I know its an odd question to ask, but where the hell is half life 3!?

From what ive seen little games like portal are just advancement tests
for the upcoming half life in other words their stalling with games while
upgrading source for the new half life

maybe they need to make a new engine first, source is getting too old

you're right. source is old. I have gmod and the graphics are very outdated

I would expect half life 3 to have something like Euphoria and DMM

The best will be, if Half-Life 3 will be on CryEngine 3

As long as i can remember Valve never used third company engines.
I bet it will be a very advanced source engine for Episode 3.
I hate those "Episode" releases anyway... A half life 3 would have been better.

you're right. source is old. I have gmod and the graphics are very outdated
That's because that's an old version of source. If you played Left 4 Dead 2 or seen Portal 2 the graphics are actually quite nice.

you're right. source is old. I have gmod and the graphics are very outdated
That's because that's an old version of source. If you played Left 4 Dead 2 or seen Portal 2 the graphics are actually quite nice.

graphics might be nice but they are not at the level of most games nowadays, source is getting old and i dont think the updates they make will solve the problem, sooner or later they will need a new engine
source lacks stuff like real time illumination and lot of techniques that are now standard in most games, the hammer editor is also a pain in the ass to work it, mainly to compile a map and all the illumination is pre-built into the map, no things like TOD and so on
the only good thing with source is the physics system but i guess valve can do a even greater job with the current technology

you're right. source is old. I have gmod and the graphics are very outdated
That's because that's an old version of source. If you played Left 4 Dead 2 or seen Portal 2 the graphics are actually quite nice.

graphics might be nice but they are not at the level of most games nowadays, source is getting old and i dont think the updates they make will solve the problem, sooner or later they will need a new engine
source lacks stuff like real time illumination and lot of techniques that are now standard in most games, the hammer editor is also a pain in the ass to work it, mainly to compile a map and all the illumination is pre-built into the map, no things like TOD and so on
the only good thing with source is the physics system but i guess valve can do a even greater job with the current technology
Except the good thing about source is that it keeps decent graphics while it can run on pretty much any PC. It's definitely a good game engine. Secondly - Not everything's about graphics. I honestly don't care if the graphics aren't truly amazing, as long as the game's good. People I know just tell me I like Crysis due to the graphics, that's obviously not the case. I still very much enjoy the game. Things like Half-Life 2 still look good enough to me and I still play it, because it's quite an amazing game. Although the source engine is becoming dated, it's still acceptable, and can do some amazing things.
And to this topic, I'm quite sure it'll be Half-Life 2: Episode 3 and not Half-Life 3, and that it'll use the newest Source engine.

TBH hammer is less of a pain then Cryengine editor. Just the placing of objects and importing some of my mesh's gives me a headach o_o

TBH hammer is less of a pain then Cryengine editor. Just the placing of objects and importing some of my mesh's gives me a headach o_o

Source engine is a bit outdated though, cryengine editor can easily achieve stunning visuals. Source, not so much.

my main problem with hammer was compiling the map
it can take more than a day to compile a good and big map just to find out that there is something that is not correctly done and you need to change and compile it again
in CE2 you can play the map just by pressing one key