‘My personal failure was being stumped’: Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would’ve been ‘copping out of [Valve’s] obligation to gamers’
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‘My personal failure was being stumped’: Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would’ve been ‘copping out of [Valve’s] obligation to gamers’
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Half-Life 3: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary by Valve

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What did Episode 1 and 2 push forward?

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Linear, set-piece story-telling.

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It sure wasn’t rapid smaller releases

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HL1 already did that

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