VG247: Today marks the six-year anniversary of Half Life 2: Episode 3 being announced by Valve – but the elusive game still remains largely an unknown.
Sometimes even promising titles never see the light of day. These are five of the most ambitious games that shouldn't have been canceled.
Kojima wouldn't have started his own studio if Silent Hills didn't get cancelled so even if it stung at first, I'm fine with it.
i remember being so excited for patriots for years, only to have them release that siege trash. i hate how multiplayer games, pvp in particular, have ruined so many potentially good games.
Zack Zwiezen writes, "It seems like just yesterday when Valve announced a trilogy of expansions for their super-popular PC game, 2004's Half-Life 2. But it’s actually been 15 years since Episode 3 was announced. And while Valve has since released a new Half-Life game, it wasn’t the one the developer announced back in 2006."
Still hurts a little that we didn’t get Ep3… and the “leaked” plans for it sounded like a great finale to the HL2 story arc.
It sounded fantastic and it's a shame we'll never get that
The ending of Half Life Alyx and what it did basically put the nail in the coffin for those plans.
Whatever they release next i hope it's not catered to consoles first. Back 4 Blood seems to be going that route by having automatic flashlights, but i have high hopes Valve won't water down any games as they are usually released on PC way earlier, like HL2 and HLA.
Man, I wish I played Half-Life 2 when it first came out so I could love it like the fans do.
I played it on Xbox 360 and I thought it was ok. I recognize it set a standard for a lot of things like physics in game and story-telling in an FPS, but I think by the time I played it the design had been improved upon by other games.
Agent Vaporware is a term used for software and games that are announced, but never released or cancelled. Essentially stuck in limbo due to development hell, lack of communication to the public, or pushed aside for other, more lucrative projects. Here are five long-awaited games we would like to see released this year.
I love the Vaporwave aesthetic, and I would definitely love to see a lot of these games come out soon. I think my favorite out of the list was Agent. Something about this style combined with the Cold War Spy setting really makes me want to try it out. Since it's from the makers of GTA, I'm sure it would be fun, and it would be interesting to see their take on an espionage game. Even if we don't get any of these games this year, I'm still pretty excited for some of the confirmed releases. One that I'm really looking forward to is Nova Nukers. It's a competitive multiplayer that has a lot of really interesting weapons that effect the game's environment, and a unique spherical stage design. I think it's going to be a really interesting game since it's doing a lot that I haven't seen in a multiplayer before.
I don't want Agent.....I just want a spy game...doesn't have to be agent but we don't really any any good ones to play.
* Create an agent....pick an agency to start at....do espionage and missions against other agencies and stuff.
^ would sell 3,000,000+
Valve has choosen to ignore us gamers & TRUE CORE FANS of the "Half Life" series , a very insulting thing they have done, not sure if Episode 3 will ever see the light of day. But let it be known I also have CHOOSEN to IGNORE Valve, I dont do STEAM(DRM), & havent spent 1 red cent on anything theyve released since the Orange Box. Valve MUST PAY, its thats simple, gamers should make them pay & not buy any of there future games or products. Who does that fat pig think he is?, It was the Half-Life fanbase that put Valve on the map, thereby making other ventures such as STEAM(ugh!DRM) possible. To add insult to injury, the nerve of Valve to mentally toture the fans even further with cryptic/vain messages/advertisement of Half-Life, periodically bringing attention to it, stirring the pot in a sense but serving no dish. Valve can kick rocks, & if GAMERS ever come to understand the INHERANT/NATURAL "POWER" they have as CONSUMERS by just not purchasing there products, I promise you, Episode 3 would have ALREADY been served up on silver platters with Valve bent over in REPENTANCE over their actions.
We can only hope they release it.
You know... I'm tempted to argue that Valve is risking the Duke Nukem Forver effect. I.e. too much hype for the game to ever be good enough.
The only thing that makes me hesitate is that they aren't constantly releasing info about a game that's not ready yet... which is part of what pushed the hype for DNF so high. But at the same time... as successful as DN3d was it was nothing compared to halflife 2, hl2 ep1, and hl2 ep2. Hl2 and episode 1 and 2 by themselves are enough to have gamers frothing at the mouth for ep3 (see the first comment if you don't believe me).
I mean... if this was any series but Half Life 2... I probably would have forgotten that a third episode was promised by now. Instead I actively search for news on it every couple of months.
Maybe Valve realizes expectations are rising and they are rising to meet them by improving and adding to the game in order to stay ahead. However, and I hope I'm wrong but... I think fairly soon the gaming community will reach a sort of critical mass where Valve will have no hope of keeping up with expectations. Already the community is expecting Hl3 instead of Hl2 Ep3... so... yeah...
Wow. its been that long already? Man that sucks. E3 after E3 has gone by with nothing but disappointment from Valve. I love the other games they've put out, like Portal, L4D and TF2, but I want my HL. Either HL3 or EP3, I dont care. I just know the emotional anger I felt at the end of EP2, I wanted revenge.
When it gets to starcraft years ile start complaining again.