Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Valve has said on at least a couple occasions they don’t really have interest in making games anymore, unless there is some new technology they get interested in that they can make a game around.

  The HL2 episodes were basically tests for different source engine technologies.

  Alyx was basically then playing around with VR.

  So yeah, I can totally see some weird fucked up thing like a brainchip being what HL3 is built around, if HL3 ever stops being anything more than a syphilitic hallucination of a desperate mind.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    All their games are tests for different technologies or business models. In hindsight, Gabe has never cared about the story of Half-Life. He just happened to have hired a good writer for HL1 and HL2 by accident. It’s why I’m more interested in the fanon then the canon at this point. Half-Life: Echoes and Entropy: Zero are criminally underplayed.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I want to know how Half Life ends. I couldnt give a shit about fan shit. Some of its good and engaging, not putting it down, but its not relative to the current issue… I want the conclusion to the fucking story I paid for and got massively invested in, in 2004. That I bought the next chapters of in 2006 and 2007.

      Two things piss me off like nothing else when it comes to media.

      Stories that start, leave you on a cliffhanger and never finish.

      and Stories that are amazing all the way up until the end, when someone just decides to squeeze a big fat wet turd out and said good enough (Fucking mass effect…)

      I’d rather spend 18 years being blueballed and cockteased by Bea Arthur.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I would like to know how Marc Laidlaw was going to end the story. Well, we have Epistle Three, but it’s not the same as if he had stayed on board. Entropy: Zero Two is staying closer to what Marc Laidlaw’s laid out in Epistle Three then anything Alyx decided to do.

        Hell, I’ve become disinterested in the Halo franchise because of the revolving door of writers constantly throwing out the previous team’s ideas. The moment new writers come in, the line between canon and fanon starts blurring.

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