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 couple 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 We’re reaching the purpose the place – it is loopy to assume – [we’re ] actually going to be too outdated to work on Portal 3.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 should always simply do it.” He pointed to the latest Steam Deck launch recreation Aperture Desk Job for example of individuals’s need for a 3rd Portal recreation. “Desk Job was enjoyable. In the event you appreciated 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 real looking in regards to 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 can not make it occur on my own.” He factors out that Valve has round 300 workers, lots of whom shall be engaged on Steam or new {hardware} just like the Steam Deck. “So, there’s a number of alternative value to taking 75 folks and making an attempt to get a recreation made.”
Wolpaw additionally highlights that Portal 3 could merely not be a large enough earner to entice Valve in its trendy kind. “You’d earn a living, however what sort of cash will you make? Are you gonna make Counter-Strike: GO cash? In all probability not.”
Outdoors 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 the most effective pitch we had. We did not have a plan B.” he says. “If all people had actually hated it, it in all probability would have… possibly killed the challenge.”
It’s attainable 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 numerous unannounced Valve initiatives, together with a Half-Life: Alyx sequel and a Portal Paint Gun recreation. Nevertheless, 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 fairly good stab at being a Portal sequel, that includes some spectacular new functions of the sport’s central mechanics.
