Half Life 3 is literally coming out in a week

Anyone able to link me a lore recap I can read/watch

>half life 1.5 the bowling alley arcade game
lol no

Bait so low quality it isn't worth the image macro

>Damn I guess PC gaymen really is dead...
On Yas Forums - NintendoGA, yeah, for a few years now.

'Campo Santo ruins HLA' meme is retarded. It was 13 people joining an existing company of over 300, as little as two of those actually going to work on HLA, which was an existing project of over 60 full-time members.

Embarrassing that people think this is real.

>“It’s not a side story, nor an episodic one — it’s the next part of the Half-Life story, in a game around the same length as Half-Life 2.”
>“While it does take place before the events of Half-Life 2, we actually recommend that you play through Half-Life 2: Episode 2 before you play Half-Life: Alyx, for reasons that will become clear as you progress.”
>Close your eyes, honey!
It's Half-Life 3, you willfully dense fuck.

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>Spinoff game
lol

Embarrassing.

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Based Sean dabbing on e-celebs

Campo Santo are small fish in a big libertarian pond
either the faggots get with the program or they can see themselves out

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>works at the cushiest company in the game industry
>still whines about it like a little bitch
literally pic related

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>VR

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The games are free to play until the 23rd. You can even play them all in VR with free mods (HL2 games require GMOD).

>Communism only works when I'm in charge, and I'm getting something out of it

>VR

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I own them all and have played them I've just forgotten large parts

it's not hl3, zoomer scum.

Seething poorfag detected

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HLA in one week, huge B&S update next month

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Sounds like a good reason to replay them in VR.

cope

>Half-Life 3
>VR gimmick prequel
>trusting modern Valve who hasn't made a game in 10 years and is still outsourcing this one

>“It’s not a side story, nor an episodic one — it’s the next part of the Half-Life story, in a game around the same length as Half-Life 2.”
>“While it does take place before the events of Half-Life 2, we actually recommend that you play through Half-Life 2: Episode 2 before you play Half-Life: Alyx, for reasons that will become clear as you progress.”
>Close your eyes, honey!
It's Half-Life 3, you willfully dense fuck.

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>half-life 3
if you're going by being a retard, then that would make half-life barney hl3.

what is this picture and why do i keep seeing it

Did I miss the deadline or something all the games are paid for me. I was going to go get the DLC for 2 and some of the old games I never played and I have to pay for them.

cock... sucking? mister freeeeman

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>Valve repeatedly state it's not HL3, just a return to the HL universe
Just to make it clear just in case anyone actually falls for this dumb motherfucker. Just because the game has a decent length for once (by vr and valve standards) and has EP2 spoilers in it, doesn't make it HL3.

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teleport only tech demo

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I know this "game" has nothing really to do with Half-Life 3, but why do people refer to Half-Life 2 Episode 3 as Half-Life 3?

Far too little far too late

t-tell me i'm worthless trash

Episodes 1-3 were originally supposed to be Half Life 3. That didn't happen, and with the lack of releases people just assumed they dropped the episodic format for a full on HL3. We were only half right.

>Only Vanaman the writer

Oh okay so the story is still fucked and will be uber pozzed shit good to know. Russel interrupting the mood with rapidfire Marvel quips every 10 seconds isn't inspiring any hope in me.

>Quips
The fuck else did you expect from the Portal 2 writing team? Russell is literally the new Wheatley.

This is based tho

>taking down his shitty games biggest advertisement
What did he mean by this?

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>Valve repeatedly state it's not HL3, just a return to the HL universe
Source? There is none. They've never called it a 'prequel', or a 'side story', or 'not a sequel', or 'not Half-Life 3'. What they have said, explicitly, is that;
>“It’s not a side story, nor an episodic one — it’s the next part of the Half-Life story, in a game around the same length as Half-Life 2.”
>“While it does take place before the events of Half-Life 2, we actually recommend that you play through Half-Life 2: Episode 2 before you play Half-Life: Alyx, for reasons that will become clear as you progress.”
>the next part of the Half-Life story
>play through Half-Life 2: Episode 2 before you play Half-Life: Alyx
It's Half-Life 3 in every way but the name and possibly in that way as well, for all we know (won't know until the end title card).

Leaked HLA screenshot of G-Man showcasing a weird glitch that points to Source 2 physics being to be a bigger deal than Valve has yet let on. Ever heard of game characters with physically simulated soft-body eyes, to glitch out in such a manner?

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store.steampowered.com/news/57848/
I'm still seeing the pale blue 'Play for free! Ends in 2 weeks' banner and 'Play Game' button on store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/

reflections are fucked up

>no shadows on dynamic objects

>Leaked HLA screenshot of G-Man showcasing a weird glitch that points to Source 2 physics being to be a bigger deal than Valve has yet let on. Ever heard of game characters with physically simulated soft-body eyes, to glitch out in such a manner?

Its just cinematic mod

The only devs that I see complaining about this are the ones that make story games with so little content that watching a playthrough is just as good as playing it.

Any story leaks yet?

VNN says somebody leaked the story to him.

But nothing has hit Yas Forums yet, and we're usually the first or second place to get them, just so we can shit on everybody.

He even betrays you midway through the game. His entire story arc is literally the same as Wheatley.

In the minds of most employees at Valve, it is definitely NOT Half-Life 3. The name Half-Life 3 brings up a lot of bad blood between employees. At least three major "Half-Life 3" projects started up and then died because of fights and disagreements over creative differences. If someone just straight up took the already complete HLA and said "Why don't we just rename it Half-Life 3?" tons of senior level devs would immediately kill the project because "No! This can't be Half-Life 3 because (you're Alyx and not Gordon)/(we're still in City 17 instead of a new locale)/(whatever other reason how this game doesn't fit my personal idealized vision of what HL3 should be)."

What more of the story do you know, user?

He doesn't know anything.

Nothing viable. VNN probably outed the leaker to Valve, who proceeded to clamp down hard with lawsuit threats or something. Some particularly diehard Valve fanboys are even making up fake leaks in order to dilute any damage of real leaks.

That would only be possible if the leaker were under NDA.

Most people don't know that.

The whole thing about the HL2 Episodes actually shows how autistic some Valve employees were about lore.

As Marc Laidlaw explained in an interview after his retirement, in his own vision for the series, each full number game in the Half-Life series should be its own self contained story arc in its own setting. Half-Life was about the Black Mesa Incident, Half-Life 2 and its episodes was about the City 17 uprising, and any hypothetical Half-Life 3 should be a similar big jump in plot and setting. Therefore, the Half-Life 2 Episodes were in his mind not "Half-Life 3" but "finishing Half-Life 2." Several other senior guys at Valve apparently agreed, hence the decision to name them HL2 Episodes instead of HL3 Episodes, despite Gabe Newell thinking differently.

This is, incidentally, why HLA is not "really" HL3 despite being a sequel to HL2Ep2. Though Laidlaw retired, there are a few buddies of his still at Valve and still influential, and they're keeping the autism alive.

based

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Reminder that they brought back Wolpaw and Pinkerton as contractors specifically because playtesters loved everything about early builds of HLA except Vanaman's plot.