Valve’s development process doesn’t make things easy for third installments.
Portal is a hit science fiction puzzle game developed by Valve.
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Definitely, Portal is one of Valve’s most important IPs and a benchmark for the video game industry. Not only because of the ingeniousness of its portal mechanics, it was also all an example in terms of narrative, although Gabe Newell’s company, as in the case of Hal-Life, did not continue the series after its second installment. However, unlike the series starring Gordon Freeman, there seems to be a strong reason behind the abandonment of Portal.
close to meet twelve years from the original release of Portal 2, Valve does not seem very willing to continue with the series, but neither does he share the reasons that led him to leave the game. In the absence of official information, one of the original writers of Portal has shared his take on the subject and the reasons why Valve won’t make a new Portal game.
Valve does not like third parties
According to Erik Wolpaw, one of the main writers for both Portal games, the reason Valve is unlikely to develop a third installment in the series is due to the “flat structure” of the company, he assured during the last episode of the podcast My Perfect Console (via GameRant). The scriptwriter explains that there must be enough people interested in a project enough for the company to approve revisiting the issue and, while he has once joked about making that dream Portal 3, he doesn’t want to cause any internal conflict.
The reason why at Valve they are very reluctant to give green light to third parties It is because, although at the end of a game the work done is reviewed and one thinks how to make things better facing a sequel, they are of the philosophy that facing a third installment there are not so many opportunities at the level of gameplay or narrative worth exploring. Even so, there are still rumors that Portal 3 could be in development within Valve, although the thing has never been confirmed.
Therefore, at this point in life, it is unlikely that they will be announced overnight. third parts of Half-Life, Portal or Left 4 Deadalthough the company may keep exploring their universes in other ways. As happened in the case of Half-Life: Alyx, the installment that revolutionized the world of virtual reality.
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