Honestly, I think I’m giving GTA too much credit to put it next to HL3 like that.
So no, hard disagree there.
This is a whisper. HL3 announcement would be a bang that would grind the internet to a halt.
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Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 year agoGTA is more popular than HL by orders of magnitude. HL is popular, but HL3 has more meme power than anything. I don’t think many console-only players care too much about Valve titles.
…Or maybe your comment is also part of the meme and went over my head.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The avg gamer/person doesn’t give a fuck about Half Life. That ship has looooong sailed. Without the memes that game series would just be a historical footnote somewhere when discussing Counter Strike.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Exactly, like duke nukem for example.
There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 1 year ago
150k people went out of their way to buy a $1k headset on top of a fancy PC so they can play the half life VR spinoff. People today would absolutely pay $30 for Half-Life 3 if it was innovative and impressive. The ship hasn’t sailed, the bar was simply raised.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Exactly, like duke nukem for example.
There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
GTAV is one of the best-selling games of all time. I also prefer HL but there are hard numbers here.
Even my ‘non-big-gamer’ friends talk about GTAVI coming out. It’s FIFA, CoD, and GTA for that crowd.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gross sales is not predictive of hype surrounding a series, especially when that series hasn’t had a release in nearly 20 years.
You… Are out of your element.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Out of my element? I think we only know about as much as each other mate.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
You’re comparing steak and a big mac here. They have largely separate target buyers and operate at different levels of quality/craftsmanship. Yes, HL3 would grind the gaming news media to a halt while this fluff article about GTA6 is just fluff.
But the steak isn’t selling more copies that the big mac. This is what people are arguing with you over.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s not what is meant by “anticipated release”, though.
FIFA2025 will outsell GTA VI. No one is biting their nails waiting for it to happen.
GTA VI is a pretty highly anticipated release, yes, but to compare it half life 3 is… Silly.
By this metric, Half Life 3 is way, way way way more highly anticipated. Steam servers would go offline.
flauschke@kbin.melroy.org 1 year ago
I would trade HL3 for no new GTA game ever again and I loved GTA V