nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 months ago'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.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down10
arrow-up1101arrow-down1external-link'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.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down4·5 months agoGabe is absolutely right on this. If it doesn’t completely recenter the first person shooter genre, it’s not really a half life game.
minus-squareMisterMoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·5 months agoEpisodes 1 and 2 were fun but they in no way “recentered the first person shooter genre.”
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoNeither did Op For or Blue Shift.
minus-squareCaptDust@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·5 months agoI wish they didn’t feel this pressure to push forward the industry with EP3. Full Half Life 3, maybe, but I would have preferred a closing chapter with the tech and features available.
minus-squareclutchtwopointzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·5 months agoThis is such an irrational bar to surpass
Gabe is absolutely right on this. If it doesn’t completely recenter the first person shooter genre, it’s not really a half life game.
Episodes 1 and 2 were fun but they in no way “recentered the first person shooter genre.”
Neither did Op For or Blue Shift.
I wish they didn’t feel this pressure to push forward the industry with EP3. Full Half Life 3, maybe, but I would have preferred a closing chapter with the tech and features available.
This is such an irrational bar to surpass