Michael Corbisiero writes: In May of 2006, Half-Life 2: Episode Three was announced. It was said that the project would be wrapped up and pushed out just in time for a Christmas 2007 release.
I had no idea what Valve Time was. I didn't have much experience with the company. I had yet to plod through the five stages of grief over the release of a game. It has been nearly four years and the game’s whereabouts remain unknown. What began as a seemingly final installment to the story arc set in motion by Half-Life 2 is now a puzzling affair.
I initially felt the need to demand to know what was going on at Valve. Now, I'm content with waiting. This is how I learned to stop pining for Episode Three.
DSOGaming writes: "Owen Deery has informed us about a new Half Life: Episode 3 fan game he’s been working on. Titled Expo Decay, this Half-Life game is based on Marc Laidlaw’s Epistle 3 story, and is an top-down shooter. Moreover, this fan game has just been released and is available for download."
Video game developer Valve is responsible for bringing us some of the most beloved game franchises in history, Gazette gaming columnist Jake Magee writes. It's just too bad so many will end unfinished.
We live in a world where the previously mythological games such as Final Fantasy XV, Kingdom Hearts 3, Shenmue 3, Persona 5, Metroid Prime 4, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, Ni-Oh, Doom 4, Psychonauts 2, Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane Trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Remake, The Last Guardian, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, Beyond Good or Evil 2 & Darksiders 3 are actually real and were either released last year, this year, next year, or many years from now.
Hell we even got a new Bubsy game of all things coming out soon and Atari is talking about releasing a new console.
But god forbid we ever get a third installment in a Valve franchise.
I was all ready to say something derogatory about your comment (because reasons) and then you mentioned Bubsy and I completely lost my train of thought. Off to google me some upcoming Busby! See, I can't even think straight enough to spell Bysbu correctly.
The writers of Portal and Half Life have left Valve. Any sequel would be welcome, but somehow feel like fan-fic. Maybe it would be best to create a new story arc and leave the old stories unfinished.
i wish this was the overall credo of the industry. we would have to deal with much less reheated and senselessly prolonged crap.
Exactly, The people that have made the games we love, the games we love, arent working there anymore. I couldnt make a better Portal than Portal 2 if I had an eternity. And what is the upside, Its a hit and Valve makes another mountain of money (that it arguably doesnt need)... while the downside is destroying the image of having some of the best games ever.
Being practical, its just not a good move if they cant find a way to make it perfect and who says they haven't tried.
Couldn't they just sell the IPs or contract a developer to make them with valve's final approval?!
Valve kind of sucks in this regard...
Gabe only cares for his pockets, for someone that started his own game company because he didn't like the big corps.......he sure has become one himself. Whats worse he is aware people want it, I guess people can have a lump of coal for a heart.
Actually I would finish it for the fans sake and would've of done so 4 yrs ago. They have oodles of money and Gabe has said anyone in the company could just start making the game if they wanted to. If that was so then the recent departures of those teams that made it would have done it. Gabe is the roadblock plain and simple.
I would love both but Portal 2 resolved the story as where Half-Life left on a huge friggin cliffhanger!
Oh you want Portal 3 and HL3? Well, tough luck. Here, have a new card game instead! - Valve.
Smh.
Half-Life 3 is the greatest mystery in PC gaming. More intriguing than the actual magic that makes your GPU work, and more elusive than a good movie tie-in game, Valve’s third game in the seminal shooter series has been missing in action for nine years now. With every passing year that Valve conspicuously fail to mention it, the mystery deepens.
We’re convinced it’s out there, though. At least in some form or another. If you’ve been keeping your ears close to the ground, you’ll have discovered enough tidbits to keep the candle of hope burning. It’s not a bright light, admittedly, but there’s certainly a flame flickering in the darkness. As series fanatics we’re keen to keep that flame alive, so here’s everything we know about Half-Life 3.
At this point I'd rather a new Left 4 Dead more than a Half-Life 2: Episode 3 or Half-Life 3
Agreed, i play L4D2 way too much still to this day.. Most fun co-op game IMO.
Looking on a Reddit post though, someone there mentioned that he spoke to someone at Valve and basically told him that any developers shouldn't wait on Source 2. They are still waiting on a game to bring out before devs get the tools to make a game using Source 2. So who knows when we will hear about the new game.
Really liked the leaked screens of the L4D2 plantation remade in the new engine though, and it's been a while since they leaked so hopefully the engine can show off better detail/graphics than we saw in those images.
Really surprised hardly anything has been shown officially though, only that VR demo.
I would love to see sequels of both HL and LFD, but I would tend to favor Valve putting out another LFD before another HL. Valve seems too focused on Steam considering it is a huge money maker for them. From a business standpoint, it makes sense or cents to stick with your most successful ventures.
We all know the really reason is they can't stand the fact that Duke Nukem took longer to come out so they are going to develop ep3 for 16 years...
Gordon Freeman finally gets laid.
I will be 'pining' for EP3 and HL3 until they release.
They want the last scene of the series to have Gordon say one word and will thus spend the next decade looking for the perfect voice to utter it :D
They are using the Pixar marketing strategy...wait 10 years before doing the sequel so everyone will be ultra hyped and be super impatient to get there hands on it and will guarantee to be GOTY and sell a dozen of million copies...