Another year went by without Half-Life 3

>Another year went by without Half-Life 3

What exactly are Valve waiting for? They must have enough concept art and design documents to make 20 games by this point - based on how much unused content there is for HL2.

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single player games are not profitable enough for a company the size of valve and when you've already made the best game of all time twice you start to lose motivation to do it for the third time

The problem is Valve basically just lets their employees work on whatever they want, and while this environment used to produce innovative gems like Portal and Left 4 Dead now they just seemingly never get anything done.

Hats are more profitable.

Multi-million selling video games are profitable no matter what company you are. Especially when you are the publisher as well.

Hence the emphasis on the profitable /enough/. Multiplayer games with microtransactions such as Dota 2 and CS:GO are simply more profitable. And steam itself is the most profitable of them all. Financially speaking there is no reason to work on a single player game such as half-life 3.

I assume they want to break the mould all over again, and are probably waiting for the technology to catch up.

Here's my theory:

>HL is about two parallel dimensions in terms of plot, physical mechanics and physics puzzles in terms gameplay, also guns and stuff.
>So far, it's been a FPS singleplayer where the PC collects guns, explores levels and shoots the big monster at the end.
>however, even though there are parallel dimensions, PC never really decides when to jump between the two.
>additionally Aperture Science (and Portal technology) exist within the Half-Life universe.
>Portal was a purely driven physics puzzle game.

Conclusion: HL3 would be a game with huge open parallel worlds. You would use portal technology to manipulate various physical effects like water or air pressure to navigate through the world and complete the game.

That's my optimist outlook.

keeping the company's reputation with new well received game is ALWAYS profitable enough, even if one of the games they release isn't in the top 5 most sold games of the year

>Conclusion: HL3 would be a game with huge open parallel worlds. You would use portal technology
probably, especially with the whole borealis thing
also, i just have the sneaky suspicion that they want to do a orange box thing again, and are waiting for several game to be finished and released at the same time

I can't prove my point and neither can you, but I'm just going to say that you are straight up wrong. With steam having the monopoly it does, reputation means very little for Valve. Not to mention their reputation is still that of the best developers out there.

I think they invested a lot of money into vr. now, we see that it has done far worse than expected. perhaps if vr had done better we would see releases, but I believe they have to fundamentally change the design of their games to align with the old mouse-keyboard paradigm

yeah, but they still have developers in their company who needs something to do with the money they get payed
has there been any news about big numbers of developers and programmers and whatever being laid off because they aren't needed anymore?

>this shitty meme argument that Sup Forums keeps forcing
If HL3 was announced right now it would break pre order records within a day. It would be the best selling video game of all time. The hype and brand recognition alone would carry it into billions of dollars of profit like GTA V. They wouldn't even have to market it.

HL3 won't live up to the hype and they know this. They don't want to have the same reputation as Duke Nukem Forever.

Theres plenty of work with the multiplayer games, steam, steam related tools, vr technology, steam os and what not. I'm sure theres some work being done on single player games because Valve is known to have fairly free (work on what you want) work ethics. But it makes sense that the emphasis is on the bigger projects.

And yet it would be literally nothing compared to what Steam makes, or the amount of income dota brings if you take into consideration the amount of work and money needed to continue development.

Money is not even an issue for Valve, but I'm saying that even if it was, working on half-life 3 would not be the most efficient way to make it. Not to mention hl3 flopping would be completely unnecessary risk factor when considering the future reliability of valve.

Source 2 isnt ready yet i believe only then will we see hl3

HL3 is just a meme now. It's never coming. Valve doesn't see the point

it's never ever going to happen
valve makes way more money taking other people's cosmetics for games like dota 2 and tf2 and selling them "officially"
they have no reason to make another half life game and even if they did it would invariably be a disappointment
give up, user
t. half life fan

>hl3
>flopping
I fucking hated HL2 but it would never flop.

>What exactly are Valve waiting for?
They were waiting for Source 2, and now they are making it. Its not so hard to understand.

Sorry, I didn't mean financially. I meant that if it doesn't live up to the expectations.

I thought Source 2 came out with Dota Reborn and it was really fucking unimpressive.

they are working on it with source 2 and VR. why would they release HL3 on their old engine with shitty VR support?

Its not complete the new physics engind Rubikon isnt included with it

that was just to test the basic engine/network load in source 2.

none of the assets/graphics/physics are fully utilizing source 2

>tfw i no memes intended just want hl3 because ep2 ended on a cliffhanger and i love the seried to death

Just two more years.

No it wouldn't. No one cares any more

I'm baffled that people still talk about HL3 and why isn't not out. Gabe already said why, there's never going to be a HL3 unless the employees really really really want to make it. That's it, there's never going to be one since they don't want to make one and because singleplayer games aren't as profitable as microtransaction cancer. It's not technology, it's not trying to come up with the best idea ever. It's greed. How are people still talking about this?

>hd models

how are people like you so dumb?

Gabe never said anything about HL3 not coming out

I don't think so. HL2 came out so long ago that most kids probably haven't played it.

I've had a dream about HL3 relatively recently, and I remember that Alyx was abducted by Aperture Science and returned later as Portal Gun-toting ally, but not controlled directly.

I recently replayed this on PS2 and it was good for a port, didn't expect it to run at 60fps at times.

>still using this excuse almost 10 years later

source 2 isnt even out yet . if source 2 is out for 10 years then you have a reason to believe HL3 wont come out

Read the Valve employee handbook. Employees choose what projects to work on. If nobody elects to work on HL3 then it simply doesn't happen. A huge portion of the staff that worked on HL2 is gone now anyway. They've all been replaced by modelers and artists so they can make more cosmetics for DOTA/TF2/CSGO

what are you talking about?
its natural to want to do the sequel on a new engine, since you want to progress

so reading the handbook means you can read the minds of every valve employee and you know what they are all working on?
nice logic

You don't get to bring dumbass scientists.

Barney?

Do you honestly want to know? Here it is, they are waiting for the next console generation.

That is it folks you can all go home now.

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Did you pay attention to anything I said? A huge chunk of the staff is gone. Valve outsourced a chunk of the development of CS:GO. Do you think they'd do that if they really cared about making HL3?
Episode 2 was released 9 years ago. It's fucking over.

vr is probably the next revolutionary thing they are waiting(working) for.

you are just making assumptions. you dont know anything about what they are working on

Even Portal and Left 4 Dead didn't really originate at Valve, not entirely. L4D started development at another company that was later acquired by Valve, and the concept for Portal started in a game made by DigiPen students hired by Valve to create a commercial successor to it.

Gaben will die before it happens, and then someone will take the project and ruin the series.

>making assumptions
I'm making assumptions based on the evidence we have. Valve is making boatloads of money without HL and they clearly didn't feel the need to keep the team together. It's been nearly a decade since the release of the last game, so the majority of modern gamers were too young to play HL2 when it came out. I've been having this same conversation for years. Delusional idiots like you have been insisting that there will be some big release "any time now" for nearly a decade.

bullshit, look at GTA V

and yeah IK that the onlne component is the most profitable part, but it made more money than most games (including multiplayer) just from single player alone during the first month of sales

Sure it made a lot of money, but its also the second most expensive video game to have been developed of all time, and it took 5 years to develop. Huge success by any standard, but Valve can quite simply dish out more money, more efficiently with less risk through other means.

It doesn't exist.
No one is currently working on it.
No one will any time soon.

Get over it.

better chance at getting a gf than getting hl3

This reality doesn't deserve HL3,
Just think, in the reality where Hillary won, they are playing it right now...

Source 2 has been done for a couple of years now. The Lab VR uses Source 2. The newest SDK shit uses Source 2.