Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Guest]

OH SHIT! HALF-LIFE 3 IS REAL!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/half-life-3-trademark-filed-by-valve?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Hate to burst your bubble, but it is possible that Valve just Trademarked Half-Life 3 so no one else could use it.

However the half-life franchise is already trademarked.  It wouldn't be legal to do that anyhow.

Eh, just saying, it's not official. I could be wrong, but without an actual announcement for all we know it's nothing more then just paper work.

[Guest]

Is there really any doubt on whether or not valve is going to make Half life 3? I really don't see the point in digging for clues.

[CamoBadger]

OH SHIT! HALF-LIFE 3 IS REAL!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/half-life-3-trademark-filed-by-valve?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Hate to burst your bubble, but it is possible that Valve just Trademarked Half-Life 3 so no one else could use it.

This is my belief as well.

[cb5]

OH SHIT! HALF-LIFE 3 IS REAL!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/half-life-3-trademark-filed-by-valve?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Hate to burst your bubble, but it is possible that Valve just Trademarked Half-Life 3 so no one else could use it.

This is my belief as well.

And that the leak a couple months ago has forty people being listed as currently working on it? Awefully strange coincidence.

[CamoBadger]

OH SHIT! HALF-LIFE 3 IS REAL!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/half-life-3-trademark-filed-by-valve?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Hate to burst your bubble, but it is possible that Valve just Trademarked Half-Life 3 so no one else could use it.

This is my belief as well.

And that the leak a couple months ago has forty people being listed as currently working on it?  Awefully strange coincidence.

I'll believe it when they make an official announcement. Not a day sooner.

[Guest]

OH SHIT! HALF-LIFE 3 IS REAL!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/half-life-3-trademark-filed-by-valve?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Hate to burst your bubble, but it is possible that Valve just Trademarked Half-Life 3 so no one else could use it.

This is my belief as well.

And that the leak a couple months ago has forty people being listed as currently working on it?  Awefully strange coincidence.

I'll believe it when they make an official announcement. Not a day sooner.

Exactly as a company, Valve can have plenty of projects they are"Working on" but never get done. Until they say something, I'm with Camo.

[RoboRed]

*is completely and utterly apathetic towards the whole "Half Life 3" situation*

[cb5]

OH SHIT! HALF-LIFE 3 IS REAL!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/half-life-3-trademark-filed-by-valve?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Hate to burst your bubble, but it is possible that Valve just Trademarked Half-Life 3 so no one else could use it.

This is my belief as well.

And that the leak a couple months ago has forty people being listed as currently working on it?  Awefully strange coincidence.

I'll believe it when they make an official announcement. Not a day sooner.

We'll probably find out sooner or later cause valve is leakier than the nsa.

[Scyto Harmony]

OH SHIT! HALF-LIFE 3 IS REAL!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/01/half-life-3-trademark-filed-by-valve?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

Hate to burst your bubble, but it is possible that Valve just Trademarked Half-Life 3 so no one else could use it.

This is my belief as well.

And that the leak a couple months ago has forty people being listed as currently working on it?  Awefully strange coincidence.

I'll believe it when they make an official announcement. Not a day sooner.

We'll probably find out sooner or later cause valve is leakier than the nsa.

Y'Think? They might just be doing this to mess with us again. 

Valve also, it would appear, doesn't want to make Half-Life 3. Their 'No bosses' system at the company also includes a system where they only make games if they fell like it.

[Frost]

*is completely and utterly apathetic towards the whole "Half Life 3" situation*

*Robo is voted off the island*

[RoboRed]

[Moodyman90]

I'm with Robo on this.

But that could be due to the fact I never played any of the Half Life games.

I know I know, it's a classic game, physics, head crabs, gravity guns and the like. And while I make my fair share of "Valve can't count to 3 jokes", at this point in time they're kinda screwed.
If they make Half Life 3, and doesn't do the whole Episode thing either, and wrap up the story, people would still want more. Especially if, heaven forbid, Half Life 3 turns out to be bad. Or at least decent but not "SUPER AWESOME AMAZING GORDEN FREEMAN CROWBAR!" like the years of hype have built it up to.

[RoboRed]

I played Half Life 2. It was good for a bit, but then got boring.

[Scyto Harmony]

I'm not huge into the Hype for HL3 - If it never came out, I'd be fine with it.

But "Then it got boring" Robo!? You sir, have no appreciation for my, like, fifth favourite video game.

[Stringtheory]

I played Half Life 2. It was good for a bit, but then got boring.

Which part got boring? There are a few parts which do drag on I have to admit.

[Guest]

You guys needed to play HL2 when the physics stuff was still at the height of cool, and when the Source engine didn't look ultra-dated (assuming you didn't; if you did, guess it just wasn't for you). I don't think it was even close to a perfect game, but it had some of the best sequences I've ever played in a video game, and it's one of those rare FPSes that I replayed (with mods, mind) over and over again during a period of about 2/3 years.

Let's talk dirty to the animals:

[CamoBadger]

What if the only reason everyone claims HL2 was so amazing is because they need a reason to validate how long they've waited for part 3?

[cb5]

I'm not huge into the Hype for HL3 - If it never came out, I'd be fine with it.

But "Then it got boring" Robo!? You sir, have no appreciation for my, like, fifth favourite video game.

The reason for the hype over HL2 is that in a world of countless hours grinding xp or trying to get new guns back in the day they set the bar for story driven shooters.  Sure it's a linear game, but they never once do the, "do this optional sidequest that could finish the game without, but you're fucked if you don't" trope. . Oh and that enemies do have to reload.  That pisses me off in video games when a enemy is using a pistol like a machine gun.

What if the only reason everyone claims HL2 was so amazing is because they need a reason to validate how long they've waited for part 3?

What if the reason why everyone claims mlp is so amazing is because they need a reason to validate the wait between seasons? :V
And yes that is sarcasm.  My point is that people really do like half life 2 and that the whole "people don't really like it" logic is one of the oldest argument points on the internet.  An example of it is how people to this date claim no one actually likes mlp and uses this logic for it cause it relies on the no true scotsman argument.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Never played any half life game.
No opinion on anything regarding this conversation.
Thought I'd post anyway.
Sorta the thing we do here.

or more adequately

[Scyto Harmony]

Never played any half life game.
No opinion on anything regarding this conversation.
Thought I'd post anyway.
Sorta the thing we do here.

Talk out of our ass on subjects we don't know anything about? We're fucking experts. We should form our own Government.

[Frost]

Personally, while I can't say I totally fell in love with Half-Life (or any videogame. Or anything, really) I definitely enjoyed it, and I got invested enough in the story and characters to want to see the story through to its conclusion.

So here's hoping they get Adrian Shepherd in the new game, whenever it comes.

[cb5]

Personally, while I can't say I totally fell in love with Half-Life (or any videogame. Or anything, really) I definitely enjoyed it, and I got invested enough in the story and characters to want to see the story through to its conclusion.

So here's hoping they get Adrian Shepherd in the new game, whenever it comes.

Nah, Shephard has gotten the go ahead from valve to allow a group of fans to make opposing force 2. You know how valve allowed black mesa to be made? Rather than make opposing force two they are letting a group of people make opposing force two also. The funny thing is that the guy who did shephard's mind is going to be voicing shephard in the game as well. Last I checked they're about 70% of the way done with the game. Most of the voice acting is already done and that, most of the work that still needs to be done is bringing the game up to today's standards and redoing the old 2006 character models into modern models and such.

And no it's not the black mesa team working on it, the black mesa team is finishing up their game completely separately.

[RoboRed]

I played Half Life 2. It was good for a bit, but then got boring.

Which part got boring? There are a few parts which do drag on I have to admit.

I don't remember, it's been too long. I know I got annoyed at one point and just wasn't interested enough to find out what happened next.

Although I did get to experience going through Ravenholm.
At night, in the basement, lights off, with headphones on.

[Frost]

Personally, while I can't say I totally fell in love with Half-Life (or any videogame. Or anything, really) I definitely enjoyed it, and I got invested enough in the story and characters to want to see the story through to its conclusion.

So here's hoping they get Adrian Shepherd in the new game, whenever it comes.

Nah, Shephard has gotten the go ahead from valve to allow a group of fans to make opposing force 2.  You know how valve allowed black mesa to be made?  Rather than make opposing force two they are letting a group of people make opposing force two also.  The funny thing is that the guy who did shephard's mind is going to be voicing shephard in the game as well.  Last I checked they're about 70% of the way done with the game.  Most of the voice acting is already done and that, most of the work that still needs to be done is bringing the game up to today's standards and redoing the old 2006 character models into modern models and such.

And no it's not the black mesa team working on it, the black mesa team is finishing up their game completely separately.

Fun fact: the Spore Launcher (the green biological grenade launcher) is the larval form of the Shock Trooper, the big-ass four-armed motherfuckers that make the core enemies of Opposing Force. Meaning Shepard's answer to Dog will be an eight-foot monster that thinks Shepard's his dad, assuming that the alien has grown up between games.

Also, they'll have absolutely no excuse to start him off unarmed, as Shepard has a Shock Roach (the lightning-spewing spider-crab-thing) permanently latched onto his arm like a parasite/symbiote.

[cb5]

Fun fact: the Spore Launcher (the green biological grenade launcher) is the larval form of the Shock Trooper, the big-ass four-armed motherfuckers that make the core enemies of Opposing Force. Meaning Shepard's answer to Dog will be an eight-foot monster that thinks Shepard's his dad, assuming that the alien has grown up between games.

Also, they'll have absolutely no excuse to start him off unarmed, as Shepard has a Shock Roach (the lightning-spewing spider-crab-thing) permanently latched onto his arm like a parasite/symbiote.

I knew that already. Trying to find something I don't know about the half life universe is like a game of where's waldo. . . And yes I do know about the ciphers. . and yes I do know what they translate out too.

[Harmony Ltd.]

@ Frost :

Starring Adrian Sheppard, in

Half Life : Prototype

[Scyto Harmony]

Personally, while I can't say I totally fell in love with Half-Life (or any videogame. Or anything, really) I definitely enjoyed it, and I got invested enough in the story and characters to want to see the story through to its conclusion.

So here's hoping they get Adrian Shepherd in the new game, whenever it comes.

Nah, Shephard has gotten the go ahead from valve to allow a group of fans to make opposing force 2.  You know how valve allowed black mesa to be made?  Rather than make opposing force two they are letting a group of people make opposing force two also.  The funny thing is that the guy who did shephard's mind is going to be voicing shephard in the game as well.  Last I checked they're about 70% of the way done with the game.  Most of the voice acting is already done and that, most of the work that still needs to be done is bringing the game up to today's standards and redoing the old 2006 character models into modern models and such.

And no it's not the black mesa team working on it, the black mesa team is finishing up their game completely separately.

Fun fact: the Spore Launcher (the green biological grenade launcher) is the larval form of the Shock Trooper, the big-ass four-armed motherfuckers that make the core enemies of Opposing Force. Meaning Shepard's answer to Dog will be an eight-foot monster that thinks Shepard's his dad, assuming that the alien has grown up between games.

Also, they'll have absolutely no excuse to start him off unarmed, as Shepard has a Shock Roach (the lightning-spewing spider-crab-thing) permanently latched onto his arm like a parasite/symbiote.

Do you have links for that? I'm a big lover of HL lore and I didn't know about that.



... And thanks to this conversation, I'm going to spend another sleepless night on all the Wiki's, looking up stuffs.

[Frost]

Do you have links for that? I'm a big lover of HL lore and I didn't know about that.


... And thanks to this conversation, I'm going to spend another sleepless night on all the Wiki's, looking up stuffs.

Shepard's weapon, the Spore Launcher, is the infant form of the Shock Trooper. Both Shepard and Shock Troopers use Shock Roaches

[Scyto Harmony]

Do you have links for that? I'm a big lover of HL lore and I didn't know about that.


... And thanks to this conversation, I'm going to spend another sleepless night on all the Wiki's, looking up stuffs.

Shepard's weapon, the Spore Launcher, is the infant form of the Shock Trooper. Both Shepard and Shock Troopers use Shock Roaches

So you are correct. The only thing sexier then your voice is your knowledge of parasites.

[Frost]

Do you have links for that? I'm a big lover of HL lore and I didn't know about that.


... And thanks to this conversation, I'm going to spend another sleepless night on all the Wiki's, looking up stuffs.

Shepard's weapon, the Spore Launcher, is the infant form of the Shock Trooper. Both Shepard and Shock Troopers use Shock Roaches

So you are correct. The only thing sexier then your voice is your knowledge of parasites.

Oh, and they can vomit grenades periodically and teleport more-or-less at will.

People talk about how, if they could, they'd become ponies and move to Equestria. I'd become a fuckin' Shock Trooper if I could, man. Four arms, teleporting, super-strength, grenade vomit and lightning-parasites. They fuckin' win Evolution forever.

Also, I'm the one with the rather high-pitched scratchy voice. You're think of Iron for the deep, sexy one.

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