Why?
Have there been any funny memes recently?
>>726755915https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJ0UNq4Zhc
>>726755915To fuck with Magnusson for the lulz
>>726756294The way "microwave" trails off like he just looked up and saw Gordon was already gone is such a funny unintentional quirk of the AI voice
>>726755915https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHNgSOHtxYc
Do you believe?
>>726756675it sounds like breens crying and raging while a couple combine soldiers are holding him back from Gordan
>>726756974I don't. I know.
>jerk-ass co-worker ruins your lunch for no reason other than to be a prick, so you're already having a bad day>reality tears asunder and horrifying aliens arrive to brutally kill you
>>726757715That escalated quickly.
>>726757715And while wearing ridiculous ties.
>>726757493>3Checked. It's fucking happening.
>>726757493> gaben is just about to leave the stage after a successful presentation> "oh, just one more thing..." he says as he holds up one finger> "or, just two more things.." he holds up two fingers> the crowd is both anxious and mesmerized as they prepare themselves for what's about to happen> gaben walks off the stage
>>726756974I believeeee
>>726758927I can't imagine a worse way to die.
>>726759525Agreed. They never even get to know who ate all the donuts.
>>726759968Seven games and we still haven't addressed this.
>>726756974You have to willfully ignorant at this point to not believe.
>>726760192Do me a favor, mind your own beeswax
>>726755915
What is half life 3 even gonna be like?
>>726763716It'll be like Half-Life 2: Episode Three
this retard doesn't open the door, what do? I tried leading him away from the door to try again but it doesn't work. This is the surface tension chapter
>>726764801 (me)I just reloaded the save and he opened it lmao
Why is the HEV suit in Half-Life 1 so much cooler than in 2? Like this literally virgin vs chad
>>726764932I really like the suit controls/diagnostic panel on the front in the first design. I imagine that's where you plug the suit in for the wall chargers as well. Also the space diaper is better than no armor down there. Reminds me of the later designs of Master Chief in a way.
How bad will the board get when HL3 is announced?
>>726766738It'll be the first time the board is good in years.
>>726767005It's not going to magically wipe away all the shitposters anon
>>726767056No. They'll be purified in the light.
>>726764932Mark IV is state of the art government equipment that probably required millions of dollars worth of investment in order to create. Mark V was made with whatever scrap Kleiner could get his hands on.
>>726766738The shitposting would pass pretty quickly. "HL3 NEVER" is a meme on par with "the cake is a lie." Something spouted primarily by people who didn't play the games.
>>726766738See Expedition 33 threads for a preview of how shitposters and Tortanicfags are going to make it impossible to discuss the game on /v/.
WHAT ARE YOU DOOING
>>726757715imagine having to survive the renaissance cascade hungry
>>726767890>renaissance cascadeWhat comes through the portal? Painters? Poets?
>>726767686This. I expect some of the most forced tortanic spam since the tortanic itself. Every frame of the trailer and every press quote will be scrutinized as proof that it'll be the biggest flop since Concord. We're going to see steam chart threads about the game every fucking minute after it's release. Every shitty e-celeb review and video essay will be spammed for weeks with "IT'S UP". The first tranny /v/ finds playing the game on Twitch will become the sacrificial lamb we all spam clips of ad-nauseam to show how embarrassing and sexually demeaning it is to genuinely enjoy Half-Life 3. The first silly NPC quip that gets retweeted will turn into our basedjack flag, framing the quote as if it was the death of comedy.
Playing through Black Mesa for the first time due to all these threads. First 5 minutes of Surface Tension is still video game bliss
>>726764932Needs more orange
>>726755915wtf taker is the freeman?
>>726755915HE'S A HIGHLY TRAINED PROFESSIONAL
So I would say a fair estimate would either be next week or the TGADo you think it'll happen at the TGA? I'd say no but if there's one thing the leakers can agree on, it's that it won't happen there
https://files.catbox.moe/om2e4v.mp4>The horns coming in during the breakdown
>>726755915>unforeseen consequences
>>726768424We know Valve wanted to show off Alyx at the TGA before they changed their minds.
>>726768173It's a shame but it's to be expected from this board. I don't like spoilers though so I was going to avoid any HL3 discussion anyways, whenever it gets released.
>>726756974not in the slightestif it happens I'll take the L but as of now I'm just counting days until I can laugh at hopefagsyou deserve to get duped after believing in fucking Geoff Keighley of all people
>>726768424>if there's one thing the leakers can agree on, it's that it won't happen therethat's how we know it's real, it's the one date valve didn't give out as bait to suss out their leaks
Who frees the Freeman?
>>726768608none of the hype is due to geoff though, nor any other e-celeb
>>726768608>you deserve to get duped after believing in fucking Geoff Keighley of all peopleGeoff Keighley of all people would know when it's actually happening though, since Valve lets him into their offices to document the development of their games for his Final Hours articles/booklets.
>>726755915freeman got nerve-stapled like Chell and was desperately trying to communicate it to his colleagues by typing on the microwave keypadunfortunately nerve stapling prevents all forms of communication verbal and nonverbal, so just like trying to say "apple" made Chell jump, trying to type 07734 on the microwave display only produced random numbers and exploded Doc Magnusson's casserole
FREEMAN YOU FOOL
>>726755915Do they ever say the f word in half life? (Apart from Barney's last line in HL2)
>>726761627I enjoy watching you fags huffing that copium. >j-just 2 more weeks!Screenshot this. Keep it in a folder for years until you kill yourself. You will never be able to post it because I will never be wrong.
>>726770382Well they never say the word faggot but people get insulted for homosexuality multiple times in Opposing Force if that counts
>>726770961He meant 'Fuck' anon.>And if you see Dr. Breen: tell 'em I said, "FUCK YOU. HA HA."
>>726771898no duh
Big day today, Freeman.
>Alyx's ending is Valve saying "WE'RE DOING HL3 NEXT">that doesn't mean anything, Half-Life is dead>Valve's been open and talkative about Half-Life now and how they'd like to keep working on it rather being totally radio silent on it like they were from 2008 to Alyx>that doesn't mean anything, Half-Life is dead>Strings about a Half-Life game have been found in other Source 2 games for 5 years now>that doesn't mean anything, Half-Life is dead>Gabe at the very end of the HL2 doc more or less says "We make new Half-Life games when we think we can innovate and we think we can innovate right now">that doesn't mean anything, Half-Life is deadWhat causes this?
>>726768190same except i'm constantly frustrated by all the rough edges and amazed at how some of them have survived for an entire decadealso the music is dogshit
Ah, hello, Gorbin Feenmen, it's goob to see you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R-X0naXW4Q
>>726770382Despite all the brutality and gore, Half-Life is very PG-13 with the language for some reason. Halo is like that too I notice.
>>726774587The two or three lines of HL3 codes found in Dota 2 back in 2014 mindbroke a lot of people. It's amusing considering HLX files these days are even more numerous and they're still being updated recently. It's clear that whatever this HLX iteration is not going to be canceled in comparison.
>>726770382I don't think they say it in any Valve game. Even Coach in l4d2 has some lines where he just calls zombies "mothers"
i might actually kill myself for unrelated reasons if hl3 isn't at least announced by christmas
>>726775563FUCK YOU, GORDON
>>726774587>Strings about a Half-Life gameDon't kid yourself. No one knows what HLX is, anyone who claims otherwise is a grifter retard. >b-but muh HLX files>muh tyler mcniggerlol lmao
>>726777446You know people can datamine themselves without the "help" of Tyler, right?
>>726777547And this "data mining" showed what, exactly?
>>726777803https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVINqBTwM=/>inb4 uhhh none of this means anything because I said so
>>726777878>i read some strings>therefore the game exists and is almost finishedlol
>>726777934I accept your concession.
Working in Black Mesa as security seems comfy as hell if Blue Shift is anything to go by. Just get rostered into being some derelict industrial area or something and you get to do nothing all day.
>>726778013It's all fun and games until you're stuck in one of the areas OSHA clearly has never touched and trip and fall to your death or fall into some acid pit
>>726778140that sounds kinda fun though
>>726778013The Blue Shift mod made it even more fun with the guards being buddy buddy doing pranks and all that shit in the meantime.
>>726755915Gordon looked cooler without glasses
>>726764932i still can't tell if it was going to have some weird cenobite skirt at first
>>726755915MY GOD!WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
black mesa sucks fucking ass holy shitthere are so many ledges you get caught on and so much of the actual level design is unfun garbage with the worst signpostingthere's a scaffold railing in xen with a one-foot protruding pole in the middle and its hitbox is so tall you can't even crouch jump over it, but the identical pole at the end of it is perfectly normalthis game is amateur hour
>>726781471they really should've put NOCLIP brushes around because you really do get caught on random tiny geometry all the time
>>726781682i cannot count the number of jumps or even just attempts to walk straight down a catwalk that have been ruined by these dogshit collision meshesblows my mind that these weren't caught by the mappers while they were making the levels, let alone after receiving what MUST have been at least one piece of feedback
>>726763345You look lonely
it's happening bros
>>726763345>You look around using your mouse, try it now
>>726775628Swearing is gauche
>>726770382alyx nearly said it in ep1 but they cut it out. i guess too much of it can look like shit writing.
It wasn't making a move. He had to turn it on.
>>726755915He's The One Three Man
>>726757715>ponytaol fag coworker shows up to work during lunch break
>>726774587>What causes this?Twenty fucking years of THIS is what causes this.
>>726782551>not Gore Done Three Man
>>726764932I actually like the semi-cobbled together tanky look of 2.Kinda makes sense as well because Gordon is slower but has generally more HP than 1 Gordon. (Also the dude is sleep deprived as hell.)
>>726757715>>726755915To be fair, Magnusson was a pompous dick and Gordon is known for being a bit of a ventcrawling autistic oddball. Gordon was probably purposefully fucking with him as a prank.
>>726768092>Dude I, I don’t know ok. I just saw an article here, by Kleiner, that said the event was called a renisance cascade, thats the extent of what I know ok
It had it coming.
>>726756974It's been 18 years, I'll believe it when I see it.
>>726755915Have there been any more leaks regarding 1063600 or any other Valve recent project?
>>726755915Imagine you are working in a super secret underground facility, that casserole might be the only decent meal you'll have for this week and some nerd fuck in power armor comes and ruins it for you.Magnusson was right.
>>726787169That id isn't HLX according to the SteamDB owner
>>726757493No.
>>726774587>alyx's ending completely retcons the ending of 2 rendering it mootI do not want half life 3 anymore, it literally won't be a sequel to the game I want. Literally the worst fucking outcome that could have happened happened. Almost 20 years of waiting only for them to go "whoops haha none of that matters anymore"
Hoping the new game has a lot more enemy variety.
>>726757493>3>>726787661>1Confirmed happening
>>726780676This was likely made right after they abandoned the edgelord leather outfit and Dhabih Eng was still playing around with the idea to some extent, the hands still have straps for instance
>>726770401How do you explain all the leaks if it's not actually in development?
>>726789390Since HL2 Valve is too obsessed with enemy types to have their unique roles/abilities. They hate the idea of different species having redundant gameplay roles. That's why they didn't bother having Bullsquid in HL2 because there are Antlion Workers in enemy rosters already. I get their mindset in a way but at the same time, it's very limiting when it comes to variety.
>>726768608No one really believes in Geoff, at least not as a primary source. We know the game is happening completely independent of him, except maybe one quote in The Final Hours of HLA that says Valve is interested in Half-Life again. Everything else comes from strings datamined from Valves other Source 2 games. We know the game is in development from that. It MIGHT get announced at the game awards, but that's just one possibility for when it gets announced, and if it doesn't, that doesn't mean the game is suddenly not coming out.
>>726756546It trails off because the volume on the clip was lowered to match the player leaving the room. The AI model didn't do that.
>>726768595Show off, but not announce. If there's anything at TGA, the game will be announced before and t'll just be a longer gameplay trailer.
>>726790050At this point I dunno what date they're going for. November is almost ending, they might as well announce it over there at TGA too desu.
>>726787661To those of you who refuse to hope. Answer these questions.Why is Valve rereleasing the Half Life 2: Raising The Bar postmortem book with additional content about the Episodes, including Episode 3?Why is there evidence of optimization steps being committed to the HLX project? Why haven't any other competing projects for Half Life 3 appeared in the Source 2 directories?Why did they put so many Easter Eggs in the announcement trailer for the new Steam Hardware? Why don't we have any evidence for a pack in title for any of that new Steam Hardware? Their partnership for the Vive resulted in The Lab. The Knuckles controllers gave us Hand Lab. The Index gave us Alyx. The Steam Deck gave us Desk Job. Why isn't the new Steam Machine or the Steam Frame coming with a killer app of its own? The last time there wasn't one was the original Steam Machine, and those couldn't really have one, they differed so much in specs that there wasn't anything they could really show off.
Its gonna be woke.The Overwatch voice will randomly say 'Make the Combine great again!' and half of the rebels will be troons.
>>726774587No, they cannot innovate.>HL1 took the run-and-shoot doom/quake engine and was one of the first to make a narratively driven game, with NPCs, a world that feels alive, cutscenes in the engine itself, and an excellent storyline, making the game stand head and shoulders above all the other quake clone shooters at the time and elevating the standard for action/FPS games forever>HL2 was "wooow physics engine! put a block on the seesaw to be able to climb on the other end!" and 3-year-old block stacking minigames, which was relatively new tech at the time but added jack fucking shit to the game and elevated nothing>HLA was "wooow VR" which is cool but had been around for years at this point, I guess maybe they innovated by being one of the few really big budget VR games that wasn't a portWhat's there to innovate now? What are they going to make, HL3 in the metaverse with NFTs? VR2: electric boogaloo to go alongside the Frame, literally not even adding anything strictly new?
>>726764932Looks more like a superhero suit because of all the color
>>726792107Looks like a high-vis hazard suit to me
>>726791190They could easily innovate just by doing in-depth physics again considering games have almost completely abandoned physics at this point
>>726766738resonance cascade levels of meltdown
They're waiting for you, Gorbon. In the test chamberrr.
>>726789942True, but even the cadence of "microwave" sounds like he's trailing off his sentence
>>726792479It wouldn't really be a groundbreaking innovation. It'd just be a relatively rarely used mechanic. But the technology for it is decades old and there have been a variety of games using it now and then. Doesn't BF6 literally have physics-based destructible buildings? I remember that being advertised.
>>726794749>Doesn't BF6 literally have physics-based destructible buildings?That's been a thing in Battlefield games for a long time
>>726780761They're waiting for you anon.In the TEST CHAMBERRRRRR.
>>726759126>raises his hand from off-stage>raises 3 fingers>room goes dark and trailer starts to play
>>726794854>Gaben walks onto the stage, walls rumbling>"So...">*clears his throat and pushes glasses up his nose*>"Six times nine divided by eighteen">Audience gasps>Gaben smirks, holding up all fifty four fingers and counting them down>"...hopefully, it would have been worth the weight">Audience howls in disbelief>"After 42 duodecillion years in development...">*jumps on the stage desk, destroying it immediately*>"...IS IT REALLY THAT TIME AGAIN">Audience starts seizing, multiple fights break out>"ONE PLUS FIVE DIVIDED BY TWO">Audience is completely rioting, they're attacking and cannibalizing the TV crew>"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!">Gaben's back split open, blood soaked spindly spines numbering between two and four sticking out grotesquely>"ABOUT THAT BEER I OWED YA!!">The audience is setting everything on fire, their eyes running down their faces as they start chanting in latin>"NOW WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT TIME FOR PROCREATION!">Gaben fully sheds his skin, a Combine Advisor standing in his place. It begins grabbing and devouring the audience members, who are engaged in unspeakable acts of depravity>"GORDEN!">The world descends into chaos, mass ritual killings spanning the globe. Superportals start manifesting across the planet depositing deranged alien lifeforms.>"FREEEEEEEMAAAAAAAN!">The Combine invade Earth, except this time humanity won't last even seven seconds>"GORDAN FREEMANT, SMELL THE ASHES">Humanity's lineage is ended as the Sun crashes into the Earth
>>726795192he's not fat anymore thoughever
I can't hold on much longer
Does source2 still use BSPs? Are all maps destined to be rectangular and orthogonal?
>>726797424NoBrushes also no longer exist and Source 2 Hammer is essentially a mesh editor
SURRENDER FREEMEN
>>726764932In 1 it's a cool sci-fi robot suit, in 2 it's basically just a bunch of layers of kevlar and a few armor plates
I want Adrian Shepard to appear in Half Life 3
>>726797618horribly cringe
>>726798183Not according to anyone who actually uses it
>>726797618BasedThis makes me want to stay alive a little longer
>>726764932I just hope the HEV in HL3 is much better. He ought to change the suit after the state of it looking at HLA model.
>>726755915Played & finished it for the first time this week. It's funny how rapidly things escalate. I imagine if you just move through the game at normal speed without breaking then the facility would just be in a constant state of exploding
>>726782061kek
Someone explain this to me:Why is pic related allowed to exist for $10?Why is fan mod of HL1 remake allowed to exist for $20Why Half life fan comics allowed to exist for $2I'm not talking about HL universe mods, which are also hosted on Steam. This is polar opposite of Nintendo
>>726781471Black Mesa is very clearly not a game made by professionals, it shows in so many places. It is still an amazing achievement and as good as it possibly could have been really, but a game made by amateurs could never possibly surpass the sleek professionalism of a Valve game.And it also looks kinda weird because it was in development for too long, it becomes this frankensteined mess of graphics from different eras
>>726799385Because Valve is incredibly based
Hey guys, speaking of HL, I'm making a fan statue of Freeman. Could you guys give me some input in what should I do for a base?
>>726800014
>>726800014Gman's briefcase
>>726802805
>>726764464But that was 2004, 3 has to be like a 20 year leap. I wonder what they made.
>>726803237Bigger.
>>726802805I wonder how Gordon didn't suffocate in Xen without the helmet
>>726767686>>726768173here's a tipthread OPs that are somewhat disguised, are referencing an in-depth part of a game only people who played it would know about, or are about an older game in a series tend to avoid the worst shitpostingdon't make generic "box art" threads and avoid threads about awards and the like
>>726803807Forget Gordon, how the fuck did Barney survive Black Mesa and Xen with nothing on him but a security vest and a helmet?
>>726763345Who was the trainer lady?
>>726803927Gearbox games aren't canon
>>726803980Gina Cross
Do you know who ate all the donuts?
You'll just have to wait until after the test.
>>726802805>>726803807why didn't he use the helmet in the first place?
It's this Wednesday. I can feel it.
>>726807438It's Thursday actually
>>726802805>Goes into the Citadel's core without the helmet
>>726807940Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional!
MY ASS IS HEAVY
>>726798228Source had the most soulful jank. And I don't use this word lightly, but the fact that you can for example stand on weird corners of maps is great. Modern sanitized shooters where everything is meshed out and collisions are 100% perfect and you're just walking through sterile corridors with a coat of mesh paint from artists are extremely boring in comparison.
>>726756974That if it's released, that it will be DNF 2.0?Yes
>>726813826Why do you think it's gonna be DNF 2.0For one, Valve isn't on the verge of bankruptcy and they have all the manpower in the world to make HLX a real masterpiece
>>726814487That amount of time in development is not healthy for the game. Money has nothing to do with it.
If I was a Valve employee responsible for announcement I would just post "3" on xitter without any attachements or followups.I find it hillarious that this would be enough to break the internet.
>tfw hearing Sector Sweep in 2007
>>726784189What Magnusson? There was no Magnusson in Half Life.
>>726817021>tfw still listening to it 18 years laterHalf-Life is a timeless masterpiece and no one can change my mind
>>726802805This suit is not bulky enough. It makes Gordon seem like he's just a skeleton with some skin over it, no muscle mass or anything.
>>726815530Anon do you know where the worth the weight meme even comes fromValve specializes in taking an endless amount of time to develop things
so is anyone playing diffusion? just discovered this mod today, apparently a lot of people were waiting for it
I really like black mesa in spite of all the hate it gets on /v/.It's absolutely not a replacement for the og Half-Life and I still play both, but it's a good experience in it's own right.
>>726817883qrd? is this a mod for black mesa?
>>726818976idk seems more custom, you don't even have to own hl, it works with what you download from moddb
>>726818267for me its https://youtu.be/jUplVeq5RDw
>>726817883>released three days ago>has a campaign AND multiplayerbased
>>726819350The best one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXa7FEDLu0And it's a shame this was cut from the original release. At least you can get this and the uncut On a Rail segments from the workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeYGHRMPfYQ
>>726818267I'm replaying first time since ~10 years? No Xen back then. Really enjoyable. And I haven't had a relisten yethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OacXUzTNXo&pp=ygUjYmxhY2sgbWVzYSBvc3QgZm9yZ2V0IGFib3V0IGZyZWVtYW4%3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvmLsfheiEA&list=PL7B392D9B49EAF881&index=56but these are my old favs.
>>726819350>>726819452>cut the one with any hint of HL1 industrial vibes>keep the one that's just a Breaking Benjamin instrumentalthe creative direction of black mesa is abysmal
>>726770961>>726770382The NPCs mutter it under their breath every time they look at you, the player.
I can't hold on...much....longer....HUUAAARRRAAAGH
>>726815530Hl3 has only been in development for 6 years max though.
>>726803807You find a regular scientist just hanging out in one of the Nihilanth rooms and he doesn't have a care in the world, I suppose Xen air is just breathable
>>726821352Valve normal dev cycle then
>>726805487Barney Calhoun makes them cannon. There's nothing in the gearbox games that make them non cannon. Unless HLX goes back to black mesa and it's not a crater.
>>726822559barney was always canon, it's the name of the npc model, blue shift's canonicity is unclear
Perhaps the thread is too stealthyPerhaps it's not the right time for it yet
Favorite half life SFMs?For me it's HOSTILEShttps://youtu.be/Tg73xB7LXEM
>>726822743His surname being Calhoun does come from Blueshift. Bits of Opposing Force and Blueshift were kept, like Black Mesa being nuked in OF.
>>726824856it came from Marc Laidlaw first
>>726824740https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bm3le9s3-AThis without question. It shows how weak and fragile everyone except Gordon should be against Combine's energy weapons. I'm surprised the entire resistance wasn't wiped out by those guys.
>>726824740Not an SFM but there was a big story timeline AU video where the HECU didn't go full "silence everyone" and I thought that was cool. Can't find it anymore though.
>>726817284He's a 27 year old nerd not a powerlifter
>>726803518The combine were really spooky in Alyx.
>>726825194Still, this is a suit full of life-support tech and it's almost thick enough to absorb bullets, explosives, heat, whatever else you can throw at it without much degradation. It's not like it's thin as a t-shirt. If anything the hl1 model makes me think the Black Mesa scientist working with them must be malnourished to be able to fit in those.This bulky model used by this guy is more realistic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOQg81tfTI
>>726825369No wonder their logo is that of a man raising his arms above his head because he got spooked.
>>726825173nvm found it https://youtu.be/JB-zEFs_dbI
>>726825435True, but like many old things it follows the "rule of cool" over realism, it looks good so it just works
>>726825536I love this shit. Especially the detail about German Tornado pilots training in the USA being asked to fly sorties to help.
>>726825002Lore and gameplay compromise. You'd think that a Combine soldier would be at least twice the fighter of a unaugmented human, but baring grenades they get wiped quite easily by smelly rebels in-game. We can imagine that pre-Gordon the rebellion was probably completely in hiding and not engaging in combat with Overwatch, just attempting to escape
>>726756546its not that magical, they probably used something like talknet which lets you speak into a microphone and then it shifts what you say to sound like the model while keeping your inflections. thats how those ai vocalist songs work
>>726764801Ah, tried to sneak through the door man. Can't make it, shits stuck. OUTTA MY WAY SON
>>726817883Yeah it's fucking amazing, just got to the blue dimension last night. it's very clear this was a pure passion project from the dev.
>>726817883i don't trust this .bat file, how do i know -log and -logtime aren't nefarious execution arguments
>>726766738>its going to be vr and linux exclusive>every single person without a vr headset will claim its shit>winbabbies tearing their hair out trying to setup wsl, and deal with the jank linux users had to deal with for years with two different steam installs>bitching and crying from all sides>valve, a private company, will just be scrolling 4chan on a yacht and answering to nobody
Pick up that casserole.
>>726827356>VR exclusiveValve themselves said that they have no VR games currently in developmentBut I'm sure that HLX will have exclusive features for Frame since I doubt that the majority of Index owners would buy another headset when the previous works just fine
>>726755915HL1 Gordon looks like he hated his job
Hey, fags, rejoiceSkibidi creator got fucked in the ass by the legal dispute with a big media company, they took his channel and he's broke nowSince zoomers and gen alpha have a memory of a goldfish, that means everyone will love Half-Life as it is again, not as "that game with Skibidi characters"
>>726829079>not as "that game with Skibidi characters"literally WHO said this unjokingly
>>726800014the HEV suit containers, maybe
Morphine administered
>>726829467Every non-unc
>>726755915>Retards here still expect Gabe to move from his fat fucking ass to create something while he still has his steam shekels rolling
>>726830167No one expects Gabe to direct
so did they release a HL mod that has AI actively freeball dialogue in-game yet?
>>726831441if this ever happens i want god to smite you specifically
>>726831561the future is now, unc
>>726756042>>726755915Remember to post this when the trailer drops
>>726832271oh boy a wojack epic
>>726756974my hope will never die
>>726817883It's surreal to play a half-life 1 mod that looks like f.e.a.r. technology-wise.
>>726832387It's a pic AGAINST them, it's beautiful
>>726764801`sv_cheats 1noclip>walk throughnoclipI just replayed HL1 yesterday and unfortunately there's quite a few bugs you have to reload to deal with. After you fight the ninja bitches save right there too, and equip the crowbar before proceeding.
>>726766738Better than when deltatroon, shitsong, or pretentious 33 released that's for sure
>>726834037
>>726834981>they hated him because he told them the truth
>>726756294https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lbMfn71nt0I was wondering why I couldn't find the other aggressive scientist video even though it used to get recommended next to that one, and turns out the guy unlisted it and made some comment distancing himself from it because of the AI thing. What a bizarre thing to say over a thirty second shitpost video.
>>726826772>>726789942>>726794746or maybe he modded those lines in the game and it's the game's spatial sound doing work
>>726835047Don't praise yourself, anon, it's sad.
>>726836010>completely offtopic "pls feel le sad I really need this :(((" meltieyep, all deltatroon and shitsong fans are deranged
>>726834037People like you are the reason it's so hard to discuss vidya on /v/ now.
>>726836078ok so move your shipping fanfic generals to /vg/, and dont come back
>>726836324daily fanfic shipping generals aren't "game discussion", fuck off to /vg/
>>726836390>/v/ - Racism and E-Celebrities
>>726836670>if you dont like my shipping fanfics that means you hate videogames!statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Did you see it? They said it was hauled from the /pol/itically incorrect, but I'm positive that beast never posted in a 4chan thread until a week ago. There are Amerimutt images in the shitposting folder, but I'm not sure it would work on this species. You're welcome to try.
>>726836390>aren't "game discussion"Kinda but you could say that about 90% of the threads on /v/. You could go to the other ones and continue with your janitorial crusade there instead, at least the fags that like the games you posted talk about them in different ways
>>726837576Gordon, is this real?
>>726837429>Kinda but you could say that about 90% of the threads on /v/Did you see me defending twitteroid ragebait threads?Don't shift the blame, you're as terrible for this board as them. All a waste of a decent thread
>>726837630
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZiIjyeT78I love her medical speak
One of my biggest fears for HL3 is that a bunch of people at Valve view it as a retirement project and are going to leave Valve the moment it's out the door.
>>726836923>They said it was hauled from the /pol/itically incorrect, but I'm positive that beast never posted in a 4chan thread until a week ago.
>>726802805hrmreal astronaut suits have mirrors on the wrists so the wearer can actually see the belly diagnostic displaythey also include diapers since they're really hard to put on and take offdid gordon just hold it in for the entire time
>>726840667why do you think he's so good at killing
N3VER GIVE UP HOPE
>>726837576GO WHITE BOY GO
>>726819452this was cut? i swear i played recently and it was still in, no mods required
>>726824740https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8e2uYz0ciA
>>726824740For me it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfSapUlgJ8w
If you do not agree to my demandsTOO LATE
>>726842757but jim was already blowed to smitheroons...
>>726799385alright fucker listen to meHDTF shouldn't even exist and is mega shit.Black mesa is pretty eh and seems to be the only fucking remake valve has even bothered doing. Big N has made a shit load more remakes. Metroid prime remastered alone mogs this shit and funnily enough it's only 40 dollars AND it's on a cartridge and not some digital only shit. For the comics, why should I give a shit about some fan fiction?Also big N is actually.... get this....... MAKING FUCKING VIDEO GAMES AND AREN'T TAKING A MILLION YEARS TO MAKE SHIT
>>726817260Valve literally invented save scumming lmao
>>726822306imagine wasting so much of your only life WAITING ON FUCKING VALVE GAMES lmao
>>726832271please fuck off
>>726844016yeah they're releasing shit yearly and it's shit
>>726841962 based choice, track pulls you in like you're about to hijack a Combine dropship solo with a crowbar and sheer will I’d toss in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz_mRg8TVto - pure DADCORE energy, but it hits when you’re low on HEV and high on vengeance
>>726844439fuck you. I literally barely gave any shit about valve games. And I've played most of them. Big N is releasing games often because unlike Valve, they aren't major pussies and are willing to experiment and see if something works. Valve is the safest fucking company in the world right now. TotK instantly replaced the physics hole that I was searching after half life 2. Infact half life 2s physics are so funny looking back since YOU BARELY USE THE PHYSICS ANYWAYSCSGO is for fucking niggers, and indians with very poor financial skills.Infact I wish this fucking IP never existed.TF2 is also mega shit and did nothing for me. And has similar problems with CS for me. Portal is PISS EASYYeah fuck off steam cultist. Enjoy your fucking save scumming sims because that's all valve has ever fucking made. fuck you
>>726844184>>726844805based anti valve schizo
>>726844439oh and I find TF2s artstyle very fucking repulsive
>>726845110insane admission
Finished HL2 for the first time. Had a good time for the most part. I'm doing episode 1 currently. I reached an elevator shaft that plunged into the water. For a while I thought the barnacles were the only way back up the elevator shaft, and while searching everywhere I was genuinely becoming baffled that the game would actually allow the player to soft lock themselves if they kill them. Eventually I found the air duct after missing it three times somehow.
GORBIN
>>726824740https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz8ObjoYhLQ
>>726846731So many times I've thought>oh boy, I bet I can use barnacles to get up there!only to get my head eaten and disappointmentiirc there is only one place you can use barnacles to climb up somewhere and it's an unmarked secret in the blast pit in HL1
>>726849249chat is this real?
>>726850213it's in the files of alyx
>>726850213>3>>726850253>3confirmed
>>726824740the replies to this leads me to believe that a HL anthology would work really well
>>726756974Tomorrow for sure
With how amazing Alyx looked I can't wait to see what HLX looks like.
>>726787969I have to agree, as much as I am otherwise excited about the prospect of HL3 finally existing, the retcon at the end of Alyx left a sour taste in my mouth and has lowered my expectations for the continuation of the story
>>726800014give him a monstrous bulge
>>726851938and that had to be rendered twice per frame
>>726825002damn that was pretty cool, thanks for sharing. a lot of sci-fi in vidya in general rarely depicts how devastating enemies actually are because you mow down legions of them
>>726780676that looks way cooler than what we ended up getting wtf
>>726839029It's pretty obvious it's going to be the case. Most of them have been there since the 90s. At least it's good that HL3 is being worked on by some of the old guards still there, not a lot of games enjoy that kind of privilege.
>>726787969I don't mind the Alyx ending. Whatever Valve was going to eventually do with HL3 they sure weren't going to just create Epistle 3 after everyone learned what it would have entailed. Some hard pivot was to be expected.What has never sat right with me was the fact that after all these years, Alyx progresses the story less than 60 seconds from the ending of Episode 2. It's like the rudest, most disrespectful way to throw a fraction of a scrap at the people who have been waiting.
>>726856349Well, really, it was going to be an insult either way since it's a VR-exclusive spin-off when people have been waiting Episode 3/Half-Life 3. If the game was as significant as a mainline game then people would also get mad.
>>726844016Valve didn't make Black Mesa, it's a fan mod.
>>726856916that's really cool but this is literally only possible in our internet panopticon globohomo age. Therefore something that only can exist in the digital space. Real freedom was when the internet never existed.
>>726756294where's the one of these where he's talking about the donuts?
>>726839029Well yeah. They're old as fuck and won't be able to just keep making vidya forever
>>726849249sex
>>726857828Excuse me?
I can understand people not liking the new ending from Alyx, but I don't understand how people are claiming it's undermining, ignoring, or invalidating Eli's death. Eli quite literally needs to have been killed in order for Alyx's ending to happen. Eli is alive yes but he did quite literally die in front of Gordon whose POV of events is watching Eli die, passing out, and waking up to Eli alive with Alyx missing
>>726858391Eli's death only came about because Gabe mandated that somebody had to die in EP2 anyway
>>726858492>Gman was talking to Gabe when he said "what if I could offer you something you don't know you want?"
>>726858550alternatively, he's talking to (You)
So, announcement today and reveal tomorrow?
>>726861530yep
>the Half-Life community making up dates and going insane when their fake dates don't result in anything
>>726861530Announcement now. Reveal in two weeks.
>>726861619Same as it ever was
>>726849249Looks like grey brain with spider legs, not a headcrab.
>>726832271>I'm making a team, are you in?
>>726861530Why today?>>726862217That wasn't my intention
Remember! It's the 27th>Lights on!
hee hee haa haa
>>726863824Okay, but the sticky will have more replies
>>726864139Man the sticky will probably have like 100 replies a minute
>>726863824>samefagged threadlol
>>726862963tomorrow
>>726864186More like the sticky will break the whole site for at least a day, everyone will be crying about how Half-Life killed every board kek
>>726864287The whole internet
>>726864323Only if it will be revealed at TGA, live crowd reaction will be legendary
>>726755915my headcanon for hl1 gordon is he does not need to shit himself inside the HEV suit but he does it anyway
>>726865019>people start screaming so loudly that the room actually runs out of oxygen
>>726865019Honestly it's pretty obvious they're going for the TGA, Alyx was planned to debut at that after all
>>726865147it's the only date they didn't use as leaker bait
>>726835117that sucks, I fuckin loved that video
>>726865078>people start fainting>panic ensues>stampede and fatalities>HL3 cancelled
>>726865019>>726865147nice try geoff but I'm not watching TGA in the hopes that HL3 will be there.
>>726865710i fell for that like a year ago
>>726865764>>>/wsg/6034017
>>726819452Not only is that in the main game now it's played twice
>>726865586>Gaben gets shot>Valve is burned down>Steam is sold to Tim
>>726866436he'd have to kill Gabe's son first but i wouldn't put it past him
>>726865764>>726865805What'll it be this year that he blueballs us with?
>>726867081Far Cry 7
>>726866436>keeps the 30% cut>removes the shopping cart>cancels all development related to Linux
>>726867558>EGS gets none of Steam features and increases the price instead
>>726858391The ending didn't communicate clearly on what was going on. That's why people immediately think the Ep2 ending was retconned because of that.
>>726858391>Eli quite literally needs to have been killed in order for Alyx's ending to happenSo what? Eli still is alive and so is Alyx. It's not a retcon, but it's a change. Using a time travel device, no less.
anyone who thinks it's getting announced on thanksgiving week is stupid
>>726774587Nearly two decades of rumors and speculation, people getting their hopes up and then having them crushed, the cycle of hype, etc.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0w9YP_wZ0This video was made nearly a decade ago and itself was meant to make a point of how comically long the wait for HL3 was getting to be. At a certain point, people just want to be satisfied with the lack of anything new, rather than go through the cycle of hope and pain all over again.
>>726858391>>726858492If Eli's death is so trivial to handwave away, then what exactly was the point of Gman relaying through Alyx "prepare for unforseen consequences"? Narratively it worked so well because it looked like Eli is on Gman's shit list even before he vocalizes his willingness to spill the beans about Gman to Gordon, and gets killed soon after. Now Eli is alive, what are these supposed "consequences"?I'm assuming the fucks at Valve are lying about it only being Gabe's last minute idea to kill Eli.
>>726873437Laidlaw regretted publishing Epistle 3 since it "caused issues" for employees at Valve. My guess is it forced them to change the ending of Half-Life Alyx and rethink Half-Life 3's story entirely, so as to not retread Epistle 3's ground.
>>726873437Anon, think about it for 5 secondsI'll give you a hint, it involves someone no longer present in the hangar
>>726873437>I'm assuming the fucks at Valve are lying about it only being Gabe's last minute idea to kill Eli.This is what Laidlaw said about it in the HL2 documentary. Timestamp is 1:52:02 if the link's timestamp doesn't work.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4&t=6722s
Every leaker says that it is happening this year, this means it has to happen next week, now its Thanksgiving and after TGA they're going on a holiday break, so prepare for unforeseen consequences
>Gordon, my old friend! Please fuck my daughter.What did he mean by this?
>>726874509I don't know I'd probably want a guy like Gordon that seems to defeat the combine single handedly to be with my daughter
>>726873539It's narratively convoluted. So Gman sent a "death threat" to the seemingly one surviving guy who has knowledge of his machinations, because he knew that 5 years earlier he will conscript his daughter from an alternate timeline to ackshully undo his death and take (both?) his daughters instead. So what's exactly the cause-effect relation for Eli's consequences here? He was gonna spill the secret, so Gman lets him live and steals his daughter instead?>>726873924If Gape made that request that at the end of the game's development, then yeah it's easy to handwave. But Gman made his appearence mid-Episode 2, setting the foundations for Eli's fate then. Either people are reading too much into Laidlaw's statement, or Valve are just lying to sell the the idea that Eli surviving isn't actually a big deal (because his death was made on a whim)
So Earth is basically free at the end of Episode 2, right? The connection to the Combine Overworld has been severed, and the remaining Combine forces on Earth are being overwhelmed by the Resistance.
>>726874887>If Gape made that request that at the end of the game's development, then yeah it's easy to handwaveNobody was saying it was last minute. Just that Gabe mandated somebody had to die.>But Gman made his appearence mid-Episode 2, setting the foundations for Eli's fate thenYou realize the sequence of events you experience in-game weren't all developed in that order, right? When the decision was made to kill Eli, other parts of the game were rewritten or made to link to it.>Valve are just lying to sell the the idea that Eli surviving isn't actually a big dealLaidlaw doesn't work at Valve anymore and didn't work on Alyx either, what reason would he have to lie?
>>726874984>the remaining Combine forces on Earth are being overwhelmedIf they find the Borealis it's over for humanity as the Advisors will use it to reopen the portal.
>>726874984I guess, but its implied that if the Combine get their hands on the Borealis, they could turn the tide in some way. I assume the Borealis is related to teleportation shit based on it vanishing from its dock so it probably could allow them to open a new portal or something.
>>726851938I'd you didn't play it in VR you can't even imagine dude. I played it on a shitty Rift S and many parts of the game looked photorealistic. I can only imagine how good it looks on Index.The bread in this game looked absolutely real. Like, real real. Realest bread in all gaming
It's over? I didn't hear no fucking bell.DECEMBER 3RD 2025.
>>726875119>You realize the sequence of events you experience in-game weren't all developed in that order, right?Yes, my point is that Eli's death wasn't somy willy-nilly whim of the boss thrown in there at the last minute of the game for shock value, the game narratively built around it, so it was obvious they were taking it seriously and it matters (or "mattered") to the overarching plot>what reason would he have to lie?Now that I think about it, since I haven't seen any statements from either Laidlaw or other Valve guys about Eli's death being Gabe's idea made on a whim and not mattering, i'm erring on the side of fans reading too much into this one statement. But if he was to "lie" and play along with their narrative, idk, maybe to make up for posting Epistile Three? Nobody was happy about it, and maybe because of it they had to take the plot in a different direction
I like decay
>>726875932I feel like it will be announced soon, just because I seem to have a lucky streak
>>726876081Shame it never got ported to PC.
OPEN WORLD AHAHAHAHA
>>726875613That’s a roll
>>726876678rolls are bread
>>726876081You say that like it's an unpopular opinion.
>>726877003I bet more people played Alyx than Decay
>>726876081Too bad that the name was used for a ps2 game that no one playedHalf-Life 3: Decay. Imagine
>>726878106There's one Episode 3 Decay you can play today, though!
>>726878303
>>726878303Time, Dr Graves? Is it really that time again?
>>726878303So this is what they meant when they wanted to push the boundaries of video games.
>>726878303>>726878653Why would you shill this game here of all places.
>>726861619They weren't totally made up. The anniversaries of the other major Half Life releases would have been a good time to announce the third game, and there was a gap in content to occupy the front page of Steam to line up with it. And it happened to coincide with Black Friday, which made it look important.The greatest likelihood was always that it'd be announced at The Game Awards. Geoff Keighley's been close to Valve. Even back when he was some dork fishing for credibility. They had intended to announce Alyx at the 2019 Game Awards, too. but it was leaked ahead of time.The other possibility is that it just shadow drops with the new Steam Hardware in March without being hyped up or revealed ahead of time.
>>726878769Are /v/edditors really that obsessed with having sex at least with their sister, or has the irony spun out of control?
>>726878917>ironyIt's peak romance. Siblinghood is the logical extreme of platonic love, so combining it with romantic love will give you the platonic ideal of love itself. You ARE best friends with your sister, right?
>>726878917Judging by the threads now they're actually obsessed with fucking their moms.
>>726865710You'll get palate cleansers of Statler and Waldorf and the rest of The Muppets being the last vestige of soul in Disney's portfolio, just like last year.
>>726879013The momfags are all secondaries.
>>726780676That's just painting the objects in shadows with a dark background. To put focus on the upper torso.You can still see the legs' silhouette. Here, I corrected the background's levels.
>>726878917It just has an appealing art style that's conducive to porn. And since it barely has any other characters to work with, it ends up attracting incestfags.
>>726875613I only got to play it on my friend's index and everything was a bit blurry because my glasses didn't fit but it was still such a great experience.
>>726879013I'm sure the mother of an average NEET looks exactly like an anime girl, lmao
TODAYRICOCHET 2
>>726834037yep tourists get the rope
>>726880279I'd rather have Team Fortress 3 really or better yet, the original Brotherhood of Arms TF2
>>726774613>the music is dogshit
>Tyler stopped his daily "waiting for hlx" streamsIts over
>>726880598There's nothing new to discuss
>>726880758No, the game is cancelled
>>726880758and? didn't stop Tyler from making dozens of "Half-Life 3 soon" videos for 14 years
>>726880874Source?
>>726834037love the buttblast this caused
>>7268810362
>>726878906So in other words, the dates were made up.
>>726878906At this point they might as well reveal the damn thing at TGA.
>>726800014pic relatedalso work on the face in the model, doesnt look like gordon much at all to me
>>726878906Pattern seeking ape behaviour. You could find a reason to announce this game on basically any day
>>726880241my mom looks better
So, when we can start coping? When there will be no announcement this week or next week? After TGAs? In January? After Steam Machine launch?
>>726884656If it doesn't happen by the TGAs that's when you can start coping, because that likely means the game was delayed. There's a lot of leakers hedging their reputations on HL3 being announced this year.
>>726787661
I still can't that in HL2 Gordon is hailed as hero, humanity savior, symbol of resistance. If anything, he should be despised and hunted as a part of Black Mesa that caused the Cascade.
>>726884903(((Black Mesa))) scientists have hijacked the Resistance.
>>726884656First doomium sesh the day after TGA, since all the insider grifters will have turned out to be wrong. Total Doom Suicide after steam machine launch
Why does /v/ praise and jerk Half-Life 2 off so much despite it being the first woke game?>straight white male protagonist gets his ass kicked and has to be saved by a half black half asian woman at the start of the game>Half-Life 2 uses Eli to push interracial marriage and procreation>cast is diverse as fuck (black man and his mixed race daughter and a white woman)>game pushes a theme of "humanity as one" in the fight against the Combine which is similar to woke messages being pushed today.Valve was pushing wokeness a decade before it hit the mainstream
>>726884972Because the game is good, Alyx is hot, Eli is cool.
>>726884903I'm surprised we don't see at least some sort of different resistance groups or people who hate each other or Freeman/the other Black Mesa staff for participating in the experiment.Like what, did Breen give a radio announcement when he became admin that went on like this "Btw, all Black Mesa staff are innocent, please don't be made at them."
Why did the Combine bother manufacturing all those blue boilder suits for civilians? Why not force everyone to be naked for humiliation and degrading?
>>726885129It would be cool to see another group that hates Freemans guts for Black Mesa but is forced to work with him because the alternative is the Combine
>>726884903It probably started because of the vorts, who had reason to worship Freeman because he freed them from the Nihilanth. and because they can see the future where he beats the CombineAlso, the worship is pretty clearly justified when immediately upon showing up Gordon starts cleaving through the Combine like a hot knife through butter, destroys their most secure prison within 2 days, and when he shows up a week later from the slow teleport takes down the Citadel that eveningGordon's absolutely cracked
>>726885225Our Benefactors don't want to look at icky anteaters shriveled in the Bulgarian cold
>>726885225You know clothes exist for reasons beyond the societal taboo of being naked, right
>that time in 2006 when a Valve employee slipped up and said the Combine were an allegory for the jews
>>726885225Combine could've just killed the majority of population and enslaved the rest, they didn't because Breen was able to negotiate much favourable conditionsAlso HL2 was going for the 1984 vibe, that's why everyone wears the same uniform
>>726885225They don't want their human salves to catch a cold and die. They're already slowy dying from malnourished, diseases, being worked to death.
>>726885487And they didn't forget that, seeing how payment processors almost pulled the plug on Steam
>>726885558Civilians in HL2 don't have to work. They allowed to do boring jobs like packing the slop Combine feed them onto shelves, sweeping the streets or joining civil protection.
>>726885512>Combine could've just killed the majority of population and enslaved the restThat's kind of exactly what they did.>Also HL2 was going for the 1984 vibe, that's why everyone wears the same uniformMan, everyone forgets that in 1984 the vast majority of population are proles - lower class citizens who work simple jobs, drink beer, watch footy and low quality machine-generated dramas on the telly. They're not under constant surveillance and they are mostly content. It's only the Outer Party members who are living in a surveillance hell - they're educated, so they are dangerous.
How many humans do you think there is left by the events of Half-Life 2?
>>726885850Less than 1 billion
>>726885850Less than a billion at best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=323t_f4gMgw This AU scenario puts it at 3 billion at the start of the Combine occupation and over 5 million by the time Gordon arrives and I don't know if that's too harsh of a speculation or too real.
>>726884903It's not like he saved anything either. Dude killed Nihilanth and it did jack shit; Xen is still pouring in, and the Combine swooped in and fucked everything up even more.
>>726885365 LMAO, imagine being a multidimensional empire that glassed entire worlds and still goes, "but we simply must maintain proper decorum in our totalitarian rule." Blue jumpsuits are probably the cheapest garbage-tier mass production they could print from their transmatter foundries. Why burn resources making people naked when you can slap the same outfit on billions and still feel smugly efficient about it? Bureaucratic hell knows no species.
Someone looked through Half-Life:Alyx's files and found this unused G-Man voice cliphttps://voca.ro/1dWFUZMlfXXu
>>726886012Only 5 million left is ridiculously, obscenely lowThere would be nothing resembling human civilization left at that point
>>726873437>what are these supposed "consequences"?The fact that G-man took Alyx. It's the biggest fuck you that G-man can give to Eli (and partially Gordon for not obeying G-man anymore). It's pretty simple really. If you think about it, HL: Alyx as a whole is the "unforeseen consequences". G-man constantly fucks around with portals and spacetime in a way that no normal man can predict and he will fuck with you too if you disobey him. The whole series is rooted in this idea straight from the beginning.
>>726886152If they had everyone be naked, it would be a good way to humiliate them and demoralise them. Also keeping everyone naked makes it harder for people to rebel because they will be more vulnerable
>>726756974The Winds of Winter is more likely to be announced at The Game Awards than Half-Life 3
>>726886242Taking Alyx isn't as permanent as death is (was until Alyx, anyway). Eli dying is an immediate and (at the moment of Episode 2) permanent payoff. It's also the first time you see an important named character die IN THE ENTIRE SERIES. It's also easily the most emotional moment in the series. Now it's canceled for a "he took muh daughter", but as we know from Gordon's own story, it isn't impossible to break away from G-Man's hold. It's not death or anything - it's just tame drama.
>>726885850A couple hundred million to maybe a billion max. Enough to fuck up humanity for a few centuries but not enough to permanently cripple us until 3000
How many more weeks?
>>726886409It's not like bringing Eli back was mere cheap drama. Eli's brain drain by the Advisor meant that the Combine now pretty much knows most, if not all the Resistance's plan. Him being alive meant that the Combine still had no clue what the Resistance was after in the Arctic.
>>7268866202 more days
>>726886646>Eli's brain drain by the Advisor meant that the Combine now pretty much knows most, if not all the Resistance's plan.The Advisor was interrupted mid-succ by Dog. Easy solution to just say that they didn't manage to get everything out of Eli. Actually that's more tension, because you don't know how much they know
>>726886268>If they had everyone be naked, it would be a good way to humiliate them and demoralise them. Also keeping everyone naked makes it harder for people to rebel because they will be more vulnerableHave you seen stalkers? They are basically nakedAlso they want to recruit more humans into their own army so it's logical that they at least give humans the bare minimum
>>726886646>Eli's brain drain by the Advisor meant that the Combine now pretty much knows most, if not all the Resistance's planYeah, but Combine forces on Earth are bruised and battered, all Citadels are destroyed and they have no ability to contact their homeworld. Them knowing the location and significance of Borealis was a way for Valve to keep them a threat. With a portal ship you can go anywhere you want.
>>726886646>Him being alive meant that the Combine still had no clue what the Resistance was after in the Arctic.I thought the Combine were already in the arctic chasing Mossman
>>726886409I disagree. Now Eli doesn't know if he will ever see Alyx ever again because she's now in stasis like Gordon was and Eli doesn't know what or how she will be used for. That's the worst kind of punishment you can put on a father. HL: Alyx also shows us how fragile the HL universe is because of G-man and how important the portals and teleportation actually are throughout the series. They're not just mere gameplay mechanics.I'm starting to think that G-man caused the resonance cascade solely because humans started to crack the portal technology. He probably advised against it but Eli insisted which is why G-man gave him the crystal to destroy Black Mesa and cause the combine invasion further on. The whole series is about protecting mankind (and maybe other races) from the portal technology and maybe even join G-man and his employers in fighting it. Kidnapping Alyx was just yet another warning for insisting on finding and clinging to the portal technology.
Apart from the ending, is HLA's story a nothingburger? I haven't played it yet and I'm not going to because I don't care about VR.
>>726888187If you're not going to care why even bother asking the question
>>726888240>Why are you interested in the story if you don't have a VR headset?Buy an ad.
>>726887879>Now Eli doesn't know if he will ever see Alyx ever againIt's not like G-Man can't be contacted or bargained with. Also, if Alyx is his agent she can be hired. After all, it's not like she can act in one of those "worlds stretched thin across the membrane where dimensions intersect", she's a human, she'll probably be most useful on Earth. You're also forgetting that Vorts busted Gordon out of G-Man's void dimension, no reason they can't do that again.>>726888187There's a short sequence where you eavesdrop on some lady bossing Combine Advisors around which creates even more ~~loooore~~ questions so you might wanna listen to that on Youtube.
>>726756974I have given up any and all hope for everything I once held dear in this industry. Except for this.Till my dying breath I will believe.Half ironically.
>>726888538Sure, I agree with those points. I don't think that G-man is malevolent or chaotic, he just constantly gives options and "friendly reminders" to humans. But if the situation escalates even further, he might use Alyx for leverage for the sake of protecting earth (?) and his employers. He did arm the nuke in Black Mesa which means that he isn't a stranger to erasing people if his employers say so.
>>726889548>He did arm the nuke in Black MesaThat's Gearbox canon, desu.
>>726889840And it's the one piece of Gearbox canon Valve accepted
>>726889942Valve accepted Black Mesa's nuclear destruction; they did not specifically accepted G-Man priming the nuke.
>>726889942Really? Where? Not trying to shit on your argument, genuinely asking.
>>726764932That is one old af looking 27 year old.
>>726890054Interview with Laidlaw:https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/feature-interview-marc-laidlaw-creator-of-half-life/>Take me back to the beginning of development for Half-Life 2. The original Half-Life was contained. The whole game takes place in the Black Mesa facility, excluding a brief jaunt into an alien dimension. Half-Life 2 opens a whole world to the player, including cities, sweeping countrysides, townships, and dark citadels. What was the process for expanding the world, while staying true to the mythos of the original game?>It was very difficult to find a way to connect the two. We wanted the second game to be another world, a completely new experience, without losing the connection to Black Mesa. We nuked Black Mesa because we did not want to give ourselves the easy out of going back there for the sequel.
>>726890360>We nuked Black MesaHuh.
>>726885850I always got the impression it was in the hundred thousands
>>726890360The question is whether specifically the Black Ops set up the nuke, Shepard disabled it, and Gman reenabled it like was shown in OF
>>726890460Even though the nuke happened in a Gearbox game, my guess is they asked Valve first if it was okay to nuke it and they said yes.
Why do people hate the Universal Union so much?>The Universal Union elimiated the 9 to 5 work day people hate by not making civilians work unless they want to>Gave civilians delicious egg flavored paste and water flavoured bars>The Universal Union forced people to be transferred between cities as much as 3 times a year, which gives people the opportunity to meet new people and make new friends>Humans breed like rabbits and the planet would have gotten overpopulated so the Combine put a stop to that
>>726890360I want to know his thoughts on the episode 2 retcon.
>>726891840Doctor Breen, on my /v/?
>>726891840>B
>>726891840>>Humans breed like rabbits and the planet would have gotten overpopulated so the Combine put a stop to thatThat's a plus for me. I can have sex without worrying about any pesky bastards spawning and making my side bitch lose the will to fuck. Thanks Universal Union.
>>726803873That's literally just what normal video game threads on /v/ already do. You can't make a thread that explicitly names the game no matter when it came out. The totally unique individuals that use this site will dogpile on it for appearing "desperate" and not matching the snarky pessimistic tone of the board culture.
>>726893110NothingEverHappens
>>726893110>>726893901Told ya
When the fuck are the game awards happening
>>726895140December 11th
bump
>>726897396Just let the thread die, this is pathetic
>>726884972>>straight white male protagonist gets his ass kicked and has to be saved by a half black half asian woman at the start of the game>>Half-Life 2 uses Eli to push interracial marriage and procreation>>cast is diverse as fuck (black man and his mixed race daughter and a white woman)>>game pushes a theme of "humanity as one" in the fight against the Combine which is similar to woke messages being pushed today.good
>>726897904nah
>>726886620
It's time to admit Dr Breen was right. If he had not made contact with the Combine, they would've just glassed the planet.
>>726887879>He probably advised against it but Eli insisted which is why G-man gave him the crystalyou're thinking of the Administrator, Breen
>>726849249Looks like my nutsack but unironically
>>726849249Valve cowardice denied us fast zombies in HLA
>>726755915Why not?
>>726885487Really?
When was the last time something HLX related was found?
>>726904124August 18th, according to the Miro board
>>726886083okay, since you’re clearly incapable of paying attention to straightforward when your zoomie brain is overstimulated, allow me spoon feed you;the earth was going to be destroyed completely if gordon hadn’t killed the nihilanth, as established by the scientist and security guard at the end of hl1. so, humanity’s options were either: live under an alien dictatorship (which they couldn’t have predicted), or fucking die. and why the fuck would people blame gordon for the events that unfolded, when all he did was push a cart into a laser beam? just say you don’t like the messianic angle instead of contriving nonsensical talking points to justify your opinion
Chances it gets announced by the end of this month?
>>7269056743%
>>726905674100%
>>726905967no it's going to be announced at TGA
>>726906150Wrong. Its going to be announced tomorrow and a release date trailer will be shown at TGA.
>>726905961>>726905967>1>7>1 - 7 = 6>6 ÷ 2 = 3>Two different Steam IDs people are looking at that count be HLXHL3 and Source 3 confirmed
>>726755915he had it coming
>>726886861"Combine could be here." he thought.
>>726886861>>726906514KEK
>>726905674333%
HL4 when
