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Half-Life 2: Episode Three speculation
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Death_Born
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Tarin02543 said:
"When it's done"
GeneralIroh
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I agree. I'm really getting bored of HL2's combat when it comes to shooting guns. I hope they'll spice things up with better ai and more variety.Frenck said:
Laurentius
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Chittagong
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I think it won't be this gen. Much like how Half-Life 2 was mindblowing when unveiled in 2003 using techniques later available on 2005-2006 consoles, I believe the reason we have seen nothing is that they are building it to be truly next gen. The HL2 engine is very dated now and Valve is no longer seen as the graphics pioneer it once was.
I believe this will change in a year.
I believe this will change in a year.
I think that it would be kind of silly for Gordon to be a brilliant scientist who wasn't smart enough to think of writing notes on a pad and handing them to people in order to communicate, if say, he hadn't yet learned sign language in HL2.
I'm sure that sign language thing was more because Valve is big on accessebility options. (Half-Life 2 has a seperate closed caption option for the subtitles etc)
Gordon being a mute seems more like a retcon.
From the NPC reactions it's implied that Gordon does speak but the player just doesn't hear it.
Doubtful IMO.
A big reason for the success of Valve games is that, like Blizzard games, they run on very moderate PCs, which means that audience is much bigger. It's much more likely they've just been busy focusing on their other games with HL being more on the backburner.
Chittagong
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It's really intriguing since clearly the HL team has been doing something for the last 5 years. I don't think they have been assigned to other games on any larger scale. Like for any 5+ years project, that means they probably had at least one false start. Starting to do an Episode 3 and canning it. But even going by the most pessimistic scenario, HL3 must have been in full dev for a minimum of 2 years already. Given a 2013 release it will have a solid 4-5 years of development. Should be amazing.
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I thought that the designer who came up with F-Stop gameplay ideas got mad at Valve and quit (one of the very few people who have quit Valve)?
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I think you are confusing that for Kim Swift, who was one of the people who came up with Narbacular Drop. She left Valve after they removed some of the more advanced/twitch mechanics from Portal 2 that she had been working on, IIRC.
Oh hey, this thread. I still need to get around to posting my Ep. 2 shots. :lol
And this could mean late 2009, given the parameters, but early 2010 is probably more likely.
I have to laugh at the naivete of my younger self, because it's the only way to avoid crying.
Finish out HL2 with Episode 3, and then make a proper Half-Life 3. By that I mean, GMan once again has Gordon showing up in another conflict, which doesn't revolve around the Combine.
It is really strange to think we got Half-Life 2, Source Engine, and Steam in less time than it took to get three HL2 Episodes out. Portal has at least been a worthy way to bide time.
It is really strange to think we got Half-Life 2, Source Engine, and Steam in less time than it took to get three HL2 Episodes out. Portal has at least been a worthy way to bide time.
I remembered incorrectly, apparently. Google came up with this:
http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/F-STOP#Fifth_experiment:_F-STOP
The fourth experiment involved time, and Kim Swift, who left Valve (as I mentioned apparently very few people leave Valve). The F-STOP stuff was apparently not her idea, and may still show up in a future Valve game.
Also, I think a lot of the scenes where someone is talking at you don't really make much sense if Gordon was just standing there stonefaced. He'd look like a complete sociopath.
Originally he was clearly just a silent protagonist which became a little weird in HL2 because there was much more interaction with NPCs. Valve then played off that when Alyx says stuff like "Man of few words, aren't you?".
I wouldn't be a huge retcon but it's pretty clear he wasn't supposed to be a mute from the start. It's kind of like saying Gordon has telekinetic powers because he can control the steering wheel of his car without using his hands.
Also, I think a lot of the scenes where someone is talking at you don't really make much sense if Gordon was just standing there stonefaced. He'd look like a complete sociopath.
Originally he was clearly just a silent protagonist which became a little weird in HL2 because there was much more interaction with NPCs. Valve then played off that when Alyx says stuff like "Man of few words, aren't you?".
I wouldn't be a huge retcon but it's pretty clear he wasn't supposed to be a mute from the start. It's kind of like saying Gordon has telekinetic powers because he can control the steering wheel of his car without using his hands.
If they need to, they could probably pawn it off as a side effect of stasis. He was there for a good chunk of time between games. There are of course those (idle thumbs) who suggest that Gordon is a sociopath. I've never cared about his lack of speaking really. I was doing enough of it aloud while playing.