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I think I'm gonna join in the crowbar operation. It's only 8 bucks, it'll be fun. Although I wish I could make my own out of cardboard or something and send that.

The thread has been locked at the request of Valve I believe.
Just saying that the campaign already died, so you'll likely waste your money.

 

[HK-47]

I'm quite tempted to join in on the whole crowbar thing. Valve needs to see how fucking pathetic we our.

GIVE ME SOMETHING VALVE!!!!

Fixed

 

[NIN90]

In 2006 GabeN replied to fan mail regarding Adrian Shephard: "I'm sure we'll get back to him one of these days."

I find it quite funny/sad that you know this.

 

[delta25]

Fixed

meh, its fun

I find it quite funny/sad that you know this.

When Gabe speaks you listen and remember.

 

[Angry Fork]

The thread has been locked at the request of Valve I believe.
Just saying that the campaign already died, so you'll likely waste your money.

=( well that sucks. And I suppose Valve having to unpack 100+ crowbars may not be very funny to them anyway.

I guess I won't do it for now but if Valve announces Left 4 Dead 3 or some other game before HL3 I'll definitely send it out of rage.

 

[br0ken_shad0w]

The guys camping outside Valve HQ was cute. This is just sad.

 

[Rapstah]

Just imagine all the crowbars sent to BioWare post-Dragon Age 2.

Nah, they get vials of alien sweat and sperm that players would like to put into the company's female side characters instead.

 

[Angry Fork]

The guys camping outside Valve HQ was cute. This is just sad.

You could say the same thing the other way around.

I think both are fine.

 

[Corky]

Hmm

Yay valve sent me a tshirt!

https://twitter.com/#!/garrynewman/status/157048277068558336/photo/1

edit : and just like that....

Of course I'm trolling!

https://twitter.com/#!/garrynewman/status/157052470990876672

Not nice man

((

 

[derFeef]

https://twitter.com/#!/garrynewman/status/157048277068558336/photo/1

Argh!

edit: sonofa...

 

[EVH]

Hmm



https://twitter.com/#!/garrynewman/status/157048277068558336/photo/1

Teh fuck.

 

[Haunted]

At this point, I'm sure they're just fine tuning the new Gordon design before finalising this baby.

 

[throwawayname]

At this point, I'm sure they're just fine tuning the new Gordon design before finalising this baby.

Love(Hype-)train!

 

[Evershade]

Someone needs to mod this into HL2/Garrys Mod. Stat.

 

[Ghost_Protocol]

Just watch Children of Men.

 

[randomwab]

At this point, I'm sure they're just fine tuning the new Gordon design before finalising this baby.

Only if this is playing while I kill Combine.

 

[gabbo]

At this point, I'm sure they're just fine tuning the new Gordon design before finalising this baby.

Free man-Bear high five! [/thetodd]

 

[Jarmel]

Can someone explain to me why HL2 was that revolutionary/great of a game? Nothing I've seen/played seems to be worthy of this level of desperation.

 

[Adnor]

Can someone explain to me why HL2 was that revolutionary/great of a game? Nothing I've seen/played seems to be worthy of this level of desperation.

There was nothing like it before?

 

[BY2K]

Can someone explain to me why HL2 was that revolutionary/great of a game? Nothing I've seen/played seems to be worthy of this level of desperation.

The story, the physics and the Gravity Gun were a pretty huge deal when it came out. Still is, even.

 

[Jarmel]

The story, the physics and the Gravity Gun were a pretty huge deal when it came out. Still is, even.

The Gravity gun was very neat but I really wasn't that impressed with the story.

 

[Petrichor]

The story, the physics and the Gravity Gun were a pretty huge deal when it came out. Still is, even.

I wouldn't say the story was, it was the presentation of the story that was revolutionary rather than the story itself, which is pretty bog standard.

 

[lastflowers]

My first play through of episode 2 was the best experience playing a video game I have ever had.

The artistic direction, the setpieces, the battles, dat storytelling.

MMMMMM

 

[gabbo]

I wouldn't say the story was, it was the presentation of the story that was revolutionary rather than the story itself, which is pretty bog standard.

When people mention halflife and story, they usually mean the way it's presented/played, not the actual 'alien invasion'/jesus vs alien invasion' stories which are cliche at best.

 

[Facism]

At this point, I'm sure they're just fine tuning the new Gordon design before finalising this baby.

it's guy love...

 

[Thoraxes]

Playing HL2 the day it came out was something magical indeed. I hope one day i'll play a game that blows my mind as much as HL2 did back in 2004.

 

[jambo]

I just want a new Half-Life so that I can listen to more voice work by Michael Shapiro.

Dat Episode 2 G-Man speech

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Honestly I hope they pull, well, another Half-Life 2 and ditch the Combine story entirely. Just put Freeman in another Black Mesa-esque situation and bring back the fucked up aliens.

Hell, just remake Half-Life. There I said it.

 

[Nappuccino]

don't forget facial animation!

 

[Wazzim]

LTTP but doesn't λανθανω mean 'to hide/cover' instead of to lie hidden? It would make a big difference in ancient Greek no?

 

[Stallion Free]

Hell, just remake Half-Life. There I said it.

Valve has some of the best creative talent in the industry. I would hate to see them wasting their time on a remake that doesn't need to exist when the original still plays just fine.

 

[Chavelo]

Valve has some of the best creative talent in the industry. I would hate to see them wasting their time on a remake that doesn't need to exist when the original still plays just fine.

This.

Plus you got the Black Mesa mod coming in the next few mon-

PFFFTTT

HAHAHAHA

Who am I kidding... "Black Mesa".xD

 

[epmode]

ditch the Combine story entirely

The Combine is (are?) one of my favorite videogame villains ever. I love the story behind them, the visual design, audio cues, everythinggggggg.

 

[Rapstah]

LTTP but doesn't λανθανω mean 'to hide/cover' instead of to lie hidden? It would make a big difference in ancient Greek no?

I think it's an adjective meaning literally latent. Google Translate some sentences with different usages of the word latent from English to greek and you get different endings of literally just that stem.

 

[Baraka in the White House]

The Combine is (are?) one of my favorite videogame villains ever. I love the story behind them, the visual design, audio cues, everythinggggggg.

To each their own I guess, I just never liked them from the start. I found them far less interesting both storywise and to fight against than the alien hoobajoobs. But I stand on the assertion that while Half-Life 2 is a great game starring Gordon Freeman, it is a lacking Half-Life sequel.

 

[Symphonic]

To each their own I guess, I just never liked them from the start. I found them far less interesting both storywise and to fight against than the alien hoobajoobs. But I stand on the assertion that while Half-Life 2 is a great game starring Gordon Freeman, it is a lacking Half-Life sequel.

This sentence does not make sense to me.

 

[Sibylus]

Honestly I hope they pull, well, another Half-Life 2 and ditch the Combine story entirely. Just put Freeman in another Black Mesa-esque situation and bring back the fucked up aliens.

Hell, just remake Half-Life. There I said it.

Imho, this is focus group-styled direction of the worst order. "We don't really like the new things you've done with favourite thing x, so ditch it all and let's just see the first one done again." Reducing the franchise to a nostalgia gimmick is a sure-fire way to run it into the ground and kill it.

 

[Baraka in the White House]

This sentence does not make sense to me.

The whole interdimensional Nazis enlsaving Earth angle was just so far out of left field to me to begin with. Then I played the game and the Combine were mostly boring-as-hell pop-up targets while the aliens from the first game were reduced to cameo appearances. It was almost as if they pulled Freeman out of the universe of the first Half-Life and dropped him into another shooter game entirely.

 

[Glix]

Kinda random but I just got a beastly rig and was playing Episode One and it still looks GREAT with everything cranked.

Like, it looks really really nice

 

[Rapstah]

The whole interdimensional Nazis enlsaving Earth angle was just so far out of left field to me to begin with. Then I played the game and the Combine were mostly boring-as-hell pop-up targets while the aliens from the first game were reduced to cameo appearances. It was almost as if they pulled Freeman out of the universe of the first Half-Life and dropped him into another shooter game entirely.

That's sort of the entire point of the ending of HL1 and start of HL2. They didn't want to make Black Mesa 2.

 

[kai3345]

I hope that if they're going to be globetrotting to Antarctica for the Borealis, they should stop by a rundown Black Mesa :3

 

[Baraka in the White House]

That's sort of the entire point of the ending of HL1 and start of HL2. They didn't want to make Black Mesa 2.

Well they should have.

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

Honestly I hope they pull, well, another Half-Life 2 and ditch the Combine story entirely. Just put Freeman in another Black Mesa-esque situation and bring back the fucked up aliens.

Hell, just remake Half-Life. There I said it.

Just replay Half-Life, there I said it.

 

[Rapstah]

I hope that if they're going to be globetrotting to Antarctica for the Borealis, they should stop by a rundown Black Mesa :3

Canonically nuked, so no way. Not that they wouldn't all have radiation sickness by now anyway because of Route Canal, but the place would be pretty broken because of the whole, you know, nuke, army, aliens and portal storms thing.

 

[Stallion Free]

Valve straight up told Gearbox that Black Mesa needs to be nuked in the expansion Opposing Force as it is a creative deadend and nuking it will prevent fans for asking for it.

 

[Glix]

Just replay Half-Life, there I said it.

Has there been any info on that HD mod that people have been working on for years?

Is it called Black Mesa, maybe? It is called that, and its STILL not done, lol (edit)

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Valve straight up told Gearbox that Black Mesa needs to be nuked in the expansion Opposing Force as it is a creative deadend and nuking it will prevent fans for asking for it.

When I say "Black Mesa-esque" I don't mean revisiting the site, I mean carrying over the whole tear in the dimensional fabric thing over to, say, the nearest big ass city and making something more interesting than the Combine pour out.

 

[Fallout-NL]

That's sort of the entire point of the ending of HL1 and start of HL2. They didn't want to make Black Mesa 2.

Yes, and I respect the fuck out of Valve for doing that. Even though I agree with DOO13ER regarding the fact that Half-Life 1 was better in terms of tone/atmosphere and gameplay.





Still... HL2 was awesome.

 

[Sibylus]

Valve straight up told Gearbox that Black Mesa needs to be nuked in the expansion Opposing Force as it is a creative deadend and nuking it will prevent fans for asking for it.

This also handily works with why Episode One ended the way it did, they didn't want to be stuck revisiting City 17 or that aesthetic forever.

 

[Dmax3901]

This.

Plus you got the Black Mesa mod coming in the next few mon-

PFFFTTT

HAHAHAHA

Who am I kidding... "Black Mesa".xD

That was clearly a joke. Ha ha, fat chance bro.