[QUOTE=Whit3;49484141]Why do people think that this means that Half-Life 3 won't be made? Do you people honestly think that Marc hasn't written the story continuation for the Episode Two years ago?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Megalan;49484065][quote]There has never been a finished script for a Half-Life game unless the game itself is finished.
....
I wouldn't even know what a script might contain until we've got a fair bit of gameply that seems compelling. You have ideas for places, scenes, characters, but they are very very rough...sometimes reflected only in emails and conversations. Nothing like a design document of a script. This is my experience anyway[/quote]
well... good luck finding another writer who is ready to work like that.[/QUOTE]
Valve just got rid of story writer because they do not make games anymore.
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[QUOTE=Knurr;49484154]Valve just got rid of story writer because they do not make games anymore.
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They don't have one dedicated guy who writes the story for every single game, and this guy left of his own accord.
Is this a shitpost?
That and again if they already had it written out but are this unwilling to even touch HL3, they could have done a comic on it like L4D and TF2
[QUOTE=Xubs;49484157]People are very knee-jerky about this. People like binaries, it's a part of human nature. It is either YES, HALF-LIFE 3 IS HAPPENING, PRAISE VALVE!!! or NO, YOU FUCKERS, HALF-LIFE 3 WILL NEVER EXIST, VALVE WILL NEVER MAKE A NEW GAME EVER AGAIN!!!
Meanwhile the scant few people such as myself sit on the sidelines and are just like "I dunno, it might come out someday."
Ultimately it comes down to this: people want instant gratification. That doesn't just mean 'instant happiness', it means that they want their emotions satisfied as quickly as possible. If they WANT to feel angry, they will find every reason to get as angry as quickly as possible. Things such as this attract these kinds of responses. If Valve eventually wants to make a Half-Life game, the departure of their lead writer is not going to stop them.
So in the end, will it happen? I dunno. Will it not happen? I dunno. But CAN it happen? Absolutely. Can it NOT happen? Just as much, absolutely. People don't like things that aren't absolutes so this is how they respond, though.[/QUOTE]
This is a really drawn-out, pretentious way of jerking off about how totally neutral and impartial you are. Okay, cool, you're way above all these other losers getting mad!
When the issue at hand is approaching a decade old, though, I'm not really sure how you can try and say that "they havent said or done anything about it, it's not happening" is a kneejerk response.
Time makes sequels better. Valve is collecting ideas. They're making a followup on what is basically the citizen Kane of gaming. They're researching all the uses for a gravity gun.
[QUOTE=hagbard;49484165]Time makes sequels better. [/QUOTE]
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DNF had a very unique development cycle though, switched developers several times iirc, which fucked it up several times over
man, and he started the breengrub account back in the middle of 2012 because he was bored and frustrated. this makes it seem like valve has done fuck-all on episode 3/half life 3 in 3 and a half years.
Even if Valve isn't interested in making HL3 why don't they just outsource it or just sell the damn IP ?
Even the Black Mesa team with a good crowdfunding campaign could go a long way.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;49484206]Even if Valve isn't interested in making HL3 why don't they just outsource it or just sell the damn IP ?[/QUOTE]
Lol what? A trademark that is so hyped, popular and possibly worth a lot on it's own? No way.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;49484206]Even if Valve isn't interested in making HL3 why don't they just outsource it or just sell the damn IP ?
Even the Black Mesa team with a good crowdfunding campaign could go a long way.[/QUOTE]
Half Life is the crown jewel of their development portfolio. I think it does them a lot more good to have it and never use it, than to not have it at all.
Well it looks like half life is going to turn into another Duke Nukem Forever except the difference being we eventually got Duke Nukem Forever. Very sad but I guess if it's true we should all except it :(
Someone just needs to ask them straight are they developing anything new at all at this point in time. It's not specific enough to warrant no comment.
[QUOTE=ashton93;49484191]DNF had a very unique development cycle though, switched developers several times iirc, which fucked it up several times over[/QUOTE]
DNF didn't switch developers until they sold to Gearbox at the very end. Since '99 3DRealms worked on it, but kept scrapping and re-doing it as older designs became technologically obsolete. Gearbox took what they had and polished it up for release, most development was already done.
If HL3 has ever actually been in development in the last ten years, it's almost certainly in the same state as DNF- a collection of half-finished prototypes, continually rendered obsolete as long as there aren't enough people working on it to actually finish.
Someday we might find out how it all went wrong.
god damn this hurts
secretly, deep down, i've always been an overly optimistic half-life fanboy, always believing half-life 3 will be released in the state it deserves to be in 'sometime soon-ish'
laidlaw leaving kinda makes me feel hollow, like even if they [I]do[/I] get around to it now it's not going to be the same
i'm sad now
Now is it safe to create our own sequel mods?
I just want to know what the fuck G-Man is, goddamn
Alright, so, literally all hope is gone.
Bye half-life.
[QUOTE=Megadave;49484333]Now is it safe to create our own sequel mods?[/QUOTE]
it'll be as much a fanfic as the actual game is :v:
[QUOTE=TheHydra;49484349]it'll be as much a fanfic as the actual game is :v:[/QUOTE]
better than nothing
i'd play it if it were good
imagine if we got something of the scope that black mesa was, only they got some really good writer in to finish it off, and consulted with people like Marc
[QUOTE=Mabus;49484312]Someday we might find out how it all went wrong.[/QUOTE]
Guarantee it's their insane no-management system. I'm sure their employees appreciate it a lot more than 24/7-365 crunch time other studios have but it just doesn't get the same results.
I think Valve really needs a strong central leadership to get things going again, back to their roots.
[QUOTE=Xubs;49484188]Not every single game that has taken many years to come out has been bad. Half-Life 3 simply sits in a camp along with Duke Nukem Forever that very few other games also sit in. There is no evidence nor trend that points to the idea that games taking long to develop are somehow worse, the only reason this comparison is made is because so few other games have taken as long as these two, and Duke Nukem Forever is memetically bad just as much as it memetically took a long time to come out.
This joke is very tired at this point.[/QUOTE]
Actually I really enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever :)
"HL is fully owned by Valve. Where Valve may choose to take it in the future is up to them."
At least they haven't cancelled it.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;49484410]"HL is fully owned by Valve. Where Valve may choose to take it in the future is up to them."
At least they haven't cancelled it.[/QUOTE]
Hearing almost nothing on it and leaving it on a cliff hanger for years is worse than cancelling
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;49484419]Hearing almost nothing on it and leaving it on a cliff hanger for years is worse than cancelling[/QUOTE]
I hear ya.. My life has been continuous suffering ever since.
[QUOTE=Tamschi;49483703]Fake level: Impossible (assuming it's really his email address).
GMail mails are signed by Google (covering mime-version, in-reply-to, references, from, date, message-id, subject, to, content-type and the content itself), and this one checks out.[/QUOTE]
Can be forged from an old version.
why would he still have hsi valve email if he didn't work on it.
[editline]8th January 2016[/editline]
didnt work there
[QUOTE=Xubs;49484443]It was pretty alright, yeah. Nowhere near as bad as people say it was.[/QUOTE]
It was pretty bad.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;49484425]I hear ya.. My life has been continuous suffering ever since.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes... I dream about half life
And of course, he's still on [url]http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html[/url]
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