Quit bitchin' about that, I probably did worse than you on that yet I decided to push through because . . . well I don't really know why.

Also Lost Coast is actually episode 3 in it's super early pre-release .0001 alpha version.

What, the Hunters? You had trouble running them over? A super-boost makes them roadkill.

I thought Valve dropped episodic gaming and that's why there's no Episode 3? There will probably be Half-Life 3 at some point, whenever they're done making amazing other games.

The final battle in Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was the best thing ever.

If you really have trouble with it, just save the game a lot?

I seriously have zero complaints about any of Half-Life 2 and its episodes. Just absolutely a total blast.

A lot of people have been kicking around that the next Half-Life game will just be a straight-up Half-Life 3 but that doesn't make a lot of sense since they seem to want to finish this current story arc with the Combine within the aegis of "Half-Life 2". When they make a Half-Life 3 it's going to be something big and new, like GTA III v. GTA IV, in my opinion.

I liked the game, but it did get abit repetitive at times. after about the fourth time I was sick of counter-balancing see-saws

I believe in an interview a while back Gabe said that the episodes 1 & 2, and eventually 3, are considered to be Half Life 3 broken up into three episodes. Their failing was the awkward naming convention.

In a more recent interview gabe, vague as fuckin always, said, "If you know enough to ask the question, you know enough what the answer is."

Guess that's a never!

In any case, they've also said that it won't be the end of the Half Life series but more like the end of the current story-arc. Though with Valve saying they're moving away from single player only games in another interview I'm not sure what to think about Half Life beyond the current arc. I love Valve and all but holy fuck it's like the left hand doesn't even know the right hand exists.

I just wish Valve would be honest. If they just put out something along the lines of this, everybody would stop hounding them.

Maybe.

Didn't that news come out as a random rumour and the next day Gabe was like "Uhhh, what are you all talking about?"

From what I can recall.
 

Actually, it was more that it was a wild misinterpretation of what they meant. What they meant was they weren't going to have exclusively single-player games. Portal 1 was exclusively single-player. Portal 2 was not. There's going to be some form of multiplayer, be it co-op or versus or some such, in their future games, but that does not mean that will be the default.

Valve can't count past two.