The last Half-Life game

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Does anyone else not want the Half-Life series to end? It's so incredible and although there are so many mysteries like Gman, part of me wants to know and part of me doesn't. :(

So do you think Ep.3 will be the last in the series of this story, or maybe another after it? Possibly a HL3 too?
 
I think they'll stop making Half Life games the moment these game will stop selling. So I doubt that Ep3 is the last we see of Gordon.
 
i dont think it will end. ep3 is just the end of the episodic series,but they can still continue the story much longer and i would like them too :D valve is just so great at making a great game and ive never felt such an emotional response from characters in a game.
 
Yeah, you can relate to them so much and actually feel you "know" them, it would be sad to not see them in another sequel. :(
 
With Portal v. Ep2 Valve has revealed a will to show players more of the HL universe imo.
So I'm guessing that there will be games in the same universe, but perhaps not under the name Half-Life, just a wild thought though. :p
 
Well Ep4 is going to be done by someone else.

My guess? After Ep3/4, EA buys Valve.
 
And then after a few more years, Valve buys over bungie
 
EA will buy valve , valve is nowhere as big as EA, as for bungie i dont think microsoft will sell it, they have already bout nintendo.
 
xvillanx said:
EA will buy valve , valve is nowhere as big as EA, as for bungie i dont think microsoft will sell it, they have already bout nintendo.
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No one (smart) would buy bungie for a price more than $100.

Halo was too much of fail.
 
I figure they'll finish off the main arc, then we'll get awesome short stories like Portal.
 
EA will never buy Valve, Valve takes pride in their independence, come on...
 
It is okay to be a fanboy, but you don't have to be so dumb going about it.
 
Aye of course they will keep making them, its their job and life to make awsome games, not to mention they love doing it AND they makes a shit loada a money in the process, they will keep making them until they have all retired, and even in that respect, they will always just replace staff with people just as able to do the job that did.

EP3 will be like the HL1 ending, ending that current events, the next instalment (or instalments if its in episodes) with be like the start of HL2, a new area and a new kinda of threat. But Gordon, Barney, Alyx and Kliener will all be there still, those characters are all an intergral part of the game now, take them away (unless they are killed) you take away apart of what makes HL so awsome lol.
 
Valve is self-funded and independent. What makes you think they'd let themselves get bought by EA? They broke off from Vivendi and started up a distribution platform that funnels money directly to themselves without a middle man, allowing them to have full creative control over their products and do pretty much whaetever they want. Why the hell would they take a step backwards from their enviable position and put themselves back in a pre-Steam state? Come on, guys.

Also, the end of the episode trilogy will not be the end of Half-Life. Rest assured that there will be a Half-Life 3 that makes use of all the experience and knowledge they've gained over the course of the episodes. In the end, they are experiments and Valve has said that they will evaluate the episodic approach after Ep3 is released. My guess is that, for the time being, Valve does have plans for a third installation in the series and it will be intended as the final game of a trilogy. Character deaths, plot wrap-ups, the whole shebang. But they'll leave enough of it open-ended that way they can still make future games based in the HL universe (if not necessarily with Freeman as the protagonist), or perhaps if they decide to make HL4 down the pipeline.
 
Sooner or later, Half-Life will run out of Steam (Chortle). 20 years after Half-Life 1, will newcomers still be tempted? By the time the oldest members of the Valve team reach retirement age, will they have finally implemented the Hydra into an early version of Half-Life 4?
 
Can you imagine if the don't recruit that many new members into valve, and all the valve employees are aged and filthy rich of course. And then Microsoft or EA comes in with a multi-billion dollar offer, do you think they will just sell it?
 
We'll probably see an end of the Half Life story arc with Half Life 3. Although it was originally planned for the episodes to take the place of Half Life 3, Valve is starting to rethink their strategy.

Here is how I think the rest of the Half Life games will play out (spoilers for those that didn't beat Episode 2):

Now that the portal to Earth has been closed, there is no way for the Combine to send reinforcements to Earth. Episode 3 will have Gordon Freeman destroy the Borealis, clean up the remaining Combine forces, and maybe confront / find out about the G-man.

Then this will lead us to Half Life 3. Gordon will probably bring the fight to the Combine homeworld (or maybe even a greater evil) and destroy them once and for all. I have a feeling we'll see the end of Gordon's story here in Half Life 3.

It may not end there though. There may be other Half Life games where the protaganist is not Gordon Freeman.
 
xvillanx said:
EA will buy valve , valve is nowhere as big as EA, as for bungie i dont think microsoft will sell it, they have already bout nintendo.
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That is one thing that I'm always afraid of. Valve is one of the last still-free creator/developer/publishers and I love them for that and they give me hope in my endeavors. I think EA and Mircosoft are some of the banes of contemporary video games. They go hunting for developers who make something interesting and attempt to buy them out. If they decline, EA/Microsoft makes sure they never produce something of worth again. If they accept, EA/Mircosoft assimilates them into the corporation and that little company never produces anything of worth under it's own name again.

These huge corporate publishers do a good job at destroying anyone who sticks their head up to high.

You can take Oddworld Inhabitants as an example.
 
venom404 said:
We'll probably see an end of the Half Life story arc with Half Life 3. Although it was originally planned for the episodes to take the place of Half Life 3, Valve is starting to rethink their strategy.

Here is how I think the rest of the Half Life games will play out (spoilers for those that didn't beat Episode 2):

Now that the portal to Earth has been closed, there is no way for the Combine to send reinforcements to Earth. Episode 3 will have Gordon Freeman destroy the Borealis, clean up the remaining Combine forces, and maybe confront / find out about the G-man.

Then this will lead us to Half Life 3. Gordon will probably bring the fight to the Combine homeworld (or maybe even a greater evil) and destroy them once and for all. I have a feeling we'll see the end of Gordon's story here in Half Life 3.

It may not end there though. There may be other Half Life games where the protaganist is not Gordon Freeman.
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The fight will not be taking to the Combine Homeworld because they are far too vast and powerful, an Empire who conquers universes with ease. The Combine will never be beaten, all they can do is permananely stop their ability to gain portal contact with Earth. Not to mention the Overwatch forces are still spread all over Earth and we dont even know how other cities are faring, whether they are all still under Combine rule, whether they had go the word of the victory in City 17 and revolted too.

I suspect EP3 will be largely surrounding the significance of the Borealis and G-Man's intentions with it. The Borealis is obviously full with extremely powerful technology, possibly including local teleportation technology (which the Combine have been after for a while) and more importantly, Eli hinted that it contains the power to start another resonance cascade. The Combine are obviously trying desperately to get their hands on it while the rebels are trying to stop that from happenening.

We will most likely get a clear view of what exactly the G-Man meant with unforseen consequences and whether he knew of Eli's death before it happened. Also we should get a much larger insight into G-Mans motives in taking Alyx out of Black Mesa and whether her witnessing her farthers' death was all in the G-Man's course of actions.

You could a shit loada of guesses on how the story will progress from then (until we play EP3 of course), but Valve will definately wanna continue so they will make up some ingenious way of progressing it.[END SPOILER]
 
Episode Three will see the end of this story arc, but that doesn't mean that characters won't come up in later installments. G-Man, Alyx if she isn't killed in Episode Three, and of course Gordon will all probably be a part of them.
 
Gordon Freeman deserves a well needed rest. However, I'm sure Mr. Shepherd would be ready for action after being in the G-Man's hands for so long. Also - "Gabe Newell has hinted that he may one day return"
 
I will cry if he returns, its just such a bad move.
 
im more interested in knowing and seeing every thing else in the half life universe before and after the black mesa incident. I think that was kinda the whole idea of portal, to show people that there is more to the universe out side of the epic adventure of Gordon Freeman.
 
Episode 3 is going to be the last of the HL2 episodes, but I think Valve have already announced it won't be the last game.

Fingers crossed for a Half Life 3!
 
If the story gets told by another character,I think Gordon is going to say something. He'll take the place of the other characters giving objectives.
 
ShotgunWolf said:
Episode 3 is going to be the last of the HL2 episodes, but I think Valve have already announced it won't be the last game.

Fingers crossed for a Half Life 3!
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the episodes together are considered half life 3, if they do make another full length game ( it would be nice but i dont see it happening ) it would be half life 4
 
kacation_man said:
the episodes together are considered half life 3, if they do make another full length game ( it would be nice but i dont see it happening ) it would be half life 4
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Meh... I don't think they meant it that literally. They said that, but I think it was in a "it might as well be..." sense. It is not officially called Half-Life 3, hence why it still has "Half-Life 2" in the title of all the episodes. Besides, skipping ahead and calling it Half-Life 4 would just cause confusion among a lot of fans. "Half-Life 4? What about Half-Life 3? Did I miss a game here?! HALP."
 
I hope HL3 will be a full game. I'm not too fond of episodic content...
 
I dont know what I prefer. Episodes have great benefits, one of them is that you can play bits of the game in shorter periods of time which is good, but you are always left wanting more which can be annoying when you have to wait months for the next episode.

A full game however will take hours and hours to complete, and you are left satisfyed afterwards, like you have got your payload and can happily wait the long wait for the next instalment. Only problem with that is, you have to wait years for it to be made lol. Although I reckon it will only take half the time if took to create Half-Life 2, with their new technology etc.
 
Depends. If they make half life 3 on source (which I imagine they would) then it would be 2-3 times as long as an episode. So three years development, maybe four? And what if they had a team work on it since they started EP1? One more year, then EP3, then another year and HL3? Or even, 6 months EP3 and 6 months HL3? Would make a hell of a year in gaming if they did that.

Mind you, assuming HL3 is coming reletivley soon, I can see HL4 coming, but being many years away. I don't know why, I wouldn't want that, its just what I see happening.
 
I would be happy for them to continue it, just as long as they continue it in an awsome manor.
 
Half Life 3 - Adventures of Alyx

While Gordon is at home watching the kids...
 
Link said:
Depends. If they make half life 3 on source (which I imagine they would) then it would be 2-3 times as long as an episode. So three years development, maybe four?
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It only took them that long between half life and half life 2 because they where creating the source engine ( and other tidbits ). If they make another full length game on the source engine i dont see it taking them any more then 2, maybe 2 and a half years to make, and thats assuming they are making the maps as detailed and elegant as EP2 and adding new graphic effects.
 
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