Episode 3 Discussion and Information.

Not going to happen. Deal with it.

I totally could, and HAVE done it with my bare hands, but I’ve long since switched to the AR3. Actually, they recently let me have the AR4.

You know, the thing that I’m afraid of the most about episode 3 (if there even is one), is that its going to be released in a different generation of games (quality-wise) and you’ll need a better computer to play it than you did the other episodes. This would somewhat disconnect it from the other episodes. Maybe they’re taking so long because they are redoing all of the other Half Life 2 episodes with newer technology or a newer engine. As long as there is uniformity, I guess I’ll be happy.

Seeing as how portal 2 is on the source engine, and looks fantastic, I don’t see why they’d be working on another engine. The requirements will probably have increased about as incrementally as it has for the past several games they’ve released.

Valve has said that they prefer using a modular engine like Source so that they can make gradual improvements instead of having to make a new engine every few years, so they’re gonna stick with Source. That way, they can update previous games to the latest version quite easily, like when they updated HL2 to the Orange Box engine.

Besides though, I don’t see why would they all need to be the same anyway. Episode 3 has been in development for years. If you haven’t upgraded your computer in that time, it’s your own fault. And if they’re “disconnected” visually I doubt many people will really care.

And you know that with Valve, if there IS any visual disconnect, it won’t really be disruptive, at least not unintentionally. The “flow” of their games is something Valve is INCREDIBLY attentive to, and one thing that they spend so long doing (since they have the freedom to unlike a lot of the other AAA-title-making companies). Any jarring change in appearance will be fully intentional, and will add to the context.

I think we’re fine with our computers, those will hold.
I am pissed about that they made l4d, l4d2 and now portal 2 before ep3, and all those didn’t even had a cliffhanger like this!, i mean, in portal you’re being dragged away, nothing special.
But EP2 ended like Alyx over a just died Eli, and you should get to antarctica to find the borealis, maybe find shepard!.
BTW, if shepard returns, they should ask for KrimstinYT from shepard’s mind to do his voice ^^

lambda in your last posts i am disappoint

this is when you should have stopped typing.

Lambda’s posts + lambda’s sig = me punching a rage hole through my monitor

Fan’s love for HL is like a wishful affair with a beautiful super model, you worship the ground she walks on, whilst she does not even acknowledge your existence.

But what I’d really love to see one day while finally playing Ep. 3 is a journey to the combine home-world, where Breen was headed. I bet THAT would be one freaky place!

Turns out it was Detroit all along.

So the Combine Overworld is mostly abandoned and decaying? I don’t see how that works.

Well, that’s obviously why they’re trying to invade other dimensions, cuz theirs sucks so bad.

There will be no shep, or glados or chell. Maybe a cyber cave johnson and possibly killing an advisor or hunter with a gravity gun propelled icicle tho…

there will be another of those retarded balance gravity puzzles thats for sure.

I hope they will show us a Combine homeworld, which is gonna be simply epic. Just remember when you first got in Xen.

I want ALL the beta weapons back. cept the irifle and ice pick. They were redundant.

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