>I was left alone, riding the weaponized luxury liner into

>>388247251
how was that ship supposed to destroy that massive sphere?

>>388247761
it wasn't

>>388247761
It wasn't... that's the point. Humanity never stood a chance. Gman wanted Freeman to destroy the ship because it was too close to his employers toys. Only they get to fuck around with time and space. He steps into his door and goes back to more important things.

It's a fantastic ending and would have been a sucker punch to the player.

>>388247251
Good writing.

What track would you have play when Gordon looks upon the Dyson Sphere for the first time.

my pick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdNqDHpNWo

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEc1OTFaWnI&ab_channel=miska323

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>>388247251
That was pretty poetic. It's like this person wrote books or something.

>>388248267
Freeman never get to see the fireworks tho.. so gman might just used Alex to deliver the ship and Freeman to combine.

>>388249259
unironically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIscL-Bjsq4

>>388250137
nah, he doesn't work for the combine. The combine would be like ants to him, as we're ants to the combine.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-pVz2LTakM

>>388249259
can it be not-videogame related?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-gbqbVd8c

>>388249259
>>388249467

I think this fits as well. It might sound less menacing then Sovereign's theme, but it does feel far more melancholic.

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

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrqdchhKlI
JUMP
JUMP
RUN

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>>388249259
https://youtu.be/gqiSz5yf934

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axFHfDIN758&index=2

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What will thier inevitable response to this shitstorm be?

>>388250267
I'm getting that feeling of absolute despair from this. Giving me chills.

>>388250490
Love this track, one of the best moments in the show. maybe this would be fitting for a scene later showing Earth getting steamrolled at a later date when combine decide they can't be bothered playing with us anymore.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqsTeO-Rx18

>>388250267
take your degenerate jew shit elsewhere

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAJniMeESOU

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-GU4jvSvz4
Easily.

>>388250765
They won't
They hardly respond to anything

>>388250765
I admire you still holding faith in Valve to even bother responding to this.

>>388250765
>What the fuck is a half-life?

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>>388250765

So long as their cashcows are printing money from cosmetic-obsessed autists, they won't care.

>>388250765
check the reviews on Valve's games. They're getting hammered.

I think this is what they feared. The old fanbase deciding they're sick of being pushed aside while a newer demographic is being catered to for profit.

>>388250776
to be fair, i'd use lights of the seven for the entirety of the sequence: from when gordon sees the sphere for the first time to his rescue thanks to the vortigaunts. that crescendo is too perfect

>>388251331
Irrelevant. Nobody would stop playing Dota 2 or CSGO for this. It may affect Artifact, but Artifact is more likely a passion project of a bored team of programmers than real deal.

>>388250765
Valve is pathetic at PR. So they will ignore this because Valve has no backbone. Not entitled bte, valve could have handled this better 10 years ago. They left the door opened and lied instead of admitting nothing was happening and it was dead. Fuck Valve for having no honor.

>>388250765
we've got nothing to say about episode three at this moment.

>>388250765
you assume the current generation of teenagers even know of Half-Life other than dumb memes

>>388250203
Hey Jude would also have worked nicely and would be less on-the-nose than straight out using Komm Susser Tod.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA

>>388250892
why would you pick this? I'm getting all patriotic now mate.

>>388251381
what do you think of this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGDvlJ4BB0

The GoT is pure eargasm btw.

>>388247251
literally why even live

>>388251574
You're probably right. Maybe the ending of half life is a metaphor for what Valve has become. We the player are Freeman staring at the Dyson Sphere that is Steam (Valve)

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>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyyL_TICbrU

Alright, /v/.

Gimme your most despair-inducing games.

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>>388249259
No soundtrack at all.

Let there be silence aside from the Borealis shuttering around Gordon, as if to show its own, immobilizing fear.

As the Borealis gets closer, a faint roar can be heard from the sun along with very quiet but distinct bass-like clangs of metal from the dyson sphere. The clangs have a rhythm that get louder as the sun begins to blot out Gordons visions, the roar as load as possible, the Borealis shuttering and creaking madly.

Then silence and blinding white light.

Credits roll in all black text to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthQ2gR1bU4

>>388250892
What a shit choice

>>388252194
but who is the g-man?

>>388252194
Beautiful.

>Portal 3 never ever

>>388248348
>good writing
>brilliantly glittering

>>388252438
you never find out. He's truly something out of Lovecraftian horror

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>>388252415
I felt Mad Max and TLOU had a very solid "everything's gone to shit" feeling

>>388250765
mass quitting

who are we kidding, their healthcare and retirement package is too good

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>>388252421
>My name is Gabe Newell, co-founder at Valve Software and welcome to the commentary mode for the long awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3...

>>388252421
Watched Akira recently or something?

>>388249259
from the other thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FZ6Sl6Jcec

>>388252415
Metro had it's moments. I remember feeling heartbroken at some of the scenes on the surface.

>>388252438
A plot device

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn9IAjsZ0gI&user=Infamous2HaLTaB Specifically the point from ~35 seconds.

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>>388250907
>The first time it plays
>The tone is so different than the other tracks
>Watching rebels sacrifice themselves to defend the combine
>Really makes you think how much humanity suffered during the occupation of combine, and Freeman is not there to save the day.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Vg2YS-sFE

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>>388252415
just this moment, Isaac just needs a rest

for a whole game, Spec Ops The Line

>>388252438
G-aben.
>hopefully, Mr. Freeman... it will have been worth the weight

>>388252415
Space Station 13
Both from a lore standpoint and a gameplay standpoint

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkA7xQb6uPk

>>388252421
This is the best one by far. Music really would take away from the moment, specifically all the generic orchestra that's been posted so far.

>>388247251
Dude Lovecraft lmao

>>388252421
There's nothing to fear. You can only marvel at their creation and accept your irrelevant struggle, like Gordon did. Doesn't mean that you will stop, you just know how it ends.

>>388252935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZhnGQXWi1U

reposting this from the sticky. I got a bit choked up to be honest.

>>388252415
Pathologic, Planetscape Torment, Spec Ops the line, Dues ex, The Void

unironically Dark Souls II

>>388252421
Honestly, this

The appeal of the Half Life series is that music is very rarely used, and when it is it adds to the scene.

In this case, silence and ambient noise would suffice.

>>388252415
SOMA

People say that Half Life 3 would never live up to the hype after all these years, but honest to God, after reading the plot synopsis, for me at least, it would have been everything I wanted from a Half Life sequel. It would have been perfect.

>>388249259
idk it sounds fitting
maybe as the end credits music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZAmtuCJiBE

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>>388252718
>still talking highly of that fat maggot jew lardpig

>>388252415
>6 replies
>no Silent Hill 2

COME ON ANONS

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>ripping off Battlefield Earth
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm

>>388253359
Laidlaw posted his vision for Episode 3. Not Half Life 3.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWgNW-LUCq4

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBuwC4VJi50

>>388251902
eh, i feel that's too "heroic" if you know what i mean. i think we need something that also encapsulates gordon's step-by-step realization that his sacrifice will be useless

>>388252421
You would need some fucking sound design genius like Alan Splet to capture the cosmic horror and despair that a Dyson Sphere would evoke.

Not a bad thought tho

>>388253359
I'm sure had they released it with this exact same plot, everyone would just shit on it

>>388252548
I would have wanted this more than HL, in all honesty. The Portal games are just glorious, the ending of 2 still brings genuine non-ironic tears.

>>388247251
>windshields
>on a fucking spaceship

>>388253560
>Implying Valve aren't (weren't?) known for having 10/10 sound

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XjTpm9coJA

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>>388252415

Silent Hill 2 is pretty much a melancholic game from start to finish that will almost always end poorly for the main character.

>>388247251
Is that Steve Urkle?

>>388253619
It's a cruise ship you dingbat.

>>388247251
not canon

>>388253619
TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM

>>388252415
replaying hl2 right now would actually make me cry

>>388252415
The Witch's House

Why did Freeman give up? Who cares if they have a dyson sphere or whatever

>>388249259
Put me in the screencap

https://youtu.be/nv9Qjzcq9T4

>>388253546
wtf dude lmao. I would want to listen to this only if Kliener shows up with a prototype super nuke and lets you ride it all the way to the sphere.

>>388250765
They'll stay silent while their thresher continues

>ending a game as you ride a cruise liner in space
This is actually cool as hell.
could've been a train for maximum poetry though

>>388247761
Freeman and Alyx thought that the Combine have one homeworld and they hoped the Borealis explosion (some timespace-portal-nuclear explosion) would have such power to destroy/heavily damage this homeworld. While in reality the Combine inhabited a whole solar system and had a dyson sphere there. So the Borealis explosion could have destroyed a chunk of a sphere the size of a planet. But ultimately it meant nothing. Compared to the size of a dyson sphere, it is literally nothing.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7bjV0Q_44&user=HozierVEVO

>>388253606
Portal is such an eerie experience. Only two characters in 1, 3 and a half (Automatic announcer is a half to me) in 2, in a seemingly infinite complex.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g

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>>388247251
It's not fair. FUCK YOU GAYBEN

>>388254003
nig do you realize how fucking huge a dyson sphere is

>>388254003
Because he's not as stupid as you. He did not give up. He just realized "the futility of our struggle".

>>388253545
There is no HL3, never will be, retardo.
Laidlaw wrote HL1 and 2. Now he is gone and had clearly enough of the faggotdom at Valve to such an extend that he couldn't keep the rest of the plot of HL a secret anymore. It was obviously close to his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have posted it. He just wanted closure just like everyone of us, unlike that fat maggot judenschwein jewpig billionaire.
If that lardass jewpig Gaben ever decides to make HL3, he will hire a bunch of nu-male Redditor cucks to write epic ftw xD maymays for the job, as he has done for the past 10 years with everything Valve has shat out since then.

Isn't a Dyson Sphere a vacuum cleaner

Gabe why

>>388249259
>>388252421

first silence then this while the vorts take freeman and he watches the borealis explode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXBqO1YS4l8

>>388250765
>Hey, you know we have yanking the chain in your hopes of a sequel? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA GET FUCKED.

>>388253928
it's ok bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP-AAlZlCkM

>>388254289
>There is no HL3, never will be, retardo.

reading comprehension, retardo.

>>388254242
That never stopped him before. He beat the Xen, why not the Combine? this is such a downer to Gordon's whole character arc

>>388254291
A really big one, but yes.

>>388252339
>ARM THE BOREALIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ixvpLCdqkA

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>Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final episode.

>Yours in infinite finality,

>Gordon Freeman, Ph.D.

>>388254382
You are implying there will be any other "Half Life 3" but this.

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>>388249259
This does it well in my opinion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO5Yyi8P4T4

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>>388254047
like galaxy express 999? that would have been even cooler

What if this game got released and they finished Gordon's story so that the next game featured a new character?
I really liked playing as different characters in HL1's expansions, especially Adrian Shephard

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>>388252415
>No one posted the game that is literally built on Despair

>>388253545
The episodes are HL3. Gaben said they went in an episodic format when episode 1 came out

This is about the 15th (not joking) time i've seen this posted

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>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9nocjg2OLI

>>388254003
The Sun's output is 3.8 x 1033 ergs/second, or about 5 x 1023 horsepower. How much is that? It is enough energy to melt a bridge of ice 2 miles wide, 1 mile thick, and extending the entire way from the Earth to the Sun, in one second.
Now imagine if the Combine's star is BIGGER than ours.

>>388254393
>He beat the Xen
He killed an escaped super-psychic slave that was indeed holding the portal disturbances open to Earth, but simultaneously the only thing keeping the Combine from knowing about the Resonance Cascade on Earth to begin with. By killing the Nihilanth and fucking over the makeshift slaves and their hastily-constructed forces that were taking refuge in Xen, Gordon Freeman assured the defeat of humanity at the hands of the Combine.

The entire series has been about little more than playing to the tune of those greater powers manipulating and stringing you along with little idea of what to do than survive.

>>388249259
Amebix - Beyond the Sun

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlQa9GqEYKw

>>388254393
He just drove the most powerfull weapon humanity had into the heart of the enemy. It didn't even flinch the thing.

>>388254729
Man, Gordon really really had a hard life. What a shit fate he was dealt

>>388254393
He didn't know what Zen denizens are capable of, so he went forward, to explore and to conquer. He had no other choice. He did the same with Combine and he managed to put a dent into their ability to control the Earth. However this is where you stop. There's no space resistance to help you. There's no doctor Breen to kill. There's no big tower to destroy. Not for humans. Not for vortigaunts. Maybe there are other civilizations out there, but Freeman doesn't know. Not like it matters, the ones that are able won't listen to some dying planet full of monkeys.

>>388247251
what's the source of this image?

>>388250765
A lawsuit.

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>Advisors are biological hard drives for making back ups of consciousness
Didn't see that coming.

I never expected Gordon to be such a tragic hero. I always thought of him as a dumb deaf mute with plot excuses to make him super strong. In the end he just got played

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>>388249259
No music, just noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA9BQ-GT4PU

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OacVy8_nJi0

>>388253357
THEY'RE NOT US

>>388255040
What ?

>>388253620
Valve does have excellent sound design, but I don't think they've created a moment where the atmosphere evokes existential dread. The closest is the citadel, but that was more art direction than sound design

The correct phrase would be: >Implying valve isn't known for having 10/10 sound

>>388255198
WE ARE ON THE ARK YOU IDIOT, I DIDN'T LIE. I CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR GODDAMN IGNORANCE.

>>388255227
Breenslug

>>388249259
https://youtu.be/-fXuEXeIruM

>>388255040
It was hinted at the end of HL2 when Breen's talking to the Advisors, and they tell him something about a host body

>>388255227
>Posting in a Half Life 3 leak thread without reading the leak

>>388255318
yeah but nowhere is it said that they're used as hard drives? or am I a brainlet?

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD5MVMIRJ0

Bang.

With an ending like that, where could the series possibly go from there? Humanity seems pretty fucked

>>388254003
The fractured, tiny remains of a long conquered planet. Most of who dont even know of the dyson sphere and surrounding empires existance, let alone reaching it or damaging it, struggling for what they once thought was just their planet. But He finds out that it's against a massive, interstellar legion, powerful enough to turn a larger star than ours into an engine.

He's not giving up, he's accepting.
Accepting that he's never been in control, he's only been pulled along by some higher power. Not some benevolent god, but a strange man in a suit with powers far beyond what Gordon can see.
Accepting that this last chance, this last minute ace in the hole, has accomplished nothing.
Accepting that he can do nothing to stop the combine.
Accepting that he has lost everything; Lost his world, his race, his fight, his benefactor. Lost even Alyx in the end.

He has accepted the end.

>>388254592
>we never found out what happened to Adrian Sheperd

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>>388249259
Either this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_Az-D-zDA
or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPeK0AVhQs

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>>388249259
>As Gordon on the Borealis slowly drifts itself into the Dyson Sphere, where it'll be crush against it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7s4-GcCitA

>>388250490
it can be even non-anything related (except for space - that's important)
i'd just go full-on kojima and license this one to play the full song, even if player chooses to save and quit the game.
https://youtu.be/cYMCLz5PQVw

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy61r3Qkm6o

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA_EuJ5H6Bo

>>388255396
breen was backed up onto a grub lol

>>388255247
Let's not get into that whole thing. Americans seem to call companies "it", as if they're an entity, whereas other places call a company "they", as it's a group of people working together.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8

>>388255040
>Combines are so dissinterested in Earth they don't even bother sending themselves to check on how them loyal earthlings deal with disloyal ones
Not like it matters. They are probably a digital civilization anyway.

Well

He did survive though

>>388255419
Obviously, to check what fucked up plan G-man had in store for Alyx to execute.

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>>388255247
>Valve used to have excellent sound design
Fixed.
The ones who were responsible for HL1's and 2's sound and OSTs are long gone. Just like everyone else involved in the development of those two games.

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So does humanity get to go free now that the only teleportation system they could use to go to and from Earth is destroyed?

>>388255396
The leak refers to it as a "biological blank" that the Combine put the "back up" of Breen's consciousness on.

>>388255468
Thanks for reminding me, what a great track

>>388255427
He accepted his fate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3kdyR2deJM

>>388255510
yea english is weird

>>388253357
This. One of the few games that genuinely made me feel bad.

>>388255650
We don't know.

>>388252415
It's technically not a game but this reminds me of that scene from The Protomen where Sniper Joe dies

>>388255650
Even if the Combine ultimately disassociated themselves from Earth and left it alone, the world still has Xen wildlife and refugees, and the Vortigaunts still roam while the Earth had an unknown amount of time to lick its wounds. In the end they'd of been free to take Half-Life 3 in many directions, from attempting to continue the fight against the Combine to going back down-to-Earth (no pun intended) and going a different route.

>>388255650

After the destruction of the Citadel there were still a fuck ton of Combine forces everywhere that the Resistance would have to mop up.

The plot of Half Life 3 would have had to center on some giant looming threat, though, so who knows. I doubt it.

>>388250765
spend more money on skins and hats. thanks for the money, dumb retards lmao

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPDCirqa04

So what was the gman? what did he want?

>>388252438
Grubman, he's an adult version of the advisors that hatched out of his grub body in to a non corporeal form

Is this

Is this one of the worst timelines?

>>388255650
Earth would be in a pretty fucked state regardless due to the Combine siphoning out resources for years on end.

>>388249259
>>388255554
>not Roygbiv or Olson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UYQqeLvHns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2a3G46x1D0

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbQ5sV-xvGM

perfection

>>388256112
Honestly it is a pretty bleak time line. I never knew Half Life was so dark

>>388256132
If we still take Portal 2 as canon, or hell, Chell even waking up around the same time Gordon arrives back on Earth, then it looks like Earth was able to restore itself to at least some degree. Took the near-extinction of the human race and the toppling of the Combine citystates over a few thousand years though.

>>388256226
this is pretty good, I might actually buy the game is rest of the soundtrack is like this.

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>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8-YH2Qkp0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdi96UtU-sA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVsjLPF5JaY

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBtlPT23PTM

The guitar work on this song is remarkable haunting.

>>388247251
Holy shit someone already drew this based off that writing last night?

>>388256251
Actually I was referring to our timeline, but what you said it's true.

>>388255579
Better, they're space ghosts that hatch out of the grubs

>>388256434
Looks like a SFM or Garry's mod screenshot with a dyson sphere art posted into the back. Still, good time.

>>388256434
less "drew" and more probably threw together a light, a ragdoll, a map and some greenscreen in Garry's Mod
the Dyson Sphere image is straight out of Google image search

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umH0ZpLaAwI

getting them Terminator 3 vibes

Hearing this from Gordon's perspective really fleshed out his character more than the games ever did. I never liked the silent protagonist approach.

>>388256076
We will never know. A double agent? A disssatisfied combine? A bored god? Another kardashev 2 civilization agent? None of the above? Who knows?

>>388256434

Well, the image of the Dypon Sphere is right off of google images and I'm pretty sure everything else is just a lightly photoshopped screenshot from a setpiece in gmod.

>The vastness of the Combine’s power, the futility of our struggle, blossomed briefly in my awareness.
They hint at it during the cage ride to the top of the citadel. It would've been great. Fuck gabe.

>>388256356
considering the combine and Aperture's own Borealis mutltiverse technology, how can we be sure that Chell's Earth and moon are the same as Gordon's? Some freaky shit had to happen at the Borealis drydock

>>388254003
Because the Combine aren't some evil empire with an evil overlord to topple at the end of your quest. They're a government, a society, a civilization so advanced that they effortlessly control entire universes.

Earth is the equivalent of some occupied third-world shithole to them. The head officials of the Combine government probably don't even know what the hell Earth is. The armies Gordon fought aren't even a fraction of their might. Those were the fucking grunts, the equivalent of the Combine Coast Guard. Nothing Gordon or the entirety of humanity has ever done in the span of the Half-Life games will even show up in the average Mr. Joe Slugman's morning paper on the Combine homeworld. Earth is probably below some fucking alien soap opera in terms of how prioritized by anyone it is. Gordon is nothing.

There's nothing he can do. There's nothing anyone can do. You can't win against something that doesn't even know you exist.

>>388256601
He's supposed to be you

>>388256360
The rest of a soundtrack is pretty much 30-40 percent original, with the rest from the original half life. Don't get your hopes up.

>the Combine are so advanced they can build a Dyson Sphere, just about the most absurd and impractical megastructure that exists
>they never figured out real intradimensional teleportation
>a bunch of humans trying to build better shower curtains did

>despite being a gargantuan interdimensional empire whose exploratory force curbstomped humanity in seven hours, they can't spare the forces to occupy the planet
>they let the woefully incompetent transhuman Overwatch forces deal with the search for the one technology the Combine prize above all others
>despite having the resources they do jack shit to advance their own goals for years and years until some meddler blows up their portal to Earth and the device they were searching for

Yeah, if you wanted me to despair at the might of the Combine and the utter insignificance of humanity in the face of their eternal empire, this was not the way to do it. They just come across as incompetent, wasteful retards now.

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>>388256685
True, it does feel like the interdimensional multiverse stuff was introduced to allow them to pick and choose what carries over between the two series.

>>388256730
Yea sorry but I'm not a doctor that worked at Black mesa and my name isn't gordon freeman
Fucking retard

>>388249259
diabolical adrenaline guitar bitch

>>388256819
S

Gordon will never find true love, will he? I thought him and Alyx would be a thing especially how Eli wanted them to be together

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>>388256380
ffs, if you gonna post Jesper Kyd tracks, at least pick up the one that actually fits for the ending
https://youtu.be/jIlJPvP-MmU
(although that doesn't fit one too)

Anybody who haven't chosen a prog rock singer, singing about the space, is a massive dWeeb faggot with no taste in anything they consume whatsoever

>>388254969
some /v/irgin made it today as he envisioned the text ending to half life 3

>>388256076
I always thought he was the agent of some supernatural or super advanced race. He meddled, but always had a clear objective (though not clear to us or Gordon), and is definitely not selfless or benevolent.

>>388254242
Just like Hitler

>>388256819
FUCK YOU ALEX VAUNTS YOU CUNT.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPeK0AVhQs

>>388256696
Most of the combine forces on Earth are actual humans after whatever modification their automatic surgery makes and the vehicles like striders and dropships are heavily implied to be cybernized creatures from other planets of the combine empire. Since everyone can be a slug there's also a chance that they are not combines either. Maybe there are no combines. Maybe Combines are truly multiracial government with heavy hierarchy. Humanity is at the bottom, but some species are at the top.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJjnbhSTuqQ

>>388256868
how can people so dumb be alive?

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2sBURgUBI

Are Marc's books any good? Any scifi novels quite like Half-Life but different enough to be its own thing? I feel empty right now and need to fill the void.

How big was the combine empire? Was that their only dyson sphere? If so, just get g-man to delete it.

>>388252421
>a faint roar can be heard from the sun along with very quiet but distinct bass-like clangs of metal from the dyson sphere. The clangs have a rhythm that get louder as the sun begins to blot out Gordons visions, the roar as load as possible, the Borealis shuttering and creaking madly.
Nah, make that mute too. The only sounds you hear is the Borealis shuttering, but it starts to make shaking and roaring noises gradually.

>>388257141
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USAQQnQzaSs


We're gonna carry that weight...

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>>388253357
THIS
Spoilers ahead
>Earth has been hit by an asteroid
>All you know is that nothing on the surface survived
>There was a colony at the bottom of the ocean that survived but they got involved with a cult and after uploading their consciousness they ended their own lives because they're stupid enough to think it would actually transport their consciousness that exists in their brain with it
>The people who did survive and didn't fall for the cult meme became victim to a violent AI obsessed with preserving life by erasing what makes people human through a nanomechanical cancerous infection
>You meet various AI throughout who have no idea how bad things are
>One of them is stranded on the ocean floor completely alone thinking it's in the AI paradise but it's uploaded to a single-unit hardware platform, leaving you with the option to pull its plug and if you do it lets out a heart-wrenching agonizing condemnation and scream like if you just tore her lungs out
>Even the marine life is compromised, so the only way you can preserve any kind of meaningful organic life on earth is by eliminating the AI, the only thing left that is capable of any strata of sentient thought
>You meet the last uncompromised human, who is on life support and watch her ramble away her last few moments before a natural death
>There's a room with pictures from the surface and it is truly a hellscape littered with bones and dust
>Knew you were a robot from the beginning, but had to watch your new robot consciousness die so you could start a new one that isn't you
>Send the platform into space knowing it'll only be up there for a thousand years before it's inoperable
>All those fake consciousnesses created just to live out a finite existence with no hope for a future in their artificial world or on the real Earth
>Ends with your idiot MC sperging out about the same things the cultists were and pissing off the only friend you had, leaving you completely alone on a dead planet

>>388252415
S O M A

>>388256601
He's still silent, it's a letter. I imagine in the game it could've been something like
>player is in control as Borealis slowly drifts towards the sphere
>the letter's text (trimmed, obviously, as we won't need to get the whole plot) starts scrolling in screen, the player slowly loses control functions and vision as Gordon is losing his consciousness
>scene changed, as the letter is held by the hands of the unknown resistance member
>he lets it go in the wind as we get the last panning shot of scorched Earth

But did he win?

This seems to fit with the latest info
https://youtu.be/KThlYHfIVa8

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>>388252415
Pathologic

>>388257236
If they're big enough to harness an entire star, they're fuckin massive, man.

>>388257417
nah, that was the Mass Effect 3 ending, this could have actually been great

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>>388256750
>and impractical
>the Romans lost to a bunch of feces throwing barbarians despite being the most advanced civilization of their time

>>388257393
Sorta.

>>388251212
I kek'd

>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 episode.

>>388257236
>If so, just get g-man to delete it.
The G-Man's intent doesn't seem to be the destruction of the Combine.
>Hired Gordon after he killed the Nihilanth
>Hired Alyx after she killed Mossman and basically destroyed the Borealis.

>>388257236
The G-Man just took your waifu, like hell he'd be willing to just poof the problems away without some mysterious machinations. Not to mention some anons theorize that they've got more than one Dyson Sphere across the universe.

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>>388250765
>inevitable response

https://youtu.be/zLyJP_nH5Cs

Never ever.

Thanks, dota and csgo.

>>388255039
This. For all that friendly talk, Gaben is extremely petty.

FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR DYSON SPHERE

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>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH4sNHewzGw&list=PL34D3BCBECE15374D&index=32

I just realized. Gordon was only in control of half his life, the rest was all preplanned by forced beyond his control.

Also, Freeman in the end isn't a "free man" after all

>>388257513
>being so retarded you try and compare a Dyson Sphere to any level of advancement on Earth
By the time you've gotten there, you've basically finished science. One planet and its inhabitants are nothing to you. You're on the cosmic scale where even stars are just fodder for the materials you need to keep building.

Why the fuck did they stop at 2.2?
That ending was brutal. It'd have cemented half life as one of the greatest stories in vidya instead of le cinematic corridor meme
why didn't they just make it?

>>388257187
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM

>>388257236
At least several enslaved worlds + solar system with dyson sphere. "Several" are most likely several thousands, if not millions or even billions, considering they don't really "occupy" the Earth with their own forces, but use Earth citizens to occupy themselves. They probably do this just because of how immense their empire is, so they try to cut down costs on actual troops as much as possible, while trying to rectuit locals to police themselves. The solar system with a dyson sphere is questionable though, it can be 1 or it can be many. Even with the one system, they can have billions of rotating habitats living off solar energy, so they outnumber a planet with Earth like population billions to one, probably even more, at that's the least of estimates.

>>388253685
so how is he breathing in the vaccum of space?

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>>388247251
Could you imagine having a level designed around non-euclidean geometry and temporal effects. The puzzles could have been insane and while people would question whether it was physically possible, I'd like to point out that it's something that modders experimented with on source engine using the code for portals and rendering projections back in 2011.

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

Just imagine exploring a level and losing yourself because none of the architecture makes sense.

>>388257801
>Also, Freeman in the end isn't a "free man" after all

Welcome to last decade

Ok ok, let's be serious here.

Is there ANY remote possibility of Valve making Half-life 3?

>>388257323
that last one i particularly enjoy - you start off hearing ramblings of absolute madman and his reasoning of why it is okay to kill oneself, go on a journey that practically depicts the results of his reasoning, end up (as a player) genuinely sidining with him, even partially (tell me you didn't run "drainbattery.exe")

>>388257236
Breen refers to them as the UNIVERSAL Union at one point, and they're capable of making a Dyson Sphere, you figure it out

>>388254698
Good choice this.
Bear in mind also that the guy who composed this track - and the soundtrack to HL2 - left Valve around the same time as Laidlaw.

>>388257815
>That ending was brutal. It'd have cemented half life as one of the greatest stories in vidya instead of le cinematic corridor meme
>le cinematic corridor meme
Why do people even say this shit? There's one hour of cutscenes total from all of 2 along with the episodes in a 17 hour plus game atleast.

Anyone else feel bad for Gordon in the end being betrayed by the closest thing he ever had to a love interest throughout the series? Fuck...

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUrJSgDppd0

>>388257513
the romans were a few million dudes with swords and aqueducts against slightly less dudes with swords and no aqueducts who lived a few hundred miles north

this is a ragtag group of human survivors who basically just managed to invent railguns against a civilization from another dimension that commands more power than if you took earth and turned all the mass into pure energy

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>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVQ3-Xe_suY

>>388258108
Eh.
Alyx always had untrustworthy vibes.

>>388257641
That's one of my favorite triage at dawn remixes

>>388257905
sound frustrating
antichamber wasn't much fun

>>388257801
Gordon Freeman also shares half of his name with the man that coined the concept of the Dyson Sphere: Freeman Dyson, who happens to be a physicist and mathematician. One of Freeman's concept names was even Dyson Pointcare.

To humanity, the Freeman was the one free man, the opener of the way. But in reality, he was just a facet of the future, synonymous with the sheer power of the Combine and the hopelessness of the human race as but a molecular speck in comparison.

>>388258250
I guess I misred her. She seemed sweet

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9hagVL-__c

I recognize this feeling....

>>388248267
There are so many better ways how the gman could have handled that.

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>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR4etOI2-2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZh_IVW5CdY
Only answers

>>388258340
Name some

There's some feeling of catharsis in a game with despair.

>>388257901
Because it was in space and on earth at the same time, didnt you read it?

>>388257924
No

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>the batshit insane CEO that huffed moon dust and put his waifu in a computer accidentally created an interdimensional battle boat

>>388258435
A new Segway, Space Emperor Supreme

>>388258108
>>388258250
>>388258292
she's being directly controlled by gman. did you forget the events of the last two games? alyx isnt going to shoot someone in the back of the head brehs. she was raised by a kind, gentle man

>>388247251
why is alyx such a bitch

someone give me a tl;dr of the story, I'm sleepy as fuck atm and about to conk off.

>>388258479
Especially after waiting so long. I knew after Ep2 shit was about to get real. To actually see it happen is a relief

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>>388255650
>combine are humans from the future in a different dimmension sent to the past of our dimmension to stop us incase we get too big for our britches

>>388258435
ZA WARUDO!

>>388258087
not cutscenes, scripted events nigga
half life is fucking full of em

>>388258556
Aperture was a shower curtain manufacturer when they started out.
Everything they've done was out of pure luck.

Did anyone actually like Mossman? She seemed like the bitch to me

>>388257053
Fuck, Space Oddity would fit pretty well. Maybe an instrumental version so it doesn't break the immersion too much.

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>>388258283
ohhh.
oooohhhhhhh.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

>>388258592
The Combine are too big to ever beat

>>388258263
antichamber probably wasn't fun because the entire game was built around the gimmick and then it quickly got old. As a set piece, it would work great though.

>>388258735
I honestly don't know which side she's on to this day. Very enjoyable ambiguous double agent.

>>388258732
Who the fuck calls a shower curtains manufacter "Aperture" by the way?

>>388251331
That won't matter in the slightest because Valve is not a video game developer, they are a video game distributor.

Bashing their past products is a completely futile effort, much like Gordon running the Borealis into the Dyson Sphere. Pottery.

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>>388256425
Days of Candy would be my pick, it's more fitting lyrically and in tone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhJpXouayE4

>A world inside you
>No faltered ground
>My natural one
>The rising sun
>Live in your mind

>I know it comes too soon
>The universe is riding off with you

>>388252580
>freshman-level mechanical ruleset for easily criticising writing without thinking

>>388256507
ZOMBIE GHOSTS

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>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF1cjFL3u0w

>>388257815
>le do what you want policy
>muh monetization

>>388258631
What single player games don't have scripted events?

>>388258735
shes a better person than alyx

>>388258864
curtains open.
Aperture is a latin bastardization of "opening"

which also doubles as a pun about portals

>>388258732
Maybe it was Guided luck.

>>388258864
It's the aperture to your shower and heart anon.

>>388258864
The same kind of guy whose shower curtain company gets into a rivalry with a top secret government research facility

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>>388258935
wait, ignore that one, the edit is shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8dRJDzYNN0

So Steam is the Dyson Sphere right?

>>388257696
That's not too impossible to do. Dyson sphere's have more people, industrial capacity and power than an entire galaxy's worth of earth civilisations.

However, that much power also lets you do some interesting things. Assuming the dyson sphere has the ability to make kugelblitz's (black holes made from light), it would be possible to destroy this thing completely by destroying the star at the core.

The combine is an interdimensional empire, not an interplanetary one. It expands by conquering alternate universe versions of itself. Destroy the solar system's center star in the original universe and the empire is shattered.

>>388251331
Literally everyone owns all the games they've made already.

>>388258809
nah, antichambers failure was in making 90% of the game about block puzzles and out of the 10% of the game that were escheresque at least half of that was just a neat visual effect that didn't involve any puzzle solving, like the 4d art gallery or that 3600 degree turn (which basically amounted to "go left")

>>388248267
A better ending than Crysis 3 that actually would keep with its message.

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>>388258746
yes it absolutely would, as it also starts uplifting, goes through several stages of mellowing and inevitably ends nowhere - nobody can beat the space
in fact, some poor bastard has already posted it >>388255456

>>388259056
no, that'd be us, anon

>>388259056
Yes, and we're the Freeman

Damn. Was Barney the only trustworthy friend Gordon had? By the way, what happened to that loveable oaf?

>>388258735
Both Alyx and Mossman were bitches in their own way.
But Mossman turned out to be significantly smarter in her methodology than Alyx

Explain to me what was so bad about the Combine.
They enslaved humanity? So what, most people are fucking cunts.
If you actually joined them, you gained immense benefits - cybernetic augmentations for the soldiers, and for the intellectual leaders (like Breen) a chance to discover new worlds, new dimensions and new knowledge.
Who really cares if Earth is enslaved, if you get to join the ranks of the slavers?

>>388258746
i'd run with lyrics for the end credits, when everything would finally have its bitter closure

What exactly are the Combine, again?

>>388259037
>that entire kit is a taste of Half Life 3's music if it had ever happened
Man, Valve is a fucking joke. I'm starting to like EA more than them.

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>that alternate dimension where Cave Johnson buys out Black Mesa and stops their anomalous materials research before it causes a resonance cascade

A moment for the true saviour of humanity

>>388252415
The Witch's house.

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>>388259169
I wonder who's behind this post...

>>388259236
aliens that are set on conquering the entire universe, maybe they are trying to fight against the G Man and whoever he works for too, perhaps they were the good guys all along, we will never know

>>388252415
LISA

Like... Fuck...

>>388258735

She was literally the only character I liked in HL2 because she was the only one that wasn't either worshiping Gordon Freeman (i.e. the player) or fearful of him from second one. And for that she's a villain. The pandering of HL2 to player ego was pathetic.

>>388259143
Actually, hold on. I forgot about Blue Shift. If it's canon, then isn't Barney also a G-Man puppet? Fuck...

>>388259169
*tips*

so, Aperture's portal gun can actually travel through space and time (probably)
nice
Also, I remember hearing Cave Johnson talking about encountering your own old self in the old test chambers in Portal 2. I thought it was just a easter egg joke

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>>388257931
>As a player
Speak for yourself. If you had a clone, would you just jump in a meat grinder because there's another you?

MC had the world to himself, Catherine and any other AI they wanted for company. It didn't stop him before, and he's a prime candidate for life on land, so why not make the most of it?

I used to have an existentialist friend who was like that... "W-Well why should I do anything if I'm going to die one day?" citing how small we are in the universe. We're more valuable than anything else in the universe, though, because we are the only things in the universe that can comprehend our surroundings and ponder stupid questions like "Wh-Why?" We are the brain of the universe. The only glittering speck that gives any of it value, because brown dwarfs and supermassive black holes are just matter and energy driven by nothing but their surroundings. It's true, we're at their mercy. They're great, and we're small. But without us, they're not great. Without the human phenomenon of comparison, they just "are."

>>388247251
>HL3 Fanmode is made
>Made by the autists from FakeFactory

Something large and vast still has weaknesses. Supply lines, resources, energy. Maybe taking out the dyson sphere severely energy depletes them and they fall just from that. Like how a brain can't last 3 minutes without oxygen because every cell is dependent on ATP to maintain its cell wall or how a small dose of poison can destroy a whole human. He should've been able to find a way if g-man was still helping him. He just gives up though.

>>388258746
something like this?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3k4wAAAQU

>>388251873
>>388250203

fuck off joss whedon

>>388259143
Kleiner

>>388259393
i, as a clone, have killed my previous incarnation to end its misery

>>388251331
>check the reviews on Valve's games. They're getting hammered.
lol check again
the dota 2 fans are "fighting back".
There's a bunch of new positive reviews of dota 2 to counter the negative.

Shit some even just put "asdf" without even bothering to say anything

>>388259457
>Hey, yeah, about that cat

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRLSolM2YHc

kill me

>>388259371
Barney was useful for G-Man's exploits but I doubt he considers him as important as Gordon or Adrian considering how he lets him go in the end

>>388259169
Should've just given them the Borealis and said fuck the G-Man

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO2OB5u5j5Y

>>388259371
Barney was never contacted by the Gman even in Blue Shift.

>Subject: Calhoun
>Status: Out of Ranger
>No further comment.

>>388259393
you didn't answer what did you do with your previous copy? Did you just leave it sitting in that room, leaving it on station to turn into mad piece of dead meat with metal rods for bones?

>>388259062
>destroy a entire civilization over losing control of 1 planet in bum-fuck-nowhere

>>388258930
LEAVE THIS PLACE

>>388259137
We never had a chance to begin with...

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Ut5uyd3cw
Because I enjoy Jason Graves' stuff.

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Why the fuck does freeman think it's futile? The combine's teleportation technology sucked ass enough for them to try to steal it from humans but kept getting cucked by freeman before they could successfully replicate it, now with the borealis probably wiped from existant they don't even have a chance to conquer earth anymore
or maybe I'm just retarded

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>>388258735
I just wanted to fuck her and Alyx forever. Didn't really care for her personality but I liked her.

>>388252415
Muv Luv Alternative unironically.
BETA are so numerous they would dwarf combines by comparison. Hell, they dwarf Tyranids by comparison. They probably dwarf every civilization in every sci fi media, combined. Imagine 400 billion giant fucking insects the size of elephant at the very least on Earth. Now imagine 400 billions of them in every star system in our galaxy. Now imagine 400 billions of galaxies full of beta. This is less than a half of a percent of their total population, and THATS THE LEAST OF ESTIMATES BASED ON THE IDEA THAT FAN LOCALIZATION WAS WRONG. In actual game the number is billions upon billions is bigger.

>>388259497
what the fuck. We truly are lost then.

>>388250765
Gordon is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMEokosRV44
fits it too

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>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwkO1y4bTEE

>>388259661
But they couldn't leave because they were zombie ghosts :'(

>>388259687
>billions
>big number
hello brainlet

>>388259671
He doesn't think it's futile. He just thinks "damn they are fucking powerful, so powerful that our most powerful weapon is nothing to them" I doubt they had any plans to make gordon go full black bill and blow a bullet in his head.

>>388249259
Definitely some Mogwai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dORHW9Cg4

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>>388252421
Just cut the vortigaunts saving Gordon entirely.
Let the players think Gordon died.

It's perfect. The ultimate despair ending.

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>>388259718

But what about Guts

Is he gonna be able to defeat the Godhand?

>>388259661
But this is our house : (

>>388259718
fuck you gman

>>388259620
The combine is not an interplanetary empire. What part of this don't you get? They do not expand to other star systems within their universe, they expand to alternate universe Earths. The Combine home system has developed into a Dyson Sphere. Destroying it would severely weaken the empire.

>>388259598
My mistake. It's been so long since I played it. I must be thinking of the other expansion

>>388259424
>Maybe taking out the dyson sphere severely energy depletes them and they fall just from that.
yeah lets just take out the biggest known object in the universe, how hard could it be?

>>388252438
Gabe Newell

>>388249259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKFDYdaSyng&t=1516s

>>388258223
you have no idea what you are talking about, Redditard.
>>388257808
next thing you will try to make a food analogy.
take away your internet connection and you will shit your pants violently. you are overestimating technological advancement, you lardass filthy pig, wailing in your own piss and shit while waiting for freshly made hot pockets from your microwave you neither built nor invented.
the more advanced a civilization gets, the more dependent on its technological progress and overall less capable it becomes.
all you need is the knowledge to split atoms to wreck up shit, no matter how many dyson spheres someone can pull out from his ass. it's all physics based you inward assfart.