"In your face" says Gabe Newell

Yup, recently my most anticipated game GTA V stepped into direction I feared most, I lost a little respect to Rockstar. Anyways It really interest's me how Valve will approach the marketing of the game since such tactics as in the pic above are not considered cheap anymore, I can only hope.

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Wait... So does HL3 officially have a date, or is that just a joke picture?

I'm so confused!

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I think its a joke.

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Obviously fake and also another useless hl3 thread.

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Well, I'm gone.

I'm really not expecting HL3 to come out ever.

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it is a joke.

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The pizza is a lie

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HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!!

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Well, 1st April is a nice release date, don't you think? ;p

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I truly didn't even see that.

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Will it blend?

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I think it's fairly safe to say Valve will not need to put much effort into marketing it at all, let alone use such gimmicks as preorder bonuses.

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You can never be sure, times have changed.

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Well, I'm pretty sure that Half Life 3 will be forgotten at some point. I, personally, am getting sick of waiting for. I don't remember when HL2:E2 came out, but man... It's been long enough.

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It would be lumped with plenty of TF2 rubbish like almost every other Steam pre-order currently is

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Is that bad?

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I don't know. I think the average CODer have probably never heard of HL

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Probably the only thing a pre-order will give you will be a TF2 headcrab hat and a crowbar for someone.

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I think no. Half-Life 3 is one of the most anticipated games now. If it's going to give you something in pre-order, it would be some TF2 items (headcrab hat would be awesome!).

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I really really doubt that, pre-order bonuses wil probably be TF2 hats :P

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Yeah, totally going to be TF3 hats by that time ;P

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TF7 hats

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What happened with GTA V that made you lose respect?

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Pre-order bonuses. I think the picture explains it.

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Okay so what ARE the pre-order bonuses for GTA V?

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You mean the one pre-order bonus, aka the blimp?

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OMG! I'm pre-ordering that only for the Crowbar!
And GTA V pre-order bonus... A Blimp! I'm pre-ordering an XBOne just so I can get GTA V.. to fly a Blimp!

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GTA V isn't on the XBone or Ps4...

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it likely will be

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Doubt it. Rockstar said they won't.

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And that means they can't/won't change their minds?

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What makes you think they WILL change their minds?

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M O N E Y

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this.

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It means they probably won't. Why would they? Sure they will get more money, but they said it won't, so count on it not happening.

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My biggest worry is that Half-Life 3 is over-hyped and people will be disappointed even if they would make a good game, because they are expecting for something perfect that just cannot be made. Valve could see that and decide not to realease it at all to make sure people won't be disappointed.

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there was that potato sack thing they did as a precursor to its release

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My biggest worry about Half-Life 3: That I would ever worry about Half-Life 3.

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+1

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mind blowing

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Don't worry there will still be HL4.

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April fools day is the date I see :)

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really? I see January 4th

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:) I am from Central Europe and for me that date means April first. For us, the correct order is day, month and year not month, day and year.

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According to the international standard for "Representation of dates and times" (ISO 8601:2004) tells it's year-month-day. Everything else is non-standard.

So it's 2014th of April, of the year 1 AD.

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I've never seen it that way before :P

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LOL xD

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6yBHDvKUw
These Things, They Take Time..........

but Hits crowbar 3 times = Half Life 3 confirmed

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Half life is not Half life without the Crowbar

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My biggest wish is that Valve pulls a Blizzard and HL3 turns out being disappointing as fuck, I will bathe in the sweet tears of Valve fanboys.

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It's not an opinion, it's a wish.

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I think on the final day of the sale the background will change to a half life 3 background and you can pre-order it for 10% off. I believe this to be true because there is only 10 summer getaway cards and more days in the actual sale.

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Last day is for the encore deals. The cards line up with the Spotlight deal of the day. Bioshock Infinite, Chivalry: Medievil Warfare, Tomb Raider, Kerbal Space Program, etc etc...

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What about a DLC where Gordon finally starts speaking?:D

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More like $60 DLC to DISABLE him speaking...

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I doubt that's the direction the game industry is currently taking. We will more likely see beard and glasses DLC.

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Textures DLC.

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All TF2 Hats DLC, 100$

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They didn't do anything like that with portal 2, so hopefully it'll be the same for hl3.

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Valve is already making more than enough money with Steam, they don't really need dlc to get more money out of their games.

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Half-life 3 in going to happened Valve knows there are too many fan boys waiting to sell their house just to get their hands on that game..

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Yeah I know right valve has such a big problem with pushing DLC on us remember the time when that happened?

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Well lets look at it this way,

Half Life 1 - Gold Source (Old engine, if you never knew, modded from Quake's Engine iirc)

Half Life 2 - Source Engine (Completely ground up written engine for the game)

Half Life 3 - Source 2? (Gabe confirmed the engine himself, complete rewrite again iirc)

There are plenty of rumours about that and we know Source 2 is in development, Gabe said himself. So the way we should look at it is that Half Life 3 most likely doesn't even exist as source code atm, if the engine they plan to use for it is a complete rewrite which could make sense since it is another major release, then the game would not be any further than story boards and concept art since they don't even have an engine to start anything on. Unless they made it on the current Source engine like Episode 3 would have been.

Idk why I even brought this up, but it is just my observation on the matter taking the concrete info we know about the future of Half Life and none of the "omg Gamescom 2013 did u c dt hl3 pictur bruh?" which is most likely fake like a lot of the previous similar leaks. But whatever, I have seen few posts that logically look at the situation this way, in other words "taking years for it, will probs be amazeballs" or "taking years, duke nukem forever number 2" Anyway, why I just posted all this I don't even know. So like rage at me or +1 me or however you forum these days XD

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Pre Order now and get FREE HATS!

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Why is everyone so sure HL3 will happen tho

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Well the Source Engine 2.0 is in development.

My fingers are crossed that they debut the engine with Half Life 3 just like they did with Source and Half Life 2.

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What about HL2E3? D:

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I doubt they'll make it. If they're going to use a new engine I think they'll just merge the Episode 3 story into a big release like Half Life 3.

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Ah k, wasn't aware of that ^^
I think I'd be happier with a new IP though

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