>I was left alone, riding the weaponized luxury liner into the heart of a Combine world. An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere. The vastness of the Combine’s power, the futility of our struggle, blossomed briefly in my awareness. I saw everything. Mainly I saw how the Borealis, our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart. And what remained of me would be even less than that.
Fuck...
Other urls found in this thread:
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtu.be
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtu.be
youtube.com
youtube.com
twitter.com
how was that ship supposed to destroy that massive sphere?
it wasn't
It wasn't... that's the point. Humanity never stood a chance. Gman wanted Freeman to destroy the ship because it was too close to his employers toys. Only they get to fuck around with time and space. He steps into his door and goes back to more important things.
It's a fantastic ending and would have been a sucker punch to the player.
Good writing.
What track would you have play when Gordon looks upon the Dyson Sphere for the first time.
my pick youtube.com
That was pretty poetic. It's like this person wrote books or something.
Freeman never get to see the fireworks tho.. so gman might just used Alex to deliver the ship and Freeman to combine.
unironically youtube.com
nah, he doesn't work for the combine. The combine would be like ants to him, as we're ants to the combine.
can it be not-videogame related?
youtube.com
I think this fits as well. It might sound less menacing then Sovereign's theme, but it does feel far more melancholic.
youtube.com
JUMP
JUMP
RUN
What will thier inevitable response to this shitstorm be?
I'm getting that feeling of absolute despair from this. Giving me chills.
Love this track, one of the best moments in the show. maybe this would be fitting for a scene later showing Earth getting steamrolled at a later date when combine decide they can't be bothered playing with us anymore.
take your degenerate jew shit elsewhere
They won't
They hardly respond to anything
I admire you still holding faith in Valve to even bother responding to this.
>What the fuck is a half-life?
So long as their cashcows are printing money from cosmetic-obsessed autists, they won't care.
check the reviews on Valve's games. They're getting hammered.
I think this is what they feared. The old fanbase deciding they're sick of being pushed aside while a newer demographic is being catered to for profit.
to be fair, i'd use lights of the seven for the entirety of the sequence: from when gordon sees the sphere for the first time to his rescue thanks to the vortigaunts. that crescendo is too perfect
Irrelevant. Nobody would stop playing Dota 2 or CSGO for this. It may affect Artifact, but Artifact is more likely a passion project of a bored team of programmers than real deal.
Valve is pathetic at PR. So they will ignore this because Valve has no backbone. Not entitled bte, valve could have handled this better 10 years ago. They left the door opened and lied instead of admitting nothing was happening and it was dead. Fuck Valve for having no honor.
we've got nothing to say about episode three at this moment.
you assume the current generation of teenagers even know of Half-Life other than dumb memes
Hey Jude would also have worked nicely and would be less on-the-nose than straight out using Komm Susser Tod.
youtube.com
why would you pick this? I'm getting all patriotic now mate.
what do you think of this one? youtube.com
The GoT is pure eargasm btw.
literally why even live
You're probably right. Maybe the ending of half life is a metaphor for what Valve has become. We the player are Freeman staring at the Dyson Sphere that is Steam (Valve)
Alright, Sup Forums.
Gimme your most despair-inducing games.
No soundtrack at all.
Let there be silence aside from the Borealis shuttering around Gordon, as if to show its own, immobilizing fear.
As the Borealis gets closer, a faint roar can be heard from the sun along with very quiet but distinct bass-like clangs of metal from the dyson sphere. The clangs have a rhythm that get louder as the sun begins to blot out Gordons visions, the roar as load as possible, the Borealis shuttering and creaking madly.
Then silence and blinding white light.
Credits roll in all black text to this
youtube.com
What a shit choice
but who is the g-man?
Beautiful.
>Portal 3 never ever
>good writing
>brilliantly glittering
you never find out. He's truly something out of Lovecraftian horror
I felt Mad Max and TLOU had a very solid "everything's gone to shit" feeling
mass quitting
who are we kidding, their healthcare and retirement package is too good
>My name is Gabe Newell, co-founder at Valve Software and welcome to the commentary mode for the long awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3...
Watched Akira recently or something?
from the other thread
youtube.com
Metro had it's moments. I remember feeling heartbroken at some of the scenes on the surface.
A plot device
youtube.com
>The first time it plays
>The tone is so different than the other tracks
>Watching rebels sacrifice themselves to defend the combine
>Really makes you think how much humanity suffered during the occupation of combine, and Freeman is not there to save the day.
just this moment, Isaac just needs a rest
for a whole game, Spec Ops The Line
G-aben.
>hopefully, Mr. Freeman... it will have been worth the weight
Space Station 13
Both from a lore standpoint and a gameplay standpoint
This is the best one by far. Music really would take away from the moment, specifically all the generic orchestra that's been posted so far.
Dude Lovecraft lmao
There's nothing to fear. You can only marvel at their creation and accept your irrelevant struggle, like Gordon did. Doesn't mean that you will stop, you just know how it ends.
youtube.com
reposting this from the sticky. I got a bit choked up to be honest.
Pathologic, Planetscape Torment, Spec Ops the line, Dues ex, The Void
unironically Dark Souls II
Honestly, this
The appeal of the Half Life series is that music is very rarely used, and when it is it adds to the scene.
In this case, silence and ambient noise would suffice.
SOMA
People say that Half Life 3 would never live up to the hype after all these years, but honest to God, after reading the plot synopsis, for me at least, it would have been everything I wanted from a Half Life sequel. It would have been perfect.
idk it sounds fitting
maybe as the end credits music
youtube.com
>still talking highly of that fat maggot jew lardpig
>6 replies
>no Silent Hill 2
COME ON ANONS
>ripping off Battlefield Earth
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm
Laidlaw posted his vision for Episode 3. Not Half Life 3.
eh, i feel that's too "heroic" if you know what i mean. i think we need something that also encapsulates gordon's step-by-step realization that his sacrifice will be useless
You would need some fucking sound design genius like Alan Splet to capture the cosmic horror and despair that a Dyson Sphere would evoke.
Not a bad thought tho
I'm sure had they released it with this exact same plot, everyone would just shit on it
I would have wanted this more than HL, in all honesty. The Portal games are just glorious, the ending of 2 still brings genuine non-ironic tears.
>windshields
>on a fucking spaceship
>Implying Valve aren't (weren't?) known for having 10/10 sound
Silent Hill 2 is pretty much a melancholic game from start to finish that will almost always end poorly for the main character.
Is that Steve Urkle?
It's a cruise ship you dingbat.
not canon
TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM
replaying hl2 right now would actually make me cry
The Witch's House
Why did Freeman give up? Who cares if they have a dyson sphere or whatever
Put me in the screencap
wtf dude lmao. I would want to listen to this only if Kliener shows up with a prototype super nuke and lets you ride it all the way to the sphere.
They'll stay silent while their thresher continues
>ending a game as you ride a cruise liner in space
This is actually cool as hell.
could've been a train for maximum poetry though
Freeman and Alyx thought that the Combine have one homeworld and they hoped the Borealis explosion (some timespace-portal-nuclear explosion) would have such power to destroy/heavily damage this homeworld. While in reality the Combine inhabited a whole solar system and had a dyson sphere there. So the Borealis explosion could have destroyed a chunk of a sphere the size of a planet. But ultimately it meant nothing. Compared to the size of a dyson sphere, it is literally nothing.
Portal is such an eerie experience. Only two characters in 1, 3 and a half (Automatic announcer is a half to me) in 2, in a seemingly infinite complex.
It's not fair. FUCK YOU GAYBEN
nig do you realize how fucking huge a dyson sphere is
