[citation][nom]False_Dmitry_II[/nom]While I will agree that about a year is really on the short side for another game and makes me wonder what it will be like. (maybe half of it will be released after like with DA: O)But those two lengths are nearly Duke Nukem Forever in comparison. At least in Duke's case they were doing something with it for that long, (even if none of it comes/came to fruition) I doubt if either of those two games were actually in development that long. Especially starcraft.That's like saying the time between Half-life Ep2 and EP3/HL3 will make it super awesome. Too bad they were too busy making the L4D games and a bunch of DLC's for them, and also Portal 2.Or any other game that spends years and years in development and yet is like 5 hours long.[/citation]
Valve has multiple development teams, they call them cabals. L4D didn't affect Half-Life, at least not directly. Obviously it advanced the technology, which might have delayed Ep3, but I'm sure Ep3 will be a better game because of it.