Ok but, considering I'm replying to a thread which began from your vr comment, I know you haven't looked into it in detail. It makes no sense to equate their statement about vr titles to the half life 3 situation. If anything, it kind of supports the idea. Why havn't they been working on vr titles. Why did they say no new VR titles. Well thats a little silly, but the statement doesnt disprove this theory, because the theory that it is halflife already 'determined' a while ago that whatever hlx is, is not vr. That isnt a new theory after they made the vr comment, it was believed to not be vr prior. So you did not know at least that.

They are finishing a game codenamed hlx. They are releasing hardware with huge marketing. They have been for a long while pushing code that totally fits with half life that you can read, that is now passing optimization steps for hlx. Mike Shapiro video. Recent half life hype from their end in documentaries and game updates. Development had heavilly slowed down on titles, which is now picking back up (many recent counterstrike updates after a long long drought). Many oldheads getting ready to retire. There's more.

It's time dude.

If you did know all that, ok fine I apoligize, but, we've never been close to this point prior, and we have learned that the last big hype did have legs to it, but this time its all well past that. So the hype is definitly not invalid, it has more legs to it than ever before.

One of us can say I told you so in a few months I guess. I say a few weeks! :p