Re: Half Life 3 _maybe_ confirmed?

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:43:05 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Spalls? FFS, why god why?

'Cause it's fun!

No. It will be confirmed when it "goes gold." Until then, it'll probably
be in development longer than Duke Nukem Forever. Tea leaves are so many
degrees removed from a product that we may as well not say.

In fairness to Valve, I doubt this is true. Or rather, I don't think
that --if "Half Life 3" is ever released-- the development of the
version we see won't be that long. Sure, there will have been numerous
previous attempts but I doubt any of that work will carry over to the
final project. One of DNF's biggest problems (well, maybe aside from
Randy Pitchford ;-) was that it was one extremely prolonged
development cycle, and ideas and assets that seemed good back in 1995
were still being used when the game released in 2011. It's one of the
reasons that game felt so old and out of touch; it was designed for a
completely different audience.

    [Side note: Duke Nukem Forever's development period was 14
     years, from 1997 to 2011. It's been 14 years since the game
     released. It's now been a running joke as a REAL game as long
     as it had been a running joke of a game still in development.]

But I don't think that Half Life 3, if it were ever released, will
suffer from this fate, if only because the only way Valve games get
released if they can compel the attention of its employees long enough
to keep working on it. A game that was started back in 2007 probably
wouldn't be able to do that.

Not that we know one way or the other. It's all fruitless guessing.
But what else are we gonna talk about here on c.s.i.p.g.action? I
mean, I guess I could go on about the Truck Driving Simulator games
again. Would you prefer that instead? ;-)

Ahaha! We used to talk about gold masters. Peppridge Farm remembers.