NEVER EVER

>>375755805
you're the one bringing it up. shut the fuck up and sit down

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>>375755805

Anon, I gave up years ago. I did have some hope left but it was clear for a while the series was dead.

Atleast the modding community is still going nicely. There's a HL2 DM mod in the works that combines Portal and HL2. It looks fun.

Valve seems like well-paid work, things must be really shit for him to want to quit

>>375755805
listen half life 3 isnt going to happen, we know.

HOWEVER, if valve really wanted the game to happen, do you think they couldn't find fresh talent, or just re-hire the people that left?

>>375756235
Imagine sitting at a fucking desk all day looking on facebook instead of doing the work you want to do.

>>375756095
>Portal and HL2

Do you know how many times that was done already.

Is it possible Valve allowed them to leave because their work was done on the game? You don't need writers after a certain point.

Is that really a problem? True Half-Life has always been about the gameplay anyway

>>375755805
Half-life died when valve released Dota and CS:GO.

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I used to believe in Valve, years have passed but no news or real closure to the series is in sight. Im not mad, im disappointed, deeply disappointed that one of my favorite games are not having a proper ending. It sucks ass.

Why would you need writers to make a video game?

Half Life 2 was overrated anyway

Clearly the story has been fleshed out back when episode 3 was supposed to be released. Now it's just a matter of fleshing out the VR experience.

>Half-Life
>writing
Umm...

>>375756309
Digging shit up again to continue a long dormant stories is usually a recipe for disaster. Gameplay wise they'll probably just adopt every garbage mechanic and feature that has become standard by the time instead of being a natural evolution from 2.

>>375755805
I gave up after HL2 was such a lackluster sequel and they've done almost nothing of note since then.

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One sweet day, /v/..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxRyNvTPr8

It's because the writing for halflife 3 is finished.. right?

Its for the best, they would just fuck it all up anyway.
be thankful you arent receiving the starwars treatment.

>>375760158
>natural evolution from 2
2 was a step down from one, and the few hl3 things that have been leaked have been weird shit like quests and crowbar grappling hooks.

>>375756442
You left out the part about getting paid six figures while doing so.

>>375760289
of course :)
check the steam store on friday ;)

>>375755805
>Implying people haven't let it go yet
The guy who did the art for hl2 and dishonored retired from gaming all together too

>Half-Life 1 revolutionized visual storytelling and realism in games
>Half-Life 2 revolutionized physics in games
What would Half-Life 3 revolutionize?

>>375760494
Still gonna make you miserable.

>>375756442
>instead of doing the work you want to do
They can do whatever they want, there is no supervision at Valve. That's why they never get anything done and 90% of content for their games now comes from the community.

>>375760542
Microtransactions or vr

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>>375760542
People have said VR, but we are still far from VR being an every-man product. So far there's only really expensive shit goggles.

But you are right about 1 and 2.

Don't worry, they'll get a diverse team of numales and token blacks/females and make a sequel worthy of the franchise! Just like Mass Effect Andromeda and DoW3

>>375760595
If you ever had a job (or a meaning with your life) you would know people want to create stuff that they love. They want to be creative at a workplace like that.

It must be hell sitting in a limbo of nothingness like Valve nowadays.

It's amazing to me how much shit Valve fanboys put up with from their favorite company. Look at this.

>No Half LIfe game since 2004
>No Portal game since 2010
>No new Team Fortress
>No new upcoming franchises

But it's okay because of Steam sales, lol. I may not be getting new entries in my favorite franchises, but at least I get to buy ten or twelve indie games I'll never play. I love Valve!

>>375760562
Nigger, I would kill just to sit at my desk and do nothing for that over flipping burgers for pennies any day.

>>375760885
You forgot Mafia 3. Prime example of taking a great franchise and giving it to literal San Fran cucks for ruination.

>>375755805
honestly I don't want any Half Life from western developer in SJW age.

>>375760914
It's not like they aren't working, the problem is there is no goal and they have complete freedom so everyone just dicks around experimenting with things and almost all of it ends up getting shelved "for later" or scrapped. They had a ton of concept art and tech demo stuff for a space game and it's all on ice because reasons.

>>375760595
Vastly wrong. You make it sound like they have no pressure and no worries. What you mean is no DIRECTION, they aren't told what to do, but they sure as hell need to be doing something and better be prepared to justify why they're doing it at all times. Valve has constant performance reviews and aggressively sacks people. Honestly it's probably a pretty brutal place to be and I've heard developers don't consider it a career goal so much as a feather in their cap to spend a year or two working there.

What the hell were those guys doing this whole time?

Reminder that this is all your fault for buying skins.

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Episode 2 is a decade old, do you think anyone has "hope" anymore. That died out around 2013, there is no more illusions on what Valve actually cares about now, selling cosmetics. If a game cannot be a platform for micro-transactions then its not gonna get attention.

Which is sad because each Half Life has been a huge modding platform, from which Valve has greatly benefited from by poaching modding talent and entire IP's. AND THEY STILL DONT CARE.

What is the Half-Life 3 of other mediums?

>Valve hasn't made a singleplayer game since Portal 2

>>375760885
What's wrong with DoW3?

>>375761189
N O T H I N G
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at this point they should just give hl3 to EA

>voiced gordon with black chick sidekick (or alyx)
>asian hacker chick on the radio giving you orders and tips and wits
>mmo open proceduraly generated world with crafting
>unlockable crowbar skins
>8h of cinematic cutscenes

still better game than we´ll ever get from valve

>>375760982
Forgive the use of this word, but it really reflects the privilege of the wealthy when they patronize you with talk over how money won't make you happy. Nigger, it'll sure get rid of some of my stress to know that I won't be giving blowjobs for both the restitution and the nourishment if I got hurt bad enough to miss work at some point.

>>375760962
Didn't that shit die four or five years ago? All I see now is people expressing disappointment in them.

>>375761072
You little babies are so scared of the boogeyman you call SJW it's kind of sad.

>>375761480
People are still hungry for Gabe's cock even through paid mods and paid sprays.

>>375755805
I have talked to people online that are so out of it that they still defend valve as both a company and developer after all the shit that they have brought upon the industry over the past several years, they'd call this "fake news" because their false God can do no wrongs. The initial earbuds, sam and max promotional items were a sign of the times to come, and the manconnomy update was its steed. I can't think of any retail game before TF2 that had microtransactions, fuck valve and the cancer of the industry that they have in some shape or form pioneered, I look forward to their eventual downfall.

>>375756442
I'm doing this right now (sub 4chan for Facebook) and it's pretty awful. Now if I actually had talent it'd probably be maddening.

>>375761367
It used to be Dr Dre's Detox but that seemed to have officially been scrapped and he came out with Compton.

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>>375755805

>>375761480
Its not even possible to be a Valve fanboy anymore cause they dont make games.

>>375761770
They don't even care about the games any more they just have a retarded loyalty to the company.

>>375761402

literally F2P moba made by numales, designed to appeal to a wider audience (read: casual) and muh esports

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>>375761871
no its not. they just made it more competitive oriented instead of casual fun with sync kills and every unit having 100 lines. but turns out a lot of people like DoW for that. still an ok game and will probably be more worth it once the expansions come.

>>375761449
this post almost made me throw up

>durr six figures what an idiot

Spending 8 hours of your day to be miserable is not worth the money.

If you have a pathetic job and a pathetic life, money will improve your outlook...but for someone who actually loves their job and is content with with their financial status having a good salary is pretty much a non-factor.

I wake up every day excited to go to work, if I didn't like what I was doing I would quit immediately even if it meant taking a lesser paying job that I would like.

>hurr every job sucks the only equalizer is money

keep telling yourself that

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hahaha

remember when people used to laugh at this?

Looking at it now makes me want to kill myself. What did that fat fuck hide behind that smile?

>>375762082
>. they just made it more competitive oriented instead of casual

are you retarded? its literally the opposite of that.

>>375762082

it is casualised by design (watch the making of video) and low quality animations, design, graphics, audio, etc.

>>375760595
They are probably just heavily encouraged to work on something like Dota. Nobody wants to be the weird guy working on Half Life, then you have to explain why you're wasting your time to daddy gabe.

>>375762431
maybe retarded, but not a tripfag at least.

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>>375762648

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>>375762173
You aren't setting the bar low enough, HL3 written an developed by the husk of Ubisoft thrown out by Vivendi, any studio can shit out something with more passion than modern valve ever can, not even changing that fat fuck's heart can save the company now

>>375755805
>It's time to let it go guys

was never hanging on. TF2, L4D2 and especially Dota 2 have been 100000 times more important to me than any single player experience ever was

L4D3 this year I hope.

I remember thinking that if they announced L4D3 befoere half-life, I would be pissed.
Now I just quietly hope for any kind of announcement.

>>375763114
valve does not announce games

when something new comes out it'll pop up on steam and everyone will be like "oh, there's a new valve game"

Interestingly enough, I think Bethesda is about to reveal a spacefaring open world game at E3, and I think one of the reasons they made this game is because they bought the assets and universe from Valve when Valve abandoned it

Do you guys have any idea of how good HL3 should be after a decade of waiting not to disappoint anyone?
HL1 and HL2 have set the bar so high by revolutionizing everything
As everyone said, it's better to capitalize on selling hats and AK skins to retards

The sad thing is that the same thing will go with Rockstar, remember that they probably canned solo expansions when they saw how much Shark Cards people bought

>>375755805
Stopped caring the second when I understood where they were going with Steam and multiplayer only games.

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>>375763114
that's not how valve works, they sneak shit into the code of their pages and people end up finding it and the community starts speculating out of the ass, I remember when the TF2 ARG used to be a thing, honestly have no idea if anyone even gives a shit about it anymore because I haven't followed that game in the past couple of years. Valve's soul died when they realized that the community will do their work for free without question

>>375761449
middle of the game a young hip black fella comes in
>yo gordon, u member me? its Jay Daw from black mesa!
>lez go wack these sons of beetches

>>375763274
HL2 didn't revolutionize dick. Halo 1 had physics like 3-4 years earlier.

>>375763635
I'd actually welcome stupid shit like that, I only played HL2 because a relative had it before I had a steam account, outside of maybe the thing with the cat, and maybe gregor, the game took itself way too seriously for its own good

>>375762648
>>375762697


samefag

this is why everyone should have a name here. im tired of samefags trying to discredit me

>>375763274
Huge meme. There's no one to disappoint because every sensible person has moved on.

>>375763930
>everyone should identityfag
>>>/t/witter
>>>/r/eddit

>>375763930
you discredit yourself by existing

>>375761468
Are you retarded? A software developer at Valve can get a six figure salary at another place actually making software. Fuck sitting around all day

>>375763756
Uh huh

>>375764308
>your credentials are impressive, and your tenure at Valve speaks for itself, but I do note that your name is not attached to a single project released between 2010 and the time of your departure. Can you explain this gap in your resume?
>I-I was making hats...

In one swift motion, the interviewer calls security, unleashes the hounds, and hook shots the resume into the trash.

>>375761013
>black guy is a criminal
>this counts as sjw


Just admit that your racist enough to be triggered by brown pixels on a screen.

>>375755805
Valve hasn't been good in a decade. Their most notable releases were either outsourced by other devs or mods they bought out and ruined to appeal to larger audiences.

I just want it to be released for the reaction

>>375763635
Better than white guilt mary sue nigger.

>>375762354
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>>375756309
The people left because they were fed up with Valves retarded libertarian philosophy towards its business. Nothing gets done because there's no hierarchy/delegation to plan out projects. Work only gets done when someone comes up with an idea and they get enough co-workers on-board to be able to develop it, which pretty much guarantees that big multi-year projects will never get greenlit.

Not surprising.
>be valve
>don't make games
>only make microtansactions for games with no actual story
>don't make any HL games
>not even a new portal
>guys, why did all the HL writers leave?

>>375768534
it would be more accurate to say that everyone latched onto whatever would bring in the most money the fastest with the least effort

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I don't care anymore. I don't care. I just want Source 2. I'll make my own HL3 for fucks sake, just hand over Source 2 so I can dick around with it, please Gabe, I've been loyal for years now and this is how you repay me?

>>375760595
>They can do whatever they want
They can't, and that's the problem. Giving everyone free reign to work on whatever pet bullshit project they want prevents consensus-building for the types of big projects that consumers actually want. The only games being made at valve right now are shitty vr shovelware because enough people can't get together to start work on a legitimate project.

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>>375761510