No Half Life At E3 : Othor Games

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:16 am

Beh...Valve continues to dissapoint. If they take too long people will simply lose interest in the Half Life series altogether.

I don't think so. It all depends on how much people loved the game. Star Craft II is a great example. Nothing was done for 10 years and look at it now? Same for Diablo II.

Same for Oblivon. People were shocked, upset at Todd and Bethesda at E3 where there was NOT EVEN ONE MENTION of Oblivion. Look how successfull Oblivon turned out to be.
You don't need E3 to make people interested. At most 50 000 or so people attend the event? So for the rest of the millions nobody will be we bother with E3.

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:16 am

I don't think so. It all depends on how much people loved the game. Star Craft II is a great example. Nothing was done for 10 years and look at it now? Same for Diablo II.

Same for Oblivon. People were shocked, upset at Todd and Bethesda at E3 where there was NOT EVEN ONE MENTION of Oblivion. Look how successfull Oblivon turned out to be.
You don't need E3 to make people interested. At most 50 000 or so people attend the event? So for the rest of the millions nobody will be we bother with E3.

Millions follow/hear about E3 announcements though. 50,000 may only be in attendance, but if they announced it there, it would spread like wild fire.

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:34 am

Millions follow/hear about E3 announcements though. 50,000 may only be in attendance, but if they announced it there, it would spread like wild fire.

It spreads like wildfire either way. It's called the internet.

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 5:49 pm

No new half life game announced? Was that really a surprise to anyone?

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:00 pm

Maybe they'll follow Blizzard's example and do a Valvecon.

With fully functional portals!

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:46 pm

See, the problem with E3 is that there's 354,154,845,115,448,154,125 (rough estimate) things going on at the show. People showcasing new games, old games, in-development games, new consoles, peripherals, and anything else under the sun. It doesn't matter how many people are paying attention around E3 because there's so much other stuff that it is really hard to just blow people far enough away that you become the story. That's why you announce it at some other time, so instead of being a little footnote at the end of a 3 page E3 rap up, you're an entire story in and of yourself.

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:46 pm

Various games never appeared at E3, yet some of them are better then anything that the E3 itself and the companies in it show us, Valve doesnt need to appear in there to win my interest, Portal 2 was enough,

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:58 am

Honestly, I would have been more surprised if they did say they were working on a new Half-Life installment.

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:42 am

See, the problem with E3 is that there's 354,154,845,115,448,154,125 (rough estimate) things going on at the show.

Really? Three hundred fifty-four quintillion one hundred fifty-four quadrillion eight hundred forty-five trillion one hundred fifteen billion four hundred forty-eight million one hundred fifty-four thousand and one hundred twenty-five things? Mad estimation skills, mate.

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:55 pm

I think at this point they're best known for NOT developing the critically acclaimed Half-Life series.

Exactly. Most of their hype is surrounding the games they AREN'T developing rather than those that they ARE. <_<

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:57 pm

If you think they aren't working on Episode 3 in one form or another, then I don't know what to tell you. Of course they are. When it's closer to done, they will say when it is coming out.

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:27 pm

With the prices a company has to pay to be at these events especially something as big as E3, I can see why they don't want to go. Save about $10 000 and not bother. You have to pay for space, then pay to get the stuff there, then pay for someone to be there and talk about it, pay for thier hotel meals etc etc. Maybe even more than $10 000. I hate to see how much it will cost Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo. I believe Nintendo has a huge floor space so it much cost them alot of money. I am shure it will cost them close to a $100 000 if not more.

Fully understandable whey they will not show up.

Considering the fact that they're multi million/billion dollar companies, I really don't think the cost is an issue to them.

Really? Three hundred fifty-four quintillion one hundred fifty-four quadrillion eight hundred forty-five trillion one hundred fifteen billion four hundred forty-eight million one hundred fifty-four thousand and one hundred twenty-five things? Mad estimation skills, mate.

I can't believe you took the time to type that out.

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:43 am

If you think they aren't working on Episode 3 in one form or another, then I don't know what to tell you. Of course they are. When it's closer to done, they will say when it is coming out.

They might give us a release date, but then they'll most likely delay it ten flippin times.

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:24 am

Really? Three hundred fifty-four quintillion one hundred fifty-four quadrillion eight hundred forty-five trillion one hundred fifteen billion four hundred forty-eight million one hundred fifty-four thousand and one hundred twenty-five things? Mad estimation skills, mate.

LMFAO, ah good buddy, I could have never figured that out.

:foodndrink:

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:10 am

If you think they aren't working on Episode 3 in one form or another, then I don't know what to tell you. Of course they are. When it's closer to done, they will say when it is coming out.

I hope you're right. The first Half-Life was revolutionary in its day and HL 2 surpassed it, of course. It's beginning to seem that Valve doesn't care if the series is wrapped up or not.

Half-Life was one of the first shooters to have a plot; and with the character of Alyx, you had a female NPC who wasn't some bimbo stereotype.

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:16 am

Valve went hipster.

Gabben: UGH, making games and showing our progress? Pfft I'm more into a little thing called proslackination. It's my professional job to do nothing. *goes back to eating pies* You other developers can keep making games, and you'll get all the attention you want.

fixed that for you

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:04 am

fixed that for you

Pies are too mainstream, we all know he's being trendy just eating the fat. :whistling:

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:12 pm

Hipsters? Episode 3 wasn even announced, Im not expecting the great thing after many years, but we re gonna have it

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:58 pm

I was thinking about this the other day. Valve hasn't made a game in god knows how long. And when I say they haven't made a game I mean a real game. L4D and L4D 2 don't honestly count per se at least IMO. What Valve has evolved into; or de-evolved into rather is more of a distributor of other's games. They don't make them anymore. I honestly have stopped anticipating Valve's next masterpiece because frankly, after HL2 there haven't been any; I only got the first HL2 DLC when it came out because I had lost interest in them.

Besides, who needs Valve and another HL when you have BethOb with FO and Elder Scrolls?

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:42 am

I was thinking about this the other day. Valve hasn't made a game in god knows how long. And when I say they haven't made a game I mean a real game. L4D and L4D 2 don't honestly count per se at least IMO. What Valve has evolved into; or de-evolved into rather is more of a distributor of other's games. They don't make them anymore. I honestly have stopped anticipating Valve's next masterpiece because frankly, after HL2 there haven't been any; I only got the first HL2 DLC when it came out because I had lost interest in them.

Besides, who needs Valve and another HL when you have BethOb with FO and Elder Scrolls?

1.Episode 1 and 2 arent DLC, You can play Episode 1 without the vanilla game
2. Some Valve fans might dont like Fallout or TES, or might dont like RPG at all, and just want another Half Life more rather then just Another Portal, LFD, TF,CS or another game

» Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:47 pm

I was thinking about this the other day. Valve hasn't made a game in god knows how long. And when I say they haven't made a game I mean a real game. L4D and L4D 2 don't honestly count per se at least IMO. What Valve has evolved into; or de-evolved into rather is more of a distributor of other's games. They don't make them anymore. I honestly have stopped anticipating Valve's next masterpiece because frankly, after HL2 there haven't been any; I only got the first HL2 DLC when it came out because I had lost interest in them.

Besides, who needs Valve and another HL when you have BethOb with FO and Elder Scrolls?

Why do you not consider L4D 1 and 2 real games? They also just released the highly acclaimed Portal 2, surely you can't have missed the marketing and hype for that. They also released the side project Alien Swarm last year. Right now they are focused on DOTA2 which should be out this year.

And that's not counting the constant additions to Team Fortress 2.

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:23 am

Eh. It's Valve. They live by the "It's ready when it's ready" mentality. While I think it is a bit ridiculous that It has been this long, seeing as how they broke the series up into sections in order to "save time on releases", I am used to it from the guys. They are always working on something. It's not like they are sitting on their butts year after year.
I would really like to see something Half-Life related soon though. It has been a long time.

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:52 am

Why do you not consider L4D 1 and 2 real games? They also just released the highly acclaimed Portal 2, surely you can't have missed the marketing and hype for that. They also released the side project Alien Swarm last year. Right now they are focused on DOTA2 which should be out this year.

And that's not counting the constant additions to Team Fortress 2.

All of those are other peoples games/ideas originating independently from Valve HQ. Sure they're high quality, but I want to see a VALVE original/own series. Not just find a super high quality mod and turn it into a full game (nothing wrong with this).

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:13 am

I think at this point they're best known for NOT developing the critically acclaimed Half-Life series.

Excellent reply! Ahahahahaha! :laugh:

» Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:25 am

It kind of feels like a really good book that I started like 14 years ago, and still haven't finished.

I've loved half-life since the first game launched.

I just really want the next installment.

At the very least, give me episode three.