Tetris Effect because Tetris is one of the closest things to a perfect game, and this version delivers something extra as another layer in a way that really adds to it, especially in VR.

But perfection does not mean best. Perfect just means executing what it set out to do in a way that is flawless.

Current raytracing solutions? Probably a 3.

A full raytracing or pathtracing pipeline? 5.

People who get excited at Half Life 3 being a VR game are probably the type of people that actually look forward to groundbreaking innovation.

If Boneworks is any measure, a Half Life VR game can be truly revolutionary.

Not only do they have the opportunity to reimagine how physics works in gameplay, but they can reimagine how AI reacts to players, and how 3D audio ties into all of it.

At best, traditional games this generation try to reimagine something like the open world, like BOTW and Red Dead 2. That's as far as they've been able to push. Gameplay is otherwise very much just an evolution of what came before. With VR, the rules change entirely.

There's no such thing as a non-VR PC game that pushes things forwards. You can't do that because the ceiling has already been hit until AI can be redefined, which will happen first in VR and be more apparent in VR as well.

The only place for the Half Life series to move things forward is in VR.

Looks like someone is very clueless. How can it be fading when it's only growing? Tsk tsk. Looks like correct means incorrect for you.

Oh, it will be. We have the leaks.

Gabe said they do not want to do ports. It does very little to move the medium of VR forward. Valve want to be pioneers in this field.

Okay, then wait until HLVR releases this year.

If Valve are no longer game developers, explain the 3 AAA VR games being made as well as the other two games they've recently released.

Oh isn't this exciting! Can't wait for you to be wrong. Gabe has said that the VR games they are making are full length AAA, and the Valve team doesn't even want to make demos anymore; they are literally itching (and have been for years now) to make AAA VR games.