Half life games were all tech demos

This hasnt changed

When you have that China money, you can PR anything...

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The 2019 Golden Joystick Awards Salivates Over Epic Games Being The Best Studio Of The Year | #GoldenJoystick #EpicGames
> https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/11/the-golden-joystick-awards-salivates-over-epic-games-being-the-best-studio-of-the-year/97387/
~ <https://twitter.com/OneAngryGamerHD/status/1196307190409302016>

Valve has now confirmed Half-Life: Alyx, their new VR flagship title
> <https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/valve-has-now-confirmed-half-life-alyx-their-new-vr-flagship-title.15435>

Was wondering when it was gonna happen

We knew they were dabbling with it with the VR lab code they "accidentally" leaked some test stuff in

Only real question was if they had to abandon it or not

Answer seems to be they didn't

HL1 was *not* a tech-demo

and the most tech-demoing that HL2 did was for the physics system

and even then, the game itself isn't considered to be tech-demo

It's fucking season pass, just think rocket league, or whatever...

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive releases the huge Operation Shattered Web update
> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/counter-strike-global-offensive-releases-the-huge-operation-shattered-web-update.15440

@Coolitic
How do you simultaneously recoup the cost of designing a game engine and effectively advertise what all you can do it in?
You make a good game in it.

You realize

Just because it's an ad doesn't mean it's not good

HL1

Used a modded engine

Right?

It was mostly Quake's engine

HL1 maybe not but 2 absolutely was

Ehhh...

When you say tech demo

It sounds like the game itself is lackinf

Guy's, Half Life 3 Confirmed...

You're thinking modern tech demos

and lol

Valve Drops Bombshell, Announces Half Life: Alyx, A "Flagship VR Game"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIaaV14NXtM

Valve CONFIRMS New Half-Life Game Called Half-Life Alyx Will Be VR
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFjVYQIa1v0

Starwars, and borderland 3 does the same shit...

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So it turns out that the PC version of Jedi Fallen Order has all of the intro cinematics as MP4 files.

You can literally replace it with anything
~ https://twitter.com/Nitomatta/status/1196569575753580544
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just started playing borderlands 3 and it turns out all of the pre-rendered cutscenes and videos are all mp4s sitting in a folder and you can replace them with anything
~ <https://twitter.com/sickdooger/status/1186904221939048448>

*is this really an issue?*

Easy way to mod in skipping unskippable intro movies, I guess.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
Everything after generation 2 is trash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLz6gpVfCc4

Funny thing is when i was younger i used to play gaia online and zomg though sheer bordom after school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzQnsa8SA0