I believe they are the same couple.
Why would 3 different couples say the exact same thing? Not to mention they always have the same model.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you decompiled the maps that the couple are seen in and they all have the same name.
But yeah, the 20 year difference thing kind of kills it. Maybe they’re their parents? >_>
I think the couple making an appearance in Black Mesa would be very nice, indeed. I remember them appearing in Half-Life 2, once dressed as citizens and once dressed as rebels. Maybe Black Mesa could feature them being dressed as scientists - or maintenance personnel, or a female scientist and a security guard (hey, that would rock! - implying a whole “love at work” storyline and adding much depth to the background!). Obviously, they should be located somewhere where there seems to be no immediate possibility to escape, so there would be a reason for them lingering around - aside from the woman having a nervous breakdown.
EDIT: Got another idea for adding a little funny realism. I have just seen on one of the “Office Complex” screenshots that there are computers with windows desktop screens standing around. Maybe it would be funny to add one or two computers who have a naughty or at least individual whatsoever background graphic on the desktop. Sorry if that’s already the case or has been suggested and denied before. Thought it would be a fun idea. Like, for instance, a physicist could have a closeup of a complex molecule as his desktop background, whilst a security officer would have a “hot chicks with guns” background or something. Sounds like easily addable textures to me. Sorry if I am mistaken. Just a thought.
That would indeed make a change from the 'OMG LOOK they are playing t3h Black Mesa! ‘tis funney coz Im playn it to!’
Even though a computer with the title screen of Black Mesa is a must.
Kind of like in Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes, one of the computers has the main menu of the regular Condition Zero?
Kind of like I’m pretty sure I saw a Half-Life title screen in one of the half-life games on a computer, or in Portal, and I’m pretty sure this has also been done in a lot of other games. Isn’t there a CS title screen in the office level of CS? I don’t play it enough to remember.
Or maybe this was just in my dreams.
There was a picture of 2 kids playing the old CS in my science book.
It was awesome :V
blood dripping from vents and grated walkspaces (not sure what they are formaly called) would really add to the atmosphere Imo. like in fear, where you would go into a room and there would be an already dead guy laying on a walkway above you with blood dripping down to a puddle on the ground? with the awsomely creepy drip sound aswell.
I’d love to see better animations, like when zombies eat corpses. :3
They’d really grab corpses to eat them, not just wave hands over them… 
And could there be alike the same animation in hl2, when Freeman goes into his suit :freeman:
And headcrab animation when they try to “couple with your head”, the’re was only 1 clip of it in the “unforseen consequenses”, so I’d really like to see them headhumping in the game more. 
somthing that would be cool
a zombie ripping a gaurds head of that would be cool espicaly if you can eather save the gaurd or let him die.
I’m not sure the gibbing system being implemented allows dismemberment of certain body parts while keeping the rest of the model intact/
steal the one from dark messiah !!!
how about when you have health so low a headcrab will 1 hit kill you, we see it latching onto gordons head. just an idea :awesome:
Ain’t gonna happen.
or when you deadzored by an vortigaunt , you shake on the ground for a little time , and at that level where’s the turrets and slippery floor in we got hostiles you can slip and break your legs and walk all the rest of the game crawling …
I blew off my legs in Deus Ex, refused to heal them and spent the rest of the game crawling around. Sure made for some pretty intense firefights.
yea, but if they’d just bite and make sum nice effects on the body, would just do the trick 
Or, when the NPC is ragdolized the model is replaced by a model without the body part that the player last hit, and spawn another model that is the other body part. In other words, lots of work.
[not that much work ] , or take the one from dark messiah :-?
Lots and lots of work, when you think of all the different models and all the different combinations of missing limbs. Even aside from the dev effort, it would add up to shockingly large game files. This has been shot down by Raminator and other devs many times before.
It’s either a huge amount of models, or substantial (huge) changes to the engine to be able to break models apart in real-time… and even then, you’d get pieces that don’t make much sense.
Would be pretty awesome though… throw an arm in the air, crowbar it, you get 2 half-arms 
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