Well apparently Valve has stated that they have “no idea” what to do with Half-Life 3. What you guys think?
https://gamingbolt.com/no-idea-what-were-going-to-do-for-half-life-3-valves-new-years-resolution
https://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/entertainment/62701-valve-admits-it-has-no-idea-on-half-life-3
Seems that section was pretty much a joke section. That Valve mentioned it at all (if those quotes are actually from developers and not just the writers making things up to sound like the developers) is pretty weird though.
Confirmed https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/03/gabe-newell-on-what-makes-valve-tick/
‘So, if somebody becomes the group manager of X, they’re going to really resist it when X is not what you want to do in the next round of games. You don’t want them to sort of burrow into that – you want them to recognize that being really good at Half-Life level design is not as nearly as valued as thinking of how to design social multi-player experiences. You’ve had them feel like they have an organization and title tied up to something when the key is to just continue to follow where the customers are leading.’
‘When we started out we were a single-player video game company that could have been really successful just doing Half-Life sequel after Half-Life sequel, but we collectively said let’s try to make multi-player games even though there’s never been a commercial successful multi-player game.’
There you have it all HL fans, from Gabe himself. Happy now?
As usual, I’d take it with a gargantuan grain of salt.
What are the other quotes in the section? As stated, it kinda seems like it might have been jokes.
As for Dotard’s quote, I may just not be reading too well, but I fail to see the relevance.
Isn’t in white on black? Half-Life and singleplayer games in general aren’t their priority.
I read it. It sounds historical rather than new information. Gabe appears to have been talking about decentralization and what the company was like before the advent of Steam.
@dotard What he really said is that Valve employees choose what to do with their time, which may or may not include things we don’t know about.
So he didn’t actually say anything
As usual
The context is, we haven’t had a HL game for over 6 years now, so it’s not a wise choice of words, especially with a horde of furious fans around about to break. You believe he is talking from the past point of view, in my opinion he just indirectly said what’s on his mind. They don’t want to be a singleplayer only company, that’s understandable, but it sounds like “social online” is much more important to them and I don’t like that. We have had enough of “social online” since EP2 came out but just one SP game (Portal 2).
If they really want to go that route, then they should just do an MMO instead of doing “Dlc to a brainless zombie shooter as a full game number 2” “Source remake of Source remake of a mod to Half-Life” and “Source remake of a mod turned into game, taken from Blizzard’s game”
Like come on, when I hear Valve I want big revolutionary things, there’s nothing special about CS:GO, Dota 2 (there’s plenty of MOBA games around) and what could there be about Left 4 Dead 3 that hasn’t been done already?
What happened to “raising the bar” ?
/rant over
You make it sound as if Valve has been releasing garbage lately. Just because a few releases haven’t been the extraordinary we expect from Valve doesn’t discount that those games in and of themselves were great (dunno about DoTA2, though player numbers say a lot). It would seem to me that Valve has a) Multiple insanely popular and fun multiplayer games, and b) occasional fucking amazing singleplayer games. You don’t honestly expect them to push out “revolutionary” every year, do you?
Nevertheless, I still don’t see what that has to do with HL3 in terms of info. We’ve known they didn’t want to be a singleplayer only company for a while now. IIRC back when Portal 2 came out they already said that. But the connection is indirect at best.
Really, he didn’t say anything of the kind Dotard. He spent a lengthy article talking about how open and free their company structure is, how has diffuse decision making processes (i.e. not hierarchical, not centralized, not from the top down). Which means that Newell has much less insight into what’s happening at Valve than you might expect, has much less weight in deciding what is being worked, if any.
In other words, the entire article was about the fact that it’s impossible to make any guarantees, to give use any black on white information about what’s being worked on, what will be released.
So yeah, you missed the entire point because you’re reading what you want to read.
All the while, we know Gabe is the ultimate troll.
Well, there’s the steambox, isn’t there?
I think I’m with the article in that this is probably not HL3 related, but more about their hardware. Unless they completely pull the rug out from under us, but really, how likely do you think that is?
I would say there is a 90% of chance that would be their hardware IMO. Which probably regards to more SteamOS, Steam Machine and the Steam Controller info they’ll probably revealed on the press conference.
Can anyone please tell me how many hours from now the CES starts?
As anticipated, and sadly, not a peep about HL3 or the Source 2 engine.
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