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VALVE talk Half-Life: Alyx - "It’s not a side story, nor an episodic one — it’s the next part of the Half-Life story"
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So...
A sequel to Half Life 2: Episode 2 is coming after this, right?
What a better way to prepare the inevitable huge focus on Alyx in HL3/EP3 then a prequel playing her.
Right?
Right?
A sequel to Half Life 2: Episode 2 is coming after this, right?
What a better way to prepare the inevitable huge focus on Alyx in HL3/EP3 then a prequel playing her.
Right?
Right?
You get to the end, it fades out and then back in and you're piloting a helicopter through Arctic skies. You briefly look at some photo of Eli or some other keepsake of Half-Life: Alyx after reminiscing, then you look through the windshield and see the Borealis appear in the ice on the horizon.
Alyx says "We're here. You ready?"
A door opens behind you and Gordon walks out, looks you dead in the eye, and nods.
Cut to credits.
Alyx says "We're here. You ready?"
A door opens behind you and Gordon walks out, looks you dead in the eye, and nods.
Cut to credits.
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This isn't true either - outside of Laidlaw, who retired, and Chet Falisek- who also had insight on the game but left to start his own indie studio, Pinkerton and Wolpaw remain, in addition to new ones, Campo Santo's folks like Chris Remo, and consulting writers such as Rob Yescombe.
It's more surprising how low turnover is at Valve, with staff still there over 2 decades later
Yep. I bought every previous HL game at or not long after launch. This one I will likely have to wait longer on.
Same, it's going to going suck but if this it what needs to happen for a half lfie to come back and make as big an impact as the others I'm fine with it.
Looks like Wolpaw left a few years ago?
I guess if we're looking to be technically accurate, it looked like Half Life was dead because all of the original writers left the company.
Unless that article and the thread I vaguely remember from however many years back were just completely off base.
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Wolpaw never left - as he explained himself - he was still consulting while he wasn't needed and had input on Psychonauts 2. Then he "went crawling back to Gabe" in his own words, after working for his daughters "Juice" business. Only Erik can make this much sense
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Yeah - Geoff mentioned finishing it in 15hrs, and that's the in dev version, so could be a bit more or less
I understand that, but in that case, I would rather call it "another part of the story", not "the next part", you see what I mean?
"While it does take place before the events of Half-Life 2, we actually recommend that you play through Half-Life 2: Episode 2 before you play Half-Life: Alyx, for reasons that will become clear as you progress."
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Exactly, but also it is not unheard of to have a narrative arch occuring before events of a story, that are required for understanding the rest of the narrative that unfolds. For all we know, both could occur in this game or be key to informing a subsequent release.
My guess would be that they want to restart the universe and put people on a path that when they come out with the other 1-2 HL games they probably have planned it'll all make sense. There is no way they're making Half life Alyx and then stopping.
Because motion sickness is a real thing. And there's no way for me to tell if VR is going to make me motion sick (which it likely will) without actually buying an expensive headset as I know of no one who owns one that I could try. And if I do end up getting motion sick, then I'm SOL, I guess.
Piss off, valve...
I'm not gonna buy an expensive VR headset just for you to disappoint me, guess I'll read about instead or something, once it's out... (if it comes out, lol)
I'm not gonna buy an expensive VR headset just for you to disappoint me, guess I'll read about instead or something, once it's out... (if it comes out, lol)
What can I say, when they string people along for decades, with nothing to show for it except this marketing horse rap about a prequel.
*Fake edit, meant horsecrap, but autocorrect made it better and I'm keeping it.
The graphics look so great for a VR game thanks to Source Engine 2. I can't wait for a full game non VR game using this engine. It gonna look epic. But by limiting this to their Index VR they gonna limit its sales and the potential people interested in it especially that index is really very pricy.
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Yep, that's about all I can say to that lol.
Let's hope we can make it to launch!
Yeah I'm aware. Though I wouldn't derail too much by delving into examples!
It isn't limited to Index despite being designed together with it:
Graphics wise, seeing how this resolves in VR is going to be amazing. The Portal Lab demo is already a good example, where the attention to detail visible at the macro level in VR is so good, and isn't obvious in video capture. HL:A looks set to be the same
Not gonna lie, got emotional when seeing that trailer and hearing this news.
For the new kids around here, the importance of Half LIfe and it's sequel cannot be exagerrated. People may talk less about these games outside the HL3 memes, but going back 10 years these games were ROYALTY on boards, and with merit.
For the new kids around here, the importance of Half LIfe and it's sequel cannot be exagerrated. People may talk less about these games outside the HL3 memes, but going back 10 years these games were ROYALTY on boards, and with merit.
I don't think it makes much sense to build this world in a new engine and use it on one game only. Half-Life 3 will come from this, we just need to wait longer.
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