Half-Life 3

Maybe valve actually making

Half Portal Dead Life 3 :p

one game with 3 characters that can be switched at any time, including while in mission. Weapons such as crowbars, portal gun, frying pan, or sword can be chosen when selecting strategy for robbing bank, escaping zombie apocalypse, playing with gravity.

(lol)
 
Or maybe it's Valve just attention-whoring. Again.
 
This is news how, exactly...? :)

I think it's been obvious for like, YEARS now, that Valve isn't really interested in making games anymore. If they did, they would like, release some, every once in a while. Instead, they're interested in making, and selling hats.
 
It's not news, just something very funny about the thread's subject that I found in the Internet.
Also, I probably just trolled a lot of people just by reviving the topic. Sorry about that.
 
What I don't understand is Valve must be full of talented programmers and designers who, you know, love to make games. I mean, they haven't all buggered off somewhere else have they? So what are they doing? I know Valve is meant to be a cool place to work and everything but eventually wouldn't you just get frustrated and leave if your company isn't creating the things you yearn to create?
 
I've been wondering about that as well, and I don't have a very good answer to that. I suppose your post is meant to infer that since there are devs still working there they must in fact be hard at work making games?

Well maybe so, but where are those games then? Valve isn't talking. In fact not even hinting about anything they're working on. Except for steam PCs/OS, which is only tangentially gaming related.
 
They have dota but that's all I know of. It is however an extremely popular game.
 
Grall said:
I've been wondering about that as well, and I don't have a very good answer to that. I suppose your post is meant to infer that since there are devs still working there they must in fact be hard at work making games?

Well maybe so, but where are those games then? Valve isn't talking. In fact not even hinting about anything they're working on. Except for steam PCs/OS, which is only tangentially gaming related.
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Not really Grall. I'm sure there are still devs there working at games to a certain extent; but I agree with you, if they are, then why aren't Valve telling anyone? I actually have no idea if the main talent behind Half Life are even still there, but if they are then surely delivering HL3 (or Ep3) would be what they'd want to work on more than anything else?

I dunno, I'm not as emotionally tied in with HL as a lot of other people. I thought they were great games, but my life wouldn't exactly end if HL3 were never to see the light of day. I do feel Valve are acting like dicks when it comes to the game though. It wouldn't hurt to be a bit more open.
 
I'm not particularly emotionally tied with HL either (I thought HL2 was a weird, illogical left-hand turn that did not make sense from where the original game left off), I just feel it's dumb and stupid that valve is flushing their flagship franchise down the drain like this by either refusing or repeatedly failing to bring some kind of conclusion to the story they've started. If they're in fact still working on the game, where's the harm in just acknowledging that? Same with if they're not making it. It's not as if people won't notice that they're not making another HL when they're not releasing any more HL games... STFUing on the subject's entirely self-defeating. :p

This dumb silence on the HL front is just irritating, especially when it's been going on for so damn long. It's even dumber if they're still so early in development that releasing any kind of screenshots or so on would be considered overhyping the game. Ep2 came out in what, 2008? Been friggin six years now. Entirely new games have been developed in that time and had a sequel or two released as well.

One can only hope that the reason for the delay is they're re-vamping all the art for the previous installments into a HD-style re-make, but who the hell knows at this stage.
 
Valve targets laptops and the five-year-old or older PC, and most of their games have a social, multiplayer element (the exception would be Portal, but even then it's an unusual game)

Why make a roller-coaster fps then? They practically invented the genre, but that was long ago (resp. 15 and 10 years). It would take considerable resources and have to compare agaisnt Call of Duty and such.
If they design the game so that their customers can run it, so targetting Intel graphics (of the Sandy Bridge Pentium kind) there will be bickering and negative publicitity, particularly if the game gets released to consoles. Then it's a game you buy and play once (or that you pirate). Valve perhaps wants to go on building its war chest of multiplayer games that have strong activity for a decade or more. That draws people to Steam.
 
IMO what they're doing with both franchises (Portal and HL) is completely idiotic.
Another year without a Half Life or Portal iteration is another year of devaluing the IPs. Right now they're at the point of throwing money down the toilet.

If they're completely in the business of reselling digital games, then they should at least sell the damn franchises and let someone else continue the story.


Blazkowicz said:
Valve targets laptops and the five-year-old or older PC, and most of their games have a social, multiplayer element (the exception would be Portal, but even then it's an unusual game)
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HL2 required pretty high end specs when it was released 10 years ago. It was certainly not a game for laptops or PCs from 1999.
It's just that they didn't really push the Source Engine much more from 2006's Lost Coast.
There's been confirmation of them working on Source 2 since 2012, but there's just nothing to show.

Grall said:
I've been wondering about that as well, and I don't have a very good answer to that. I suppose your post is meant to infer that since there are devs still working there they must in fact be hard at work making games?
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It seems they're just cancelling games, one after another.
 
Gerry said:
What I don't understand is Valve must be full of talented programmers and designers who, you know, love to make games.
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They must spend all their time patching Team Fortress 2 I cant turn steam on without a TF2 update
Arrrrgh I don't believe it.
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Only thing I can add here is that Valve has hired highly talented and experienced lead character guys from ILM and Weta in recent years, Giovanni Nakpil and Jeff Unay; people who've been behind Avatar and Avengers among other movies. I'd have a hard time believing that they've been working on DOTA or stuff like that. Valve is also quite big, something like 450 people or so.

But I also have to agree that they just can't keep on not doing anything about Half-Life for much too long. There's an entire generation of gamers now who probably hasn't played those games and getting them interested could be pretty hard...
 
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