Half-Life is back, in a new trailer for Half-Life: Alyx



Valve sent the internet into a state of shock, when they revealed that a new Half-Life game was coming soon. Teased as a virtual reality game, more information was promised to be shown in a trailer. Now, that time has come, and we've got our first look at Half-Life: Alyx, which takes place between Half-Life 1 and 2. The game will be a full-length title, priced at $59.99, and will release in March of 2020, for the Valve Index, Vive, Windows MR, and Oculus headsets.

Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
 

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What if the game was designed and for mouse and keyboard then adapted to VR, that's a possibility. I mean the worst case scenario they can use VR to Keyboard/mouse converter, in sure it exists lol
Compromises have to be made one way or the other. The best VR-optional games are on-rails shooters and/or cockpit games, which are limiting formats in their own right. The only way to take full advantage of the capabilities of virtual reality is to design games for it from the ground up.
 
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The RV makes me sick, even vomiting. :wacko:
Because of the ps4 and its kart game where you have to slide a road and slalom between the cars....
I don't have a ps4, just tested with a friend....
 

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Compromises have to be made one way or the other. The best VR-optional games are on-rails shooters and/or cockpit games, which are limiting formats in their own right. The only way to take full advantage of the capabilities of virtual reality is to design games for it from the ground up.
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VR title and it doesn't progress the story...

After all these years this is not what we need.

I'll pass.

It can reveal interesting informations that we've been looking for, like what's the G-Man connection to Eli and Alyx..
 

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valve: no one is buying our overpriced gimmicky fad VR equipment so what can we do to will entice people to do so? make half-life 1.5 VR!
me: it still won't work :creep:
 
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It can reveal interesting informations that we've been looking for, like what's the G-Man connection to Eli and Alyx..
Yeah, that'd be more acceptable if it wasn't so damn late.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this is great but it's not what the fan base has been waiting for.
 

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valve: no one is buying our overpriced gimmicky fad VR equipment so what can we do to will entice people to do so? make half-life 1.5 VR!
me: it still won't work :creep:
And yet the $1000 Valve Index full kit has been #1 on the Steam top sellers list for two days straight now. With the controllers and headset+controllers also in the top ten. It's less about selling their own hardware and more about supporting the VR market in general though, since they also link to other headsets you can buy. Lots of die-hard Half-Life fans out there.
 
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Characters and graphics look great but the VR looks meh. Unfortunate that Valve can't figure out how to give you arms when a small team like Stress Level Zero can.
 

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Let’s see how it does on launch with the whole vr thing. I’m not ready for vr yet. $$$
 

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Yeah, that'd be more acceptable if it wasn't so damn late.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this is great but it's not what the fan base has been waiting for.

At this point the fanbase excepts nothing imo, what I wanted was simply ep3 but if they'd make it now it's be weird and hl3 would be weird without ep3 before it...
 
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At this point the fanbase excepts nothing imo, what I wanted was simply ep3 but if they'd make it now it's be weird and hl3 would be weird without ep3 before it...
Very true, excellent point. No one to blame but themselves for that sentiment. What a shame.

After a while I personally thought they were just going to roll ep3 into hl3 but neither one of those things happened.
 

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