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Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed

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If Alyx required a VR headset, Half-Life 3 is gonna require that brainchip.
- Valve has said on at least a couple occasions they don't really have interest in making games anymore, unless there is some new technology they get interested in that they can make a game around.
  
  The HL2 episodes were basically tests for different source engine technologies.
  
  Alyx was basically then playing around with VR.
  
  So yeah, I can totally see some weird fucked up thing like a brainchip being what HL3 is built around, if HL3 ever stops being anything more than a syphilitic hallucination of a desperate mind.
  
  All their games are tests for different technologies or business models. In hindsight, Gabe has never cared about the story of Half-Life. He just happened to have hired a good writer for HL1 and HL2 by accident. It's why I'm more interested in the fanon then the canon at this point. Half-Life: Echoes and Entropy: Zero are criminally underplayed.
Half-Life 4 confirmed!!!!
Cannot believe people are still talking about this 20 years later...
- Half-Life: Alyx came out 5 years ago…
  
  Right, that's not what's being discussed.
- To be fair we know that a HL Sequel was worked on by Valve several times but always scrapped in various stages of production. So the rumours really came from somewhere reasonable and not just from pure speculation and desperation.
As if anyone would still be around for Half-life 4 anyway
- Tbh my existenial paranoia kind of took it that HL3 would start irl and I was one of those civilian models.
Imagine getting HL3 before GTA6. The meme potential would be out of this world
- We've been needing something since Duke Nukem finally shipped.
  
  Still no Daikatana…
- Honestly I feel like the next Elder Scrolls would be a better example than GTA6.
Hey, I'll take anything over being stuck on the cliffhanger of Eli's death for 20 years, and wrap up the whole Combine story as best as possible.
- As TachyonTele suggested, you may want to play or read into Half Life Alyx. Time travel got involved.
  
  What if I don't have VR?
- That cliffhanger got addressed in Half-Life: Alyx. And replaced with a different cliffhanger.
But has it been designed to be the final Episode?

HL3:EP1 confirmed.
I'm far past the point of caring. I've moved on with my life
No.
Sorry I don't recognize that number.
- it doesn't look like anything to me
- It looks like a dog with no eyes. Now I'm sad
Bring back the Seattle Sonics if we are gonna be hopeful for things from 2 decades ago
TIL the grabby gloves thing I missed due to lack of VR gear wasn't HL3.
I'll believe it when it's out, but that would be the best decision, no one likes waiting 15 years between sequels.
- Only 15? Episode 2 came out in 2007.
  
  I was purposely avoiding doing the math to not feel old.
We wouldn't live long enough to see part 4 if there was one
Ya think? lol

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