What's next?

yanncore · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

Guys, I’m a newbie to this amazing world of Halflife. I have recently completed HL1 and I’m about half done with HL2…

I have passed Portal too.

And now I’m thinking, do they plan to make one final game, not only Half Life not only Portal but to maybe merge these two epic games, to bring back Adrian, and to finally let us know more about Gman and his “employers”? What are your theories?

OrderOfDagon · August 11, 2020, 6:50am

[COLOR=‘DeepSkyBlue’]Welcome to the forums.

Now about your questions;

You should probably finish Half-life 2. Then finish Episode 1 and Episode 2 before going on about that, but the truth is, no one really knows.

You can count on the fact that Adrian Shepard isn’t coming back seeing as how he was made by Gearbox and not Valve. Gearbox created Blue shift and Opposing Force by the way.
We ironically just went over this in a sub-thread.

About Portal and Half-life merging;

They’re only partially related to the extent that Aperture Science is the competing science facility to Black Mesa.

You will learn more about that in Half-life 2 Episode 2 along with the Gman.

Portal 2 was just released, and it seems that they are striving to pull away from the fact that Half-life is involved. I’m guessing this is due to Portal’s unsuspected success, leading Valve to not want the Half-life Universe to tie down any possible plot modifications. This is probably because not everyone that plays Portal plays Half-life. That would be my guess as to why, but no one is sure.

Thank you for your interest in Half-life :lambda:
If you have any questions about the mod itself, be sure to put them here :bms:

Thank you for joining the forum. Be sure to get a profile picture up and a nice sig

Dias · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

Play Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2 when you’re done.

“Passed” like a test? heh. You do know Portal 2 just came out right?

Not going to happen.

Play Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2. There’s more about the Gman, but nothing about his employers.

OrderOfDagon · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

I don’t know why you thought it was a good idea to not only re-answer his question, but to literally say the exact same thing as me in a less fashionable manner.

You literally just wasted my time.

Theevilpplz · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

Adrian Sheperd is not going to come back, unless Valve says so.
They just don’t have any use for him.

fx1 · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

Holy shit, who the hell is this guy? The world doesn’t spin around you, you know.

danielsangeo · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

No, he didn’t. Now stop wasting our time.

DrasarSalman · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

Then why did Blue Shift suck so much if it wasn’t just made after Opposing Force, but also by the same company?

DrasarSalman · August 11, 2020, 6:50am

Check out this thread or this updated version.

Edit: due to getting some random 500s when loading a page in addition to 404s when loading the document, I missed the edit button and double posted.

Keresh · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

What

mankyman6 · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

Hopefully episode 3 will answer all your questions. Of course, the one about Shephard will not be answered for reasons stated above.

Now, I’m thinking that Half Life 3 may delve deeper into the story of the G-man. We’ll find out a bit more about him in Episode 3, sure, but I really think HL3 is where he’ll play a more major role.

taxi_evil · November 25, 2018, 12:06am

Wait til you get to episode 2, such an amazing game!

I really enjoyed opposing force, but don’t read too much into it. It’s just a fun add on for half life, no greater significance

There’s a whole bunch of mods out there that continue Shepard’s story, maybe try a few of them?

OrderOfDagon · November 25, 2018, 12:07am

Don’t really understand what you’re asking. Blue Shift was a mini game in the Dreamcast version of Half-life that was later canceled. That is why it has no new features – hope I helped…

Actually, if I would have known that someone was going to literally repeat me, then I wouldn’t have wasted my time answering the guy. I wasn’t confused about his answering him, just at the fact that he said what I said nearly word for word.
So yes, it WAS a waste of my time. I don’t know if I ninja’d him, or if he meant to do it. Fact is, he wasted my time intentionally or not.

Hi, I’m OrderOfDagon, how’s it going? The world spins around the sun btw.
If you have something to say to me, say it, and don’t make an open statement.

Yeah, the website gets like that a lot. I don’t really know why; Hubi is probably already on it.

Dias · November 25, 2018, 12:07am

For what it’s worth, I didn’t even bother reading your post once I saw the blue text. I guess I’m biased that way. If I did copy what you said ‘word for word’ it must have been subconsciously. I’d apologize for it too, if you didn’t needlessly erase any evidence there of.

You’re on a forum about a video games. Pretty much everything you do here is a complete & utter waste of your time.

JohnWorfin · November 25, 2018, 12:07am

It’s nice to see a rhetorical pie hole be shut, thanks Dias

Tosser_Sloth · November 25, 2018, 12:09am

gee, now the OP is probably confused about what he should do since two people pointed at the same thing in a ultimately corroborating effect. can it get MOAR FALE?

DrasarSalman · November 25, 2018, 12:09am

I don’t know, maybe posting at a thread that died almost a week ago?

MarshmallowRadiation · November 25, 2018, 12:09am

Kotaku:

Valve ‘Probably’ Done With Single-Player Games
Kotaku
The makers of such acclaimed single-player video games as Portal and Half-Life 2 want all of their future games to support connected, non-solo gaming, in some way, at all levels.

That assertion first appeared in the Final Hours of Portal 2, journalist Geoff Keighley’s recent behind-the-scenes chronicle about Valve’s newest game. It’s an assertion he told me he heard directly from Valve founder Gabe Newell and the company’s project manager Erik Johnson.

“Portal 2 will probably be Valve’s last game with an isolated single-player experience,” Keighley wrote in Final Hours, “What this all means is something Newell is still trying to figure out.”

Keighley told me that he considered the comment “curious,” noting that the quality of the solo-only main campaign of Portal 2 was a fantastic piece of work. (I’ve checked with Valve on this, but they didn’t reply by press time.) The signs that solo-only modes are on their way are there, not just from within Valve but all around the pioneering games company.

Valve’s Portal 2 introduced multiplayer to the Portal games through a two-player co-op mode. The company’s recent 2008 and 2009 Left4Dead games were presented as a primarily-multiplayer experience, even on consoles where such an animal is about as rare as a Nintendo-made Halo game. Valve has also continued to aggressively support its multiplayer Team Fortress 2, a game launched alongside Portal in 2007.

Keighley: “Portal 2 will probably be Valve’s last game with an isolated single-player experience.”

The company’s primary vehicle for single-player-only experiences has been the one that the public hasn’t seen anything new of since 2007. The campaign portions of Half-Life put players in control of hero Gordon Freeman; other players haven’t been able to join the game’s main adventure. While Valve has used its Half-Life games to present a more lively, less lonely first-person-shooter campaign, it has done so strictly through improving the artificial intelligence and acting of Freeman’s computer-controlled allies, namely Alyx Vance (pictured with our hero above).

Outside of Valve single-player-only games have been vanishing. After a long stretch as leading single-player franchise, Super Mario games on consoles now include second-player support. Series that launch as solo-only such as Uncharted or BioShock add multiplayer for their second installment. Hold-outs like God of War seem destined to add support for multiple players, somehow, some way. A company like Capcom doesn’t just make millions with its four-player series Monster Hunter, but it’s slowly but surely been pushing its formerly single-player-only series, Resident Evil, into a vehicle for multiplayer console Resident Evil games (the upcoming co-op and competitive Operation Raccoon City) and multiplayer portable ones (the co-op Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D). Even Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma, though single-player, simulates a multiplayer experience by giving the main player a host of computer-controlled allies who behave as joining Monster Hunter gamers might.

The comment from Valve is striking, though, in that it doesn’t sound like Newell and Johnson said they’d probably never ship a game that didn’t have a multiplayer mode somewhere in it. Rather, they told Keighley they “probably” wouldn’t make a game “with an isolated single-player experience.” That would mean no more modes that couldn’t connect in some fashion to other people. Would, say, letting a second player control Alyx in Half Life 3 do the trick? Or could Valve be cooking up something less expected?

This is “What’s Next.” Complete crap. :fffuuu: