Half Life: Alyx Reveal Trailer. G Man!

I still hold a grudge to this day. Can't say I'll give it a shot but if the reception is well receive, I'll look into it.

The best thing Gabe can do is say that if this sells well he'll use the funds to make a proper Half Life game. Watch it sell by the shit ton and then say it didn't match sales expectations a year later, and officially announce HL3 as dead.

That would be the best troll ever :)

Because this is Valve and this is how they feel the series should be treated, and I'm glad. I'd much rather have a title that can push things forward.

And I suppose nothing else does. HL3 is the most anticipated game there has ever been.

It sounds like a bullshit excuse if that is indeed the only way they will make the game. It is hard as hell to have something revolutionary these days. Gaming is no longer in its infancy. There are so many games from so many developers. Many people have tried different things. It is about evolution and iteration these days. To hold out on a story driven series just because they can't come up with another revolutionary game is silly.

VR is great hopefully this game will turn out good and more people will try VR because of it.

Being a massive Half-Life fan, I'd be very curious to see what this is and how it turns out.

But being a VR game... meh.

Should be awesome on the Index. Can't wait.

Even I got excited only having played a little bit of the first game but .....

Duke Nukem Forever had its own hype bubble. As i have said earlier, DNF would have just been shrugged off as a mediocre Halo clone if it weren't for the hype bubble. Instead, said bubble was what caused the game to be panned as the worst game of 2011 even when games genuinely worse than DNF were released at that time.

Not with vr headsets it is not, frankly skyrim vr , fallout 4 vr is revolutionary, but these are just ported vr games.

halflife may be ported too, but halflife has one advantage compared to skyrim and fallout , there a good mixture of action and storytelling. Skyrim and fallout are rpg and in vr it can be abit annoying. It is really a lot less interesting in vr managing inventory, weapon and character setups,going to shops and so on.

Don't get me wrong, it's still amazing but you'd be suprised how many times you get into belethor shop and you're thinking, oh crap i have to go through this again. Same thing if you go to your house to store stuff, In vr I only pick up the bare necessities, I don't even bother with smithing or enchanting. In vr all these things become a chore quite fast.

The adventures are still amazing tho, so I have high hopes for this halflife game, I just hope they updated the graphics. I mean halflife 2 is a game from almost 3 gens ago and in vr those old graphics are a lot more disturbing.

Not very interested anymore.

I think it will be the opposite, this is like Valve pissing all over Half Life fans because none of them asked for a VR game, but a fully fledged part 3.

Duke nukem forver was a bad game simply because it was a bad game.

It had nothing to do with the hype. The game being in development for 10 years, disappearing off the face of the earth and suddenly releasing out of nowhere... who on this planet was hyped for it?

If what you are claiming is true, can you provide a source on hype articles, hype threads, just hype in general for Duke Nukem Forever?

Good news. It's not a remake of any kind. It's a prequel to 2 with 12-16 hours of gameplay.

This will age so terribly. When this game gets bad or mediocre reviews, you can slam me. But when it gets like a mid 90s score on metacritic, I win.

What does scores have to do with anything? you think the true fans who have been waiting years for HL3 will suddenly jump for joy if it sits at 90% on Metashitic? Maybe try reading this thread with your eyes open.

Keep trying as someday you may finally convince someone to give a damn about VR, today is not that day though :)

I agree with this.

@ghosts4ever: Because those two things are exclusively related :rollseyes:

Haven't posted on here in ages; good to see you're still posting the same pointless nonsense. Way to grow.

thats not nonsense. it true.

Valve has lost so many talent, abondon its fan and we fans were asking HL3 for decades and they keep silent for 2 decades nearly. then came up with some VR game that will be installed in theme park for tickets and attraction for casuals.

thats not how it work.

I have about 20% hope for this to become something worthwhile. I still believe that this game won't enrich the Half-Life universe at all, and I'm expecting some shitty VR demonstrator similar to that H-L 2 Lost Coast tech demo level.

Hope I'm wrong

Kinda feels like Valve are almost done doing small VR tech demos and now wants to create a new and more ambitious tech demo, using a well known and liked name like Half-Life in order to be able to sell more of it and their VR headsets.

Fine. Feels like a slap in the face to HL fans, but I see what Valve is trying to do.

Just a few hours now until the FPS genre is saved once again, buckle up tight kiddos.

I'll pass on it.

"A new Half-Life game has been officially confirmed!"

Yay!

"And it's a VR title!"

LOL

Valve should just assemble a team of Bioshock 1 devs, Dishonored devs, and Dues Ex devs to make the third game so people can stop talking about it.

The announcement is tomorrow

And here was me sitting waiting.

God dammit.

I think it’s 25h left. 18 GMT?

They can make a new halflife, but can’t be bothered to make a countdown timer 😡

Yeah. Some outlets misread Valve's tweet. I was confused, too.

Yup, 18h GMT. Or 19h CET.

Bump

In next year. this game will fit in some theme park like other VR games and kids will purchase a ticket to try out for 10 minutes.

They are saying it's not a side story but a full fledged next chapter in Half Life universe. It's a good news because it means Valve is interested in returning to the franchise. If this is reality, then Half Life 3 will follow after it for sure. Looks good enough. I'm curious.

@pinkribbonscars: That first screenshot looking over City 17 is amazing.

Damn I wish this was getting a non-VR release too :(

It looks awesome and definitely like a single player experience we expect from Valve. The graphics look awesome too so this gives me hope that Source 2 engine games in the future will be lookers. Now I really wanna see a new Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress game on that engine. I hope they make a non vr version in the future or at the very least allow modding so modders can make a non VR version. I was expecting the trailer to get dislike bombed into oblivion but everyone loves it. This VR title could actually be a good step in Valve getting their mojo back on the Half Life series before making HL3 or any other spinoffs.

Watching the Combine ride Striders through the city in VR is gonna be one of the coolest things ever

I just watched that trailer, now I need to make sure I have a good VR set when this drops.

I'm intrigued. This looks really cool. Detailed physics interaction. Awesome presentation / voice acting. Interesting story setup. Valve humor. I'm into this.

oh good lawd. ten years of abandonment forgiven via a single trailer

except for the forcing me to buy vr bit

I'm gonna be disappointed if you cant stealth takedown Civil Protection by physically sleeper holding them during stealth missions through the apartments

Because that's what the series is known for. I think I said it in the past that if HL ever to return it will be for VR. No way in hell Valve is going to make a traditional HL game. Being a private company not hurting for cash, valve can afford to do what it wishes. This is precisely the reason Gabe left MS.