give me a tl;dr

Its a dead series now

It's dead, jim

>>388180879
It's over, give up already.

>>388180879
some guy released his fanfiction

From 8/v/

It's another cliffhanger.

http://archive.is/8aDmx

>Everyone is devastated by old black man's death

>Alyx sucks it up and insists we go on with his plan

>Resistance travel in force to Antartica, Gordon and Alyx get separated from them

>Find Combine base, overseen by Dr Breen

>Breen is now a slug overseer, a backup of his brain taken before his death was implanted in it. He doesn't know how he died and eventually he decides he hates his life and asks Alyx and Gordon to kill him

>Alyx says to leave him to suffer, Gordon may or may not choose to end him

>They rescue female doctor played by Ensign Ro, tension as they sort out whether she was a double or triple agent. Gordon decides to trust her.

>The 3 of them board the Aurora or Borealis or whatever it was called. The ship is bouncing around in time and space, yo-yo-ing between it's launch and arriving in Antartica. On the way it makes brief stops at alien places.

>Big fight outside between Combine and Reistance, the 3 heroes fight their way through the ship, see weird shit and learn the ship's origins.

>Ultimately they have to decide whether to ground it in Antartica (Dr Ro wants this) or to turn it into some kind of quantum missile and fire it at the Combine (Alyx wants this).

>The stand off is resolved when Alyx kills Dr Ro.

>Before the ship can crash into the combine HQ, the G-Man turns up and takes Alyx away with him, but leaves Gordon to die.

>The Vortigaunts instead turn up and save Gordon.

>The ship hits the Combine base but does less damage than they thought (they seemed to think it would wipe the Combine from existence or some shit)

>Gordon is deposited to a familiar place many, many years after he was last there, with a new resistance and science team, so far in the future that everyone he knew previously is dead.

Really makes you think.

>>388180997
>Alex reunites her dead dead with her mudshark stepmom
Justice

>>388180879
Thank fucking god everyone will stop hoping for it

>>388180997
not that bad/10

would play

>>388180997
Wait wait so what was the link between this and portal 2? Was the Borealis ship the same one?

>>388180879
it's a boring tech demo with an unremarkable story

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>>388180879
>>388180879
Thread theme

http://icecreamgabe.ytmnd.com/

Autists might finally stop complaining.
Who am I kidding, Artifact threads will be full of them.

>>388180997

>The ship hits the Combine base but does less damage than they thought (they seemed to think it would wipe the Combine from existence or some shit)

Not only that, but the big picture is that we would never ever beat the Combine, they have a universal empire spanning trillions upon trillions of stars and planets.

It's one of the last things Gordon sees before being snatched away

>>388180997
Yeah, this was the perfect set up for an amazing HL3 game
Fuck you valve, fuck you so much

retards overreacting over a decent series

>>388180879

Rekt

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>>388180879
You'd have run around a snowy wasteland and linear corridors for a few hours with long MGS-tier pacing killer forced cutscenes between the "action" of shooting the same three different types of Combine soldiers you have for the previous three games until you reached the ultimately unsatisfactory and pointless cliffhanger ending. Also you still don't really learn shit about the G-Man.

>>388181503
>they have a universal empire spanning trillions upon trillions of stars and planets.
That wasn't in the actual script at all. All it said was that the nexus was a lot of much greater size than the ship.

The combine are pretty shitty, their soldiers suck and despite defeating Earth (it probably fell because of traitors like Breen), they had a very tenuous hold on their colony despite the technology gap.

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>>388181672
>Also you still don't really learn shit about the G-Man
Good. People who want him explained are the same type of people who look up what masked musicians look under their masks the moment they hear them for the first time, boring unimaginative assholes.

>>388181487
>implying there will be any artifact threads

>>388181712
They have a Dyson sphere. The sheer scope of that says a lot about the size and technological strength of their empire.

>>388181712

>much greater size than the ship

An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere.

Again, trillions of planets and stars. They wouldn't even register the explosion of the Borealis.

>he vastness of the Combine’s power, the futility of our struggle, blossomed briefly in my awareness. I saw everything. Mainly I saw how the Borealis, our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart.

>>388182053
>They have a Dyson sphere.
Explain this for someone who is shitty at astrophysics.

>>388181416
This.

>>388182053
>>388182078
A Dyson Sphere goes around a star and they come in a variety of stars.

I don't really care either way, but that page doesn't have
>Again, trillions of planets and stars. They wouldn't even register the explosion of the Borealis.

>>388182232
Hypothetical structure that would surround a a star and absorb it's energy

>>388181712
>>388181503
seems like the combine are a type 1 civilization. all that is known is there is at least 1 dyson sphere.

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>>388180997
>its actually good
fucking valve goddamit

>>388182232
They built a very big cage of solar panels around the sun to generate an absurd amount of energy. If their sun is the size of ours, that's a structure 100x the size of earth.

>>388181885
>Also you still don't really learn shit about the G-Man.
This.
It would have been just like what Bioware did with the Reapers. Over-explaining and over-intellectualizing things will kill any sense of wonder or mystery, reducing a character or concept down a tropes and cliches.

>>388180879
this is the best thing that I have seen all day, I can't wait for valve to finally fuck off and die

>>388180997
This sounds so shitty, like any cinematic Sony shooter game.

>>388181269
Yes, the borealis travels through time. It's kind of implied that gordon would have something to do with chell after he gets thrown into the future.

I never played HL is it really that good of a series?

>>388180928
>>388180932
It was dead 10 years ago, this changes nothing. HL3 was never going to be made anyway.

>>388182767
HL1 was a good shooter for its time, HL2 is extremely overrated(Muh physics!)

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>>388180879

>>388181269
the borealis was constructed by the same people who built the portal gun. the portal gun allowed you to connect one physical space to a completely separate physical space. the borealis allowed you to teleport anywhere in time and space unconstrained by physical space. according to the story, when the combine invasion began the scientists aboard the borealis activated it to avoid the combine obtaining their technology. it was activated without being finished which is why it's bouncing in and out of existence.

>>388182767
It's pretty good, but in terms of game quality relative to the time the games came out, it was one of the best. It did amazing things with the engines to supplement the gameplay that were unheard of at the time. Story is told in an interesting way, no cutscenes.

>>388180997
Sounds mediocre and unsatisfying as fuck. Woopee, some shooting and fucking around in Antartica, with no revelation on what the Gman really is, and ANOTHER Cliffhanger for Half Life 4 in 10,000 AD.

Yeah gg no re.

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Wasn't the last scene of Portal 2 supposed to also take place on the Earth after the Combine had been driven off and the world restored? How does Gordon end up centuries in the future with the Combine still not defeated and the Earth not utterly depleted of oceans/life/breathable air? Gabe is a hack.

>>388182313
What part of "our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart" dont you understand?

At that time the borealis was pretty much a temporal super nuke going as sanic fast as the universe allows and it wont even scratch them

>give a big fuck you to the Combine forces on earth by allah akbaring the Borealis into their earth HQ
>Gordon sees visions that the Combine is fuckhuge and we're fucked anyways
>the fight goes on....
It's shit

>>388182232
it's a massive hollow sphere built around a star that essentially turns the star into a giant power plant generating absolutely insane amount of electricity

>>388183418
yes

>>388180997
Mossman
Her name was Judith Mossman

>It is another cliff hanger
I guess he didnt write the continuation because he was waiting what he already written to happen, which never did.
Its overall unsatisfactory, but i guess thats what people wanted from him: "the story of epi3".

G-man also cucks Gordon by taking away Alyx and grinning at him to please her G-spot

>>388182581
Die acfag

My Clash royale clan is triiibe #RUJ2GG I need people who are active

>>388183647

Doesn't really seem like a cliff hanger at all. Seems more like the whole point of the ending is that Gordon is going to be stuck in an endless, hopeless loop forever.

>>388182510
We don't need his fucking life story, his blood type and John Hancock, just an idea of what exactly his motivations were and who he was serving would be nice.

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tl;dr
In 2010 Gabe was the most loved, respected, admired, and looked up to man in the video game industry. Valve was everyone's favorite publisher and one of most peoples' top 5 favorite developers too. Valve had hundreds of developers so they consistently put out a new high quality title every single year, and even shit that seemed rushed, like L4D2 and Portal 2, was still very high quality and considered to be great (even if nowhere near GOTY material) by most people that played them.
Then they added crates to the game. At first, hats were f2p cosmetics and everyone loved when new hats got added to TF2 because it was usually just a fun little bonus aesthetic item to throw on a character. Then in the second half of 2010, Valve decided to use it to make money via supply crates. The result was a massive success, beyond their expectations.
At the very same time, Steam was getting bigger and bigger. PC gaming was beginning to thrive once again for the first time since the early 2000s / late 90s, and Valve essentially had the monopoly on distribution services / social services because they were the only ones that put any effort into it. Suddenly, steam itself and the cuts they made from games were making more than any game release of theirs.
Then CSGO struck gold.
Then the steammarketplace was added, and Valve could rake in money off of people TRADING using their platform.
Then Dota 2 officially launched, and again, struck gold.

Suddenly Valve was making tens if not hundreds of millions a year literally just sitting on 3 games and their distribution platform. So for them, it's a waste of money to do anything else. Except add a card game, because there's room for that to make a shit ton too.

Valve got really lucky by hitting 2 blue ocean markets (Steam / TF2) and 2 franchises people are overly attached to (CS / Dota). So now they're fucking lazy and won't even just bury their SP franchise by finishing ONE game, giving it to modders, or selling the IP.

>>388183367
It's a fucking time-traveling boat, compared to a star.

What the fuck are you even talking about? Take it to fanfic.net instead of claiming shit that wasn't even in the document.

>>388183627
Well, she's dead now.
She finally paid the toll.

>>388184383
Too fucking true anon..

>>388184383
>In 2010 Gabe was the most loved, respected, admired, and looked up to man in the video game industry. Valve was everyone's favorite publisher and one of most peoples' top 5 favorite developers too
No it was not, they was getting hate from the start because of their DRM bullshit

>>388184383
Well there was that one game with shephard, made by some other guy, not too long ago, so there is hope yet

>>388185074
I suppose I jumped the gun by specifically saying everyone, but the majority loved Valve and overlooked the drm because of everything else.

>>388181503
NEVER EVER

What happened?What is with everyone posting HL3 threads?

>>388180997
How long until we get a fan made Episode 3 based on this? 5 years? 10?

>>388180879
tl:dr:

saved a game from being as mediocre as Duke Nukem Forever

>>388184383
Very good summary.

>>388185759
well if they doubled down and made episode 3 into hl3, changed the story a bit and gave us the final conclusion to the franchise, I could see it being a commercial success

>>388180997
Don't like how Alyx takes the dark turn, that'd be way too out of character than what's been established for her.

>>388181424
>That fucking jam.

Jesus Christ, nostalgia out of fucking nowhere.

>>388181416
just like HL2 was

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>>388184751
The toll troll?

>>388185891
true, but it's VERY rare for it to accomplish

>>388185106
You mean Opposing Force? Because I'd rather have the franchise just die than let Randy Bobandy shit it up.

>>388186590
no, the recent one. forgot what it was, I do remember that it wasn't recieved well, but point is that valve is still letting other people work on the franchise. the epsiode 3 that was might be dead in the water, but it's silly to assume valve would just let their most loved franchise go

>>388186897
Gabe said on Reddit that they were planning to do more vidya in the Half Life universe eventually. We won't get HL3 at this point, but we'll probably get a spinoff like Portal.

>>388186949
now that this draft is officially out, we definitely won't get that ending to the story, but I'm sure gordon will come back with hl3 at some point

Wait a fucking second, i knew that the borealis from Portal 2 its the same on half life 2, i mean if you played portal you knew that Jhonson hated fucking black mesa because they were stealign a lot of their tecnology, but i trying to say that weathly and the other stupid AI spheres are on the same universe of freeman, the labs too, there is still hope, FUCKING GLADOS IS STILL WORKING THEN

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>>388184383
>tfw most of the creative people at Valve left the company over the years, because there's nothing for them to do.

>>388187540
What the fuck are you trying to say? Of course Glados is alive.

>>388180879
HALF LIFE 3 NEVER EVER, basically.

>>388188146
i have shitty English sorry,yes its alive, but that means that all the other technology from aperture is still there too, the portal gun is still there too, gordon with the other scientists group can go there to gather data about the weapon that was on the borealis, maybe a schematic for example, technically they still have a opportunity to kick the combine
if they recreate the "super weapon" maybe Gordon can travel on time and stop shit from happening since the HL1

There's going to be another Valve game if/when they decide their VR gear isn't selling fast enough. HL3D will just be a tech demo like Lost Coast, but that won't stop the hype.

They find the Borealis.

Instead of using its tech to help them, Alex decides to use it to blow up the combine as a suicide bomb.

The G-Man takes her away to fight elsewhere. The weird aliens take Gordon.

Gordon gets a brief glimpse of just how powerful the Combine is and how impossible it will be to defeat them.

Borealis doesn't do shit

Gordon is in the future to fight again.

>>388188612
>Gordon is in the future to fight again.

he literally gives up and says its out of his hands.

>>388188706
>implying Gordon would open his mouth even for that.

>>388182232
A sphere surrounding a sun entirely, harnessing all of the energy of that solar system.

Impossibly powerful structure that well outclasses anything humans can even think of.

>>388181424
>that "hello"

fucking WHY

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Everyone seems to forget that the last paragraph is Laidlaw talking about Valve itself.

>And here we are. I spoke of my return to this shore. It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the terrain has changed. Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I spoke, or what precisely we hoped to accomplish. At this point, the resistance will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me. Old friends have been silenced, or fallen by the wayside. I no longer know or recognize most members of the research team, though I believe the spirit of rebellion still persists. I expect you know better than I the appropriate course of action, and I leave you to it. Except no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final epistle.

>>388180879
>Gordon is deposited to a familiar place many many years after he was last there

WHERE?

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>>388180879
>being such a big faggot you cannot read a few pages.

Could G-man be god?

>>388188768
>outclasses anything humans can even think of.
That's kinda insulting to say. We imagined shit like Matrioshka Brains, Shkadov Thruster and Bubbleworlds.

>>388188768
>anything humans can even think of
but it's literally the product of human imagination

>>388185914
G-Man influence, rather like when he made her deliver a message to Eli Vance.

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>people thinking this is real

>>388180997
>The ship hits the Combine base but does less damage than they thought

We didn't know how powerful Combine really are, but now we know they have a fucking Dyson sphere. You literally can't go up from there, they're basically gods, earth rebellion only succeeded because they didn't care about it, they sent some shitty lowest level mooks (the advisors) to maybe take it over. The point is we can't beat the Combine, ever.

>>388189013
Black mesa.

>>388180879
The episode of Tugs with the ghostship

>>388180879
It all returns to nothing.
It all comes tumbling down.

>>388189293
What do you mean by "real"?

It was written by the lead writer for HAlf-Life who no longer works at Valve, and Valve will probably never touch Half-Life again.

>>388189498
can't be BM, it got nuked. Probably the only part of Opposing Force considered cannon.

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>>388189503
>somebody actually fucking knowing TUGs exists
Is this for fucking real?

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>people expecting hl3 to come wasn't a meme
>there were actually real life individuals who believed it's gonna happen

>>388180997
8gag is gay, and so is this.

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>>388180997
IT SHOULDN'T SOUND SO GOOD. WHY VALVE, WHY? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>388181885
There's the theory that Gman is a Nihilanth.

>>388185914
Her parents are DEAAAAAAAAAD

>>388189153
>Bubbleworlds
I can't find that one, what is it?

so half life officially has no life?

>>388180997
eh

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>hack the Dyson sphere into autodestruction, causing a supernova and wiping out the core of the Combine empire and their source of energy, making the rest starve to death.

Why do you say it's impossible to beat them? It's easy as fuck. The Dyson sphere is their weak point, a super massive, obvious, red button of "I win" for Gordon.

>>388189607
>>388194007
the lead writer can still go off and write his own shit. it's the fans that put the half life names in.

>>388193958
Do you realize just how fucking big a Dyson sphere is?

>>388194173
In the end it's just a network of individual nodes around the star.

Hack one node, the virus propagates to the rest in mere hours.

>>388194260
See >>388194118

We as humans can't really visualize how fucking big a Dyson sphere would be. It's big in the cosmic sense my dude.

>>388194487
This. Same as the fourth spatial dimension, for you it's just numbers, you can think about it, but your brain literally cannot visualize it.

>>388183060
This plot summary is Episode 3, you dickwad. It would've been the lead up for HL3

>>388194487
Yeah ok, for this story's sake, doesn't matter.

If it's the Swarm-variant (the only plausible one) it's just a bunch of satellites in a network.

My point is it's not "impossible" to destroy, even if it's the size of half the solar system, as long as it is a hackable network.

>>388180997
Why did he use fake names?

>>388194591
>>388194260
>>388194487
>>388194173
>>388193958

You are missing the point. The story says this is just... one of many.

> Alyx grew convinced we were seeing one of the Combine’s central staging areas

Even if they could destroy it, they have other staging areas, other Dyson spheres. Humanity cannot win.

>>388194801
You are just speculating now, the script only mentions one (1) dyson sphere.

>>388194885
It's a fucking staging area, it's not even their homeworld. Even if it's the only Dyson sphere they can just build another one.

>>388194746
So they don't sue him.

DUDE

DUDE HAHA I'M SO INVESTED ABOUT THE FACT NEXT INSTALLMENT OF A DEAD SERIES NOT COMING OUT DESPITE THIS BEING CLEAR 7 YEARS AGO LMAO

US GAMERS AM I RIGHT? THANK YOU FOR THE REDDIT GOLD KIND STRANGER

>>388180997
someone make a gif of this.

>>388194990
>Contrarianism

>>388194926
Doubtful, if you destroy their main source of energy you would pretty much cause their extinction right at that moment.

I'm mad that it doesn't end with them harnessing and improving the teleportation technology to simultaneously nuke, hack, take control of, and destroy every bit of the combine empire. hell, all you have to do is teleport Gordon onto the combine homeworld with his armor and a crowbar and he would find a way to fuck it up so bad it explodes.

>Race has fucking dyson spheres
>Can't make portals

>>388195273
>main
you are just speculating now blah blah

>>388182232
The guy that came up with this concept was Freeman Dyson, which is who Gordon Freeman is named after.

>>388195373
If a fucking Dyson sphere is not the main source of energy of a civilization I don't know what could be.

BUT TIME MAKES YOU BOLDER
EVEN CHILDREN GET OLDER
AND I'M GETTING OLDER TOO

so there was literally nothing special about gordon to the gman besides being a competent killer that he could manipulate to protect alyx

that's kind of a downer huh. at least the vortigaunts respected him for liberating them.

>>388180879
Half-life fans are the Julian Lennon to Valve's John Lennon, while their new demographic is Sean Lennon. Treated poorly and ignored, while the new son is showered with love. Meanwhile the father is showered with praise over "what a great person he is".

>>388195458
Gman has played literally all of the major characters. Everything is just a part of his plan. The vortigaunts have tried to intervene but it seems they aren't as effective as they should be to actually stop Gman

But what about Adrian Shephard?

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>>388180997
IT'S A HAPPY ENDING YOU FUCKING RETARDS
>COMBINE INVADE EARTH FOR PORTAL TECHNOLOGY
>BOREALIS WOULD LET THEM TRAVEL THROUGH SPACE AND TIME MAKING THEM ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE
>DESTROYING IT MEANS THE COMBINE HAVE LITERALLY NO REASON TO KEEP INVADING EARTH
>HUMANITY IS SAVED BECAUSE LITERALLY ALL THAT'S LEFT IS THEIR GAY SKELETON CREW

>>388195723
He was just a jar-head Freeman rip off. Valve doesn't give a shit about him.

>Barney's fate
Too bad Marc didn't even mention the guy. He was cool as a cucumber.

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>>388195429
The point is , although is difficult to explain or understand, is that if a civilization have the power to create a dyson sphere (resources, time, power etc) , it means they really don't need to create the dyson sphere.

>>388195354
They can make portals, but with XEN fee

>>388195429
A black hole sphere, supplying their core civilization maybe in another galaxy. Maybe they only used Dyson spheres for their primal and barbaric outposts in far reaches, as you would use an electrical outlet at home but a battery in your flashlight out hiking

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>>388195885
>because it is difficult to explain or understand

>>388195756
except the Combine have a fetish for assimilating other species and turning them into Combine, that's the rason why their army is so fucking humongus in the first place, so even if they don't have the Borealis they'll still milk the Earth for all its worth, there's no way we're getting off the hook so easily, especially after ruining their plans/killing so many of them.

>>388196014
>>388195885
In order to give the humans at least a minuscule chance to win you need to make the Combine civilization actually defeatable.
Making it to be a single Dyson sphere and making it to be the -only- vital energy source is the only plausible way to defeat such a civilization.

If there is no hope to win at all then there is no point in making a game, it would be stupid.

>>388196404
that's why Gman keeps moving Gordon through time, so he can destroy vital resources for the Combine, first Xen and its portals, then the Borealis, maybe in HL3 Gordon is sent 1000 years in the future where a new resistance actually has a chance to win, dunno, not that its gonna happen anyway

>>388196404
One solution could be to close our dimension to them, or at least hide it indefinitely, like all dimensions are grains of sand in a desert, and we/Freeman manages to scramble a large part of the sand around our grain of sand and the Combine can't possibly find us again in a very long time. In that time we can prepare, a bit á la the original Independence Day ending.

>>388185914
She was always daddy's girl, so I'm not surprised to see her shit flipped after his murder.

So what happened exactly? Half Life 3 got deconfirmed and the lead writer leaked snippets of the plot after leaving valve?

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>>388182053
>>388182232

>DYSON SPHERE

LITERALLY


DEEPEST

FUCKING

LORE

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>>388196618
So you think it would be easier to fuck around with our entire plane of existence, than to physically destroy a physical structure?

>>388182232
Imagine a star totally covered by solar panels.

Now imagine how much power that generates

Okay, imagine how much time and resources it would take to build a thing

A civilization capable of fully harnessing their own or another star's entire energy output is not something "we" should fuck with.

>have time and space traveling device
>dont go back and prevent the experiment and invasion of earth

Am I missing something

>>388195090
>this triggers the fagnon
back to your hugbox you go

>>388196867
No but a universe spanning civilization. It could be as simple as sending out some quantum energy pulse scrambling our plane of existance ID or something. I'm no professor but it's literally a video game where headcrabs pops out of portals appearing randomly everywhere. It'd make sense to keep going with the portal/dimensions theme and not just a cliche lol 9/11 Dyson explosion reference all baddies magically died.

>>388197052
the bad guys came to earth specifically because of that time and space traveling technology

Using it to prevent its creation seems kinda moot since you'd still attract the bad guys anyway

>>388197052
The Borealis is not finished it pops in and out of existence on its own, so I assume they can't control it

>>388197052
Oh yeah, I forgot this was all Freeman's fault in the first place. I guess that could work.

>>388197248
>Dyson sphere explosion
>cliche
What games do this? I'm buying them right now.
Hell, is there even a scifi novel or anything that has a Dyson sphere destruction as a plot?

>>388197052
time paradoxes

>>388197454
Not that, but blowing up the enemy's main base is a pretty generic direction for a videogame story.

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>>388193434
build a big glass dome around the sun (or a gas giant), and let people live on that dome

>>388182767
HL1 is great. Play it.
HL2 shits itself entirely and I doubt any of the HL2 autists who scream LE GOAT actually even played HL1.

>>388197591
I would be more than satisfied with that resolution.

>>388197454
No but exploding the baddies and then winning is an incredibly old and tiresome trope, as in Star Wars, Independence Day (movies I kniow but you should get my point), Halo, Metro 2033, The Evil Within, Aliens vs Predator 2, Wolfenstein the New Order (from the top of my head) and what not. It's silly to have the mere humans that are literally ants to their civilization just defeat them. It would be more plausible to have the humans hide away and evolve to a similair scale of civilization over a long long stretch of time. Or something else, but please not just 'go blow the baddies away'.

>>388197921
Boring. Give me a supernova explosion please.

>>388180879
I haven't played the first two games.
What the fuck even is the long wall of text in the sticky's pastebin? Not in what it means, but as in what way was it released? Is it a press statement? A leak of an already written ending? Is it a confirmation that a game is coming? Or a confirmation that no game is coming?
I know /v/ shouldn't be my primary source of news, but after an hour of scrolling through the sticky I still can't tell. This is truly the worst board.

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>tfw imagining Ross babbling as Freeman about how if Combine has Dysons sphere humanity is absolutely fucked as he would get into autistic detail how they have to be Level 2 civilization to do that
But at least we got closure.

>>388197652
For one thing I know that everyone of my friends who actually played HL1 before HL2 (not many I tell you) thought HL1 was way better than HL2. Myself I thought HL2 was kind of meh from the go, as I associated all the black mesa environments with Half Life so much, and HL2 felt off and not really Half Life. It felt like a whole other game, a whole other story that just happened to have some of the characters and a few enemies in common. The closest comparison I can make is Halo - Halo 3 as HL1 and Halo 4 and onwards as HL2

So, basically the writer (one of the writers?) of hl and hl2 wrote what he thinks hl2 ep3 should be.
But he's self employed since 2016, he has nothing to do with valve now.
Why are people going insane about this? It's basically fan fiction.
The chances are the same as before (basically 0 given the actual state of valve)

>>388198194
It was a plot synopsis posted on the blog of the lead writer of the Half-Life series.
He's not been part of valve for a few years now.
It's basically a send-off to fans waiting for Episode 3.

>>388197652
Half life 2 is just as good as 1. And episode 2 is much better than 1.

>>388180997

Alyx and not Gordon get saved by the G-Man, make looks like Gordon was saved to be a glorified bodyguard to her. This is a kind of underwhelming.

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>>388180997
>The Vortigaunts instead turn up and save Gordon.

>>388198316
I see, thanks.
Why didn't the mods put it in the sticky then? Why sticky such a shit thread?

>>388180879
its gonna be a movie series directed by netflix

>>388198485
They have a thing for him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma86zHqgg7k

>>388198430
If you had read the full thing you'd know that that was G-Mans way of showing it up to Freeman. Gordon did escape from him and start doing his own thing, which G-Man would obviously dislike. He grabs Alyx to show how unimportant Gordon is in the end.

>>388198291
We're assuming that the writer wrote what was going to be hl3's plot
It's not fanfiction if he's the actual guy in charge of what is and isn't canon.
I think he's only speaking now because the NDA wore off after 10 years.

>>388188985
Oh shit, completely, completely missed that

>>388198945

Didn't think of that, it's makes sense.

>>388196404
That's the point faggot

>>388199341
Well no game for you then, Timmy.

>>388180879

Tl;dr OP is a faggot and should an hero

>>388189619
Before it was nuked.

>>388198291
Nonono, what is actually going to be HL3 if Valve ever manages to make and release it, would be fanfiction if it isn't this script.

>>388180997

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
FUCK YOU VALVE
FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>388181424
>ytmnd

Will you fuck off back to lebbit thanks

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>>388196537
Actually I find it amazing.
Think about it, G-man's plan is to give hope to humans. Humans he fucked up by manipulating the test in Black Mesa. He finally leads the resistance to the Borealis. The beacon of hope, the key.

And once you complete your objective, you are left wondering "Now what? How is this going to help us against the combine?"... not only you are left with that question, but with the answer no one wanted to hear: The combine are unstoppable.

We are nothing more than harmless horse riders against a nuclear army. Ants against a gardener.

So... the Borealis... G-man just wanted it destroyed, to avoid the combine to capture it. Someone, in some dimention, managed to discover time travel, and that was their secret. They couldn't let anyone have it.

He doomed earth, humans, the whole dimension, just to stop an inferior race from having their technology. They turned freemen into slaves, just because they were playing with their toys.