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Half-Life 2 Q&A
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Trepid's Gabe Newell Q&A chats with the Valve Software honcho about Half-Life 2 and beyond (thanks Maximus). The Q&A delves into a wide variety of topics, including editing, multiplayer support and more. Also included is word not to expect a demo before the game's release nor to expect Half-Life 3 any time soon after the sequel's release. Here's a bit that reflects on why they might not jump right into development of the third Half-Life game:

What was the most difficult challenge to overcome when developing Half-Life 2?

The length of the project. We've been working on Half-Life 2 for five years, and it's been a huge amount of work the whole time. It's just hard to maintain your focus over that length of time. We've had some of our long-time playtesters going from being seniors in high school to being college graduates during Half-Life 2 development.

We're going to recharge a bit on short fun projects once HL-2 goes out the door.

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Damn I wanna see that render tech
Jun 15, 2003, 18:33

Rokku

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Damn I wanna see that render tech Jun 15, 2003, 18:33

Jun 15, 2003, 18:33

Rokku

What I really wanna know is what the hell was that image rendering technology they were working on but had postponed. By the sounds of it it would have rendered realistic highly complex environments, even more so than the current source.

Anyone have a clue what it could do?

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