Tom from Untold Gaming discusses whether the acclaimed Half-Life games would have been even better had Gordon Freeman not been a resolute mute, and if any future games in the series would benefit from a fully realised protagonist.
The project codenamed HLX, which is thought to be Half-Life 3, is reportedly being widely playtested ahead of a Summer reveal and Winter release.
The second option hopefully. I haven't played Alyx VR since the VR goggles hurt my eyes.
VR as an option - Totally fine.
VR Only - No thanks
I've been a Half Life fan since the original and have waited since 2007 for a sequel, it was already a kick to the nuts to have Half Life Alyx, a game which changes the ending of Episode 2 and will clearly be required to understand the story going forward in HL3, be a VR only title so I don't want a proper, full on sequel to be VR only aswell, it would be highly unfair to the HL fans who either don't like VR, can't afford it or can't do it for whatever reason.
Luckily going off the rumours, HL3 is a more traditional game.
Sybau! Lol jk but please only the option. I’m still not buying vr today lol
It'll probably be VR exclusive with full body tracking sensors and a treadmill required to play
I wonder if the rumours are true - that it has a highly destructible environment and very reactive with hot/cold with realism placed on wind and other physics, I guess it makes sense, HL2 was very impressive at the time and it carried over into GMOD. That's what I really liked about it, everything built into the engine.
The only thing that might slightly disappoint me is if they don't upgrade the graphics more. I like that Source and Source 2 has such a clean look, I just hope they push it so it's more like Source 2.5 if they haven't budged it up to Source 3. Being (supposedly) the game to finish the original story I hope they go all out if they can while maintaining high frame rates with modern hardware.
We haven't seen the best of Source 2, yet.
No really.
Checked some threads, many features are still WiP.
It just seems so impossible that after so many years and so many false leaks and rumours this might be it.
I don't know how to feel about this the game has so much weight on it in terms of expectations now half life alyx was amazing so I think they can do it but they would be feeling the pressure
If Half-Life ends with 3, it should be a call for more series to wrap it up.
Me to I want HL 3 to be the last in the series, it will probably still use the Source 2 engine but I would guess heavily modified. Then you know Valve will release some kind of collectors edition that includes all the games, then years later more remasters 😂
Me too. At the rate valve release games, if they did HL4, it would be something like 2050 😱😱😱
Half-Life 3 may not be too far away from release, as the game suspected to be the third entry in the series has entered the optimization phase.
That one episode of Billy & Mandy where the very fabric of reality was destroyed when Mandy smiled. That's what'll happen when Valve finally counts to 3.
Is this kinda like when it was supposed to be at the 2024 TGAs?
I'd say so. I personally struggle with games where the main protagonist doesn't have any lines.. I felt like Dishonored would have been better if Corvo spoke. I think Deus Ex excelled because Jensen was a bad ass.. so yep, giving Gordon a personality would have probably added something. Mind you, half life is a mysterious sort of title, so at the same time theres some cryptic about Gordons silence.
Interesting idea. It sparks debate, but I guess we’ll never know for sure.
Gordon Freeman needs to be voiced by Morgan Freeman.
Yeah it would be although since we've had Half Life, Half Life 2 and it's episodes with a mute Freeman it would be weird to just change it all of a sudden. At least make it so he is taking part in conversations but we don't hear it
If there was one character which needed to be voiced since it was more recent like Gordon it was Chell. I get the first game, it was something they didn't know would be be popular but the sequel should have had her talk. The dialogue between her and GLaDOS could have been hilarious especially when GLaDOS is stuck as a Potato and Chell has to drag her around.