• Newell on how Valve reveals titles. Confirms plans to talk about Episode 3... eventually.
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[release]As the wait for news on the next Half-Life game goes on, Valve boss Gabe Newell has explained the famed developer's current strategy on revealing new titles. Valve's experience with Half-Life and Half-Life 2 caused a rethink, leading the company to back off from talking about future games until they're good and ready, Newell told Penny Arcade. "Part of the reason that we backed off talking so much about what was happening in the future is that when we've done that in the past, you know, with Half-Life 1 it was a year after we originally said it would be, Half-Life 2 basically if you go and read the forum posts apparently took us 50 or 60 years to get done, so we're trying to be careful not to get people too excited and then have to go and disappoint them. "So we're sort of reacting in the other direction and saying, 'okay, well let's have things a little more baked before we start getting people all excited about it.'" Valve's continued silence over the next Half-Life, be it Half-Life 2: Episode 3 or Half-Life 3, has frustrated many of its fans. Earlier this month 10,000 Valve fans logged on to play Half-Life 2 en-masse in an attempt to make their campaign for more Half-Life information heard. It was the result of a Steam Group, called A Call for Communication (Half-Life), that is lobbying Valve to release more information on the future of the much-loved series. "The lack of communication between Valve and the Half-Life community has been a frustrating experience. While continued support for current and future products is greatly appreciated, fans of the Half-Life series have waited years for a word on when the franchise will return," the group's description reads. "We're acutely aware of how much we annoy our fans and it's pretty frustrating to us when we put them into that situation," Newell told Penny Arcade, while agreeing with the suggestion that there is tension between all the various projects the company is interested in doing. "We try to go as fast as we can and we try to pick the things that we think are going to be most valuable to our customers and if there's some magic way we can get more work done in a day then we'd love to hear about it. "But we recognize that it's been a long time whereas we have so many games that people really love - Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, not a whole lot of Ricochet enthusiasts out there, and at the same time we want to be making sure that those games and those stories and those characters are moving forward while also making sure that we don't just get into terminal sequelitis." In June 2009 Newell said he had "very good reasons" for not discussing Half-Life 2: Episode 3, but refused to be drawn on them or when the developer would be able to open up about the concluding chapter in the FPS saga. "I get a ton of email every day saying why aren't you talking about Episode 3? And there are very good reasons why we're not talking about Episode 3, which I can't talk about yet, but I will," Newell said at the time. And last year, Newell told Eurogamer he wouldn't trade the "enthusiasm and straightforwardness of our fans for a quieter inbox". [/release] Source:[url]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-20-newell-valve-wants-its-games-more-baked-before-revealing-them[/url] Don't kill me if it's Late!
"We can't talk about why we can't talk about Episode 3." They just went down another level of silence. In all seriousness though, nice to see the mention.
[QUOTE=Gabe Newell]not a whole lot of Ricochet enthusiasts out there[/QUOTE] my god this is true
doesn't really seem like he's going to be talking about episode 3 specifically, he's still being pretty vague about if it's indeed episode 3 or something bigger. god dammit gaben
[release]Valve's experience with Half-Life and Half-Life 2 caused a rethink, leading the company to back off from talking about future games until they're good and ready, Newell told Penny Arcade.[/release] Does this mean they're trying to get rid of the infamous Valve Time?
In that period of time when Half-Life 3 or Episode 3 shows up I'm gonna be 30 years old, I will have annoying wife with bunch of kids.
Oh hell yes
It will get here when it gets here, and it will be worth the wait.
I've been weighting for too long.
[quote]"I get a ton of email every day saying why aren't you talking about Episode 3? And there are very good reasons why we're not talking about Episode 3, which I can't talk about yet, but I will," Newell said at the time.[/quote] This part is from a 2009 interview. He doesn't say anything about Episode Three in the interview.
The last part of the article made me smile
Anything Valve. Give us anything related to Half Life.
This is pretty much just an excerpt of the PA interview, with a little extra EP3 to catch some viewers, along with some old stuff.
[QUOTE=Hybrid 4F;34806415]This part is from a 2009 interview. He doesn't say anything about Episode Three in the interview.[/QUOTE] Nope, it[URL="http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/valves-gabe-newell-talks-wearable-computers-rewarding-players-and-whether-w/all"] isn't.[/URL] [editline]21st February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Chrille;34806442]This is pretty much just an excerpt of the PA interview, with a little extra EP3 to catch some viewers, along with some old stuff.[/QUOTE] It's acttually a shit form of press. Just take an interview someone else did and make headlines derived from it for months with few hour increments. Fucking shoddy, but there's journalism for ya.
[QUOTE=Bomimo;34806469]Nope, it[URL="http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/valves-gabe-newell-talks-wearable-computers-rewarding-players-and-whether-w/all"] isn't.[/URL][/QUOTE] Yes it is. Gabe doesn't say anything directly about EP3 in the PA interview and the Eurogamer interview says that part is from a 2009 interview.
I'll let them take their time, I don't want another Duke nukem forever
I don't know why, this makes me think Ep3 won't be mentioned at E3 at all this year.
[QUOTE]not a whole lot of Ricochet enthusiasts out there[/QUOTE] Come on GabeN, I've been waiting for quite a while for a sequel to Ricochet 2 :(
[QUOTE=Hellborg 65;34806554]I don't know why, this makes me think Ep3 won't be mentioned at E3 at all this year.[/QUOTE] If its in a state Valve are happy with then they'll announce it. It sucks becuase we have to wait so long but It looks like Valve want to make sure Ep.3 is perfect to them, and frankly I'm fine with that.
[QUOTE=Bassplaya7;34806340]my god this is true[/QUOTE] they should make Ricochet: Source, would be pretty quick to make. They could just make it free.
[QUOTE=Chrille;34806530]Yes it is. Gabe doesn't say anything directly about EP3 in the PA interview and the Eurogamer interview says that part is from a 2009 interview.[/QUOTE] well color me bad reading!
[QUOTE=Lyonidis;34806392]It will get here when it gets here, and it will be worth the wait.[/QUOTE] Just like DNF was, right?
[QUOTE=MeMassiveFag;34806410]I've been weighting for too long.[/QUOTE] So has Gabe :v:
I'm seriously worried I'll be dead before I get to play Episode 3.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;34806591]Come on GabeN, I've been waiting for quite a while for a sequel to Ricochet 2 :([/QUOTE] Is Ricochet that game with bouncing Spinfusors?
[quote]We try to go as fast as we can[/quote] Nonononononononononononono. NO. Valve rushing stuff has never led to anything good. You can ask the TF2 crowd, you can check what happened with L4D2. Valve's consistently high QA very easily upsets everyone used to it although a similar service provided by another publisher would still be seen as "good". I want to download Episode 3, turn off everything else and now it's going to be an awesome adventure from start to finish.
Worth the weight.
[QUOTE=Bassplaya7;34806340]my god this is true[/QUOTE] Half-Life 3 and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 3 + (2 - 3) = 3 - 1 = 2 This just in Ricochet 2 confirmed!
Still think it should be / will be Half Life 3 not Episode 3
by the time HL3 comes out i wont care about videogames anymore
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