Comments on: Half-Life 2: Episode 3 still being worked on, Valve confirms

By: Phoenixblight

Phoenixblight — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:19:53 +0000

@Gek

I wasn’t defending the company just stating a fact. What valve does is their own business it may or may not have an effect on them. Look at Blizzard dragging their feet to release their titles, they prefer “quality” I see it as “We want to put our investment into something else”

By: DUFFKING

DUFFKING — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:30:31 +0000

What with the wait for this I hope it’s developed into a full-blown HL game… a big epic finale please.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:28:56 +0000

And whose fault is that Phoenix? As opposed to the image Valve wants give they ARNT a small indie group. They’re a multi-million dollar company.
If they dont want to spend all that money they’re making/saving by reusing an old engine and having EA pay a good part of their marketing on games to hire more devs thats their own fault.

By: Phoenixblight

Phoenixblight — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:49:14 +0000

Because they are busy making L4D, their team is rather small so they can only work with one to two games at a time in this case one game.

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:23:42 +0000

Sorry, but I find that to be BS.

Valve managed to get out a top quailty game in Episode Two within a year after Episode One. So it bewilders me why it’s taken two years just for a short expansion like Episode Three to take this long.

By: kampi

kampi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:18:11 +0000

Reading some of these comments, I don’t think many people understand the hard work – and therefore time – quality game development requires, or the effort Valve puts into its games. Quality game development takes a long time, regardless of how long people want to wait.

If Valve rushes to appease all the impatient people out there who just want a game, now, chances are the game will not be of the same quality as those before it.

It is much more important Valve takes their time and does the game right rather than rush and do a poor job.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:02:59 +0000

@9
TF2 is saved somewhat by the cel-shading but L4D looks awesome?! Are you blind? Halo 2 on Xbox looked better or atleast equally as good and comparing their release dates thats just wrong.

By: K1ng

K1ng — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:14:25 +0000

valve could at least release a trailer or o gameplay video something ….it is a game for god sake not a top secret file ….im sick of waiting for this game…:(((…..please release a trailer / video something:)
P.S sorry for my bad english

By: deathclick

deathclick — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:14:30 +0000

It’s been long enough. They should do us all a favor for waiting this long and skip doing another piece of this episodic pacifier crap (this ain’t “sam and max”, sorry). The whole point of episodic game creation is that episodes have shorter time spans in between each game so that you don’t have to wait as long, well…. uh…. still waiting. Is Valve getting lazy? Are they bored of working on the title that put them on the map? Are the done with being one of the leaders in innovative game design? I’ve been a Valve fan since the beginning and now I have a request… Give us a fully blown, new engine, new look, cutting edge HALF LIFE 3 game, for the love of PETE GET WITH THE PROGRAM, YOU WROTE IT!

By: crippledhooba

crippledhooba — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:36:13 +0000

I wouldn’t care if is was being made on the original half life 2 source engine, I would still buy it for the story alone.

By: endgame

endgame — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:12:07 +0000

i don’t understand what seems to be the problem. both tf2 and l4d use the source engine and they look awesome. so, what is it about the engine that u don’t like!?

By: SunKing

SunKing — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:58:08 +0000

It seems that Valve were trying to accomplish in 2006 what Bestheda has done with Fallout 3 in 2009. It was quite pioneering in hindsight.

By: Artheval_Pe

Artheval_Pe — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:03:06 +0000

I’d venture it’s more expensive as well as longer.
One of the problems Valve probably didn’t expect was that they had to work on the engine more than expected. When they started doing episodes, they though they were going to deliver one every six month. It turns out that it took them way more time, so now every time they release one, there has to be a Source update with it.

this long on a 6 year old engine?
It’s a two year old engine. Source 2007 is vastly different from the first version of Source that came out it 2004

By: deftangel

deftangel — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:55:57 +0000

I would love to know what the hold up is and what Newell’s take on the success/failure of the episodic model has been. I’d venture it’s more expensive as well as longer.

By: Dr.Ghettoblaster

Dr.Ghettoblaster — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:04:58 +0000

HAHA….there’s our long awaited Episode 3 “update”….lmao. Now expect silence for the next 18 months…

By: Jadeskye

Jadeskye — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:55:18 +0000

This is what you get when you have a development team you can fit in a phone booth.

By: probertgoon

probertgoon — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:43:04 +0000

YEAH!!!! WHAT HE SAID

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:34:14 +0000

Its understandable that people might think they’ve stoped working on it really, i mean this long on a 6 year old engine? Feet are being dragged.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:08:21 +0000

Why would they have ‘stopped’ working on it? Sort it out, Keighley!