Half-Life 2 on Wii

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BenKenobi88 said:
I think it's possible.

But to be honest, I don't think I'd buy it.

Half Life 2 is in the past for me now. I play through it now and then, I've got a friend who loves to speed run through the game as much as possible with only a pistol to see how far he can get in the least amount of time.

I've played endless mods for the game, and there are still new mods coming out that really entertain me. Hell, Left 4 Dead will be running on Source, though the Episode 2 version of course.

But there'd be no incentive for me to pick up a Wii version, and I'm guessing A) HL2's fanbase will think similarly, even though they love HL2, if they've played it extensively on the PC, there's really no benefit in a Wii version, and B) the expanded audience probably won't care for it. It's a single player FPS, unless it had split-screen HL2 Deathmatch (the highest level of unlikeliness I know), the casuals wouldn't buy it.

The Wii could handle it, but HL2 will never come to it. Portal maybe, but I even doubt that unless it's Portal 2 next year or '10.

I think this is pretty much the case exactly. Valve has probably already discussed it and come to the exact same conclusion. As much as I absolutely love the Half-Life 2 series there would probably have to be something more than just the Half-Life 2 series. Probably at least the full Orange Box suite is what it would take for me to buy it...but even then I would wait until I could pick it up at a budget price.

PS - The fact that I would even consider buying the exact same game twice is telling of how good it is.