If Alyx required a VR headset, Half-Life 3 is gonna require that brainchip.
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gabe working on it, boy
Pass.
Especially if it's anything like the story of Alyx.
edit: Apparently, not liking a fanfiction.net tier story that undoes the emotionally charged ending of the last game and brings back a character who's voice acgtor died is a contentious opinion. Well, it's not like new-Valve gives a shit about VAs reprising their roles. They couldn't be bother to ask Merle Dandridge to come back in any capacity.
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Valve has said on at least a couple occasions they don't really have interest in making games anymore, unless there is some new technology they get interested in that they can make a game around.
The HL2 episodes were basically tests for different source engine technologies.
Alyx was basically then playing around with VR.
So yeah, I can totally see some weird fucked up thing like a brainchip being what HL3 is built around, if HL3 ever stops being anything more than a syphilitic hallucination of a desperate mind.
All their games are tests for different technologies or business models. In hindsight, Gabe has never cared about the story of Half-Life. He just happened to have hired a good writer for HL1 and HL2 by accident. It's why I'm more interested in the fanon then the canon at this point. Half-Life: Echoes and Entropy: Zero are criminally underplayed.
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Half-Life 4 confirmed!!!!
Cannot believe people are still talking about this 20 years later...
People still want a good Star Wars sequel.
Hope burns long.
Andor is a good Star Wars sequel... to the prequels
We got like a dozen sequels 😂
"good" being the main descriptor here.
The Last Jedi is top 3 out of the Skywalker movies easily.
In a few short years, you'll see. The sequels will be redeemed just as the prequels before them. Time is a flat circle.
Stunning visuals maybe but damn the story was bad and ruined any internal consistency of the space battles in the entire franchise. Rogue one is the only good Disney SW movie, Solo is fine too
nah. the sequels were fun in an initial watch, but have no staying power. they are just bullet point reshoots of the original trilogy. the prequels have issues but at least they are actually original ideas.
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I can't say never, but TRoS is a fucking awful movie (not just as Star Wars, but a terrible cinematic experience) and I think it's really damn hard to redeem a trilogy with that as a bookend.
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The Force Awakens was good, mostly by way of just being A New Hope again.
I feel like people believe this because the next two movies were so awful. I've always felt like the force awakening was worse than the prequels. None of the good story telling from a new hope was transferred.
My wife asked me when we're watching Star Wars. I told her "When the story is finished".
From my point of view Star Wars was finished the second Disney acquired it.
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To be fair we know that a HL Sequel was worked on by Valve several times but always scrapped in various stages of production. So the rumours really came from somewhere reasonable and not just from pure speculation and desperation.
Imagine getting HL3 before GTA6. The meme potential would be out of this world
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Hey, I'll take anything over being stuck on the cliffhanger of Eli's death for 20 years, and wrap up the whole Combine story as best as possible.
As TachyonTele suggested, you may want to play or read into Half Life Alyx. Time travel got involved.
What if I don't have VR?
I’ve heard there are mods to play it on a flat screen. Obvs you’d lose a lot of the experience, but that would be a way to get the story.
I watched a story recap on yt.
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That cliffhanger got addressed in Half-Life: Alyx. And replaced with a different cliffhanger.
I've been fooled before. Not getting my hopes up till valve posts a trailer.
kinda brave of you to believe in valve even if they produced a trailer.
What can I say? I'm a hopeless romatic. Granted it would have to be more than a teaser trailer. But still, I suppose I'm subject to flights of fanciful hope.
But has it been designed to be the final Episode?
HL3:EP1 confirmed.
I'm far past the point of caring. I've moved on with my life
No.
trust me bro, insider gaming
Bring back the Seattle Sonics if we are gonna be hopeful for things from 2 decades ago
TIL the grabby gloves thing I missed due to lack of VR gear wasn't HL3.
I'll believe it when it's out, but that would be the best decision, no one likes waiting 15 years between sequels.
Only 15? Episode 2 came out in 2007.
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