2in1 - How do you want Valve to announce Half-Life 3/What is it going to be about?

Too long, didn't read.

most likely it will be about Halo

More speculation on something that's already been over-speculated upon.

I would love Valve to just one day put "Half Life 3 available to buy" message on Steam, without any preorders nor marketing.

suddenly and without warning
obviously it'll start where halfe life 2 ep 2 left off

For all the mentions of Black Mesa within Portal, I really do hope that there is a crossover if either title makes it to 3. I don't know about just bundling together all the source games like that, it'd be like trying to write a storyline for Garry's Mod. Let that sink in for a moment.

I would like HL3 to start witha flashback when gordon was in black mesa, i mean, the whole hl 1 intro, and then the story continues.

[Spoiler avoided, Finish HL2 Ep 2 you lazy... people lol]

It would be funny if they simply released the game one day. without telling anyone beforehand.

HL3 will be a prequel about Gordon Freeman's predoctorate work. Valve will announce this tomorrow with a random HL 2 update.

first.. i would like some easter egg in Black Mesa: Source..

It will be the next in the Sims series only Everyone and Everything is Gabe.N

Well, if HL3 is the last HL (I doubt it) I would like to see a retail collector's edition with some cool items inside :D
A crowbar maybe or a living headcrab :D

They'll release Portal 3, TF3, L4D3, Dota 3 and HL3 in a bundle for free.

Gaben counts to three, Gordon speaks, Universe explodes.

i want them to put a big banner on steam with gman´s face on it before release, each day they put a different face like alyx, and when its released, gordons face with the words "its out".

however as a side note i want them to put more stuff interesting to the game, something like a train scen where you are witha bunch of rebels, and while you travel you shoot combines/zombies.

You like those game ideas, don't you?

I just want the release to be a total surprise, just one day you go to the steam store and Gordon is staring you in the face.

I dont think they'll announce something. I think they'll just release it. And yes, Portal 2 storyline will correlate with HL3.

It's called "hand-held" portal device because the prototype needed to be carried on the back. :)
There's a picture of it in the old-Aperture zone.

I'd like if they released it in the 10th anniversary of Half Life.
Just a brief announcement the week before saying "we have a surprise ready for the next week".

But I doubt they can do that... the servers wouldn't be able to deliver the game to everybody at once.

It should be Linux-exclusive.

Why does everyone want them to release it by just putting it up for sale randomly? I want them to blow up the frickin' moon in the shape of the Half-Life 3 logo... Or Korea (that was a joke, ha ha, fat chance)...

Too simple.

whatever :P i wont buy it even if they explode the moon

How to announce Half life 3? First of all , Gabe should enter stage and piss on EA logo!

I want the Combine portals to be linked to the Aperture portals. So there will be a big portal like in Episode 2, but this time it will actually open and Freeman will go through to a combine civilization, or outpost, or whatever. They need to go BIG no matter what, and that's what I think of when I think BIG :)

Btw, blowing up the moon is a great idea.