty much anybody could make a good story. The problem was that Levine changed his mind entirely about what the story was supposed to be a few months before it shipped, and he could not handle the concepts he was trying to write about. He fucked it up bad. Even if it was just retreading ground that Bioshock had already explored, it would still have been a better story than what we got.

>>253366069

What do you even mean by dynamic lighting? Lots of games have dynamic lighting, and they have for a long time.

>>253365798
What is Zombies Ate My Neighbors?

>>253364537
You mean Global Dynamic Illumination? Probably considering Crytek 3, UE4, and others do.

>>253366069
I know they didn't deliver, but I'm pretty sure the Dark Souls 2 engine was *capable* of delivering full dynamic lighting at a decent performance, at least on the PC.

>>253365446
>implying snow physics are as easy as that .gif would imply

That was probably rendered in a couple of days and then condensed into a 8 second gif

>>253366228

Someone post that FEAR .gif for goodness' sake.

>>253365864
what game is that

>>253366029
Bumping for interest

>>253363548
You think they don't know?

Glados in Portal 1 mentions she's the only thing standing between "us and them"

them likely meaning the Combine. Glados managed to hold off the Combine and keep them out of Aperture.

I mean, for all of Aperture's unethical and deranged experiments, they did actually come up with some amazing shit- They created a fucking quantum tunneling device in the fucking 50's- technology that involves miniature black holes.

They also managed to invent/discover a substance that is effective for use as a surface for those portals. And, some time around the 90's digitized a Human mind.

Not to mention some of the other not quite as noteworthy, but nonetheless interesting stuff they created that you interact with in Portal 1 and 2.

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>A few days after the science fair, Newell summoned Weier and the team to his office to ask them if they would be willing to look into making F-STOP a prequel to Portal, as he thought it was probably the big, unexpected idea that Valve needed for a sequel. Weier was a little shocked: Portal was such a sensation, such an outright phenomenon, no one wanted to be responsible for trying to one-up it.

>But as the team worked on F-STOP, it did not become Portal 2, and it would take Valve nearly a year of intense development before they figured that out.

You can just change it to this and it fits perfectly

>But as the team worked on F-STOP, it did not become Portal 2, but Half-Life 3

>>253360000
CHECK EM

>>253366410
I'm pretty sure that was part of the tech demo for Frozen.

>>253366091
I get the feeling that all the episodes were being worked on simultaneously, but something really, really serious went wrong with episode 3 in the planning stage. Like, they could not accomplish what they wanted due to tech constraints or something. They must have literally had nothing by the time EP1 was done and presumably no more progress after EP2. That's probably why they kicked the development of other titles like TF2, Portal and L4D into high gear around ~2006, because they knew they'd need games to full the ever-expanding time gap for episode 3. And then, of course, things spiralled out of control with steam and TF2 hats and sequels and F2P and I wouldn't be surprised if Valve still hasn't gotten any work done on EP3. Or better yet, only Gabe has been working on EP3, and it will be his life's ultimate masterpiece, when it releases after he dies of heart failure in 10 years.

>>253366568

ace of spades.

it's a voxel fps based around CTF. tons of fun.

>>253364770
Next-gen jump in AI and optional co-op with Alyx most assuredly.

That's my bet

Portal 2 was the final chapter. You escaped and the future was all flowers. The aliens never won, they probably died out since their contact with the their world was cut out.

>>253363437
inb4 another alien swarm

Actually, fuck them, alien swarm was truly fun(unlike dota), if only they hadn't abandoned it.

>>253366091
holy fuck that video is glorious.

>>253360683
but source 2 is a new source engine. you can't call it 2.0 because that's implying that it's just a new version of source (which titanfall is a new version of source believe it or not) when in reality there's going to be as much of a difference in engine as there was from goldsrc to source.

>>253365769
Portal 2 takes place a LONG time after 1. Portal 2's events are irrelevant to the HL story as anything more than references to old Aperture's accomplishments, due to how long after 1 it is. Portal 1 is what takes place in the same timeframe as the HL series so far.

>>253366705
It should be worth noting that this is why the Combine are so set on getting whatever is inside the Borealis. Because they can't get into Aperture

>>253364929
Puzzles and platforming that were melded into/made sense within the game world.

I can't believe no one has mentioned that yet.

>>253363437
You do know that CSGO and Dota weren't developed by valve's main team.

>>253366747
Agreed, but it drives me crazy just thinking about what it was about Ep 3 that made them give up in the first place.

I've heard all kinds of stuff. People say "they couldn't think of anything revolutionary and knew it would just let people down" but that only applies when talking about HL3. The HL2 episodes were basically just expansion packs. They didn't need to be mind blowing or super innovative. Ep1 and Ep2 certainly weren't: they were just more of what was great from HL2. And there was no reason why Ep3 shouldn't have been able to work out similarly.

I wish gaben would at least give us an explanation or something

>>253366974
I remember a conspiracy, started by an obvious ruseful but nonetheless interesting YouTube comment which stated that Chell actually died in Portal 2 and the ending symbolized her ascension to a paradise based on Greek mythology.

>>253366091
My thoughts on the matter is that Valve probably felt that they were pushing their magnum opus out the door too fast and they didn't want Half-life to be completed through a couple of rushed episodes (HL3 was originally supposed to be all 3 episodes put together)

They are probably waiting for technology to catch up with the ideas they have to make it a true sequel to one of the best reviewed games of all time.

>>253361117
valve said that source 2 is already complete and that they just need to make the half life 3 content.

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>>253366091

When each Valve project reaches completion it delays all other projects because most people focus on finishing the upcoming game.

The sudden acquisition of Left 4 Dead probably delayed Episode 3 and after that initial delay there was no point in continuing with the Episodic development because the point is that the releases are released constantly. Also this episodic development probably could have not worked in consoles either.

With the delays probably Episode 3 evolved from a small game into something much greater, so it probably turned into Half Life 3. The last major delays were DOTA2 and Source 2.

I think after Source 2 is completed Half Life 3 will be next.

>>253367205
What the fuck does "main team" even mean? Gabe and Mike Herrington coding the game themselves?

REMINDER THAT RATTMAN SAID THE SHIP WAS STOLEN

>>253367624
Portal 2 is non-canon

>>253367069

Source is a modular engine, Source 2 is just an upgrade to the previous one.

I think they will get back to it when they have literally nothing else to work on. Like, what do we know they're working on right now, game development wise? Dota 2 is still pretty actively developed, although I don't think the team for that is even that big. TF2 less so, and really its life cycle seems to be winding down. Presumably SteamOS is taking up some resources, but I haven't even heard about any of that in a while. So presumably they're working on something new right now, possibly a sequel to one of their current franchises, with the only ones that really seem to make sense for them being a new L4D or a new HL. Or else it's some crazy unexpected Willie Wonka shit, which is just as likely.

>>253367624

HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED FOR PIRATE GAME

>>253367693
Gonna need a confirmation on that.

>>253361280
It's dark humor, but it's still humor. Half Life has rare funny moments, but mostly it's pretty serious.

>>253367813

>Like, what do we know they're working on right now, game development wise?

The JIRA database leak from last October.

>>253365446
I would really love if somebody gave me an explanation as to why there are sooo many instances of people thinking the Frozen snow physics demos are real-time. I realize the anon here isn't outright saying that but he's implying it and it just reminded me of this weird pattern. I've just never seen an instance of confusion between real-time and prerendered so pervasive as this one and I don't understand why.

>>253364929
It was the first game to not have forced cutscenes. You can walk around while people are talking.

>>253367540
Valve has an A team that exclusively works on new games, a B team that makes those online games like Dota 2 or Alien Swarm or CSGO and the C team that creates patches for existing games

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>>253367813

Half Life 3 was probably going to have a focus on VR. Which means that Facebook delayed the project when they poached the Valve employees working on VR

>>253367624
He's rambling. he doesn't know what happened to it, it just disappeared, so he assumed that Black Mesa must have stolen it.

he's also schizophrenic.

>>253361573
I still find it weird that he was in this. Did that project actually go anywhere?

>>253367476
Actually they're working on Left 4 Dead 3 first

>>253367956

Half Life has tons of humor, especially HL2. It just has a way more serious tone in comparison with Portal.

>>253368063
and you know this how? the same guys who worked on HL2 jump around TF2 and Dota 2 often.

>>253368064
Half-Life 3 is going to have a focus on F-Stop
>>253366731
VR was just a bump in the road

>>253361810

Whatever happened to the Kickstarter thing that this video is from? Was it funded?

>>253364770
Why does every slightly creative design concept have to be a "gimmick"?

>>253367129
Funny thing I just realized, all panoramic screens around the elevators in the beginning of Portal 2, supposedly displaying the last Aperture technology ever conceived, have a copyright symbol with some 90s date (1997, if I'm correct) on the bottom. In the Half Life storyline, that was the year where the Black Mesa incident occurred. Therefore, Aperture Science stopped working around the same time Black Mesa did.

>>253368063

No, they sure fucking don't. Valve is famous for a structureless workplace wherein people aren't "assigned" tasks, but rather encouraged to work on whatever they want.

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I just brought the oreange box and now i finally understand why half life 3 is so beloved.

I want Episode 3 to be announced when Chrom joins smash.

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>>253368290

I think that L4D3 is probably just a remake of the previous games for next-gen consoles and a tech-demo for Source 2. It's probably gonna be released this year.

>>253368290
They're working on them both, they're just "leaking" more on Left 4 Dead 3 because that information is safer. They don't have to worry about leaking too much to spoil the surprise because nobody is waiting for L4D3, they'll release them both in a pack like the orange box.

>>253363162
>spend years and years and years on this game
>... and I want it FO FREE!

>>253365808

Does anybody here have that F.E.A.R. gif?

>>253368290
this isnt funny anymore, anon

>>253366410
> A couple days
> Disney
Ha ha ha, no. Even if it's that insanely complex, they have the resources to do in hours what would take most people days.

>>253368369
>Half-Life 3 is going to have a focus on F-Stop

That's nonsense actually. F-stop was a puzzle game, not a shooter.

>>253359049
>the mystery still remains

It's going to be something really boring like the Borealis was lost in a teleportation experiment from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in October 28, 1943 but ultimately led to some success after mysterious wreckage discovered in New Mexico on July 9, 1947 and then taken to Black Mesa and KXTA in Nevada for further experimentation which eventually led to WW2-era scientists exploring the border-world Xen with an "incident" occurring in an 1983 experiment in Montauk Air Force Station and so Gordon will end up fighting Nazis in the 1940s.

>>253368031
Guy who posted that gif here. I haven't seen anybody think that it was real time, but the point I was trying to make is that if we could get even a crude approximation of something like that in real time, it would be amazing. It would require a cutting edge machine, but would still be amazing.

>>253368559
That's what he was saying anon. Read.

>>253368658
F-Stop was a puzzle MECHANIC

>>253359049
A tiny cake with a dick-shaped candle on top

>>253368415
Gimmicks aren't inherently bad, only if they're used poorly are they bad which they usually are.

>>253368658

No, f-stop was a mechanic.

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>>253366568
oh boy you are in for some fun that's a lie no you aren't everyone on /v/ is too lazy to set up a server and also there aren't any good unified up-to-date infopics for setting up a pyspades server maybe I should do one

>>253368868
>>253368731

One of the links posted here the game was a a non-violent puzzle game. It makes more sense to make a new IP than to combine two things that probably don't fit.

>>253368064
well i do not think so, they could be waiting for Source 2.

>>253368868
What the heck is f-stop?

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>>253369084

Source 2 is already here. They just need to complete the Left 4 Dead Trilogy before they can start working on HL3.

>>253368402
Indefinitely post-poned.

Valve realized a sword game wont make them enough shekels even if it's kickstarted.

>>253368524
That could be cool, the black box maybe.

>>253369309
Where did you get this information?

>>253369178

We don't actually know, outside of the fact that it made Gabe Newell say "FUCK YEAH!" and it was so cool that it basically stopped all work at Valve for three months until everyone's minds were unblown. They WERE going to put it into Portal 2, but for whatever reasons, they didn't.

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/F-STOP

>>253369475

Well those Source 2 leaks seem pretty legit and so are the ones saying that L4D3 is in development.

We have almost nothing in HL3 so far other than finger mechanics and that it's going to be fully playable as a multiplayer game.

>>253369309
They'll finish both their trilogies (or extend their sagas?) at once.

>>253369475
Valve has been "leaking" their own stuff to Valvetime for awhile, google Source 2 leak. Usually valve leaks get shot down within a month if they're fake, Valve had no comment about this and the JIRA leak so its safe to say its a high probability of being real.

>>253369309
Either way, I'd be legit surprised if L4D3 isn't valve's next release. L4D2 hasn't seen a content update in forever.

>>253369309
Bottom pic honestly just looks like concept art.

>>253369664
>They'll finish both their trilogies (or extend their sagas?) at once.

I think that would be way too much work.

>>253361859
>Implying the gameplay of their games isn't perfect
>Implying the only problem with CS:GO is the tick servers being far too low.

Try harder with your bait kiddo.

I wonder, why valve is so discrete?

>>253361017

Aperatures teleportation tech was more advanced and refined. Possession of it could mean a shot at taking back earth.

Eli is also dead.

>>253365838
>implying that portal2 didn't branch from the half-life universe except some references to half life

>>253369970

It mostly stems from the HL2 Beta leak.

>>253367693
That sounds like bullshit. They set it in the far future so it could be canon.

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Everyone is forgetting the most important part of HL3.

HLDM3

>>253369972
Spolier.
XD

>There are probably dozens of anons who loved HL but died before having the chance to play episode 3

>>253369648
>We have almost nothing in HL3 so far other than finger mechanics and that it's going to be fully playable as a multiplayer game.
Like I said, valve is selective leaking. If they gave up too much about Half-Life 3 other than it being actively developed since shortly before Portal 2 it would spoil the surprise. HL3 has been in development since right about F-Stop and Portal 2 separated, its more than a coincidence.

>>253369838
>I think that would be way too much work.

They have over 100 members in their "Source 2" group, and the leaks suggest that this group is also in charge of fine-tuning the games involved in the launch and ports of Dota 2 and TF2.

>>253370080
I think it'll be more comprehensive like HL2CTF and more.

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>>253369823

It's allegedly from a presentation on Source 2 with multiple pics

Does /v/ want to play l4d2 on xbox Havent touched it for a year

Do people really expect HL3 to be good when valve hasn't actually put out a game in like a decade

And the stuff they've been doing to other games (L4D, Dota, TF2, etc.) has all ranged from "ok" to "questionable"

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>>253370167
>most Berserk fans will die before it's finished

>>253359049
Not even Valve knows.


They're waiting for the next big tech marvel so they can do something that hasn't been done.

that's basically a nice way of saying "a gimmick". Because essentially that's what the physics in HL2 was.

I honestly just want them to wrap up the half life story, I really like it.

>>253361017
>they also have Eli's mind
Wait, so that's the reason those Advisor things stab shit in the head?
I thought they were just, you know, consuming them for nutrients or whatever.
That makes more sense.

>>253370304
Do you not have it for PC? It was free sorta recently.

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>>253370327
> valve hasn't actually put out a game in like a decade

>>253370327

>Do people really expect HL3 to be good when valve hasn't actually put out a game in like a decade

lolwut. They've released a game literally every single year since 2001.

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>>253370167
I've considered email Gaben asking if he's ever received emails from people who told them that they were dying and were saddened by the fact that wouldn't be able to see HL3.

I had figured it would be in poor taste though. Plus people die all the time.

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>>253369823
its not

>>253370394
F-Stop was that gimmick, they've been making Hl3 since 2010.

>>253370125

Games been out for years anon

Spoiler: The titanic sinks, Arnie kills the predator and escapes, leo might have been inside a dream the entire time

I can't wait for the inevitable stupid ass portal tie-in 'eastereggs', microtransactions of a full priced game, and the all but confirmed gimmicky gravity gun battle against a flying brain bug from starship troopers.

i played the original half-life in 1998 and it is still basically my favorite gaming experience, but i am not nearly enough of a drone to slurp up the recent garbage valve has been putting out

>>253370410
Jeez, I just remembered how fucking brutal that scene was.

>>253370421
My motherboard is fucked. Savin up for a replacement. I am on the shitty browser on Xbox at the moment

>>253367303
At first it was kinda cheeky, "teehee we're so secretive so it must be good!" Like, okay, I get you're keeping us in the dark, it's your MO. Then understanding turned to resentment as the radio silence continued with not a word on its development. Now resentment has faded, to be replaced with something worse: a total lack of care. EP3/HL3 could cure cancer and solve world hunger and give us all free jetpacks, but even if it did I still wouldn't care. It's just been far too long, nothing is going to make me care about it anymore.

>>253370327
>Do people really expect HL3 to be good when valve hasn't actually put out a game in like a decade

Shit bait bro.

>2007 - The Orange Box (Portal, TF2 and Episode 2)
>2008 - Left 4 Dead
>2009 - Left 4 Dead 2
>2010 - Alien Swarm
>2011 - Portal 2
>2012 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
>2013 - DOTA2

>>253370593
>>253370565

Name the games they've released in order then

>>253370770
Sorry man. I definitely would, but fuck paying for Xbox Live.

>>253370818
How about you just fucking read the thread

>>253370816
>nothing released this year

PANIC

>>253370816
>Half life
>game
>ASSFAGGOTS
>Game
>Portal
>Game

So uh, what actually is Valve doing?
They've got 330 employees or something, what the hell are they up to?
Everything is out, and there's shit all being done for most things.
Besides some minor updates, and the occasional holiday updates, CSGO, TF2 and DOTA2 are all more or less done.

I'm honestly confused by this.

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>>253370983

I am expecting something to be announced at Gamescom.

Either Left 4 Dead 3 or Black Mesa.

>>253371210
stay salty

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>>253371210
>being this much of an asspained consoleturd

>>253371278
Wasn't Black Mesa that fan mod that made Half Life sexier?

>>253370983
we still got 5 months, there is still hope.

>>253370983
>nothing released this year
>mfw Gamescom
GET HYPE

>>253371271
>They've got 330 employees or something, what the hell are they up to?

Too busy being forced to play DOTA2 tournaments by Gabe.

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>>253371430
>anyone who criticizes valve must be a consoleturd

this is why people laugh at drones, don't you have microtransactions to spend your money on?

>>253370816
I think it's less that they've released games, and more that they haven't had any games that they themselves originated and worked on since...Episode 2?

TF2 is a sequel to a Source implementation of a Quake 3 mod.
Portal is a student project developed into a full game, and now has a sequel.
L4D originated at another development studio before Valve bought them out, and also has a sequel.
Alien Swarm is a remake of an UT2k4 mod in Source.
CS:GO is a sequel to a Source port of a HL multiplayer mod.
And Dota 2 is a remake of a WC3 custom map.

If you're going off of games that originated at Valve and were based on ideas that started at Valve, you've pretty much just got the Half-Life series, and we're swiftly approaching a decade since a release. Dude's not that far off the mark.

guys, dont you remember the entire leak fiasco with half life 2?

valve is keeping hl3 under wraps because they don't want another leak scandal, and so that they won't have any pressure from the public to release on time

>>253370983

Why panic? It all but confirms that something big is coming out this year.

On, you know, the tenth anniversary of Half Life 3.

>>253371438
Different guy, but yeah, you're almost right.
Fan made remake of the game.

>>253371278
I'd be pissed if it's black mesa since it's just xen.

>>253371271

They are developing HL3 and you'll see it within the next two years.

>>253371271
>They've got 330 employees or something, what the hell are they up to?
Making hats and MLP skins

>>253371438
Black Mesa sucks. If you can't enjoy the original then you are enjoying some stupid mod for the wrong reasons.

>>253370983
GAMESCOM BAYBAAAAAAAAAAAY

Hl2 10th anniversary is this year

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>>253362568

to this date, even with baneman trilogy, i still think that american psycho was by far the best Christian Bale work.

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>>253371438

Some people have been speculating that Valve took over the project and gonna make an official release.

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>>253371587
IT MEANS NOTHING'S BEEN ANNOUNCED WITH ONLY 5 MORE MONTHS TO GO.

WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME

>>253371585
Yeah I understand why they wouldn't want a leak, then no one will ask why they cut all of the cool looking parts out because their playtesters are complete fucking retards.

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>>253362496
>Portal 2 is a better game in nearly every aspect

Not counting graphics, this is entirely false.
>HL style OST in the first game
>pointless Glados origin story
>completely ditches their tone of the first game in favor of Looney Tunes comedy
>puzzles that hold the players hand at all times with visual (very few white spaces) and audio clues

Portal 2 was a good game but the first game was better.

>>253371568

team fortress was a quake 1 mod, brah.

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>>253371565
>being a hat-starved consolepleb that pretends to be mustard race

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>>253362872

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>>253359681
two hours late but here it is

>>253371504
>>253371741
goddammit I didn't want to go but now... I live 100km from Cologne but I'm more or less broke, think it's worth it?

>>253371702
I enjoy the original plenty, but I don't see anything wrong with giving it a facelift.

>>253371959
Ah, so it was. I'm mistaken.

>>253372012
Hell yeah nigga

>>253371702
>basically same game
>looks better

Am I being trolled?

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>>253371568
>Portal is a student project developed into a full game

The student project was a different game. Portal only shares some gameplay mechanics with it. All the story and character concepts were created by Valve's own writers.

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Believe

>>253370983
>>253371278
>>253371504
>>253371452
>>253371587
>>253371741
Holy shit, it's happening, isn't it?
I don't have the Ron Paul gif

>>253371702
>If you can't enjoy the original
I'm not sure I get what you're going for here anon, Black Mesa wasn't a shitty casualized version of Half-Life or anything, it was the same thing pretty much.
The areas, enemies, everything.
They paid attention to keep it the same.

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>>253371702
Visually Black Mesa is pretty nice.

But the game play just doesn't fit. HL1 being made into slow-poke HL2 style feels terrible, and my biggest gripe is that they cut out parts of the game that they just happened to not like, which is absolute bullshit when it's a remake.

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>>253372240
>being this new

>>253372206
It shares all of the gameplay with it, because Portal and Narbacular Drop are literally the same game. You shoot portals, you keep momentum when you go through them. Story doesn't matter.

>>253372303
Hell, even the physics on the tram in the opening section were changed to be the same as the original game.

>>253372419

They've said many times that it's not a complete remake.

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>>253371960
try to talk shit bro, by even using those phrases you are confirming you joined steam in 2010 and praise it to fit in.

keep trying though, its cute. you already admitted to even giving a fuck about hats. you are the cancer bringing the pc community down below the level of consoles

>>253372419
IIRC there are full versions of the shortened levels on ModDB>

>>253372527
They are not literally the same game.

They have the same gameplay.

You are in the wrong place if you think that that's the sole determining factor for what makes a game.

>exploding lemons
>mantis people
>SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
>I'M A POTATO

Did you guys even play the same game I did? How the fuck was Portal 2 "gallows humour"

>>253372615
That's still a pretty stupid reason for butchering on a rail and castrating surface tension.

no excuses

>>253371898
No idea what you mean by "Looney Tunes comedy." I absolutely love the writing and personally think it's a perfect extension of that of the first game. I loved Cave Johnson, I loved Wheatley, I loved the other spheres and that one doomed free-thinking turret and the GlaDOS origin story that yes, strictly speaking, didn't need to exist, and I really really really loved the ending. Call me a faggot but that may be the closest I've ever been to crying at a video game.

IMO the easy puzzles where the main problem, and it was pretty obvious that level-design-wise they were struggling to expand on the mechanics of the first game meaningfully or introduce new mechanics that had any sort of potential.

>>253372729
*.

>>253372160
It's garbage.

The maps are needlessly fucking 'detailed' which means they added in a bunch of stupid shit to look pretty, and then as the game progresses it looks lazier and lazier.

They removed tons of aspects of the maps to make them faster, including part of surface tension which is probably the best chapter in HL to begin with.

The void acting is garbage, and the HL2 ai is complete shit in the setting.

Face it, the original is better and kids that can't get over the 'aged' graphics praise black mesa.

>>253372783
Do you not know how Dark Humor works? The humor thats big and in your face is the humor part, the dark parts you have to look for.

>>253372527

> have all of the same gameplay

Pretty sure you couldn't jump at all in Narbacular Drop.

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>>253372527
>The plot involves the plight of a Princess "No-Knees," so named because she is unable to jump
>unable to jump

>>253372602
What physics are there to begin with? Not enough see-saw toilet stacking for you?

>>253372696
what's this shit you're showing us

>>253370816
>>253370967

>Portal

Not valves
They absorbed another small team that made the game and polished it
They have since made the team redundant after portal 2's launch

>L4D 1 & 2

Again, same story
Not sure if they still work for valve but that was another project they absorbed into their mass and put some spit shine on and then slapped the valve label on

>Alien Swarm

10/10 gotyay

>Portal 2

See portal above

>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Again, see above. Invented my Gooseman and Cliffe, then bought out by valve

>DOTA2

Well everyone knows this one isn't valves. Just Dota with updated grafix

And even then they've done a lazy job and brought the game out before everything is finished

>>253372012
there won't be any announcements on som shitty german convention. you are being trolled.

>>253372696
>below the level of consoles

Thanks for confirming again to be an underage console kiddie.

>>253373136
I play basically all of the games on my pc, so I sure am a consoletard right? I am not a drone, that's a big difference.

>>253373175
>Valve hires the people who made a specific product
>They now work for Valve
>They finish, publish, and release, and develop and update the game

And yet somehow it's "not Valve's."

Jesus Christ you people are fucking stupid.

I can tell valve is already starting to get too big. Some of the minor stuff is starting to slip through the cracks. I doubt they could handle developing a fully functioning 3d world anymore.

>>253372751
>if two games share the exact same gameplay mechanics, they are not the same game

Are you dense or something? Please, define how the two are different from a mechanical standpoint. I don't give a shit about story or graphics, because we're talking about the game proper here, not how it looks or what you hear when you play.

The team behind Narbacular Drop created it as a student project, and were then hired by Valve to turn it into a full game. Both games involve portal mechanics and manipulating objects to solve puzzles. I'm not dissing either one by pointing out that they're the same, and it would make sense that they are considering it's the same people working on both.

>>253372527
Have you played Narbacular Drop? It stood out to Valve because of the creative gameplay conceit of portals, but everything else about it was decidedly student-gamey. The level design wasn't exactly mind-blowing and game mechanics sort of came out of left field (what exactly was the turtle for?)

>>253373247
Post your steam account. I want to see how cancerous you really are.

>>253373337
>The team behind Narbacular Drop created it as a student project, and were then hired by Valve to turn it into a full game.

Yes, which makes Portal a Valve game.

I'm not sure what your point is, overall - Narbacular Drop was the precusor to the game that became Portal.

>>253368912
>tfw I could host but internet is too shit

>>253373175
>Not valves
>They absorbed another small team that made the game and polished it
Come on man, that's horseshit and you know it.
They just copied the basic idea (portals) and hired the guys to help make it.
They didn't buy the full game, make it a little prettier and then release it as their own.

>>253373283

>Team makes a game
>Valve hires the team, shines it up and makes it look pretty with their resource staff of graphic designers and story writers
>Brings the game out with Valve logo attached
>Fires the team after in some cases

The point is
Valve hasn't developed the gameplay in most of their core titles
They didn't invent the concept for these games

What did they make solely? A story based first person shooter in physics engine? Pretty good but they can't coast on that forever when they refuse to discuss why the sequel hasn't been talked about in forever

>>253372816
>2
Did people seriously like On a Rail?

>>253373593

What do you even fucking mean by "Valve" anyway? Gaben?

>>253373441

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

>>253373260
i don't care as long as you're enjoying yourself

>>253373593
>Valve hasn't developed the gameplay in most of their core titles
>They didn't invent the concept for these games

Who the fuck cares?

They're Valve games, and Valve is responsible for maintaining/updating/developing them further, which they have in nearly every case (except maybe Alien Swarm).

>ou want them to recognize that being really good at Half-Life level design is not as nearly as valued as thinking of how to design social multiplayer experiences," Newell said.

We're never finding out

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>>253373673
You bet your bitch ass, I did.

>>253373553

>They didn't buy the full game, make it a little prettier and then release it as their own.


What parts of the game did valve have a had in then?
Because past momentum persisting through portals and using them to solve puzzles and traverse the environment, there isn't a whole lot to portal

You cant just design the graphics and story and music for a bunch of video games and call yourself a developer. Technically I suppose you are but you're not exactly a very good one if you can't put out a good original idea

Marcellus Wallace's soul.

>>253373979
>You cant just design the graphics and story and music for a bunch of video games and call yourself a developer. Technically I suppose you are

Sometimes I can't believe the shit I read on /v/.

>>253373696
/id/d889

go ahead and clean it up, make sure to change your meme avatar first

>>253373452
I don't even know what your point is in trying to say they're different. MY point is that Portal as a game concept was created outside of Valve. They had no hand in coming up with it, so saying that they developed it is disingenuous. Or at the very least should be asterisked.

>>253373979

God, you are fucking dense.

>>253373979
>You cant just design the graphics and story and music for a bunch of video games and call yourself a developer.
I think you can, actually.

>>253373687
>>253373708

Im not trying to strike a definition for what is and isn't a "valve game"

My point is valve haven't sucesfully designed any winning gameplay formulas in a fair while now

They're last good game they developed being the HL2 series.

They didn't design the gameplay for dota, portal, l4d or CS

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>>253362425
>they also know its been way over hyped and there is no way it will live up to expectations

People say this, but do you guys really expect soe life-changing experience within the game? I'm just hoping for more of the sober tone and fun gameplay of HL2. That's it.

>>253371568
Do people still play alien swarm?

>currently playing HL2 for the first time ever
>it's nice I guess, but kind of slow and repetitive
>tfw too old to truly enjoy it

I wish I could go back in time and enjoy HL 1&2 when they were fresh, when the hype train was at full speed.
life is suffering

>>253361016
It took 9 years to develop TF2.

Of course, it wasn't hyped up and not so much of a direct sequel to a story-driven game, but it shows that when Valve makes a game, they take time. Also, a new Source engine is also rumored to be coming soon, which probably took up time.

I'm not one of those people who go
>I-it-its coming this E3 guys, I kn-know it!
but its quite obvious that they're being quiet with it on purpose, just to fuck with our minds.

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>Valve games aren't Valve games
>if its not Gabe and Mike Herrington coding in a basement flat its not a Valve game

No fucking true scotsman in full effect

>>253374204
You weren't around for Halo 2, were you

>>253374191
>My point is valve haven't sucesfully designed any winning gameplay formulas in a fair while now

Who cares?

What winning gameplay formula exist in the Battlefield games? Dice didn't invent FPSes.

What winning gameplay formula exists in Need for Speed? They didn't invent racing games.

"Original idea" is a shitty standard to hold modern video games to. Generally speaking, it's really only indie games that excel at this.

Valve made a game that was super popular, and then made another, and then another. Who cares if they didn't think of it? They hired the people that did, and continued to develop, polish, and support it past release.

Now Valve is focused on the business of Steam.

>>253374095

/id/Patton017

>>253374184
>>253374131
>>253374086

Then why dont valve call themselves a sound, grafix and story designer if thats all they do