-=- I Hate Steam -=-

I think steam is quite good acturly, it prevents all those lame kids that dont want to buy the games and only download them from getting things that we have to pay for

It also gives alot more money to the Valve instead of the publishers. This means Valve has more money to spend on Half Life 3. Which is a really good thing (they know how to use thier money).

Which comes out in the next three years, I'm betting.

The Source engine allows Valve to input newer technology. This means Vavle doesn't have to spend so much money and time to program a new engine from scratch. I give them 4 year because Vavle will probably remake the game 4 times over.

I'd prefer they make a new engine for the next halflife heh. But ultimately I'd like them to do new sound algorithms.. original half life raised the bar on sound.. half life 2 didnt bother much with sound improvements.. I hope half life 3 will bring about the need for a seperate sound lab to recreate true 3d audio

I prefer that too but its unreasonable to think that they programmed for years and think they wont use it for another game. I read an article in which somebody from Valve said that they produced the engine so they can just insert a new brand of technology like that. So, it would be still the same engine but supercharged.
I enjoy the sound but i do agree that alot of it was a rehash from the original.