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Posted by $loth on Wed Dec 15th at 10:10am 2004

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Swedish mag Gamereactor has broken cover (and, it appears, its non-disclosure agreement) by claiming that Valve CEO Gabe Newell revealed that Half-Life 3 is in the planning stage at the Seattle developers.

http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=29117&subsectionid=1589

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GamesRadar is reporting that during a recent press briefing at Valve HQ, Gabe Newell revealed that they are planning to develop Half-Life 3 with Half-Life 2 female NPC Alyx as a playable character. Well, I guess we will see the first details at E3 2005, or, in the worst case, we will have to wait another 5 years and maybe another 30 September release date.

http://www.gamershell.com/news/18665.html

I haven't completed HL2, so I can't judge what the story line will be like in HL3, but would adding the option of playing as Alyx be an upside or a downside?

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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Dec 15th at 10:24am 2004

OOOOLLLLLLDDDDD!

They said they were gunna make HL3 like about 2 years ago lol.

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Posted by Vash on Wed Dec 15th at 10:28am 2004

Don't worry, Half-Life 3 won't take five years.

It'll take ten, booya! In other news, having Alyx as a playable character? I can see how that would be a good idea in some senses, but it feels to me like they are beginning to break away from the original Half-Life formula. You were Gordon Freemen. No face, no voice - just a gun and a lot of pissed off monsters.

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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Wed Dec 15th at 10:29am 2004

The majority of dev time for HL2 was to build the engine. They have one now, so it won't take as long.
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Posted by $loth on Wed Dec 15th at 10:50am 2004

? quoting Myrk-
OOOOLLLLLLDDDDD!

They said they were gunna make HL3 like about 2 years ago lol.

So? That means that i'm not allowed to make a thread on it

Does anyone know anything about the plot, I agree with you vash that having Alyx as a playable character would take it away from the original half life.

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Posted by Crono on Wed Dec 15th at 11:24am 2004

I doubt they'll make HL3 with the Source engine

They'l probably create another engine based on the source engine for HL3. But they will most likely create expansion/sp mods for the current engine to add to HL2.

So, in all actuality it may take just as long for HL3 to come out.
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Posted by Captain P on Wed Dec 15th at 11:28am 2004

Gabe said the Source engine was a too big investment for just one game. So I think they'll just modify the Source engine a bit, but not going that far as to create another engine again.

But well, time will tell...

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Posted by sde on Wed Dec 15th at 11:55am 2004

---SPOILER for anyone who hasn't finished the game---






























Surely we can't have Alyx as a playable character? It would just be absurd to say she survived that.





















---END OF SPOILER---

Sorry about the waste of space, I'm just trying to make sure I don't spoil it for anyone else.




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Posted by Monqui on Wed Dec 15th at 2:52pm 2004

Wow. That was the lamest spoiler attempt evarr. If you want to make a chunk of text a spoiler, do a [ color=black ] insert spoiler text here [ /color ] (minus the spaces in the tags) so that if someone wants to see it, they have to highlight it. [addsig]



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Posted by Captain P on Wed Dec 15th at 3:36pm 2004

Then let me attempt to cover a 'spoiler' in blackness:

You wouldn't survive it either, without the G-man's intervention. So why should she die and you stay alive? [addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Dec 15th at 3:55pm 2004

HL3 would be nice, but will take FOREVER. It is a matter of public record that valve was dragging thier ass while building the source engine and sacrificed good content for a christmas release time.

If they make Alyx playable, they sohuld not make it HL3 they should make it more of a "Blue Shift" or OP4 thing. "Half-Life 2: Black Girl Shift" Anyway, I am pretty sure they'll F this one up too; get hacked or something...

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Posted by Monqui on Wed Dec 15th at 4:01pm 2004

From what I've read, you're not *just* going to play as Alyx. She's going to be playable, but most likely in the context of working with Gordon Freeman in certain parts. I for one would love to see this, as it would really add new elements to the game.

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Posted by SaintGreg on Wed Dec 15th at 5:01pm 2004

Considering HL3 won't come out for another 3 years give or take, you can't expect that they live with the source engine for that log can you? Considering by todays standards its already verging on being inferior? If they did stay with source it would have to essentially be super overhauled. They could use source as the basis for a new engine.




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Posted by Bantam on Wed Dec 15th at 5:09pm 2004

I read in PC Gamer that they would be using the Source engine for HL3 so hopefully, barring any Russian hacker incidents, we won't have to wait quite as long for it to emerge.

Thinking about it, why did the Source engine take so long to develop? Apart from sticking in some candy floss and the physics engine it doesn't feel vastly different to the one used in HL1... perhaps I'm underestimating the amount of time it takes to put in pretty water effects.



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Posted by Captain P on Wed Dec 15th at 5:14pm 2004

Try to create an engine of your own and you'll soon see you're underestimating it...
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Posted by Cassius on Wed Dec 15th at 5:24pm 2004

Who's to say the G-Man didn't also talk to her, a la Adrian Shephard/Barney Calhoun? Throughout the game, she was really doing the same things as you.



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Posted by ReNo on Wed Dec 15th at 5:28pm 2004

I'm curious, does the Blue Shift story at all fit in with what happens in HL2? As in, nothing happens in that that contradicts Barney being around and acting fairly normal?
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Posted by Gwil on Wed Dec 15th at 5:31pm 2004

Not really ReNo, haven't you played it? It's just the same setup as original HL/Op4 to my memory.

Quite fun in places as well, the trainyard battle is uber cool.
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Posted by scary_jeff on Wed Dec 15th at 5:34pm 2004

I think it's best to just write BlueShift off as a horrible horrible mistake.



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Posted by Gwil on Wed Dec 15th at 5:37pm 2004

Pffft, it wasn't *that* bad jeff you harsh beast.. a little thin, unoriginal and short.. but er, yeah, still fun to play!


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