This is an interesting take, especially coming from a non-gaming focused tech website like Ars Technica. I feel like it’s been too long since people were truly hyped about half life 3 though, and this wouldn’t be enough, even if Valve did go through with it.
People are increasingly unhappy with windows though, and the EoL of windows 10 may push people to Linux anyways.
Also, make the names of save files case sensitive, and name them like:
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The same could be argued about HL:Alyx for VR, yet here we are…
VR has a major physical problem that no one has been able to solve: Nausea.
I feel bad for people who do but I’ve never gotten nauseous from VR. Maybe it doesn’t need to be for everyone? I haven’t played HL Alyx but from what I’ve heard it’s heavily crippled and reduced compared to something like Boneworks because it tries to accommodate those with motion sickness etc
It’s always funny to see periodicals talk about Valve like they’re a normal puplicly traded tech company.
Valve is private. That fact alone is neither inherently good, nor bad. What it means though, is that Valve will very likely behave very differently than other companies in the same market. Heck, I very much doubt half life Alyx would exist if they were public. If we get HL3, it will likely be a similar case.
Valve is private. That fact alone is neither inherently good, nor bad.
I’m leaning towards being a public company is inherently bad, so being a private company is preferable as the primary “not bad” option.
My main experiences with public companies lately is that they prioritize quarterly and yearly profits over long term health of the company and a good relationship with their customers. I don’t think that approach will be healthy for the company long term, and hurts consumers short term.
Privately owned companies can be just as shitty as publicly owned companies, but they’re not required to put short term shareholder profits first. The well run ones (especially family run ones) are more likely to prioritize building a good reputation and consumer loyalty, which is how you get companies that don’t suck to interact with.
You make good points, but I doubt you’d continue to feel that way if you were a shareholder
won’t somebody think of those poor poor shareholders
Exclusivity is bad for gamers. We should reject it at all times.
Inclusivity then again means that even nazis should be allowed to game if they behave.
Making HL3 only GNU/Linux exclusive would be the gigachadest thing ever done. Well even better than exclusivity. Make the game playable on windows but only with a downgrade in performance or need of emulation, like the whole industry has made with GNU/Linux.
Imagine if the Windows version requires WSL to work.
There is no chance Valve will make HL3 SteamOS or Linux exclusive.
There is no chance Valve will make HL3
SteamOS or Linux exclusive.I think it will get made someday but likely will suck and/or be too late for anyone to really care
It won’t suck because Valve playtests the hell out of their games, but it might be bland/old fashioned feeling. The biggest issue with Valve is that they’ve really lost their edge. They used to be this young scrappy company that would innovate as easily as breathe, but over time they’ve begun to become so senior-heavy that now they just foster promising talents more than actually produce games.
is everyone forgetting that they made half life alyx? valve hasn’t lost their edge, they just operate on doing things they want to do, and they don’t want to make “half life 2 episode 15”
bland/old fashioned feeling.
Would be described as sucking by many
A competent, fun-to-play game that does nothing new doesn’t suck IMO, thus the distinction.
Saying anything that doesn’t do something new or exciting sucks is a pretty bad take IMO.
Like you wouldn’t say a new horror movie sucks just because it’s about a serial killer holding a family captive in their house and there’s like 50 movies with that premise already, y’know? Execution counts and Valve is still amazing at execution, is my main point. They would absolutely make a fun game that feels intuitive to play with great level design. It just might not necessarily be anything special in terms of mechanics. Mechanically I haven’t seen much new from them since maybe Portal 2.
Half Life 3 has been out for years and I’m absolutely sick of this mental retardation. It’s called Alyx and you don’t play as Gordon, get the fuck over it already, it’s been years.
LOL, those downvotes. Cope fuckers. 😂
i’m sure the downvotes are for your opinion and definitely not because you said “retardation”. totally.
Cry about it? 🤷
Yeah, stupid memes are exactly what we need. Just like the cybertruck was exactly the meme tesla needed, right?
I don’t know who the fuck even wrote this trash, and I’m not dignifying the article with a click to find out, but I’m dumber now just for having read the title.
