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Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:47 am
by Tsakali
http://www.maximumpc.com/half_life_3_co ... _maybe2013
"File this one under 'P' for 'possibly real' or 'possibly fake,' but according to NoShitShurlock.com, development of Half Life 3 has already begun. The site claims it received confirmation from John Guthrie, a level designer at Valve and founder of Quake Command, after exchanging numerous emails with him. Half Life 3 is supposedly in the early stage of development, and the goal is to have a trailer ready for next year's E3..."
the biggest threat to such a mammoth ip is the mammoth hype that is surely to be generated by the gaming community alone.
Still a bit of good news
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:54 am
by Psyche911
Tsakali wrote:NoShitShurlock.com
That's a trustworthy source if I've ever seen one.
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:07 am
by obsidian
My only hope for HL3 is that they'll at least start to tying up some of the crazy plot ends that's been dangling around from HL1 and 2. The plot so far has been, "hey look, all this crazy shit happened and then even more crazy shit happened and we're never going to give an answer as to what the fuck just happened." I get it, it's kind of cool waking up after being lost for decades to find that Kansas has gone to shit, but at some point they have to have some form of closure so that you feel as if you're actually accomplishing something rather than just falling deeper into the rabbit hole.
(Pretty sure I'm mixing up my works of fiction, not sure though.)
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:23 am
by Eraser
First see, then believe
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:08 am
by Whiskey 7
Eraser wrote:First see, then believe
I'd like to see HL3 as well before I get much older
Also makes me think, yes just maybe play some Half-Life 2 Episode one & two again...
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:59 am
by MKJ
we've seen concept imagery a few years back. also, getting a trailer before next e3 doesnt mean anything. how uch time was there between hl2's first footage and the actual game? lol.
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 7:09 am
by Tsakali
obsidian wrote:My only hope for HL3 is that they'll at least start to tying up some of the crazy plot ends that's been dangling around from HL1 and 2. The plot so far has been, "hey look, all this crazy shit happened and then even more crazy shit happened and we're never going to give an answer as to what the fuck just happened." I get it, it's kind of cool waking up after being lost for decades to find that Kansas has gone to shit, but at some point they have to have some form of closure so that you feel as if you're actually accomplishing something rather than just falling deeper into the rabbit hole.
(Pretty sure I'm mixing up my works of fiction, not sure though.)
I'm hoping that they'll do the story line justice. The most interesting bit of info from that article:
"Half Life 3 will be a single-player game only; no multiplayer or co-op"
they want to concentrate on one thing
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:37 am
by seremtan
Half Life 3 is supposedly in the early stage of development, and the goal is to have a trailer ready for next year's E3.
uh, what? if what's meant by Half-Life 3 is actually Half-Life 2 Ep 3 (i assume it is) then wtf have Valve been doing all this time since Ep 2. DOTA 2?
fuck u Gabe...
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:41 am
by Eraser
seremtan wrote:Half Life 3 is supposedly in the early stage of development, and the goal is to have a trailer ready for next year's E3.
uh, what? if what's meant by Half-Life 3 is actually Half-Life 2 Ep 3 (i assume it is) then wtf have Valve been doing all this time since Ep 2. DOTA 2?
fuck u Gabe...
Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, lots of Team Fortress 2 stuff, Counter-Strike: GO, Alien Swarm, not to forget everything to do with Steam, the Steambox, R&D in virtual reality tech and probably taking dives into their huge piles of money.
All in all these guys have been pretty busy the past few years.
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:28 am
by Don Carlos
This would have been in development for a long time and they are just starting to confirm it now. I can't see them only just starting it. Unless they have been smashing through EP3?
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:32 am
by Eraser
Nothing has actually been confirmed.
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:40 am
by Don Carlos
Nope - but I would be surprised if they have not been working on arguably their biggest IP for the last 5 or 6 years
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:01 pm
by MKJ
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:01 pm
by shaft
stupid thread fully-confirmed
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:18 pm
by obsidian
Indeed. [insert big IP title here] confirmed threads have a habit of popping up once every year with precise frequency as if it's a public holiday marked on a calendar.
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:37 am
by AmIdYfReAk
I can honestly say i got a Semi for reading this Semi-confirmation thread.
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:59 pm
by Don Carlos
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:00 pm
by scared?
Half Life zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz3.....
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:01 pm
by MKJ
good one.
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:28 pm
by feedback
Breaking bad already confirmed HL movie:
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:33 pm
by obsidian
Theoretical physicist is the same as chemist, right?
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 4:02 pm
by feedback
as a tyre iron is to a crowbar
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 4:16 pm
by Mogul
And Gordon is in his 60s.
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:49 am
by Eraser
Half-Life 2 voice actor John Patrick Lowrie has stated that, as far as he knows, Half-Life 3 is not currently in development. The chief reason for this, Lowrie believes, is today's limited motion-capture tech. "As far as I know they are not developing HL3 now for several reasons, among them the mo-cap issue," Lowrie explained in a comment on his
blog.
[...]
He went on to explain that while today's mo-cap technology is great for cutscenes and scripted cinematics, it doesn't work so well for emergent reactions. "One of the great things about HL2 is that all of the characters that you meet actually look at you when they talk to you no matter where you go or stand. With mo-cap you can't do that, at least not yet. Once you film the actor doing something and capture that motion, that's what the character is going to do. This works great in movies, but when you make something interactive it gets way less interactive with mo-cap. So that's one of the things they're working on."
Sorry guys.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013- ... evelopment
Re: Half Life 3 semi-confirmed
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:57 am
by Don Carlos
Yeah so they defo wouldn't be developing any other parts of the game that didn't involve mo-cap...
