Cool, but do I really feel like buying this game yet again? Still holding out for HL 3. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah I'm also saving my $0 for a better investment.
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update
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#22Only three more years until Team Fortress 2 hits a similar milestone. Which is crazy to think about, because I still play it online at least once a week.
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#23Can't wait to see episode 3. There have been some rumors they might be working on it, but I'm not holding my breath anymore.
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#24Direct link to the 20th anniversary documentary: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also I highly recommend Black Mesa, which is the remake of HL1 in the HL2 engine. The Xen levels went from what they were to possibly some of my favorite levels in the game, and the music scoring is top-notch. It feels great to play.
Black Mesa is also 75% off right now, incidentally. Seems like everything Half Life is either free or on deep discount for the anniversary.
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#26Can't wait to see episode 3. There have been some rumors they might be working on it, but I'm not holding my breath anymore.
Kotaku:
> In a new two-hour documentary from Valve, current and former members of the company talk openly about the creation of Half-Life 2 as well as finally spilling the beans on what happened to Episode 3, and even showing gameplay of early prototypes of the canceled game.
The two hour documentary was just uploaded like an hour ago, so presumably nobody has watched it completely yet.
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#27I extremely recommend scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page for this one.
Heh doesn’t work on Safari for me.
edit: on iPhone
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#2820-25 years ago a handful of companies had a weird hold on me. I’d jump on anything Google made back then. Blizzard could sell me any game they came up with. If it was from Blizzard, it was gonna be great. Lost all of it obviously. Not a single company has my loyalty anymore. Except if valve were to release a mystery black box with faint lambda symbol on it. I’d pay whatever they asked for it.
> Not a single company has my loyalty anymore. FromSoft
I gotta have my poison bogs
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#2920-25 years ago a handful of companies had a weird hold on me. I’d jump on anything Google made back then. Blizzard could sell me any game they came up with. If it was from Blizzard, it was gonna be great. Lost all of it obviously. Not a single company has my loyalty anymore. Except if valve were to release a mystery black box with faint lambda symbol on it. I’d pay whatever they asked for it.
> Not a single company has my loyalty anymore. FromSoft
Besides FromSoft as perhaps the exception to the rule as a subsidary to Kadokawa, private companies seem to be keeping their shit together fairly consistently. Larian and Wube are a pair of solid examples, although Valve is probably the most outstanding example.
Game developers and publishers start shitting the bed when they IPO and need to juggle the conflicting interests of managing investor relations as well as customer demands; that or when they're acquired and turned into a subsidiary.
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#30Nice, I wonder when the third documentary will be out