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>>733776294This game goes so hard after reading Nova Express
>>733776294What do they eat?
>>733776294It’s one of my Top10 games of all time, but every time I replay it and get to Nova Prospect and the Strider city part, I just wanna drop it
At least it used to be until Freeman fucked it all up.
>>733776418state sponsored Breen rations probably made out of headcrab meat. Galunga.Metrocops gets Antlion meat instead
>>733776294I will never forgive Valve for the shift in tone from 1 to 2.>X-Files style government and alien conspiracy rail shooter with light puzzle mechanics, very grim and dark atmosphere, outstanding gunplay and movement mechanics >Pixar tier goofy smiley characters and lame as fuck YOU MUST BE HORNY storyline, combine are literally just humans with guns, no zen flora whatsoever throughout the entire game, no bullsquids or houndeyes anywhere to be found, but here are a bunch more variations of headcrabs and zombies for no reason at all, movement and gunplay are dog shit I hate HL2 so much it's unreal
Apparently, the next game will involves a new enemy alongside the combine, who will only be one part of the story (with their portal closed ,they can't call for any reinforcement, so the combine can't really progress unless they use more humans as panic troops, which will be harder and harder with more resistances)It's probably going to be related to Gman's employers. But I wonder how they will look.
>>733776592>YOU MUST BE HORNY storyline,what is blud yappin bout
>>733776902>It's probably going to be related to Gman's employers. But I wonder how they will look.It'll address the ending of HL1, of which the G-Man said that his employers took control of Xen post-Nihilanth.
For me? It's the grunt
>>733777065I wonder if they will look humanoids, regular alien looking or something almost eldritch looking.Though if they can ALL change forms, maybe they will all look very different from each others
>>733777128Valve had plenty of ideas for alien factions in HL. From religious bugs (Antlions), alien assassin faction to abstract lifeforms such as sentient clouds and fungi. They really wanted the abstract lifeform thing so bad, they referenced the idea a bunch of times over the years.
>>733776592Are zoomers really so sex-averse they take global sterilization as nothing to fight against?
>>733776994That anon took Eli's grandkid line a bit too seriously.
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>>733776446That's why the Episodes are better.
>>733777410They probably will need some more "usual" troops though, even if they have some abstract forms, it be hard if an entire faction of enemies are abstract.
>>733778036True, that's where Combine fits in I'd reckon. While I think their role as the main antagonist faction in the story will be diminished in the next game compared to HL2, I think Valve will still keep them for their trooper enemy selections.
>>733776994Besides the obvious Eli trying to get Gordon to knock up his daughter, a major part of the story is the "suppression field" that stops humans from having kids. Once you take down the system, that nerd scientist with the glasses goes on the intercom telling people to get busy fucking. Tell me how that's not the most cringe horny dweeb storyline you've ever seen in a videogame. I dare you.
I SAID this game goes so hard after reading Nova Express
>>733778176if anything I could see the abstract alien shaping themselves like regular troopers for some of their units, since I assume their goal is to learn from every species, it make sense for some of them to shape into what they are fighting. even if only temporarily, maybe changing multiple shapes in battle with the shape being the most troublesome against the player taken the most. so the player has to change his tactics all the time
>>733778217Do you have no reference points outside of video games and porn? Have you ever read any real novels about dystopias or just about anything else cultural? This is not just a porn thing and reproduction is actually the stuff of life, civilization, and control
>>733778176>>733778272Similarly, if it's related to Gman, they could just send some of their agents against you. if they are a multi-universal specie, they probably have a lot of agents like what was Gordon to them
>>733776294I've been having fun playing HL Alyx workshop campaigns>>733776446desu I think as far as HL2 goes the sewers level at the beginning and Ravenholm are the high points of the game. everything else is boring. HL1 is better
>>733778217> the most cringe horny dweeb storyline you've ever seen in a videogameSummertime Saga, GalGun, Senran Kagura, Girls Frontline…
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>>733778272Maybe they'll bring this concept back.
>>733778445Retard those are hard/soft porn. HL2 is not.
>>733776330>>733778239Never read the book, what is it about?
I liked Episode 1 more than Episode 2
>>733779115I like Episode 1 but the escort mission at the end dragged it down, hard. The idea of keeping the civvies alive across the station is somewhat more stressful than saving the houses from getting blow up at the end of Episode 2.
Alyx was 6 years ago, that’s half the time between the release of Episode 2 and the announcement of Alyx
>>733779250So where's the second Advisor from the original scene? Did it survive the time rewind?
They broke my fucking box :(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ydhpMp1TF4I would have catboxed this but the site is down.
>>733778272I think chet faliszek said it in one of his schizo rambling vids that the combine was intended to be some alien megacorp that wanted to extract all the resources from earth
what if alyx was a foxfrom space
>>733779908What are you talking about, she always was?
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>>733778943>what is it about?dont bother
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>>7337810912 more weeks
>>733781091Soon (Valve time).
>>733778943Time traveling aliens using every trick in the CIA book and worse to secretly control the populace, vs crew of time traveling heroin users who fight these control machines using drugs. But of course its about a lot more than that too Half Life 2 is in some part based on this series. The Nova Corps is basically doing what the Combine are, and the human characters do in fact have a shapeshifting rogue g-man who allows them to time and space travel
>>733778879You’re really just a prudish yet pornbrained person. Read Brave New World or something, or god forbid something that directly interfaces with reproduction. There are so many things going on regarding sex than just porn
Really hope they'll bring back the Kraken Base concept in the next game. Having to fight your way out of underwater base while the place is slowly flooded with water is too cool of a concept to scrap.
What is the function of this job and why do they have to sit on tiny platforms above a bottomless pit to do it?
>I had the opportunity to ask one of Half-Life: Alyx's writers, Erik Wolpaw, about this mysterious character. "[She's] a character that we don't want to talk too much about," says Wolpaw>"We have plans for her," Wolpaw adds.https://web.archive.org/web/20200421195034/https://www.usgamer.net/articles/half-life-alyx-story-lore-and-ending-fully-explained#section-11
>>733782751their function is to be abondoned in beta builds of HL2probably transcribing Consul's speeches.But that brings up another quistion - Why dont aliens who posses space magic dont have a speech to text software?
>>733783243We got this new character openly acknowledging G-Man's existence so maybe Valve is actually going to make him the central plot for the new game.
>>733778798It woudn't be combine aligned, the combine can't bring more people from their world anymore. and they specifically tried to avoid having a lot of their other unit as the earth wasn't important enough for thisif we see them as combine soldiers, this mean Gordon will go on his own to the combine world to fuck shit up.Though the leak talked about an "off-world location", so maybe Gordon will get thrown in another prison
I might a minority here but I hope it will have it's tacked on multiplayer, I miss a little when games used to do this even if it's more a secondary thing and unbalanced as hell.
>>733779370It probably freaked the fuck out because if I remember right, Advisor are very psychic units, they probably realized that something happened with time itself and so they ran away
>>733783243my guess she gets kicked out of the combine and Gman saves her to have a new agent.>>733783526It will be the final entry by all likelihood, so at least some part of the mystery might finally be revealed
Will the flame thrower aliens and combine horses finally be brought back? They got cut from two games late in development.
>>733783973I'm with you on that too actually. With all the stuff from the datamining, it would be a shame if all those cool physics-based gameplay is only contained in the 12+ hour campaign of the game. HL2 Deathmatch being a thing was a stroke of luck because Adrian Finol was fucking about at the time and Gabe noticed and asked him to make it official. It would be nice if HL3 had a more thought-out version of that tacked-on multiplayer component and then some.
>>733784079It would be cool if the surviving Advisor warned the others of G-Man's fuckery and the Combine prepared for his bullshit accordingly. Hope Valve actually thought of that.
>>733784537the combine don't have a portal anymore, those who are currently on earth cannot leave or get reinforcement. they are going to get destroyed unless they have some other secret weapon.My guess the first part will be about this, and the later part of the game will be about Eli and Gordon trying to do get Alyx back from the Gman; Maybe you will also play Alyx in some missions on as his new agent.
>>733784272>Combine horsesToo goofy and it seems to be used mostly for riot control of civvies in urban areas and I don't think the next game will take place in cities.>CrematorI think it will be brought back considering the supposed mechanic for thermal stuff which fits for the unit.
>>733783973I dont see what your race has to do with it
Galla-lung cha’varra gung cho-latha, galla cho varrung tha. Challa-gung vora-lung cha’ga thrum, kalla cho-unga vrah? Gung-latha chora veng-lung, galla-cho narra tha’gung. Valla-cho gung galla-lung, charrunga va-latha cho.>mfw
>>733782751It stops workplace gooning
>>733776294Playing through with dev commentary is peak comfy.
>>733786430https://youtu.be/UsCQ5ncdXXY?si=Qf22UAdlUMWM784a&t=180A dev in the commentary is teasing a controllable Combine mortar in HL3
>>733779250Dayum
How well does the VR game play VR-less?
>all sea animals went extinct and the oceans are infested with leeches that somehow don't starve>all land animals went extinct and the land is infested with antlions that somehow don't starveDoes anyone else think this is just lazy world building?
>>733789856https://youtube.com/watch?v=knSBrO3GBXYBirds are still here
>>733776294i miss when video games had good writing bros.
>>733789856>Does anyone else think this is just lazy world building?Yes
>>733776294are you b*lgarian?
