No episode 3 @ e3

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Good lord man. Does it bother anyone else that valve can put out 2 left 4 dead games in between episode 2 and 3.

I mean give us a screen shot or somethin. A simple yes thats still a game will do at this point right. just wondering if

anyone else notice/is bothered by it.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Post by Pibo47 (1,737 posts) See mini bio

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It really bothered me that there was a lacking of ep.3. Especially since the Half-life series is my all time favorite.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Post by Ahmad_Metallic (2,473 posts) See mini bio

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yes we need that part already goDDAMNITTTTTTT

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Judging from the fans' reactions to Valve announcements at the moment I don't think they deserve anything. They'd only whinge how it isn't free.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Usually the longer a game takes to come out with Valve the better it is, much to the annoyance of fans.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Left 4 Dead is developed by a different team within valve, so it's not that L4D 2 is detracting from HL3:ep3's development time. And it doesn't surprise me that episode 3 wasn't at E3, Valve are notorious for taking their time over their games.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@MattyFTM said:

" Left 4 Dead is developed by a different team within valve, so it's not that L4D 2 is detracting from HL3:ep3's development time. And it doesn't surprise me that episode 3 wasn't at E3, Valve are notorious for taking their time over their games. "

That's not necessarily true. They don't really have separate teams or positions at Valve. That's why in the credits to their games people are listed alphabetically rather then by their position.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@mracoon: Well they have already said, that there has been different teams working on each episode, so that the EP1 team ware making EP3 while EP2 was in development. Plus Turtle Rock made L4D, and probably (I'm not sure) are working on L4D2.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@VilhelmNielsen said:

" @mracoon: Well they have already said, that there has been different teams working on each episode, so that the EP1 team ware making EP3 while EP2 was in development. Plus Turtle Rock made L4D, and probably (I'm not sure) are working on L4D2. "

Turtle Rock were merged with Valve so they don't exist any more. What I meant is there is a lot of crossover between the people who develop the games at Valve. Take this blog post on the TF2 site for example, whenever another game is close to release other people from around the company help to work on it.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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I want to see it come out alongside L4D2 in a kind of orange box moment of utter joy.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@mracoon: Oh right, that I agree with.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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They didn't need anything at E3. I think that they will bring it out on their own, with their own event. No need to announce it at E3, it will probably be either at their own event or at the very least a more PC centric event (German Games Convention maybe at the earliest?)

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Post by CRiTE (9 posts) See mini bio

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@mracoon:

Very true.but at what point do they take to long and noone cares. Dont get me wrong valve can do no wrong as far as i am concerened,but a three year dev cycle.

i thing the general public might loose what intrest they have.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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yah i was a little bummed out about that ..they better do some awesome shit with all this time

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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L4D2 bundled with Ep.3 mebbe?

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@Absurd said:

" L4D2 bundled with Ep.3 mebbe? "

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say "no way" to this.

No way.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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I was a bit disappointed by that, yeah, especially since it seems way too soon to be bringing out a second L4D. I still haven't bought the first one, for crissakes. Hopefully the delay does mean we will get a superior product, but these days, not even Valve can be presumed innocent without proof. When we hear about Episode 3 though, I hope they'll have something about Portal 2 as well. Or, even better, a new IP.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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I just hope the writers can get out of the corner they have written themselves into, especially since Gordon is eternally mute. Seriously, If they actually make Alyx fall in love with a mute guy who is constantly wearing a HEV suit, I will laugh my ass off. My suspension of disbelief only goes so far.

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Yeah I haven't thought about that. Bummer :/

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Yeah, I thought they would give us something, instead of Left 4 Dead 2, not that I'm complaining, just my prediction list included Episode 3, not L4D2

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 3 is now becoming the duke nukem forever of valve lol. It will never come out. They are just going to release concept art every year and thats it.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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I'm not surprised in the slightest that Ep 3 wasn't shown at E3. Left4Dead is a much much muuuuuuch easier game to iterate on and if you watch the footage of LFD2 you'll see its barely changed at all from the first game which makes the fact it isn't just coming out as dlc all the more confusing, suppose a new 'box' to sell was prefered.

With every episode of half life valve makes massive upgrades to their tech and even when the game is technically 'finished' they being what they are will polish it for countless months prior to release. If you listen to the commentary of Ep2 you'll hear them say how much the game changed in development, the entire structure of the story was different at one stage. Their is also a strong chance that Episode 3 may become 'Half Life 3' and thus take a much longer time to develop.

Considering that I have played HL2, ep1 and ep2 more times over than any other single player games ever I'd say they can take as long making the next one as they'd like. It was something like 3 or 4 years between HL2 and Ep1 and even longer between Hl1 and Hl2. People need to just have patience. Valve will release it when its ready, most likely with Portal 2 and maybe another game.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@Lazyaza said:

"With every episode of half life valve makes massive upgrades to their tech and even when the game is technically 'finished' they being what they are will polish it for countless months prior to release. If you listen to the commentary of Ep2 you'll hear them say how much the game changed in development, the entire structure of the story was different at one stage. Their is also a strong chance that Episode 3 may become 'Half Life 3' and thus take a much longer time to develop."

That's a good point. I could see them waiting until they've made a breakthrough engine-wise to make Episode 3 look totally different to what they've put out so far. L4D did a lot of stuff right, but the tech was essentially the same Valve have used for the past few years. And yeah, I won't mind the delay at all if Episode 3 does turn out to be Half-Life 3.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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It bothers just about the whole Steam community.

DAMN IT! GIVE US MOAR HALF LIFE! D:

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@Snail said:

" It bothers just about the whole Steam community.DAMN IT! GIVE US MOAR HALF LIFE! D: "

YES LET THERE BE A WATERFALL OF ENDLESS HALF-LIFE RELEASES I FUCKING LOVE THAT GAAAAAAAAAAME AND EVERYTHING ABOUT ITTT

*caps off*

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @Snail said:
" It bothers just about the whole Steam community.DAMN IT! GIVE US MOAR HALF LIFE! D: "
YES LET THERE BE A WATERFALL OF ENDLESS HALF-LIFE RELEASES I FUCKING LOVE THAT GAAAAAAAAAAME AND EVERYTHING ABOUT ITTT

*caps off*"

Just one more game. ;__;

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@Snail: NO. more

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@Ahmad_Metallic: So that they abuse the franchise until it's crap? I say one would give it a proper ending.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@Insectecutor said:

" I want to see it come out alongside L4D2 in a kind of orange box moment of utter joy. "

I wish they did a The Oranger Box / The Orange Box 2 / The Blue Box.

A Ep.3, Portal 2, and L4D2 Bundle would Rock

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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@MattyFTM said:

" Left 4 Dead is developed by a different team within valve, so it's not that L4D 2 is detracting from HL3:ep3's development time. And it doesn't surprise me that episode 3 wasn't at E3, Valve are notorious for taking their time over their games. "

Untrue. When you work at Valve, you get to work on any game you want. I suppose nobody wants to work on Episode 3, I don't blame them. I'd rather play online with friends, in TF2 and L4D, then by myself with robots in Half Life.

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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