Laidlaw's ending is pure kino, no better way to end the

ok

>>388204175
But Laidlas ending is happy because Gordon survives. Honestly the ending is shit it does not show anything about G-Man or who is employers are.

>>388204175
Yeah, such a good ending that Valve never bothered to make it.

>>388204415
desu it would have been beyond shit if they just spilled the beans on everything G-Man. I like the mystery.

>>388204175
The "ending" shown just looks like a "fuck guys I have no idea how to continue this, let's just say everything is so fucking big and mysterious the ginger numale doesn't care anymore", rushed as fuck

>>388204503
you can keep it mystery and explain some stuff like From Software does.

>>388204175
S-shut u-up.
REEEEEEEEEE Alyx was a whore the whole time.
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
Gordon go your own way.
Women are truly trash

>>388204583
yeah ofc that's just a question of how much information is enough

I feel like the document Laidlaw published showed us enough about the motivations behind the G-Man, and had HL2 Ep 3 actually been developed we would have probably gotten additional insight through visuals and the like

>>388204740
So Gman actually wanted to fuck alyx the whole time?

>>388204175
>no better way to end the series
>Gordon ends up stuck in limbo again
>but it's the gaunts this time
Nothing happened

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>>388204740
>I feel like the document Laidlaw published showed us enough about the motivations behind the G-Man
what fucking motivations.
I still don't get anything about him. am I just that much of a brainlet?

>>388204986
>am I just that much of a brainlet?
Yes, try reading between the lines a bit you ape

>rehash of the HL1 resonance cascade with muh space and big things
>kino

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>>388205109
s-spoon feed me please, mommy.
it literally just sounds like what >>388204832
said

>>388204581
>the ginger numale
who?

What the fuck is Alyx problem?
Why she followed G-Man if she had principles with strong faith in Gordon and that she have to destroy the combine nest?

>>388204175
since when did Gordon have thoughts and opinions? Was he writing his diary desu the entire time but never showed it to anyone?

>>388204415
>Honestly the ending is shit it does not show anything about G-Man or who is employers are.

Who cares? What are you realistically expecting it to be that blows your mind in some way?

It's just 'he's some alien contractor who works for another species who don't want to get combined'.

>>388204175
Should have let him to die.
OMG GORDON IS SAVED BY THE LIZZARD PEOPLE FOR THE 100th TIME :D

>>388204986
>am I just that much of a brainlet
No, the document doesn't say one fucking word about GMan's anything. It doesn't even attempt answering even the smallest question.

>>388206049
brainlet #2 detected

>>388204175
Seems like just a cliffhanger to me.

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>dude I'm an adult because I like bleak endings where nothing happens its so gritty
>I also like Berserk and GoT, true patrician works of their respective mediums
>also I use kino for things that arent films

>>388205998
yeah that one felt really forced and dumb
other than that it's pretty decent premise if executed properly

>>388204175

Laidlaw's ending is a forced happy ended, the Borealis (a time machine) uses Aperture le reddit science magic to undo the Resonance Cascade in the first place. Gordon as we understand him then becomes a time paradox.

Also check the symbolism. The only person who has leverage over the Combine is the G-man, much like how in real life the only entity that has leverage over Valve are real G-men (government men) in the form of Washington state's Attorney General who successfully sued them over their CSGO gambling operation.

This is the happiest ending we could have got.

>>388206101
This. It's the end of episode 3, not the end of half-life. If it was released and we were actually waiting on the real HL3, we would still be in the same boat as we were for the past decade.

>>388206326
I agree,everything up until that point is better than the complete story of HL2 and the two episodes.

>>388206049
gman let them go to the ship to destroy it. he cant directly do it himself without spilling the beans

>>388206093
give me one (1) single motivation for G-man being interested in Alyx instead of Gordon.

>>388206387
It's the end of episode 3 and of Half-Life. The life support has been turned off.

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>>388205726
>women
>principles
>strong faith
oi im laffin

>>388206481
Did you not read it?
She just proved that she's more capable than Gordon by murdering Judith for expediency's sake.

>>388204415
The script was for Half Life 2 Episode 3, not "Half Life 3". The story would continue in the next game based on this story.

>>388206526
Now it is, yes, but I am saying that if episode 3 was released around 2009-2010 and we got this exact ending, no one would consider it the end of the series. We would still be clamoring for HL3.

>>388206481
That would've been answered in Half-Life 3. We have no reason to believe that Episode 3 would have been any kind of conclusion to the franchise.

I think Episode 3 was meant to be the end of Gordon Freeman's character, and the protagonist of Half-Life 3 would have been Alyx Vance.

>>388205230
>>388204986
Basically, G-Man is from a race much more advanced than humanity or Combine. He wants to keep inter-dimensional technology out of the hands of lesser species, because they would beable to challenge his species.

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>>388204415
>>388204583
>>388204986
>>388205993
woah... it's almost like Valve have no idea themselves who the G-Man is really meant to be. Like he's a plot device they needed for moving the player character quickly to different places when you've committed to a game design that is one continuous story with no fade to black and 'six hours later' between levels.

It's almost like Half Life 2 didn't resolve any of the shit that was brought up in Half Life and they just moved to something else, and always would have done the same thing for Half Life 3...

>>388204175
>uses 'kino' unironically
>calls anyone else a 'pleb'

>>388206776
Oh yeah, I misread the one you were replying to. You're right.

>>388206971
You know its Gman's fault in the first place that the humans got the tech?
Why would he help create the resonance cascade and in the same time prevent people from getting it?

>>388206886
no wonder they cancelled it, who wants to play as le multi-culti girl when that shit has been done to death and done very badly

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>>388206439
desu i was expecting something like Matrix Revolutions Trininty death scene, the whole situation is really hold strong resemblance and probably sould have ended like that

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>>388207017
>>388205993
>>388204583
>>388207017
>>388204415

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.

>>388204415
>>388204503
The main problem with G-Man is that he's not a mystery that's written to be resolved in any way, he's just a plot device with nothing else going on.

>>388207026
he is new give him a break

>>388206305

>dude I use smug anime girls to make my point better

>>388207380
He's not wrong, you know.

>>388205726
Either survive and be able to fight the combine threat to protect earth's future or die. It's kinda like the choice Gordon had to make at the end of HL1.

Even though it's unexcusable to doom only gordon to death after initiating all that shit, it's strangely reasonable. Who knows how the full story would've played out.

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>>388207380
Exactly, my point is better for it.

its gonna be a movie

>>388207605
What makes you think that?

>>388206339
>le reddit science magic

That has to be the dumbest attempt of making a point I've read this month.

>>388207224
>Think about it, G-man's plan is to give hope to humans
>is the reason everything in black mesa goes to shit
>actual able to stop time and teleport by will does nothing against the combine by himself
>he helps nobody besides shephard, alex and gorden

Its pretty clear he does not want to help humanity. He only helps certain individuals but why?

>>388207121
shut up pol

>>388207832
we run this site boy!

>>388207871
You misspelt ruin.

>>388207871
/pol/ was good up until 2013. redditors ruined it and fell for every cia psyop they threw at them.

>>388206481
Vagina

>>388208007
wrong

>>388207821
Read the rest of the post. People here can't read or what?

>>388207871
I remember when i was a teen.

This definitely would have been great if it came out ten years ago in video game form.
Now I'm forced to revisit the age old question of "why the fuck wasn't this made?"

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Goodbye sweet prince

>>388207821
Because he's a deus ex machina.

>>388206305
>implying berserks message isn't uplifting and wont have a bittersweet as hell ending

>>388206339
The Borealis didn't send him into the past , it sent him into the future where everybody he knows is dead

>>388204415
It's less than happy and it's less than bittersweet, and now Gordon know what the Vortigaunts have known the whole time.

>>388204581
Yeah, he wrote himself into a corner.

>>388207594
goddamn i want to facefuck that thing

the fuc kare you talking about, it's not an ending to the franchise, it's an ending to the episodic series and set up the survival of both gordon and alyx, the last paragraph is just symbolism for the writer's perspective on valve and shouldn't be read into too literally

>>388204415
It's a cliffhanger, this was supposed to be the ending to Half Life 2 Episode 3, to be continued with Half Life 3.

>>388207832
Back to fagddit if you want to suck tyrones cock. are you german by any chance?

>>388204415
I'm not sure that we know when this was planned out, but this seems to be episode 3, meaning the conclusion of Half Life 2 saga. I imagine that the ending was supposed to give a good enough closure to end Half Life 2, while still having Half Life 3 open if they ever wanted to work on it.

>>388208381
>the last paragraph is just symbolism for the writer's perspective on valve and shouldn't be read into too literally
Probably this

>>388208210
>implying Berserk will end in Miura's lifetime

>>388204415
Keep in mind this was originally just intended to be just another five hour expansion, not a full-fledged game.

>>388208182
>Now I'm forced to revisit the age old question of "why the fuck wasn't this made?"
Because exploiting underage kids with lootcrates and weapon skins as a gambling system is more lucrative and less work.

>>388208548
kek

>>388207871
keep telling yourself that, reddit

>>388208381
to continue i'd venture to say that somehow in half life 3 the vorts would hold the key to stopping the combine as clearly their abilities mirror that of the g-man, also knowing this, their prophetic adoration for freeman should be seen as foreshadowing

my guess would be that they'd somehow find out the combine was controlled by some sort of other cthuluan nightmare which they could then attempt to destroy

>>388208548
That's obviously the case now, but it wasn't ten years ago. They had time before that happened.
I mean, it's clear they went in circles for a while, hell, this summary literally says they did, but what exactly was so complicated that it kept this from coming out at all?

>>388208095
FERNS

>>388204175
People act like it was an ending and not just a way to open it up for a part 4. I'm glad the game didn't get made.

>>388208686
I wonder (((who))) controls the Combine

>>388208116
>wrong

said the redditor who found /pol/ from le_don. dont you have a ctr boogieman to fight?

This is probably what happened

>HL2:ep 3 script written by Laidlaw, was supposed to come out in 2007
>Instead Valve decided to postpone it for whatever reason
>HL2:Ep3 is an obvious set-up for HL3 story, probably set in the Combine world
>At some point stuff goes wrong at Valve, lay-offs whatevs (money, the new engine)
>New ideas start to pop up, new people pour in, script gets edited
>Laidlaw frustrated by all alterings to his script and the huge amount of time the development process takes place
>at some point Valve dropped HL2:Ep3 and probably wanted to incorperate parts of the story in in HL3 (which will also feature characters from Portal)
>HL3 planned to become a HUGE singleplayer game with a new Steam engine
>because of this, it will take forever to make
>Laidlaw is personally frustrated with Valve because of firing/ruining his script/their shitty attitude towards HL fans and does this as the ultimate revenge

This doesn't mean Half-Life as a series is dead. This is nothing more than an abandoned part in the story, made public by a frustrated former employee for revenge. The sad thing is what might have been. Now we have a small blog post, but imagine the game itself.

>Alyx kills Judith
>G-Man takes Alyx instead of Gordon
>dat final scene while the ship is running towards the Combine invasion centre
>dat feeling you realize the Combine cannot be beat and the suicide mission is futile
>dat final Vortigaunt save
>To be continued...

>>388208789
Obviously a reference to the absolute shitty state of valve today

>>388208824
wrong

I like the idea some anons were discussing the other thread: Gman is a human from a parallel universe / future where humans mastered the ultra portal technology from the Borealis.

>>388208825
>implying Half-Life 3 is actually being made
I cry

>>388208703
>but it wasn't ten years ago
Actually the lootcrate update for Team Fortress 2 launched in 2010, and that was their first foray into the gambling system, and due to the less-than-organized Valve working environment people probably saw the bonus of working on that instead of an episode that wouldn't net them the same profits.
Between Ep.2 and that L4D launched too, and that must have took some manpower.

>>388204175
>Forced happy endings are for children
DARK and EDGY

>>388208825
you still believe. you silly boy.

>>3882 08943

lol this is fun

>>388207252
it's just bullshit they made up, but the gman is linked to the greater uni/multiverse, same as the combine homeworld, he's not some empty enigma that can't be resolved
what we know is
>combine are a interdimensional empire
>the g-man is some form of greater being manipulating you against the combine
you reveal more about the combine and the rest of the universe, you reveal more about the g-man, they've got a clear direction to work towards when it comes to explaining him

>contrarian edgy retards don't realize that this was just Episode 3 and more half life sequels were planned

Just shut the fuck up and kys

>>388209020
>Ten years ago
>2010

>>388209247
I'm assuming those boys haven't been here long.

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>>388208825
>implying they actually care for games now that they have an infinite money making machine that takes 30% off each game sold on it(and the tragedy is that it's still cheaper than relying on distributors) and the gambling games that fuel themselves
pic related

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Is this the shore Gordon was talking about?

I'm totally out of the loop, can somebody get me up to snuff?
how does some random blog post and a pastebin of that blog post that reads like a fanfic confirm some shit about hl3?
not even being sceptical here, I just have no clue who that blog dude is

>>388209265
The point is that they didn't start development as soon as The Orange Box was out, so lots of shit and a change in mentality happening in-between is not that incredible to believe.

>>388209446
>that reads like a fanfic

it doesn't, the script fits very well for a half life game also was written by the actual writer of the previous games that has left valve since

>>388204175
>Strong Black Woman Who Don't Need No Man
>pure kino

this shit is feminist drivel. not "kino". Glad laidlaw got fired. Alyx was one of the most annoying things about the hl2 and the fact they imply she's the new "protagonist" is disgusting. Absolutely fucking disgusting.

>>388208825
Valve would never have had portal characters show up in half life. They distanced portal 2 from hl a lot already.

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>>388209352
Nope, this shore

>>388209352
No lost coast is pretty much tied to to the two episodes.

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>tfw we'll never know what happened to Shephard

>>388209446
>who that blog dude is
One of the 3 writers that worked on the episode 1-2 and HL series as a whole

>>388209587
>destroys humanity's only chance in a fit of passional self-destructive rage
>positive portrayal
/pol/ is making your brain rot, read some books and educate yourself.
This script clearly makes it a point to show how Alyx gets controlled by the G-man, and that the G-Man didn't want humanity to get a grip on the best chance at actually fighting back the Combine.

>>388209734
NO! Don't bring him up. Just imagine a HL game by Gearbox today. For all we know, you just inspired Valve to give HL3 to modern Gearbox.

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>Valve was going to stealth launch episode 3 on the 10th birthday of episode 2
>Laidlaw just spoiled the game for everyone

>>388209865
hello dog

>>388209446
The author of that blog is the main writer of the half life series since HL1.
He quit valve a long ago because he probably lost hope of seeing his story getting turned into a game, and yesterday he revealed what he had in plans.

Not only that mean that valve cant use this story anymore (because its spoiler), but he, a insider, has no hope of a release what so ever and rather give the fans the few crumbs available.

>>388209734
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Half_Life_40k

No tears only dreams now

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>>388209865
bark

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>Dead Space ends with the twin moons crashing in Earth killing everyone
>Now half life have a ending shows a no hope ending

Thats What happens when the protags are a bunch of nerds.

>>388209834
HL is not their IP and neither are characters that they made up for an expansion.

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I gotta say, it's not often that you get to play a game and say "yeah, I crashed a time-traveling ocean liner into an invading alien command center" so yeah I'd said it's pretty fucking kino.

>>388209834
>6491 days and counting since Gearbox released a good game
opforce was always my favourite HL game too

>>388208548
>he answers rethorycal questions

>>388209734
he disappeared from canon
as if he never existed

>>388209734
Who?

>>388208825
Gaben did say they were working on a full-fledged singleplayer vr game

There was a lot of speculation about half life 3 being a proper vr game since valve is pushing the vr meme so hard and are also very innovative with their games and technology they use

It will probably be fully playable on a normal monitor, though offer a more unique experience and fancy stuff with a VR HMD

>>388209969
Gearbox made the original expansion. It's not that much of a stretch to think that if Valve/HL revisted Opposing Force, they'd give it to Gearbox. And it's not too ridiculous to think things might spiral from there.

>>388208265

It could send him anywhere. That's the power Gman, the Vortigants, and the Borealis have.

>>388210089
VR is a meme and half the people that got it have inferior genes and can't even play it without getting nausea or vertigo.

>>388207548
>Either survive and be able to fight the combine threat to protect earth's future
That was the fucking point of saving the ship then, which she didn't follow and killed Mossman
She explicitly wanted to die with the ship because her father wanted so, despite knowing it can help resistance
And the she easily walks away dropping whole idea and her principles

>>388209942
I havent even read this, but the borealis ultra portal give some warp vibes.
If humanity discovered how t make it work, they probably could kick the combine asses.

You brainlets need to read the Eterneaut to see where that ending was coming from.

>>388204175
I disagree.

If freeman was going out, he should have at least gone out with a big enough bang to make the combine hurt.

>>388210040
At least people realize Gearbox is terrible now. We Happy Few is getting destroyed and Gearbox is doing nothing but publishing it. You know your company is fucked when the dev of a game you're publishing has to go on record assuring people that your company's founder and CEO did not work on the project. The number of posts on WHF's forum from the dev telling people that Randy is nowhere near this game is very telling. Though personally I loved the first Borderlands and didn't completely hate 2. It was just painfully slow paced.

>>388210054
Nobody knew Shepard in HL1 either. Of course it's due to the fact that it's the last HL1 expansion, but unlike other protagonists he work is in complete shadow while Gordon is having a party with blackops and aliens.

>>388209352

The first and last paragraphs seem to be Laidlaw referring to Valve and his own feelings rather than Freeman. The eighteen months that he references was when Laidlaw left valve back in 2016--18 months ago.

What's interesting about this is, is that the last paragraph seems to imply that his co-workers at Valve were still working on something Half-Life related, or at the very least that the spirit of it still persists.

I don't know. Maybe I'm reading too much into things, but it seems to me that Laidlaw isn't confirming the death of Half-Life just yet.

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>>388209865
b0rf

>>388210312
>Barney Rubble gets a starring role in HL2
>Shep gets abandoned
tragic

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>>388210230
>I havent even read this, but the borealis ultra portal give some warp vibes.
The Borealis is inspired to this urban legend about a real-life experiment, which is most probably bullshit but still interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment

>>388210312
but that's why I'd like to see him back, he's just a soldier who got the closest to Freeman and entered the portal to Xen

>>388210490
The Philadelphia Experiment was real but keep drinking that tap water anon

>>388210230
The point of the device inside the Borealis was that it was true teleportation, through space and time, it doesn't travel through a relay, or whatever the term is for this kind of sci-fi babble, like Xen, or the Warp.

>>388210160
>Gearbox made the original expansion
So? This isn't late 90s, when they didn't have complete dominance over PC industry and had 6 bigass IPs (HL, CS, Dota, Portal, L4D, TF) all of which are in the top 10-20 for sure. They'd rather bury it themselves than let some fags they have no faith to make a game. If HL3 is an extremely unlikely event, then new HL expansion by Gearbox is an impossibility.

>>388204415
>Combine is a Kardashev type-2, probably type-3 civilization
>happy

>>388210635
Anon you really believe that if it were real, in the 60's, the US navy and Army would still be researching shit like laser cannons on ships when they could be TRAVELING THROUGH TIME AND SPACE?

Can someone explain the last paragraph? English isn't my first language.

>>388210771
Get me the god damn spreadsheet on that.

>>388210356
from what I gathered it seems that in valve you have a lot of freedom to move between things you want to work on and multiple times some people came together for halflife but no group managed to produce something

>>388210879
The people who worked on Half-Life with him are all gone and the series is dead

>>388210078
Have you never heard of Half-Life: Opposing Force?

I liked how he wrote alex as becomi more unreasonable and unhinged. always thought she was annoyingly pushy and her freaking out whenever mossman was on screen colored my perceptions of her the rest of the series.

>>388210879
Gordon is stuck in the future, where the war continues, but is ultimately futile, much like the author's attempts at kicking off HL3

>>388208789
>This is my final Half-Life 2: Episode Three.
laffin. gg

>>388204175
>happy endings are for kids
>i'm a big kid now!

>>388211038
There is no such thing.

>>388210879
Basically confirming that the game will never be released. I don't blame you for having trouble reading it, it's quite verbose

>>388208116
You have to go back

>>388211153
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life:_Opposing_Force

>>388211261
delet

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I'm glad it was not released anyway. I like the game more when it was about humanity against alien invasion rather than DUDE PARALLEL UNIVERSE AND TIME TRAVEL LMAO.

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>>388209734
>that fan theory where youd meet the remnants of the army and the survivors of the recon team in the arctic while seaching for the borealis
At least theres no chance of him getting monkey pawed

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Alyx is half-life protag now, they will skipp 3 and we'll have to wait for 4 another forever

>>388211323
but it is about alien invasions

>>388211516
thats mot how it works gabe

I'm pretty sure that ending was setting up an eventual possible Half Life 3 where you play as Alyx

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>>388211323
The first game has you going into a pocket dimension to kill the big bad by hand and the second one literally starts off with you time traveling into the near future to defeat an alien race that has already invaded Earth. It's not that far off.

>>388210027
Do you know how big a dyson sphere commander center is? They just noticed a minor breach in toilet #924352

>>388205998
If he was killed, he wouldn't be able to write in his diary.

>>388212043
Exactly we would have played the game instead.

>>388204415
It's also clearly not the end, this was only the plot of Episode 3. HL3 really would have been off to an amazing start.

>>388211970
I mean it just makes the enemy all the more intimidating. And even if the impact in the overall story wasn't huge, to us and in the game it probably would've seemed like a huge blow only to make us realize how futile it was in the end.

>>388210248

My fucking nigger.

Isn't it just weird that what some consider one of the greatest gaming series is never getting finished because the devs are just lazy fucks despite having every single resource needed to make the game?

>>388211970
I don't even know how they'd be able to convey the size of a Dyson sphere against the dinky little sea vessel they took there.

>>388211743
Why would anyone want to play as a murderer? Gordon killed people, but he never murdered anyone.

>>388212336
Maybe it has enourmous earth sized lights for some reason, assuming he's on the outer side. Shit probably glows like hell from the inside

Honestly who gives a fuck about Half Life at this point anymore

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Do you guys see this as the official story or just fan fiction? Unless Episode 3 comes out it won't , I consider this official.

>>388212568
I do, some mysterious force told me to play through all the games again, I just literally finished Opposing Force when this shit got stickied.

>>388212605
It's fanfiction from the original author

>>388212568
I do. 2 was pne of the last few great triple A titles released. And the series has been consistently amazing. Literally just finished 2 after seeing the sticky when I woke up at like 5 AM. Shit was great.

>>388212605
It's official, episode 3 isn't coming out and this is the proof we have of its demise.

REEE

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THIS MEANS HALF LIFE IS DEAD OR ENDED

WHAT THE FUCK

DID ANYONE EVEN READ IT OR IS EVERYONE SUCH A BRAINLET THAT THEY JUST COPY AND PASTE WHAT THE LAST GUY SAYS. I NEED AN ANSWER DID I MISS SOMETHING

They get on the memerealis and fire a time missile from it to the combine HQ. Then gay man shows up and takes aldicks with him but leave gorden behind as the ship blows up and the combine gtfo as well. But at the last moment he gets picked up and saved by literally who and then gord0n says "Welp idk lol I think I'm done for this" implying the ending for episode 3 and a cliff hanger for half life 3. Prob because we won't play as gordens but instead as alicks instead because its 2017 and muh women.

Did I miss anything. Literally confirms half life 3.

>>388212859
>then gord0n says "Welp idk lol I think I'm done for this"
That last paragraph is from Laidlaw to Valve.

>>388212859
Episode 3 was upgraded to Half-Life 3 during development. This was the plot Laidlaw wrote for it. He released it now because Half-Life 3 is dead.

>>388212859
yeah, see, you made the unfortunate mistake of using your brain

>>388212605
It's canon unless Valve releases another game.

>>388213054
>gender bender fanfic is cannon

what a time to be alive

>>388212859
>tfw you will never ever be as retarded as this guy

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ANOTHER 90's HERO FALLS

ONE REMAIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5JqLwyI70w

>>388212859
>But at the last moment he gets picked up and saved by literally who
underage retard who didn't play Half-Life wants to share his opinion on the matter he knows jack shit about

>>388213312
I love Sam but his first game was 2001, he's not 90s

>>388213394
I played everything half life ree how am I supposed to know what anything is when everything is gender bendered meme shittery. Its vorts okay haha xD. but am I wrong that this doesn't mean shit

fucking memers ree

>>388213312
Quake guy should be there instead of Sam

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>>388213543
So damn close but yet so far

>>388213312
This >>388213719 and doomguy is still there.

>>388213606
>everything is gender bendered meme shittery
>I played everything half life
play half-life, it's a good game

>>388213002

HL1 - Black Mesa, Xen, etc

HL2 - Combine, Breen, Alyx, etc

HL3 - Play as Alyx

Honestly this script makes more sense as a Half Life 2 Episode 3 script than as one for Half Life 3.

>>388214049
Why do I want to play this shit game AGAIN

>>388213961
The only thing that's really memorable was the writing though. It's the only reason why people still care.

>>388204415
Freeman had closure, but Alyx would continue the story

>>388214134
There still aren't really any good shooters that use physics the same way as HL2 did

>>388214080
That's what everyone keeps saying that it's for Episode 3, hence Epistle 3.

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>We'll never have a gunfight on a ship phasing in and out of reality

FUCKING KILL MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>388214213
That's true, I can't remember any modern shooters that even simulate physics.

>>388214134
Nah. Hl2 as a whole was a great game. It had great writing sure but the level design, level variety, gunplay, music, art are all great. /v/ really downplays how great it was.

>>388204175
Why does Laidlaw consistently change genders and names in this?

>>388214235
It could be like Bioshock Infinite, except good.

>>388214223

I know, I was just commenting on what that other guy said.

Hopefully Valve sells the rights to HL3 to a team that can take that universe and create something fresh and modern similar to what Obsidian did with Fallout: New Vegas. There is so much gameplay potential and a world that has already been fleshed out, it would be great for someone to pick up the torch and run with it since Valve obviously doesn't want to do so.

>>388208825
kino

>>388214235
>That whole shit about how on side of the boat you see aperture science's dock and on the other side you see the battle in antarctica beteeen resistance and the combine
Damn that sounds so cool.

>>388214418
So he doesn't get gangfucked by Valve's lawyers.

>>388214418
Because there's likely legal actions against him if he literally typed the real story word for word, NDA expiration or not.
https://github.com/Jackathan/MarcLaidlaw-Epistle3/blob/master/Epistle3_Corrected.md
It's been rewritten to be proper already anyway.

>>388214348

that's because the majority of /v/ weren't playing games when HL2 debuted (2004)

>>388204175
Can you guys stop posting this stupid meme? It's just some guys fan-fiction for a game that people who have been on the internet WAAAAY too long have played.

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>>388211970
I wonder if humanity is better off keeping the vessel and advancing from it or getting rid of it so maybe the combine fucks off

So what's stopping someone from going to make this game now in source now that we got the story?

>>388204175
>no better way to end the series.
It wasn't supposed to end the series though, only episode 3. Half life 3 was going to be all about either playing Alyx or saving her.

>>388204175
>>388204415
Keep in mind this was only for ep. 3, they could've made another HL after this

>>388213606
>when the memes have taken your ability to articulate
>when you're so insecure that you have to use memes every few words to make it seem like you totally don't care even though you care immensely

>>388210279
and how the fuck are they going to hurt a multi-universal type II civilization? Blow up their home galaxy/universe?

>>388214134
It went from survival of the nerd to "Gordon you are the savior of humanity fuck me please". It's probably the same kind of people who care about Portal 2 writing.

>>388212605
As far as I'm concerned, it's canon. Valve would have to fuck with it to change my mind, and they aren't gonna bother.

Not that it matters, since even this is clearly a cliffhanger. We will never get Half Life 3.

>>388214842
If you have the opportunity you should kill yourself.

>>388214823
>its okay when marc types in memes

Stop getting butthurt about meme posting on a chinese pedophile meme website.

Pick one HL2 Mod to become the new canon ending

I choose Gordon Freakman

>>388214978
John Freeman

>>388214783
>what's stopping a single person from making a game that would take an entire studio several years

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>>388206305
>uses a chinese cartoon picture

>>388214783
Mark my words, we'll get a Black Mesa-esque fan version of this in like 3 years

>>388214967
Haha its ironic right guys?

>>388214978
Whichever one ends my life.

>>388206305
>>dude I'm an adult because I like bleak endings where nothing happens its so gritty
Except shit does. This would have been the prelude to Half life 3, it was episode 3.

>>388215070
Never mind I second this.

Full Life Consequences is the true vision of the series

>>388214978
JOHN FREEMAN WHO WAS GORDON FREEMANS BROTHER WAS ONE DAY AN OFFICE

why does everyone say the game is dead.
This confirms the opposite. That there's thought about it.
If anything valve is probably going to license out the IP to the black mesa team.

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>>388215070
>>388215274

>>388215428
This confirms that ten years later all they have planned is another cliffhanger and no end yet in sight

>>388214841
Exactly.
Give the fuckers something to think about while their home universe is erased by a paradox or some shit.

>>388215428
>No Disclosure Agreement expires because Valve did nothing.
>Writer releases the plot to please the fans
>THEY ARE TOTALLY WORKING ON IT GUYS!
No,

>>388207224
Holy fuck it all makes sense now

>>388207224
Where does Xen fit into all this?
I thought that the Vortigaunts and the Nihilanth fled to Xen because it was a place that the Combine couldn't reach. There's also the fact that Xen crystals are key to teleporter tech.

>>388214641
Well yeah that was the plan until that stupid bitch shot the doctor

>>388215143
>crowbar collective announces they will make the fan half life 3 based on this after finish black mesa
>black mesa gets delayed again

>>388216321
>The release a fan HL2 and HL3 before Xen.

>>388215956
The combine uses Xen as a dimensional slingshot. That's how their teleportation tech works. They wanted the Borealis because, as seen in portal, the teleportation technology of aperture was INFINITELY less jank

>>388212605
It's fanfiction, but canon is irrelevant at this point.

>>388216321
when the fuck are they going to finish xen? did valve really buy them out just to delay and inevitably shitcan part 2? Because it certainly looks that way, and I wouldnt put it past them.

>>388216416
So is the Borealis teleporter based on the superior tech of the GMan's species?

>>388216460
>fanfiction
>fan
It's directly the opposite of that. This isn't a mere fan, this is the lead writer. This is as canon as it gets until Valve themselves say otherwise.

>>388212605
its the head writer for the last 3 games so its as canon as you'll get.

>>388204952
You can tell that this is what the actual story of the game would've been because it ends on a cliffhanger.

>>388216516
nigga did you not play portal
aperture science built the borealis

>>388216569
It's irrelevant. Only IP holder sets the canon, be that writer or publisher or corporation. In this case it's corporation. Plus he's one of the lead writers there are 3.

>>388216516
The Borealis' bootstrap device is basically a 2.0 version of the portal gun.

>>388216659
No shit. Black Mesa was being influenced by GMan though, maybe Aperture was?

What any of you don't understand from this is that Valve WILL have to make an actual statement on this. It's just too huge of a thing to just throw under the bus. Whether it's for good or bad I just want to hear the fat kike mention something related to it.

>>388216416
>The combine uses Xen as a dimensional slingshot.
Wasn't that Blackmesa?

>>388216516
The borealis uses portal gun tech

>>388215956
Nigilanth is Breen of the xen.

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>there's a timeline where the game got released

>we're living in the timeline where Valve thought of cosmetic items and decided never to make games again

Fuck you Gaben

>>388216730
Black Mesa didn't even know what Xen was supposed to be.

>>388216918
>there's a timeline where the game got released
>it's also the timeline where hillary got elected
Would you /v/? Yes

Haven't read the script yet, someone give me a rundown.

>>388216473
Last year they said it was coming out this summer, than 2 months ago they said they had go delay it till December.

>>388217312
>half-life 3 comes out
>can't enjoy it because too busy to survive in post-nuclear america

>>388210771
>probably type-3 civilization
Far from it, if they were they wouldn't use ground soldiers and shit like that.

>>388216682
Considering the "IP holder" in this situation is too busy raking in money from children buying skins and hats to make the game I'm quite happy to accept the lead fucking writer's synopsis of the story as canon, you fucking pedantic cunt.

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>>388216729
Gayben will only sanction a response if it has a chance of making him more shekels.

>>388216729
>What any of you don't understand from this is that Valve WILL have to make an actual statement on this.
You seriously think this?
How often has Valve actually directly communicated with their playerbase(s) in the past decade?

>>388204175
But shitty endings have become the norm now, theres nothing kino about it. Fuck Im genuinely surprised when a game has a satisfying ending and doesnt end in a shitty cliffhanger or just downright awful ending in general

>>388208265
>, it sent him into the future where everybody he knows is dead

Not really, more like 40+ years into the future, it mentions he sees some old faces.

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The creepiest implication is that advisors aren't even true combine, they're just organic hard drives for backing up people.

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>>388217709
>At this point, as you will no doubt be unsurprised to hear, a Certain Sinister Figure appeared, in the form of that sneering trickster, the G-Man. For once he appeared not to me, but to Alyx Vance. Alyx had not seen the cryptical schoolmarm (no male equivalent) since childhood, but she recognized him instantly. “Come along with me now, we’ve places to do and things to be,” said the G-Man, and Alyx acquiesced. She followed the strange grey man out of the Borealis, out of our reality. For me, there was no convenient door held open; only a snicker and a sideways glance. I was left alone, riding the weaponized luxury liner into the heart of a Combine world. An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere. The 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. And what remained of me would be even less than that.

>not kino

lmao

>>388217317
Gordon and Alyx bury Eli and then get on a helicopter which gets shot down later on, find Breen (but not really) transformed into a huge slug and Gordon ends his suffering, they find Mossman in a cell and she helps them find the Borealis
Insinde the Borealis Alyx and Mossman get into an argument as to what to do with the Borealis, Alyx wanting to crash it into the Combines and Mossman wanting to hide it to research it. Alyx fucking kills Mossman and goes on with her suicide mission. On the way to jihad the Combine GMan rolls up and asks Alyx to come with him, she complies. So Gordon is now left alone on the Borealis which is set straight to go and suicide onto the Combine, but then the Vorts come through and yank him out of there.
Story ends on a cliffhanger of Gordon on some random beach, realizing that the suicide Borealis didn't even put a dent into the Combine anyway and that it was all for naught.

SO WHEN IS THE COMMUNITY GOING TO MAKE HALF LIFE 3

>>388217773
They're still immensely powerful. I wonder if their telekinetic ability is innate to the grub body, or if it somehow comes from the personalities contained in them.

>>388217773
So this thing is what Breen gets turned into?

>>388218045
We already did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs

So have we ever actually seen the Combine themselves?

>>388207642
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2697688/
http://www.slashfilm.com/portal-movie/

>>388218045
>thinks modders can make a single player game costing hundreds of millions of dollars

>>388218386
Yep. Which makes it even stranger. I think the implication, considering their name, Combine, and this >>388217773 is that there is no "combine" race and that they're just a soulless, monolithic, universe spanning civilization.

>>388217810
My point still stands. Shitty endings are extremely common, especially in video games.

>>388218513
>doesn't know the combined power of autists on gmod
It's a near-infinite, free resource.

>>388208198
kek
needs more oc

>>388217945

What the fuck lmao

>>388218578
What makes it shitty? It translates to what would have been half life 3 well enough

How would the game convey Freeman's utter hopelessness at the sight of the Combine's Dyson sphere when he's a fucking mute? Alyx and the G-Man leave before it comes into view

>>388218289
More like a version of his mind was uploaded into it before he died. It's technically not him, but also technically is.

>>388219142
Spooky music

>>388216729
did they say anything when hl2 got leaked?

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>>388218620
So it's an autistic Dyson sphere?

>>388210356
what did he mean by "silenced friends" tho

>>388218565
Basically the Borg, yet somehow bleaker.

>>388219142
Making it really, really, really fucking huge.
Also, ambient music will help a ton, HL always had good music to back the game up, though with Kelly Bailey gone, it'd be a bit more difficult.

>>388219142
>Combine's Dyson sphere
What the fuck is that even?

are laidlaw's books any good?

>>388219142
The same was as in the previous games?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-GU4jvSvz4

>>388214580
>If a NDA expires you can still get sued.
Huh.

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is there a tl;dr?

i'm not reading this shit, especially now that the fucking game isn't coming out. i don't give a fuck about the details at all.

i always felt like half life was overrated but now there's

>yfw your favorite game series doesn't have a pastebin ending

>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.

What shore is he talking about? I know it's somewhere in HL2

>>388219630
dumb nigger >>388217945

>>388217312
Get to play HL3 AND enjoy the impotent anger of fedora manchildren and inbred hicks? Sign me the fuck up.

>>388219392
Imagine a solar panel.
Now imagine solar panels with basically 1:1 energy conversion efficiency arranged into a sphere that envelops the entirety of a star.
Now imagine how advanced a civilsation has to be to develop and use such technology, and the sort of things they're capable of with it.

tl;dr - ur fucked m8

>>388219630
>i don't give a fuck about the details at all.
So why are you asking then?

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>>388219684
>>388219710
this is gonna be a fun few days

>>388219142
>>388219345
An long sequence like Gordon's unforgettable ride up the Citadel.

Alyx is such a dumb shit it doesn’t even make sense.

>>388219630
All Laidlaws friends are gone and Valve has changed so he left. HL2 is an insignificant matchhead vs Valves other properties. Going forward strong women of action like Alyx making choices are needed while passive storytelling like Gordan need to be retired.

>>388219630 (You)
go fuck yourself

>>388219630
>ship has time/space string theory riding technology
>this gets combine wet as fuck
>need to blow it up so combine leave/don't win hyperdimensional space war against a race of GMen
>hop on and ride the lightning, rubberbanding through time
>see combine scifi tech out the windows at one end
>green: "no don't do it we can use it. let me just flip this switch"
>alyx shoots green and sets the ship to self destruct
>gman: "all you had... to do... was blow up the... damn ship, Gordon."
>gman high fives Alyx and walks off the ship with her
>Vortagaunts save Gordon

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>Still, he soon confessed (never able to keep quiet for long) that he was herself a prisoner of the Combine. He took no pleasure from her current grotesque existence, and pleaded with us to end his life.

so what gender is breen and what 4th grader wrote this?

>>388213312
>the guy in white
>90's

damn kids...

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What if we tried to make everyone on October 10(10th year episode anniversary) install and let episode 2 running do you think we could reach the most playable game on steam simply to give valve a signal.

>>388217312
Why the fuck do you have to be a little bitch and make everything political

>>388220101
the original laidlaw post had all the characters genderswapped and renamed so as not to incur the ire of valve's lawers

>>388211119
Retardation by whoever edited the original which said "this is my final epistle" which makes sense. hell "this is my final episode" would be correct too

>>388220101
Is that reference to his last years at Valve?

>>388220163
>b-but im a 90s kid! these were my heroes growing up! i was born 1999, today's my birthday

>>388214530
>That whole part about him going mad after seeing countless versions off himself lost in the ship

That's got so much potential.

>>388220101
I fucking, swear, all of these god damn simpletons spouting shit.

The original post by Laidlaw had genders flipped and names changed. Whichever Anon corrected the names just missed that instance of "herself."

>>388220101
Laidlaw switched names/genders around so he doesn't get raped by Valve's lawyers in the original website post and not everything has been amended in the Pastebin.

>>388220187
We have done that twice so far
No response was given both times
Its dead

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>>388219272
Fired employees, probably.

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>>388220187
Literally the most Reddit comment I've ever seen

>>388220369
>simpletons

this is hilarious coming from a half life fan

you guys are the rick and morty fans of the gaming world, you realize that right?

>>388207092
Aperture did it all without his intervention

>>388220462
Literally the most retard reply I've ever seen.

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>Grimly, Alyx and I armed the Borealis, creating a time-travelling missile, and steered it for the heart of the Combine’s command center.

>people unironically care about THIS story.

>>388220467
I'm 85% sure that ten years without anything has slowly driven this lot insane.

>>388220467
>you guys are the rick and morty fans of the gaming world, you realize that right?
Really substantive and meaningful post, dude.

>>388204175
>Laidlaw's ending is pure kino
>Literally just text
>kino

>>388220101
https://github.com/Jackathan/MarcLaidlaw-Epistle3/blob/master/Epistle3_Corrected.md
Just read the rewritten version if you don't have enough brain cells to put 1 and 1 together.

>>388220674
enjoy your pastebin ending.

>>388220786
Really substantive and meaningful post, dude.

>>388220636
Is there supposed to be anything wrong with that line?

>>388204175
>kino
Has German theater became the new word for goat or something?
also fuck off /tv/

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Isn't the Dyson Sphere just a Death Star without the weak point?

>>388221493
A Dyson Sphere is a shell that surrounds an entire star so it can harvest the energy.

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>>388204415
It doesn't tell us anything we didn't learn from the previous episodes. Pretty much entirely uneventful aside from moving characters around the board.

To me the ending is reminiscent of Portal 1. Sudden twist with certain death and you break out of it. I mean if Gordon fought his way back and won it'd literally be Portal 1, the only difference is that he escapes and doesn't fight back.
Which would probably be all of HL3. Actually could you even imagine that? If we as Gordon began stalking the Gman without HIS knowledge? Hitting him in the back of the head with a crowbar would be the most satisfying ending to think of.
>you go through the portal following the Gman
>you enter into an elevator
>hit Gman and knock him down
>Gordon from HL1 is in the elevator with you
>2 fucking Gordons
>Kill Gman
>Coop adventures commence

I've always got the feeling Gordon would turn into Gman as a result of the betrayal though. A full circle kind of thing, he has to betray himself.

>"We should reserch this and it may help us fight the combine."
>"FUCK YOU OLD MAN WE RE BLOWING IT UP."
>"B-but-"
>FUCKING KILLS HIM AND LEAVES GORDON ON THE SUICIDE SHIP

So is it official Alyx is the worst character in half life?

>>388221914
>old man
>him
She killed Judith you brainlet

did gman ever do some shit in half life 1

what was the deal with that secret thing with him in the board room

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>>388221493
It's a shell made of solar panels that surrounds an entire star with insanely high, if not perfect, energy conversion rates.
Imagine being a lone human freedom fighter with a gun, and finding out that you're fighting an enemy with an infinitely large army with access to what's basically magic.

>>388221914
D-did you thing he was talking about Kleiner?
Did you confuse this with The Closure?

>>388222214
I did. Sorry.

So what the fuck happened to Kleiner? Also there were like 7 other head scientists who worked at Mesa where are they? Gordon could track them down to do something.

>>388221914
>>388222214

>Alyx killing uncle Kleiner

Christ, that'd be even more heartbreaking.

>>388219408
His short story "Leng" is pretty good.

>>388221493
A practical dyson sphere wouldn't be a single spherical death star-shaped structure. Think of a massive swarm of separate satellites that eventually grows dense enough to block out all of the light of the star it's orbiting.

>>388222619
It would.
But in the Closure Gordon did it.