Valve's E3 Surprise

[Chalex4]

It all started with this:


Subject: A note from Aperture Science

Dear Subject Name Here,

Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we are pleased to further announce that the cancellation of the event is not THE surprise. However, per International treaties regarding the definition of the word "surprise", of which both Aperture Science and Valve are signatories, the time, date and content of the actual surprise will only become available as you experience the surprise.

If you'd like to ask fruitless questions about the E3 Portal 2 surprise or, more fruitfully, schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve's Special Envoy to Surprises, Doug Lombardi.

Thank you for <<RECORD SCRATCH!!!>>

PS: The surprising record scratch is also not the surprise.

So what could it be? CSS2, HL3...or a completely new IP? Obviously everyone's hoping for EP3.

But what proof do we have of it being EP3? Just check out this pic from the TF2 blog:

http://www.kombo.com/images/content/news/mailstorm_large.jpg

But wait, what's this?

http://www.kombo.com/images/content/news/fhd9xsji.png

And there's more! You can see a faint outline of Gordon's face.

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3637/animatedz.gif

Either way, I guess we'll find out on June 14th :D.

[Calneon]

My bet is that it's going to be Half Life 3. They've had enough bloody time.

[D_K_Head]

It's about fucking time...

Maybe valve are just sad to see the last of Half Life? (Going off of an old announcement that there wouldn't be ep4, or a HL3.)

[Marshy]

In the words of mitch, it's going to be like

Valve: and as you can see we are still working on Half life 3, thanks everyone

[Target]

I hope it is HL3 its been so long, they must have had time to develop the physics engine past a simple see-saw :D

[Vicious Horizon]

Fuck Episode 3, I want Half Life 3.

[Darkpidgeon]

Found this on the Steam TF2 forums around the time of that post

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7779/mailstormlarge.jpg

[Chazlene]

Umm that's not a dick, it's just part of his MASSIVE thigh...

[Bloo]

The announcement is going to be L4D3, just to piss off all the half life fans again.

[Marshy]

Found this on the Steam TF2 forums around the time of that post

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7779/mailstormlarge.jpg

I lold pretty damn hard

[Darkpidgeon]

Doesnt look like episode 3 :(


Valve staffers are known to occasionally respond to fan emails, and that's exactly what Newell did. In response to an email imploring Valve to unveil Episode 3 next week, Newell simply wrote back, "It isn't ep 3."

Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179670&cmpid=0101

[Calneon]

Doesnt look like episode 3 :(



Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179670&cmpid=0101
It's Half Life 3. I so fucking bet it is. Why would he reply so confidently if he didn't have something better than Ep3.

Fuck yes.

[Chalex4]

I agree with Phant (or at least I want to :p). He's just milking it for all it's worth.

I predict that what they eventually release will not be on the source engine as it's pretty old now. They needed to start from scratch, which is why it's HL3.

[Mr.Big]

doublepost fail D:

[Mr.Big]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV-qS82lXtk

Hope its EP3 :D :D :D

[Bloo]

Half Life 3 would be great, combine it with Portal 2 to make the Yellow/Green/Purple/Blue/Whatever Box and it'd be ten times awesome.

[Colonel Mitch]

If this is another L4D i will cry.... but if its HL3 i will die for excitement.

Its a loose loose...... :P

[Calneon]

It's not going to be another L4D, because that would make people hate them, and it's not another Portal because they said it's not Portal. If that email is true, it's not Ep3, that leaves us with HL3 or some completely new game.

They've had so long, and they haven't been working on anything else the past year, it just makes so much sense that it's HL3.

[Calneon]

Oh, and

http://i45.tinypic.com/110yhwl.jpg

I have no idea where it came from though, looks like a magazine ad.

[Darkeagle]

Someone questioned gabe on that, he said it was fake, sorry lol

[Calneon]

Thought as much.

[Chazlene]

Yeah looks too simple to be real... although that subtle G-man face below the central text is effing creepy.

[Isphera]

Why announce HL3 when we've had nothing on Ep. 3 yet. They did say around the beginning of Ep. 1 that they were treating the three episodes as HL3, at least in nature if not by name. It would seem odd to me if it was HL3 - my guess is a massive mind clusterfuck and it's Portal 2 and Ep.3.

[Darkeagle]

Valve have come out and said today that it is a Portal 2 related surprise

[Bloo]

Guess they misjudged the announcement - it was very Portal 2 themed, but no one picked up on that eh. Or didn't care.