Paperboy Posts: 46 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | I feel like being a killjoy and trying something legit. Gordon, in the wake of Elis death, goes and tries to destroy the Boriales with Alyx. The G-Man attempts to intervene, but is blocked by the Vorts. In there travels, they are briefly helped by a confused young girl with a gun that shoots Portals. After running a gauntlet of Combine forces, includeing a rather whimsical AI that had been cut off from its combine roots, they learn that the G-Man was originally hired by the Combine to smooth over the takeover of worlds from other dimentions. They destroy the Borealis, foiling the G Man, only to immediately realize that the G Man was a turncoat who took a bunch of alien technology, and started pursueing his own agenda of secureing earth against the combine. He even had earths military in control of Xen briefly, but the combine overtook them easilly. He realized he had to act through agents, so he set up Gordon to be this charismatic messiah figure in opposition to Breen, the G Mans replacement. The Borealis was his trump card, a trap right under the Combines noses. Never one without a contingency plan, the G man plays all of his cards, digs out Adrian Shepard from stasis, and uses the humans portal technology to launch an unexpected assault on the Combines headquarters in Xen, while Gordon goes in the proverbial back way to take them down from the inside. Finally have a big advisor fight that Gordon wins that cripples the Combine beyond repair. I think that story would be fairly well supported from information you get from the games, and is a fair guess. Of course, they can't end it on a total happily ever after sentiment...Something will happen that shows that theres still stuff to do. No clue what it might be.
I don't think Valve would be so Cliche as to kill Gordon off, but I bet he will have to make some sort of sacrifice. He has just been shown ass too Messanic to not have some big sacrifice. But in the end, he has to get the girl. To throw out something completely Fanfic-like, unsupported by evidence, maybe him and Alyx get trapped on Xen after saving the world, with the last Vestiges of the Combine and the naturally beligerent Flora and Fauna. Wraps up the arc quite nicely with a sense of completeness, but still leaves room for a sequel with new intrigue.
The going back to half life 1 idea isn't neccisarily all that bad, if you twisted it a bit. Say, if episode 3 wrapped up with a nice ending, and the only way to make sure it was nice is if Gordon traveled back in time to the very beginning of Half Life 1, and played out events in the exact, intricate manner that they occured. He would be so quiet because he doesn't want to alter the time stream, and he is obviously a badass with weapons even though hes a scientist because he has all that practice. Or something similar. Wakeing up from a dream though...little too weird for my taste. |
Paperboy Posts: 16 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 | JBX06:
At The end of Half-Life 3 all of the combine is being sucked into a portal back to the Zen Univers and the G-Man is standin next to you and goes 'Congratuations Mr Freemon...My employers were right about you'...The G Man walks infront of you and goes you seserve a rest and he opens a portal like the one from Half-life 1 and he says 'Go on Freemon its all over now. But the Portal Sends you to the Zen universe and if you wait he goes 'Fair enough if you dont want to rest' He lifts you up and on the the wall and 2 floating maggot things appear beside him but a large battalion of rebels appear with the Vortigons and goes The Freeman shall not be harmned and DOG kills 1 of the maggot things and a big fight and then the G-man blocks the bullets and the Vort you meet in Ep 2 appears beide you and you and the G-man and Freemon kinda breaks of in2 atoms like in the FF movie and the Vort goes you are now free and then the credits rol
That would probbably be the best ending in my opinion but i hope they A. Make it longet than the last three orB. Leave room for half life three not just episode three! |
BANNED Posts: 1695 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 | G-man is... Gordon-man!
and then you are reunited as twins and kick ass, take names ect.
ElArabDeMagnifico:
*vortigaunt kills both* Doesn't matter, they are both evil, *Vortigaunt takes mentos* Green Lightning bolts flying out of your hands! The freshmaker!!!
i laughed so hard i coughed milk all over my monitor, thats the greatest thing ive heard since the one from further up... oho... aha... so very, very good. |
Beat Writer Posts: 180 Joined: 20 Feb 2008 | First off all, there will be several Combine advisors aboard the Borealis when Gordon and Alyx arrive. There will be several dead Combine advisors when they leave.
We will find more about the G-man. In fact, I could see the G-man coming to the rescue - this time, to inform Gordon "Contract completed". |
Muckraker Posts: 320 Joined: 22 Mar 2008 | Meshakhad:
First off all, there will be several Combine advisors aboard the Borealis when Gordon and Alyx arrive. There will be several dead Combine advisors when they leave.
We will find more about the G-man. In fact, I could see the G-man coming to the rescue - this time, to inform Gordon "Contract completed".
In Ep. 3? Because ther's one problem. Episode 3 has been confirmed by Valve as "Not the last in the series." |
Paperboy Posts: 46 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | Just because the contract is completed doesn't mean there can't be more games. The next half life game could begin with G Mans plan Phase 2, or even him without a plan. Basically, theres not many potential endings that could happen without a possible sequal. Gordon dies? Time Travel trick, hes back in an alternate timeline. World Destroyed? Freedom Fighters escape to Xen and try to rebuild a semblance of a life with the vorts, opposing any combine that have traveled there. Combine utterly Annialated? Bring back Race X, or another sentient race, or some government conspiricy that was forced underground. Basically, if a franchise needs to be continued, you can discover a way, particularly when theres a lot of technology or magic. |
Beat Writer Posts: 151 Joined: 10 Feb 2008 | It turns out that Gordan Freeman actually killed Laura Palmer and the whole black mesa/City 17 thing was just a massive, entertaining distraction. Then you find out that the G-man is actually Gordan Freeman.
Well, if David Lynch directed the last episode.
Actually, I'd like to see Shephard and GLaDOS both involved somehow. Maybe the Borealis has a duplicate GLaDOS program? After all, wasn't she bragging that she was "Still Alive"? |
Beat Writer Posts: 151 Joined: 10 Feb 2008 | How about an interquel? Show what happened during the 7 hour war. Show how Barney and all the other Black Mesa folk ended up in City 17. Fill in some of the gaps between half life and half life 2. |
I feel like being a killjoy and trying something legit. Gordon, in the wake of Elis death, goes and tries to destroy the Boriales with Alyx. The G-Man attempts to intervene, but is blocked by the Vorts. In there travels, they are briefly helped by a confused young girl with a gun that shoots Portals. After running a gauntlet of Combine forces, includeing a rather whimsical AI that had been cut off from its combine roots, they learn that the G-Man was originally hired by the Combine to smooth over the takeover of worlds from other dimentions. They destroy the Borealis, foiling the G Man, only to immediately realize that the G Man was a turncoat who took a bunch of alien technology, and started pursueing his own agenda of secureing earth against the combine. He even had earths military in control of Xen briefly, but the combine overtook them easilly. He realized he had to act through agents, so he set up Gordon to be this charismatic messiah figure in opposition to Breen, the G Mans replacement. The Borealis was his trump card, a trap right under the Combines noses. Never one without a contingency plan, the G man plays all of his cards, digs out Adrian Shepard from stasis, and uses the humans portal technology to launch an unexpected assault on the Combines headquarters in Xen, while Gordon goes in the proverbial back way to take them down from the inside. Finally have a big advisor fight that Gordon wins that cripples the Combine beyond repair. I think that story would be fairly well supported from information you get from the games, and is a fair guess. Of course, they can't end it on a total happily ever after sentiment...Something will happen that shows that theres still stuff to do. No clue what it might be.
I don't think Valve would be so Cliche as to kill Gordon off, but I bet he will have to make some sort of sacrifice. He has just been shown ass too Messanic to not have some big sacrifice. But in the end, he has to get the girl. To throw out something completely Fanfic-like, unsupported by evidence, maybe him and Alyx get trapped on Xen after saving the world, with the last Vestiges of the Combine and the naturally beligerent Flora and Fauna. Wraps up the arc quite nicely with a sense of completeness, but still leaves room for a sequel with new intrigue.
The going back to half life 1 idea isn't neccisarily all that bad, if you twisted it a bit. Say, if episode 3 wrapped up with a nice ending, and the only way to make sure it was nice is if Gordon traveled back in time to the very beginning of Half Life 1, and played out events in the exact, intricate manner that they occured. He would be so quiet because he doesn't want to alter the time stream, and he is obviously a badass with weapons even though hes a scientist because he has all that practice. Or something similar. Wakeing up from a dream though...little too weird for my taste.