This place is dead!

[CyberPitz]

Lets jumpstart with a..not so closable question...

Will Source be the main engine for the rest of the HL series *however long it goes on for* or do you think they just might find out it DOES have limitations, and let it die, and buy another engine?

....or something.

 

[Ravioli]

"This place is dead!"

Nice theory

 

[Dario D.]

Being that Valve created it from scratch, I think they've fallen in love with it too much, and will keep it with them. But now that it's finished, it's much easier to upgrade it, as with the Unreal Engine.

Unreal is still built on essentially the same premise as the original Unreal engine (Ive been mapping and modding for it for years), but they've been upgrading it unceasingly, focusing on making new tools that make using it easier.

Likewise, all Valve has to do is create a features that are needed for next-gen (a tool that creates better terrain - a good particle system editor - support for per-pixel lighting (Doom3 lighting) - parallax mapping - and a couple other things), and they'd have something as good as Unreal Engine 3 (just not quite as easy to use). It's nowhere near as difficult as making an engine from scratch.

I could only see Valve abandoning Source if Unreal Engine simply became TOO uber and TOO cost-effective to not have. Even then, Valve's mappers would cry like babies when they realize how incredibly terrible Unreal Editor's BSP tools are, and that you're practically forced to use static meshes for everything because of them.

 

[Naudian]

Hell yes, source will last FOREVAAAAAAARRRRRR!

 

[sinkoman]

Probably easier to optimize, add new shaders, and upgrade netcode, than to just make a new engine that looks nicer, only to have more problems.

 

[ríomhaire]

This forum is usless

 

[Asknoone]

Yes, yes it is.

 

[AtomicSpark]

I really like the source engine. That other game's engine looks like a bad sci-fi movie.

Kind of why I never bought Prey. I might when it gets cheaper though.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Yes, yes it is.

Seconded.

 

[bbson john]

The place is dead is better than the place is idiotic. It has been quite a long time from the release of Ep:1, I can see all half-life 2 related forums in this site have become more and more idiotic. I can't wait for the release of Ep:2. It will bring the site back to living.

REVIVE, FORUM! REVIVE!!!

 

[A True Canadian]

I'm confident that the Source engine will be used for all future Half-Life games. Valve would be foolish to invest another 5 years working on another engine when Source is designed to be upgraded and modified easily.

I think the chances of Steam going under are much more likely than Valve switching engines for future Half-Life games. That's how confident I am.

 

[bbson john]

It is unlikely that Half-Life will abandon Source engine. The chance for Valve abandons Half-Life series is much higher than the chance for Half-Life abandons Source.

 

[sinkoman]

This forum is usless

I remember when you were so brainy around this part of the forum.

Now, not so much. Anywhere :|

 

[ríomhaire]

I remember when you were so brainy around this part of the forum.

Now, not so much. Anywhere :|

You're right ;(

Edit: Now that I think about it, maybe it's a reflection of my brain shutting down for the summer, and school starts again soon...

 

[Wally_Breen]

It is unlikely that Half-Life will abandon Source engine. The chance for Valve abandons Half-Life series is much higher than the chance for Half-Life abandons Source.

Not true, Valve knows that the HL community wants another full HL game. Even though the Episode's count as HL3, Half-Life 2: Episode Three will not be the last of the "Freeman adventure's". I keep saying this no one listens.


Valve said this one time "even though the Episode's count as HL3, but who ever said about ending it

EP3 will NOT be the last of the Freeman adventures, I cannot state this more clearly.


Also about valve abandoning Source.....in due time my friends, every developer shall eventually abandon their engine.
Nothing lasts forever.

 

[bbson john]

That's what we all hope.

 

[CyberPitz]

Holy shit, I'm actually suprised this thread has replies!

 

[Costin]

Source and Half-Life is like Beavis and Butthead. Always togeter they are making the best jokes...Source and Half-Life they are making the best games....

 

[Geogaddi]

I imagine episodic content will keep it going for a long time.

 

[madog]

Right now I'm just concerned with my post count being reset.

 

[Crushenator 500]

Right now I'm just concerned with my post count being reset.

Jesus christ man... grow a pair and shut the f@#k up about your damn postcount :\

 

[Vegeta897]

Madog, it's a forum, if you're still angry over this you have some serious priority problems.

 

[McGooTheWise]

I disagree with the doom 3 graphics... They're too matalicy... everthing reflects light... even peoples faces. They all look hallow, and hard to me. I like source a lot better, and the HDR looks amazing. Enough said. (alyx wouldn't be so hot in doom 3... she'd look like an Imp ^^ )

 

[ríomhaire]

Right now I'm just concerned with my post count being reset.

If your post count is important SOMEONE ELSE will talk about it, like the Stern's 20,000 post thread. No one cares about your postcount and they hate people talking about their own.

 

[Crimo]

dont even know what a postcount is, gg

 

[Acepilotf14]

Yes, yes it is.

Thirdeded... dededed? ehm.. right?

 

[MorganFreeman911]

If your post count is important SOMEONE ELSE will talk about it, like the Stern's 20,000 post thread. No one cares about your postcount and they hate people talking about their own.

He has 20,000 posts? :O

Congrats?

Anyways.

This place is totally dead.

 

[Shift]

Yup, the sooner EP2, Portal and TF2 come out the better, so we can start discussing decent things on here again