Oh, sorry. Sarcasm detector broken.
That will be impossible. Alyx will die in Episode Three.
How would be a great way to end the Half-Life saga:
You are fighthing against a combine advisor in the borealis, where the combine are creating a new super portal to send new reinforcements to earth, the advisor (with telechinetic powers) pushes freeman to the portal while alyx gets kidnapped by a group of combine elites, then you awake in the combine borderworld in front of an advisor wich tells you: You remember me mister Freeman? I suppose not, well let’s see if this makes you remember: You have destroyed much things doctor Freeman, tell me, what is exactly that you created (yes it’s breen in it’s new body)
Then over the still open portal you see alyx head and she throws you his gun while the combine elites get her again and the portal closes. After this you start shooting breen until he opens some kind of generator wich supports the portal and a shield around the combine facillity wich is in Xen getting attacked by Xenians.
You found some weapons and you break it, after this the portal opens again but with different colours and beams around it, one of this beams breaks the gate of the combine facillity and the xenians enter you then enter in the portal or you die, after you get a hit in the head and you see everything in black, then you awake and you see a lot of combine running out of there, alyx helps you wake up and you see half body of the advisor breen out of the portal. Then the portal starts exploding and you have to run the hell out of there, once you escape you hear a voice telling: great work mister Freeman. Then you see G-man and he tells you: there are no more tasks for you right now… you are free… for now… everything starts going black, Credits, lambda simbol, and then you see kleiner walking over the black screen saying: Lamarr? where are you? Come here I have fresh melons for you… THE END.
No HL should not be ended so soon. It’s too great.
Is anyone else amused by how many of these suggestions would require valve to break 1st person perspective from Gordon? something that they would specifically never do?
Now that you mention it.
i’m gonna have to try this on the next playthrough. is it doable in black mesa too?
what the fuck is wrong with you ?!
Meth
[COLOR=‘Black’]No kidding
This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
But yeah, a lot of these ideas aren’t great, but I really can’t think of a way.
There is no good way to end the Half-Life series.
problem solved
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That’s actually a new problem. It would be really anti-climax if nothing was explained, not to mention a recycled ending. Valve would do good to explain a few things and not have the same ending.
If I had to make a prediction/guess/suggestion, the way I would expect the Half-Life 2 storyline to end would be that Gordon and Alyx find a weapon on the Borealis that will destroy the Combine, the Borealis, the weapon itself and the person operating it. There would also be an escape pod of some kind. Alyx would say that all her family is dead and she wouldn’t want to live in a world without Gordon, so she’s willing to operate the weapon, but the final choice is up to him.
If Gordon escapes in the escape pod, the G-Man interrupts reality just as the Borealis is exploding and makes some mysterious comments and puts Gordon back into stasis. If Gordon stays to operate the weapon, the G-Man interrupts just before the explosion, makes some comments about Gordon being too valuable an asset to lose and switches Gordon and Alyx’s positions. He then interrupts reality just as the Borealis is exploding, makes some mysterious comments and puts Gordon back into stasis.
I’d guess Half-Life 3 would be the final part of the story, involving Gordon rebelling against the G-Man and… stuff. (What I would guess would be something like Gordon meeting the G-Man’s mysterious employers, Gordon being given the power to manipulate time and space because they want him to destroy the G-Man, then Gordon destroying the G-Man and realising that he now is the G-Man, and that the G-Man’s past is his future. DUN DUN DUUUUNNN!)
Regardless, I’m sure whatever Valve do will be considerably more epic and awesome than what I’ve thought of.
You lost me at Gordon becoming the G-Man
Whatever the ending is, it needs to leave a distinct impact on the combine situation that clearly shows that earth will have the upper hand, but not actually have a situation that completely erases the threat of the combine. Otherwise the story pertaining to Gordon Freeman will be over with, which is the worst possible outcome for Valve, as there is still need for the type of character that Freeman is, but if they try to do the same thing using a different character, it’s just going to come across as a Gordon Freeman clone.
The reason I say that the story ends with the combine is because trying to continue the story with some other threat would result in one of two different possibilities:
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The threat has to occur within the next 5 years following the end of HL2. Much longer and people are going to be looking at Freeman with the same “old fogie” jokes that Metal Gear Solid gets. With this type of timeframe, Valve would need to choose one way or the other that Gordon’s relationship with Alyx develops. (or doesn’t) No matter which way this goes, it’s going to piss off roughly 50% of the fan community that either wanted or didn’t want a relationship to develop (at least not without it being their choice in the game)
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Gman puts you back in storage, and the threat has to occur either even FURTHER down in the future (thus leaving Kleiner and Magnusson dead and Alyx far older than Gordon, most likely having already moved on with her life if not dead herself) or someplace completely different, like another planet, dimension or at least a different country. Either way, all the familiar faces are going to be gone, and I’m sure quite a few people are going to be upset about that. It was one thing when it was HL1, where you didn’t really have a chance to get to know anyone at black mesa. It was easy to leave all that behind, not so for HL2, at least not for the majority of fans.
As per my suggested ending, you could possibly extend the HL2 story further by having it so that after Gordon deals with the immediate threat of the combine towards earth, the Vortigons enlist your help to continue fighting the Combine in different dimensions, possibly bringing Alyx and the others along for the ride. This could be extended as long as Valve could think of new ideas for dimensions that would bring new gameplay. The only problem is that Gordon would then shift from being the unlikely hero to being the expected hero, and no matter how much people tried to deny it, he would ultimately end up becoming a Master Chief type of character.
Another possibility for extending the series would be do a game called HL short stories, which would be similar to Blue Shift and Opposing force that they would take the POV not of gordon, but of other people, but instead of running parallel to the main game, would fill in backstory, such as how Eli and Kleiner survived during the 7 hour war, as well as how Father Grigori stayed alive through the attack on ravenholm.
Yeah, it is completely off-the-wall random speculation that is highly improbable, but it has struck me as a possibility the past so I thought I might as well mention it.
EDIT:
Good point. It would indeed be better for the “weapon” to merely significantly weaken rather than outright destroy the Combine, so it could be the rebel uprising that actually defeats them.
Regardless, I’m expecting the Combine, at least in its “current” form, to be defeated by Half-Life 3.
I know what would be a story after the Combine’s defeat, and that’s going after the Bigger Bads - the UU.
Gordon Freeman speaks, causing a rift in the time-space continuum, and out of the rift comes the cast members of Lost, and then the screen fades to black.
I already said the reason he doesn’t talk is because he is from the year 1930 and so he doesn’t want to talk like they did back then.