Comments on: Valve’s Employee Handbook Teases Half Life 3

By: Darren Roberts

Darren Roberts — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:09:00 +0000

s2 is speaking sense, I totally agree with what he or she is saying, Valve should be pretty honored to that fact people are still showing interest for a sequel! In my opinion this lack of consideration for such a loved and very well acclaimed title of all time, has now ended up leaving one of the worst tastes in the mouth…. and that should not be the case.

Also I think it is in very bad taste, to have people who don’t know the the true intentions of Valves plans for the title, missleading people and giving false hope! If and when there is concrete news should it be publicly known. Peoples who are just guessing should just stop with the guessing games and false hope!

But in the end Half life is one game in sea of already good known and upcoming games, so if Valve have any intenstion on making a sequel, they should start to show some sort of urgency (seeing as its been 6 years since the last game!), because the way its going people are more likely to be in old peoples homes, before seeing a new Half Life game XD.

By: s2

s2 — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 01:02:00 +0000

In reply to Brandon Torres.

I will tell you how I got a “thumbs up”. There are people who read things that recognize sarcasm and an attempt at reverse psychology. And I wouldn’t expect a kid to be able to do this. I am not a kid. And I wasn’t a kid in 2007. But I am several years less a kid now. The point is, you people (myself included) can either continue to beg Valve for information about this or you can do what I suggest and forget about it. Maybe if enough people do this, it will occur to somebody to quit treating their fans like unwanted trick-or-treat’ers who keep knocking and refuse to go away.

I won’t say anything else about this.

By: Brandon Torres

Brandon Torres — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:48:00 +0000

In reply to s2. Dude seriously the last Half-Life installment, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was in 2007, that was NOT a whole generation ago. It was six years ago when we were left with the cliffhanger. How the hell did you get thumbs up?

By: s2

s2 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:51:00 +0000

In reply to vvulture.

Yes, gameboy. A “generation” with respect to being excited about a story line in a video game. Certainly a generation in the traditional sense is longer. But if you were talking about the age of a computer, for example, 5 years old is ancient. Thus, a 10 years gap in the continuation of a story is a “generation”.

Maybe if more people quit kissing the ground around Valve and the Half Life franchise, the powers that be would decide to quit treating fans like attention starved pets. Sorry if my analysis upsets you.

By: vvulture

vvulture — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:49:00 +0000

In reply to s2. Generation ?!?!?! WTF !?!! Last time i checked, a generation was ~25yrs or so.. Original HL is only 15yrs old...

By: carloscbl

carloscbl — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:32:00 +0000

Yep, is like a girlfriend that you dont know nothing of 7 years, you really want that she come back, but your heart is going slowly dying

By: s2

s2 — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:09:00 +0000

What really ought to happen is, people should forget Valve and completely forget Half Life entirely. The game should drop out of the collective consciousness of the entire gaming community, just like Valve wants. An entire generation of gamers have grown up, gotten jobs, married and had children in the time since we were left with a to-be-continued cliffhanger. And what Valve deserves, is for people to forget about it completely to the point that no one cares anymore.