Those headcrabs used to be pretty scary, but they probably wouldn't cut it any longer.
Still waiting for the next installment of Half-Life. So are we. While Valve isn't saying anything about the Half-Life 3 or Episode 3, we now have reason to believe that it'll be a scary affair.
Speaking to Edge magazine, according to CVG, Valve boss Gabe Newell said, "I feel like we've gotten away from genuinely scaring the player more than I'd like, and it's something we need to think about, in addition to broadening the emotional palette we can draw on."
While Newell didn't mention a specific upcoming Half-Life specifically, it was clear that the developer was thinking carefully about how to scare the series' core fans: "The death of their children. The fading of their own abilities."
True, but it's always worth the wait.
Agreed, it was a bit yucky.
I have a feeling they we're planning Episode 3, got bogged down doing other stuff, and have now decided to go straight to HL3. It would make more sense since the Source engine is starting to show its age.
Who cares what engine it uses! Just get on and make it already!!!!! I dont care if it uses GoldSRC or like its a mod of Wolf3D! just get the game out!
I haven't been nearly as impressed with the HL2 games, the Alyx thing feels contrived and patronising, Valve spend way too much time analysing and refining everything to the point where any half-intelligent person can predict the puzzles and obstacles you're going to face long before they even happen. The plot has went absolutely nowhere, and just bores me now in the same way Lost did. The humour in the games has went drastically downhill, etc. etc.
Rather the wait than some half assed console port or software that should be still in beta, like most other games that are released these days!
Gran Turismo 5
Half Life 3 / EP3 (whatever it ends up being called)
Wish I could drool after games that don't have insane development cycles
HL2 wasn't as scary as the original, but I found the story completely engaging. The frenetic pace of the car vs tripods battle in EP2 is brilliant and although not scary in a headcrab-on-your-face way, it certainly got my pulse racing more than almost any other game I've played in a very long time. HL2 is almost alone (San Andreas being the other) in being a game I have completed many times and still come back to.
Funny, because I found San Andreas to be over-the-top in terms of its scale. Vice City is the one I keep returning to.
But yes, I keep returning to Half Life - in fact I've been holding off on my marathon HL game because Black Mesa Source STILL isn't finished.