The former writer Marc Laidlaw has posted what is suspected to be a plot summary for Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
Marc Laidlaw has created what he says is a “fictional” summary written in the form of a letter. The letter is written by “Gertie Fremont” and mentions things such as a ship called “Hyperborea” and an enemy alien called “Disparate.” Half-Life fans have mentioned that if you swap out the names of characters in the fictional story it would be a perfect summary of events for what happened after Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
Pastebin has translated Laidlaw’s version of the story into what Half-Life fans hope or think to be the final plot outline. The ‘TLDR’ can be found below.
“Gordon and Alyx head for Antarctica, resting place of the Borealis, the research ship mentioned at the end of Episode 2. They’re shot down as they approach, though, and find that surrounding the ship is an enormous Combine base, inside which the Borealis is continually flickering in and out of existence.
After an encounter with Dr. Breen — whose consciousness had been transplanted into an alien slug’s body, allowing him to survive the demise of his human body in Episode 2 — Gordon, Alyx and Dr. Mossman (who you rescue from a Combine prison) manage to board the Borealis, and while there are pulled across both space and time, seeing things like the Seven Hour War, alien worlds the Combine were about to conquer and even the ship’s origins at Aperture.
Following a dispute over what to do with the ship (Mossman argues for keeping the ship, Alyx wants to honour her father’s wish to destroy it), Alyx shoots Mossman dead, and commits Gordon to a plan to drive the ship into the heart of the Combine’s “invasion nexus”.
Before it can strike, though, the G-Man arrives, speaks with Alyx and the pair depart, leaving Gordon alone to drive the ship on its suicide mission. Just as its about to hit its target, the Vortigaunts open a portal and save Gordon, dropping him on a shore where he isn’t certain of what year it is or how the war against the Combine has ended.
And…that’s where it wraps, Freeman writing “Except no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final episode.”
To read the original post from Laidlaw you can visit his site here.
Source: Marc Laidlaw
Hello! My name Jak Connor I’m based in Australia and I picked up PCgaming as child when I was around ten years old. I mostly played RTS games back then, putting many hours into Age of Empires 1/2 and Age of Mythology. My love for PC gaming grew and stayed with me as I now have a passion for gaming and the amazing technology jumps developers show us all the time. I pledge that I will be bringing you fine people of DSOgaming the most unique and interesting news I can find!
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I’m still here asking: Who is GMan doe? What are his objectives? SOMEBODY GIMME ANSWERS!
Say it with me, fuhk Valve.
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hes gordons and alyxs son from the future as has been heavily hinted.
If you are going to upvote your own comment, at least write stuff that isn’t made up rubbish.
Wasn’t him it was upvoted by his self from the future as has been heavily hinted.
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One of his tentacles upvoted his own comment. He’s on a touch device and with 3D glasses. Cut him some slack.
Oh, I am going to cut something alright,
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My heart stopped when I thought this was a Half Life 3 article.
there is no such thing
Of all the games I’ve played I can’t think of a series that was more deserving of wrapping up the story of a protagonist than the story of Gordon Freeman. If Newell didn’t plan to do a HL2 Ep3 then why in the hell did it end the way it did in Ep2. That was clearly a setup to make people want to play Ep3.
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the 1st Half Life and if Newell could just take a few minutes away from stuffing his face with donuts to put a team together and announce an Ep3 even if it’s only a couple hours of gameplay at least the series could finish in a way that doesn’t just leave us hanging for 10 years since Ep2.
Oh, and I also want a L4D3 and Portal 3.
Thank you.
Don’t count on it. Vermintide scratches that L4D itch for me.
What about mods though? There were a shit-ton of mods for L4D and L4D2. I can’t recall the site now but there used to be a site dedicated to those 2 games that had hundreds of mods and user created levels. Most were crap but some were pretty good and I had fun with them. I must have put in hundreds of hours of fun on those 2 games.
Yeah there’s no modding tools unfortunately. Only new content is DLC. It’s a decent DLC model though. Not too expensive and only one player has to have it for everyone to play it.
The Steam Controller’s an excellent piece of hardware.
Jeez this is like being in a friendzone when the girl you like keeps teasing you, but nothing will happen between you two, eventually. The same goes with Half Life. Does that mean we’re being Half-Lifezoned?
I have really fond memories of these games from my teenage years. Almost brought a tear to my eye reading this. Big thanks to Marc Laidlaw for giving fans the closest thing to closure were ever gonna get. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/693dbc78ee059bab01bd5ecc86aacca78e8a646f1bbd82307877d2b70bb3ebb9.gif
lol that fat lazy lil sack of sit. should realease the game already that f’ jew
that lazy busta is holding Monopoly die vavvle pos die ganbn fat lazy buata
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ol that lazy butats lmao take thdt dota2 chrad gaaymene lol
racist stupid and illiterate…what are the odds
Off topic> New Version of Denuvo 4.5 got cracked.
Agent OF Mayhem
ok lol look another legitimate buyer lmao
why would anyone want o play yet alone buy agents of memeham?
Im not interested in this game.
well thx i guess…but even for free im not interested in that mediocre game
Empty, just empty……………………………………………….
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I’m certain that the universally known and famously optimistic demand for an episode 3 / wrap-up will inevitably result in something. The sales of anything with a half-life tag will go through the roof regardless of quality or scale. If it can happen for something like Bladerunner (A film that didn’t NEED a sequel) I remain hopefully a studio in the future will take up the mantle! All we can really hope for, is a game that comes close to the hype.
This reveal probably brought loads of publicity to his novels.
“Pastebin has translated Laidlaw’s version of the story into what Half-Life fans hope or think to be the final plot outline.”
Some guy has done it, Pastebin is just a hosting site.
i always wondered why couldn’t some fans make episode 3 through crowd funding
simply recruit the writers, capture the essence of half life 2’s gameplay
and give a percentage to valve for not suing the fan project
this can be a reality, question is… is it possible that valve will allow such thing?
or they’re gonna go full nintendo on fan projects?
Pretty sure it’s going to be a game in Half-Life world, but it’s not going to be what we want, just look at games now days how it looks pretty 80% are multiplayer with the support of the worst gamers base ever, and almost all new Single player games are pretty fakedup… I’m telling ya guys Half-Life is going to happen in another format and not right now.
to me the closest thing to half life was Metro 2033
the adventure, the silent protag, even the crosshairs were reminiscent of HL
and yeah, crowdfund is a big sham that i’m completely disappointed and disgusted with
though a few good indies still managed to pass over the threshold of crap
and actually made a compelling spiritual successor
(games such as Freedom planet and Darkest dungeon)
When you make easy money selling garbage and people dumb enough to support it, why bother trying to release groundbreaking games?
You just nailed it. Valve takes a 30% cut of every game they sell on Steam and of course it takes money to keep Steam up and running but Valve probably makes more profit than any other gaming Publisher on this planet from Steam. They risk nothing by investing in a game that might be successful or might be a flop financially and that is why they backed off from developing games.
The Valve today isn’t the same Valve that developed HL1 and HL2 and L4D and Portal. They do run a very good service for gamers with Steam though.
that and sadly, single player tend to not be as profitable as multiplayer only games 🙁
hence why we get csgo, dota and now a card game from them
Your move modders… (i know there is a non official episode 3, but i dunno if it’s the same story)
Rip in peace