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In the time since then, Valve has worked on loads of different projects: Steam, Dota 2, CS:GO, multiple VR headsets, and plenty more, many of which the outside world never saw. In a new interview with our own Ryan McCaffrey, Newell said вЂњHalf-Life games are supposed to solve interesting problems,вЂќ and explained that Valve doesnвЂ™t want to just вЂњcrank Half-Life titles out because it helps us make the quarterly numbers.вЂќ Casali similarly says that they were вЂњlooking for what is going to make that next big impactвЂќ after Episode Two. So thatвЂ™s why Episode 3 never arrived (though former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw did post what is seemingly a gender-swapped synopsis of what it could have been it back in 2017) but why did ValveвЂ™s re-evaluation result in an indefinite cliffhanger (and innumerable memes) instead of a proper Half-Life sequel? Casali ties it back to two things: the start of Source 2вЂ™s development, and ValveвЂ™s goal of making Half-Life games more than just another release.Д«oth Casali and Valve co-founder Gabe Newell explained to IGN that Valve uses Half-Life games explicitly to push technology forward and turn heads. вЂњI think at that point we realized, вЂOkay, maybe this episodes thing, it was a good concept, but we're not executing terribly well as far as getting things out quickly enough,вЂ™вЂќ Casali explains, so the team started rethinking things after Episode Two. After Episode One shipped, some members of its team even joined the Episode Two team to help out. The plan for smaller, faster releases didnвЂ™t line up with the studioвЂ™s ambition for the project, and the scope of Episode Two increased past its original concept.

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Watch our full interview with Valve's Gabe Newell and Robin Walker above.Д®pisode Two actually took two years to make вЂ“ Valve started work on it at the same time as Episode One. вЂњWe found ourselves creeping ever forward towards, вЂWell, let's just keeping putting more and more, and more, and more stuff in this game because we want to make it as good as we can,вЂ™вЂќ he explains, вЂњand then we realized these episodes are turning more into sequels.вЂќ While Episode One was successfully developed in about a year, Casali says вЂњscope creepвЂќ became a problem. That plan didnвЂ™t work out entirely as Valve had hoped. Of course, I pointed out the irony of him saying Valve disliked going dark for six years when the gap between Episode Two and Alyx ended up being more than double that, to which Casali jokingly replied вЂњyeah, it's like we adjusted to an extremeвЂќ after they moved away from the quicker episodic format.Д«ut, regardless of how it ended, a plan was set to develop and release each episode in a year, designing them as shorter additions to the story to keep players satisfied more frequently. We think players are going to prefer that from waiting six years and going through however many delays we went through.вЂ™' Let's just bite off little chunks and then release more often. We understand the characters, we understand the story, we have most of the mechanics. That's why we started doing the episodes where we thought, вЂwell, we have the stable technology now. вЂњAfter working on Half-Life 2 for six years we decided we didn't want to go dark for so long. It was partly due to ValveвЂ™s worry about вЂњscope creepвЂќ in what were supposed to be smaller expansions, partly the studioвЂ™s desire to begin development on the Source 2 engine, and partly the lack of a creative spark (and unsatisfactory internal experiments) worthy of carrying the Half-Life name. His answer is, frankly, the clearest IвЂ™ve heard on the issue yet, but thereвЂ™s still no single, simple reason it never manifested.

During that chat, we also discussed why Valve decided to make Episodes instead of a full sequel, and why the now infamous Episode 3 (and a sequel in general) never arrived. But now, after more than a decade, weвЂ™re getting a new Half-Life game вЂ“ as well as some answers.ДЄhead of the release of Half-Life: Alyx, I spoke with level designer Dario Casali вЂ“ a Valve veteran who has been with the studio since 1996 вЂ“ about Half-Life 2, its development, and its influence on ValveвЂ™s new VR prequel. 13 years after release, its heart-wrenching finale is still unresolved, and the once feverish вЂњHalf-Life 3 Confirmed!вЂќ memes have mostly lost steam. ItвЂ™s not often that an unanswered cliffhanger in a story becomes echoed so perfectly by one in real life вЂ“ but the legendary, lingering end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and the real world silence that followed is anything but ordinary.