/hldg/ - Half Life Demise General

hows that rust can a luxury liner

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>What did you feel yesterday, closure or an even deeper grief?
I liked having some hope, now that that is gone I don't know what to do.

>>388339914
Probably another coded term, the Borealis is just a regular icebreaker.

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All this means is that one particular idea for HL3 is shelved, or was ignored. You may see a continuation to HL3 one idea with similar ideas, or different ones.

No surprise on the "HL3 isn't being worked on" front - We all but already knew that

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>>388339794
I sympathise with Valve. They obviously don't want to release a new Half Life unless it's groundbreaking, and they obviously just couldn't figure out where FPS can really go from here to have incredibly fresh gameplay. 'muh story' fags are cancer.

It's amazing how many people always said 'I don't care about the game, just tell me how the story ends so that I can have closure'. They've gotten exactly what they asked for and now they're all crying

>>388339914
"Luxury liner" is obviously part of the code.

>>388339794
>Generals
>on /v/

>>388339794
>What did you feel yesterday, closure or an even deeper grief?
Tbh I thought the ending was perfect. The Combine being hilariously Godly overpowered was obvious from the beginning, but now that they're cut off from Earth it's implied that the forces still stranded there will eventually get defeated by the humans anyway, so it's a bittersweet ending that essentially puts an end to the HL2 story arc and let's them do something completely different in the next game if they want to, sort of like how HL2 was completely different from the first in terms of setting. I don't think the last paragraph is part of the story, I think the vorts just save Freeman and that's it.

>how will Valve respond?
They won't say anything. They're probably secretly relieved.

>sticky finally gone

thank God

>>388340467
Also if they ever do make HL3, they can tell the story of ep. 3 through flashbacks or some shit and only include the most important parts.

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As much as I'd love a playable game, I am happy with how it ended. It was actually pretty awesome.

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>>388340517
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my shitposting threads got curved by acutal discussion wahhhhhhh wahhhh wahhhhhh

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>>388339794
I'm happy to know how it would end, especially since they would probably never release it anyway, but at the same time I'm sad that I won't experience this in the game. Dyson sphere and Gordon's ultimate despair would have given me such wonderful chills.
So I guess what I feel is a beautiful sadness.

>>388340705
More like my threads got curved by wah wah wahhhhhhh

>>388340179
That "Groundbreaking" excuse is pathetic, considering the state of FPSs in the last few years.

Look at Wolfenstein, Doom, Titanfall 2, SUPERHOT!

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I still cant believe its over

>>388339794
Just started another play-through from Half-Life through to episode 2, to give the series its swan-song. It's been so long I had almost forgotten how good these games actually were.

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>>388340964

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We'll never see this

>>388340179
But they don't even make games anymore, they just milk Dota 2, TF2 e CS:GO nowadays.

>shitty series ended with shitty fanfic story

pffffffffffftttttttttttttttahahahahahahahaahaha

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>>388341285
or this

>>388340179
The finale was a fucking blog post summary. It's like if Final Fantasy 7 stopped after Midgar and then 10 years later it ended with a 400 word summary saying about "oh yeah, and then Sephiroth ascended with one wing, and he summoned a meteor, and it was cool, anyway bye"

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gaming is dead to me

>>388341407
>tfw Beta Hl2 was a million times better

>>388341234
Accurate, that's what you've been doing for the last 2 days.

October 9th will be the 10 year anniversary of the Orange Box. Valve might be doing something by then. If not, they can fuck off forever.

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>/v/ in the year of our lord 2017
>actually talking about Half-Life instead of spouting baseless memes like "that they aged like shit" or "they were just shitty tech demos"
>people actually made OC

What the fuck happened?

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>>388341407
or this

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>>388341609
>Episode 2 is almost 10 years old

Literally no one but neckbears care about this game.

>>388341642
Why would Breen be made into an advisor? All he did was fuck everything up.

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>>388341642
Ep3 happened in a way
pic related

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>>388341682
Raising the bar was well worth it

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>>388340604
>flashback cutscenes

>>388340604
>flashbacks
>in half-life
yeah no

Also, the 3 episodes ARE half-life 3 you idiot
it's not like valve repeatedly said that for nearly one and a half decade

>>388340179
VR is now approachong mass market prizes-they could try to pull another steam maneuver

>>388341797

at least we're old enough to grow beards

>>388342321
>Also, the 3 episodes ARE half-life 3 you idiot
No they aren't, they're HL2 expansions in the same way Opfor and Blue Shift were HL expansions. They're pretty much identical games but with different maps.

Don't be so fucking sense

>>388342534
*dense

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For years i told you that HL3/Episode 3 was never gonna happen.

Well here you are now.
I don't feel sorry for any of you.

You deserve this monster.

>>388342534
But Gabe mentioned it was. He kept the two in it because the episodes werent a big enough improvement over 2

did he change that?

>>388342534
>ignores literally every interview valve ever gave on this topic
bad bait

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Reminder that humanity would not be lost. As much as tremendum et fascinans is cool and ending with a bittersweet lovecraftian ending full of despair would be a great way to end the franchise...

>“You have friends. Allies. I have heard their chatter. I have heard them spoken of. This should give you hope. Nothing can be without flaw. The superstructure is riddled with cracks. THEY are vulnerable. THEY are compromised. I am “living” proof.”

The Shu'ulathoi (advisors) are a really powerful and intelligent race kept in a larval state somehow, presumably with the same technology as the Supression Field.

>“A desperate few encysted, deeper, thrust themselves into trances that would endure hundreds of thousands of years. They sleep still. And fewer still took flight. By what means I cannot comprehend…I am not that much one of them. Little of this knowledge is shared or shareable. But they flew/fled.”

But anyway, if it ends like this I'm quite happy. It reminds me of being obsessed with HL2 beta and all its lore. The art, mods and theories that come from these revelations is way better than if the game ended up being shit.

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Oh, nice.

Yesterday opened some old wounds for me; I wasn't upset about episode 3 any more, but now there's nothing I want more than another game set in the HL/Portal universe.

On the bright side, I started playing the series again, and everything's just as great as I remember.

>>388339794
happy to have a conclusion, and really impressed by it, would have love to play it but guess i've to be happy with what i already got

>>388343231
Exactly how I feel, my friend! It sounded so good...

>>388340092
>>388340241
i dont get it

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>>388342847
>He kept the two in it because the episodes werent a big enough improvement over 2.
Exactly, it was a cheap cop-out. The episodes, as I've already said, are expansion pack tier and in no way qualify as a new HL game, and assuming GabeN and the rest of valve did actually claim the episodes were meant to be 3, they're always aware of how bullshit an answer this is. A game that is as much of an improvement over HL2 as HL2 was over HL will count as HL3.

>>388342862
>m-muh interviews!
>no links
Shut the fuck you mongoloid. If you actually think the episodes are worthy of being called 'Half-Life 3', you're clinically retarded and are being played by valve like the brainless drone you are.

Contribute a useful post already for fuck's sake.

>>388342952
dude...why did u put ur penis in that picture...

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>yfw their fucking logo looks like a dyson sphere kind of

>half life died before becoming full life

lol

>>388343759
I honestly think this is what they would've gone for if they tried to make the ending for ep 3. It would have been a fitting send-off for the Combine.

>>388340179
i'm not crying, i'm incredibly happy about the story finally getting released
we already knew broad strokes of it from all the dirt digging people have done over the years and it's nice to know that they were right
i stopped caring about whether they'd do episode 3 years ago, i just wanted to know how it ends and now i do

>>388343759
their logo is most likely to represent how they take over worlds

it's the universal union

>they protecc
>they attacc

So basically G Man was making sure we didn't try to fuck with things beyond our comprehension?

>>388343604
Just because you weren't alive when the episodes were released doesn't mean the guy you're responding to isn't right.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/i_valve_060606
>Probably a better name for it would have been Half Life 3: Episode One, but these three are what we're doing as our way of taking the next step forward, but Half-Life 2 was the name we used.

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>>388340179

i didnt fucking need 'groundbreaking' shooting. I just needed good shooting and a fucking finished story.

I'm sure there are at least a dozen modders and game devs working on an unofficial Episode 3 based on this script.

>>388341175

>not waiting until december when black mesa source is finally complete

Missed your chance mate

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLyJP_nH5Cs&t=196s

>>388343831
>>388343908
That's the Black Mesa model, right?

>>388343971
>Just because you weren't alive when the episodes were released doesn't mean the guy you're responding to isn't right.
You mean you?

As I've already said, I don't give a fuck what valve claim, because anyone with eyes can see that ep1 and ep 2 are expansions to HL2.

>>388341115
I dropped this series because of this character. Why does pedoshit have to infest every anime?

>>388340863
This. The line where he speaks about the cosmic glance at a glistening dyson sphere is one of the best lines of writing I've ever read.

To experience that in a game would've given everyone such chills that would've let the game go down in history, not that it wouldn't have already.

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PAY
FOR
MY
HATS

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>>388339794
HL3 story leaked, Jontron uploads a new video and it's my birthday.
What a day.

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>>388343961
The Gmans true purpose:
Gman is an ultimate time lord, and wants to prevent any other species from reaching his power level.
There are three species that have time/space travel: humans, Vortigaunts, and Combine. Each species have limited powers but if any two were to be combined it would be extremely powerful and disasterous.
The Combines tech is the weakest, they just use existing portals (Xen to Earth, the portal storms on Earth)
Vortigaunts have the most powerful time/portal tech, closest to Gmans powers, and it comes natively to them through telepathic connection in large groups.
The Combine enslaved Vortigaunts, tried to learn their tech or force them to use it, Vortigaunts escaped to Xen, then to Earth.
The humans tech has the most potential for instantaneous time and space travel.

Basically, Gmans plan is to bring all three races together, and have them destroy each others portal tech
Humans destroyed the Combines portal to Earth, they probably will never find Earth again and all the soldiers on Earth will be killed by Resistance
Alyx destroyed humanitys best portal tech, the Borealis
only thing left to do is kill all Vortigaunts
HL3 will be Gman and Alyx vs Gordon and Vortigaunts

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>>388341325

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>>388343650
t. woman who never saw a penis

>>388343983
Nice reddit meme

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>>388344379
>The line where he speaks about the cosmic glance at a glistening dyson sphere is one of the best lines of writing I've ever read.
You're borderline illiterate in that case

Why did you look for deeper meaning in a FPS series?

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>>388344157
You're being paranoid, i'm phoneposting so i didn't give any links, that was another anon
But seeing how you value your headcanon more than official sources there is no point in further discussion.

I'm sad we missed out on experiencing setpieces like the Borealis phasing in and out of time, the befuddling time-twisting shootout on the ship itself, and of course the impossibly massive Dyson sphere coming into view.

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>yfw Dr Breen was right all along.

>>388340156
Without the original writer, any HL3 being made now would not really be HL3. Just like FF15 is not FF VS13

>>388339794
It just doesn't feel right anymore. It's no more dead than it was yesterday but it doesn't feel right to not be waiting anymore.

>>388341642
Half-Life is a great franchise from before the fall. Why would you epxect people to shit on it?

This "ending" gives us even more unanswered questions. Fuck it all to hell m8

>>388344869
>Why would you epxect people to shit on it?

Because plenty of people here do exactly that

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>valve STILL hasn't said anything
fucking cowards

>>388344240
Why is that character design bad?

I don't get how they chose to continue building it up by including the Borealis in Portal 2. Hell, connecting everything to Aperture too.

>>388341175
Is it worth getting Blue shift and Opposing Force? I never played them hoping for a day that Episode 3 would finally be announced and I could play through everything once again with those 2 games as icing on top.

Now that I know that will never happen is it even worth it?

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>four games of "We can beat them, we can push them back, we're winning" ending with everything falling to pieces around you as it bricks you with a reminder that you were fighting an empire that conquered the planet in seven hours, and you just gave away humanity's only possible hope to accomplish the equivalent of a bug hitting someone's windshield

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>>388340179
>It's amazing how many people always said 'I don't care about the game, just tell me how the story ends so that I can have closure'. They've gotten exactly what they asked for and now they're all crying
Well I was one of those Closurefags, I mean I cared about the games deeply but when asked why I wanted a sequel I would say I want the main plot to be concluded.

With that said while I like knowing how Laidlaw would have finished the game it's still not satisfying because it's not a game, or even a short novella that allows my mind to fully process the story. It's just a summary.

So saying we got the "story" is like saying you can get the story by just reading a film's summary on Wikipedia. And while that can be amusing its obviously not the same thing.

I'm gonna make my own Half-Life 2 Episode 3. With strippers and blackjack, and fully modeled vulvas!

>>388344807

Not him, but Half Life 2 EP 1 and 2 were just DLC to Half Life 2. If you watch many interviews from Gabe, he stated this many times. Half Life 3 is the true finale, and so we will never know how it all ends.

>>388341946
>>388341946
I was working with Valve back in 2008 and as a souvenir I keep the Raising the bar book signed by pretty much whole Orange Box team. Is it worth anything nowadays?

By the way, Half-Life 3 pretty much turned in a sandbox space MMO akin to Eve online and Star Citizen last time I heard any news about it, I'm not even shitting you. Eventually it was redesigned to be a separate game in the same universe (as Portal was), not sure if it's still in the works.

>>388345037

What the fuck are they supposed to say? Absolutely nothing good would come out of acknowledging it

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just let it go and move on, jesus christ, stop being so melodramatic over this

>>388344807
>But seeing how you value your headcanon more than official sources
That's not what I said. I said that valve were clearly exaggerating how innovative the expansions were to get more people to buy them and to publicize them.
>official sources
Lmao shut the fuck up. That was an interview, clearly designed to advertise the expansions and get as many people as possible to buy them, so of course he's going to make up stupid shit like 'yeah this is totally Half-life 3 guis xD' if he can get away with it. it was also an almost plausible excuse for why Valve still haven't bothered to make a proper HL3.
>there is no point in further discussion.
Agreed, because you're arguing a retarded point and are objectively wrong.

>>388345004
They're just baiting for replies. Many of them are probably underbaits who never played any HL game to begin with.

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>>388345389

>official statement vs banal garbage some spastic drone on /v/ posts

bzZt think

So the Seven Hour War was the equivalent of some American farmers wiping out an Amerindian village with pitchforks instead of actually engaging the full might of the US military?

>>388339794
>generals
>on /v/
You need to leave

>>388345356
Fuck you. It's been a decade. Instead of a month of constant talk over the final released game we get a weekend. This is happening.

>>388345545
>accusing me of typing 'banal garbage'
Either you have zero self-awareness or you're a mediocre troll.

Either way kill yourself. I explained why describing an off-hand remark made in an interview as an 'official statement', especially within that context, is retarded, and you're a retard if you can't grasp that.

>>388345708
>It's been a decade

exactly, it's time to move on already

>>388345581
No because you're too dumb to imagine the full force of all of earth's major countries fighting an enemy for seven hours and being destroyed in the course of that time with Dr. Breen using his position to surrender Earth at the seven hour mark.

>>388345118
If you like the original HL they are well worth it
OF is very beloved
just be aware that BS didn't add much content because it included a complete visual overhaul that the steam versions of the other games are also updated with now on steam

It's more how Gabe has completely avoided even Saying Half Life in years. Taking care to tiptoe around it entire.

>>388345337
>muh dlc buzzword


>>388345341
Can you provide any sort of proof?

>>388345389
Dude, hl 3 or episode 3 doesnt matter, those are just words
valve considered the 3 episodes to be a complete whole that is the successor to hl2 and that is what matters
literally how does the term dlc change anything

>>388345084
It turns young men into gay pedophiles.

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This is literally fanfiction you dumb niggers.

>>388345796

just because you explained something doesnt mean anyone is going to take your word for it

im not going to take the word of some shit poster over an official statement, similarly im not going to take some HL3 fanfiction ending for canon over what the lead writer of the series has written

enjoy having your ego shattered, autist, and enjoy never getting "half life 3" as you consider it

>>388346248
You're the dumb nigger here

>>388345429
who the hell thinks this looks good

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>>388339794
Been playing every Valve/Half-Life related thing since the news broke.

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>>388346306
I can tell just by the way that you type that you're a fucking imbecile.

Again, please kill yourself, and fast.

Can we get the good ol' map and SDK creatives to get HL3 made?

>>388346248
>fanfiction
>by the lead writer
What separates fanfiction from canon for you?

>>388340179
>moving the goalpoast

>>388346467

keep counting the hours until half life 3 comes out, friend. maybe when you hit your deathbed you'll realize a life of denial wasn't quite a life worth living

i doubt it, though, you delusional mongoloid

>>388344512
Happy birthday anon

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>>388340179
>I sympathise with Valve

>>388343971
SAVAGE

>>388339794
I hope someone is autistic and triggered enough by this to murder Gaben for HL3 never happening and plays with his stinking, fatass lard. I want Steam's cancerous monopoly to end and redditors to leave 4chink.
Monetarized hats and crates and weapons skins should never have been a thing.

>>388346505
people on reddit are planning on making something based off what Marc wrote

>>388346521
He's no longer employed, so his writings don't mean shit

>>388341285
We have the models for that.

>>388341609
orange box 2 hd remake

>>388346872
>reddit
It will be wonderfully shit I can't wait.

I knew it was over when Laidlaw left two years ago. It's just nice to get what would have been Episode 3's story if it ever came out. Would have been cool.

>>388346875
It's literally all we'll get in terms of any kind of closure.

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>>388346062
>Can you provide any sort of proof?
Sure

As far as I know my NDA for most of the stuff I worked on has already expired and I never signed anything about some other things that I just were told about by co workers, so if there's anything you'd like to know please let me know. I don't know much tho

>>388346872
>reddit
Fug

>>388339794
HL3 will be the flagship game for their VR and will be VR only, forcing people to buy it, mark my fucking words.

>>388340179
You're retarded. Neither Half Life 1 or 2 were "groundbreaking", they were great First Person Shooters. That's it.

>>388347108
Everything.

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>>388347108
and some other signatures

I didn't do any core stuff, I was just one of the many outside people which are used to help with the less fun part of the projects (translations, in my case)

>>388347105
That doesn't make it official you donut

>>388347108
Where's the signature page?

>>388347203
t. underage

>>388347108
what does the big pink cookie tastes like?

>>388347108
>10/26/2017
Are you from the future?

>>388347310
>>388347283

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Are there any fun mods for half-life 2 that add to the experience? I'm going to replay it for the 4th or 5th time.

>>388347283
>>388347310
O shid nevermind

>>388347284
It's official as long as Valve continues doing nothing but milking Dota 2 and CSGO

>>388347108
How far along into production was EP3 before it got canceled? Why did it get canceled?

Please respond your LARPing faggot

>People thinking that would have been the conclusion
You morons, that was obviously the set up for the actual Half Life 3.
But you fucks just had to ruin it by buying god damn hats.

>>388347203
yeah I played them 2 years ago too anon!

>>388347424
No, it isn't.

>>388344828
Then why the fuck would people keep asking for it? This board complains when soulless cash ins are made without an original creator being present but that's exactly what they want with hl3.

>>388345341
>I keep the Raising the bar book signed by pretty much whole Orange Box team. Is it worth anything nowadays?

I'll give you five bongs for it

>>388339794
I'm glad I finally got the answers I wanted after all these years, but I'm upset we got it through a blog post rather than the game itself.

>>388341415
that LITERALLY happened, it's called advent children.

>>388347494
DUDE

>>388347385
Minerva is probably one of the better ones. You can find a bunch on Steam and probably even more on ModDB (does anyone even use that anymore?)

>>388347468
Ok Gabe, can you make the game already if you insist on telling me what is and isn't official?

>>388345389
Not that guy, but i remember Valve constantly saying that the episodes were 3 as well.
I'd provide links but anything gabe newell or haf-life just gives me pages of reposts of that crowbcat video on google.

Then again, that is kinda the logical way to look at it - they are a continuation of hl2 in terms of story and technology, so yes, they are a sequel.
The only differemce you make in your head is drawing an arbitrary line of what a "real game" is like when games are literally just an iterative process with no finished state.

>>388344240
Marulk is a very sweet young girl(boy), dont be mean to him

>>388345896
Your response makes no sense given the context of the post you linked to.

>>388339794
>>>/vg/

>>388347283
Is what Marc Laidlaw revealed true?
Is there any hope for HL3?

>>388347283
I'll give you fifty bucks + shipping for it.

>>388347108
Do you know how the calendar works?

>>388347554
there were 3 more discs to the base game brah

>>388345341
>Half-Life 3 pretty much turned in a sandbox space MMO akin to Eve online and Star Citizen last time I heard any news about it,
Stars of Barathrum, Marc Laidlaw said it was fake when he was still working at Valve.

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>tfw you realize we could have gotten this literally ten years ago

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>>388339794
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
IT
WAS
OURS

F*CK YOU VALVE WE'RE GONNA TAKE IT BACK
SIGN MY PETITION WE'LL MAKE THEM PAY FOR MESSING WITH THE H*CKING MASTER RACE

>>388347203
J-jon snow?

>>388345257
Even then what we got wasn't a conclusion to the series, just "HL2".

WHERES L4d3 YOU FUCKS.

>>388347789
it's 10 years valve time though

>>388347836
>consolefags trying to start a consolewars shit flinging contest at the drop of a hat
Pathetic.

>>388347663
Fuck off cunt.

>>388347836
Fuck off Reddit

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>>388339794
You shouldn't of shit on my game ya wankahs. You deserve every bit you get for giving Evolve the grave. Now we take our revenge.
-Eugene "Hyde" Walters.

>>388347284
THERE IS NO OFFICIAL ANYTHING EVER AND THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT DUMBASS

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How does the Combine's inter-dimensional travel work? If they relied on the resonance cascade's portal storms to discover earth, how do they conquer other planets?

Did they not have the blueprints to local teleportation thanks to the Nova Prospekt teleporter? It's not like the plans would have gotten destroyed with the facility, right?

If Xen acts, as i understand it, a hub that's required to reach different dimensions, how didn't the Combine find the Nihilanth quicker? Doesn't hiding in a place like that seem like a bad idea?

Asssuming Gman's benefactors are in a conflict with the Combine, doesn't their control of Xen basically block the Combine out of using dimensional travel?

>>388347108
>>388347283
Did you work on translating anything that hasn't seen the light of day?

>>388347283
200 bucks and 70 bottles of crystal pepsi for it

>>388340863
Imagine as Freeman approaches the sphere, for the first time in the series he opens up and says in a tired voice when all background sound and music is reduced "So..we came a long way..and it's been futile" Then when he wakes up he finishes the game with a monologue to the player as credit start rolling, I would fucking cry and get drunk that day.

>>388347487
They just want some kind of meaning to their sad, fandom of a ruined game series. Oddly enough as a Metroid fan I pretty much knew 2D Metroid was dead soon after Zero Mission and it sure is dead with Mercury Steam at the helm

>>388347718
what I'm saying is ff did this multiple times, this whole "oh yeah the main story ended but not really, you get to see the characters AGAIN, but oh wait this shit ruins the main game completely". Happened with advent children, happened with ff iv the after years

>>388343831
>>388343908
Where'd you get the game?

>>388348104
That's pretty cringy, my man.

>>388347108
what book?

>>388343831
Damn, who made this?

>>388343417
The writer changed the names/terminology of everything in the leak to skirt around the NDA issue. Somebody "decoded" them, but missed a few.

>>388344515
Makes no sense considering Gman always talks about his employers, unless that's a lie in one way or another.

>>388345341
>Is it worth anything
Not anymore

>>388348231
Pretty much,

>20 year saga ends in a fucking pastebinned summary
Grief. If they used that to lead into HL3 that might be cool but I honestly would've preferred to just keep thinking it might happen someday.

>>388348606
Welcome to the gaming industry in 2017, don't forget, you're here forever.

>>388348690
>2017
>forever
thank god that doesn't make sense

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If What we've read made it into half life 3.

Than games would be cemented as art

Valve has been a big proponent of VR. I honestly believe they are waiting for VR to create the first game that was truly a push for VR. Not a port, not a simulation, a game that revolutionized gaming, the way HL, HL2, and the Episodes did in their own way.

The writer is pissy they aren't making Half Life Episode 7 every year, but Gaben wants each entry to be sacred. He realized the episodic content, while a revolutionary way to release games, couldn't keep up with quality or time. Now they're just waiting for someone to kick off this VR thing, but consoles seem to be delaying it.

>>388347240
1.Hardware was a thing even back then, steam controller was a set of rings put on fingers which captured movement
2. A VR project with Dog from half-life but it was mostly just throwing him ball etc, VR was very early
3. A fantasy RTS game said to be similar to Warcraft 3
4. A prototype game similar to Battlefield (with vehicles etc), but sci-fi, used Half-Life 2 assets so possibly it was also set to be in its universe
4. Steam was supposed to have these new tools with which you could build your own games and adventures using Source and share it with other Steam users
5. Big team was working on Source Filmmaker and everyone though it's going to be the shit that's going to change how Hollywood makes movies.
6. There were multiple puzzle games, I specifically remember one which required player to move through a 4 dimensional space by refocusing the camera and it allowed you to look and go through walls
7. There was a LOT of shitposting on official steam forums
8. HL universe was to be expanded to movies, tv series and multiple spin off games developed by different studios

>>388347428
It had a coop mode where you played with Gordon and Alyx and was developed pretty much normally. Oh and characters moved their lips when you used voice chat!

Half life 3 turned into a separate grandiose project and it was blurry what it was supposed to be exactly but it definitely was a massive multiplayer game that took place in space, heard comparisons to EVE online, something happened with EVE back then because everyone was impressed with CCP software

>fans make the mods
>fans make the maps
>fans make the items
>fans make the update
in the future
>fans make the games
>fans own the company

>>388347487
Because the ones that clamor for it now don't realize what they're asking for. Ignorant idiots who are in the dark about what's really going on at Valve.

Surely the minority of intelligent Half Life fans knew the end had come when all but Gabe had resigned from Valve, this only cements the notion that HL is truly over to the other minority of people who kept up false hope regardless of how many staff members they heard had left the studio,

The only people left still asking for HL3 are mindless sheep parroting what the original fans had started to begin with.

>>388339794

Just read it. As bad I feel that wee didn't get a game, my imagination made it feel more legendary than anything modern valve could have made out of it.

Valve can keep their DRM platform and obese cult of personality, Half-Life met with a well written conclusion. That's fine by me.

Honestly i'm kinda looking forward to someone making a really decent mod out of this story.

>>388348981
>HL universe was to be expanded to movies, tv series and multiple spin off games developed by different studios

>it is now 2017 and it has been years since anything set in the HL universe came out

Fuck, what happened?

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what if all of this is a big publicity stunt to get people talking about the games again because they plan to announce the sequel in the near future?

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>half life

https://youtu.be/MH7KYmGnj40

>>388349269
Don't tease me with this shit
I want to be free
Don't you want to be free?

>someone that worked at valve is in this thread right now and nobody cares
FUCKING TELL US MORE ABOUT STUFF

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>>388349158
>Ferns cover the entire Dyson sphere

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>>388344048
>2004
>VHS effect
I mean they were still around but DVDs and DVD players were pretty available around then.

>>388349269
>Let's drum up publicity by making everyone hate us and wish us dead

Gordon gets rescued by muh time traveling aliens, what the FUCK is the despair thing everyone is talking about?

>>388349367
FUCK OFF FAKEFACTORY

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>>388349094
>fans make the games
>in the future

>>388349338
i never actually got to play episode 1 and 2 but all of this hl2 discussion made me remember how much i liked the mysteries of the first 2 games.

>>388349401
but muh aesthetic

Guys, i made a strawpoll about this topic, but i need more votes

What do you think about the story released by laidlaw?

Please vote here
http://www.strawpoll.me/13792045

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>>388348981
>tfw absolutely fucking nothing came out of any of those cool ideas

>>388347468
If Valve come out and give an actual official ending then yes, it's just fanfiction. If not then I'll take the lead writers ending as the canon ending.

>>388349520
Conclusion or no, you should still play the episodes. They're pretty great for what they are.

>>388348390
I do think the employers bit is made up to make it sound like he has an important mission to Gordon
Even if he is employed by a higher race, its obvious the 'contract' is stop other races from perfecting time/space travel
The Xen and Combine invasion destroyed Black Mesa and set their research back for years, anything Black Mesa East has is nothing in comparison to their heyday.
It also scared Aperture into sending the Borealis into hiding, before it could be fully tested.
He got extremely pissed when the Vortigaunts interrupted his alone time with Gordon
And now we know his business with Gordon ends with destroying the Borealis
All things relating to the study of time travel/interdimensional portals, all stopped by Gman

>>388340863
>>388348104
It'd be far better if the player just lost control of the camera/movement keys and Freeman just started screaming with despair, though it'd been very difficult to pull off without being cringeworthy.

>>388349642
I would think that whatever story Valve came up with that isn't by Marc, would in fact be the real fanfiction, only with an "official" label.

>>388349139

I thought that the first minute. Then people started doing cool fan arts, and connections with the leaked official arts, and I feel more depressed by the minute.

>>388349245
TF2 and Loot Boxes. After the success of Steam as a platform and F2P moneymakers, Valve literally didn't need to be a video game company anymore. When was the last time they released ANY games?

The excuse they give about the desire to make every game groundbreaking is bullshit. It's just something a company that doesn't need to make games to stay alive would say while they sink into artistic madness. EVERY artist wants to make something perfect and groundbreaking, but most of them actually need to release something just to stay alive. It's the same bullshit with GRRM and his goddamn Song of Ice and Fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5GUCuFNR4

>>388349349
Yeah what the fuck? I'm like the only guy actually posting and quoting him.

>>388349427
The last paragraph is Marc just stabbing modern Valve in the gut.
If it ever got made, you can bet that the game would end with Gordon crashing into the Dyson Sphere.

Why did Marc get fired? Is there any story behind it or did he just leave because the game wasn't being made?

>>388349845
I think it's nice to have it wrap up, but better to experience it outselfs.

I just want another game with valve polish.

A card game is not using any of that fucking polish.

>>388346356
im playing cinematic mod currently i am not using hd "retextures", which are rather reimaginations of main cast, dont worry and the amount of tasteless graffiti in early levels is overwhelming. dicks, boobs, vaginas and "fuck, whore " on almost every wall in sewers. really off-putting. who the fuck thought that this is good idea?

>>388349945
He retired nearly two years ago.

>>388347385
There's a shitload on Run Think Shoot Live. HL1, HL2, and OpFor.

>>388347284
But it does. Laidlaw quitted a year ago because of age, he wouldn't have any reason to post a summarized version of wannabe plot if he knew before quitting that someone was still working on it. It's his baby, there is no malice in actions, he just knew that nothing is happening inside Valve in terms of Half-Life development. He knew that it's over and it's dead. There were never any plans to do Half-Life 3 and not just and episode 3 either. I wouldn't even be surprised that Artifact announcement moved him to make a summary for the fans.

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Why is everyone talking about closure? The story to Episode 3 offered no closure. It's just as open and void of conclusion as the ending to HL2.

>>388349945
He retired, most of the original writers also left so I guess he got the clue.

>>388349427
That the Combine are pretty much unstopable and the resistance effort was near futile.

>>388349779
Just pull a kerrigan

>>388349945
the last paraghraph of epistle is an explanation for you.

>>388350000
Germans.

>>388350010
Ah gotcha, thanks anon. Wasn't sure if he was releasing this out of spite or just to give fans closure.

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>>388349779
>go through portal with alyx as triumphant music plays and you both see the dyson sphere
>she turns to you and smiles as a tear rolls down her cheek
>time stops and gman croaks out about how it's the end of the line
>basically taunts you as time/alyx is frozen and she looks at you with the smile
>he touches her shoulder and she's gone
>he snickers at you and says your contract has been terminated and then he's gone
>there is no music as you watch the sphere get closer
>right before impact freeman lets out a shaky gasp
>time is stopped again and the vorts save him as he watches the ship do fuckall

>>388350056
This was clearly the next project, it's unfortunate that it's a cliff hanger but it's better than nothing and it was still very impactful as a read.

>>388347283
Sad to say, this doesn't prove shit.
Valve let a lot of people into their offices for interviews and such. Any old fuck could have gotten their signatures.

>>388350056
Half life fans are retarded and starved of attention.

>muh Dyson Sphere

Big deal, you'd see it for at most 1 or 2 minutes in the ending, after which you'd immediately end the game. What an incredible ending.

>>388350056
It's closure in that it is the most concrete evidence that there truly is no hope for a new Half Life, confirming what we have all known.

>>388350056
Of course there is closure. Gordon dies and the resistance loses.

>>388350000
edgy 13 year olds. find the dildo in alyx's room if you want to feel like commiting soduku

>>388349401
>a replicant on the left acting like a human
>a human on the right acting like a replicant
What did they mean by this?

>>388350187
(You)

>>388344379
I agree.

>>388350268
She touched his dick and he started farting

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Has any mod team announced making it now since the plot is out?

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>>388350078
So it's just Stephen King's "The Mist" with extra steps...

I suppose Half-Life was more than just "inspired" by the story.

>>388349939
That was second to last paragraph, why can't it be as well interpreted as being a part of the actual story?

>>388350145
>gorden gets pulled off the ship
>ship keeps going and eventually is impossible to see
>Dyson sphere is so much bigger than you could possibly imagine

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>>388347590
Yes, it was supposed to be a trilogy, and the elusive third episode is what people were waiting for.

Episodic gaming was a bit of a trend in the heydays of Steam (or digital distribution in general). Telltale's Sam & Max managed to pull it off. My guess is that Valve tried to be an early player in the episodic gaming format like they were in the video game digital distribution. As the trend didn't really catch on (with FPS games at least), they're more inclined to spend their resources elsewhere. I think the only reason EP2 ever came out was because they overhauled the Source engine and wanted to show it off.

One possible future timeline is one where Valve enters the game engine market with Source (competing with UE and Unity), and uses EP3 to market/showcase it. Might be a bit late for that though.

>>388344515
I think it's grimmer than that. He wanted the Combine to have a reason to stomp humanity into paste specifically so they'd be too caught up in bloodlust to find out about the Borealis.

The City 17 fracas was basically an invitation for a real invasion force to wipe the planet from the universe, and he wanted to pull Gordon out before they could have the distress signal broadcast. At that moment, Gordon was still good as a lynchpin. It's why he ditches Gordon for Alyx: she accomplished the goal he intended, which was the destruction or complete erasure of the Borealis from relevant history. Also a spiteful way of saying that Gordon cannot rebel without consequence. I kinda like the idea that at the end of the day, the G-Man is more of an enemy to him than the Combine or similar threats.

At the end of the day, the only goal there is to, indeed, keep the Borealis from falling into the Combine's hands. I think this was all a ploy to keep them from becoming virtually all-powerful to the point where they could potentially start invading other multiverses. I also doubt Humanity's the only one to figure out String-based Teleportation. He's probably had to ensure the destruction of those races as well.

It does lend credence to the idea of him/his employers being something technically above the Combine in terms of technological advancement, but all the more aware of how dangerous they'd be if they were aware of them and could directly compete.

>>388344379
>there are people that actually believe this shit

Holy fuck I thought you guys were like a joke or something. Guess I was wrong.

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>>388350224
Oh my god, I didn't even know about that.
What the fuck.

>>388350171
I don't have anything else of this sort unfortunately, it's been a long time. i have a few of Valve devs on my Steam friend list but i can't use it as a proof because i'm not going to post my username in case I fucked up and what I mentioned actually was covered by NDA

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>>388350224

>>388350518
>black

>>388346306
Not him, but you're fucking retarded. I can tell you're one of those mongoloids who just defends whatever idea is established in their minds by any means necessary without listening to anyone else.

>>388350359
Yep, Project Borealis.

>>388350414
How could the Vortigaunts find Gordon in the deepest reaches of space, when the only one's who knew the co-ordinates at the time where Alyx, Gordon and dead Mossman?
Sounds too far fetched to me tbqh.

>>388350568
All HL3 NDAs expired this year, why do you think Laidlaw spilled the beans?

Do you have any more to tell? The smallest stuff even

>>388350359
there's some guys on reddit putting a team together

>>388347108
>October 26th 2017

please gib lotto numbers!

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>>388350518
NO, WHAT THE FUCK, GERMANS, YOU TWISTED, HEDONISTIC MOTHERFUCKERS

SHE FOR HUG, NOT FUG

>>388350284
Please, continue masturbating to a sci fi concept that's been around forever just because it shows up in the last 2 minutes of a game that doesn't exist and keep denying that not everyone is as impressed.

>What did you feel yesterday, closure or an even deeper grief? Do you think Valve will ever respond?

It's closure for me, I entered the seires waching the intial cliffhanger on youtube because my computer was shit and didn't play Half Life very well. Having the game spoiled for me in Text form while anticlimactic is at least something more than I've gotten since building my computer hoping for the game to come out.

My hope is Valve responds but I doubt it, however they were in denial about anything related to Portal 2 until it it started leaking so maybe they will decide to announce something and finally pull their heads out of their ass about this secrecy shit as it's lead to nothing but disaster. But I doubt we will get this story, Laidlaw left over a year ago so if it's in the works the story has probably been altered significantly.

>>388350000
>who the fuck thought that this is good idea?
40 yo German dude who made Cinematic Mod

>>388339794
i just found this shit while looking for half life videos
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn6KO0g8mQ0
PRESS H TO HATE HEADCRABS

>>388350778
>team of random people put together literally a day after the happening
mod's dead already

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>>388350000
>>388350224
>>388350518
>>388350797
>>388350882

>>388350639
vorts can hang out in vort space dude, it's not like real space

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>>388350518
>go ahead
>we'll talk later

What would have happened to D.O.G?

I bet we would have seen Lamar again.

>>388350908
what in the world

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>>388350961
A FUCKING DETAILED VAGINA

>>388350961
no way

>>388350359
I'd love to know this too.

>>388339794
I feel that little bit more depressed. That said, I really don't think the odds of it getting made are any lower than they were 5 years ago now.

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>>388350961

>>388350961
Now see, that's some inovation worth making a new game for. Even Illusion doesn't model the interior cavity of vaginas.

>>388350961
is that the inside texture or cum?

>>388340179
why would a game NEED to be innovative and groundbreaking each time?

why can't it just be good?

besides, valve has literally never cared about quality control before, why would they start caring now. they are the kings of shitting out low quality cashcow games that were made cheaply in a few months.

>>388350568

How was the feeling within Valve regarding Episode 3 or HL3? Like, did they really believe it was going to be published anytime? I mean, I am pretty sure there were people who joined the company because of that franchise. It sounds so unbelievable that it all just vanishes in a self-inflicted development hell.

Also, is it true that the backlash of Mass Effect 3 and the ending of Bioshock Infinite made Valve change their mind? Any clue why they were/are so secretive about something people demand for a decade?

>>388350961
>no rectum
Pleb tier

>>388347353
im not him but the big pink cookie is kind of a local thing in washington. theyre sort of chalky and not very good. sorry anon.

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>>388350961
>tfw it actually drips

>>388351250
When?

Most of their games are polished to hell.

>>388339794
I felt closure, but only because I was imagining actually playing the game instead of just reading the storyline.
Everything in it would feel a lot more impactful and not as underwhelming if you actually experienced it instead of just reading it.

>>388351257
>Any clue why they were/are so secretive about something people demand for a decade?

This. Gabe almost acts like it never existed, not a fucking peep or acknowledgement.

>>388350010
>>388350060
People can come out of retirement you know. If Valve was serious they could hire the original team for a one off thing and let them go after.

>>388351185
the are making the games for japs only, why would they waste resources on something that wont be visible

BRACE FOR IMPACT

BRACE FOR IMPACT

BRACE FOR IMPACT

>>388351428
>People can come out of retirement you know
Laidlaw already said even if they went into full gear with half life he wouldn't return

>>388350654
Eh, I mostly remember the stuff I actually worked on.

Valve's game maker looked very similar to the level editor included in Portal 2, but it was ran straight from Steam and you had access to all Source (Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Portal etc) assets.

There was a lot of research on capturing facial expressions with a single webcam because:
1) It could be used in source filmmaker to have people record realistic expressions and lipsync for their movies without any expensive equipment
2) Facial expresions, moving faces and directional sound were speculated to be the next big immersive thing in multiplayer games, so you could see where other players were looking, hear what they were saying as if they were there etc

>>388340179
such a idiotic person here

>>388351428
I'm pretty sure he already said he wouldn't come back.

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>>388351257
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0w9YP_wZ0

>>388351001
Still, can they pinpoint the location of an icebreaker in a location that could very well be from our own galaxy, to all the way to our furthest known super clusters?
>inb4 G-Man
G-Man is definitely more powerful than them, just abided by his "restrictions". Not to mention that he most likely expected them to jump to that particular location.

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>>388350908
Fuck headcrabs.

>>388351534
you sure showed him

>>388351487
>>388351567
Everyone has a price.

>>388350961
degeneracy unlike anything before...

>>388350621
Link? Couldn't find it on Google.

>>388351079
lamar is somewhere in space, godspeed

>>388351678
>look guys I said degeneracy I'm so above it all am I like the cool suave nazis yet

>>388351667
But does Valve give enough of a shit to pay it?

>>388339794
Half Life 2 was a shitty game and Valve cannot into game design so I felt total apathy

>>388351796
bad bait try again later

>>388351835
True. I'm just saying it could happen.

>>388345341
>Half-Life 3 pretty much turned in a sandbox space MMO akin to Eve online and Star Citizen
Think this is what became the other cancelled project Stars of Blood?

>>388339794
Honestly I've wanted L4D3 more than HL3 in recent years. TBQH SENPAITACHI even if it is a rehash with new maps and new special infected.

>>388351796
Unnecessary edginess.

>>388351712
All I could find was invite only Reddit page.

>>388351839
>Valve cannot into game design
Ah yes of course, everyone except you is stupid for loving Half Life 2

It couldn't have been a good game everyone else is just wrong

>>388350431
>He's probably had to ensure the destruction of those races as well.
I like the idea that he is an omnipresent god, watching all life in the universe.
As soon as someone comes too close to being a real threat to him, he pulls out an elaborate decade spanning plan to genocide them.

>>388351257
It was developed normally but the focus was on two player co-op (maybe it was a co-op only even) and how actual players interacted with the environment. Characters moved their lips when you used voice chat and there was directional sound. Also if you used the special controller the characters moved hands and fingers and you could also use hand gestures. That actually was an important mechanic in one of the puzzles i heard about, because you had to sneak past the enemies without making a sound and only communicate using hand gestures.

i was working there in 2008 so I can't really tell anything about what happened after I left. The communication on HL with community was pretty normal I think, Orange Box marketing was still in full swing

Where is it that the ending was showing where Gordon was sent to before the explosion of the ship? Was it trying to show that he was sent into the future and no one knew about his exploits or to just another location on earth somewhere or just someplace completely different?

>>388348170
those are called sequels you fucking moron

>>388348014
g-man isn't in conflict with anyone, he was the one who enslaved the alien race in hl1 so that freeman could free them, thus ensuring that the vortigaunts would see him as a hero

since g-man can time-travel, he can predict the combine invasion of hl2 and onwards

he made sure that the vortigaunts are allied with the humans so that none of the races that are able to time-travel work together, as that could have catastrophic consequences on the entire universe

when the resistance (gordon, alyx), discover the borealis, g-man knew that it would have to be destroyed, or else the vortigaunts and freeman would both be able to time-travel, this is why after alyx shoots mossman dead, g-man takes her into stasis instead of freeman, since freeman now "belongs" to the vortigaunts

>>388351919
This actually. I had much more fun in the L4D games than in the HL games, at least without mods.

>>388351871
I'm just ready to hang up the speculation and call it a day on this series.

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>>388351712
>>388351961
https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamsofhalflife3/

>>388352043
He got sent to the coasts you see during the buggy level which means everyone he knew is long dead and nobody remembers him and nothing they did mattered

>>388351961
>>388351712
https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamsofhalflife3

>>388352043
I figure it would be a similar ending to Portal 2, just unceremoniously dumped in a field with no sense of year or location.

>>388348170
Except for where the whole "the main story ended" part never happened in Half-Life 2's case.

>>388351919
if the leaked concept art was anything to go by, they were going to embrace L4D2's whackier tone by having the characters be more exaggerated and somewhat cartoony

>>388352043
That last paragraph is Laidlaw talking about Valve itself

Everyone who cared about HL3 got fired and he left because he didn't recognize Valve anymore

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>>388350908
>Video maker forgot to turn off his mods
>The tourrettes guy is screaming during the "massacre" when damage is taken by the zombies

>>388352043
>>388352113
The game ends with Gordon being grabbed by the vorts. The beach shit is just Marc talking about when he left Valve

>>388351586
the borealis travels through time and space, but not magical dimensions like the ones g-man and the vortigaunts can hang out in.

>>388351919
Too bad, only microtransaction shitfests and
A
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>>388340179
Episodes 1 + 2 weren't groundbreaking, it was just telling the story, episode 3 would've followed in suit. Yeah a few minor things may pop up but it wouldn't be like HL1 ---> HL2.

>>388352113
God damn it, they are going to shit the bed so hard with this.

>>388349762
>its obvious the 'contract' is to stop other races from perfecting time/space travel

except his contract was "open to the highest bidder."

for all we know the borealis did *something* even if it wasn't what gordon and alyx wanted. for all we know gman left gordon behind because he wanted gordon with the vorts for some unknown reason. nothing is obvious.

>>388341826
Exactly. Becoming an "advisor" isn't a reward, it's a punishment.

>>388351972
It was very hyped and was an impressive tech demo for the time. I thought it was cool back then too, but in retrospect it is not a good game. Some people have a hard time admitting this cuz nostalgia goggles, but it's not an uncommon opinion anymore.

Do they reveal what the GMan was? Was he an alien?

Why can he time travel?