Half Life 3

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>>377734820
No. The people at Valve don't give a fuck about video games anymore, only Steam matters now.
HL, TF, DOD, Portal and CS are all dead franchises, please stop asking.

post yfw Gabe shows up with a crowbar and beats Randy Pitchford to death with it and leans into the mic whispering "Half Life 3"

No.

>>377734820
Maybe Valve will team up with Konami so they can get nothing done together.

I don't want it anymore.

No.
They just worry about Steam since it's all that's profitable for them. Making videogames is a terrible idea now, there's no way it would be profitable or anything.
They'd only make Half-Life 3 if their company is going to shit and this would be a last desperate attempt.

I find it hard to believe anyone actually thinks another Half-Life game is ever coming out. Valve moved on a long time ago when they realized that they could make more money as a game distributor rather than a game developer.

Even if it did ever come out, it wouldn't live up to the massive hype and expectations attached to it and it would either feel outdated (if it stuck to the Half-Life "formula") or it wouldn't feel like Half-Life (if enough changed to "keep up" with modern shooters.)

>>377736445
Someone needs to make Ricochet 2 already.

>>377734820
Valve makes all their money off Dota 2 and hats in tf2, hl3 will sell well but they can release a 11/10 goty and people would hate it for not living up to.hype

Is Dota 2 still the only game that actually uses the Source 2 engine?

Even the joke has gone on long enough it isn't even funny or an inkling of humorous anymore. That's how little hope there is for it, just move on. Volvo did and now they couldn't give a fuck about their IP's for anything other than marketing

What the hell even happened?

>This is one of our most successful series
>The fan must really want to go kick alien but after that ending
>lets not never touch not talk about it for the next 10 FUCKING YEARS

>>377736986
CS: GO is getting moved to source 2 soon.

And where the fuck is the public release of Source 2? I started porting my shit from GoldSrc to Source, but I'm holding off until Source 2 releases.

>>377739309
I think they wrote themselves into a corner; they couldn't think of where to go with the story after Episode 2. Then they just gave up, but never bothered to officially cancel the game.

Maybe the writers all left the project because they finished

>>377741017

Why write a cliffhanger ending without knowing where you want it to go?

>>377734820
>HL 2
>L4D 2
>DOTA 2
>TF 2
>Portal 2
>some of the smaller ones
is valve going to release some sort of super version of the orange box and release the sequal to all of these as some master scheme?

>>377739309
Each Half Life game is tied to a set of new game technologies.
They just didn't really have anything that fits with Half Life 3

no, a few years ago i used to give valve the benefit of the doubt.

they don't make games anymore, they'd rather chase microtransaction and esports money.

rip valve, i loved your games back when you still made them.

>>377736889
>Implying Half Life doesn't have Zelda tier immunity to criticism.

>>377739309

Episode 2 released right when Steam started really making a splash. It was all downhill from there.

no
>dumbasses are still waiting for this
>think the fatfuck gives a single fuck about anything that doesn't involve a cash shop and multiplayer
LMAO. Sad!

>>377745348
Valve was going downhill after The Orange Box.

>>377734820
more importantly will Black Mesa be fully released?

>>377734820
Nein Nigger

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Probably not at E3. The only times Valve did major reveals at E3 were when they were still releasing for consoles. It will most likely come out of Summer Sale, or during Steam Dev Days 2017 in October.

It is happening, though.

Can anyone explain why they wouldn't make hl3?
I'm positive HL3 would sell fucking millions of copies.

When will you learn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=632kyLysP6c

>>377745668
that mod was terrible. It only made me feel like I was wasting my time and should play the original instead.

>>377735365
Would preorder based on this

>>377743468
I just hope it's not gonna be a VR game or something equally gimmicky.

>>377735365
it's funny because gearbox is gonna make half life 3

>>377735365
Would be the best E3 ever

>>377746678
>best E3 ever

The bar is set pretty low there.

>>377735365
That would unleash the next golden age of humanity.

>>377741320
Twin Peaks ended with a cliffhanger and it took 26 years for it to return. Just saying.

>murmurs in the audience
>all lights turn off, room pitch black
>giant orange spotlight appears that slowly focuses into a 3
>crowd explodes
>curtains drop reveling Gabe Newell
>after 10 years of development I am proud to announce...
>all the air is sucked out of the room
>audience literally hasn't breathed for a full minute
>half life...
>one more minute goes bye, audience about to pass out
>3!
>nothing can be heard because the crowd's cheers has left everybody in the building deafened
>for the mobile gaming platform!
>audience grumpily murmurs to themselves and a few people start crying

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>>377734820
Post Em

We all know it isn't gonna happen.

We hope it does, but it's not gonna happen.

>>377735365
Nice, after that pitch they could open a Kickstarter-campaign and raise a +100M dollars for Half-Life 3 that would be a far grander game than Star Citizen ever was.

I would buy the top tier pledges like the sucker I am.

>>377743075
dota 2 already got its sequel with 7.00 patch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlzoUzy_d1c

Valve is currently working on three full price VR titles. One of them is bound to be a game set in the half-life universe, one is possibly a L4D horror survival with friends. Both of these franchises works well in VR since HL is a platform used for storytelling and L4D is used for shared experiences, both fits well with the VR formula.
Will it be Half-Life 3? Possibly, but more likely a game set in the Aperture part of that universe.

The third game may be whatever "f stop" has become. F Stop is a concept Valve has been working on for a while but that never seems to go anywhere. Also I have no idea what F Stop truly is.

>>377747230

Please anon... don't do this to me

>>377747730
I would not buy HL3 if it was VR
I'm not paying 600 dollars on top of my PC for a gimmick

>>377746783
Could you say that
Gabe beating Randy to death would be
Raising the Bar™?

>>377748426
Let it go dude time to move on...

>>377748558

To be fair I think it was Pitchford who got the question if HL3 was going to be in VR and he said (quite angrily) "NO".

However it could be a weird spin off that might be referred to as HLVR.

>>377748558

The chances of those 3 titles being VR exclusive is astronomically low. Maybe one could be.

>>377735180

Lmao...how can you be this retarded?

>>377748558
make that 800 dollars, because only the official Steam VR device will be supported
>Valve kickstarted Steam by making it mandatory for playing HL2
>Valve kickstarts Vive by making it mandatory for playing HL3

>>377748426
It's true. We have have accepted the fate that we will never get a third Half Life game, even tho we want it.

It's okay to admit it.

>>377748927

It could also be the space game they at some point was working on. Flying around in a spaceship is perfect for VR.

>>377749157

Valve has stated over and over again that making games exclusive to a particular VR is cancer and they don't support it.

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>>377734820
I have hope kinda

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>>377736986
>>377739775
Titanfall 2 also runs on Source 2 actually

>>377734820

It is a well known fact that Valve doesn't go to E3's. So no, you're dream won't come true during the event.

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>>377749076
>he can only insult

Even though I'm not a fan of the series, I don't care anymore. It's been too long and for a company to complete alienated their fanbase and leave them in the dark without any word on it is absolutely disrespectful.

Problem is most people won't feel about that and will lose their shit if it ever gets released.

>>377749625

Didn't Gaben appear at Sony's conference at some point to promote Portal 2?

>>377734820
I'm curious

When was last time that Valve bothered to show up on an E3?

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>HL1
>1998

>HL2
>2004

>HL3
>3000

>>377749981
3002

Half Life _1_
_1_998
Half Life _2_
_2_004
Half Life _3_
_3_XXX

Is this the most awaited non-existent game in history?

I hope that, if someday they decide to make it real, they try something different for the franchise. I'd give it an open world vibe without turning it into a sandbox, kinda like the first Deus Ex game, sidequests and everything. Imagine those few huge levels with vehicles from HL2, but with more interactive content and lore. Add some non-invasive RPG elements without sacrificing gunplay, and we have a GOTY contender

>>377746054
because they dont need to.
valve gets 30% off each game sold on steam
+
they get shit ton of money from dota2 skins & CSGO skins

>>377734820
>aids ridden Gaben walks onto the stage
>you could hear a pin drop
>"Everyone, after many years of waiting. I've decided to finally announce __Peggle 3

>>377749940

Can't remember. You're probably right, though. But I can't imagine Valve announcing a Half Life sequel during a Sony panel.

>>377750712

The only way that would happen is if Sony agrees to drop out of the VR race and changes the PS store to Steam store

And also i think Shuhei Yoshida would need to suck Gabens dick until the day either of them dies.

>>377743468
>Each Half Life game is tied to a set of new game technologies.
Is this really what you think? This was NEVER the case. It was only the case for HL2, which was used to showcase their brand new engine that they developed in-house.

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>>377746073
>it was 5 years since E2 came out when this video came
>it's now 5 years since this video came

>>377734820
Half life 3 will never exist
evolve was our testing
Source; I'm a valve employee, and HL3 is internally inferred to as "The infinite Carrot on a Stick"

>>377749874
>It's been too long and for a company to complete alienated their fanbase and leave them in the dark without any word on it is absolutely disrespectful.
You clearly haven't seen the way pcbros act.

No. I'm one of the weird people who still care about the Half Life series, but I'm not about to delude myself into thinking it'll happen.

>>377751856
>Valve makes GoldSrc with Half Life 1 as the debut title for it
>Valve makes Source with Half Life 2 (and Counter Strike: Source) as the debut title for it
>hurr durr only HL2 was made to showcase an engine
You are one stupid motherfucker.

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>>377734820
Everyone Please. Half Life 3 will be revealed together with Source Engine 3.
The engine will surpass all current state of the art software and will bring forth a new golden era of gaming development and physics without the cost of the need for higher end hardware for consumers.

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>>377750521
>this post

>>377752178
it will happen though.

>>377753364
Nah

>>377734820
it's dead dude

>>377749547
Titanfall 1 and 2 were both built off the same very heavily modified Source Engine. Source 2 is something totally different (focused on improved workflow, total integration of other tools they've made eg. SFM, features their own in-house physics engine instead of Havok).

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>>377735365

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>>377753693
Hail to the King, baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVuuyRGB_BA

>>377753364
>>377753693

These things... They take time

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>>377754164

>>377749547
Nope Titanfall 2 is Source 1

>>377747730
>F Stop is a concept Valve has been working on for a while but that never seems to go anywhere.
We don't know this for sure. All we know is that it was the original concept for Portal 2, that they dropped because Portal 2 was winding up with nothing identifiable in common with Portal ('we realized we were making Portal 2 without Portals', was the paraphrased quote).
>Also I have no idea what F Stop truly is.
It was something to do with photography, as evidenced by the name and some barely-discernible screenshot evidence (showing an antique 'bellows' style camera).

people have speculated it might be something similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph60iKWmtos, but that doesn't seem to mesh with the 'portal 2 without portals' quote.

i doubt that they will most likely hint for it, like show a 3 but nothing.

Half-life 3 will most likely never come out for 2 main reasons.

The first one being that currently Valve makes a shit fucking ton of money via micro-transaction and steam. Why bother developping a single-player game when they can simply sit back, not do shit but a few " game update " where they just shove in some new hats or new skins and make even more money.

The second reason ( Which I assume ) is that the game would never live to the hype and could possibly cause huge drama if it ever was to come out. Much like Mass effect 3 ending did back when it came out. And Valve might be afraid of the impact it would have on their popularity and judge the risk to not be too interesting.

Also I remember watching a video about that and hearing from one of valve's old developper from half-life 1 or 2 that the developping team for HL3 went from roughly 100 to only about 10 of them clearly showing that they did not want to put work into it.

half life 3 will come one day and save gaming
but its not gonna be any time soon

>>377754946
>Why bother developping a single-player game when they can simply sit back, not do shit but a few " game update " where they just shove in some new hats or new skins and make even more money.
Valve has over 300 employees on two continents. Why keep all those people hired, if you're just going to occasionally make some hats?

>>377745752
>implying valve will ever make another game

>>377755702
>people who run the steam store/community
>"customer support"
>devs for steam client
>devs for d2, tf2, csgo patches/hats
>devs for linux/steamos
>devs for vr shit
What am I missing?

>>377754946

> the game would never live to the hype and could possibly cause huge drama if it ever was to come out. Much like Mass effect 3 ending

I'm sorry but I don't trust The Know with their "anonymous source". Especially since it was pretty much debunked by Laidlaw saying that "[...] fear is the last thing that would ever drive a decision about what to work on" referring to Valve's way of working.

Mark Laidlaw responded to The Know's crappy clickbait by saying "[...] it sounds like someone is trolling[...]" and also what i wrote above

>>377749076
please prove him wrong retard

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>>377749076
>he doesn't know!

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>10 fucking years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-GU4jvSvz4
It's over guys just accept it, many people have died, the guy that written the story left, volvo doesn't even need to make games anymore, they are rich just from Steam, Dota and CSGO, not only them but i too don't see a point in making games anymore., just sell painted guns and other peoples games.

Fucking jewish cunts.

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>>377748642

They should make a game exploring what Breen was talking about when he spoke to Eli about what he has seen of the fantastically awesome multiverse we get glimpses from.

"Carbon stars with ancient satellites colonized by sentient fungi. Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membranes where dimensions intersect... Impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary!"

The combine empire was so mysterious and cool.

>>377757267
Breen did nothing wrong.

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2016
>E3 is less than a month away.
>Will this finally be the year?
2017
>E3 is less than a month away.
>Will this finally be the year?
2018
>...
2019
>...

you guys never learn do you?

>>377757803

Make humanity great again!
We need to send away all the illegal vortigaunts!

>>377734820
>announces HL3 alongside payed mods to mitigate backlash
You know this will happen.

There will be nothing at E3.

The game announcements will be in September.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/half-life-3/valve-upcoming-games

There is plenty of leaks about something called "HLVR" too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HeuVAvhSy4

i'm not sure they could keep it quiet if it was actively being worked on and making genuine progress.

There's a few reasons it likely isn't being worked on
>The pressure of "this game has to be literally the best game of all time, or nobody will be satisfied and we'll lose shitloads of trust" which is only getting bigger with time
>The lack of financial incentive to make a pure singleplayer game ever again after mannconomy
>VALVe's lax employee direction, even if you do decide "yo we're gonna make half-life 3" eventually you're going to hit some kind of snag that requires all hands on deck to make this shit work - and not everybody's going to want to make another Half-Life game

I used to sneer when someone would say "half-life 3 isn't happening lol" but valve's options are either make the perfect game and risk losing their credibility or ignore it long enough that people stop caring or expecting it

>>377747001
Bad analogy. TP would have continued if not for being cancelled.

>>377751856
>Valve creates a cognitive story in a genre that generally didn't have substantial stories at the time
>Not innovation
nigger what

>>377757267
>>377757803
If you listened to the VO from the leak, those lines are longer. He talks about having studied "36 zones outside our own," and making "Combine portals safe for human use, that way Alyx and even yourself might be able to travel to the Aleph universe." If you know anything about Prospero, Valve's original unreleased game, Aleph was a character who could access "The Library" of interconnected dimensions.

Breen wasn't just going to preserve humanity by integrating it into the Combine, he was going to ensure that whatever modified synth-form we ended up as would be seeded throughout multiple universes as part of the Combine's forces.

>>377750703
Fuck it's about time

If G-Man saved Alyx from Black Mesa and entrusts you with keeping her safe in Episode Two, why did he leave her for dead at the end of HL2?

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>E3
>gaben appears via live video feed at home
>naked on his bed, eating a sandwich with a bucket of gravy next to him
>points to a pile of boxes labelled 'HALF LIFE 3'
>"come and get them whenever i guess"
>feed cuts out

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>>377735365

>>377760232

"Half-Life: Interdimensional Spec Ops"

I would so fucking play a game where you controlled a squad of elite combine troops going on missions in multiple dimensions alongside the combine's other synth forces.

Fighting an interdimensional rebel alliance only to half way through join them to fight "our benefactors" and lastly invade the combine overworld.

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It's funny how I can remember this one kid from second grade who couldn't wait for the next half-life to come out. Puts things in perspective