one thing i will concede.. a single asshat can ruin a LFD game...where its just annoying in most others.. Great to hear Lfd3 is coming.. I hope its not standard Valve time.. I cant wait 3-4 more years.. Oct would be a good time.. surprise announcement!.. i wish..
Were you dying as you... wrote... this?
Were you dying as you... wrote... this?
I sure hope not. I hate pay to win format. I wouldn't mind a new L4D entry but I felt L4D2 was kind of a sidestep compared to L4D1.
I never understood why people foam at the mouth about HL3's release.
You KNOW Valve WILL release it. Just give it time and forget about it.
HL1 was a landmark. HL2 was monumental at its time with true free physics. Both graphics and gameplay didn't improve that much today. Making HL3 now would be dumb and fall as just another FPS.
HL3 should be the true next-gen game. Something that requires another ground breaking element.
Just give it another 4-8 years. Without a doubt you know Valve will make it.
Not familiar with Valve's F2P model are you?
Which model would that be? Not TF2. TF2 went F2P years after it had recouped its initial development costs through traditional sales and then switched to the "pay for service maintenance with hat sales" model. I'll need a better example than that before I change my opinion that all F2P games will have their gameplay fundamentally compromised in order to procure revenue. There's to many games to play and not enough time for me to bother with titles that are doomed by design IMO.
Well, I would just like to see the story line continued, not so much interested in some hypothetical groundbreaking element that may never come to pass.
Is it just me or does L4D2 have a floaty feel to the movement?
Played too much BF3?
I'll admit L4D2 has less "natural" movement than some other shooters but I've never had any issues.
I never understood why people foam at the mouth about HL3's release.
You KNOW Valve WILL release it. Just give it time and forget about it.
HL1 was a landmark. HL2 was monumental at its time with true free physics...
I bet L4D3 is F2P as well. They have had enormous success with it with TF2 and Dota 2 and L4D3 is a game that can work very well as F2P.
I hope so. If it is F2P hopefully that will mean more servers (hopefully fewer modded servers; blech) with more people at all times of day. L4D2 can be pretty dead at times.
Gabe Newell actually confirmed development of Source 2 a long time ago (about a year ago I think). He said it would be debuting with a brand new game. L4D3 it is then.
Exactly. Which is exactly why his post, if made in seriousness, was so asinine it didn't merit a response.
Eight more years? I mean, really? HL2 Episode 2 came out in 2007. That's 6 YEARS ago. I mean, get real.
On top of that, Half Life is a very plot-driven, character-heavy FPS. This isn't Battlefield or CoD. The plot and characters matter. ESPECIALLY with the way Episode 2 was ended in the cliff hanger style it was.
That's not say it wouldn't be a great game 20 years from now and fans would still love it, but it clearly loses something as an IP, and as a marketable product when by that time there'll be a whole group of gamers who never even played HL2, and another group that doesn't even remember why they should care.
Played too much BF3?
I'll admit L4D2 has less "natural" movement than some other shooters but I've never had any issues.
When Half Life 1 and 2 came out, there really wasn't anything like them on the market, and gamers ate it up.
If Half Life 3 came out today, using the same formula as 2, it would be a decent game, but like many other shooters already available. Facial movement and speech, physics, presentation and story; these are all now common in games. Half Life's story alone is NOT enough to make a great game; in fact, Half Life's story was great because of the package it was wrapped in.
Valve wants another genre defining installment to get the newest generation of gamers hooked on the franchise, and as a gamer that is what I also want. I don't want more of the same; I want that next game that blows me away, and if it takes 20 years, so be it.
will any HL fans even care about it at that point? even now HL3 is just something I like to complain about. also the new generation of gamers will be like "HL what?"
It won't be F2P. If you can't pony up $50 (most of us find deals for less than that even) for a game that will give hours of entertainment, go get a job.
Great news OP, <3 L4D.
L4D1 was an awesome game... as long as you had three other friends to play with, which I fortunately did.
L4D2 was okay, I am not a fan of the characters, music, or the special infected from the 2nd game, but the melee weapons were nice.