http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/half-life-writer-marc-laidlaw-leaves-valve-after-18-years/
If you are still holding out for Half Life 3, it might be time to let it go.
-KeithP
Marc Laidlaw, an 18-year veteran of Valve Software and the lead writer of Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and its two subsequent episodes, has left the company.
I think most of us dream of a world where Episodes 1-3 were never made.It'd be if Lucas decided to stop work after Empire.
http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/half-life-writer-marc-laidlaw-leaves-valve-after-18-years/
If you are still holding out for Half Life 3, it might be time to let it go.
-KeithP
I think most of us dream of a world where Episodes 1-3 were never made.
http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/half-life-writer-marc-laidlaw-leaves-valve-after-18-years/
If you are still holding out for Half Life 3, it might be time to let it go.
-KeithP
Its either dead or might be coming out within a year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/3zzmi2/sent_an_email_to_marc_laidlaw_about_hl3_he/Considering that Gabe Newell, during a podcast with Geoff Keighley last year, specifically told him in response to questions about the future of the series that because of what Valve has learned over the years (and in particular since shipping Portal 2) that they weren't interested in doing what he called a "super classic kind of product" unless there was a significant enough demand for it within the company itself, it seems like the writing was on the wall.
Unfortunately, Newell made it pretty clear where Valve is at right now. That the company is focused on the community-based experiences that have helped make the company so successful, rather than the traditional single-player experiences that made the Half-Life series what it was. He even comes out and calls doing another Half-Life a "bad choice" that it "ignores everything we've learned." Anyone still holding a torch for the series only has themselves to blame.
Of course, that doesn't mean the franchise is buried. However, based on what Newell has said on the matter, there's little doubt that even if it did come back it wouldn't be as we knew it but reflect the current direction of the company. Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, Dota. It would be something that reflected the community driven, market based, competitive standard Valve has built around its brand. Valve and Newell both are clearly more interested in services and hardware than the traditional experiences that once typified their offerings.
Best not to expect anything anymore.
Secret Vive launch title amiright?
To this day I will never understood how Valve let one of the best IP's in gaming history go down the toilet. For absolutely no reason.
HL3, the new Duke Nukem.
Is that polite-new-speak for "If we made HL3 today, it'll end up like Thief 4 'for the modern casual audience'?"... The old Half-Life games were great, but like so many other great late 90's / early 00's franchises, you often can't just "go back" and recreate that distinctive "feel" about them 10-15 years later when there's such a large time gap and a change in development personnel between them and when half the modern games development is based more on being "formulaic" vs completely different games of similar release year than maintaining any distinctive "style" a franchise might have in general."However, based on what Newell has said on the matter, there's little doubt that even if it did come back it wouldn't be as we knew it but reflect the current direction of the company."
Secret Vive launch title amiright?
Is that polite-new-speak for "If we made HL3 today, it'll end up like Thief 4 'for the modern casual audience'?"... The old Half-Life games were great, but like so many other great late 90's / early 00's franchises, you often can't just "go back" and recreate that distinctive "feel" about them 10-15 years later when there's such a large time gap and a change in development personnel between them and when half the modern games development is based more on being "formulaic" vs completely different games of similar release year than maintaining any distinctive "style" a franchise might have in general.
Now that he's not working for Valve anymore I hope that someone out there will interview him and ask him about what the hell actually happened internally.
I'm also wondering something. As the writer of Half-Life, would he have the right to continue the story on his own and just write it in a book? I think it's the only way we'll ever get to know what happens after Episode Two. In fact I would love just read the story's continuation rather than waiting for Valve to lift a finger about it.
This all comes back to Gabe now, he can come out now and clear things up as to what's going to happen.
To this day I will never understood how Valve let one of the best IP's in gaming history go down the toilet. For absolutely no reason.
It'd be if Lucas decided to stop work after Empire.