I would love a Portal 3.
What would you really add or change that would warrant a third game though? The second game can already be expanded into multiple full games thanks to the mod community.
The first game laid out the concept, the second game refined it and expanded on it. While technically nothing stopping then from making more of exactly the same game such would be disappointing against most people their expectation of improvement and would be easily criticized from all kinds of corners. Weather it is fair or makes any logical sense valve today is who they are part because of their imago, maintaining there respectable and high quality standard is economic survival.
I don’t know what I’d add, I’m not nearly creative or talented enough to design games. I just love the world and want more official stories in it.
I trust Valve to only do it if they have something that would be as big a jump as there was between 1 and 2.
There’s something similar, in Portal Reloaded you can travel between timelines. It’s a mod, though: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255980/Portal_Reloaded/
That people seem to be playing it because they like it, instead of despite hating it?
I genuinely love it. It’s like water to my thirst after being unable to play Battleborn for the years since it shut down.
CS2 and Alyx also happened, it’s a thing now.
CS2 is a half-assed sequel meant to be the bare minimum necessary to keep Valve’s cs money printer going.
Completely half-assed. They only:
- Moved the game to a new engine
- Rebuilt the codebase from scratch because the previous codebase was 100% spaghetti.
- Made sure the game feels as close to the CSGO experience as possible. The resident CS nerd Ropz said the movement is 1 to 1 with CSGO which is not a small feat.
- Rebuilt the server architecture for better online experience
- Changed how smokes work which has noticeably altered the meta
- Redoing all the maps
- Reworked the audio
- Made sure all the skins can be transferred over and look somewhat decent.
- Bunch of minor QoL things that they didn’t need to do but did anyway
Fucking lazy devs.
IceFrog is cooking.
Since the games in the first image, Valve has released:
TF2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Alien Swarm
Portal 2
CS:GO
Dota 2
Artifact
Dota Underlords
Half-Life: Alyx
CS2