What im saying is that its annoying having to pay the same amount of money to get an expansion to the source engine, as it costs to buy a game based on a modern game engine.
And my problems isnt really that the Source-engine looks bad, but its rather all those glitches, like how the engine lights models.. its a common bug that if you get to close to walls, your player model will be lit from the other side of the wall(Making your model darker/brighten then what the actual room is.).. there are other stuff like this thats bothering me with their engine(Like the sucky AI.).
... Oh, and the fact that i get pretty low framerates in HL2, but can run games like MW2 maxed out without any problems what so ever.
Im still playing Quake 3, and i still think its one of the best engines ever, so im not that stuck up on graphics really.
Anyways, still great game.. but i wont buy EP3 before it drops down to ~10$ unless they pull out some real improvement out of there asses.