>>724809793
not really a good comparison. Hollow Knight came out in 2017, yeah it took 8 years but plenty of people still played hollow knight for the first time in those 8 years and were interested in another game like that.
There's been just half life Alyx in the last 18 years since episode 2 came out and it wasn't that successful since it was a VR only game and hardly anyone actually has VR. I doubt more than a couple hundred thousand people actually played that game total, if even that.
Half Life has no hype, no one is going to care except people like me and even I don't really care all that much anymore.
Look at Metroid Prime 4, another game we have waited on for decades and honestly, I couldn't even care that much to be hyped for it and might not even get it at all.