Portal writer urges Valve to ‘start Portal 3’
Portal co-writer and Valve alumnus Erik Wolpaw has expressed his curiosity in making a 3rd Portal recreation. As reported by VGC, Wolpaw was interviewed on the Kiwi Talkz podcast, the place he mentioned his work on varied Valve video games together with Portals 1 and a pair of. Wolpaw ended the present with a heartfelt petition, stating, “We gotta begin Portal 3. That is my message to… whoever.”
Wolpaw continued. “I’m additionally not getting any youthful. We’re reaching the purpose the place – it is loopy to assume – [we’re ] actually going to be too outdated to work on Portal 3. So we must always simply do it.” He pointed to the latest Steam Deck launch recreation Aperture Desk Job for instance of individuals’s need for a 3rd Portal recreation. “Desk Job was enjoyable. In case you preferred Desk Job, ship mail to Gabe. Inform him you need some Portal 3.”
Whereas Wolpaw’s enthusiasm for the collection is evident, he is additionally practical concerning the hurdles he’d have to beat for Valve to greenlight a 3rd Portal recreation. Earlier within the chat, he says, “I would work on one other Portal in a second, however I am unable to make it occur on my own.” He factors out that Valve has round 300 staff, a lot of whom will probably be engaged on Steam or new {hardware} just like the Steam Deck. “So, there’s plenty of alternative price to taking 75 individuals and making an attempt to get a recreation made.”
Wolpaw additionally highlights that Portal 3 could merely not be a sufficiently big earner to entice Valve in its trendy type. “You’d make cash, however what sort of cash will you make? Are you gonna make Counter-Strike: GO cash? In all probability not.”
Exterior of Portal 3, Wolpaw additionally discusses his work on Half-Life: Alyx, together with placing collectively the sport’s monumental ending, and the way vital getting the ending proper was for the sport. “This was actually one of the best pitch we had. We did not have a plan B.” he says. “If all people had actually hated it, it most likely would have… possibly killed the venture.”
It’s potential that Valve is engaged on some sort of Portal recreation. Final month, YouTube reporter Tyler McVicker discovered clues in Desk Job’s supply code referring to varied unannounced Valve initiatives, together with a Half-Life: Alyx sequel and a Portal Paint Gun recreation. Nonetheless, that does not sound like a full sequel to Portal, and Wolpaw definitely is not concerned with it.
Finally, whether or not or not we see Portal 3 is solely all the way down to the whims of Valve. Within the meantime, nonetheless, I strongly encourage you to take a look at Portal Reloaded, a mod which makes a reasonably good stab at being a Portal sequel, that includes some spectacular new functions of the sport’s central mechanics.
