The Internet Reacts To The Announcement Of A New Half-Life Game

It is 2019. Valve just announced a new Half-Life game. All bets are off now. Quit your job. Buy a lottery ticket. Fail to win the lottery. Buy several more lottery tickets. Fail again. Give up. Sell your car so you can make rent. Go online. Find out that the new Half-Life is a VR game. Compose an irate tweet about how you can’t afford it. Live your dreams.

Half-Life: Alyx, announced yesterday by Valve in what still feels like an impossible fever dream but was actually just a post on Twitter, is set to be the company’s “flagship VR game.” This has left fans in an odd spot. On one hand, it’s more Half-Life. Finally! After more than a decade of waiting. On the other hand, it’s not Half-Life 3, and on top of that, it’s a VR game, meaning it’ll require an expensive headset and a powerful PC. While it makes sense that Valve would want to create a killer app for its Valve Index VR platform, it’s still been a bitter pill to swallow for some of the Half-Life series’ vocal fans. Here’s what they’re saying:

Valve: There will be a new #HalfLife game.

Everyone: YES! We've been waiting forever!

Valve: It will be VR only.

Everyone: But… I don't have a-

Valve: pic.twitter.com/teXIoOJPqi

— Lasercorn (@LaserCorn) November 19, 2019

Half Life 3 announced!*

*for Virtual Boy pic.twitter.com/3AqBHkb0fO

— Ben Bertoli! (@SuperBentendo) November 18, 2019

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"I mean like VR looks cool but I don't know, there aren't really any big games for it you know? It needs a big game to sell me."
"FUCK YOU VALVE HOW DARE YOU MAKE HALF-LIFE ALYX A VR GAME"

— Todo (kete)👻✨🍖 💧 (@NotRealTodokete) November 18, 2019

Half Life, 3 logos https://t.co/uDfMaiiAKu

— Porygon (@PorygonNews) November 18, 2019

Inb4 Half-Life: Alyx is a game mostly about playing fetch with Dog and will have nothing to advance the Half-Life story.

— Civvie11 (@Civvie11) November 19, 2019

Have all the impossible dreams come true?

A new Half Life game
Shenmue 3 is about to release
FF7 Remake is mere months away
Last Guardian came out

Like what's left??

— Jon Cartwright (@JonComms) November 18, 2019

YES I KNOW ABOUT HALF-LIFE: ALYX

YES I KNOW IT'S NOT HALF-LIFE 3

YES I'M DISAPPOINTED

YES I'M STILL PLAYING THE FUCK OUTTA IT

ok did i cover all the questions

— Mitsu (@MitsuShow) November 18, 2019

Fucked up how half life 3 literally got announced today and i see more people talking about the milf from pokemon

— miles (@hexjo22) November 19, 2019

can't wait for Half-Life 3 Labo where you assemble boxes irl and then beat the absolute shit out of them with a wrench

— kokiri 🌿 (@sleepykokiri) November 19, 2019

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Half-Life is already trending.
It's time for memes. pic.twitter.com/I6m6LvYbGD

— Dmitri Linkiewicz (@d_linkski) November 18, 2019

look i know its vr but finally a new half life game pic.twitter.com/T1BGB7nGsp

— Sparky1j (@sparkie237) November 19, 2019

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fuck half life look at how my cat is sitting pic.twitter.com/B4B97txCo8

— Amelia (@holy_vicar) November 18, 2019

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looking forward to half-life: alyx, in which a combine soldier will demand that I pick up a can, and I will be able to reach out and gently caress his face before slapping him so hard that he crashes through a nearby wall

— Nathan Grayson (@Vahn16) November 18, 2019

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#HalfLife #AlyxVance #myart

Thank you @ValveNewsNetwor for giving me a reason to draw this girl. pic.twitter.com/fYFmis4slY

— Rachell |REDACTED| c0mms open! (@RedactedRachell) November 18, 2019