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Wouldn't a Half-Life 3 mean hopping over to an entirely new narrative with new antagonists, practically a whole new world, etc. like the jump between HL1 and its expansions was to HL2 and its expansions? I feel like that was talked about in one of the interviews with Valve but that was like 15+ years ago so who knows if that's even still the case.

Thinking on it, it really shows why Valve doesn't seem to have any fucking idea what to do with EP3/HL3 and keeps stalling out with any project that starts with it. They can't even fucking figure out EP3 despite having the whole world ready for them there, let alone make a narrative antagonist that's as big of a jump from the Combine as the jump from the US Govt killsquads/Xen to the Combine was.