Your ideal Half-Life 3 trailer.

Half-Life Series
#1

Since a month or so back, with the huge lot of HL3 speculation and rumors such as the t-shirt and the fake websites, I’ve been on a Half-Life binge. One could say my interest has been rekindled, as I’ve already begun another playthrough of Half-Life 1 and it’s expansions.

But I’ve been thinking. There will be a day when Half-Life 3 is officially announced, and with it many can expect more eery G-Man monologues and cries of fear as the combine come in with their guns’a’blazing. One thing is for sure, is that when it’s announced there will be a trailer at some time or another.

So here’s what I ask you: If you were the director of the official Half-Life 3 trailer, what would be in it? Try to the best of your abilities to explain in text what the perfect trailer for the game would be like in your eyes.

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#2

An existent one.

#3

^This

#4

a trailer with alyx screwing dog

#5

One with no release dates

#6

One with more Combine creatures.

Hunters, Striders, Advisors, Gunships, Dropships, Hunter Choppers, and soldiers seem to be a little small-a-force for an intergalactic syndicate that rules the universe.

#7

Cold open; wide shot of Eli dead, slumped on the floor, a steady stream of blood coming out of his mouth; Alyx crying over his body.

Suddenly the camera pans up, this Gordon Freeman’s point of view. He looks directly at the helicopter, then stands up on his feet and reaches his hand towards Alyx.

Alyx looks at Gordon and quickly understands that there’s no time to lose, so she grabs Gordon’s hand, gets up and looks back towards the helicopter.

Scene suddenly shifts to black and a 3 appears in the center of the screen. Slowly but surely, something faded starts appearing behind the 3 and getting bigger and faster towards the screen; they’re blurred images from the game that get gradually sharper with each new picture. Finally it stops at the last picture, which is a picture of the Borealis stuck in a huge ice cap. Something starts coming out of it and in the direction of the camera, with the 3 still there. It gets closer to it quickly and we finally see that it’s a Combine scanner. The scanner keeps coming towards us, filling the whole screen until it flies past it, revealing the rest of the title to be Half-Life 3.

Fade to black, Valve credits.

And that’s how I would make the teaser trailer.

#8

Something with Adrian Shephard lol

#9

Good god, enough with Ardeean Chef Art

#10

One that gives you that creepy feeling like in the scenes where G-Man is talking to you.

#11

One that gives you a boner

#12

Crowbars and headcrabs

#13

No trailer, just a release.

#14

Remember the old days when Trailers were for films and Demos were for games?

Now game designers think they’re making movies and only release trailers.
They are reluctant to release a demo since the gamer would suddenly be aware that the devs spent more time making it look like a movie than they did on actual gameplay.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is a classic example of a movie which happened to include some occasional gameplay.
Dead Island is another example of game which had a fantastic trailer but didn’t work so well as a game.
Do Demos even exist anymore? God forbid you should let anyone actually play the game before buying. And the industry wonders why people pirate!

#15

Headbars and crowcrabs

#16

Woooo, Maxey! That gave me goose bumps!

#17

I think Maxey should be Valve’s new media producer. Bravo.

#18

We need to get Maxey in there, so they can keep not making Meet the Pyro.

#19

Miscellaneous cinematic bullshit followed by a new audio track blasting over short clips of the player killing monsters and breaking crates, etc.

Ends with glamour shot of the second-to-final boss

#20

^
This.

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