kill everyone!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=daO5EWmafeY&t=9m14s

Gabe Newell is a brony
No Gabe = Valve left entirely in the hands of the major shareholders
Major shareholders and people who don't care about video games are often the same
Major shareholders like money
People who don't care about video games but like money don't tend to make nice videogame companies (Electronic fArts)

You have to keep us alive if you want to ever see a proper HL3

He isn't though. He just made a joke about it once when it was popular.

He admitted it on an interview.
Don't believe me? Here is the soundbite:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPjFavgKO5I

You don't know that.

Gaben might watch it in his own damn time, when he isn't bombarded by questions about a ****** 3 game from a sub-pare franchise.

how is the half life franchise sub-par?

People hype up Half Life like it's a revolutionary FPS that changed the face of gaming.

All I found was a mediocre shooter with a nice physics engine and crappy driving controls.

It is, and always will be, an average game that doesn't deserve the hype it's got. And HL3 has been blown out of proportion so much these past 6 years, it's not gonna live up to it.

I dunno man, it's one of my favorite games and there are plenty of people who will agree with me. Of course it will never match games like Deus-Ex, but it's still a beast.

Call it a beast all you want, I will never understand.

Sure, Half Life 1 was pretty revolutionary for it's time. But 2/Ep.1/Ep.2 was nothing new exciting besides a vastly updated graphics engine.

I can't even remember the story for HL 2.

I think the Half Life franchise is a mixed bag. I adore the style and tone of the first one but the second one left me feeling a touch ambivalent.

On an unrelated note, Love the avatar picture.

sub-par*

Why not you?