After all these years, would anyone even care if it was announced?

there are lots of dedicated autists who still care but no it wouldn't become the huge event it might once have been

Only if it doesn't require a stupid $2000 GPU to run decently.

>Portal 3 turns a decade old in April next year
Tell us your secrets, John Titor

after epistle 3? no

Not as-such. They'd have to play it like they did 2, and make it a massive centerpiece for some new tech nobody was really using yet.
When 2 came out, they basically sold it by non-stop promo of the gravity gun and other physics evil. Even the reviewers seemed to forget they were supposed to be talking about a video game instead of just the technology.

only boomers
zoomers don't give 2 fucks about the HL IP

>vr only
>graphically intensive
>no modding scene because it'll take a fucking NASA super-computer to run it
>no modding scene because it's FUCKING VR
>no multiplayer mods because it's FUCKING VR
>Singleplayer mods will all look the exact same because no random modder will ever be able to create photorealistic assets for the photorealistic game
>if multiplayer, will be dead because ITS FUCKING VR
FUCKING VR
FUCKING VR

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Yeah I'm not sure what they could do to make that happen. Maybe if they provided a way to seamlessly switch between traditional controls and VR for a game? And if they provided some decent modding tools to the community again instead of leaving the SDKs barely functioning.

Somebody said Valve has gone to from heavily supporting modders to basically saying they don't matter as much anymore though, so that gives me even less faith in them that they'll be able to get back to their peak.

i probably would for about 5 minutes
then i would go back to not caring about video games anymore because i grew older

Yes. Though I'm wary they don't still "get" the series.

I want a true Half-Life 3 and not Half-Life 2 Episode 3

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VAAAALVEE!!!

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poor (you)

this
Valve had the most perfect release laid out for them, if they had released HL3 between 2008-2013 when the hype was at crazy levels and HL3 was almost becoming a legend, it would've sold like hell
I do think that the amount of hype would be a challenge to live up to, though

>I do think that the amount of hype would be a challenge to live up to, though
I don't think there was really anything available that would warrant a full HL sequel. People were really impressed with the physics, lighting, and face animations in HL2 but I can't see them topping that without trying to move into VR. If HL3 just had slightly better physics/textures/lighting I think it would've been a disappointment.

also releasing HL3 with CS:GO would've made them insane amounts of money, plus it would've kept the "tradition" of new HL + CS like with Source
>release super hyped game
>monetize skins in the other hyped game
>cash rolls in

true, but at that time most people seemed to care about the story, and I think it would've still been positively recieved for the most part

I'll never not be mad about this

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But that was 2 years ago, HL:A was in development. Why would Epistle 3 be released in spite if something great was coming out of Valve?

>true, but at that time most people seemed to care about the story
I don't really remember too many people caring about the story as much desu, most people I knew went through the campaign and were impressed by the technical achievements and then just moved on to the multiplayer games. It was only after EP2 sitting on a cliffhanger for so long that I noticed more people saying the story was an important part of the games but it never really was before.

poorfag. after playing alyx you can see the direction they're going in. HL3 would focus far more on combat and avoiding damage than alyx did. kind of like doom but in VR. if alyx made you feel like a hacker/looter/tech character then HL3 will make you feel free

there's a huge modding scene for alyx and the tools just came like like last month the fuck are you on about

half life 3 would have a ton of g-man related shit in it. in fact it wouldn't even have combine as enemies it would be something else. so what you end up getting is an entirely new setting with a new set of enemies designed around VR gameplay, with the old nuances and mechanics adapted to it. a true half life 3

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its not about the money with half life (it really isn't. I do mean that) they make these games to push the boundaries of what video games can actually accomplish. what they did with HL alyx was a huge step forward in immersive video games and I can only imagine half life: gordon and half life 3 being on a whole different level

I hope so. We definitely need the tonal shift to be as dramatic as HL1's was to HL2's. What you describe sounds like it would be perfect.

no, it would probably be more VRshit anyway. i still enjoy old valve games like tf2 and l4d2 but i have 0 confidence in nu-valve