The lipsyncing in Half-Life 2 will always be astounding to me. It's something Bethesda, to this day, STILL can't pull off correctly.

The fact that valve has a whole SERIES reserved only to revolutionize gaming is insane. I think the reason it's taken this long to get a new HL is because these huge technological leaps have slowed down since 2007

It’s already been 4 years since half life alyx, see you guys in 30 years for half life 3

Honestly at this point Valve has proven themselves. No one is genuinely expecting them to change this much about the industry or be so far ahead that other studios genuinely have to study what they did *3 times* in a row. People will just accept a game with good Level design, a variety of enemies to fight, and a good overarching Story and call it a day.

I remember playing alyx and I keep replaying it because no other VR game looks so real compared to others

Water effects in HL2 are still astonishing today. After nearly 20 years very few games did that better.

Half Life 2 was also to help create Steam, to give players a reason to try it, download it, then fall in love with it.

Imagine they're making sequels to the source games in source 2. We might see Left 4 Dead 3, Team Fortress 3, Portal 3, Ricochet 2, Day of Defeat 2, Half-Life 3, and they can package it in Orange Box 2

With the Steam Deck selling as well as it did, they have a market where they can be innovative with some of their controls. I think the days of Half-Life 3 are coming closer but if they release it, you know for sure that it's going to be made with the graphic fidelity of the Steam Deck.

Even if Half-Life 3 looked exactly like the first game, i would still enjoy the hell out of it with no complaints

Half-Life Alyx is the single most amazing gaming experience I've ever had. It is such a shame that there haven't been more VR games developed with the same quality.

The contrast between halflife 1 and halflife 2 is jaw-dropping, only 5 years apart, and the technology advancing that much is amazing

half life alyx did take a lot of compromises with its design but for a reason a lot of people will respect: motion sickness. boneworks, blade and sorcery, etc. they all pretty much take no compromises with their movement and handling of guns and weapons, but half life alyx not only doesnt allow you to hold a weapon 2 handed (besides that weird cup grip thing), but it doesnt let you sprint or jump. barely any movement options + small arsenal = bad game, right? but the way that it makes up for it is in the atmoshpere, storytelling and fun combat puzzles/normal puzzles. most vr games at the moment dont really excel at any of that at the moment and are just sandbox games. half life alyx gives you a set of enemies and like maximum 4 weapons to use to defeat them. its great most of the time! and after defeating them you sit back and look at the sky and beautiful graphics. tldr: half life alyx went the safe route with its gameplay for motion sickness but it still makes the most of what it has with graphics, storytelling, combat and puzzles i just wanted to yap about vr games for a little bit lol and great video

The idea of what halflife 3 will be has probably evolved more than halflife3 itself

I always "knew" this. Half life games are the sign of an era there has to be big enough evolution or tech as vr

I do really want to know the ending of gordon freeman's world . Story like this always keep me hooked for years

Half-Life 3 will definitely be an AI showcase. There will certainly be a scene where you could spend real-world hours talking to an NPC on a rooftop, with constantly changing dialog. I can't imagine what that sort of tech will be like in a Valve game.

As sad as it is seeing a company like Valve not make games as regularly as they used to, I'm ultimately glad that they don't give in to the masses that constantly begs and pressures for them to make sequels to their games. Valve is in a very unique and fortunate position where they don't NEED to make games anymore, so whenever they do make a new game it's all the more special because it means the devs _really_ wanted to make that game and they always strive to innovate with game design or push tech forward in some way, and if there's no significant innovation or push for tech they want to make, they simply don't make a game, even if it means not seeing a game from Valve in over a decade at a time, I'm glad they do things that way.

I think the skeletal animation system was one of the biggest deals for HL. I remember articles in magazines talking about it even.

I was actually impressed with the "lipsyncing" in half life 1. It was very unique for the time, based on the sound file that played. If you pay close attention, in some sequences when guards press buttons the beep-effect is actually a speech, so they very slightly move their mouth to it. Funny stuff.

The Half Life series is at a tricky spot right now. VR and augmented reality is probably the next big thing, but they already put out HL:Alyx. So what then? Wait until VR really hits mainstream to put out HL3? Or wait until the next big tech revolution, which no one can imagine right now? So no matter what, I think it's going to be years before the next HL game.

I just want a fan service game to finally scratch the itch I've been having to see Advisors in action and an actual outcome to the Aperture Science and Black Mesa teases with the Borealis. I've just sat here wondering for so long and to finally see these things come into play would be amazing to me lol.

This gave me hope thank you so much you answered differently then other UKpostsrs that said Half Life 3 wouldn’t be made at all

goddamn man you make top tier quality content i thought you have atleast 100k subscribers, you deserve more.

Thanks for the video i bet if people stopped gambling their money away on skins valve will start working on more single player games.

Me watching the half life video before this: Impressive… now let’s see Major_trenton’s video. Me 7 minutes later: Look at that subtle on topic script writing… the tasteful brevity of it… (My face ceases in horror) Oh My God… it doesn’t even have a call to action at the end of it. (I loosen my tense grip dropping my smartphone at the foot of the toilet) My colleagues hanging out with me in the handicap stall, watching me shit : y-you okay?

I know from a source inside valvue that they are working on HL3 but one of the biggest issues is coming up with a story that they feel works, but I also think you are also correct on the tech issue.

Really solid video for a small channel! Though I respect the opinion Valve desires setting the bar extremely high with every new HL, I do hope HL3 comes out in my lifetime. I was born three years before HL2, and started *college* by HLA's release - I really don't wanna be dead & buried before HL3 comes out.

Really enjoyed this, you perfectly summed up exactly why we haven't seen half life 3 yet. It's not the fans expectations, it's valves. Welp, guess nothing better to do than play some of the amazing hl2 mods that have been dropping recently while we wait

its probably that real time moss that gabe wanted

God Bless you for your choice in music!

Really good quality for a small UKpostsr! Keep up the detail, good editing, and excellent scripts!

after seeing the gta 6 trailer i knew valve was thinking of hl3

I was working on mocap for animation and video games in 1998. Active magnetic induction was mainstream (Ascencion systems) but we were also pioneering optical tracking already. You’re right about lipsync. That was cutting edge although I’d say the keying was pre-encoded, even if the mix and rendering were RT.

The algorithm chose you, and it did a good job because this video was great. Completely agree with your assessment 👍

Alyx was single handedly ground breaking not only for VR but for gaming in general. I’d almost compare what it accomplished to the original.

There have been insane game demos that showcase AI possibilities with the npc dialogue and even writing game codes by it's own, it's true that AI is controversial when it comes to art but for now AI seems to be the next technology that valve is looking for but who knows

In my opinion if half life 3 will still be on VR, as it would feel like a backwards step otherwise

With the recent breakthroughs in deep learning, machine learning, and AI-thanks to the recent advancements in computing power-I wouldn't be surprised if Valve tried to utilize these in Half-Life 3. Imagine a game where all NPCs are unique to some extent. Each NPC is free to say whatever they want based on their training, and each NPC is allowed to act in absolutely unique ways: hiding, attacking, crouching, deceiving players, and more. The possibilities are beyond human understanding. It's such a vast field of unexplored possibilities for the game industry, requiring a tremendous amount of data and an insanely high budget. If we were ever to encounter such a game, I think Valve would be the first to create one.

Ignoreing CS2 and the unfinished release I absolutely love valves decision making. Why? Because every other company is milking the crap out of their games. They release as many new games as possible, all are unfinished in terms of gameplay and story. Same with movies and series. When valve releases a game it's not just breaking records, but revolutionising gaming.

You got this completely right, and it’s something I’ve thought of before. It’s just sad this makes the story take so long to continue. I think the new technology might be some crazy new ai and interactibilty with it and the environment. Maybe they’d respond more specifically to everything you do or look at, and at different rates and with different responses depending on their personality. That’s just a guess anyways.

Half Life 3's revolution will be Artificial Intelligence, so here is your reason to make a Half Life game. Is Valve even aware of this though?

¿Guys do you think 20 years old of age would allow me to see half-life 3 in my lifetime ?

Everyone waiting for half life 2 doesn’t realize we were supposed to get a HL2:EP3

Good video honestly all you said was on point! My belief is that maybe valve will release Half-Life 3 with completely revolutionized A.I. I mean thats the only technology that my feeble mind can think of that can and will revolutionize gaming!

Knowing how AI stuff is becoming this big thing, what if Half-Life 3 is actually based on it?

Valve isnt a game Studio anymore, they have found the holy grail and generate Infinte Money with it. They are the Gods of the Gaming industry that do Games because they want to, not becuase they need to

I kind of feel this way with GTA6. The only reason Rockstar is making the game is because they have a reason to show off their latest and greatest technology in the RAGE engine, that's why it's taking a decade for them to make this one game

I think since half life 3 would most likely center on the borealis/have it as a major element, the new tech would be visual effects based, which would be used for the borealis's teleportation effects or showing it in multiple places at once

At this point in time the only new tech for games that I think would still allow for a traditional FPS experience (i.e. not VR) is probably raytracing. Valve have pretty much nailed storytelling, graphics, animation, facial expressions, AI, and physics... so there's little that they need to pioneer or take to another level. Except maybe lighting and shadows, which would be the perfect excuse to come out with some mind blowing but highly optimized raytracing.

One of the things that made me respect Valve as a developer is that they do not do the mistakes of 3D Realms and Ubisoft in announcing certain games and having the words: "when it's done" or something like that. Yes, people were expecting and hoping for Half Life 3 after the cliffhanger in Episode 2 but Valve as far as I can tell never hyped nor denied anything related to the game. If they want to work on Half Life 3, they had to have a good reason to and not just for the sake of appeasing paying customers. It is as you said, too. Each game (not including the Episodes) showcases a technological innovation. Half Life 1 provided a Quake-game with a very immersive story for it's time, Half Life 2 provided that and added new physics toys for it's players to enjoy. Episodes 1 and 2 were more or less an experiment to see if they could go for the less content, cheap price approach to expansions. And lastly, Half-Life Alyx showcased how great games can be even when using something as niche as VR.

I think I might have an idea of what Half-Life could show off. The problem with a lot of modern games is that while the graphics look good, the physics engines are usually really bad. Not to mention that those graphics also cause even top of the line PCs to spontaneously combust. Enter Source 2, a new engine that HL:A, CS2, etc is built on. Having great physic, good graphics with fair requirements, “and so on and so forth”

I imagine if Half life 3 would come out, it could be a showcase of AI being used for dialogue generation and actions that would always give you a new but similar experience with each playthrough and maybe very large scale dynamic destruction of landscapes and buildings. Imagine if the citadel in half life 2 always exploded or crumbled differently in every playthrough because it's actually simulated and not completely scripted

I think the tech may be BCI on Deckard. I know you are saying that VR is too small time, but if you follow Gabe's focus Brain Computer Interface is a huge turning point from which people will not want to go back and it has the potential to be the carrot people finally need to make the jump to a new (or their first) headset. As you said though, Valve are not on a timeline and I for one think that a lengthy delay here could well make the Deckard a compelling product but something that people might be able to afford (even if it's at a bit of a stretch)

Great video. I've basically had this same theory for the past 10 years. One tech they were actually exploring is biometric sensing, which is what both Steam Controller and Valve Index came out of (they tried sensing stress level through hand sweat and face/eyes, but I assume neither of those really worked out. That's the thing with Valve, they are constantly experimenting but will never release anything that they aren't completely happy with. I'm sure they've scratched dozens of HL3's already

To be honest, idk if there is a whole lot of people that actually want a half life 3. For me if they released Episode 3 and ended the franchise I would 100% fine with that. Provided they tied up all loose ends.

I honestly hope they do great work with improving the AI. The only thing that seems to have aged a bit in HL2 is the pathfinding available. You'll see it easier in RTS mods for HL2, but it just shows that they need to look into it. Although, now that I think about it, it might be cool to get a hybrid fps RTS for half life. Like something official that takes notes from nuclear dawn

Half-Life 3 can't not be a VR only game. without VR interactions, there is simply no more room for new technology.

Just wild speculations but my guess is HL Alyx 2 or HL3 will be released when valve is ready to release an index 2. With Alyx they wanted to show off the best of VR and I think they correctly assessed that trying to develop for traditional & VR simultaneously would make both experiences worse. Also giving us the post credit scene we saw I think hints at a continuation of VR gameplay. I think the timing of game development and hardware development in this case may line up, and a new HL game would be a great way to drive further VR adoption, move headsets, highlight any new tech on a headset.

Half-Life 3's announcement will be so groundbreaking, that even a black screen with the hazardous materials music, will get people hyped. That's how much people want HL3.

Hard disagree. HL3 has to be in VR or it will feel like a step back from HL-A. Sure maybe more advancements on top of that but in VR for sure

I'm currently playing half life alyx and I just ate a big fucking spoiler ffs. Pls put a warning sign in your video tittle.

I remember HL2 Lost Coast is also another tech breakthrough to introduce HDR lighting from Valve and then implemented in Episode 1 and 2

There will never be a HL3. Nothing involving "hype" every gets released from Valve. Heavy Update, HL3, Portal 3; never gonna happen because if it did, Valve would actually have to do something instead of sit on their ass and make shit games and tech no one wants or asked for.

When will people understand that, Valve want to get all the 3's right. You will not get Half-Life 3 on Source 2. They said they will make a few games in Source 2 and then release it for free to the public. So there's a lot of time until they make Source 3 and then make Half-Life 3, Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3. CS 3 and Team Fortress 3.

Ngl, I think the lore reason why Half Life ALYX came out was to remove the possibility of Epsitle 3 thus making HL2:EP3 or HL3 possible

I found an old video called "Half Life 3 - The Probable Truth" from a few years back and it also covered your points quite well! Yes, Valve is different

Realistic AI-assisted physics based animation, there, make HL3 use that and it will revolutionize FPS again.

It could be a perfect killer application for the new valve index they're working on as we speak, expanding even further on what they showed in Alyx redefining what a video-game can be.

Well if they started making HL3 after Alyx then I guess they are 3-4 years in development.... Which I would imagine that they are since the story of Alyx tied into HL-Episode 2.

if HL3 wants to really revolutionize 3D graphics, I think going after liquid simulation would be the best idea. Either that, or realistic sound physics. No, not like CS2 lol.

Your video brings up a very good point. The thing is though : There are a lot of Half Life 3 leaks these days. Valve is definitely doing a lot of work now that the source 2 engine is finally complete. My guess is we'll hear something soon in the next few months.

Good video, but I disagree with the point that Half Life 3 needs to be a classic first person shooter that everybody has easy access to. Else, Valve would've not released Half Life Alyx as a VR standalone. If there is any part of the PC gaming thats currently full of untapped potential it's VR. Half Life Alyx showed that you can make a big budget VR title, but overall it was still pretty conservative and obvious that it is more of an introduction to VR than one that makes fully use of it. Making an FPS would be pretty hard since a lot has been done before and new tech wouldn't add enough innovation to be comparable to Half Life 1 & 2. Making Half Life 3 in VR would allow them to have an innovative jump like Half Life 1 & 2 without having to reinvent the wheel and competing with an already saturated market. Besides, since Valve also does hardware it would be a good way to get more players playing VR and let software and hardware development work together, like Nintendo.

I read a youtube comment on a HL3 related video a few months back that really resonated with me, so I'll repeat it. The main reason we have not seen a Half Life 3, is because Valve doesn't choose half measures with games. If it's anything short of almost perfect, it doesn't get released. -- Half Life did something that is almost impossible, it revolutionized the FPS Genre.... and it did it TWICE.... Valve is not releasing a Half Life 3 game that doesn't live up to its own legacy..--

I'm amazed how uncritical people are of HL:Alyx, a game that removed ALL stakes from the story by making death meaningless

Reminder: We did not expect Half-Life 3, we weren't at first waiting for HL3. We expected Half-Life 2 Episode 3 to complete the story. Then as years went on, it no longer made sense to wait for it, as it was obviously not coming, the time window for it had come and gone. So people started waiting for Half-Life 3 instead. What now, what new tech? Almost everyone has a slightly raytracing capable GPU, more will have in a couple years. The new Spiderman game comes out with raytracing as a hard requirement, and it shouldn't even need much performance out of RT unit, it's been put to smart use. This tech has got to be good for something.

Valve isn't just a company that makes games, it's a pioneer of the gaming industry that revolutionizes and innovates as much as they can.

The issue is that, going from HL1 to HL2 was such a big jump, going from this small research base to now an entire city with this big enemy threat they thought up just for this new game, that now everyone expects them to make an equally big jump to the next game and therefore the expectancy and overwhelming nature of such a thing comes with it. What's going to be the new thing? That's what everyone wants to know, and it's hard to make such a big jump for a second time..

there are currently two major plot points in the half life series that are still left untied, 1: the rebels needing to get to the borealis before the combine. and 2: gordon needing to rescue alyx from the g-man. it is entirely possible that valve will create individual games for both plot points.

Half life change the world when it came out. Same for Half life 2 and lastly with Alyx ! Imo they just wait the great moment to release a game that will change the world again !

I don't know if I'm crazy here, but I think how it's written is also apart of it. Every Half Life game comes with a revolutionization of primarily three things, something with immersion(1.), How story in games are told(2.), and characters(3.). Half Life 1 had a more grounded story compared to it's counterparts (1.) (Bit of a strech but it also tried physics and had more realistic characters), More enthasis on story and driving factors, and added far more personality to the enemies and allies. Half Life 2 Had the physics engine (1.), A liner story which was closer to a film than video games (2.) (strech but it and the next one are more so how HL2 does which is hard to explain) and Name characters who progresses the story with arcs (3.) Though I noticed something In Half Life Alyx we have VR and how it interacts (1.) but (2.) and (3.) are more focused on VR and adapting Half Life 2's lessons to VR. Maybe Half Life 3 is also held back by the increased "Cinematicness" of recent AAA and how it's hard for Half Life to essentially be the "Teacher" series that it normally is. I believe one of the major problems is that Valve can't seem to find a way to change how stories in shooters are told and can't change how characters are perceived.

very nice video, please continue with same quality

I think one of the biggest issues is the insane amount of hype behind HL3. It's just... a legendary creature at this point. The devs have this overwhelming weight of expectations where all we really want as an audience is a conclusion to the franchise.

I was there 3000 years ago when we appreciated the revolutions in physiscs in games and every little moment was special. Not like now a days with their perfect grafics and physiscs, but no real value and utilisation in the game play mecanics.

This actually makes sense from a developer, he technically predicted what companies would do these day's, they wont create, they won't produce and they won't try a bit to create new stuff. Just look at call of duty these days and in the past, COD has created new stuff for their games in the past, do we want that? Versus today where people are saying COD MW 2 [2023] Is exactly the same as COD MW 3 [2023] where only guns and movement were added, do we want that? do we really want that? Or do we want game companies and the whole game industry to create, produce and actually put effort in innovation. This is the big question, innovate? Or Don't?

About the expansions, they might not have added new tech and be revolutionary but a new concept and features: Opposing Force:Experience the Black Mesa incident from a new perspective the evil one it introduces squad mechanics, new weapons and enemies Decay(PS2 exclusive):New perspective and co-op gameplay you have never seen before Blue Shift:Again new perspective, the HD pack and I think it runs on a different version of the GoldSrc engine? Episode 1:New HDR lighting and shading Episode 2:Open forest environments more destruction and improved engine from EP1. NOTE:The PS2 exclusive of Half-Life has slightly altered HD models which have expressions including eye movement, scientists have transparent glasses and higher quality textures over the PC versions of Half-Life and its expansions

I’ve been saying this for years. A lot of people never connected the dots and just kept parroting that it will never be released.

I feel like theyll ship a massive gmod update with half life 3, if not just a gmod 2. I imagine the whole point of hl3 will be to make the absolute best physics and gameplay engine hands down, with gmod 2 having more focus on an incredibly indepth and complex sandbox and probably a larger focus on animation and video creation.

Source 3 = Half-Life 3 Release date: 3/3/33

I'm more mad there's no more portal games like the sheer applications and possibilities for gameplay options and puzzles are infinite but they just leave it there abandoned valve is like aperture science except successful

There have been a lot of advances with AI over the past year that game developers haven't really messed around with yet. A Half-Life 3 that utilizes GPT-4-like technology well could make for a completely unique experience with emergent and immersive gameplay.

One of the biggest issues is that the people responsible for making those great earlier games are all retired or dead.

They're definitely waiting for a new source engine to reveal new graphics and said engine for the games development.

Valve is like the Rolls Royce of game making I swear. The sheer quality and attention to detail is beyond anything I've seen from other games. Some have got close, and possibly been better in some areas. But no game creates an entire feeling, an experience, an atmosphere on the level of Valve. Every one of their story driven games feels unsettling, exciting, and just so incredibly immersive. They nail everything. The gameplay, the dialogue, story and art design. I reaaaaaaaly hope for more Half Life.

The worry I have with HL3 is hearing that it was in development several timed, but either the ideas were too broad that they couldn't get them to work all together, or by the time they did, the current tech surpassed what they had and it was scrapped over and over. The issue is, this is going to constantly be true, just like it has been for the past 15 years, and the fans would be happy just to get a Half Life 3 as it is, and that if they keep working like that, eventually it'll just never come out, all they'll be are tons of scrapped Valve projects and fan remakes. I hope you're right that they're waiting for a really advanced AI or something to work with and we will get it someday rather than never though.

we're a bit in a "post-revolution" era for graphics an physics tech. Of course they can always be improved, but the differences will never be as stark as they were in the 90s and 2000s.

It's simple: the AI: Half Life 3 GPT. The first AAA game to include natural, human-like interactions with NPCs without prescribed behavior or dialogue. This will be the next big thing in gaming with or without Valve on board, but if they really want to stay in the loop of those pushing game technology to its limits - they want to show off their shiny new AI engine, which, by the way, they don't have yet.

If HL3 happens then it will be using AI technology, with things like generation of worlds by player choices. Considering HL is all about different dimensions and all of that.

Its nice to know that one of the reasons half life 3 isnt here yet is cuz they are waiting for the perfect time to make it a mindblowingly good experience

I firmly believe half life 3 will come out before 2035