Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Story Revealed? [Aug 25, 2017, 10:01 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
In a surprise move, a post on
Marclaidlaw.com from former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw offers long-suffering
Half-Life fans some closure with a general story outline of Half-Life 2: Episode 3,
giving a sense for how the unfinished DLC trilogy was supposed to conclude
(thanks MeanJim). It's not clear if this is authorized, as the names of the
characters are all changed, presumably to protect the guilty (the post is
written from the PoV of Gertrude Fremont, Ph.D). Further, the site is now
returning "connection refused" errors, but this may simply be due the server
being overwhelmed by demand, but the
Internet Wayback Machine has a cached copy. Also, addressing both the site's
difficulties and the name alterations, the article is now also
preserved on GitHub
with all the names properly replaced with Valve's IP, which possibly puts the
post in more jeopardy of being shut down. Thanks
Valve News Network.
Capella wrote on Aug 25, 2017, 10:58:
Why can't they just make the damn episode already? I have never understood what the hell happened for them not to finish this.
It is much too late now, of course, but it is definitely puzzling why the fuck they did not simply wrap it up back then especially with that major cliffhanger at the end of episode 2.
Episode 1 + 2 were pretty short and just more of the same so they should have been able to crank out a third episode with (relatively speaking) minimal effort.
Even if the sales of episode 1 and 2 were way down from the original game to the point that the episodic format would have to be considered a "failure", I doubt that it would have ruined Valve if they would have made a third episode for closure.
Besides, they could have cashed in on more complete versions (the now even more orange box or something).
I have long stopped giving a fuck. Valve has no respect for the HL franchise so why should I? Fuck that game.
There have been many more, better story-driven FPS in the meantime. HL was special back then because it was more than just run&gun but it has long since lost that USP.
There are so many great gaming universes and stories to explore nowadays. I don't need to know how the (getting lamer with each iteration anyway) story of Gertrude vs. the aliens would continue. Yawn.
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