This article will obviously spoil the very ending of Half-Life: Alyx. Thus, if you haven’t finished the game, you shouldn’t continue reading. You have been warned.
“The problem was how do you make any ending feel like this game mattered? How do we solve the prequel problem to not feel like this game is just like a hermetically sealed short-story in the world of Half-Life?” Sean Vanaman.
Half-Life: Alyx has a very familiar ending, and is also kind of predictable. It ends where Half-Life 2: Episode Two ends. Are they planning to continue the timeline? Is Half-Life 3 ever going to happen? Will Valve continue making VR titles? Are we ever going to see another first-person shooter?
“We had the prequel problem, we had the ‘god in a box’ problem. Those are the two big ones. The idea that once you free god, god owes you a favor. And that favor has to be pretty consequential. What does Alyx want?” Jay Pinkerton.
According to Valve’s writers, there’s no secret book that lays everything out for the next games. The ending of Half-Life: Alyx suggest certain directions, and Valve is very excited about it. They do have ideas, however there’s not a concrete 300-page manual of where it goes after Half-Life: Alyx.
“It just it moved the ball forward in a way that everyone in the room just found interesting. You couldn’t stop thinking about it … We couldn’t stop talking about it.” Jay Pinkerton.
The team has a timeline and they are working through it, but they don’t want to talk about it. They are actually enjoying the whole fan speculation thing that is going on. They also feel discussing and wondering about what’s exactly going on is an important part of the game.
“It’s fun to think about, isn’t it?” Sean Vanaman.
Lastly, you can read the whole article here.
Thanks Polygon.
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As long as will be for keyboard and mouse, but with also VR support for the folks that have and want to play on VR, i don’t care. Just finish this franchise already.
I don’t think it’s going to be the same, the ending of HLA create a new time line, even if we got HL3 it’s not going to be the same, and to be honest in this time and age, does it even matters?!!!… I’m a hard die fan of a Half-Life but after watching the ending of Alyx it’s just like valve say screw you all who wait for EP3 or HL3, It’s our time (SJW) we are doing it in our way… It’s good HL is alive but the question is… is it the real HL or just… A soulless game like A…
“It’s good HL is alive but the question is… is it the real HL or just… A soulless game like A…”
This applies to so many game series today. They are alive in name only. Loved HL1 and HL2 as well, but nothing draws me to Alyx. Let alone the crappy VR requirement.
HLA didn’t bring anything new to the HL franchise beside flip the script.
That ending is such a cop out by the new writers.
Not that Laidlaw is some sort of great writer or anything, but at least he was consistent, didn’t give Gman the power to change timelines that blatantly or make him less mysterious than he should.
What are the stakes when you can just bring back someone from life by changing space time continuum?
Bringing Alyx back to life by Vort bullshit magic is bad enough, this is on a whole other level.
Alyx isn’t a SJW game. For starters can’t take as much damage as Gordon can in the Half-Life. Second, in Episode 2, the G-Man himself stated that he has more interest in Alyx than Freeman. Freeman was literally the “right man in the wrong place” and he only showed interest in him AFTER he killed the outer dimensions (Xen) being. Also, you have yet to tell me when you have tried out VR.
I already have given enough explanation multiple times to you and on DSOG’s DOOM comments and articles, if you want them again here..
To the same guy who was mentioning how colorful the DOOM is and was so the Eternal as well, then cream to it like fortnite kids and those r/doom subhumans, the game is garbage from Art Style from LGBT HUD colors and Ammo rainbow fountain from candyland even BFG looks crap in this, the story is told in a joke fashion, esp the codex is garbage totally, the ridiculous bs mechanics do not even allow you to Rip and Tear the heavy demons, then the insane platforming that this mario bs has which majority of the time player spends time in this game and UAC facilities with zero deadbodies and zero keycards in the game. & UAC marines joking inside a frigging BFG10K ? WTH is that ? And the score is completely normalized, name one track which beats the damn out of BFG Division, Vega, Dakhma III, Hellwalker. NONE, period. DOOM Hunter base ambient was the only one which was worthy. DOOM 2016’s Mick Gordon score Behind the scenes pretty much explains what is DOOM.
The game has been significantly downgraded to hell vs 2016 from VEGA acting as a Siri clone to gore as the slayer constantly uses that crappy blade to shove and gimmick flamethrower to the death animations, environments which are Gothic vs Dreary gritty DOOMesque, the only good parts are – they gave story to Slayer so that he cannot be pozzed anymore by whoever gets this IP, and perhaps new arcade gun combat that’s it, it doesn’t glue me into the screen like how 2016 did and how superb it’s FPV immersion was.
It’s nothing like best FPS, forget it. DOOM 2016 is the best FPS to date. And Eternal is only hard because of the retarded artificially induced difficulty in the game with RNG system and flooding of demons, with massive projectiles all stuffed into the game for that stupid chainsaw ammo mechanic bs, instead of just blowing the hell out the damn demons in face like how 2016 allowed the Slayer to destroy based on the Reflexes of the player, weaker Slayer in Eternal for the MOBA slasher bs mechanics, Always Running Out of combat than Into the combat.
DOOM 2016 >>> DOOM Eternal
Fool I’ve already finished the game on N & What the f4ck get gud, idiot you can finish this game on 3 weapons – SSG, Ballista, CG. What a f4king Idi0t just as a reddit subhuman POS trash, the moment you said Eternal colors and rainbow puke is like OG DOOM the second you lost the credibility. I made a mistake on taking you seriously and now you proved it.
Constantly s4king d*ck of that Hugo and repeating same garbage while you can’t simply counter argue anything and say gitgud BS is pathetic.
lol i think he’s talking about the HL Gman not the youtuber LMAO, you’re really angry mate, Doom Eternal is an awesome game, how can your opinion be so much damaged by politics to drop this hate on such a brilliant game ?
And for CoDMW2019… You know, women soldiers in Kurdistan are a thing, that’s not some imaginary sh*t made by some random motherf*cker, it’s real, that’s a nod to actual events
Fait enough for the majority of the other games you mentioned tho
Are you talking about the G-man character or the game reviewer gmanlives?
why would be alyx a SJW game? only because the protagonist was a woman? Gordon Freeman will be the main protagonist of the next half life, and if you played previous half life, was obvious that something would happen with alyx, G-man had a ace in his sleeve, because Freeman was not a man he could manipulate.
This is why i miss PS2 era of gaming. You can make a game/character like you want without afraid offending evil whiny group or something. If this BS still continue,then retired from playing (new) video games is a wise choice…
emulators are great, i play alot of games i never played before.
Wow, someone with a Brain speak, may god-bless ya bro 🙂
You forgot so many.. How about The Outer Worlds?
Another freak fest with a feminazi/liberal/SJW agenda.
Whatever it will be, one thing is certain – it won’t be what fans want. Gaben seems to be getting off on giving us the finger.
“It’s fun to think about, isn’t it?” Sean Vanaman.
lets think about it for 13 more years…
Valve really should just sell damn HL rights to sony or somebody else that is competent and to we finally start getting games we wan!
Agreed. Valve has become the worst kind of lazy mindedness. Newell cares about Steam because it’s a huge revenue source and somewhat about VR because it’s up and coming but he doesn’t give a damn about what most gamers really want.
future of Half-Life”
Don’t believe Gabe Newell’s lies. Probally Gabe will still stoling money from CS GO players instead create Hal Life 3 btw.
dont care, took too long, wont be half life 3, wont be gordon, wont play like those games, didnt care that much in the first place.
Let it die.
Half Life 3 will be VR only
Old known fact about Half life canon that is relevant now