Rumors: Multiple Half life games in development - Said valve insider

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Long rumored Project Citadel is Half life 3 and VR spinoff is Half life X. interesting and this news is too good to be true since we might get traditional HL and VR HL both.

Maybe in VR HL you will play as Adrian or barney once again and in real Half life we see iconic Dr Freeman return.

Still have to play through the whole Alyx campaign. Hopefully next time around they can stop all the newbie VR handholding. Good game though.

Tyler McVicker tends to be full of shit.

Having said that, Valve did more or less say they were developing games again.

Much more interested in the 2021 Call of Duty.

Half Life: X

releasing in the year 20XX

I don't believe it.

More VR bullshit so not excited. Even if not, it stinks of desperation. All these years they ignored it and now only seem to be doing this in fear EGS will make them obsolete. All those years Gabe wasted like a disgruntled MS employee coming back for revenge with a failed move to take down MS by coming up with a stupid Steam OS. I hate the idea of EGS but damn I almost wanna see Epic thrash Valve.

Half-Life 3 rumors have been around for many, many years. What makes this rumor any different than all the rest? I mean, as a self-proclaimed Half-Life fanboy (minus that VR bullshit), I'd love for this rumor to be true, but I won't believe Half-Life 3 is real until the day I see the icon appear in my Steam library.

Halflife: Alyx will have been in production for years.

I'll believe it when I see it. Although, I still need to play Alyx. The cost of entry just too high for one game.

@dzimm: I'd argue the success of Alyx makes rumors of a HL3 more credible now than in years past.

^ That.

Hope its not VR again , want to play HL 2 EP 3 , HL 3

Just ran through Black Mesa, best game in the last 10 years. Half life 3 isn't coming, we all know it.

Whilst there really was a unicorn to be found in TES4: Oblivion.

There's not much chance of ever sighting a real HL3. lol :P

Meh. If they ever actually make a standard Half-Life 3 game and put it on consoles then I’ll probably check it out. If not then whatever.

Half Life Heroes for iOS and Android coming soon.

Was it really that successful? It had very low sales, very low player engagement, and was almost entirely forgotten about a week after release. If you're trying to make the case that Valve wants to strike while the iron is hot, it is stone cold at this point.

Valve said from the get go that critical reception was more important than sales, and it seems likely that Alyx has more than 2 million copies sold so far. I'm sure that could double if they port it to PSVR2.

I don't believe any Half-Life-related rumor. Just like with H-L Alyx, I'll believe it when it's official.

@ghosts4ever: I wish them luck.

Valve is dead in the console world. I doubt anyone here will care that they are still making games (except for the hermits).

And it prove itself to be a successful product of a VR game. Half-Life is all about showing innovation and unless Valve has anything to show for as far as tech, you won't see a Half-Life game and Alyx being a VR game was the show off the tech.

Rumours about Valve...yeah, I don't ever remember any of those to ever be true.

New Half Life VR is going to be a PS5 console exclusive. And you can thank dumbass Microsoft for the term, "console exclusive".

Yea, don't really get the logic here as well. If Valve was really trying to drive sales and cares about sales, they'd make it non-VR, not give a shit about Index and just make it flatscreen and probably sell like... I donno, 10 - 12 times as much.

Like... Valve doesn't need to make more money lol

That will probably be the actual reason in part how they could make Alyx. Others wouldn't risk it, they can. Happily. At a loss if need be.

@Stevo_the_gamer: "I'll believe it when I see it. Although, I still need to play Alyx. The cost of entry just too high for one game"

I beat Alyx on an Oculus Quest using a link cable to connect to my PC. I then overclocked the resolution per eye to 1440 x 1600 (the same res as Valve Index) and set the game to high settings. Let's just say it looked and played amazingly... But only in 20 minutes intervals. (The Quest would overheat and then crash every 20 minutes or so due to the overclocking). Which worked out for the better because motion sickness would kick in at the 20 minute mark for me during my first week of experiencing VR, so it gave me rest periods.

Half Life: Alyx is my Game of the Generation. It's such a bummer that 98% of gamers will never experience it. (Watching it on YouTube or Twitch is NOT the same).

What you said makes no sense. Stinks of desperation? I don't think Valve is desperate for anything. I think Gabe should have released Half-Life 3 10 years ago, though.

A little to late and i am big fan of half life just lost my interest. Episode 3 never got released

For the most part, yes.

When it comes to datamining from SteamDB, Tyler is a great source of information. He parses through that stuff really well.

He's a garbage interviewer, he can jump to lofty conclusions (the "L4D3 is next" debacle being a prime example), and he isn't as funny as he thinks he is. But when it comes to getting information about things Valve is currently working on via string leaks in game updates, leaks from Steam DB, etc; he is second to none.

I remember when the HLVR strings were floating around for more than a year, it was obvious this wasn't some immediately cancelled project and everyone called me crazy in these forums for believing that Tyler in this case was right and there may be a chance for this game releasing. Turns out HLVR did release.

As for "HLX," it's too soon to call. These strings just appeared. There definitely seems to be enthusiasm among some of the newer Valve employees for Half Life whereas the old timers like Gabe seem to have stopped caring about it completely. But time will tell if this "HLX" turns out to be anything substantial.

I have heard Tyler saying "Citadel" is a Half-Life project, but despite it's mildly "Half-Life" sounding name, I just don't know if there's enough evidence to go off of to make that claim so I disagree with him there.

would have been cool to hear 10 years ago. I just don't really care anymore. I'm just going to assume this is bullshit until I can actually download and play HL3.

at least black mesa was cool