
I just feel those more personally about Half-Life for a bunch of reasons… And Xen.” Anything in a game is a sacrifice of things not in the game. He also referred to Xen, the ‘borderworld’ that was seen originally in Half-Life and then its expansion packs, “If you are involved in a game, everything ends up being a set of trade-offs. It's simply easier for me to be a fan of things that in which I was less directive.” There's no information in my response about what we'll do in the future. “The issue with Half-Life for me is that I was involved in a much higher percentage of the decisions about the games, so it's hard for me to look at them as anything other than a series of things I regret. Redditors were understandably shocked, however, Newell clarified his stance - saying that perhaps he was too close to the development of Half-Life to see it as anything other than a string of regrets. Instead, he said he thinks Portal 2 is the company’s best single-player game, and that he plays Dota 2 the most of the company’s multiplayer games. Most of the Internet, or at least hardcore PC gamers born in the 20th century, would have expected Newell to say Half-Life. Perhaps the most talked about answer provided by GabeN, as he is often nicknamed, was about his personal favourite Valve game/ series.


Amongst several answers about the future of Valve, improvements to Steam, quality control, the future of gaming, and his favourite non-Valve game (Plants vs Zombies), Newell dropped several bombshells about the company’s most beloved franchise - Half-Life. Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve, held an AMA on Tuesday.
