Half-Life 2: Episode Two to be Longer (Too)

Just wanted to set a record for "two" homophones in one headline. Anyway, Valve: Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Will Be Longer on Fringe Drinking (thanks xXBatmanXx) has word from Valve's Doug Lombardi that Half-Life 2: Episode Two will offer about eight hours of gameplay, compared with the approximately six hours of gameplay in episode one, and offers details on planned Steam features that will enhance its community support. Doug also says that in spite of Episode 2's delayed release, their development cycle for episodic content is getting shorter:
"Episode 1 took 18 months to complete and Episode 2 will end up being about 13 to 14 months, so we’re trimming it down," he said. "I think we’ll get closer to a year and be on a 12 month cycle. We’ll see how it goes after this trilogy is done."
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I think the point is Valve's current implementation of episodes is a development period equivalent to or more than an expansion pack with arguably less content than an expansion pack.

Suggesting (in my mind) that after EP3 all the other stuff they release will be episodic in nature.

Yeah. I would have rather they stopped after HL2 and at most just finished TF2. Will we ever see a new game release on the order of HL or HL2 from Valve again? My guess is if we do it's at least 5 years away.
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