Half-Life: Alyx Official Thread

[Ricsow]

Half-Life: Barney when

 

[Rabid]

Not as good as OpFor, but passable.

 

[Ricsow]

Not as good as OpFor, but passable.

Ever played Half-Life: Decay?

 

[Kafe]

Ever played Half-Life: Decay?

that the co-op one?

 

[Dallas]

by this time next year im going to have a rust cohle apartment for my True (Detective) VR experience

 

[Kafe]

me, in my 4x4 feet "creativity cube" space

time to get a smaller bed for the sake of half life...

My plan is to trick work into giving me a room in the office for 'level design analysis'
Don't tell them though.

 

[Rabid]

by this time next year im going to have a rust cohle apartment for my True (Detective) VR experience

Dallas VRing his perfect room to escape his japanese-tier cube

 

[Dallas]

gamer girls coming back with me going to be treated to this sight:

absolutely premium vr setup

 

[Rabid]

gamer girls coming back with me going to be treated to this sight:

absolutely premium vr setup

"Don't mind the mess love, just got the VR set up"

 

[Blackquill]

gamer girls coming back with me going to be treated to this sight:

absolutely premium vr setup

One of those vile creatures who uses piss bottles...

 

[Megafreak]

gamer girls coming back with me going to be treated to this sight:

absolutely premium vr setup

i can smell the grease off that bed

 

[MaXenzie]

gamer girls coming back with me going to be treated to this sight:

absolutely premium vr setup

i love a good ankle breaker on the floor at all times

 

[Dallas]

>normal vidya just isnt getting me hype anymore friends
>i wish i could return to the cave and be content again

 

[Flanders]

tfw valve thinks people that've been kidnapped and are currently enroute to a secondary location will be able to play this game

you never wanna let them take you to the secondary location

 

[Angel]

I'm a bit concerned about the game
Like, even if the game is a 9.9/10, people aren't going to be satisfied
Even though pokemon re-used animation trash (or literally nearly every new, incomplete game) is 60euros and this game is 45 euros

Even if the game is 10/10, people will still be upset, because half-life is associated with innovation, it feels like the bar is so massively high for this compared to any other game that it'll be quite hard to do, and even if the game by itself is amazing, I think some will be disappointed

then there's those guys who will say it's amazing even if it's shit cause half-life

 

[`impulse]

I'm a bit concerned about the game
Like, even if the game is a 9.9/10, people aren't going to be satisfied
Even though pokemon re-used animation trash (or literally nearly every new, incomplete game) is 60euros and this game is 45 euros

Even if the game is 10/10, people will still be upset, because half-life is associated with innovation, it feels like the bar is so massively high for this compared to any other game that it'll be quite hard to do, and even if the game by itself is amazing, I think some will be disappointed

then there's those guys who will say it's amazing even if it's shit cause half-life

That's talked about for like half this video


Smart move not to name it Half-Life 3, but it's not going to be THAT effective at subduing expectations. They did this to themselves by not releasing another HL game after the last one was such a huge cliffhanger and teasing HL3 for a retarded amount of time

 

[alex]

Reminder that although Valve say that if HL:A does well they will continue making Half-Life games, EP2 did well and they stopped anyway despite high demand for more; the market didn't go away, they just didn't bother.

 

[Baker]

Reminder that although Valve say that if HL:A does well they will continue making Half-Life games, EP2 did well and they stopped anyway despite high demand for more; the market didn't go away, they just didn't bother.

I think it’s more of an innovation thing, with Half-Life you proved you can have a really good FPS with a really good story, Half-Life 2 had all this including how having a really good physics engine can have positive impacts on gameplay. And now with VR getting to the point of decent interaction this is the next innovation point.

When a bunch of articles talk about this sort of section I perceive it as a ‘If this goes well we’ll make another entry to the series using this innovation, if it’s not then back to the drawing board’.

 

[alex]

I think it’s more of an innovation thing, with Half-Life you proved you can have a really good FPS with a really good story, Half-Life 2 had all this including how having a really good physics engine can have positive impacts on gameplay. And now with VR getting to the point of decent interaction this is the next innovation point.

When a bunch of articles talk about this sort of section I perceive it as a ‘If this goes well we’ll make another entry to the series using this innovation, if it’s not then back to the drawing board’.

I think it's more that they couldn't handle the pressure and failed to deliver Episode 3 which they said was coming within the 6 months after Episode 2. I dislike them saying that they will make more if there's demand when they had the demand before and just stopped, it's a shitty way to get your customers to buy the product.

 

[Ricsow]

Don‘t know if this is a Design Choice or a teaser for the next Half-Life but on the Half-Life website, there‘s a free spot on the games bar.