So they burnt out on it. That's fair. Then the managerial "owner" of the franchise should step back and let someone else run with it. It's a company, with $$$$$

So they burnt out on it. That's fair. Then the managerial "owner" of the franchise should step back and let someone else run with it. It's a company, with $$$$$, not a single team. They could honestly do it right now - but by now it'd have to be a good story. Story is key. Hire someone to get a good story going and then motivate from that. There's a billion things you can do in that universe. I was hoping they were going to reinvigorate HL3 when they got the Portal people on. I don't need more and different engine mechanics, I just want a good story. Give me a level where I'm dual wielding gravity gun and portal gun while floating in a space suit and directing bouncy goop where I need it. Play with scale, let me push a planet through a portal or by opening a big portal on each of two planets let their gravity mean they smash together oh so slowly. Hell, make that the background motivation that means I have to get my shit done fast. But tell a good story please.