It's dead, /v/.
Valve just doesn't care about making games anymore.
Gotta focus on microtransactions bro
http://i.imgur.com/heLn2pS.png
>>341339031
context on this? Were they talking about upcoming stuff?
THE INDUSTRY IS STAGNATING AGAIN!!!!!!!
SAVE US GABEN AMEN SAVE US AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
I'm comfortable with that. I'm sure we'll see a couple releases from valve in the future but if they've decided to focus on a really good digital distribution system, more power to them.
Is Valve even present at E3 in any way?
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't end off on the most fuck you cliff hanger ever. If they had just ended Half-Life with some closure then I would have been perfectly fine with Valve just focusing on Steam and adding hats to TF2 for all eternity.
>>341337791
>We will never see a real HL ending
>We will never know G-Man's true identity
>>341342216
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFYx1GL-w_4
>>341339031
>trusting Gamespot
>"Oy guys, we have a new Bethesda game announcement coming up!"
>It's just a boring ass interview with Todd and two overlong ads for Far Harbor.
Nice.
>>341337791
300 people work for valve
do you really think they are all sitting around doing nothing?
>>341343095
Not op, i think they are sitting around doing anything else but make games.
>>341343095
if they are actually making something its the longest fucking dev cycle ive ever seen
>>341343469
Since 2007 its increased from 100 employees to now 300.
They've got to be working on some serious fucking games, literally we've got to be expecting a shed load of content around the corner as some point soon.
>>341337791
Let's wait for the official release of Source 2 first. No source 2, no new games
>>341343095
They are probably running Steam, one of the biggest media platforms in the world.
>>341343720
That's not necesserely the case. Steam has grown larger and its customer support better not to mention community hubs and broadcasts, reviews etc. All of this needs people to moderate so there's probably a lot of people just for this. Still, it's obvious they have a lot of people working on Source 2 and making ports of current games to it (like l4d2 and csgo)
>>341343095
>>341343720
Is it me or has valve stopped growing? At least it seems to be growing at a snail's pace. None of their games or anything at all has been increasing significantly for like 2 years.
Level with me /v/.
Half-life > Half-life 2.
Going back to Half-Life 2, it feels that they cut out way too much content and changed from their original vision they lost something along the way.
![[takes intense bite].png](https://i.imgur.com/GEnioVg.png "[takes intense bite].png")
I don't even want another game anymore I just want to know how it ends.
FUCK.
>>341344558
>it feels that they cut out way too much content and changed from their original vision they lost something along the way.
This happens to every story driven game. Look at bioshock infinite or vampire the masquerade bloodlines - i'm sure there are more
>>341344558
You're a fucking contrarian retard if you think that City 17 looks better than the retail version.
>>341344558
No it's fine, it's just because this one was out in the open air and the previous was all claustrophobic
>>341344558
They tried to hard to give the HL2 games a lighter tone.
HL1 had a dark and oppressive atmosphere, and it was what worked best for the series.
The original ideas for HL2 are fucking incredible. So many mysterious things, a lot of alien and paranormal stuff, it really felt like some alien world creeping into Earth.
That, and the constantly rainy/stormy atmosphere, with the dark green skies was fucking incredible.
>>341344558
>muh city 17 straight out of 1984
Fuck subtlety, am I right?
You faggots will complain about anything. You know nothing about level design and immersion.
>>341344558
>>341344737
It was more than just ambitious storyboards giving way to constraints, they actually scrapped a good chunk of Half-Life 2 in order to make it episodic. HL2 was supposed to take you all the to the Borealis and supposedly end the series. The leaked prototype has like half of episode 1 and 2 maps in it and some of what would have been episode 3.
>>341342216
Gman's true identity is that he's the gman.
>>341342216
>>We will never know G-Man's true identity
He's just a shape shifting alien that works for some sort of higher alien that's capable of controlling the universe/space/time. We're all pawns after all, and Freeman is one of the few free men. Don't forget that the Vortigaunt can go face to face with the g-man too so they're not very different from each others
>>341345824
So he's essentially a thin man?
>>341344762
Retail City 17 looks flat to me.
Perhaps it is a decade of source engine games dulling my enthusiasm, yet I find E.Y.E. levels fantastic, so perhaps it just aged like milk.
>>341345390
Earth was supposedly occupied by an Alien force, yet other then Citadel and the occasional checkpoint, Combine presence was unnoticeable.
Like >>341345041 mentioned, there was very little alien world in Half-Life 2.
Barnacles, headcrabs and antlions. And that brief view on the shark. That is it.
They built a very interesting alien setting with Xen in the first game and then barely used it in the second.
>>341345824
>shape shifting
what.
>>341345824
>and Freeman is one of the few free men
But he hasn't had the freedom of choice even once in the entire series. Unless you count "work for me or die on Xen".
>>341346031
We have no idea what he looks like. He just decided to take the shape of a human to communicate with gordon
>>341346291
i'm guessing because gman keeps stealing that from him
>>341345824
He's there to check you're on time to cause events that change the course of history.
You're a tool and ever time you play it everything pans out with the same result, you're changing history thats your function.
>>341337791
I thought Dorito Pope said there was something awesome in wait at E3, did he lie??
So far everything I've seen has been pretty... expected.
>>341346458
And then the Vortigaunts show up to destroy his plans
>>341345824
>Don't forget that the Vortigaunt can go face to face with the g-man too
At least if there's a number of them present.
Plus the guy didn't even fight back. he was pretty much like "oh well, lost my pawn for now. I'll just come back for it later." and was just slightly annoyed. I guess he couldn't be bothered with delays, especially when things were in motion.
>>341344721
Why not contact the lead writer and ask him directly? He is off from Valve and if the game is not happening, he might just leak it one day.
>>341346291
I wonder what happens to the leftover endless armies of the Nihilanth once Gordon chooses to enter the stasis.
>>341347254
And then gabe smacks him with a lawsuit
>>341346237
>Earth was supposedly occupied by an Alien force, yet other then Citadel and the occasional checkpoint, Combine presence was unnoticeable.
Do you seriously think aliens would just come in and cover everything in black and dark colors? The Citadel already serves as a constant reminder of that Combine influence
>>341347318
I believe G-Man says that "we" were able to occupy Xen after you destroyed Nihilanth, so supposedly the armies have been wiped out by whatever forces G-Man's benefactors control.
>>341347363
Given the game might never happen, I don't think Gabe would do that.
>>341347516
Yea there's no point in rebuilding the city when a massive fucking citadel is enough. I honestly prefer the bottom image a lot more
>>341341775
No, Gaben had to stay up in Washington state to help out with the massive drill they were having for the "cascadia quake". Gaben assisted by jumping off of a chair to simulate the tremor.
>>341342216
GMan = Gordon Freeman
>>341349813
Plot twist, the gman is the actual free man
