This reply made me chuckle
this is always how it starts. first a post, then a whole announcement
Obviously homeboys first HL3 hype round. I will boil and eat my work boots on livestream if anything called “Half Life 3” gets released in 2025. Screenshot this
What sort of work you do in those boots, out of curiosity? I wouldn’t have made that bet when I was a machine operator, those shits were soaked in coolant with stainless steel chips embedded everywhere.
Res contracting so… honestly worst case scenario is i get a lil sawdust on my tongue
And these boots… steel or composite toe?
How about 2026? If you played Alyx, you’d know why it’s rational to expect HL3. And according to some datamining, they’re staffing up specifically for HL3. Granted, that could also make it a 2027 game, with how AAA games are developed these days.
They have been “working” on Half Life 3 for over a decade, with many promising leads found through datamining things left in other source games over that time. There is almost always absurd levels of speculation over the smallest crumbs of datamined material.
For example, there’s been an unfinished NPC worked on for Episode 3 left in Half Life 2 that was first shown in a tech demo in 2006, literally prefixed with “Ep3_” in the code. It’s been around for 18 years and the most that was used from it was graphics for the gels in Portal 2, vs all of the speculated things about it.
The recent documentary they released had what was effectively a post-mortem section where they talked about why Episode 3/Half Life 3 never came out.
I can see why you might think that their new controller and headset might be enough of a game changer that they feel like making 3 is worth it again, but the overall feeling I’ve gotten from them from following all of this closely since the pre-Orange Box days is that: 3 isn’t happening due to the immense pressure and expectations that have built up over the many years people have been waiting. Maybe we get Alyx 2 or some other spin off, but the only thing they’d accomplish with 3 at this point is disappointing a wide variety of people with countless conflicting expectations.
At the very least you also have to contend with “Valve Time”. What would take a normal studio a year takes them four due to their obsession with polishing everything. Team Fortress 2 started development in 1998 and didn’t release for 9 years.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to see where they go next, and I hope this means more than a voice actor sending a fun new years message. But you need to understand that “definitive evidence” of 3 coming based off datamined material has been floating around for 15+ years now.
Expecting Half-Life 3 to never happen because it hasn’t happened so far sounds a lot like the hot hand fallacy to me. Have you played Alyx?
Thank you
Just seems like a New Years thing to me. Am I missing something?
Valve used to do ARGs for some of their major releases. It’ll be kinda sad if there’s just not enough energy around for people to figure out their puzzle pieces here.
It’s not half life 3 folks…it’s a half life Alyx sequel. Likely on the Deckard standalone VR headset
Where have you guys been? Half Life 3 was confirmed December 13, 2007.
I’m sure it’s coming any day now.
TF2: Episode 2
In before HL 1 & 2 remaster disappointments. Or just absolutely nothing happening, just like all the previous copium rumors. I think I stopped caring back with the recorded soundtrack rumors, which already feel like an eternity ago at this point.
Half life 3 confirmed.
To be honest, I hope they never do it. Because at this point it is absolutely impossible that it can live up to the hype. It will be a disappointment no matter what.
They can do other games in that universe though. They will work. I actually believe they will work better without HL3 existing.
A lot of people haven’t played HL:Alyx because of the VR requirement… But my goodness it was amazing.
Valve will never release a HL-title before it’s absolutely groundbreaking.
Welp, that was just as ominous and Chinese curse-y as “prepare for unforseen consequences.” Not sure I’m a fan of it applied IRL. 😬
