I have been thinking that we all think that we know what will happen in ep.3, but no one has thought about the kind of story they would like to see after the combine storyline was over. Personally I would like to see it turn into a darker story. What do you think?
We have no possible inkling of a way of knowing if the story will even continue after ep3, let alone what it might possibly be.
I want to see what society rebuilding(or rebuilt) after an alien invasion would look like. Without a common enemy society would probably break back down into multiple governments, & become more superstitious & instinctive like Breen had warned. I don’t care if it’s a ‘darker story’ or more hopeful, I just would like to be a little less certain as to who’s sided with whom gameplay-wise. I’d also love to explore the whole ‘cult of freeman’ aspect a little more.
Gordon is now 52 years old, and due to a teleporting mishap, is now in the wild west, with nothing on his person but an incomplete Mk. XII HEV prototype and a crowbar. He must use the weaponry of the time period and new features of his suit (including gravity-gloves) to battle pissed off Combine loyalists/Xen stragglers that followed him on his journey through time.
He uses his incredible knowledge of all things science to invent electromagnetic potato launchers, and thanks to the presence of Xenians, weapons like the hivehand make a return to Gordon’s arsenal.
This also means that headcrabs are introduced to the western populace, so there can be awesome fight scenes in saloons where Gordon saves the babes from zombies and the Gonarch.
You eventually get back to 20XX after assassinating Abe Lincoln or something.
It would be nice, just for once, that we can have a topic that isn’t full of people posting random crap in an vein attempt to be funny. 
thanks dias. that was the kind of thought i was looking for. and just in case some people missed what i meant by ‘darker story’ i basically meant a more troubled storyline.
Gordon Freeman, Private Investigator.
Comes in 50 episodes.
Attempt? That was really funny!
I would like some more scientific story, like HL1, more button pushing and stuff like that. I don’t know if the Combine would be defeated after EP3, then who would be the next enemy? I mean Xen is no longer a big deal, in HL2 the only danger were headcrabs and even they were controlled by the Combine. Without the Combine, there is no enemy…
So how about this:
The player is brought to the Combine world, the home world of the Advisors and the place where all the enslaved races live, or, are enslaved. It’s a totally new world, unlike Earth or Xen, with new creatures and stuff. But then I’d miss all the Earth stuff like old broken down factories and houses and stuff… so that could just be a bigger chapter in the game or something…
I can’t honestly imagine that the combine as a whole would still be around in HL3. Having the game set entirely on a different planet wouldn’t feel right. As for being “a totally new world, unlike Earth or Xen, with new creatures and stuff” we’ve already seen Gunships come out of Breen’s portal in the citadel, so there’s really no excuse why the same enemies wouldn’t be found there either. Another problem with it being set on the combine homeworld, is that there’s no people there. Can you honestly imagine a Half-Life game without human enemies, or allies, or headcrabbed-zombies?
Is that a joke? If it is, than you’re both not funny. 
I agree, the amount of unfunny trolling on the forums recently is absolutely ridiculous. And HPN’s copycat Kewl is even more annoying than the original.
Anyway, am I missing something here? Has Valve said that the Combine will be defeated in ep3 or something? I always just assumed HL3 would be more combine fighting just with different environment weapons and enemies.
Also, I predict a gman time-fuck at the end of EP3. Or perhaps, to go with the theme of gman losing control, a vort time-fuck.
While probably incredibly Cliche, I would like to see some kind of “Time-Line” choice at the end of the whole series. Either sacrifice yourself to stop the Resonance Cascade, preventing years of genocide, slavery, and worldly destruction, or choose to continue existing in the current time line–fighting Combine remnants and rebuilding a shattered world. It would also be a bit of a mindfuck: Stay with Alex in a ruined world or prevent it all from happening with your death. Time to choose?
I don’t know. But in any case it will be good.
I swear to god if they add backwards time travel to Half Life I’m going to stop playing.
Why?
That’s exactly the kind of thing that I really don’t want to see. Whenever a game with with multiple endings has a sequel, only one ending ends up being the one that matters. And it’s not always the one I prefer, or the one I chose first. I think a lot of people will agree with me that the first play-though is the most important, and I hate to be told that it didn’t count. And before anyone brings up HL1’s alternate-ending, it gave you a failure message & reloaded back to before the choice, so it didn’t really count.
Fighting the Combine in Half-Life 3 would be pretty lame. Ep3 will be the end of the story arch, with this build-up of a race between the resistance & the combine for this mysterious & powerful technology on the borealis. A technology that would give the resistance an advantage over the combine(whom invaded multiple universes) & is dangerous enough for Eli to compare it’s misuse to another Black Mesa Incident. After fighting over all of that, for them to still be around for HL3 would be like saying that none of that mattered at all.
I had always wanted to design a video game with mutiple endings. And then, if the previous game was successful, create a sequel, which starts off about 5 minutes before you make the choice that decides the original game’s ending. Then you can play the sequel with the appropriate ending. But I have neither the skill nor the motivation to create such a game, although I may have about 1 million great stories in my head right now… Although with the way i think it probably wouldn’t hit shelves due to the fact that I’m psychotic so the imagery in the game would be so gory and disturbing it’d get an AO rating…
If you have an idea for a good story, there’s nothing stopping you from writing a story. If you have an idea for good game mechanics, that’s something else entirely.
The story must contain “the dog/alien ending” from the silent hill games!
Please don’t bump this with anymore crappy jokes. :\
I’ll bump this with some actual meat.
Through a series of drifting in-and-out of consciousness shots, you see Gordon being “healed” by the vorts. The advisors had stripped you of all your weapons at the end of Episode 2. Finally, you wake to see a distraught but relieved Alyx.
You go to the helicopter and begin to fly to the Borealis when “advisor vision” happens again and a group of advisors attacks it and Alyx and Gordon have to jump out. They land somewhere outside White Forest and have to run for cover.
This is different from most people’s suggestions that you awaken on the helicopter and in the arctic approaching the Borealis. My opinion is that the Borealis shouldn’t come until about the middle of the game and you spend the first half finding new weapons and fighting your way there.
Along the way, you see that the portal storms have left portal holes in walls (I envision Alyx sticking her hand through a portal and seeing her arm come out of another wall saying something like “This is weird.”). About halfway through the game, you come across a portal with snow coming out of it (a pile of snow on the ground below the portal) and you go through it, ending up in an ice cave next to the Borealis.
Finally, after fighting your way through the Borealis you and Alyx are separated and you find a version of GLaDOS being reactivated by an advisor. You try to stop the advisor, perhaps a major boss battle with advisors, but at the end, are thrown against the wall. Just as a rocket launcher locks onto you, Alyx arrives with a portal gun and shoots it at the wall behind you. You fall through the portal, the rocket flies through the portal, hits GLaDOS, and hell breaks loose.
The roof of the Borealis tears away. The advisors begin getting pulled up into a giant superportal that has opened above you. And the last thing you hear as you get pulled into the superportal is Alyx, clinging to a support beam, shouting, “GORDON, NO!!!”
Fade to black.
The next Half Life game is on the Combine Overworld?
So your saying it would be like ep2, where your train crashes, you are stripped of weapons and have to get all the way to white forest… If the stuff you said happened to me, I would just run back to white forest again! Also, if you end up in the combine overworld and are stripped of weapons… your fucked!