aidil mubarock I Hope not, they can try their new tech on a prequel, but for episode 3... I think they’ll understand that everyone needs to experience it.
@@einjohannis4711 Well, Mike Shapiro has been very, non confirming that it's a Valve title. He said it's a "blast from the past" but never said it's from Valve. Which means it very well could end up being Blood 3 (as thats the only major role he's had in a game since the half-life series came out)
yeah man, not only is valve actually starting to make games, they've also started to communicate with the community ALOT more, games like csgo which used to be ignored by valve are getting way more frequent updates. This is honestly the best version of valve we've seen in a long damn time
But they got source 2 done for half-life Alyx if they rush the game development it'll be a buggy mess like fallout 76 but developing it too long will start to be impatient
@@NoNameAtAll2 there was this video of a young boy finishing episode 2, asking what will happen in the next one, his father told him there wasn't another, both were sad.
@@NazmusLabs HLA is about 10 hours, and my first playthrough of HL2 was 18, maybe even 20 hours. HLA is no Lost Coast, and is fantastically long for a VR title, but in my eyes it's not nearly the same length as HL2.
One lesson Valve can learn from this : their fans are dedicated, and so long as Valve remains Valve, we'll wait for the next game, no matter how long it takes them :)
I do hope tho Valve comp' realise, us hl2 fans have so much respect for them since the original to the last, whether pc or vr (hopefully pc as vr is way too expensive) we will still be so over the moon for hl2 ep 3 or hl3. Big respect to valve for making brilliant games and us fans for waiting patiently
@@sem6045 may I ask how I'm crying? I juste said that I have a lot of respect for pc and vr games valve has now given us, for me I can't afford a vr set, that's my problem so hopefully in futur they will make either a vr and/or pc version for hl3 for everyone :)
de_heilige_kip Valve already confirmed hl3 won’t be vr dumbass. They know it’s still a small market and didn’t want to leave a lot of their fans waiting, so they made Half Life Alyx instead. Please respond with something smart.
marshall branin IGN literally did a ton of valve interviews where they talk future games. There’s your source. Valve says they didn’t want to shut out a large portion of the player base with vr so they decided to do alyx instead. What did that mean to me? I don’t think VR will be mainstream until probably the end of this decade or close to 6 years. HL3 won’t just be a single VR title. I gave you the sources
@@danmoar94 and that puts valve in a very special position where they don't have to worry about churning out mediocre games to keep afloat, and they can take their time and truly experiment in order to make something truly great
@@GhuyGuldY We will eventually discover there actually exists some kind of singularity in their office spaces that causes time to travel slower within the bubble.
1) Half 2 Episode 2 is some of the finest gaming ever created 2) I still get emotional thinking, hearing, or seeing the end of Episode 2 which says something about their storytelling 3) Regardless of what the reasons are, the fans deserve closure to this series 4) Half Life Alyx has been incredible in my 5 hours so far 5) Would love to see Half Life 2 Episode 3 in VR bring the cliff hanger to a close
The worst part is Valve rarely acknowledged the events of Half-Life: Opposing Force and Blue Shift due to being developed by Gearbox Software. The only thing Valve acknowledged is the destruction of Black Mesa as depicted in Opposing Force.
Each Half life game, it's a game changer for the industry. Half life 1: *FPS game with amazing story telling for the time* Half life 2: *revolutionary physics and interaction system* Alyx: *amazing use of VR with great controller integration* That's why Half life 3 is taking long. Valve just hasn't found that "wow" factor or revolutionary feature, to justify the making of Half life 3.
I didn't even need it to be perfect or innovative. It could've played just like Ep 2 and offered nothing new but if it'd finished the story I'd've been fine
Literally, most game developers just tack on extra levels made from the same assets when they go episodic. Hell thats the whole point of episodic games, just make MORE without doing anything new or designing a separate engine.
Agreed... Problem is Valve decided they doesn't JUST do Half Life games for the sake of the story anymore... They are willing to wait with the episodes for some big technological upgrade in the world of gaming in order to release a brand new refreshed game... Honestly one of the things I liked about Alyx is the fact they used the same sounds from previous HL games and heck even soundtrack at times... I still would'nt mind seeing HL3 with same assests from previous games just the story being continued...
@@royliber3824 they could have finished that story in episode 3 first. And then after wait until they find something new and groundbreaking (like they have now). But I understand that can be difficult if motivation and creativity fails.
I used cheat on Half-Life 2 Episode 2, I tried to kill the Advisor that grabbed Eli Vance, I hope if I can go to Episode 3 if I can kill that Advisor. 5 seconds later, G-Man suddenly appear behind me.
@BegissoR they could, remember how Gabe said last year and thos year also that valve is working with neural stuff? He wants to make a real hl experience, one you can actually feel by tricking your brain into feelimg the experience but i thimk that is still kinda green
Yeah I find this obnoxious. They have an obligation to finish the damn story. The tech innovations in the episodes was great enough to just wrap it up for the time being. Then HL3 could have been another innovation, but Christ, they have to finish what they start.
memespace This. AFAIK the whole point of the episodes was to tell a story to completion via short bursts of content. The upgrades to Source that came with them were just little extras. At the point that they were at they could've just finished the story and freed up time to truly put time into what they wanted to do without the ghost of the series looming over the company as it has for the past decade.
@@inthefade How could've it been another innovation if it was just going to run on the same engine, same graphics, same everything except the story. Won't be much of an innovation, would just be a wrap up to the story. Which is what they didn't want. Also considering what Valve has said about their reasonings for not making half life 3, this could mean a golden age in valve where team fortress 3 could be released, portal 3 and even half life 3. However, this is just speculation. Edit: Also about the main comment. They did make something they finished Source 2 (the engine they were planning to use for half life 3) and made Half Life: Alyx which ran on source 2.
@@inthefade Valve doesn't owe us anything. They're actively developing projects, they just aren't what you want. If they decide that they never want to make another Half Life game again that's their call.
CDPR should take notes from this. They kept quiet, didn’t advertise before even starting to work on the game properly, didn’t over-promise, didn't sell their integrity. They just delivered.
Where have you been the last 14 years? Ep 3 was a non-stop discussion from the time 2 came out till now. The talks became less and less as it became more clear we're never getting the game, but they did not keep quite by any means. Gabe talked about it a lot, ironically saying very little.
Literally completely unrelated subjects and not even correct anyway lol Valve danced around it for years, but acted like it wasn't cancelled when it very much was.
@@Asghaad As if other game developers will jump on that bandwagon as well.... It's about money and companies like EA and Ubisoft will never make VR-Only titles because they know almost nobody uses VR
@@citywokbesitzer6834 Steamspy has current sales for Alyx at between 500k-1mil ... i wouldnt call that "almost nobody" and $25 milion in revenue in first week (at minimum it can be DOUBLE of that...) bad ... itm more than likely the game already is in the green numbers especially considering Valve doesnt deal with distribution platform charges like others.
@@mikaelantonkurki I get that and unfortunately I cant play it either for the time being, but id still rather that it was something new and exciting than something disappointing :) Guess ill play it in 5 years when VR is more mainstream haha
fish yeah, right? And I used to be confident that after a decade of waiting, anyone would buy their excuses...and yet, here I am, buying it...well played, gaben
Big fan of Half Life 2, but was bit disappointed when they announced episodic releases. They didn't feel drastically innovative, more like DLC packs. I think they realized that idea wasn't meeting their standards and rather intrusive to their development schedule
They stated that the episodes are DLC. HL2 came out in an era when most games were expected to have DLC and lots of people believed half life should too.
But here's another important question. Why not let more third party developers create expansions, or standalone titles to appease the fans? Remember Blue Shift, and Opposiing Force?
Shephard joining the combine to catch Gordon or Shephard join the resistance and become their leader for an upcoming huge assault or Shepard is prematurely waken up near Borealis and had to survive or something, help the Local to fight some huge fish monster or combine incursion (The ending be like, Gordon & Alyx arrive at the place and Shepard finally got to meet the man he was task to capture then the end. Epic cliffhanger confrontation haha). So many possibilities.
@@SiisKolkytEuroo If Gearbox decided to step in again and continue their story on Adrian Shepherd... heck im not even going to be mad if it aint "official" Valve product... The original OP isn't really part of the Valve family yet it made a lot of impact on the universe itself... I hope once Source 2 will be "open for market" in sort of speak, Gearbox will jump right to it to make it happen.
Having played Alyx I can definitely say that the wait was justified. This game really is a benchmark in the same way that HL2 was in 2004 and it is nearly perfect as it is
Ah yes, the infamous Valve playtesters. The ones that got lost in a fork in the road, one that looped back to the fork and one that led out, so they just made the fork into a corridor. Valve catering "religiously" to room temperature IQ testers explains a lot.
Im 12 years old,i played the entire half life 1 and im playing half life 2,im so glad for knowing about this game series so early.Sadly half life is not too famous here in brazil.
Gabe has so much money by now that even GTA 5 money would make him *slightly* wealthier, and it would still pale compared to Steam's earnings. They're doing this for fun.
I have always seen Half Life as a real life experiment of sorts testing new technology, awesome to hear Valve say the same, respectable. Loving Alyx btw it goes hard.
I get so giddy knowing that the ALYX team wants to make more Half-Life content after this! That stinger of the post-credit scene sold me on the idea that we'll get a continuation of Gordon's story soon after.
It's like a 7 and a half minute commercial patting valve on the back and about 10 seconds of providing an actual answer which isn't even that much different from what everyone has known for years.
im still wondering, did alyx changed the past or she just changed the parallel version of herself? if gman took her in the end then gordon would never meet alyx
Well time travel is crazy to explain, she just changed the future and gman took the HL2:EP2 Alyx, but in the past she'd still meet up with Freeman like normal
[Spoilers???] I dont think there are parallel wersion of her, they propoble merege into one 'her' but with memory of Alyx that we played in Hl:A while at the same time other people remember her from future. ...time, Dr. Freeman? I would totally watch two movies to gain some perspective on that matter and can help understand few thing. Donnie Darko - Thats for ending of HL Alyx Arrival - to see gow g-man perception of time might look like, and for ending of HL Alyx also we can't really tell until next game arrives in 3-4-5years, but what im sure they aint gonna pull time travel gimmick as they did in avenger as it did felt a bit cheap.
Ian Radcliff several Alyx team members have said they want to make another Half Life game. And if they just wanted to do a VR side story, they certainly wouldn’t have ended it that way.
The main point is that Valve would never make any Episodic format anymore and with the promising capabilities of Source 2 showcased in Half-Life Alyx, Valve would now be ready to make the real sequel. Not in the form of an "Episode" but full-on "Sequel" that we always need: Half-Life 3
Valve started making more money selling other developer's games than their own, it's not because of scope creep and all this stuff about the story. HL: Alyx is out because they sunk money into a VR platform and need a killer app to sell it.
@@thesensur6214 Have both of you seen the end of Half-Life Alyx? It's a big nod a to a real possibility of a HL3, spoilers: Alyx is hired by the G-Man, Eli's death is revoked, and Gordon is told by Eli he has work to do as Eli wants to kill the G-Man, this scene is shown lost credits!
lasago Yeah, I’ve played it. (It’s great.) But Project borealis is a half life *Episode* 3 Game Inspired by epistle 3 with Gameplay as close as possible to Half Life 2. And whatever happens next officially would be A *Half life* 3, Most likely VR, fairly different gameplay To Half Life 2and a different storyline.
@@thesensur6214 yeah I know what project borealis is lol there's another epistle 3 inspired game that uses source to emulate episode 3 being made when it was planned called Boreal Alyph
I could hear about Valves internal processes and development more than I wanna play any new games. Such a fascinating studio with seasoned developers that we still dont know much about on the inside.
I hope soon in a E3 or something gaming event. The lights go out, the crowd whispering what happened. Then the only thing you see fading in his the half life logo with the number 3 next to it. That would send chills down my spine
After seeing the ending for Alyx, I'm glad Valve didn't make Half Life 2 Episode 3. The ending for the script of Episode 3 was a terrible ending for a lot of characters. I didn't like the idea of the borealis destroyed, Mossman killed even though the mission was the save her, and Alyx suddenly ditching Gordan Freeman out of the blue with the Gman while Gordan is trapped in a time paradox giving up to the combine. At that point, I didn't like where the story was heading.
But here’s what happens in the ending of half life Alyx When you release Eli, you change the future. Alyx gets taken, and you assume the perspective of Gordon. Dog comes in and gives Eli the crowbar, who then gives it to you. They then went to go take down G-Man.
If you want a story, go read a book. Valve has made it clear that Half Life games are to serve only as glorified tech presentations, with the storyline being just negligible side venture. Hoping for anything on this front is downright masochistic at this point.
@@subsonic9854 No, I adressed it. Valve did need to reinvent the wheel, because reinventing the wheel is the point for them. Telling a story is not. If you want a story, read a book. If you want to see what technology can do, play Valve games every 15 years. It is as simple as that. Also I appreciate how you read the comment as an attack on you, which made you attack back, as opposed to reading it as a statement about a point made in this very video. But I guess nothing more can be expected here.
Valve is more a group of scientists than a group of artists. They are more focused on tech development than the story of the game... they do care tremendously about the story but only if it’s going to show what can be done with source and with gaming in general. You have a point, it’s taking far too long however I truly believe they want hl3 to be a finale not just in terms of story but also for what can be done in an interactive game environment.
i honestly think now is the time to be axcited about half life future. since Alyx reveal it feels like i've been living on a dream one that i hope it never ends.
Valve will be making half life VR games until they've showed all their tricks and the market gets saturated. Then we'll be in another decade long lull until the next big leap in gaming technology
