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'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' (www.pcgamer.com)
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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary by Valve

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 97 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think most gamers would have been perfectly happy with a trip to the Borealis just for the closure of the thing, even if the gameplay brought little to nothing new to the table other than some nice new visuals and arctic setpieces.

Instead we got Half Life: Alyx which was a stunning albeit niche experience in the same old City 17, which retconned Episode 2's cliffhanger with another, different cliffhanger. For fuck's sake, Gabe.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 47 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Instead we got Half Life: Alyx

Only if you're rich enough to afford VR setup. Fuck me for being born in a third world country, right Gabe?

[–] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Haha you're poor

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Choke on my toes

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Don't threaten them with a good time.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

And are physically abled to play in VR.

I had a VR Headset (Vive Cosmos), but my eyes just aren't up scratch, so I could never enjoy it.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was the same for HL2 though. I played it like 10 years after it was released, didn't make the game worse. With VR the first experience will probably be even better in the future.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was the same for HL2 though

Literally how? All you needed was a computer that could run games, which if you were into gaming on PC, you already had.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It required a good computer which I living in a third-world country didn't have.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But that was not exclusive to HL2. That's for every AAA PC game released at the time. Don't tell me you could run GTA:VC but not HL2.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

VR is not exclusive to Alyx as well. I could run Diablo 2 but not HL2.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

False equivalency. Most games these days, and for the foreseeable future, aren't VR.

[–] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago

This. I didn't (and still don't) need groundbreaking gameplay for Episode 3. I just wanted an ending to the plot.