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It’s never happening.

Wasn’t it like, 8 years ago or so now that the main writer just posted what the planned plot was going to be anyway because he, like everyone else, realized HL3 was never going to happen so why not spill the beans?

I have respect for Valve’s games and Steam is far and away the best platform for gaming, but I’m still mad about this. That company exists and Newell floats around the world in his ultra yacht because of Half-Life fans. Valve had all the attention and money they needed to continue the series that put them on the map, but they just abandoned it on a massive cliffhanger, right as they were starting to tie the Portal timeline into the HL timeline.

And the only continuation they’ve provided is a game that isn’t HL3 and locked behind a VR purchase (yes I know non-VR mods exist).

Pretty shitty.

1998

Generally speaking, I knew PC gaming would open me up to a lot of titles unavailable elsewhere. I’d briefly played Duke Nukem 3D at someone’s parents house and holy shit you can see nude women in PC games? Sign me up!!!

But it wasn’t until the high school I was about to start attending sent parents letters saying student’s reports would need to be typed going forward that I was able to convince my mom to finally get a PC. I immediately got Command & Conquer and Half-Life and HOLY SHIT people do something called “modding” and you can play the game in endless different ways, making my original purchase give me access to potentially limitless content?

Almost 30 years later and I’m still regularly playing Half-Life mods and I work in IT.

No shit.

Goddamn this country is dumb.

Hey foreigners, if you ever wanted to see what mass psychosis looks like, you can come here. But I’d recommend watching it from a distance.