They released Portal 2 earlier because it was ready earlier. Not everything Valve does has implications for their in-game universe. Hell, Left 4 Dead 2 was released earlier, so it only makes sense that the Charger is going to appear in Episode 3.
Okay.
You don’t age in stasis…lol
OMG a charger in ep3!!!111!!. thats the best idea evaaaaaahr!!!. I can just see it, gordan is fighting an advisor and just as dog comes to help BAM he gets hit by a charger and pinned to the ground while the advisor tongue rapes gordan and alyx to death!!!
You know the whole 2012 thing referes to December 21-25th of 2012 right? The Mayan who follow that calendar don’t even believe anything will happen.
sarcasm activated Everyone knows the world will REALLY end on December 31, 2011: the end of the Gregorian calendar.
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Is this thread still active? I’ll throw in my two cents. I think the major gameplay change in hl3 will be a co-op campaign with two POV story-lines. It’s possible this will be the reintroduction of Adrian Sheppard.
The game’s almost certainly going to start with Gordon waking up. He has a habit of fainting after game-ending trauma, and I’m sure G-man will have a monologue. Remember that ep2 ended with Alyx whispering “help… help…”: I have a feeling G-man will send said help (I don’t want to discuss G-man’s motives here; no one really knows).
We know valve wants a new dynamic model for what used to be their singleplayer games, and we know that “we haven’t seen the last of Adrian Sheppard,” and G-man is very aware of his cards and how to play them. Basically, sending “help” fits the plot line and the Valve ultimate goal of making all games social.
I’m not sure how they’ll implement it, but I’m fairly confident the social component of hl3 will be dual campaign.
Oh whoops, that wasn’t a plot speculation. Most of the game is Freeman getting to the boat. Characters continue to develop through a series of mishaps, and Alyx has a lot of moments where you, Gordon, are the only thing that keeps her alive. Freeman teleports the Borealis to Xen and destroys it. Literally destroys Xen. Wipes it from the universe. This ultimately keeps the Combine away from Earth, then people start making babies again. Mossman dies, Barney doesn’t die for sure, but he does something heroic and could be dead or alive, Kleiner lives, Alyx almost dies (again) but DOG saves her. If DOG dies I’ll have to go on a walk mid-game and hold a silent vigil.
I wish I could hate you to death.
there will be no shep, ever, marc laidlaw said so
rofl XD. I think it’s funny how this may actually happen.
I also think that Gordon Freeman will die somehow in the end (or so they think) in some sort of catastrophic event where he will have to sacrifice himself to save the universe.
Are these theory makers serious?
:hmph: Didn’t you read the title of the thread?
You know, writing “No silly theories” in the title might actually ATTRACT them.
Also- yeah, no shep.
When valve said there would be a character from black mesa in ep2 people were all like “OMG this means Adrian Shepard will be in EP2 !!!1!!11!!one!!!eleven!!!onehundredeleven!!!”. Then they got a retconed dick of a character to add counter to Kleiner and replace Eli whjen he died.
Whats non-serious about Gordon dead?
I think it a portal inhibiting technology and glados was in a hurry to fix black messas screw up (as glados was may to hate and be competitive against them) and does not care for safety protocols anyway, bumped out an unstable bad ass solution that can potentially have its own unforeseen consequences and posses a moral delima. Likely the most dangerous part would be its power requirements and however it supplies it. After its all over glados decides to reanimate the dead as a hobby and tries to create enhance those that have been reanimated creating the left for dead universe lol
Chews: more likely she swaps out her voice/accent files and starts cloning, and we get TF2.
I was in part referencing in portal 2 where she says after its all over she may take up a hobby, reanimating the dead maybe lol. it was somewhat of a joke. but hey could also be that the ship was hit and never reached a destination to be powered on, but apon being powered on glados has a robot body to interface with and work with one of which was deleted from gladoses memory but is still operational. Glados perseed to be a little upset to see black messa people on board but may be forced to work along side them lol.
Same VA, no file swapping required. No cloning required either, since she has plenty of spare humans from the vault the co-op bots opened.
So, TF2 is practically canon in Portal already! 
lol it could happen after tf2 lol maybe glados wants to make the fights funner to watch lol
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