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#1  Edited By DarthBuzzard
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@R4gn4r0k said:

Valve ZzZzzzz

Wake me up when they make something that isn't Artifact or a VR tech demo.

Ex-Valve Employee, also one of the main Portal writers:

It's amazing how many people think this is a tech demo. It's a full AAA game like anything you'd see out of VR.

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@i_p_daily said:
@warmblur said:

VR is great hopefully this game will turn out good and more people will try VR because of it.

I think it will be the opposite, this is like Valve pissing all over Half Life fans because none of them asked for a VR game, but a fully fledged part 3.

This will age so terribly. When this game gets bad or mediocre reviews, you can slam me. But when it gets like a mid 90s score on metacritic, I win.

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@commander said:
@BassMan said:
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Because this is Valve and this is how they feel the series should be treated, and I'm glad. I'd much rather have a title that can push things forward.

And I suppose nothing else does. HL3 is the most anticipated game there has ever been.

It sounds like a bullshit excuse if that is indeed the only way they will make the game. It is hard as hell to have something revolutionary these days. Gaming is no longer in its infancy. There are so many games from so many developers. Many people have tried different things. It is about evolution and iteration these days. To hold out on a story driven series just because they can't come up with another revolutionary game is silly.

Not with vr headsets it is not, frankly skyrim vr , fallout 4 vr is revolutionary, but these are just ported vr games.

halflife may be ported too, but halflife has one advantage compared to skyrim and fallout , there a good mixture of action and storytelling. Skyrim and fallout are rpg and in vr it can be abit annoying. It is really a lot less interesting in vr managing inventory, weapon and character setups,going to shops and so on.

Don't get me wrong, it's still amazing but you'd be suprised how many times you get into belethor shop and you're thinking, oh crap i have to go through this again. Same thing if you go to your house to store stuff, In vr I only pick up the bare necessities, I don't even bother with smithing or enchanting. In vr all these things become a chore quite fast.

The adventures are still amazing tho, so I have high hopes for this halflife game, I just hope they updated the graphics. I mean halflife 2 is a game from almost 3 gens ago and in vr those old graphics are a lot more disturbing.

Good news. It's not a remake of any kind. It's a prequel to 2 with 12-16 hours of gameplay.

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@BassMan said:
@darthbuzzard said:
@BassMan said:
@R4gn4r0k said:

@BassMan: I'd seem weird to announce Half Life 3 now.

The only reason Valve is bringing back the Half Life IP now is for their VR headset.

They are definitely pushing VR. However, this may renew their mojo for Half-Life in general. They have had other interests over the years to keep them busy and they said they are focused on making more games now. So, there is still hope for more traditional HL games.

If HL:A does well then there will only be more HL VR games. They're not going to suddenly take the franchise that's known for breaking new ground and have a massive step back for HL3.

It's simple. If we ever get HL3, it will be another VR game but probably with BCI input or haptic gloves as the new gameplay innovation to revolutionize things again.

So, the game can't be made unless it is revolutionary? Why does HL3 have to be a revolutionary game? What other game has this expectation/burden?

Because this is Valve and this is how they feel the series should be treated, and I'm glad. I'd much rather have a title that can push things forward.

And I suppose nothing else does. HL3 is the most anticipated game there has ever been.

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@BassMan said:
@R4gn4r0k said:

@BassMan: I'd seem weird to announce Half Life 3 now.

The only reason Valve is bringing back the Half Life IP now is for their VR headset.

They are definitely pushing VR. However, this may renew their mojo for Half-Life in general. They have had other interests over the years to keep them busy and they said they are focused on making more games now. So, there is still hope for more traditional HL games.

If HL:A does well then there will only be more HL VR games. They're not going to suddenly take the franchise that's known for breaking new ground and have a massive step back for HL3.

It's simple. If we ever get HL3, it will be another VR game but probably with BCI input or haptic gloves as the new gameplay innovation to revolutionize things again.

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@pc_rocks said:
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TC, if that didn't happen then:

Told you so! https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/18/20971514/valve-announces-half-life-alyx-its-first-flagship-vr-game

My hero.

It's ValveNewsNetwork that did all the work. Well and I guess the guy who leaked before the official reveal.

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Yeah... no one likes VR, huh. I guess that's why Half-Life: Alyx is the biggest game reveal of all time on r/gaming several times over with a huge amount of likes and positive comments.

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@lamprey263 said:

unless they make a transformative VR experience then I think this squanders the value of the Half-Life IP which I feel they should've saved as an ace up their sleeve should they need it in a future war with Epic Store

The above video should tell you how transformative it could be.

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@pc_rocks said:

TC, if that didn't happen then:

Told you so! https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/18/20971514/valve-announces-half-life-alyx-its-first-flagship-vr-game

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@whatafailure said:
@davillain- said:

I stop caring for Half-Life series right after episode 2 and anything coming from that series I won't care about. I was never interest another Half-Life game anyways. Valve is dead-weight you guys, stop living in the past.

You are moderator. You should not be talking like this!

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@R4gn4r0k said:
@MonsieurX said:
@ghosts4ever said:

Either make full fledge Half life 3 or donot care about some cheap VR indie game.

Why the cheap and indie... if it's coming from Valve?

I guess we'll see soon. But I don't think anyone is hoping this will live up to the absolute greatness of Half Life 1&2 or even the episodes.

Actually some playtesters say it's better than Half Life 1 or 2. I guess we'll see, but it has potential to be the best for sure.

That's very interesting. Do you happen to have a link to where the playtesters said this? I'd like to read more of these impressions.

Everything seems to be going along as planned though. One of the Valve developers gave a talk at Digipen in September and talked about Valve's "VR flagship title" but said he couldn't reveal the title. Fairly certain he was talking about this Half Life: Alyx game.

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It's from one of ValveNewsNetwork's Twitch streams. It'd be impossible for me to figure out which one and at which point, but a gameplay reveal should start to reveal the true nature of the title pretty quickly.