Half Life 2 Expansion, Half life 3, and source.

[Rhymeandreason41]

Ok guys, I've been wondering everyones reactions and ideas about these things.

Half Life 2 expansions, will probably obviously be ported to STEAM, I heard alot Alyx's Mod and Barneys, But who do you think they should be. I think they should do some bland character, but interesting. Say a Combine soldier or CP, first you fight the resistance, but then maybe turn on the combine? And the APC would be drivable in this. Or a resisance member yourself. Also on other threads I've read it has all the unused models and such, hopefully they will be implemented.

As for Half Life 3, I hear Alyx is playable. I think this is a very bad idea, Gordon is Gordon, who we all love, I think valve should keep to it's past, be Gordon, no cutscences, he never speaks, it adds it's own originally I've fallen in love with. PLus do you think HL3 will be on steam or a new engine?

 

[Gonney]

1) I'd like to play as a normal resistance member. Not a combine... More vehicles(at the end of the game)... More enemies and silly ways to kill them…

2) If they was to release a combine expansion it would be fun...but it would be nice if it was an off world expansion where you find out about earth but don’t go there much.

3) Steam is awful in most aspects. But when it works it works really well and is worth having. For me steam works correctly about 75% of the time. But at the start it was a real pain. If they fix the issues with steam I'd love for Hl-3 to be in it... I don't feel like another long wait for Hl3 though.

Edit: I agree, they should Keep the Half-life series in the eyes of Gordon. No cut scenes, no voices, and have everything like it was done before.

Less buggy release would be nice next time around though.

 

[Dsty2001]

Half-Life 2: The 7 hour war

 

[Artie_Bucco]

A Resistance ex pack ala Call of Duty would be fun it would be fun to battle out in the streets of City 17 for the week Gordon was missing and the weeks,months and years before in outlying areas.

 

[El Professor]

Alyx or Barny being playable is not going to work due to the fact that both of them are well-developed characters that Gordon interacted with.

The only thing that would work from a prespective other than Gordon's is that of Cpl. Shepherd.

 

[Artie_Bucco]

Alyx or Barny being playable is not going to work due to the fact that both of them are well-developed characters that Gordon interacted with.

The only thing that would work from a prespective other than Gordon's is that of Cpl. Shepherd.

It depends on how they are done. A Barney expack in which he infiltrates the Combine and assasinates, sabatoges etc would be fun if it culminates in the week he led the resisitance due to Gordon's absence. A similar expansion with Alyx might also work.

 

[Messermeier]

Alyx or Barny being playable is not going to work due to the fact that both of them are well-developed characters that Gordon interacted with.

The only thing that would work from a prespective other than Gordon's is that of Cpl. Shepherd.

exactly. it doesn't work well, yet they're probably going to make such expansion packs :x

 

[dys4iK]

Maybe they'll make it work. We'll have to wait and see. Now that someone has mentioned it, it wouldn't be too surprising if the uprising played a role. A missing week is a big gap to be filled in somehow.

 

[pezz]

I would like to play a dr kleiner expansion pack, where you sit in ur lab just chilling, doin experiments and shit. Ohhh and you could play with lamar and stuff, and feed him. Then when barney is off his shift, chill with him a bit havin some beers and remenising about good times past. It would be kinda like the sims, invite alyx over and flirt with her! Then her dad finds out and gets pissed lol! The possibilities are endless, like really, what does the guy do all day in there, well we can find out! I'm sure he does all that fun stuff.

yeah, just an idea...

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Barney is already from an expansion pack: Blue Shift.

A seven-hour war expansion would be cool, but I'd prefer a combine or resistance POV that links up with the HL2 storyline the way Opposing force did with HL1. It's kinda traditional to do it that way.

 

[Artie_Bucco]

Maybe they'll make it work. We'll have to wait and see. Now that someone has mentioned it, it wouldn't be too surprising if the uprising played a role. A missing week is a big gap to be filled in somehow.

true a week is alot of time and i for one enjoyed the missions anti-citizen one and follow freeman for their close combat nature. I guess it was comprable to a futuristic Warsaw Uprising. The the fighting had been going on for a week i would imagine that it would have been very better indeed. Like i said playing as Barney or as a Joe Resistance Memeber during the uprising would be intresting.

 

[DrkBlueXG]

you gotta remember that the combine has taken over the entire world and that after the 7 hour war, there were cities all over. And breen said that the resistance forces were rising.
I wouldn't doubt that there are some Opposing Force members that made a postcity of their own while trying to take down the citadel at that city.

 

[RAMBO-PM]

I'm an Opposing Force fanboy for sure, and Valve should create an expansion with Adrian. That would ROCK!!!

obs: I remember that Valve said something about "episodic" content over Steam, when people asked them about expansions. Maybe we'll be able to play short missions as Alyx, Barney, and hopefully, Adrian.

 

[The Monkey]

Alyx or Barny being playable is not going to work due to the fact that both of them are well-developed characters that Gordon interacted with.

The only thing that would work from a prespective other than Gordon's is that of Cpl. Shepherd.

It depends on how you do it. The Alyx-mod could start right after the end.

Spoiler

G-man saves Alyx in the last minute just before the explosion, just as he did with Gordon.

He then tells her some things and then she wakes up and the Citadel is down.

 

[ltzgonemad]

I dont want Alyx or anybody else except Gordon as the playable character in HL3, it just loses the touch of Half-Life to it. However some mods or expansions where Alyx is playable (or accompanies you more often) would be great.

I wouldn't want to see Steam handling any of these expansions/sequel(s)/mods, since it's a pretty crappy system and totally unnecessary to get online to play Single-Player games.

I agree with keeping the real HL games (not mods/expansions, i.e) in Gordons perspective. This gives us a ''I-Am-Gordon'' feeling, and even if it's quite a loss he doesnt speak in HL2 (I had like 5-6 points where I could think of comments or replies to give to Alyx, and some others for other characters aswell), but it's better then to have it crappy made.

 

[Tim F]

A resistance vs. combine mod, a la TFC, would absolutely rock.

 

[RAMBO-PM]

A resistance vs. combine mod, a la TFC, would absolutely rock.

Valve will probably leave it to MOD-Makers out there.

 

[Phoenixs]

Half-Life 2: The 7 hour war

Great Idea

 

[Eejit]

7 hour war would SUCK - the combine were way overpowered, and obviouslly there was no chance for it to turn out any other way, plus we DO know how it turns out already.

 

[Phoenixs]

I was thinking that you would play as a combine.

 

[Eejit]

*shrug* Even if there were combine ground troops during the 7 hour war (debateable) it doesn't sound like a 'fun' fight to me.

 

[Psychx]

I think the seven hour war would be cool... you don't always win anyway

Half-Life III should have you play as only Gordon... keep it original. but as for any exp packs, it would be cool to play as other people, and maybe play as someone in that week that was lost.