Half Life 2: Episode 3 2011...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6246873.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;2

Rumors that Episode 3 wont even be released this year :(

Would you guys rather wait a year for Episode 3 or Wait 2-3 more years for a completley new HL3?

I personally would go for a new HL3

Valve has already said that any "Half-Life 3" would probably start a new plot narrative. So we still need to wait on Ep3 to wrap up things from the Half-Life 2 plot.

It better be a whole HL3...we've waited too long just to have a 5-8 hour game being added on at this point. Valve has missed the point of creating episodic content. Will it be good? Oh yeah for sure, valve makes great things....but it better be more than what episode 1 and 2 were.

half life 3 so we can have a new source engine that actually uses the full capabilities of a hd 5970

I really don't care about Episode 3 anymore. All I want from the HL universe is Black Mesa. I can not wait for that Game/Mod.millerlight89

Yeah, that's going to be awesome. No one really knows when it is coming out though. They were shooting for the end of 2009 and that came and went, I'm hoping to see it by this summer.

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]I really don't care about Episode 3 anymore. All I want from the HL universe is Black Mesa. I can not wait for that Game/Mod.Sparticus247

Yeah, that's going to be awesome. No one really knows when it is coming out though. They were shooting for the end of 2009 and that came and went, I'm hoping to see it by this summer.

How does Black Mesa differ from Half Life Source?

Edit: NVM lol just looked at the trailer

half life 3 so we can have a new source engine that actually uses the full capabilities of a hd 5970

fatcat13sep

How does Black Mesa differ from Half Life Source?

MEOWWW123

Here is a link. If you can not tell the difference after this then you need glasses my friend lol.

Yup haha just watched the trailer it looks sick

Yup haha just watched the trailer it looks sick

MEOWWW123

Me too man

So wtf are they actually doing for so long? The HL2 episodes aren't good enough to warrant spending so much time on.F1_2004

Well they worked on Episode 1 and two and the same time, and spent extra time polishing EP2 and adding new stuff in it. Since then They've been making new games, so it's not like they haven't been doing anything all this time. They've put some nice games out....but this HL2 break is annoying.

So wtf are they actually doing for so long? The HL2 episodes aren't good enough to warrant spending so much time on.F1_2004

The news wouldn't be so disappointing if they at least had accompanying screens or evidence of progress to give us a peak. But we got nothing. We can only assume at this point that they have not done anything with the HL saga ever since they've been playing around with L4D.

i know. that mod is taking forever tho@!

I dont understand this whole excitment over this news. Valve is like Blizzard. Both companies take a long time to make a game. Hl2 was in development for 5 years.

I dont understand this whole excitment over this news. Valve is like Blizzard. Both companies take a long time to make a game. Hl2 was in development for 5 years.

rzepak

[QUOTE="rzepak"]

I dont understand this whole excitment over this news. Valve is like Blizzard. Both companies take a long time to make a game. Hl2 was in development for 5 years.

millerlight89

Pretty sure if Ep3 will come out it will actually be a full fledged game. Valve isnt stupid.

[QUOTE="millerlight89"][QUOTE="rzepak"]

I dont understand this whole excitment over this news. Valve is like Blizzard. Both companies take a long time to make a game. Hl2 was in development for 5 years.

rzepak

Pretty sure if Ep3 will come out it will actually be a full fledged game. Valve isnt stupid.

That was the worst news i've heard in last few months that HL E3 won't be released in 2010!!!

That was the worst news i've heard in last few months that HL E3 won't be released in 2010!!!

shahabzelda

[QUOTE="rzepak"]

[QUOTE="millerlight89"] HL2 was also a whole new game, not an episode. So I can understand people getting upset about the wait.millerlight89

Pretty sure if Ep3 will come out it will actually be a full fledged game. Valve isnt stupid.

It is true that Valve isnt the biggest company out there, but I do think they are very well organized. L4D is a different team than the TF2 one and Its a given that HL and CS haave their own dedicated teams too.

The point of providing new stuff in the shape of episodic contents instead of full games or expansions was to be cost cutting with the time and budget spent with the development, since the tech was already done.

But they shiped HL-2 at the end of 2004, and since then their episodic contents were 2 games of the half size of HL-2 deployed in a 5 years period. Of course they shiped more games, as L4D & L4D2 (but was initially a external work until they hired the modders involved in the saga) and TF2 and Portal, but Portal was a small project.

So, they didn't want to spent too much time or money in a whole new Half-Life 3 and they start Episode 1 and 2, but at the end this is consuming as time and maybe resources as a whole new game.

I liked more the id Software pattern: they shiped Doom 3 in the same year, then hired Nerve to do The Resurrection Of Evil expansion, then did support the Raven developement of Quake 4, and finally after 6 years will ship a entire new game (Rage) under a entirely new engine (id Tech 5).

IMO Valve is with Steam under the same problem as Blizzard with WoW: they are making so much money with "their new toy" to keep the mind focused in their main franchise.

I want the conclusion to HL2 before even discussing HL3. If they're going to take this long to make Episode 3, it better be damn good.Immortalica

[QUOTE="Immortalica"]I want the conclusion to HL2 before even discussing HL3. If they're going to take this long to make Episode 3, it better be damn good.millerlight89

[QUOTE="Immortalica"]I want the conclusion to HL2 before even discussing HL3. If they're going to take this long to make Episode 3, it better be damn good.millerlight89

[QUOTE="millerlight89"][QUOTE="Immortalica"]I want the conclusion to HL2 before even discussing HL3. If they're going to take this long to make Episode 3, it better be damn good.dakan45

For the love of god, would you people stop whining? :x

It's taking a while. So what? I'd like to remind you that in the meanwhile, Valve has released a number of other truly amazing products which all of you have bought and played. It's not like they've disappeared off the radar, the game is still coming. The Half-Life series has been amazing so far, and we all know that Episode Three is going to continue that trend. So everybody just sit back, shut up, have a little patience, and play something else while you wait. It really can't be this difficult for all of you.

Jeez. :roll:

It's taking a while.JN_Fenrir

You call that a while? :roll:

in the meanwhile, Valve has released a number of other truly amazing productsJN_Fenrir

To what are you referring? The l4d games? They were made mostly by Turtle Rock studios and not the entire valve HQ. Also l4d took "a while" too. ;) Personally i wouldn't call that a awhile but whatever...

The Half-Life series has been amazing so far, and we all know that Episode Three is going to continue that trend.JN_Fenrir

I beg to dissagre with the amazing part, especially if you consider the fact that the episodes offer is a short compaign in a 2 years development period and pretty dated graphics and gameplay.Now that i mention gameplay, the gameplay has not evolved not even a little. Not even a new thing like a new weapon for example, and all that in 2 years period. So episode 3 is taking that long for what? Its not like they are making "crysis 2" or "Fallout 4"!!! Despite the fact they are a small studio, still they could have done much more and with many improvements in the time episodes take to be released. So if you ask me i wouldnt bet on the fact that episode 3 is gonna be that good to worth the wait!

These are just rumours. Nothing more.

Still I think it's going to be a couple years before we see Ep 3 (or HL3) or whatever the hell it is they're doing at Valve. All I know is I'm down for waiting because I know it's going to be worth it.

Episode 2 came out with Portals and Team Fortress 2.. TF2 has been getting regular updates since its release.. It is only logical that HL ep3 will be packaged with a wide variety of new stuff.. sSubZerOo

did anyone expect it in 2010? Is anyone genuinely suprised?

i know I sure am not. They could say 2012 and I would go "Meh, couldnt expect anything else".

God bless Valve, but daaaammmmn do they sure take their sweet time. Ultimately, though, it will be worth it.

I wouldn't mind an all new Counter Strike game with new graphics and improved AI. And a sequel to Portal.

Half-Life 3 and Source 2 sounds a lot better than episode 3..... if I'm honest.

Without a doubt it's going to be awesome. I just hope the game will last longer than Episode 1 & 2, that will make it worth the wait.

[QUOTE="JN_Fenrir"]It's taking a while.dakan45

[QUOTE="JN_Fenrir"]in the meanwhile, Valve has released a number of other truly amazing productsdakan45

[QUOTE="JN_Fenrir"]The Half-Life series has been amazing so far, and we all know that Episode Three is going to continue that trend.dakan45

So if you ask me i wouldnt bet on the fact that episode 3 is gonna be that good to worth the wait!dakan45

A big I told you so to all you lovers of episodic content. I didn't buy eps 1or 2 until the Orangebox came out where I concidered the price to be right. if bought new they were $20.00 each. $40.00 for an incomplete game. What a crock! And now the third installment is still way out if it comes out at all. They've had time for a whole new game by now. I saw this from the very beginning. The first $60.00 expansion.