Update 1:
We can now confirm that the "Half-Life 3" trademark has been removed from the Trademarks and Design Registration Office of the European Union (OHIM) website. The entrant appears to have disappeared entirely after only being listed on the website database for little over a week, allowing us to identify that the trademark's listing was more than likely a hoax intended to generate fake buzz for a game which is unlikely to appear for several years. Returning readers may remember when we had discussed how the "Half-Life 3" listing was previously never officially checked or authenticated before its removal.
On October 2nd 2013, a brand new trademark filing appeared on the same site, this time for "Portal 3", which is listed under the trademark number of "012190286". While this new filing should almost definitely be taken with a rather large pinch of salt, we can confirm that the "Portal 3" listing appears to have been appropriately examined by OHIM, unlike the previously listed "Half-Life 3" trademark. Thanks to the recent sneak peak into Valve's Jira account, we can confirm that there is currently no "Portal 3" development team within the company, highlighting that this brand new listing is also very likely a hoax of some kind, regardless of whether or not it has been officially examined. We'll keep you posted if and when we learn more.
A quick search of the US Patents and Trademark office shows that Valve already own such names for potential products in the future, including Dota 3, and of course Valve have regularly updated their ownership of the www.half-life3.com domain over the last few years. Please remember that the existence of a trademark such as this has very little to do with the development of any game title, as we imagine this kind of trademark is submitted simply to protect intellectual property, regardless of whether or not a company will ever use said trademark. A recent example of this comes directly from publisher Electronic Arts, who registered domain names for the Battlefield series as far ahead as Battlefield 20!
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Care to elaborate? Seems unnecessary how?
the last half life game came out like when? 5 years ago? sure its a nice game with great usage of source engine, but the story was kinda meh, and honestly it is one of many. its not a super awesome ground breaking game. i think they should let half life franhcise die already. we have many fps games now as it is.
I think you will be positively surprised.
the last half life game came out like when? 5 years ago? sure its a nice game with great usage of source engine, but the story was kinda meh, and honestly it is one of many. its not a super awesome ground breaking game. i think they should let half life franhcise die already. we have many fps games now as it is.
this probably means NOTHING.What probability do you assign to this meaning nothing?
the last half life game came out like when? 5 years ago? sure its a nice game with great usage of source engine, but the story was kinda meh, and honestly it is one of many. its not a super awesome ground breaking game. i think they should let half life franhcise die already. we have many fps games now as it is.Iirc H2 was the first game that really made use of proper physics as part of the gameplay. That was kinda ground breaking and made H2 special
On the other hand, we all know that Half-Life 3 is just a story mothers tell their children at night, to give them hope and teach them important lessons about crushing disappointment. Like the tooth fairy, or a satisfying and timely conclusion to George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire saga.
You can do a lot different in shooters. Arma 3 is very different from Call of Duty Modern Warfare #2347. Team Fortress 2 resembles Battlefield 3 very, very little. Deus Ex HR isn't much like Counter Strike. DEHR isn't technically a shooter, but removing some of the strict genre boundaries is the next step for a lot of games. As for truly new innovations, well, if anyone could come up with good ones, they would've been done. We'll just have to see what Valve comes up with.
Sure, but a game like DE:HR with amazing shooting mechanics would be great. You could play DE:HR as a shooter if you wanted, as well. I imagine a lot of people did. I don't know about you, but I get very bored very fast with "shoot endless waves of enemies in slightly different maps" shooters.
Havent even played 1 or 2 yet, they dont look that great tbh.what. the. fuck.
Never got the appeal of Portal tbh...
It's the: wow I'm so smart for figuring this out momet :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:I wouldn't call Portal FPS... more like FPP (P for Puzzler, if that even is a word).
But really the game had a different approach to it, atmosphere and the story were nice, the humor was also spot on. Basically it was a FPS where you didn't have to shoot anybody, spill blood and see the American flag waving at the end (looking at you CoD, BF), plus it did require you to use your brain a bit which was really refreshing.
So as you see there is much you can do different with FPS :wink: (also Borderlands which I know you love)
Iirc H2 was the first game that really made use of proper physics as part of the gameplay. That was kinda ground breaking and made H2 special
That was all I really cared about the game. I thought the original was much more ground breaking than HL2. Besides, HL2 spawned the Source games, which were terrible compared to the originals (TFC > TF2. CS > CS:S. DOD > DOD:S).
I really could care less about HL3, and this is coming from someone who's owned a copy of HL since early 1999 (and has probably put 20,000+ hours into the mods)
Half-Life 3... confirmed?I hope they will avoid Mass effect 3 syndrome
I hope they will avoid Mass effect 3 syndrome
anyway is HL(1) free to play now? I really like that old style FPS games like AvP2
Update 1:
We can now confirm that the "Half-Life 3" trademark has been removed from the Trademarks and Design Registration Office of the European Union (OHIM) website. The entrant appears to have disappeared entirely after only being listed on the website database for little over a week, allowing us to identify that the trademark's listing was more than likely a hoax intended to generate fake buzz for a game which is unlikely to appear for several years. Returning readers may remember when we had discussed how the "Half-Life 3" listing was previously never officially checked or authenticated before its removal.
On October 2nd 2013, a brand new trademark filing appeared on the same site, this time for "Portal 3", which is listed under the trademark number of "012190286". While this new filing should almost definitely be taken with a rather large pinch of salt, we can confirm that the "Portal 3" listing appears to have been appropriately examined by OHIM, unlike the previously listed "Half-Life 3" trademark. Thanks to the recent sneak peak into Valve's Jira account, we can confirm that there is currently no "Portal 3" development team within the company, highlighting that this brand new listing is also very likely a hoax of some kind, regardless of whether or not it has been officially examined. We'll keep you posted if and when we learn more.
A quick search of the US Patents and Trademark office shows that Valve already own such names for potential products in the future, including Dota 3, and of course Valve have regularly updated their ownership of the www.half-life3.com domain over the last few years. Please remember that the existence of a trademark such as this has very little to do with the development of any game title, as we imagine this kind of trademark is submitted simply to protect intellectual property, regardless of whether or not a company will ever use said trademark. A recent example of this comes directly from publisher Electronic Arts, who registered domain names for the Battlefield series as far ahead as Battlefield 20!
Dude, HL1 is even older than AvP1.no shiet sherlok