Gabe Newell says Half-Life 2: Episode 3 didn’t happen becaemploy he was ‘stumped’

You can’t get sluggish and say, “oh, we’re moving the story forward.” That’s copping out of your obligatiion to gamers, right? Yes, of course they adore the story. They adore many, many aspects of it. But sort of saying that your reason to do it is becaemploy people want to comprehend what happens next… you comprehend, we could’ve shipped it, appreciate, it wouldn’t have been that challenging. You comprehend, the flunkure was — my personal flunkure was being stumped. Like, I couldn’t figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anyskinnyg forward.