Josh Wirtanen: Half-Life 3 is a title that gets people excited. Rumors are started all the time about an official reveal from Valve, yet the people who get too invested in those rumors are always disappointed. (We took a look at a few of the more recent rumors in a piece called "Do You Believe in Half-Life 3?") By now, fans have some pretty serious expectations, and in this feature we look at the things we'd personally like to see in Half-Life 3.
A new Half-Life making-of has revealed details about cancelled Valve projects, including Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, a Dark Souls-inspired RPG, and more.
wait so I have to pay Steam money for this "Video" and Epic Games are the ones who are greedy? FOH
Open world L4D game?
I'm curious
I'd love to see Zoe, Francis and Louis come back, or maybe Bill if they pretend the cross over with L4D2 never happened and they went North to Canada.
Damn I want more Half-Life and L4D..
Half-Life would be less jarring if it didn't end on such a cliff hanger.
Hard to believe that was all the way back in 2007.
Wow, great plans all flushed down the toilet. These probably would have all sold well too. A fan in me no more of valve.
B. Michael Logan writes: "Sometimes pressure from gamers has paid off when it comes to pushing game developers to grace our lives with sequels of games that we desperately need. However, we may never see sequels to game we’ve been demanding for years."
I’d love a portal 3 but I don’t know where you’d go with it. The second one pretty much wrapped up every thing nicely.
Don't bother with Valve IPs anymore they don't make games anymore just focus on Steam.
Gabe Newell's omni-studio might not have the appetite for Half-Life 3 anymore - but these developers could do it.
It's interesting but after all this time i don't think it's possible to launch a HL3 game without disappointing fans in some way.
Do they keep the old mechanics and risk the game feeling dated?
Do they overhaul the game play systems to be more competitive and risk alienating hardcore fans?
Who writes the story as the writers from the original have long since parted ways with valve?
Is it even worth it? HL2 ep 2 was released in 2007 games have evolved dramatically in the past 12 years and the same techniques and story devices have been surpassed these days and valve hasn't released a fully story driven game since portal 2 in 2011 (even that's a little debatable as to how much story it had IMO it was light on story intentionally but lots of fun).
Most fans have developed their own theories and there are so many possibilities out there with the direction the story could have went maybe Valve don't want a 3 because it will never live up to fans and their own story they create after ep 2.
If we see anything HL related from vavle i would prefer it to be set around an entirely new cast
"Co-op"
No......just no
Why is it that people would want to ruin a good single player game for crappy co-op. Just so you and your friend can show off at each other. What about if your mates get it for a differen't platform to you like what happened with me and Portal 2. It's not why I hated Portal 2s co-op it was more because I knew for a fact that the story (added test chambers, secrets, time trails, challenges) could of been added to the single player, Valve said themselfs they cut the script of Portal 2 to make way for co-op...so really they had a lot more up their sleeve for single player. They could of added co-op as DLC since adding a co-op mode is easier then adding more content to an already finished story.
HL should NEVER have co-op
Why does every FPS have to require ADS nowadays? You don't see people complaining about it's absence in Halo...
I am replaying Half-Life 2 and I want a longer campaign. HL2 is about 20 hours long so make HL3 about 40 hours long
i disagree with this writer. iron sights on half-life? not to be blunt but FUCK YOU. I'm so sick of CoD's lingering shadow over modern shooters. Continue story, improve graphics (obviously), no co-op, and another revolutionary gun like the gravity gun or portal gun.
Are people excited for Half Life 3 the game that has yet to be announced officially. I cannot tell by all the stories and speculation