Valve Just Announced Half-Life: Alyx

16 responses to “Valve Just Announced Half-Life: Alyx”

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   snoweee

   November 19, 2019 at 10:28 am

   Good for them. A new Half Life felt like an inevitable impossibility for the longest time. It makes sense that they have been holding on to it to bhndle with new tech.

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   luke

   November 19, 2019 at 10:31 am

   Half Life… Ee, VR… Aww

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      kapone

      November 19, 2019 at 10:47 am

      I think it’s pretty much a guarantee that HL3 will be VR, and that’s why we’re waiting so long, because
      1) Devs and designers are still working out the ‘language of VR’, particularly for narrative
      2) Each HL game was a generational jump forward that set a new standard for all FPS going forward. HL1 was bringing proper narrative to FPS games. HL2 was bringing in ‘real’ physics. HL3 will be VR.
      3) They’re waiting on more people to have the hardware to be able to play it.

      My guess is that HL:Alyx will be Valve testing the waters and looking for feedback on how to best do FPS and narrative in VR.

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   spiland

   November 19, 2019 at 10:35 am

   Gives new meaning to hl3 confirmed

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   snoweee

   November 19, 2019 at 10:54 am

   Interesting to note: the entire Camp Santo team just removed all reference to In the Valley of Gods in the last 24 hours, also. Is it related? I guess we’ll have to tune in Thurstay to find out!

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   1. 

      aeongrave

      November 19, 2019 at 11:16 am

      This is definitely notable.

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   2. 

      astrogirl

      November 19, 2019 at 2:47 pm

      Damn, really? I wonder what this means. I was looking forward to that game.

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5. 

   akeashar

   November 19, 2019 at 10:58 am

   So is the punchline that it’s just HL2 from Alyx’s perspective?

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      terrywrist

      November 19, 2019 at 1:16 pm

      I’m expecting that.

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6. 

   poita

   November 19, 2019 at 11:20 am

   Half Life 3, a new Xwing v TIE Fighter game in VR there are games that are literally begging to be made that seem to be destined never to happen – especially in the Star Wars universe, why no ship combat game when it would clearly sell?

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7. 

   soldant

   November 19, 2019 at 12:03 pm

   Maybe my Vive will be useful for a change!

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8. 

   troutslap

   November 19, 2019 at 2:26 pm

   I think this could potentially be WAY bigger than just a VR game.

   Valve is steam, and its likely they would be interested in investing heavily in the Steam VR platform (which now is arguably highly under utilized)

   A massive genre defining game (think BOTW / Mario Oddesy for the switch) ie new Half Life (if properly done) could see people flocking to the platform and perhaps even springboard the platform to a new generation of games / tech.

   Or it could be a crappy on rails VR shooter……

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9. 

   troubletcat

   November 19, 2019 at 3:25 pm

   See the headline, get super excited.
   See it’s VR, throw it into the don’t care pile.

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10. 

    lawlorz

    November 19, 2019 at 5:31 pm

    VR? haha

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11. 

    chinesefood

    November 19, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    Valve is so bad nowadays.

    Just make a normal video game ffs. Stop screwing around with F2P and VR.

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12. 

    prettz

    November 20, 2019 at 3:32 pm

    I get it, they NEED to give it a gimmick because at this point HL3 pretty much can NEVER live up to expectation no matter how good it is……. but VR? hard pass

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