SAY IT WITH ME:

nu-Valve can't into good writing so take old writing and make it gone as to nu-write worse story.

oh my god who the hell cares hl2 was always a bad meme. alyx is an even bigger meme.
say it with me
FLOP
OF
THE
CENTURY

>srhbutts
lmao wasnt that faggot still gone from twitter

>For what fucking reason?
Valve wasn't happy with previous HL2-saga ending, so the main writer left. They didn't know how to proceed from killing Eli, as it served very little purpose in the end story-wise.
So, retcon Eli death, make Half-Life 3 about saving Alyx (something players, old and new, are interested in doing) and sending the Combine packing.
G-Man jokes that Gordon is "unable" or "unwilling" to do his bidding.
So if Gordon fails, he's got Alyx, and if Gordon does what G-Man tells him to do, they get back Alyx.

It's actually pretty brilliant, if you think about it.

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>so the main writer left.
Didn't he leave because people were calling him a boomer or something?
I wouldn't call the whole thing brilliant, just a work around something they couldn't just write off.

>Didn't he leave because people were calling him a boomer or something?

Marc wanted to do something the other devs and GabeN didn't. Devs did something Marc didn't want to do.
Having written all of Half-Life, he probably left when everyone was opposed to his vision of the story and just cleaning the slate for Half-Life 3 with Episode 3.
Hence, he "leaked" what the story for Episode 3 was supposed to be. Valve did their own thing.

Now we're getting Half-Life 3.

>we have struggled to find a suitable replacement
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

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>Marc wanted to do something the other devs and GabeN didn't. Devs did something Marc didn't want to do.
How can a team of devs with no creativity whatsoever manage to scare off the main writer of the series? What did Laidlaw want to do that the devs did not?
It's not like he had a say to the gameplay aspects of it, he was just a writer... right?

Would’ve been hype if it came out like 10 years ago

>What did Laidlaw want to do that the devs did not?
Wipe out any continuity and killing Gordon. Either that, or G-Man throwing him into an alternate reality where he no longer is able to "interfere".

Shephard ain't no scientist. Even Alyx can at the very least hack.

>Wipe out any continuity and killing Gordon. Either that, or G-Man throwing him into an alternate reality where he no longer is able to "interfere".
That's pretty retarded if you ask me. A change of protagonist doesn't always work unless the IP was constructed around it or the team was confident enough to write it well (Devil May Cry for example)

I guess it went well that EP3 wasn't made? people can overstate a story by just looking at one scene and in this case the scene in question is the Dyson Sphere one. Although cool, were would it have lead?

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JAY PINKERTON LOVES COON PUSSY, REPLACES MERLE

>Now we're getting Half-Life 3.
No we don't.
Laidlaw was the last of the original garde from 1998. That lardass pigshit fatswine maggotfuck Gabe doesn't even count. He transformed into a lardtastic pigshit fatworm like Leto II in God Emperor of Dune and he cares very little for anything that is not his lardshit wormery and eating like a glutonous swineshit 24/7. That fattastic wormshit Gaben isn't even human anymore. He transcended humanity into an otherworldly plane of hedonistic crapulousness.
So now no one from the original team works at Valve anymore. They are all gone and Campo Santo subhumans and relavite neo-fags are running the show there. Have fun with future gaia tier fanfiction walking simulators from now on.

I will sure will have fun with HL3, thanks user.

ahahaha seethe harder poorfag

YEP youtu.be/u4tmsJRkir8

Based and redpilled. Gabe is an obese fuck.

>Although cool, were would it have lead?
Nowhere.

Laidlaw never planned to continue after Episode 3, it was meant to tie up his loose plot threads and leave it open for someone else to take over. That's why he worked with Faliszek and Wolpaw (who came back for Alyx) on writing the episodes in the first place.

They already knew it retard
You literally see them attack it in EP 2

Is that suppose to be good or bad?

Bad because I can't play it

Based Sean. E-celebs are a disease and deserve nothing but suffering.

depends on where they take it, G-Man doing time fuckery I don't honestly mind that much, but keeping Eli alive and having Alyx taken by the G-Man doesn't really mean anything until we actually see what they do with it.

>NOOO ELI HAD TO DIE
seriously how does it ruin the story

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>interested in doing

am I the only one who always hated Alyx?

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>Alyx is gone in next HL
Good.

>It's actually pretty brilliant, if you think about it.
>LOL IT WAS ALL JUST A TIMELINE PRANK BRO!
t. subhuman Campo Santo shit.
Retconing anything not only opens a can, but an entire pandora's box of worms. It's the cheapest and least-effort asspull by completely talentless subhuman hackshits such as yourself you wannabe brilliant failure at life fanfiction "writer".

If you go Marvel Capeshit Endgame time travel and or different timeless then absolutely nothing in the half-life universe ever mattered. your actions don't matter because 'lol there are billions of other timelines anyway" YOU ABSOLUTE LOW IQ SUBHUMAN SON OF A STUPID WHORE.
you don't know what the word brilliant means, you assborn failed abortion.
fucking kys.

Alternate timeline, not technically a retcon. Hopefully this timeline continues in VR games and we get an actual conclusion to Ep2 in traditional format.

so basically fuck mossman let her freeze to death
we after gman now

user, there were two Advisors in that room and Alyx only killed one of them.

I thought Gordan was retconned since Alyx was hired by Gman?

So did G-man just forget about Shepard?

This confirms my theory that everyone who uses Resetera is either a sexual deviant, or an orbiting incel with aspirations of becoming a sexual deviant.

Went full retard. Its not as bad then, its been a while since I've played half life 2 ep 2.

Valve just wanted to get rid of him.

nah they all coming back, they gonna band together barney, shepherd, kleiner, eli and freeman, they gonna finna shoot gman but he will offer them one last nudge

reverse everything back before black mesa

What chances are they reuse some elements of epistle 3 on future games

>End story in cliffhanger
>12 years without a word
>2020: Lol JK guys

Also the retcon doesn´t make sense, Gordon has vortigaunts guarding him so the G-man drops him and contracts the closest person to him? Why the fuck wouldn´t the G-man just use FUCKING ADRIAN SHEPARD? Are we just going to assume Opposing Force wasn´t canon?

Fuck Nu-Valve

Wait, i remember in leaked HL3 story Alyx is went with G-Man leaving Gordon alone on Borealis.

Based. Retards are defending this shit like how Franxxfags keep defending their shitty ending. Get over it. Retcons are bad and you should feel bad for supporting it.

>So, retcon Eli death, make Half-Life 3 about saving Alyx (something players, old and new, are interested in doing)
What's with this notion that we need extra motivation getting in HL3? Eli's death was the thing that got us invested, it's a cheap shock but it's AS cheap as just stealing Alyx.
I mean, we already saved her once anyway, we're just doing that again?

It's the whole thing that's weird about this shit, why even make the change for a quick shock cliffhanger?

He's gonna use Shepard to fite Gordon

HL2 ending is literally dead end. It's make sense they change it

>Are we just going to assume Opposing Force wasn´t canon?
Nigger, it's been non-canon for years.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>Ep3 never happened cause Valve wanted to wait for another technological breakthrough

Could they really had not just finished Episode 3 and THEN take a 13 year break working on Source 2/VR?

You guys do realize that Wolpaw wrote the story right? That they consulted Laidlaw a bunch while writing it?

Other one obviously ran away retard. They ran away after Dog roughed them up in ep2, obviously theyd flee if some interdimensional green lightning fries one of them.

DUDE

WHAT IF WE MADE IT SO THAT UNFORSEEN CONSEQUENCES HAS NO ACTUAL MEANING CAUSE EVERYONE LIVES IN THE END

LMAO

FACT: All the discussion on the retcon is based on the potential changes they bring to HL3, until the game is actually released (LMAO) it's kinda useless to get pissy/praise it.

Having said that, I think the retcon is super forced, but it can be easily salvaged into good things for 3

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I'm pretty sure no one give a fuck about who wrote anything during HL1/2 before they discover Yas Forums.

Laidlaw basically trained Wolpaw to take the reigns on any future Half-Life games.

Shepard isn't canon, Opposing Force isn't canon, we've known this FOR YEARS.

3 will have to be huge, it can't be just another game

your existence is a dead end

Lies. Laidlaw made Epistle 3 but shared it online as a script because Valve wouldn't accept it. So he left. Wolfpaw ended up being with Campo Santo (a.k.a SJWs who made the walking simulator Firewatch) and this abomination of an ending was made

How's performance with the minimal requirements?

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how he isn't canon? You literally kill hecu in HL1, he's just in stasis, barney got out by foot

Agreed, half life is back

No matter how often I see it. it's still hard to believe that it's actually real.

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Who imprisoned G-Man there?

Robin Walker is there and I originally thought hes a smart guy because he made tf2 and then alyx is announced and I lose all respect for him instantly

don't get your hopes up lol
remember last time a half life game ended on a cliffhanger?

wow, for once in many years, half life 3 confirmed its not a meme.......

Wolpaw is a moron who focuses on making funny dialogue. He has no idea what Half-Life is about. You really think Laidlaw had a say in what the story should be? It's more likely that it was marketing bogus and asked him what kind of vodka bottles you'd be able to find.

>people dont know the difference between retcons and branching timelines
Jesus.

Just like Episode 1 retconned Half Life 2 ending

BASED

The big question is:
Is it possible to not kill the advisor?

Similiar to refusing gman's offer in HL1?

Must have been a shitty teacher then.

that's not a retcon though
this is just "what happens after the end of episode 2"
ie: picking up where episode 2 left off
it's not making any changes to pre-existing cannon

Episode 3 not getting made had nothing to do with the story retard, they just went full Valve retard mode and thought they needed Episode 3/Half Life 3 to be this ridiculously revolutionary thing. Laidlaw left because he was tired of their bullshit but it had nothing to do with them being unsatisfied with his writing.

Wolpaw is lefty so HL2 is trash.

>Yas Forums is now defending kiddietubers like PDP

Watch the after credits

>branching timelines
what are they going to do? Release a tv series with the actual ending? Don't be stupid user.

>head writer leaves series
>next game has time travel

Lmao every fucking time

nah dat shit gud

Based.

that's not time travel

N-NO BUT THE UNFORSEEN CONSEQUENCES JUST CHANGED, INSTEAD OF KILLING ELI, WE DON'T KILL ALYX BUT JUST PUT HER INTO G-MAN'S LEASH (something that has never been easily undone in the series)
I-IT'S A FINE CHANGE WHO CARES

How fucking stupid can you get? It is a retcon because of two things:

In the established canon (episode 2). Eli dies, Advisors gets info on Borealis and Alyx is mourning her fathers death.
In NuValve canon. Gman hires her by literally green lightning her way to one advisor, undoing Eli's death and putting her shoes into the Gman while leaving Gordon away.

That IS A RETCON YOU DUMBFUCK

I WANT A HIGH QUALITY FUCKING SCREEN SHOT OF GORDON IN THIRD PERSON

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Alyx is gone so there's still consequences

>Shows eli with a pool of blood under his head
>we can go back in time now
>Yeah, just release him, it's Ok
>eli no longer dead, alyx gone
How it isn't a retcon?

Laidlaw’s episode 3 sounded really boring and predictable. You just find the Borealis, fight through it and stop the combine, the end. If they’re going to bother making Half Life 3 more than 16 years later it makes sense to at least take it in a more unexpected direction.

So who the fuck is G-man?

It's not technically time travel in kingdom hearts either then :^)

In both games people go back into the past and change the future, its just not called "time travel"

POORFAGS SEETHING ETERNALLY

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I dont get it, who's powerful enough to imprison someone like g-man?

this actually this
mega cringe

It's one man, how does that prove anything? Also this is Yas Forums, the land of sexual deviancy, seems weird to focus on that when throwing shade.

>RETCONS
No it doesn't you nigger.
All the events occur the same way, Alyx just prevents it and gets plucked away the exact moment Eli is supposed to die. HL2 and Episodes still occurred normally.

Wolpaw is an colossal hackshit and personally played a very big role in the Redditification of Valve and its infantile Pixar/Dreamworks quippy teH cAeK iS A LIe xxxDDDD and Cave Johnson mind-numbing "humor".
Also how the fuck do you train someone to write? Are you fucking daft? Do you still learn your ABCs?

Established canon: you can't win against CMB.
Literally you can't.
This is what you fags want right? So you can later cry about retcons because "beating unbeatable is impossible".

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The final part of any good trilogy should be predictable. It's just the ending to the story

It's not like I chose to be born into a poor family in a poor part of the world

>In the established canon (episode 2). Eli dies, Advisors gets info on Borealis and Alyx is mourning her fathers death.
but that still happens

>In NuValve canon. Gman hires her by literally green lightning her way to one advisor, undoing Eli's death and putting her shoes into the Gman while leaving Gordon away.
I think you've misinterpreted what happened
it wasn't meant to be taken literally

the ending of alyx is just "what happens after the end of episode 2"
it's not a retcon