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Half Life 3 Won’t Live Up To Expectations

This week Valve is making 3 big announcements about its future as a company. The first big announcement was Steam OS, an operating system allowing Steam to be played on the TV. And though gamers everywhere are talking about the possibility of Half Life 3 being announced, there are more concerns than anything.

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Crazay3872d ago

Most highly anticipated and talked about pieces of vaporware rarely ever meet expectations if they ever come out...Looking right at you Duke.

Kingdom Come3872d ago

But Duke Nukem went through an infamously troubled development. Theres a difference between a troubled development and a long one.

Crazay3872d ago

Point well taken but still. How many years since the last Star Craft or Diablo? Look at how they were(and still are) met with criticism. They weren't known to be experiencing troubled development or financial issues.

thehitman3872d ago

I play SC2 almost daily but I agree they dont live up to the hype. SC2 is a disappointment from what it shouldve been and dont get started on D3. I think lots of developers just lose sight on what fundamentally made what the games are what they are and end up falling flat when they release. Some games just dont age well overtime and fans have to live with that as well.

DoctorJones3872d ago

The difference is Valve have never disappointed when it has come to the games.

Crazay3872d ago (Edited 3872d ago )

To be perfectly honest with you, I never much liked Half Life. I tried the first one, I got tired of it pretty quick. I tried the 2nd one, again, I grew bored quickly. Admittedly, though, the games from them that I have gotten into, I REALLY got into. L4D2 is still played weekly on my Xbox.

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Withing a week or 2 of their release I played them.

DoctorJones3872d ago

Can I ask when you actually played the games, did you play them when they first came out or years after?

-Gespenst-3872d ago

First of all Half Life and Valve games are of a totally higher order than friggin Duke Nukem. Secondly. Duke Nukem's development was stopped and started, handed to different teams etc. For all we know, Half Life 3 has been an ongoing and uninterrupted project, and why shouldn't it be? If Valve want to make as many waves as they did with Half Life 2, they'd want to have something pretty big in the works.

I guarantee once Half Life 3 is announced people will be wigging their shit, and not just because it's Half Life 3. Valve will certainly make it something special. I'd also expect it to be announced alongside and developed with Source 2, so that'll surely give it even more impact.

Hayabusa 1173872d ago (Edited 3872d ago )

I don't care it, it will still be amazing, just make it
already!

Deadpoolio3872d ago

No it wont....Well to a lot of people it wont because they have already hyped it up in their mind way too much...Half life is already kind of over rated, but some people take things way too far

DoctorJones3872d ago

Over rated to you - an individual. To pretty much everyone else the games have been more than great.

It's always funny when people say 'Over rated' because really all it means is that person didn't like it as much, which is called - preference.

There are tons of games that people love that I don't, that just means I don't like them as much, not that they're over-rated.

NarooN3872d ago

@DoctorJones

Half-Life is indeed overrated. I've seen a lot of people say they didn't care for the games.

I liked HL1 a lot, but HL2 (and its two expansions) were really boring to me.

Right there, there are people who would prefer me to get burned at the stake for even expressing that, but I don't care.

Funny because you pretty much proved his point, that people take it too far. He said it was "kinda" overrated at that. Being overrated doesn't mean it's "bad", just that people hype it up *way* too much, which is true. The games aren't perfect by any means.

It's true that HL3 won't live up to expectations. People have been waiting on it for so long, and many people have hyped it to ridiculous lengths in their heads, so they'll be disappointed almost undoubtedly.

Jovanian 3872d ago

@Naroon

People don't like when they call it overrated because saying something is overrated is such an empty, meaningless critique. Like...seriously, overrated with respect to what...and on what criteria

Something being overrated is about subjective as it gets and doesn't really carry any real merit imo

Hayabusa 1173872d ago

Yes, it will be amazing. I don't expect YOU to think it's amazing because you already think it's overrated. I, on the other hand, do not. I wouldn't say I have massive expectations for HL3, and I have little doubt that many people have hyped it in their minds to unrealistic proportions, but regardless, I'm sure it will still better then 90% of other games out there.

But like I said, if you feel Half Life is overrated to begin with, then you're obviously going to take the stance that HL3 will be a disappointment. Heck, you would've been dissappointed even if it came out 2 years ago :P

C'mon Valve, SHIP IT!!!

NarooN3872d ago

@Swadian

Lol the only reason you say overrated is a "meaningless critique" is because someone is using it to describe something you actually like.

Writing it off as being "subjective" is just as meaningless as you claim the word overrated is. The series is held in high regards, but every single last one of those regards are still just subjective viewpoints in the end.

Overrated in respect to what, you say? Usually when someone says that, whatever it is they're referring to is something that is worshiped to the point of nausea, where many of those people pretend the thing in question is so perfect that any criticism against it is invalid.

GTA IV was overrated. Game got 10's nonstop yet the game wasn't viewed in such high regard once people got over the hype.

Once again, none of this is me hating on Half-Life. Just not seeing why Deadpoolio was jumped on for such an inane reason. "O WAT, U DINK EET WUZ OVERRATED??? 2 HELL WIT U!!"

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Grave3872d ago

If it's just as good as HL2 and the episodic content then I think most will be super happy.

Jovanian 3872d ago

I agree. IMO the pinnacle of half life games has been Episode 2, everything is just so perfect. I love all the half life games mind you, but episode 2 just has everything that makes HL great plus all the new things Valve have learned in their development experience

also, dat strider fight at the end...amazing. Valve took defending some old barns and made it badass

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PurpHerbison3872d ago

It won't live up to expectations if everyone is expecting the next coming of Jesus Christ.

Deadpoolio3872d ago

Which is pretty much what people are already expecting....Half life is already over rated enough as it is, not that it's awful or terrible in any particular way. It's just not the 2nd coming that people already make half life out to be

SephirothX213872d ago

The difference is that Half Life actually exists.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein6d ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii6d ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo6d ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows906d ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19895d ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus5d ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha6d ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno6d ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan6d ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno6d ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19816d ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6695d ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19815d ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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Why Are Steam's Recommendations Dogpoop?

Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm

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UltimateOwnage23d ago

Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.