Waiting For Half Life 3

“If you know enough to ask the question, you know enough what the answer is.”

Many years passed, rumors, leaks, key employees who left Valve. Each year delude us, in a certain part by our own ambition and desire to continue with the story of Gordon, but were always rumors and it seems that Valve use the hype as an advertising tool, as it has also done HTC, in the trailer Vive where shown, Chell, the protagonist of Portal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Wq3SrRcS8

Undoubtedly Half Life 3 is the most anticipated game in history, to this day is raising expectation. Their previous releases were of the best games in history that revolutionized the game industry, so a new release is a difficult challenge for Valve but also another chance to gain ground and revolutionize the genre

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What is the truth?

My own analysis, I gathered official information in recent years, I could relate and formulate


Some of the important events after the arrival of Half Life 2 2004


Valve proposed the episodic format for Half Life series, (the idea was to launch an episode every 6-8 months, had retresasos again *, it seemed that Valve was experiencing and had doubts about their actions)
Episode one appears in 2006 and 2007 episode two which ended with an open end, thus the third episode was needed to continue the story

It was supposed to be the year of Half Life Episode 3 in 2008, starting from here begin speculation

In some statements Gabe Newell said his team has changed its way of seeing the video game business, leaving the episodic model to focus on the production of "games as a service." For example Team Fortress 2
Gabe said in an interview that the Half Life series also needs to expand its emotional palette, where players are scared to events, something we feel in the Ravenholm level HL2

then for some reason they did not develop or canceled episode three. They tried desarrolar with ArkaneStudios "Return to Ravenholm" A extension of Half Life 2 (spin off) as susedio in the past with Half-Life: Blue Shift
or Half-Life: Opposing Force. But this game developed etre 2006-2009, it was canceled

Another coincidence is that Valve employee he left and joined Arkante Studios
He is art director Viktor Antonov (who gave way to town 17) important in the development of Half Life 2


In an interview, he explained the reasons that forced him to leave Valve

"I left Precisely When They stopped making epic, triple-As, Which was Half-Life 2," Viktor Antonov Told Eurogamer. "Since Then, They Were episodes.

"Valve is a great place, but I'm interested in projects, not in companies.

Valve has grown into a much larger company "

"And what I really like about the philosophy of Arkane is that it is a small team, they do creative projects at risk.
And when I went to the valve, it was a small business.

They have grown up now, it's much bigger, and I am interested in a certain level of creative risk taking

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-23-why-half-life-2-city-17-creator-viktor-antonov-left-valve

Valve is conformist? They prefer not to risk with Half Life 3 , avoid the disappointment of the fans.
And satisfied with the money collected from Steam and their games online

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Valve has changed, today invest money in hardware and also has other projects in addition to their games .


But there's more

The Austin Grossman writer of Arkane Studios ( Dishonored ) , gave statements

He lambasted the characters in the saga Half Life

" I hate what Valve does with the silent protagonists , I find it incredibly annoying and really bizarre. "

Austin compare both games , criticizing the work of Valve and saying that Dishonored is above


Here we conclude , that between Valve and Arkane there is enmity. As it is possible to work on a game and then make these statements? Clearly there was a break

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Valve completely dominates the PC market and became a much more experienced company that knows not need to work to earn money, have experience and know what they do

To risk and launch Half Life 3 ?

At the moment I have no more information , but here everything is clear


Another interesting fact is that Valve announced the development of their games years ago before its release .
Therefore , it is difficult for Half Life 3 to be launched this year or next . Surely at least three years , or worse , not even this being developed and in this case will take more than three years, provided they have with the graphics engine

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So do not get your hopes up short-term