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Rumor: No New Half-Life in 2010
by Chris Faylor, Jan 19, 2010 11:10am PST
While Half-Life developer Valve has remained rather quiet as to when series star Gordon Freeman will continue his crowbar-wielding antics, a rumor currently making the rounds claims that it won't be this year.
"Loose Talk has learned that there won't be any game from the franchise in 2010, and what will finally come out is still unknown," reads the self-proclaimed "rumors and scuttlebutt" column in the February 2010 issue of Game Informer. "Will it be Half-Life 2: Episode Three? Or will it be a full-on Half-Life 3?"
The last Half-Life entry, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, arrived in October 2007. Since then, Valve has described Episode Three--the final entry in the Half-Life 2: Episode trilogy--as "a more ambitious project" and teased "the next time you play as Gordon will be longer than the distance between Half-Life 2 to Episode One, and Episode One to Episode Two," later telling Shacknews "Freeman's not done...stay tuned for more."
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Why?
Because at this point - almost two and a half years since the last episode was released - the fact that Valve won't even confirm that episode 3 is being actively developed almost certainly means one of two things:
1. Valve don't even know themselves what form the next installment will take
2. Valve have decided to kill Episode 3 entirely and roll whatever story elements it contained into Half Life 3
But they don't want to confirm either of those things because they know (ESPECIALLY after their PR fiasco with L4D2) that telling their fans either of the above will piss them the hell off. So they're stonewalling us instead.
Yeah, it sure ain't the end of the world. But after, as i said, almost two and a half years, it sure as hell is aggravating.
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They're under pressure to releae information NOW, admitting that they're actively developing the project wouldn't change that one iota. This explanation makes absolutely zero sense.
As for "emo", I'm not the one who got so emotional over this issue that he started throwing around insults and clinging to the skirts of a game company in a defense that they neither need nor (probably) even want. I never insulted Valve, I never attacked anyone on this forum over it, and I even said outright that I didn't want them to rush it. In no way is asking for comfirmation that the project is going forward in ANY way unreasonable. Your response was. You're not Valve's Lancelot, so get over yourself.
There's absolutely nothing wrong about speculating on this topic, and if YOU'RE (as a fan of the series) not frustrated by the delay, then I can assure you with 100% confidence that you're in the minority on that.
Hell, the delay has become a running joke among even the most respectable of the gaming press. And while Valve may be a private company that doesn't have to worry about share prices, they DO have marketing, PR, and community affairs departments.
You've still done nothing whatsoever to refute any argument(s) I made above. So I'll let the rest of your ankle-biting comment stand on its own.
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