Half-Life 3 - An Open World Shooter With Quests Coming After 2013? - Polidicks

We need to tell Valve. They don't know they're making HL3 yet.

[QUOTE=BenJammin';37756444]there is no viable proof that it's hl3 or if it's episode 3. Just pray to jeebus it's not half-life 3. It makes no logical sense to put it as half-life 3 if the next installment is just going to be based around finding and destroying the borealis, and if it really is named HL3 I suspect the borealis story would be the last you ever seen of the half-life universe. I am really hoping they stick to their original plan of expanding the half-life 2 story through episodes. Then maybe in the future we can hope for a half-life 3 that is completely fresh and separate from half-life 2's location and time. here's what I am hoping for honestly. Half-Life 1: 200X, completely different setting, different feel, different story arc, it stands on it's own. Half-Life 2: 202X, completely different setting, different feel, different story arc, drastically improved engine and character development. Stands on it's own and feels like a true and revolutionary sequel. Episode 1: Same year, same setting, same gameplay, a continuation of the ending for half-life 2, a very good expansion. Doesn't really stand on it's own. Episode 2, Same year, same setting (still around the outskirts of where hl2 took place), updated engine, completely fresh environment not seen in the series before, new characters, same half-life 2 feel, more character depth, new exciting moments, cliff hanger ending. Episode 3, same year, same world but possibly new setting (maybe quite far away from city 17), completely new winter environment, same half-life 2 feel, hopefully new weapons characters and enemies, fantastic closing to gordon's experience and story in the dystopian combine period of earth, finally redeeming what happened at black mesa and freeing the human and vortigaunt species. Stands on it's own but still related to half-life 2. Half-Life 3: Completely new revolutionary engine, brand new timeline, brand new characters, brand new setting, new gameplay elements, new enemies, new weapons. Stands completely on it's own, new story with gordon is born. To me that makes a lot more logical sense than turning episode 3 into it's own thing, because it's still connected to Half-Life 2.[/QUOTE] There is more evidence to suggest that it will be called Episode 3 such as file names in recent source games.

As much as I like open world shooters with quests I don't think it would work really. It's just not the linear alien/zombie shooting style that we all know and love.

Frankly, what if the 'open-world part' is Half-Life 3 Deathmatch. Imagine that it's included (unlike the first two games) with Half-Life 3. Now, a good setting could be an all-out war between rebels and combines in an artic location. There's not much to see, but some locations to secure, vehicles to get to the enemy faste- What the f*ck I am writing, I already know 0% of that will be true.

[QUOTE=BenJammin';37754847]First of all if it's half-life 3 and not episode 3 I am going to gut myself. EPISODE 3 SO YOU CAN FINISH THE FUCKING HALF-LIFE 2 NARRATIVE. Half-Life 3 would have to dictate a whole new series of locations, story line, and maybe even a whole new time period. Secondly, OPEN WORLD WHAT, VALVE IS NOT THAT FUCKING STUPID. The whole point of half-life is being an amazingly detailed, emotional, action packed, atmospheric, and immersive FPS that is LINEAR, the linearity of the map design is made up for by AMAZING FUCKING MOMENTS AND SET PIECES. Half-Life's core design could not work properly in an open world. Sure, valve COULD do open world very well, they just wouldn't be fucking stupid enough to do it with half-life their most beloved series. Right...?[/QUOTE] who the fuck cares if it's hl3? that just means a whole massive new engine update and way more content and doesn't imply the ending. and why do you even need a rant for that open world thing like that? it just sounds dumb. Calm down.

I will only get excited for ep3 news if it comes from valve, not some guy in it, not some guy's dad who works there a valve press release

[QUOTE=Maruhai;37755314]No, it's HL3 and not Episode 3. Calm down and read before you post. [editline]22nd September 2012[/editline] Source 2[/QUOTE] They've stated several times they're dropping the Episodic model, but not Episode 3.

[QUOTE=BenJammin';37754847]First of all if it's half-life 3 and not episode 3 I am going to gut myself. EPISODE 3 SO YOU CAN FINISH THE FUCKING HALF-LIFE 2 NARRATIVE. Half-Life 3 would have to dictate a whole new series of locations, story line, and maybe even a whole new time period. Secondly, OPEN WORLD WHAT, VALVE IS NOT THAT FUCKING STUPID. The whole point of half-life is being an amazingly detailed, emotional, action packed, atmospheric, and immersive FPS that is LINEAR, the linearity of the map design is made up for by AMAZING FUCKING MOMENTS AND SET PIECES. Half-Life's core design could not work properly in an open world. Sure, valve COULD do open world very well, they just wouldn't be fucking stupid enough to do it with half-life their most beloved series. Right...?[/QUOTE] Mate it's not important what they name it. Whatever it's called it will involve Freeman and it will most likely (I know they said it would be but nothing they say is set in stone) the end of the Combine/Alyx/Rebels story arc. I don't think it's worth anybody's energy to give a shit about whether it's HL3 or EP3.

[QUOTE=Maloof?;37759306]Mate it's not important what they name it. Whatever it's called it will involve Freeman and it will most likely (I know they said it would be but nothing they say is set in stone) the end of the Combine/Alyx/Rebels story arc. I don't think it's worth anybody's energy to give a shit about whether it's HL3 or EP3.[/QUOTE] [I]Half Life 3: Revnge of teh cumbeans[/I] [B]still a gotyay[/B]

[QUOTE=Coffee;37757849]There is more evidence to suggest that it will be called Episode 3 such as file names in recent source games.[/QUOTE] and that's all old and obsolete files. maybe they made the decision later on to make HL3 on Source 2, which is why we have no evidence of HL3 stuff except for what the guys on the company says.