I had a blast with my son's VR kit that he got for Xmas recently, and umm, bought my own set shortly after.
Bought Alyx in the Summer sale which I have had a look at, but not had a chance to play properly yet (literally the first game I bought). I intend to this weekend after getting back from holiday
Re 3...
I think it will be a VR game, IF and when(!) it does come out.
I remember reading a Gabe interview who basically said that it's been built up so much that it's never going to match people's expectations.
However, it would literally print money so, you never know right.
I believe the main writer left Valve many moons ago...
a quick Google
For those of you worried that the Half Life writers are "gone"...
Rest assured. For starters, half life never had a single writer. The game was written by multiple people, and as has been stated, the narrative followed the gameplay not the other way around. Yes, Marc Laidlaw was the "head" writer who wrote the overall story (who the combine are, the general story for half life 1 and 2) but he didn't write everything, all of the dialogue, all of the set pieces. Secondly, the story he was writing was never secret. He was training other writers back as far as 2007 because he had always planned on retiring. Others in valve likely knew his outline and ideas. He posted his entire outline online anyway.
Thirdly, valves writing quality was always more about dialogue, humor, scripting, less about the general story. The general story was pretty vague. I'm definitely curious who the Gman is, the nature of the combine, how it fits into the ending of half life 2, but I always had the feeling that the writers didn't know that yet. I always more was wowed by the actually writing in the game from scene to scene, less of the general "lore"
And 4th and most importantly, they rewrote half life alyx with eric wolpaw and others who returned to work on this project. They replaced the new writer valve hired because playtesters didn't really like the story. Play testers say the story now is excellent. We also shouldn't be worried that the rewrite only occurred at the beginning of this year because like marc laidlaw said, writing story doesn't have an integral component fo the development of the game creation. Its not like most games where writing happens first. Set pieces were probably tweaked, shifted around in order, some art assets manipulated, voice lines rerecorded, but its unlikely it changed the core gameplay. Its also being reported that valve has been working with laidlaw for this project. Not as a rehired employee like they did with others, but as a consultant.
So who knows...
Re pre-ordering. Never pre-ordered a game in my life, and don't intend to.
HL3 however? Shut up and take my money!
Random video that popped in my head when typing this
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