In an interview with Edge magazine, Valve's Gabe Newell remarked that he'd like to see the Half-Life series return to "scaring the player more." He feels as though the series has recently gotten a bit off track with its scares and also hopes to broaden the emotional pallet.
Here is Newell's full response when asked if he felt as though the Half-Life series has matured along with its audience.
Newell did not mention Episode 3 by name, so only time will tell if the final Episode will indeed bring the scares back to Half-Life.
Here is Newell's full response when asked if he felt as though the Half-Life series has matured along with its audience.
"That isn't something we think about except as part of each project needing to respect the fact that simply repeating the past isn't going to have the same impact now as it did then.
"I feel like we've gotten away from genuinely scaring the player more than I'd like, and it's something we need to think about, in addition to broadening the emotional palette we can draw on."
When Edge asked what scares them the most, he had a particularly dark answer: "The death of their children. The fading of their own abilities."
"I feel like we've gotten away from genuinely scaring the player more than I'd like, and it's something we need to think about, in addition to broadening the emotional palette we can draw on."
When Edge asked what scares them the most, he had a particularly dark answer: "The death of their children. The fading of their own abilities."
Newell did not mention Episode 3 by name, so only time will tell if the final Episode will indeed bring the scares back to Half-Life.
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