Waiting for "Half-Life" can take your whole life

Gordon Freeman (the main character in in the Half-Life series)
finding a portal device.

In 1998, a revolutionary game was released by Valve titled Half-Life. That game set the standards for incredible games with the graphics, story, weapons, and realism (disregarding the fact that the main enemies are aliens). Because of all of the rave reviews, many people were waiting for another game to add to the series. And those people waited for six years. Half-Life 2 was then released in 2004, once again exciting the large crowd of fans. The Half-Life series then received many awards such as "game of the year" and "best PC game", which are very deserving titles, according to many. Even after sequel, more games continued to be released for the Half-life series, including Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal 2. The latest game released was Portal 2, being released in 2011. It took Valve thirteen years (from 1998-2011) to release all of the games so far. Thirteen years is a long time to wait to play all of the games, and the final game has not been released yet. Some might wonder if over a decade is really worth the wait. Personally, I think it is because all of the games are very high quality. But, then again, I would consider myself lucky, I didn't have to wait all those years to play; I started playing them in 2010.