Kind of depressing actually. I have a feeling after EP2 they realized their mistake with doing episodic content, since it takes nearly as long as a full game. So my hope is that they have morphed the EP3 content they were working on into HL3.
If they just release EP3 with a similar amount of content to EP1/EP2, I will be very disappoint. I may not even purchase.
i don't think they can make as much profit off of it compared to l4d/portal so it's not priority anymore
He didn't say no profit, he said not as muchValve not making profit off Half Life?
Isn't counterstrike a Mod for Half Life? Thus, counterstrike players should all be counted as Half Life players?
CS:S comes w/ HL2 I believe....and you can also buy CS:S as a stand alone. I think.
Seriously? Four player coop in Half Life? Classes? This would just make it some sort of freakish amalgam of three very different genres. I'm not against some new additons, but what you're proposing would make in half life in name only.
Besides when talking about Left 4 Dead of Team Fortress 2 you also have to take into account that Valve has to pay for the dedicated servers and devote some time and manpower to the patches, DLCs updates etc.
Isn't counterstrike a Mod for Half Life? Thus, counterstrike players should all be counted as Half Life players?
No. Counter Strike: Source was always a separate game from Half Life 2.
The quintessential HL trait/experience is a continuous campaign that doesn't contain cutscenes with action spanning a continuous period of time as if the player is living within the game. That's it, there's nothing suggesting new elements could not be introduced. HL2 introduced an ability to lead small squads of AI resistance fighters, why not transform AI into human controlled?
The franchise has already brought forth games that allow us to play as otherwise tertiary characters such as Barney Calhoun and Adrian Shephard. Why not allow players to play as these characters, not individually in their own campaigns like in the past, but together in cooperation?
When I talk of class system, the characters would have more subtle specialties than a game like TF2, but a character like Adrian Shephard would understandably be a better combatant and be better with typical weapons while Gordon with his suit would be needed to get the group through hazards, etc.
Sorry, but a game like that would destroy a boring rehash of what we've already had with HL1 and HL2. I hope you're not against such an idea because you have no friends so you're terrified of a game built around sharing an experience with friends, that would be tragically sad if true.
Yes, exactly. I sit alone in my unlit basement, with the computer screen serving as my light source, my fingers covered in Cheetos' crust vigorously masturbating to tentacle hentai all the while trying to think up Left 4 Dead strategies that involve me playing solo, due to the aforementioned lack of friends and a giant bottomless pit in the place of my heart. OH and my face is literally swarming with pimples!
Or, maybe I just think that what you're proposing would take away one of the trademarks of Half Life, it's silent protagonist. How would you explain three mute characters( assuming they were to add in coop play)? You would have to create some voice lines for them, which in turn would take away some of the magic.
No. Counter Strike: Source was always a separate game from Half Life 2.
I wonder if we will have to wait 12 years for HL3 and if it will be renamed HL3F
HL1 was good, a really refreshment of the FPS genre.
HL2 EP1 was suppar, plauged with bugs (stu-stu-stu-stuttering sound eg.) a damn short gameplay and weapons that never felt right.
HL2 EP2 was even shorter and more boring.
.oO(See the trend?)
HL2 EP3 won't be a game I will purchase.
Gabe Newell has said that Episode 3 will probably be released as Half Life 3 (not as HL2: Ep. 3), a full sequel with (presumably) a lot more content than the previous episodes. Then again, he also said that they would focus on episodic content in order to get the story out more quickly in smaller chunks, and obviously that didn't pan out given how damn long it's been.
Agreed. Half Life is as much about being Gordon Freeman as anything else. Give the players the ability to play someone else, and it's not really Half Life any more.
Also, if the Half Life series were to be over after just one more game, I think everyone would be disappointed. There are WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY too many loose ends that need to be tied up before they could have a satisfying ending to the series, and I just don't see that happening in one game.
Yes, exactly. I sit alone in my unlit basement, with the computer screen serving as my light source, my fingers covered in Cheetos' crust vigorously masturbating to tentacle hentai all the while trying to think up Left 4 Dead strategies that involve me playing solo, due to the aforementioned lack of friends and a giant bottomless pit in the place of my heart. OH and my face is literally swarming with pimples!
Or, maybe I just think that what you're proposing would take away one of the trademarks of Half Life, it's silent protagonist. How would you explain three mute characters( assuming they were to add in coop play)? You would have to create some voice lines for them, which in turn would take away some of the magic.
HL1 was good, a really refreshment of the FPS genre.
HL2 EP1 was suppar, plauged with bugs (stu-stu-stu-stuttering sound eg.) a damn short gameplay and weapons that never felt right.
HL2 EP2 was even shorter and more boring.
.oO(See the trend?)
HL2 EP3 won't be a game I will purchase.
Either way, I am seriously irritated that they keep delaying Half-Life Ep 3 or Half-Life 3 whatever they decide. Instead they crank out two Left 4 Dead games in a year and while I'm excited about Portal 2, I'd MUCH rather see Episode 3 or better yet Half-Life 3 and at least finish the story. There's no excuse for an extremely successful franchise to just leave things open. It would make its money back tenfold or more.
Except if you call it Half Life: Opposing Forces, or Half Life: Blue Shift.