Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again
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But when I watched the half life anniversary video a couple months back, their reasoning for why we didn't get more games bothered me. That they don’t want to put a game out solely to advance the story and instead only if it does something new.
As a fan of the series I thought this was frustrating and makes this a bit bittersweet and is kinda tempering my excitement. So we get HL3 soonish and Hl4 in another 20 years? I get it their reasoning but at some point I just want a game to come out for the story without reinventing the game every time.
Maybe they’ve finally recognized and fixed the real problem. Maybe not. We will see in future performance.
How they have built games recently seem to backup what they said.
Aperture Hand Lab and HL:Alex was VR and partially pushing the Index.
Aperture Desk Job I can’t remember the name of was for the Steam Deck.
The way they have released games seem to backup what they are saying.
It was supposed to be a 3-episode story. They released parts 1 and 2 and part 3 was supposed to wrap up the story using the same engine.
You can watch the 20th anniversary doc, they speak about it : https://youtu.be/YCjNT9qGjh4?t=6381
I've just replayed the original HL2 series in VR and it was amazing. A few community devs have completely made those games VR-capable and it feels like they were made for it. If they can do it so can Valve.
Imagine my (lack of) disappointment when he refused to honor the arrangement twenty years later.
Hopefully this means we can finally get an upgrade.