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Nintendo?
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Nintendon't 45 22.73%
Nintendoomed 22 11.11%
Nintendrone 13 6.57%
Nintendovahkiin 55 27.78%
Nintend'oh! 63 31.82%
Total: 198 votes
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Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/


HL3 is officially dead.

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Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

what the hell is this

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Macarius Wrench posted:

I wonder if the people who are capable of enjoying Life is Strange are the exact same people who are able to sit throgh Twin Peaks?

That sounds far more pretentious than I'm intending it too but they just seem to both tick the box of being pretentious gobshite.

Twin Peaks is the opposite of pretentious.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Olive Garden tonight! posted:

what the hell is this

It's exactly what it looks like. Laidlaw posted the HL3 script.

HL3 is never coming out.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



huh. that seems neat. shame they couldn't coalesce the project for whatever reason.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




LawfulWaffle posted:

Yakuza 2 is getting an HD remake

Thank god

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



i assume the 18 months means that marc laidlaw left valve in february of 2016?

edit: january. matches up.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Can someone do a find and replace to make it use the HL3 words and not be totally annoying to read

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!

Grapplejack posted:

It's exactly what it looks like. Laidlaw posted the HL3 script.

HL3 is never coming out.

Nah fans will just cobble together their own Episode 3 together. That's always been a possible scenario.

If for some reason they ever really needed an Episode 3/HL3 announcement (Not the game, just the actual announcement. I dunno like if they ever really get into some deep poo poo PR wise and need a surefire fix) they'd show up as a part of some conference with a twenty-second trailer that's just the lambda symbol followed by the number 3. Tacky yes, but just like the Metroid Prime 4 announcement tease it would be enough to drive the entire internet into a frenzy. Details are unimportant in this moment, the impossible has been made possible.

Ten to fifteen minutes later after that we'd find out that it would be "Made by the fans, for the fans" and various teams could be funded through Kickstarter and/or Patreon. That solves the problem of pretty much none of the original creatives still around at Valve to help make it themselves anymore.

Valve will let teams put up every build for sale on Steam and everyone will be happy.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



homeless snail posted:

Can someone do a find and replace to make it use the HL3 words and not be totally annoying to read

it's not super hard dude they're all basically genderswapped spoonerisms.

gertie fremont = gordon freeman
elly vaunt = eli vance
alex vaunt = alyx vance
judith mossman = jerry moss
disparate = combine
wanda bree = wallace breen
hyperborea = borealis

edit mrs. x = g-man obviously

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015


that could've been pretty cool, if it had come out years ago

Tuxedo Catfish
Mar 17, 2007

You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.

Cowcaster posted:

it's not super hard dude they're all basically genderswapped spoonerisms.

it doesn't have to be "super hard" to be too obnoxious to waste your time on

like why would you make an incredibly unpopular announcement even more obnoxious on purpose

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



ghastlyhaunts = vortigaunts

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Tuxedo Catfish posted:

it doesn't have to be "super hard" to be too obnoxious to waste your time on

like why would you make an incredibly unpopular announcement even more obnoxious

well blow it out your rear end then

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
I don't even remember the plot of Half Life 2

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



filthy tattooed millenial: durr uhh reading is hard???

me, wise, watching famous youtuber commentary on this event after patiently waiting for them to interpret it for me:

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

hyped as heck they hired the harry potter lady to write half life 3

vermin
Feb 28, 2017

Help, I've turned into a manifestation of mental disorders as viewed through an early 20th century lens sparked by the disparity between man and modern society and I can't get up
edit: gently caress that

Here it is on a pastebin with all the words changed back

https://pastebin.com/r7LXeK8z

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

titanfall 2 was half life 3

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?


lol

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Half Life 2 is probably the worst game ever released in the 2000s

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

The only one worse is DOTA1 but that was fan mod and they didn't know what hell they would unleash kn the world

psychoJ
Feb 24, 2011

Smart and cool, handsome, wealthy and so sexy

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

In Training posted:

Half Life 2 is probably the worst game ever released in the 2000s

ok look i'm sorry no matter how much you don't like the cutscenes in half-life 2 and what it led to for a decade of fps design it's still not worse than mega man x7

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Actually I think that they didn't realise the damage Half Life 2 would cause and DOTA2 was the intentional one.

There would totally be a bad Portal 3 by now if the Portal 2 hats weren't such a dud.

Raserys
Aug 22, 2011

IT'S YA BOY

What is this a pun on

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

vermin posted:

edit: gently caress that

Here it is on a pastebin with all the words changed back

https://pastebin.com/r7LXeK8z

Guess Half Life 3 finally faced... full life consequences

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Raserys posted:

What is this a pun on

Not see = Nazi = alt-right

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

The Colonel posted:

ok look i'm sorry no matter how much you don't like the cutscenes in half-life 2 and what it led to for a decade of fps design it's still not worse than mega man x7

Nobody gave a poo poo about X7 even though it's really really bad. X7 isn't even the worst Capcom game!!

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



vermin posted:

edit: gently caress that

Here it is on a pastebin with all the words changed back

https://pastebin.com/r7LXeK8z

I'm glad they didn't release this

Tuxedo Catfish
Mar 17, 2007

You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.

In Training posted:

Half Life 2 is probably the worst game ever released in the 2000s

lol

I HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!
I wonder if that cliffhanger was meant to imply the next game proper would have starred Alyx and this was going to be their way of "Retiring" Gordon.

At least it ends better than how Episode 2 does.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

I'm glad they didn't release this

Just release the loving game, you don't have to string your fanbase along for years and years while jerking yourselves off with microtransactions.

Tuxedo Catfish
Mar 17, 2007

You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.
Half-Life 2 isn't even the worst game of that era in terms of the influence it had on FPS design, seeing as Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Half-Life 2 isn't even the worst game of that era in terms of the influence it had on FPS design, seeing as Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001.

halo didn't have lovely crate puzzles

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012

Grapplejack posted:

Just release the loving game, you don't have to string your fanbase along for years and years while jerking yourselves off with microtransactions.

I don't want to play Gordon Freetoplay

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Half-Life 2 isn't even the worst game of that era in terms of the influence it had on FPS design, seeing as Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001.

Halo is cool

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

corn in the bible posted:

halo didn't have lovely crate puzzles

Only being able to hold two weapons at once is worse than anything HL 2 did

vermin
Feb 28, 2017

Help, I've turned into a manifestation of mental disorders as viewed through an early 20th century lens sparked by the disparity between man and modern society and I can't get up
They were so busy building an empire of hats they never stopped to consider if they should

e: Empire of Hats is my Zybourne Clock expansion pack

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Tuxedo Catfish
Mar 17, 2007

You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.

Sakurazuka posted:

Only being able to hold two weapons at once is worse than anything HL 2 did

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