Damn, this is a sad sad day ;_;
And happy day at the same time.
Damn, this is a sad sad day ;_;
As the CEO of Valve he can do whatever he pleases with his company, but he didn't have to be such a prick about it.One of the most popular gaming series ends with a blog post, wow. Thanks for nothing Gaben
I don't even care for Half Life much but it does piss me off on behalf of others.
Also, where the fuck did Alex goooooooooo???
It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the terrain has changed.
Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I spoke, or what precisely we hoped to accomplish.
At this point, the resistance will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me.
Old friends have been silenced, or fallen by the wayside.
I no longer know or recognize most members of the research team, though I believe the spirit of rebellion still persists
I expect you know better than I the appropriate course of action, and I leave you to it.
So in case anyone wants a tldr:
-Gordon and Alyx head to Antartica and find a Combine base built around the Borealis, their helicopter gets shot down
-The Borealis is a weird shifting place that exists into two places simultaneously
-Breen as a Combine grub doesn't quite realize what happened to him, but hates his current state and after capturing Gordon and Alyx, asks them to kill him. Alyx refuses, but the player/Gordon can apparently do something to kill him
-Mossman claims that Eli had tasked her with being a triple agent for the Resistance all along
-They realize the Borealis is "stretched" between the past and present, not just two places in space; the Aperture scientists activated the device during the Seven Hours' War while the Combine was approaching and attempted to warp to Antarctica to be as remote as possible, but ended up warping into the future
-Time and space warp more around the Borealis and they get a glimpse of the Combine's headquarters they launch invasions from
-Mossman wants to "anchor" the Borealis in the present in Antarctica to safeguard it for the Resistance, Alyx wants to honor Eli's wishes and destroy it so it can never be misused; there's talk of the potential time paradoxes
-Mossman and Alyx fight, Alyx shoots Mossman
-Gordon and Alyx rig the Borealis to self destruct and create a missile that can travel between dimensions, essentially turning the Borealis into a time/space warping bomb aimed at the Combine base
-As they fire it, the G-Man suddenly appears and reveals that he's been keeping tabs on Alyx as some kind of sleeper agent (as hinted at in Episode 2) since the events of Black Mesa, and actually appears to Alyx (she remembers him) and takes her with him through his glowy train door as a "replacement" for Gordon, who he leaves to die
-The player sees that the Combine base is actually a massive Dyson sphere and there's no way the Borealis bomb will actually do any significant damage
-The Vortigaunts intervene and pull Gordon out right before the Borealis self destructs
So in case anyone wants a tldr:
-Gordon and Alyx head to Antartica and find a Combine base built around the Borealis, their helicopter gets shot down
-The Borealis is a weird shifting place that exists into two places simultaneously
-Breen as a Combine grub doesn't quite realize what happened to him, but hates his current state and after capturing Gordon and Alyx, asks them to kill him. Alyx refuses, but the player/Gordon can apparently do something to kill him
-Mossman claims that Eli had tasked her with being a triple agent for the Resistance all along
-They realize the Borealis is "stretched" between the past and present, not just two places in space; the Aperture scientists activated the device during the Seven Hours' War while the Combine was approaching and attempted to warp to Antarctica to be as remote as possible, but ended up warping into the future
-Time and space warp more around the Borealis and they get a glimpse of the Combine's headquarters they launch invasions from
-Mossman wants to "anchor" the Borealis in the present in Antarctica to safeguard it for the Resistance, Alyx wants to honor Eli's wishes and destroy it so it can never be misused; there's talk of the potential time paradoxes
-Mossman and Alyx fight, Alyx shoots Mossman
-Gordon and Alyx rig the Borealis to self destruct and create a missile that can travel between dimensions, essentially turning the Borealis into a time/space warping bomb aimed at the Combine base
-As they fire it, the G-Man suddenly appears and reveals that he's been keeping tabs on Alyx as some kind of sleeper agent (as hinted at in Episode 2) since the events of Black Mesa, and actually appears to Alyx (she remembers him) and takes her with him through his glowy train door as a "replacement" for Gordon, who he leaves to die
-The player sees that the Combine base is actually a massive Dyson sphere and there's no way the Borealis bomb will actually do any significant damage
-The Vortigaunts intervene and pull Gordon out right before the Borealis self destructs
Just....really, what was valve thinking? I mean do you know how many publishers/devs would kill to have a franchise as loved as Half Life and people basically BEGGING for a new game?
Valve just sends it out to the pasture to die instead, makes zero damn sense.
But hey, buy our collectible card game!
Alyx killing Judith doesn't really ring true to me though. I know they butted heads but MURDER? Doesn't fit her character imo, but I guess desperate times call for desperate measures.
This is a fatal indictment, even more so than the thinly-veiled disclosure of material that is surely under NDA.We went in circles but the company has changed
No one cares about the past games we made or what I want to do
I tried my best to have HL continue
Valve has gotten rid of the old Valve guard
Some people still care about the past, but Valve has changed completely
Chase that crate money if you want. Peace out.
So in case anyone wants a tldr:
-Gordon and Alyx head to Antartica and find a Combine base built around the Borealis, their helicopter gets shot down
-The Borealis is a weird shifting place that exists into two places simultaneously
-Breen as a Combine grub doesn't quite realize what happened to him, but hates his current state and after capturing Gordon and Alyx, asks them to kill him. Alyx refuses, but the player/Gordon can apparently do something to kill him
-Mossman claims that Eli had tasked her with being a triple agent for the Resistance all along
-They realize the Borealis is "stretched" between the past and present, not just two places in space; the Aperture scientists activated the device during the Seven Hours' War while the Combine was approaching and attempted to warp to Antarctica to be as remote as possible, but ended up warping into the future
-Time and space warp more around the Borealis and they get a glimpse of the Combine's headquarters they launch invasions from
-Mossman wants to "anchor" the Borealis in the present in Antarctica to safeguard it for the Resistance, Alyx wants to honor Eli's wishes and destroy it so it can never be misused; there's talk of the potential time paradoxes
-Mossman and Alyx fight, Alyx shoots Mossman
-Gordon and Alyx rig the Borealis to self destruct and create a missile that can travel between dimensions, essentially turning the Borealis into a time/space warping bomb aimed at the Combine base
-As they fire it, the G-Man suddenly appears and reveals that he's been keeping tabs on Alyx as some kind of sleeper agent (as hinted at in Episode 2) since the events of Black Mesa, and actually appears to Alyx (she remembers him) and takes her with him through his glowy train door as a "replacement" for Gordon, who he leaves to die
-The player sees that the Combine base is actually a massive Dyson sphere and there's no way the Borealis bomb will actually do any significant damage
-The Vortigaunts intervene and pull Gordon out right before the Borealis self destructs
Sounds like it didn't quite mesh with the lore presented in the portal games, but otherwise sounds neat. Cool that this guy posted it
The ending to EP2 was bad, but can you imagine if that was the last thing we ACTUALLY got? People would be even more furious lol.
Yep, same exact boat, buddy. I would hate for my most beloved franchises to have it's developers take me on a ride like Valve did with Half-Life and it's many fans.
Name a single Half-Life game that didn't.Are you fucking telling me it was gonna end on another cliffhanger!?
The ending to EP2 was bad, but can you imagine if that was the last thing we ACTUALLY got? People would be even more furious lol.
Works for me, here's the text dump if you can't access it
Dota is one of the best mobas, CSGO is one of the best FPS.
We have actual good single player FPS games in Metro, Wolfenstein, Doom, Titanfall 2 if what you're looking for is a single player FPS.
Are you fucking telling me it was gonna end on another cliffhanger!?
Name a single Half-Life game that didn't.
Are you fucking telling me it was gonna end on another cliffhanger!?