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Half Life 3 already happened and it was called Half Life: Alyx.
by dom96 3y ago
Half Life 3 already happened and it was called Half Life: Alyx.
- account42 3y agoIt's not a proper Half-Life game if you don't play as Gordon Freeman. Alyx also misses many of the things that made the HL series great and replaces them with "modern" game design anti-features. Not looking forward to future HL games going even further in that direction. The new voice actor doesn't even sound anything like alyx FFS and her lines are a perfect argument why the silent protagonist in the HL games was not a mistake.
- vbeeaz 3y ago[flagged]
- LtWorf 3y agovr only
- solardev 3y agoIt's VR only.
- Timon3 3y agoAside from the obvious meaning of your comment - there is a mod which makes Alyx playable without VR: https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR
- capableweb 3y agoJust like a lot of early 3D PC games weren't possible to play without a graphics accelerator card (GPU for you younglings) which not a lot of people had, these new VR games are not possible to play without VR hardware. Doesn't mean early 3D PC games weren't PC games, and it doesn't mean that contemporary VR games aren't also PC games.
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- stetrain 3y agoI played it fine on my PC. But I have a VR headset for my PC. I'm not sure that makes it not a PC game. In the 90s you might have needed to buy a graphics card or sound card to play a game, but it was still a PC game.
- vbeeaz 3y agoAll games ended up needing a GPU and a soundcard - in fact they became so necessary that all CPUs and motherboards today come with a GPU and a soundcard respectively. While VR headsets were a gimmick of the moment. (Yes I know some CPUs come with no GPU but that's because you will buy a discrete GPU which only furthers my point)
- lawlessone 3y agoI think it's VR only.
- tshaddox 3y agoAnd was played (and playable) by almost no one, sadly.
- kulahan 3y agoa really incredible VR game though
- hotnfresh 3y agoI’m waiting for an update that lets me play it without VR. I’m probably never going to have a VR rig that’ll play it. My wife has a couple for work (not capable of playing that game, though) and we’re both free to use them for whatever we like, but never bother. Certainly not gonna pay for a headset just for one game. I have enough barely-used electronic crap around as it is.
- solardev 3y agoI tried it in VR for half an hour or so. It was really nice compared to most VR shovelware. High production values, fun interactivity, etc. But remove the VR and you're left with an above-average short FPS that would've been entirely unremarkable if not for the Half-Life tie-in. If they released it for non VR, it would probably get trashed just for not being HL3. Honestly I don't think you're missing much. It's a good VR game only because the bar for VR gaming in general is so much lower.
- Bluecobra 3y ago
- ender341341 3y agoAlyx was really good (though I'm a wuss and couldn't finish it) but not a continuation of the cliffhanger that we've been sitting on for 16 years since episode 2.
- SteveNuts 3y agoWhen/if HL3 is announced, I actually believe it might break parts of the internet.
- ascagnel_ 3y agoA decade ago, yes. Valve was riding high on the dual successes of Dota 2 and Portal 2, we were only 6 years out from HL2Ep2, and CS:GO was newly released. Today, not so much. Aside from a prequel, the series had been dormant for as longer than it had been alive (11 years alive 1998-2007, 13 years dormant 2007-2020), and the prequel required a pricey hardware peripheral to run. It’d get attention, but it wouldn’t be that big of a deal at this point.
- account42 3y ago*interquel - Alyx takes place after HL1.
- dabluecaboose 3y agoMild HL:ALyx spoiler: If you'd actually finished the game, you'd know that it does continue that cliffhanger (briefly)
- TheFreim 3y agoCliffhanger A swapped with Cliffhanger B
- debugnik 3y agoNo spoilers then, but the ending of Alyx does retcon the old cliffhanger.