• Flames5123@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    Well you’ll get a broken game on the disc because it’s missing the day 1 45GB patch. Even worse is that a system update that doesn’t exist yet may be needed to even play the game properly.

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    14 hours ago

    My copium is that they’re not releasing the Steam Frame because they’re finishing HL3 which will be a launch title, playable in VR or flat.

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      14 hours ago

      Given what a banger HL: Alyx was - definitely the best VR title that I played, at least - that would be incredibly hype. Heck, I’d just take HL: Alyx 2.

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        Alyx is not my favorite VR game, but I do think it is the best VR game made. It is so immersive that there were many times playing it where I genuinely forgot I was playing a game. My first playthrough I played the entire last half, from exiting the Northern Star all the way through the end, in one hours long session and by the time I took off my headset I felt like I didn’t quite know who I was, where I was, or what the F just happened. I felt a little disoriented and off kilter for like 2 days afterwards. 10/10 experience, highly recommend.

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        14 hours ago

        Or they’re just fighting to get Alyx to run directly on the headset because of course everyone will try to do that despite any warnings.

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    I gave up hope when Marc Laidlaw posted his story treatment years ago. It might come some day, but it will be something closer to a reboot or a remake, a totally new generation’s take on an old franchise. Not saying that it will automatically be bad, it could be good, but it will also be different.

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      I’ve been avoiding reading that because I still hold out hope. I think some community effort started up to do it; I wonder how that is going?

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      You mean the file dump that hasn’t actually been shown to have episode 3 stuff in it or something else?

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        I think there was some unused assets for the scrapped version of Portal 2 which may or may not have been shared with a potential HL2: Episode 3 or something. Which is like, meh? Close enough for headline writers to go nuts, anyway.

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        5 hours ago

        The 12TB Steam dump that supposedly has stuff, I admittedly didn’t look into it since it’s not really my interest

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          I believe the news was “we haven’t looked through all of it yet so we can’t guarantee there ISN’T any episode 2 stuff”

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    12 hours ago

    Right, because Boromir went to the alternate future where Valve continued making games… rather than just selling everyone else’s.

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      9 hours ago

      If capitalism taught us anything, it’s that middle-manning is the most efficient way to make money for doing basically nothing. 🤢