by Psychotic » Wed Aug 15, 12 6:00 am
Valve have never said they were creating a Half-Life 3, but they did say they were making 3 Half-Life 2 episodes. Only two have been released, so where's the third?
My issues with Half-Life 3 is the deliberate ambiguity that Valve spread whenever Half-Life is mentioned. It's always the elephant in the room and instead of growing some balls and simply telling us if it is or isn't being worked on they have to side-step constantly out of some pathetic grab at attention.
Other than this the Half-Life fanbase constantly annoys me simply because of their pathetic bout of hope. I loved all the Half-Life games but I'm not so ignorant as to be suckered into every little inch of hope. Every time Half-Life 3 is mentioned a bunch of fans crawl to places like Reddit or Twitter to spout how awesome it'll be or spread rumours on when it'll be announced.
Then they have the gall to be offended when it's not announced? I hate hype, because it spreads ignorance like the damn plague, and both developers and fans are guilty of spreading this crap.
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As for Duke Nukem? Duke Nukem Forever failed because of horrible management. It failed because the project's leader wanted to repeat the same success Duke Nukem 3D achieved. Had he simply tried to make a good and fun game as opposed to the best game ever (something he'll never achieve by trying to achieve it) then DNF could've succeeded.
But it's yet another example of how hype can ruin an entire game or an entire communities outlook on a game. Having high standards can be good for quality-testing, but having expectations so high nobody can ever achieve it is not.
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Psychotic on Wed Aug 15, 12 6:01 am, edited 1 time in total.
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