Half-Life: Alyx (formerly: Half Life 3 is coming??)

Professey Chin

Everytime this thread reappears I just want to play the Orange Box through again

I also remember wishing that it actually came in a plain orange cube shaped box

B.A._Baracus

Absolutely

Crazy the way the game is taking forever. Half life 2 is 9 years old and even episode 2 was release 6 years ago.

6 years is more than enough to make a game :P

Yousef

It's taking forever because Valve, as a company, is a socialised mess. There is no hierarchical leadership or structural organisation in the entire company. People do what they want, how they want and whenever they feel like it. They're not beholden to anybody be it publisher, contracts or whatever and that's the way they like to operate. What has come out of this is the term, Valve Time. Everyone knows that if Valve promise to be working on something and gives a date, everybody but the uninformed simply adds fourteen extra months onto it and we may and I stress the word "may", see it.

This is the reason we haven't seen regular content from any of their franchises. Now I know the tragic consequences when publishers and contractors take a hands on approach with developers.....Call of Duty being the perfect example. But there exists a middle ground of sorts where a majority of developers are located.

Radiosonde

Yousef wrote: »

It's taking forever because Valve, as a company, is a socialised mess. There is no hierarchical leadership or structural organisation in the entire company. People do what they want, how they want and whenever they feel like it. They're not beholden to anybody be it publisher, contracts or whatever and that's the way they like to operate. What has come out of this is the term, Valve Time. Everyone knows that if Valve promise to be working on something and gives a date, everybody but the uninformed simply adds fourteen extra months onto it and we may and I stress the word "may", see it.

This is the reason we haven't seen regular content from any of their franchises. Now I know the tragic consequences when publishers and contractors take a hands on approach with developers.....Call of Duty being the perfect example. But there exists a middle ground of sorts where a majority of developers are located.

It works for them. They're supposed to be extremely profitable, raking in 100s of millions of dollars every year from Steam, and they don't have to work on anything they don't want to work on. They have the luxury of developing games at a glacial pace, so that's what they do.

Tar.Aldarion

They grow something mad like 50% per year

As well as people moving around there is also the fact that they want it to be great, which I don't mind. Plenty of other games to play in the interim.

wyrn

Nemeses

Well, there we have it.

HL3 doesn't exist




















yet.

Overheal

This wont be the first place you get HL3 news.

HL3 news will slam through your RSS feed, facebook, twitter, text messages, local news station, and your own mother will call you before you find out about it here first.

Just saying. You know its true. The world will react to a HL3 announcement like the existence of aliens

Vicxas

HL3 will literally be announced by aliens, because that's as likely as the game itself being announced.

wyrn

Did someone say aliens?


Can't be a coincidence eh? Boards and Kotaku both talking about aliens.
You know what that means......... NOTHING!
I've accepted that there'll never be a HL3 but I just can't bring myself to unsubscribe, just in case.

CastorTroy

Problem is people will accept the arrival of aliens but once they reveal Half Life 3, then they would be called fake.

stevenmu

If HL3 is to be launched any time soon, I'd bet it will be alongside the Occulus Rift launch. Valve clearly want to go big and do something revolutionary with the next HL, and the Rift is the best chance to do that in the immediate future. We know Valve have been in on the Rift since very early on, and HL2 has been used to demo it a lot. I really think we'll see a HL3 announcement alongside the consumer launch of the Rift.

Falthyron

stevenmu wrote: »

If HL3 is to be launched any time soon, I'd bet it will be alongside the Occulus Rift launch. Valve clearly want to go big and do something revolutionary with the next HL, and the Rift is the best chance to do that in the immediate future. We know Valve have been in on the Rift since very early on, and HL2 has been used to demo it a lot. I really think we'll see a HL3 announcement alongside the consumer launch of the Rift.

I agree with this idea. The launch of HL3 will coincide with something new in the industry. I thought it would be the announcement of the new consoles and it might still happen with GamesCom. However, I am thinking it could be announced alongside the SteamBox. No better way to drive sales of a new piece of hardware than to make it exclusive to that hardware.

So, announcement at GamesCom, announcement with the Rift, or announcement with the SteamBox; my three predictions. Oh, and something for the 10 year anniversary of HL2 in 2014.

Sierra Oscar

I suspect that Valve will launch Half Life 3 as the first Source Engine 2 game. They have been working on Source 2 for some time now it seems.

stevenmu

If they could do a bundle of the Steambox with an Occulus Rift and a copy of HL3 running on Source 2 they would win literally ALL the money.

marco_polo

Falthyron wrote: »

I agree with this idea. The launch of HL3 will coincide with something new in the industry. I thought it would be the announcement of the new consoles and it might still happen with GamesCom. However, I am thinking it could be announced alongside the SteamBox. No better way to drive sales of a new piece of hardware than to make it exclusive to that hardware.

So, announcement at GamesCom, announcement with the Rift, or announcement with the SteamBox; my three predictions. Oh, and something for the 10 year anniversary of HL2 in 2014.

Valve are always going on about the virtues of the PC as an open platform, there is no way it would be locked in with any hardware as an exclusive.

Aside from anything else it would also be commercial suicide, for what would in all likelyhood become one of the fastest selling games in history.

SouthTippBass

God dam you all, this thread needs a new title. :mad:

Falthyron

marco_polo wrote: »

Valve are always going on about the virtues of the PC as an open platform, there is no way it would be locked in with any hardware as an exclusive.

Aside from anything else it would also be commercial suicide, for what would in all likelyhood become one of the fastest selling games in history.

Half-life 2 was exclusive to Steam when it launched. It didn't arrive on consoles until the Orange Box. Also took them a long time to come to PS3. I know they push for the PC and it being their preferred platform, but they have gone the exclusive or timed exclusive route in the past. It won't be appearing on Origin, that's for sure! :pac:

Professey Chin

Falthyron wrote: »

Half-life 2 was exclusive to Steam when it launched. It didn't arrive on consoles until the Orange Box. Also took them a long time to come to PS3. I know they push for the PC and it being their preferred platform, but they have gone the exclusive or timed exclusive route in the past. It won't be appearing on Origin, that's for sure! :pac:

Im almost 100% it was on the Xbox or 360 before the orange box

Falthyron

Chinpool wrote: »

Im almost 100% it was on the Xbox or 360 before the orange box

Sorry, I should have clarified. It appeared on the original Xbox one year after the PC and on Xbox 360 with the Orange Box.

C14N

Is there a reason both Half Life 2 Episodes suddenly want me to download 10GB of updates for them today?

5uspect

C14N wrote: »

Is there a reason both Half Life 2 Episodes suddenly want me to download 10GB of updates for them today?

They're moving them over to the new steam pipe delivery system. Supposedly there's problems with language packs downloading.

Sierra Oscar

5uspect wrote: »

They're moving them over to the new steam pipe delivery system. Supposedly there's problems with language packs downloading.

I am surprised they are only moving the episodes over now, I thought all Valve games had been ported a long time ago!

5uspect

It was announced a long time ago. I wasn't aware that any game had actually used it to date

marco_polo

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

I am surprised they are only moving the episodes over now, I thought all Valve games had been ported a long time ago!

Surprised because the usually turn things around really quickly?

MadYaker

Are we expecting Half Life 2 Episode 3 or Half Life 3?

Zero-Cool

Sierra Oscar

MadYaker wrote: »

Are we expecting Half Life 2 Episode 3 or Half Life 3?

Much of a muchness at this stage I say, it will be the same content regardless. I would imagine it will be HL3 considering it is so long since the last 'episode'.

Vicxas

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Much of a muchness at this stage I say, it will be the same content regardless. I would imagine it will be HL3 considering it is so long since the last 'episode'.

Nearly as long waiting for the second season of Firefly....

Burgo

not half life 3 but left 4 dead 3: