Geoff Keighley's The Final Hours will tell the story of where Valve has been this past decade

Deleted member 28523 · Nov 21, 2019

https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/The_Final_Hours_of_Half-Life_2

The Final Hours is something Geoff did for Half Life 2, Portal 2, and tons of other games. It is suppose to come out later next year after Half Life: Alyx is out. It's going to be more videos, articles about all the things and problems at Valve in the past decade. It's not just the one video we got today.

Left for Dead 3 confirmed.

Deleted member 44371 · Nov 21, 2019

never knew he is a writer, always kinda assumed he is just a "host"

Violet · Nov 21, 2019

Kylac said:
Left for Dead 3 confirmed.

Sorry Valve, Half Life is now disqualified from winning GOTY next year because of bias with Geoff Keighley

Deleted member 1589 · Nov 21, 2019

Where have they been?

Playing Dota 2

The end.

BossAttack · Nov 21, 2019

HL: Alyx.

I sleep.

maximumzero · Nov 21, 2019

Flutter said:
Where have they been?

Playing Dota 2

The end.

Swimming in a Scrooge McDuck-style money bin I would imagine.

RecRoulette · Nov 21, 2019

For all of the joking about Keighley, The Final Hours series is/was some of the best games coverage out there. Was really excited to see a new one being made.

Van Bur3n · Nov 21, 2019

marzoo said:
never knew he is a writer, always kinda assumed he is just a "host"

He is, as a matter of fact, a games journalist.

Deleted member 1589 · Nov 21, 2019

maximumzero said:
Swimming in a Scrooge McDuck-style money bin I would imagine.

That huge valve in the office is turned to flush the money down when people come to visit.

Datajoy · Nov 21, 2019

Why can't this use a big gun controller. That would be awesome.

TheCongressman · Nov 21, 2019

Final Hours makes it sound like they're gone, or are closing down, lol.

ArjanN said:
The HL 1 and 2 ones were also called that.

Ooh, it's a series. Final hours of development then, ok. I had never heard of these before.

Xando · Nov 21, 2019

The Final Hours will tell the story of where Valve has been this past decade.

Swimming in steam and CS skin money

FelipeMGM · Nov 21, 2019

Alyx looks dope, but this is the most exciting thing around this reveal tbh

ArjanN · Nov 21, 2019

Busy with Steam and service stuff like Dota 2, CS:GO, VR, Steam Controllers, Steam Machines etc it wasn't really a much of a mystery to anyone paying attention.

TheCongressman said:
Final Hours makes it sound like they're gone, or are closing down, lol.

The HL 1 and 2 ones were also called that.

Cantaim · Nov 21, 2019

marzoo said:
never knew he is a writer, always kinda assumed he is just a "host"

His final hours of stuff is some absolutely great writing. You always get fascinating insight into studio's and development

super moustique · Nov 21, 2019

marzoo said:
never knew he is a writer, always kinda assumed he is just a "host"

He did the same thing for MGS2 back in the day if I'm not mistaken.

Ralemont · Nov 21, 2019

Cantaim said:
His final hours of stuff is some absolutely great writing. You always get fascinating insight into studio's and development

For better or worse! The ME3 one is how we know about the "speculation for everyone" scribble, lol.

Don't mean to ruin the mood

Deleted member 1589 · Nov 21, 2019

marzoo said:
never knew he is a writer, always kinda assumed he is just a "host"

He was pretty awesome. His Final Hours pieces were fantastic.

The Final Hours of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Geoff Keighley takes you behind the scenes in this exclusive feature about the last days of the development of 2001's biggest game.

www.gamespot.com

The Final Hours of Half-Life 2

The newest installment in Geoff Keighley's Behind the Games series covers the turbulent development of Half-Life 2. This special feature takes you behind the scenes on the development of the game at Valve Software, including exclusive details on the infamous source code leak.

www.gamespot.com

Nida · Nov 21, 2019

Will he just look at the camera and say "Hats."?

Deleted member 437 · Nov 21, 2019

I really really hope they tell us what the fuck happened after episode 2.

TheChungusAmongUs · Nov 21, 2019

marzoo said:
never knew he is a writer, always kinda assumed he is just a "host"

Geoffs friendship with Kojima literally started because he was a writer.

He did the final hours of MGS2

Secretofmateria · Nov 21, 2019

I think people forget that keighly on top of being a meme, is also one of the best games journalists out there when he wants to be

Kinthey · Nov 21, 2019

Well, I hope this means they're ready to come back to make single player games (besides Alyx)

Cantaim · Nov 21, 2019

Ralemont said:
For better or worse! The ME3 one is how we know about the "speculation for everyone" scribble, lol.

Don't mean to ruin the mood

True lol

Still I'm hyped for this! can't wait to see what Geoff writes

elyetis · Nov 21, 2019

Flutter said:
Where have they been?

Playing Dota 2

The end.

Should spend more time making content for it over playing it.

Spinluck · Nov 21, 2019

Finally a reason to give a fuck about VR

Deleted member 1589 · Nov 21, 2019

elyetis said:
Should spend more time making content for it over playing it.

OOOOF

MilkBeard · Nov 21, 2019

This is pretty cool. Curious what insight it brings.

Einchy · Nov 21, 2019

Mikey Jr. said:
I really really hope they tell us what the fuck happened after episode 2.

It would be really interesting if they were 100% candid about the whole Episode 3/Half-Life 3 situation.

Genesius · Nov 21, 2019

I just want a new L4D that's tonally closer to the first game.

Don't care about Half-Life.

Deleted member 44122 · Nov 21, 2019

cant wait, i really like his work

jakomocha · Nov 21, 2019

Will def be giving it a read

Deleted member 31092 · Nov 21, 2019

Really interested in reading what happened when literally half of the "old guard" left in the span of few months.

xyla · Nov 21, 2019

I'm excited for this!

While Valve isn't known as a developer with great pr, they seem to be really open about stuff, once someone is on the inside.

I expect lots of information about cancelled projects and what went wrong with Source 2.

Geoff is also a really good interviewer, he's not too shy to ask difficult questions but he remains polite and even offers and out if the people he's interviewing don't know their way around it.

Tom Nook · Nov 21, 2019

Collecting Steam revenue. J/K.

Can't wait for the reveal.

edit: Already released trailer.

Avitus · Nov 21, 2019

Joseki said:
Really interested in reading what happened when literally half of the "old guard" left in the span of few months.

Most of them have returned. So I'm guessing there was a point where they all got fed up with Valve focusing solely on Steam and chasing trends like card games.

Scuttlebutt has been that Valve (at least at one point) was hyper focused on 'making the numbers go up' to the detriment of creatives.

kami_sama · Nov 21, 2019

I've always loved his The Final Hours "articles", so this will be a buy from me.

Fiery Phoenix · Nov 21, 2019

Decarb · Nov 21, 2019

marzoo said:
never knew he is a writer, always kinda assumed he is just a "host"

The Dorito Pope has done some amazing work as a journalist in the past, he did not stumble into being a host of some big gaming events by accident.

Skittles · Nov 21, 2019

Simple answer is no dev wanted the heat from releasing hl3. People crazy enough to dox every dev who worked on it

Avitus · Nov 21, 2019

Laidlaw's Epistle 3 basically implied Valve completely lost its way at one point. This will be super interesting if Geoff really goes deep.

Nzyme32 · Nov 21, 2019

Wonder if they will finally talk about some of the mess that happened between them, Oculus and Facebook, where after Zuck seeing their VR tech and demo, Facebook bought Oculus, who had been given Valve's tech, and then tried to poach Valve's VR team. Both Ben Krasnow and Alan Yates, confirmed this on forums, but Valve never talked about it. Ben Krasnow called it "one of the most questionable things I've seen in my career".
My guess was that it was shortly after this that Valve decided to go balls deep and reorganise the company around VR and the tech they were producing.

Deleted member 10314 · Nov 21, 2019

Van Bur3n said:
He is, as a matter of fact, a Dorito king.

FTFY

.exe · Nov 21, 2019

Gonna need to see Gabe's knife collection in a time-lapse to be satisfied with this documentary.

ymgve · Nov 21, 2019

Portal 2 The Final Hours described how Valve almost made a Portal sequel without the portal gun, so I assume the next Final Hours might be on the same level of tell-all.

Paganmoon · Nov 21, 2019

Violet said:
Sorry Valve, Half Life is now disqualified from winning GOTY next year because of bias with Geoff Keighley

reading some responses in the other threads it'd be disqualified for being a VR game alone.

lake · Nov 21, 2019

A summary of the vid would be appreciated, if anyone's up to it.

Kalor · Nov 21, 2019

Geoffs The Final Hours work has always been great so looking forward to the one for HL: Alyx

Harpoon · Nov 21, 2019

Highly interested in seeing this! It'll hopefully be pretty enlightening.

CrichtonKicks · Nov 21, 2019

marzoo said:
never knew he is a writer, always kinda assumed he is just a "host"

Most of the documentation we have on how ME3's ending came about was from his "Final Hours of ME3".

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