Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2

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• unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  By the time H3 comes out your great great great grand children will be reminiscing about how games once were about gameplay and plot and not the 100th version of Call of Duty or Assassins Creed. I’d say Madden too but let’s face it no one will play it 150 years from now unless it’s VR.

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  • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, I’m willing to bet HL3 will come out (at the latest) 5 years after Gaben’s death. Not because he’s witholding it, obviously, but because whoever comes next will probably try to make as much money as possible and that’s an easy first way to do it.

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s gonna suck when Steam immediately enshitifies to the max after he dies.

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      • Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, fully expecting that to happen. I wish that guy a long and healthy life and there isn’t an ounce of altruism in that statement.

        Any containment plans for when Steam joins the club of shit eventually?

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      • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m still holding out hope that Valve becomes a worker-owned coop when Gaben goes. Internally they’ve been structured that way for years, without traditional “management,” everyone having moving desks where they work on whatever they feel motivated by and most useful at, etc.

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    • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Forgot about Valve taking a giant 30% cut and making thousands of people gambling addicts?

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    unless its VR

    I thought the same thing about touchscreens when they first came out. I really did think they were the future of gaming. Seemingly limitless buttons in limitless combinations. Touch and drag game pieces directly, action and vision in the same place.

    Turns out gaming on mobile is shit. So so shit.

    Maybe VR will end up the same way. Its pretty neat now while its still new and shiny, but maybe it never actually reaches potential.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its pretty neat now while its still new and shiny

      The current crop of VR tech dates back to 2012, not exactly what I’d consider new and shiny

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• Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hope SSDs and NVMes are cheaper by the time HL3 comes out

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• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hope not

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