>All they had to do for Episode 3 was make 20 maps where you

but anon it needs to be REVOLUTIONARY and AMAZING

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>>385182848

valve said that they had some game mechanic which was more innovative than portals which was planned for ep 3. i wonder what it was

>>385184583
lanes, towers, and minions.

>>385184583
No, that was F-STOP.

Half-Life 2 fucking sucked.

I'm so sick of fucking faggots defending it to this day.

Alyx is a shit waifu, Breen is a terrible villain and the gameplay was fuckin dated on release.

Will never ever hold a candle to HL1 or Opposing Force. Fucking Source Engine Bullshit.

>>385184819
>>385186387
oh-okay

>>385184916

WTF happened to F-STOP? I'm more interested in that than HL3. All they had to do was make another short, low-budget game for the F-STOP idea. Fucking hell.

They'll Reboot Half-Life before they make a HL3.

It needs to be rebooted for modern audiences anyways.

2020: HL Reboot + DLC
2022: HL2 Reboot + DLC
2024: More HL2 DLC Episodes
2026: Maybe HL3

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>>385186997
>They'll Reboot Half-Life before they make a HL3.
What is Black Mesa?

>>385187032
Xen is coming, right?

>>385187032
A "remake" not done by Valve?

>>385184583
Marc Laidlaw once talked about a "magnet gun" that was really fun and supposed to be used alongside the gravity gun, it was probably that.

>>385182921
Not if they followed up with an EPISODE one or a year and a half after episode two, then the expectations wouldn't go through the fucking roof.

>>385187683
Fully endorsed by valve. There is literally no way that would benefit them if they remade half-life 1 themselves when Black Mesa already exists. The only exception I can think of is that a valve made remake comes with the full game already done.

All they had to do was release something. At this point I sincerely believe it was all a marketing ploy and they never intended to release anything like a HL3 ever, instead choosing to string along all the fans knowing full well that they would stick with valve for years to come for the "release that is surely going to be announced soon".

>>385188118
Probably like the grappling thing from Just Cause.

SNOW ANTLIONS

How many people have died waiting for HL3? Fuck Valve for not delivering.

>>385186437
S A N T I A G O

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>>385182848
I just know when it releases its just going to be a big disappointment with how long its been and the hype. They should just release it out of no where without telling us about a date.

>>385189796
I somehow doubt they could make any money from it.
They can release a hat for 30$ in dotters and make millions over night as all the players of that game but the hat, this costs them barely anything to do. Or they could release the sequel to a series which by now only has a relative handful of active players who still care about it, I highly doubt the average steam user is old enough to have played HL2, let alone HL. The latter option requires the dedication of a full dev team and all the costs associated with it to be covered.

HL3 isn't going to happen unless some other studio gets the IP and gets Marc on board. The IP isn't going to leave Valve until at the very least Gaben has died. And Marc Will never join another studio until his contract disallowing him to do so expires, the expiration date knowing Valve coincides with his date of death.

>>385182848
apparently hl3 would've ended on a cliffhanger anyway.

>>385186387
Alyx is an okay person but yeah a shit waifu.
Games don't need waifus to be good.

Breen was excellent.

The gameplay was average.

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>>385187032
>What is Black Mesa?
delayed again

>>385190594
>old singleplayer game not having active players
>somehow means it's bad
???

Your conclusion of valve being lazy and living off dodo is right but it doesn't mean episode 3 wouldn't sell like hotcakes.

>>385190904
>the gameplay was average
>1st proper game with an actual good physics engine at work
We are talking about a time in which interacting with objects in the world was basically unheard of, and here you are using them to solve puzzles, launch into enemies and decapitate zombies.

>>385191018
I am not saying it is bad, I am saying that O reckon only a fraction of the people who played the original series still play vidya. Most will be 28 years and older, and while there are still a lot of 28 year olds and over who plany vidya, the size of this audience is dwarfed by the newer generation who have heard of HL and at most will pretend to have played it.
Of course that won't stop every streamer to become the biggest lifelong HL fan overnight.