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Half-Life 3 ARG?

[Dec 12, 2011, 11:41 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

It seems Valve has kicked off a new alternate reality game, initiating speculation that a Half-Life 3 reveal may be in the offing. What are thought to be clues about this are found in a trailer Valve submitted to support the nomination of Wheatley from Portal 2 for a VGA for character of the year. The video is posted on Rock, Paper, Shotgun along with a half-speed version of the clip to make the numbers and Russian text clues more apparent, which RPS notes includes a lambda and three ones. PC Gamer also notes a reddit comment with an email allegedly from Valve's Gabe Newell saying: "I can see how the wording caused some confusion there. Yes, we are announcing something with a three in it."

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Re: Half-Life 3 ARG?

Dec 12, 2011, 14:52

Ecthelion

Call me too old or a traitor to PC gaming, but I always found the real pleasure in the Portal games was in solving the puzzles logically, not in getting mouse click timing down perfectly. I think Valve came to the same conclusion when they made the second game. I didn't find many parts that were challenging in terms of FPS skill, but I was stumped several times in Portal 2. Even in co-op there were a few parts that took two of us putting our heads together several tries to figure out. I would say that the puzzles in Portal 2 were actually more puzzle-like than most of the puzzles in Portal 1. I rarely had trouble figuring out what to do next in Portal 1, I just had to make sure I timed everything perfectly. Portal 2 was more of a puzzler in my opinion. That was the fun part of the Portal games, at least for me. You may call it dumbing the game down, but I call it tweaking the game to better achieve its core aim.

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Comment [quote="Ecthelion"Dec 12, 2011, 14:52]Call me too old or a traitor to PC gaming, but I always found the real pleasure in the Portal games was in solving the puzzles logically, not in getting mouse click timing down perfectly. I think Valve came to the same conclusion when they made the second game. I didn't find many parts that were challenging in terms of FPS skill, but I was stumped several times in Portal 2. Even in co-op there were a few parts that took two of us putting our heads together several tries to figure out. I would say that the puzzles in Portal 2 were actually more puzzle-like than most of the puzzles in Portal 1. I rarely had trouble figuring out what to do next in Portal 1, I just had to make sure I timed everything perfectly. Portal 2 was more of a puzzler in my opinion. That was the fun part of the Portal games, at least for me. You may call it dumbing the game down, but I call it tweaking the game to better achieve its core aim. [/quote]

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