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Half-Life: Alyx - Development & Speculation Thread
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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It would be crazy if they didn't, considering its been 13 years since the last Half-Life game.
They wont.
I like this a lot, but I think "Half Life: Alyx | Half-Life 3D" would be more succinct. (I get the joke, but even so)
To make a contribution, "Half-Life: Alyx | 3 As, 6 degrees, 6-3 = VR"
It's a play on an old Gaf thread "First Half-Life, 3 screenshots" which contained three screenshots of Half-Life 1.
I did and it still says the 23rd for me. Checked the store page and it says it unlocks in 1 day, 11 hours.
I honestly don't thing HL3 will ever happen... not in the way people think anyway. I think half life needs a reboot at this stage. You can't just carry on a story 13+ years later like nothing happened.
That's why I think they've taken the prequel route with alyx. It establishes the brand again, it's a refresh since it's a prequel. And I think whatever half life follows it will have stronger ties to alyx then it will with half life 2 or episode 1/2.
That's why I think they've taken the prequel route with alyx. It establishes the brand again, it's a refresh since it's a prequel. And I think whatever half life follows it will have stronger ties to alyx then it will with half life 2 or episode 1/2.
I don't see why they WOULDN'T port it to PSVR 2, as long as its controllers are half-way decent.
1 day and 11 hours 🤯. Crazy typing that we are getting a new Half-Life game in less then 2 days.
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| A Red Letter Day
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| Anti-Citizen Two
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| Debride and Cauterize (bit obscure this one but it sounds great)
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Considering Valve hasn't released a console game since CS:GO in 2012 (which was never patched on either platform), and the one console game it was working on was the result of promises made prior to the acquisition of the developer, I think a PS5 version will come down to whether Sony makes the PSVR2 PC-compatible. If that ends up being the case, which now feels like a distinct possibility in light of Sony beginning to follow in the footsteps of Microsoft in terms of viewing the PC as complementary rather than a competitor, then the question of "Since we're working with a PlayStation-compatible VR headset, why don't we port Alyx to the PS5?" is more than likely to come up.
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I mean, what has Valve been working on since then? They've been all in on TF2 Hats, CS:GO gambling, DOTA, Artifail and Underlords. Nothing really that one would consider a "good fit" for consoles. All their live service stuff was focused on making and monetizing marketplaces, not adding "content".
Assuming the PSVR 2 is close enough to feature parity with most of the PCVR space, there's little reason why it couldn't or shouldn't also be on a PS5-based VR solution.
You got to remember that Valve only has like 350 employees and they basically print money with Steam, DOTA, CS, TF2, etc. They don't need the extra money a port would bring in the same way most other companies would.
I honestly don't think Valve themselves would ever port it. They probably just lack the manpower considering how much they have to work on and how few employees they have. I could totally see them outsourcing it to another studio to port for them. It probably would be a good way to continue to build the relationship between Valve and Sony.
Underlords is on mobile also, and there'll eventually be a mobile version of Artifact, too (that was supposed to happen last year, but then the game released to a decidedly tepid reception, forcing Valve back to the drawing board). They're as not any worse a fit for consoles than, say, Gwent.
Sure, from a technical standpoint. But, thus far, Valve has shown exactly zero interest in returning to the console space, even when asked, which is why I see any motivation to the contrary being context-driven -- it Valve returns to consoles, it's going to be because it was working on something peripheral to consoles, not merely the fact they exist and don't have some sort of fundamental shortcoming.
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I'm not even going to try and look at the replies to that tweet. Apparently spoilers are out there en masse.
Wake Up And See The Ashes
The right woman in the right place
Rise and shine, Ms Vance
I Have No Arms , And I Can Scream
Open your eyes, honey
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This would get my vote, maybe full quote "Rise and shine, Ms Vance, Rise and shine"
Yeah I restarted steam and it went back to 23rd for me.
just having the OT be "HL3, Confirmed" (Or simply HL: Alyx |OT| Half-Life 3), but that would rustle too many feathers I think :)
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Yeah, they likely would outsource it. They'd probably just have to do the initial work getting Source 2 up and running on a PS5 first, which might be the biggest hurdle. Though not out of the question, because Valve has developed for FreeBSD in the past, and still develop for Linux. It just comes down to the demand being there (likely), and the passion from inside Valve to spread their vision of VR's future to more platforms.
Mobile is a better fit for card games and whatever genre Underlords is. There's still no Hearthstone or MTG for the current consoles either, despite those games' massive popularity. It's great that Gwent made it, but that's also a spinoff of an existing PS4/Xbone game, so it makes sense to tap that built-in audience.
Alyx is the first story-driven single player content Valve has released since Portal 2. And the Valve of the 2010s was more interested in creating and monetizing markets than creating single-player experiences. Their 2010s output was not a great fit for consoles, but a single player AAA VR game? That's a slam dunk.
I'd posit that since Gwent shows the likes of Artifact and Underlords can work on consoles, if they were in Valve's purview at all, surely there'd at least be some um's and ah's from Valve that console releases are something it's considering. It feels rather telling that the IGN First interviewer asked Gabe more-or-less point-blank if the upcoming consoles are something Valve is looking at and he danced around that portion of the question, simply saying it's great there's little differentiating PC and consoles from a game development standpoint as developers have an easier road to multiplatform releases.
I don't discount the possibility that Alyx, as a primarily campaign-driven experience a la Portal 2, will be ported to the PS5, assuming PSVR2 itself is sufficiently capable. I just think the Valve of today firmly views consoles as a tertiary market and won't pursue console-oriented initiatives unless those projects are a natural extension of the PC or mobile side of development.
To be clear, I hope I'm wrong. Artificial exclusivity is in no way a good thing; the more people who can play a game, the better.
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This gets my vote. It works as both a reference to an iconic HL2 moment as well as a indication of the kind of interactions which will be enhanced by VR.
How will spoilers be handled post-release? A separate thread from the OT, tagged in the OT, or freely posted in the OT? I'm sure people not playing the game would still like to read some general impressions without seeing spoilers.
When you planning on posting it MRORANGE ?
I'm all preloaded and ready to go - between Animal Crossing and Alyx - finding time to actually work is going to be tough! But hey, that's the balance of this WFH life many of us find our selves in currently.
I'm a big fan of the titles:
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| Prepare For Unforeseen Consequences
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| Wake up and smell the ashes
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| Rise and shine
These are all awesome!
Looking forward to seeing the OT - after posting 2 this month (for Pokemon and Animal Crossing) it'l be nice to see an OT for a game I'm excited for that I didn't design!
I'm all preloaded and ready to go - between Animal Crossing and Alyx - finding time to actually work is going to be tough! But hey, that's the balance of this WFH life many of us find our selves in currently.
I'm a big fan of the titles:
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| Prepare For Unforeseen Consequences
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| Wake up and smell the ashes
Half-Life: Alyx |OT| Rise and shine
These are all awesome!
Looking forward to seeing the OT - after posting 2 this month (for Pokemon and Animal Crossing) it'l be nice to see an OT for a game I'm excited for that I didn't design!
I agree and there are rumors floating around that this is a very soft reboot in a way. We'll know tomorrow!
I'd rather not have spoilers in the OT for the first week or so at the least. so tagged at a minimum.
