Can someone tldr the HL3 plot line for me

Alyx did everything wrong
Nothing matters
Yet another cliffhanger

Combine is too strong
the end

>>388349264
>They fly a magic ship through space
>Alyx kills Mossman so they can destroy the magic ship
>It turns out Alyx was working for the G man
>The Gman was actually an alien who's only goal was making sure the magic ship got destroyed, and everything was carefully leading up to that
>It turns out the Combine are stronger than anyone thought, and as soon as the teleportation was back online they could literally destroy Earth without even blinking
>It was all for nothing

>>388349264
Bad guys are strong
Not even the ginger numale cares about the series anymore so he quits
The end

>>388349518
>as soon as the teleportation was back online they could literally destroy Earth without even blinking
it's never implied that they could get it back online though

>>388349518
>everybody dies ending

No wonder they canned this shit

>>388349653
No, it's a "everybody except Mossman lives in misery." Which is worse.

>>388349653
That's what I was figuring to be honest they knew it would be a shit ending

>>388349518
Alyx wasnt working for the G-Man, he appeared and saved her so she could work for him, and left Gordon on the ship.

Also Gordon floats through space and time until he somehow manages to get back to Earth, but at some point in the future where everyone he knows is gone. He says fuck this and leaves one last letter and goes away.

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>>388349264

>>388349801
Wasn't the third part written recently? Like the guy knew HL3 would never happen so he was like fuck it and wrote something up?

I find it hard to believe HL3 having a bad ending.

>>388349473
Better and more original ending than most games.

>>388350181
it ends on a downer but it leaves room for a sequel, possibly one with alyx as the MC

>tfw actually hypothesizing a half-life 3 sequel

>>388349264
It's fan fiction, I wouldn't worry. Besides being entirely retarded.

>>388349264
>RIP Eli, lessgo find the ship
>Alyx went apparently nuclear, solely dedicated to revenge and fulfilling her dad's wish of destroying the ship
>Helicopter gets shot down, Punished Alyx and Gordon as stuck in the GOAT antartic
>go through gorgeous freezing landscapes fighting combines and shit
>get captured
>Breen is I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM-tier, turned into a slutty fat slug
>asks Gordon to kill him, Punished Alyx says that would be too good for him
>Player could decide what to do
>recoup with Mossman
>Borealis is phasing in and out of existance
>the ship (made by Aperture), has some crazy unstable teleportation tech and is going from when it was originally activated (when the Combine invaded) and right now in the artic
>inside the ship is filled with this non-euclidian shit, prolly some puzzles and interesting stuff would happen here
>all culminates in an argument between Mossman and "I'm already a demon" Alyx on what to do with the ship
>Mossman wanted the resistance to have the ship, to study it and harness portal/time-travel/teleportation tech, beating the Combine with a technology even THEY didn't have
>Venom wants to destroy it, as per dad's wishes
>Punished Alyx murders Judith in cold blood, winning the argument
>Gordon and his gf decide to use the ship as a missile and explode it in the Combine's HQ
>At that last moment, time stops and G-Man steps up to do his shit
>Except that this time he takes Alyx. It's not clear if Alyx has been brain-washed, or if she's that far gone to leave Gordon.
>Gordon is left alone and in possibly the greatest moment in vidya history, sees that the Combine have a dyson sphere, indicating power so incomprehensively enormous that the Borealis would barely damage them
>Left in existential despair and dread as he realises it was all for nothing, the Vortigaunts save his ass and spirit him away to ages later
>He wakes up as the resistance is still fighting, and we get a cliffhanger for HL3

>>388350485
Lol do you actually believe they are making a real sequel?

>>388350970
So basically Alyx goes full retard and dooms mankind?

>>388351159
I am G-Man, please continue on your path for I see glorious mines of salt ahead.

>>388349818
What did Gordon mean when he said " Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final epistle."? Is just going to give up and spend the rest of his time at the beach, or did he mean that he will neck himself?

>>388349264
Long trip to Ant-fucking-artica so you can escort a batshit insane vaguely black lady on her mission to kill one of the few people in this sci-fi story that wants to do some god damn science instead of Allahu Ackbaring everything up.

also the Combine are borderline unstoppable and your suicide mission was bound to have been completely futile.

10/10, I really liked it.

Shit goes wrong, gman cucks you and you realize the combine are really fucking tough. Gordon says fuck this whole situation and fucks off

>>388351229
It wasn't the first Source 2 game like we had hoped for, so I have no reason to believe anything anymore.

>>388351181
Seems like it, yes. I don't recall why her dad wanted the Borealis destroyed, but I'd like it if it were actually a ruse by the Combine and he got suckered into thinking it was the right thing to do.

Then the slugs kill him and Alyx goes into fuming revenge mode, her emotions blinding her from seeing more sensible options and dedicating everything to her dying father's wishes

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>>388351969
I think the reasoning was because gman referenced unforseen consequences, which he said right before black mesa went to shit.
Eli didn't want shit to get even worse

>>388350970
>>Punished Alyx murders Judith in cold blood, winning the argument
>winning the argument
My sides.

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I just wanted a game

>>388352127
makes even more sense then that the whole turn of events were orchestrated by Gman; he didn't want any side to get a hold of such tech

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>>388352323
Have faith in thee my child.

>>388351481
Its the Arctic, north pole, not south pole.
How the fuck could they fly from Europe to Antarctica in a shitty helicopter in one trip

>>388351969
>I don't recall why her dad wanted the borealis destroyed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wVlE-ZkHW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8zmNU0AAJw

being on the surface of the borealis flying through space and time into the dyson sphere would've been the greatest ending to a videogame of all time, half life 3 could've been a milestone in gaming history. instead we're getting fucking artifact

it's so beautiful, and it's never coming out

>>388349264
No, because they haven't released it yet. The writer leaked the plot to Episode 3.

>>388349264
can someone provide me a food analogy for the HL3 plot line?

>>388352776
you wait a really long time for a burger but when you finally get it the hamburger actually turns out to be a hotdog so you fuck off forever

>>388351258
I felt it was more along the lines of the former, Gordon is presumably far from where the fight is taking place, the G-Man no longer has a use for him and he lost all of his friends. His work here is over.

>>388352776
you could've gotten the greatest meal of all time and instead the restaurant shut down while you were seated and waiting for 10 years. they made you feel like your meal is going to come out one day but it never did and never will

>>388352776
instead of getting food you got a list of the ingredients.

>>388350970
It ended with Freeman getting teleported. That final big was just the writer talking about Valve.

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>>388349264
Why did Alex think steering the Borealis into the Combine's command center would cause any kind of damage at all, regardless whether the target was a dyson sphere or not? It's an icebreaker with portal tech on board, not a fucking WMD.

>>388352659
>we're getting fucking artifact
I've abandoned Valve years ago and even I couldn't believe that a Dota card game was going to be a real thing. Completely shameless of Valve but, if nothing else, it shows where their true colors lie.

>>388352843
>you wait a really long time for a burger, you keep asking where the fuck it is then just about after you forgot you ordered a waiter comes back (he quit his job because he had nothing to do) and tells you the ingredients of said burger, which seem quite nice

ftfy

>>388353101
She grew up around places like City 17 so maybe she expected it to be as easy as blowing up the Citadel.

>>388353018
It was both, which is what makes it so great.
Who would have thought that the cliffhanger written 10 years ago would be the perfect way to describe Laidlaw's own last days at Valve.

Fucking poetry.

>>388353173
I was talking about the plot, not the fans

>>388352776
>pizza and his friend cheese have coordinates for mushrooms
>coordinates are not where mushrooms are but where they will be
>pineapple wants mushrooms too
>pizza and cheese finds ham who also wants some mushrooms
>cheese wants to use mushrooms to destroy pineapple
>ham wants to eat some mushrooms
>cheese kills ham
>you use mushrooms to destroy pineapple but gonna die in the process
>suddenly out of nowhere tortilla shows up and saves cheese but leaves you, pizza to die
>salami shows and saves pizza
>pineapple still exist and drives people mad

im autistic

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>>388352323
how about you'll buy 6 CS:GO keys instead, you entitled shitlord?

>>388351258
>" Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final epistle."
this is subtext from laidlaw regarding half life rather than something gordon is explicitly saying

>>388352776
>A restaurant invents a new kind of hamburger that everyone loves
>Then they make a second kind of hamburger that's even better
>Then they spend years without making a hamburger, sometimes selling hot dogs or soup, but mostly just making their restaurant really fancy so other people come and sell their food there.
>People seem happy, but can't seem to ever locate the staff anymore, specifically in the "complaints" department.
>Fans of the first burgers insist that the chefs are cooking the greatest burger of all time
>Fans spend a decade shilling how great this burger is going to be
>A chef posts a burger recipe online, and it's not very good.

>>388349264
Read it yourself you illiterate dumbass. It's not an entire book.

>>388353309
thanks anon
now i want a pizza

>>388353548
>and it's not very good.

for you

>>388353101
>>388353235
This plus they probably didn't want to accept how powerful the Combine actually were, and wanted to believe there was still a way to beat them.

The Dyson sphere ending would be a way of showing the player the 'real' Combine, and not just the B Team sent to rule Earth.

>>388354008
also it'd be a subtle 'fuck you' to everyone who mocked how shitty HL 2's Combine AI was

So the Combine have a Dyson sphere? Honestly, that's not very hard to construct once you have a civilization on an interplanetary scale. They probably got fucked by the ship when it hit them and now the Combine is dead forever.

Alyx was taken and brainwashed and now works for the G-Man people.

Gordon was teleported back and is celebrated as a hero and Earth is reclaimed from the Combine. He lives the rest of his days known as the hero of Earth and marries a nice woman and has kids.

this is my headcanon

>>388353832
It's okay if you like to eat shit on a bun, but that doesn't mean the rest of us do.

>>388354151
t. shit eater

>>388353235
>to be as easy as blowing up the Citadel
I understand that out of game it was equal to a game of dx ball but in-game that was some seriously tough shit to pull off.

>>388354008
it's not even B team combine it's just modified humans "peacekeeping" force

if the combine managed to built a sphere around a fucking sun they could literally built a sphere around the earth to the point it'd be completely sealed and no sunlight would reach it and all life up to the tiniest ant would die from lack of oxygen. that's INSANE

>>388354151
go fuk urself niggersweet

>>388350480
I really don't understand people who think this was a set up for a sequel where you play as Alyx. Obviously it's never coming, but if the plot progressed like the summary then the player would learn the G-Man was actively antagonistic at the end of EP3, it doesn't work to then play as someone who is still under the influence of the G-Man in HL3. Gordon still has the vortugaunts on his side, it's basically dueling plot devices at that point between them and the G-Man.

>>388354008
Not even b team
The combines sent on Earth were essentially intern tier

>>388354345
Did you drop out of highschool?

>>388352424
It's really strange to me the only thing stopping HL3 from being made is the lazy developers. There has never been a product that has a market and didn't get catered to. Everywhere else whether it's the movie industry or something they always take advantage of it.

>>388354140
How about the aurora fucks that the star so badly that it triggers a supernova/red giant scenario and the combine and their precious dyson sphere are completely eradicated.
I mean, come on, it's a magic temporal space ship

>>388353101
the aurora's force was mass multiplied by acceleration building throughout all sorts of time shenanigans. time shenanigans way beyond anything else the resistance was capable of and even what the combine was capable of.

>>388353320
Don't forget to buy your first 40 packs of Artifact cards for only $49.99 :^)

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>>388349264
An ex-Valve writer who hasn't touched the series in 2 years takes time out of his usual busy schedule of retweeting "IMPEACH DRUMPF" articles to LARP about Half Life 3's cancellation.

It ends on a cliffhanger with Reddit being PISSED!

>>388349518
>and as soon as the teleportation was back online they could literally destroy Earth without even blinking
But is the Earth not still around when Chell breaks out in Portal 2? They must take their sweet time.

>>388354497
Well, anon is not wrong with that. Plantlife would not produce oxygen in a photosynthetic manner if there was no sunlight.

>>388349264
>go to the Arctic
>find the Borealis
>turns out its essentially a superweapon
>Mossberg wants to use its power for humanity's betterment
>Alyx wants to honour her father's wishes and destroy it
>eventually G-man interferes and seizes Alyx
>Borealis is teleported and aimed at the Combine invasion nexus
>turns out its a massive dyson sphere, that uses an entire star for power
>Gordon realises how useless the entire gesture is, humanity's biggest fuck you to the Combines is the equivalent of a gnat flying into the Twin Towers
>Vortigaunts pull him out and discard him somewhere in time and space
>its left ambiguous as to whether the human-Combine conflict was won by either side

>>388354939
I take it you've never heard of anaerobic organisms.

>>388354414
>Alyx is ''employed'' by the gman
>has regrets about her past mistakes
>tries to correct them with the gman(-species)'s tech
>she sees an opportune moment and escapes back in time, might even reconnect with Gordon and together they go fuck shit up

Ideas aren't hard.

>>388355063
I've heard of them. I just mistook anon's post as in humanity would die, and so most of the animals. There are ofcourse living organisms that can live in an oxygenless environment. But they would not matter in any scale.

>>388355071
>>388350480
literally worse than fags saying you'd play as alyx in ep1 because she was on the cover

>>388349264

Aperture Science made a prototype device even better than the portal gun. It required no entry or exit portal, just a device that let you travel anywhere instantly. Turns out the device could also travel through time. When the Combine invaded Aperture Science, the scientists activated the untested device so that the enemy wouldn't get it. The ship traveled through time and space.

Alyx and Gordon use Mossman to board the ship when it appeared in Antarctica. Alyx kills Mossman. They decide to steer the ship to the Combine homeworld and destroy it. They travel around the galaxy and through time appearing in several different places, like before the war, way in the future, and many alien worlds. They finally arrive and the Combine home world is larger and more powerful than they ever imagined. The whole solar system is basically a giant space station and blowing up the ship would be inconsequential. It would only destroy a speck of it. But they decide to blow it anyways as there's nothing else to do at that point.

G-Man shows up and pulls Alyx out. His human form is based on an old school teacher of Alyx. He leaves Gordon there to die. The Vortugaunts pull Gordon out at the last second and sends him to the far future, after the Combine had already won. Earth is pretty barren and there's few survivors left. Everyone from the old resistance is dead. Gordon retires and lives out the rest of his life in the future.

>>388355071
There's no impetus for any of those realizations on her part, and it would change the whole dynamic of the series to have a talking protagonist. There is no reason to think we wouldn't continue as Gordon, especially when the ending goes out of its way to say he survived.

Also, if you think the first and last paragraph are about anything but Laidlaw and Valve you have a pleb tier understanding of the summary

>>388352127
Assuming G-Man was implying the truth in addition to being manipulative, and studying the Borealis really would end in Resonance Cascade 2.0, just how fucked would things be?
Would all of Earth end up as the half ghost ship, half nightmare funhouse that Gordon described?

>>388354414
This, we'd never get to play as Alyx because Alyx is an established character. Half Life has always had a silent blank slate for us to step into. (The sole exception being Barney I guess)

HL3 would prolly end with Gordon (player) fighting Alyx, she'd regret all her previous choices and sacrifice herself to try and fuck with G-Man's plans. And it would be revealed that was his ruse all along.

Sending the Borealis to the Arctic was the stupidest thing Aperture could have done.
The first thing Combine did was start to drain all the water on Earth. Obviously they would check the area with a bunch of frozen water.
They should have sent it to a desert devoid of life and harvestable energy.

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>>388354901
kys

>>388355605
They didn't sent it there on purpose tho, it was purely a fuckup.
This is Aperture we're talking about.

>>388354913
It's not that they did, it's that they could.

Like, with just one Dyson Sphere, you could harvest enough energy to split the earth in half in just a few minutes.

>>388355357
>See:
>>388353018

>>388355357
>They finally arrive and the Combine home world is larger and more powerful than they ever imagined. The whole solar system is basically a giant space station and blowing up the ship would be inconsequential. It would only destroy a speck of it. But they decide to blow it anyways as there's nothing else to do at that point.
No, that's wrong. Alyx sees flashes of some world and becomes convinced it's Combine HQ, inspiring her to set the Borealis to crash into it.
It's only after she kills Mossman and leaves with G-Man that Gordon sees the truth, that the Combine home"world" is a fucking Dyson sphere and the ship's explosion won't even scratch them.

>>388349518
That sounds really retarded. I can't even being to understand why people are interested in this. I mean it's been pretty clear since the end of the first Half-Life that this serie never really had a story to begin with

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While fitting in a way, at the same time it leaves another open side for the game to continue, as alyx is spirited away by G-man, while Vortigaunts take care to save Gordon so that he can chase after the motherfucker.

The ending part is more Laidlaw's personal ending to his work at Valve, with Gordon being left in a void after Borealis' end. It does not have to end on a depressing note however, as Gordon being saved at the end leaves an avenue for continuation, while humanity's fight with the Combine is left more or less undetermined.

>>388354901
Real talk, why does everyone think they're 'special' or 'unique' when they retweet 'IMPEACH MEANIE DRUMPF', they keep patting themselves on the back like they're speaking out against some dictator

>>388355751
They did send it there on purpose.
>The staff of the Borealis, with no other wish than to keep the ship out of Combine hands, acted in desperation. They switched on the field and flung the Borealis toward the most distant destination they could target: Arctica.
But like you said, they're idiots.

>>388355302
I don't see why she couldn't take up the mantle. Not even a feminazi. She's a well realized character and silent protagonists were fucking weird from the get-go. Portal 2 acknowledges this, but it does so with humor.

>>388355396
You're just cought up in the general malaise of this thing. The only thing I'm saying is that it's not hard to come up with new story when threads are left hanging. Laidlaw also clearly added all that depressing shit to make a statement about Valve; it doesn't mean it would've been included if events happened otherwise and the game was finished and released. Even then, I don't think it's even near enough to be a story continuation-killer.

>>388356238
> built a device that goes through time and space that even a multiverse galactic empire couldn't with dyson spheres couldn't build
> they're idiots

>>388354901
TWO

>>388349518
I'd have preferred if it had taken the uchuu senkan yamato route and they'd use this humanities last hope tech to reach some other alien civilization which could save earth from the combine shit

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>>388349518
That's so stupid. My God.

>>388356370
A broken clock is right twice a day
aka
A group of idiots will occasionally have a good idea.

>>388356856
there's billions of idiots on this planet and not one of them managed to make a fucking space/time machine

>>388356996
How many people do you think there are on Earth working on it? I guarantee it's less than 10,000.

>>388356996
>a guy who made shower curtains also made a spacetime manipulator
wew

>>388357249
well cave johnson didn't make it, he owned the company that did

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>>388349264
Just add combine to the face and you have the ending in a nutshell

>>388357201
look up how many people are working on the LHC and you'll realize how far away we are prick

>>388349369
Alyx did everything RIGHT
The Combine can NOT be stopped. The Resistance can do NOTHING with the Aurora Borealis technology. Letting it exist to possibly fall into the wrong hands would DESTROY humanity.
Blowing up the ship was the only viable option. With the Citadel, the Combine's one link to their homeworld, destroyed, they can NOT tunnel another portal to Earf. It was because of the portal storms that the Combine could glimpse Earth and send a Citadel portal of their own. Without the portal storms, without the Citadel, without the Aurora Borealis, the Combine can NOT invade Earth.
Freeman was saved by the Vortigaunts and delivered to an Earth in the future, one severed from the Combine. Earth is safe for another few millennia.

>>388356996
In their most productive times Aperture had the biggest collection of radical, chaotic neutral minds on Earth.
I hate the multiverse stuff from Portal 2, but im sure that plays into how Aperture got the most advanced and insane amount of tech in the universe.
Imagine all the crazy Aperture scientists working with unlimited parallel versions of themselves to constantly break new scientific ground.
Its hilarious that all this tech that could save Earth and destroy the Combine is locked away by a crazy robot.

>>388357702
why not go back in time with aurora borealis and stop the black mesa accident from ever happening?

>>388349264
>After the ending of Episode 3 Gordon stumbles upon Chell just leaving Aperture Science after finding the remnants of the resistance, eventually gathering with GLaDOS who had been left testing portal technology for years as a last ditch effort by Cave Johnson to save humanity from the combine.
>Gordon makes GLaDOS remember her true purpose and gives the resistance the ultimate weapon she had been developing with the portal research.
please kill me

>>388357702
go to bed, alyx

>>388357882
Because you can't change the past, anon.

>>388357882
the black mesa incident happened because the gman brought the sample, i doubt even the borealis can counter the gman

>>388356370
They are not idiots, but most of the employees are certified insane.
Just look at Ratman.

>>388357454
>LHC is time travel research
Nah retard

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>>388357297
>be colombine scientist
>counsil wants portal technology
>theres no progress because the damn slaves have alien rights and shit
>retarded monkeys open a portal by accident so we decide to invade them for shits and giggles
>after that the monkey rebels get their hands on a fucking time machine
>decide to investigate the god that could create what we couldnt for milenias
>discover that the "god" that invented the machine was a retard who invented shower curtains and though explosive lemons were a good idea
>mfw an idiot was more smarter than a empire of difference species of inter dimentional geniuses

>>388358202
>there's literally no way to stop the Gman
Let's just be friends with him and hope we never upset him, I'm sure it will work out

what was combines end game

>>388349518
If this had been the actual game plot it would have made ME3 look like Crash Bandicoot Warped.

>>388358338
more additional pylons

>>388358312
>colombine
"some of you humans are ok, don't come to city 17 tomorrow, happening news will be told on Breencast"

>>388358338
to grow bigger and stronger

>>388358338
dyson sphere the entire galaxy

>>388358338
They love taking over worlds and enslaving their populations
They saw cool portal tech on Earth that could make taking over worlds a whole lot easier
But Gman cockblocked them and their portal with Earth has been severed

>>388358691
universe*

I've never played this franchise but I frequently see it on top ten or top twenty game of all time lists so it must be trash.

Probably don't want to make a sequel cuz it would never live up to the hype and Volve would go out of business

Uchuu Senkan Yamato:
>aliens attack because they want to create an intergalactic empire
>humanity has this last hope boat that can teleport through space
>use this ship to reach a distant alien civilization which can save earth

hmm

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>>388358856
>Volve would go out of business
Never happening, fella.

So we know the story, but what about the actual gameplay?
Would there be new guns?
I imagine you shoot at Combine ships while flying to the Arctic, then you're shot down
It looks like the biggest stretch of gameplay would be going to the Borealis
Then the fighting through portals of time on the Borealis is the climax
it seems kinda short

What did the resistance plan to do with Aurora Borealis?

>>388359046
In the end, everything bends the knee in the face of death

>Marc Laidlaw's fanfiction doesn't even have Barney, Dog, or Kleiner
shit

>>388358937
Except this boatride ends in the complete opposite effect. Instead of saving humanity, the player realizes that the best, last hope for humanity is about as effective as firing a .22 at a nuclear super carrier.

>>388359273
Crash it with no survivors

>>388359356
I'm sure Valve will have evolved Steam into SkyNet by then, and uploaded GabeN's consciousness to rule over humanity with an iron grip on its wallet.

>>388359273
further study to learn how time and space travel works, use it to end the Combine.
Which would never happen as everything G-man does is to prevent humans and Combine from learning that

>>388359479
But the Combine still can't return to Earth.

>implying its the end when portal exists

Chell would probably shoot a portal into the sun and another somewhere else causing the dyson sphere to break, fracturing the combine into little pieces scattered across the galaxy/dimensions, leaving them to get picked off by the various alien resistance movements

This is my headcanon, they use portal tech to destroy the combine, what other purpose would introducing Portal into the Half Life universe be for

>>388359609
okay so what was G-man trying to acheive?

keeping the universe from destroying itself or some shit?

>>388349264
Nothing gets resolved and we get another cliffhanger.
You dont learn who g-man is and whats his goal since fuck answers.

>>388349518
>>388349653
>>388350181

>game series where the only interesting part of the story was just le mystery shit where loads of thing aren't ever explained
>would have had an unsatisfying ending

Who would have thought

>>388350970
That's so bad that I'm glad it's not being made. That's ME3 tier.

>>388351258
>What did Gordon mean when he said " Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final epistle."?

It's Laidlaw code for 'fuck off Kotaku don't spam me with interview requests about this'

>>388359824
G-man's motive should remain uncertain or you get something retarded like the reapers from mass effect.

>>388357882
that'd create a time paradox, though even if you could change the past to prevent black mesa, aperature would've probably stumbled upon the combine with the borealis

>>388359731
the end goal is to prevent time/space technology from falling to combine hands and probably humanity's too. and he's doing it in behalf of a third party that isn't human as he himself isn't human (confirmed by nihlanth)

he also dislikes vortigaunts who as we know have a natural ability to teleport, so he either just works to curbstomp any competition to his employers or there is some ulterior motive we don't know about. the thing is we know he himself is capable of teleporting. he could be working for something even stronger than the combine

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So if what Mac described was Episode 3 then what the fuck would Half-Life 3 be about?

>>388360054
or it should be the basic unsurprising shit like gman is gordon from the future or some simple shit like that

>>388360123
Ms Vance's Rise and Shine.

>>388359731


Well he nuked Black Mesa so that nothing could be salvaged / found about the teleportation.
He uses Alyx to blow up a time and dimensional travelling boat.

I think he wishes to stop any sort of civilization having access to multi-dimensional travel, to what end its hard to say.

>>388360123
Half-Life 3: Shephard Strikes Back

>>388359196
Its implied that some combine soldiers managed to also board the borealis before it fucked interdimensionally fucks off. Remember that it is constantly travelling through time and space, so just existing on the Borealis could dump the player off literally anywhere at anytime. The player could have to fight through Xen, Black Mesa during the cascade, aperture labs in the future, another combine enslaved world, etc. All the while the combine who boarded the ship could be hot on your heels.

My point is that there is no telling how many levels could be crammed between boarding the borealis and reaching its bridge, especially considering how space and time are in a constant state of fuckery.

>>388359731
yes. the combine are powerful but with time and space travel they will become so daunting they could destroy everything in the universe, it will eventually collapse on itself.

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>>388360234
>to what end its hard to say

He is a dimensional guardian, who does anything that is needed to preserve the multiverse balance.
Why take Alyx though, I have no clue.

>>388360468
Gotta get that succ and take what was rightfully his to begin with.

>>388349264
You loose.

There. Wasn' t that hard.

>>388352776
>can someone provide me a food analogy for the HL3 plot line?

You wait at a restaurant for a meal, finally after hours but the waiter come and gives you an appetizer dish, he never comes again and you keep on waiting.
In the end you cant even tell if its better the appetizer came or not, all it did is make you more hungry.

>>388360468
What makes Alyx more special than Freeman besides having a pussy asking to be obliterated and why is Gordon suddenly expendable?

>>388360468
gman is capable of mind control as proved when alyx warns eli to prepare for unforseen consequences after seeing his figure on the monitors at white forest. for all you know every moment alyx is with gordon is a moment he's being watched/protected by the gman in proxy

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>>388350970
>>Punished Alyx murders Judith in cold blood, winning the argument

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>>388360123
I have no idea, but sure as hell it would have microtransactions.

gman is just a magic man to fill in the gaps the writer has no answers for

>>388359661
Ya, but that's not because of the Borealis. Yes, humanity is implied to have successfully repelled the combine for the foreseeable future but Alyx wanted to use the Borealis to go on the offensive and actually hurt the combine in a meaningful way.

When the player sees the combines real power, they are supposed to realize what a laughable concept that is.

>>388353101

she planned to use it as a relativistic missile, its mass is not so big but accelerate it at near light speeds and you get a planet buster

>>388358338
for you

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I can offer you a battle you have no chance of winning. Rather an anticlimax after what you've just survived.

Can somebody give me a ant analogy for the HL3 plot line?

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this ending is kinda shit, gman crashes borealis onto combine's planet, how does he know borealis will get actually destroyed? maybe important part will survive? combine could restore it and whats next?

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>>388360123

Gordon finds the will to look for Alyx and save her from the Gman only to find that Adrian Chad Shepard broke out of stasis to cuck himout of his love interest causing Gordon to in turn go 100% nuclear again.

>>388349518
How would you fix this garbage?

>>388359696
Portals only open on moondust covered matter. Having one Dyson sphere is not the only thing the Combine has.

>>388360804
You never know, some portal shenanigans could possibly fuck up their dyson sphere.

>>388349264
So why was the original posting coded anyway? I doubt there is any NDA in effect by this point. Is it just super cautious plausible deniability?

>>388361107
One portal on the sun's surface, another portal on the dyson sphere

>>388361024
The Virgin Scientist and the Chad Operator

>>388349518
This anon makes it sound retarded but it's actually pretty great when you read it.

What was so awesome about HL1 and HL2 to a lesser degree was how you didn't really know what was going on, and you were just seeing a small piece of a larger puzzle. You were just trying to survive and along the way you saw glimpses of a world too vast and terrible to imagine.
Once you explain everything and the mystery is gone, it doesn't have that same feel and it loses its magic.
Very similar to Prometheus explaining what the "space jockey" was and where the Alien came from. It ruined what made Alien cool and scary, that it was a mystery what it was and where it came from.

tl:dr
By explaining the story it ruins it.

>>388360123
A man and a half let loose on a Dyson Sphere.

>>388354140
>So the Combine have a Dyson sphere? Honestly, that's not very hard to construct once you have a civilization on an interplanetary scale. They probably got fucked by the ship when it hit them and now the Combine is dead forever.

Do you even know what you're talking about right now?
A million suicidal ships slamming into would have been pebbles in the wind.

We're talking about a structure that isn't just built around a planet, but encompasses a normal planets entire orbit.

>>388361197
> portal on the surface of nuclear fusion

>>388361195
Marc Laidlaw knows Gabe's one weakness; he can't understand metaphors. By coding his message, he has dodged the Valve hitmen.

>>388361021
>play lol for the very first time
>not good at it
>get constantly berated by teammates
>get death threats for making us lose
>never play again
tic tac toe guy can go fuck himself

>>388361223
>By explaining the story it ruins it.
Well good thing the script basically just made things even more mysterious and confusing. Like why the fuck would the Gman take Alyx? Or what the hell is the whole deal with the advisors?

Why hasn't someone just made an unofficial half-life 3? You literally have all the models and physics thanks to Gary's mod. Get it fucking done

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>>388361036
There ain't nothing to fix, the whole setup is pretty much a corner for the writer with the only possible plot continuation being Gordon chasing after Alyx with help of his Vort friends (who "intertwined" their lives/souls back in that mine) while Earth is secure and separated from the Combine.
It ties up th previous plotpoints, sure, but it was always going to be underwhelming.

>>388349518
this makes no fucking sense to me

why the fuck cause this black mesa garbage if all you wanted was to destroy some boat on earth

then again, if the black mesa incident never happened, aurora borealis would still be in apertures hands

aperture science must've done something with aurora borealis that g-man didn't like, so g-man caused this black mesa shit to fuck everything up

still doesn't make much sense

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>>388361438
>fangames

>>388361416
there's a breenslug twitter account made by mark that gives extra information of them

from what i understood it's not the combine masterrace but a psychic species of sort that got enslaved

>>388361438
I was wondering about this too.

>>388361036
A lot of that is wrong and it's silly that many people blindly believe it. Then again, the original post is only a handful of paragraphs, maybe two pages tops--but that is more than enough reason for the mass underage of this board to not read it.

>>388361438
Because nobody wants to play a Half Life 3 made by random shitters?

>>388361438
there's countless ones already m8 where have you been

http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-closure

and yes it sucks but it's one of the more recent ones

>>388361438
well we now have the script so the guys who made that half life 1 remake should work on it

>>388361416
Just like Prometheus opened up a can of 50 more mysteries and questions after ruining the original premise.

>>388361528
>aperture science must've done something with aurora borealis that g-man didn't like
Did you read the script? The made the ship phase out and in from space and time at random, the combine could stop this, allowing boarding

>>388361036
How about you read the actual thing instead of having some shitposting anon shit it all up. It's actually really good and would have lived up to the hype. Reminder that's it's not a end to the series but only to episode 3.

>>388361438
because the fact that you haven't heard of them just goes to show you that nobody FUCKING CARES about a fan made conclusion to Half-Life

>>388349264
>muh Dyson sphere

>>388361528
Black Mesa was caused to tie up BM teleportation tech AND to stop Borealis while messing with Combine at the same time, who were already invading dimensions for a long time.
Its a giant roast on three levels that G-man did to tie up related problems by using one man and one shitty sample.

>>388349264
Its less than 10 pages in an ereader app you lazy piece of shit. It's really good.

So G-man prevents any species from truly understanding multidimensional travel.
>The Borealis is destroyed, humans can't learn from it, Kleiner and Mossman were probably the only living humans who could figure it out
>The Combine portal on Earth is gone, so they couldn't study the ship for themselves, or steal the humans research.
The only other species we know with multidimensional travel are the Vortigaunts.
I assume after episode 3 Gman will try to kill all Vortigaunts, or have them enslaved by Combine again.

>>388361738
>Did you read the script?
no

I still don't get why the next logical step is to fuck shit up at black mesa

>>388361692
Yeah it'll only take thirty years

>>388361659

Better than the alternative, which is nothing you fucking nerd

>>388361107
And what if they did destroy it? If the Combine had the means to produce one, what has stopped them from building another one? Another two? Another dozen? Another five dozen? If they could build dyson spheres, what other monstrosities have they built? Ringworlds? Synthetic planets? Technological feats beyond our imagination?

That's not even bringing Race X into the equation.

>>388360945
An ant tries to get out of the colony, keeps on going on for ever thinking the tunnel it fallows will never end, and finally as it gets the end of it it discovers its just a larger space in the tunnel so all it can do is keeps on going.
The road never ends, it will probably die along the way.

>>388349518
Brainlet detected

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>>388361891
The Vorts were enslaved by Nihilanth, who escaped Combine and hid in the Xen, while G-man was working to eliminate all teleport tech and dimensional travel to lock down all universes in their place, further solidifying the idea of a G-Man as a dimensional guardian.

It's obvious that he uses everyone and everything to achieve that single goal, which is why Gordon ceases to be useful to him after Borealis, but he did forget that Vorts are working behind his back by saving Gordon.

The only logical continuation would be for Gordon to take on G-man to save Alyx.

>>388362153
nah nigga it takes forever to build a Dickson sphere, tons of resources too. you can't just spam that shit because you built one.
also race WHO?

>>388353101
She and Gordon arm the ship

>>388360123
Nothing.

Episode 3 was the end.

>>388362276
G-Mang probably knew the Ghastlyhaunts would save Girtle. Live and let live, doesn't matter to him, his job is done. Fremont can't do shit.

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>>388358479
My sides anon.

>>388349518
>maybe if I a /v/ shitposter strawman an essay of script for a game that never came out I'll finally get my (You)s I've always wanted

>tfw Valve actually makes Half Life 3 with that plot

>To conclude the story and discover what happens to Gordon after the teleport, Half Life 3: Aftermath is announced.

The cycle begins once more.

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>>388362352
>Episode 3 was the end.
No it wasn't you brainlet, the whole fucking plot was just hype for the sequel

>>388362276
It would actually be awesome if Half Life 3, not.
Episode 3, had been a galactic/universal battle with both the Combine and G-Man and his associates.

Triage at Dawn fucking sucks.

>>388362276
>but he did forget that Vorts are working behind his back by saving Gordon.

He didn't forget, it's just that he can't do shit about it

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And what happened with the gnome and the head crab in the rocket

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>>388362276

I'd like if the Vorts sacrificed themselves to pass their abilities to Gordon as some last, desperate attempt to give both species a chance at winning.

>>388362323
Building one means you get access to it's energy, which in turn makes building the next one easier. Each dyson sphere produced fuels the efforts of building the next one.

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>>388362739

Get cancer and die.

>>388362276
I want to believe

>>388362276
>Nihilanth

Wasn't he just hiding out on Xen?

>>388362862
You're looking to get TB'ed, boy.

>>388360643
freeman was always probably expendable, alyx just wasn't old enough yet

>>388362898

>You're looking to get TB'ed, boy.

?

>>388362276
I like to think that at first, all alien races were 'allowed' to have their own short range portal tech
but G-man realized that eventually these races would meet, try to combine their tech together, and that would truly end the universe.
So he went back to Black Mesa and knocked over one domino, which lead to everything thats happened.

Where did the combine even come from? How did causing that Black Mesa incident shit out all those combine dudes?

>>388360643
G-Man didn't like how the Vorts were meddling with his contact to Gordon, and the fact that Gordon probably wouldn't have flown the Borealis into space had Alyx not been there.

Alyx with her daddy issues is MUCH easier to manipulate then Gordon and his alien cockblockers

>>388362701
Gordon realize humans were nothing but insects against the combine empire. That's the end you stupid.

There is no way writers could ever come with anything for Gordon to defeat something of that magnitude in the sequel.

>>388363150
>responding to it

>>388363150
Gordon could use Auroea Borealis to reach another big alien empire that could help earth.

>>388359994
It's actually pretty great if you read the original blogpost.

>>388363123
>Where did the combine even come from?
Nobody knows. Most likely a different dimension

>How did causing that Black Mesa incident shit out all those combine dudes?
Our dimension being connected to Xen cause enough of a stir for the Combine to notice. I guess the renaissance cascade made a blip on their space radar.

>>388352776
Half-life 3 is a burrito that has been thrown on the windshield of a car that's driving very fast on a highway.

>>388360894
>Instead he puts you in another battle you have no chance of winning when you accept.

What did he mean by this?

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>>388363408
>renaissance cascade

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>Newell and Harrington used their money to fund Valve through the development of Half-Life and the GoldSrc game engine.

If it wasn't for half-life success valve wouldn't be anything yet they it's completely forgotten with original devs leaving bits of ground work here and there... what went so wrong bros... why did you betray your own child Gabe?

>>388363632
You caught me. I'm a dirty phoneposter.

Fuck autocorrect

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>>388363115
Pretty much, yeah. The G-man is using the smallest possible elements to set off event chains, interfering only when he crucially has to - maybe he possesses some level of prescience? A dimensional guardian could be expected to have such modus operandi.

>>388363149
Pretty much, Alyx is both more emotionally malleable and does not have backup that Gordon has - he has become a rogue agent and not likely to follow G-man's further plans.

>>388363150
The ending as it was separates Earth from the Combine, but leaves G-man as the final plot-point that needs resolving. Alyx is "connected" with Gordon and vorts were able to home on him and pull him out, to give him a fighting chance against the shady asshole. At that point this turns into "save the princess" quest, while figuring out that G-man is actually serving a higher purpose that humanity has little bearing on - it would be a tale of human perseverance and emotion taking on a cosmic order that surpasses even the Combine.

G-Man is the true final boss.

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>>388363408
>renaissance cascade

>>388363636
Money changes people. It's not even a new development for Valve, shit was going downhill since around 2009.

>>388363870
So basically the Gman is the Littlefinger of Half-Life
>Rise and shine Mr Freeman, chaos is a ladder

Why did G-Man get so pissed off at Gordon when it was the Vortigaunts you snagged you away? Gordon just goes where he's shoved, but G-Man took it personal.

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>>388363914
>>renaissance cascade

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I actually really like this ending because it goes against the cliche of

>Haha I know you are a massive interstellar alien empire with technology we can't even begin to comprehend but we actually found your one super duper secret weakness lol looks like humanity wins :)

what if the gman is actually cave johnson when he traveled on the borealis and all that talk about who he works for is just the cancer fucking with his brain and there is no actual ulterior motive just dumb luck

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>>388363914
Stop bullying me it was autocorrect

>>388364086
It was personal because the Vortigaunts didn't understand what set of events their actions cause.

Another mess to clean for G-man in other words Gordon Freeman.

The only thing that needs a renaissance cascade right now is vydia

>>388363870
>Gordon never defeats the combine because it isn't his battle to fight
Now THAT would've been pretty nifty. It's like Gordon got a peak at a cosmic horror that he was never supposed to see, like if he accidentally got a glimpse of Cthulu.

big if true

...no it'd be fucking retarded and g-man is clearly a reptilian or some alien shit like that

>>388364086
He probably said
>Wow, you honestly think these midgets will save you? Just do what I tell you and destroy humanitys greatest invention, ok? Stop fucking around.

>>388350970
What's dyson sphere? If it's anything close to what I read on wiki it would've been heaviest feel in vidya ever.

>get teleported in cutscene
>suddenly see the dyson sphere while dramatic music plays
>gordon talks for first time "nononononononono"

>>388364228
What if G-man was sans the skeleton from Undertale?

sans the skeleton could stop time and break the fourth wall and shit.

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>>388363914
>renaissance cascade

>>388364086
He doesn't care about Gordon. He cares because his connection to Gordon is being fucked with.

Him letting gordon die is just happenstance. He leaves him because he simply doesn't need him.

>>388364508
dyson sphere is a solar panel sphere built around the sun

>>388364508
A machine that's a bazillion times larger then earth that exists to eat the sun. Basically the Combine has INFINITE resources.

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>>388364653
>>388364771
that's fucked up

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>>388364086
Because Gordon became a rogue agent at that moment and Vorts openly showed their hand that they were going to resist G-man. He takes Alyx as a replacement but it is likely that he does not suspect that she is connected with Gordon via Vort magic.

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>yfw the entire point of the Dyson Sphere and harvesting planets for resources and slave labor is to fuel a war effort against Race X, which the Combine are currently losing and even if you could stop the Combine you would only damn the universe to be consumed by Race X.

>>388350181
>I find it hard to believe HL3 having a bad ending.

Literally every single fucking ending in the half life storyline is bittersweet.

You watch too much gmod shit.

Aren't there more efficient methods of harnessing a star's energy than a Dyson sphere though?

why are people acting like a dyson sphere means shit?
if history has taught us anything, it's that unlimited fuel leads to unlimited consumtion.
fuck, they probably barely have enough power to fuel all their shit, let alone actually destroy any words

>>388364843
Isn't it already known that the Combine are at war with an unnamed alien organization?

I'm glad it got canceled.

The story for HL2 was all over the place and I couldn't connect any of it to the original game except for the obvious cameos like the crowbar, headcrabs, G-Man, and everyone reminding me that I am Gordon Freeman. The thematic progression in HL2 is like the storyboard director was a 6yo child going "wouldn't it be awesome if there was this and you could do that and you can go over there and wow I have so many ideas!" Its just so riddled with depth that none of it connects in a rational way during actual gameplay.

1. Stuck on slow moving train
2. Orwellian guards make you do stuff with no context.
3. "hey remember all 200 security guards from HL1? I'm all of them. You can call me Barney. Ima get you outta here."
4. Run away from evil guards in dystopian city and whack helicopter securitycams
5. Scientists + love interest + OMG GORDON = dialogue dialogue dialogue
6. Victorian Europe with saw blades, zombies and headcrab werewolves?? Also priest with a shotgun who I dont recall having any significance anywhere else in the game.
7. Drive a dunebuggy in the desert
8. Drive a hovercraft in the river
9. Back to the city, to fight some mutant AT-ATs and tell retarded freedom fighters what to do.
10. Get trapped in weird glassy chrome tower I think and use supercharged gravity gun to fuck shit up.
11. Game ends, I think? The rest is a blur, sorry.

This story for HL3 just seems like a massive clusterfuck. There's no way that anyone on the design team was on the same page using it as a reference. Its just too convoluted and bizarre that I dont see how it could possibly be communicated graphically through the scope of a shooting game that's also fun and coherent.

You guys can "nuh-uh" all you want but I know from level design experience that translating that drivel to a video game couldn't possibly go well.

>>388364843
>biologically oriented Race X
vs
>technologically oriented Combine
while
>G-man is trying to close the universes and end the war.

It makes sense... damn.

>>388349473

that's not really the ending, it's left open for a third game which will never happen

I like to think it went down like Terminator 2 and Alyx has to go back in time to kill Breen and prevent the Resonance Cascade from occuring in the first place.

>>388364916
fuck no. it's a solar panel that absorbs 100% of the sun's energy output. What's more efficient then that?

>>388364843
okay and surprise surprise g-man is part of this other alien race

double surprise the combine are actually the good guys

>>388364508
Its a planetary system large structure around a start
The sheer size of such a structure makes it immune to any form of damage, you could throw a fucking rain of planet sized objects through such a system and just poke holes so tiny that they would not be even noticeable

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>>388364916
Short term: Yes.
Long term: No.

After 10yrs I still can't believe anyone of you have any idea about the true ending of Half Life. Here is a clue PORTALS TO INFINITE UNIVERSES!!!!!

>>388365190
>>388364771
>>388364653
but if they cover up the sun doesn't it make conditions on their planet more harsh?
granted they dont cover it up entirely but still it should affect it somehow

>>388357702
The Vortigaunts did not send Freeman in the future.
The plot ends when the Vorts pick up Freeman. The last paragraph about how he doesn't recognize the people around and how much the world has changed was 100% about Mark Laidlaw's experience at Valve.

>>388365190
It's not the size of a system.

>>388364984
I feel like hl2 would have been a pretty good open world game with a few tweaks

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>>388364984
>headcrab werewolves
I want to see this

>>388365272
it could be any star you dumbo

>>388365272
You have no need for planets when you have a megastructure that sucks up all the suns energy and turns it into computational power for virtual realities

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>>388363408
I never thought I'd see a renaissance cascade, let alone create one!

>>388365364
thanks cunto

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>>388365285
>The last paragraph about how he doesn't recognize the people around and how much the world has changed was 100% about Mark Laidlaw's experience at Valve.
oh.

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did mossman deserve it?

>Gordon goes to aperture. Collects data on the boostrap device to create a new one, and possibly faces off with GlaDOS
>Kleiner and Science team make new Bootstrap Device, and connect it to Gordon's suit
>Vorts use their collective energy to infuse Gordon with their dimension hopping abilities
>Gordon, now free of the shackles of space and time, gives chase to G-Man.
>confront him
>he reveals his true from to be an aliem or some god
>Gordon kills it
>also Alex is tied into the plot somehow
>game ends with Gordon making butthole sex on Alyx

Lets face it, that's 99% what HL3's plot was gonna be

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>>388364207
underated

>>388365238
>pic related

>>388365534
Of course not, but how else are you gonna get rid of gordon's friends?
Everyone either dies outside of your control, sides with the enemy before you get there, or gets taken by gman.

>>388365534

Hell no. She's the only person who was sane enough to realize that the bootstrap device was the only trumpcard they had and wanted to study it and make more of it in various sizes to finaly defeat the Combine once and for all.

>>388364984
This
Dosnt help that the final game in no way resembles the initial draft and script ideas
90% f it was cut and what was added has barely any connection betwen it

While Ravenholm was a cool little bit of game play it was so disconnected from the rest of the game it made you wonder if you didnt start playing something else by mistake.

Playing HL2, and looking at the game concept art and all the material released from development since its hard to believe its the same game.

Also every game with a silent protagonist has a shit story, no exception.

>>388365534
No.

Alyx went nuclear over her dads death and Mossman was unfortunately there to be a focus for that anger

The resistance needed that inside agent, and Gordon Alyx and Eli would've been shunted off to another planet without her

>>388360123
>New aliens come by
>Attack the Combine and Humanity
>Humanity and Combine must join forces to beat the new aliens

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>>388363408
>renaissance cascade

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>Combine are fighting with Race X
>both use dimensional tech to get more resources/slaves for the war
>Combine happen to find Earth, which just started dabbling in teleport tech and surprise, have something that they can use
>they find Nihilanth as well, who hid in Xen while using vortigaunt race to give himself the teleport ability and where humans appear.
>at th same time G-man, whether part of the other race or of a third faction, tries to clean up the existence of teleport tech so that folks stop breaking the multiverse
>humans are excellent pawns
>HL1,2 and Episodes happen
>leaked ending happens, Combine are left intact but lose Earth and a chance for new tech
>Gordon stops being useful, Vorts who can use the teleport tech stand up to G-man
>fuck it, he takes Alyx and dumps Gordon
>But the Vorts don't let up and save him
>Merry chase round the multiverse begins

add this
>>388365640

And you have the whole saga.

>>388365640
probably another twist is that glados is actually le good guy and was keeping shell locked for her own good and shit, caused that neurogas shit to stall combine so that aurora borealis could be teleported away

>>388365534
No, but she is a scientist trying to study what the G-man is trying to prevent
After putting in the coordinates for the Borealis to crash into the Dyson sphere, she would be killed no matter what. It's all part of G-mans plan.

>>388366107
It fits like fucking pottery.

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>>388363408
>renaissance cascade

>>388365640
this except when doing that vort kamasutra usb infusion shit, gordon discovers that he was turned into gman and that gman was him all along

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>>388364207
kek

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>>388364207

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So what the fuck was this meant to be?

https://youtu.be/0d6yBHDvKUw

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>>388364207

>>388366369
Gabe being a fat fuck, as usual.

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>>388352475
portals you retard

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>>388363408

>>388366107
This is definitely true now based on ep3.
Before, GLaDOS locked Aperture down and killed all the scientists a few days before the events of HL1.
But now in the blog post it says Combine tried to break in and that made the scientists send the Borealis away. So GLaDOS had not yet gone crazy when that happened.

>>388366595
if they retcon enough they'll eventually figure out a decent plot

>>388349518
>>It turns out the Combine are stronger than anyone thought, and as soon as the teleportation was back online they could literally destroy Earth without even blinking
Holy shit Breen really did nothing wrong

>>388361940
Why would that be better than nothing? I would rather have nothing than some joke game that has nothing to do with Half Life

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>>388349518

>Gordon stared at a sphere
>A physical representation of power, unlimited energy, infinite strengh
>He lied there, speechless, and for once, hopeless
>It was all in vain, nothing he could have done mattered, everything was pointless
>And he sat, looking at it, that sphere
>Arrogant, so full of itself
>They had won without even trying
>And Gordon knew it
>He accepted it

>>388365272
what planet?
you live on the Dyson sphere, ion such a system the planets were eaten up for its construction, are inside of it, or are left to respect a race source of origin, if the Dyson sphere is smaller than the planets orbit, just cut a hole in it to let some light in, the hole would be so small that a picture even when enlarged to a size of building you could not find it it would be thinner than a hair, not larger tha a microscopic bacteria, for eatth its 4.5×10^-10 of the light we get form the sun, so the hole would be 2 000 000 000 smaller than the sphere

>>388366369
Valve putting on a front. They've specifically made it clear that they don't want their profits published because they want people to think that they're still the tiny underdog company

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFU6hxFfJac

BREEN DID NOTHING WRONG

>>388365272
It's possible to live on a Dyson Sphere

i never understood the meme that HL had any kind of decent story whatsoever

playign through the HL1, 2 and the episodes just felt boring when I was forced to sit there and listen to the bland ass story, and it just drew away from the fun gameplay

>>388366595
hmm, I wonder if chell still has some role, she was woken up for portal 2, why? did gordon enter the facility, causing her to wake up

or did glados wake her up because she now had some role again?

I wonder if doug rattman has some role in this shit

>>388367312

Dunno, as someone who enjoys science fiction, HL had some of the best in offer. Marc's book are genuinely great.

pfft... this half-life business... it's for the birds...
it's been 10 years, the new generation doesn't give a fuck, gramps
you could be 18 years old and have reasonably missed out on the Half-Life series because you were just too young when Episode 2 dropped
nobody cares anymore

>>388367316
Portal 2 takes place thousands of years after humanity has driven away the Combine. That's why you can see the ocean

>>388367312
it's pretty fucking terrible but also vague, allowing for some interesting shit to potentially happen

things were set up so that half life 3 could have tons of cool shit going on, portal tie in, including the characters, explaining gman, explaining vorts, explaining tons of mysteries

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[pain]
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>>388367563
I've been meaning to look into his books. How are they? What are they about?

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>>388367312
>i never understood the meme that HL had any kind of decent story whatsoever

This to be honest.

>this story is really great because all the interesting parts are actually mysterious and unknown.
>all the interesting things Half Life 1 bought up were never addressed in Half Life 2
>Half Life 3 would have never addressed anything from Half Life 2

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>>388365272

>>388367606
hmm, it'd be cool if there had been signs of gordon freeman or combine having been in the facility then

>>388367606
what if she was woken up because the combine was finally starting to strike again and her portal gun or some shit could be a key to save everything once again

or maybe she was just given freedom because the earth was once again safe or something

>>388367563
I haven't read the books, but the games themselves have some pretty mediocre and I'd even say bad storylines. You could grab any random scifi bestseller shit out by the NYT or something and you'll have a more cohesive, more captivating story than what's presente by HL.

Video games in general (unless they're pure story games a la Telltale games) have horrible stories, but that's okay because that isn't their central focus for the most part. Read literally any book inspired by any video game, and it's some of the worst kind of literature imaginable.

>>388367312
It's barebones but it understands that you need to show a story, not tell it. That combined with the fact that it's grounded in a lovecraftian setting with realistic and likeable characters makes it far more interesting than anything else out there.

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this is what should play when gordon sees the dyson sphere and then gets pulled into the shore by the vorts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGTD0_vMN8

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vortigaunt poop chutes

>>388366595
This is the one change i'm upset about.
Glados killing her creators, deadset on beating Black Mesa in the portal race, only for Black Mesa to be destroyed a few days later was one of the best examples of Portals dark humor.
Now its revealed she let the scientists save an important invention before killing them.
She is supposed to be a heartless machine. what gives.

>>388367990
>her portal gun or some shit could be a key to save everything once again

The portal gun is literally just the alpha version of the Bootstrap Device. The point of the portal gun was that it lead to the most advanced piece of teleportation technology ever created throughout the entire multiverse

>>388361036
Half Life 4: THE ARK GOES TO SPACE
You don't need to try that hard. Or accept that humanity was lost.

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>>388368123
>tfw

>>388368123
No anon, this is what you see and plays when you wake up on shore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBnm3j7oCx0

thats your ending to hl2 ep3

your welcome

>>388368276
yeah and I forgot that glados was destroyed when chell was woken up, I still wonder what caused wheatly to wake chell up though

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G-man works for Alyx. THE END