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If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this I’d have enough nickles to fund a studio and make HL3 myself.
I’ll wait for the official announcement before getting hyped up.
After Oblivion, I wonder if they would announce it and release it at the same time, too.
It’s been 84 years…
Please stop defaulting to Half Life 3 when you have nothing better to write about.
I think I read this rumor once a year since before half life 1 was released
Yeah, however, leaks around this have been a bit more believable than before. Can’t remember the specifics, but more concrete stuff has been found by datamining (iirc) deadlock and paying attention to steamdb, with less reliable leaks ranging from the game or assets (again, iirc). So, there’s a fair chance this is real.
However, HL3 has been real multiple times before, it has been cancelled many times apparently, only to be taken up again later on.
Fact remains however, that Valve have been working continuously on an appid that isn’t deadlock for some time now, and there’s plenty of noise around them working on a new half life.
Wasn’t half life alyx supposed to be 3 but title rebranded because overhyped expectations?
No, HL:Alyx functions as a sort-of prequel. The ending of it does provide a stepping stone from which HL3 could pick up again.
Honestly HL3 shouldve been out a decade ago for me to care. If it ever does release then im just not all that interested anymore.
Who cares? I’d rather they take their time instead of rushing the first crap they think about. And knowing valve I bet they waited for newer technologies to offer more in their games (case in point: Alyx with VR)
As Gaben put it in the recent valve doc, moving the story forward wasn’t a good enough reason to put out a new Half Life. The series has always been about pushing technological innovations, and they just felt stumped on how HL3 was going to do that.
People like to claim valve doesn’t do anything anymore, but I legitimately feel like PC gaming is the best deal for gaming right now, handily beating out console and mobile, and that is in large part due to valve.
Their flat internal structure hasn’t been perfect, but on the bright side it didn’t result in them pumping out what the gaming industry would have viewed in retrospect as yet another obligatory entry in an FPS series. Valve’s intention was to let smart people solve hard problems in the gaming space, and IMO they have always done that, it just so far hasn’t resulted in a HL3.
