Half-life 2 will turn 20 in November so I guess the third one is coming out any day now (opens a new can of copium and grips the favourite spork)
I'm sure Portal 3 is coming soon too... right?
Sure, right after Left 4 Dead 3
It wouldn't surprise me if Portal 3 is released at some point. I'm skeptical, but I'm not outruling it. The game is whacky enough that there are probably a lot of interesting and cool things that can be implemented into a worthy successor.
I am, on the other hand, utterly convinced that HL3 is not going to happen. The previous two were groundbreaking, stretching limits of what one can do with a physics engine. I'm having a hard time imagining that it can be pulled off a 3rd time, simply because I am unable to imagine any sory of content that would all:
a) fit with the series so that it still feels like a HL game
b) interesting enough to allow for the innovation that the previous two games had
c) good enough to justify a new game rather than just a tech demo
I sincerely hope that my opinion on the matter is simply a matter of failure of imagine, and that a good HL successor is released at some point, but sadly I think I'm right on this one.
Half-Life: Alyx is mostly what I hoped we'd get from HL3, inasmuch as it hits your points a & b for sure, and IMHO c (though I know that's not agreed on by everyone). It had great action and expository setpieces (avoiding spoilers), and the (albeit relatively simple) puzzles definitely added something to Half-Life that really worked for me.
Unfortunately it didn't solve all VR issues (melee being an obvious one), and not least of which the cost. I played it on a cheap (~$100), janky old WMR headset, but not everyone can do that without vomiting, so a great PC and good headset are a hefty price, which is probably the biggest hurdle for a full-scale 3 in VR. Especially considering there just aren't many other games worth making that investment in, IMHO. I played the hell out of Alyx, a little of a few other games...but Alyx was the pinnacle of what VR could do for me.
Alyx did what most Valve games do, it advanced the industry. It is absolutely a half life game and it fits but it isn’t HL3. It isn’t that grandiose.
For people who accuse it of being a glorified tech demo, well, that’s exactly what Half Life 1 and 2 are. The sole reason for the existence of HL2 is just to sell the source engine to devs and to push Steam forward. It is a tech demo. Its puzzles are tech demos.
What Alyx did is implement proper gunplay and looting mechanics and really showcased how possible it is to tell a story in VR without taking your POV from you. I’d argue that there still isn’t a single VR game that nails one of the foundational pillars of Alyx as much as Valve did.
Black Mesa remake looks so good. I just picked it up for $4 on Steam. It was nearly 30 damn gigs lol.
Some games that came out 16 years ago:
I just finished my Windows XP build, and have been enjoying FO3 again the way it was meant to be played.
Stop, stop, we're already dead.
Doom came out in 1993 Dec 10
So yeah just over 30 years ago
Thanks, I'll just be over here browsing the AARP webpage.
Hm this mortuary guide looks interesting...
We played that at the office after work :-/
1999 was such an amazing year in my gaming life. Rollercoaster Tycoon, Mechwarrior 3, Battlezone II, and Unreal Tournament. So, so many hours of my life spent in those. That was like, 5 years ago, right?
No one, I mean no one mentions Battlezone or Battlezone II, ever. I love that series. I still have the BZ II box and everything.
Do you really? Dang, I'm so jealous. I still have my original discs for I and II, at least. Yeah, my brother and I loved those as well. My dad worked in IT for EDS at the time, and got some old laptops on the cheap. So, I remember my brother and I laying on the living room floor, playing BZ facing each other over the IR ports. We started implementing gentleman's agreements, like no killing scavengers and no attacking your opponent's base for 30 minutes. It became a cold war game, where we would max out our units, and just spy on each other. Maybe send a single fighter over to poke at defenses. Then, I'd send over the mass of APCs I was hiding away from my base, and just annihilate everything.
And BZII had such a great mod scene! We loved XMod. We'd always say no nukes, but we always made them anyway.
Breath of the wild came out 7 years ago.
This made me remember that NFS Underground 2 is 20 years old now, and it's still the peak for the series.
cue Riders On The Storm …
This made me curious so I looked up my favorite game from childhood that I still play sometimes now... Super Metroid just turned 30 years old 💀
I'm so nostalgic for that one. Don't think I ever managed to beat it back then though.
Wanna feel old? This September marks the 28th anniversary of the release of the N64
I still remember the whole family crowding around when I booted it up. Everyone was fascinated by the 3d graphics.
Halo CE is 23 years old.
I still can't fathom that Pikmin is past the legal drinking age in the United States.
I'm replaying a few games that are older than my daughter and she's at college right now.
What... call of duty modern warfare 2 still has active servers, it came like 3 or 4 years ago... right?
IW4x is actually still really active if you want to play the original MW2 multiplayer.
When I was a kid, computer games for consumers were a concept of science fiction.
Went into CEX the other week, and saw PS1 games I'd bought when I was already an adult with a job, being sold second hand for more than I'd originally bought them for.
Pong can't be that old, can it?
It could start withdrawing from a retirement account without penalty in about 6 years.
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The NES has been considered an antique since 2015 (30 years for an object to be considered an antique).
Linkin Park is old enough to be classic rock.
100 years is the legal definition of an antique. 20-99 years is vintage.
Anybody else just get back into aoe2 in the last year and watch hera? This is basically that.
Oh, there you are, Shadow of the Colossus.
2005 (PS2), 2011 (PS3 w/ Ico), and 2018 (PS4 remake)
World of Warcraft hits 20 this year. I was there (via private servers), starting in 2006.
Pokemon Let's Go - 5 and a half years old Pokemon FrLg - 20 years old Pokemon RB - 25 and a half years old
That made me think of my Sega Game Gear. That was 33 years ago. I recently turned 40 and now I really do feel like an old fart.
Weird. Old games sell better than new ones. I wonder why that could be?
Don't think that's actually true, though. Edit: top selling games of 2023. Pretty sure the idea that "old games were higher quality" is a example of a cognitive bias, too. I say this as someone that's been gaming since the 80s.
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