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If HL3 is announced tomorrow I will eat a banana.
I actually got a banana in my fridge just for that purpose.
Honestly I’d rather have a new game from any of Valves other game series before Half Life, Portal 3, TF3, Left For Dead 3. Deadlock already is kind of their honest attempt at TF3 by combining MOBAs with Overwatch. I always wished that Valve had taken a more direct interest in the games that came from Half Life mods. Really what Im saying is I wish Valve would make NMRIH 2 good.
3·8 hours agoAre you re-uploading the same image for each new comment? It is probably better to copy paste the old image markdown, which means it will load faster for people (cached)
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘵. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.
Good idea, I also went and lowered the resoloution (56k Warning!) Im not sure I’ll keep it up for that long though I’m not a very frequent poster but your signature just got me nostalgic for the complete
type shit you would see in signature banners.
good suggestion, but I would really hope that the system would use hashes to notice that two uploads are identical and alias the physical blocks… it’s not even technically that difficult
That’s a good idea, but still transferring those blocks is a waste of bandwidth.
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘵. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.
yeah it defeats caching which is the bigger problem when you multiply by lots of users, not diskspace
I couldn’t get into Deadlock because absolutely none of the characters are appealing to me. There is nobody I want to be and identify with which is a core part of how I choose characters in basically any game.
The aesthetic just doesn’t work for me. It’s too… gritty? realistic? Brown? idk how to describe it. I had the same issue with Concord. The proportions are right in the uncanny valley for me.
TF2 and OW both really work for me, they’re cartoony in just the right way. Same for Valorant. But the only one of those with gameplay that I like is TF2.
I only played a couple rounds, but the whole moba/tf2 gameplay loop just feels so dated and one-sided now too. I don’t want to get stuck into a 20 minute losing game where my teammates scream obscenities and refuse to swap roles
Exactly! If I can’t have a Burly Beast, Medimedes and BINOCOLUS! painted in An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge™ medic then what’s even the point?
Yes, except for me it’s like, Mercy/Juno type characters. I don’t enjoy being some masculine femme fatale or hyper ultra murder man, I like feminine characters. Valve has women in Deadlock but they’re all written to fit a certain concept of power fantasy killing machine and I just do not vibe with that. Give me Princess Peach, Samus, Yoshi or Inklings any day over these edgy murderers.
I think they’re writing well for the setting they’ve created but there is no room for cute characters in the film noir setting. It’s very limiting. The only feminine characters that are ever portrayed in this setting are damsels in distress with an erotic accent that are rescued by the male protagonists. I’m sort of fine with these characters too but you can’t make a playable character from that concept.
I’ve never actually played Half life but Winds of Winter has about the same probability.
Winds of Winter is absolutely 110% never ever happening. Half-Life 3 could happen at any time some random team in Valve’s flat anarcho-monarchist structure decides they think it’d be fun to make Half-Life 3.
IMO there have definitely been multiple attempts at HL3 but they’ve all been derailed. Like Half Life: Alyx was probably imagined as HL3 at some point in its development before getting turned into the Valve Index console exclusive.
Nah, they’re not gonna do a half life 3. They’re gonna do Half Life 4: The Search for, You Know, the Thing. There’s been an entire generation of devs getting their brains cooked by this shit for their whole careers now, and they’re gonna do the funny meme thing of being unable to say 3 in public until it stops being funny, starts being funny again, gets tiring, and then just becomes kind of impressive they’re still sticking with it.
Don’t worry, its getting announced tomorrow. Or by thursday? We’ll see.
this is that shooting game isn’t it
I’ve played HL1 and HL:Alyx but never played HL2. Maybe I should stop being an asshole and change that finally.
half life 2 is still very worth the playthrough, and is consistently a dollar on steam. I’m still waiting for a reason to adopt VR beyond Alyx, which is the only game I really want to play. Maybe some horror games would be fun, but eh, no killer apps yet.
It’s really good, even today. If you’ve kept up with linear FPS games that iterated on the formula you might think it’s a little dull, but if you haven’t played a lot of those you’ll likely still be impressed by how good the game design is.
Still holds up, and we still don’t go to Ravenholm.
