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Alternatively, they could always use the tried and tested method for skipping the player forward in time:
"Gordon...I love - "
Pause.
"Enjoying yourself, Missster Freeman?"
I'm really, really looking forward to ?Dark Alyx.? Only less lame. Valve have a chance to do something very innovative, very intriguing with her character. I was actually starting to get fatigued of Alyx toward the end of Episode 2 but now they have an amazing opportunity to spice things up, do things differently.
It should be awesome.
I can't see how any "fade to black" scenario is going to work well. The series has always functioned with a continuous, uninterrupted narrative. For all intents and purposes, with the player constricted to Gordon's view, the beginning of Half-Life 2 picks up right where the first game ended. And this has persisted throughout the episodes as well. In fact, the games pretty much necessitate Gordon being plucked away or otherwise incapacitated by their ends in order to avoid having to explain away what Gordon did during the intervening periods you weren't inhabiting his body...
Unless Episode 3 begins with a dramatic shift away from this, I think the expectation of an ending with some Alyx love scene is unrealistic. Ignoring issues of "interaction" (no you won't get a secks mini-game), I think it would just make it difficult for Valve to create a satisfying entry point in the next game. That is, of course, if Valve values consistency. And it's clear a lot of the community does, at least when it comes to a lot of other things. Where the hell would it start? Fade in to Gordon lying on a makeshift love mattress after a night of sex in White Forest? Blah. Not exactly an intro I want. And I don't think this kind of personal, touchy-feely material is appropriate for Half-Life, nor should it be forced down the player's throat so heavily.
That means no ****ing.
No drawn-out love scene.
No "TWO DAYS LATER AT THE BEACH WITH BABY GORDLYX..." unless the G-Man magically extracts Gordon's love juice while in stasis to covertly impregnate Alyx... for whatever reason.
:|
/IMO
**SPOILER ALERT!!!**
She is gonna be "Emo-Alyx" and shows up in Episode Three wearing gothic clothes and makeup, and drawing 666 to the walls. She will also paint the helicopter black before we start to move towards Borealis.
That's a little stupid. The Combine would spot you coming!
If there's any dark side of Alyx to kick in it'll be of hate and vengeance for Eli. It won't turn her into something like that.
I would not want a dark, possessed and driven by vengence Alyx. It would be so incredible stupid and cliche in so many ways. I'd perfer they make her more depressed, lost and sad than anything else.
Here is my opinion.
IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
I'm not going to even read all of your arguments.
IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
I will wait hopefully to hear her first joke, laugh, or see her smile.
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Sorry, I'm missing something. What is this? I see the hands, I just don't know what he is holding (or she).
Err... right. Absolutely Hillary Arse.Would be hilarious if Valve pulled a Berserk on us - Alyx getting raped by G-man in front of Gordon, Gordon being held down by some kind of ?ber enemy chewing his arm off...
Murph's been watching too much hentai, it seems...
Tbqfh, I would rather have some amazing, epic ending at the end of EP3, not some cliche and disturbing sex scene with the girl.
As much as I am attracted to Alyx, I mean would totally go for it if she was real and I knew her lol, but if valve want quality, delving into sex scenes and kisses is a bad move, because for a start, a sex scene in ANY game I have witnessed has always made me laugh my arse off or just made me feel completely awkward and uncomfortable. A kiss on a the lips, as other people pointed out, wouldn't look good at all in all ways they could do it.
The hug obviously worked well so we could see a few more of them probably, and at the very most, a peck on the cheek, you go beyond that in terms of physical confrontations then it will be shit. I would like to see a deeper relationship expand with Alyx amogst all the other stuff that will be going on, but more through her character, like seeing how her character has changed after her fathers death is one of the things I am most exited about.
G-man talks to you in your sleep doing his "G-man thing"
Maybe Gordon will meet Chell and realize that she is just as awkward, quiet, quick thinking, and puzzle solving as he is.
They'll find that connection, he'll ditch Alyx (because she is more like a sister after all) and Gordon and Chell will bang the shit out of each other. Do some nasty-ass portal sex, stick dick in one portal, comes out the other into her Va-jay-jay. Maybe Gordon will punt a dildo with his gravity gun into her anus as well. Ep.3 is gunna be raunchy people, I'm tellin' ya. :thumbs: