Valve Interview - including "info" on HL sequel

[tvharti]

full interview here: http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/3037280

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AG: For the sake of everybody back home, that’s been desperate to know. Will we ever see it [more Half-Life]?

Doug: You will ever see it, yes. We are not done with Gordon Freeman’s adventures. I have nothing other than that to tell you today, but hang in there with us.
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[AtomicSpark]

Episode 3.

 

[function9]

I thought it was an old interview for a minute. Didn't he give that same exact answer in a previous interview?

 

[Darkside55]

You know, this whole clandestine, "I swear we're working on Episode 3 behind this curtain but we can't show you" approach is batshit retarded. It has been from the start. Now, I can understand that, currently, shifting focus away from Episode 3 to promote Portal 2, and later the upcoming Dota 2, is obviously the right marketing move to make because you're trying to push awareness and hype for projects closest to release. However, it's been years. Years of this. At this point, "Episode 3" is a punchline to a joke that's been shoved in a dead horse's mouth, beaten with a crowbar, and shoved off a cliff. It's not even remotely funny or amusing anymore. "Ha ha, Episode 3, am I right guys? They'll never release it." It's a wasted question in every interview; damn near every single interview with Valve after the Orange Box--and that's a lot of interviews--has brought up the question of Episode 3. And it's always, "Please just bear with us. We can't talk about it right now, but you haven't seen the last of Gordon Freeman, we promise."

Would it seriously kill them to release something on the game? A screenshot. A piece of concept art. Bloody anything. Getting by on the fact that people are so frustrated at lack of info that they're talking about Episode 3 just to rant about it (as you see here) only goes so far. I honestly don't know what they're going to do when they eventually get around to announcing the thing and showing it off. Personally, I'm of the opinion that a trickle is better than a giant media blitz when it comes to an anticipated project that takes years. Even if it's to let people know the status of the game beyond, "We're working on it." And if you're working on things that might eventually get changed or cut, show them off anyway. Nobody's worse for wear after seeing shit that didn't make it into HL2 in the initial videos.

I dunno, maybe Valve gets off on their fans having so much anticipation for what basically, at this point, amounts to a name and two pieces of concept art of fat flying slugs. Maybe if everyone, interviewers especially, stopped talking about the goddamn game they might actually get tired of riding this "Lol there's no media but people are still talking about it daily" bullshit. Whoops, I guess I still talked about it in this post. I guess you got me, Valve, you marketing geniuses.

 

[MFL]

In the achievements for Portal 2, it implied that there will be a reference as to what happened to the Borealis.