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Why does Half-Life 3 redirect here if there's no mention of it at all in the article? The huge cultural meme that its rumored release has become is definitely newsworthy, and has been reported on many times. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.221.122 ( talk) 20:34, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
I agree that there should at least be mention of how much fervor there has been over even the hint of the possibility of HL3. I'm sure there are plenty of articles about the subject. In addition, we might want to mention former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw's recent publication of "Epistle 3", what he envisioned as the story of Half-Life 2: Episode Three (with slightly changed names and locations). It's already mentioned in Laidlaw's article, but it also seems relevant to mention in this article and possibly in the Half-Life 2: Episode Two article. V2Blast ( talk) 18:02, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
On Half-Life 3, we have this GameInformer article which has a person they claim worked at Valve (at the start of this year) that that person explained the problems that a new HL project at Valve had been. I recognize that we are talking an anonymous source, but we're using GI as the medium (so they're the ones with reliability) and other RSes have used the GI piece in their commentary. I think it is fine to re-include but would want to see consensus on that. -- MASEM ( t) 05:38, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
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IMDB has Half Life Lambda Protocol which was released in 2013. It's not clear if this short film (10 minutes) was fan fiction or something official and part of the Half-Life series that should be mentioned in this article. I learned about this film via a comment left in the IMDB boards (before IMDB deleted all of the boards) which had "I loved the CGI in District 9 and Elysium. It looked very different to beefed up wet plastic-y CGI in most films. District 9, felt like Half Life source engine, only much more advanced." -- Marc Kupper| talk 17:32, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Masem, the amount of words spent on the Project Borealis fan game is WP:UNDUE for the article, regardless of its mentions by sources. The section under Episode Three on the Half-Life article is simply not the place to mention the number of people involved in a fan game project, what game engine they want to use, why, and details like weapon selection and run speed. This section, in this article, is not about those things. Popcornduff ( talk) 14:52, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
If I remember correctly, Valve still have never said HL2:EP3 was officially cancelled or in the making in plannings or development at the same time like straight up, either way. If I'm right about this, then why was the section changed from "Future and cancelled games" to "Cancelled games"? It's gonna give the wrong impression that Half-Life 2: Episode Three is indeed cancelled for good when it might be rather still on hold, which is the opposite of being cancelled. 2600:1700:9770:6760:A019:8943:AC98:B3DE ( talk) 05:42, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
Because it's now safe for Valve Corporation to officially open to certain questions relating to the series, they confirmed a couple days ago that they couldn't continue the episodic module for further games in order to properly develop and publish Half-Life 2: Episode Three. But does this really mean anything about the episode concept being canceled or still in vaporeware? I don't even know if this means that, if the episodic module for a hypothetical continuation from Episode Two were canceled, but not the general idea of continuing the storyline in as a video game, does this still mean Episode Three is cancelled? If all of this does mean anything, considering what Valve officially shared most recently, this could mean the entire "Unreleased Games" section be changed to as"Cancelled Games", but I do really want to know first. Gabeluna27 ( talk) 03:59, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved. ( non-admin closure) Vpab15 ( talk) 13:58, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
– The video game series is by far the primary topic for the proper noun version of "Half-Life" when it comes to pageviews and has been for a very long time, getting many times more pageviews than the next-most-popular work. Per WP:DIFFCAPS it can be primary while still allowing for the existence of Half-life also primary for the non-proper-noun version. The only way I can see this being opposed is if people believe Half-Life should be a primary redirect, in which case it should redirect to Half-life rather than the disambiguation page. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 21:11, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
I have full-protected the page due to recent edit warring. So far I see no attempt to discuss the issues on this talk page. Please come here and work it out or establish consensus. -- MelanieN ( talk) 17:52, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
A number of articles titled "half life" in some way contain disambiguations. This article needs to as well. There's nothing about (series) that makes it clear this article is going to be about a video game, since many scientific concepts, including half-lives, are often depicted via series of an entirely different sort. A disambiguation is a simple and low-cost mechanism of resolving this issue, and pointing readers to other uses of the term. - Darouet ( talk) 00:24, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
I feel like saying the series is developed by Valve is incorrect given the number of third-party developers who've worked on the series but I'm not sure how to phrase a change. Maybe "originally developed by Valve" but at the same time Valve still develops games in the series so that sounds inaccurate as well. Does anybody have a better idea as to what to write? XeCyranium ( talk) 16:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
Alright icewelder. You removed the section I made about half life: source. Any reason why? I took time to write an entire section about a half life game. Sure, it’s just a port into the the source engine, but half life: source has its own history. If you wanted to add to the section that would be fine. But instead you deleted it. The viridianfox ( talk) 09:17, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Why does Half-Life 3 redirect here if there's no mention of it at all in the article? The huge cultural meme that its rumored release has become is definitely newsworthy, and has been reported on many times. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.221.122 ( talk) 20:34, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
I agree that there should at least be mention of how much fervor there has been over even the hint of the possibility of HL3. I'm sure there are plenty of articles about the subject. In addition, we might want to mention former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw's recent publication of "Epistle 3", what he envisioned as the story of Half-Life 2: Episode Three (with slightly changed names and locations). It's already mentioned in Laidlaw's article, but it also seems relevant to mention in this article and possibly in the Half-Life 2: Episode Two article. V2Blast ( talk) 18:02, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
On Half-Life 3, we have this GameInformer article which has a person they claim worked at Valve (at the start of this year) that that person explained the problems that a new HL project at Valve had been. I recognize that we are talking an anonymous source, but we're using GI as the medium (so they're the ones with reliability) and other RSes have used the GI piece in their commentary. I think it is fine to re-include but would want to see consensus on that. -- MASEM ( t) 05:38, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
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IMDB has Half Life Lambda Protocol which was released in 2013. It's not clear if this short film (10 minutes) was fan fiction or something official and part of the Half-Life series that should be mentioned in this article. I learned about this film via a comment left in the IMDB boards (before IMDB deleted all of the boards) which had "I loved the CGI in District 9 and Elysium. It looked very different to beefed up wet plastic-y CGI in most films. District 9, felt like Half Life source engine, only much more advanced." -- Marc Kupper| talk 17:32, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Masem, the amount of words spent on the Project Borealis fan game is WP:UNDUE for the article, regardless of its mentions by sources. The section under Episode Three on the Half-Life article is simply not the place to mention the number of people involved in a fan game project, what game engine they want to use, why, and details like weapon selection and run speed. This section, in this article, is not about those things. Popcornduff ( talk) 14:52, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
If I remember correctly, Valve still have never said HL2:EP3 was officially cancelled or in the making in plannings or development at the same time like straight up, either way. If I'm right about this, then why was the section changed from "Future and cancelled games" to "Cancelled games"? It's gonna give the wrong impression that Half-Life 2: Episode Three is indeed cancelled for good when it might be rather still on hold, which is the opposite of being cancelled. 2600:1700:9770:6760:A019:8943:AC98:B3DE ( talk) 05:42, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
Because it's now safe for Valve Corporation to officially open to certain questions relating to the series, they confirmed a couple days ago that they couldn't continue the episodic module for further games in order to properly develop and publish Half-Life 2: Episode Three. But does this really mean anything about the episode concept being canceled or still in vaporeware? I don't even know if this means that, if the episodic module for a hypothetical continuation from Episode Two were canceled, but not the general idea of continuing the storyline in as a video game, does this still mean Episode Three is cancelled? If all of this does mean anything, considering what Valve officially shared most recently, this could mean the entire "Unreleased Games" section be changed to as"Cancelled Games", but I do really want to know first. Gabeluna27 ( talk) 03:59, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved. ( non-admin closure) Vpab15 ( talk) 13:58, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
– The video game series is by far the primary topic for the proper noun version of "Half-Life" when it comes to pageviews and has been for a very long time, getting many times more pageviews than the next-most-popular work. Per WP:DIFFCAPS it can be primary while still allowing for the existence of Half-life also primary for the non-proper-noun version. The only way I can see this being opposed is if people believe Half-Life should be a primary redirect, in which case it should redirect to Half-life rather than the disambiguation page. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 21:11, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
I have full-protected the page due to recent edit warring. So far I see no attempt to discuss the issues on this talk page. Please come here and work it out or establish consensus. -- MelanieN ( talk) 17:52, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
A number of articles titled "half life" in some way contain disambiguations. This article needs to as well. There's nothing about (series) that makes it clear this article is going to be about a video game, since many scientific concepts, including half-lives, are often depicted via series of an entirely different sort. A disambiguation is a simple and low-cost mechanism of resolving this issue, and pointing readers to other uses of the term. - Darouet ( talk) 00:24, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
I feel like saying the series is developed by Valve is incorrect given the number of third-party developers who've worked on the series but I'm not sure how to phrase a change. Maybe "originally developed by Valve" but at the same time Valve still develops games in the series so that sounds inaccurate as well. Does anybody have a better idea as to what to write? XeCyranium ( talk) 16:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
Alright icewelder. You removed the section I made about half life: source. Any reason why? I took time to write an entire section about a half life game. Sure, it’s just a port into the the source engine, but half life: source has its own history. If you wanted to add to the section that would be fine. But instead you deleted it. The viridianfox ( talk) 09:17, 16 January 2024 (UTC)