If I were Valve/Gabe, I would officially cancel Half-Life 3

I couldn't disagree more. Valve have never fucked a game up and they will never outsource the development of the most anticipated game of all time. If Half Life 3 does get made (which I do believe it will), it will be made by Valve to the highest of standards.

Half Life 2 had a strong narrative, and strong level design (two things that Valve are very good at and two things that most open world games neglect). I would like to see a game very similar to Half Life 2 with updated visuals and enhanced gameplay being a focus. Besides, Half Life 2 environments were already open ended with plenty of choices and places to explore. There's no point in completely changing something that's already successful, just build on it.

John Titor said HL3 was his favorite classic game. Checkmate, unbeliever

Cancel it and no one will support you. In the first place, Valve can make their own games by themselves. They don't have to take the shit of any external publisher.

You forgot that Valve never released a weak game. Not even mediocre. HL 3 will be great. IF it comes out.

i agree with the OP completly.in absolutely everything he just said

Someone close this BS theard,honestly.Since OP has no idea about what company he's talking here...(Valve)

they already declined hl3.
"The filing has been removed from all databases of the European Union's Office of Harmonization, smashing - yet again - all hopes from fans regarding a (half-)life sign of the continuation of Gordons story."

But good news are a trademark filling for Portal 3 has been acknowledged. But still without any hint of that they are working on it.

i stoped reading after the page opened

If i were Gabe, i would officially not be able to fit in my chair; when he starts losing weigh, HL3 would be announced.

I don't know how can HL3 be anything but a disappointment. People are too hyped up and Valve would have to think of something really groundbreaking in terms of basically everything - graphics, gameplay, story, setting etc. HL2 (along with Doom 3) was literally a next gen fps. I'm not sure they can pull it again.

bitch please, valve is just waiting for gaming to move on from outdated consoles, you can argue with your ps4 and xbox one shit all day but truth is their gonna be outperformed by pc hardware within months, they just refrain from letting the console market hold back their innovation, like every other developer who is losing tons of options because their forced to develope on consoles. the source engine would have never been possible in its current state, on any console, to this day neither the ps3 nor the 360 were able to utilize the source engine's full potential, that said the ports for the consoles were actually genuinely good, compared to most ports to pc that is.

DNF was announced years ago and its been developed from scratch multiple times by devs that closed down. It's no wonder the game didn't do so well. HL3, on the other hand, has not been announced and not likely in development. Your argument is invalid.

"Bla bla I am edgy and thinking differently only my reasoning and examples are completely idiotically drawn together"

Yes Valve is not making HL3 fast because they want it to have that impact HL and HL2 had. Note here, HL did have an impact but nothing universe breaking. It brought story and depth to FPS. HL2 brought good physics and realistic NPCs. Both had amazing graphics for their time but that is something an AAA company can go for. HL series hasn't revolutionized games like Quake did for the genre with full 3D. UT reinvented the genre with smart AI, Far Cry/Battlefield set the way for open world and huge multiplayer with good graphics. CoD 1 made FPS into epic movie like experiences with a lot of NPC comrades. HL would be on par with these games. HL as the series of course made it further with allowing modding and supporting it.

With Source 2, more integration with steam and online and some good gimmicks that actually matter they can make HL3 great. Be it mixing genres with single and multiplayer, making more detailed break model software or some kind of realistic physic on the player model itself. Maybe even smarter AI that actually reacts to the player, helps their teammates etc. Realistic damage model for bullets with NPCs actually limping, losing their hands or legs as they get shot, whatever. Maybe even a way to make liner story kind of branch off in some natural way and a L4D like "master" to pace the story and game to introduce components to make the journey unique and as hard as the player can handle. Anything that works can make HL3 great with added end of the story and great graphics with even better modding tolls will make. They are some kind of Blizzard when it comes to introducing good components to the genre, only difference is that Blizzard just hones good ideas of other games and Valve seems to introduce something new and make it near perfect the first time around.

My point being HL and HL2 did great things but nothing "the game is now in 3d" equivalent and there is plenty of stuff players of the genre look forward to, to improve. If they develop on some revolutionary tool that makes NPCs talk and look real or change how FPS tell stories they have it. It isn't something "Now is the year it is impossible to improve on the genre, FPS is perfect". That is total bull. FPS is still quite far off from perfect and HL3 has the ability to hone it.

Well, Valve has overcome the vaporware factor before. TF2 was vaporware for almost 10 years and the game that came out was nothing like the original concept.

"I'd draw a triangle with Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas..." Might as well just put "Bethseda Games"

Edit: By the way, there were 6 years between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, and it has now been 6 years since HL2: Episode 2 came out. I really don't think that compares to I think it was 15-ish years for Duke Nukem Forever.

I completely agree. To make the game would be stupid now. It will never reach the aspirations people have for it.
Better let people know that it wont happen rather than make all these people waste time dreaming

Well, thankfully such decisions are not yours to make. The idea that games have to continually push the bar or continue to raise standards is nonsense. Sure, there will always be games that do so but its not required of a game to be great. Just look at Telltale's Walking Dead, a game created on mechanics that were arguably outdated 10 years ago. It didn't matter as it told an amazing story and it did so amazingly well. Half life doesn't have to redefine gaming each and every time a sequel is released. All it has to do to be successful is tell a quality story and be fun to play. That's it! Nothing more and nothing less. People like you, that put it on some pedestal, as if it stands apart from the rest of the game market, are simply being unrealistic. When Half Life 3 comes out, there will be millions of people running to play it as fast as humanely possible and it wont be because they expect it to be this ultra-amazing experience that will redefine gaming. They will do so because they have enjoyed the story up to this point and they want to see where it goes next. Those people, including myself, will not be disappointed. To even suggest that Half Life 3 won't sell well....well, it tells me you don't know as much about the gaming industry as you think you do.

In all honesty, dropping the Half Life series to create a new IP is hands down one of the worst business idea's I have ever heard of in regards to the gaming market. Half Life is one of the most successful gaming series of all time (Half Life 2 won 39 Game of the Year awards) yet they should just drop it, and start from scratch on a brand new IP. That is just horrible business strategy all the way around. No doubt, you would have been saying the same exact thing towards the end of Half Life 2's long development cycle and look how successful HL2 was. And comparing Half Life to Duke Nuke em, and the companies that produced them, is nothing short of laughable.

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I don't think anyone has huge aspirations for HL3, any more than anyone has huge aspirations for the end of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. But we are invested in the story, and like the gameplay, so Valve better finish it eventually.

too much text, don't wanna to read this -.-

You know nothing about marketing, John Snow.

it's widely hated (yet not enough that I can win it, there are always hundreds of people who want it, so it can't be that bad).

People want to win every single game, no matter if they want to play it or not.

I honestly think Valve can make HL3 live up to the hype. They're just that good at crafting a story and inventing interesting/unique scenarios.

If you are reading this. You have read too many comments. Please refer to this.

ARE those people asking for HL3 to come out? Not necessarily, most of it is just a running gag on the internet. Also, DNF is not a good game, no matter how you look at it, unless you did a drunk playthrough like some others. No one asked for DNF to come out though.

Good thing you aren't Valve/Gaben.