Valve Teases Half-Life 2: Episode Three Debut

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  In other words they are delaying another episode to bundle it with another product. I'd rather them not c... : Pettytheft
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    I'm hoping Ep. 3 comes with Portal 2, considering the storylines are tied in together as of Ep. 2 : Evil Bones
    • orange box two : flasher 907
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  No kidding. It takes them the same mount of time to turn out a pathetic "episode" with 2.5 hours of gamep... : Rehevkor
  • Really? It does? Care to point to the last time Valve made a full-size game as quickly as they've made ei... : Chris Remo
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    There is so much wrong with this post I can't believe it's serious. - Refresh my memory, which of Epis : pupismyname
    • Why even bother, clearly a troll lol. : bam87
  • Who are you? : Sailor of Fortune
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  exactly. I love valve but I couldn't care less anymore about half life, just takes too long to build up a... : niceguynick
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    Episodes 1-3 = HL3. You just aren't waiting 5 years for the whole thing. Also HL3 is the end of the stor... : adsriordan
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      Episodes 1-3 are Episodes 1-3. HL3 will be the story following up after Episode 3. I don't understand wh... : Bingo
      • Yes, HL2 Ep. 1-3 were going to be HL3, until Valve decided they better put out some content every year or... : aqtrans
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  Whoops i meant EP3 at the end there. : adsriordan
  • AAAND you misreplied! : bam87
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  How long are people going to keep harping on this?
  
  Valve said AGES ago that "episodic" was the wrong word for this, but it's the one they shipped Episode One with so they have to at least keep using it until they finish the planned set of three. Jesus Christ, just get over the fact that they don't mean "episodic" in the sense of TV shows, they mean shorter games developed in less time. That's still happening. Episode One came out 18 months after HL2, Episode Two came out 16 months after that. That's incredibly short relative to how long it generally takes Valve to make a game.

  Oct 14, 2008 9:02am PDT
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  How long are people going to keep harping on this? Valve said AGES ago that "episodic" was the wrong w... : Chris Remo
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    I think I must have missed THAT bit of news :S But the name is misleading to say the least. But like, if ... : Renalicious
    • They're just shorter games. They're shorter games that take less time and cost less money. I don't know i... : Chris Remo
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    Even still, the whole HL story is taking far to long to close out. HL1 was in 1998 and the story isn't go... : dlr(2)
    • Oh and I forgot that Portal is also part of HL, that makes 8 games to tell the story! : dlr(2)
    • That's really an unrelated argument. You could say the same about any series that's been around for ten y... : Chris Remo
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  they're essentially the same thing? i dont see how that would speed up releases.. especially for Valve si... : ballystix
  • Yeah, they probably should have use the phrase "expansion pack" or "mission pack" (Id's term), but I thin... : mn3m0n1c