Half-Life: Alyx - Valve's full-length flagship VR game set between HL1 and HL2

[Metro]

Remember when Valve made games and not gimmicks to sell their shitty marginalized tech? Gabe became Howard Hughes about a decade ago.

 

[lophiaspis]

Greg Coomer

 

[Tacgnol]

True, there's even a commentary in Episode Two which describes one scripted sequence as being developped for Episode Three but it looked cool and was ready enough they decided to move it to the earlier episode. I wonder what exactly happened that derailed the whole episodic approach - I understand the time between releases wasn't short enough, which made the episodes make no sense, but something had to happen that made them stop working on anything new at all...

The way things are done at Valve is basically you work on what you want to work on. No one wanted to work on episode 3 or HL3. That's why it never happened.

I'm sure there was an interview a while back where Gabe said people kept reviving the project and getting nowhere with it.

Point being, I'm not sure there was zero desire, but there seemed to be a lot of trouble getting anything off the ground.

 

[ADL]

I'm sure there was an interview a while back where Gabe said people kept reviving the project and getting nowhere with it.

Point being, I'm not sure there was zero desire, but there seemed to be a lot of trouble getting anything off the ground.

I'd be surprised if they ever end up doing Half-Life 2 Episode 3 as a standalone project rather than just a quick 20 minute prologue leading into yet another time skip given that Epistle 3 is accepted as canon by the fans, Project Borealis being a thing and the team seemingly wanting to do something dramatically different.

I'm not convinced that Alyx isn't Episode 3 in one form or another. There's a reason why they're telling people to play Episode 2 before Alyx releases.


Project Borealis is looking good.

 

[DalekFlay]

Hope you guys like VR:

Half-Life: Alyx more than doubled Valve Index sales in 2019

 

[Venser]

They would sell A LOT more but the production can't keep up with the demand. Unfortunately you can't buy the Index right now.

 

[Citizen]

Do you guys not have VR sets

 

[Ranselknulf]

My body is ready.

https://www.amazon.com/Avegant-Glyph-AG101-Video-Headsets/dp/B01MQWK336

 

[Morgoth]

 

[The Decline]

Do you guys not have VR sets

I actually do, but I've never used it. Been sitting in its box since I got it as a prize a while back.

 

[LESS T_T]

I wonder if they intentionally chose that date, because 23, 2 to 3 or something. I think Monday release, especially for big games, is not common.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Hope you guys like VR:

Half-Life: Alyx more than doubled Valve Index sales in 2019

Yeah but what were the numbers?

Because double a shit number of units sold is still shit.

 

[soulburner]

I hope someone mods it so it's playable without the VR headset. I'm a poor potato and can't trade food for an entertainment device I already spend too much on games themselves.

 

[GhostCow]

I hope someone mods it so it's playable without the VR headset. I'm a poor potato and can't trade food for an entertainment device I already spend too much on games themselves.

Same for me but because I'm blind in one eye and don't want to buy an expensive headset or waste computing power on a second screen that does nothing for me

 

[Wunderbar]

 

[Morgoth]

I hope someone mods it so it's playable without the VR headset. I'm a poor potato and can't trade food for an entertainment device I already spend too much on games themselves.

I could afford it, but I just don't like to buy a gadget for one or two must-have exclusives. Same with consoles. It's illogical, and it looks stupid anyway.

Modders will hopefully fix it.

 

[Venser]

The game was built around motion controls and the feeling of interacting with objects with your own hands, so if it gets modded it's gonna be a bastardized version that completely misses the point.

 

[OctavianRomulus]

Wish I had the money for the hardware required for this. This is the future, just like 3D graphics were the future in the 90s.

 

[DalekFlay]

The game was built around motion controls and the feeling of interacting with objects with your own hands, so if it gets modded it's gonna be a bastardized version that completely misses the point.

I have zero interest in a game like that, and others who share my opinion should just accept the game isn't for you. You don't have to play everything.

 

[OctavianRomulus]

The game was built around motion controls and the feeling of interacting with objects with your own hands, so if it gets modded it's gonna be a bastardized version that completely misses the point.

I have zero interest in a game like that, and others who share my opinion should just accept the game isn't for you. You don't have to play everything.

I agree. Not everyone had the money for a 3D accelerator in the 90s or a powerful GPU for Crysis. This is the same thing now and I am glad Half Life is he face of it. Just another HL2 episode with better graphics and maybe a gimmick gun would not cut it. It has to be groundbreaking.

 

[Sentinel]

You could play Crysis on a shit GPU. It was maxing it that was the problem. I played through it on a 1600XT with 256MB VRAM. The VR hardware situation isn't even comparable.

 

[OctavianRomulus]

You could play Crysis on a shit GPU. It was maxing it that was the problem. I played through it on a 1600XT with 256MB VRAM. The VR hardware situation isn't even comparable.

Well I had a GeForce 4 and I had a pretty shit time with it. It ran badly even on my GTS 250, which was basically a better GTX 9800. Finally, the frame dipped even on my 2011 HD 6970.

 

[Sentinel]

You could play Crysis on a shit GPU. It was maxing it that was the problem. I played through it on a 1600XT with 256MB VRAM. The VR hardware situation isn't even comparable.

Well I had a GeForce 4 and I had a pretty shit time with it. It ran badly even on my GTS 250, which was basically a better GTX 9800. Finally, the frame dipped even on my 2011 HD 6970.

And all you had to do was upgrade your GPU. For HL:Alyx/VR games you need not only to upgrade your hardware but you also need special controllers©, headset™, and base stations® just to play a fucking game.

 

[OctavianRomulus]

You could play Crysis on a shit GPU. It was maxing it that was the problem. I played through it on a 1600XT with 256MB VRAM. The VR hardware situation isn't even comparable.

Well I had a GeForce 4 and I had a pretty shit time with it. It ran badly even on my GTS 250, which was basically a better GTX 9800. Finally, the frame dipped even on my 2011 HD 6970.

And all you had to do was upgrade your GPU. For HL:Alyx/VR games you need not only to upgrade your hardware but you also need special controllers©, headset™, and base stations® just to play a fucking game.

Well yeah, 3D accelerators were not that accessible back in the 90s either. People thought id were crazy for requiring one for Quake 3.

I want some innovation, I want the next big thing. Everything is becoming more boring. If this game kickstarts a new revolution like HL1 did then I am all for it.

 

[Morgoth]

I want some innovation, I want the next big thing.