'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' (www.pcgamer.com)
from Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 13:40
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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary by Valve

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derpgon@programming.dev on 16 Nov 14:02 next collapse

At this point I am just expecting Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2

newthrowaway20@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 14:23 next collapse

Shame Ubisoft doesn’t feel this obligation to gamers. If they did, we’d probably only have 4 assassin’s Creed games

phoneymouse@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 15:49 collapse

Is assassin’s creed any good? Once a game becomes a franchise with a bajillion releases I just tune it out. Feel the same way about marvel movies. Maybe they’re good, maybe they’re bad, but I’m more annoyed that they’re trying to shove it down my throat, so I tune out.

False@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 15:57 collapse

The first one was meh, the second one was good. Haven’t played most of the others but people seem to enjoy them.

lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org on 16 Nov 14:25 next collapse

We ought to improve as humanity so we can deserve Gabe.

4am@lemm.ee on 16 Nov 14:29 next collapse

We’ve been waiting for so long that games don’t even remember Half-Life. It’s all “silksong copium” memes now lol

darthelmet@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 14:44 collapse

Clearly this just means that Silksong IS Half-life 3.

garretble@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 14:35 next collapse

“I was just stumped,” Newell said, sipping a drink on one of his many yachts. “Maybe I’ll get unstumped with my next yacht purchase.”

Overhearing the conversation, George RR Martin, sitting on a pile of money, quipped, “Yes, and I am thiiiis close to finishing the next book.”

Shiggles@sh.itjust.works on 16 Nov 15:00 collapse

How greedy of the man, to checks notes admit to not wanting to make a cash grab and instead leaving the series unfinished because they didn’t think they could do it justice.

BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca on 16 Nov 15:29 next collapse

Leaving it to rot for 15 years was far more unjust than a slightly less “revolutionary” game. And the concepts they show in the new doc are cool as hell! I would have loved to shoot at blobmonster! They just decided singleplayer FPS games weren’t as profitable, and that’s fine, I guess. They’re a company, they want to make money. But pretending they were somehow doing us a favor by leaving the cliffhanger for so long is utter nonsense. Especially since they wound up simply retconning it so the whole wait was pointless anyway!

Edit: y’all they literally said in the doc that if they’d kept working on it for 1-2 more years they would have been able to complete it, but they were more interested in multiplayer games and went to go work on that. But if you really want to drink the self-aggrandizing bs that Newell spouts, go right ahead

phoneymouse@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 15:51 collapse

His cash grab was steam, lol.

toiletobserver@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 15:59 collapse

Zero punctuation on the orange box. youtu.be/_dlEm_2ke8k?si=bsTqae8W64qKny93