http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/263256/HalfLife_writer_Marc_Laidlaw_leaves_Valve_after_18_years.php
>Half-Life co-creator and writer Marc Laidlaw, who penned both Half-Life 1 and 2, has left Valve Software, Gamasutra can confirm. Reports of his departure from Valve stemmed from an email posted on Reddit. Laidlaw verified his departure in an email to Gamasutra. "It is true. I left very recently,"
>"I had a good run but lately I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production, and a return to more self-directed writing projects." Laidlaw also said that he's now in the same position as most fans, and has no idea where the future of Half-Life lies.
I wonder if he knows something about prior development on the next Half Life but is under NDA or something.
Anyways, Half Life is dead and Valve is officially a shit company now. Enjoy your self-righteous DRM and awful customer support, fags
I shouldn't have kept up hope.
HOLY SHIT THE WRITER JOINED NAUGHTY DOG WTF
>>323240402
He described it as retiring. Valve hasn't made games seriously for ages so fuck it who cares.
>>323240402
What has he been doing at Valve anyway? Not like Counter-Strike needs a writing staff.
>>323240817
greatest decision he could have made
valve is a sinking ship after that hack last week
>>323240402
HL3 any day now right guys? RIGHT!?
>>323240897
Those hat releases aren't gonna write their own story world events
Thousands of HL fans have died since HL/HL2 came out. Their souls cannot rest and will never find peace. I hope you're happy, Valve.
i wonder how many times you people will need to be told that half-life is dead as we know it. if it ever does come back it will follow valves same trend lately; boring free to play trash with crates, keys, and microtransactions. get over it. its dead. move on.
I guess all that talk about Valve being for the gamers and making HL3 was just hot air, or some say steam.
>>323240402
This generation would not live up to the demands that Half-Life 3 would require, so this is for the best. Perhaps there will come a day many years from now where technology will reach that point that it can truly wow people once again. Perhaps that day will be the day we see Source... 3.
We all want Half-Life 3 yet know it would disappoint in so many levels.
>>323242451
don't add microtransactions or gambling shit and i'd be okay with it.
So uh... does that mean Pit Lord's coming out sooner?
>>323241848
Congratulations, you fucked up an already overused unfunny joke.
>>323242854
The only joke here is Valve.
It's not like Valve still making game.
He probably forced to get retired by Gaben because he literally get paid by doing nothing.
>>323242451
I'm probably alone but I didn't have huge expectations for it. All they needed to do was make another solid shooter with a decent story like Episode 2.
The only really improvement I wanted was to the combat design. Imo the gunplay and enemy AI in the HL2 games is trash compared to the first game and its expansions. Do that, do away with bullet sponge enemies, and it's all good.
Honestly I suspected they'd ditch Half Life when Gaben talked about "games as platforms". You can't make a dumbass expensive blockbuster single-player FPS into a platform for DLC and half-assed user-content implementation the way you can with shit like Dota.
>work at Valve
>spend all day doing nothing because they don't make games anymore
>>323240402
>"I had a good run but lately I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production, and a return to more self-directed writing projects." Laidlaw also said that he's now in the same position as most fans, and has no idea where the future of Half-Life lies.
Lol, what? Valve doesn't even make games anymore.
>>323243384
Don't they still have that amazing snack room from that one video?
>>323240402
>"I had a good run but lately I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production, and a return to more self-directed writing projects."
More like he's tired of waiting around and Valve sure as fuck isn't doing anything with their IPs. I don't fucking blame him. He wrote the story to two of gamings biggest single person FPS games. I have not a single doubt in my goddamn mind that he's thought up the entire story for HL3 and HL4 after that.
Goddamn dude, just think how long he must have been waiting. HL2EP2 came out in Oct. 2007.It's been 8 years.8 fucking years.Over 3000 days since HL2 EP2.
And he's just been sitting there waiting for the resources to be allocated out of Valves retardedly humongous wallet to fund the creation of the game.
Yeah. I'd leave, too.
>>323244104
>>323244681
Where could the story go from that point?
Why doesn't Valve just announce that it's cancelled?
Yeah, people will be mad for a bit, but it's better than false hope.
>>323244767
How should I know? Valve obviously never did.
>>323244892
They'd much prefer to torture us. They're sick.
>>323244892
because they got popular because of half-life and there are still a lot of people waiting on them to announce it. telling people the truth that its been dead for years and is never going to happen could cause them to lose a good chunk of their fans (and their money).
>>323241597
RIP ;_;7
Well now he can't even release novelizations for HL3. Fuck Valve, seriously. This is the largest thing to have been announced that makes me think that they're not working on a new HL game. I kept hope for the last few years but now I think I'm accepting it. I can't believe you would just leave your fans on a cliffhanger like that and not even seem to give a fuck at all. Even worse they've been hinting at a new game for years but nothing concrete and now this happens.
Who fucking cares anymore.
>>323245102
No it won't. People aren't leaving DOTA, CSGO, TF2, or Steam over a cancelled HL3
Valve is too powerful at this point.
>>323244767
Revenge!
>>323245121
another furry faggot dead thank god
>>323245102
I doubt their current fanbase has even played the games.
>1 guy left company
>"ZOMG HL3 ~CANCELLED~ ITS NEVER HAPPENING NOW THAT HE'S GONE!!!"
Yeah, because Valve only has a single writer, right?
They could make HL3 just as well without him. The reason it's not going to come out isn't because they're missing the HL1 writer, but because the hype over 3 has gotten too big already years ago that no matter how great the actual game would be it wouldn't live up to all the hype generated around it.
>>323240402
Remember when fools thought Valve was going to reveal HL3 early this year? Fun times.
>>323245419
Why do faggots keep repeating this. The lead writer leaving the company is a hell of a larger indication the game isn't being made then some imaginary argument about "OMG the hype is too high!" that's been parroted for a decade.
>>323240402
What has he been doing this whole time?
>>323245513
>Remember when fools thought Valve was going to reveal HL3 early this year?
What, this your first year on /v/?
We've had bi-monthly threads about Half-Life 3 releases and "TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT" for the past, what, 5 years?
>>323245615
Because it's true.
>The lead writer leaving the company is a hell of a larger indication the game isn't being made
It really isn't.
Thousands of sequels to games have been made with a different writer than the original one.
It's an absolute non-factor.
>>323245702
Probably sitting around writing the next 10 HL games and waiting for Gaben to give the green light for a new game to be made so the stories can actually be used.
>We'll never know who the G-man is or what's his plan with Gordon
>>323245829
>Because it's true.
It's a much larger stretch and based on pretty much nothing than the lead writer leaving. And it just keeps getting repeated ad nauseum.
>>323240402
>I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production
>>323245829
>We've had bi-monthly threads about Half-Life 3
And it's funnier each time people deluded themselves.
>>323246004
So what that really means is he was getting sick of a committee writing the story for him?
Valve as a gaming company is pretty much dead now it seems, outside of managing it's MP titles.
My last hope is some sort of launch title for Source 2, probably L4D3 as a tech demo more than anything.
Or some VR demo/experimental game that comes with the Vive. I highly doubt they'll release a full game.
All that talent flushed away, I'm assuming most have slipped past to go work at other studios anyway.
Maw man thread?
I've been holding strong for a long time now but I think I'm finally broke.
I'll still never bad mouth the HL games and any supposed HL3 like some of you cynical fucks.
But I'm officially not looking forward to it coming out in my lifetime.
It will remain a legend and that's all it will ever be to me...
>mfw for my first play through of half life I had to be in my basement because my shitty pc would always overheat
>mfw I will never relive any of my old gaming memories
>>323240402
Nobody cares about the story in Half Life. Heck nobody cares about the story in western games in general.
Even if he left nothing of value was lost.
He'll be back. Just like Kelly Bailey came back.
>>323245310
half life 3 is our phantom pain
you feel it too, don't you?
>>323240402
Half life 3 confirmed Xbox one exclusive by ea D: D:
Makes sense, I doubt they even have him writing anything/
>>323240402
huge half-life fan here
my love for half-life and valve died a very, very long time ago.
a couple friends and i agreed that i'd honestly never want to see the game made anyway for the best. there's only one way it could go when you consider today's market on what sells, and what apparently every company thinks makes a "good game". it doesn't need to exist, and the time has past, and as long as whatever excuse of a half-life game doesn't get made my memories cannot be tarnished.
>>323245419
This seems pretty ignorant. He wasn't "1 guy", Marc Laidlaw was the co-creator of the fucking series itself, and beyond that, was responsible for making Half-Life what it is.
He's a bona fide sci-fi writer, and he brought his genre-writing skill to the series. The dystopian, paranoid settings, and themes like entropy, isolation, and loss of humanity were things I don't think just "1 guy" could execute as skillfully as he did in this medium.
Is it a confirmation that a Half-Life sequel is impossible now? No. But it's almost guaranteed that if they DO make one, it'll be without the dude that had a huge part in making the series as memorable and engrossing as it was. That's the heartbreaking part.
>>323247131
>Wii U exclusive with microtransactions and minigames to earn Lambda Bux™
I don't understand the obsession with Half-life, and before you say it I played both of them when they first came out
They're decent games, to be sure, but what was special about them? Certainly not the writing. The gameplay? They were just FPS games with a barebones stories edging you along. There's no hook, there's no angle, there's no gimmick. They didn't have memorable music, they didn't have impressive graphics, they didn't even have memorable characters except for an antagonist who isn't even named, whom we know virtually nothing about
Why does anyone care? Valve probably doesn't even know what people saw in them, which is why they don't dare make a 3rd installment because they're only going to let down TONS of people.
>>323247992
>>323247992
Both games were landmarks in the way stories were told in games and pretty much every game nowadays copies them. They were also pretty good FPS in general. HL2 also had its physics stuff. It wasn't the first game to have physics like that, or the first game that let you pick stuff up with those physics, but the physics were pretty well integrated into the gameplay.
>>323244767
The Borealis. Something to do with a portal device. Cool snow areas.
>>323245121
Goddamnit anon, I didn't wanna mourn
>>323248273
Yeah I was going to say physics for HL2 but I wasn't sure. Still doesn't seem like a huge deal.
But that doesn't explain HL1. What was it, the story? Back then FPS games basically had no story so I guess that was it? Really something I think we could have done without.
>>323240402
THIS IS ALL JUST PART OF THE ARG YOU RETARDED FAGGOTS
>>323248653
Combination of that and just how the story was told. The game didn't use cutscenes like most other games and you could talk to the people around the game or just skip them or kill them, etc. You're looking at it from the perspective of someone from 2016, not from 1998 or 2004.
>>323247992
I halfway agree. During the time that each came out, there were games that did what they did, but better. Yes, they were cult classics, but when looked at compared to the competition at the time, they were on the high end of middle of the pack
>Joining Naughty Dog
>Not joining any one of the many better games studios in the world
>working on shit titles for years to come
May as well have joined Bungie or Activision desu.
>>323248832
I don't think they're bad by any means. GOAT on the other hand, just makes makes my scratch my head and wonder. There was a time when I too was looking forward to a HL3 but that was a long time ago and I couldn't care less at this point
>>323249106
Not really. Most writers want to write movies. Looks like that's what he'll get now.
So thats both the main artist and lead writer for Half Life who've left Valve.
It'll go the way of dnf and valve will give it to gearbox to make
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>>323249424
The main artist worked on Dishonored right? Is he still on for Dishonored 2?
>>323249379
>wanting to WRITE movies
>not wanting to direct & be cinematographer on movie project
It's okay. He'll stay forever mediocre. Talentless. No better than the average cape comic writer.
>>323249379
>Most writers want to write movies.
Yes, most writers want to hone their ability with the written word so they can make screenplays that they won't own and will be used as toilet paper by producers.
>>323240728
>I shouldn't have kept up hope.
I told you fuckers, and you kept shoving this shit in my face for the last five years after all sane hope should have vanished.
>>323240402
>no HL3
>Steam sales officially suck now, shit doesn't even shift in price during the sale it's just a flat sale price for a week or two.. no excitement..
>employees drifting into the abyss
>hackers hacking your shit
>Valve doesn't make games anymore they just make niche hardware no one wants
And I still haven't written that email to Gaben telling him the excitement I felt as a teen when my dad brought home a copy of Sierra Online Magazine that had a big cover article about Half-Life.
I'll never feel that joy playing Half-Life for the first time on Christmas Day on my new shit HP PC... Waiting for this game is my resonance cascade.... and I'm never going to make it to the test chamber in time..
>>323249424
Fuck, you're right. I forgot about Antonov.
>mfw I'm sitting next to a signed Antonov poster right now
>it's for Battlecry
>a game somehow more dead than HL3
Poor thing never stood a chance.
>>323249106
Can't you guys see?
Valve commissioned Naughty Dog to work on HL3 and ND wanted the original writer on the team.
It's still coming, but it's probably gonna be a PS4 exclusive.
>>323249794
He's an art director at Zenimax and is consulting for Dishonored 2.
>>323247992
I totally agree with you, but second-thoughts suggest this:
Half-Life was made using a new, heavily modified version of the Quake engine (70% of the engine's original code). Mods were not only supported for this, but also encouraged, leading to games like Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and more.
Half-Life 2 came out in junction with the Source Engine, released simultaneous. Once again, Left 4 Dead, Portal, etc; and then updates on its predecessors.
It seems to be that Half-Life is not only the flagship game of the Valve corporation, but the impetus for new video-game technology. It's understandable that the masses wants more, considering the rewards we get (as a community) with each new Half-Life.
>>323249949
Yup, drawing up beauties like this for canned F2P games.
This is the world we live in.
>Laidlaw also said that he's now in the same position as most fans, and has no idea where the future of Half-Life lies.
What a shock.
>>323250101
70% of the engine's original code was modified*
>>323241097
>Naughty Dog
>Good
What am I hearing?
>>323240402
The dream is over everyone...
No hope for HL3 at all. Time to move on I suppose
>>323243384
Honesly, what do they do? They don't develop anything, they manage are barely funciton service, they don't even bother with support staff. I'm geuninly interesting in knowing just want Valve does these days.
How long could Valve possibly keep up the charade of HL3 ever coming out? It's been eight years since Episode Two, will they still be stringing people along after ten years have passed? Or fifteen years, twenty? The worst part is people will just continue to believe it. Gaben could die tomorrow and people would still insist HL3 is still coming out.
>>323240402
Well that settles that.
Time to drink it away
>>323250170
>Dual crossbows
>Crossbow arms block your view making it impossible to aim
How to make something already stupid and impractical even more stupid and impractical.
>>323250472
CS updates
Dota2 updates
TF2 updates
That's all that we know of.
>>323245121
>furries
eh, they can just rot in hell
>>323240897
just fucking around, playing Dota 2 like the rest who is "working" at Valve.
>>323250680
HL3 will come out when a new physics engine comes out. For now, Source is still great.
>Valve
>Making Games
>Valve
>Doing anything at all
>>323250875
takes 300+ employees to do minor updates to 3 games?
>>323251172
Don't ask me, ask gabe.
Oh also they turned steam into a trash dump of shitty games so there is that.
>>323251065
Valve has been talking about their own in house physics engine for forever. It's called Rubikon. And it's not like having a different physics engine is going to do much at all. There's plenty anyway that are used: Havok (HL2, Bethesda games), Physx (UE3/4 games and others), Bullet (GTA4 and 5), Newton (Frictional games), and probably more.
How the fuck is Valve's idea of letting your employees do what they want even work? Could you imagine being Mark Laidlaw working there? Nobody even fucking makes games there, you'd be a useless relic.
>Hey guys, I've written up a great way to finish off the series. Anyone want to start working on Half Life 3?"
>nah we're just gonna make more hats for doter lol
>what's Half Life? lol go away im eating
>>323250875
You forgot feeding Gaben.
>>323251065
Isn't Source 2 already out and Dota 2 is using it?
>>323251348
Even if they did make a game, it would probably be something like left 4 dead 3.
Don't need that many writers if all your writing is some dialog.
>>323250472
>they manage are barely funciton service, they don't even bother with support staff.
Steam is an entirely different entity. None of the ~160+- Valve employees are working for Steam, as Steam has its own managers, developers, administrators and support staff.
It is still a mystery to all of us outsiders and most likely to Gaben himself what those 160+- leeches are actually doing there.
>>323251578
>Source 2
They can call it whatever they want, but it's just an update for Source 1, even UE3 and UE4 have more differences
>>323249106
Where would you have him go faggot? Bethesda?
>>323240402
Bullshit maymays aside that's not a good sign for anything concerning Half Life 3.
Consider my hopes fully crushed, finally. At least I know for once.
>>323249949
I knew I loved the art in that series
>>323251803
The only thing we have to go by is a (probably half assed) port of Dota 2. I'm sure you have the source code of the engine though and have studied it relentlessly to make this obviously grounded claim.
>>323251348
I think this is as close to reality as it gets. He quite out of frustration just like Victor Antonow years before him. There is just fuckall to do for actually talented people over there. Instead Valve is a cesspool circlejerk for mediocre modders and coders who pat themselves on the shoulder for being able to make microtransaction content for TF2 and Dota.
Oh by the way, what happened to that Winter Sale ARG? Guess it was LITERALLY FUCKING NOTHING as always?
>>323248653
Go play the FPS games that came out before HL1, then play it and compare it to those games and you'll realise how huge a landmark it was.
>>323241097
>hack
>>323240402
half life's story was trash though
mind you i never played episodes 1 and 2 but i played the 2 main games
When was the last time you think that Valve was putting any real effort into making Ep3/HL3? 2011? 2009?
>>323252863
2007
>>323252483
>Half-life's story is trash
>Didn't play the two most story-heavy entries in the series
>mfw
>>323240402
>I had a good run but lately I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production,
Ebin
>>323252863
2011 was probably the year when they finally gave up on it, that's when they released Portal 2, made TF2 F2P and started the Dota 2 beta
>>323252863
I don't think they ever really did. From what you read how they operate, it's just random things people put on a board in the office, and if there's enough stuff that they deem good enough, it gets made.
>>323245121
sure he was a furfag but at least he was creative
>>323244892
How can they cancel something they haven't even worked on?
If they won't make any more games, I at least hope they do Source 2 ports to other games besides Dota.
TF2 needs that new Hammer so fucking badly, the old one has piss-poor performance and is very outdated.
>>323240402
>"I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production"
>Haven't made a game in 2+ years
>>323252863
Valve started going to shit around the same time Blizzard did.
I have no fucking idea what happened, it's like some kind of shitty synergy went through the industry.
>>323253464
But anon, that won't make them money.
>>323253543
Like a resonance cascade perhaps?
>>323253464
They already said that TF2 ain't getting a Source 2 port.
Anyone else here used to play Sven Co-op?
>>323253495
Hat descriptions are hard to make.
>>323240402
>there are people who are still waiting for half life 3/episode 3
let it go
>>323253659
Yeah man, best HL mod for lan parties.
>that one map with all the RPG stuff
It was wonderful.
DELETE THIS
>>323253831
I miss the puzzle maps. Do people still play it?
>>323253495
It's probably an underhanded jab at them
"I need a break from a place where we never seem to fucking make anything worthwhile."
>>323253884
Not that I know, but I never played it online anyway. I always recommend it in lan party threads though.
>>323253807
>There are people who died while waiting for HL3/ep3
>>323253659
It's amazing. A friend and I LAN'd a play through of HL2 and it was madness
>2011
>valve and blizzard stopped making gayms
>I installed linux and starteddickingaround with it so gayming stopped around the time
did i pump and dump on time?
>>323253807
Valve, you only need one game...no, the world would be better off without HL3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Pu92St5O0
This is pretty painful news, especially since I just finished replaying the series for the second time.
All they had to do was make Half-Life 2 again.
>>323240402
RIP Valve
>>323254167
>hasn't played a game since 2011
>posting on /v/
Sounds about right
>>323253495
Valve is a company in chaos right now. It's a very hidden chaos, though. The internal company culture is that you can do whatever you want, on any project. You can start projects whenever. If people like your project, they join you.
In theory, everything is really organic and lively and projects develop naturally. In reality, you have 200 idea men running around and no structure. Projects start and stop in the same week. There are no project deadlines and there are no milestones, so there's no reason to really make progress on the project you joined. Most people in the company work on DLC items and Steam rather than make a new game, because why spend 2 years making a new game?
Imagine being a writer in this situation. It is the absolute worst situation for a writer. He probably left because 90% of the projects he joined died before he could really explore how to write the stories behind them. He had every reason to leave.
>>323252180
>day of defeat
>cs 1.6
>made by valve
What a retarded image
Wait why do people care so much about the plot of the half life series?
it's obvious what will happen
gordon and alyx fly to the snow level, helicopter crashes or something, eventually they find the borealis, something involving the ship/the technology on it gets triggered and this saves the day
barney finally gives gordon that beer he owed him, then the gman whisks away gordon into stasis or something
that's it
wanting to find out who the gman is would ruin the mystery behind his character
>>323248653
More believable environments, advanced AI behavior (there's AI just for the cockroaches). There's a bunch of shit it did.
>>323254448
I like the world in general. The idea behind the Combine was pretty unique at the time and had a lot of potential for exploration. They literally control hundreds of universes, so the potential for the war against them was infinite.
>>323254448
That sounds like something a COD babby would come up with
>>323254083
We're all going to die waiting for HL3
>>323254448
>plot
Not so much but I would have loved to see more of how the Combine works
>>323254564
are you expecting a much more in-depth plot with deep and interesting intricacies that blow your mind?
half life isn't about the story and it's never been good in the first place.
>>323254562
Combine = space communists
think about it brah
>>323254562
Aliens that take over Earth wasn't unique for years, and it sure as hell wasn't unique in 2004
Story in half life is literraly retarded
Who's the g-man?
He's deus ex
Nothing more, nothing less
People who think the story of half life isn't crap are delusional
>>323249772
sauce?
>writer
>valve
Literally no news
>>323250458
>Naughty Dog
>Bad
What am I reading?
>>323254775
>if i repeat and assert my opinion hard enough they will agree with me
we all have our reasons as to why we like it , half life's story telling has a certain charm to it.For starters the fact that its not hammered in your face and you have to carefully study the game's envirmenet to undertand it, what you learn of the story depends of what you make of it
>>323255038
>playing through HL1
>damage vortigaunts enough so they run away from you
>realize they're not doing this out of free will
deepest lore
>>323254448
Which is why Valve isn't going to even fuck with it.
Hence the main writer leaving. Might as well let him go do better work elsewhere.
HL3 will never be. The meme became reality because of shit like DN Forever. The hype and criticism around it makes it an endless project that keeps the final fans attached but stable.
>>323255038
>I like trash games
Good for you
I guess eating shit I also an activity you partake in?
>>323242451
At this point I'd be happy with a canon continuation of the story. if teh writer in OP and his team literally just wrote a book detailing how events unfolded after episode 2 I would be happy. I just want some damn closure.
>>323255038
This. If you're just lazily rushing through either HL1 or HL2 for the sake of checking off yet another game on your backlog you're not going to get a lot out of either game as much as you would if you stopped to smell the roses.
HL3 won't be announced until VR becomes good and mainstream because there's nothing they can really do with what there is now to meet any sort of expectation.
>>323255330
Sadly I doubt Valve would license the brand for a book, but I too would love a novelized conclusion to the Half Life series. Maybe from Alyx' perspective?
>>323247427
this guy gets it
>>323247427
HL2 story wasn't anything special and any attempt at tension and making a serious atmosphere was ruined by almost all major characters feeling completely out of place. Kleiner, in particular, is a sitcom-tier character. The "beatings quota" line is a fucking joke.
I don't even hate HL2.
>>323255038
the way half life games tell the story is good, I'll agree with you on that
however, the story being told in the half life games isn't very good, in the first there's barely a story, and it just serves as a vehicle for the atmosphere and gameplay.
in hl2 they try to shove in more story and cutscenes, and whilst the technology it utilises for this is good, it actually detracts from the experience of the gameplay.
>you have to carefully study the game's environment to understand it
this is barely a half life thing and makes you sound like a souls fag
so he basically confirmed HL3 wasn't in development.
great...
>>323253452
They announced it. They should cancel it.
>>323255330
>>323255484
it would be a meme that would echo for generations if valve released a visual novel describing what happend
>>323240817
Source?
>>323240402
What video games has Valve even released in the last few years? How much writing was he in charge of?
desu Valve should just make an Episode 3 to tie up the loose ends and stuff and finish the series there and then
>>323254831
http://exhentai.org/g/498016/456e00afca/
>>323255595
No, he just said he didn't know anything about it, just like the fans which is an odd thing to say when you're the mother fucker who came up with half-life and worked at valve and suddenly quit.
He didn't just say "no, there's nothing, we haven't even worked on it" or "we agreed that there wouldn't be any more half life"
>>323240402
OP is faggot
literally a faggot for fucking sure
>>323255687
It's been 900 days since they last released a game.
>>323254740
It's not what their government is, it's the scale of it and the potential to be fighting aliens from a dozen different environment.
They conquered gas giants, man.
>>323255687
source 2 dota 2
they're mostly focusing on steam machines, controllers, Vive and other hardware at the moment so people need to stop thinking that half life 3 is round the corner
>>323255169
>>323255224
how though? Half life isnt your run of the mill FPS with constant cinematic scenes shoehorned in, in which case you are pretty much forced to at least recognize the games story.
Half life has pure transitioning between chapters,its very much possible to clear the game in one fell swoop without understanding anything.
If you want example of how half life has story look over "surface tension" in HL1 ,thats a much spoonfeeding i will give you.
>>323244767
>has never seen HL3 leaked concept art
>>323256083
why did you quote me
i said it had the deepest lore
>>323256079
>so people need to stop thinking that half life 3 is round the corner
They wouldn't if Valve stop doing those ARGs shit. They brought it on themselves.
>>323240402
Read this thread listening to this music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VONMkKkdf4
It doesn't get better does it guys...
>>323240402
>break from game production
>valve
He dont need to leave, valve has no new games
>>323240402
>I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production
THEY WERE WORKING HIM LIKE A DOG FOR HALF-LIFE 3.
STAY OPTIMISTIC, BROTHERS.
>>323250680
>Gaben could die tomorrow and people would still insist HL3 is still coming out.
If Gabe died the chances of HL3 coming out would actually increase.
valve are STRICTLY for profit
they don't care about "fans" or HL's "legacy"
>>323245121
I thought kitty was morbidly obese?
>>323251172
Only 9 people work on CSGO
>>323256535
It shows.
>>323253495
They probably have a lot of game projects that are never approved by Gabe due to the lack of hats in them.
Remember F-Stop? Or that sci-fi game with spaceships? Those projects were probably in development but never went anywhere due to the fact that DOTA2 was making so much money from hats.
Valve has been a shit company for 10 years. Only drones defend them.
>>323251162
that pic is so true
>>323256535
Really? still feels like 5
>>323256630
Wasn't there some game where you have to protect some qt alien waifu from government, or something like that?
>>323256613
you still can't change settings while in a lobby
you still can't disable post processing
THERE ARE STILL CHICKENS IN A COMPETITIVE GAME RUNNING AROUND
>>323256690
>NiP
when did it all go so wrong
>>323256630
F-Stop was just a proof of concept thing and was never a game in development. Valve did some talent show like thing where everyone made something and then would show it to the rest of the people. I do want to know what F-Stop was though. We still don't know. In real life f-stop is something to do with cameras. Like the amount of light that can enter the lens.
>>323256690
probably was initially, guess they moved up to 9!
>>323256779
Chickens are cool, though!
Well that's that then. I suppose this doesn't have to mean the end of HL3, but it doesn't seem like Valve is interested any longer.
The last bit of HL3lore you'll ever get:
https://twitter.com/BreenGrub
>Marc Laidlaw is kill
>Valve hasn't released a game in two years, soon to be three
>HL3 is never coming out, not that that's anything new
>Steam just keeps getting more Jewish by the minute
>Only game development they do at all is figuring out new ways to squeeze microtransactions into TF2/Dota/CSGO
>Pushing all this expensive hardware that doesn't mean a goddamn thing without games
It hurts so fucking bad. I loved you, Valve.
>>323256779
whats wrong with the chickens?
>>323255573
>you have to carefully study the game's environment to understand it
>this is barely a half life thing
>>323256970
has valve even made a game since EP 2
all their stuff is outsourced to other companies, not valve themselves
>>323257051
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2oBDqL0QLY
more importantly, why is it even a thing
>>323256697
That was EA working with Spielberg. Maybe Valve tried to do something similar when Doug Church joined but we haven't heard anything from him in years.
>>323257192
Officially, the last game they released is Dota 2 in 2013.
>>323255573
im not a souls fag never even played the games but studying the games environment is a very half life thing
nearly half the shit on the wiki was probably overlooked by most people who played the games
>>323257316
Ah, maybe. I don't remember exactly.
>>323256849
>F-Stop was just a proof of concept thing and was never a game in development.
F-Stop was going to be fucking Portal 2 before they turned it into a more traditional sequel with GLaDOS and the paint mechanics.
It seemed inevitable that it was going to turn into it's own game with it's own story until IceFraud killed Valve.
>>323251673
>B-B-But my no bosses design philosophy!!
Funny how he made a system where everyone peer reviews everyone that was supposed to boost performance when instead they figured out that they can give everyone else a good rating and just say fuck it to actually doing anything
>tfw HL3 will be a shitty "reboot" game that is made in less than half the time that should be taken to make it properly, and will be made as the last-ditched cashcow effort of Valve before it dies after their monopoly on their gaming platform is shattered
It will be the unworthy ending to a fast-becoming unworthy company.
>>323257341
overthinking.
>>323257192
>all their stuff is outsourced to other companies
The only thing they outsourced was CS:GO and even then Valve worked on that game. Whenever there is a big game at Valve most people in the company end up working for it so it can be very well polished.
They hired all the people from Turtle Rock before L4D was finished, you can see a lot of changes that happened as soon as Valve took over (especially in the design of the characters).
Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2 and DOTA2 were all made by Valve employees. IceFrog was one guy working on a mod and he got to make a sequel only because Valve gave him the people and resources.
>>323257192
left4dead
left4dead 2
portal 2
dota 2
csgo had all the gruntwork done by another studio, but valve maintain it now
>>323257789
Half-Life was the game that literally invented that. Although not the first, just the one that made the entire story revolve around environmental storytelling.
Out of all people that waited for HL3, Marc had it worse.
I can't imagine being the one who worked for HL universe, then just before the finale even begins, it just stops, he can't do anything about it.
He waited for 8 years until it became clear that HL3 just won't going happen. 8 fucking years just for that bitter realization.
I think a Valve employee even mentioned that the mechanics they developed in their "F-Stop" concept might be used in a future game. But nothing as of yet or likely ever.
And yeah Stars of Blood would've been cool to at least see in some sort of preview stage. Instead they aborted it in the womb.
>>323257681
not even a super shitty HL3 will stop steam's monopoly. they'd have to do a major fuck up.
>>323258052
He should release the ending under a new name or something.
>>323258150
>how to get sued 101
>>323240402
Looks like he finished the script.
>>323257789
nah man its true , Half life is the think mans game i dont know how long you have been here but i remember the half threads here on /v/ pre shitposting and we comfortably discussed the lore and world pretty much all the valve games are like this.
>>323258150
he should call it Third Life for extra hilarity
>>323258207
Valve wouldn't be able to prove the ideas are from HL3 unless they publicly released information on what the ending was meant to be in the first place.
>>323245348
>>323253312
>>323251021
>citation needed
Is there anyone with talent left in the gaming industry?
All signs point to it being shitty retarded libtard white kids with no actual skills.
>>323258336
>Half life is the think mans game
yeah brah like did you saw that newspaper on the wall it saiz that SEVEN HOURS WAR I mean how cool combine are to defeat humans in seven hours lmao makes u think
>>323258297
>Looks like he finished the script.
There is no script.
>>323256487
That's what the treatment for leakmia did to his body
>>323258336
ah yes the deep lore
>the wall says yore dead freeman
>this means that the soldiers aren't smart
>~deepest lore~
>>323258510
chris avellone is still makes games I guess
>>323249890
>citation
>>323258620
"yore" means "a long time ago" as in "days of yore" this means Freaman was DEAD ALL ALONG OMG
>>323258620
That kind of shit was groundbreaking back then.
You have to remember that people like Carmack used to think that story in games was like story in porn.
>>323258052
>You know imagine him sitting at the same desk he has work at for almost 20 years, sitting there completely lifeless as his 8th in his writing drought comes to pass. By the time Episode 2 was finished his mind was probably flush with grand ideas for Half Life 3. Maybe Gordon would get to the borealis, finally get to the bottom of who the G man was. But no days turn to weeks and weeks to months as the project leads time and time again did not ask for his current script. He began asking questions, was he going to be fired. No one has needed any writing done. Finally after a few months of doing nothing he walked from his desk across the hall to see the product of all those months of development. It was the former half life 3 guys dicking around in the source engine trying to think up "zany" new hats in TF2 giggling to themselves as they laughed at the idea of people spending money on them. With a grim look of defeat he knew this was how he was going to be spending his time here. No one bothered enough or cared enough to tell him he is not needed. Slowly month after month his unfulfilled creativity dwindled in his mind knowing that half life 3 will never be released.
>>323258786
Writing in video games has been dead for a long time now
>>323258770
Carmack is correct though!
>>323258786
>By the time Episode 2 was finished his mind was probably flush with grand ideas for Half Life 3. Maybe Gordon would get to the borealis, finally get to the bottom of who the G man was
As a writer for an FPS he probably really shouldn't be determining the kind of environments players will encounter. Leave that to game designers and write your story in.
>>323258786
Given what we know about current Valve that actually sounds nice. What he actually experienced must have been hellish.
>>323258770
and carmack is right and was always right. how you enjoying these new story driven AAA shit?
>>323258510
When the lead designer for Doom and Quake, two of the most influential games in their genre, goes on to make pic related... You get the sense that the old guard of PC dev is fucking dead.
>>323258916
>writer shouldn't determine the setting
>some codemonkey fleshing out your magnum opus should
>>323241597
Serves them right for caring about things.
>>323258916
>>323258965
If he is so smart why was he never able to make a good game after Romero left?
Or why he is so busy sucking Zuckerberg's cock at this moment?
>>323259159
because money. to both your questions.
>>323259078
>codemonkey
That's not what I said at all.
>>323259159
Eh, to be fair he always was a code guy. His engines are pretty good.
>>323259078
>>323258916
You guys have no idea how Valve makes their story and game worlds. It's a collaboration between people with multiple talents.
So if a graphic designer comes up with a good concept the writer then might turn it into part of the story.
>>323259159
romero was the creative genius
carmack was the programming genius
together, they produce decent stuff
apart, they produce garbage
>>323259274
>You guys have no idea how Valve makes their story and game worlds.
I do! They don't anymore!
>>323259078
>i have an opnion on who should and shouldn't be writing video game stories
>>323259230
How does killing the Doom and Quake series make money?
>>323259274
You have no idea how it works either. For all you know it could be two people calling each others ideas autistic in a board meeting room while gaben plays with his knives
