What Do You Want in Half-Life 3?

Alrik · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:31

Semiskimmed said:
atleast 20 playable hours, atleast would love more though and not ~10

If each episode works out as 6-7 hours you got your 20 hours

but for half-life 3 it should be 13-15 otherwise anymore and we'll be waiting even longer for it.

Edit: Father Gregory from Ravenholm needs to make a comeback

if its still based around Freeman

Anim · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:36

i'd like a ....... good game from half life 3, hl2 was dire.

skullman · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:56

Anim said:
i'd like a ....... good game from half life 3, hl2 was dire.

As opposed to?

BloodWolf · 19 Jul 2006 at 18:02

theyre too busy workin on episodes and making loads of monwey on short games to think about hl3

LukeManUK · 19 Jul 2006 at 18:08

Implement the Portal weapon thing

-|ScottFree|- · 19 Jul 2006 at 18:11

LukeManUK said:
Implement the Portal weapon thing

Seconded!!!

Semiskimmed · 19 Jul 2006 at 18:18

kalanium said:
If each episode works out as 6-7 hours you got your 20 hours but for half-life 3 it should be 13-15 otherwise anymore and we'll be waiting even longer for it.

thats the episodic stuff, which im not part of. so it doesnt count. this was about HL3.
but i dont think they will rush hl3 at all as mentioned above, theyre maing money selling the episodes. but i prefer something to get my teeth into really instead of having 5ish rs every few months

Alrik · 19 Jul 2006 at 18:34

Semiskimmed said:
thats the episodic stuff, which im not part of. so it doesnt count. this was about HL3.
but i dont think they will rush hl3 at all as mentioned above, theyre maing money selling the episodes. but i prefer something to get my teeth into really instead of having 5ish rs every few months

Yea it does suck but these episodes may wrap up gordons story but we wont know till there all out. A thing you could do is wait another year when ep 3 is done and buy all 3 eps and play through it all in one go just occasionally going back to steam to launch the next one. Knowing EA they will probably want to release the from hl2 to ep3 on 2 DVD's to make more money.

FishPolice · 19 Jul 2006 at 18:40

More humour -ie those scientists in Black Mesa in HL1 used to really crack me up

DaveyD · 19 Jul 2006 at 18:41

A game that will pease anybody and stop bitching... yeah right.

Realistically, I don't see HL3, if it does come out, being very different to HL2, except for maybe a new gimmick or two, as a drastic change in style will put off the hardcore fans, which are likely to bring the most money in.

HangTime · 19 Jul 2006 at 23:07

Not really all that bothered. More of the same, with a few tweaks would do me.

rayb74 · 20 Jul 2006 at 08:56

A game that takes more than 3 hrs to complete.

Or if they are gonna give me half a game I don`t want to get charged for "expansion packs" which should be free.

What ever the game is gonna turn out like I guarantee that milking the punters for as much cash as possible comes first.

I don`t think there will ever be a true HL3 for the reasons above.

William · 20 Jul 2006 at 10:20

DaveyD said:
A game that will pease anybody and stop bitching... yeah right.

Realistically, I don't see HL3, if it does come out, being very different to HL2, except for maybe a new gimmick or two, as a drastic change in style will put off the hardcore fans, which are likely to bring the most money in.

Agreed there has been nothing drasticaly changing in FPS for years, I think the only way to do a good one is to make a really highly polished one that doesn't fart about.

paul8811 · 20 Jul 2006 at 11:24

bigger breasts

Zefan · 20 Jul 2006 at 11:25

Guns, aliens, soldiers/police in hazard suits.

So, the same as always.

GIBSrUS · 20 Jul 2006 at 15:48

Duke Nukem esk environments

Want to go to a strip club for a while? No problem.

"Shake it baby!"

Van_Dammesque · 20 Jul 2006 at 16:25

To be able to LEAN!

No excuse for games not to have a lean function! And no it does not slow down the gameplay

geeza · 20 Jul 2006 at 16:37

in 5 years or so I can see virtual reality taking off. So I want to be able to 'be inside' hl3

Anim · 20 Jul 2006 at 17:50

hl2 really didnt have any of that hl1 feeling, you vs the world and all that. It was some random guys in masks trying their hardest to re-live 1984, then a yawn fest of a drive through some bugs, then its gravity gun and you cant die :/ needless to say, i was dissapointed.

HL3 should dump you back in the middle of it all, everything has gone wrong, you're there to fix it, with some soldiers hell bent on shutting you up.... hard.

lokkers · 20 Jul 2006 at 18:44

rayb74 said:
I don`t want to get charged for "expansion packs" which should be free.

Why do people get so uptight about expansion packs?? Valve is a company, and its employees get paid. In order for Valve to survive, they have to make money so these employees continue to get paid. Whats 3-4 hours of gameplay to you is years of research/development/testing time (i'm including original HL2 costs/time), so is it bad that a compnay wants to make some money out of it now its been released???

If my boss asked me to code for free I'd tell him to *** off!

Put it this way:

Hire a DVD for the night = ~£5 for 2 hours
Watch a film at the cinema = ~£8+ for 2 hours
Buy EP1 = £13 for 4 hours (not including unlimited replay value).

Don't forget too that Steam has to be kept running and the developers are constantly fixing things/adding HDR etc (which all costs money).

No brainer IMO

As for HL3, I'd like to see more of the same. HL2 is one of my all time favourites