If Alyx required a VR headset, Half-Life 3 is gonna require that brainchip.
gabe working on it, boy
Not gonna happen for me
he a good daddy allegedly but yeah i think it aint wise
Pass.
Especially if it’s anything like the story of Alyx.
edit: Apparently, not liking a fanfiction.net tier story that undoes the emotionally charged ending of the last game and brings back a character who’s voice acgtor died is a contentious opinion. Well, it’s not like new-Valve gives a shit about VAs reprising their roles. They couldn’t be bother to ask Merle Dandridge to come back in any capacity.
Valve has said on at least a couple occasions they don’t really have interest in making games anymore, unless there is some new technology they get interested in that they can make a game around.
The HL2 episodes were basically tests for different source engine technologies.
Alyx was basically then playing around with VR.
So yeah, I can totally see some weird fucked up thing like a brainchip being what HL3 is built around, if HL3 ever stops being anything more than a syphilitic hallucination of a desperate mind.
All their games are tests for different technologies or business models. In hindsight, Gabe has never cared about the story of Half-Life. He just happened to have hired a good writer for HL1 and HL2 by accident. It’s why I’m more interested in the fanon then the canon at this point. Half-Life: Echoes and Entropy: Zero are criminally underplayed.
I want to know how Half Life ends. I couldnt give a shit about fan shit. Some of its good and engaging, not putting it down, but its not relative to the current issue… I want the conclusion to the fucking story I paid for and got massively invested in, in 2004. That I bought the next chapters of in 2006 and 2007.
Two things piss me off like nothing else when it comes to media.
Stories that leave you on a cliffhanger and never finish.
and Stories that are amazing all the way up until the end, when someone just decides to squeeze a big fat wet turd out and said good enough (Fucking mass effect…)
I’d rather spend 18 years being blueballed and cockteased by Bea Arthur.
I would like to know how Marc Laidlaw was going to end the story. Well, we have Epistle Three, but it’s not the same as if he had stayed on board. Entropy: Zero Two is staying closer to what Marc Laidlaw’s laid out in Epistle Three then anything Alyx decided to do.
Hell, I’ve become disinterested in the Halo franchise because of the revolving door of writers constantly throwing out the previous team’s ideas. The moment new writers come in, the line between canon and fanon starts blurring.
Half-Life 4 confirmed!!!
As if anyone would still be around for Half-life 4 anyway
Tbh my existenial paranoia kind of took it that HL3 would start irl and I was one of those civilian models.
Imagine getting HL3 before GTA6. The meme potential would be out of this world
We’ve been needing something since Duke Nukem finally shipped.
Still no Daikatana…
Did John Romero make anyone his bitch with that one?
Honestly I feel like the next Elder Scrolls would be a better example than GTA6.
Hey, I’ll take anything over being stuck on the cliffhanger of Eli’s death for 20 years, and wrap up the whole Combine story as best as possible.
cliffhanger of Eli’s death
Uhhh your missing a game there bud.
Wat
HL Alyx
SPOILERS!
A game 90% of people can’t play.
Should have left the main narrative alone.
“i haven’t upgraded my pc since 1990, it’s not fair they released a game on 2002 pc specs!”
is what you sound like.Should they not release new games on new consoles too because you only have the old ones?
Hardly. HL:A is the only game that would interest me in the slightest on VR platforms. No “upgrade” involves buying a dead end platform for one game.
No one cares what you think
As TachyonTele suggested, you may want to play or read into Half Life Alyx. Time travel got involved.
What if I don’t have VR?
I’ve heard there are mods to play it on a flat screen. Obvs you’d lose a lot of the experience, but that would be a way to get the story.
I watched a story recap on yt.
If possible, I recommend giving Alyx a go, even if you have to borrow a headset, visit a friend, arcade, ect.
Not an option for everyone of course, Alyx aside VR is fun and while the entry requirements are getting lower it’s still a leap.
Valve will probably summarise the main story change in HL3, which will be a very WTF moment that’s kinda on brand with the scenario.
That cliffhanger got addressed in Half-Life: Alyx. And replaced with a different cliffhanger.
I’ve been fooled before. Not getting my hopes up till valve posts a trailer.
kinda brave of you to believe in valve even if they produced a trailer.
What can I say? I’m a hopeless romatic. Granted it would have to be more than a teaser trailer. But still, I suppose I’m subject to flights of fanciful hope.
But has it been designed to be the final Episode?
HL3:EP1 confirmed.
I’m far past the point of caring. I’ve moved on with my life
Sorry I don’t recognize that number.
it doesn’t look like anything to me
It looks like a dog with no eyes. Now I’m sad
No.
Bring back the Seattle Sonics if we are gonna be hopeful for things from 2 decades ago
trust me bro, insider gaming
TIL the grabby gloves thing I missed due to lack of VR gear wasn’t HL3.
I’ll believe it when it’s out, but that would be the best decision, no one likes waiting 15 years between sequels.
Only 15? Episode 2 came out in 2007.
I was purposely avoiding doing the math to not feel old.
The release of “Semi-Charmed Life” is closer to the moon landing than to today.
