faceless007
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SenseiJinx said:
I do. Had no idea it was so rare now, that's awesome. Anything in particular you want to know about it?
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Half-Life 2: Episode Three speculation
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I do. Had no idea it was so rare now, that's awesome. Anything in particular you want to know about it?
Jaded Alyx
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faceless007 said:
Yes. How much are you selling it for?
stuminus3
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I couldn't even begin to speculate how the HL2 arc will be resolved, but I could actually see an ending to Ep. 3 like that.JBuccCP said:
Picture this; you're almost close to some kind of enlightenment on what's actually going on in HL2. Some character is just about to say something that'll put all the pieces together, finally. Then something happens. Then suddenly you're on the monorail. The end of Ep3 plays out like the start of HL1.
"Was it all a dream? What the fuck is this?" you will say. Then something really weird happens. Just for a split moment. Maybe all the humans you see around Black Mesa suddenly appear to be Vortigons, just for a flicker. Maybe the announcer of the train says something really weird and random (I've got that whole speech committed to memory). Just enough to make you question it. Then fade to black...
I wouldn't put it past Valve to pull some kind of shenanigan like that.
PowderedToast
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I would then get on a bus to Valve's building and proceed to take a dump on their doorstep.stuminus3 said:I couldn't even begin to speculate how the HL2 arc will be resolved, but I could actually see an ending to Ep. 3 like that.
Picture this; you're almost close to some kind of enlightenment on what's actually going on in HL2. Some character is just about to say something that'll put all the pieces together, finally. Then something happens. Then suddenly you're on the monorail. The end of Ep3 plays out like the start of HL1.
"Was it all a dream? What the fuck is this?" you will say. Then something really weird happens. Just for a split moment. Maybe all the humans you see around Black Mesa suddenly appear to be Vortigons, just for a flicker. Maybe the announcer of the train says something really weird and random (I've got that whole speech committed to memory). Just enough to make you question it. Then fade to black...
I wouldn't put it past Valve to pull some kind of shenanigan like that.
stuminus3 said:
This exact, looping ending has been done before, in a popular set of books.
I don't wanna say what ones, because then I would be spoiling something completely unrelated to HL in a HL topic...
Point is, I don't see Valve going in that direction. They aren't perfect, but they're at least generally able to blaze their own path instead of leaning super heavily on the story conventions of others.
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Death_Born
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I bet that the G-Man will try to kill Freeman at the end. Then Alyx will try to save him and it will turn out that she somehow got Vortigaunt powers. Finally they will battle each other and G-Man gets obliterated.
...Hey, it could happen:lol
...Hey, it could happen:lol
stuminus3
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I was going for a "hey did this or did this not?" kind of thing, not specifically the looped thing, it's all good though. I'd be pissed too if Valve really did try to pull that one.
I wonder, will there ever again be a videogame to have me keep talking and speculating about so long after release? I mean, there's probably better games since HL2. Definitely since HL1. There's just something about Half-Life that kind of... strikes those chords, y'know? It's a very rare experience.
I wonder, will there ever again be a videogame to have me keep talking and speculating about so long after release? I mean, there's probably better games since HL2. Definitely since HL1. There's just something about Half-Life that kind of... strikes those chords, y'know? It's a very rare experience.
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Jason's Ultimatum
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Aaaaaaaaaaah! When will ep.3 be revealed!?
stuminus3
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I don't think it was significant, I just think Valve knew that it'd make us think it was, those tricksters. If you don't take the line so literally, it could just be some ritual comment that means nothing before and after the actual event takes place... sort of like when you get married, there's no actual bond in body or mind, it's just a tradition.SenseiJinx said:
I find Half-Life 2 is less about what things might really mean and more about filtering out the stuff that doesn't really mean anything at all.
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Jaded Alyx
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No, no, no. The Half-life saga will end like this:
Using some newfound ability to travel through time, you arrive at Black Mesa the very day of the Resonance Cascade. Your objective is to stop yourself/G-Man/whoever so that the experiment does not go ahead. Your starting point is somewhere else within Black Mesa, and you spend much of the time trying to get to the test chamber.
After you succeed, you're sent forwards to the HL2 era time, where because of your actions, everything is normal. You walk around for a bit, and finally enter a bar. Of course, nobody knows who you are. While you're standing there, Alyx (wearing some different clothes please Valve) approaches you and asks to buy you a drink. Kinda like when you meet her in HL2, except she's serious this time.
That's what my friend told me is going to happen. He lives in my head.
Using some newfound ability to travel through time, you arrive at Black Mesa the very day of the Resonance Cascade. Your objective is to stop yourself/G-Man/whoever so that the experiment does not go ahead. Your starting point is somewhere else within Black Mesa, and you spend much of the time trying to get to the test chamber.
After you succeed, you're sent forwards to the HL2 era time, where because of your actions, everything is normal. You walk around for a bit, and finally enter a bar. Of course, nobody knows who you are. While you're standing there, Alyx (wearing some different clothes please Valve) approaches you and asks to buy you a drink. Kinda like when you meet her in HL2, except she's serious this time.
That's what my friend told me is going to happen. He lives in my head.
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Jaded Alyx
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SenseiJinx said:Heh, and abandoning the vortigaunts and any other species the Combine has enslaved or is going to? We'd likely just be giving them more time to become even more powerful until the inevitable time that they stumble upon earth anyway.
My friend says that was all taken care of already. I asked him how, but he said he was sworn to secrecy.
Bastard.
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Jaded Alyx
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SenseiJinx said:Okay, then Gordon's relationship with Alyx through fighting together and saving each other's lives numerous times >>> any relationship that could be formed by them hooking up in a bar.
Yeh but...Eli will be able to attend their wedding! Um...:lol
Jaded Alyx
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GuessWho said:
I find this extremely hilarious. Nice job!
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Probably as significant as everything else they blather on about if you talk to them enough. i.e. relevant in a cryptic, metaphysical sense, but largely irrelevant to anything we're ever going to actually experience. I like the Vortigaunts well enough, but they're second only to the G-man himself in the "weird stuff Valve likes to tease the players with" hierarchy.SenseiJinx said:
I'm trying to imagine what this would be like and keep utterly failing at it.stuminus3 said:Maybe they should outsource this rumoured "Episode 4" to Telltale games.
Now I'm envisioning Sam & Max wandering through the Half-Life series, Concerned style.
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Death_Born
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SenseiJinx said:
Facial expressions FTW!
(I actually remember Gearbox from Halo PC (which was better than Halo 1)
edible_candle
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Valve's lipsyncing tech is quite impressive. If I remember correctly, they designed a program to examine speech files and create believeable lip movements on the fly without having to animate by hand. The rest of the facial animation is built around simulated muscle groups, which they improve with each iteration of the Source engine (HL2 -> Ep.1 -> Ep.2). I believe they hired an expert on facial expressions and movements to help them code their facial animation system.SenseiJinx said:
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
SenseiJinx said:
Geeze. That's incredible.
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So in my recent preparations for the eventual HL2 playthrough thread (early, I know), I divvied up chapters into days, and came up with 19 days to finish (a chapter a day roughly, shorter chapters or chapters that blend with the previous one are combined).
HL2: 10 days
Episode One: 3 days
Episode Two: 6 days
The idea is to set down hard dates when Valve announces Episode Three's release date, so Gaf can jump into III with perfect timing (Episode Three would be released on the 20th day).
Thoughts?
HL2: 10 days
Episode One: 3 days
Episode Two: 6 days
The idea is to set down hard dates when Valve announces Episode Three's release date, so Gaf can jump into III with perfect timing (Episode Three would be released on the 20th day).
Thoughts?
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Won said:
I'll write this package's details down somewhere, along with all the other awesome games I missed.
I shall expect you!SenseiJinx said:I would totally do that, but I'm likely not going to have access to a computer at all.
When I get back, I'll dig up your thread and be a lttp participant before I play Ep.3.
Jaded Alyx
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SenseiJinx said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kcDvJ6t4s
Incredible.
As requested by the OP in another thread, EPISODE ONE IMAGE DUMP
THUMBNAILS:
A FEW ENLARGED:
<3 Alyx.
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Jaded Alyx
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SenseiJinx said:
Yup. Pretty damn amazing.