If it will be in fact Half Life 3 (running on a brand new engine) then count me in. There's no way that 5-6 hours long Episode 3 would take more than 2 years to make.
I have a feeling episode 3 turned into Half-Life 3, which I don't mind hopefully they can get some new tech behind the franchise. Half-life doesn't hold up to well with the shooters that are currently on the market. Also some new art direction would be awesome, half-life 2 series art is really plain :( Loved episode 2 so…
A new engine would be exciting, I know theres been a lot of great mods for Half Life 2 so I can only imagine how awesome the mods would be for Half Life 3!
Eh as far as I know the HL2 Eps are not split up versions of HL3, if they were they'd be called HL3 : Episode 1 or something like that :) Last video I saw that indicated anything about episode 3 was something about making games more accessible to deaf people. According to Gabe, Alyx once had a crush on a deaf resistance…
I like the link established between Portal and HL. I think it was a smart choice. I really hope that in HL2E3, we learn what the G-man really is. We've been waiting like 3 years for HL2E3... a porject that they said would only take 6 months to develop. This better be worth the wait... im sure it will be.
Gabe Newell: "Probably a better name for it would have been Half Life 3: Episode One, but these three are what we're doing as our way of taking the next step forward, but Half-Life 2 was the name we used." "...Half-Life 3 [a.k.a. Episodes One to Three]..." Source I also wouldn't call HL a universe because Portal is linked…
Thanks for the link, I was trying to find Gabe's original quote on that matter. I knew it started out as a way to deliver what was to be HL3's storyline in a shorter time frame, but I swear I read an interview somewhere (not by Gabe, probably by Doug?) that mentioned there will be a separate HL3, only it won't follow this…
I wouldn't count on a new engine. The Episodes are supposed to be Half-Life 3, so the series should end after Ep3. If Valve would use a new engine, they'd have to redo all their Half-Life assets (which don't or barely really use high polygon versions, so little re-using there) for just one game. After Ep3, though, what to…