The last thing we ever see happen in the half-life series is
Like, come on. What a slap in the face of your fans. That is functionally the end of the series; a Berserk-tier helping of "fuck you, now you're sad and disturbed". As someone who was highly invested in the storyline since first playing HL1 in 2001, the knowledge that I've been sitting on that kind of cliffhanger has been a drag on my mind for pretty much a decade.
Eli getting throat-tongue-stabbed to death by an alien potato while his daughter watches in horror, chucked away like an animal carcass as Gordon passes out from the sheer sight of it all
Like, come on. What a slap in the face of your fans. That is functionally the end of the series; a Berserk-tier helping of "fuck you, now you're sad and disturbed". As someone who was highly invested in the storyline since first playing HL1 in 2001, the knowledge that I've been sitting on that kind of cliffhanger has been a drag on my mind for pretty much a decade.