What's interesting though is that Episode 3 was pretty much scrapped, and the total silence since then is just odd. That combined with Source 2 and Valve's recent service based projects implies that HL3 could be very different.
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There's Korean writing in Surgery Simulator...and has nothing to do with Half-Life.
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What's interesting though is that Episode 3 was pretty much scrapped, and the total silence since then is just odd. That combined with Source 2 and Valve's recent service based projects implies that HL3 could be very different.
Sadly, yeah.
Dakota47
Member
Makes the surprise even bigger if it actually does turn out to be something else.
MrCunningham
Member
Yeah true. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
That could be another one, Valve trying to get more exposure in South Korea.
It's weird to think that the Hunter Chopper chase + scrapyard battle is the only gameplay from Episode Three/Half-Life 3 that has seen daylight in seven years.
k_trout
Member
That summary is the most sound theory I've seen so far
ashbash159
Member
It's weird to think that the Hunter Chopper chase + scrapyard battle is the only gameplay from Episode Three/Half-Life 3 that has seen daylight in seven years.
Could you link to the footage? I've never seen it before. Also the name for the image in your post is 00565086-photo-half-life-2-episode-two.jpg. Is the pic related?
XANDER CAGE
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Robot Pants
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I've never heard or seen it before either. To me it looks like it's from EP2.
The only thing I know that's come from EP3 is artwork.
If you've played through Episode Two's "Riding Shotgun" chapter, you've played it. It was shipped in Two given it was ready far ahead of Episode Three expectations (per the commentary).
I apologize if this has already been mentioned, but what's the deal with all those 13's people kept mentioning? The 13th floor in the PC gamer ad, valve employee steam profiles being level 13.
There were 13 games in the original Potato Sack ARG as well, weren't there? Valve seems to love that number.
This thread is friggin' amazing, btw. It's all I've done at work all day is read this, lol.
There were 13 games in the original Potato Sack ARG as well, weren't there? Valve seems to love that number.
This thread is friggin' amazing, btw. It's all I've done at work all day is read this, lol.
ashbash159
Member
Except for the tweets from Mark Laidlaw saying that the Steam_Support tweets didn't mean anything...
Correct.
Robot Pants
Member
That is unrelated to what is being discussed in this thread. Go away.
First of all, why so hostile?
Secondly, I was simply pointing out that that summary image (posted on this very page and therefore being discussed in this thread) is not all that 'sound' because something it claims as evidence has been called insignificant by a Valve employee.
Of course Valve could be trying to throw us off the trail, but I personally think those Steam_Support tweets were nothing to dwell on.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Don't get so defensive on the likely chance all of this means nothing.
TheVoidDragon
Member
What have Valve said about this? I know someone said they've said there is no ARG, but a puzzle isn't an ARG.
There's an apparent screenshot from Gabe confirming there's no ARG, there's another one from Marc Laidlaw, there's more stuff from the support twitter account, again no ARG.
I don't know how many of those are true and I don't want to badger the poor bastards.
Furthermore, I feel like outright asking them is absoloutely against the nature of it and pointless. It's insulting even.
I don't know how many of those are true and I don't want to badger the poor bastards.
Furthermore, I feel like outright asking them is absoloutely against the nature of it and pointless. It's insulting even.
Trailing a *massive* CAT5 cable?
edit: sorry, the hat looks like soviet union not north korea. debunked? :-( Still cool art though..
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/there-may-actually-be-an-arg.243624/
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/there-may-actually-be-an-arg.243624/
These are related to the HL2 update and not the Surgeon Simulator stuff though.
Doczu
Gold Member
TheVoidDragon
Member
A valvetime user has discovered more links to korea in the old leaked half-life 2: episode 3 concept art:
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/there-may-actually-be-an-arg.243624/
Pics of Alyx wearing North Korean winter gear, that pic of the guy with the korean symbol on his head, and a crashed korean military helicopter
Can someone explain to me how these are Korean? I thought that symbol was Russian.
It is. The helicopter is also a russian Mi-8 and not Korean.
UnluckyKate
Member
City 17 is basically retro futurist soviet city. Russian helicopter so why not russian theme winter close too... (countries doesn't exist anymore in HL lore. Earth lost the 7 minutes wars against the combine and is now under Breen control (himself being a puppet to the combine)
TheVoidDragon
Member
If they didn't want people to think it was linked to Valve, they shouldn't of put it on the bottom of the Medic statue.
Robot Pants
Member
Helicopter appears to be Korean, but really could be Russian as well. I think the more important link is location. Whether the original intent was to travel to Russia, it could have easily changed to Korea in those 7 years. And by all the Korean updates and the dlc...
Also I'm not entirely convinced the symbol on the guys head is Korean, to me it looks japanese, but the suit is what caught my attention. Definitely a snow suit.
Edit: aaaand there we go
Doczu
Gold Member
I won't accept that. They are just trying to fool us. It's a conspiracy!
Wind's Howling
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That was 13 pages of fun and speculation.
We are back to square one.
We are back to square one.
Seems definitive to me.
GlamFM
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Stahp.
Cameron122
Member
I was in between team nothing and team summer sale.
Small part of me is still mad though. :/
Small part of me is still mad though. :/
MrCunningham
Member
Glad I was on ( and founded! ) #Team it´s nothing.
Time to move on.
Well... there it is.