The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor
Submitted 2 weeks ago by SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de to games@lemmy.world
https://fxtwitter.com/mikeshapiroland/status/1874213952680607922
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mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Luci@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Thank you
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just seems like a New Years thing to me. Am I missing something?
Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Valve used to do ARGs for some of their major releases. It’ll be kinda sad if there’s just not enough energy around for people to figure out their puzzle pieces here.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s not half life 3 folks…it’s a half life Alyx sequel. Likely on the Deckard standalone VR headset
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Where have you guys been? Half Life 3 was confirmed December 13, 2007.
I’m sure it’s coming any day now.
Metz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To be honest, I hope they never do it. Because at this point it is absolutely impossible that it can live up to the hype. It will be a disappointment no matter what.
They can do other games in that universe though. They will work. I actually believe they will work better without HL3 existing.
geelgroenebroccoli@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
A lot of people haven’t played HL:Alyx because of the VR requirement… But my goodness it was amazing.
Valve will never release a HL-title before it’s absolutely groundbreaking.
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TF2: Episode 2
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Half life 3 confirmed.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Welp, that was just as ominous and Chinese curse-y as “prepare for unforseen consequences.” Not sure I’m a fan of it applied IRL. 😬
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This reply made me chuckle
Obviously homeboys first HL3 hype round. I will boil and eat my work boots on livestream if anything called “Half Life 3” gets released in 2025. Screenshot this
Carmakazi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What sort of work you do in those boots, out of curiosity? I wouldn’t have made that bet when I was a machine operator, those shits were soaked in coolant with stainless steel chips embedded everywhere.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Res contracting so… honestly worst case scenario is i get a lil sawdust on my tongue
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How about 2026? If you played Alyx, you’d know why it’s rational to expect HL3. And according to some datamining, they’re staffing up specifically for HL3. Granted, that could also make it a 2027 game, with how AAA games are developed these days.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They have been “working” on Half Life 3 for over a decade, with many promising leads found through datamining things left in other source games over that time. There is almost always absurd levels of speculation over the smallest crumbs of datamined material.
For example, there’s been an unfinished NPC worked on for Episode 3 left in Half Life 2 that was first shown in a tech demo in 2006, literally prefixed with “Ep3_” in the code. It’s been around for nearly 20 years and the most that was used was graphics for the gels in Portal 2, vs all of the speculated things about it.
The recent documentary they released had what was effectively a post-mortem section where they talked about why Episode 3/Half Life 3 never came out.
I can see why you might think that their new controller and headset might be enough of a game changer that they feel like making 3 is worth it again, but the overall feeling I’ve gotten from them from following all of this closely since the pre-Orange Box days is that: 3 isn’t happening due to the immense pressure and expectations that have built up over the many years people have been waiting. Maybe we get Alyx 2 or some other spin off, but the only thing they’d accomplish with 3 at this point is disappointing a wide variety of people with countless conflicting expectations.
At the very least you also have to contend with “Valve Time”. What would take a normal studio a year takes them four due to their obsession with polishing everything. Team Fortress 2 started development in 1998 and didn’t release for 9 years.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to see where they go next, and I hope this means more than a voice actor sending a fun new years message. But you need to understand that “definitive evidence” of 3 coming based off datamined material has been floating around for 15+ years now.