Did he deserve to suffer?

>>388797435
I mean he did technically ruin the world by pushing the crystal

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> be happy because of all these HL threads popping up for the first time in forever
> be sad because of end of HL

>>388797517
As a low-level employee on instruction from his superiors who knew it was dangerous.

You wouldn't blame the gun for shooting someone, you blame the person holding it. It's not Gordon's fault.

>>388797435
No. He was just the right man in the wrong place.

>perform an experiment with a low chance to fuck up the entire world
You guys realize this has happened in the past/is happening right now, right?

>>388797995
Continuing your analogy gets a little funny. Though not arguing. But yeah we make law restricting Gordons instead of improving science.

>>388798443
except that it's not
>muh CERN

>>388798615
this. ethics dont seem to be found in the half life universe

>>388798615
The atomic bomb was created with the mindset of humans controlling devices that can wipe out a population in a flash. It's fair to say that they have been an exceptional deterrent for war, but the possibility is always at arms reach once the wrong person makes the wrong move.

>>388797517
They could find someone else to do it tho.

>awake for nearly 40 hours during the Black Mesa disaster

That's enough suffering as it is.

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>>388797435

Gordon.... had a hard life

>>388797697
>retards interpreting epistle 3 as the end of half life
It was only Marc''s departure, which is why it ends on a clean slate for the series's next writer

>>388800221
He was probably on pure adrenaline the entire time, not as bad as you'd think

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>>388797435
cool 90's ponytail gordon > short hair gordon

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>>388800365
>He actually thinks half life is continuing
I dont think youd accept it even if gaben put it in writing and shoved it up your ass

>>388800365
But it is the end of it as we know.
Like you said, if there is ever a new half life, it will likely be a new writer, on a new story. Perhaps even a new protagonist.

At that point, it will only be Half Life in name. Half Life, as we know, as we grew up with, is as good as dead except for fan-made games, which are always either really good or really bad. And that is when they manage to jump the corporate hoops and don't get hit with a cease and desist.

>>388800347
Technically Half Life was only about 2 weeks of Gordon's life.

>>388800719
That is even worse. Dude couldn't sleep, couldn't relax, one problem after another. One crisis after another.
Imagine the stress, the rush, the exhaustion. Didn't he spend like 2 days in Black Mesa during Half Life 1?

>>388800797
>Dude couldn't sleep
I think he sleep a while when the special ninja forces capture him and throw him on that industrial waste compresor machine.

>>388800967
More like passed out, but yeah.

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>This announcement system now under military command

>>388800797
Yeah but how long did he sleep for after Gman put him in limbo? That's gotta be a nice fucking sleep

>>388800967
Are you sure that wasn't just a Freeman's Mind thing?

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>>388800596
He deserves to suffer for that horrible hair

I thought he wore glasses in-game? Wha

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>reminder that a lot of Half-Life fans have died
We've been a long time waiting, haven't we?

>>388801124
No, I'm sure that was part of the vanilla game.

>>388801039
>Forget about freeman!

>>388801216
what the fuck asshole

>>388800221
The suit probably pumped amphetamines into him or something

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>>388800365
I wish I were as optimistic as you. And they'd still manage to make it shit if that was the case.

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>>388797435
>>388800596
How comes Gordon never wore glasses ingame?

>>388800365
>only
Yeah, only the main writer responsible for making it the way we knew it this whole time. Even if two writers get the exact same instruction and the exact same rules for a scenario, they will do it differently.

HL is over.

>>388802624
He turned into a Chad that day

>>388802624
GoldSRC didn't have a good way of rendering glasses frames

Giving gordon glasses would have obstructed his eyes too much

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>>388802624
i always thought he had his helmet on

>>388802312
it pumped morphine. that would make you drowsy.

>>388803618
it pumped morphine when he was in pain

His suit shot him up with morphine to counter act the pain of being shot, burned, frozen, cut, blown up, blunted, etc

Depending on how much damage you took in half-life, your gordon freeman might be an insane morphine addict

>>388800221
well he did take a short nap while he was captured

>>388803945
>getting fucking knocked out and thrown into a trash crusher counts as a nap to Gordon
M A D M A N

>>388802624
He took them off so they wouldn't break in the test chamburrr.

>>388801429
R.I.P Kitty

Where the fuck is a dyon sphere?

>>388800365
>Next writer
Even if they got a new writer and released it, it wouldn't be the real thing.

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>>388804173
He probably took a nap after he pushed the crystal and doomed the Earth too.

>>388804602
its a structure built around a star to capture all of its energy

i think

>>388804602
Space

>>388800365
Right sure, Valve will totally put the time, effort and money into a single player game when they can just fart out some cosmetics for DOTA or TF2 and rake in 3 times the amount of money with hardly any cost.

HL3 for sure :)

>>388804669
>>388804663
that's crazy!

>>388804618
Earth was doomed the moment Gman arrived to earth.

>>388804750
why didn't gordon just shoot the gman

>>388801039
I had to search for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecNxQKMshJY

>>388797517
Why did they even need a human to push that crystal? I mean they are a high-tech, government funded facility with sci-fi tech, yet they needed a dude in a suit to manually push a crystal into a beam? That sounds stupid.

>>388804785
>Enigmatic being with power to stop time, teleport and control people
>A bullet will stop him

>>388801039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt7jBNuL8rU

>>388801039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iu4GXUHfU0

>>388805037
Cheeki breeki1

>>388804891
They money is never going where it needs to go. There was large sections of the facility flooded with radioactive waste.

>>388800365
>It was only Marc''s departure
It's end of Half Life alright, then.

>>388802624
HL1 Gordon looked fucking hardcore

>>388802915
He HAS to have a helmet, right?
>zoom function
>walk into chamber bathed in radiation "because you have the hazard suit"

>>388804750
>implying G-Man isn't a spook working for the Cia the whole time

>>388805506
Go to sleep, Terry.

>>388804891
He was probably there to do more than just push the crystal, but the second it touched the beam everything went to shit

>>388804785
You can shoot the G-Man in game though. It does nothing.

Just waiting for the source mod EP 3 to come out in 5 years

>>388800797
This. Imagine it from Gordons point of view.
Literally fight monsters and soldiers alike for 2 straight days, finally defeat the final boss, step into green light and BAM, you're in a city 17 where you're ALSO fucking awake for days.

>>388801039
This an-n-n-oucMENT
SYSTEM
NOW
UNDER
MILITARY
COMMAND

>>388805909
Is it proven that being put into stasis is instantaneous and time skipping for Gordon? Though I'm not saying it would be real-time otherwise.

>>388805492
I imagine the helmet is something like the helmet from Dead Space 2. It manifests when you need it and dissapears when you interact with people.

How did he lose his suit between 1 and 2? I'm assuming Gman took it and gave it to Kleiner.

>>388805552
Oh Yeah?
From another Dyson sphere thread
>G-Man
>Government Man
>"I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons, most of them WERE government property"
>"The border world, Xen, is in our control now, for the time being, thanks to you"
>He says this right in front of a dead soldier and destroyed military vehicles in Xen of all places, despite the military never going there
>Reactivates the military's nuke in Opposing Force after Shepard deactivates it
>Calls Black Mesa an embarrassment, possibly because of the numerous casualties taken and the failure of one of the governments biggest technological suppliers
>Aperture used to be one of the governments biggest suppliers until they turned their heads to Black Mesa
>Doesn't trust Shepard not to spill the beans on what happened at Black Mesa, just like the government
>"And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste, until..."
>AKA, the combine are getting close to discovering the secret shadow government hiding just under their noses
The governments of the world purposely threw the 7 hour war and have been acting in secret throughout Half Life 2. They are more powerful then they let on and this is why Earth has developed technology even the combine do not have yet. They operate in secret and after the combine got a whiff of them, they lured them to Earth to feign their own deaths. Gordon arrives back on Earth after the US has gained enough power to remote detonate dyson spheres or some shit and is about to seize galactic power from the hands of the combine.

>>388806292
he probably just made another suit

>>388806082
It's stasis anon, he literally freezes Gordon in time.

>>388799682
Also don't forget the Manhattan Project ran into the possibility of a nuclear device simply incinerating the entire Earth's atmosphere

>>388806430
That anon's right. G-Man somehow arranged it so that the Resistance finds the suit. Kleiner just upgraded it.

>>388806695
ehhh

>>388806695
There are more than one HEV suit at Black Mesa
Klenier or his team probably took one of them

>>388806315
>yfw at the end of HL3 humans steal the combine's dyson sphere

WE

>>388797517
Which was a planned event and he wasn't even the first scientist to breach Xen. It's amazing how most people just play the first few levels.

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Ivan the Space Biker > Gordon "Phd on being a fucking nerd" Freeman

>>388806315
>He says this right in front of a dead soldier and destroyed military vehicles in Xen of all places, despite the military never going there
I saw an explanation once that it's supposed to be Earth, but engine limitations only allowed for one skybox.

>>388801039

If I ever turn into a Steven Hawking, I want my little electric voice box to have the Vox voice set in it.

>>388807183
>>388806817
They literally refer to it as "Gordon's old suit" and say they upgraded it. Also G-Man tells you he'll let you keep the suit since you've earned it.
The only reason he doesn't give it to you straight from the beginning is that you'd be fucking suspicious.

>>388807679
Gordon is a nerd on purpose.
Valve thought it'll be more interesting than playing as another alpha chad 80's-90's protagonist.

>>388804715
>tf2
Get with the times grandpa. Now it's all about csgo skins and cards for artifact

>>388807679
>gordon "making that geek my healbitch" freeman
>a nerd

>>388808108
cosmetics were a mistake.

>>388807679
>space biker
That's very clearly a dorf

>>388807925
oh ok

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>>388797697
You are me.

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>>388800365
>Half Life 3 written by Emil Pagliurilo and Anthony Burch

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>>388800221
>late for work
>get nauseous on spinning elevator
>directly cause quantum fuck-up that kills my coworkers and ruins the world
>watch colleagues get mangled by malfunctioning machinery and loose debris
>arm myself with a vaguely pistol-shaped block of charcoal and kill my possessed zombie coworkers
>get attacked by teleporting illegal immigrants that shoot lightning bolts
>think the military's coming to evacuate us when they're really here to silence us
>get shot multiple times but it's alright because my suit's automated medical systems gave me an opiate dependency now
>only ally consists of a platoon of autistic security guard clones armed with pistols
>feet hurt after jumping repeatedly to somehow boost my horizontal acceleration to mach 5
>shock myself multiple times
>nearly drown multiple times
>kill an alien shark with a crossbow so that's cool I guess
>get knocked out and thrown in a trash compactor, resting for the first time in 20 hours
>escape trash compactor and go through residue processing facility
>number of second degree homicide charges exceed 70 after I go through another HECU outpost on my way forward
>all snack machines I come across are broken or out of stock
>scientist sacrifices himself to open up the teleporter to shitty purple homeworld
>get teleported to and fuck around in the alien world
>get attacked by a giant quadrupedal ballsack that hails down corrosive semen on me with it's jizz mortar
>throw hand grenades at a telepathic fetus until it dies
>finally sleep when I get put in stasis for 20 years, awaken in a dystopian hellpit and realize I'll never see my family again
FUCK

Doom Guy vs. Freeman

All weapons out, no mercy. Who wins?

>>388809491
doom guy

ez

>>388809491
They wouldn't fight in the first place. Doomguy only kills the demons and Gordon is a bona fide good guy. They'd team up more than likely and kill aliens and demons all across time and space together. One silent, the other howling in rage for eternity. Doomguy would win in a fistfight though.

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>>388809042
>Half Life 3 written by Anthony Burch
>Gman, in every fucking facet other than appearance, has become Claptrap
>Gordon is now fully voiced and reacts to literally everything
>Every character including Gordon speaks in fucking unbearable high pitched or silly voices
>Unskippable cutscenes
>Every single character, including the entire Combine military and whoever is the final boss at the end refers to Gordon as a Badass™
>tone has done a full 180, le epic funny moments in spades, characters dying not taken seriously at all, nonexistent character development, etc
>final nail in the coffin is the end credits scene, where Half Life 3 is implied and pretty much guaranteed to get a sequel in the same vein, except with an entirely original story with no input from Valve

At least it wasn't Anthony Burch

>>388806610
what a way to go for mankind
usually the major apocalypses give you time to react, like runaway greenhouse effects or something, this thing is just hi world bye world

>>388804891
He's a highly qualified professional in crystal pushing

>>388810528
I see that MIT education really pays for itself.

>>388809935
"Hey my dude! Look, Gordon, my man, ya gotta help us out! Look, ya know the Borealis, that big sciency ship thingy the crazy dudes at Aperture did? Well, we GOTTA use it against the Combine! I have a plan, well, a CRAZY plan, but a plan nonethless...It's really simple, we take the ship and drive into that big tech thingy the Combina has and it goes KABOOM! Whaddya think?"

Bi,p

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Made an HL1 dm server named /v/. Password is rage.

connect 47.147.90.105

>>388799682
>>388798615
a few scientists thought that the first nuclear test would set the atmosphere on fire. as in, everyone on earth burns HORRIFYING BURNING DEATH. they did it anyways.

>>388812697
I'll be coming for some crossfire action

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>>388812697
>an HL1

>>388813759
yes that's how it's pronounced you irish fuck

>>388812730

That's a half truth. They did some rough calculations and concluded that the chance of causing the nitrogen in the air to undergo fusion, thus exploding the entire atmosphere, was fairly low. Like below 10% or something.

>>388813823

>an 'alf life 1 server

feck off you cockerney scum

>>388813859
>just a couple percent

>>388813918
An "aych El 1"

>>388812697
damn too laggy for me

>>388814231
I'm in western America, sorry.

>>388809042
>>388809935
>Half Life 3 written by Emil Pagliarulo
>Gordon's wife is a critical character
>Gordon's written to be like Jesus Christ
>the combine are just generic aliens from another planet, who all wear gas masks because it was cool when the metro cops did it
>gordon's voiced

>>388800365
It's something more like
>retards realised hl is fucking dead just now

>>388814116

It's pronounced "haitch ell one"

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>>388812697
>server only accepts legit clients

>>388814454
If you know a way to make it so it accepts anyone, I'd be down for that.

>>388814554
Dont enable pirating poorfags

>>388814669
>giving money to gayben

>>388804663
Oh so entropy. And the captured sun, huh?

>>388814669
The more people murdering each other the merrier.

>>388804602
It's a (super)structure which purpose is to maximize amount of power harvested from a star. Generally it's a giant swarm of satellites on orbits around a star (or in this case probably a solid shell)

>>388807183
The other two in the Sector C locker room belong to two female scientists that help calibrate the satellite you sent into orbit.

>>388804602

It's a structure with a diameter about as big as the earth's orbit which captures all the energy from a star using solar panels. The Combine are using this to mine the last bitcoin in existence and sell it for a fortune.

>>388815072
Holy shit you posted this everywhere

>>388805492
A designer/writer/literal who that works at valve did confirm gordon wears his helmet in HL1 and 2. It was just for promotional shit that he didn't wear it.

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>He doesn't wear sunglasses at work.

>>388809359
>>all snack machines I come across are broken or out of stock
That hurts.

>>388809491
Freeman has more freedom in his movement, and still has extremely powerful weaponry. Freeman wins.

>>388807679
Could Ivan the Space Biker defeat the combine?

>>388815240
It's probably that fat fuck Otis

>>388815256
>more powerful weaponry
i dont really think so. everything is similar, but the main difference is that freeman has a gravity gun and doomguy has a bfg. i think the niche applications of the gravity gun dont really catch up to the god damn bfg. and freeman can jump, but doomguy runs the speed of a car. freeman has morphine on demand and doomguy can punch a goddamn cyberdemon to little itty bitty pieces

>>388815509
>grav gun
Who cares about that trash, I'm talking about gauss jumping and the gluon gun

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>>388797435
>You will never live in the timeline where Gordon was a common sense, red pilled slav space trucker that would have pumped and dumped alyx and given g man the bird

>>388815635
he could probably for short bursts keep up with doomguy, i guess

>>388797697
>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness...
Great quote, but holy fucking run on sentence.

>>388815659
We already have duke nukem

>>388806292
Well it would be better that way wouldn't it. Imagine arriving to City 17 wearing that fucking suit, people would freak out and the combines would be all over you right away.

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>>388802624
In HL2 he does, but model is from Japanese arcade version.

>>388805732
well if you follow him through walls fast enough in half life 2, you can shoot him in the fucking head and he'll drop dead

doesn't change anything to the story though, obviously

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>tfw no Combine gf.

>>388817773
Does he? I thought he's set the same as friendly NPCs, you can't damage him.
In HL1 though, you can see the bullets literally ricochet off of him.

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At least we know what happened with Freeman through the events of HL2.

>>388800365
>No Antonov
>No Marc
It wouldn't be worth having

>>388818080
I like the part in OpFor where you can kill Freeman as he jumps into the portal to Xen.

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>>388817446

>>388809359
>filename
>not gordon feelsman
Missed opportunity

>>388818454
reddit

>>388819024
>trying to use the word reddit to "downvote"
Really makes you think

>>388819109
>downvote
There are no downvotes on this site, stupid redditor.

>>388819142
>proving my point

>>388819242
Your point being?

>>388818454
>>388819024
>>388819109
>>388819142
>>388819242
>>388819261
Now kiss.

>>388819287
i'll fucking deepthroat you with my tongue

>>388819287
Hi, I just wanted to apologize for posting this post because I realized it is actually homophobic by implying two men kissing is a bad thing and ridiculing it. Again, I'm sorry.

>>388819372
Legit kek

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>tfw you're in water and hear it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUphpZ5kpHA

>>388817885
yeah there's videos of it on youtube

it's really just some kind of glitch though, again it's not supposed to happen and has zero effect on any of his subsequent appearances

>>388807818
>it's supposed to be Earth, but engine limitations only allowed for one skybox.
But is when he say "The border World, Xen, is in our control now", not to mention they could have done the same trick they did when it teleports you to the space tram.

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>>388809935
>>Half Life 3 written by Anthony Burch
Today I will remind them.

>>388800365
Tfw in about fifty years time we'll see Half Life™
After the failure that was the epistle 3 Kickstarter.
We get a minimalistic copy of the original game.
Feels suicide man.

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>>388817824
>Those legs and that body-hugging suit
I don't have a Freeman rag image so have this.

>>388819432
>Ever getting in the water with a live one
You dun goofed

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>>388797435
what about him?

>>388820074
I barely remember opposing force, but didn't he and his group bullied and beat a bunch of old science grandpas?

>>388809359
>get nauseous on spinning elevator
You have to rotate WITH the elevator

>>388820208
Probably G-Man spinning everyone at the USMC into killing the Black Mesa team

>G-Man setting off the nuke at the end of OF is what attracts the Combine's attention in order to invade and take over Earth, starting the Seven Hour War
It really makes you think.

>>388820625
>I don't know what I am talking about so I am going to shitpost.
Really makes you think.

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>>388814401
Die.

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>gordon is the player
>the player suffers due to the actions of valve

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>>388812697
>Server not responding.
I always late to the fun.

>>388806082
The combine teleporter from Nova Prospekt back to City 17 was like a stasis field, Alyx and Gordon travelled instantly but the world advanced by a few weeks. In my personal canon that's what happened to gordon between hl1 and 2.

>>388820208
most of his team mates didn't made it

>>388820825
I'm working on a package of non-Steam and Steam compatibility for /v/ complete with multiplayer mods I enjoy. Sorry man. I'll probably get it done by Saturday though. Be on the lookout.

>>388800365
I, too, watch one youtube video and base my entire opinion on it.

>>388800221
He was knocked out for half an hour when he got captured. Might have been some very deep sleep.

>>388820856
>The combine teleporter from Nova Prospekt back to City 17 was like a stasis field
>Alyx and Gordon travelled instantly but the world advanced by a few weeks
There was a time skip? Granted I haven't played the game in years, but I don't remember that.

>>388821381
Yes there was, but only a single week.

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>>388797435
What does everyone think about the paid version of Black Mesa?
I thought it was still a really good game despite some changes in level design, music hardly being HL like and the absence of Xen still.

>>388814401
actually the spelling is 'aitch'.

>>388821574
I didn't even know it was out.

>>388817824
I'd grab her dyson spheres

>>388821574
Apart from the time it takes them to finally finish xen and gutting On a Rail because of retards whining it's an impressive project.
Still mad about how a free mod became a 20 dollar early access title though.

>>388821574
Will play it when they make Xen.

>>388821574
>Xen is supposedly an entire game's worth of content on its own and that's why it was being released separately
How fucking massive are they making that place?

>>388822254
jesus I hope it's not, it was pretty awful in half life 1, I wouldn't want to play through it for an "entire game's worth of content" (whatever that means)

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>>388821748

>>388822254
If that's the case then I hope they actually do a good job at improving it.
I didn't mind xen in the original but I wouldn't be able to stand any more than that.

>>388822254
So instead of playing a shitty space section that feels completely disconnected from the rest of the game we will get to play a new shitty space section that feels completely disconnected from the rest of the game and was made by a bunch of guys who've only ported a game until now and have no experience in actually making a game from scratch?
I honestly would've preferred regular old Xen with new graphics and some cut parts. Every second spend on Xen is already too much.

>>388822254
>>388822586
>>388822884
Xen looked pretty amazing with its fauna, but then parts like riding the space stingrays to the portal were pure cancer. Just the space donut (first level) and the grunt shipping factory and the final boss is all they should make. The other parts were too aweful to port

>>388805884
Try 20

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>>388797435
The resemblance is there.

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>>388800347
More like a hard half-life

>>388817824
>the Combine kidnapped and experimented on Haydee
All is lost.

>>388823154
More emphasys on the Xen fauna and alieness outside of floating islands would be nice.

>>388815659
Feels good man

https://youtu.be/f2JDto0KSr0

>>388809935
>>388810906
>Final bit where Gman pops up and whisks Alyx away leaving you alone on the Borealis primed for destruction

"Heyy, mind if I show myself in? Of corse you don't! Sorry to interrupt, Champ- great job by the way, I couldn't have done a better job killing those Combine jerks myself! Pew pew pew! *finger gun gesture*
Well, actually, who am I kidding: I totally could've, but hey, no need for bragging at a time like this, am I right?
Sooooo yeah, if you'll excuse me a teensy weensy sec now, I just have to have a quick word with my pal Alyx here, so you just sit right there and we'll get right to it, mmmmmmkay?
I mean, you are trapped in my personal spacetime bubble, so it's not like you could move even if you wanted to, but! The G in Gman does stand for "Gentle" (among other, incredibly sexy and accurate things starting with G, if you smell my drift) so hey , what the hell, you've earned a little courtesy, you know? Yeah no need to thank me, I know I'm a charmer.
NOW! Sweet little ol' Alyx, yes indeed! How's about you and me ditch this cruiser -admittedly very cozy, look at this interior! Is that a leather Captain's seat? Man, those folks at Aperture sure know their decorating, but let's get back on track- and have a skip and a jump in spacetime, hmm?? No blowing up into subatomic particles horribly warped throughout unspeakable spacetime distortions for you, young lady!
Oh, sorry Gordy Boy, I suppose I shouldn't have said that out loud.
Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag now, my bad! Sorry for the poor form old sport, but it's just the way things go, you know? Sometimes you get to be the one who gets to skedaddle right in time, sometimes you get to, well, be erased from the fabric of the universe.
Mondays, am I right?!
Well, ta-ta then, no hard feelings eh? Do enjoy the view while you are out there though, you are in for quite the treat. The sight of a lifetime!
Literally. It'll be the last thing you'll ever see.
I'll show myself out.

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Anybody excited for the HL/Portal movie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpjMAuLvMg8

>>388812730
They made sure it didn't before experimenting. A new weapon won't do much good if it killed yourself and the entire planet in the process.

>Edward [Teller] brought up the notorious question of igniting the atmosphere. Bethe went off in his usual way, put in the numbers, and showed that it couldn't happen. It was a question that had to be answered, but it never was anything, it was a question only for a few hours. Oppy made the big mistake of mentioning it on the telephone in a conversation with Arthur Compton. Compton didn't have enough sense to shut up about it. It somehow got into a document that went to Washington. So every once in a while after that, someone happened to notice it, and then back down the ladder came the question, and the thing never was laid to rest.

>>388813859
It was closer to one in a million.

>>388809935
thats not anthony burch, thats Randy
anthony woul make the whole cats gay and the combine homophobes

>>388801039
I always found it incredibly goofy that some random grunt tasked with taking control over the announcement system had to specifically spend some time fiddling with voice synthesis settings to make it sound DEEP AND INTIMIDATING.

>>388826360
They probably just install a software that do all the job

>>388810906
>>388824571
Does this style of writing have a name or something? It sounds LITERALLY like something straight out of borderlands 2.

>>388824834
if they cast jk simmons as cave, i'm sold

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>>388826758
That's even sillier, that means that their software has an explicit specification to make shit they hack into sound DEEP AND INTIMIDATING.

>>388827004
>even japs want HL3

>>388827004
That sounds like something army would actually do though. Psychological effects shouldn't be underestimated.

>>388827004
Psychological warfare.

>>388826861
Just channel the painfully smug, oh-so-clever memelord 'writer' in your heart, and it flows out without even thinking about it.

>>388827217
can confirm, p much this

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>>388797435
Gordon Freeman became a head crab zombie and Combines put science in him, but he didt surfer much because best bro John Freeman was last thing he saw before he died and went to Heaven and that put Gordon Freeman at piece wiht the world.

>>388827004
>>388827080
Consider why civil protection units have those deep and robotic voices in HL2, it's probably partially for psychological intimidation.

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>>388827080
>>388827163
I guess that makes sense, still it made me giggle for some reason. That voice change didn't happen in original HL, did it?
>>388827052
Japs have the weirdest HL crossovers

>>388827546
i-is that Adrian?

>>388797435
Why did they need a doctor in Theoretical Physics to push a cart again? Barney even pokes fun at that when he throws the switch in HL2.

>>388827546
It didn't

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>>388827579
Nope, that's a 2hu character

>>388797435
that feelerino when the M249 sounds like it's suppressed. While the MP5SD sounds lika belt-fed LMG.

>>388813859
>fairly low. Like below 10% or something.
I find it worrying you think that is a low percentage.

If he doesn't do it, someone else would have, this simple, and if someone else does it, he might not be able to stop it, Gordon can.

How's the Vortigaunt mode in the PS2 version? Is it any fun?

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You guys have played Afraid of Monsters mod for Half-Life, right?

RIGHT?!

>>388828984

Despite not being particularly well written, this is actually an insightful post.

>>388825184
>>388812730
>>388813859
>>388825374
It did sorta happened when the U.S detonated a nuclear bomb high in the atmosphere.

>>388821873
early access has replaced modding

no reason not to get some money

>>388827653
He was the new guy. They probably were just testing him before actually giving him real work. Or maybe they just thought the 27 year old guy would do a better physical work than any of the old guys.

>>388797697
its a bitter sweet feeling

we finally get a ending after over a decade of waiting but at the same time it was a fucking pastebin

>>388828858
M249 reload animation is cool af althrough that's not how they do it IRL