That being said it’s probably GTA6. I’m hyped.
I’m surprised they don’t make an MMO or free to play game already. Don’t those make more money?
GTA Online is F2P in every way apart from its bundling with a retail single-player game. It's a full-on live service offering with events and an economy built on in-game currency that can be purchased as IAPs.
Many speculate that GTA Online's success is the primary reason Rockstar hasn't focused on a new single-player GTA for most of a decade.
Red Dead Redemption 2 was really great, I wonder what they'll do for GTA6.
Paperclip maximizer goes brrrr
But I agree that it doesn't sound like San Andreas VR or something like that.
A traditional "Half-Life 3" was never going to live up to the hype, the only hope for the series was something offering new experiences - and a game becoming the poster child for VR gaming seems pretty successful.
People don't want "Half-Life 3". They want "Game-that-makes-me-feel-like-half-life-did". A standard M+Kb FPS isn't gonna do that anymore, they're well, standard.
I disagree. Sure there are tons of FPS games out there, 95% are multiplier focused and have minimal to zero story, and it was the story that people remember from the Half-Laife series IMO.
Alyx was/is fantastic and really shows what it takes to make a VR game, everything game system wise "just works" and feels natural (on an Index at least), and the story was fine. Sure it's not HL3 but it's a good game in the HL universe.
I think the problem with HL3 is that no matter what they deliver large chunks of people will be disappointed and Valve have zero need to release anything ever again so there is no pressure to even try.
They definitely missed the boat on releasing it though, or maybe <wishfulthinking>they're holding it and Portal 3 as Linux exclusives for when M$ steps too far</wishfulthinking>
The Mandalorian doesn't do anything new. It puts you back in the Star Wars universe of the late 1970's, with a compelling set of characters, environments, and scripts to match. That's all a new Half Life (or Portal) game would have to do.
I would not want to have a HL3 that relied on "DAE Glados? DAE Team Fortress Hats?", and I really, really respect Valve for not doing that.
While it's set in the SW universe and has lots of references I probably don't notice them over obvious things like major characters showing up. For me it's a perfectly fine show, nothing groundbreaking but definitely above average.
it doesn't really explain why hl2:ep3 never happened, despite having a mature engine to develop against. I think people would be a lot less upset if a "standard m+kb" ep3 that didn't end on such a cliffhanger had been released sometime around 2010.
I'm in my early 20's, and have never played HL. I suspect that's not super nonstandard.
So I agree. It should've been released, but they missed the boat, and now we all have to live with it.
GTA used to have a lot of 'interim releases' or what have you, that were like their own game based on the same engine.
Ballad of Gay Tony, Lost and the Damned, etc.
Just look at the release history on the wiki[1]. They were churning out releases of some type nearly every year, then nothing since 2013. That's what these microtransactions and IAP online lead to :(.