How would you announce it?

How would you announce it?

Hi guys. Today we are announcing... Half Life 3.

I wouldn't. No press release, nothing. Just throw it up on steam and let people go nuts.
Don't acknowledge it at all for at least a week

Silently drop a trailer. Fuck the Game Awards

I would airstrike the logo onto Tel Aviv.

no annoucement
no official release
just add it to the steam accounts of anyone with hl2

shadow drop it. make devs everywhere shit their pants.

Look up when indie games made by small studios are being released and shadow drop it a day before they come out.

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I wouldn’t

Post credit scene for the Skibidi Toilet movie.

stealth dropping it is the only way to do it at this point honestly. Probably the best way to make it a success too.

Shadow dropped.

just put a big steam home page banner that is simply the logo, with a 2 week countdown, and the countdown leads to either a big reveal + gameplay trailer or the entire game drops

This
No, it will cost $80, poorfag

cocktease for 2 weeks for no reason

It would build up too much hype. Just shadowdrop it

Unlisted on steam as DLC for Ricochet

lmao, that would be too based for even valve

Just release it with no marketing and let the hypetrain do the rest.

The perfect opportunity was the HL1 and HL2 's anniversaries. As for right now, I dunno, make an ARG like it was with Portal 2.

i would shadowdrop it to destroy indie sales randomly

Gabe rolls on stage

Nu-Gabe got that Ozempic body though.

the worst timeline

Let that one mcnigger guy who everyone hates for making up bullshit about HL3 coming soon, be the one to upload the trailer on his channel

Tagging me once is enough.

At the start of Trump's third term, maybe?

Shadow dropping this would be like a supernova going off without warning in the gamer sphere. No one would be talking about anything else for weeks or months.

What the fuck... you can't just do that....

shadow drop 3 days before gta6

game gets shadowdropped

computer cant run it

have to scramble across internet to buy reasonbly priced pc parts while also avoiding spoilers

who cares
half-life series peaked at hunt down the freeman
whatever valve throws now won't hold a candle, you've seen what a steaming pile of shit alyx was

If half life 3 dropped I would not go on the internet period until I beat it

I wouldn’t.

Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.

Shadow drop it and have reddit sperg out

I'd drop it with zero marketing, same day. The news shitstorm would be glorious.

Didn't upgrade this december

Deserve it

as most have said, just release it

they also stopped supporting 32bit version of their client despite lots of old games are 32bit only

I wouldnt announce it. I would listen. And that's what nobody did.

installing a 32-bit OS after 2009

Why? Pretty much every 64-Bit OS, other than macOS, still runs 32-bit apps flawlessly.

Inside a TF2 update, somehow hat related.

Have Gabe Newell walk onto stage with three fingers up. Then having him say it will be out in three days or three hours if Valve really feels strong about it. Don't hype it up, don't show gameplay, shadow drop it with only the Gabe announcement.

No announcement at a game show. Just an understated banner leading to the trailer (with a launch date of less than 6 months away) on steam's store page, accompanied by making the previous games free.

maybe i'm stuck on a remote island on a research station filled with legacy hardware and i can't use anything else because using unauthorized electronics is prohibited here and i really want to play some videogames

sounds like the beginning of a shitty creepypasta

those lulls end before australians get the chance to benefit from them

Shadow drop it on the store with no announcement, no advertisement. Is just there until someone stumbles upon it.

How would you announce it?

You can't. The only acceptable answer is to shadow drop it and watch the fireworks.

Just like Alyx, just a trailer on youtube.

they could do something similar to when portal 1 got a random update and the ending changed so you started getting dragged back inside right before they announced portal 2 and just randomly update the hl2 ep2 ending to be in line with alyx vanishing and eli surviving. Who knows if they could manage that after all these years away from hl2 but its certainly possible

To all the people saying shadowdrop: It's not 2008 anymore. Barely anyone gives a shit about Half Life anymore. You need a trailer to get people aware and to give them time to playthrough the games first. A shadowdrop from a dead franchise is suicide.

From the company whom everyone responsible for making any sort of quality decision has been moved into do nothing management and is peddling the ancient ip with fresh blood who lack any design ethos of understands of why the games they larp they like are actually good brings youuuuu.

"Its time to wake up Mr. Freeman. The cake is a lie!"

Question what you know about Half-life

Find anwsers to shit that never was meant to be explained

Play as a diverse cast of characters made by a diverse cast of developers whom respect and appreciate foreign cultures

Brings you

"Well what are you waiting for Gordan, a hug?

HALFLIFE 3: Retribution

Gordan walks away from the pov like a bad ass before turning around and it zooming in on his lips.

"I'm tired of holding my tongue..."

Walks off showing the release date of 20XX

cool idea, but you would have to throw away that emotional performance from the ending of episode 2. That kino is too powerful

stealth drop
no marketing, no trailer
release full game, unannounced.

I like how that ending came from Gabe just being edgy at the time wanting one of the main character to die.

People talk about shadowdropping it, not a fan desu. I think it would be nice if it had the same treatment as Portal 2 did. Portal 2 pre-release was pretty hype with ARGs and a bunch of Aperture Science commercial of JK Simmons talking shit. HL3 needs that kind of hype imo.

release SteamDeck 2

Stealth HL3 demo pre-installed on each unit

boot up steam

THX intro like noise that slowly reaches an ear-bleeding crescendo

steam.exe hardlocks your computer into a black screen

upon reaching the peak of the tone a picture of gaben's dick and shriveled, hairy balls, both splat on a table like a christmas turkey, fade in

GAYBEN.wav plays at 500% slowness and duplicated several dozen times, sounds like the chorus of hell

"H", "L", "3", appears with a fade-in graphic using the wrinkles of his nuts and his greyed pubes as if the letters were there all along

this whole time steam is forcibly downloading HL3 onto your machine

once it's done, it auto-boots up

commentary from gaben as low quality alyx SFM porn plays like an oscar awards clip show

"one life, one chance, you only get one shot"

"if you die in the game, i permanently ban your steam account"

"but if you can survive til the end, and find my special gnome on every level..."

"you'll become the president of steam...and my son...."

Announce some new feature for Steam, like a new big picture UI specifically optimized for Windows handhelds, and somehow put Half-Life 3 in every single screenshot showing it off
Make it super obvious that the game is Half-Life 3 in every way but don't ever mention it by name, then after like a day or so put up the Steam page and set the release date for it alongside the Steamdeck 2 or Xbox Steam store or whatever other shit they've got coming out

Same way as Alyx, just put a website saying

Tune up on xx/xx/xxxx for more info about Half life 3 the next entry in the Half life series

Valve doesn't even need to hire shills or tons of ads like rockstar, the mere confirmation of HL3 being not only real but finally coming will break the internet, the fans will do the rest, hell Anon Babble might go down again.

That's pretty much what they did for Half-Life Alyx

I wouldn't announce anything. I would play what they had developed, and that's what no one did.

Trailer credits

Jack Black as Gordon Freeman

Debra Wilson as Alyx Vance

Seth Rogen as Skibidi Toilet guy and Barney Caoulhun

i bet you're fun at parties

WE ARE FARMERS

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No announcement. Comes pre-installed on the valve brainchip
only way to play hl3 is to join gabe's bio-botnet

I would love this, they could start by updating again Hl2 and its episodes by adding secret achievements that will serve as clues to search on the store and valve website up until the final reveal of the website countdown.

This. OR...

Release dedicated steam console/steam deck 2

Make a video going over the features yadda yadda

Right at the end hit em with a 'one more thing...'

Hl3 coming exclusively to PC and to steam console/steam deck 2.

Releases on launch with systems.

Vortigaunt jockey

all the indies and AAs seething about their release window being ruined

Yeah. Do it. Funny.

Shadowdrop it one day earlier than GTA 6.

If HL3 even happening or not? All these "leaks" and "rumors" that Tyler keeps coming up with is so annoying.
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Not only they should just shadowdrop it, but they should also make it a SteamOS exclusive
I'm not even that interested in playing it, I just want to se the shitstorm that would create.

spoilers

Jokes on you, I'm already on Arch.

Launch Steam Deck refresh

log into Steam Account

Steam detects that you just logged into your new Steam Deck

Steam adds Half-Life 3 and Team Fortress 3 to your game list for free.

No questions asked.

Team Fortress 3

Free unusual scorching flames team captain in your inventory

During some game event or some show cut Gaben hammering a crowbar like that one time but this time he says,
"Yeah It's ready now, let me wrap it up."

worst case scenario we will atleast get the raising the bar re release when is that coming out btw??