Comments on: Half-Life 3: Why It Doesn’t Matter Right Now

By: agun

agun — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:31:00 +0000

The suprise for the steam box will be…. HATS FOR RICOCHET 2!

By: Logan Snider

Logan Snider — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:58:00 +0000

I hate to say this, but I would like Valve to end things with Half Life 3. This game does not deserve to die a slow death for monetary gain. And, if they do things just right they will wrap up an epic series in a way which would make Mass Effect 3 look shameful in comparison. I must admit that I have absolutely no clue how I would even begin to undertake HL3. Most of the time its easy to figure out a cookie cutter story such as with the Halo Franchise, but Half-Life… not so much.

By: Jamel Frazier

Jamel Frazier — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:41:00 +0000

In reply to Brokinarrow.

I think and this is my personal opinion only, that they should end the story, but the game should last more than 30 hours, and have and extremely long cut scene at the end. I’m looking foreword to the end just as much as anyone else, but with the way episode 2 ended, I think that Gordon is going to have to make a trip to the combine world to finish the job, along with finding Dr. Mossman, and dealing with Eli’s death.

There is no way valve can somehow miraculously have Gordan stop the combine from earth, he’s going to a couple of other solar systems to stop them, and something tells me that that might not even stop them. The last game, if it’s the last game, is gonna be EPIC. If valve does it right. I have never played any game with such an epic story in my decade of gaming, not even GTA San Andreas comes close to the awesomeness of this series.

By: Garry

Garry — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:07:00 +0000

Very interesting concept, I have to agree with you. What else has Valve got baking? There has been speculation that Valve are working with I think it’s Microsoft to make their own game console, which could be part of the reason, but still I agree with you completely.

By: Laju

Laju — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:48:00 +0000

Half Life 3 needed to be over and done with. The whole Half Life franchise took on a puzzle-type physics learning curve, and drew on a gaming audience that put their trust in “passing the torch”. I like the whole franchise- so much that I don’t agree with the development team hiding out for half a decade to rot in Valve’s secret preservation vault, while we wince everytime we get the HL3 release date wrong.
Love the game, hate the franchise, NOT OUR ONLY OPTION.

By: Brokinarrow

Brokinarrow — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:50:00 +0000

Ideally, Valve needs to end the story with Half-Life 3. That’s something that developers seem too unwilling to do these days. But every great story has an end, and I would rather we have 3 amazing games than 6 or 9 games that slowly lose their luster over the years.

By: Rodia

Rodia — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:54:00 +0000

Nice article, Ravi, and I agree with most of your points, although I must say that even in the case that HL3 is a part of a bigger plan – whatever that plan is – the next installment of Valve’s famous series would still be as anticipated by me as ever. In other words: the existence of an all-encompassing master plan born somewhere in the bowels of Gabe Newell’s mind during his sleep-deprived, Dota 2-induced nights does not lower the importance of that game for me. Sure, Steam Box and wearable computing Valve’s reportedly working on now might change – or even revolutionize – the industry but it is Half-Life 3 that wil push the boundaries of games as an ART FORM. And that’s something you can’t replace with anything else. Besides, as you’ve pointed out, I need to know how the story ends 🙂