Well, now that Source is officially retarded and terrible I guess all the pub players are happy. Seriously, this game has been exclusively for the competitive community for the past three years, they shouldn't have touched it. Take a page out of S2's or Blizzards book and balance (in this case...
First off, they've never once stated they meant to call it "Half-Life3: Episode X". The only thing they've said regarding the naming was that they shouldn't have used the term episode in the sense that they weren't promising regular releases. They simply called them episodes because they wanted...
You're a total idiot if you think they're going to make HL3. Why would they make HL3 (which means it has to be an entire new story arc) when they haven't even finished with the current story line.
They wanted Gordon to get out of there rather than risk his capture. Considering they got Eli Vance, it's not unlikely to assume they could have gotten Gordon too.
I'm willing to make a bet with anyone on these forums that the surprise will not be Half-Life related. It's going to be a surprise related to Portal 2.
I really don't understand how people think they can 'expect' a full-length game because of this so-called 'long wait'. You guys do realize that it took them 6 years to release HL2 after HL1. Those are full length games and that would be the time-frame you would be looking at if that's what...
I'd say it's worked pretty well. There was a 6 year wait between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, during which time we had nothing to play but Half-Life. Assuming they release this year (my guess is November) they will have released 3 games over the course of the six year period between the release of...