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Valve has 'hl3.txt' in Dota patch w/ procedural gen, NPC recruitment, zipline, quests
- Thread starter ashecitism
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I couldn't care less about remasters of games I already played (there, i said it) and Shenmue is not for me at all. TLG sure, I'm excited but I would take HL3 over it at ANY FKIN TIME!
8-Bit Sunset
Banned
Please say something will come of this.
Cameron122
Member
Valve please stop
Yeah, precisely why the screenshot is cropped (so people can't go digging).
It's not hard to believe. There were leaks from Valve's internal management system showing a skeleton crew in the HL3 group for a long time.
ashecitism
Member
Tried to search for that name. There was one reference to him in one group and in another one he posted, but is now called Finn.
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/jmbsfanclub
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Hunter123#comments
Even if it's bull, it's not outlandish scenario that only few are working on it.
Well, yeah, the notion that Half-Life 3 wasn't Valve's focus isn't the outlandish part.
ashecitism
Member
Well, yeah, the notion that Half-Life 3 wasn't Valve's focus isn't the outlandish part.
Well, the story isn't exactly outlandish either, as we know there is a Valve account that at around the time of the story was indeed called Hobogenic. He was also VAC banned before, haha.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Finnthehumanboy
http://www.vacbanned.com/engine/check
Yeah, I'm talking to someone on Steam about it at the moment.
Pathfinder
Member
Just imagine how awesome it'll be when we finally get it.
DancingNalwood
Member
Don't do this to yourselves. Don't do this to me! We've been here too many times
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
It's fucking happening lads.
I can feel it.
Where's my morphine drip?
I can feel it.
Where's my morphine drip?
Backfoggen
Banned
I love Fall Out 4.
It's a cheap knockoff. It's really immersion-breaking when they call the miniature computers "Fall Out Boys" instead of "Pip-Boys".
hydrophilic attack
Member
It's amazing how easily Valve manages to string the fans along by "accidental" leaks like this. One would have thought the fans would have caught on eventually that the game is never coming out lol
The latter part of your post contradicts the first. Why would Valve intentionally string people along if the game is never coming out?
hydrophilic attack
Member
To maintain the super-loyalty that makes some fans not even consider other distribution platforms than steam?
Or alternatively:
alexandros
Banned
It's not a matter of loyalty. People prefer Steam because of its features and because of the convenience of having the entire games library in one place.
ashecitism
Member
People aren't sticking to Steam because they're waiting for HL3. The vast majority of the userbase doesn't even care about the game or the franchise.
It's funny to watch fans go wild over nothing
I think HL3 is going to be a much more different game than anyone will think it will be. Reading past interviews with Gabe about their thoughts on standard boxed single player games I am convinced that whatever HL3 will turn out to be, it will be a much more social experience then what we are used from a Half Life game. It might even turn out into a destiny esque game where its much more of an co-op FPS RPG than just pure single player. I think some gamers wont be happy but honestly, those are the minority and it would be stupid for valve to make a traditional Half Life game in the current market space. Dont get me wrong, it will still be pretty much a single player game for those who want to solo it, but you will have the options to experience it with friends and having a ton of post release content.
Or as gaben said it "It's single-player plus, not ‘no more single-player.'"
Or as gaben said it "It's single-player plus, not ‘no more single-player.'"
LincolnSixVacano
Banned
I went from completely hype, to the realization that this was just another trolling dev. this GIF made me smile, and almost made me forget the 11 years since HL2 of being in constant stress about any HL3 news. Thank you
fvng
Member
A valve employee fucking around. Valve is a collective entity, not one person
hydrophilic attack
Member
So, you're saying a vast majority of fans already gave up, and the only people still giving a fuck is a sad delusional minority?
So, I was wrong then. Most fans are not being strung along any longer. Thanks for clarifying.
Imagine no more waiting.
It's easy if you try
No more pointless teasing.
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Playing Half Life 3 for the first time...
Imagine an official Half Life 3 trailer.
It isn't hard to do
An end to all speculation.
And no more "Half Life 3 confirmed" jokes too
Imagine all the gamers
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Veritigo_X
Member
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
Banned
Will a mute protagonist actually work in this day and age? Can Nolan "Troy Baker" North pull off accurate physics jargon?
questionmark
Member
Whats more sad, someone easily excitable or someone who easily resorts to childish personal attacks on people he doesn't know?
I don't see why not, if it worked in half 2 and its episodes.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
Banned
Yes, 8 years ago. A lot changes in that time span. I can't think of the last AAA game I played where the protagonist wasn't voiced.
ashecitism
Member
Corvo wasn't voiced in Dishonored, though he will be for the sequel. Can't think of anything else. Valve did consider Chell to have a voice in Portal 2, but decided against it.
Well I can replay those games and it never bothered me. Giving Freeman a voice would be like giving Link one, just weird.
GoldandBlue
Member
I don't see what has changed so much in those 8 years that make it difficult now to have a silent protagonist.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
Banned
I just think that within the context of the series, having a protagonist that has literally zero verbal reaction to anything going on around him simply doesn't work unless there is some reason, grounded in the reality of the game's universe, that makes it believable that the main character can't talk or refuses to.
eso76
Member
MGSV ?
Seriously though, it would feel weird nowadays, I can't imagine freeman being silent in hl3.
How the hell is that GIF so seamless. It's literally like there's no cut
On-topic, it would be cool if it came to something, but if not, hey, plenny more games out there! Your loss, Valve.
It's intentional in my opinion. I think the whole point of putting it in there the day before the 8 year anniversary of HL2:EP2 is specifically to nod to the hardcore fans, to say that they still work on it. Particularly after everything that happened recently with the rumour mongering. I don't think it means anything more than that. Don't expect it for a few more years. Like people have said before, Valve have done similar things before to tease / troll those people that go looking. That said, this is the first time anything about HL3 as a game has been found. Previously, it's just been clues that it exists