Why it issues: Three appears to be an unfortunate quantity for Valve. Everybody would all like to see Half-Life 3 or not less than Portal 3. We’ve heard scant rumors in regards to the former, however nothing concrete. As for the latter, one in all its writers says it is by no means coming regardless of his willingness to work on it.
Erik Wolpaw was the co-writer on the Portal sequence and numerous different Valve video games, together with Half-Life, Psychonauts, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. In a current interview with Kiwi Talkz, the now impartial contractor stated he would like to work on Portal 3 earlier than he will get too previous however notes that it is not more likely to occur (under).
“I’m not getting any youthful,” stated the 55-year-old gaming veteran. “We are reaching the purpose the place it is loopy to assume we [the original developers] are actually going to be too previous to work on Portal 3, so we must always simply do it.”
The Portal franchise celebrates its fifteenth anniversary on October 10, 2022. Excluding the few spinoff video games, we’ve not seen a brand new sport since Portal 2 in 2011. Although he would love to jot down a brand new sequel, Wolpaw factors out that there’s a massive distinction between desirous to make one other sport and truly doing it. The important hurdle appears to be that Valve is simply too busy doing different issues.
“As a lot because it looks as if Valve usually is only a bunch of individuals sitting round sipping gin and tonic, everybody’s working,” the author quipped. “I’d work on one other Portal in a second … the issue is … there’s quite a lot of alternative value to taking 75 folks and making an attempt to get a sport made.”
Wolpaw estimates that Valve has about 300 workers working in numerous divisions and that all of them have one thing to do this is not Portal 3. Even although it launched solely a 12 months after Portal 2, CS: GO remains to be making Valve cash. The builders additionally simply completed work on the Portal-universe spinoff Aperture Desk Job. Before that, they have been laborious at work making Half-Life: Alyx, which Wolpaw helped write.
Despite his perception that Portal 3 won’t ever get the inexperienced gentle, Wolpaw holds out a sliver of hope.
“I may advocate for it, nevertheless it’s not gonna assist,” Wolpaw stated earlier than pleading, “[Is Portal 3] going to make Counter-Strike GO cash? Probably not, however … possibly not each sport must make Counter-Strike: GO cash. Gabe, in case you’re listening…”
