guybrushfreeman
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QftGod bless you Marc Laidlaw, and thank you.
I mean it's not just that they were very successful. HL and HL2 were two of the most important games the FPS genre ever saw. To see a writer resort to finishing the series (or at least the HL2 story) with a blog post is awful.Ugh God damn...it just doesn't make sense...Half-Life 2 was a very successful game. I just don't understand how this never got made.
This really wouldn't have worked with purported (=mythical) organisational structure.Valve should have split into two companies long ago.
Valve maintains Steam, helps with publishing, software, etc...
Vavle Software makes games.
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Valve would release it on the same timeframe as the TF2 comic updates.EP3 was always intended to come out about a year after 2 and lead into HL3 which would be the actual conclusion.
Given that EP3 was never actually even close to completed, I can't imagine they even had more than a storyboard at best for the actual HL3, so this is about as far as the narrative likely got from the writing team at Valve at the time.
Honestly at this point I'd take a book series.
We went in circles but the company has changed
No one cares about the past games we made or what I want to do
I tried my best to have HL continue
Valve has gotten rid of the old Valve guard
Some people still care about the past, but Valve has changed completely
Chase that crate money if you want. Peace out.
At the end of the day, Valve became just like any other publisher.
Are you fucking telling me it was gonna end on another cliffhanger!?
Its sad because all Valve had to do to appease their fans was release some quick, even mediocre episode 3 (something that would have taken 6-12 months t whip out) that would conclude the story, regardless of its qualiy HL3 would not have become the massive meme that it has become now and people wouldn't feel like they were "taken on a ride" as you say.
Naughty Dog have offered repeatedly.Why cant Valve just man up and Make Half Life 3 to end the story of Gordan Freeman. Did all the money they make from Steam really went to their heads? Why cant they licence Half Life to a good dev team so they can make Half Life 3?
And Respawn. It's ironic how Titanfall 2 shares a similar mechanic to the Borealis,I knew old Valve was dead when half the things Gabe kept saying are how games are becoming "service-based". They figured out how to make more money with online-persistent games and effectively killed singleplayer. Sucks. I wonder what the writers at Valve do there now, I guess that's why some of the big ones left.
Soon Valve will outsource writing as well and ask the fans to write new singleplayer content and they'll get paid from 99 cent half-life ribbons that people can buy for their tf2/dota characters.
Arkane Studios and MachineGames are the new Valve now.
I don't know, I think it would set up Half Life 3 to go in any direction it wanted and brought a conclusion to the main events of 2.
It really sounds like it would've been great.
Why cant Valve just man up and Make Half Life 3 to end the story of Gordan Freeman. Did all the money they make from Steam really went to their heads? Why cant they licence Half Life to a good dev team so they can make Half Life 3?
With that the story is still unfinished. The Combine still exist and does not explain the role of The G-Man.
And Respawn. It's ironic how Titanfall 2 shares a similar mechanic to the Borealis,
Naughty Dog have offered repeatedly.
I have no idea what you mean, but I meant in a PR sense.Ouch.
I mean, come on....you don't really think...
Well, yup...I guess we're done here.
You know, there's a HUGE difference between a "cliffhanger" and an "amibiguous open ending."It's a GIANT cliffhanger, the girl you've spent 4 games worth of content with is gone with your former benefactor? You're trapped with the Vortigaunt in maybe Xen maybe not Xen? The Combine are revealed to be vastly more powerful than even you anticipated and now all human resistance has been squelched?
That's quite literally "PLAY THE SEQUEL TO GET THE REAL ENDING GAIS" the ending.
I haven't yet played HL2 Episode 2, nor read this synopsis.
Does this really end on another cliffhanger?
You know, there's a HUGE difference between a "cliffhanger" and an "amibiguous open ending."
Why cant Valve just man up and Make Half Life 3 to end the story of Gordan Freeman. Did all the money they make from Steam really went to their heads? Why cant they licence Half Life to a good dev team so they can make Half Life 3?
With that the story is still unfinished. The Combine still exist and does not explain the role of The G-Man.
This really wouldn't have worked with purported (=mythical) organisational structure.
I haven't yet played HL2 Episode 2, nor read this synopsis.
Does this really end on another cliffhanger?
It's a GIANT cliffhanger, the girl you've spent 4 games worth of content with is gone with your former benefactor? You're trapped with the Vortigaunt in maybe Xen maybe not Xen? The Combine are revealed to be vastly more powerful than even you anticipated and now all human resistance has been squelched?
That's quite literally "PLAY THE SEQUEL TO GET THE REAL ENDING GAIS" the ending.
I haven't yet played HL2 Episode 2, nor read this synopsis.
Does this really end on another cliffhanger?
It ends at a point that would've completed the HL2 era story arc, leaving things open for something in the future. Much like the end of HL1, and the end of HL2.I haven't yet played HL2 Episode 2, nor read this synopsis.
Does this really end on another cliffhanger?
Naughty Dog have offered repeatedly.
Totally, but in itself it functions as a (depressing) resolution to the events of the past games. Nothing you did mattered, ever. Your best friend has betrayed you. Humanity is doomed. Goodbye.I haven't yet played HL2 Episode 2, nor read this synopsis.
Does this really end on another cliffhanger?
I mean yeah, but Shenmue 3, the sequel to a Dreamcast game, made $6 million in 30 days. It's not like Valve is a publicly traded company, they could take the risk.Half-Life 3 = limited money
Dota, Dota TCG, Steam = unlimited money
There, done. Now you know.
It ends at a point that would've completed the HL2 era story arc, leaving things open for something in the future. Much like the cliffhanger at the end of HL1, and the one at the end of HL2.
Which is to say, things were finished and concluded. Not left dangling in the middle of the action like Ep 2.
We went in circles but the company has changed
No one cares about the past games we made or what I want to do
I tried my best to have HL continue
Valve has gotten rid of the old Valve guard
Some people still care about the past, but Valve has changed completely
Chase that crate money if you want. Peace out.
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Yeah, no thanks.
Yeah, no thanks.