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Valve teases 'Something with a Three'

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Of course it's HL2:EP3
 

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It'll probably be Ep3/HL3, what with the T-shirts and all, but I'd rather it was L4D3 just to see the internet's reaction...
 

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I'd rather it was L4D3 just to see the internet's reaction...

Id dress up as the punisher, go out into the city where there are noobs queuing up for midnight release and start dishing out an ass kicking.

I know where i can get some body armour from but it would make me look more like blade if i wore it. hmm.....
 
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To all of you:
Please, do try to control your boners.

It's Ep.3, me thinks.
 

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If its HL3 they can have my pre order right now.
 
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I'd actually like another L4D. But, not L4D2 in style. The series lost it's way after the first game. They need to return to the roots. The special infected added are fine, but the concept of no safe zone to survive horde waves...blech. I played L4D hours and hours in COOP till finally mastering Expert in every level. It wasn't easy then but possible if you put the time into it.

L4D2, haven't beaten one level on Expert. Not that I haven't put the time into it. The design concept is just opposed to what it takes to survive Expert. Flanking enemies, level design preventing ways to outlast hordes, and then unlimited spawning horde zones. Take that with players who don't want to put in the time to beat it, just a recipe for fail.

It'll likely be HL3. For too long that has been a joke. Valve has to make it right.
 
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Wow. it is unfortrunate that I cannot unread what I have read.
 

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Wow. I'm glad I have the memory capacity of a geriatric gnat, and as I write this have already forgotten what was at that link.
 
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3 Musketeers?
 

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You all will be so mad when valve announce that they are simply hosting Crysis 3 on their servers!:p
 
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Y'all gonna be pissed when Gabe announces that Battlefield 3 is coming to Steam?
 

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Wow. it is unfortrunate that I cannot unread what I have read.

Wow. I'm glad I have the memory capacity of a geriatric gnat, and as I write this have already forgotten what was at that link.

Now do you see why I cropped out the rest of that image?
 
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I haven't lost faith on you yet Gordon Freeman...

Valve, don't let us down.



*btw, have you guys seen the new CS:S 2? if that is what the new source engine is gonna look like for HL3 then I will be mildly disappointed.lol.
 
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If Valve knows what's good for them, then they will announce HL3. Please don't pull a DNF on us Valve, I can forgive the belated 3drealms, but not you....you are far too refined for my taste. Yet, I still sip you like a fine wine....ok, I really need to get laid.
 
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Three...thousand truckloads of sandwiches for Gaben. :D

I can't see a TF3 coming out anytime soon since the game is regularly updated. CS:GO and Dota 2 might be out soon, though.
 
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It could be all of them
 

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HL:EP3/HL3 or GTFO
 
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Half Life 3?

YES!!! Exactly what is going to be at E3 I seen this on Spike during the VGA Awards :) Also the rumor was that it will have the last Half Life 2 EP3 on the Game DvD:)
 
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