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Half-Life 2: Episode Three speculation
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Funky Papa
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At this point I think it's safe to say... never. Which sucks, considering how terrific it looks.Orellio said:Makes me want to play Black Mesa Source so fucking bad. When's that ever going to come out
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blackmesa source is still coming. I play on a tf2 server some of them play on from time to time. One was actually on last night advertising the site and I asked if it was ever coming and he laughed and said yeah its still coming out.
Death_Born
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SenseiJinx said:
They've been keeping a devblog, whose last entry was this month. They've finished a hell of a lot already. Hopefully, if the mod dies for some reason, they will release it in its unfinished state rather than hoard it for themselves.
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Yeah, there's some activity in the forums and the dev blog, but seriously, at this poing it is hard to believe.SuperEnemyCrab said:
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Just because they don't update either of those things, doesn't simply mean that they aren't working on it.Funky Papa said:
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Funky Papa said:
Totally. I just want it so badly I can't abandon all hope yet. =)
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Hey, I'd love to be proven wrong.U K Narayan said:
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SenseiJinx said:
Even at the rate they're going, they'll probably finish before Episode 3 :lol
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Will we finally be finishing the fight in ep 3?
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I doubt there will be an episode 4, It'll be getting near the time in 2009/10 when Source might be replaced, and they'll want Half Life 3 to showcase it. and good things always come in threes.
Episode 3 will be awesometastically amazing, obviously. But I want to feel a little bit of PC gamer elitism by playing it at least 2 weeks before all you console gamers. *shakes fist*
Episode 3 will be awesometastically amazing, obviously. But I want to feel a little bit of PC gamer elitism by playing it at least 2 weeks before all you console gamers. *shakes fist*
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Sciz said:
Yeah, could be that after Ep. 3 they'd go back to the HL1 model of expansions: similar setting, different characters. I wonder if they would be in the same timeline as HL2 and who will be developing it. Gearbox?
That way we'll have more of the world of City 17 without contaminating the story line too much, while Valve goes back underground to develop the next-gen (hopefully non-episodic) Half-Life 3.
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you know what I hope? I hope somehow episode 3 sets up a possible sequel later where you play as Adrian Shephard. the guy's been sitting in a quarantine out in Xen somewhere since Opposing Force. It'd be cool if Episode 3 leads to Gordon escaping Gman's control, and Gman needs a new operative, so he brings back Shephard (or at least sets it up so that he could bring back Shephard for the next game). I still think it's fun how you can play through the HL1 story from 3 different perspectives (Gordon, Shephard, and Barney) through HL, Opposing Force and Blue Shift. They can't do that with Barney anymore, but Shephard could remain a blank slate.
Well, if you go by those dates, mid-2007. I haven't read it myself, and I couldn't tell you when I first heard about it either. Didn't get into the series until Dec. 2006 though, so it at least predates Ep. 2 by a while.SenseiJinx said:
If the trend continues, it'll rock out even more than Ep. 2 did.Botolf said:
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oh shit.Opus Angelorum said:
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Tacking &fmt=18 onto Youtube URLs is generally a good idea.SenseiJinx said:
I hope Valve gives us another landmark in the sky for Episode Three.
HL2: The Citadel
Episode One: The Citadel creating an orange/reddish storm
Episode Two: A massive, blue superportal growing in the ruins of the Citadel
For Episode Three: The Aurora Borealis, maybe?
HL2: The Citadel
Episode One: The Citadel creating an orange/reddish storm
Episode Two: A massive, blue superportal growing in the ruins of the Citadel
For Episode Three: The Aurora Borealis, maybe?
Ok, but I figured that's what the option was supposed to do, use the highest quality video.Sciz said:
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ShadyMilkman
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And generally it does, but there's a cutoff date around July 2007. Anything prior to that won't default to HQ.Botolf said:
Xen was aesthetically really cool, but the platforming was atrocious and the Alien Controllers were a pain in the neck to fight. I wouldn't mind another alien world if it was designed with Valve's modern methods.SenseiJinx said:
Alyx was all in Gordon's imagination. He made her up to cope with his loneliness on his travels. Kinda like Tyler Durden. Everything you saw Alyx do was actually Gordon doing it himself and imagining Alyx doing it. That's why Alyx is so important. She IS Gordon! Also it was all a dream. Gordon fell asleep on that long ass ride in the trolley thing at the beginning of Half Life 1.
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JBuccCP said:
So...Eli was Gordon Freeman's dad? Gordon is mute because he's actually talking in the voice of Alyx? IT ALL MAKES SENSE!
I have a feeling that the G-man will time-travel Gordon back to Half-Life 1 after defeating the Combine. Then he'll not interfere with the reaction and everything will be set right.
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Death_Born said:
That'd actually be a really cool ending
Can someone summarize the story of HL2 for me? I must've started that game about ten times but never finished. Don't want it to be 11 times. But I do plan on playing Ep 1 & 2 when I get my birthday computer so that's why I ask.
All I got so far is "citadel goes boom, Gordon rides flying car."
All I got so far is "citadel goes boom, Gordon rides flying car."
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JSnake said:
Gordon gets teleported 7 years into the future.
The Combine have enslaved Earth, arriving after HL1's portal opened a wormhole here. They've made all surviving Earth cities into ghettoes.
Gordon arrives in City 17. He gets picked up by his old friend Barney and goes on an adventure to stop Dr. Breen, a Combine collaborator and old Black Mesa dude. He also meets Alyx Vance, daughter of Eli Vance, another Black Mesa dude.
He arrives in the citadel, and blows up Dr. Breen's teleporter as he tries to escape, thus destroying the citadel and opening another, even bigger portal. G-Man teleports him away along with Alyx.
Gordon Freeman pulled out of stasis, kicks ass, sets off humanity's rebellion against their alien oppressors, kills man who signed humanity over to aliens in the first place.JSnake said:
Or this.
Or this (sort of).