Reasons I think HLX (3) will release: 1. Alyx's release. Valve deliberately said multiple times that Alyx is their RETURN to the half-life universe. Without spoiling anything, the Alyx sets up a new half-life game that takes place after half-life 2 episode 2. 2. Leaks. Leakers that accurately datamined lines of code like xen_grenade and blind_zombie before Alyx was even announced (both of which show up in alyx, called HLVR when datamined), are now datamining new lines of code that reference objects like xen_gorilla and new physics/thermal simulations under a new project called HLX. Valve IS working on a new half-life game for sure, but will they actually end up releasing it? Probably. 3. Valve has been BACK and cooking ever since they released the Index and Alyx. Since 2019 they've released the Index, Alyx, Steam Deck, CS2, Deadlock, and Desk Job. All of these products are very good. That being said I wouldn't waste time getting hyped and reading too much into the leaks. Just go on with your life and it'll be here eventually.
The ironic thing is these leaks are actually looking real, and yet Linus is making fun of it and legitimately thinks Alyx 2 is more probable. Given all the evidence, HL3 is far more likely than a VR exclusive sequel.
yup, especially because it's valve. they always do new things with their games, especially half life. there's not really anything new to vr they could do, meanwhile they are probably doing some cool crazy stuff on the flatscreen version (they could have that stuff in the vr version also obvioulsy, but there's no reason to when it's not vr exclusive )
go down the wormhole with me The tweet with the gman voice had a background panning across a picture The picture is of the art for a song The song is called "Best Long dog" Long dogs are used for shepherding Shepherd Opposing force 2 confirmed
I think the idea that Valve ISN'T actively working on Half Life 3 is far more absurd than the idea that they are. You don't have to be a dataminer or conspiracy theorist to figure it out. It's painfully obvious if you just take a look around. First, Half Life Alyx released, and the ending sequence of that game was effectively the most obvious "Half Life 3 confirmed" moment of all time. They even went out of their way and included a post-credits sequence that was effectively a bright neon "We're making Half Life 3" sign, Marvel movie style, so it's not some random story thread that people are looking too deeply into. It was very deliberately planted. Next, the Steam Deck Limited Edition released using the OG Half Life orange as the accent color, along with offering the original Half Life for free, a ton of new fixes/updates and a feature length documentary. The following year, they release a big update to Half Life 2 with a commentary mode and yet another feature length documentary. This isn't the 2010s where Valve shunned any mention of Half Life and acted like it didn't exist. Half Life is back at the forefront of their marketing. They're actively drawing attention to it and promoting it. They've crafted a new storyline through Half Life Alyx that sets them up perfectly to release a mainline sequel. This isn't some complicated web of conspiracies, it's quite plainly obvious. Outside of Valve just bluntly saying "Yeah, we're working on it," I don't think it gets much more clear.
Echoing Luke's sentiment that Titanfall 2 has a great singleplayer campaign. It's short and sweet, doesn't overstay its welcome, and keeps things new and fresh every 15-30 minutes or so
Based as fuck Luke I glaze the shit out of Titanfall 2 to my friends, bought it for them, and they still refuse to play it. I even tell them it only takes 5 hours to finish, it's not going to be a sour experience and if it is, it only took 5 hours away from them
@ Lol I had the same "probpem" with one of my friends. I told him a couple times why he would love TF2, and he refuses to play it because idk why. Guess the game doesn't look too impressive if you don't actually play it yourself? At least that's why I ignored it for years, until multiple people said how good it is
Y’all actually wild. If you look at the data leaks is so frickin obviously valve is working on a half life flat screen game. HLX has been mentioned countless times in the code since 2019
@@BigOuterHeaven yeah it should be revealed by the end of this month. I know linus cant read code or anything but if in a cs2 update is see xen creatures mentioned for past 6 years, its obvious that they are close to finishing it. I mean valve didnt care about half life 10/15/20th anniversary, but made a big update for the 25th one while for hl2 they did the update for the 20th one for some reason. its very suspicious
@@mum-your end of this month? very optimistic. i think that if release happens november of this year, i think announce will happen around end of spring - summer this year.
Continue and finish for good. This is a retirement project because the people who developed HL1 & HL2 are already old now and some of them even returned to the company just to finish the saga.
@@theinsertnameherechannel2432 Everything about this ending was very deliberate. The decision to include it was made last second and some speculate that HLX started development around this time
The leaks we're getting include stuff like the HEV suit, and Valve themselves has stated their opinion that Gordon should always be played on PC rather than VR
I also don't like that his evidence for a HL:A 2 is that the deckard is coming, completely ignoring the upcoming Steam Deck 2 and Fremont devices in development
Huh. I hadn't heard that they said Gordon should always be PC and not VR. I assumed we're getting HL3, or Half Life Xen or Half Life Overworld or Half Life Gordon or whatever they call it. But thought it would definitely be VR. Considering the main thing people said about Half Life Alyx was that it felt like Half Life 1, and we need a Half Life 2 moment for VR. Larger scope and scale.
They missed the biggest hint that HL3 is coming out… end of HL2 doc, Gabe said "I think that that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers to capitalize on Innovation and opportunities to build game experiences that haven't been involved previously and I think that there are no shortage of those opportunities facing us uh as industry right now."
Yes, and i think by now he realizes that their selfish focus on innovation was not what the players wanted. Pushing back a game several times because you dont find something to innovate where it shouldnt innovate, people wanted to see the end of the storyline theyve been so invested by. Theyd released episode 3 with all the same assets as episode 2 and people wouldve been happy, then they could start thinking about innovation again for HL3.
@@jeffboy4231 Do you prefer flat screen because you never played Alyx? Alyx was a experience I will remember my whole life. Such a great experience. Only Valve created such a experience until now. I would love to see HL3 as a VR game, but ill also take it as a flatscreen game.
@@jeffboy4231 I agree that most people would prefer a flatscreen game, but "Alyx 2" would essentially be Half-Life 3, at the very least story-wise. Saying "We're not getting Half-Life 3, we're getting Alyx 2" would be better phrased as "Half-Life 3 will be a VR title" in that case.
@@jeffboy4231 Valve employees have said several times that HL3 *_would not be VR exclusive_* but they never said it would not have VR. It would make a lot of sense for it to support both flat & VR, not in the least because this is something many games still struggle with doing well & it slots perfectly into what Valve has been doing both with the Half Life franchise ("set new standards") & with their hardware (they made good VR and Steam itself is king of flat gaming & now they also offer good 'mobile' flat)
@@Kryexe Well said & 200% agreed, when HL3 finally happens it will combine HL2:Ep2, HL:Alyx & Portal2 story beats, so "HL:Alyx 2" (or "HL:Barney") or even "Portal 3" would basically be HL3.
@@gloxost Not really, because you're supposed to play as gordon in mainline half life games, but Alyx does continue the half life story despite being a (mostly) prequel.
Data miners who I have more faith in than some random YT commenter have all pointed to this NOT being a VR game. It's a full fledged non VR half life game.
0:40 Halo absolutely changed FPS gameplay on consoles. The PC community may not have felt that change, but when you played Halo Combat Evolved back then, you knew something was different, and you knew it was going to set a standard for console FPS games. If it wasn't for Halo, I don't think FPS games get as popular on console
Yes, but they were trying to figure out what was most influential FPS ever made since their notes read Half-Life as the 2nd most influential FPS jokingly as HL is often considered not just most influential 'FPS' ever but one of the most influential games ever made.
The impact on PC in the end was still just as strong, just a bit delayed. Halo 2 invented the matchmade lobby based multiplayer experience, which became pretty much ubiquitous even on PC by the early 2010s.
As a Half-Life fan who's seen like 35 different instances of speculated Half-Life 3's being confirmed, which even it might be true theyre playtesting it but it does not at all mean they'll release it - I can tell you to only get excited once valve actually drops an announcement and a trailer by themselves.
Is the G-man actor which tags his post with Valve, Half Life, 2025 enough for you? I expect an announcement this year and if there is a hidden message it may be 16-17.07.2025. Also there is the 5th anniversary of Alyx in march.
I've played HL1 for the first time last august and I've pretty much enjoyed it. The only thing that bothered me was the final boss fight which was kinda bad in my opinion.
As true as it is that we're getting closer and closer to the Deckard being announced. None of the leaked code in source 2 points to a major vr game, let alone the code that's being cited as the leaked HL3 code. As for the remaster comment, they've stated multiple times how they don't plan on remastering their games, let alone Half-Life, considering the Half-Life Source port. And, if you watched the HL2 20th anniversary documentary, specifically focusing on the end, Gabe talked about Valve's regrets for not releasing Episode 3/Half-Life 3 sooner, and how in other media, such as the Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx, they talked about how they're no longer "Scared of Half-Life"
yeah i just really hope they don't get bored working on the game like they usually do
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Doom is not even the first FPS game, yet the media and ID Software often exaggerate its history when discussing their game, which is not entirely true. If we talk about influences, both Half-Life and Doom were inspired by Maze War, the first FPS game released in the 1970s. Doom only helped spark the FPS game development movement in the '90s, making Doom-like games very popular, but it did not truly innovate the genre during that time. The founder of ID Software himself stated that an FPS game didn’t need a complex story or gameplay, and three years after Doom, Valve, with their vision, changed that perspective and developed Half-Life. Half-Life truly impacted the contemporary FPS genre we see today. If we compare Doom's influence on the FPS market, which lasted for 4 years until Half-Life was released, Half-Life’s influence has persisted for up to 27 years. Many mechanics from Half-Life have become a "new normal," where even if you don’t know much about the game, you still know that an FPS must have certain elements. Do you think Half-Life’s influence is limited to FPS games? Look at The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and how it follows Half-Life 2’s development philosophy (using physics as a gameplay element). Even ID Software’s later games shifted their FPS development perspective, such as Doom 3 (influenced by Half-Life 1 which gameplay is not just about running and shooting; it is also the first Doom game with a clear storyline), even the Doom 3 expansion released in 2005 or 06 had a mechanic similar to the gravity gun, influenced by Half-Life 2 (the gravity gun in Half-Life 2 was leaked as early as 1999), Quake 4, and Rage. Even Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, and the upcoming Doom: The Dark Age, while returning to the roots that made Doom famous with the "Run and Gun" style, still incorporate elements that became standards after Half-Life was released, like story, gameplay and shooting mechanics. Therefore, saying that Half-Life is a less influential FPS game compared to Doom is not correct, as it has been proven that these two game series influenced each other. Half-Life was influenced by the FPS development movement started by ID Software, but ID Software’s later FPS games were also affected by the shifts and innovations that Half-Life brought to the genre. Both games have had an equal impact.
@@thatgreenfur6584 Are you kidding? When was the last time you played it? It is a fantastic upgrade from the original half life 1, not to mention it actually did better on the xen levels than half life 1 ever did, adding actual new content and an additional 4 hours of gameplay more than what the original one offered. The Xen levels were fantastically well done. The fight you have with that big spider monster on 4 legs... I forget the name, was way more intense and longer than the original one in hl1.
I dont get the point of being skeptical when Valve themselves openly talked about working on episode 3 in the latest documentary "valve doesnt make new half life games" But they literally were making one, and released Alyx...
Doom is more like the technological advances of the early 1900s in cinema like The Birth of a Nation (Minus all the racism). Half-Life is more like the Citizen Kane of FPS games, from here on out a narrative in an FPS game is now integral to sales. Nobody is gonna buy your game if there is no story. It wasn't that long ago that people like John "multidimensional being in human skin, juvenile delinquent and actual rocket scientist" Carmack said "Story in a game is like a story in a (po) rn movie, its expected to be there but its not that important".
4:00 I agree it didn't age particularly well but Black Mesa, the community made remaster is absolutely worth playing the modders really did an amaizing job there.
Honestly, if Valve is making a console AND VR, it would only make sense for them to bring exclusives to the table against Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.
Btw, for anyone who played Half Life Alyx. They are definitly working on some sort of sequel with the way that game ended! That ending confirmed they have renewed interests in going back to half life.
@@Jesse-2531Even HL2 with episodes feels good in VR.. All they need to do is DLC as VR mode, but I guess they will just make it free and use Decard conversion to 3D as a showcase..
HLX is going to be a real, actual Half Life 3. If you’ve played through all the games including Alyx, and you’ve seen the leaks, and the last two official HL1 & 2 documentaries, you can absolutely tell it’s coming. Valve has been cooking man. Steam Deck, Steam OS, Deadlock, Deckard, HLX. I’m so excited.
Not to mention the new "Ibex" controllers that's in files and the "Fremont", which will be something like a Steam console. In March the GDC (Developer Games Convention) is coming up. In 2015 at GDC Valve announced that VR is coming to Steam, the OG Steam controller was shown as well as the Steam Link box. Considering we are having a pretty similar line-up now, Ibex, Fremont and a new VR that's basically in it's final iteration, possibly being mass produced right now as I write this, maybe we will get Steam Universe 2: Electric Boogaloo?!
No other game gave me that goosebump feeling like HLA. You play the last chapter, save "not Gordon Freeman", which already was peak kino, you think what an awesome ending to yourself AND THEN THEY HAND YOU THE CROWBAR! One of the biggest highs of my life. That crowbar was a promise to us. They definitely are cooking hl3. It's clear to me. Does that mean that it will be released? No, it just means that at this point in time, Valve wanted to make hl3. Worst case scenario would be that it lands in developer hell and doesn't get released, but they were definitely working on it.
@@bikalimark this is when you get grabbed and the very last thing you hear is "protocol 3; protect the pilot" as you get chucked into the atmosphere lmao
idk why people think it's not going to happen. Gabe said specifically that the reason episode 3 was cancelled was he wants half life to be a game series about innovation and then said the industry is open for such innovation right now. Check out all the hlx stuff valve has been making. They've got tons of people working on an immersive sim that is clearly the next half life
I honestly think it is actually happening this time. Linus is wrong. There is too much smoke here. There was subtext on it all over the Half-Life 2 documentary. They said straight up that they regret not making episode 3 happen way back when.
GMan: Is it really that time again? It seems as if you've waited forever. Rather than offer you the illusion of a final chapter, I will take the liberty of continuing to tease you...
So I follow the Source datamining scene a bit, there are lots of references to HL-X, and We know a project called White Sands is being worked on, mention of a few HL aliens that we haven't seen since HL1 are getting work done, and they have a lot of dynamic temperature and variable surface simulations in the code, which is something they were going to use in HL Ep3, but it seems like they are expanding upon that and using it for whatever HLX / White Sands are. It might not release, but they are working on Half Life.
For context, Doom was really the introduction of FPS to the masses and was the first one with multiplayer but only really from lan. Quake made it possible to play deathmatch over the internet Starsiege Tribes helped introduce large scale maps and vehicles into FPS games. Half life was the first real modernization of the FPS genere, integrating story into the gameplay. Half life also normalized turning mods into future games. See Counter-strike. Team fortress. Day Of Defeat. The arena shooter age, 1999 - 2004 or so really, was a great growing preiod for FPS games. Quake 2, unreal. Unreal tornament. Quake 3. Etc Skipping ahead a bit, halo was the second modernization of the FPS genere. Helping modernize FPS games playable on consoles. There was FPS on consoles beforehand, but Halo did a great job updating the controls. Making it accessable.
Half-Life 1 is still great and I will accept no argument to the contrary. As for Bioshock? In terms of gameplay, sure. 1 had the best story, 2 had the best gameplay and Infinite had the best... Graphics, I guess. Personally I think Minerva's Den is the best of 1 and 2. If you haven't played it, do so.
Personally Infinite was the more fun one to me and I played that over a decade ago. I recently (last few months or so) played through bioshock 1 and 2 remastered for the first time and didn't really enjoy them that much. They're not terrible but not great either. They're ok games at best imo.
The Crysis campaign is the one I go back to the most. I use different mods to try campaign using different LODs, time of day, etc. I'm going through it again now, it's just such a good story and different ways to approach your objectives every play through.
In various datamines, there have been found things that hint towards HLX, including literally including the string "HLX". For Half-Life: Alyx, people found "HLVR".
If you actually watched Tyler McVicker's and Gabe follower's videos you would know that the leaks reference the hev suit, pointing to Gordon Freeman as the main character and it is possible that two half-life projects are being in development now - one in VR the other not
Wolfenstein 3d started the FPS genre, Doom started Online Deathmatch, Quake took it to the stars and helped with CPL or help pioneer Esports. Im a long time Quake Veteran of 24 years.
What the data miners need to look for is vehicles/moving sections. That would indicate a non-vr title. However, it could also be a vr and desktop title.
It’s been so long since I heard someone mention F.E.A.R. Such a good Japanese pyschological-horror game. I only learned about it because in Newegg reviews of GPU’s it was often cited as a measure of performance and FPS as a benchmark. The graphics still look good even though they’re so old, the textures lighting, reflections, and physics were so ahead of their time. And seriously, they had a CPU setting for physics… and you could tell in the game how the physics setting affected the game, it was like groundbreaking until time moved on to half-Life 2, Portal, and Crysis physics. But they really incorporated physics in the natural gameplay of the plot. It’s sad there isn’t a remake of it that would challenge modern computers. I remember feeling like I was playing a game as horrifying as the movie The Ring. It was either that game or the Halo C.E. PC port that got me into overclocking and 24/7 sub-zero cooling. Had an FX-55, San Diego core I think, ran it at around 0*F to about freezing. 3.2ghz usually but I think I got it over 3.5 just wasn’t reliable and didn’t have the 300-something watts to run it. Had to put fiberglass insulation in the case. Still had condensation and ice issues but back then the GPU boards had such big contacts and traces you could scrape off the corrosion by hand.
More recently, Valve has had a tendency to tie it's games to it's other products: "Desk Job" is basically a "get to know your Steam Deck" game, and HL Alyx was a tech demo for the Index. There appear to be reasons to believe that another Half-Life game is on the way, it it could easily be intended to tie in with either their upcoming VR headset, and/or with the wider launch of SteamOS 3.x.
- Its honestly 50/50 if its HL:Alyx 2 (or eh, HL:Barney??) or HL3 🤷♂ - Im still a firm believer of Q4 2025 / Q1 2026 (been a rumor for a few years) - Were hitting 5 year anniversary of HL:Alyx soon (23rd of March) and they did something for HL1 and HL2 anniversary, we might get some official word of HL3 (if they are actually making it) on this anniversary day
Just finished Black Mesa/HL1 for the first time despite finishing all the HL2 games like 15 years ago. Game is amazing. Music and atmosphere are top notch and I love the platforming and the AI. Bring on HL3
I don't know how anyone can look at Shapiro's post and think that it isn't happening I also think that hyping the upcoming release to the level that they have, and then it *not* being what we're all hoping for would be a pretty dull move from Valve, and given the response to Artifact, I would imagine they learned their lesson
It feels odd that Linus is the same age as me, has been doing a tech channel most of his life and has played very few single player FPS games. I can't even count how many I have. And a tip for Linus, play Black Mesa. The HL1 port to Source. It's a great update for people that can't handle the original. As for HL3, I think it's coming. The way Gabe talked in the documentary seems to me that Valve is seeing new ways to really innovate. With the newer hardware and tech, we have currently, I can see them really putting something interesting out.
I dunno. Im not gonna fall for this anymore until Valve literally says it DIRECTLY with a release date and significant in game footage with a proper trailer.
Whoever wrote it is actually right lol. The next Hal Life game is not a VR game which is known for a long time. The leaked files from other valve game updates show HLX files which are 100% for a First person Shooter.
You should also consider the leaks of a SteamOS console releasing, they likely need something to sell that one wayy more than their new VR headset. People know Valve made a good VR headset before, but they've never made a home console before. It makes a lot more sense to think that it's a non-VR game since they really need to show how far the console can go. Valve has also stated in the past that "they're not scared of Half-Life anymore". So yeah, I'd say it's likely. (Still won't get my hopes up in case there is no game, but it's possible)
Can I just emphasize that Titanfall 2 came out in 2016, still looks similar to current gen games and has an exceptional multiplayer as well (get the Northstar launcher, it has custom servers and mods too)
from Source 2 engine files added in other games such as CS2 referencing Xen, HEV suit, etc it is safe to say Valve is working on a new desktop Half Life game, with most likely Gordon Freeman, be it Half Life 2 Episode 3 or Half Life 3 now, the bigger question is if it will make it to release, but with the other evidence such as the hirings and the GMAN tweet, it is seeming likely
That does make sense as to why they'd have friends and family testing it. If it's VR based, have to make sure enough use cases aren't sick from the experience, works well with people of different ages, and eye types.
Doom is 1000% number 1 but there’s definitely a solid argument for either Halo or Half Life being number 2. Halo really did send gargantuan waves through the industry that are still felt today
Half Life 3 will be when Valve takes all their money and builds an actual portal gun, creating a rift and letting the Xen into our world. It's going to be so lifelike, you'll probably die of excitement... Or was it fear? .... Tomato, tomato.
![Half-Life 2 Mapping Scenario 2001-2050 [REMASTERED]](/img/n.gif)
Linus has said that we aren't getting Half Life 3, therefore Gabe will have to release it just to spite him
Wouldn't that be magical
That would be a massive troll
Half life 3 will release when Linus grows to 6ft tall
Leg extension doctors are laughing at you right now
Lets start crowfunding linus height extension
We'll get gta6 before we get half-life 3
@@NiTeHaWKnz Or Half-Life 3 before GTA6
@@vibaj16 nah i really do think its coming this time but it will take at least a couple more years i think and by then gta 6 will probably be out
i've always said Valve should release Half Life 3 for free on April fools day.
It's just a demo 😂
@@TheBlackRose666 what
That would be absolutely brilliant! We'd all think it's a joke, until we realize that it's not.
They should announce it on the April 1st
@@TheBlackRose666 that would be just too cruel... for every other developer hoping to sell one game this year.
Imagine Valve just dropped 'The Orange Box 2' featuring Half-Life 3, Portal 3 and Team Fortress 3.
The world would explode in a resonance cascade
and a Valve Index 3, completely skipping a second one
That... would be a Valve move.
"The Blue Box" and it comes with Left 4 Dead 3 and Dota 3
the blue balls box
Reasons I think HLX (3) will release:
1. Alyx's release. Valve deliberately said multiple times that Alyx is their RETURN to the half-life universe. Without spoiling anything, the Alyx sets up a new half-life game that takes place after half-life 2 episode 2.
2. Leaks. Leakers that accurately datamined lines of code like xen_grenade and blind_zombie before Alyx was even announced (both of which show up in alyx, called HLVR when datamined), are now datamining new lines of code that reference objects like xen_gorilla and new physics/thermal simulations under a new project called HLX. Valve IS working on a new half-life game for sure, but will they actually end up releasing it? Probably.
3. Valve has been BACK and cooking ever since they released the Index and Alyx. Since 2019 they've released the Index, Alyx, Steam Deck, CS2, Deadlock, and Desk Job. All of these products are very good.
That being said I wouldn't waste time getting hyped and reading too much into the leaks. Just go on with your life and it'll be here eventually.
Don't waste your precious time in here, they know nothing and doesn't care about Half-Life.
deadlock isn't quite "released", but i see what you're getting at.
@@hungrykidding True, but it was essentially released into early access.
Next Half-life game needs to be a VR game also. Half-life Alyx was to good a game.
@@skak3000no
The ironic thing is these leaks are actually looking real, and yet Linus is making fun of it and legitimately thinks Alyx 2 is more probable. Given all the evidence, HL3 is far more likely than a VR exclusive sequel.
yup, especially because it's valve. they always do new things with their games, especially half life.
there's not really anything new to vr they could do, meanwhile they are probably doing some cool crazy stuff on the flatscreen version (they could have that stuff in the vr version also obvioulsy, but there's no reason to when it's not vr exclusive )
yes we should all keep in mind valve time, but from everything we know it's so much more likely to be hl3 than anything else
Yes, I am disappointed by how ignorant and arrogant he was in that video. I'm not a Valve fanboy or anything.
@@maniacmark It's not surprising and thats not to take away from him overall. Its understandable
I think it's both tbh, because of the X. Two campaigns, one VR, one not.
Half Life 3: A Trading Card Experience
If Half Life was made by Blizzard. Am I right?
You've all got phones don't you?
Only available in the EU…. 😂
Wake up, dr Freeman. Wake Up and smell the packs.
@@garystinten9339 Yeah but mine's from the 90s. It can play Snake.
go down the wormhole with me
The tweet with the gman voice had a background panning across a picture
The picture is of the art for a song
The song is called "Best Long dog"
Long dogs are used for shepherding
Shepherd
Opposing force 2 confirmed
Let's go touch some grass together
Omg opposing horse 2 confirmed 😱😱😱
HL fan slowly losing their minds when valve releases anything
(i say this as a fellow HL fan who is losing his mind)
Linus's dismissiveness is just trying to throw off the scent. He's actually been play testing HL3
I’m blue shifting everywhere rn
I think the idea that Valve ISN'T actively working on Half Life 3 is far more absurd than the idea that they are. You don't have to be a dataminer or conspiracy theorist to figure it out. It's painfully obvious if you just take a look around. First, Half Life Alyx released, and the ending sequence of that game was effectively the most obvious "Half Life 3 confirmed" moment of all time. They even went out of their way and included a post-credits sequence that was effectively a bright neon "We're making Half Life 3" sign, Marvel movie style, so it's not some random story thread that people are looking too deeply into. It was very deliberately planted. Next, the Steam Deck Limited Edition released using the OG Half Life orange as the accent color, along with offering the original Half Life for free, a ton of new fixes/updates and a feature length documentary. The following year, they release a big update to Half Life 2 with a commentary mode and yet another feature length documentary. This isn't the 2010s where Valve shunned any mention of Half Life and acted like it didn't exist. Half Life is back at the forefront of their marketing. They're actively drawing attention to it and promoting it. They've crafted a new storyline through Half Life Alyx that sets them up perfectly to release a mainline sequel. This isn't some complicated web of conspiracies, it's quite plainly obvious. Outside of Valve just bluntly saying "Yeah, we're working on it," I don't think it gets much more clear.
Echoing Luke's sentiment that Titanfall 2 has a great singleplayer campaign. It's short and sweet, doesn't overstay its welcome, and keeps things new and fresh every 15-30 minutes or so
Based as fuck Luke
I glaze the shit out of Titanfall 2 to my friends, bought it for them, and they still refuse to play it. I even tell them it only takes 5 hours to finish, it's not going to be a sour experience and if it is, it only took 5 hours away from them
@ Lol I had the same "probpem" with one of my friends. I told him a couple times why he would love TF2, and he refuses to play it because idk why. Guess the game doesn't look too impressive if you don't actually play it yourself? At least that's why I ignored it for years, until multiple people said how good it is
Titanfall 2 is genuinely a great weekend game, definitely needs more love
@@fochti i too love TF2. Demoman is my favorite
Effect and Cause is amazing, the rest is kind of meh by comparison, but that's just because E&C is too good.
Y’all actually wild. If you look at the data leaks is so frickin obviously valve is working on a half life flat screen game. HLX has been mentioned countless times in the code since 2019
2019? Holy... It really close to release i think
@@BigOuterHeaven yeah it should be revealed by the end of this month. I know linus cant read code or anything but if in a cs2 update is see xen creatures mentioned for past 6 years, its obvious that they are close to finishing it. I mean valve didnt care about half life 10/15/20th anniversary, but made a big update for the 25th one while for hl2 they did the update for the 20th one for some reason. its very suspicious
@@mum-yourI dunno about the end of this month but sometime this year I think for sure
@@mum-your end of this month? very optimistic. i think that if release happens november of this year, i think announce will happen around end of spring - summer this year.
@@mum-your If playtesting goes well then it might be revealed by the end of the year
No, considering they retcon’d the end of half-life two episode two at the end of half-life Alyx. For sure they’re going to continue the story.
Let's keep this hopium brother
@@theinsertnameherechannel2432hopium? Did you finish Alyx and see the ending..?
Continue and finish for good. This is a retirement project because the people who developed HL1 & HL2 are already old now and some of them even returned to the company just to finish the saga.
@@lukebelvin4900 yes, and as much as I love valve, it's still valve, so we never know. I'ma be optimistic about it tho
@@theinsertnameherechannel2432 Everything about this ending was very deliberate. The decision to include it was made last second and some speculate that HLX started development around this time
There's not gonna be a remaster. Black Mesa is already there and HL2 RTX on its way.
yeah and on top of that valve doesn't do remasters ever
"Valve doesn't make new Half-Life games" is the silliest take to have when mentioning Half-Life Alyx in the previous sentence.
The leaks we're getting include stuff like the HEV suit, and Valve themselves has stated their opinion that Gordon should always be played on PC rather than VR
Half Life: Gina Cross
@@FrancoAbasto Didn't the other hev protagonists die in hl1?
I also don't like that his evidence for a HL:A 2 is that the deckard is coming, completely ignoring the upcoming Steam Deck 2 and Fremont devices in development
Huh. I hadn't heard that they said Gordon should always be PC and not VR.
I assumed we're getting HL3, or Half Life Xen or Half Life Overworld or Half Life Gordon or whatever they call it. But thought it would definitely be VR.
Considering the main thing people said about Half Life Alyx was that it felt like Half Life 1, and we need a Half Life 2 moment for VR. Larger scope and scale.
@HoneyTwee I suggest you read The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx
They missed the biggest hint that HL3 is coming out… end of HL2 doc, Gabe said
"I think that that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers to capitalize on Innovation and opportunities to build game experiences that haven't been involved previously and I think that there are no shortage of those opportunities facing us uh as industry right now."
I came here to say this, beat me to it
Also, that this was the very final line of dialogue in a 2 hour documentary, and then roll credits. It seemed very on-the-nose to me
Yes, and i think by now he realizes that their selfish focus on innovation was not what the players wanted. Pushing back a game several times because you dont find something to innovate where it shouldnt innovate, people wanted to see the end of the storyline theyve been so invested by. Theyd released episode 3 with all the same assets as episode 2 and people wouldve been happy, then they could start thinking about innovation again for HL3.
"We're not getting Half Life 3, we're getting Alyx 2"
Linus not realizing he's saying "We're not getting A, we're getting A"
well not really. alyx 2 would be vr. half life 3 would be flat screen.
i'd 100% prefer half life 3. and i think most people would
@@jeffboy4231 Do you prefer flat screen because you never played Alyx? Alyx was a experience I will remember my whole life. Such a great experience. Only Valve created such a experience until now. I would love to see HL3 as a VR game, but ill also take it as a flatscreen game.
@@jeffboy4231 I agree that most people would prefer a flatscreen game, but "Alyx 2" would essentially be Half-Life 3, at the very least story-wise. Saying "We're not getting Half-Life 3, we're getting Alyx 2" would be better phrased as "Half-Life 3 will be a VR title" in that case.
@@jeffboy4231 Valve employees have said several times that HL3 *_would not be VR exclusive_* but they never said it would not have VR.
It would make a lot of sense for it to support both flat & VR, not in the least because this is something many games still struggle with doing well & it slots perfectly into what Valve has been doing both with the Half Life franchise ("set new standards") & with their hardware (they made good VR and Steam itself is king of flat gaming & now they also offer good 'mobile' flat)
@@Kryexe Well said & 200% agreed, when HL3 finally happens it will combine HL2:Ep2, HL:Alyx & Portal2 story beats, so "HL:Alyx 2" (or "HL:Barney") or even "Portal 3" would basically be HL3.
HL: alyx 2 confirmed
Alyx was already 3
Would absolutly love it the first one was already Incredible!
@@JustFeral no?
@@gloxost Not really, because you're supposed to play as gordon in mainline half life games, but Alyx does continue the half life story despite being a (mostly) prequel.
Data miners who I have more faith in than some random YT commenter have all pointed to this NOT being a VR game. It's a full fledged non VR half life game.
0:40 Halo absolutely changed FPS gameplay on consoles. The PC community may not have felt that change, but when you played Halo Combat Evolved back then, you knew something was different, and you knew it was going to set a standard for console FPS games. If it wasn't for Halo, I don't think FPS games get as popular on console
halo made fps(hardcore gaming) family friendly mainstream!
family friendly alien shooting + cinematic blockbuster storytelling
Yes, but they were trying to figure out what was most influential FPS ever made since their notes read Half-Life as the 2nd most influential FPS jokingly as HL is often considered not just most influential 'FPS' ever but one of the most influential games ever made.
Halo: Combat Evolved was a great FPS game, but Goldeneye 64 set the standard for FPS games on consoles. Later Halo...evolved on that.
The impact on PC in the end was still just as strong, just a bit delayed. Halo 2 invented the matchmade lobby based multiplayer experience, which became pretty much ubiquitous even on PC by the early 2010s.
Amen
The people who say it's Half Life Alyx 2 are the ones who haven't played Half Life Alyx all the way to the end.
As a Half-Life fan who's seen like 35 different instances of speculated Half-Life 3's being confirmed, which even it might be true theyre playtesting it but it does not at all mean they'll release it - I can tell you to only get excited once valve actually drops an announcement and a trailer by themselves.
This one is different. It's far further in development than any previous attempt. I really doubt this will get cancelled
@@vibaj16 Exactly
Is the G-man actor which tags his post with Valve, Half Life, 2025 enough for you? I expect an announcement this year and if there is a hidden message it may be 16-17.07.2025.
Also there is the 5th anniversary of Alyx in march.
Half-Life 1 aged great; I recently played it, and it was so much fun.
He should checkout black mesa
Half Life 1 has aged better than any other game from 1998 that I can think of. 99% of PC games from that time are abandonware now.
I've played HL1 for the first time last august and I've pretty much enjoyed it. The only thing that bothered me was the final boss fight which was kinda bad in my opinion.
As true as it is that we're getting closer and closer to the Deckard being announced. None of the leaked code in source 2 points to a major vr game, let alone the code that's being cited as the leaked HL3 code. As for the remaster comment, they've stated multiple times how they don't plan on remastering their games, let alone Half-Life, considering the Half-Life Source port.
And, if you watched the HL2 20th anniversary documentary, specifically focusing on the end, Gabe talked about Valve's regrets for not releasing Episode 3/Half-Life 3 sooner, and how in other media, such as the Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx, they talked about how they're no longer "Scared of Half-Life"
Linus is on the cope train lol. I get it, he's heard it for nearly decades now but mannnnnn this is the closest we have come to it
yeah i just really hope they don't get bored working on the game like they usually do
Doom is not even the first FPS game, yet the media and ID Software often exaggerate its history when discussing their game, which is not entirely true. If we talk about influences, both Half-Life and Doom were inspired by Maze War, the first FPS game released in the 1970s. Doom only helped spark the FPS game development movement in the '90s, making Doom-like games very popular, but it did not truly innovate the genre during that time. The founder of ID Software himself stated that an FPS game didn’t need a complex story or gameplay, and three years after Doom, Valve, with their vision, changed that perspective and developed Half-Life. Half-Life truly impacted the contemporary FPS genre we see today.
If we compare Doom's influence on the FPS market, which lasted for 4 years until Half-Life was released, Half-Life’s influence has persisted for up to 27 years. Many mechanics from Half-Life have become a "new normal," where even if you don’t know much about the game, you still know that an FPS must have certain elements. Do you think Half-Life’s influence is limited to FPS games? Look at The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and how it follows Half-Life 2’s development philosophy (using physics as a gameplay element).
Even ID Software’s later games shifted their FPS development perspective, such as Doom 3 (influenced by Half-Life 1 which gameplay is not just about running and shooting; it is also the first Doom game with a clear storyline), even the Doom 3 expansion released in 2005 or 06 had a mechanic similar to the gravity gun, influenced by Half-Life 2 (the gravity gun in Half-Life 2 was leaked as early as 1999), Quake 4, and Rage. Even Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, and the upcoming Doom: The Dark Age, while returning to the roots that made Doom famous with the "Run and Gun" style, still incorporate elements that became standards after Half-Life was released, like story, gameplay and shooting mechanics.
Therefore, saying that Half-Life is a less influential FPS game compared to Doom is not correct, as it has been proven that these two game series influenced each other. Half-Life was influenced by the FPS development movement started by ID Software, but ID Software’s later FPS games were also affected by the shifts and innovations that Half-Life brought to the genre. Both games have had an equal impact.
Linus you should play Black Mesa, basically a full fan remake of HL1 but it's almost Valve level
That 'almost' is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Imo Black Mesa is... fine. But it still feels inconsistent and a lot like a somewhat unpolished mod.
@@thatgreenfur6584 Are you kidding? When was the last time you played it? It is a fantastic upgrade from the original half life 1, not to mention it actually did better on the xen levels than half life 1 ever did, adding actual new content and an additional 4 hours of gameplay more than what the original one offered. The Xen levels were fantastically well done. The fight you have with that big spider monster on 4 legs... I forget the name, was way more intense and longer than the original one in hl1.
I second this, it's fantastic.
Very polished remake.
It's a good game but it's a far cry from the polish and design of Valve games
@@salsamancer nah, I'd say it did a much better job than hl: source in graphics quality, and than hl1 in xen in content
I dont get the point of being skeptical when Valve themselves openly talked about working on episode 3 in the latest documentary
"valve doesnt make new half life games"
But they literally were making one, and released Alyx...
I mean linus only really plays mobile games lmao so on this topic he really is ignorant about talking about it 😂
Doom is more like the technological advances of the early 1900s in cinema like The Birth of a Nation (Minus all the racism). Half-Life is more like the Citizen Kane of FPS games, from here on out a narrative in an FPS game is now integral to sales. Nobody is gonna buy your game if there is no story.
It wasn't that long ago that people like John "multidimensional being in human skin, juvenile delinquent and actual rocket scientist" Carmack said "Story in a game is like a story in a (po) rn movie, its expected to be there but its not that important".
..and then he worked on doom 3. ate his words didnt he
4:00 I agree it didn't age particularly well but Black Mesa, the community made remaster is absolutely worth playing the modders really did an amaizing job there.
Honestly, if Valve is making a console AND VR, it would only make sense for them to bring exclusives to the table against Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.
Linus, if you can't play Half life because it didn't age well. There's a full-on remaster called Black Mesa that modernized the graphics and gameplay
Btw, for anyone who played Half Life Alyx. They are definitly working on some sort of sequel with the way that game ended! That ending confirmed they have renewed interests in going back to half life.
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Why not assume it’s a HL3 with full VR support 🤔
it doesn't seem to be VR at all
That is not how a good vr game works 😢 then you get 2 tips of game that feel like ass
@@Jesse-2531Even HL2 with episodes feels good in VR.. All they need to do is DLC as VR mode, but I guess they will just make it free and use Decard conversion to 3D as a showcase..
Vehicles and gravity shenanigans don't sound like vr especially in valves, motion sick, hands
Valve already said that Half-Life 3 won't be VR when Half-Life Alyx came out.
At this point, Half Life 3 feels like a mythical creature-everyone talks about it but no one has ever seen it!
well, we've seen leaks about it
@@vibaj16 4+ years of leaks to be precise XD
So it's Big Foot 2
so Linus doesn't know about the Fremont device ... that's why the Decker device was only mentioned but not codename Fremont
All Linus needs are those iconic glasses and he's a dead ringer for Gordon!
HLX is going to be a real, actual Half Life 3. If you’ve played through all the games including Alyx, and you’ve seen the leaks, and the last two official HL1 & 2 documentaries, you can absolutely tell it’s coming.
Valve has been cooking man. Steam Deck, Steam OS, Deadlock, Deckard, HLX. I’m so excited.
Not to mention the new "Ibex" controllers that's in files and the "Fremont", which will be something like a Steam console.
In March the GDC (Developer Games Convention) is coming up. In 2015 at GDC Valve announced that VR is coming to Steam, the OG Steam controller was shown as well as the Steam Link box.
Considering we are having a pretty similar line-up now, Ibex, Fremont and a new VR that's basically in it's final iteration, possibly being mass produced right now as I write this, maybe we will get Steam Universe 2: Electric Boogaloo?!
No other game gave me that goosebump feeling like HLA. You play the last chapter, save "not Gordon Freeman", which already was peak kino, you think what an awesome ending to yourself AND THEN THEY HAND YOU THE CROWBAR! One of the biggest highs of my life. That crowbar was a promise to us. They definitely are cooking hl3. It's clear to me. Does that mean that it will be released? No, it just means that at this point in time, Valve wanted to make hl3. Worst case scenario would be that it lands in developer hell and doesn't get released, but they were definitely working on it.
Completely agree with Luke, Titanfall 2 has one of the best single player FPS campaigns in recent years.
When the gaming industry's been underperforming for soo long you have to count 2016 as "recent"
@@bikalimark this is when you get grabbed and the very last thing you hear is "protocol 3; protect the pilot" as you get chucked into the atmosphere lmao
@@bikalimark I said recent bcoz I've been gaming since early 90s so I consider anything that's after 2010 is recent in my mind. Haha.
idk why people think it's not going to happen. Gabe said specifically that the reason episode 3 was cancelled was he wants half life to be a game series about innovation and then said the industry is open for such innovation right now. Check out all the hlx stuff valve has been making. They've got tons of people working on an immersive sim that is clearly the next half life
Linus hasn't played through HL1 and suggests it hasn't aged well? Respect lost. What a noob.
There are people born after I started waiting for Episode 3/HL3 who are now just about old enough to vote.
I honestly think it is actually happening this time. Linus is wrong. There is too much smoke here. There was subtext on it all over the Half-Life 2 documentary. They said straight up that they regret not making episode 3 happen way back when.
GMan: Is it really that time again? It seems as if you've waited forever. Rather than offer you the illusion of a final chapter, I will take the liberty of continuing to tease you...
It’s 100% being worked on. Whether or not it gets released is another thing
yeah after the Gman tease its confirmed. time to upgrade ur PC and play Alyx if not yet....its important for the story with no spoilers.
2:07 Half Life: Alyx 2 CONFIRMED !!!!
So I follow the Source datamining scene a bit, there are lots of references to HL-X, and We know a project called White Sands is being worked on, mention of a few HL aliens that we haven't seen since HL1 are getting work done, and they have a lot of dynamic temperature and variable surface simulations in the code, which is something they were going to use in HL Ep3, but it seems like they are expanding upon that and using it for whatever HLX / White Sands are. It might not release, but they are working on Half Life.
Where's the Fatal1ty and LTT collab about vintage FPS games on modern hardware/monitors.
Wolfenstein 3D
Wolfenstein 4D confirmed
I think Doom probably comes before Half-Life in influence, but Halo is definitely in the top three.
Doom: Made FPS a genre
Half-Life: Made FPS compatible with story narrative
Halo: Made FPS on Console/Controller viable
@@Thrawn90 Goldeneye?
I mean it is true that Half Life is the 2nd most influential FPS considering the entire genre wouldn't exist without Doom
Bro why would they fix the ending of half life episode 2 in half life alyx. It's going to happen.
Half-life: Forever a 5v5 arena shootee with microtransctions
We need all the color shifts for half-life. Get some different perspectives.
TITANFALL 2 MENTIONED
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Half Life 2 RTX is being paid for by Valve, so wouldn't make sense for them to create a remaster on top of that.
they don't make remasters in general
@@vibaj16 HL: Source...
@@Brahvim That wasn't a remaster, just a port
People who think HLX is a vr game are actually braindead and not at all in the loop.
Next time you guys bring up half life, you might want to mention that all the previous halflife games are fully vr native now with mods on steam
I don't think you know what 'native' means. 'Playable with mods' is what you're looking for.
Like anybody cares about vr
@@BoraHorzaGobuchul _I do._ What we gunna' do, sir?
@@Brahvim agree to disagree, esteemed minority member
For context, Doom was really the introduction of FPS to the masses and was the first one with multiplayer but only really from lan.
Quake made it possible to play deathmatch over the internet
Starsiege Tribes helped introduce large scale maps and vehicles into FPS games.
Half life was the first real modernization of the FPS genere, integrating story into the gameplay.
Half life also normalized turning mods into future games. See Counter-strike. Team fortress. Day Of Defeat.
The arena shooter age, 1999 - 2004 or so really, was a great growing preiod for FPS games. Quake 2, unreal. Unreal tornament. Quake 3. Etc
Skipping ahead a bit, halo was the second modernization of the FPS genere. Helping modernize FPS games playable on consoles. There was FPS on consoles beforehand, but Halo did a great job updating the controls. Making it accessable.
Half-Life aged quite well and Bioshock 2 is the best one.
Half-Life 1 is still great and I will accept no argument to the contrary.
As for Bioshock? In terms of gameplay, sure. 1 had the best story, 2 had the best gameplay and Infinite had the best... Graphics, I guess.
Personally I think Minerva's Den is the best of 1 and 2. If you haven't played it, do so.
Personally Infinite was the more fun one to me and I played that over a decade ago. I recently (last few months or so) played through bioshock 1 and 2 remastered for the first time and didn't really enjoy them that much. They're not terrible but not great either. They're ok games at best imo.
The Crysis campaign is the one I go back to the most. I use different mods to try campaign using different LODs, time of day, etc. I'm going through it again now, it's just such a good story and different ways to approach your objectives every play through.
4:07 Far Cry 1? You should replay Far Cry then, because it aged much worse than Half-Life if you ask me. Heck, even my girlfriend beat Half-Life.
My brother completed all the Half life games available except Alyx and asked me what happens next in the story.... Complete silence for 2 minutes lmao
Half Life 3 will save gaming and linux. Made a video about it.
In various datamines, there have been found things that hint towards HLX, including literally including the string "HLX". For Half-Life: Alyx, people found "HLVR".
As long as our Lord and Saviour Gaben The Fair, praise be, rules over Steam, there shant be a Half life 3. Fear the day this changes.
If you actually watched Tyler McVicker's and Gabe follower's videos you would know that the leaks reference the hev suit, pointing to Gordon Freeman as the main character and it is possible that two half-life projects are being in development now - one in VR the other not
Wolfenstein 3d started the FPS genre, Doom started Online Deathmatch, Quake took it to the stars and helped with CPL or help pioneer Esports. Im a long time Quake Veteran of 24 years.
What the data miners need to look for is vehicles/moving sections. That would indicate a non-vr title. However, it could also be a vr and desktop title.
play the Dr.Beef Halflife 1 VR mod and the Halo 1 VR mod Linus. It's the best way to revisit these old games in a fresh way.
It’s been so long since I heard someone mention F.E.A.R. Such a good Japanese pyschological-horror game. I only learned about it because in Newegg reviews of GPU’s it was often cited as a measure of performance and FPS as a benchmark. The graphics still look good even though they’re so old, the textures lighting, reflections, and physics were so ahead of their time. And seriously, they had a CPU setting for physics… and you could tell in the game how the physics setting affected the game, it was like groundbreaking until time moved on to half-Life 2, Portal, and Crysis physics. But they really incorporated physics in the natural gameplay of the plot. It’s sad there isn’t a remake of it that would challenge modern computers. I remember feeling like I was playing a game as horrifying as the movie The Ring. It was either that game or the Halo C.E. PC port that got me into overclocking and 24/7 sub-zero cooling. Had an FX-55, San Diego core I think, ran it at around 0*F to about freezing. 3.2ghz usually but I think I got it over 3.5 just wasn’t reliable and didn’t have the 300-something watts to run it. Had to put fiberglass insulation in the case. Still had condensation and ice issues but back then the GPU boards had such big contacts and traces you could scrape off the corrosion by hand.
Saving this vid for when it gets announced this year
More recently, Valve has had a tendency to tie it's games to it's other products: "Desk Job" is basically a "get to know your Steam Deck" game, and HL Alyx was a tech demo for the Index.
There appear to be reasons to believe that another Half-Life game is on the way, it it could easily be intended to tie in with either their upcoming VR headset, and/or with the wider launch of SteamOS 3.x.
- Its honestly 50/50 if its HL:Alyx 2 (or eh, HL:Barney??) or HL3 🤷♂
- Im still a firm believer of Q4 2025 / Q1 2026 (been a rumor for a few years)
- Were hitting 5 year anniversary of HL:Alyx soon (23rd of March) and they did something for HL1 and HL2 anniversary, we might get some official word of HL3 (if they are actually making it) on this anniversary day
I was skeptical but now that Linus said that it will NOT come out... I'm a believer! HL3 CONFIRMED
Just finished Black Mesa/HL1 for the first time despite finishing all the HL2 games like 15 years ago.
Game is amazing. Music and atmosphere are top notch and I love the platforming and the AI.
Bring on HL3
Crysis 1 ran alright on my potato from 2010 right up to the final boss, who managed to freeze up my PC entirely. I still need to go back and play it.
Don't worry guys. We're getting HL3 right around the same time we get the Apple Car. That will also actually be the Year Of The Linux Desktop finally!
Black Mesa was a legitimate remaster of HL1 and a big improvement for the xen excursion.
I don't know how anyone can look at Shapiro's post and think that it isn't happening
I also think that hyping the upcoming release to the level that they have, and then it *not* being what we're all hoping for would be a pretty dull move from Valve, and given the response to Artifact, I would imagine they learned their lesson
Don’t give me hope- Hawkeye.
It feels odd that Linus is the same age as me, has been doing a tech channel most of his life and has played very few single player FPS games. I can't even count how many I have.
And a tip for Linus, play Black Mesa. The HL1 port to Source. It's a great update for people that can't handle the original.
As for HL3, I think it's coming. The way Gabe talked in the documentary seems to me that Valve is seeing new ways to really innovate. With the newer hardware and tech, we have currently, I can see them really putting something interesting out.
There is no way you played halo ce and like don’t really remember it like wtf
I dunno. Im not gonna fall for this anymore until Valve literally says it DIRECTLY with a release date and significant in game footage with a proper trailer.
Whoever wrote it is actually right lol. The next Hal Life game is not a VR game which is known for a long time. The leaked files from other valve game updates show HLX files which are 100% for a First person Shooter.
You should try Black Mesa, Linus. It's a brilliant remake of Half-Life 1.
You should also consider the leaks of a SteamOS console releasing, they likely need something to sell that one wayy more than their new VR headset. People know Valve made a good VR headset before, but they've never made a home console before. It makes a lot more sense to think that it's a non-VR game since they really need to show how far the console can go.
Valve has also stated in the past that "they're not scared of Half-Life anymore". So yeah, I'd say it's likely. (Still won't get my hopes up in case there is no game, but it's possible)
Can I just emphasize that Titanfall 2 came out in 2016, still looks similar to current gen games and has an exceptional multiplayer as well (get the Northstar launcher, it has custom servers and mods too)
from Source 2 engine files added in other games such as CS2 referencing Xen, HEV suit, etc
it is safe to say Valve is working on a new desktop Half Life game, with most likely Gordon Freeman, be it Half Life 2 Episode 3 or Half Life 3
now, the bigger question is if it will make it to release, but with the other evidence such as the hirings and the GMAN tweet, it is seeming likely
That does make sense as to why they'd have friends and family testing it. If it's VR based, have to make sure enough use cases aren't sick from the experience, works well with people of different ages, and eye types.
All the leaks point to it NOT being a VR game
literally no leaks suggest at all it would be a vr game. valve makes games to innovate and they already had their crack at innovating vr games
5:00 absolute heresy Linus, Bioshock 2 just improved on bioshock 1 in just about every way, the story wasn't as good but the game play was better.
Anyone who has played half life alyx knows that, without a shadow of a doubt, in the next half life game you'll play as Gordon Freeman.
if valve doesn't release 'The Blue Box' with hl3, portal 3, tf3, left for dead 3 and dota 3 they miss a big oppourtunity
i wasnt convinced that it was half life 3. but now that linus says that its not half life 3, i think that confirms that its half life 3.
Doom is 1000% number 1 but there’s definitely a solid argument for either Halo or Half Life being number 2. Halo really did send gargantuan waves through the industry that are still felt today
Please God,
please, let it
be playable
without VR!
Datamines show it’s not a VR game
@@johnnyfettslem7439 Wonderful, thanks!
VR is the future, Valve embracing that is a good thing
quake was like the first multiplayer arena shooter
Half Life 3 will be when Valve takes all their money and builds an actual portal gun, creating a rift and letting the Xen into our world.
It's going to be so lifelike, you'll probably die of excitement... Or was it fear? .... Tomato, tomato.