Comment on Half Life 3

Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  IIRC valve outright said it wasn’t HL3

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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah they did. But at this point Half Life 3 has a mythical status they will never be able to measure up to.

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    • RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know why would it have this mythical status. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Half-Life 1 and loved its remake Black Mesa even more because of how they transformed Xen into something actually likable to a point Xen was almost favorite part for me. Half-Life 2, while it was great game by any metric. What do people expect from it to be “something more”? For me System Shock 2 and Deus Ex from years prior are significantly more advanced and more immersive games. I could almost say the same for Bioshock which was inspired by those two. It’s only that much they can do to the game to still be Half-Life while elevating it to something “more”. Like, if they keep it just a shooter like it was, many might complain it’s too basic and if they add too many complex things to it like inventory, skills and leveling, it might not be Half-Life anymore as us old folks know and remember it. So, what to do? I have no doubts it’ll be an interesting experience either way, but people need to ground their expectations because of the above reasons.

      Valve can surprise or even shock me with something new, a ground breaking innovation, but I really have no expectations.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Half-Life: Alyx showed that Valve still knows how to make a great campaign shooter, and it’s not like we’re spoiled for choice in that genre right now. At this point, a solid Half-Life sequel that doesn’t push the envelope would still be amazing.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it was the third complete half-life game. I havent played it (no interest in owning vr kit) and even I take this view.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure but that’s like calling Vice City GTA4. It’s not named that by the people that make it

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Okay so it’s maybe 45 to 50 per cent half-life 3.

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• Thatuserguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rumors I’ve seen are they are going all in on the physics. Like, every object in the game has material properties like flammability that will react differently in the environment. Some rumors about some procedural generation tech being involved as well, but not to what extent it’s being used

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like Minecraft or more recent Zelda titles but for what’s worth there is still a lot of untapped potential there.

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• MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  HL3 needs to advance the Half-Life story. Alyx advanced the story about 2 minutes from HL2 because it was a side-story.

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• inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’ve already had one Half-Life 3 but what about a second Half-Life 3

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• JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You may be onto something. If we take away HL: Lost Coast, and both HL: Deathmatch versions, there are 9 titles.
  With the rumoured title code named HL:X it makes me wonder how they’re going to announce it (granted these rumours are true).

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  • peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Half-life: Fornite.

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• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Uh…did you actually play the game? Because if you watched the ending you’d see that it was absolutely was NOT supposed to be HL3.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Personally, I’d like to see one of these games end without a cliffhanger. That last one was a doozy.

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