inb4 ep3 vs hl3 argument ensues. But seriously. Does Gordon wake up during the chopper ride or is the chopper ride part of the game intro where Gordon has to fight off some sort of flying combine like a gunship?
I think it would be great if he woke up actually on the chopper.
Having said that, why is there no firm information regarding HL3?
Or have I missed something lol?
HL3 will come out after EP3. Thats why theres no info 
I wish 
EP3 cancelled, it will be HL3
It would be awesome if you sat before a moutned gun, fighting off more and more advisors who eventually forces the chopper to crash.
I’m sorry but scripted scenes with turrets don’t go well with Half Life
you’ve never played surface tension. that moment with the vortigaunts and the mounted gun is pretty cool
Oh, you!
You just had to :3
All right, I think there will be lots of explosions.
Surface Tension mounted gun part wasn’t really scripted the way that guy wants, you can easily get out of the gun and use your weapons, he wants you to be fixed in a place killing Advisors, which Half Life just was never made to be
The proper term for that type of sequence is a “railed shooting sequence”, speaking as if the player were on a rail (NOT the Half-Life level ) and shooting targets in a “shooting gallery” from the virtual “train”.
I think it could possibly work in a Half-Life game… provided that it’s done properly. I think that a railed shooting sequence shouldn’t be at the beginning though… if anything, it should be somewhere in the middle, if at all.
Sauce or it didn’t happen just like the last time.
Simply google the term ‘valve episodic content’ and you will find that they have stated several times that they are done with that style of releasing games. They tried it and got the data they wanted to and decided to abandon it some time ago. This is why we don’t have ep3 already and will very likely be playing half-life 3 on souce2 as the next game in the series.
As for what happens at the very start of the game, who knows. I always found it silly that at the start of episode 1 you’re simply right at the bottom of the citadel. What was the point of the gman putting you back into stasis at all if in the next installment you’re put back at the same point in time? We might expect the same kind of strange transition story-wise into HL3. They might skip the copter thing completely and simply reference to it in dialogue or something.
Did you actually pay attention at the start of Episode 1? The G-man didn’t take you out of stasis. Also, whilst Valve are probably done with episodic content in future instalments, it’s no indication they’ve changed course with Ep3, it being possibly their last one.
That said though, I’m expecting it to be substantially larger than Ep2, perhaps pointing towards a fully fledged HL3.
As for transition between Ep2 and 3. I’m expecting to be sat in the back of the chopper, waking up, to see Alyx flying, then going into a G-man trance. Whilst he is speaking to you, everything around you speeds up. Alyx can’t check on you because she is flying.
What if Valve simply waited for Black Mesa source to be released before they gave any information? The BMS team have had contact with Valve right?
To me it seems like a good move by Valve to wait for the mod, so that when they create a new game, it won’t be any worse than the mod that was made entirely by hobbyists! Also, didn’t the BMS team start creating this incredible mod in 2004? This might add to my little theory
What do you guys think?
lol I just saw someone saying “hl3 will come after ep3” so that would be never? 
Anyways, Valve and not good with making games that contain “3” in the title so for the same reason don’t expect Portal 3 
But also, P.S. I saw some concept art that was leaked like 3 months ago so… but then again, we see that every year soo…
Portal seems like its done for now.
Gaben has said that the content in the episodes is basically HL3, just released episodically so we wouldn’t have to wait 6 years for sequels. But they scrapped the EP approach. So I’d expect a real title named HL3 within the next couple of years. EP2 was 2007.
If the EPs were HL3, they’d need that much time to come up with more story content and have it actually be good
I can’t understand how some people still do believe in Episode 3… this ain’t a religion.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the episodes were kind of an expansions.
So releasing an expansion to a 10 years old game after 7 years since the last one sounds like…
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Won’t happen
It would be pretty neat to see the Weather Control reintroduced in EP3.
Yea when Valve said that they were planning to release EP3 in 2007 but they didn’t (idk why) so my hopes right now are for hl3 but knowing Valve I might have to wait a bit…