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I nearly cried of joy when I heard they would do an open world Skyrim like Half Life 3. I would have paid $500 on Kickstarter for that.

Better engine? Nice, but the HL2 engine would be good enough for me. HL is about atmosphere and story, not GFX - for me.

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I don't know if they will be able to replicate the sense of danger that was present in Skyrim with another game engine. In Skyrim, when you would open a door to a new place, there was a real fear: is this going to crash my game? My whole computer?

FYI, Fallout 3, New Vegas and Skyrim have mods that will save every 5 minutes, and this helps with the crash on autosave problem. At the very least you'll never lose hours of playing.

The mods use a rotating save system so you end up with 5 minute intervals of the last 3 hours of gameplay.

Checking the size of your save games get let you know if you're going to hit the problem. At some point your saves jump to 5MB then to 10MB and soon you'll start hitting the crashing on autosave bug.

Other games have physics and life like face animations because of the standard source set.

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