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Half-Life 2: Episode Two is now down for "summer 2007" according to Valve's Doug Lombardi.
Speaking to CVG, the marketing manager said that this was now the target, and obviously meant the same for Team Fortress 2 and Portal.
Those two games will be bundled with Episode Two on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 - with the latter two console packages also including Episode One and the original Half-Life 2 game.
You can read more about how production's been going on Episode Two and its friends TF2 and Portal by checking out our Leipzig interview with Valve.
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Mho7276501
10/11/06 @ 11:17
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whats the point of episodic content when you have to wait a year between episodes? I guess its still better than 5 years.
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There's plenty of games to keep 360 fans busy like
Bio-Shock,Mass Effect,Forza2,Alan Wake, GoW (yes that 8/10 game!) and many others until it arrives and when it does whoohoo for Team Fortess all over again! edit/ Too Human 'n' Forza delayed /cries
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I respect Valve greatly for the work they've done in games and Steam, but I'd love to see the Ep2 package available for pre-order so we can get our hands on Portal now!
We could do with another game-play trailer about now, as well ;) Seeing the amazing views in that forest, Ep2 is going to be like nothing we've seen from Gordon's PoV before |
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These guys just never know how to set deadlines. HL2 was delayed several years, the episodes after that for a year or so each. Still, the quality of their output is excellent, so I don't mind the delays. I just wish they would keep their traps shut until they know exactly when the games will be ready.
Personally, also, waiting more TF2 and Portal than the actual Episode 2. |
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They just set deadlines so that they get press coverage and the world knows that they are still working on something. You know, deadlines sound sexier: "Episode 2 will be out next month' is far more attention grabbing than "We have just agreed on the font for the opening screen. Currently the font in question is undergoing testing and soon the title sceen and the menu will go gold. After that - why, the rest of the game will be there in a jiffy!"
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Blood boiling, vision blurring...
Gah! This I suspect has everything to do with the deals being done with Microsoft and Sony to bring the games to their consoles and nothing to do with further improving the quality of the PC experience. Valve would do well to remember that the PC market made them and Steam a success. Serving those fans first should take precendence over chasing the console buck. Are we going to see HL go down the road of Deus Ex and Thief? Ballderdised sequels, dumbed down for console consumption? |
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Inflatable
10/11/06 @ 14:20
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That sucks! Whatever happened to Episodic content being released every 6 months orso?? But whatever, it's Valve, you can expect delays.. Aslong as their games are very good I don't mind that much.. But the extra waiting does suck..
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Yeah really Valve's approach to episodic content really is taking the piss. This is not how you do it. One year between 'episodes' or 'add-ons' is laughable. Telltale is doing it right with Sam & Max, one episode a month, [i]that[/i] is episodic gaming. Valve is simply making 3 add ons, releasing them over 3 years' time, and calling it episodic content. It's ridiculous. 3 Years is what it would take most teams to build one hell of a game, not 3 add-ons. I'm not necessarily saying the episodic gaming model itself is broken, as developers like Telltale show, but Valve's approach definitely is broken.
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yagisencho
10/11/06 @ 18:40
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I'm glad I waited until this month to buy HL2: Ep1. But now I see that I could have waited until at least next Spring.
I think it's great that each episode utilizes new rendering (and soon, multi-threading) technology. But it's difficult to maintain an interest across the expanses of dead time between installments. |
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