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by GreenPepper
Kind of looking forward to Source 2, but I really don't want to go through the fuss of moving to a new engine. As much as Source can be rough around the edges, I am used to it. As for Half-Life 3, Valve has just become such a different company from what it was during the development of Half-Life and Half-Life 2 and a good number of people have left who had been involved in those projects. I am not saying I wouldn't take a look at Half-Life 3, but I sincerely bet I will be disappointed by it. If you don't have the same people working on a project, styles and the overall feel can change. It is almost impossible for it not to.
I'm really not that impressed by the new and fancy graphics of many new games out there. Most of them are just unoptimized messes and have little to no advancements in A.I. New multiplayer games are a mess.
The real future of games is through independent developers, corporations are just a black hole for talent, innovation and quality - attracts a lot, doesn't let anything out.