{"id":1580956,"date":"2026-05-17T03:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiSCaapVTxYdSEnfAY268j"},"modified":"2026-05-17T03:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:11:34","slug":"former-valve-writer-chet-faliszek-has-no-interest-in-writing-half-life-3-i-dont-want-to-touch-that-with-a-10-foot-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/former-valve-writer-chet-faliszek-has-no-interest-in-writing-half-life-3-i-dont-want-to-touch-that-with-a-10-foot-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to touch that with a 10-foot pole&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sFcri936k-w\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chet Faliszek opens the above video by explaining, &#8220;This is not saying that something&#8217;s happening, not trying to allude to anything. I&#8217;m going to talk about some stuff from like 10-plus years ago. I&#8217;m not trying to say <em>anything<\/em>. OK?&#8221; Because if you were a writer on Half-Life 2&#8217;s episodes (as well as the Left 4 Dead games, the Portal games, other Valve projects, etc.) the internet will interpret anything you say as a confirmation that Half-Life 3 is in the works and will be announced at whatever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/events-conferences\/the-pc-gaming-show-returns-with-both-new-and-familiar-faces-to-host-our-summer-look-at-some-of-the-coolest-upcoming-games\/\">unassuming videogame showcase is on the horizon<\/a>, no matter how unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Faliszek is carefully and specifically replying to a comment claiming it would be &#8220;incredibly easy&#8221; for Valve to make Half-Life 3: &#8220;The plot could go anywhere.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s the thing,&#8221; Faliszek says. &#8220;For some people it could, but for others\u2026&#8221; As Faliszek pointed out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/QfsnCQ_R26Q\">another video<\/a>, there&#8217;s a modern fannish obsession with deep lore that he doesn&#8217;t share. He&#8217;s more of a character writer, interested in how people react to things in the moment rather than the things they&#8217;re reacting to. And he quite fairly doesn&#8217;t want to have to deal with people who care deeply about the sacred texts complaining about trivia. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When people ask me, &#8216;Oh man, don&#8217;t you wish you could?&#8217; No! No, I almost never want to touch something that already has some kind of lore, or some kind of back history about it, not even like Left 4 Dead or anything. I don&#8217;t want to touch anything old. I don&#8217;t have to have people who remember stuff better than I do yelling at me about changing some history of lore from 50 years ago at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Faliszek mentions that at one point he spoke to Bungie about working with them, &#8220;But all their games have this, they have so much lore, they have <em>so much<\/em> lore, and I&#8217;m like, that lore terrifies me. I have no idea, I don&#8217;t know that much lore about my own life let alone your game&#8217;s. I don&#8217;t want to have to write inside of that. Any sequel to me is just a disaster nightmare that I never want to do. So I&#8217;m not going to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In case calling the thought of sequels a nightmare wasn&#8217;t enough, he finishes by reiterating his disinterest in returning to Half-Life. &#8220;No, &#8221; he says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to touch that with a 10-foot pole. Or even a grav gun separating me from that 10-foot pole. A grav gun to a 10-foot pole, I wouldn&#8217;t do it. 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I&#8217;m going to talk about some stuff from like 10-plus years ago. I&#8217;m not trying to say anything. OK?&#8221; Because if you were a writer on Half-Life 2&#8217;s episodes (as well as the Left 4 Dead games, the Portal games, other Valve projects, etc.) the internet will interpret anything you say as a confirmation that Half-Life 3 is in the works and will be announced at whatever unassuming videogame showcase is on the horizon, no matter how unlikely. Faliszek is carefully and specifically replying to a comment claiming it would be &#8220;incredibly easy&#8221; for Valve to make Half-Life 3: &#8220;The plot could go anywhere.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/former-valve-writer-chet-faliszek-has-no-interest-in-writing-half-life-3-i-dont-want-to-touch-that-with-a-10-foot-pole\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1580957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1580956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: &#039;I don&#039;t want to touch that with a 10-foot pole&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chet Faliszek opens the above video by explaining, &quot;This is not saying that something&#039;s happening, not trying to allude to anything. 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