Episode 3 What Do You Want

[343guiltymc]

Adrian probably won't return till the Gordan freeman trilogy ends with EP3. Anybody mind explaining what is all this obsessions with the return of Adrian Shepperd?

[Jack Hemming]

Originally Posted by 343guiltymc

Adrian probably won't return till the Gordan freeman trilogy ends with EP3. Anybody mind explaining what is all this obsessions with the return of Adrian Shepperd?

1. Sorry pal, theres going to be a Half-Life 3 after EP3, it has been confirmed.
2. Adrian is popular because of three things:

1. He starred in the second most popular Half-Life one game, Opposing Force.
2. Everyone wants to know what happened to him after he got taken away by G-Man.
3. Hes probably one of the most favorite characters in Half-Life history, because he stopped the four armed, one eyed aliens (I forgot their names), from invading earth.

3. I think that Valve will leave us amazed, energized, dazzled, obliterated, and feeling as though we just did something incredible, In EP3.

Then they are going to make us explode in Half-Life 3. In that good, Valve way.Oh, and then cats will rain from the sky and a guy in an orange and suit will shoot cake at the combine, and then there will be free babies for everyone! Thats how much Half-Life 3 will rock.

[Dredg0n]

I was thinking, what if G-man is an evil Vortigaunt?

[Jack Hemming]

Originally Posted by Dredg0n

I was thinking, what if G-man is an evil Vortigaunt?

Then DOGS would rain out of then sky, and everyones shoes would implode in a massive sub atomic implosion. Come on, you have to be joking? Whats next, G-man turns out to be Gordon from the future? And every KFC resturant in the world starts selling fish instead of chicken?

[Metall_pingwin]

Originally Posted by Jack Hemming

And every KFC resturant in the world starts selling fish instead of chicken?

Buckethead would be very pleased.

[The Typer]

Originally Posted by Jack Hemming

3. I think that Valve will leave us amazed, energized, dazzled, obliterated, and feeling as though we just did something incredible, In EP3.

Then they are going to make us explode in Half-Life 3. In that good, Valve way.Oh, and then cats will rain from the sky and a guy in an orange and suit will shoot cake at the combine, and then there will be free babies for everyone! Thats how much Half-Life 3 will rock.

I wouldn't say explode, but the ending will be as awesome as HL2's. (I'm not expecting or hoping for a Freemand death).

And whoever thought about G-Man being a Vortigaunt. No. the Vortigaunts are definitely characters kind of taking a slight role like the G-Man's in the regard that they seem to know quite a bit about the future, and yet still existing in the past (I don't really know), while physically being in the present. The G-Man works for a corporation (I never saw that Aperture Science logo on the screen, and that doesn't necessarily mean he works there) in which he is busy "quelling naysayers". He's kind of going behind the backs of those for who he works. Whether he's just attempting to get higher on the food chain, or if he is secretly working for someone else who is also working on overthrowing this corporation, we don't know yet. I don't think we'll learn a ton more with the next episode, but in fact get far more questions than anything since Valve will be able to leave us hanging for HL3 with quite a longer development schedule.

Oh, gosh. I miss HL2 so much now. I haven't played it in so long. Can't wait till I fix my computer this weekend and then I'll install it on an empty hard drive. Ah, bliss, just me, my headphones, and my fan shirt.

[themanclaw]

[Yahtzee of zero punctuation discussing the new Duke Nukem] "I just hope that 3d realms understands that this game doesn't turn out to be history's greatest contribution to human culture and the cure for at least one type of cancer, than I and every other reviewer on earth are going to saw its bollucks off"

I feel the same exact way about HL3.

[glopnotishboober]

I think a Combine Cremator would be great. Remember that head in a jar at Black Mesa East? That's a Cremator head. From the name I'd guess it's incediary. But still, an Assassin would be just as good. This was the basis for the fast zombies runs. jumps, hits and so on.

[D.U.D.E.]

I want the hydra.
and i want a good ending to it. I probably couldn`t take it all going fubar (or g-bar, possibly) again...



Oh and less huge water-filled barnacle chambers please. (I`m a huge barnaclophobe).



And this IS the last part. listen to ep2 audio commentary.

[The Typer]

1. Hydra?

2. I thought up an idea of a manhack getting stuck on a barnacle tongue. And either the tongue gets all diced up and the manhack escapes with the dangered barnacle, or the manhack gets pulled up and the two of them die. I figured each one could have a nice effect to it unique than just a blood spew.

3. It's not the last Half-Life. This is just completing Half-Life 2. Remember those old videos about Half-Life 2 with the Borealis docK? That, along with many other Half-Life 2 parts were left out of the game as Valve began to realize where the scope of Half-Life 2 needed to be set in terms of how far the story goes. Toppling the Combine empire in City 17 is such a huge piece of the storyline that it needs an individual story buildup like an overall story for a book. These episodes are continuing the rest of Half-Life 2's story that Valve decided not to get into yet since the immediate Half-Life 2 story related to toppling the Combine empire was so huge, and they do a really nice job as each one has a good individual storyline to finish off those last bits of the game. In Episode One, we have escape as City 17, or the Citadel is destroyed. In Episode Two, we have the human defense and continuation of our fight to even further gain the initiative agasint the Combine. If Half-Life 2 actually just used the human uprising that takes place in all of Half-Life 2 as one part of the story and then continued on with what we see in Episode One, Two, and Three, things would either be immensely shorter, or the impact and drama of it all would not be as large as possible with individual episodes since we would really just be working towards one large climax at the end of Episode Three.

Get it? Good. I hope this shows, besides internet interviews, that the story cannot end at Half-Life 2: Episode Three because we are only ending Half-Life 2. I think we are only at the beginning of things since this is only the sequel really. I mean, I can tell where people are getting the impression of things coming to a close because of what happened in the last ten minutes (or the last chapter) of Episode Two. But it's not, that's just the storyine's anti-climax, and it is very well executed thanks to Valve's great storytelling ways and the ability to make story parts have a much more prominent effect since it is the end of this game.

4. Please use spoiler tags on images glopnotishboober, some people have slow connections. Just a reminder, if you don't know how to:

[spoiler](put image text in here)[ /spoiler] (mius the spaces between the backslash and the parenthasees)

It's either a forward or a backwards slash, you can just re-edit it if it doesn't work.