It’s been fifteen years since we played the latest story title from Half-Life 2. It’s crazy because we talk a lot about a game that dropped the latest release literally fifteen years ago. The speculations about Half-Life 3 never stopped since then, or the episode 3 game. We heard and discussed many things, and one of them was undoubtedly episode 3’s summary published by the former writer. It wasn’t a fan story we see daily; it was possibly a scenario if Valve decided to make episode 3. That event happened in 2017, and the writer claims he regrets posting it. As we hear no new information about the former Half-Life workers daily, here is the writer’s interesting statement about his post.
Some of you might count Half-Life: Alyx as the third game or the third episode. We can’t say that’s false, but it wasn’t the game we had expected for years. But we were happy to play it, and it’s good to know Valve still didn’t lose hope in the franchise.
Former Half-Life 2 Writer Talks About The Episode 3
The writer March Laidlaw was the one who did this. The fans flocked to the site when he posted the canceled game’s “Epistle 3” summary. His blog crashed for a few hours, and people were reading it using the caches stored at Google. It was a big deal, and now Laidlaw says he wishes he never did that. He states that he was in some kind of depression and mentally unstable.
“I was living on an island, totally cut off from my friends and creative community of the last couple of decades, I was completely out of touch and had nobody to talk me out of it. It just seemed like a fun thing to do…until I did it.”
He also says that his post put his friends at Valve into trouble. Reading a possible game summary we had never played was pleasant and sad at the same time. But it seems like it was all trouble for the writer.