If hl2 alpha was final?

Half-Life Series
#1

Ok, we have all seen footage of the half life 2 alpha…with the different stalkers… different aliens…monsters blah blah blah.

Now…two questions for discussion:

 1. How much more scarier is the leaked alpha compared to the final release of Half life 2?
 
 2. Which version did you like better and why?

I personally liked the alpha more than the final.

#2

I haven’t seen it, therefore I disproved your theory, therefore this thread is worthless.

/thread

#3

The final is infinitley better than anything in the alpha, I’d much rather have a crossbow, gravity gun and gravelly voiced combine soldiers than a sniper rifle, brick bat and soldiers that sound like imperial storm troopers.

Edit: horizonbreakk you didn’t give a reason for preffering the alpha.

#4

only thing that was better in the alpha was alyx. And (In a complete reverse of Halo 2’s development) the finished product was way better than what we saw in that early version of Half Life 2

#5

If the alpha had been “final” it would suck because it’s an alpha, i.e. not finished :hmph:

#6

now the “beta,” now that had some interesting stuff in it.

#7

I love the original concepts for Half-Life 2, and am a bit enraged at how they were ultimately trashed or otherwise altered and incorporated.

#8

I’ve played the Mod “Missing Information”
while the OICW was a pretty neat Assault Rifle, its ammo count and rate of fire made me dissapoint…

#9

Same here.

The BETA soundtrack has some cool songs in it. I wonder if VALVe will find a use for them…

#10

FACT: The “hl2 beta” was actually an alpha and wasn’t even playable, it was a big mess of source code and content which was (quickly) slapped together by the leaker before he shared it, if the leak never happened valve would probably come to the same conclusions and do the same changes to get to the final version.

They intended HL2 to be at least as scary as half life 1, which is hard to imagine now because we’re used to high detail normal maps and shaders everywhere so half life isn’t exactly scary anymore, unless you’re afraid of bad graphics. :stuck_out_tongue:

#11

The old stalker sounds were squeeky and remind me of the grunts from halo.

#12

I really liked the alpha looking version, a lot of it I was excited to play but when i look back on half life 2 now it really wasn’t that amazing; sure it was a great game and I’m hanging for episode 3.

I dunno guess it looked a lot more intense.

#13

If all the alpha concepts were the final version, and the final Half-Life 2 features were alpha concepts, the people who prefer the alpha would probably want the normal Half-Life 2.

It’s just people wanting to try something different I think.

#14

Post- Apocaliptic Half - Life 2 :jizz:

#15

The beta was cool but the final product rules. If you want to see what might have been the final project of the beta just download missing information. Its always fun to see beta content, and some of the levels (I don’t think) should have been cut but easier said than done.

EDIT: The guns were also cool but they all kind of acted the same. Example the IOCW MP5 and MP7 the only thing that varied was the damage and rate of fire.

#16

If an Alpha would have been final, it would suck.

Signed!

Agree. MI also known as Bingo Mod has also a MODDB profile here:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/missing-information

Instead of just using the Alpha stuff, they are now going to recreate NPCs and maps and it is really impressive!

#17

I personally liked several of the original concepts for half-life 2, it was very interesting. The imbalance of weapons could be solved in a way like you get a certain set of more balanced weapons for a short time, something happens, you lose them, get a different mix of balance after that, etc… stuff like the Combine Guard Gun could only be owned for a short time, like the super gravity gun.

#18

Don’t know about you guys, but I prefered the “child workers” idea they had back in beta development, instead of suppressing the reproduction of humanity. It would make you hate the combine more then it does now in final version of the game. Also I think it didn’t really make sense to have a suppressing field anyway; if you’ve enslaved humanity, you wouldn’t want to make them extinct. I guess the combine would turn it off when the humanity would be nearing its extinction, but it still makes less sense to me then forcing kids to work.

Also, I wish they left the Manhack arcade in final version :frowning:

#19

HL2 < HL2 Alpha/Beta/Leak/full version of these

#20

OICW = OSIPER
MP5k = MP7

Oh yeah, and:

Sniper = Crossbow
Kalashnikov = OICW (see above)

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