nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 14 hours 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'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down11cross-posted to: games@lemmy.world
arrow-up1118arrow-down1external-link'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'www.pcgamer.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square18fedilinkcross-posted to: games@lemmy.world
minus-squareMisterMoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·12 hours agoEpisodes 1 and 2 were fun but they in no way “recentered the first person shooter genre.”
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up28·11 hours agoThey hoped the episodic delivery of games would be the future. Especially alongside a digital distribution platform like Steam. I suspect they realized episodes wasn’t the way after the release of Orange Box, so they moved on from that.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoThey didn’t try. They did one then it was years before episode 2. You have to actually make episodes before declaring it a failure.
Episodes 1 and 2 were fun but they in no way “recentered the first person shooter genre.”
They hoped the episodic delivery of games would be the future. Especially alongside a digital distribution platform like Steam. I suspect they realized episodes wasn’t the way after the release of Orange Box, so they moved on from that.
They didn’t try. They did one then it was years before episode 2.
You have to actually make episodes before declaring it a failure.