A “Half-Life: 3” poster has been spotted at Gamescom. But don’t get excited just yet! This isn’t for Valve’s long overdue sequel. It’s for some world-class trolling.
[Image: Aoife Wilson | Eurogamer]
Some A++ trolling going on at the entrance to Gamescom this year. pic.twitter.com/yXBOZAaPBJ
— Aoife Wilson (@AoifeLockhart) August 16, 2016
Spotted by Eurogamer, the poster doesn’t actually read “Half-Life 3”, but rather, “Half-Life: 3” and under that in smaller text “Editors Who Played It Back Then”. So, the the three refers to the number of editors!
@orphandroid @AoifeLockhart Nah, it’s not a :3, it’s “Half-Life:” and “3 editors who played it back then”. The 3 belongs to the editors.
— Kristin Knillmann (@kristinthefox) August 16, 2016
At the bottom of the poster, there are the logos of German sites Giga Games and Spieletipps.
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19 responses to “Trolling Gamescom With ‘Half-Life: 3’”
Pffft, trolling about HL3 is so old now.
[Proceeds to put up posters for Eternal Darkness 2]
HL3 confirmed.
Seriously, Half Life is so old now.
Most kids these days have ‘heard of it’ in the same way they have ‘heard of’ Elvis. It is a thing their parents played…
I vote reboot.
3 editors played Half Life 1 confirmed!
Gordon Freeman: Crowbar Adventures confirmed.
EA Sports: Half Life 2017 – the free-to-play, class based mobile game we’ve all been waiting for!
Make it a top down twin stick shooter and I’m in!
Half Life Kinect!
I wouldn’t mind a Telltale Games: Half-Life
I am so agravated and enraged,grrrmmmmmffff!
[Hands @chedruid a box apparently containing HL:3 from a parallel universe where Value didn’t become obsessed with hats.]
[Box turns out to contain a copy of Daikatana from the current universe.]
SUCK IT DOWN!
Yeah, you can say that ….. you’re the one I get these games from to troll others.
😛
Bismarck seems to be the only none sequel
I’m more excited about that Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 poster.
Screw that, where’s TimeSplitters 4?
Still holding out for Banjo-Kazooie Threeie, here.
Imagine if Valve were actually going to announce hl3 at gamescom. It would make sense – now that VR is here, it could use a good and unique implementation of it to give the “wow” factor of advancing game design that each half-life game has done in the past. Also remember episide 2 was first heavily demonstrated at gamescom “back in the day”.
I want to believe. So badly 🙁
As a Sci-fi nerd I always thought Half Life was overrated. The game mechanics and story were really nothing special.