Valve concept artist says they’ve seen ‘the room where Half-Life 3 is made’

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Evgeniy Evstratiy, according to his LinkedIn bio, is a very well-established concept artist that's worked with the likes of Riot Games, Manticore Games, and most-recently, Valve. A flick through his social media and his Art Station page shows plenty of fantasy and sci-fi character art – some of which you could perceive as being a bit Half-Life 3-ish. However, it's Deadlock that Evstratiy appears to be working on with Valve, not a Half-Life project. Nevertheless, during an interview with him on the Russian-speaking CG Voices Podcast, he suggests that the long-awaited FPS game sequel could be in the works.

"I don't know if I'm allowed to say this or not," Evstratiy says, according to an English translation provided by leaker 'Stannis_Loyalist' on the Half Life subreddit, "but I was in the room where they made Half-Life 3. However, I didn't see the actual development itself; I just saw the office, the computers, the whiteboards."

Later, he adds: "As I understood it, making Half-Life 3 isn't their first attempt. Therefore, the fact that they are doing it now is not a guarantee that they will actually make [or] release it."

It's unclear exactly when Evstratiy was at Valve HQ, but according to his LinkedIn profile, he's worked with the company since February 2023, so it could be any point within the last two and a bit years.


 
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To be fair, I ALSO saw the room Half-Life 3 was being made. Except that was in 2013.
 
I feel like gabe and valve haven't made half-life 3 because he doesn't know how to finish the story. He's like george R.R martin in that he planted the seeds of a franchise but dosen't know how to grow the seeds into a full grown tree ala an ending.
 
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10 things Valve doenst want you to know about the Half Life room!!
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Memati187 said:
A genuine question. Why is everyone so hyped about half life? I played the game back then, but it seems I missed something.
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existensmaximum said:
Yeah, I think the first game is a masterpiece until the end, then it goes to shit. Never cared for the second game, it was okay but nowhere near the greatness of the first one.
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It was revolutionary for what it was back in 2004 from a technical perspective. But way more important is the story and the Half-Life universe in general. Back in time I was living and breathing Half-Life, reading every single piece of story-related speculation that was out there. Everything about the Half-Life universe just feels so well crafted.
 
I imagine Valve's passive income from Steam means they can spend time on projects that don't come to fruition without worrying about what might happen.

But without being hungry there's less drive to make a passion project, and as we've seen there's really no rush.
 
Memati187 said:
A genuine question. Why is everyone so hyped about half life? I played the game back then, but it seems I missed something.
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You are a very small maybe 0.001% who didn't get it. this percentage also has trolls who like to hate a popular game
For the rest it is in one of the greatest games ever made & also one of the influential.
also look at list of "best games of all time" from various outlets
half-life/Half-life 2 will be there in top 5 most of the times. enough said
 
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After almost 20 years, how many people from the original HL2 team you think would still work for this game?

HL3 is now only a title, an IP, nothing more. I don't trust younger western developers to make such game. Especially nowadays.
 
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nkarafo said:
After almost 20 years, how many people from the original HL2 team you think would still work for this game?

HL3 is now only a title, an IP, nothing more. I don't trust younger western developers to make such game. Especially nowadays.
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Actually quite a lot are still around and want to finish the freeman story. Just watch the hl2 20th anniversery doc and look it up. Lots are still there and working on hl3...
 
Pipe dream, we'll never get HL3 cause they won't release a game that can't top HL2, and I don't see that happening - gotta be something revolutionary.
 
Emedan said:
Pipe dream, we'll never get HL3 cause they won't release a game that can't top HL2, and I don't see that happening - gotta be something revolutionary.
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Honestly... Nowadays, with all the extraction/hero shooters and multiplayer focused FPS games that have flooded the market for years.... Any decent single player only FPS campaign, that also runs without bugs and performance issues on an engine that isn't UE, will at least feel like something new and fresh.
 
It's coming bros, maybe not soon but...it's coming 100%
There's been too much smoke lately for there not to be a fire, maybe they're waiting for their VR platform to release first, maybe they're still figuring out that element that will distinguish it from your typical FPSs but...it's coming...

Memati187 said:
A genuine question. Why is everyone so hyped about half life? I played the game back then, but it seems I missed something.
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You just had to be there, both DOOM 3 and HL2 released in the same year was mind-blowing, both were technical marvels (each for different reasons) and HL2 specifically still holds great today.
 
nkarafo said:
Honestly... Nowadays, with all the extraction/hero shooters and multiplayer focused FPS games that have flooded the market for years.... Any decent single player only FPS campaign, that also runs without bugs and performance issues on an engine that isn't UE, will at least feel like something new and fresh.
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Sure, and I for one would enjoy it - but Im not convinced that's enough for Valve.
 
I've seen Room 302 plenty of times as well. Went to go visit Henry but he didn't open the door and I couldn't open it from the outside either. His neighbour was nice as well, Eileen I think she said her name was, very nice woman if I may add. She was outside a few times worried about Henry as well
 
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I imagine it gnaws at the back of Gabe's mind that he'd be responsible for not finishing the story. But he's caught between that and not wanting to feel responsible for not living up to the hype, not just as a story but as a game. VR gave him that opportunity while sidestepping the story.

It's not something I particularly blame him for, they left an extremely high bar for themselves.

He probably lets ideas for this game keep grinding just in case it ever sparks into something he can feel good about. If it never does, he won't release it. I wouldn't call it incompetence, just extremely high standards and no budget pressure.
 
Memati187 said:
A genuine question. Why is everyone so hyped about half life? I played the game back then, but it seems I missed something.
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If by back then you meant in 1998, you would understand.
80% of the game gameplay ideas and structure was mindblowingly new and the rest was 5 times better than everyone elses.
You had to be there i guess.
 
Toots said:
If by back then you meant in 1998, you would understand.
80% of the game gameplay ideas and structure was mindblowingly new and the rest was 5 times better than everyone elses.
You had to be there i guess.
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Im sorry to disagree... but killing sniper with grenades like a basketball game is NOT a good gameplay idea :-D
Gravity gun gameplay however.. that is really good :-D
 
I might be a lunatic but I never remember Half Life as having particularly good, or fun, gameplay. I got them as they came out and kind of marveled at them for a few hours because of the graphics and never finished either.

I should probably go revisit both actually...
 
If half life 3 comes out, it needs to innovate the same way that 2 did. I don't have that kind of faith in the gaming industry anymore.
 
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Honestly, as a franchise its just very good.

The original HL was a big deal because it introduced the idea of having a silent protagonist in a 3D narrative adventure, its set-pieces were top notch with some unusually intelligent AI tactics in a couple of spots.
That being said, it was also heavily criticized because its climactic area was regarded as the worst part of the game.

HL2 was a techincal showcase due its scale and heavy deployment of physics for its gravity gun weapon.

All the above was kinda ground-breaking 25+ years ago, but lets be honest is kinda old-hat nowadays.

To me its always been an overrated franchise. Its storyline and characters are nothing special, design's solid but hardly revolutionary, and truth be told it all feels like a 90's relic at this point with its heavy and obvious Matrix influence.
 
Sebastian1295 said:
I feel like gabe and valve haven't made half-life 3 because he doesn't know how to finish the story. He's like george R.R martin in that he planted the seeds of a franchise but dosen't know how to grow the seeds into a full grown tree ala an ending.
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The original writer Laidlaw, posted on his blog TLDR script of what for him was his final vision of how HL3 would of went and ended. To be honest, reading that, it felt like a good conclusion with many things resolved and just a few left to interpretation. I doubt the problem is with the story, problem is Valve have brainwashed themselves that now all of a sudden, any release software or hardware needs to be some revolution while us gamers, all we want is the final conclusion to the story. This is some Shenmue franchise shit right here.
 
It is rather unlikely that this will happen, Valve´s engine is like more than a decade behind the competition tech wise.
But if they want to release something competitive they either have to make a completely new engine from the ground up, or they use UE5 like everyone else.
And they clearly dont have the staff to make a new engine - as seen with HL Alyx - you can only dress up an old engine up to a point.
It is very telling that they rather do games like Deadlock instead of HL3 becasue they simply cant compete with the big boys anymore.
 
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