I gave up hope when Marc Laidlaw posted his story treatment years ago. It might come some day, but it will be something closer to a reboot or a remake, a totally new generation’s take on an old franchise. Not saying that it will automatically be bad, it could be good, but it will also be different.
Half-Life was always a gameplay-first series anyway. Everything exists in service of the gameplay loop. Of course if Half-Life 3 was made today it would look very different from a Half-Life 3 made in 2008 or 2010 or 2015, not just in gameplay but in the story that would shift in service of the gameplay.
It is really cool to get some insight into where that story might have gone back in 2008 though.
I gave up hope when Marc Laidlaw posted his story treatment years ago. It might come some day, but it will be something closer to a reboot or a remake, a totally new generation’s take on an old franchise. Not saying that it will automatically be bad, it could be good, but it will also be different.
Half-Life was always a gameplay-first series anyway. Everything exists in service of the gameplay loop. Of course if Half-Life 3 was made today it would look very different from a Half-Life 3 made in 2008 or 2010 or 2015, not just in gameplay but in the story that would shift in service of the gameplay.
It is really cool to get some insight into where that story might have gone back in 2008 though.
I’ve been avoiding reading that because I still hold out hope. I think some community effort started up to do it; I wonder how that is going?