Things you DON'T want to see in BM.

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#1461

i’m actually guilty of replaying HL’s opening chapters JUST to walk around and pretend like everything’s going fine. Doom3, Deus Ex, System Shock; these are all games where i’ve actually wasted more time playing around before the game actually started. i’ve been known to fuck around tutorial maps for hours.

Didn’t i read some time ago that somebody wanted to make a Black Mesa mod where one could simply take in the sights, screw with scientists and explore the labs? Scientist Hunter: Source would be fun! …'cept that goes against the “no violence” part.

-Kawai Tei-

#1462

we’ve got something in common, I was thinking about Doom 3 too :slight_smile:

#1463

I don’t wanna see Otakon in the blast pit.

He sees the tentacles: “THIS IS JUST LIKE ONE OF MY JAPANESE ANIMES!”

#1464

god you pissed everywhere dawg

#1465

Its just like one of my japanease animes… lol

#1466

^

:hmph:

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#1467

it’s okay, android. i figured i’d let this one slide.

#1468

One thing I don’t want to see in BM is the G-Man allowing Gordon to keep the HEV suit like in the Half-Life ending (see first 20 sec of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmgEN5Crr2c)
At the beginning of HL2 Gordon doesn’t have his HEV suit and doesn’t get it until “Red Letter Day.” This is also where you find out it had been upgraded from the Mk.IV to the Mk.V model. If Gordon had kept his HEV suit, Kleiner would never have been able to upgrade it.

#1469

Anything could have happened in those 20 years, so your point is irrelevant.

#1470

We assume that the G-Man stripped off the suit from Gordon while he was in stasis and gave it to Dr. Kleiner which had about 20 years then to upgrade it.

#1471

Well, Barney says that Gordon should “get out of his civvies”. Before that, everyone was dressed in nearly identical clothing so it is implied that Gordon is dressed the same way.

Probably something like this:

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This kind of outfit didn’t exist at the end of HL1.

#1472

I don’t want to see anything that implies the Black Mesa Incident’s ‘200-’ date as anything but ambiguous.

I have a particular problem with this…

Gordon was in Innsbruck for (approximately) one year, then moved straight to Black Mesa from there. It’s reasonable to say that Gordon was at Black Mesa for a very short period before the Incident, so this picture having a much younger Gordon is, very plainly, non-canon.

Plus, unless the ‘200-’ date is undeniably 2000 or 2001, this picture having a ‘199-’ date is non-canon.

#1473

Why would it be reasonable to say that? Alyx comments that Gordon and Barney would have air duct races…I think Gordon was at Black Mesa for quite some time before the Incident. After all, he is a “highly trained professional”.

#1474

I’m not saying it was first day stuff, like it was before the retcons. Just that Gordon was reasonably a newer hire. He was definitely there no more than a few months, certainly not much more than one year.

I’ll prove it.

Gordon goes to MIT likely at 18-20 y/o (exact year irrelevant)
He gets his Ph.D at least 6 years later (Gordon is 24-26)
He goes to Innsbruck for one year (Gordon is 27)
He moves directly to Black Mesa from there, that’s confirmed. It’s also confirmed that he is 27 at the time of the Black Mesa Incident.

Him having a friendly relationship with Eli, Kleiner and Barney could have easily developed in under one year. It is rational to say he was there a considerably short period.

#1475

It’s also reasonable to say that no one reasonable gives a fuck.

#1476

It may upset some super-nerds (such as myself, apparently)…

To avoid flawed canon in the final product will avoid as many complaints as possible. :3

#1477

pro-tip, you can please most people most of the time, but not all people all of the time. The corollary being that there are some buggers who’ll pick a hole in anything.

#1478

i dont want to see any backd story that wasnt in the game

#1479

I just read the OP to this thread, and one thing stood out to me.

The HECU had better not ever call a magazine a “clip” or I am going to die. I am a firearms enthusiast, and that is the dumbest, most annoying, most repeated, and most uneducated mistake ever. I hate it when movies and videogames screw that up.

#1480

OH NO THEY SWITCH TWO WORDS BECAUSE THEY DONT GIVE A FUCK HOW ANNOYING

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