Sure, 50% of the people have good reasons for Episodes being HL3 and 50% have good reasons for Episodes NOT being HL3. Until VALVe come out and confirm anything, no person is able to say it is or isn’t.
I wish and dont wish they would have never the L4D series:
Its making it take longer for all the half life people because they only have a portion doing half life.
But its making them lots of money which makes Half Life better and hires more people.
Hey guys, I accidentally never the whole L4D
Point and click adventure! 
That’s all fine and dandy, but this one states otherwise:
Also, that was a highly butchered summary by IGN of a Eurogamer interview.
From IGN:
“Throughout the interview, Newell refers to the episodes as Half-Life 3, and points out that they aren’t considered expansions.”
If you read the actual Eurogamer interview, that is completely untrue. Read the quotes IGN made and you’ll see that they not only quoted what Gabe and Erik said wrong at different points, but also conveniently left out vital information.
Newell stated that the episodes are the third PART of the half life saga and not the third GAME in the saga. He regrets calling the episodes “Aftermath” and stated that a better name would have been Half-Life 3 Ep1, 2, 3 etc. because he felt “Aftermath” was confusing. Following that observation, they chose to use the HL2 name instead.
I may be but a lowly cockroach 
, but I’m pretty sure Valve said it would just end the current Half-Life 2 story arc. I think Half-Life and Half-life 2 are two separate story arcs anyway. :freeman:
That’s what he meant.
I using the rest of my free time wait for the damn BM,EP2 and The Passing.
Ep2?
I get the impression that releasing episodes is giving them a (slightly) more stable revenue stream than having one big release for 4 years of development. I wonder if we would have had all of Portal, L4D and the amazing TF2 updates if they didn’t do episodes?
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While Half-Life ended in a cliff-hanger of sorts, it was the kind that is acceptable as an ending.
I suppose that is how Ep3 will end.
I think we can say that Half-Life 2’s episodes are Half-Life 3.
But it’s hard to really tell. Since they only chose Half-Life 2 instead of 3 to avoid confusion.
I would think it more likely that they call the next actual installement of the Half-Life series Half-Life 3, then 4. Even if the episodes are in reality Half-Life 3.
It would be even more confusing to go from 1, to 2, to 4 after all.
So I’d say they’d do it like so:
Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 1,2,3 (factually Half-Life 3), Half-Life 3 (Factually Half-Life 4)
But that’s just how I see it.
Gabe does quite literraly call the Episodes Half-Life 3 in the interview:
“If you think of Half-Life 1 as the G-Man trying to turn you into something that was useful to him - the transformation of the player into hero. And then Half-Life 2 was about how he was using you. Half-Life 3 [a.k.a. Episodes One to Three] is about the relationship with the G-Man and what happens when he loses control of you, when you’re not available to him as a tool and how he responds to that, and what are the consequences of that.”
So as they called the episodes Half-Life 2 to avoid confusion, they’ll call Half-Life 4 Half-Life 3 for the same goal.
Which was sorta my point. Even when Gabe says it’s HL3, I’ll still listen to Doug and Robin who actually write the games and work on the games, whilst Gabe pretty much only handles PR work now.
If that’s what he meant then why didn’t he say this? /
It’s not a typo, he mentioned in another thread that he thought episode 3 was going wrap up the “current story” that started in Half-Life.
Because he hit the wrong button, duh.
Where did the story start if not in Half-Life?
That means the next Half Life will be named No Life. This is the part where you laugh
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Who cares they’re both crappy/will be crappy anyway, fucking HL fanboys…
Damn, I think I’m really getting the hang of this ‘‘trolling’’ thing! :awesome: