Half-Life: Alyx Could Lead to More Half-Life Games - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 April 2020 / 3,179 Views
Valve recently announced Half-Life virtual reality game, Half-Life: Alyx, will release in March 2020 for Windows PC via Steam. This is the first game in the series since Half-Life 2: Episode Two released in 2007.
Valve’s David Speyrer in an interview with The Verge said that many developers at Valve have been wanting to get back to the Half-Life universe and it is possible the game could lead to more Half-Life games.
"It’s probably no surprise that many people at Valve have been wanting to get back to the Half-Life universe for a long time, and this experience has only reinforced that," said Speyrer.
"In the process of creating Half-Life: Alyx, we’ve had to explore new ways to tell stories with these characters and this world, and we’ve discovered a lot of new gameplay experiences that go beyond what we’ve been able to do before. Of course, we’ll have to wait and see how people react to Half-Life: Alyx once it’s out, but we’d love to continue pushing forward."
It was also announced Half-Life: Alyx will be as long as Half-Life 2. The game took Geoff Keighley over 15 hours to complete.
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Oh, I thought the millions upon millions of people who wants HL3 would lead to more HL games. Turns out it was a VR game that can lead to it. Interesting....
Curious to know how they will judge that. HL Alyx us handicapped on a very niche device so i hope they are not expecting millions of sales to judge weather they continue making more games etc.
I am sure HL Alyx will be a masterpiece but majority wont be playing it unfortantly.
Ah, the classic "if this spin-off sells we'll make more of the series" promise.
It's not so much that it doesn't involve gordon freeman or HL3. more so the emphasis on VR leaves us with the conundrum of are they talking more VR games or are they referencing future mainstream HL games, my guess is they this is a safe way to dip their toes back into the water without the pressure of returning with HL3.
They sound like capcom on switch games. While they dangle a carrot they say, if you buy this game, we may or may not release more. I know it's not exactly the same, it just sounds a little like that.
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