„Mein persönliches Versagen war überwältigt“: Gabe Newell sagt, es wäre „ein Ausrutscher“ gewesen, wenn man „Half-Life 2: Episode 3“ beendet hätte, nur um die Geschichte abzuschließen [Valve’s] Verpflichtung gegenüber Spielern
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Not concluding the story was also a cop out. Hope this helps
That sounds idiotic.
Gabe… finish the fucking story man. Conclusion is fine here regardless of perception. Sometimes I prefer shitty endings just to enjoy the fan dialogue decades later. Looking at you LOST!
EDIT: Dude… I know you Reddit on your Yacht fleet. Dude, listen to the fans… we don’t want anything ground breaking, we just want conclusion on an updated engine. Everything is there, bring it home baby!
Half life 3 is NEVER happening nerds. Get a life
Lol IDK when gamers will realize that Gabe and the rest of the libertarians that work at Valve don’t really believe in obligations, finishing the things they start, or view anything they do as a piece of art meant to completed.
For better or for worst they’re some of the most talented people at what they do but they’re all hedonistic in their pursuit of life, their work, and the things they create. That’s how Valve is structured. All you have to do is look at all the intriguing but half baked projects that die randomly or if they survive they only survive on the whims of some arbitrary dev with enough clout at Valve to force its continuation. Or look at the pursuits outside of the work Valve creates like the fleet of mega yachts Gabe has. Everything is in the pursuit of pleasure and personal fancy.
Love it or hate it but don’t glaze it. These dudes don’t care about you or the body of their work and you’re deranged to think they have any desire to please any of you.
Gabe is so full of himself, what a douche.
ok George R. R. Martin, we know what’s up here.
half-life alyx literally continued the story from episode 2 and was amazing in every way
Well he copped out by not finishing the episodic story on the same engine as initially promised.
Obligatory /r/dreamsofhalflife3 plug.
I never really played Half Life for the mechanics or innovations. I played it for the story. The fact they never finished the story is copping out of their obligation to gamers.
I just don’t get how they didn’t do it, it was pretty clear we were going to have to use the chopper to get to the Borealis, that would of been a cool sequence on its own. A couple/few chapters on the borealis and then maybe branch into the final arc of the half life 2 series. Episode 1/2 were fun, you would think they’d keep going and finish the story.
Reminds me of Duke Nukem —where the pressures of releasing episode 3 with such high expectations was too high and it was easier just to not do it.
Just stop complaining and get it done as a mark of respect to the serie’s fans. Valve has made you a multi billionaire, you can afford the loss if it does badly
In this interview he also said he doesn’t get scared like “everyone else” does. Shark tries to attack him? He’s cool as a cucumber.
So yeah, typical rich douche. Probably takes male virility supplements.
Not every iteration has to have some brand new innovative mechanic. There is something to be said about just making a great game.
Elden Ring is a 10/10 cop out and better than any Half-Life game.
Here’s an idea, don’t promise what you can’t deliver.
Who says HL3 has to complete the story? It’s not as if an alien invasion ends happily.
All they had to do was do Half Life with Portals. Make a Gmod mode built into the game. He would have had all the success of minecraft, multiplied by the profits from roblox, with the unlimited autism from the HL2 mapping community which I used to be a part of. It is so tragic that Gabe left us out like this .. imagine what a modern Source SDK would do for gaming! The game itself just has to be serviceable for hobbyists to build something greater from it. Just look at the growth of Unity and Godot.
It’s just unfortunate. I want Ep 3, and would still buy it if Valve made it, but Valve broke their obligation to gamers a decade ago when they broke the Source SDK with the Steam Pipeline Update. Valve has to fix that first before everyone else comes back. And we would come back, with AI tools it’s easier than ever to make funny gmod ragdolls and videos. Ep 3 is just a platform for it.
Left4Dead was the last really good title they produced. 😔
At this point, I’d be happy to get a version of HL 1&2 that is available for and running on modern consoles. I can still play the Orange Box if I already own it, but HL2 never made the Xbox backwards compatibility cut, and HL was only available on PS2.
The level of entitlement is crazy in this thread.
Think of the (hundreds of?) thousands of gamers who have passed away without getting closure from this series lol
is he wearing a dress shirt over a polo? lmao
“Hey, we locked ourselves into a box. A technology box. It’s not our fault, it’s the industry’s for not coming up with something ground breaking that we can use to sell Half Life 3.”
-Gabe Newell
Are they gonna do a third mainline entry?
Well hey… I’m still quite happy with what we did get.
Reading these comments makes me want them to never finish the story lmfao
You know, Gabe, there are some amazing science fiction authors who could have given you a better Episode 3 than you could have dreamed up…