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Title: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 25, 2017, 12:42:47 AM
http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/

Get it before the Valve ninjas take it down, lads.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
WOW, IT'S FUCKING NOTHING. Apparently Alix would've been taken by the G-man and we'd have a cliff-hanger nearly for another continuation.
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Fixed Marc Laidlaw's changing names: https://pastebin.com/q9DMFa7c
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: El Babua on August 25, 2017, 01:16:44 AM
Some of the stuff mentioned would have been amazing to see in gameplay.

Too bad we never will.

Now for GRRM to spoil the entirety of ASOIAF in one of his blog posts.
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: Positive Touch on August 25, 2017, 06:51:43 AM
yeah this would have been an awesome game. hopefully the black mesa team or someone is sitting there right now thinking about how they can turn this into a game.
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: demi on August 25, 2017, 07:12:04 AM
Overrated, glad they finally will shut up about this vaporware
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 25, 2017, 07:49:48 AM
Quote from: El Babua on August 25, 2017, 01:16:44 AM
Now for GRRM to spoil the entirety of ASOIAF in one of his blog posts.

You think GRRM knows how to make blog posts? :lol (I'm kidding, his using DOS and all that)
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: benjipwns on August 25, 2017, 09:49:41 PM
basically they wrote themselves into a hole with The Combine, I think this was sorta obvious as far back as the first Episode, and I know others share in that opinion to a harsher extent than I do

the cliffhanger doesn't surprise me actually, as I think they long ago said they saw Gordon as always the player character and that his journey was never to truly end but instead be this pawn endlessly manipulated with further time and location skips like 2 made

the Portal tie-in isn't really surprising as you could tell right after that came out that Valve realized there was a perfect hook there to explain a bunch of stuff as Aperture related...the Borealis stuff came out years ago didn't it? and Valve was basically like "no comment but yep no comment" and i remember people speculating it'd show up in 2

why they never did this earlier actually makes even more sense now, reading the story and knowing what is known about Source and why Valve is so determined to get to Source 2 (CS:GO is even getting ported to it and I imagine those L4D leaks were related to part of the toolset), they could never have actually done it (Ep. 2 and Portal 2 were built on such heavy rewrites to Source for just what they did)...Titanfall is pretty amazing considering it's on Source even if they rewrote most of it and more for 2, Valve probably knew this wasn't possible with Source's design let alone the tools and so stuck to what they could use it on while setting this aside but it's been so long at this point...

really they should take this as an opportunity to consider the story of 2 (Alyx) officially told and make an actual Half-Life 3 where we once again jump ahead to a different point with Gordon

the Dyson Sphere part makes me think that maybe for a sequel it could be an open-world game where you're Gordon (but you don't find this out until later) as a space bounty hunter within this Sphere and you chase, let's call them "prey" with all kinds of crazy Titanfall-like movement systems and so on and maybe some Human Head Studios guys could help out on it I dunno I have this weird idea they might have some ideas about a game like this and might even have a VERTICAL SLICE to show off as an idea and that's an concept that can easily move into Gabe's whole "games as a service" idea with it continuously being updated and all with new missions/bounties/locations, i mean even though Halo fucked it up by admitted accidental measurements their ring worlds theoretically would have provided for a larger game world than anything ever and a dyson sphere would be millions of times that size at the smallest and that's even if we assume the Combine gained control of it, not be the ones who constructed it (obviously the G-Man is somehow related to those who did...there's your tie-in and reveal moment...wait, maybe they come to "NOT Gordon" as Alyx instead) so you could have parts of it in disrepair compared to others that are more eden like

the funny thing  i've always thought is that half-life's* stories have always been incomplete mysteries without ever truly answering, yet people kept thinking Episode 3 was going to be different? when Valve said it would end 2, not the franchise back when it was supposed to actually come out (before Portal and L4D obviously derailed it, followed by DOTA)

*valve's actually, l4d and tf2 are better examples of their writing imo and yet all of the storytelling part just add more questions
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: Himu on August 25, 2017, 09:50:52 PM
So alyx doesn't fuck gordan in hot interracial sex?
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 25, 2017, 09:54:29 PM
Quote from: Queen of Ice on August 25, 2017, 09:50:52 PM
So alyx doesn't fuck gordan in hot interracial sex?

Only in the mods. :doge
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: VomKriege on August 26, 2017, 02:56:52 AM
John Freeman is in it ?
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: Himu on August 26, 2017, 03:04:10 AM
john freeman isn't alyx and gordan's love child?
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on August 26, 2017, 04:16:49 AM
Everyone's saying this is for HL3 but I assumed the 'epistle 3' part referred to HL2 Episode 3, which makes the cliffhanger make sense.

Anyway, the countdown til this gets adapted into a mod begins
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: benjipwns on August 26, 2017, 04:59:30 AM
everybody just up and decided Episode 3 must have been turned into Half-Life 3 because it was taking so long

when in reality, it was probably just shelved for L4D and Portal 2...and then everything along those lines got shelved for DOTA and their continued experiments with CS:GO and TF2

the HL3 thing never made sense to me, because Valve had done the episodes originally because they wanted to follow up HL2's world/plot but not make a whole new game and had often said a new game would be when they had something big and new enough to justify a 3...they arguably had done the same thing with the first game but farmed out the work on the expansion packs to Gearbox, it was still Valve's story rather than brand new content

i think until Valve can find a new way to do single-player where there's continuous content yet it remains single player, we won't see one from them, especially when everything else is being so profitable for them and it seems like the company in general enjoys working on it, so guys like Laidlaw, etc. left...I think Arkane Studios also picked up some of those story/scenario-driven Valve people too? some of those THQ salvage operations too i think?

if we see a 3 franchise from Valve, I'm going to just assume it's L4D3...they're porting CS:GO to Source 2, TF2 is probably in a codebase and content situation where they can't easily port it and it's an ideal entry point F2P game anyhow so leaving it for lower end spec works out like CS and CS:S did for a decade...and there were those leaked slides, so L4D3 with something like multiple characters to choose from with minor stat differences but still making up your foursome? that would fit the hero shooter stuff into it though maybe you don't need to do that since it's been EIGHT YEARS since 2 and just putting out a bunch of new Source 2 quality content could be enough plus it in VR obviously

for some odd reason i get the impression that Valve may have wanted Portal 2 to be a very different long term thing, they never really backed it up post release like they were suggesting even when Gabe wandered out at the Sony conference there was confusion about what exactly it would mean for the console side...then DOTA and Icefrog swept in there suddenly and sorta took over the company not long thereafter...arguably other games have made more out of the Workshop setup than Valve has, hell, even a huge title like Black Ops III uses it for its restoration of all the old mods

i do think we'll see a bit more from Valve soon though, beyond that card game, they pushed DOTA 2 onto Source 2 first, CS:GO is supposed to be onto it very soon and that's not an entirely internal Valve product in the first place, DOTA 2 seems like it's finally in a position where it's "official" and it's not a game that pushes VR which is Gabe's other obsession, while L4D seems like a perfect series for that

then again, maybe this is a stealth announcement of HL3, they wrapped up 2 like Xenogears wraps up its ending minus the cutscenes, and 3 will be some new crazy thing they announce soon...that's just a basic game framework the length of two Lost Coast's but with all the new fancy Source 2 tools and at the end says "modders go to it making hundreds of hours of content with our new tools, e-mail me at gaben@valvesoftware.com" and they "build" the game that way
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: benjipwns on August 26, 2017, 05:01:05 AM
of course, if there was a schedule we could track and trust like Star Citizen we wouldn't have to speculate, Valve really needs that kind of transparency and we as gamers should demand it or else #Gamergate

wait let me change that hashta
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: benjipwns on August 26, 2017, 05:17:23 AM
u wrote more in this thread than laidlaw wrote on his blog and half-life has never been in ur top three favorite valve products u dummy
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: Valkyrie on August 26, 2017, 05:33:43 AM
Benji, r u ok
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: benjipwns on August 26, 2017, 05:40:40 AM
AM I BEING DETAINED OR AM I FREE TO GO
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: thisismyusername on August 26, 2017, 05:53:01 AM
Quote from: Valkyrie on August 26, 2017, 05:33:43 AM
Benji, r u ok

He has multiple personality disorder. It's okay.
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: Valkyrie on August 26, 2017, 06:16:03 AM
Quote from: thisismyusername on August 26, 2017, 05:53:01 AM
Quote from: Valkyrie on August 26, 2017, 05:33:43 AM
Benji, r u ok

He has multiple personality disorder. It's okay.
For real? Saw him do this before, but just assumed he posted from the wrong account.
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on August 26, 2017, 08:12:44 AM
Honestly who knows what the fuck valve are thinking. I assume they kept dudes like Wolpaw and Laidlaw on cuz they intended on using them at some point, but I also wouldn't be shocked if they just forgot they were still on the payroll on some kinda Milton from Office Space shit.
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: Rufus on August 26, 2017, 08:20:10 AM
Quote from: Valkyrie on August 26, 2017, 06:16:03 AM
Quote from: thisismyusername on August 26, 2017, 05:53:01 AM
Quote from: Valkyrie on August 26, 2017, 05:33:43 AM
Benji, r u ok

He has multiple personality disorder. It's okay.
For real? Saw him do this before, but just assumed he posted from the wrong account.
No, he's just a self-conscious dork.
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: Positive Touch on August 26, 2017, 08:27:43 AM
yeah i don't see valve ever going back to half life. too many people that knew and worked on the old ones have moved on. and this story was clearly meant to episode 3, a five or six hour game, and they couldn't even finish that so I don't believe they were anywhere near doing real work on hl3.

regardless, this story made me happier that i expected some new hl news ever would. the series was never one of my faves but they were great and extremely important games. this story feels like better closure for the series than ep2 was, so I'm glad we finally get an ending.
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: benjipwns on August 26, 2017, 07:30:14 PM
Quote from: Rufus on August 26, 2017, 08:20:10 AM
No, he's just a self-conscious dork.
hey!

yes.
Title: Re: HALF-LIFE 3 (Plot) CONFIRMED!
Post by: WaveRacer 64 on September 11, 2017, 05:15:31 PM
The story for me was secondary at best but that sounds great, the atmosphere and the feeling of a journey was unmatched and that's what I wanted more of along with the incredible sound design of the series and I don't know... more varied characters, those zombies got on my nerves at some point.

The concept art we saw looked the spot, the snowy setting was intriguing, shame that it will never happen.

http://www.valvetime.net/threads/exclusive-half-life-2-episode-3-concept-art.206815/

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