Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:38:43 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Half Life 3 _maybe_ confirmed? Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:38:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 45 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-l4VpXfdDKj+uiOM2X1sGexcDPj7JrwxY4SWx0jei/FOZPkDUNBP3W04iQ8Rv4pGuhJN6PB4Xs1rrbX3!Pt5tdaMOIK7bl3oJLcep+cNXJ1CBLoKoCaVUMZgULuwUYxaj7sAFOyXuLgKb7emP7TxLEqHe X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3020 On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:43:05 -0600, Zaghadka wrote: >Spalls? FFS, why god why? 'Cause it's fun! >No. It will be confirmed when it "goes gold." Until then, it'll probably >be in development longer than Duke Nukem Forever. Tea leaves are so many >degrees removed from a product that we may as well not say. In fairness to Valve, I doubt this is true. Or rather, I don't think that --if "Half Life 3" is ever released-- the development of the version we see won't be that long. Sure, there will have been numerous previous attempts but I doubt any of that work will carry over to the final project. One of DNF's biggest problems (well, maybe aside from Randy Pitchford ;-) was that it was one extremely prolonged development cycle, and ideas and assets that seemed good back in 1995 were still being used when the game released in 2011. It's one of the reasons that game felt so old and out of touch; it was designed for a completely different audience. [Side note: Duke Nukem Forever's development period was 14 years, from 1997 to 2011. It's been 14 years since the game released. It's now been a running joke as a REAL game as long as it had been a running joke of a game still in development.] But I don't think that Half Life 3, if it were ever released, will suffer from this fate, if only because the only way Valve games get released if they can compel the attention of its employees long enough to keep working on it. A game that was started back in 2007 probably wouldn't be able to do that. Not that we know one way or the other. It's all fruitless guessing. But what else are we gonna talk about here on c.s.i.p.g.action? I mean, I guess I could go on about the Truck Driving Simulator games again. Would you prefer that instead? ;-) >Ahaha! We used to talk about gold masters. Peppridge Farm remembers.