HALF LIFE 3 IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS

>we had a day long sticky for a false alarm

>>388266585
yea becuase valve is totally concerned with releasing it
thats why we got a card game
and not hl3

>>388266585
I already made this point in the sticky. All these redditors/children are fucking retarded.

It's over. Now it's time to cry, to rest. To hope for a better future.

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Let it go anon, let it go...

Of course it can still happen.

Anyone that thought Marcs post was the answer is dumb

>>388266758
It CAN happen.
But it WON'T happen.
Enjoy Artifact.

he doesnt have any inside information on some secret project or future plans. he is literally just trying to comfort fans of a series he had a personal stake in.

it's chapter 3 all over again

I don't care, laidlaws plot is the canon one.

>>388266585
>Back on the menu
No it isn't. Valve isn't going to make Half Life 3, episode 3, or anything.

>Oh no, everyone stopped sucking our dicks for a game we'll never make
>Quick, tell them it might still happen!

>>388266585
>haha don't guys it's just my script don't take it seriously I didn't mean it guys
>please gabe don't sue my cheeky ass to hell

t. marc

>>388266585
>Half Life 3 is back on the menu
You mean Half Life VR - a new version of Half Life (1998) redesigned from the ground up for virtual reality

>>388267098
he doesn't work there anymore

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>>388266585
>i-it's not over guys
>w-we are still developing the game just wait.
>don't forget to support Valve g-guys.

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>>388266585
>>388266702
>>388266694

You are all fucking idiots. Check timestamps. It's not a talking point it's a fact.

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>>388266862
Eventually, when gaben passes on and when Valve merges with another corporation, some prick in a suit will get the idea of making a reboot.

>>388266678
Valve is never going to make Half Life 3 when they make 80 trillion dollars a day from CS:GO crates.

>>388266674
they're waiting for VR to stop being a meme and become an actual thing and they'll make HL3 the first big VR game, mark my words

I saw a YouTube video where a team did some internal research and found that while HL3 IS in development, it's in "in-name only" development. As in, has like 5 people on it at any given time. Apparently Valve saw the negative reception of Mass Effect 3 and decided any conclusion that wasn't absolutely perfect would get fans a-ragin'. Same logic goes for Portal, I'm sure. As Valve is privately owned, there is no pressure for them to release a new one.

It's here, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50lSIaSR3zc&t=811s

>>388267367
It's called branding. Yes they will. They were making mad money off of every version of CS and still made newer versions.

>>388266585
>it's okay, we got Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection!
That's no consolation you stupid fuck

Alien is bad example everything after the second film is terrible.
Welll, actually it fits half life.

It's never coming out, according to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50lSIaSR3zc&t=811s

Apparently Valve saw the negative reaction from Mass Effect 3 and decided any not-perfect Half Life 3 would get fans a-ragin'. They're not publicly owned, so there's no pressure from the owners for them to get off their high horse

I can understand, kind of, but it's also the most boring, stale thing you could do. And their new game is yet another Hearthstone rip-off? Couldn't they put all that talent and money to something new, at least?

>>388266585
Valve probably "convinced" him to make that tweet.

>>388267420
>Apparently Valve saw the negative reception of Mass Effect 3 and decided any conclusion that wasn't absolutely perfect would get fans a-ragin'.
I fucking hate these excuses because that would mean that the game was on the backburner for several years before they decided it wasn't worth making since Episode 2 came out in 2007 and ME3 was 2012.

It's also a pussy move to literally drop a story with absolutely no closure or even acknowledgement the series has been iced because you're afraid you can't make it perfectly.

>>388267664
>>388267420

Sorry, posted this twice on accident

>>388266918
>>388266918
>>388266918

>>388267773

>>388267236
>>388267236
>>388267236

He did the damage himself. He wrote a story we wanted. Then released it. What the fuck was he thinking? This isnt some game of thrones script leak.

This is a fucking story we only had heads of nails to hold onto. Firmly seated in on the side of a 50 mile long bridge that's 10 lanes wide.

The entire fanbase just spent the last of its energy digging its fingernails behind a spot of rust. In hopes itd lift us back up.

Now we're back in the ocean and these fucks are telling us we should have climbed a little bit more.
Im done. Fuck half life. Ive gotten my closure.

Goodnight, playa.

BASED GABEN WOULD NEVER LET US DOWN

To those with autism: he's saying that he's no longer at Valve and ULTIMATELY that if they hold the IP rights they can do something with it.

>>388267939
He gave a synpopsis of Episode 3 not Half Life 3. Nobody wanted episode 3. Fuck off.

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>>388267939
GABEN
IS
THE MAAASTER OF THE WOOOORLD
GET UP
LET'S BREAK THOSE CHAINS AND PARTY ALL NIGHT LONG!

>>388267939
Yeah I'm pretty sure Redditors that don't know the difference between Episode 3 and Half Life 3 are the entire fanbase.

>>388267236
Since when is knowing about the entertainment industry an "adult" thing? Seems like the most manchild thing ever to me.

I hope Valve releases a game called Half-Life 3 and I hope it's a cell phone game with microtransactions. Because you guys are so annoying, even the death of the franchise is too good for you.

>takes an entire script leak to even get anyone interested in this again

It used to be threads simply asking "who is the gman"

And then "will gabe reveal it at e3?"

It must really be over now.

>>388268513
So what does that make you for not understanding how the business works? An infant?

>>388266585
>half-life 3 released
>it's a fucking trading card game
JUST LET IT GO

>>388266585
How likely you think he received a call from Valve making an offer he couldn't refuse?

I don't get it, what does that mean?

>>388268868
see

>>388268049
>>388267236

It means mods are idiots and so are most of the board.

>>388267179
>Go back on your statement or we will sue the shit out of you with our limitless power and money

>>388268620
I guess? I clearly don't follow your manchild logic.

>>388266585
Alien is a ongoing series

Is laidlaw retarded?

>>388269050
>crying over a situation without bothering to understand it is mature
>remaining calm and explaining to people they are jumping to incredibly uneducated conclusions is the mark of a manchild

Is this really adult logic?

but anon only Alien, Aliens and the Special Edition of Alien 3 exist. Not sure why they call it Special if its the only version but whatever

>>388269149
>Alien is a ongoing series
I think that's the point he's making. It's still a thing even though there's so many scripts that never got made.

>mfw when Gaben will swoop up like a magnificent beast from the depths of the sea to save us poor peasants and release HL3 once and for all

It will be a glorious day.

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>>388266585
If the game ended as he says it would have then the dudebro and normie gamers would have a meltdown.

>What the FUCK! ALL OF THIS WAS FOR NOTHING? What a waste of time, I am never buying a valve game again!

If Half Life 3 were coming out anytime soon, Marc Laidlaw wouldn't have left the company, nor would he have released that story.
More importantly, Nu-Valve is dead. They won't release a good single player ever again. The best you can ask for is some shitty multiplayer game set in Half Life and Portal's universe filled with microtransactions.

>>388269347
That's because it wasn't a game. It was a DLC/expo for HL2.

>>388266585
It can happen in the sense that Prometheus happened but I hope it doesn't because Prometheus was shit.

>>388269347
because Halo Reach was a flop with dudebros and normies

>>388269228
>Correlates knowledge about the entertainment industry with age
>On meltdown because he can't back up his claim
I think it's sad that you screencapped and posted what's clearly your own post, you manchild.

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oh boy that some people can hope in vain that it will be made despite everybody relevant to the project leaving

>>388266585
What does any of this change? What did that script from last night change? Nothing, Half-Life 3 will never be made and the fact that people still care enough to have so many threads for it is sad.

>>388269274
It's a terrible example

A text document with character and location name changes hasn't been the only Alien related news we have heard in almost a decade

MODS STICKY THIS

>>388269513
>butthurt because he cried about a fucking video game for literally no reason

Right I'm the one having the meltdown.

>>388266585
holy fuck

>valve fanboys stockholm syndrome now kicking into levels we thought not possible

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>>388269442
But humanity won in the end. A similar thing would be if Chief failed in Halo 3 and the covenant activated the arc. THE END, EVERONE DIED!!!

How can anyone still be a valve_drone in the year of our lord 2017? I mean jesus fuck. What have they done lately to earn your respect? Half-Life is dead, Portal is dead, Left4Dead is dead, Steam is a mess, Valve cares more about microtransactions than making quality games, etc etc etc. I could maybe understand being a drone back when the Valve brand meant something, but now? It's worthless.

If Valve is ever going to announce Half-Life 3, now is the time to do it.

>>388266585
Denial

>>388267502
Indeed that was the most horrible example they could use, only to be surpassed by the caribean pirates

Literally all he's stating is that it still technically "COULD" happen, which has been true all along.

It won't happen, though. He isn't even an employee of the company anymore. He doesn't have any secret insider info.

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anon

>>388269442
Difference there was that was a prequel, everyone knew the humans would win in the end. Besides that was just another episode not HL3.

>>388269756
>bending to 12 year old faux half life fans

Nah. Dangerous precedent.

>>388269756
They announced it years ago, it's supposedly been in development for over a decade.

How underage do you have to be to not have realized yet that Valve is a shadow of its former self? I gave up on HL3 5+ years ago. Get over it.

>>388269616
>No argument
>Makes a strawman that's not even related to the poster he's attempting to ridicule with said strawman
Manchild logic.

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>>388266585
>Wanting HL3 to happen with none of the original people working on it

Even if they actually released it you faggots would say it is shit because there is no way it can live up to 10 years of hype anymore.

>>388266585
I liked half life when I was 16 but now it's not even an interest nor do I want it.

>MUH GMAN WHO IS GMAN LMAO
>MUH VORTIGAUNTS
>CROWBAR EPPPPICCC XDDDD
>HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED LOL

Seriously half life was the only good one in the series. 2 was trash. Get over it, 3 would be a mediocre title and never will be as good as 1.

Caring about it is a joke lol.

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>>388270000

>>388269347
>Im never buying a valve game again
Are you implying they make more than 1 game every decade?

>>388270004
Oh now you believe logical fallacies matter after equating informed opinions to immaturity? Let's see how far you can dig this whole. Nothing but your self respect on the line buddy.

>>388270000
Quads of truth.

Welp here comes the 'Caramel' for hl threads.

>>388270375
what

>>388269347
that was for episode 3 not half 3 life 3 you dingus. i imagine half life 3 wouldve been alyx going through different times/dimensions guided by the gman as some sort of enforcer i.e prey 2 with style

HL3 could still be released. But it won't be the same era we grew up with. It won't be written or made by the same people. It will only be half life in name only

So what Marc did was not really end Half Life but ended the story that we grew up with.

>>388270423
A shitty tripfaggot that sa<id kojima was still working on the real mgs v

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>>388270000

>>388269347
Fuck that it'd be a hype ending for everyone. Leading towards episode 3 or episode 4 to valve. Where you'd be chasing the G man

>>388270147
Touche though your spastic is showing a bit.
Don't know how many realized this but it's like Dreamworks worked on the facial animations for hl2. The dialogue's not that far either.

>>388270375
>implying he cares about a dead as fuck corporate entity who is producing absolutely no game

There is bigger fish to fry with games that are actually coming out and set to make an impact.

NOW WE GET EXCITED FOR EPISODE 4 MOTHER FUCKERS WOOOOOOO

>>388266585
>look at his twitter
>HURR FUCK DRUMPF retweeted multiple times
sigh... you're right... don't meet your heroes

>>388270486
Moot point. It was never going to be written by the same people. Marc's position was to help organize the story not write it himself. They didn't even have the same writers from HL1 to HL2.

>>388267387
>HL
>Not another microtransaction fps clusterfuck for low effort and easy profit

>>388270716
That's probably a good idea. Trump thinks you are human filth.

I like how his answer to killing Half Life wasnt giving it a pretty ending.
He gave us its "End of Evangelion" ending. The one we all actually needed. But didnt want.

Now this whole board is blowing up with dyson spheres, realizations, and the futility of the free man.

Thanks Marc. Now fuck off before Valve splits the entire fanbase by "Rebuild of Half Life."

Literally what mark was doing was basically releasing his script. Not valves as he left the company. Now even with this script we have no idea at what point in "development" it was even written let alone if this was the only one.

>>388270223
>Oh now you believe logical fallacies matter
Wait, so you were under the impression that logical fallacies didn't matter until now? Well, that certainly explains the stupidity in all of your posts.

>Nothing but your self respect on the line buddy.
How exactly is it on the line, "pal"? This is the part where you get to tell me you're a hotshot industry insider that I'm supposed to impress, right? Well, either way, I'm glad I have some self respect to put on the figurative line, that's probably more than I can say, about you and your "adult" knowledge about the videogames industry.

>>388266585
even if he didn't really mean this was the end of the franchise, that still doesn't stop the fact that it's been over a decade since the last game

MODS STICKY THIS
>STICKY THIS
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>STICKY THIS
STICKY THIS

>>388270996
>How exactly is it on the line, "pal"?

That's a good question. Why don't you ask yourself since you insist on massive displays of insecurity.

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>>388266585
the ruse will never end will it

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Why would he tweet this
He was obviously compelled enough to give fans the closure they wanted by releasing his imo pretty shitty script, since he obviously believes that there wont be any sort of continuation of HL from valve
what does he get out of going back and saying 'well it might not be over!!!"

Half Life 3: VR exclusive

>>388270749
To be fair, from Half Life 1 to Half Life 2, it felt like a very different plot.

>>388266585
How many of those scripts do you think were better than Covenant?

>>388271250
Gabe phoned him threatening his life

>>388271250
Because the fans overreacted.

>>388271307
cant have been worse

>>388271178
>That's a good question
Which is exactly why you aren't going to answer it. And we've come full circle. What a display of adult thinking, knowledge and argumentative skills you've made. Show everyone your absolute lack of restraint and give me one last (you), please.

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>always thought Breen talking on the screens was just a video file
>he actually just sits in a room and a in-game camera projects his face to the screens

>>388266585
The barebones in-universe """script""" is just part of an ARG to prepare us for HL3 or a Part 3.

>>388267264
yeah i can't wait for another duke nukem forever

>>388271250
>>388271383
>Because the fans overreacted.

This. I went in reading it knowing it was just a rejected story idea. I'm honestly surprised at how little people know about the writing process. I'm sure he's an old man that lives in a bubble but he honestly should have known how dumb gamers are these days.

>>388271298
It was meant to be something new. Valve was actually amazing at meeting and exceeding hype before they decided to pretend they weren't to save face.

>>388271567
>What a display of adult thinking, knowledge and argumentative skills you've made.

Likewise.

>Show everyone your absolute lack of restraint
>Show everyone

Damn you are too easy. You think anyone cares about your butthurt regarding being uneducated on simple matters of business. You should get off this site because your ego is far too delicate. Thanks for the (you)s and I'm sorry I didn't mean to bully you but you provoked me.

>>388271589
Reminds me of when hackers discovered that a menu screen for one of the Mario Tennis games was really just a large 3D object with a really tiny Toad placed right in front of the game camera.

>>388266585
Yeah, because everything after Aliens was GREAT.

>>388266585
>HALF LIFE 3 IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS

I thought I wanted back on, but now that it might be happening, I *really* don't want back on.

>>388271795
I'm pretty sure at this point of Laidlaw's writing career or working in video game development that he's come to understand that a bunch of people crying on internet forms doesn't translate to lost or gained sales, so he probably just doesn't care if it does create a big stink or not because you and I probably both know the vast majority of these people would throw money at Valve again the second they see Half Life 3 is actually announced.

>>388272327
Yeah I considered that too.

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>>388272070
Just in case someone is doubting it.

>>388272426
I really don't see how this could ever be the most efficient solution.

Dyson Spheres are almost always fucking incredibly cool when potrayed as not in use by humanity. Infinite Space, for example.

>>388272609
I assume they didn't want background details for a mere menu screen to take up too much space on the disc so they simply pressed it together into a 3D object and fucked around with the Toad model's size and camera viewpoint to give the illusion of Toad standing inside the menu object.

>>388272609
Its a really common trick to shove tiny things right in front of the camera to give the illusion of perspective, Viewmodels in FPS games do this shit all the time.

>>388267753
It shows a severe lack of artistic integrity.

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And here we are. I spoke of my return to [not working at Valve]. It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the [company] has changed. Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I [wrote a Half-Life script], or what precisely [the dev team] hoped to accomplish. At this point, the [effort to make Ep3/HL3] will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me. Old [coworkers] have [moved on to other Valve projects], or [left the company]. I no longer know or recognize most members of the [dev] team, though I believe the spirit of [HL3] still persists. I expect [the community] know better than I the appropriate course of action, and I leave [them] to it. Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final epistle.

>>388267472

why make millions on cs source, when you can bring it to consoles as cs:go and when that doesn't work, just sell then skins and create an enviroment where gambling can happen?

>The fact they weren't developed did not spell the end of the Alien franchise.
Clearly someone has not seen the recent alien films

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>>388272426
heh, reminds me of what re4 does with the hud

>Valvebabies gaslighting themselves again

LMFAO you will be 60 years old and still waiting for HL3

>>388266585
Yes, that's why we've had absolutely nothing HL-related in decade, because they're working on it

>>388270000
MM MM MMMMM
Share some digits with the rest of us.

HMMMMMMMMMM now where have we heard non-confirmations and non-denials from about Half-Life 3 or Episode 3's status for 10 years straight?

really make me think

>>388273620
>uselessly rendering stuff behind black bars
why the fuck they didnt change the game's fucking resolution instead of this shit?

>>388273620
>>388271589
>>388272426
I love reading about that shit. As a software engineer it's always fun reading on the tricks other devs use.

it's dead OP. Valve has no plans to ever release ep 3 or hl3 and they likely never will. They're just not interested in making it and the fact that Marc has posted the story so obviously means that there may not be any NDAs associated with it, which implies that Valve hasn't bothered to touch it in years.

I'm disappointed too, I think Valve could have given us a really good game, but I don't believe they have any intention to ever release it.

>>388266585
Just let me wallow in my despair and have a funeral for my dreams and my childhood.

>>388266585

He doesn't even work at Valve anymore. You're clinging to nothing. Even if one day Valve decided to make another shitty HL game, nobody would care. It's been 10 years since the last one.

>Stage 3: Bargaining

>>388274646
it'd be so dope if there was a wiki like TCRF except with hacked up behind the scenes shit in videogames. like for example, in the wc3 dota mod, lina's light strike array spawns an invisible centaur in order to stun the heroes it connects with. or like in WoW, when you complete a quest, an invisible rabbit is killed to trigger the completion.

>>388266640
i TOLD you fucks

just wait until fucking Valve says its over, they have fucking final say anyway, not a writer

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>>388275074
>valve
>saying anything relevant
>ever

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YOU COULD'VE PREVENTED THIS

>>388275074
>implying he didn't need their explicit confirmation that the non-disclosure clause of his contract is now void

>>388274726
ok fucker

if he ISN'T under fucking NDA, then why doesn't he just say it outright?

FUCKERS!

>>388266585

No, fuck off Valve. We've held on to this deceptive dream far too long. The level of kikery was unbelievable all these years; dangling the typical carrot stick for years while working on shit like Artifact. Don't fall for their lies /v/. Valve is the death of video games incarnate. Don't swallow their lies.

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>>388275340

>>388266640
You knew this if you ready the sticky. Its literally a gender bender fanfic of a cliff hanger. I don't understand how anyone other than gaming journalist thought this was THE END OF HALF LIFE since they would want to sensationalize this to clicks. Why does nobody want to read. It literally ends with gordon getting saved last minute and g man doing something with alyx but no explanation as to what.

read nigga fucking read.

>>388267024
>>388266992
>>388267098
This

>>388275934

It is the end. You're delusional.

Nobody cares about HL anymore anyway. It's been 10 years since the last game. It's dead.

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>g-guys it's not dead
>just wait another 5 or 10 years! you c-can't rush p-p-p-p-erfection!!!
>i-i-i-it's just going to be released on VR! valve news network told me so!
yeah, i'm sure you'll be getting half-life 3 eventually, especially considering valve owns the largest gaming distribution platform and 2 of the highest grossing e sport games. i'm sure the series' main writer was just joking. oh, and him leaving valve along with like half of the original half-life team. yeah, they're just joking and have a lot of faith too.

>>388276104
how am I delusional

did you not read it

JUST
READ

ITS NOT EVEN REAL ANYWAY

what the fuck

>>388269841
Is this loss?

>>388276178

Shut up already, kid. Go take your meds.

>>388267664

I don't think this makes any sense. Even if fans threw a hissy fit at a game that wasn't perfect, it would likely still be profitable for them to make and release Half Life 3, and isn't that their first priority as a business?

>>388269364
Unironically this desu

>>388276315
calm down nerd

I don't know what particular brand of autism caused everyone to think story leaking = dead game.

>>388276338

No, retard, it's not. Have you been under a rock? Valve doesn't make games anymore. I don't keep up with them anymore and even I know this. They're already making bank on Steam. They don't care about what you want. And there's no way in hell they're going to waste resources making a sequel to a series that died years ago.

>>388276504

The same brand of autism that makes people think that Valve is currently working on anything HL related when they haven't given any updates about it in 10 years.

>>388276538

I didn't say making games was their first priority, I said making money is, which is why I'm refuting the idea that they wouldn't release a game because "What if they don't like it? :(" when it would still probably turn a good profit anyway.

Obviously the real reason they've not made any new games is because the profits are small potatoes compared to what they make selling other people's games, pushing e-sports and taking cuts from the marketplace.

>>388267236
Why did you screencap that stupid post

We usually get alternate scripts long after the product has been out for years, and never before.

Too many people who actually made games at valve have left valve. It's dead. "We're working on half life episode 3" became "I have nothing to talk about". And it's stayed that way for years. Gabe never announced the cancellation because people would get mad, he just wanted to wear us down and force us to forget about it as the years go by.

>>388266585
The genre is saturated and boring at this point.
Maybe in 40-50 years it will be worth while again.

>>388276641

>same brand of autism
>two entirely different viewpoints

>>388276793

Except it wouldn't turn a profit at all, like people keep telling you. 10 years, you dumb faggot. People have long forgotten about HL except for a small vocal minority.

>>388276641
no one thinks this means hl is alive or dead

can anyone in this thread say anything or prove that this new meme post means literally ANYTHING. Because it literally means nothing at all.

Half-life fanbase is honestly the most cringiest fanbase I have ever seen. Most of you are adults now, literally BEGGING for a sequel to what was already mediocre games.

>>388276969

kys kid

>>388277071
I think you mean kys ADULT, kiddo

>>388276890
Everyone would fucking lose their shit if they did another one with Colonial Marines, fuck, you can just rip the story from AVP2.

>>388277065

For years they've deluded themselves that it's something more than a mediocre FPS. That's the scary part.

>>388270636
>spastic

Nothing more fucking spastic than this entire thread of underage mongoloids pretending they give a shit about half life.

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>>388276969
>guy who was writing Half Life 3 left the company last year
>Half Life 3 has supposedly been in development for 10 years
>the CEO of Valve has stated multiple times that Half Life 3 is either barely being made, or not being made at all
>then all of a sudden the writer for Half Life 3 leaks the story for the game and gives firsthand knowledge that everyone who was making Half Life 3 is no longer with the company and if this game is ever going to see the light of day modders will have to make it themselves
Really gets the noggin joggin...

>>388266585
It doesn't matter. Nothing zombie Valve could release would be as good as Laidlaw's outline.

>>388277160
sounds like doom fags

>>388277261
why are you green texting when you could be linking sources instead

>>388277315

source is on the front page of /v/, you gigantic retard

>>388267939
one of the worst posts ive ever read, nice

>>388277363
the source of the claims you just made LOL

that sticky is just a fanfic

>>388266585
alright, don't tell others about this.
but i'm actually friend with him and i know what's up with this stunt.
it's actually to force valve to release statements about HL3.

>>388267236
What to people not understand about it being ten years since the last release? People have waited so so long to see the end of Gordon's arch and no one has been particularly excited by the idea of having a Half Life game with perfect gameplay, but just seeing the conclusion to a story that was left on one of the biggest cliff hangers in gaming.

Even in it's simplified fashion, it's just relieving to know how it ends in the perspective of the original writer and I still hope it gets made into a game (or mod, like many are discussing) of some sort just envisioning many of the ideas even if it looks like a shitty HL2 mod with little voice acting.

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All the staff that worked on the original games left.

Gabe is too rich and too laid-back to care about developing a game.

It's like asking nu-Retro to create a new Donkey Kong Country game.

Let it go.

>>388276952

That's a gross oversimplification. D44M sold about 3.5mil copies despite being the first entry in over a decade. And besides, whether something is a profit or not is directly proportional to the development and marketing costs, and guess what, they could practically market the game for free through steam and word of mouth because of its meme status. They would get many millions worth of free publicity from the gaming press. Can you imagine the amount of "OMG HL3 confirmed!" articles?

I'm pretty sure that if HL3 dropped and was actually at least decent it would likely sell sufficiently well to not be a financial failure, providing there wasn't bloated development costs.

>>388277446

you don't even know what he meant when he said that, because you're a retard who shouldn't be on the internet.

kys please.

>I-it could still happen guys!
No. Fuck you. Modern Valve doesn't give a single shit

>>388277569
so just post what he said LOL

Just stop meme posting for two seconds and post actual explanations. Like any single explanation. Like one (1).

pls.

>>388277565

Doom had other games inbetween the newest one. HL has gotten jack shit since 2007. Retaaaaard.

>>388276795
>We usually get alternate scripts long after the product has been out for years, and never before.

That's literally not true though. And I screen capped it because it's a fact of the industry and I posted it before he ever tweeted the same shit. Only morons who don't understand how writing works would lose their shit over this.

>>388277682

it was a joke, retard. like ha ha it's fanfic because i don't actually work there anymore so this doesn't even matter.

it was a story idea that he probably proposed to valve at some point and they either turned him down, or took too long to finish the game.

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>there are people who actually expect 2019 to come around and all of a sudden Valve releases a full fledged Half Life 3
>there are people who actually expect this theoretical Half Life 3 to even be good when none of the original developers for the Half Life series will have worked on it and the only developers left at Valve only make card games and MOBAs

>>388277838
so why did you post at all when you are saying exactly what I've been saying this entire time.

what the fuck

>>388277838
It was actually in development. It explains a lot of the concept art for Episode 3 and the Borealis easter egg in Portal 2.

>>388277785
>That's literally not true though.

Name some scripts that got legally released before the movie or whatever came out.

Even if you could. Now name some instances where that happened and it was from the series only writer who has been out of the company so long the NDA expired and that's why we have this.

It's kill. You have no footing to call anyone morons.

>>388267387
>waiting for VR to stop being a meme
Anon ...

>>388267387
>they're waiting for VR to stop being a meme
We already knew they were never releasing HL3.

>>388278028
>Name some scripts that got legally released before the movie or whatever came out.

Max landis power rangers script.

>Now name some instances where that happened and it was from the series only writer who has been out of the company so long the NDA expired and that's why we have this.

Laidlaw wasn't the only writer and the NDA thing is just horseshit with absolutely no source. You are the one with no footing.

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>bitter hasbeen nerd says fuck it and decide to spill some beans
>spills massive spaghetti instead
>24 hours long total internet freakout meme overload mass hysteria

>gaben the overlord takes the phone and does his usual hey-pal-long-time-no-see-what-about-I-kill-your-family
>hasbeen backpedals like fucking crazy
>"haha you guys merely pretending lmao"

More like Half Death 3 because this project is dead. Never ever.

>>388277702

>Doom had other games inbetween the newest one

like what? A 3rd party Doom II expansion? Doom 3 BFG edition? I think the Half Life name has generated a similar amount of interest in that time with Black Mesa.

I mean, 11 million people own Half Life 2 on Steam. Its hardly as obscure or forgotten about as you think, and any shiny new game has the potential to bring in new fans.

>>388267939
hahaahaha cry about it you little bitch

>>388278265
>h-he wasn't the only writer!

not that guy, but stop being retarded. he has been known as the lead and head writer for the entire series since the beginning.

>>388278381

wow, 11 million? lol what a joke, and it's been out since what, 2004? Resident Evil has way more total sales and it was made in 2009.

>>388278461
Do you know what a lead writer does on a writing team? He accepts and rejects ideas from the writers working underneath him. He is rarely the creative motor.

Fuck Valve

>>388278525

Resident Evil 5*

>>388277496
>Even in it's simplified fashion, it's just relieving to know how it ends in the perspective of the original writer

so its relieving to know the sequel to the biggest cliffhanger in gaming also ends in a bigger cliffhanger?

half life fags are a strange bunch

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>>388267387
>another tech demo
Makes sense.

>>388266640
>A single particularly pathetic /v/irgin gets sad over it, ignores the greater picture and asks to make it sticky
>A mod, who had either no clue of the situation or was equally pathetic stickies it
>Everyone either believes its the absolute truth because of the sticky or because of the general overreaction

Laidlaw cant confirm anything now that he's out, this was obvious from the start, you guys are retarded.

>>388268868
basically that they can still make half life 3 without him

>>388278265
>Max landis power rangers script.

The reason that happened was because Max Landis owned that script. They never bought it and he didn't write it under an employee contract. Yes it's exactly the type of example I asked for but it still doesn't matter.

>the NDA thing is just horseshit with absolutely no source.

NDAs are ubiquitous in any industry with trade secrecy and you couldn't drop shit like this while under one. For someone who "knows how writing works" you don't seem to know how anything works.

>>388278525
>>388278608

>11 million sales on PC ALONE
>Bad

Pick one. RE5 has about a million owners on steam, less than 10% of HL2. According to VG chartz RE5 sold about 8.5 million on consoles combined.

People are definitely hungry for another Half Life. You're delusional if you think otherwise.

>>388279040
most people on this board right now probably werent even born when the original half life came out

>>388278554
>He accepts and rejects ideas from the writers working underneath him. He is rarely the creative motor.

Why are you talking about Laidlaw in the abstract like we can't know what he really does. He is the creative writer for half life. And he quit out of boredom. That means that shit was never happening.

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Mods are fucking retards. This isn't the first time "information" about HL3 like this is released. He sticked dumb gossip that's talked about all the time.

>>388279149

The same goes for Mario and Zelda, yet they're still successful today with a young audience.

Just stop, you brainlet.

>>388278974
>They never bought it

They DID buy it. You don't know what you are talking about. Stop.

>For someone who "knows how writing works" you don't seem to know how anything works.

Just stop.

>NDAs are ubiquitous

When did his NDA expire? You don't even have any fucking proof. I'm not saying htere wasn't an NDA. I'm saying your operating entirely off of conjecture and not facts.

>>388267420
>>388267664

Stop shilling this stupid fucking video.

Why in the hell would valve refuse to give closure to a decade long series because of the justified reaction of the Mass effect 3 ending.

> Apparently Valve saw the negative reception of Mass Effect 3 and decided any conclusion that wasn't absolutely perfect would get fans a-ragin'.

There is no business correlation between ME3 and HL:EP 3. No company would completely refuse to churn a product due to one failure from a different business that handled things differently, its a retarded business decision.

fuck off you mong

>>388279168
Name one other time the LEAD FUCKING WRITER for the series did something like this.

>>388279040

nobody gives a shit about pc sales. i'm talking total sales, retard. on every platform.

>>388279307

Yeah, and the combined Half Life 2 sales are higher than RE5's, which was the example YOU chose.

>>388279367

but that's wrong.

>>388279402

Half Life 2 has 11 million owners on Steam. That is more than all RE5 sales for every platform combined.

>>388279265
bullshit, mario and zelda run almost entirely on nostalgic manchildren

>>388279165
He had several writers he worked with and they were all gone long before him. There were different writers from half life 1 to half life 2. Come back when you want to have a serious discussion and not sensationalist bullshit.

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>>388266585
At the end of the day, it's over. I don't think this particular event signifies that, but it's been over for Half-Life for a while now. There isn't a single thing to indicate Valve would ever move away from their current business model to make a singleplayer-centric conclusion to HL. Some might say that's not true because Valve never announced its cancellation, but that implies Valve ever even opens up about anything. And with how people claim they won't make it because everyone "expects it to be perfect", it's probably safe to assume they want nothing to do with the ire from its cancellation.

Sure, they would probably make a decent chunk of change off of sales, but why spend the time and money developing it when they could make more money off of games that currently exist? There is absolutely no reason for current Valve to make the game other than to appease fans, but they've shown time and time again they don't care about what you want as long as someone is buying keys.

>>388279481

>source needed

>>388279290
Jackie Chan

>>388279479
>steam sales

>>388279279
>They DID buy it. You don't know what you are talking about. Stop.

I assume you had your facts straight. The power rangers script was not legally distributed. It was leaked.

>When did his NDA expire?

Before he made his blog post

Wow that was hard

>I'm saying your operating entirely off of conjecture and not facts.

It's called taking a hint and not having a massive case of denial

>>388266674
If only they had made Half Life 3 the card game.

>>388266585
>"It is still unclear to me exactly what brought down our little aircraft. The following hours spent traversing the frigid waste in a blizzard are also a jumbled blur, ill-remembered and poorly defined."
This means that it was up to the developers how the helicopter would crash, I guess. I do remember leaked concept art of the crashed helicopter, as well as the Combine compound. I also remember he started a Breengrub Twitter. There is no doubt in my mind that this was his planned storyline for Episode 3.

I bought both HL1 AND HL2 upon release and literaly couldn't give a fuck about HL3

I honestly don't care if it's made or not

. <--- that dot is my intrest in HL3

>>388278628
Well you're right in that it doesn't make sense from that statement, but it's a complex scenario that I can only equate to having a series of books end on the 6th of 7 novels without ever finding out who the killer is. The Alyx ending would be more in line with that series ending but the final book creating the possibility for further sequels in later years.

If Gabe took a different approach, Half Life could have easily become the gaming equivelent of Star Wars with the story expansions being almost being endless yet bound to creating a certain universal narrative.

>>388279526
>Sure, they would probably make a decent chunk of change off of sales, but why spend the time and money developing it when they could make more money off of games that currently exist? There is absolutely no reason for current Valve to make the game other than to appease fans, but they've shown time and time again they don't care about what you want as long as someone is buying keys.

the video game industry is in such a pathetic state that valve probably makes nearly as much profit from a new round of weapon skins and crates than it does marketing and releasing a sequel to one of the most famous games of all time

sad but true

>>388279590

>selling a game on your own platform where all the profits go directly to yourself

>>388279607
>power rangers script was not legally distributed

Actually yes it was. At least not any more so than a FUCKING

>Blog post

by your own admittance.

>It's called taking a hint and not having a massive case of denial

The only ones in denial are the people that thinks this signifies anything. This was a rejected IDEA, not even a fucking script, an IDEA for Half Life 2 EPISODE 3, which pales in significance in regards to Half Life 3.

>>388279287
>There is no business correlation between ME3 and HL:EP 3. No company would completely refuse to churn a product due to one failure from a different business that handled things differently, its a retarded business decision.

ME3 was such a stupid example to pick for that rumor. The people who made that game got lazy and clearly did not respect their own material or fan expectations. Valve wasn't going to steal textures from deviant art and change the colors for endings.

But it is true that they don't need the money and a game that's never released is fondly remembered. A lot of people are still salty about half-life 2 even though it was amazing at the time. I have no idea what game they were expecting.

>>388279526

It's funny because Valve acts like they've never released a shitty product. Nigger, every game you've put out has been mediocre meme shit. And then on top of that you take credit for shit you didn't even make. Like, are they retarded. Do they not see the irony.

>>388275074
>valve says it's over
>every person working on Half-life has left the company, including the main writer

What we would have is little more than a fanfiction, not much better than what we got.

>>388279484
>He isn't the only writer
>Take for example, all the other writers that are also gone

The sensationalist bullshit here is that Half Life 3 is in development

>>388279630
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>>388280000

QUADS OF RUMOUR SQUASHING

>>388280065

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>>388280000
>The sensationalist bullshit here is that Half Life 3 is in development

Are you fucking blind? I wasn't arguing it's in development. I was arguing that it being dead forever based off of a blog post is absolutely absurd.

>>388280145

The HL you played in the past is dead, because everyone who made those games are long gone, and this is just icing on the cake.

So yeah, it is dead.

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The biggest mistake at the end of the day was an independent developer ever ending up with the biggest video game marketplace on PC. It was a smart move by them to force Steam on you the first second they could. They wanted to start developing things that would always net them money. For fucks sake, even Portal 2 had hats.

Artifact symbolizes their laziness and greed. Low effort, capitalizing off of current trends and an existing fanbase, and a genre that can make you a whole bunch of money. They aren't much different from Blizzard honestly.

>>388266585
Really Cool Guys: Halo vs Half-Life confirmed!

>>388267664
But Half-Life 2 wasn't a perfect game, it just had a lot of technology for its time.

>>388279873
>Actually yes it was.

No it wasn't

What do you not understand

Leak by some dude =/= voluntarily sharing alternative scripts/production ideas before shit is out. So again, go find an example of >>388267236

>tfw 12yo Steam account and like 6 games on it

Tee hee you won't catch this goy out Gabe you fat sketchy fuck

>people have literal thousands of monies locked into Valve

Are there really people who still think another Half Life will ever come out? I was sure Artifact would have killed off the few left who are still in denial.

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>>388280532
It was at the very least received extremely well. Valve also holds every decision they make in extremely high regard.

>>388266585
>2017
>believing valve damage control

>>388280247
see
>>388270749

I never expected HL2 to return in the same way I never expected HL1 to return 5 minutes into HL2. There has never in the history of gaming been a series that is consistent in quality.

>>388280595
They're just griefing us and will eventually give us what we want

t. WWE fan

>>388280675

Damn, you delusional cunts keep making up one thing after the other. Up until last year it obviously was going to be written by the same guy/people.

>>388280572
He doesn't work for valve. The Landis script was more official jack ass. There is no taking a hint. He's not on their inside. This is about as official as the Diablo 1 creator bitching about Diablo 2.

>>388280595
There will always be people until HAHAHHAHAHHAHA Valve actually says something about it.

>>388280768
>guy/people

Yeah give or take an entire writing team. That is the dumbest qualifier ever. Also yes, this is old news. Think before you speak.

>>388280915

Really? Did you hear this "news" from your favorite cringe streamer on YouTube?

Valve drones are a joke.

>>388266585
sticky this

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WHAT IS IT? WHAT DO YOU SMELL?

MAN it's going to be forever before this shit comes out.

>>388280843

Well they're never going to say anything, so I will keep calling these people retarded.

While I sincerely doubt its been worked on for a long time I could honestly imagine this controversy causing them to finally make HL3 as both a way to save face and out of spite for Marc.

That'd said it probably be rushed and with the sole aim to finish the series once and for all so everyone would shut the fuck up. So I'd honestly might not even want a HL3 at that point.

>>388266585
I mean this would be awesome if it happens, but until then Marc's leak was a convincingly-satisfying conclusion.

At least for HL2. HL3 could've been/could be fucking anything.

It's strange since they know from loot boxes and making their card game that people need a reward. With all the money and time and patience that fans have dealt with, they really need an epic single game experience as a carrot. People are dying for Valve to make a game for them yet they just don't seem to understand. The good will they'd build up would be invaluable if they did HL3 or something new even.

>>388280915
half life had one writer, valve had about three in total (although they've all left now)

>>388280815
Yeah I'm sure the guy who worked at Valve for 18 years and wrote for both Half-Life 1 and 2 knew nothing about what was going on. I'm sure they just happened to kick things into production right after he and nearly every single other significant person who worked on the series left.

>>388280612
I'm just saying that a new Half-Life truth be told doesn't have a fraction of the expectations put on it as Mass Effect 3 did.

Mass Effect was a RPG Space Opera. It takes 24 Hours to finish the main story in those games. It's about this grand story with a bunch of characters and story decisions etc.

Half-Life is such a really good action series with a fun spooky atmosphere. It just has to be fun to play and the world has to be cool to explore. The standards are much lower as its not trying to be a big involved story.

We just want more Half-Life because the conventional Single Player FPS Campaign has become a dying breed. That's why Doom 4 was in a sense a breath of fresh air despite being a total nostalgia trip.

>>388280961
I'm a valve drone now? Did you not catch the part where I did not enjoy half life 2? Am I a valve drone because I like Half life 1 and recognize a blog post means nothing in capitalist America?

>>388281039
hmmm yes. im sure gabe will spend millions of dollars to put out a sequel for a game that wont make them that much money just to shut up a bunch of autists and manchildren on the internet

thats what smart business owners do

>>388281131
He already insinuated his idea was rejected. He didn't specify why and implied the series would/could still be made. Are you thick?

>>388280815
>He doesn't work for valve.

He left last year. And Half life 3 smelled like a dead horse long before that.

>He's not on their inside.

You don't understand the significance of this at all. Say he really has no idea what valve is doing right now. Why would he release the story as he knew it? What if valve was going to reuse some or all of those ideas at some point? It would mean he just spoiled story points for fans and/or it would force valve to scrap that material and start over. That theory would require him to be a certified ass hole.

I'm going with he knew that game was dead and he released it for fan closure. If he released it as an alt script for shits seems like there would be some commentary to back that up. Also the end of the story is a clear allusion to his final years at valve. He was probably annoyed that they are doing nothing creative anymore, just a distribution company, and gabe won't announce the cancellation so everyone can start getting over it.

>>388275934
>It literally ends with gordon getting saved last minute and g man doing something with alyx but no explanation as to what.
Wow and that's definitely unusual for a Half Life game. It's not like HL1 ended with Gman suddenly showing up and doing something unexplained with Gordon, or saving them at the end of HL2

Half Life is entirely made of cliffhangers and mystery

>>388281161
If it means to kill of the bad press, yeah it might. Valve biggest strength for the longest time was there stupidly loyal fanbase and PR. People fucking loved them. Now they're practically hated by all of their fans.

Throwing what amounts to a drop in the bucket to regain some PR is a sound investment.

>>388281082
Valve doesn't care about the consumers/fanbase so as long they're buying their shit, which they will because most people aren't willing to leave Steam. They only ever implemented refunds because of laws in other countries. They still have zero actual people for support and no quality control on the marketplace.

They'll only do it if they're really in trouble and threatened by another platform

>>388281158
>I'm just saying that a new Half-Life truth be told doesn't have a fraction of the expectations put on it as Mass Effect 3 did.

bullshit. what youre saying might have been true a couple years after HL2

half life 3 now has this mythical duke nukem forever status. it cant possibly live up to the enormous expectations around it if it ever did release

>>388279590
That's valve's own platform, you think they're giving themselves a bad deal?

>>388266640
It's not like HL3 is ever coming out anyway, it's best to just take the fanfic as fact.

>>388281320
He released the story to episode 3. Someone who does not understand the difference between episode 3 and Half Life 3 should not be lecturing others on their comprehension of the significance. The episodes were always considered abominations and Valve said there likely wouldn't be an Episode 3 long ago.

>>388281370
>Throwing what amounts to a drop in the bucket to regain some PR is a sound investment.

a AAA game, especially on the scale of HL3, isnt a drop in the bucket. its a major fucking investment that has the potential to lose a lot of money or not be worth the time and resources invested into it. thats why the old school AAA industry is practically dead

>>388281356
ok?

yea

thats what we are all saying

>>388281254
>He already insinuated his idea was rejected.

No, he said it was unproduced. Half life 3 as a whole was rejected.

>He didn't specify why and implied the series would/could still be made. Are you thick?

No shit. Never is a long time and Half Life is money. You can bet your balls the series will be revived. But everything points to Half Life 3 being cancelled and not in development right now.

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Wait a second
Could it be that the ep3 script got released in order to hype a new entry in the series and the writer is secretly employed by valve still? Is this...a new ruse cruise?

>>388281484
no, im saying that citing the number of owners a game has on steam is stupid because a ton of old games are regularly put on sales and in bundles for next to nothing and are never played by the people who bought them

>>388281431
What do people concretely expect aside from a good engine with nice physics though?

>>388281487
The difference between Episode 3 and Half Life 3 is the scale of the project. It's still a continuation of the story after episode 2. It hardly seems to matter.

Also answer my points. Does he know what valve is doing or not? How can he safely release this material without jeopardizing what valve is or isnt working on? Do you think he's talking about half life here?:

>And here we are. I spoke of my return to this shore. It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the terrain has changed. Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I spoke, or what precisely we hoped to accomplish. At this point, the resistance will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me. Old friends have been silenced, or fallen by the wayside. I no longer know or recognize most members of the research team, though I believe the spirit of rebellion still persists. I expect you know better than I the appropriate course of action, and I leave you to it. Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final epistle.

>>388266585
>>388266640
Yeah, HL3 might still happen (probably many years from now). The point is that this original episode 3 that all the fans were looking forward to is dead and buried.

>>388281729
I agree that steam sales are overinflated, but don't act like that doesn't go for RE5 sales as well across all different platforms and with super cheap ps3 platinum editions etc. You have to be crazy if you think RE5 has more sales, or more revenue, than HL2. Wiki has 6.5 non-steam sales listed as of 2008. If RE5 has 8 million total there's no way the math adds up.

>>388281370
>bad press
Doesn't exist unless the 'bad press' is that you're a child molester or that you spit in your restaurant's food.

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Why do any of you even care whether or not it's dead? Most of the key figures of the original Valve team have left. If it's dead, it's dead. If it isn't dead, you'll be getting a Half Life game without Marc Laidlaw, Kelly Bailey, Ted Backman. You'll be getting a Duke Nukem forever tier fanservice game that's essentially a shell of what once was.

>It was just a prank, valve. I swear!

>>388268129
You are aware that Gaben repeatedly said that the Episodes ARE hl3?
>why isnt it hl3ep1 then hurdur
Marketing and yes they regret it

>>388281372
yeah sure but you could say that about any corporation, yet some do actually deliver to the consumers. Costco is an obvious example, they run their food stands at a loss as a thank you to customers, and also pay their employees more than market value.

>>388281431
Dude Doom 4 proves the Duke Nukem Forever meme wrong. We're not unreasonable here if Half-Life 3 came out next year and was a really good game we wouldn't be crying that it didn't "Live up to the hype."

>there are people who fell for this line and actually think HL3 will still come out
*Inhales*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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>>388266585
yeah right sure it is

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God help whoever thinks they can top laidlaws script

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>>388266585
yeah everyone, wait another decade. it will totally come out!