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Half-Life: Alyx Announced
- Thread starter Nzyme32
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16 + hour singleplayer game according to rumors. They won't call it a flagship if it's small.
Index takes precedence! You need to find room for the rest of the stuff in your house.
That would be upsetting if that's what actually happened, yeswaits 18 years for hl3 gets a shitty vr game instead...
This game will be better and more important than any version of HL3 they could have madewaits 15 years for hl3 gets a shitty vr game instead...
nah they just wanta sale their vr set... I just want a ogPC game half life 3 with source engine 3 tech literally insane graphics and a fucking conclusion to the series... not some vr shit im not gonna buy. :/
Just having a new Half-Life out in the public mind's again is just crazy; even with all the long-running rumors of its existence. Even if it takes me awhile past its initial release, if this game is good I will definitely start saving for a VR Headset.
FPS games have been iterated on for two decades, there's way more ground to break in VR development these days. Especially for a team as talented as Valve. Half Life is all about paradigm shifts, that's why this is a VR game.
i got no idea, but Valve is really unique, so they could work on HL3 again only to scrap it, again.
This is rad. I don't have vr and would have to do some minor pc upgrades to make this happen and yet I'm still thrilled. Excited to see what Valve does in the vr space. It's rather frustrating seeing the drive by posting maligning the release. Save the faux outrage for after the reveal.
I am inclined to agree, but... "better?" No one can say what might have been or what will be in regard to this vs a potential HL3. "More important?" For sure 100%, even if the hypothetical HL3 was the game of the generation.
Valve making a flagship VR game is basically without an equivalent sea change in modern terms.
Grabbity Gloves lol perfect. I was just thinking earlier today it'd be cool to just use virtual hands to manipulate objects instead of the old gravity gun. Imagining using gloves to throw some of those disintegration orbs from the Citadel at enemies :P
Being able to pick up two different objects, one in each hand and throw at multiple enemies, its gonna be some crazy power fantasy shit turned to 11.
I think this will push me to get Index controllers for that finger tracking accuracy. You know its going to be implemented perfectly in this.
waits 15 years for hl3 gets a shitty vr game instead...
It's not shitty from a quality stand point. But graphics would be shit because of the technology limitation.
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Good that Valve remembered they are a game developer that's an Epic turns of events.
Depends if you watching it from a flatscreen or not. In a VR headset the visuals looks way better than on a flatscreen.
I'd rather see Valve's full support behind an exciting new technology than a shiny FPS of which we get plenty.
I highly doubt it, they wrote off episodic content after the Half Life 2 Episode 1/2 experiment failed.
In those early days they expected Oculus and other hardware makers to produce the hardware while they (Valve) sold all the software on Steam. They did not foresee Oculus, HTC, or whomever setting up their own VR storefronts...or if they did, they didn't forecast exclusive funding/buyouts having any kind of success and would have expected them to crash and burn within a year. No one else even took advantage of their free R&D spoils cause it's batshit crazy expensive, which is why the LG headset never made it out of trade show prototype phase and no other companies even got that far. The pair of basestations and arrays of sensors likely add over $300 to the bill of materials in raw costs...and that's just for the core tracking components with no profit. Lighthouse based HMD bundles would pretty much have to sell for $800+ to turn a profit on hardware.
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For real tho I hope they learned something from Episode 2 which to this day is the best of what HL 2 could have been
HL 2 itself was so fucking boring from start to finish. Too many meaningless vehicle sequences and the level design was straight up unremarkable. Also the AI was kinda terrible compared to 1
HL 2 itself was so fucking boring from start to finish. Too many meaningless vehicle sequences and the level design was straight up unremarkable. Also the AI was kinda terrible compared to 1
This is the most upvoted gaming announcement on Reddit of the year, maybe of all time. You can have your opinion, but factually you're incorrect.