Valve, Gabe — I hope you're actually listening this time.

Because this? This was the final straw.

We’ve been waiting DECADES. Half-Life 2: Episode Two dropped in 2007. Half-Life 3 has been teased, memed, and speculated into oblivion. And every time we dared to hope every rumor, every wink, every ARG you said nothing. And now it’s a punchline. A literal running joke in the industry. And you let it happen with your silence.

Do you even understand how insulting that is to your fans? We believed in you. We stuck around. We told people, “Valve plays the long game. When it comes, it’ll change everything.” And now we’re clowns. We’re the joke. All because you turned a legendary series into vaporware and couldn’t even bother to say a word.

And don’t give us the “VR changed the plans” or “we’re focusing on Steam” excuses. You’ve had infinite resources. The goodwill of millions. We carried this franchise’s legacy for you through mods, fan games, documentaries. And what did we get back? Silence. Mockery. A shrug while the dream slowly died.

If nothing gets said anything this year, then I’m done. Really done. I won’t hold onto false hope anymore. You didn’t just cancel a game you let an entire fandom waste away. You broke the trust that made Valve legendary. And you let it become a meme instead of a masterpiece.

We deserved better than this. And if you can’t understand why that hurts maybe you never deserved what Half-Life meant to people in the first place.

So I recently got the Valve Complete Pack, and the first series im playing is half life. I (obviously) started with hl1, and right now im on power up. Im not really enjoying hl1 and i kind of want to skip to hl2 because i think i would enjoy it more. Ive already watched videos on the Resonance Cascade, the incident, the governmental intervention, the betrayal, and more. So should I skip hl1?

(Posting this here cus I mean most of them are from half life)

Guess who’s who

I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Butterfingers in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is on sale

The streamer Wayneradiotv just gave us the date for HLII but the AI is self aware. We have waited so long.

title explains it all. i would like to play half life mp and not read slurs that havent been spoken by human tongues in 65 years because people who turned off the ability to see people who are different from them as human beings wanna be disgusting in chat.

Seriously, making posts about "HA! TOLD YOU" or "Nothing Ever Happens" won't be a good idea tomorrow. People have hope, please don't try to rub it in if it doesn't happen. If it does happen, try to be funny atleast instead of mocking.

a poster i made in gmod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3450407699

Это правда 😃

Render made by me in Blender 5.1.1. I ported her myself and made this as a test render. I'm super happy with it, and I've always really liked how this version of the character looks. I wanted to ask because I remember hearing that people thought she was ugly.

I still need to fix up her rig and set up the rest of the face flex drivers (I only have the basic eye socket motion so far and that was tough to figure out). Once that's all done, I'll release the port for others to use. I plan to port every single (reasonably useable) asset from HLA, including characters, creatures, props, and materials. I'm a decent way into that project already but there's a LONG way to go, especially on the character front. I'm working on Alyx, D0G (holy nightmare rig), and the generic Vortigaunt right now, but I'll eventually get to everyone.

If any of you are interested, and if the rules allow, I can post the releases here as well. Let me know. Porting is super fun and I'm getting more and more comfortable with it with each project.

If you've read this far, thank you for your time :)

I can't add photos on comments, so those of you that want to see the back of my masterful 30th birthday present...

If you write something after breengrub in the web address (example: breengrub.com/[whatever]) it displays this creepy picture instead of the original site, or a 404…

Just thought it was a little fun/creepy detail :)

I managed to get 3 hours in before the Bad Cop dialogue annoyed me to the point I couldn't continue. Reading reviews how can anyone like that guy. Everything about this mod is perfect, it feels like an actual episode 3, but every time I hear some stupid dialogue from the main character I'm like SHUT THE FUCK UP! In canon the combine wouldn't give any overwatch any free will anyway.

I just played both half life games for the first time, back to back. And I need to say I just dont understand why some people like HL2 more than 1. HL2 is a technically so much better yes. I played it with anniversary update, idk how it looked and played before this update but if it was even remotely close to what I experienced, its just crazy this game came out in 2004. But the problem is if you like half-life 2 more than 1, there are tons of games you can also be huge fan of, like fps games with fun campaigns such as halo, titanfall 2 etc, while there isn't much similar to half life 1. Half life 1 has so much charm and feels so unique and this is with no nostalgia attached since I played both for the first time.

I think story is "better", more interesting. We are stuck in this place, there are other survivors but we are the only one who can save everyone. I liked that everyone is dying around us and you can interract with almost everything ,makes the world feel alive. We are trying to get back to surface and things reveal as we go up. Pacing is great, none of the levels feel dragged out. I played it with xash3d engine, dont know does it change anything remarkably, but i didnt use any kind of upscaled graphics or mods and game looks so charming. Its so cute that these low res characters are replying and reacting to things we do etc. I like that combat is less and main game loop is puzzle solving or more like interacting with environment. Felt a bit like Deus Ex. Its not as open as deus ex, but i think game does great job making it feel more open that it actually is.

Second game is so much more combat focused. Puzzle solving almost doesn't exist. Some parts feel "empty" but not in a well made eery type of way i think because you just walk for 10 more seconds are there are actually people there like idk. Feels like 1984 type of dystopia and does really good job at "show dont tell" kind of story telling. But story is just not fun. It just feels like they made a better engine, and decided to make the second half life game in it. Not like they made an engine for the second half life game if it makes sense. Physics are still really good yes, but I couldn't care less about the gravity gun. I can go and play garrys mod if I want to, I wanted more half life 1 since this is a sequal. Again this is coming from someone playing it at 2025. I can only imagine how absurdly good the game was when it came out but i feel like it aged a bit "worse" ? Because there are technically better games than both half life games now, but still not many games like half life 1.

I understand the "games like half life 2" exist because of half life 2, its really influental, but why would it matter to someone playing it for the first time. I would rank first game a S tier type of game, second one wouldn't get lower than A- neither.