>WAAAAAAA YOU HAVE TO DO WHATEVER I WANT OR UR EVIL!!! I genuinely

Half Life 2 is a terrible game and Ravenholm fucking sucks.

>>388199540
>Critique towards Valve due to them being a shit company is entitled
Lmao end your life buddy boy

>>388199540
kill yourself trash

>>388199625
Yes it is, when that "critique" is just you crying because you didn't get what you wanted.

>>388199540
You have to make your bait less obvious than that

>>388199591
This, the only people who like it haven't played it in 13 years

I wanted to see HL3, but I've known for a while that it probably won't happen. I'm not blaming Valve, I'm just disappointed.

>>388199729
>a-anything that goes against muh hivemind is bait!!
The level of discourse on /v/ is astonishing, really

>>388199591
>>388199738
(You)
Share it.

>>388199540
>Valve never promised you HL3
The funny thing is not only did they promise episode 3 but also episode 4.

>>388199540
Who cares? Half Life is shit and has always been shit anyway.

>Valve never promised you HL3
http://www.valvesoftware.com/news/?id=648

>Episode One, released at retail outlets and via Steam® on June 1st, is the first in a trilogy of episodes that will conclude by Christmas of 2007.

>>388199684
Companies are supposed to please their customers, if they do it wrong, they get negative feedback. Ironic how a baby so disconnected from reality like yourself accuses others of crying.

>>388199540
>Valve never promised you HL3
They literally promised Ep. 3. Literally.

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>>388199889

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLkeyAa8O4g

>>388199540
>STILL misusing the word entitled

kys

>>388199910
>Companies are supposed to please their customers
Actually they aren't obligated to please you, they can make whatever decisions they want! That includes making you cry and shit your diapers like a fucking baby :) Time to go home to mommy?

>>388199684
A good company will always research and meet its consumer's demand to generate as much profit as possible.

>>388200047
>>388199910
muh insecurities

>>388200076
>I, a random shut in on /v/, knows how to run valve better than billionaire Gaben
LOL

>>388199540
>Companies need to make money however they want

So its literally okay for EA to release a $50 season pass for 5 DLCS, same with ubisoft and other shit

Thanks america

>>388199591

Kill yourself HL2 was a great game and Ravenholm was awesome

>All these delusional consoletards claiming sub 30fps is the way to go
Your tears are delicious.

>>388199540
They are the FAGS who promised the game and never delivered. They are the ones who delivered platitudes such as "sure!" and "yep" on reddit for the better part of a decade. They are the ones who refused to be a transparent game developer in favor of having a mysterious allure like an autistic fedora.

For those who haven't seen it, the lead writer posted what the story of Episode 3 would've been on his website

https://github.com/Jackathan/MarcLaidlaw-Epistle3/blob/master/Epistle3_Corrected.md

>>388200047
SEETHING

>>388199540
>you never paid for HL3
well i paid for HL2 Ep1 and 2 so...

>>388200123
>dat reading comprehension

>>388199540
explain to me how the post proves hl3 is never coming? i dont get it?

>>388200212
If you did in 2007 it was okay

Everything after 2011 is cancer for supporting valve

>>388200128
Technically the fault is at customers who accept these shitty practices.

>>388199540
>reddit life

>>388200236
Everyone knew it was never coming, now with this guy leaking the entire script is more confirmed that half life is dead, gaben is making more money than ever with steam and the cosmetic games

>>388199804
Intentionally posting false information is bait. Unless you are actually retarded.

>>388200128
Ugh the government should step in to stop them from oppressing us gamers, am I right /v/ros? Let's start a petition!

>>388199889
What I find amusing is people went on from expecting Episode 3 to expecting Half Life 3, even though they were promised ep3, and no one batted an eye at this, no one bitched about this, nothing, everyone slipped Episode 3 under the rug

Pcbros deserve what they get for enabling Valve for years

>>388200315
how do we know its the entire script?

>>388199540
>>388199591
>>388199738
Could you underages fuck off back to l eddit? Thanks

>>388200329
There is no false information. You are just a toddler who's pissing himself in mommy's lap

>>388200345

Valve straight up said that they transitioned from making Episode 3 to making HL3

>>388199889
OP BTFO
Gaben BTFO
Valve BTFO
Let's file a consumer complaint and make them give back our past

>>388200269
I also blame the customers for supporting it, more than anything the ones that spend hundred of dollars in dota/csgo skins, but the company isn't okay just because the customers accept to get cucked.

>game gets cancelled
>WAAAAAA WTF VALVE IS LITERALLY HITLER, IM LITERALLYYY SHAKING RIGHT NOW WAAAAAAAAA
Boy I sure do love gamers

>>388200345
>everyone slipped Episode 3 under the rug
Have you ignored every single Gaben interview in the last 10 years?

>>388200474
>Le crowbcat army has arrived

What are you even doing on /v/ you fucking waste of internet.

>>388199540
I agree, people are being a bit selfish but valve could have also cleared the air around development a lot earlier.
People are upset because of the prospect of a game was just this giant shadow that spawned meme after meme. Valve having the giant success with steam also meant the funds were well within their grasp.
People wanted it, they have money for it. And the customer is always right.

>>388200406
>Valve never promised you HL3
>There is no false information
Do you even read what you post?

>>388200415
>>388200474
And why did you deem this acceptable when it was extremely obvious Half Life 2 was still unfinished?

>>388200547
>Le crowbcat army
What?

>>388200605
He doesn't fucking know what he's talking about. Just meme spouting now.

>>388200236
Literally every veteran writer (including Laidlaw, you know, the story director of the series) left Valve in the past two years. You don't just leave Valve, especially not you're veterans of the company. Then there's the financial reasons. Think of Wolpaw - why leave such a cushy job where you're getting awesome pay for working on maybe two TF2 comics a year? They would have known for sure that there was no longer a relevant role they could play in terms of future projects, so they left the company.

The Dota 2 card game is definitive proof of that. This is no longer a company interested at all in making single player games. The best you can hope for is L4D3.

>>388200681
i see

>>388200665
>No argument
I already know you're baiting, but on the small off chance that you are serious, please keep going.

>>388199591
I liked HL2 but Ravenholm can go suck a dick.
Don't know why I went from exploring a neat facility in 1 to something out of a shitty zombie flick.

>>388200681
>Think of Wolpaw - why leave such a cushy job where you're getting awesome pay for working on maybe two TF2 comics a year?
Because it's boring as shit and they could be working on something actually interesting and rewarding?

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>>388199540
This, exactly this.

>>388199540
I can't decide whether Valve killed the idea of releasing video games in episodes or if the very notion of it is an inherently unworkable one. The whole point of the Half-Life 2 episodes was that there wouldn't be years between releases in the franchise, the way there were years between Half-Life 1 and 2, but even after setting the bar low like that, they couldn't actually deliver.

Telltale seems to be the only developer doing the episodes thing now, but those are closer to visual novels than they are to games.

why did you faggots even think it was going to happen after all this time? even if it was released it would have never been able to live up the massive hype surrounding it and most of you would've probably thought it was shit

>>388200345
>>388200580

shut the fuck up you half-baked shitposter, you need to know the subject to banter about it effectively.

>>388200842
>They actually forgive gabe in less than 1 day and are calling him the god of pc masterrace

holy shit, i guess the whole paid mods thing really cucked the community.

>>388200842
>well if pleddit thinks x I have to think y
You're a free thinker fighting against the corporate machine, never give up the struggle /v/ro

>>388200916
you reap what you sow, drone

>>388200842
Is people on reddit autistic or what?

They promised ep3, and after a while they said they stopped working in ep3 to work in hl3, does reddit have stockcuck syndrome?

>>388200928
>forgave him for cancelling a computer game
OH THE INJUSTICE AFAJSKFSAHFHA

>>388200851
Yes that's it. I don't see mental retardation like this everyday even on /v/

>>388200842
what a spineless cocksucker

>>388200151
not as delicious as PCfags, enjoy episode thr-oh wait

>>388200796
Yes anon, that's exactly what I was implying. Even Chet, who said previously he was very interested by VR, left the company this year. Pretty clear these are people who care more about their work than making easy money.

>>388200842
Redditors are so fucking spineless

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>>388199625
Criticism about paid mods, steam's poor optimization, their unpleasant customer support, and their treatment of franchises like CS GO and TF2? That's perfectly fine. But the Half Life complaints are just plain stupid. You're not entitled to see the end of the series if they don't feel like making it.

I swear, you people are such hypocrites. You cry about Metroid fans wanting a sequel and they got screwed over twice with Fed Force and Other M. Half Life has been consistently good, they just didn't make a conclusion. But suddenly you think you're more important? Give me a break.

>>388200851
Oh yeah?

>>388199540
Fuck off, Gabe.

>>388199591
>>388199738
>the absolute state of /v/
I want underage faggots to leave and never come back. Go back to PuBG

>>388199591
HL2 is an alright game but I didn't love Ravenholm much either.

>>388199540
its going to be a movie

>>388200128
what are you, a commie?

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>>388199540
Actually, Valve kind of made promises of Episode Three being released first christmas 2007, then they kept changing the date. Like, they should have just said upfront in 2011/2012 that the game was canceled. Instead they kept muh silence, fuck em. Call me entitled, bitch.

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>>388199540
Imagine George Lucas announcing Return of the Jedi right after Empire Strikes Back comes out, and then for years it's a no-show, then finally in 1993 Lawrence Kasdan releases a script synopsis, basically confirming the actual film is never going to be finished. It's a triple-A franchise where the last released installment was a cliffhanger and the creators, for a full decade, were wishy-washy about when the next installment would release.

>>388201276
>arguing against his own strawman
Truly the mark of an intellectual

>>388201438
Good, RotJ is shit

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2007 was the very last year when video games were somewhat decent to good
>Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Crysis, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Portal, Super Mario Galaxy, Team Fortress 2...
These games ranged from 6/10 to 8/10, but still displayed all the hallmarks of gaming: solid gameplay, interesting narrative and encouraged experimentation and exploration.
The following year, an absolute disaster occurred and destroyed video games. There isn't a single cause or entity at fault, but corporatism, mobile gaming and social media contributed to its downfall. 2008 saw:
>Grant Theft Auto IV, Fallout 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, Fable II, Prince of Persia reboot, fucking Spore and a slew of indie shit
It was a sign of the time entailing bloated cinematic experiences over gameplay, gutted content to be sold as DLC, resurrecting old IPs as zombies and dressing up its corpse shamefully and broken promises and outright lies on the part of publishers and even developers.

We've weathered shit like Jack Thompson, EA becoming evil, Anita Sarkeesian, BioWare going to shit, Gamergate, SJW developers infiltrating major studios and now Episode 3 never happening, this shit has reached critical mass and now it's time for the industry to crash and burn again

can we all agree episode 1 was hot trash.

episode 2 and hl2 main game is so better

>>388200842
>be thankful that they make games at all
but they dont and thats the problem

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>>388201510
Maybe HL3 would have been shit. Hell, maybe that's why they finally cancelled it. They looked at what they had and said "fuck it, this is garbage."

>>388201494
Seriously, I dare you to tell me how this is any different from Metroid fans complaining about getting a new installment. you guys screeched and shrieked about "those stupid evil entitled gamers" who dared to criticize the almighty Nintendo, but now suddenly companies are evil for not bending over and pandering to their users.

Half Life fanboys are just the worst, I swear.

>>388201564
>We've weathered shit like Jack Thompson, EA becoming evil, Anita Sarkeesian, BioWare going to shit, Gamergate, SJW developers infiltrating major studios and now Episode 3 never happening
Us gamers....have had a hard life ;_;7

>>388201564
No.

>>388201567
Episode 1 is my favorite.

>>388200345
Nothing got slipped under anywhere. "Half-Life 3" is an umbrella term meaning "the next FUCKING ANYTHING in the Half-Life video game series".

>>388201603
>I dare you to tell me how this is any different from Metroid fans complaining
half life actually sells unlike metroid

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>>388199540
Those idiots just kept using Steam and praising it, not realizing they're directly a part of the reason why EP3 never happened, at each and every of their purchases.

What a bunch of fucktard most Steam users are, seriously.

>>388201752
Steam is much more valuable than 1 game

>>388201510
Doesn't matter. Would you really have been OK with Han permanently on ice? Sure at least Boba Fett wouldn't job immediately, but you wouldn't know if he was cool or not either.

>announce a game and never release it
>refuse to say anything about it for 10 years

And one day the series writer has to come out and tell the rest of the story to confirm the series is dead.

The worst part is if he didnt do this Valve would have kept this up for many more years

>>388201752
What if i use steam and never gave steam my money?

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>>388201746
>our series is more popular, so we get to crucify a company because we're entitled children

>>388201603
>even more strawmen
He just keeps going

It's just the state of the industry in general. People can be bought and the bottel dollar is the only determining factor on what's produced. Valve had the money to make this game. They didnt, but kept the hype long enough to make steam THE platform for online gaming. Now that it's synonymous with buying games, they don't need HL3 anymore or even to make anything anymore.

It's like the ma and pop pizza place that was delicious, they eventually get bigger and start to mass produce to the point that you might as well be eating cardboard. That's valve. It became too big to be unique.

>>388201895
What strawman? Seriously, point me to it.

>>388199540
OP is immature but he has a point. There's tons of great game emerging since episode 2. and when I played it back in 2007, I felt like this game is a piece of stinking turd and I dont really get the hype surrounding it

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>People on /v/ will defend this man

This is the proof that redidt lurks here on /v/

>>388200851
More.

>>388199540
Everything dies, fag bitch. Smoke meth.

>>388199540
As you sit there on your computer or phone, lamenting HL3 or taking a shit or whatever it is you're doing, take comfort in the fact that you will never be as autistic as OP.

>>388201907
>kept the hype long enough to make steam THE platform for online gaming
You actually think hl3 is the reason steam is popular?

>>388201752
How is Steam to blame for Valve never releasing Episode 3?

>>388199540
Fuck off, you sound like a cuck.

>Your gf never promised she'd stop fucking random guys

>>388201752
It's a catch 22
>Not enough people on steam, welp we can't make any more games guys :(
>People join into steam and valve becomes lazy by everyone joining and making a monopoly on PC gaming

>>388202159
t.cuck

>>388201958
>you guys screeched and shrieked about "those stupid evil entitled gamers" who dared to criticize the almighty Nintendo, but now suddenly companies are evil for not bending over and pandering to their users.
Do you lack self-awareness? Fucking brainlet I swear, back to r/gaming with you.

>>388202132
you dont need to make your own games when you can just make money of other peoples work

>>388202273
Hope you dont mean steam as a virtual store, otherwise you are more autistic than i thought.

>>388202256
How is that a strawman? I can point to hundreds of threads where people proclaim from the rooftops that "Metroid fans are evil entitled assholes" all because they didn't buy Metroid: Other M en masse, and then complained when the series took a hiatus. If they're not allowed to complain, you're not allowed to complain either.

It's a simple concept, get it through your head.

The only reason why the game will not come out is the crying idiots with inflated expectations that it is not possible to please.
Easier not to release game ever.

>>388202273
This, why doesn't valve just let people sell games on their store for free? Fucking porkies

>>388202084
It's the reason valve was popular. You take a formally credible company and advertise a new platform, your going to get customers.
This generation literally have people who don't know who valve is or what half life is, just that "everyone says to use steam". That wasn't true 10 years ago. This meme is ancient, and they no longer need any publicity for steam , it's a household name.

>>388199540
>valve promised episode 3
>never delivered
>left entire series on a cliffhanger

i'm gonna take you to school on this one

yes, it is a kind of betrayal to string gamers along for years like this
it is a betrayal, because gaming as a hobby only became mainstream relatively recently
back when it was a 'scene', passion ran extremely high in both the consumer base and the devs themselves, and a trust built on that shared enthusiasm for games grew between devs like Valve and the players who bought their games
now it's all just fucking money, money, money
social media marketing, demographics, selective pandering
business has always been business, but at least back then they'd have the decency to address the community instead of exploiting the increasingly desperate hype for almost 10 years

tl;dr there's no more camaraderie, integrity or honor in the industry these days, whats left is barely even there in the playerbase either
if this is your first time waking up to the sting of corporate dick in your asshole, sorry to have to tell you this but: get used to it, there's a lot more in store for us

>>388199540
>entitled

fuck off EA shillboi

post an autoexec.cfg so i can play this game again

>>388202520
Because no one made money back in the good ol days, no the fucking bourgies are taking over and putting us gamers down

>>388200047
That would make the company shitty

Are you retarded?

>>388202605
Nobody complained when Nintendo did it. :^)

>>388202357
I never said they're not allowed to complain you fucking mong. Nobody in this thread has said that, except for your shitty strawman.

>>388201564
GTA 4 and MGS4 were good though and AC1 sucks ass

>>388199540
You need to be old enough to understand this. Please look for an adult near your to explain the situation to you.

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>Its okay to use steam and own your games!
>They are yours unless you leave steam :^)
>Its literally okay to live in cuba and own your belonings
>They are yours unless you leave the country :^)

>>388199540
>Restaurant sells food
>Restaurant suddenly stops selling food, but you can still get toothpicks, paper cloths and plastic cubs

>>388199540
>Valve never promised you HL3
They promised episode 3, retard

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>>388202647
>I never said they're not allowed to complain you fucking mong.
And now you're gonna just straight up lie to my face, and you expect me to take you seriously.

>>388202772
I really like how he thought this was a good point or something

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>>388202772

>>388202835
Quote me, where did I say that?

>>388202048
Are you on meth right now?

>>388202273
But they have produced other games since Steam became popular. You don't make any sense.

>>388202914
https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/text/Metroid%20fans%20are%20the%20worst/

I'm blaming /v/ as a collective for this, and you're gonna accept the blame as well.

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>>388202025
Actually, there are plenty of people on /v/ who defends valve.

>>388202025
I can't wait for him to die of a heart attack.

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>>388199540
Saying they're evil is retarded, but saying "we have no reason to cry" is taking this overly simplistic. Literal tears are melodramatic, sure, but there's definitely a reason to care.

It's not about HL3, we all knew that was dead. It's the symbolic death of an age of PC games which produced so many games that were just unlike the trite you see today. Also, many of us spent many of our formative years on either HL1 or HL2 and their mods and spinoffs. It's not that we won't see another Half Life, it's a reminder that we'll never have those golden ages again.

Can someone red pill me on half life 1?

>last game ends on a cliffhanger
>somehow we're not supposed to expect a sequel
Literally brain damage or shills.

>>388200076
And that's why csgo and steam cards are popular son.

>>388203526
It's shit and it ruined gaming

>>388199540
>Valve never promised you HL3
I don't even care for Half Life. But they kind of did promise it by setting it up as a trilogy.

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>>388199540
>Game company makes series
>Leaves it unfinished
>Company process is built on what employees want to make rather than what the company needs to produce
>Company takes on new employees
>New employees want to work on crates and bullshit instead of games because that'll look better on a resume
>People who want to finish series get drowned out and forgotten

I personally don't give that much of a fuck about HL but the way that company mismanaged the passion out of itself in the heat of it consistently pumping out GoAT games really fries my nuggets.

>>388200345
You're so in denial that you were absolutely BTFO, it's fucking hilarious.

>>388203232
I hate these people

>>388199591
Not a terrible game but I agree with Ravenholm

>OMG WUZ SOOOO SCARYY XDD

>>388203739
>>New employees want to work on crates and bullshit instead of games because that'll look better on a resume
What are you talking about

You don't undertand. Its not like some company who just is unable to deliver the wanted product.

Its more like if j. k. rowling simply quit harry potter in the midst of sixth book, her fans wouldn't care about feeling entitled or not, they'd simply feel cheated

>>388201564
cel shaded PoP was great though

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How do we HURT Valve for this?

Boycott steam? Use alternative platform like Uplay and Origin instead?

Valve always was a joke of a company. I can't recall a single good thing they did.

>>388203739
>Company process is built on what employees want to make rather than what the company needs to produce
>People still believe this shit

wew lad

>>388199591
This. The two Half Life games are the most overrated games ever.

>>388199540
Good riddance. Half life fags are insufferable. You act as if this is the first time a video game company has reneged on their promise for a sequel

Wasn't that great of a game anyway

>>388203995
>Boycott steam

You can't boycott something that you stopped supporting back in 2010

Feels good.

What happened? I see the 6k post thread and don't understand shit

>>388200047
>people are not allowed to critisize PRIVATE companies.

Wow imagine being gay.

I don't really understand, how does him posting this mean HL3 is dead? Why doesn't it just mean he wants to get what he envisioned for it out there and some team at valve is currently working on it?

>>388204127
>Wasn't that great of a game anyway
The games did literally everything right and nothing wrong. All 4 are atleast 9/10's

>>388203895
Higher revenue, less work to put in, "Hurrr I did a thing an up 15% financial quart". Why else would a person who spent their years learning how to make video games opt to work on a retail platform rather than video games?

>>388204095
Did someone come out and say opposing information? No? You just pull shit out of your ass?

>>388200236
Wouldn't say Half Life is dead, but the fact that they haven't renewed the NDA shows the projec is effectively frozen as of now, aka they really don't care.
What Marc released is only a portion of what the team had done for Episode 3, writing material what Valve could have used for Half Life 3 even with the original writers gone, but its all ogre now with him spilling the beans.

I'm sure someone at Valve will pitch Half Life again at some point, but at that point I highly doubt it would be a direct sequel anymore.

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>>388199540
They kind of did promise HL3/Episode 3 when they decided to end Episode 2 on such a major cliffhanger. You don't just kill off one of the most important characters in the series and go "LOL OKAY WE'RE DONE NOW BYE."
I guess we're entering a new era of shitposting now that the HL3 WHEN meme has officially been killed.

>>388199591
it's an alright game, Ravenholm is ok but the vehicle parts are abysmal

>>388203739
>GOAT games

The only good series they made was Left 4 Dead

>>388204187
A plot summary of Half-Life 3 got release by Marc Laidlaw, writer of the series. Basically confirms that the game will never come out at this point.

>HL2 was never good
Even have to be contrarian over this huh?

sage

>>388204221
They were extremely scripted cinematic garbage with a terrible stories and terrible soundtracks.

Reminds me of the days when /v/ worshipped Gabe and tore apart anyone that dared to speak ill of him.

How times change.

>>388204396
It wasn't good though.

>>388204421
Those were valve shills

i like how /v/ falls for obvious trolls, like who the fuck actually defends a corporation IRL

>>388201224
>spineless

Yeah, it sure does take balls to bitch about a company on the internet.

>>388203126
go back to sucking valves cock and choke on it

>>388204567
Hi, reddit!

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>>388199540
>entertainment companies don't have an obligation to finish the stories they leave on a cliffhanger
Legally no, of course not.
But it's anyone with more than 2/5th of a human level of integrity should understand that they are, in reality, obliged to do so.

When you buy a book or a movie, you expect a proper story with a beginning middle and end, it's so-so if you have to buy a second (noun) to see the story wrapped up, but the author most definitely does owe you to finish their fuckin work. Videogames are (read: should be) no different.

>>388199591
HL2 has aged like milk. HL1 still hold ups because it's just a shooter with a cool story but HL2 is like "WOAH LOOK AT THESE PHYSICS! PILE UP THOSE BOXES AND LOOK! THE PLATFORM IS PUSHED DOWN!". Constantly stopping your progress to show off how you need to use physics was okay when the game was new and the physics actually impressed but now it's just terrible design.

>>388204421
this board continues to get shittier and shittier but I can honestly say this change is for the best.

>>388204616
I want to beep beep this sheep

NO STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS YOU PEOPLE WERE SUPPOSED TO FORGET ABOUT HALF LIFE

REDDIT IS TALKING ABOUT THIS TOO DON'T YOU HATE REDDIT?

So

It ends with a downer ending?

>>388203995
review bombing has worked before

Am I the only one who thinks half life is overrated? Mustard race has shit taste.

>>388204631
Half Life 1 isn't good either since it moved shooters towards linear cinematic gameplay and not objective based gameplay like GoldenEye.

>>388199540
talk about no reason to cry lmao haha

I dunno why people are surprised. That fat fuck stopped caring about games years ago.

Easier, cheaper, and more profitable to sit on his ass and sell you other peoples' games.

>>388204616
>Videogames are (read: should be) no different.

Videogames ARE different you retard. You don't pump out something with 20 hours of mediocre gameplay purely for the sake of finishing a story. Each Half Life game was innovative for the time. If they can't think of anything innovative then they shouldn't do it.

>>388204747
It's one of the most overrated game series ever.

kys

>>388199540
How's that corporate cock taste?

>>388199540
I never gave a shit about HL3. HL1 was a good game, HL2 was a pretty good game and that's it. Good games and nothing else.

>>388204706
Not really a downer, just what happened in the last two.
Freeman basically breaks reality to get what he thinks he wants, to help his friends, and is again pulled away from the results he helped create, unable to see them come to fruition. It's like what happened with hl1 and 2. He kills the big bad, he's about to be the big hero, and g-man showed up and fucking throws him into stasis. Only this time, g-man's higher up pulled alyx out instead, and gordon was left for the vortigaunts.

When will this board be purged of v.alvedrones?

>>388199591
is this /v/'s "fuck drumpf and fuck white people"?

>>388204406
>cinematic
lol this meme again. Just repeating what all the other shitposters are saying?
Half life 2 is atleast 11-15 hours.
And of that only ONE hour is cutscenes. These are stretched out in that there's only about one "Cutscene" in each level, usually only 2- 3 minutes long. Note that the longest one in the game is only 4 minutes. And these "cutscenes" do not take away control from you bar the final one. At all times throughout the games you are always given control free to look around and explore the areas that the "cutscene" takes place.
>scripted
Elaborate. Any single player game ever made is scripted, why the fuck is this a criticism?

> terrible stories and terrible soundtracks.
Half life 2 is probably one of the better written stories in video games, no shitty philosophy to pass the game off as deep. Just a simple sci fi story that's well written, with some neat lore and mystery behind it all. Similar to Halo CE.

> terrible soundtracks.
Subjective but I disagree. I've always love the way the soundtracks sound. Very unique with the instruments and sounds they use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthQ2gR1bU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uN3dxJRnss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIijdKD00Js

>>388204706
>>388204706
A bit. I mean, we never really understood the combine as an entity. To discover its true vastness, it is pretty much incomprehensible to stop at this point.

>WAAAAA YOU CAN'T BE DISAPPOINTED AND REPROACH COMPANIES FOR POOR DECISIONS OR UR EVIL!!!
I genuinely don't say this often but this mindset is a drone's mindset. Valve did suggest a 3 was coming and it was one of their most beloved series of games so it was natural for people to assume 3 was coming eventually. They don't OWE their fans the game but neither do fans owe the company their approval. Fans have every reason to cry, hope for the franchise is dead. Maybe it's time to finally stop kissing Gaben's ass.

More like No Life

>>388199684
My friend when else are you going to critique something.

Steam was a mistake.

>>388204226
>Hurrr I did a thing an up 15% financial quart
Wow you have no idea what you're talking about

>>388204801
So release a comic or a video or literally anything

The fact it had to be shoved out 8 years too late as a text file (with fake names at that) is no less than embarrassing to everyone currently and/or previously employed at Valve Software.

>>388199540
>couldn't even wait to start shitposting
you are human garbage

>>388205098
What about the gameplay was actually revolutionary in Half Life 1? I can see 2 for it's physics engine at least for the time.And the story is awful because there's no character development barely at all and the lore doesn't tell you much about the actual world beyond a few things.

>>388205115
but why is hope dead? I'm not him but I really don't understand why this writer posting this means the series is over. He hasn't worked there for a long long time, right?

>>388204801
>If they can't think of anything innovative then they shouldn't do it.
Half life 2 had a neat physics engine and was pretty. So what? It also had great gameplay, level design, music, art and writing. Just a damn good game that deserved a conclusion. Why the fuck does as sequel have to have some SO INNOVATIVE shit involved?

>>388205082
>You (Faggot): "How do I make this into politics..."
Kill yourself, ameritard

>>388205082
No because it's true.

HAHA even if gay ben wasnt a lazy piece of shit aand released this, you'd all STILL be stuck with a cliffhanger ending.

>>388205276
>What about the gameplay was actually revolutionary in Half Life 1?
First of all I wasn't even referring to Half life 1, secondly I never mentioned anything being revolutionary. But to answer your character it's the way the story was handled. There were zero cutscenes throughout the whole game. Like Half life 2 you were always given control to walk and look around whilst dialogue was being given. There's also the fact that the AI was fantastic and the levels were open.

>>388199591
this

>>388205069
Hopefully soon. Valve has never made a good game except for Left 4 Dead and it's expansion pack Left 4 Dead 2.

>>388205428
>cliffhanger
>alyx is pulled to do what gordon has been doing as he's no longer seen as valuable enough
>vortigaunt take gordon to have for the future, but forget about him and leave him in his stasis bubble for all of time
They could flesh out what happens to alyx but for all intents and purposes gordon's story is done.

>>388205276
>And the story is awful because there's no character development
Why does a story need to have character development to be good? The plot has very little focus on the characters and much more so on the conflict between the humans and the combine

>>388205310
>Why the fuck does as sequel have to have some SO INNOVATIVE shit involved?

Because if you're not underaged, that's the whole point of the Half Life games. Each one redefined the FPS in some way. If they couldn't think of a way to do that again, then they were never going to make it.

'I don't care about any of that, just tell me how the story ends' fags just got exactly what they wanted but are still upset anyway

>>388199591
I replayed HL2 in June and HL2 has aged like fine wine. Ravenholm is still the best part of the game.

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>Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final episode.
Fuck, man.

>>388205445
The levels weren't really anymore open than say Doom or GoldenEye. And having no cutscenes doesn't make for a better game, it just means you walk around and fiddle shit around during cutscenes.

>>388205650
fine shit*

>>388205628
>. Each one redefined the FPS in some way.
Really? How did Half life 2 redefine FPS games?

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>>388199540

Get out

>>388205628
Half Life 1 wasn't innovative.

>>388205701
Tell me what your favorite games are.

>>388199540
It's just the 5 stages of grief anon.
Just because your in the anger stage doesn't mean you can get mad at those in denial.

>>388205717
Meme Cutscenes

Now every cinematic video game has them

I mean it's obvious they only care about money, and money drives what they do and what's more profitable, but you don't say that to your fans faces.

>>388205759
t. 17 year old

>ywn fight through hoards of enemies to a re-imagined Vortal Combat during a scene in HL3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZRNd6osQrk

>>388199591
>Ravenholm fucking sucks.
every day /v/'s opinions on this game get worse

>>388205763
Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo 2 and Hearthstone

>>388205787
>Meme Cutscenes
What the fuck does this even mean? Cutscenes existed long before Half life 2. I guess one hour of cutscenes is so bad in a 20 plus hour game.

>>388205787
Spending 15 minutes on a tram through a boring facility. I know it's from 1 and it's "iconic" but Christ, that shit was boring, nothing interesting was happening.

>>388205717
Storytelling through interactive cutscenes and, correct me if I'm wrong, the physics.

>>388205886
I see. I guess you just have to be not underage to understand why HL2 was and is an incredible game.

This day cant get any worse.
What's next, youll tell me that Rich Piana bit the dust?

>>388205810
25 actually. And it wasn't, Doom, Quake and GoldenEye didn't everything before it except for the "moving during cutscenes" crap before it and they all did it much better.

>>388206003
But HL2 is overrated trash compared to these games lmao

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>>388205858
>Ah shit, the whole place is lit up! Grab a tunnel!
I was so hyped when that shit started.

>>388205948
>Storytelling through interactive cutscenes
HL1 did that already.

>>388205948
>"interactive" cutscenes.
The only interactivity I can recall is playing with the teleporter and cameras in Kleiner's lab and looking at all the gizmos in Black Mesa East.
Standing around in a room while other characters talk isn't interactive, and the fact that you don't get control of Freeman taken away doesn't really change that.

>>388206003
It's physics system was good for the time and the graphics that's about the only things above average for 2004.

>>388199540
I can't believ this low-quality bait has 250+ replies

/v/, I am disappoint.

>>388206040
>Doom, Quake and GoldenEye didn't everything before it except for the "moving during cutscenes" crap before it and they all did it much better

Sounds like you've only actually played Half Life 2 and are trying to project that onto what you imagine Half Life 1 to be like.

You can do a quick google search and find reams of information about how Half Life 1 was significant and moved things on from those games

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>>388205674
>I was left alone, riding the weaponized luxury liner into the heart of a Combine world. An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere. The vastness of the Combine’s power, the futility of our struggle, blossomed briefly in my awareness. I saw everything. Mainly I saw how the Borealis, our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart. And what remained of me would be even less than that.

The fact that we will NEVER EVER see this brought to life makes me want to cry. Truly bravo Laidlaw.

>>388206105
I agree, don't get me wrong. I should have put big """"quotation marks""""" around it.

>>388205565
Rumor is they want Alyx to be the main character for the new games since Gordon is a white male and needs to be phased out for progressive reasons.

Expect Her-Life coming 2020

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>>388199540
Fuck off you contrarian slime.

>>388206075
>But HL2 is overrated trash compared
Elaborate.

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>>388202025

He's not wrong in the strictest sense. Nobody wants to make a game nobody will buy because it's ultimately a waste of time. But I never got the impression that they made any of their games to become million sellers and that they were just following the money. Especially not TF2 when realistic shooters were about to become THE genre of 2007-10.

It coincides too perfectly with the reveal of Artifact. They don't want to make good games and hope they sell. They want to make games that sell and hope they're good.

>>388206252
If everyone does it. Is it even progressive anymore?

>>388206252
That wouldn't at all surprise me given laidlaw's twitter, but I don't think they'd do that. Frankly I don't see how this is more than just some fanfiction really, game's still in limbo, or maybe it never even started development/got out of pre-planning. Until we hear it from valve themselves I'll keep hoping against hope.

>>388206312
A FUCKING CUTSCENE CORRIDOR SHOOTER HAHAHAHAHA

What the fuck is with all the contrarianism festering? Like I understand /v/ has always been contrarian as fuck but this horrible. Both Half life 1 and 2 are fucking fantastic games and I can't point to anything wrong with them. They are just well made games. But I guess with how big the news of HL3 is there's bound to be shitposters

>>388204567
Yeah that actually has nothing to do with why I said Redditors are spineless good job getting personally offended and putting words in my mouth though

>>388206467
>Half Life 2
>fantastic
lmao

>>388206209
I've played 1 though, it's not mission based like those 3 which I guess was unique for the time, but it's not really a big deal.

>>388200123
What does that make you, random drone who thinks his voice is the voice of reason?

>>388206508
>Half Life 2
>not fantastic
lmao

>>388206467
We're now entering the next shitposting arc.

>>388206467
They're mediocre, overrated corridor shooters that got praised due to pushing graphical limits and different method of storytelling which wasn't even good.

>>388200465
>I'm okay, GOD WHY DO PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT THINGS WHEN I'M OKAY WITH THEM.

Fuck off Moriarty.

>>388206614
Please give some examples of some of your favorite shooters then.
>inb4 quake or Doom which are the epitome of nothing but ugly brown corridors

>>388206614
>>388206437

Explain what actually makes a corridor shooter bad. Unless you're just an 'everything should be open world' retard

>>388206670
Every game that is not Valve trash LOL

what is this gay bull shit and who gives a fuck

>>388206467
I'm finding more and more flaws over the years. Like the """cutscenes""", they're awkward as fuck when you're trying to replay. The weapon selection is limited and a few of them feel flimsy. The AI can be impressive when it's given the chance to flourish in an open battlefield, but often they're just plain retarded (especially exploitable at Lighthouse Point)
The core of the game remains solid, though. The pacing is otherwise perfect, with lulls and highs exactly where they need to be. The setpieces are best-in-class and all thoroughly memorable. The art direction and ost are both top notch.

>>388204720
Just flood Valve's phone lines with junk.
They publicly list their phone number, all you have to do is use the extension 101 to get through to Gabe's office.
I will say though, where about 3-4 years ago, you had a good chance of actually getting him on the line, now you'll get an answering machine 90% of the time.
I think that says a lot about Gabe now,

>>388206670
Deus Ex, System Shock, GoldenEye, TimeSplitters just for some examples.

>>388206904
>The weapon selection is limited and a few of them feel flimsy.
There were a lot of weapons, no? The only weak gun was that pathetic excuse for a pistol. Shotgun and AR are fucking booming though.

>>388206965
>console shooters
lmao

>>388206904
One problem is that since the cutscenes are integrated with the gameplay, you can't skip them.

>>388207028
Ah yes I forgot, every good shooter must be on PC. What console was System Shock on btw?

>>388207018
Certainly not compared to Half Life 1. There's nothing as creative as the Hive Hand or Tau Cannon.

>>388207039
Yep.

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So HL3 is a letter?

>pc gaming in 2017

>>388206965
>Deus ex
Great choice.
>system shock
good
>golden eye
the definition of a game that was good when it was released and is now complete shit. Talk about boring fucking environments with garbage controls. Great OST though.

>timesplitterrs
Poor mans halo with some neat humor. I enjoyed it a bit but don't see much redeeming about it. Boring level design.

Really don't see how any of these are better than half life my man.

>>388207156
System Shock and Deus Ex were great RPGs but the FPS gameplay was shoddy as fuck.

>>388207241
I didn't think the FPS elements were that bad on them. Also I like GoldenEye and TimeSplitters because I really enjoy splitscreen with friends.

>>388207159
>Hive Hand or Tau Cannon.
Gravity gun and the sac that you use in the middle of half life 2 to call the antlions to help? Literally have never found a game with a more fun and diverse weapon as the gravity gun.

>>388200842
>>388199540
>>388200345


>http://www.valvesoftware.com/news/?id=648

>>388207196
It's kinda funny how the PC GOTYs are a generic battle royale barely working fps infested with loud streams and russian kids, and a fucking plot script that basically goes "eh I don't really know how to conclude this so let's just say everything was futile or whatever".

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>>388204474

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You're right. Valve doesn't owe me Half Life Episode 3, but I can comment on the fact that they no longer are a company that produces good video games and are instead nothing but Jews that think of new ways of vacuuming money from retards with the least amount of effort possible.

>>388200148
Go bungie jumping with a noose you reddit-tier tasteless nigger.

>>388199540
They said it was coming for almost a fucking decade you fucking retard, they promised us Episode 3 when they ended Episode 2 on a goddamn cliffhanger

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>>388200842
What is this mindset? Why am I wrong for wanting quality content from a company? Why am I wrong for wanting a game series to be finished off?

Why is gaming filled with such massive cuckolds who suck companies dicks all the time

>>388207441
No, you "kill yourself", V.alvedrone.

>>388199540
They did promise more Half Life content back in 2007 anon.

>>388207452
This.
They don't owe me Episode 3, but neither do I owe them time or money.

>>388206965
>an RPG rather than an FPS
>two decent games
>a game that did barely anything interesting other than 'looks FPS can work on consoles'

wow

>>388199738
I replay Half life 1 and 2 every weekend anon

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>>388199540

>don't pirate, the devs need your support so they can keep making the games you love
>You actually paid for it? We don't owe you shit. fucking goym

>>388207567
>corridor shooter
>corridor shooter with cutscenes

wow

>>388201567
Episode 1 is the weakest, but it's still pretty good.

people aren't entitled to a game but they are certainly entitled to the capacity of voicing their want of one

you can't acknowledge the former without acknowledging the latter

>>388200842
>but rather be thankful that they make games at all
Fuck me, I used to be a massive fanboy of Valve but the shit they pulled is ridiculous. This is some stockholm syndrome shit.

I am SO happy these fucking babies arent getting their fucking game.

Its what you get for bitching and moaning nonstop.Valve makes too much money off steam to even give a flying fuck.

suck your own small limp penis, you fucking cuck niggers. enjoy half life 3 never

>>388199540

Are you actually retarded you little shit? We got the story to Episode 3, not Half-Life 3. Check your facts before doing stupid ass threads and like this, son.

And what about when Valve promised that there would be a new HL game every 3 months? Fuck off you little brat, telling others to grow up.

Fucking shithead.

>>388207620
Is it done well?
Half Life 2 and its episodes had probably the most memorable setpieces of any FPS I've ever played.

>>388207620
Literally 3 of the games you listed are nothing but corridor shooters. Deus ex is only not included because it's pretty open. Again if you're going to shit on Half life for being "corridor shooters" than why the fuck do you have 3 of them in your list?

>>388207617
>His smile and optimism: gone

>>388207727
System Shock ain't a corridor shooter, but then again it isn't much of a shooter at all.

What surprises me is that he didn't mention Perfect Dark or something.

>>388207726
>setpieces

This is how I know you're a faggot.

>>388207401
That proves my point

>>388207802
>System Shock ain't a corridor shooter
Then what even defines a corridor shooter then? Becuase System shock is literally nothing but you walking down tiny corridors.

>>388207726
And those are, V.alvedrone?

Shiteating contest between Blizzdrones and Valve-drones

Who wins

The mustards and Xcucks are pitiful disgusting corporate slaves, they spend all their time damage controlling billion dollar corporations that don't give a fuck about the original fanbases that brought them success in the first place, Microsoft and Valve will make billions selling nothing but third-party games on their platforms and never have to make a new game because all you do is damage control for them, have fun with no games faggots, Nintendo and Sony masterrace actually busy playing exclusives, these companies actually give a fuck about their fans

>>388207620
You know you didn't answer my question. Please explain how any of the four games you listed are better than Half life 1 and 2.

>>388202084
Yes, Half-life 2 bundled with CS:S back then is literally how steam got a sizable userbase in the beginning.
Something that even huge publishers fail these days at.
I don't think you get how huge valve uses to be.

>>388207958
>Sony masterrace actually busy playing exclusives

For a fanbase that spends all day posting sales charts, you don't seem to have looked at the ones that show the best selling games on your system

>>388207984
They were not made by a shit company like Valve

>>388208086
How does that speak about the games quality at all?

>>388206467
Maybe people just have different opinions from you and this is as good a time as any to bring them up. No need to be a rocket scientist to figure this one out, buddy.

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>>388199540
Valve promised us Half-Life 2: Episode 3. A conclusion to the second game. The released it unfinished to promote more rapid releases as episodes. They lied.

>>388207958
Funny how Bloodborne, being the best game on the PS4 was also only bought by about 2% of owners of the console. Meanwhile all you see being played actually is shit like Fifa and CoD

>>388207859
>Becuase System shock is literally nothing but you walking down tiny corridors.
System Shock is a fucking labyrinth, it's one step behind Ultima Underworld. When people refer to a game being a corridor (e.g. Final Fantasy 13), they're usually talking about it being linear.
People also generally only call a game a shooter if the focus of the game is FPS combat with enemies. The point of System Shock is not to get in fights and kill enemies, the focus is on the RPG and survival/exploration mechanics.

>>388208216
Enjoy Artifact and meme meta-humour that pokes fun at the Half-Life fans

>>388207695
You should be happy that valve produces garbage that's designed to milk money from kids who stole their dads credit card

>>388208271
Yes but what is bad about a game being linear? Doom is linear, and so is Quake. Both great games.

>>388199540
FUCK YOU

>>388208375
I don't think there's anything wrong with a game being linear if it uses its linearity well. Half Life 1 and to a lesser extent 2 do.

>>388199910
No. A companies only obligation is to provide a service that a customer paid for. If the consumers do not want to use that service for whatever reason the company doesn't get their money or provide services to them.

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Favorite level? Personally my favorite was Nova Prospect. The prison break with the antlions. Shit was fucking great.

>>388208080
We got plenty of games here, I just got done playing Uncharted Lost Legacy, itwas better than the main game, just cause the exclusives don't sell as much as call of duty and GTA isn't an excuse, that's just a lame ass faggot with no exclusives kind of counter. All of Sony's exclusives have sold over a million this gen, even the shit ones, Infamous and Bloodborne sold 3 million, horizon sold 4 million, Last of us remaster sold 6 million, Uncharted 4 sold 10 million, we are playing exclusives bitch you have Zero

>>388204195
You can criticize all you want and I can criticize your shitty criticism. Or you can shut the fuck up and try to not be a faggot.

>>388199738
Replayed it and both eps plus Minerva a few months ago. Still mostly as good as I remembered minus the citizen-escort-cannon-fodder parts, but there's no accounting for taste.

>>388208641
I love Highway 17. My interest always wanes a bit by Nova Prospekt.

>>388205250
Why. So everyone can call it shit and still want the interactive experience? They have no reason to ever make that game.

>>388208142
Alot of it comes down to replay value. All 4 of those have immense replay value. I don't remember either Half Life game having any at all. Like a play it once and forget kind of game.

>>388208651
>entire genres that are PC exclusive don't count because I don't like them

Go back to youtube comment section you fucking mouthbreather

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>>388207512

>>388209089
What LoL hero is that?

>>388203526
It's a solid shooter that still largely holds up (minus stuff like platforming) and marked a turning point in the fps genre from story-lite run-and-guns like Doom and Quake to being story driven and holding a cohesive rather than broken up narrative. It and Thief hold the title of the most important games of the late 90's.

Remind me again, what was "Episodic content" supposed to achieve?

>>388209210
Jewing Valvebronies harder

>>388209169
>It and Thief hold the title of the most important games of the late 90's.
I feel like Deus Ex belongs there too, but that was too late to be the 90s.

>>388205237
If you had ever had a job or gotten a promotion in a real company you would know only fags go in without numbers they can point to. "I lead a project that generated 2 million in revenue and increased efficiency by those resources by 20% from the last quarter" works a lot better than "I work hard and I never give up!!"

Now fuck off.

>>388209169
>most important PC games of the late 90s

Ftfy

>>388209019
Go back to kissing Gabe's ass, I'm sure they'll make a new game anyday now. It's only been 6 years since Portal 2 and 10 years since Episode 2, by 2030 maybe you'll get a new game, any sooner would be asking too much of your savior Lord Gaben, he always does whats right for the glorious masterrace

>>388199540
>Valve never promised you HL3
it's been a while but I'm pretty sure they did

>>388200681
It should speak volumes that a crowd of people who travelled across the world and paid a ton of money to watch DotA audibly sighed at the announcement of Artifact

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>>388199540

> Valve never promised you HL3

They promised us an Episode 3 and never officially announced its cancellation leaving us on a huge cliffhanger.

>You never paid for HL3

Because it never was released yet??? What the fuck does that mean.

>Valve doesn't owe you shit.

I take it you only discovered Valve once it became known to the average normie in 2010-2011.

I want you to read this long article from 2004 on the day of Half-Life 2's launch from Gamespot. I want you to see what Valve represented and what Gabe mentions and why Valve built up a fanbase that adored him. And by fanbase, I mean the original fanbase before Orange Box came out. Before the days of the f2p kiddies storming in.

>Sometimes the fans even call him at home--at 3am. He briefly indulges them in conversation and then politely asks them to call at a more reasonable hour. For Gabe almost everything at Valve is done for "the fans." You'd be hard-pressed to find another developer in the game industry who spends more time writing to fans, posting on forums, and even giving fans tours of the Valve office. Why spend so much time talking to the fans? "They pay the bills," Newell says.

Go fuck yourself you autistic enabler. People like you are the cancer to PC Gaming.

>>388209389
Who cares about waiting for one single company to make games

>>388200842
At least Bioware had the integrity to deliver a trilogy they said they were going to make. Even though the quality dropped sharply after 1, they still delivered.

Valve I am deeply ashamed of you all.

>>388209982
I'd rather no game than ME3's ending and Andromeda desu

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>>388209837

Whoops forgot to include the link

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-final-hours-of-half-life-2/1100-6112889/

>>388209932
Yeah Half-Life wasn't that great, they were shit anyway, who gives a fuck, is anybody still actually waiting?

>>388209254
Deus Ex is one of the most important games of all time, but it's from the 2000's.

>>388199540
I agree completely. Besides, Half-Life is an overrated series. It was never even amazing, it was merely average.

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>>388199540
>make a story
>end it on a cliffhanger
>"whtf y r u gaiz so Ntitle'd
One more (You) for the road!

>>388199591
/thread

>>388210249
It's from 2000 exactly. The only thing that feels "00s" about it is the Matrix trenchcoats, but even that was 1999.

It certainly gives me a late 90s vibe.

>>388200842
>but rather be thankful that they make games at all
YOU DONT EVEN MAKE GAMES ANYMORE YOU FUCKHEADS

>>388209356
>implying consoles weren't chasing the trends set by PC games since the mid-90's.

Console games didn't become the main trend-setters again until the 7th generation of consoles made online multiplayer popular for console users.

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>>388210432
Honestly the 2000's didn't really start until 9/11