Where is Half life 3?!?!

[ImaginationTrex]

Seriously though, the last Half life game was awesome! and that was made 2007! it's been 6 years now and they still haven't made Half Life 3! Half life was one of my favourite shooters and I've played most of them, but we need a new one with the new gaming engines! please Valve make Half Life 3!!

[Simon]

Ganger の投稿を引用：

zOMGREI の投稿を引用：

It'd be a pretty ballsy, and some might even say foolish, move for Valve to make their next titles Steam Box/PC exclusives.

If your trying to push your own console, then why would people buy your console if you can get the same game on a rival console.

Valve will be trying their hardest to push this new console and im sure half-life 3 will make people buy it. It would be like the next halo appearing on the PS3, isn't going to happen.

I agree. Afterall, it was Half Life 2 that launched Steam. Without that game, I really don't think it would have managed to get the userbase it has now. A console is a step up, sure, but Half Life 3 launch exclusive, at least for a period of time, wouldn't hurt.

[Phil Swift]

valve has done an outstanding job with making these sources, half life 1 was made in 98, hl2 was made in 04, but they also did not have much games in between like these recent games, so hl2 came quicker, half life 3 is going to be an entire new source, and they plan on doing an outstanding job, they also have work on gmod for source 3, which i think you wont have to pay twice for it, they'll probably give you gmod source 3 when you have purchased half life 3, and heres some advice, games which take over 5 years to make end up very successful, and there would be a collection of easter eggs, conspiracies about gordon freeman, aperature & black mesa, and ect... valve want's a good outcome that's all, and it might take a while

[Agentrock12]

i think valve is developing half life 3

[freezer2k2]

I just want a new Half-Life game eventually, not matter what it's name is, to finish what Episode 2 started and to also feature the Borealis. Please..!

[PhanCommand]

Tenshi / Katawa の投稿を引用：

maybe they noticed how overrated game it actualy is and decided to cancel it.

BLASPHEMY!!!!

[FlameHorse]

Let's recap the logic in what we're all saying or hoping for:

HL1 was released on November 19, 1998, after 2 years of development. HL2 on November 16, 2004, after 6 years of development. HL2EP1 was released on June 1, 2006. HL2EP2 on October 10, 2007. The second game required so much time because Valve had to invent a completely new game engine first. This engine was then used on the second game, and then the two episodic expansions.

The story hit a standstill at the end of EP2 with Eli Vance dead and Gordon and Alyx preparing to go via chopper to the location of the Borealis, somewhere in the arctic. The chopper was already fueled and ready to go, so there was no down time at all in the actual drama. They had as their mission objective either to destroy it or use it to more quickly destroy the Combine.

The amount of story left to be told, in my opinion, will require more than one episode, or else tons of dramatic climaxes will be unveiled too quickly with comparatively little time for the player to digest them, viz.: Alyx's state of mind after the death of her father; what the Borealis is; what its secret is; where it is; where Judith Mossman is; her fate; whether Gordon and Alyx will choose to destroy the Borealis per Eli's wish, or use it per Kleiner's wish; Magnusson's part to play; Barney Calhoun's part to play; Dog's part to play; detailed examinations of the advisors; their combat capabilities; introduction to the crab synth and mortar synth; the Resistance's part to play; and more.

This is too much story telling for a single episode of the length of gameplay provided in either of the expansion episodes, and from a dramatic standpoint, this has always been easy to foresee: the immediate nature of the story's continuance in its characters journeying to find one of their own, lost in a new setting with a new secret all its own, promises more chapters; the death of one of the major characters leads us to argue fairly that the end as we have it is not of a chapter, but of an entire book, requiring another entire book to finish the story.

Therefore, given that Valve never promised 3 episodes (as far as I've read), but instead to continue the story in episodic fashion, the length of time we have waited for EP3 has become at least 4 times too long for the development of just a single episode. Valve has not gone bankrupt and their number of employees is high enough to produce multiple games at once, thus negating the fear that EP3 has been put on a back burner for the time being. Moreover, this would be the first time Valve has procrastinated for any reason. While at work, they work hard and have always produced substantial products, whether games, or engines packaged with games, pursuant to the duration of development.

I sincerely believe that all this means that the episodic model has been done away with, and that EPs 1 and 2 are, in fact, Half Life 3 the full game. Newell himself has already corroborated this. Thus, we are now waiting for Half Life 4, and it will be a complete game (at least 6 years' worth of work), on a new and better engine, with an equal amount of focus on the setting of the Borealis as the amount of focus on the setting of City 17 in Half Life 2. How the story will play out is even more speculative than all of the above.

[rio]

HL3 wont be released, instead expect Half-Life 2: Episode 4

[ImaginationTrex]

FireArrows の投稿を引用：

HL3 wont be released, instead expect Half-Life 2: Episode 4

I can tell you went to math class....

[ImaginationTrex]

FlameHorse の投稿を引用：

Let's recap the logic in what we're all saying or hoping for:

HL1 was released on November 19, 1998, after 2 years of development. HL2 on November 16, 2004, after 6 years of development. HL2EP1 was released on June 1, 2006. HL2EP2 on October 10, 2007. The second game required so much time because Valve had to invent a completely new game engine first. This engine was then used on the second game, and then the two episodic expansions.

The story hit a standstill at the end of EP2 with Eli Vance dead and Gordon and Alyx preparing to go via chopper to the location of the Borealis, somewhere in the arctic. The chopper was already fueled and ready to go, so there was no down time at all in the actual drama. They had as their mission objective either to destroy it or use it to more quickly destroy the Combine.

The amount of story left to be told, in my opinion, will require more than one episode, or else tons of dramatic climaxes will be unveiled too quickly with comparatively little time for the player to digest them, viz.: Alyx's state of mind after the death of her father; what the Borealis is; what its secret is; where it is; where Judith Mossman is; her fate; whether Gordon and Alyx will choose to destroy the Borealis per Eli's wish, or use it per Kleiner's wish; Magnusson's part to play; Barney Calhoun's part to play; Dog's part to play; detailed examinations of the advisors; their combat capabilities; introduction to the crab synth and mortar synth; the Resistance's part to play; and more.

This is too much story telling for a single episode of the length of gameplay provided in either of the expansion episodes, and from a dramatic standpoint, this has always been easy to foresee: the immediate nature of the story's continuance in its characters journeying to find one of their own, lost in a new setting with a new secret all its own, promises more chapters; the death of one of the major characters leads us to argue fairly that the end as we have it is not of a chapter, but of an entire book, requiring another entire book to finish the story.

Therefore, given that Valve never promised 3 episodes (as far as I've read), but instead to continue the story in episodic fashion, the length of time we have waited for EP3 has become at least 4 times too long for the development of just a single episode. Valve has not gone bankrupt and their number of employees is high enough to produce multiple games at once, thus negating the fear that EP3 has been put on a back burner for the time being. Moreover, this would be the first time Valve has procrastinated for any reason. While at work, they work hard and have always produced substantial products, whether games, or engines packaged with games, pursuant to the duration of development.

I sincerely believe that all this means that the episodic model has been done away with, and that EPs 1 and 2 are, in fact, Half Life 3 the full game. Newell himself has already corroborated this. Thus, we are now waiting for Half Life 4, and it will be a complete game (at least 6 years' worth of work), on a new and better engine, with an equal amount of focus on the setting of the Borealis as the amount of focus on the setting of City 17 in Half Life 2. How the story will play out is even more speculative than all of the above.

They should atleast announce something...

[FlameHorse]

Yeah, that's quite rude of them, I think.

[MadDogDenys]

never

[P4r4G0N]

Black Mesa - www.blackmesasource.com - its a rebuild of half life using the source engine

[Roflcopter Rescue Team]

One thought that I had was Valve might make a "3 pack." Left 4 dead 3, dota 3, HL3, Portal 3... maybe even TF3? Then they can sell it for $200 or something. Idk, just a thought.

[ImaginationTrex]

<Roflcopter Rescue Team> の投稿を引用：

One thought that I had was Valve might make a "3 pack." Left 4 dead 3, dota 3, HL3, Portal 3... maybe even TF3? Then they can sell it for $200 or something. Idk, just a thought.

They really don't need left 4 dead 3 and I doughbt they are worried about Dota 3 since Dota 2 isn't finished yet...

[Absolute Zero]

I read this whole thread and not one person mentioned Ricochet 2.

For Shame.