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Half-Life: Alyx Announced
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man i have so much skepticism over Valve's current output and the ability of VR to sustain a full AAA campaign
i guess we'll see
i guess we'll see
Valve isn't exactly a small indie developer. I don't think they would have trouble finding the funding for Half-Life 3 internally.
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There are already great apps for VR, but none from an established IP of this calibre.
Fact is - no one fully understands this medium as they do traditional games, and it isn't obvious what makes a "killer app"
The stands a reasonable chance of at least pushing SteamVR forward in an even more significant way
Maybe it took so long because they had to find a way to make it a great fit for both VR and non-VR?
Valve have pulled off this incredible marketing strategy of not marketing future half life projects at all, letting a fan base generate an enormous amount of communication about the franchise itself to a degree that there are thousands of comments online that exist that say "I hope i live to see the day HL3 is announced."
Like, we are at a point where I don't think many people who are obsessed with playing the next installment will even think about giving a fuck about reviews. They want to play the latest game and god dammit they will spend the money to do so.
If the impeachment hearings go somewhere then 2017 - 2019 will be redeemed!
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Despite Remo telling you otherwise?
I actually had an Index that I returned due to nonstop technical problems. Headset not detected, USB issues, etc. I spent *hours* on it.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Consoles don't matter to them anymore. Unless something changed I don't think we'll see it on anything but PC.
Would like to be wrong though.
It is, quite literally, a full half life game. There's zero chance that it is not.
I've spent enough time on the internet over the last 15 years for the official announcement of a new Half-Life game to feel pretty fucking wild..
That's not exactly going to be a simple or intuitive thing to do. It'd be like trying to mod Boneworks to work with a keyboard and mouse. At worst it wouldn't work, at best it'd be insanely cumbersome, and either way you'd lose headtracking and body integration which is the entire point and which enables Boneworks to be what it is to begin with
Half-Life is a legendary franchise and this is the first new game in over a decade...
To be honest I feel the hurdle for VR is more the problems with the tech than the software lineup.
Pretty much most VR games are a couple hour affairs if they are known IPs IE the arkham game getting a full fledged game of a known IP is what is needed for a killer App if more actual games like that might invest in it
Valve are making a news single player experience half-life taking advantage of all the benefits that VR brings? I think it's normal to be excited to see what they show?
Who said that? because Valve doesn't make enough money from Steam so they need this to sell well to make HL3? come one don't get your hopes up lol
I have a feeling that this is going to be really impressive.
I don't own a VR headset though...
I don't own a VR headset though...
Where has this been said? People keep saying it but isn't that single tweet the only info we have?
I sure hope there's a non-VR conversion for this game after it's released.
The modding community should put it as a top priority.
The modding community should put it as a top priority.
However nice that would be, what was the last thing they released for consoles? CSGO almost a decade ago? I don't really think Valve is interested in console development.