Half-Life 3 practically confirmed: About as inevitable as the Seven Hour War

Lovin it. Best game eva

Dear Valve,

please include the portal gun in future installments of the series.

thanks

Maybe they can tell us what happened to Adrian Shepherd or some of the other characters currently in limbo.

And where's Barney?

alien lesbian sex scene with alex?

Hopefully it will be better than HL2 and Ep1...

there is a mod for it. that works. to some extent. just google it and you'll find a way to make it happen. it was sick. buggy as hell, but well worth the pain.

Is there really a Dave Lombardi or did someone just type his name wrong? I've only heard of Doug.

next half-life:

Full-Life
'Gordon Freeman inherits a deserted farm and he has to learn how to make a living off the land and eventually marry and start a family.'

Platinum Hit right there baby.

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 - The discovery of the Aprature science gun, and the death of alex!

Half-Life 3 (3 major chapters in 1 game): Return To Black Mesa, The Rise of Alan Shephard, and The Man Behind the Curtain.

Great

now I'm going to have to get my pc back up to par

YES. PLEASE.

just to make things clear, not @parrothead

On the completely unrelated and irrelevant note about Dave / Doug Lombardi... are you thinking of Dave Lombardo from Slayer?
Also HL:3 speculation! It will be a video game. yup

Alien sex scene co-op hot coffee striping off shower curtains with Alex?

...while GlaDOS watches?

Does this actually surpirse anyone? I just hope they drastically change the game, maybe add RPG or RTS elements.

vexed alex: That's what you get when you start with the sequel and not the first game...

Not really, Vexed Alex is kinda right.

Half life 1: Gordon takes train. Gordon gets HEV suit and crowbar and immediately poceeds to find himself at ground zero of some weird experiment screwup. There is some lightning og a huge pet rock, and everyone runs around. Then there's a lot of shuffling aroud in vents, being scared shitless by headcrabs, until you somehow find your self on planet Alien. Or something. Didn't really play this far in the original. I was like 10 or so and the headcrabs scared me shitless.

Also: http://youtube.com/watch?v=slRsexrhbG8

if half life 3 is the exact same as 2 with updated graphics and a few minor additions it would be great. Do not fuck with perfection.

@vexed alex
Here's the Half-Life saga in the smallest nutshell I can manage. (Spoilers for the entire series are included.)

Gordon Freeman worked at Black Mesa labs, with Eli, Dr. Kleiner, Dr. Breen, and Barney. Portal experiment goes wrong, brings aliens from the planet Xen to Black Mesa. These aliens are ruled by the Nihilanth - including the Vortigaunts, who were enslaved by it - and are fleeing the Combine. Then, the US government went to Black Mesa to kill everyone inside and cover it up. Gordon fights his way out of Black Mesa, goes to Xen and kills the Nihilanth. (Freeing the Vortigaunts, which is why they love Gordon.) G-Man saves him from the aliens on Xen, offers him the "choice" of dying alone there or working for the G-Man's employers. Gordon chooses the latter and is put in stasis until needed. Then, he wakes up on the train in HL2, around 20 years after HL1. Shortly after the HL1 incident, the Combine (who probably found earth after the portal accident) came to earth and took over in under seven hours. They started driving the human race to extinction and turning them into workers/soldiers. And so, that's where the Half-Life 2 games come in, as humanity makes its big push back.

As for Half-Life 3, I'd love to see Alyx and Gordon given a new assignment in another time and place, by the G-Man. (SPOILER: Alyx, as a child, was apparently saved from Black Mesa by the G-Man. [Scientists and, I presume, their families lived on-base.] This seems to indicate that the G-Man at least partially "owns" her, as well.) Can't wait, either way.

I think that HL3 will come with a new brand Steam Engine, Shader Model 4.0 ans stuff.

So, wait until 2011

Is anyone getting sick of games with ambiguous endings that add little or nothing to what you already know?

What the fuck ever happened to finding out that the G-Man is in fact your father, that Judith Mossman is really Alyx from 23 years in the future and that Barney died in Black Mesa and he was replaced by a cyborg ghost of Christmas past from the future?

I'm not asking for Valve to give me an ending as complete as the President of the United States asking me to grab a burger ha! ha! ha! ha! but I'd like something beyond EVENT OCCURS WITH LITTLE OR NO EXPLANATION - FADE TO BLACK

Sequelitis :(

I like the half life universe because the story seems generic, but as soon as you dig you found thousands of very little details.

But is great the amount of work they get into the game, quality is everything.

If HL2: Episode 3 doesn't end with an epic boss battle against the G-man, with the Vortiguants holding him so he can't freeze time or teleport away or any of his over special ultra powers while Gordon attacks him, I'm going to be very angry. >:\ Episode 2's epilogue pretty much guaranteed the scope on the G-man for the next game.
Episode 3 will also bring an end to the combine occupation of Earth, or at least the occupation in its current form, as the current combine forces are cut off from the rest, with their last real chance for backup ruined at the end of Episode 2. In Episode 3, they're seeking technology made by Aperture Science that will give them one last chance, however, and Alyx and Gordon are racing to prevent them from using it.

Less focus on their pretty physics engine and more focus on better gameplay would make me play HL3.

Who am I kidding, it will probably be as bad as HL2 was but with better graphics, people will still slobber all over it and proclaim the single best thing ever made by mortal men.