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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by utf985 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:26PM (#21575554)
Despite once being my favorite game series and developer and I stopped caring about Half-Life and Valve sometime around when they made it obvious they only care about milking their vapid Dota franchise and they have no interest in developing any of their core IPs. I can't force myself get excited about this even if someone paid me to. The ship has sailed a long time ago.
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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by rocky1138 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:52PM (#21575885)
The way I look at it is there was really no way to make Half Life 3 interesting while following their method of integrating emerging tech into it as a primary focus. Flat gaming on PC has been stale for a very long time. Now that we've got VR, there's finally a new and fresh thing to use in FPS games.
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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by nerfhammer on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @02:32PM (#21577211)
the real tragedy is we could have had like 10 portal sequels by now
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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by chihuahua on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:35PM (#21588810)
Personally I find Portal so enjoyable that I'm happy that I have the original Portal and Portal 2.

However, at a first glance it seems like it should have been relatively straightforward to create sequels that just have more levels. But maybe it's not that easy to actually do it.

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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by pugworthy on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:44PM (#21578634)
However, we'd be moaning about them rehashing the same IP over and over if they had done that.
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Re:Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed o... by erikpukinskis on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:51PM (#21586351)
You would?
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