So back in August, exactly a month ago, PC Gamer interviewed Valve Software at length. They talked about many things, but conspicuously absent was any mention of Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Yet again, I was disappointed.
However, Gabe Newell did say this during the interview:
Gabe Newell: Yeah. The average surprise is negative, not positive, and so if we’re going to surprise people we need to be conscious of that fact. Because we’re going to continue to surprise. We have three pretty big surprises in the next twelve months, at least.
PC Gamer: Are these related to specific games?
Gabe Newell: We have three surprises. I’m talking about surprises, not the surprises themselves. But we’re going to do three things that have the potential to… that will be novel. And if we don’t make sure that people understand what we’re doing, they could easily respond in a Left 4 Dead 2 kind of way. Like, “What the hell?” right? And we just need to be good about that.
We also have to be conscious of the fact that there are a lot of different people that we talk to. Like, there’s people who are really close to us and trust us, and there are other people who play our games and that are more sceptical. And you need to make sure you’re talking to both of those groups in clear enough fashion, to make sure that just because one group is happy and on board, it doesn’t mean the other groups are going to be.
There is nothing known about those surprises to this day, but I would like to speculate what those are, if for no other reason then to revisit this blog in 12 months and be amused at how completely wrong I was.
Well, here is what I think the surprises will be:
- A new IP
- Half-Life 3
- Counter-Strike 2
I do not care about Counter-Strike, I do not care about multiplayer gaming in general, but the new IP and Half-Life 3 speculations are something I hope will be true.
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