There is one sure fire way to get VALVe to make HL3.

Stop buying games bound to Steam. Once that billion dollar revenue stream dries up, they'll be forced into making games again.

Not writing Half-Life... that's why he left, supposedly :P

HL2 already has a sequel...
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110027/

I never understood all of the hype and buzz about Half-Life.

Sure, I've played HL1 and though tit was pretty good. Masterpiece? Not really. Quake 2 was better.

I open the GOG forums and find that people are *still* waiting for Half-Life 3, a sequel to an overrated and unremarkable game...

Wow. It's like a *LOT* of people around the world really enjoyed it or something! Crazy huh?

I'm afraid I'm going to have to be one of the 'party poopers'.

As much as I enjoyed the Half-Life games (though I agree that the first one was better than the sequel, primarily because the second game felt like a glorified tech demo for the Steam engine a lot of the time), I have zero confidence in any prospect of there being another game in the series, at least one that is anything like the first two (or four, I guess).

Why? Because multiplayer games have become Valve's bread and butter. Well, okay, Steam is actually Valve's bread and butter. But not only do multiplayer games make more money for them, they also increase the exposure of users to the Steam service more than single player ones do. The additional monetisation (which Valve has become a major fan of) they can employ with them and the fact that multiplayer games highlight fewer of Steam's downsides as a service (after all, people aren't going to care about online DRM with a game that's all about playing online) only serve as icings on the cake.

Simply put, multiplayer games have been a better investment for Valve. Under such circumstances, it just doesn't make much sense for them to make another grand single player-focused title, particularly in an era where heavily scripted campaigns have begun to fall by the wayside. So even if a new Half-Life does come, it will be nothing like the games that we knew.

Obviously, the old adage of 'never say never' applies. But given that it's been almost a decade since the last entry and that many key members of the game's development team have since left the company, I think it's far more likely that there is just no interest inside Valve to make another game in the series. And honestly, one could argue that this kind of result was inevitable since Half-Life 2's release; perhaps even sooner, since the popularity of the original Counter-Strike overshadowed the original Half-Life.

Tell that to John Romero, who thinks HL2 is one of the best FPS games.
Well him, us and a few million people must be total jackasses and must've fell for Valve's deceptive trap! Shittt!

Is that "until they start making it", "until the preorder/kickstarter is up" or "until it's ready and released"? Important -though slight- differences, those.

i dont really care about hl3.second game wasnt that special either.First was a blast

Why not just vote that game into the "Worst Cliffhanger" category instead. (I do believe they have that kind of category)? IMO Valve won't do a damn thing if it gets into the "Game That Deserves A Sequel".


Oh who am I kidding, Valve no longer makes games, they just make money and gimmicks to their own store instead of concentrating on service, like they are trying to say "Ok, ok we are bad at this but oh look! We've added this kind of silly gimmick here! You like these kind of gimmicks right? Now stop saying bad stuff about us and we will put more of these....What, you don't like it? Here, have a sale instead and no, we will not make Half Life 3. That's not even a game, but our key to bring more people to praise us and get hyped for no reason."