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    Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Releasing in March 2020, the game will be free for owners of the Valve Index headset.
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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Still waiting for HL3 like many people.
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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Quote Originally Posted by mikeo View Post
    Still waiting for HL3 like many people.
    Me too. As this is VR and I dont have a VR headset it is a wasted opportunity for some sales of this game, unless its playable with mouse and K/b without any VR.

    If they were to release HL3 or even Portal3 they would sell like hotcakes, as for VR not so much.

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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Quote Originally Posted by Mapester View Post
    ...If they were to release HL3 or even Portal3 they would sell like hotcakes, as for VR not so much.
    Could not agree more. It's been in my opinion, a wasted opportunity for them to make a fair bit of cash. Can't understand their marketing strategy here at all !!!
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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Quote Originally Posted by mikeo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mapester View Post
    ...If they were to release HL3 or even Portal3 they would sell like hotcakes, as for VR not so much.
    Could not agree more. It's been in my opinion, a wasted opportunity for them to make a fair bit of cash. Can't understand their marketing strategy here at all !!!
    They have yet to make a game that would push the boundaries and meet the expectations of what HL3 should be. I rather not see a game tbh than see slap dash thing with hl3 stuck on side just to "make money".

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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    > a wasted opportunity for them to make a fair bit of cash

    Isn't the strategy to push VR gaming a bit more mainstream. It's a Nintendo-like move, commit 100% to a new control strategy. They already went head first into VR and now they're using their biggest gaming property as the hook. To not do so would be like Nintendo releasing a new console and not putting Mario on it.

    If it succeeds it would sell a lot of Valve VR gear and future games, and potentially be historically significant as the first really huge VR-only game. Since they run Steam, they have money to to burn, so they can afford to play games with the market, they don't need to make money on sales of a simple sequel like HL3, they have much grander ideas in mind.
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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Quote Originally Posted by mikeo View Post
    Could not agree more. It's been in my opinion, a wasted opportunity for them to make a fair bit of cash. Can't understand their marketing strategy here at all !!!
    I agree. I don't get what they're doing either. As I don't have VR and have no interest in it, I won't be able to play this game. And from what I've seen, this game is apparently going to be the same length of HL2 (~12 hours)... so why don't they release a full PC game instead of VR? Wasted opportunity IMO. I know they don't need money, but this is still baffling. Also the only people that care about HL3, in any form are getting old... wasn't the last one like 15 years ago?

    And at this point even if they do release a HL3, it will never meet the expectation (DNF anyone)... as they hype is will never match reality. I might have just answered my own question as to why they'll never release HL3. Oh well, shame really.
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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Quote Originally Posted by aniilv View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by mikeo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mapester View Post
    ...If they were to release HL3 or even Portal3 they would sell like hotcakes, as for VR not so much.
    Could not agree more. It's been in my opinion, a wasted opportunity for them to make a fair bit of cash. Can't understand their marketing strategy here at all !!!
    They have yet to make a game that would push the boundaries and meet the expectations of what HL3 should be. I rather not see a game tbh than see slap dash thing with hl3 stuck on side just to "make money".
    While I tend to agree with your comment. I still "personally" find it a bit disappointing that a proper sequel to HL2 (aca. HL3) hasn't appeared in some 15 years. If not HL3 for whatever reason, then they could have at least finished the story arc that they started with HL2 episode 1/2.
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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Quote Originally Posted by ataru View Post
    > a wasted opportunity for them to make a fair bit of cash

    Isn't the strategy to push VR gaming a bit more mainstream. It's a Nintendo-like move, commit 100% to a new control strategy. They already went head first into VR and now they're using their biggest gaming property as the hook. To not do so would be like Nintendo releasing a new console and not putting Mario on it.

    If it succeeds it would sell a lot of Valve VR gear and future games, and potentially be historically significant as the first really huge VR-only game. Since they run Steam, they have money to to burn, so they can afford to play games with the market, they don't need to make money on sales of a simple sequel like HL3, they have much grander ideas in mind.
    You may well be right. Time will tell as usual and I wish them well. TBC
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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Hlf is alive, long live the king.

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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    lol. I find it amusing that the first thing many people do when Valve announces a new Half-Life game is to complain about it. Ok, it's not HL3 but perhaps they don't want to finish the story. Alyx allows them to expand on the story before the end.

    I don't have VR, and am not the target audience for it, but you have to realise the commitment Valve have with VR. They have their own hardware and it probably isn't selling like the hot-cakes they wished it world. HL Alyx looks astonishing, and will probably break new ground with VR. THIS could be the ticket to the hot-cake goodness they've been waiting for.
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    Re: Half Life: Alyx trailer and minimum recommended specs revealed

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Midas View Post
    HL Alyx looks astonishing, and will probably break new ground with VR. THIS could be the ticket to the hot-cake goodness they've been waiting for.
    Quite a few people have had a go wit my Rift now, and pretty much all of them said they thought it was amazing and would love one. I don't think a single one of those people have actually bought a headset though, the entry price is just too high still.

    Price is improving, the GPU and CPU requirements are no longer considered high end, but headsets seem to be improving rather than cost reducing. That's probably they right direction, there is room for improvement and when people who don't yet have a headset need to spend £1000 on a desktop PC on top of the £400 for a headset it probably makes more sense to get existing users to upgrade and service the low end with second hand kit.

    Still, if Valve make a good game there are already enough Steam VR users to get good sales and perhaps move the worlds of VR and Half Life both forwards.

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