Comment on Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year

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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• boreengreen@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Will you get the itch after you start seeing trailers, praise and hear people talk about playing it?

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• Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard people say they won’t make HL3 until the next big leap in gaming is here.

  1 was with us into “true 3D” era

  2 was with us into physics engines

  Alyx was with us into VR gaming.

  3 will be with us …?

  I’m excited to find where we’re going. Gaming has been pretty stale for a long time. Sure we’ve had plenty of games that have got very clever with what we have, but we haven’t had a major leap in a long time, they’ve just been getting a bit more polish and shine each year. Short of deep-dive VR I honestly don’t know what could be next.

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    next big leap is an AAA game actually worth its price, which is what valve is trying to accomplish.

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