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Agent Karyo to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months ago

'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

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'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

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Agent Karyo to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months ago
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Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary by Valve

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    26•6 months ago

    I think HL3’s meme status is the only reason a lot of gamers today do know it. If it had come out, it would’ve been forgotten.

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      9•6 months ago

      I honestly don’t even see it memed anymore.

    • @interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works
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      9•6 months ago

      Just like duke nukem forever was. Had to think hard to remember the name.

    • @4am@lemm.ee
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      1•6 months ago

      That depends on how good it was but yeah when has the third in a trilogy ever been good?

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