I unironically want to see this. I liked that game, despite how short it was. It was quite fun.
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NoFrag: People don't care about Half-Life anymore
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i'm not who you quoted, but limiting a game to a pc release, particularly ostensibly graphically intense games like HL would likely be, cuts off access for a lot of ppl who can either only afford consoles or low-end computers. I don't think game streaming is there yet for ppl in that demographic.
Ostensibly graphically intensive games cannot run in the current generation base hardware. And if it could, it could run on low-end computers.
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If Alyx is EXCEPTIONAL quality it doesn't really matter, it will make people care about Half-Life again (and help VR a lot). Valve is going to push this game a lot.
Valve has done more for consumers then nintendo,sony and ms put together.
It's hilarious how ignorant Era is.
the example I would use is cyberpunk, to me if there were no console release a lot less ppl would be playing the game. I could be wrong for sure though, it's just how it makes sense to me since I see it as needing a 1060 minimum (could be wrong about this too!) and that already runs ~$250
Cyberpunk minimum requirements are 960, and the console versions will probably run worse. I just dont think you know the power difference between console and PC right now at the end of a gen.
yeah that's likely, i'm on a 970m currently. at the same time though, would you consider cyberpunk to be as far reaching if it weren't available on consoles? I definitely consider access to "console-audience" to be a real thing, tho i don't have numbers to back that up.
This is insane. A Half-Life VR game was the easiest guess you could make, and many posters here have claimed that Valve would use Half-Life to push VR, months, if not years before Alyx was even announced.
This is a stupid thing that can easily be explained by "HL was never huge" (to the level of other big FPS) to being with. You can easily show it on the graph that they provide that compares it with other shooters:
Jeez, I never realized that half life was that irrelevant.
That's only for people that search for the exact term "Half-Life". People that search for "Half Life", "HalfLife" or simply just "HL" are not included in that graph.
It helps a lot in terms of google SEO if your game title is only a single word.
I think there would be a lot more excitement if it wasn't VR-only. I like Half-Life and have a VR headset, but I don't want to play it this way.
It's hard to get interest in free titles and google searches if
A. Said free title have been easily available and cheap before hand (You can get the half life package every sale for like $5)
B. There's nothing to search/talk about. Half-life 2 has been ran into the ground at this point when it comes to discussion, there isn't much else there.
I think HL:Alyx will do a good job of revitalizing interest, especially if it's followed up by a non-vr game.As that will always be a hurdle for some.
A. Said free title have been easily available and cheap before hand (You can get the half life package every sale for like $5)
B. There's nothing to search/talk about. Half-life 2 has been ran into the ground at this point when it comes to discussion, there isn't much else there.
I think HL:Alyx will do a good job of revitalizing interest, especially if it's followed up by a non-vr game.As that will always be a hurdle for some.
There is a difference between being super popular and being relevant and trend setting. HL helped redefine the fps genre twice, but that doesn't mean it is as it is a mega popular game. For one, what was its multiplayer (kinda) is nowadays a completely different game that is one of the biggest esports ever, so ot doesnt count as half life.
Doesn't change the fact that using a heavily flawed graph to prove something is a bad idea. Unless you're polygon.
Probably. The people who were teens when Episode 2 launched are in their late 20s to early 30s by now. I'd hazard a guess that quite a lot of, possibly most of, the people under 25 who are aware of the HL name probably know it mainly from the jokes and memes about HL3. I think the game will still do fine though, I suspect Valve have reasonable expectations to how much it will sell.
Alongside eonden said i want to add that Nintendo says that your pre-order is nonrefundable because you downloaded a few files.
Steam offers automated refunds with <2h of playtime
Yeah half life will be fine. I mean look at ff7. The original game is older than dust but the hype has always been there.
I care about it from the lens of getting a good VR game but I'm not as interested in the franchise specifically. I tried playing Half Life 2 but I either got motion sick or bored from the gameplay. The opening sequence felt like the Halo Library level times 2. We get it, you need to escape, can we please move on? Valve didn't think so. I plan on watching the story highlights on YouTube to get up to speed.
Taking into account how most headsets have been sold out for some months now, I would say enough people care.
The FFVII remake has a larger market to sell to though, as I guess it'll be on PS4, Xbone and PC eventually. Dunno about Switch, but I doubt it'll get a Switch port. Both games will do fine in the end.
People know the memes. It's just like Captain Falcon in Smash.
This is a game aimed at a userbase of fewer people than people who owned a WiiU or Vita.
It's going to make money based on selling Valve Indexes.
It has gotten almost no promotion because everyone who has VR wants the game already.
... Of course it has fewer searches and traffic?
It's going to make money based on selling Valve Indexes.
It has gotten almost no promotion because everyone who has VR wants the game already.
... Of course it has fewer searches and traffic?
yeah this doesn't really seem indicative of half-life's overall popularity at all
It is going to make its money on tons of people entering the PC VR space buying VR games on Steam.
Alyx is about promoting all PCVR headsets, not just the Index.
Anyways, Half Life always struck me as a very important franchise that is held close by a lot of people, but not the most popular franchise like Call of Duty or Halo. But also these metrics are kinda flimsy anyways.
I can't only speak for myself but I definitely don't really care anymore.
If Half-Life 3 had gotten announced, I dunno, 6 years ago then I'd be losing my mind but it's a different story now. Sure, I'd still get the game but my hype levels for it would never be anywhere near what they would be before. Hell, I only watched one of the new Alyx gameplay videos from the other day 'cus I don't really care.
If Half-Life 3 had gotten announced, I dunno, 6 years ago then I'd be losing my mind but it's a different story now. Sure, I'd still get the game but my hype levels for it would never be anywhere near what they would be before. Hell, I only watched one of the new Alyx gameplay videos from the other day 'cus I don't really care.
I played Half Life on a console, as did others. You can't strip those numbers out when looking at the whole. Google metrics can't see what you play games on.
You take a popular highly reviewed series (that cliffhung a sequel) that released on multiple systems, and turned it into an exclusive that needs peripheral hardware and is a prequel. That said, I'm not sure why people are surprised, because Im positive valve isn't expected this to be as big as HL2.
While I'm sure that will also be nice, I'm guessing that the Index is being sold at a $300+ markup and Valve selling 2m Indexes thanks to Alyx would net them a nice $600m profit.
