The stages of money and fame: 1. Confident because it's early on and you have something to prove. 2. Not confident because you proved yourself, but now the expectations are even greater, and it's becoming overwhelming. 3. Trolling because why am I still subjecting myself to the stress of meeting expectations? F you I'm rich now lol.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Gabe is still one of the most respected innovators in gaming, this is just a small aspect. He constantly is requested to give interviews and speaches regarding things not connected to HL3 and if he passed away tomorrow he'd be celebrated. This is just a lighthearted meme, it barely affects his legacy
The problem with all this anticipation is that Half-Life 3 *MUST* be excellent. It cannot be simply good, decent or below. The bar has been set too high. It's big risk, big reward for Valve.
@@cybzer0560 I agree, they would need to make the greatest video game of all time, but I would take the risk if I was them. Like this guy above just said, they do have what it takes to make the greatest video game of all time, and I think that would kinda make Valve the greatest video game company of all time.
valve has the opportunity to post “3” on their social medias and create hype just by making us guess if they’re talking about Portal, Half Life, Dota, or Team Fortress
@@NorShii i doubt dota 3, they keep updating everything about the game for updates to dota 2 I can't think of anything that would be too big of an update and would require a full new release.
Bento Box there's nothing wrong with being fat it's just a part of life and it's how the human body works so saying somebody is fat means nothing to then unless they're stupid and don't think properly
There is everything wrong with being fat. Being fat and morbidly obese is an abnormality that was introduced once our ancestors have passed the stage of having to fight and hunt for food. Now all it takes is a trip to the grocery store. Now tell me again how theres nothing wrong with being fat.
Eh, you can google up some theories. I think the development team got busted or relocated, then probably came the disaster of steam boxes. Then everyone gave up, the materials were leaked, there was nothing to make the game for. Then Half Life Alyx was made just to keep the brand awareness and test new hardware.
He doesn't think it would hold up today. The game market has changed multiple times over. It's a boring reason, but it's the reason. Additionally, he lost all motivation for it. Gabe sent a gnome to space as a joke, if he wanted to finish half life he could, but he doesn't.
it is a top secret weapon, if HL3 is announced the internet will short circuit and break from the amount of hype. we’re waiting till we need to use an EMP on something to release it
@@comediccomrade5716 Jokes aside - HL3 could probably have the cheapest marketing campaign in the world. All Gaben would have to do is make a single image about the number "3" and the internet would do the rest. EVERYONE would repost it, even the TV.
E3 2018. Gabe Newell raises 3 fingers up, the crowd goes wild thinking Half Life 3 is confirmed, Gabe Newell then says "3 new hats confirmed for Team Fortress 2".
@@RSJiyutoAnzenI guess. Maybe he is waiting to make an insane amount of more money by just keeping the audience at the edge for a while. So this can be a very big event. Gab is really a good businessman. Well I just hope it's worth it.
@@RSJiyutoAnzenprobably couldn't get anyone at Valve to agree on what half life 3 was gonna be about. You don't go from wanting to talk about it to "No news" :( that's my opinion and no facts.
Valve infamously can’t agree on anything so Gabe was unfortunately seemingly the main one on the team that wanted it to keep going. You can almost see how sad he looks.
His hair has turned gray talking about when half life 3 will come out. Hext time he's interviewed, it will be his grave, and it will be engraved with " we're still working on it "
Sebas O. it actually called half life because in a radioactive process then the toxicness fades away it turns into a half life when a person can barely live on process of it
Sebas O. My theory is better. First there was Half life and then it was Half life 2. Two half lifes is one life and three half lifes is one and a half life. So we are all dead before half life 3
Wow I remember being in elementary and being like wow this is so cool and my big bro was like yeah episode 3 is gonna be better fucking gonna graduate 2020 still waiting
- Gabe Newell dies in his house - His ghost haunts the house - 3 centuries later a few people go to the house to check if it is really haunted - One of the people feels a cold touch on his shoulder - He then hears a calm whisper in his ear - "I have nothing to say about Half Life 3"
@@user-dj9fu6kl8xHonestly the graphics are still so great. Especially the rag doll physics. People loved Half life for the story, not for the graphics
I'm glad he has a sense of humor and understands how anticipated it still is though "Don't worry, i'll be sure to call the BBC when i have something to say" :D
Ayadi A. It hasn't been cancelled. It was confirmed in his AMA when somebody asked a question about the half-life/portal universe and he confirmed a sequel. I can guarantee you the portal trilogy is over, so half-life 3 confirmed xd.
Chef Excellence yeah but Valve always claims they work on stuff that is in the interest of the customers. I see more people asking for Half Life 3 than I do VR or Steam Machines and Valve doesnt give 2 shits.
I think the point is that Valve's policy on making games focuses more on their own selfishness than the fans. "Yeah we are not feeling like making it." i understand but there is a fucking line you have to draw until it becomes just cruel and injust. Ep2 ended on a cliffhanger for crying out loud and every other company makes games on their announced dates, only sometimes prolonging them but still usually delivering. Valve just does what they want, hoping that gives better creative results. They've set the bar so low that fans including myself are ready to settle for anything at this point. Even if it looks exactly like the Source engine HL2 it always did and has no new mechanics. We just want the story to end.
It's weird because you can see exactly where the decision to stop working on EP3 happened. In the first couple of years after The Orange Box released, Gabe was very forthcoming in explaining how Episode 3 is gonna blow everybody's pants off. He was more than happy to discuss it and at least say "yep, we've been hard at work, it's gonna be great." And then sometime later that all changes. He's no longer happy to even mention it, he just outright tells people "I'm not talking about that", with no explanation other than "it'll be ready when it's ready." I don't think even Gabe was willing to admit they weren't working on it anymore. Given the fact that Marc Laidlaw "leaked" the plot for Episode 3 years later, it wouldn't surprise me if some internal conflicts at Valve played a role in shelving the entire development cycle for the game. Something happened at Valve that made Gabe reach the decision to mothball it, and I don't think it's because they've been "too busy" printing money with Steam. The whole point of the Steam market is it's very hands-off. Nobody at Valve has to touch anything to make money from it. It's almost entirely passive income with the exception of occasional maintenance and upkeep. It requires nowhere near the same amount of man power to maintain, unlike developing a video game. I think something happened at Valve. Maybe some important people quit, or possibly even died. I think that's why the sudden shift occurred in Gabe's demeanor on mentioning the game over the years. It'd be one thing if it had been 5 or 6 years and he just got sick of getting the same question, but he became VERY disinterested in even hearing about it after just 2 or 3 years. All very suspicious, IMO.
Except has like billions of dollars In the bank and doesn't give a fuck........so much worse than a Kickstarter developer. But hey we got artifact......
I remember how Yahtzee said that Valve wants the main Half-Life games to represent huge steps forward for the industry as a whole. The first one did that through being a continuous series of areas without any cutscenes or menus in between. The second one did that through the Source engine’s physics. Alyx did that through pushing VR to its absolute limit. Maybe 3 will come out in a few centuries and show the benefits time travel or teleportation can bring to video games idk
SheepBlippy you ever heard of what ea did with spore? They hyped it up for almost a decade then completely fucked everyone over by shipping a game completely different from what was expected
@SheepBlippy It was hardly edging past 2008 when he stopped answering things directly It's a very understandable why he doesn't want to talk about it, he could answer that the game was pretty obviously cancelled because lead didn't think it was good enough to finish off the trilogy, if it was only that simple, there'd be an outcry, people would dig, did everyone think it wasnt good enough? Did someone fuck up? People would rather blame someone, be it gaben or just valve in general for ruining their most anticipated game release rather than the company simply deciding it wasnt good enough Half life is a million dollar IP, and it makes no sense to start drama about it, a game was probably being developed and it wasnt good enough so it was cancelled, the worst thing that could happen if he is upfront about it is that people start harassing old employees of something that happened over a decade ago and would do everything they could to dig up a copy of it, or potentially spoil the story. Worst case scenario if he doesn't tell everyone what happened? People are mildly annoyed and disgruntled over not having another game of their favorite series released. There's much more at stake than just killing off the expectations of the 1 % fanboy playerbase who refuse to see the obvious
Darth Bane You have either never played half life or it's just not you're kind of game/world because for me and many others it is an amazing game with an immense story. Being a fps game should not label it as a bland game, not all games have to be open world fps in order to have good story and immersion.
Gareth Douglas the story of half life 1 was a bare bones Doom clone with only the ending conversation with Gman doing anything to flesh out the story, and Half-Life 2 has not aged nearly as well as people would have you believe. Half the characters are generic npcs from HL1 that they slapped names on and never get fleshed out cause they treat them like we're supposed to know who they are already. Because the characters know Gordon and talk to him like he already knows everything even though the player has no idea what happened between 1 and 2 or how any of these people are significant. Gordon Freeman doesn't work as a protagonist cause he's too established in the lore for the player to project themselves into but doesn't do anything to build the story since he never speaks. I mean Dr. Breen literally came out of thin air to be the antagonist and you barely see him before he dies. Episodes 1 & 2 are fantastic and still hold up really well but base HL2 is super below average shooter with some trash level design aside from Ravenholm. HL1 holds up better in terms of atmosphere and gameplay tbh.
Valve Board of directors in 2007: “Gabe, we voted to fire you. You are let go as soon as HL2 Episode 3 is released, thank you for all your hard work” Gabe: Ok
@@gomaniz they should, especially if it took them almost 20 years just to make a prequal to the actual game we all want, and have wanted since 2006, at this rate, ill have grandchildren by the time we a proper ending for one of my least liked series
I mean, realistically he did more than any of us ever will. I’m tired just from working 40 hours a week at a regular job. Y’all expect everything from this man.
john doe some of us just want a real closure, not some written bullshit from reddit. find a job that you enjoy doing, not some sweaty wallmart transportation. yes he did revolutionize the pc gaming, but that was back in the late 90's, we live in 2018 now. computing is far more advanced and easier.
I had a dream that Valve released “The Purple Box” that had Half-Life 3, Portal 3 and Team Fortress 3. I was about to start playing it and then I woke up and was really sad.
*200 years from now.. gaben's great grandson:* "We have nothing to say about episode 3 or half life 3, but when we do, we will definetly let the fans know"
No. It wasn't wiped. It was leaked, source code included. After that Valve took out all the fun bits and weapons they had planed and released a half finished mess of a game.
@@ronidude Not at all. They will make a very small amount with a vr game compared to an flatscreen pancake game. They are making a vr prequel because that's the only way vr can grow.
Loveshank STOP... the pain is too much, just thinking of the syllables makes me want to twist my own stomach into a literal mush that resembles the splatter of a headcrab getting ran over by a combine vehicle
Gabe Newell's body has been cryopreserved after his death and he just woke up again. He asked what year it is. We told him it was the year 3333. Gaben replied: "Put me back in there."
@@yadiyyussof95 Exactly, if it's not happening he should have just said so by now It's been 12 years since Episode 2. It's obvious it was canned, or at least the original was, and he's not saying anything to save face at this point because it would rightfully piss off so many people. He needs to stop hyping up something that will never happen.
That's just depressing, man. Imagine not being able to tell the public the sad truth because it'll be the end of your career, company, and the community that expected and waited patiently for years. It'll be a damning controversy that's gonna be talked about for years if he opens up about it. On the other hand, maybe he's just getting real tired of everyone's shit and is running out of excuses to delay the release of the game, hence the worried look.
Half Life 3 will come out when Valve makes Dota 3 Dota 3 will come out when they make Team Fortress 3 Team Fortress 3 will come out when they make Portal 3 Portal 3 will come out when they make Left 4 Dead 3 Left 4 Dead 3 will come out when they make Source 3 Source 3 will come out when they make Dust 3 Basically the year 3000
Might as well just admit, "we totally planned on continuing Half Life, but when you guys starting funneling us millions of dollars through Steam, we just kicked back and got rich. why work on it now?"
The saddest thing is, people are dying; people die every day. Fans and just regular video game players are dying without playing HL3. Gabe is not very young, he could die before releasing HL3.
Alluurpo yeah i was in my early 20's...guessing it was 2005 or 2006 wow that was a long time ago. You were my first sub, i was listening to a lot of bowie back then. Crazy. Its a small (youtube) world after all. Who would've thought we're both half life fans. Anyways, take care man! Nice "running" into ya
The day will come, when at E3 you will see but a single chair and small table with a dinner plate on it bearing steak and asparagus. There will be a glass of wine. The room will be almost dark, except for one beam of light upon the chair and table. Gabe will slowly walk out onto stage, completely ignoring the audience and those around him. He will walk over, sit down. Place his napkin in his lap, and pick up his utensils. With an utter disregard for those around him, he will begin to eat. He will spend the next 5 or so minutes enjoying his luscious meal. He will finish eating, take a sip of his wine, and then stand up. Without a single ounce of acknowledgement, Gabe will slowly walk off stage, and out of sight. Half Life 3 flashes onto the screen.
+Flowmasta Flam alternate, more likely ending: Valve officially announces the cancellation of Half Life 3, and all of the major employees proceed to walk on stage and piss on the audience with erect wieners
+CartoonWarStudios I think we should combine OP's scenario and yours. Gabe has a big ol' meal, enjoys the shit out of it, and then walks off as a big "Half Life 3 is cancelled," flashes on screen, at which point the Valve crew comes out to piss on folks. I can imagine that.
I'm afraid it's been 9 years ruclips.net/video/YCjNT9qGjh4/видео.html
Bruh 4 minutes ago
I am still waiting lol.
i'll wait another millennium if i have to
Feels bad man :(
You’re a liar Gabe.
"Half Life 3 is going to have a bunch of stuff you've never seen before." Well, he didn't lie. We still haven't seen it.
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4K 100FPS player *XDDDDD*
ApaChe 11 Years from now...that’s even longer as cyberpunk2077 and this already took a while and we all had little hope xD
*black guy meme*
He went from
1- Being Confident
2- Not Confident
3-Trolling
The 3 stages of gaben
The stages of money and fame:
1. Confident because it's early on and you have something to prove.
2. Not confident because you proved yourself, but now the expectations are even greater, and it's becoming overwhelming.
3. Trolling because why am I still subjecting myself to the stress of meeting expectations? F you I'm rich now lol.
No it's
1. Confident
2. Trolling
3. Nothing (because he can't count to three)
you mean stages 1, alyx, and 2?
@@pheilimobrien6634 "3 great games" he most certainly can. Also yes he said that.
This man will die with the last sentence: "I can't really say anything about Half Life 3"
lmaooo
Kićla Zemun ha ha ha ha ha hahahaha haha haa !!!!!!! so true
peptobismol9
No.
Well, 2016 isnt finished yet
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Me: Dying peacefully at 83 years old
Valve the next day: Half-Life 3
"Son of a bi-" **flatline sound**
@@rufousthefox9766 I will put god at gunpoint to revive me.
@@rufousthefox9766Moments before death:
“Half Life 3 detected.”
_”MORPHINE ADMINISTERED.”_
Don't worry, you'll outlive Gaben
@@Cenot4ph but that's can't speed up a release of HL3
2008: Half life 3 will come out soon
2019: ANYTIME NOW
Let's hope so ;)
2025
Just wait a bit longer
2030: yep... We canceled that shit decades ago... Instead we are remaking it...... As a card game
@@khayyamal9207 lol
half life is a life that we just live in a cell and don't have life or anything to dream about, that so sensitive
Looks like they're in a barrel today
This is his legacy. Not the man that made Half Life but the man that didnt make Half Life 3.
This is probably the reason he doesn't do a lot of interviews.
Damn, that's harsh. And true.
Ironic right?
I wholeheartedly disagree. Gabe is still one of the most respected innovators in gaming, this is just a small aspect. He constantly is requested to give interviews and speaches regarding things not connected to HL3 and if he passed away tomorrow he'd be celebrated.
This is just a lighthearted meme, it barely affects his legacy
@@Crazelord91 Its a joke 😒
If Gaben was president there wouldn't be a world war 3
Spookie Senpai Then fans would be anxiously waiting for WW3 and would riot to get it, causing WW5...
mini dwarfdude he would be working on it
"WW3 is coming, we are working very hard at it"
I have nothing to say about ww3
Hope you enjoy Earth War 1, good luck and have fun.
All the HL3 and EP3 memes aren't jokes, they're a generation attempting to cope with loss.
True and kinda deep, damn dude.
true, but deep? alright
@@90Eight.6 a man without a feels
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No
50 years from now:
Gabe's grandson: I have nothing to say about Episode 3
50 years from now
youtube comments: ITS STILL UNORIGINAL!
SilentSense1 originality never existed
We're all gonna die waiting for this game. It's just a sick joke from valve.
Ike Duke Nukem Forever was once a joke, my son.
Ben B it still is
I hope they just upload it one day to steam without any announcement. Would be hilarious
And when people ask, they would just say: We Already Have It On Steam!!
The problem with all this anticipation is that Half-Life 3 *MUST* be excellent. It cannot be simply good, decent or below. The bar has been set too high. It's big risk, big reward for Valve.
@@cybzer0560 They can :-) hey have the money to do it they have talents to do it they have the potential of history of the game
@@cybzer0560 I agree, they would need to make the greatest video game of all time, but I would take the risk if I was them. Like this guy above just said, they do have what it takes to make the greatest video game of all time, and I think that would kinda make Valve the greatest video game company of all time.
@OG BamBam GO I mean there hasn't been any elder scrolls games in 8 years.
Gabe Newell's tombstone: "I've got nothing to say about Episode 3"
Rado Heineken Lol XD
Rado Heineken DEAD BRUH.....
I need to say about Half Life 3
***** 😄😂
LMAO
valve has the opportunity to post “3” on their social medias and create hype just by making us guess if they’re talking about Portal, Half Life, Dota, or Team Fortress
3 NEW HATS FOR TF2
..or Left 4 Dead. (Honestly the most plausible)
I doubt we'll get a TF3, I imagine we'll get Dota 3 or L4D3 before anything else
@@NorShii i doubt dota 3, they keep updating everything about the game for updates to dota 2 I can't think of anything that would be too big of an update and would require a full new release.
also CS3
when the hell are we getting whole-life
how about half-dead
How about we get Life.
How about a life
Right for dead
@@nemidoonam6963 right for alive
Gabe Newell's last words, with his dying breath will be "I've got nothing to say about Half Life 3."
GibbMeSucc . probably will have it written on his tomb stone.
Zaster Frager
hahahaha 😂
it's the day the world will dying
Nah, he'll Say "In fact I canceled that shit because u guys got me fed up with the same question every day."
Unfortunately accurate.
August 2050: We have nothing to say about half-life 3
TheZen Gaben will never live past 2030 because of his fat ass constantly eating cheeseburgers.
Bento Box there's nothing wrong with being fat it's just a part of life and it's how the human body works so saying somebody is fat means nothing to then unless they're stupid and don't think properly
ha hu hu ha ha im going to die to laghfter ha hahahaha eeehhhhh!!! !!!
It's cheeseburgers now? Back in ye olde' days it was babies.
There is everything wrong with being fat. Being fat and morbidly obese is an abnormality that was introduced once our ancestors have passed the stage of having to fight and hunt for food. Now all it takes is a trip to the grocery store. Now tell me again how theres nothing wrong with being fat.
I genuinely want to know what made him abandon it. He treats it like it was a top secret experimental weapon and the government told him to stop.
Eh, you can google up some theories. I think the development team got busted or relocated, then probably came the disaster of steam boxes. Then everyone gave up, the materials were leaked, there was nothing to make the game for.
Then Half Life Alyx was made just to keep the brand awareness and test new hardware.
He doesn't think it would hold up today. The game market has changed multiple times over. It's a boring reason, but it's the reason.
Additionally, he lost all motivation for it. Gabe sent a gnome to space as a joke, if he wanted to finish half life he could, but he doesn't.
it is a top secret weapon, if HL3 is announced the internet will short circuit and break from the amount of hype. we’re waiting till we need to use an EMP on something to release it
@@comediccomrade5716 Jokes aside - HL3 could probably have the cheapest marketing campaign in the world. All Gaben would have to do is make a single image about the number "3" and the internet would do the rest. EVERYONE would repost it, even the TV.
@@WirxawTanev what you mean busted
Honestly they should just skip Half Life 3 and go straight to 4 just to piss everyone off.
J TheMandalorian half life 2 episode 3
Hey, it worked for Microsoft.
Half life 0: The Origins
Half Life 2: Episode 2 Part 2
I have nothing to say about Half Life 4
E3 2018. Gabe Newell raises 3 fingers up, the crowd goes wild thinking Half Life 3 is confirmed, Gabe Newell then says "3 new hats confirmed for Team Fortress 2".
"And their all sponsored ones so you have to BUY MORE GAMES on STEAM and give ME more MONEY to get HATS."
we will see half life when source 2 come out.
Doubt it
But hell, I really hope so
Vasili Tarkov loool
they're*
“I’ll tell you when half life 3 will come out”
*Last online 10 years ago*
These comments are killing me man
Dead Meme
*Last online 11 years ago*
Well now it’s 15
@@n_y_0_n38 gaben is a literal living breathing meme
Alyx
Seeing him being so excited for the next game, then slowly not wanting to mention it anymore has me sad. I wonder what HL3 would’ve been like.
Still shrouded in mystery… maybe he lost inspiration or maybe something more personal. We may never know.
@@RSJiyutoAnzenI guess. Maybe he is waiting to make an insane amount of more money by just keeping the audience at the edge for a while. So this can be a very big event. Gab is really a good businessman. Well I just hope it's worth it.
@@RSJiyutoAnzenprobably couldn't get anyone at Valve to agree on what half life 3 was gonna be about. You don't go from wanting to talk about it to "No news" :( that's my opinion and no facts.
@@Vanished584it’ll come eventually
Valve infamously can’t agree on anything so Gabe was unfortunately seemingly the main one on the team that wanted it to keep going. You can almost see how sad he looks.
His hair has turned gray talking about when half life 3 will come out. Hext time he's interviewed, it will be his grave, and it will be engraved with " we're still working on it "
Jack Daniels No no it would say "We have nothing to say about episode 3"
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stop thumping this cmt up ppl, till the day valve ships hl3
This game better be 3 months long
Redd Kraken It will be 4 months long instead
get it up to 5
would be 6 I think
It will take half your life to complete
How many terabytes?
It's called half life because it's going to take half your life to finish the series.
Sebas O. it actually called half life because in a radioactive process then the toxicness fades away it turns into a half life when a person can barely live on process of it
Sebas O. Guessing you never took a simple chemistry class?
PikamonMaster It's physics tho...
i guess there something not right about half life
Sebas O. My theory is better. First there was Half life and then it was Half life 2. Two half lifes is one life and three half lifes is one and a half life. So we are all dead before half life 3
This video is 7 years old. It's been almost 20 years.
Sweet fuck
Another 10 years and they would be forced to say THREE
@@3takoyakisthen...the true trials will begin.....
7 Years is not 20 years.
@@Lou-yf1jothey mean from half life 2
I remember back in high school how me and my friend were talking how great episode 3 will be.
that was 11 years ago....
Wow I remember being in elementary and being like wow this is so cool and my big bro was like yeah episode 3 is gonna be better fucking gonna graduate 2020 still waiting
@@Red-jl7jj what the fucks your problem huh?
@@Red-jl7jj damn u must be like twenty twelve or something.
this is my name Offended much you snowflake!
@@ziggytheman5695 i don't see any possible problem with what he said...
- Gabe Newell dies in his house
- His ghost haunts the house
- 3 centuries later a few people go to the house to check if it is really haunted
- One of the people feels a cold touch on his shoulder
- He then hears a calm whisper in his ear
- "I have nothing to say about Half Life 3"
I'm too dumb I don't get the joke can you explain, please?
After 3 whole centuries, he unlocks the Cold Shoulder on TF2
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Now that's horrifying.
NSTAM 27
The thing you here before you instantly die
Then, they all scream of fear and run away.
Maybe the real Half Life 3 was the friends we made along the way.
that made me laugh
+Learn the Lore The real Half Life 3 was inside me, all along!
+Learn the Lore That's something Vivi would say.
+Learn the Lore I think I just died laughing
+Learn the Lore I will learn the lore
Imagine if they released Half-Life 3 but with Half-Life 2's engine and assets like there hasn't been 16 years since Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
I take it...half life 2 still is great to play nowadays, if you dont care about graphics.....but the atmosphere is better then any moddern game really
@@user-dj9fu6kl8xHonestly the graphics are still so great. Especially the rag doll physics. People loved Half life for the story, not for the graphics
if the game comes out and its bad💀
Source 2 exists you know
@@Shockload That's the joke.
It went from "we're working hard on this!" to "yeah we have a crew on it" and finally "i ain't talking"
I'm glad he has a sense of humor and understands how anticipated it still is though "Don't worry, i'll be sure to call the BBC when i have something to say" :D
why don't he just say it is cancelled ? why letting it up in the air ? why letting the fans suffer ? it is not fun Gabe, not fun at all :(
Ayadi A. It hasn't been cancelled. It was confirmed in his AMA when somebody asked a question about the half-life/portal universe and he confirmed a sequel. I can guarantee you the portal trilogy is over, so half-life 3 confirmed xd.
Chef Excellence yeah but Valve always claims they work on stuff that is in the interest of the customers. I see more people asking for Half Life 3 than I do VR or Steam Machines and Valve doesnt give 2 shits.
I think the point is that Valve's policy on making games focuses more on their own selfishness than the fans. "Yeah we are not feeling like making it." i understand but there is a fucking line you have to draw until it becomes just cruel and injust. Ep2 ended on a cliffhanger for crying out loud and every other company makes games on their announced dates, only sometimes prolonging them but still usually delivering. Valve just does what they want, hoping that gives better creative results.
They've set the bar so low that fans including myself are ready to settle for anything at this point. Even if it looks exactly like the Source engine HL2 it always did and has no new mechanics. We just want the story to end.
Ruh roh. 2008 was a turning point for Gabe. He went from "It's gonna be great" to "I went too far in some places"
+Steel Kaiser Barney is the key to all this.
For the first few years he's excited about episode 3, then he won't say shit.
+Steel Kaiser its so dense theres so many headcrabs going on
Barney, he's the key to everything. If we can get him working...
Half Life 3 took 12 years to make!
Half life 3 is so good they dont even know how to make it
@@stevsux4442 Unless....
...they go backwards. :D
back in time bois here we go
@@DumDoDoor *HLVR Intensifies*
Hey, that makes sense
That works with Star Citizen
1. They need ∞ money to do it
2. they still make it
3. they still think how to do it
2:20 the fact that gabe gave a smirk is amazing
I love how he becomes progressively more vague
vag*
He should just be honest, we aren't making Half Life 3 because we are too busy printing money with Steam.
hate*
And more and more fat
It's weird because you can see exactly where the decision to stop working on EP3 happened. In the first couple of years after The Orange Box released, Gabe was very forthcoming in explaining how Episode 3 is gonna blow everybody's pants off. He was more than happy to discuss it and at least say "yep, we've been hard at work, it's gonna be great." And then sometime later that all changes. He's no longer happy to even mention it, he just outright tells people "I'm not talking about that", with no explanation other than "it'll be ready when it's ready." I don't think even Gabe was willing to admit they weren't working on it anymore.
Given the fact that Marc Laidlaw "leaked" the plot for Episode 3 years later, it wouldn't surprise me if some internal conflicts at Valve played a role in shelving the entire development cycle for the game. Something happened at Valve that made Gabe reach the decision to mothball it, and I don't think it's because they've been "too busy" printing money with Steam. The whole point of the Steam market is it's very hands-off. Nobody at Valve has to touch anything to make money from it. It's almost entirely passive income with the exception of occasional maintenance and upkeep. It requires nowhere near the same amount of man power to maintain, unlike developing a video game. I think something happened at Valve. Maybe some important people quit, or possibly even died. I think that's why the sudden shift occurred in Gabe's demeanor on mentioning the game over the years. It'd be one thing if it had been 5 or 6 years and he just got sick of getting the same question, but he became VERY disinterested in even hearing about it after just 2 or 3 years. All very suspicious, IMO.
Teacher: what is 1 + 2?
Kid Gaben: Alyx.
Basically 1.5
Half-life Source
Greater than 2, less than 4
Episode one
@@CobaltJ 2.1
What if all the “useless” steam updates that happen is just Valve slowly installing Half Life 3 on our computers
But that's just a theory...
..A GAME THEORY!
@Vasilijan Nikolovski no u
A GAME THEORY!
@@godsstrongestschizo get OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUT
@@godsstrongestschizo leave
Cant believe gta 6 was revealed when 5 came out in 2013 while half life 3 has been being worked on for 2 goddamn decades
"Worked-on"
Imagine if HL3 was actually almost ready, but some guy had accidentally deleted all the files and the backups, and they were just ashamed to say that.
Insidious One that would actually make a lot of sense tbh. Imagine how much hate they’d get for something like that
Illuminati: dont f**king move
Like Toy Story 2
Insidious One aperture laboratories: dont fucking move!!!
I've never played a Hl game before, but even I would be pissed off at that.
he sounds like a politician
Its the Governor
why waiting for a lame ass game when you got street fighter and overwatch :^)
*****
implying i'd waste money for worthless game
#MakeHalfLifeGreatAgain
+Walnut yeah
He sounds like a game developer on Kickstarter
Totally unprofessional.
Except has like billions of dollars In the bank and doesn't give a fuck........so much worse than a Kickstarter developer. But hey we got artifact......
What's wrong with kickstarter?
Most of the time, they take your money and run.
Bartman donating to someone on kickstarter is like trying to shoot a fly in the rain at night
This video needs a part 2
It's been so long Gordon's voice actor is probably dead
@@firedgnu2087 thats the joooooooke
Max Rieser very clever but all the other voice actors probably are dead
FiredGnu r/wooosh
we're all gonna be fucking dead before this comes out
It will take so long that half life 4 will come out before half life 3
Imagine the amount of people who have died waiting for Episode 3.
Rest In Pepperoni
The game will be finished by a Gabe automaton V.345 in the year 2878.
@@FilonisHat We won't make it 2878 by the looks of it.
@@FilonisHat gaben would do the same thing with glados
Sometimes I think about this. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
It has been so long, that even the meme died
John Lemon wow, that just sunk in for me ._.
John Lemon
oh ..my boy..you are wrong...the meme...
never dies!!
"the floor is half life 3"
ASAP Goku
Valve
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Floor
I remember how Yahtzee said that Valve wants the main Half-Life games to represent huge steps forward for the industry as a whole. The first one did that through being a continuous series of areas without any cutscenes or menus in between. The second one did that through the Source engine’s physics. Alyx did that through pushing VR to its absolute limit. Maybe 3 will come out in a few centuries and show the benefits time travel or teleportation can bring to video games idk
The power of patience or AI
i think it will have the environment do some wacky shit or have realistic burning physics
This is actually a thing not talked much in the community, I personally didn't know it till I saw another video entirely on this topic
How Gaben counts:
1
2
2.1
2.2
Alyx
@Johnny 600 So
1
2
2.1
2.2
1.5
@@puredruid half life 2 episode 2.5
2 decades later
Half life 2. Remastered
They have made a half life 3 tho haven’t they ?
1
2
2.1
2.2
Orange
Alyx
Ideas for next game names:
Lasagna
Application
Hour
Half life greater than 2 less than 4
Half Life 3 is probably the longest procrastination I've ever seen in my life.
Then you've never heard of The Winds of Winter
@@minecraftherobrine1234 thats only been ten, this ones been 15 years and counting
@@minecraftherobrine1234 I hear that dude doesn't finish tons of his work. But, I can hardly get through the day without forgetting about the laundry.
2nd biggest is Bully 2
@@stoptiktok1691 Except Bully wrapped things up nicely and doesn’t need a sequel.
From Gabe's reactions HL3 was probably canceled August 2008.
What time stamp in the video is that
SheepBlippy you ever heard of what ea did with spore? They hyped it up for almost a decade then completely fucked everyone over by shipping a game completely different from what was expected
New half life announced...
Half Life battle royale mobile game
@@Journey_to_who_knows do you guys not have phones?!
@SheepBlippy It was hardly edging past 2008 when he stopped answering things directly
It's a very understandable why he doesn't want to talk about it, he could answer that the game was pretty obviously cancelled because lead didn't think it was good enough to finish off the trilogy, if it was only that simple, there'd be an outcry, people would dig, did everyone think it wasnt good enough? Did someone fuck up? People would rather blame someone, be it gaben or just valve in general for ruining their most anticipated game release rather than the company simply deciding it wasnt good enough
Half life is a million dollar IP, and it makes no sense to start drama about it, a game was probably being developed and it wasnt good enough so it was cancelled, the worst thing that could happen if he is upfront about it is that people start harassing old employees of something that happened over a decade ago and would do everything they could to dig up a copy of it, or potentially spoil the story.
Worst case scenario if he doesn't tell everyone what happened? People are mildly annoyed and disgruntled over not having another game of their favorite series released. There's much more at stake than just killing off the expectations of the 1 % fanboy playerbase who refuse to see the obvious
I love how this video is 6 years old and is basically when everyone gave up
you either "die" a hero or live enough to become the villain
would you rather
Darth Bane You have either never played half life or it's just not you're kind of game/world because for me and many others it is an amazing game with an immense story. Being a fps game should not label it as a bland game, not all games have to be open world fps in order to have good story and immersion.
EXU_SKULLY nice Madara reference
Gareth Douglas the story of half life 1 was a bare bones Doom clone with only the ending conversation with Gman doing anything to flesh out the story, and Half-Life 2 has not aged nearly as well as people would have you believe. Half the characters are generic npcs from HL1 that they slapped names on and never get fleshed out cause they treat them like we're supposed to know who they are already. Because the characters know Gordon and talk to him like he already knows everything even though the player has no idea what happened between 1 and 2 or how any of these people are significant. Gordon Freeman doesn't work as a protagonist cause he's too established in the lore for the player to project themselves into but doesn't do anything to build the story since he never speaks. I mean Dr. Breen literally came out of thin air to be the antagonist and you barely see him before he dies. Episodes 1 & 2 are fantastic and still hold up really well but base HL2 is super below average shooter with some trash level design aside from Ravenholm. HL1 holds up better in terms of atmosphere and gameplay tbh.
aydowon The dark knight
Gabe Newell slowly turning into George Lucas.
Ohh God don't say that next thing you'll see is Steam being sold off...like what happened to Star Wars.
+Uncle Joey's Bizzare Adventure It's so dense, every single frame has so much going on
+xTankbeast Gabe Newell is so dense, his whole frame has so much going on
+Calvino it's like poetry, it rhymes.
andreyzherebilov I don't know if you missed the memo but they are bought by Disney.
Valve Board of directors in 2007: “Gabe, we voted to fire you. You are let go as soon as HL2 Episode 3 is released, thank you for all your hard work”
Gabe: Ok
lmao
Nobody's firing Gabe.
It's private
@@gomaniz they should, especially if it took them almost 20 years just to make a prequal to the actual game we all want, and have wanted since 2006, at this rate, ill have grandchildren by the time we a proper ending for one of my least liked series
@@notjimpickens7928 if it's your least like series why do you care
HL games are released once every century
20th century - 1998: Half Life
21st century - 2004: Half Life 2
22nd century - 2103: Half Life 3
*21st
*22nd
HL games are released once every millenia
2nd millenia - 1998: Half Life
3rd millenia - 2004: Half Life 2
4th millenia - 3880: Half Life 3
if gabe did 1 sit up for everytime he said "i have nothing to say about half life," gabe would be a body builder
#HalfLife3isDead2Gabe
He wouldn't do the third sit-up though
Rex Terrisier IKR XD 😂😂😂
@@sebastianxbx he would be such a fatass lol
@@alternatecheems8145 r\wooosh
"Why did you call it half-life?"
"Because we wont finish it"
Cuz it takes half of your life to get to see hl3, let me tell its gonna be a very long life
Because it will be the moment the earth explodes and we all die then everybody will be reborn in this save file In our newest game, half li-.
Because youll have to wait 10 half-lifes of uranium
Actuaally half life is a physical transformation of radioaction or something
@@neonsolace2748 The half-life of uranium would be finished before half life 3
Gabe Newell, 86 years old: "yes we are still working on it..."
lol
lol
lol
lol
lol
this video will be 9-10 years old when hl3 comes out
Plot twist: We're actually living in Half life 3
Hong Kong is basically episode 2 rn lmfao
So that's why I'm feeling a bit g-man-ish today
Well, with Alyx, we will be living in Half-Life.
It's half life, we have two half lifes and it makes a *FULL LIFE* .
Half Life 3 is the friends we made along the way.
It would be fucking hilarious if they just released Half Life 3 on steam without saying anything, no trailer, no announcement. Nothing
Yeah hilarious…
They were considering doing that for alyx, weren’t they?
@@bno6156 They basically did
CS2 smoke grenade trailer
Still the biggest moment in gaming history since mario 64
He behaves like he dropped out of college, but still lies to his parents he's about to graduate.
As someone who tried and catastrophically failed to hide my failing grades, this is about as accurate as aimbot.
Lmao
Oh god... Yep
He's a Harvard dropout. This is second nature to him.
@j. thank God I only have one semester left id kill myself if I failed
It's almost been a decade since this video came out. 2 decades since the promise of episode 3
bruh he’s almost reached his half life by the time it’s here
haha
he's reaching his two thirds life
@@plasticballs now this points of data make a beatiful line
@@freedomgoddess so im GlaD i got burnd
But his mass doubled instead of getting halved
So sad watching him grow old and tired before my eyes. It's like he lost his inner glow and just abandoned his dreams.
Same thing happened to George Lucas.
That's what money does to you, I guess.
I mean, realistically he did more than any of us ever will. I’m tired just from working 40 hours a week at a regular job. Y’all expect everything from this man.
john doe some of us just want a real closure, not some written bullshit from reddit.
find a job that you enjoy doing, not some sweaty wallmart transportation. yes he did revolutionize the pc gaming, but that was back in the late 90's, we live in 2018 now. computing is far more advanced and easier.
Anti Nettokavelija Advancing; Yes. Easier; No.
2:20
-I will now ask you the world's shortest question ever - Half life 2 episode 3.
-a..
-Thank you.
Fersotic best part of the vid 😄
Adam kovic 😂😂😂
What if he was about to say the release date but since he got cut off he now refuses to talk about the game out of Spite.
@@sourceofweb6681 he was like: "Hey, you don't wanna listen to me? So no game for you, I'm deleting everything!"
I had a dream that Valve released “The Purple Box” that had Half-Life 3, Portal 3 and Team Fortress 3. I was about to start playing it and then I woke up and was really sad.
:(
The best deal in gaming history, starting at $9,999!
*200 years from now.. gaben's great grandson:*
"We have nothing to say about episode 3 or half life 3, but when we do, we will definetly let the fans know"
Year 3333 march 3rd Gabe Newell the 3rd Releases Half Life 3.
Morgan Kendrick People like that don't breed, do they?
2007: Half life 3 nearing completion and being polished.
2008: Intern wipes hard drive.
+MyMindWorks777
Too early m8.
+MyMindWorks777 Valve doesn't hire interns.
maybe Gabe did it to store some porn and blamed some poor intern !
Happened with half life 2 didn't it? It was completely wiped by a hacker in early 2003 if i recall correctly.
No. It wasn't wiped. It was leaked, source code included. After that Valve took out all the fun bits and weapons they had planed and released a half finished mess of a game.
you can pinpoint when it went from "We're working on it" to "We scrapped it, but we wont tell you"
DavedTheReal it’s out now
HL3 literally got confirmed after you posted this comment lol
@@ajaybay6195 It's not half life 3. It's a prequel set between the events of half-life and half-life 2
@@ajaybay6195 how... its a prequel and vr.
@@ronidude Not at all. They will make a very small amount with a vr game compared to an flatscreen pancake game. They are making a vr prequel because that's the only way vr can grow.
This video is almost a decade old. Insane.
It's hilarious to remember that the LITERAL LAST WORDS OF Episode 2 are
"No, don't leave me..."
A little too on the nose, Valve?
Loveshank STOP... the pain is too much, just thinking of the syllables makes me want to twist my own stomach into a literal mush that resembles the splatter of a headcrab getting ran over by a combine vehicle
orgḗ Rithux oof
Really?
There is not going to be released any episode in the future..They fucked it up with another things such as Dota.Go for glory Rockstar!!!
@@rarescatalin25 lol makes me laugh. you child
Gabe Newell's body has been cryopreserved after his death and he just woke up again. He asked what year it is. We told him it was the year 3333. Gaben replied: "Put me back in there."
“Wait how did I time travel back to 0AD?”
2:19 gaben was so ready to not say anything about HL but the fact that the dude took the mic away with a "thank u" broke him
You mean Adam? Yea he was cool until he fucked up real badly and quit the channel he created
@@WonderBread4020 what he do
He seemed relieved
Mind-blowing 💀
That was Adam "Adam Kovic" Kovic
Plot twist:
Its already released and you can only find it in the Blockbuster videogame section.
There is like one last blockbuster, but your gonna need you’re membership card to rent/buy one of our 100 available copies so dig your card up.
I have a lot of Blockbuster off-brands near me.
plot twist artifact 3 comes out for Mac exclusive
I have a family member who owns a block buster at least thats what he said
I do have one I bought near our blockbuster
I just hope I’m still alive when half-life 3 releases
@Barney Stinson Ikr, it would be genuinely so awful if he passed away that would be the worst :((
Wait its still isn't realesed?
@@xrafter on God half-life Alex released
@@xrafter btw I use arch
@@forknife326 half-life alyx is the third half-life?
2046:
Half Life 3 card game
Half life 3 MOBA
Half-Life 3: Battlegrounds
Half life 76
Half life immortal
Half Life 3 Battle Royal
Finally
Something about half life leaks were found
I wonder how many people have died waiting for episode 3
This video is so depressing
That is kinda heavy probably alot come to think of it
I feel sorry for the one that died and the one that still alive, but let's just say episode 3 won't happen and let's just move on
@@yadiyyussof95 Exactly, if it's not happening he should have just said so by now
It's been 12 years since Episode 2. It's obvious it was canned, or at least the original was, and he's not saying anything to save face at this point because it would rightfully piss off so many people.
He needs to stop hyping up something that will never happen.
Fuck when you put it like that shit man. Alot probably I'm still waiting for that shit 😂
Scientists are baffled. Game developer lies to fans for over 10 years and gets away with it
*Discover right now his secret by clicking here*
*they're waiting for you Gaben, in the reveal trailerrrrr*
Lex ...
Tru
@@iamnotcool7222 you the real MVP lmfao
I love how his face gets more and more worried and uncomfortable by all of the lies through the years.
That's just depressing, man. Imagine not being able to tell the public the sad truth because it'll be the end of your career, company, and the community that expected and waited patiently for years. It'll be a damning controversy that's gonna be talked about for years if he opens up about it.
On the other hand, maybe he's just getting real tired of everyone's shit and is running out of excuses to delay the release of the game, hence the worried look.
He wasn't lying
@@teerex1314 steam would never die cuz of a cancelled game lmao
@@teerex1314 bit of a reach there. Steam isn't gonna die just because half life 3 doesn't come out ever.
Steam is the best. Origin? Epic Store? Get outta here!
I love how you see the change in his approach to the question and it’s a hard one, goes from optimism to distain and anger over the name half-life.
Half Life 3 will come out when Valve makes Dota 3
Dota 3 will come out when they make Team Fortress 3
Team Fortress 3 will come out when they make Portal 3
Portal 3 will come out when they make Left 4 Dead 3
Left 4 Dead 3 will come out when they make Source 3
Source 3 will come out when they make Dust 3
Basically the year 3000
Rijam Valve can't count to 3
When will dust 3 come out?
Jokes on you there's already a Dust3
DustPCG hype!
In the recent AMA Gabe mentioned that devs use L4D3 as a place for building narratives.
I'm convinced Half-Life 3 is the biggest April Fools Joke that everyone took seriously.
That would be genius
Oh fuck.
Oh fuck.
every time someone asks about half life episode 3 he gains a pound
True.🤣
That’s cause he ate it.
that's kinda harsh tho
Worth the weight.
and slightly more depressed
Any day now
ok grandma, lets get you back to bed
I don't want to die without playing half-life 3.
literally whats going through my head right now but im only 21 years so about 50 more left
*Granted eternal life*
This sentence is the sadest story i ever read. I almost cried.
Me neither...
Gabe will die without making it
Coming out next summer: Orange Box 2
Including: Half Life 3, Portal 3, Team Fortress 3
i wish this was true,and also L4D3
supahtyp one milion dolars copy
I want this so bad,i love all the games
supahtyp I wish
U make me to cry ;,,,,,,,( we all know its false.
Valve on Half Life 3: We were gonna do it but then came CS:GO
this still hurts man
there will never be a half life 3 because gabe is using all the money to buy those polo shirts
Jesus Gonzalez *Polo tents
Ralph Lauren tents 🐎👕⛺️
And Santa Claus
Jesus Gonzalez he's busy using all the money to buy his own CS:GO cases
Jesus Gonzalez also pony crap
Might as well just admit, "we totally planned on continuing Half Life, but when you guys starting funneling us millions of dollars through Steam, we just kicked back and got rich. why work on it now?"
Millions? Try billions.
SpiderCenturion I mean that’s true they didn’t really have any reason to make a third reason
@@adolfhitler2026 hotel? Trivago.
Lord Gaben has an estimated $3.9 billion net worth.
SpiderCenturion and no one has properly held them accountable for this
FUCK I can't believe the "These things, they take time" thing was five years ago
James Stokes WHAT DID HE JUST SAY!!
the fact that this was 7 years ago is so funny.
Half Life: Alyx was basically a big ass trailer for Half Life 3.
No, Half Life: Alyx takes place after Half Life 1, but before Half Life: 2.
@@vuxono6517 just watch the ending,
@NICULL stfu he didnt see the ending
@@seaboardspastic stfu kid
@NICULL ok mr special snowflake Einstein looking ass😂
Me : okay gabe ! Let's count to ten
Gabe : *1,2,I'm not talking,4,5,6,7,8,9,10*
more than two and lees than four
Jaiver Salazar Ortiz 2,75
6 divided by 2
@@mrcookie97 6 over 2
@@mrcookie97 YOUR COMMENT HAS A CURSED NUMBER OF LIKES!
The saddest thing is, people are dying; people die every day. Fans and just regular video game players are dying without playing HL3. Gabe is not very young, he could die before releasing HL3.
And not only very old, but very fat. The variety of heart failure risks are becoming abundant
Alluurpo whoa...ive been subscribed to you for years...thats really insane. You have no idea
+Jim Morrison i was probably still in my teens when you subbed me :D
Alluurpo yeah i was in my early 20's...guessing it was 2005 or 2006 wow that was a long time ago. You were my first sub, i was listening to a lot of bowie back then. Crazy. Its a small (youtube) world after all. Who would've thought we're both half life fans. Anyways, take care man! Nice "running" into ya
It seems like thats his plan
This video came out in 2016. It’s now 2023, still no Half Life 3.
It's now 2024 and no Half Life 3
The day will come, when at E3 you will see but a single chair and small table with a dinner plate on it bearing steak and asparagus. There will be a glass of wine. The room will be almost dark, except for one beam of light upon the chair and table. Gabe will slowly walk out onto stage, completely ignoring the audience and those around him. He will walk over, sit down. Place his napkin in his lap, and pick up his utensils. With an utter disregard for those around him, he will begin to eat. He will spend the next 5 or so minutes enjoying his luscious meal. He will finish eating, take a sip of his wine, and then stand up. Without a single ounce of acknowledgement, Gabe will slowly walk off stage, and out of sight.
Half Life 3 flashes onto the screen.
+Flowmasta Flam alternate, more likely ending: Valve officially announces the cancellation of Half Life 3, and all of the major employees proceed to walk on stage and piss on the audience with erect wieners
+CartoonWarStudios I think we should combine OP's scenario and yours. Gabe has a big ol' meal, enjoys the shit out of it, and then walks off as a big "Half Life 3 is cancelled," flashes on screen, at which point the Valve crew comes out to piss on folks. I can imagine that.
+Iceozo1 this would be the best fucking thing ever
Best Comment Ever!! xd
you can if its a half boner
From: 'yes half life 3 is in development' to: *we have nothing to say about half life 3*
I wonder what happened to him though. He changed like 180.
Leomann88 He got mid-life crisis.
you can pinpoint the exact moment Half-Life 3 was cancelled. it was at 1:25
You are right. He almost blurts it out twice...
He says that they're doing episode 3 around 1:52
@@KALSAFilms He said nothing about development. "We are doing episode 3" just means "Valve is funding the project... for now"
"Anything about when will see half life 3?"
*"We're not"*
ORO 0147 anything new graphically or is it a new gameplay paradigm?
“uh huh”
We are SO BACK!