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DarkFuture, do gaming w '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'
@DarkFuture@lemmy.world avatar

I respect Valve for Steam. It’s far and away the best platform.

But the bottom line is the Half-life series made Valve who they are. It made Gabe rich. Yet despite having all the money necessary to have all the resources necessary, they abandoned the series, letting millions of die hard fans down.

I’ve never seen a more beloved game series simply abandoned.

For that there is no forgiveness, Gabe.

SynopsisTantilize,

Damn. But they made left4dead :(

Kolanaki,
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Gabe was actually pretty wealthy even before he left Microsoft to form Valve.

Iheartcheese, do gaming w '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'
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

Has he ever talked about that story leak?

derpgon, do games w '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'

At this point I am just expecting Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2

billwashere,

Then Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2; Chapter 2

lunar17,

Valve is asymptotically approaching episode three. Always getting closer, but never quite reaching it.

Flamekebab,
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Manchester United: 3

ms_lane,

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NeoToasty, do games w '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'

I have so many thoughts about this.

I would've wanted a conclusion just to shut up all of the dead-horse beating to dust memelords that for years have been wagoning their tiresome HL3 jokes.

But, it's like, how many games have we waited so long to be released whether it's to continue the story or end it and the reception being more of "...wait that's it?!" than "I'm satisified."

Gamers are the hardest people to appease, so I get the sentiment that Gabe not only felt stumped but written himself into a corner with HL3. Whatever hype at all that has been built, is insurmountably high that whatever Valve pitches out, it's going to be mixed. It'll have a higher chance of being what happened to Duke Nukem Forever in context, than it being what Baldur's Gate 3 became 23 years later after Baldur's Gate II. It's a very narrow window to hit that sweet spot.

pressanykeynow,

I wonder if at some point we’ll get a good HL3 from a different studio that have passion to make it’s worth.

toiletobserver, do games w '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'

Zero punctuation on the orange box. youtu.be/_dlEm_2ke8k?si=bsTqae8W64qKny93

inb4_FoundTheVegan, do games w Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

Look I wouldn’t be excited for a Clash of Clans PC port, so why should I care about a knock off clone getting a port?

lambalicious, do games w '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'

We ought to improve as humanity so we can deserve Gabe.

andrewrgross, do gaming w To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks

I don’t know if this is a hot take, but I think allowing straight and cis people to identify as such is appropriate, because the alternative assumes that we live in a state of default heteronormativity.

If anything, I want to live in a world where homophobes get mad that if they want to be assumed to be straight online they have to identify like anyone else. No one gets assumed to be straight any more. That’s better imo.

MagicShel,

Nothing I enjoy more than asking a good ol’ boy his pronouns.

Toribor,
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The default should be “I’m horny” but unless I specify you have to guess who I’m horny for.

andrewrgross,

Maybe one day we can get there, but right now it might be better for a lot of folks if the default was “I’m not horny”.

But I’m with you on the dream.

madjo,

Wow such asexual-phobia! (/s but only a little) Not everyone is “horny”.

Toribor,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

No shade to my Ace friends intended. Totally possible to be horny for art or rock collecting or whatever. Doesn’t have to be a sexy thing. I’m horny for none of the above is totally valid.

prole,

Pan-sexual then, perhaps?

bastion,

I prefer pots, tbh.

bekopharm,
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heh, this totally reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s dwarves, that spend a lot of time trying to find out what’s under the beard of the other first without asking that akward question xD

P4ulin_Kbana,

Uh, maybe I will have to specify myself, too. Never tought like that.

jjjalljs,

as an almost maximally privileged person (cis straight etc), i want my whining fellows to shut the fuck up. Just stop. Stop taking up all the god damn space. Just be quiet. It’s okay not to be included in every scene all the time.

Your point about not assuming people are straight by default is valid. But I mostly just want some cis-het folks to stop embarrassing me by being fucking insufferable.

Glide, do games w Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December

Calling Warcraft Rumble an RTS is like putting a hamburger patty on a plate and calling it a steak. You’re technically correct, but you’ve also completely missed the point in what people want.

imPastaSyndrome, do games w Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December

Yeah but it’s not that fun… You’re far too late! Blizzard

PunchingWood, do games w Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December

Oh finally!

Said nobody.

brsrklf, do games w Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December

So now their solution to the whole “don’t you guys have phone?” situation is to keep designing for mobile but port those everywhere.

I think I’ll keep not giving a shit, thank you very much.

Kyrgizion, do games w Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December

No thanks.

HIMISOCOOL, do games w Webfishing dev thought 'like 100 people would play it ever', thanks the 24,000+ people who flooded in to play their 'silly project', and hints at future updates

Same story with club penguin youtube told me

cmrn, do games w Webfishing dev thought 'like 100 people would play it ever', thanks the 24,000+ people who flooded in to play their 'silly project', and hints at future updates

One of those games I intended to check out for a couple hours, but have spent way longer than I’m willing to admit chilling and chatting while in between things.

grandpacore,

Oh only $5 and I like fishing in games. Going to check this out and maybe it will kill a boring afternoon. 50 hours later…

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