No New Half-Life This Year? (Say It Isn't So!)

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]thegreathuntingdolphin[/nom]I think the reason is pretty clear: Left 4 Dead 2. This is why I didn't want L4D2 to be made this last year. (I did want it made tho, maybe in another year or two. Possibly with a new Source engine). I want HL2:E3 so that Valve can move on to new stuff and then come out with HL3 with a new, baller engine. The Source engine will really be showing its age in 2011, and Valve will probably NOT use a new engine for Episode 3.[/citation]

L4D has a different team than Half Life does. So does TF2. They all ahve different teams working on them. My guess is they want to really blow us away. I mean EP2 alone left so many questions to be answered especially when Eli was about to answer a lot of them.

For HL3 there will be a new engine. I am sure of that. And it will be just like Source back in 2004. It will blow our freakin minds.

I don't mind Source just because of how its able to handle on many systems, can have updates add new features and is just easy to make any type of game in. Plus getting 300FPS maxed everything doesn't hurt.

 

[matt_b]

Last I checked, the episodes ARE Half-Life 3. The idea was to cut down waiting time on development and give us the next game in the series in installments of three. Properly, the next full game in the series would be HL 4, but it still sounds weird if an unknowing person looks at the game titles in a catalog and there is no "3" listed. Valve still has the best reputation from an overall averaged game rating, just a shame it takes so long to churn out what everyone is waiting on the most.....
[citation][nom]r0x0r[/nom]Counter Strike was a mod, not a Valve-developed game[/citation]
A mod, yes - developed and published by Valve.
I suppose that since games like COD:MW2 have a 5 hour single player campaign we cannot call it a mod then, right? "Mods" as good as Team Fortress and Counter Strike are good enough to stand on their own.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]r0x0r[/nom]Counter Strike was a mod, not a Valve-developed game[/citation]
Well in that case...so is TF2 and L4D and L4D2...cuz they all run as HL2.exe...you can call them mods but they are stand-alone games. Actually Counter-Strike is still the #1 selling Valve franchise (between both 1.6 and Source)...and if you look at the steam stats there really is no other competition besides MW2 which was only recently released. What's amazing is that the last Counter-Strike was released 5-6 years ago. If anything, they need to update that game, or at least continue to support CS:S with fixes....before they make another Half-Life game imo.

 

[Raidur]

Screw episode 3 we want half life 3 and a new revolutionary engine once again. HL2 engine was godly when it first released.