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Half Life Alyx won't show up on The Game Awards
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Wow, what? That's a very weird about face. My hype for TGA completely evaporated. Why would they pull out last second?
Game is playable all the way through but that don't mean it's completely bug free or feature complete. Probably added an important feature and it broke
Can't help but wonder if Geoff is a bit irritated at this last minute cancel announcement. He probably knew beforehand but this sort of thing can affect viewership just the same considering how both he and Valve built up its presence at the show a month ago.
Really doesn't inspire confidence they aren't willing to show gameplay(more than that very short trailer) until almost 2 months or closer til release. Either this is getting delayed or the quality of this is going to seriously be suspect.
They must have known this on Monday. Should have tweeted this then. Not 3 hours before the show. Whatever though, what do i know. Why didnt they tweet this as the show began?
It's so weird to see the announcement barely hours before the show, when it was previously confirmed to appear there.
Makes this sound like something didn't work as intended at the very last minute.
Makes this sound like something didn't work as intended at the very last minute.
Not really, live demos get cancelled far more often than you are aware of. There can be a ton of reasons unrelated to the actual state of the game for a live demo to be pulled. Heck, a live demo might have been a good idea on paper but once you actually rehearse and see the footage on screen, a VR game might not be as "watchable" as you might think for an event like this.
Because TGA affiliates leaked HL:A in the first place perhaps? Or did I read that wrong a month ago.
It's backwards really; if the game was in such poor state for the show they would have known that before announcing their presence there.
Something going wrong with a demo != something wrong with game development. I mean they announced the release time frame at basically the same time they announced they'd be at TGA, it makes no sense that in that short time something went so terribly wrong that it means GAME DELAY!
What probably happened:
"Gaben: We're having a live demo for TGA"
"Geoff: Amazing! See you there"
Close to the show, during rehearsal
"Gaben: Apparently using the Index on-stage with hundreds of people and devices gives way too much interference and will screw up the demo(think Skyward Sword demo but 10x worse)"
"Gaben: We're having a live demo for TGA"
"Geoff: Amazing! See you there"
Close to the show, during rehearsal
"Gaben: Apparently using the Index on-stage with hundreds of people and devices gives way too much interference and will screw up the demo(think Skyward Sword demo but 10x worse)"
Even if it was a live demo issue, would have been nice to have another short trailer ready just in case. This really bums me out. I was looking forward to this for the past few weeks.
Really hope they manage to get a video out there or something by the end of this month. I'm dying to see more of this game.
Exactly what I was thinking. There's so many things that can go wrong with a regular live demo, add VR and motion tracking into the mix and you have yourself a nightmare if it goes wrong. Might not have even been that big of an issue, but Valve couldn't really afford a big screw up after being silent for so long I feel.
