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Given the suddenly price increase from the Steam Deck, Im not particularly excited to learn of the monster price this thing is going to have... We are literally getting priced out of our hobbies, as if the world couldnt get bleaker and gayer
I hadn't really planned on buying it or the controller for the foreseeable future, only when prices died down (never). the only one I had my eyes on was the frame, and I remember hearing a rumor that Alyx wasn't even going to be natively supported, and if thats true I have no intention of buying that one either. For me at least, Steam Machine is kind of a means to an end.
The only things we’re getting at GameFest this year is more live service Concordlikes, Nintendo sequels and pretentious movie games. Have some narcan to go with your hopium, because it’s over.
I hadn't really planned on buying it or the controller for the foreseeable future, only when prices died down (never). the only one I had my eyes on was the frame, and I remember hearing a rumor that Alyx wasn't even going to be natively supported, and if thats true I have no intention of buying that one either. For me at least, Steam Machine is kind of a means to an end.
I was saving myself for marriage from buying the Steam Deck when 2 is on the horizon and the Steam Machine looked attractive due to the fact that some personal changes in my life will lead me to travel somewhat frequently. I was already bracing myself for a high price but after Valve already increased the prices of the regular Steam Deck, it only proves to me that damage still hasnt been done (or at least the effects are still not finished...affecting) and the prices are actually going to be higher than I fucking thought.
Whats the use for bread and circus when the bread is stale and the circus is too expensive?
The only things we’re getting at GameFest this year is more live service Concordlikes, Nintendo sequels and pretentious movie games. Have some narcan to go with your hopium, because it’s over.
I'm still betting on announcement near/with steam machine. SGF, like the VGA, is a no go and just used for drumming up hype to get people like me from a couple months ago to waste an entire night on ragebait.
I'm still going to watch it so I can laugh at "content" we get shown, oh and maybe something about the Doom TDA DLC.
I was saving myself for marriage from buying the Steam Deck when 2 is on the horizon and the Steam Machine looked attractive due to the fact that some personal changes in my life will lead me to travel somewhat frequently. I was already bracing myself for a high price but after Valve already increased the prices of the regular Steam Deck, it only proves to me that damage still hasnt been done (or at least the effects are still not finished...affecting) and the prices are actually going to be higher than I fucking thought.
Whats the use for bread and circus when the bread is stale and the circus is too expensive?
Episode One is now officially 20 years old today, a whole two decades. It has now been 20 years since we have last seen City 17 in the Source engine, and 20 years since we have last seen Barney Calhoun.
Hot take: Episode One is better than base Half-Life 2
I had a shitton of fun recently just dumping "counter-life"'s files into basically any other hl mod: it obvs breaks the end of opforce bc none of the gearbox stuff is present, but any og hl mod works! just use the gibs knife gibs vest/hev console commands after saving and reloading the server lol.
I almost wonder if with some modification you could do this with wolfenstein? But just writing a "buy gun" menu would be easier tbh
edit: this obvs only works if the pak file isnt modified or you have to combine it
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Episode One is now officially 20 years old today, a whole two decades. It has now been 20 years since we have last seen City 17 in the Source engine, and 20 years since we have last seen Barney Calhoun.
Hot take: Episode One is better than base Half-Life 2
20 years later and sometimes the elevator in the citadel still just fucking stops and you have to restart the level
also fuck the whole parking garage level
I think if by interesting you mean something like enemies or locations, sure. literally everything from Episode one (and two to a lesser extent) is just recycled ideas from what was cut from HL2. Like literally everything is something you can find in the leak, the Zombines, the parking garage/city 17 levels, the citadel core, etc.
I really like it nowadays because:
A. The story kind of starts to pick up the pace and gets a lot more interesting
B. I think the music is better than HL2, and it's all original (mostly) tracks by Bailey and he was at the top of his game with EP1/EP2
C. Having playing the original 2004 version of HL2 now, I find a lot more of the graphical upgrades impressive, and it makes me wish Valve went all the way with making HL2/EP1 feel closer to the original retail versions with the anniversary update.
Anyone here finished abiotic factor now that its actually out? Its genuinely mindblowingly good and functions as a better sequel to half life 1 than half life 2 is.
The game is basically a re-imagining of half life as an open world immersive sim, with the catch being that the "open world" in question is the black mesa labs appeture laboratories gate cascade research facility with a map designed in the dark souls way where every part of the facility connects to every other part of the map via hidden shortcuts, tunnels, trams, etc, with some survival sandbox basebuilding elements thrown in, allowing you make couch and pillow forts from scavenged equipment literally anywhere you want including boss rooms.
In fact boss rooms have power plugs in them specifically to encourage you to try and use turrets and traps to kill bosses, I really love the way the game handles this for a particular boss, you get told via audio logs that the boss conducts electricity really well, you unlock tesla turrets in the area, you get a trinket that makes you immune to tesla turrets in the area before that one, and the boss arena has multiple power sockets in it.
Progressing through the game is advancing through the facility and unlocking access to more and more shortcuts and inaccessible areas while everything around you goes more and more to shit with multiple different armies clashing over the facility while the science team (you) is just trying to gtfo. The earlier facilities just have headcrabs pests in them and as you advance you start fighting security robots, fanatic witchhunters there to shut you down and elite spec op units there to kill everyone. And as the enemies ramp up, so does your arsenal, you start with using duct tape pipes and end the game with plasma miniguns, laser katanas, chopsaw launchers and rocket powered booster chairs strapped to giant ceiling fans hacked toogether from office supplies and alien artifacts.
This may be heretical to say, but honestly abiotic factor is a way better sequel to half life 1 than half life 2 is. The campaign is like 80 hours long and it never gets stale because it keeps throwing new things at you, considering the entire game takes place in an underground research complex the map is INSANELY varied, between stuff like cloud reactor, power services and hydro the game is extremely good at doing grandiose set pieces and varied enviroments that never get old with dozens of different ways to approach them in a way half life struggled to and all the weapons and uptrades you can find, unlock and craft are super fun. The devs had the good sense to give you the long jump module about halfway through the game instead of in the last 5% of it.
The writing is also quite good. Gate Cascade is like a mix of black mesa, SCP and appeture labs, so lots of the little lore snippets are about random SCPs contained in the facility, some of which you can even find and exploit/weaponize. They provide some fun flavour and the overarching plot of the gatekeepers, the order, the aliens and the main antagonist are intresting and let you get involved without being overbearing.
For any fan of half life 1 abiotic factor is 100% recommend. I don't think you will regret it.
Doubt it. Bungie's likely gonna die in the next couple years I think. Marathon was their big project and I doubt they've had Destiny 3 in the oven next to it. Maybe in a decade when whoever owns the Destiny IP by then wants to do something with it, but at that point it's different people.
Maybe. Valve working on Portal 2 was what led to the failed mid-2010's Half-Life 3 attempt, so I wouldn't be surpsied if it works vice versa. Actually, now that I think about it we got Desk Job not long after Alyx. Even if that was just a tech demo, it could be food for thought.
I think it would most certainly not be called Portal 3, if for nothing else then I doubt Valve would continue the story of Chell from where Portal 2 left off.
Doubt it, come back when Apex starts to lose money, or maybe never. Also Valve stole a couple of the level designers who worked on Titanfall 2 to work on HLX lol
In terms of what is stacking up against each one existing, I would have to bet Destiny 3 happening first (and even then, very unlikely)
HL3,Portal 3 and L4D3 all speak for themselves so I wont bother explaining them
Titanfall 3 really is one of those games that would make sense to exist but the corpos do not agree/care, therefore it just wont happen. Titanfall's popularity arose unfortunately far too late to get it to their heads that gamers would want more of it. It seems like the rare instance E.A has a good, sometimes even original, IP on their hands, they tend to ditch it if they cant profitize it to the highest extent. What they truly want is a series like Battlefield and/or a game as a service IP, something they can really squeeze as much money as possible, otherwise they will not care at the best of times and at worst just full on cancel projects. Ultimately E.A doesnt need a TItanfall 3 when they have Battlefield. And Respawn has its neck under E.A's knee and it wouldnt surprise me if most of the people that made Titanfall have already left so even if we got a 3, would it really be like how it was?
Destiny 3 is unlikely but at the very least I consider it far less impossible they could somehow convince Sony to invest on a third game or at least some spin off to test the waters if there are still interest in the IP.
But yes, all of those are unlikely if not impossible but Destiny 3 is the only one I can see it happening one day.
