@@C.A._Old what

@@C.A._Old what are you even saying

@@C.A._Old I don't understand

@@C.A._Old Maybe try speaking in coherent English?

Your incoherent replies are the result of your poor english skills. Either find a better translator online or don't bother commenting at all.

No wonder why there is a term called Valve time lol

Same as it ever was.

@@StereoTyp0 Same as it ever was

@@cortex8239 Same as it ever was

@@jairiske Same as it ever was

The story actually sounds as convoluted as what you would find in an HL2RP server, makes me think that the original writer was probably a regular in those servers.

Would you like a stove?

HL2RP minus the cringe? Impossible, such an essential characteristic is necessary for it even to exist

I couldn't agree more.

Hl2rp minus cringe would be amazing but it will never happen.

and I appreciate that they do that

@@C.A._Old get some help

@@C.A._Old whyd you post this on a completely unrelated comment instead of just making your own? Are you old or something?

With how much money they've been raking in for years through Steam alone, I imagine they're not exactly rushed to get a game out for profit. After resting on their laurels for so long, it's been very refreshing to see this kind of passion in AAA game development again.

@@MaxCE he sounds like father grigori

Yep.

yeah it's like what greg bear did to the forerunners when he was hired to write at 343

Yeah pretty much the whole point of HL2 was that Breen sold out the whole of humanity to the combine, whilst Eli was one of the few people with the knowledge and contacts to build a meaningful resistance. Changing that in the prequel makes so little sense it's bizarre.

They tried to do Eli like Disney did Luke Skywalker

i like to think about it like this if this was the retail story i believe he would have did it for alyx so alyx could grow up with a somewhat normal childhood and alyx had to convice eli that him selling out to the combine would make things worse

POOR LAZLO

He was the greatest man that the resistance had.

imagine if lazlo was gordon freemans son, so in hl2 gordon unknowingly watched his kid die right infront of him

I legitimately laughed out loud when I heard that line in HL2.

Lazlo, if he survived the antlions, could've told Gordon that he must become the Half-Life to defeat the Universal Union.

Also Valve: Let's make a MOBA lmao

It's because Valve has near-infinite money with Steam and its games microtransactions alone. Money is the least of their concerns, so they can take ALL the time in the world, which is also a problem because it easily leads to development hell.

Easy to do when you have Steam as an unlimited money press.

Lool. There are companies like Naughty dogs, insomniac which delivery a great game at a reasonable time. Even rockstar releases games more often than valve and are better products too.

@@vijayvishwa6512 ah yes jank horse simulator and online money printer 5

Now imagine having both of them lead a new HL project they started from scratch. Oh wait, isn't it what's already happening with HLX?

@@Thibmac49 a man can dream ♥

@@Thibmac49 HLX?

That's what you get when you hire actual writers to do your writing.

And yet none of them matched Marc's level of writing.

maybe she's got some kind of combine tech stored in her thighs lmao

Han do be looking like Grimace

Not realy tick but like realy wide

They need to compete with Resident Evil

Yeah she's got like cartoon proportions. It'd really weird next to all the more normal looking people

Yeah, the cut story sounds like complete ass. Like the writer had been watching Game of Thrones & felt a need to 'subvert expectations' regardless of whether it made a good story.

Yeah, but honestly Its still not up to the quality of Laidlaw

Story in Half-Life games was never extraordinary. Their narratives have a specific function - to connect every element of the game, but the story itself is not something special.

@@damienscott6561 Why So?

@@namenotfound6954 because Half-Life is not story-centric game?

Yes yes yes!

God,that woulda been great. From voicelines to animations to worldbuilding, every bit gets used by modders and SFM creators!

they can make another half vr game but have it centered on Lazlo and we can play through his life until he dies on the beach.

I hope valve makes a DLC to half Life alyx where you can go through the residential area and talk to people and going to buildings and seeing the propaganda and other fun things

wait, they are? can you give a few examples?

@@clamdove3292 in half life alyx and the beta iterations of the game, valve reused concepts Like the grenade Hopwire (xen grenade), the cremators (a cut enemy that was going to return but got scrapped again), combine aestethics, etc.

@@delawarevex4976 Also the Vorti-cells

@@clamdove3292 The Borealis now belongs to Aperture Science instead of a generic ice breaker, the ant lion mines were originally going to lead to a Captain Vance’s hidden base, the train crash from the start of Episode 2 is identical to the one that would have happened at the Air Exchange. The list goes on. I know the HL2 beta had done amazing ideas, but it was too ambitious and bloated. I’ve got a copy of Raising the Bar, but seeing as they’re in the hundreds of dollars try looking for pdf online if you haven’t read it. There’s plenty of cut content you’ll recognise.

@@delawarevex4976 all the unused assests and concepts will certainly give modders mountians of ammo to expand HL:Alyx, I do love that valve tosses in and includes a lot of this stuff, and it would be interesting to see some of the cut map sections restored/reimagined to fit with the (deffinitly better) story we got since it will probably take a while for HL3, HL:Alyx 2, or any other major VR project to come out, unless Alyx has put them in a VR making frenzy

Combine Guard's my first, and Cremator's a close second. Just LOOK at the massive cannon it has!

For me personally mr. friendly holds the number 1 spot, but I agree the cremator is probably the best known and also the most interesting in terms of lore.

There are a lot of references for the cremator In half life 2. For example the "weird head looking thing" In black mesa east and some charred bodies throut half life 2. The most subtle one must be at the begining of hl2 when g-man says "So wake up Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the *ASHES* ".

Key word -ashes It could mean many things. Ashes as If they are the only thing that Is left of the past human culture before the 7 hour war.

@@trager8933 I don’t think the cremator exists,it could be just a reference.It makes no sense why they wouldn’t know the weird head is a cremator because they roam in the city too.As for the ashes part i think it’s a reference to the aftermath of the “fire” that Gordon started at Black Mesa,thus the ashes.

I doubt that. Valve just let the community modders do the hell they wish if they want to just like create a bridging story for their games.

There's definitely not going to be a conclusion. Valve makes way more money from steam and they have basically stated that they have no reason to develop any more games

@@johnnyringo5777 Half Life: Alyx's existence goes against all that though. They clearly care enough to continue making games. It may not be the financial focus, but I would be extremely suprised if they didn't use the set up from the end of HL:A to continue and eventually conclude the Half Life story.

@@Ddarkan this is literally like the meme from invincible. Think, there wasn't even readily available VR tech for average people until 2010. That means that they couldn't even have started production of Alyx until 2010, and they didn't even begin making it until February of 2016. Alyx released in 2020 so it had 4 years of development, 4 YEARS, Alyx was in development for less time than half life 2! They haven't been working tirelessly on its story and features for 17 years, it only took them 4, so therefore they could've released half life 3 by now and they would've if they wanted to. The fact is that they left fans hanging for 17 years for no reason. They aren't "taking their time", they simply aren't even working on it.

Pessimist vs Optimist

They even did that with Half-Life 2 and 1

Yeah, they really are. But you have to give them credit, "it'll come when it's ready" is something they actually live by, unlike every other company to utter those hollow words.

Valve has the money to take their time, others have investors to please

@Wayne's Odyssey that may be so when it comes to waiting on content but when it releases it sure does please.

@@barple367 this

Yes, the first one. Half-Life's Alpha is much more cartoony, stylized, and less realistic than the final game.

@@commisso3806 early half life also featured guards killing scientists for causing the cascade and ditches full of dead bodies being burned. it seemed to be much more dissonant with its silly kind of textures and dark actions.

@@brastionskywarrior6951 im also adding the fact that monster who...eh you know...that monster yeah...

Dark and Griddy

I agree. I was waiting for actual npc interactions the entire game

lol

Cries with tf2

@@fatis2745 Cries in Kazotsky Kick Taunt

release it with index? they would put it ON PREORDER WITH AMAZING NEW SKINS DLC

Tf2 👀

Actually any other company would've made a proper sequel a decade ago 🥶

"3th"

@@cloudedarctrooper lmao

threeth

Thirth

3rd half life still sounds so weird lmao

Which is the right way.

They kinda made Enviromental Storytelling, after all

yeah it sounds like the halo media written by greg bear, halo 4 the foreunner trilogy etc, which is a bad sign

@@grailw9221 I knew there was a reason I couldn't get into those books (apart from them being in first-person).

If you want to know more, you can buy the final hours of half life:alyx on steam for 9.99 I highly recommend it and it’s worth every penny!

@@buttons9627 idk, that would translate to approximately 60 bucks in my country, but I might buy it one day lol

I already knew everything he said in the video plus a ton of extra details just from binging his streams. If you want more details, he talks about this stuff all the time in them

@@xande5345 spotted a brazilian

@@CorredorDigital_ unfortunately

TF2 had 3 reworks. Portal 2 had one.

I mean... Its really the truth about Valve. Every game they remade from scrap argueably was better from what they initially planned. After what Tyler told us here, im not sure Half Life: Alyx would be praised the same way like the final build would have been. The ending of Half Life: Alyx got me goosebumps not any other Valve game ever made me have... That ending was simply pure, watching it the first time 2 years ago I remember I was all like "NO FREAKING WAY, THEY JUST CONFIRMED HL3???!!". It simply was the best ending ive seen from a Half Life game. All jokes aside, HL3 is going to happen even if its going to take few more years ahead of us... It IS going to happen. And im sure they would rework everything from the ground up when it does lol, I would even say more than once sense this is going to need to be their best HL game ever made. And I can see why Valve are probably currently afraid to work on such a thing but with that been said, im so happy they are quite literally back in the game.

I'm not sure if you were referencing it, but nice nod to Condition Zero's Deleted Scenes.

@@omegasquadfrisk6397 I was thinking of CZ:CS, good catch

Problem being that Valve hates DLCs and will probably hide this content as much as possible

Half Life Alyx Episode 1

leaked half life x will probably be a hla dlc. I hope that its main character will be adrian so much

We are lucky we even got the Final Hours.

Yeah and the saddest part for me is that they cutted SO MUCH of the city's map, I would love to see Alyx talking with people and exploring places

@@xande5345I think it could have been a bad thing for replays, but the world building would have been awesome!

I think they cut it out for a reason. Eli doesn't really seem like himself here. And the G-Man stuff doesn't seem to make a ton of sense. AND it doesn't really seem to lead in to HL3 or play with timelines, unless there's stuff in there we don't know.

If they called it non canon then they'd have to confirm that canon actually exists for Half-Life, which they don't seem to like the idea of doing

@@Y3SkyBreaker all their released games are canon.

@@KalkuehlGaming Marc Laidlaw has said before that the canon is something for the fans to come up with and that Valve don't have an official stance on what is and isn't canon. That stance might have changed over time but looking at their games it still seems like they're following it, given that they retcon stuff constantly. All their games are technically canon but they're also non-canon so that they can rewrite the story if they need to, same reason they haven't given a definitive timeline of events for HL/Portal either If you want a weird retcon that not many people mention and doesn't make any sense otherwise, take a look at Kleiner. According to HL1's manual, Kleiner was Gordon's university professor and he's the one that recommended Gordon for the job at Black Mesa. He didn't work there. Kleiner being a researcher was later retconned into HL2, which wouldn't make any sense if every game was canon Long story short I wouldn't think too much about the canon of Half-Life because it doesn't really exist. The best way to think about it is to think of every game in the series as its own canon (HL1 + the expansions, HL2 + the episodes, HLA + whatever they release next). There are shared elements between each major installment, such as character names, designs, etc, but every game is its own standalone story pretty much

REEEEEEEEEEEE

You clicked faster then gman can be confusing

Yeah I think that's exactly what they'll do. They probably censored Keighley because some of this stuff is getting re-used in HLVR2.

Yeah, he kept saying another time, did anything end up happening with this. Is there a video about it?

It wouldnt make much sence

@@TwistedEgg its wishful thinking, obviously it wont happen.

Plus they might want to revisit some things and don't want to reveal it to outside

HLA is somewhat overrated in story. I like the ending but I don't like Eli being captured again, and I don't like how the Vortigaunt side plot was half assed

Yeah sounds like it would of went way more into the workings of Combine society and the citizens lives within it which is just something we get a brief glimpse at in HL2, the combine sympathizer party is an interesting concept as well this honestly sounded more interesting than the current HLA plot which is pretty barebones and I really didn't like some of the stuff they did like imprisoning G-man and retconning the Episode 2 ending.

First part, meh. Second part? Awesome, if done right. Would've been a cool lore thing on the side but probably shouldn't be the main plot.

@@shrub8644 I don't see how the combine workers party would be a thing, consenting humans for the combine cause?

@@TerraSept Nazis and stalinists and cultists all exist. People aren't immune to propaganda and maybe there were benefits like with civil protection.

@@shrub8644 I can see the benefits yeah and if that were the case then it'd make sense, and maybe very few people would join based off of belief but, cultists and Nazis and stalinists all have this idea that what they're doing is right, I don't know what kind of mental gymnastics would have to happen for someone to see the complete take over of earth, the draining of the oceans, the subjection of every human, as something that is good, even with immense propaganda. Maybe I'm giving humans too much credit

@@shrub8644 Also there's the case of family and friends. I doubt that anyone would see what the combine would do to their family and friends and still be able to be brainwashed to that extent

Nice

I agree, though I like the ideas the plot was based on. Should've been tuned down and made into optional lore stuff.

@@shrub8644 It would have been cool to learn more about the Vortessence, but Eli selling out to the Combine? That would _never_ happen. Talk about breaking character...

@@NaruSanavai I mean that's the one thing I really didn't like about this plot

Why

There was alot more going on in them but to the point to where its busy and messy

@@Soup_of_goop True, it makes sense that they didn't work out.

And yeah the character writing didn't seem good, but I wish they kept some of these ideas in the final product. I basically wanted more lore and interactive/story elements.

Nah, that was clearly Mossman. However I agree that it may have been Han originally and just kept that in, that's why the voice is different.

@@GTAram855 The combine scientist in HL:A is not Mossman

@@GTAram855 not Mossman

It's definitely a version of her. That one scene is the sole remnant of that entire cut character and she provides one of the most important twists of the game.

@@WASTOIDSUPREME jep she has no name in the game han is a bit wierd

Hahn got me acting up

more like baking a pizza, and when it comes out it's a cake somehow

@@littlesnowflakepunk855 fair enough