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.
Citizen P wrote on Aug 25, 2017, 13:28:
I think Valve's opinion on HL has been stated a few times, in as much if the technology allows them to bring about a new experience they would release the game. As I recall the "technology" in HL1 was access to environment audio (Creative Labs EAX, I believe it was?) and some video card features that didn't exist before, and HL2 was released on their new Source engine and include physics gameplay. HL3? Probably existed to a point with 3D - and was decided that wasn't the right path. I'm okay with an unfinished story, at this point it's been so long.
Agreed but it just sucks because THIS is the IP that made me a died-in-the-wool PC gamer. Thanks to Marc Laidlaw this IP had a story like none other. It was true new wave science fiction without cornball dialogue that slammed you over the head to get its point across.
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