I prefer this cliffhanger. Now, we can move on to Half Life 3 without it feeling weird. Let's be honest, HL2 Episode 3 was way past due, to the point where it would be weird to release it in this day and age. Valve did the smart thing by creating a spin-off game that managed to be a great game on it's own merit while resolving one of the most frustrating cliffhangers in video game history in a way that both makes sense in the context of the world of Half Life, while also leaving enough room for enterpretation. Will Gordon find Alyx? Where did G-Man take her? Will we finally know G-Man's intentions? We will find out in another 13 years lol
I did share the same chuckle, but just inmediately I felt kind of cheated... I mean, I (we all) played as Gordon and made unbelievable advancements towards fighting the combine. And now the G-MAN just discards him as if he hadn't gone above and beyond?? That sucked, Gordon deserves better
@@maurogalindez3901 Well we cant say that defeating the combine was Gman's and his employers' goal. Gordon made a mess of the combine but that's not the reason Gman brought him out of stasis
@@breakerboy365 i dont know. Fighting the combine seems the most obvious and likely reason but why then would gman state that he didnt perform his tasks (unless he was lying)? We just dont know
is gman the embodiment of the source engine itself? dictating the course of the game. and the ramifications of it's modifications? 🤔 not really... but fun to think about.
i just imagine adrian and alyx talking to eachother in the void "so, what are you in for?" "well you see i tried to save this guy named gordon freeman, but-" "...."
I like how Gordon Freeman is such a badass that when they heard whatever was in the vault survived Black Mesa, they just assume it's him and not like, an alien or something. Nobody even questions it.
@@RatedKforKevin I remember hearing they were keeping something inside and thought, "Wait, the Gman, maybe?" I knew it made sense given he's a huge threat (and goes on to release Gordon on them), but figured that maybe having them capture the Gman went too far, and accepted that maybe Gordon's being held there (despite it's incongruity with Half-Life 2's opening).
@whatsacone Although barely used as a weapon; its symbolic of Gordon Freeman’s escape from Black Mesa and is used as a symbol of resistance against unknown and higher powers.
@@ogulcanors5529 the guy behind G Man. He had a soldier's uniform on, it might have been Adrian Shepard. Valve has confirmed his existence in their timeline some time ago
@@avtechnick5845 I saw some people say they were convinced it was Kleiner because he is conspicuously missing for the whole game. I could see that. But G-Man really was the best option here
@@tacticalpossum7090 No he was not. Gordon have been in stasis all this time you are talking about. He wasn't in a position yet, to do something that would disapoint G-Man.
When the vortigaunt woke Gorden up, it is implied that this went against the contract that G-man and Gorden had with eachother. As such, he retroactively chose to appear to alyx and give her a contract, letting Eli live
@@TonyOneBlairoby This line has confused me so much. That is what I thought, so why is Gman talking in a condescending tone about Gordon as if he was disappointed in him? I don't understand lol
@@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 i would love to see him in another game, Valve is disappointing honestly. They have so much great material to work with, even with Marc gone i bet they still have rough drafts
@@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 Arkane briefly signed on to work on a spin-off of Half-Life 2 set in Ravenholm that would have featured Adrian Shephard as a protagonist, but it got cancelled.
I love how they retroactively made the G-Man's message from ep2 make more sense. He had Alyx tell her dad 'prepare for unforseen consequences', said consequences apparently being his death. Not much use for saying that to him if he dies anyway, right? This, though, makes much more sense!
This also explains why Gman had control over Alex, being able to implant a message she would deliver to Eli She probably does not remember al this to have happened until a suitable time comes round again for Gman to share them with her
@@MrDwarfpitcher anyways all jokes aside, My theory is that the butterfly effect exists in the HL universe so when the voritguants freed gordon from gman, he timetraveled to be captured by the combine and eventually be freed by alyx and hire her. And then the changes rippled to the present which is the ending of hl2
@@MrDwarfpitcher I think it's more him going back in time since he definitely isn't bound to time. He (IMO) has gone back in time to "employ" Alyx, after Gordon acted in "Unsatisfactory ways"
Calling it now, its eventual trailer will troll us with the "can't count to three" thing. Title will fade into appearance like: HALF LIFE ...... E E E R E E F R E E M A N
Probably why he needed her alive? Her fate was already set in stone from the moment she changed the future, so that she vanished the moment the "concequence" accured...
InfernoJoe I think it’s sort of neat given how HL2 goes off the timeline that Gordon accepts his offer and HL3 would now go off the timeline that Alyx takes his offer too. Multiverse theory is dope
@@mxcascade Nah its not multiverse I think Valve wants to go away from Marc Laidlaw's story because he already told it after he retired. They used HL:A to see how a game in Vr would perform and any changes they could make and also to change to story. This sets up Half Life 3 perfectly.
@@MrSpruce Speak for yourself. I was always wondering "when". I thought they would target this upcoming console generation because the previous was too weak, not enough of a step up to deliver a genuine upgrade over HL2. Looks like that's exactly what they're doing.
@@MrSpruce when you start looking into it you relize they spent most of the time between making a new engine to run the game and bouncing ideas about what the next game would be so it starts to explan why it took so long. Its like wine it takes time.
@@forasago i knew Valve would do this, one way or around. But they most certainly didn't look at the console market. Valve are basically fathers of PC gaming and they never looked to make the games for consoles in the first place. What I have thought throughout the years, is that Valve was actually making a completely new game engine (check) and new ways to play the game (check).
You're only seeing one eye. The person playing sees a combination of this screen and one to the right producing the 3d. No videos will ever do the game justice but I'm glad people are showing it.
@@arg7380 I think they know we have been waiting so long for this they may have already started work long before this possibly working on Alyx and HL3 at the same time or at least I hope so
“As a consequence of your this entity will continue and this entity will not.” I love that line because it shows how an Advisor to us is force not to be reckoned with but to the G-man they’re just another lab rat to be observed and tested with.
I can’t figure out what such an advanced being like the G-man would want with humanity. Perhaps whatever its “employers” are are at war or in conflict with the combine. The Combine seem to have an insurmountable amount of power spread far and wide, but most of what we know about the Combine seems tangible. The G-man shows to have some sort of metaphysical abilities, which could be the only threat to the Combine. To me that explains Gordon and Alyx’s badassery as well, given that they are monitored by the G-man when we play as them.
@@EP-nl6fd my thinking is that to some extent G-man just cares about getting getting people as capable as Alyx, Freeman, and Shephard hired into his organization, knocking the combine off of earth could potentially be little more than an incidental side effect of that, hence why G-man doesn't just knock the combine off earth when Alyx requests it.
@@EP-nl6fd "Did you realise your services were open to the highest bidder?" imo G-Man and his employers don't really have their own end goal but are more of an interdimensional hiring agency/mercenary provider. Other interdimensional forces go through them when they want something done. G-Man doesn't have plans for humanity, but he's the company's way of monitoring Earth, selecting potential agents and nudging things in accordance with their client's wishes. In Half-Life 2, G-Man and his faction aren't at war with the Combine themselves, but one of their clients is in conflict with them and so uses their services to disrupt their operations on Earth.
Everybody: *doing complicated maths and memes to confirm Half Life 3* Valve: *does next level math creating a new game engine and 10 hour story to confirm HL3* This game was a 12 year old HL3 reference in the making
I like how not only does this setup Half-Life 3, it sets up a _completely different_ Half-Life 3. So Project Borealis is the original Laidlaw timeline, and now we're on the new Valve timeline.
Thanks to that project, we don't have to bother about the 'original' ending of Gordon's arch (We will have both endings, nothing was lost in this painful waiting process)
What i'm wondering is how G-man and his employers have any trouble regarding anything. They have time travel and parallel realities at their desposal, making them... basically gods. They can solve problems before they exist.
I've read from somewhere that high ranking/the elite Combine are 5D beings. This explains why something like a grub shaped advisor is able to float and levitate. They have also been said to subjugate several universes already. I think G-man's advisors and the Combine are at each other's throats. But knowing that G-man was disappointed with Gordon after he destroyed the Combine portal. G-man already said this in the vid but just like he said, having the combine off earth wouldn't align with the interest of his employers.
G-Man is literally Q and his employers are like The Continuum Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation. And the Combine Empire is pretty similar to The Borg Collective.
What is an animal to a human? To an animal a human can do just about anything: Destroy entire ecosystems, create artificial ones, create massive canals connecting two oceans, ect. But there is another layer to this that animals would not understand, Humans also abide by their own laws be they international treaties, zoning laws, or just community guidelines, ect. Now think of Humanity, Vorts, and maybe even the Combine as "animals" to G-man and his employers being "human." To us how incomprehensible could the "laws" they follow be to being such as us?
From what i know since Opposing Force was made by Gearbox it isn’t cannon. Which really sucks because it might be my favorite Half-Life game Edit: I understand it’s cannon no need to post another 15 replies.
Note on 2:36 how the G-man splits into two as he answers Alyx's request. He just created two Universes. One in which he said yes, and one in which he said no.
Half-life : Lamarr Adventure ( game where player control Kleiner pet, the headcrab. Venture around city and cause Mischief to other people or entity it could find along the way. Rip-off gameplay from Untitled Goose Game basically. )
The symbolism of us, Half-Life fans literally 'picking up' the crowbar again after all this time... Maybe I'm overthinking this but this gave me chills...
Holy shit, HL3 is such a massive title that the only reasonable way that Valve thought to announce it was by releasing a revolutionary, industry-shaking title. In all seriousness, that ending's incredible.
I had this theory for a long time that the only way Valve would be able to not have HL3 be a let-down would be to release HL2: Ep 3 first announcing HL3 within it.
@@chiffmonkey HL:2 episode 3 would be just as big of a reveal since people were literally asking for Episode 3 and expecting it years ago. The meme of asking for HL:3 evolved from asking for when’s Episode 3?
Yes! After this ending it would have been boring if they just casually kept the story going from where they left. This made things extremely interesting.
@@thee-wastegamer4044 so he will stay in the void prision forever? maybe the vortiguans can release him and help him to join the fenix forces to fight agains the combine to buy more time
@@KizaruB have you played the games? Alyx does just as much as Gordon does in HL2 in terms of being able to handle combine soldiers, they have equal amounts of plot armor. The g-man saved her from black mesa as another investment into "brilliant people". Now he's cashing out. It's implied g-man or his employers are omnipotent and break the fourth wall a bit. The story completely justifies it by nature. Also at this point Gordon is facing more "retribution" and the residence regardless of what happens. That's probably why g-man wanted to get rid of him. He kept misbehaving
I want to see a half life game other than Opposing Force where Shepard is running around with the military grunt text yelling, like “SHIT. WE. GOT. COMBINE.”
Subtle things I noticed and probably some other people too. When Alyx asks Gman who is he, he says “what I am” which means he’s not someone but a thing, just like Nithlanth tells us “he’s not a man” When Gman talks about Gordon not willing to do his biding. He’s talking about episode 1 and 2 when those Vortigaunts take Gordon away from Gman. Which means that the Vortigaunts know what Gman is and what he is up too. And that they somehow convinced Gordon to disobey him, but since Gordon doesn’t speak, is hard to tell how or when that happened. That can be proven when Gordon seals the portal with the rocket in episode two, because Gman says to Alyx in this game, that having the combine out of Earth was not in his Employers interests. And finally, when The title Alyx starts to fade away. The y looks like an downsides lambda symbol, the classic Half Life symbol, why is it upside down? Who knows, but like a cross upside down. I don’t think is a good sign.
A cross upside down is not a symbol of anti-Christianity. It's symbol of Saint Peter. The upside-down lambda I believe is a deliberate choice by the designers.
I found some info online (to which sources I don't remember) that GMan is actually a physical part of a Shu'ulathoi (the name of the Advisor creature) and is not used to using a lung for talking.
From a drawing in :Alyx, the Lambda is actually Freeman holding the crowbar down at the top of the Citadel, which means the fight's over. This one is Freeman holding the crowbar up, ready to fight.
Well, it's actually a leftover from the earlier variant of finale. Alyx, who used to be voiced by Merle Dandridge until she was changed to Akagha would ask him where the weapon is and guess if it's in the briefcase or he IS a weapon.
@@rafoigraextra7441 It'd still be Half Life 3, or whatever they wind up calling it. Just because she changed the future to save her Dad, doesn't mean Gordon's story won't continue on (literally as he's being given the crowbar to continue on) as is just with Eli Vance still alive instead of dead and Alyx, someplace else doing G-Man stuff or in stasis etc.
At first I was a little sceptical about this, about time travel. But not only the Gman was already able to momentarily stop time, multiple timelines always existed in HL I think. There was a timeline where Gordon refused the G-Mans first offer and was left to die in Xen. There was another where he took Gordon out of the citadels explosion and no vortigaunts intervened (or arrived later) so he put him on stasis once again (as the original ending of HL2, episode one revealed the vortigaunts). And there was a timeline where Eli Vance died. All of these where altered by the G-Man.
The people writing and developing HL:A actually looked through Half Life canon for any examples of time travel so they could get their plan to set up the next Half Life game in place, and they concluded the Vorts rescuing Alyx and preventing the G-Man from putting Gordon in stasis to be what they were looking for.
I didn't notice when I played because I was more distracted with seeing Dog again hahaha which is why seeing this just now gave me chills that he was there the whole time
Yeah I chuckled at that lol but I am surprised they either got the original G-Man VA back, or someone who sounds just like him. Pretty good stuff, though Eli sounded a bit off to me, but considering Robert Guillaume passed away recently, obviously they had someone else playing him and did a pretty good job overall.
This is how I understand it (or probably misunderstand it): We know that Gordon was "hired" by the G-Man and kept in stasis for 20 years after the ending of HL1. Alyx was rescued from Black Mesa by the G-Man and Eli is aware of him and his actions. In the intro HL2: Episode 1 Gordon was released from the G-Man's control by the Vortigaunts, so the G-Man lost a valueable entity for his plans. In Episode 2 he talked about his interest in the worth of Alyx. He ordered Gordon to bring her safely to White Forest, so she can warn her father about "unforeseen consequences", which I thought was either Eli's death or the Borealis. The G-Man used the death of Eli Vance to "hire" Alyx as a replacement for Gordon Freeman, as the Vortigaunts seem to protect him from the influence of the G-Man. The timeline of Half-Life between HL2 and HL2: Episode 2 will remain the same except the ending of Episode 2. Because now Eli is alive, Gordon back to consciousness and the G-Man has now the same control over Alyx, as he had over Gordon Freeman.
I think that Alyx from HL:A will maybe forget about this sequence, and somehow Gman will manage to make her story continue. Because in that way he takes Alyx from the future, form EP2. Otherwise the whole story of HL2 and episodes is rewritten because Alyx is gone, and she never rescued Gordon. Also that explains why Eli reacts to Alyx suddenly disappearing
Seems accurate. The weird thing is that Eli seems to understand exactly what happened, so it wasn't a full "time travel undoes all of HL2 and onwards" kinda deal. The advisor that was killed also seemed to see what was happening before the time-stop. So it's not really a full ret-con, but some weird time-manipulation stuff.
Wait a second...we've seen gman can control alyx, right? Maybe gman is going to have her do something terrible that will benefit him and his "employers". I have a feeling HL3 will be about saving alyx..this is nuts
If the timelines and stories confuses you, it means that gman is that “strong” and his powers are literally as far as anyone can ever “see” or “imagine”. Thats kinda a great coverup for the developer’s part
Date: March 23, 2020. Today was the release of Half-Life Alyx, Valve's biggest VR title. The game's ending... gives us "something promising." Let me put it simply. After all the memes, speculation and such... it's now safe to say the words we've been saying for years. *Half-Life 3 confirmed*
@@TimeBomb014X do you really think valve would just make one game and disappear again for a decade? That just makes no sense. Valve said themselves they wanted to make games again.
So if I am to understand it correctly, the events of HL 2 and its two episodes still happened, but right after when the screen fades out in Episode 2, Alyx suddenly vanishes, Eli is back to life, and the Advisor is fried on the floor, dead, giving us the post-credit sequence.
I wonder if Alyx will be completely unaware of the events of Half-Life 2 and the Episodes, or if she'll now have two contradictory sets of memories, one based on the series of events portrayed in HL:2 and another based on the ending of this game. I feel like either could be interesting and it will be interesting to see how they deal with the fact that Gordon's journey in HL:2 becomes effectively impossible with Alyx out of the picture.
@@keeraweera20 What are you talking about? If I am correct, Half Life: Opposing Force was also made by Valve. Half Life: Blue Shift also comes to mind, as you literally meet the protagonist (Barney Calhoun) in the beginning of Half Life 2.
@@uncapoeltroesmaxd173 Well, we do not know for Opposing Force, but you cannot say that for Blue Shift considering Barney Calhoun is in Half Life 2, and he is also the protagonist of Blue Shift.
Each time the Gman doubles himself it's another timeline being created. Most visible at 2:34 where Gman himself goes away and vanishes and a copy of him takes over. The other copy most likely accepted the nudge, while this staying copy declined.
What if he actually checks those timelines, really quickly to see what would happen if he did do it and he probably denied because he knew something worse would happen.
@@toothbrush-guy More than likely is, he checked the future, then saw that it would be far too dangerous/would result in events of the episode 2 ending we saw.
I love how valve explicitly state the death of the old storyline: “this entity will continue, and this entity will not”. Not creature, entity... Struggled to find suitable replacement, i think they might refer to a developer team and/or storyline to carry on.
Eric Miret mate, the major storywriter and his storyline left valve, not to mention some of his fellow developers. But excluding all that, the original story line can also be referred to as the “entity” in question.
"Struggled to find suitable replacement" line can also mean the difficulties they faced when developing Source 2 engine, at least that's the way I see it.
After so many years, we finally have a decent means of continuing the plot. Before we had to find Judith Mossman on the Borealis. Not to mention dealing with the remaining combine forces. Now on top of that we have to find Alyx, deal with the G-Man and the "employers". There are so many questions that need answering.
at this point they can even ditch borealis and the arctic and go somewhere else, hell I wouldn't be surprised if the larger part of the next game would take place in Xen or somewhere else(another dimension)
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@@Irrelavant__ I think not. If the Borealis has the features discribed in the Laidlaw's epistle 3, then it will be very much the way to go after G-man, provided that Eli change his mind about using the ship.
Just finished the game without being spoiled. When I heard the HEV suit noise, I shed a tear. When I saw my own hands, I saw Gordon Freeman’s hands. These are tears of hope. We can finally say, Half Life 3 has been confirmed.
The thing about Laidlaw's story is that the game would have been too short. Judging by what he wrote, the game would have been around the same length as the other HL2 episodes. Sure, that would have worked as a satisfying conclusion to the story if the game was released like a year or two after Episode 2, but after 10 years of hype, it would have been a ridiculous anticlimax. Plus, I believe that, on a metanarrative level, this retcon is telling the fans of the series that this is a different thing and that it's gonna deviate from Valve's initial vision. They're basically saying "Hey, this is a different team, with a different writing staff. Don't expect this to fit in with the rest of the HL games".
The story he published was for an episode three that would have been continued by other games. The continuation is practically the same aswe will get: Alyx gets taken by G-man and gordon is "freed" in both the episode 3 story and in HL:A
I understand the retcon, as much as it does feel a bit weird. It makes sense, Valve haven't touched this franchise since 2007 so adding a new ending to Episode: 2 allows them to form a new story without being forced to do the plot they set up over a decade ago. We've seen that Valve can still make a good game and as long as Half-Life 3 follows through with this, it will be okay.
CIA 4U what? Its another cliff hanger. It entirely changes what we knew about ep 3. If you read "Epistle 3" which was supposed to be hl3's story, its completley thrown out the window so we now have no idea whats gonna happen next
I love Valve because they always have to do things different to the usual or expected, not because they can, but because they know how to make it work.
No, man! He's here! We're gonna be alright! (Marine, talking to another blind marine, referring to the Master Chief arriving in the level Crow's Nest in Halo 3. I play Halo too much. Hahaha )
He probably wanted to come up with a plan to deal with G-man once and for all. Once the Combine are out of the picture, there is no telling what the G-man would do next.
joey zandbergen why’s everyone gotta be such a buzzkill ? There is such a thing as retconning I think the ending fits perfectly a massive fan base of half life now has renewed hope for a sequel
The occasional glow of his eyes no doubt signifies the Gman as a higher being, I am pretty sure many theory videos beforehand noted his strange eye color being 'otherworldly'. When it glows as he first approaches Alyx is truly menacing, and almost reassuring of the fact that the Gman, is no man at all.
Anyone else find it funny that the Gman never asked Gordon what he wanted in return for becoming his "employee" (and Gordon couldn't reply anyway), but Alyx was at least asked what she wanted done?
Okay, so I think that after Gordon slipped through G-Man's after the end of HL2, the G-Man decided to go back in time so he could recruit Alyx. Gordon was constantly protected from the G-Man by the vortigaunts and therefore was "unable" or "unwilling to perform the tasks laid before him". My theory is that the G-Man LET himself be captured by the Combine to sort of "test" Alyx and see if she could release him. After Alyx freed the G-Man from the alien prison, she got "hired" by him. What brings me to the thought that G-Man travelled back in time is the pure and simple fact that he already knew about Eli's death and the fact that Gordon escapes his grasp 5 years into the future. It is entirely possible that the events of the ending of Episode 2 weren't meant to happen as Alyx's father was vital to the resistance and wasn't supposed to die. And therefore the "unforeseen consequences" weren't Eli's death, but rather the G-Man's retrieval of Alyx and the separation of father and daughter.
That's make sense why the g man in hl2 episode 2 forced (without her knowing) to tell her father about the unforeseen consequences, as it doesn’t make any sense for her to say this to her father if he dies, besides that alyx herself doesn’t even remember saying that to her father, what would make this g man’s warning meaningless to the eli about the unforeseen consequences
G-man basically just swapped Eli's and Alyx's roles. This does greatly changes things. Like is G-man still friend or foe? What plans does he have for Alyx? Will they be possitive effects or negative? And lastly, will the Combine's origins be truly revealed? Will we see their home world? Better yet, will we be able to finally defeat them for good? God, I really hope Half Life 3 comes in soon. VR or PC, I'm ready to see how all this gets concluded.
@Damian 2000 I already knew that g man knows the past, present and future, because there are certain alien races that for them time does not happen in a chronological way, as for us humans, like, for them the past, present and future occurs at the same time, an example of another alien race that has this ability are the vortigaunts, but although I know about this ability to "know the future" i didn’t know that the g man could change it
Another great Valve's attention to detail: you'll see G-Man looks fade away and looking away at 2:36 which maybe indicates that he paused the time during talking with Alyx to ask his employer afterwards
Yeah, Laidlaw's story seems to have been abandoned now. Alyx followed G-Man in Epistle 3 because he's already been controlling her, and I'm pretty sure that the Vorts accidentally weaved her life with his instead of Gordon's in Episode 2, causing the later events of Ep2.
![[SFM] G-Man Accepts the GOTY Award for Half-Life Alyx](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_vdpyGigU84/mqdefault.jpg)
13 years...and we have advanced 10 seconds further into the plot...this is so much more than I expected
Okay but half life 3 confirmed??
@@RageUnchained Valve confirmed another instance of the Half Life series. Now we play the waiting game... again
@Brooklyn Turner I estimate about 5 years from now until we get Half Life 3.
@@derpypixel4951 I hope the fans can keep safe to witness the sequel
@A Foi Production But half life 3 was confirmed, so it can’t be more than 10 years.
Heavy: It costs 113,000 hours to move the story of Half-Life forward...
For twelve seconds.
That's probably what Gaben earns in a second thanks to steam.
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twelve is divisible by 3 though
that means....
12 years = 12 secs
@@thienlongtran3169 expected, actually. tf2 uses hl2 engine and Valve's fanbase has the orange box as an icon of greatest games ever.
No one can spoil the ending if I watch it first.
I mean I guess you aren't wrong xD
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Valve: resolves cliffhanger
Also Valve: adds a new cliffhanger
except this cliffhanger gives us, and them, something to work with
I used the cliffhanger to destroy the cliffhanger
I screamed “goddamit valve” after the ending
10+ years later: they finally follow up on that only to yet again trade one cliffhanger for another
I prefer this cliffhanger. Now, we can move on to Half Life 3 without it feeling weird. Let's be honest, HL2 Episode 3 was way past due, to the point where it would be weird to release it in this day and age. Valve did the smart thing by creating a spin-off game that managed to be a great game on it's own merit while resolving one of the most frustrating cliffhangers in video game history in a way that both makes sense in the context of the world of Half Life, while also leaving enough room for enterpretation. Will Gordon find Alyx? Where did G-Man take her? Will we finally know G-Man's intentions? We will find out in another 13 years lol
Rest in Peace to all those who literally died, waiting for HL3.
Robert Guillaume for one
@Farglior X every Half Life fan waiting since 2007 till now that passed away, will never get to experience it.
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I found it funny how the G-Man is disappointed by Gordon's lack of progress. It's as if Valve is subtly mocking themselves for it.
Meta joke.
I did share the same chuckle, but just inmediately I felt kind of cheated... I mean, I (we all) played as Gordon and made unbelievable advancements towards fighting the combine. And now the G-MAN just discards him as if he hadn't gone above and beyond?? That sucked, Gordon deserves better
@@maurogalindez3901 Well we cant say that defeating the combine was Gman's and his employers' goal. Gordon made a mess of the combine but that's not the reason Gman brought him out of stasis
@@DanteKG. why else was gordon woken up and pointed towards the combine?
@@breakerboy365 i dont know. Fighting the combine seems the most obvious and likely reason but why then would gman state that he didnt perform his tasks (unless he was lying)? We just dont know
“As a consequence of your action this entity will continue and this entity will not” -Source engine console
Lmao
"There is only so much....entites, we can spawn, Alyx Vance..."
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is gman the embodiment of the source engine itself? dictating the course of the game. and the ramifications of it's modifications? 🤔
not really... but fun to think about.
@Eric Miret 🤔
i just imagine adrian and alyx talking to eachother in the void
"so, what are you in for?"
"well you see i tried to save this guy named gordon freeman, but-"
"...."
*VIKING GROANING*
*A N G R Y G A S M A S K S C R E A M I N G*
*angrily reloads MP5*
(Stopping Race X noises)
RELOADS MP5 WITH MALICIOUS INTENT
I like how Gordon Freeman is such a badass that when they heard whatever was in the vault survived Black Mesa, they just assume it's him and not like, an alien or something. Nobody even questions it.
Honestly when the I saw the G-Man I was like, “oh thats super obvious why didn’t I see that earlier...”
@@RatedKforKevin I remember hearing they were keeping something inside and thought, "Wait, the Gman, maybe?" I knew it made sense given he's a huge threat (and goes on to release Gordon on them), but figured that maybe having them capture the Gman went too far, and accepted that maybe Gordon's being held there (despite it's incongruity with Half-Life 2's opening).
nobody gives barney any credit
I want to know what will happen to Adrian Shephard.
@@AsianTheDomination now thats an avenger's level threat
It’s weird hearing Gman have a back and forth instead of just a monologue.
That's what happens when your protagonist can actually speak
EDIT: WOW DID NOT EXPECT THIS TO BLOW UP
THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER
@@daniel-andersson wow I just noticed gordan never spoke in the half life games. Kind of reminds me of claude from gta 3
Maybe Gordon's just shy.
Gordon can grunt in pain.
Philip Godsworth that’s what happens when you talk to an extrovert.
The game was just a big "Half Life 3 Confirmed" lmfao
well it's true.^^
I thought that game was a meme. Not an actual game in production. Wtf!?!?!?!?!?
@@user-uc9cu2lg9h How old are you?
@KneeHighNinja05 yeah I know what half life is. It's on psp
@@user-uc9cu2lg9h wat? the original half life is on pc, released in 1998!
“We got work to do” *as he hands Gordon his iconic crowbar*
Absolute euphoria
Everyone I've seen play this treats it with reverence. It's _immensely_ fitting.
Me: Suit up and get the helicopter ready, Eli.
We're going to the Borealis...
@whatsacone Although barely used as a weapon; its symbolic of Gordon Freeman’s escape from Black Mesa and is used as a symbol of resistance against unknown and higher powers.
We've got work to do. in like 10 years when hl3 releases
@whatsacone well the crowbar can one shot any headcrabs regardless of how much health they have, so.... that's something?
"We couldn't find a suitable replacement"
Meanwhile Adrian Shepard has been in stasis for 20+ years
Dude has probably been thrown into the trash.
Didn't you see? Gman tolds Alyx she will stay while Adrian gets free.
@@LennoxParsec what are you talking about?
@@ogulcanors5529 the guy behind G Man. He had a soldier's uniform on, it might have been Adrian Shepard. Valve has confirmed his existence in their timeline some time ago
@@MatadorShifter I think that was Gordon.
Alyx: *breaks combine prison*
*inside*
Barney: About that beer I owe ya-
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Not gonna lie, that would be one hell of a twist.
@@avtechnick5845 I saw some people say they were convinced it was Kleiner because he is conspicuously missing for the whole game. I could see that. But G-Man really was the best option here
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep i thought it was kleiner when i heard the people talking about some guy surviving the black mesa incident
"We have struggled to find a suitable replacement."
So that's why we've had to wait 13 years.
G-Man spent 13 years trying to find someone.
@@tacticalpossum7090 No he was not.
Gordon have been in stasis all this time you are talking about. He wasn't in a position yet, to do something that would disapoint G-Man.
When the vortigaunt woke Gorden up, it is implied that this went against the contract that G-man and Gorden had with eachother. As such, he retroactively chose to appear to alyx and give her a contract, letting Eli live
@@TonyOneBlairoby This line has confused me so much. That is what I thought, so why is Gman talking in a condescending tone about Gordon as if he was disappointed in him? I don't understand lol
@@Uollie same, gordon literally just accepted gman's offer before going into stasis
"We've struggled to find a suitable replacement" says G-Man as Adrian Shepard is stuck on an Osprey just chilling.
Gearbox expansions aren't canon I thought
@@zephyrp8836
They are canon
@@zephyrp8836 they are Canon, but we just haven't seen shepherd in another game yet
@@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 i would love to see him in another game, Valve is disappointing honestly. They have so much great material to work with, even with Marc gone i bet they still have rough drafts
@@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 Arkane briefly signed on to work on a spin-off of Half-Life 2 set in Ravenholm that would have featured Adrian Shephard as a protagonist, but it got cancelled.
I fell bad for kitty0706 , he didnt see Half Life 3 confirmation with his eyes. Rest in piece kitty..
man i wish kitty0706 was alive and come back :,(
Kitty0706 living in our hearts
I hope he seen it in the afterlife
Kitty is G-Man
U made me sad
"What if I could offer you something you don't know you want?"
*Briefcase contains Day of Defeat: Global Offensive*
Well, *i want it*
Oh god inb4 new meme template
Best comment i've ever seen
I would love that...
Team Fortress 3, DoD of Defeat: Source2, Quake 5, and Ricochet 2
I love how they retroactively made the G-Man's message from ep2 make more sense. He had Alyx tell her dad 'prepare for unforseen consequences', said consequences apparently being his death. Not much use for saying that to him if he dies anyway, right? This, though, makes much more sense!
This also explains why Gman had control over Alex, being able to implant a message she would deliver to Eli
She probably does not remember al this to have happened until a suitable time comes round again for Gman to share them with her
@@MrDwarfpitcher d-did you j-just call her ALEX?
@@MrDwarfpitcher anyways all jokes aside, My theory is that the butterfly effect exists in the HL universe so when the voritguants freed gordon from gman, he timetraveled to be captured by the combine and eventually be freed by alyx and hire her. And then the changes rippled to the present which is the ending of hl2
and there you see gman on the side watching them as he finally have a replacement
@@MrDwarfpitcher I think it's more him going back in time since he definitely isn't bound to time. He (IMO) has gone back in time to "employ" Alyx, after Gordon acted in "Unsatisfactory ways"
Now that we got Half Life: Alyx, I would love it if the next game's title is Half Life: Freemλn
A prequel - Black Mesa: Eli
Al Pantalone I feel like that would ruin things
Or just simply Half-Life 3.
Calling it now, its eventual trailer will troll us with the "can't count to three" thing. Title will fade into appearance like:
HALF LIFE
......
E
E E
R E E
F R E E M A N
@@Al_Pantalone Half-Life: citizen07
So Gman changes the future due to Alex's choice for saving her father. And half life 3 confirmed
Well that’s new. G-Man can stop and change time, while communicating to other beings
Probably why he needed her alive? Her fate was already set in stone from the moment she changed the future, so that she vanished the moment the "concequence" accured...
kyouda Best news I’ve heard in a long time
InfernoJoe I think it’s sort of neat given how HL2 goes off the timeline that Gordon accepts his offer and HL3 would now go off the timeline that Alyx takes his offer too.
Multiverse theory is dope
@@mxcascade Nah its not multiverse I think Valve wants to go away from Marc Laidlaw's story because he already told it after he retired. They used HL:A to see how a game in Vr would perform and any changes they could make and also to change to story. This sets up Half Life 3 perfectly.
We were wondering how they would announce Half-Life 3, they litteraly made a whole game to do it the absolute mad lads
Tbf nobody was wondering how they would announce HL3, but if.
@@MrSpruce Speak for yourself. I was always wondering "when". I thought they would target this upcoming console generation because the previous was too weak, not enough of a step up to deliver a genuine upgrade over HL2. Looks like that's exactly what they're doing.
@@MrSpruce when you start looking into it you relize they spent most of the time between making a new engine to run the game and bouncing ideas about what the next game would be so it starts to explan why it took so long. Its like wine it takes time.
@@forasago What are you on about?
@@forasago i knew Valve would do this, one way or around. But they most certainly didn't look at the console market. Valve are basically fathers of PC gaming and they never looked to make the games for consoles in the first place. What I have thought throughout the years, is that Valve was actually making a completely new game engine (check) and new ways to play the game (check).
Everyone's talking about how good he looks but not how he pointed the middle finger to Gman
Speedzracing yeah go away noob
@@Chappie432 get noob
@@Chappie432 noob
😂
@Walter Bennett fake walter fake walter
The moment you hear the HEV suit. Heck. Yes.
when i heard that voice i got chills like never before
I felt like if I was really wearing the suite and it was telling me, my life is in danger
I looked like that soy dude crying while watching a starwars trailer
Morphine administered
Funny thing, when you grab the crowbar it also makes an audible noise, as if meant to be thematic, but you can just spam grab it.
The guy playing: “I’m just gonna look anywhere but where the story is happening”
Also a middle finger. What a douche.
This is 1 of the problems of VR
@SpazzMellow You don't see it because the guy's not facing it
You're only seeing one eye. The person playing sees a combination of this screen and one to the right producing the 3d. No videos will ever do the game justice but I'm glad people are showing it.
G-man is on the left in the background watching Eli and Gordon, that's why.
Valve: Ha-
Community: Look he's going to say his first sentence!
Valve: Half-
Valve: Half-Life 3 confirmed.
*_THEY FUCKIN DID IT THEY FUCKIN' DID IT_*
@@CARLODDOCSI No u
@@ACCOUNTUNAVAILABLE7 yup except it wont be out for a decade. So are you down waiting 10 years to play it??
@@arg7380 I think they know we have been waiting so long for this they may have already started work long before this possibly working on Alyx and HL3 at the same time or at least I hope so
F a k e
“As a consequence of your this entity will continue and this entity will not.”
I love that line because it shows how an Advisor to us is force not to be reckoned with but to the G-man they’re just another lab rat to be observed and tested with.
I can’t figure out what such an advanced being like the G-man would want with humanity. Perhaps whatever its “employers” are are at war or in conflict with the combine. The Combine seem to have an insurmountable amount of power spread far and wide, but most of what we know about the Combine seems tangible. The G-man shows to have some sort of metaphysical abilities, which could be the only threat to the Combine. To me that explains Gordon and Alyx’s badassery as well, given that they are monitored by the G-man when we play as them.
@@EP-nl6fd my thinking is that to some extent G-man just cares about getting getting people as capable as Alyx, Freeman, and Shephard hired into his organization, knocking the combine off of earth could potentially be little more than an incidental side effect of that, hence why G-man doesn't just knock the combine off earth when Alyx requests it.
@@EP-nl6fd "Did you realise your services were open to the highest bidder?"
imo G-Man and his employers don't really have their own end goal but are more of an interdimensional hiring agency/mercenary provider. Other interdimensional forces go through them when they want something done. G-Man doesn't have plans for humanity, but he's the company's way of monitoring Earth, selecting potential agents and nudging things in accordance with their client's wishes. In Half-Life 2, G-Man and his faction aren't at war with the Combine themselves, but one of their clients is in conflict with them and so uses their services to disrupt their operations on Earth.
@UCDGZ8QJrYU6RpTEzAPymbqw will def read that. Really appreciate the reply brother ! I’ll come back after I read
@@EP-nl6fd Well, they clearly arent in conflict with the Combine, because G man says the combine off earth would be against his employers intrests.
I JUST NOTICED THIS
idk if this is been mentioned before or not but the advisor is literary looking at Alyx before she kills it
Yeah, I noticed it too. It is as if the advisor had a sudden deja vu moment and notices Alyx before the "retconning"
Also how the prison that G-Man is trapped in is shaped like a Nihilanth, weird...
It is hinted in the other games that that Advisor is Breen, in which case he/it would recognise Alyx
@@fellowship_of_the_goat how is that even possible when he is dead 🤦🏻♂️
@@Mr.PR2000 "a body, I can't possibly--- Alright fine, if that's what it takes."
Here we are all together. we got to see the beginning of Half Life 3. I cannot wait for Half Life 3 to Officially release
See you in 13 years
I suppose Gordon will be the playable character
Trying to defeat Gman
people have died waiting.
fuck that hurts
In 2024
Edit thanks for 11 likes
Everybody: *doing complicated maths and memes to confirm Half Life 3*
Valve: *does next level math creating a new game engine and 10 hour story to confirm HL3*
This game was a 12 year old HL3 reference in the making
10 hour story? Alyx took me 20 hours to complete lol. I took my time and soaked everything in and savored it all.
@@bjamiork well some of us are abit slow
@@mokies7811 not slow, but like to enjoy every single part of the game instead of yeeting through it.
Biggest meme of the year award goes to Valve
took me 15 hours
I like how not only does this setup Half-Life 3, it sets up a _completely different_ Half-Life 3.
So Project Borealis is the original Laidlaw timeline, and now we're on the new Valve timeline.
Thanks to that project, we don't have to bother about the 'original' ending of Gordon's arch (We will have both endings, nothing was lost in this painful waiting process)
It's like Half Life 2 beta mods, as well as the beta itself. Nothing was lost.
Maybe he knew this was going to happen, and that's why he released the Borealis timeline?
Why not both?
That... is actually genius. The fans get to make their fan project, and Valve's official product doesn't counteract it. Genius.
What i'm wondering is how G-man and his employers have any trouble regarding anything. They have time travel and parallel realities at their desposal, making them... basically gods. They can solve problems before they exist.
The snwser is vortessence
Maybe idk its really not clear
The combine, humanity etc are all just pieces in there interdimensional chess game.
I've read from somewhere that high ranking/the elite Combine are 5D beings. This explains why something like a grub shaped advisor is able to float and levitate. They have also been said to subjugate several universes already. I think G-man's advisors and the Combine are at each other's throats. But knowing that G-man was disappointed with Gordon after he destroyed the Combine portal. G-man already said this in the vid but just like he said, having the combine off earth wouldn't align with the interest of his employers.
G-Man is literally Q and his employers are like The Continuum Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation. And the Combine Empire is pretty similar to The Borg Collective.
What is an animal to a human? To an animal a human can do just about anything: Destroy entire ecosystems, create artificial ones, create massive canals connecting two oceans, ect. But there is another layer to this that animals would not understand, Humans also abide by their own laws be they international treaties, zoning laws, or just community guidelines, ect. Now think of Humanity, Vorts, and maybe even the Combine as "animals" to G-man and his employers being "human." To us how incomprehensible could the "laws" they follow be to being such as us?
Mean while Adrian Shepherd has been floating in space for god knows how long.
What if he's doing jobs in other worlds?
From what i know since Opposing Force was made by Gearbox it isn’t cannon. Which really sucks because it might be my favorite Half-Life game
Edit: I understand it’s cannon no need to post another 15 replies.
@@doctorfaker391 I think Valve acknowledged Shepard's presence in their timeline a few years ago so it might be cannon.
@@doctorfaker391 it is cannon
@@Gaberror404 good thing HDtF isn't canon
Note on 2:36 how the G-man splits into two as he answers Alyx's request.
He just created two Universes. One in which he said yes, and one in which he said no.
Holy shit that's true. So, Ep2 would be if he answered yes to her request, because the combine's portal was destroyed.
@@limited3502 Horrible consequences, regardless of the outcome.
or they added it so it would look cool
@@limited3502 you could say...unforseen consequences.
Maybe he did that to see the outcome if he said yes
welp see ya guys in 30 years when they release half life: Eli
@German Ugalde half-life Barney: beer debt
HALF-LIFE: KLEINER CONFIRMED
Half-life : Lamarr Adventure ( game where player control Kleiner pet, the headcrab. Venture around city and cause Mischief to other people or entity it could find along the way. Rip-off gameplay from Untitled Goose Game basically. )
half life: gman adventures
@M. Also And it’s a 2-d platformer..
"You wouldn't need all that to imprison Gordon Freeman"
HL2 speedrunners would disagree...
He couldn't even finish ''You woul-'''
j😎😎👍atjawtjmajtajtam
Speedrunners: You would need MUCH more than that to imprison Gordon Freeman
If only they played “Hazardous Environments” when you picked up the crow bar
This is such a missed opportunity they just HAVE to patch it in.
It was in the development build, but all playtesters came in their pants when "Hazardous Environments" played, so Valve had to cut the music away.
I’ll do you one better, Klaxon Beat.
but pitched down slightly
Maybe they¡re saving it for the intro to Half Life 3
The symbolism of us, Half-Life fans literally 'picking up' the crowbar again after all this time... Maybe I'm overthinking this but this gave me chills...
Goosebumps ❤
SAME, Does this confirm hl3?!
Nice one..
nah dude, it's normal, we are a single man, Gordon Freeman.
Raise the bar
Holy shit, HL3 is such a massive title that the only reasonable way that Valve thought to announce it was by releasing a revolutionary, industry-shaking title. In all seriousness, that ending's incredible.
I had this theory for a long time that the only way Valve would be able to not have HL3 be a let-down would be to release HL2: Ep 3 first announcing HL3 within it.
@@chiffmonkey hl alyx is not hl2ep3 tho
@@chiffmonkey HL:2 episode 3 would be just as big of a reveal since people were literally asking for Episode 3 and expecting it years ago. The meme of asking for HL:3 evolved from asking for when’s Episode 3?
@@collinslogan01 a
I guess Gordon is really a "freeman" now, since the GMan isnt there to trap him in some kind of sleep. Sucks Alyx got chosen though.
Adrian screaming in the distance
"Node graph out of date. rebuilding........."
Failled to Rebuild. *crash*
@@lagermanrevolution5697 LOL
MY FACE
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sorry but can i say that was the best continuation of a series / ending of a game that we have had in a good 10 years?
Absolutely 👏
Yes! After this ending it would have been boring if they just casually kept the story going from where they left. This made things extremely interesting.
404 gamer
@@mcskillet7106 not really man, id still like a real half life 3 that actually concludes the story, ive been waiting since 2010 😂
@@notjimpickens7928 But they're still going to borealis so it will pick up where they left off but with a twist.
Well brothers... after 13 years of waiting, we finally got that 30 seconds of Half Life 3.... R.I.P to our comrades who died on the way
May their names be remembered as we fight along the way!
@@mergen3125 yes!
wait... 1(3) years, (3)0 seconds, Half Life (3) 333
@@mrhouse9036 confirmed!
"We were unable to find a suitable replacement... until now..." Me: *cries into HECU gas mask*
He is canon and non-canon
I don't think we'll ever see him again in the series :/
@@thee-wastegamer4044 so he will stay in the void prision forever? maybe the vortiguans can release him and help him to join the fenix forces to fight agains the combine to buy more time
I don’t even understand how he considers Alyx remotely comparable to Gordon. Their gap in skill is monumental.
@@KizaruB maybe he put alyx in extasis in exchange to release grdom and keep figthing the combine and release earth who knows
@@KizaruB have you played the games? Alyx does just as much as Gordon does in HL2 in terms of being able to handle combine soldiers, they have equal amounts of plot armor.
The g-man saved her from black mesa as another investment into "brilliant people". Now he's cashing out. It's implied g-man or his employers are omnipotent and break the fourth wall a bit. The story completely justifies it by nature.
Also at this point Gordon is facing more "retribution" and the residence regardless of what happens. That's probably why g-man wanted to get rid of him. He kept misbehaving
Eli: "When I find him, i'm gonna kill him!"
Gordon: WHA- WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? HE'S RIGHT THERE! YOU JUST LOOKED AT HIM!
I can imagine Ross Scott's voice saying that haha
@@Trainz4days If Freeman's Mind ever gets to that point that's what I expect him to say.
i think you meant
Gordon:
Who gman
He says when he figures out how.
Gman: We have struggled to find a suitable replacement...
Adrian Shephard: Am I a joke to you?
Gordon and Alex have both the brain and the brawn. Adrian only has the brawn. It takes both to save the world, you know.
@@MrDosonhai "save the world" most like do his services without any doubt to do it
@@MrDosonhai Gordon pushes buttons and moves levers. It isn't exactly showcasing that he has any sort of higher education.
I want to see a half life game other than Opposing Force where Shepard is running around with the military grunt text yelling, like “SHIT. WE. GOT. COMBINE.”
@@Liberator130 He is a theoretical physicist who went to M.I.T, I'm sure he has higher education
Subtle things I noticed and probably some other people too.
When Alyx asks Gman who is he, he says “what I am” which means he’s not someone but a thing, just like Nithlanth tells us “he’s not a man”
When Gman talks about Gordon not willing to do his biding. He’s talking about episode 1 and 2 when those Vortigaunts take Gordon away from Gman.
Which means that the Vortigaunts know what Gman is and what he is up too. And that they somehow convinced Gordon to disobey him, but since Gordon doesn’t speak, is hard to tell how or when that happened. That can be proven when Gordon seals the portal with the rocket in episode two, because Gman says to Alyx in this game, that having the combine out of Earth was not in his Employers interests.
And finally, when The title Alyx starts to fade away. The y looks like an downsides lambda symbol, the classic Half Life symbol, why is it upside down? Who knows, but like a cross upside down. I don’t think is a good sign.
A cross upside down is not a symbol of anti-Christianity. It's symbol of Saint Peter. The upside-down lambda I believe is a deliberate choice by the designers.
Organic Shelter there’s always dick in the RUclips comments.
You’re missing the point lad.
I found some info online (to which sources I don't remember) that GMan is actually a physical part of a Shu'ulathoi (the name of the Advisor creature) and is not used to using a lung for talking.
From a drawing in :Alyx, the Lambda is actually Freeman holding the crowbar down at the top of the Citadel, which means the fight's over. This one is Freeman holding the crowbar up, ready to fight.
Well, it's actually a leftover from the earlier variant of finale. Alyx, who used to be voiced by Merle Dandridge until she was changed to Akagha would ask him where the weapon is and guess if it's in the briefcase or he IS a weapon.
only valve can turn a cliffhanger into an even bigger cliffhanger
Wait so Half-Life 3 is confirmed?? Holy shit after all those years..
Cynical Yeah lol finally
its not half life 3 she changed the future its half life alex 2
RafoIgra Extra don’t twist it lol
@@rafoigraextra7441 It'd still be Half Life 3, or whatever they wind up calling it. Just because she changed the future to save her Dad, doesn't mean Gordon's story won't continue on (literally as he's being given the crowbar to continue on) as is just with Eli Vance still alive instead of dead and Alyx, someplace else doing G-Man stuff or in stasis etc.
@@LordLOC playing half-life 3 in VR its will be so stupid ai think will call half-life freeman
At first I was a little sceptical about this, about time travel. But not only the Gman was already able to momentarily stop time, multiple timelines always existed in HL I think. There was a timeline where Gordon refused the G-Mans first offer and was left to die in Xen.
There was another where he took Gordon out of the citadels explosion and no vortigaunts intervened (or arrived later) so he put him on stasis once again (as the original ending of HL2, episode one revealed the vortigaunts). And there was a timeline where Eli Vance died. All of these where altered by the G-Man.
I Like at. The story is Never set and events can be remove or added onto. I think Half life. the past is the future and the future is in the past?"
@@Drakesonone nope
The people writing and developing HL:A actually looked through Half Life canon for any examples of time travel so they could get their plan to set up the next Half Life game in place, and they concluded the Vorts rescuing Alyx and preventing the G-Man from putting Gordon in stasis to be what they were looking for.
*Everyone tired of making HL3 confirmed memes*
Valve: Fine, I'll do it myself!
Cringe
@@memesauce7703 yeah u cringe
@@TheLegendaryMantiS yeah i cringe
@@cisco2733 what?
HL3 confirmed.
- After all this time?
- Always.
A quote from Harry Potter was the last thing i expected to see here, lol
@@darkySp which part?
@@أحمدمصطفىشلبي-ج2ه snape dialogue with dumbledore from the eighth movie I think
Snape talking about love and Lily with Dumbledore
6:00 it’s remarkable how many RUclipsrs and streamers missed the G-man cameo here. I though, got goosebumps on my goosebumps.
I didn't notice when I played because I was more distracted with seeing Dog again hahaha which is why seeing this just now gave me chills that he was there the whole time
He’s the scary version of where’s Waldo. I’ve scene this clip a couple of times and only spotted him after you pointed him out.
i love the fact eli looks right at g-man and says nothing about him being there.
@@manumaker0135 most likely because Gman uses his powers to make it so he can only be seen by individuals he wants to see him.
@@EnclaveSOC-102 at the time he looked at the right gman had already disappeared
war threat, brexit, corona,Olympics moved, hl3....this is realy end of the world
but the war threat subsided 2 months ago ...
@@nezaniatoimya not really, iran accused us of making corona.
and you know, shit' s about to go down
The 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse...
Economic meltdown, famine, social upheavel, global warming...
Add Doomguy/DoomSlayer speaking to the list
I love how they retconned a 13 year old cliffhanger ending for an even more confusing cliffhanger ending.
yo that's dope they brought back gordon's VA
hahaahah
Yeah I chuckled at that lol but I am surprised they either got the original G-Man VA back, or someone who sounds just like him. Pretty good stuff, though Eli sounded a bit off to me, but considering Robert Guillaume passed away recently, obviously they had someone else playing him and did a pretty good job overall.
@@LordLOC I think Gmans voice was a bit different
@@Skikopl It's the same voice actor though, Michael Shapiro did it and it's confirmed and in the credits.
Skikopl well it has been over a decade since he last voiced him 😂
This is how I understand it (or probably misunderstand it):
We know that Gordon was "hired" by the G-Man and kept in stasis for 20 years after the ending of HL1. Alyx was rescued from Black Mesa by the G-Man and Eli is aware of him and his actions. In the intro HL2: Episode 1 Gordon was released from the G-Man's control by the Vortigaunts, so the G-Man lost a valueable entity for his plans. In Episode 2 he talked about his interest in the worth of Alyx. He ordered Gordon to bring her safely to White Forest, so she can warn her father about "unforeseen consequences", which I thought was either Eli's death or the Borealis. The G-Man used the death of Eli Vance to "hire" Alyx as a replacement for Gordon Freeman, as the Vortigaunts seem to protect him from the influence of the G-Man. The timeline of Half-Life between HL2 and HL2: Episode 2 will remain the same except the ending of Episode 2. Because now Eli is alive, Gordon back to consciousness and the G-Man has now the same control over Alyx, as he had over Gordon Freeman.
You understood correctly.
I think that Alyx from HL:A will maybe forget about this sequence, and somehow Gman will manage to make her story continue. Because in that way he takes Alyx from the future, form EP2. Otherwise the whole story of HL2 and episodes is rewritten because Alyx is gone, and she never rescued Gordon. Also that explains why Eli reacts to Alyx suddenly disappearing
Seems accurate. The weird thing is that Eli seems to understand exactly what happened, so it wasn't a full "time travel undoes all of HL2 and onwards" kinda deal. The advisor that was killed also seemed to see what was happening before the time-stop. So it's not really a full ret-con, but some weird time-manipulation stuff.
Wait a second...we've seen gman can control alyx, right? Maybe gman is going to have her do something terrible that will benefit him and his "employers". I have a feeling HL3 will be about saving alyx..this is nuts
If the timelines and stories confuses you, it means that gman is that “strong” and his powers are literally as far as anyone can ever “see” or “imagine”. Thats kinda a great coverup for the developer’s part
Date: March 23, 2020.
Today was the release of Half-Life Alyx, Valve's biggest VR title. The game's ending... gives us "something promising."
Let me put it simply.
After all the memes, speculation and such... it's now safe to say the words we've been saying for years.
*Half-Life 3 confirmed*
I wouldn't say it's the first one. The Lab was the first one.
Well see you in the next 10-20 years until its released
@@FloppyFiona Now I can die peacefully, knowing it did existed... Thank you.... valve..... *Dies and fades into obscurity*
Son it took them 13 years to make this Half Life 3 is still a pipe dream
@@TimeBomb014X do you really think valve would just make one game and disappear again for a decade? That just makes no sense. Valve said themselves they wanted to make games again.
So if I am to understand it correctly, the events of HL 2 and its two episodes still happened, but right after when the screen fades out in Episode 2, Alyx suddenly vanishes, Eli is back to life, and the Advisor is fried on the floor, dead, giving us the post-credit sequence.
Pretty much
I wonder if Alyx will be completely unaware of the events of Half-Life 2 and the Episodes, or if she'll now have two contradictory sets of memories, one based on the series of events portrayed in HL:2 and another based on the ending of this game. I feel like either could be interesting and it will be interesting to see how they deal with the fact that Gordon's journey in HL:2 becomes effectively impossible with Alyx out of the picture.
@@paulmahoney7619 Eli reacted to Alyx disappearing. She was there until the end.
G-Man is watching their conversation at the end there. He's just above the rails as he walks away then disappears!
Oh my god, when the HEV suit sounds kicked in, i almost cried man.
The scene when Gordon puts on his glasses with G-man next to him is also so badass also! I love how it's all dark too.
Valve did a fabulous job
"Warning:
Vital signs critical;
Seek medical attention."
I SWEAR TO GOD I CRIED
I did.
Yep, I admit it, I cried.
when eli handed over the crowbar i cried like a bitch
The project borealis guys are REALLY not going to like this!
no.
That's the risk with modmaking and fanfic writing. Your entire work can be jossed in a snap of the fingers.
@@DinnerForkTongue Valve: "Reality is whatever I want" _snaps fingers_
Could just be seen as an alternate timeline.
@@Skeletoncross No that's not whats happening. Half Life 3 will likely be about Gordon and Eli finding Alyx as well as Borealis stuff happening.
I love it when VR players kind of act out the scene with their hands. It really adds to the videos.
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The flipping off is cringe and doesn't even match the conversation or overall scene playing out. She isn't even showing animosity towards Gman.
Lol I do that stuff when I'm playing alone. Also yeah, the middle finger was a bit much.
Meanwhille, Corporal Shephard still chills somewhere nearby.
Come back to us, soldier.
I wish he would be mentioned in Alyx, but no. I think they totally forgot about him.
I'm pretty sure valve did state that any half life game not made by Valve is not cannon, doesn't mean they won't say it's cannon in the future
@@keeraweera20 What are you talking about? If I am correct, Half Life: Opposing Force was also made by Valve. Half Life: Blue Shift also comes to mind, as you literally meet the protagonist (Barney Calhoun) in the beginning of Half Life 2.
Those games are not cannon
@@uncapoeltroesmaxd173 Well, we do not know for Opposing Force, but you cannot say that for Blue Shift considering Barney Calhoun is in Half Life 2, and he is also the protagonist of Blue Shift.
1:57 This is my favorite moment! I always wanted to do that in Half-life!
No game is complete without this feature.
They created HL:A just to announce Half Life 3. Say it with me now! Bruh.
I knew it. HL Alyx is just a demo for HL3, much Like Ground Zeroes is demo to MGS5!
@@T--kq3pj Valve ain't konami pal
@@sovereign5091 Valve ain't fire people and make pachiko machine
@@barney10240 damn, you didnt have to say it like that
@@barney10240 damnnn did you just burned whole company?
Each time the Gman doubles himself it's another timeline being created. Most visible at 2:34 where Gman himself goes away and vanishes and a copy of him takes over.
The other copy most likely accepted the nudge, while this staying copy declined.
genius, and when the conversation keeps on goin more split,....
What if he actually checks those timelines, really quickly to see what would happen if he did do it and he probably denied because he knew something worse would happen.
@@toothbrush-guy More than likely is, he checked the future, then saw that it would be far too dangerous/would result in events of the episode 2 ending we saw.
Fun fact: When you're at the end credits scene in VR, you can see a faint outline of Gordon Freeman's glasses.
I love how valve explicitly state the death of the old storyline: “this entity will continue, and this entity will not”. Not creature, entity...
Struggled to find suitable replacement, i think they might refer to a developer team and/or storyline to carry on.
"struggled to find a suitable replacement"
Adrian Sheppard: *Am i a joke to you?*
Eric Miret mate, the major storywriter and his storyline left valve, not to mention some of his fellow developers. But excluding all that, the original story line can also be referred to as the “entity” in question.
@@23billiejean1 Kek, probably because I am not a native speaker.
"Struggled to find suitable replacement" line can also mean the difficulties they faced when developing Source 2 engine, at least that's the way I see it.
@Eric Miret How was the original ending hard to continue from with Eli being dead?
After so many years, we finally have a decent means of continuing the plot. Before we had to find Judith Mossman on the Borealis. Not to mention dealing with the remaining combine forces. Now on top of that we have to find Alyx, deal with the G-Man and the "employers". There are so many questions that need answering.
I'm glad this made HF3 story to be about gman more than about a ship.
@EA -Sports i think so, talking to advisor.
at this point they can even ditch borealis and the arctic and go somewhere else, hell I wouldn't be surprised if the larger part of the next game would take place in Xen or somewhere else(another dimension)
@@Irrelavant__ I think not. If the Borealis has the features discribed in the Laidlaw's epistle 3, then it will be very much the way to go after G-man, provided that Eli change his mind about using the ship.
yeah a lot more possibilities for a full game
Gordon has seemed to have lost his plot armour.
Valve brought "HL3 confirmed" meme to a level so high that's not even more a meme, it's reality.
Just finished the game without being spoiled. When I heard the HEV suit noise, I shed a tear. When I saw my own hands, I saw Gordon Freeman’s hands. These are tears of hope. We can finally say, Half Life 3 has been confirmed.
Hace 3 años
lol. just as confirmed as it was in 2007.
5:39 I love how the Lambda logo fades shorter than the rest of the text, so you know shit is boutta go down.
I've just experienced this in VR, without any previous spoilers. I honestly had to sit down to take it all in. Masterpiece
I was on my knees by the credits
and people say that Valve lost touch but then they deliver this. Can't wait for whatever is next.
The thing about Laidlaw's story is that the game would have been too short. Judging by what he wrote, the game would have been around the same length as the other HL2 episodes. Sure, that would have worked as a satisfying conclusion to the story if the game was released like a year or two after Episode 2, but after 10 years of hype, it would have been a ridiculous anticlimax.
Plus, I believe that, on a metanarrative level, this retcon is telling the fans of the series that this is a different thing and that it's gonna deviate from Valve's initial vision. They're basically saying "Hey, this is a different team, with a different writing staff. Don't expect this to fit in with the rest of the HL games".
The story he published was for an episode three that would have been continued by other games. The continuation is practically the same aswe will get: Alyx gets taken by G-man and gordon is "freed" in both the episode 3 story and in HL:A
I mean, this sort of thing can be expected out of gman
Episode three was meant to be a set up for HL3 so yeah, it would have been dissapointing
Honestly, it's really hard to tell that it's a different writing-staff. Felt like Half-Life through-and-through.
better belive its a different team working on HL3.
Multiple Devs from the original HL! have goddamn died since then
I understand the retcon, as much as it does feel a bit weird. It makes sense, Valve haven't touched this franchise since 2007 so adding a new ending to Episode: 2 allows them to form a new story without being forced to do the plot they set up over a decade ago. We've seen that Valve can still make a good game and as long as Half-Life 3 follows through with this, it will be okay.
Trilogies where the plot is changed halfway through never go well. HL3 is going to be a trainwreck.
Daton Kallandor I don’t see how you came up with that conclusion without seeing any shred of information that can justify that statement.
Daton Kallandor well this series is an exception compared to an average trilogy because there hasn’t been a sequel in a over a decade.
And where did you get that idea? Have some faith, We can judge Half-Life 3 when it comes.
@@datonkallandor8687 As much as I want to not believe it, I think that there is a chance that you are correct and HL3 is gonna be a shitshow.
Well that’s one up to Valve on story writing. Would never have guessed that ending.
They literally just gave up and went with the easy time travel retcon copout. I'd had hope they wouldn't, but oh well
CIA 4U what? Its another cliff hanger. It entirely changes what we knew about ep 3. If you read "Epistle 3" which was supposed to be hl3's story, its completley thrown out the window so we now have no idea whats gonna happen next
I love Valve because they always have to do things different to the usual or expected, not because they can, but because they know how to make it work.
@@aisuku.never.existed "we now have no idea whats gonna happen next" Like after the ending of every part of this series lol
Dogebai Pyre Yeah likely the point was to throw out Laidlaw’s epistle 3
We are in the future, Mr Freeman. This is the moment when you watch the finest mind of his generation die. Unless...
Lazlo!
Half Life 3 actually confirmed?!
To quote a marine from Halo:
“You’re serious?! You better not be messing with me right now!”
No, man! He's here! We're gonna be alright!
(Marine, talking to another blind marine, referring to the Master Chief arriving in the level Crow's Nest in Halo 3. I play Halo too much. Hahaha )
@@andrewhill1517 goddamnit that game's music was so good and nostalgic
see ya in 100 years for half life 3
THE FIGHT HAS BEEN FINISHED
@@cockfucker69 No, The Fight never ends... Just change their focus point.
Taking the crowbar from Eli's hand was absolutely perfectly choreographed. There was no better way to end the game.
They should have played the valve theme at that moment as they did in half life 2 when Gordon gets his crowbar. 🙏
@@klx6265 idk why but I expected CP violation to start playing for some reason
This was supposed to be the ending of episode 3. Alyx "hired" and Gordon returned to the resistance.
The Epistle 3??
Kuhafidzuu yeah
@@fidz5947 Yes
Maybe is a reference for the Epistle 3
@@NarutoninjaXV That was supposed to be the point of HL3 all along, I think.
Can't wait for my grandkids to see what happens next
Now in HL3 we can hear what Eli wanted to talk about
Maybe he knew about alyx working for gman
@@joseignaciolopez4380 Wtf no.
he probbaly know the true nature of gman and his employers
THISSSS...... Something that i've been curious!
He probably wanted to come up with a plan to deal with G-man once and for all. Once the Combine are out of the picture, there is no telling what the G-man would do next.
I love how Eli says "Unforeseen Consequences." What a reference.
To be fair, Eli heard Alyx say "prepare for unforeseen consequences" about 30 minutes before this happens.
It's not a reference
@@littleloss8339 Unforeseen Consequences is Chaper 3 in Half-Life 1.
@@wishywoshua still not a reference. Its a term that has been more times in hl2 than hl1.
Considering this is a prequel, the Unforeseen Consequences is Alyx taken by The G-man after Eli's death
After nearly 20 years half life 3 is OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED
SOmething about your math isn't adding up....
Patali Does it matter ? Half life 3 is confirmed the meme is dead ! who cares if I was a bit off on the math
SIIII
Yes, it's alxy. And now it's half life 3.1 for the original story has been killed
joey zandbergen why’s everyone gotta be such a buzzkill ? There is such a thing as retconning I think the ending fits perfectly a massive fan base of half life now has renewed hope for a sequel
The occasional glow of his eyes no doubt signifies the Gman as a higher being, I am pretty sure many theory videos beforehand noted his strange eye color being 'otherworldly'. When it glows as he first approaches Alyx is truly menacing, and almost reassuring of the fact that the Gman, is no man at all.
No man indeed
literally no one thinks the gman is human. you just want to speak to the internet.
I mean, we all know he's Nyarlathothep, it's obvious and this only makes that clearer.
Subject: G man. Status: wtf. Post Mortem: subject created temporal paradox
he has no post mortem as hr is not dead yet
Anyone else find it funny that the Gman never asked Gordon what he wanted in return for becoming his "employee" (and Gordon couldn't reply anyway), but Alyx was at least asked what she wanted done?
@Paul Thomas Johnson I have to agree with this.
imagine alyx asked just for a cheeseburger or something and not for combine off earth. would had g-man denied her wish anyways xD
Alyx saved the G-man from imprisonment. He felt obligated to give her something in return.
Gman kinda chose for him, it was two fold, one was getting off Xen, the second was his HEV suit
@@peterenis4107 try the fabled club sandwich she was told all about
Theory:
- G Man got tired waiting for half life 3
- G Man Changes the Future where half life 3 exists
in conclusion: G Man is a Fortnite Burger
I shidded and farded. This is the best theory ever.
I was gonna like your comment until you mentioned fortnite
Garry Man confirmed
Wait, what if coronavirus was needed for half life 3 to happen?
@@PrexXyx Why?
"miss vance... you wouldn''t NEED all that to imprison gordon freeman" gives me shivers EVERY DAMN TIME
Eli: *”WAKE UP GORDON”*
Wake up and smell this crowbar I hold on your nose.
We've got a G-man to burn
"Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman... Rise and shine."
wake up and smell the ashes
5:38 *The "y" in Half-Life Alyx is an inverted lambda symbol.*
It also stays longer than the other letters.
So does it in the announcement trailer.
AND ITS THE 3RD LETTER IN ALYX
Okay, so I think that after Gordon slipped through G-Man's after the end of HL2, the G-Man decided to go back in time so he could recruit Alyx. Gordon was constantly protected from the G-Man by the vortigaunts and therefore was "unable" or "unwilling to perform the tasks laid before him". My theory is that the G-Man LET himself be captured by the Combine to sort of "test" Alyx and see if she could release him. After Alyx freed the G-Man from the alien prison, she got "hired" by him. What brings me to the thought that G-Man travelled back in time is the pure and simple fact that he already knew about Eli's death and the fact that Gordon escapes his grasp 5 years into the future. It is entirely possible that the events of the ending of Episode 2 weren't meant to happen as Alyx's father was vital to the resistance and wasn't supposed to die. And therefore the "unforeseen consequences" weren't Eli's death, but rather the G-Man's retrieval of Alyx and the separation of father and daughter.
It makes perfect sense.
I miss Laidlaw, but this writing is pretty good too.
That's make sense why the g man in hl2 episode 2 forced (without her knowing) to tell her father about the unforeseen consequences, as it doesn’t make any sense for her to say this to her father if he dies, besides that alyx herself doesn’t even remember saying that to her father, what would make this g man’s warning meaningless to the eli about the unforeseen consequences
G-man basically just swapped Eli's and Alyx's roles. This does greatly changes things. Like is G-man still friend or foe? What plans does he have for Alyx? Will they be possitive effects or negative?
And lastly, will the Combine's origins be truly revealed? Will we see their home world? Better yet, will we be able to finally defeat them for good? God, I really hope Half Life 3 comes in soon. VR or PC, I'm ready to see how all this gets concluded.
@Damian 2000 I already knew that g man knows the past, present and future, because there are certain alien races that for them time does not happen in a chronological way, as for us humans, like, for them the past, present and future occurs at the same time, an example of another alien race that has this ability are the vortigaunts, but although I know about this ability to "know the future" i didn’t know that the g man could change it
you got it
Another great Valve's attention to detail: you'll see G-Man looks fade away and looking away at 2:36 which maybe indicates that he paused the time during talking with Alyx to ask his employer afterwards
So is this why Alyx came with Gman with no hesitation in Marc Laidlaw's story? Holy shit..
I'm pretty sure that story isn't happening anymore.
Yeah, Laidlaw's story seems to have been abandoned now. Alyx followed G-Man in Epistle 3 because he's already been controlling her, and I'm pretty sure that the Vorts accidentally weaved her life with his instead of Gordon's in Episode 2, causing the later events of Ep2.
@@vinccennt1447 I know?
They retconned episode 2.
@danJ11 the Combine was strong enough to hold G-Man
now that gives a new perspective,
"Perhaps what I am is not as important as what I can offer you for coming all this way"
*Alyx flips Gman the bird*
"Perhaps WHAT i am..."
Makes a big difference
I cant believe I'm saying this, but I unironically think this means Half life 3 confirmed...
Patients pays off
@@thedougle737 no its not its half life freeman
I'm worried that they're gonna make it a vr game
No shit
@@twelverth It may be VR...
This game literally just followed up to the intro part of Half-Life 3.
"We've got work to do."
Darn right we do! After so many years, we can finally say this for real, as not a joke...
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!