Whatever way Valve finishes the series I don’t think it will make complete sense, they have left far too many mysteries unsolved. Also I don’t really think Gordon will defeat gman as such, more likely he will be released from his employers services or escape his influence.
My 10 fairly serious theories on Episode 3:
- I think that many people have forgotten about Judith, and the fact that she’s a scientist who didn’t work@ Black Mesa. Therefore, WHAT IF she’s a (former?) Aperture scientist (and possibly Chell’s mother), meaning she would know where and/or how to locate the Borealis?:fffuuu:
- Valve has hinted at Gordon encountering a deaf/mute person at some point whilst on board the Borealis; and if it’s neither Adrian Shephard, Chell, Gina Cross, Kelly Bailey, or even Atlas, then I’ll be sad.
- At some point, those puke-colored crab-synths are going to rear their ugly heads, followed by numerous illiterate Military Androids or a couple of Combine Assassins. Possibly armed with some combustible lemons:fffuuu:
- Alyx gets one of those nifty Black Ops Assassin’s :ninja
catsuit?) outfits to wear so she can provide sniper support? OR maybe her own Hazard Suit cuz it’s awfully cold up there… - Don’t forget about that yellow muscle car!
In opposition to only taking the helicopter seen at the end of Episode 2, say there’s a split up of characters: Gordon and Alyx (somehow Dog) take the car, and the scientists and Barney take the copter and provide air recon until it gets shot down/starts malfunctioning. - Remember the train that Barney and the Citizens take in Episode 1? What if they use the train to go at least halfway and then proceed by copter or car? Just hopefully not on foot.
- Xen relays: the two satellites that are in orbit enable the targeting of Judith’s last transmission coordinates, or enables the hacking into of an old DOD satellite/the Hubble Telescope/Wheatley and the Space! sphere/Voyager II which allows Kleiner and Magnusson to set up a teleport destination near the coordinates and thus deny Gordon the helicopter joyride he most certainly would have taken had they not.:’(
- I’m not sure if anybody remembers the black hole grenades, but what if there’s a black hole MOAB-sized bomb (maybe several) inside the Borealis? Sure, it’d be real helpful to mail it to the Combine homeworld, but if the G-man or the Combine have anything to say about it, well… It’ll be Richtofen’s Grand Scheme all over again…:fffuuu:
- Inside the Borealis is the G-man’s actual body, but before you can quell him and his ney-sayers, it turns into a three-way melee between Gordon, G-men, and the Advisors. Epic? I think so.
- I don’t think the ASHPD would be in the Borealis, but maybe the Displacer Cannon from OpFor or the Gluon Gun from HL1? But, seeing as how the Borealis is an Aperture Science vessel, it really could be any of Cave Johnson’s pre- or post-mortem crazy ideas. Does Repulsion Gel spell death to an Advisor?
That’s my 10 current ideas; Hopefully Episode 3 will come sooner rather than later… I get the feeling that Kelly Bailey may have left Valve because Episode 3 was taking too long…
Let’s put aside our differences for science, you monster
Judith worked at Black Mesa from what I know
https://images.wikia.com/half-life/en/images/b/b5/Judith_Mossman.jpg
https://images.wikia.com/half-life/en/images/6/68/Chell_p2_portrait.jpg
Adoption???
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Doubtful, and we already know that she knows the location of the borealis, as shown in ep2.
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It’s not Shepard, Chell seems a bit impossible considering the time frame of HL2 and the Portal events, Cross seems highly unlikely, Kelly Bailey is not an in-universe person… and atlas is far in the future.
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nope.avi
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There’s mods if you want to see alyx naked or in spandex.
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Yep, just drive to the arctic.
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Eeeeeenope.
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Don’t know that you’d need satellites to figure out where something that you have the coordinates for is.
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I… got nothing. Seems unlikely, i guess.
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:fffuuu:
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Well, there’s probably SOMETHING from Aperture in there.
Well that was unproductive of me 
When you first meet her she says that she applied for the same job at Black Mesa as Gordon, but he ended up getting it. She even says that she envied him for getting to work with Eli & Dr. Kliener, which she probably would have gotten had she worked there too.
Good god people wtf are you all smoking?
You honestly want that kinda cliche crap that has absolutely no basis in the story at all?
‘I want G-man to be good in the end ( because thats all he’s ever wanted to be? ) and for everything to work out hunky doory, therefore he teleports back in time ( what? how? ) to just before the incident so everything goes smoothly’
So the Vorts are still enslaved? The combine are still free to take over earth should they choose? Black Mesa still goes on doing extremely questionable things. Everything is peacefull! YAY!
Or… not.
How about we defeat the combine in a bloody battle of loss and woe, the G-man lets us go for all of our services, and we live happily ever after in a post apocalyptic world ready to be rebuilt?
No? Even that is too out there for you losers? Ok then…
We all go back in time, everything works out magically fine, the series build up is for absolutely nothing and we all forget HL ever existed.
Awesome!
(Oh and Judith wasn’t at Black Mesa as far as I know)
THANK you, Mented. With HL, a truly happy ending is a stupid ending.
If you ask me, there’s a very slim chance of Alyx surviving the story, simply because of the nature of the Half Life series. She will sacrifice her life to kill some boss Advisor in the end, leaving Gordon to somehow destroy the Combine, and possibly even Xen, forever.
I don’t see why a happy ending would be stupid, so long as it’s the actual ending. I thought Portal 2 had a pretty happy ending (except for wheatley) & it wasn’t stupid. I could see them doing the same for Half-Life, so long as they never revisit the series.
The extended dev time is due to them trying to figure out what the fuck the Gman’s motives actually are.
Ep3 Dev time (2007-20??) : Trying to figure out Gman’s motives
Ep3 extended Dev Time (20??-20??) : Actually developing the game
Ep3 release= Dev Time + Extended Dev Time + Valve Time
One opinion of mine is that G-man might be working for a God like being. He may have been sent to correct the universe and put it back in a stable state. And with this theory, I’m gonna say that the Combine jumping across multiple dimensions was a big no no, and the combine must be disposed of in every dimension, except their home dimensions. Or, perhaps, G-man could have been ordered to wipe them out entirely.
I love all this theorizin’. It get’s mah brain a-jigglin’ with all mah thinkin’ juices! :retard:
EDIT: I do not know if this theory has been given before. I am too lazy to look through ALL the theories on this forum.
https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?p=436622#post436622
Thats my theory. I was gonna copy/paste but it goes on a while. 3rd post down.
Personally I always saw the G-man AS the godlike being.
@OneFreeCake: You know I’ve never thought of Alyx not surviving (Spoiler(DowedoSpoilersanymore?)) what with Eli dead.
Now I’ve had an intriguing theory. What if the G-man uses Alyx in order to make sure we do what he wants. Using her to tell Eli not to use the teleporter, then using her to make sure we don’t? Boggles the mind how that would work, but now I’ve got something else to ponder!
@Dias: A superhappy ending would be idiotic mainly because 90% if humanity has been wiped out in an unimaginable holocaust at the hands of a species without any form of morality at all. Sure, it’l be happy once that species is dead, but not quite the worldwide celebration of Independance Day or some shit.
I don’t think G-man is the God-like being, seeing how he refers to his “employers” a lot.
He refers to them rarely. Infact I can’t remember him refering to them at all in HL-2. So what? A being that can travel anywhere at anytime, hold people in suspended animation at its own free will, is anything BUT truthfull about anything it does, yet he says ‘my employers’ in the first game before the future story was even thought of, and you automatically take it literally.
Good one.
You don’t know any better than he does. Quit being a horse’s ass.
He could be an “angel” of sorts. Not the stereotypical kind that’s full of good. The God-like being could have granted him special powers. G-man could easily be this beings right-hand “man”.
Also, I’m not insulting your theories or attempting to find flaws with them. I’m just trying to instantiate my ideas and compare them to yours. In the end, maybe we could come up with a logical theory out of all this muck that has accumulated over the years.
Lastly, I do not want this to be taken too seriously. The last thing I want is this to turn into a bicker contest over who’s idea is better.
The G-Man is clearly under the control of someone or something else. Yes he might not mention “his employers” much or at all in HL2, but he does mention he’s under restrictions frequently, especially in his monologue in Ep2. It’s blatant that his intentions hadn’t been fully thought out by the first game, but that doesn’t mean to say the end result won’t be fantastic, intelligent and consistent. Valve wouldn’t have known how big HL was going to be before the first game was released, so fair enough really. I wonder if the G-Man has a similar role as the observers do in Fringe (if anyone watches that). It’s pretty clear his intentions are for Gordon to eliminate the Combine. He either has proper foresight or hadn’t planned specifically for Gordon prior to Black Mesa, after all, who would know a theoretical physicist would be such an excellent combatant?
Who’s to say that the G-man hasn’t given Freeman a bit of power to help him in his endeavors? There is no way a normal man would have the power or capacity to do everything he’s done. Now, I don’t believe his fate has been predetermined, however once he has served his main purpose, in what I believe is mending the universe, then his power may be taken back and he will be left a normal man. This could possibly leave Freeman’s fate open to a more dramatic and possibly more gut punching ending than previously predicted. However, I don’t believe Valve will kill off Freeman seeing how he seems to be the most popular character in the Half Life series. Although, this emotion would better the aforementioned ending.