I'd probably agree with that.

No doubt HL3 has been redesigned a dozen times like TF2.

Afterall they have a whole new design philosophy to cram into it.

http://kotaku.com/5795355/valve-probably-done-with-single+player-games

The Halflife series is essentially where valve "was" and not where valve wants to be seeing single player games like it as the past... because in the new digital world you don't provide games as products... but games as services.

Who is going to buy hat's for Godron Freeman if nobody can see them?

EDITL Oh, and in no way am I slamming Valve with that comment, though that's exactly how such a comment slamming valve would go.  I actually think they're correct in their new design philosphy.

While I agree with you that it's not a bad decision to go into a new direction with their products and adapting to this new time, It would be a incredible shame if they changed Half Life at the core though, I think people could be incredible pissed off if they change Half Life to much.

They need to end the story line, and they need to do it like Half Life has always been, which is what the fans love about the series.

The one change I will accept though is co-op, if they put some incredible effort into it, this could be fantastic.

I imagine that's what is taking so long.

Trying to keep it true to the core but also fufilling future design philosphy.

Just plain co-op really doesn't help the "gaming as a service" model.

Nope, but co-op would be badass It would go a bit far if we had to purchase extra items etc to have co-op I feel, there are several games I own where I feel the publisher is trying to deliver a half baked experience for your money and getting you to pay extra to have the full experience.

Even though it should be like:

Buy the game == Full experience

Purchasing extras == Adding on to that full experience

Just my two cents though.