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Half-Life 2: Episode Three is NOT the 'Surprise'
Uros "Vader" Pavlovic
05:03 am EDT @ June 07th, 2010
You can cry your eyes out and weep until you're blue in the face, but Valve is not planning to announced Half-Life 2: Episode Three at the E3 2010, despite numerous reports that the company might do just that. Fan site Halflife2.net has word from Valve boss Gabe Newell who sent a private message which simply states: "It isn't Ep 3."
Great. Stick a knife in my heart why don't ya!
The 'teaser' image with the famous Half-life logo and the word "Freeman," as Gabe confirmed, "fake."
This whole Episode 3 announcement thing got out of hand when Valve e-mailed press last week to announce the cancellation of its E3 Portal 2 event, in place of "a surprise."
Meanwhile, It appears a "360 and PS3 journalist" was told by Valve that the "surprise" at E3 won't be of great interest to them.
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With the way things got out of hands, they should at least get a fucking hint that people fucking want an Episode 3!
ive started viewing these modern movies and i swear, heroin appears a more reasonable investment than buying/renting/downloading all this fucking crap.
Wolfman, Prince of persia, Splice, Avatar, Nightmare on elm street, Clash of the titans, etc.
Valve.....are you heading the same road you deceiving bitch ?
Do people even know how to act normal anymore?
I think Half-Life games are great, but come-on, a bunch of schoolgirls behaves with more dignity than these folks.
*a very, very, VERY deep sigh*
HOT !!!!!!
http://clanchimikuro.chez-alice.fr/alyx1150661408lr2.png
clearly meanin an PC exclusive new game
And since no one's said it yet here's the mandatory good old "Phuck Valve" for y'allz.
So they say it's not Ep3, but they don't say it's not Half-Life so maybe it's HL3 after all.
Or a brand new IP which I think is very unlikely, but if it is I don't think they will make another FPS, I and I sure hope not a MMO game.
There's one interesting thing that I saw on wikipedia and here it is "On October 5, 2009, Defense of the Ancients (DotA) developer IceFrog announced that he would be leading a team at Valve" - so can this be a hint of a new game genre to be produced by Valve? Unlikely, I'll just stick with the HL3 theory.
Let's see what pieces of puzzle we have.
-It has to be something better than Portal 2 since they cancelled it and it was pretty much this years 'Fuck YEAH!'.
-It's not ep 3. But is it really a HL3? Maybe.
-It's not of much interest to PS3 and 360 crowd.
SOOOO... My guess
- It's the new SOURCE ENGINE! Fuck yeah. With new source would come new HL and CS. Seriously why they haven't released ep 3 already? They wanted to make it look fkin awesome. So cancel ep 3 and make HL 3 instead with all new Source.
Why it's of no interest to consoles? Cause they can't handle the glory of the new source engine.
-Or it's an entirely new PC-only I.P. Would be weird though...
Or what came about the 2nd DLC for Left for Dead 1? Wasn't it supposed to come out shortly after L4D2's?
Dammit Valve, stop putting tinfoil hats on our heads
Look, i won't hold my breath here and neither should you, but just something to consider here...
All Newell says is that it isn't "Episode 3".
What if it's "Half-Life 3", instead? Newell isn't above playing such word games.
Also, as I believe I posted yesterday, there's still the possibility that it's a new Half-Life game-universe title of some sort, but one that simply doesn't feature Gordon Freeman as the player-character. In the past, Valve has said they're interested in making games set in the Half-Life universe that go beyond Freeman.
Portal is just the first example... there's no reason to assume there won't be more.
I'm still betting its something Portal. I'm much rather concerned on how Portal will affect the HL story in general, since they are connected, but as mentioned it doesn't involve the console crowd.
DotA sounds like the most likely release, since thats the only game that would work best on PC.
I see a LOT of people are foaming at the mouth. I can feel it coming as well.
Mark my words. ^_^
Edit: This was my 69th post. Just figured I'd let everyone know of this special milestone.
- Steam for Linux (with Orange box ported)
- HL1 becoming a free/open source game
or... they will just show new update for CS Source that adds better graphics, achievements and many systems from TF2 (it's curently in beta)
That isn't going to be something as epic yawn-worthy by comparison as Steam for Linux. Wow. Common sense, people.
Counter-Strike 2 is an interesting notion, but I HIGHLY doubt that'll be it. Honestly, I rather suspect Valve is done with Counter-Strike. Valve has been very disappointed with how so much of the Counter-Strike 1.6 player-base turned out to be infantile little shits who recoiled at any changes whatsoever to their ancient game, as evidenced with their reception of Counter-Strike: Source.
As such, I question how much interest Valve has now in ever creating a true Counter-Strike sequel. A sequel will have to be even more divergent from 1.6 than CS:S was (drastically so), and the established player-base has emphatically proven that they're not agreeable to even slight change, much less sequel-level change.
That being said, I'd love a Counter-Strike 2. I just don't expect it to happen.