ThisGenGaming says "Valve is a developer who is notorious for creating great games and sequels but not quite finishing with a third. Team Fortress, Half Life, Left for Dead and Portal are all games that we love to play, but haven’t had a chance at enjoying a third installment. In my 3 part article I will go over my top 3 Valve games that need a sequel."
From PC Gamer: "I remember when The Orange Box came out, and the world felt right. The sun was shining, the bees were buzzing around the flowers, and it just made perfect sense that Valve was releasing some of the best games of all time as essentially a value package. Among them all Portal was the true original, a game built around one perfect idea that absolutely squeezed every drop of juice it could from the concept: and made you laugh while doing it.
The announcement of Portal 2 was a welcome surprise, especially as this was happening at an almost unprecedented rate of knots for Valve, and incredibly "the game that didn't need a sequel" (the title of a GDC talk some of its developers later gave) got a sequel that lived up to and in some ways surpassed the original. It remains to this day the funniest co-op experience I've had on PC, and a singleplayer campaign so brilliant I'm now just thinking about when life gives you lemons and reinstalling it.
Then.. nothing. Well, not nothing: we got Aperture Desk Job. But there is and has been no sound about a Portal 3 and, 11 years on from Portal 2, any experienced Valve-watcher knows the rules: Valve don't do threes."
Hope Chell returns...somehow
Wouldn't mind if they gave her a voice so she could have some back and forth with GLaDOS
Well, there is the Half Life 2 episodes, and HL Alyx, so technically the series had more than 2 games.. just not a follow up in the story to 2.
I mean more Valve games are coming, with one being rumoured close to completion. And then there's S&box (GMOD 2) which is still being worked on and will have a lot of user created game modes, handy for those that like the Source 2 engine.
The problem is they are taking ages to do anything, L4D2 is in dire need of content and has needed a sequel since like 2012-2014 as the game is so barebones.
Replies(1)From VGC: "Speaking on the Kiwi Talkz podcast, Erik Wolpaw – who co-wrote Portal and Portal 2, as well as such titles as Psychonauts, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Two, Left 4 Dead and Half-Life Alyx – ended the show by stating: “We’ve gotta start Portal 3. That’s my message to… to whoever.”
He added: “I am not getting any younger. We are reaching the point where it’s crazy to think [that we’re] literally going to be too old to work on Portal 3, so we should just do it.”
However, Wolpaw also theorised earlier in the podcast that it may not be easy to get a new Portal game off the ground despite his history writing for Valve."
They didn't even finish working on a new L4D. They gave up because the Source 2 engine wasn't finished and it couldn't handle the things they tried (it was buggy at the time) so left it instead of fixing the issues. It's a shame because those leaked screens of the plantation level back in 2014 looked amazing. L4D1&2 have looked very dated since then.
Even now the Facepunch team who are making S&box are constantly adding things to Source 2 and fixing things up like adding water that you can swim in etc. Honestly thought it might be in early access by now.
Same goes for Ellen McLain, she's 69 and is pretty much one of the core things about Portal lets be honest
Kind of hope they bring Chell back someway, it would have been nice to have some witty dialogue between the pair in the second game especially when GLaDOS was a potato and needed her help.
I think Valve got to the point where they just don't care to invest and release video games no more.. they make already so much money from Steam.. that maybe to them the ROI just doesn't make sense.. but let's hope I'm wrong.
Valve may have sidestepped Half-Life 3 and held off on Left 4 Dead 3, but will Portal be the "3" that finally breaks the trend?
I DONT KNOW! COULD IT ? MAYBE IT COULD! WHO KNOWS REALLY ? SOMEONE MUST KNOW! WHAT A GREAT ARTICLE, REALLY DIGGING THIS WHOLE "COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA" -TREND HAPPENING ON GAMING NEWS SITES ALL AROUND THE WORLD WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
I'm kinda cool with Portal 2 being the last Portal to be fair, only a certain amount of times you drink from the same glasses before it's empty
Portal 3 would be cool. But personally I'd like to see some others get resurrected along side it. I have a soft spot for those games I had fun with but didn't quite catch on as well as other big names. Titles like alpha protocol and binary domain.
Realistically, Portal 3 has a much much better chance of being made than HL3. Maybe when Vive launches it could be its killer app. A puzzle game would fit right in that VR genre.
Want Portal 3. Need it.
You want a sequel to a game that hasn't even came out yet? Journalism at its finest.