Valve's Gabe Newell still not talking Episode 3

by Ben Gilbert { Jun 12th 2009 at 9:45AM }

Half-Life 2 developer Valve Software is remaining unsurprisingly cagey in conversations about Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Speaking with G4, the company's managing director Gabe Newell said, "There are very good reasons why we're not talking about Episode 3, which I can't talk about yet."

When pressed on the possibility of hearing more about the game by the end of 2009, Newell downright dismisses the question and, instead, chooses to speak about the "rhythm" the team working on Episode 3 is developing. Does that mean Valve's working on the long-awaited rhythm/music component to Half-Life 2? We can only dream.

[Via Big Download]

Tags: episode-3, g4, gabe-newell, half-life-2, half-life-2-episode-3, pc

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

cheese @ Jun 12th 2009 9:47AM

Fat!! I mean First!

FNG @ Jun 12th 2009 9:50AM

Nice. So if this guy gets the flu, is it automatically the swine flu? Pig.

Lustis @ Jun 12th 2009 9:51AM

Man, that was mean... But I laughed

sic @ Jun 12th 2009 9:59AM

I bet he's sorry he doesn't have the hunky, model good looks of you guys. The millions of dollars he sleeps on top of probably helps dry his tears though.

Lunastra78 (PSN: lunastra78) @ Jun 12th 2009 10:33AM

You should know better than to mess with the Valveteers. Mean bunch...

joeybeast @ Jun 12th 2009 10:34AM

so that's where the Boomer came from.

chrisnick @ Jun 12th 2009 10:43AM

MAKE A PS3 GAME YOU FAT LAZY BASTARD!!!!! (not that i really want him to, there's no reason for him not to is all)

copa @ Jun 12th 2009 10:43AM

Is every Sony Pony going to clutter this thread about an awesome game with a forced fattie joke? Just drop a quick "I'd hit it" and move on.

TeDwArD @ Jun 12th 2009 12:08PM

i have a ps3 and i would not play hl2 episode 3 on the console. it came out on pc and it must be played on pc. i cant be bothered how long it takes for newell to release hl2. The longer it takes to develop it the better it should become.

Shashwat @ Jun 12th 2009 11:35AM

Gabe newell needs to lose some weight. i wouldn't want him to get a heart attack when he's young, who'll produce all those awesome games?
so please get on the treadmill and cut down on the donuts.

avan @ Jun 12th 2009 6:49PM

take your time man, the best game ever made deserves that and more. Anyway, funny how all this fat kids are making jokes about fat ppl, prob just fanboys of that platform thats is waste of time to develop for.

Old Professor Zertoss @ Jun 12th 2009 9:49AM

I think he means the team has gotten into a funk.

Johnathan @ Jun 12th 2009 9:55AM

Or he ate them.

Giroro @ Jun 12th 2009 4:39PM

I think he means the team is funky.

Jagzi11a @ Jun 12th 2009 9:51AM

I think they need to hurry up with 3, after all, the whole reason you episodic games is to eliminate the time between installments. Clearly Gabe didn't get the memo

Lustis @ Jun 12th 2009 9:52AM

That is exactly what I was going to say. Well put

cheese @ Jun 12th 2009 9:55AM

The memo is probably under that box of donuts that's been on his food table. I would call it a desk, but since there is probably more food on it than paperwork, it is hereby called a food table.

Viney @ Jun 12th 2009 10:00AM

No he got the memo. He just got it mixed up with the other memo about how soon you should release a sequel to L4D.

copa @ Jun 12th 2009 10:01AM

Valve abandoned that whole "episodic gaming reduces development time" rationale a long, long time ago. They have accepted that their role is to take a really, really long time to develop games that keep turning out awesome.

Portal contained references to the Half-Life universe, and the end of Episode 2 contained references to the Portal universe. I expect that Episode 3 is going to be where the two games converge.

I was dying for an Episode 3 announcement at E3. But they can take as long as they want to get this one right, they've earned that right. Gabe can gain another 500 pounds as long as he keeps publishing the righteous stuff.

Vidikron @ Jun 12th 2009 10:05AM

They should just drop the whole "episode" part of the title. Should have just given them proper subtitles instead (e.g. Halo 3: ODST), because "episode" has a different meaning in gaming than the nonsense Valve is doing.

MystileArmor @ Jun 12th 2009 10:16AM

He ate the memo when they ran out of donuts.

Dylan @ Jun 12th 2009 11:21AM

Clearly you didn't get the memo about Valve acknowledging that the small gap plan between episodes simply wasn't going to work because every episode got bigger and more ambitious.

Einhanderkiller @ Jun 12th 2009 1:56PM

Maybe, but 2 years is a whole lot faster than 6.

Jagzi11a @ Jun 12th 2009 9:52AM

DO*

Dr. steve brule (formerly ronald.raygun) @ Jun 12th 2009 11:03AM

du hast?

Shagittarius @ Jun 12th 2009 11:22AM

du hast nicht

WorMzy @ Jun 12th 2009 11:22AM

Du hast mich gefragt, und ich hab nichts gesagt.

Jagzi11a @ Jun 12th 2009 11:24AM

Hey, If you have leaves on your drive, use a hose silly! For your health

LordToastington @ Jun 12th 2009 12:45PM

STEVE BRUUUULE!!

NoughtSoClever @ Jun 12th 2009 2:46PM

I always thought it was "du hasst mich" as in "you hate me" not "du hast nicht" which I guess means "you have nothing."

Shagittarius @ Jun 12th 2009 4:07PM

Du: You
Du has(s)t: You have
Du has(s)t mich: You have me
Du hast mich gefragt: You have asked me
Du hast mich gefragt und ich habe nichts gesagt: You have asked me, and I have said nothing.

So sayeth Wiki

cheese @ Jun 12th 2009 9:54AM

I'll be shocked if they actually come up with a new engine. Although Epic tends to rehash their games a bit, at least they make improvements to their engine other than experimenting with cel-shaded graphics or putting zombies in a game and pretending it's a new genre.

Lustis @ Jun 12th 2009 9:59AM

I don't care for a new engine. The games are great fun. I want to finish the story. I want to know what happened with the girlfriend Alex, that I've never spoken a word to.

Joe @ Jun 12th 2009 10:34AM

You have no idea how much has been added to the Source engine since its release, do you? Ever wonder why Episode 2 looked so much better than the original?

Jagzi11a @ Jun 12th 2009 10:41AM

Cheese, I'll tell you a tale, you do not like valve one bit. I am not trying to get in an arguement with you, but vale is in my opinion a great gaming company and they have consistantly made great games and have been really close with the gaming community that supports it. You are entitled to your opinion and I repect it.

cheese @ Jun 12th 2009 10:50AM

I like and play the games Valve makes. I just don't care for devs who don't think before they speak. It's kind of like the band Oasis. I like the music, but the artists just come off as pricks.

I've got all the HL games, including Orange Box for PS3, L4D on 360. I even have the old school retail box that HL1 came in. I built a new PC just so I could run Halflife 2.

jumpshot @ Jun 12th 2009 1:47PM

Right, but so far most of your comments have been fatty-fat-fat jokes. Makes you seem like Oasis.

Giroro @ Jun 12th 2009 4:37PM

Team Fortress 2 isn't mutherfucking cel shaded! (I think that's the one OP meant, because NONE of vavle's source games are cel shaded)

If you disagree, you haven't the slightest idea what cel shading is.

cheese @ Jun 12th 2009 5:23PM

I don't disagree Giroro, and I know TF2 is not cel-shaded, but for lack of a better term, it is kind of the style they went for. Besides, I could have been talking about any other developer like the ones behind Prince of Persia (who did do cel-shading) or Treyarch, who decided to throw zombies into a WW2 game. Re-read my posting.

Fullmetal Salchemist @ Jun 12th 2009 9:54AM

I wish this was an image board, so we can post "Meanwhile, at Valve" pics.

Gibbeynater @ Jun 12th 2009 9:58AM

they should outsource Episode 3 development to Telltale Games.

Martin Greenberg @ Jun 12th 2009 10:00AM

Or Traveller's Tales. Lego Half-Life FTW!

eNrique @ Jun 12th 2009 3:31PM

Or even better, make a totally new engine, because all of valve games since episode 2 look like CRAP compared to the majority of games launched at that time.
Let's not even talk about left4dead.

Martin Greenberg @ Jun 12th 2009 9:59AM

When he talks about the rhythm that the team is developing with the HL2 episodes, he's referring to the classic rhythm of a half-note then a few billion rests.

The Baron @ Jun 12th 2009 9:59AM

Please be making HL3 and have it out this or next year!

Also, this man is a genius and it saddens me to see that every time he gets mentioned there's just 100+ comments of "THE CAEK ISNT A LIE, GABE ALREADY ATE IT LOLOLOLOL"

cheese @ Jun 12th 2009 10:03AM

It's tough love. Nobody wants this "genius" to die before HL ep 3 gets made right? Besides it's hell of a lot more love than he's given the PS3, but what do you expect from someone that worked for MS for 13+ years?

Sidebuster @ Jun 12th 2009 10:23AM

He isn't going to die anytime soon (unless he gets hit by a car or something). That's just some scare tactic you learned from people who want to control the way you live.

Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 12th 2009 10:27AM

dude, let's say your best friend is getting fat. REALLY FAT. but he's still the best friend you've ever had. but you really don't want to lose him. what do you do, think of his feelings and let him die, or get him to stop?

Sidebuster @ Jun 12th 2009 10:33AM

I would look at his eating habits, not really his weight. I had a friend who ate nothing but sugary sweets (and alcohol) all day long. Of course he had an athletic body with negative body fat and muscles everywhere. I asked him if eating like that is really a good idea.

Then he got in a car accident on St. Pattricks day and is now inbetween a vegtable and in a coma (he is aware but and can respond for the most part but isn't really there).

So I know there are various ways to die or be incapped other than "OMG Getting FATZ gonna amake you die real fast"