Last, they released a side game that only a small percentage of the players could play—which is based on the leaked story of E3; it is the story, let's not kid ourselves—and decided to make it the link between E2 and HL3.

And now, they are mostly baiting the playerbase instead of releasing anything solid. Even if it gets released, I don't believe it will be the HL3 I was waiting for.

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

they released a side game that only a small percentage of the players could play—which is based on the leaked story of E3

I'm assuming you're referring to Epistle 3 by Laidlaw? In what way is HL:A based on that? I thought HL:A takes place before HL2 (minus the ending scene).

Personally I've come to terms with the fact that we'll probably never get a proper continuation of EP2 years ago. Like I said, I don't expect much from Valve at this point.
If the game comes out and it doesn't have bad writing and features interesting and innovative gameplay I'll be pleasantly surprised.
If the game comes out and it not only has interesting gameplay but also continues to follow the Story that EP2 set up I'll be very pleasantly surprised.
If the game comes out and it's overall OK but they retcon a bunch of stuff and make it so Aperture and the Borealis are no longer relevant, or worse, abandon the storyline for something completely different, then it's time to forget and play some more indie games! :)

Right now I'm mostly interested in what their current Half-Life Project even looks like.

[–] KoloradoKoolAid75@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I'm assuming you're referring to Epistle 3 by Laidlaw? In what way is HL:A based on that? I thought HL:A takes place before HL2 (minus the ending scene).

As I said, HL:A is based on Epistle 3, and in my assumption, other possible E3 scripts. HL:A and Epistle 3 have many parallel story events. It doesn't replaces the E3; it is an entirely separate game—just like OF, BS and Decay.

The Epistle 3 was a draft of the planned E3. Valve has a habit of constantly changing stuff in the board until the release of the games, so Epistle 3 is not the final E3 story.

Honestly, I'd rather have an E3 to conclude HL2 saga and a soft-rebooted HL3, like how HL2 is the soft reboot of HL1—same universe and story, but can be played separately from each other.

HL3 will retcon a ton of stuff because of HL:A's ending, so don't keep your hopes up.