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Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I think most gamers would have been perfectly happy with a trip to the Borealis just for the closure of the thing, even if the gameplay brought little to nothing new to the table other than some nice new visuals and arctic setpieces.

Instead we got Half Life: Alyx which was a stunning albeit niche experience in the same old City 17, which retconned Episode 2’s cliffhanger with another, different cliffhanger. For fuck’s sake, Gabe.

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TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Instead we got Half Life: Alyx

Only if you’re rich enough to afford VR setup. Fuck me for being born in a third world country, right Gabe?

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- SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Haha you’re poor
  
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- ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  And are physically abled to play in VR.
  
  I had a VR Headset (Vive Cosmos), but my eyes just aren’t up scratch, so I could never enjoy it.
  
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- pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It was the same for HL2 though. I played it like 10 years after it was released, didn’t make the game worse. With VR the first experience will probably be even better in the future.
  
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  - TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    It was the same for HL2 though
    
    Literally how? All you needed was a computer that could run games, which if you were into gaming on PC, you already had.
    
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    pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It required a good computer which I living in a third-world country didn’t have.
    
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squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This. I didn’t (and still don’t) need groundbreaking gameplay for Episode 3. I just wanted an ending to the plot.

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