Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year
The latest rumor for Half-Life 3 indicates a summer announcement and a winter release later this year.
I'll wait for the official announcement before getting hyped up.
After Oblivion, I wonder if they would announce it and release it at the same time, too.
Shadow dropping isn't a new thing Bethesda just invented, so I doubt Oblivion would have anything to do with it.
Valve does what Valve wants to do. Always have. And they don't have a tendency to announce anything years in advance to generate hype, because frankly, I don't think they care.
No because its not a rehash of old shit.
Here's some salt before you read the article
We need to go deeper.
Okay, this is a deep cut, literally, but that's what a salt mine looks like.
I think I read this rumor once a year since before half life 1 was released
Yeah, however, leaks around this have been a bit more believable than before. Can't remember the specifics, but more concrete stuff has been found by datamining (iirc) deadlock and paying attention to steamdb, with less reliable leaks ranging from the game or assets (again, iirc). So, there's a fair chance this is real.
However, HL3 has been real multiple times before, it has been cancelled many times apparently, only to be taken up again later on.
Fact remains however, that Valve have been working continuously on an appid that isn't deadlock for some time now, and there's plenty of noise around them working on a new half life.
It's been 84 years...
Please stop defaulting to Half Life 3 when you have nothing better to write about.
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard this I'd have enough nickles to fund a studio and make HL3 myself.
This is actually the first time I've heard a rumor like this. Usually the rumor is that Valve will start development when they feel like it, not that it has already been made.
It's not half life 3.
It's half life alyx sequel on Deckard
That actually hypes me up more than HL3
Honestly HL3 shouldve been out a decade ago for me to care. If it ever does release then im just not all that interested anymore.
Who cares? I'd rather they take their time instead of rushing the first crap they think about. And knowing valve I bet they waited for newer technologies to offer more in their games (case in point: Alyx with VR)
They literally didnt finish episode 3 because they felt they had nothing new to show, they said all this in the documentary. They didn't want to just make more of the same. If they are making Half Life 3 (highly doubt it, as Tyler McVicker just chats shit to try and stay relevant), it's because they finally have some new tech or ideas they want to play around with, like as you said with Alyx.
who cares?
Well, looks like I've got some upvotes and i got a reply from you so I'm guessing some people care. Tbh you just sound like a wet rag here and if you only want to hear about things you agree with then you can go talk to a mirror.
I'm fully aware some people are excited for HL3 whenever it comes out and some people are content to wait. I'm merely stating that the ship has sailed for me. Heaven forbid someone doesn't consider gabe a golden god.
As Gaben put it in the recent valve doc, moving the story forward wasn't a good enough reason to put out a new Half Life. The series has always been about pushing technological innovations, and they just felt stumped on how HL3 was going to do that.
People like to claim valve doesn't do anything anymore, but I legitimately feel like PC gaming is the best deal for gaming right now, handily beating out console and mobile, and that is in large part due to valve.
Their flat internal structure hasn't been perfect, but on the bright side it didn't result in them pumping out what the gaming industry would have viewed in retrospect as yet another obligatory entry in an FPS series. Valve's intention was to let smart people solve hard problems in the gaming space, and IMO they have always done that, it just so far hasn't resulted in a HL3.
I've heard people say they won't make HL3 until the next big leap in gaming is here.
1 was with us into "true 3D" era
2 was with us into physics engines
Alyx was with us into VR gaming.
3 will be with us ...?*
I'm excited to find where we're going. Gaming has been pretty stale for a long time. Sure we've had plenty of games that have got very clever with what we have, but we haven't had a major leap in a long time, they've just been getting a bit more polish and shine each year. Short of deep-dive VR I honestly don't know what could be next.
*Possibly actual AI? A world filled with characters that are actually intelligently responsive rather than just following a set of predefined behaviour patterns? Vortigaunt teammate that learns from you? Thinking about where we're at technologically I have been wondering how long until AI is ready for implementation in games. Maybe this is it?
next big leap is an AAA game actually worth its price, which is what valve is trying to accomplish.
Will you get the itch after you start seeing trailers, praise and hear people talk about playing it?
Doubtful. I have played 30 hours of video games this past year (bloodborne after finally being able to play on PC)
HL3 confirmed
Wasn't half life alyx supposed to be 3 but title rebranded because overhyped expectations?
No, HL:Alyx functions as a sort-of prequel. The ending of it does provide a stepping stone from which HL3 could pick up again.
Looking for this information too
this is hearsay but I read earlier either on lemmy or reddit that valve specifically confirmed that HL: Alyx is not a rebranded or retitled HL3
It is impossible for it to be hl3. It's hl 2.9 at best.
hl2ep2 part 2
Agreed. It'll be another game in the HL universe but I find it unlikely that Valve will call it HL3, even if it continues where Episode 2 left off.
Whatever it is, I hope it's a VR exclusive. HL: Alyx was a great prequel and I want more of that...except on a larger scale and with the same walking speed as HL2 (+sprint), instead of that 2MPH baby crawl they made you do in Alyx.
It’s hard not to get excited remembering how we found out about Half-Life 2. It was announced in a magazine that some random guy accidentally got sent a copy of early, then he scanned the pages and leaked it online. I think I was browsing some dodgy Russian website when I found out about it.
IIRC, he didn't get sent it early, he got into Valve's servers and snagged it.
The kicker, and this is the part I always remember: he guessed Gabe Newell's password. It was gaben, same as his user name, same as his name name.
Not this again...
This will now launch with the power of a nostalgic remake of some sort. And its a full new game.
4D chess from Gabe.
