Valve's direction

[ríomhaire]

As anyone who played both games will know HL 1 and 2 are very different.In HL it seemed everyone was against you and you had a desperate stuggle for survival but HL2 had you heading a revolution and you are a hero. Also note the name Aftermath is alot different from the scientific names given to the HL1 expansions, of course there could be an Aftermath of a scientific experiment but it really springs the idea of war and not science to your mind. I think that HL3 will involve a fully-fledged war with you fighting with troops against synths with really powerful guns (a good way of showing off physics without a grav gun). The grav gun was HL2's thing and I really don't think it will return after Aftermath. i also think proper war vehicles will be availible and maybe even loads of them in big battles. I think Valve is definatly heading in the direction of war rather than survival. Although if the reports of Aftermath are true it will be about just that.

 

[Shodan]

The gravity gun will definatly be in aftermath, it just won't be as exciting as we have already played with it and used it.

The way I see it, Half-life, the most ground breaking game of its genre and time, Valve want to do a sequel, so they know that it will have to be on a level in terms of hype and being as good as everyone wants it to be, they achieved this with Half-life 2, so I'm fairly certain (even though its a long way off) Half life 3 will be just as amazing.

Aftermath will just be continuing Half-life 2, the things that Valve wanted to put in Half-life 2 but didn't get time.

 

[Max35]

My guess for Halflife 3: 3-4 years. HL2 was plagued with setting up steam, developing Valve's in-house engine/physics system THEN making the actual game. HL3 should be using an updated version of the Source engine, everything else should well be in place. If HL3 does somehow take six years, it'd better be one amazing game.

 

[xzeox]

Yeah i think that By the time HL3 comes out the source code would have been stolen 4 times. (How the heck did someone steal the HL2 source code anyway?) -if its not called source code, correct me because that was the first thing in my mind to call it-

 

[AJ Rimmer]

But it does seem like Aftermath will be returing to the theme of HL1 of sorts. "get out of City 17" is just another "Get to the surface!"

 

[Sulkdodds]

Although personally I have a theory that Valve aren't being entirely straight with us and after you get out of City-17 it's going to turn into open Operation: Flashpoint style warfare with the Combine.

 

[G-Dub]

Although personally I have a theory that Valve aren't being entirely straight with us and after you get out of City-17 it's going to turn into open Operation: Flashpoint style warfare with the Combine.

/me drools at the thought, mmmmmm

 

[Shodan]

But it does seem like Aftermath will be returing to the theme of HL1 of sorts. "get out of City 17" is just another "Get to the surface!"

I loved that atmosphere of escape in Half Life 1, It was great to fight your way out, talking to scientists on the way.

 

[Insano]

Yeah i think that By the time HL3 comes out the source code would have been stolen 4 times. (How the heck did someone steal the HL2 source code anyway?) -if its not called source code, correct me because that was the first thing in my mind to call it-

Read 'The final hours of Half-Life 2' at Gamespot. Gabe states that a German guy had placed a program inside all the Valve computers so he could follow the progress of HL2.

Then Gabe found it out, and cut off all internet connections, the hacker got upset and released everything he downloaded until then.

 

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It's always who you suspect - the Germans.