Yeah, I'm still waiting for Half-Life 3 to have an actual release... but, in the same way I wait for a certain anime to be dubbed and released on DVD/Blu-Ray or waiting for a certain series to finally get an HD collection...
I've never reach the verge of "never being able to sleep at night until X comes out" status or "X will never happen/ X will never exist" status, since my patience seems to be as thick as standard movie history lore... I usually stay in the neutral sense of possibility when it comes to this type of waiting...
Will Half-Life 3 really be worth the wait? I don't know... (I can't just base it on the Duck Nukem situation or even on Starcraft 2, since I never actually played those games as well as their comparisons, especially in their overall histories, would just seem like comparing an orange-tasting apple to an apple-flavored orange...) All I know is that I will be playing it when it does come out, then replaying the previous games, and finally replaying Half-Life 3...
In the meantime, I'm going to re-marathon the "Freeman's Mind" series... again...
Captcha: face the music
*faces the Half-Life soundtrack* You're point, captcha?