Valve says it’s probably a little too optimistic to think that a follow-up Half-Life match to Half-Life in 2020: Alyx is ‘hot on its heels’.
Robin Walker of the team told IGN just as much this past weekend after taking home the Game of the Year award for Alyx at the SXSW Festival. Asked if a sequel to Half-Life 2: Episode 2 would come in hot after the release of Alyx, the developer replied, “I think he can be a little optimistic on his heels.”
“I think one of the rewarding things about Alyx was seeing the community’s reaction to the game itself, which we were very happy with at the end of the game,” Walker continued. “At the time we sent it, we were very happy with what we were creating, and we were very excited that people could get their hands on it.”
As for the end of the game (which we will not spoil here), the developer said that the team is less confident that people will respond well to the choices he has made, but in the end pleasantly surprised. “So, yes, the reaction of people to the story and the narrative choices we made at the end was real – energetic is probably the right term, and that’s why we’re so excited to keep going,” Walker added. .
The question Valve is doing next to Alyx, which has introduced a new partner for VR games, was on the tip of everyone’s tongue. An behind-the-scenes experience describing the making of Alyx suggested that some of Valve wanted to make Half-Life 3, but it may not have been in VR while the team was also working on a top-secret project. We just have to keep our fingers crossed that the studio is planning more VR content of Alyx’s caliber.
Elsewhere in the interview, Walker noted that he expects to see a greater variety of VR games in the near future. “I think, if I had to guess, we’ll see a bunch of other types of games on VR in the next few years, and just have the mechanics with that rich content,” Walker said. And in between, I would expect that we would start to see, as we did the translation of Half-Life in VR, we could see the ways in which VR could contribute to Half, Life. ”