I’m glad for Laidlaw not getting stuck on Half-Life. It’s been a long time, people grow and move on. Imagine him feeling like this about Half-Life but writing for the sequel anyway out of a sense of duty, completion or other silly reason. It would be a total disaster. Half-Life: Alyx was fantastic, and felt like just another entry, a natural fit, in the Half-Life universe. This is not in spite of, nor because of, Laidlaw being absent from its development. There are simply a bunch of amazing people putting their heart and soul into these games.
I do hope the next Half-Life entry will be a regular PC game though. I wouldn’t wish it upon people who don’t own VR to miss out on another excellent game.
On a sidenote its crazy we got a Love Death & Robots episode based on Laidlaw’s first book. Definitely gonna watch that.
Season 4 Episode 4 if I remember correctly. He is credited as writer on the Wikipedia list of episodes. I can recommend the rest of the season as well, less than two hours
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I’m glad for Laidlaw not getting stuck on Half-Life. It’s been a long time, people grow and move on. Imagine him feeling like this about Half-Life but writing for the sequel anyway out of a sense of duty, completion or other silly reason. It would be a total disaster. Half-Life: Alyx was fantastic, and felt like just another entry, a natural fit, in the Half-Life universe. This is not in spite of, nor because of, Laidlaw being absent from its development. There are simply a bunch of amazing people putting their heart and soul into these games.
I do hope the next Half-Life entry will be a regular PC game though. I wouldn’t wish it upon people who don’t own VR to miss out on another excellent game.
On a sidenote its crazy we got a Love Death & Robots episode based on Laidlaw’s first book. Definitely gonna watch that.
Which episode was that?
Season 4 Episode 4 if I remember correctly. He is credited as writer on the Wikipedia list of episodes. I can recommend the rest of the season as well, less than two hours