How do you most want HL3 to be announced?

They shouldn't announce it all. Just one day BAM it's there on Steam. And people will freak out. And servers will collapse.

no

Stop this HL3 madness already!

Oh there is a prize?.... hmmm... Unboxing HL3 announcment in TF2

I want our Lord and Savior Gaben to come down from the sky and spread the Light of Half Life 3 in all the world.

noob question : whats Gabe , Gaben?

I want it to show up as a weekend deal with absolutely no announcements.

I want Gaben to enter my dreams and tell me "Yo, HL3 is coming!"

I want it free

I don't want HL3.

HL 3 free for a day after it released.

Super Bowl XLVIII

Read a similar idea somewhere. I'd love for them to make a conference where they announce a game. Everyone's sitting on the edge of their seats. The huge screen lights up. RICOCHET 2! They show gameplay footage, then suddenly the screen goes a bit staticky and freezes. Gman walks into frame. "Mr. Freeman... Your time has passed. I'm afraid your services are no longer necessary. As of now our... agreement... is terminated. Unexpected consequences have happened." power outage

The next deal after the summer sale should be Half-Life 1/2 with 85% discount + a giant background picture with just the number 3 (like the Company of Heroes 2 background picture).

Talking about HL3 is like talking about ghosts.

Gabe walks out on stage, raises both hands, says "It's here!"; girly screams, slowly puts down hands, lights go out; some spotlight lights; HE walks away as the most epic trailer starts, you ever seen in your whole life.

I want to come into work to a Matrix style IRC chat with Gabe telling me it's a dream, at which point I wake up with Gabe in bed next to me so I scream, at which point I wake up and log onto SteamGifts to find 20 forum threads about HL3 being released, at which point I wake up and realize I don't really exist so I don't wake up.

Gabe walks on stage dressed like Gordon with a dog on his leash, telling the world "We have dogs too!"

i want to be presented fair, not only marketing and comercials, to have new gameplay not just shoot cover shoot, to be a revolutionary game.

Do you work at Valve?

I want Gaben to announce it as a brand new IP. They will brand the shit out of this small puzzler, looking like an indie-game. Then, the last trailer for this small game is with Gaben slowly turning around, having a beard shaped as a 3. He points at his beard and says: "This will be included with [Random name of inde-looking game]"

I just want it.

I think they should schedule a unannounced game trailer to E3 and present some new stupid game and when the trailer ends the whole big screen should be full of number three's while Gabe walks away like a boss.

Who cares about HL3? We want Fortix 3. And bad rats 2.

I want to open Steam and find it there, ready to be purchased and downloaded.

Your idea is great, it would be pretty fun.