>humans possess O N E immensely powerful technology that even the combine don't have
>dumb cunt murders the one person that wants to use it for the resistance and uselessly flings humanity's one and only final asset into a superstructure where it does fuck all, because "MUH DADDY'S WISHES", dooming humanity for all eternity
no wonder g-man took this stupid bitch in the end, she's clearly an idiot that'll do anything she's told
That's exactly my thought when I read the thign
they didnt know it was a futile effort at the time, its worse that she just dips out and leaves gordon to the fate she chose for him without saying anything apparently
I wonder how Eli would've reacted had he found out his daughter killed Judith trying to pursue his wishes.
There's nothing humans could have done with the Bootstrap Drive to harm the Combine. There is no one particular thing they could teleport to and take out to cripple the Combine. The Combine is far too giant and amorphous. And eventually they would capture a Bootstrap Drive and use it to finally quell all dissent in the multiverse, because at-will teleportation tech was all they lacked.
Gordon was a fucking white male desu. He had to pay one way or another.
>use time travel
>prevent half life 1 from happening
>gg
the whole prospect of alyx killing judith had never crossed my mind even once, yet it feels like a perfect fit for alyx after the shit she went through. hell, you could even consider judith and alyx's dialogue bits from HL2 and Ep2 as foreshadowing and it fits the bill
maybe there's nothing they could have done with the bootstrap device itself, but from everything i can gather the bootstrap device was a pretty fucky device in the first place. the point moreover was that they could have refined the technology and perhaps done something more interesting with it like this
surely it had to of been worth something given that it was a technology that even the almighty combine weren't able to come up with. i mean, being able to phase through space and time, you can do a lot with that
i suppose it's a fair point that any chance of letting it fall into the hands of the combine was unbelievably risky, though
like this
>episode 1 is all about helping this bitch
>episode 2 is all about saving this bitch
>episode 3: she just leaves you to die while dooming the humanity in process
Maybe we dodged the bullet here
I doubt it would work. G-Man would find a way to intervene if so. He was the one who gave Black Mesa the sample therefore it was his intention for the incident.
>G-man created all this turmoil just to recruit agents for his cause
Shame we will never learn his true purpose in the series.
Why is everyone bullying Alex based off of conjecture, this isn't right!
>mossman gets eli killed
>alyx kills her because shes mad
humans act out on emotions all the time. it would make sense that she did that only a retard would be unable to see why she did it. regardless if what she did was wrong or not
>Alex
Who wouldn't want to bully an insecure woman
Oh man that image takes me back, that shit is older than my dad
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Yep, and Gman himself indicated interest in her at the end of Ep2.
Every time I think I'm starting to get a grip on the Half Life lore I'm reminded of the fucking G-man
Why are there so many half life threads right now?
Your dad is 5?
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Honestly I dont think they had an endgame in mind. Laidlaw confirmed HL would have been endless cliffhangers, and Gman is effectively a "built in" deus ex machina to bring up as needed.
You live under a fucking rock?
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No wonder Gabe didn't like it. This story sounds shit. Why would even gman take Alyx? Gordon is the ultimate killing machine. What useful skills Alyx has?
And she never even sat on our face.
a uterus
The story synopsis is really badly written and boring. Does anyone have a summary?
He already took Alyx once already. He saved her from Black Mesa despite his superiors' warnings.
Portal guns have miniature black holes in them.
If they could just get access to one, it'd be easy to at least take out the Dyson Sphere.
>Get the portal gun
>Set off its black hole, which was apparently a risk since they warn about it so it shouldn't be too hard to do
>do this on the Dyson Sphere, let the black hole grow in mass as it consumes the Sphere and eventually the star trapped inside, making it worthless and unusable
They basically wrote themselves into a corner with sooper powerful unstoppable aliens. Like Independance Day made the writer so mad he had to deconstruct it.
Your grandmother gets fucked by old age basically and dies, how's that?
You a scientist?
Because Alyx was important to motivate Gordon and Eli? Alyx herself has no usable assets. She is neither smart, nor powerful. All she did was hiding when Gordon had to deal with waves of combine and she got captured all the fucking time.
>They basically wrote themselves into a corner with sooper powerful unstoppable aliens.
Well I mean clearly they didn't. Them being ultra stupid powerful is the ultimate point, in the end.
Fully modeled
No, I'm just a sci-fi fag.
They didn't write themselves into a corner. The foundation for the conflict is well though out and there is a solution.
The Combine is unstoppable, but they do not have teleportation technology. Humans can use teleportation to win the war or at least delay the inevitable loss.
There are many ways you could resolve the story, like if they combined the Combine technology with human teleportation technology. The Combine can move basically giant shills and planet size objects trough dimensions. If you used the same technology, but modified to go trough space instead of dimensions you could potentially teleport the Earth somewhere else to hide from the Combine.
I think it would be a good ending for humanity to simply put their entire effort into teleporting Earth into somewhere else. Imagine the game ending by a lone Earth spinning in the darkness of space with no stars around. Destined to go cold just to give humans a little more time as they move underground and sustain themselves using the heat of the Earth's core.
It could be a very bitter sweet ending of humanity surviving, but just barely.
>release a miniature singularity
>it fizzles out almost instantly because they're not magic, reality eating portals
See, you're thinking like Cave Johnson would.
I'm just going off of how Portal 2 had some mention of there being a slight risk of the Portal Gun's mini black hole losing whatever containment they somehow manage and consuming the Earth. I'd assume that it's massive enough that it wouldn't instantly fizzle out, if that's possible to jam into a portal gun.
It's been forever since I played Episode 2, but wasn't the portal to wherever the Combine are coming from closed off at the end? So really, all the resistance would be fighting from then on are just whatever Combine forces are stranded on Earth?
man this image reminds me yet again about how badly source has aged
Yes but Combines really big army or reinforcements are coming to Earth, and thats why Freeman thinks the resistance is futile
That's the problem with most sci-fi writing, they often get the wrong aspects of physics completely exaggerated. A micro black hole isn't going to suck everything in and grow to the size of earth, it'll only stay in a spot and orbit the earth because Gravity gets weaker by the square of the distance between objects. If a micro blackhole is micro enough to have a micro event horizon, then it's not going to crush anything to oblivion until they were directly touching. Also, smaller black holes dissipate faster than larger ones and a blackhole the size of an apple for instance, would explode almost instantaneously.
So all you did if let loose the Portal gun's blackhole is to cause a room sized explosion.
I thought the same thing while reading it, if you have a ship that can make space-time its bitch, why waste it as a relativistic missile like that? why not just use it to quietly move your people to another planet and start over again? jesus that was so fucking retarded.
Would there be any way to rig it to immediately start taking in matter?
The way it's described, it doesn't exactly sound stable. Even inside the "bubble" of relatively safe reality produced by the Bootstrap Device, the Borealis is a crazy, non-euclidean nightmare with visions of the past and future walking the halls.
They only realize their mistake after the course is set. When they believed the Combine only had a single planet, which they could reasonably expect to destroy, it was a good plan. Cripple the Combine, destroy the technology they wanted.
Keep in mind, when Aperture detected the Combine invasion, they hid the Borealis "as far as they could" and it only ended up in Antarctica. If they had the ability to get it off world, they probably would have. There's nothing to suggest Mossman and Freeman could have figured out the workings of the Bootstrap Device before the Combine, relatively, retook their research centre and found their own way to make the Borealis sit still.
Save the brown, your body won't be found.
He doesnt know if armies are coming or not. What happens is he realizes that if Combine put any effort to destroy us, we would have no chance. We're just bugs in comparison.
so it's confirmed the gman is a bad guy right? he's described as sinister
>so it's confirmed the gman is a bad guy right?
It's always been hinted at. I mean at best he was just some neutral party for his own sake but now atleast in the script canon we know he's evil because he manipulated alyx and ditched gordon
Clearly the inferior choice, but it's clear G-man planned it this way for whatever reason. Maybe he was just more concerned with the thing not ending up in Combine hands than the relative insignificance of mankinds continued existence.
Wish we would see more Shepard. He was G-mans original candidate before switching to Gordon.
>because he manipulated alyx and ditched gordon
Like when he got Alyx to tell her father about Unforeseen Consequences and when the Vortigaunts forcibly stopped him from putting Freeman back into stasis?
it was just a game for his employers, a Truman Show in galactic scales of sort, they wanted to see how humanity would react when confronted by an unwinnable enemy, it could be amusing and humans might even show some useful evolutionary trait that can be added to the Combine gene pool or piece of tech that wasn't thought yet by the employers or Combine, which actually happened.
The HL plot could be summarized as ''IT WAS JUST A PRANK, BRO''
The idea that the Gman becomes more interested in Alyx than Gordon is a great story idea. "She was worth far more than the initial... appraisal."
>The idea that the Gman becomes more interested in Alyx than Gordon is a great story idea.
>mfw half life 3 would be about chasing Gordon chasing Gman through space and time to save alyx and kill him
Fully modelled?
Fully. Modelled. Uterus.
>If they had the ability to get it off world, they probably would have
they were still working on it, so probably they thought the combine werent as strong and they just send it as far away as possible while still being able to work on it
Maybe I need to read it again, but I got the impression she was completely under the G-Man's control.
and skinned.
>alright how do we get rid of the combine, guys
>WHAT IF... WE PICK UP THE EARTH AND MOVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE?
No one would have complained about any of that shit 10 years ago. They couldn't make a character like Alyx now because SJWs would think she's not strong enough and Sup Forums would go crazy because she's too strong and independent.
American politics fucking sucks now.
Why wouldnt G-Man take Chell instead of Alyx
chell is a fatty
we doctor who now
They probably would take the entirety of the solar system of the entire galaxy desu
So has Valve made any statements about this yet? I assume they'll just ignore HL like always.
How does a reproductive suppression field work?
prevents certain reproductive cells from producing
Ok but is it some kind of waveform? Microscopic nanomachines in the air? What is the mechanism?
daily fucking reminders that because of this garbage series vampie the masquerade bloodlines didnt realise its full potential.
it's not machines, some sort of waveform is more likely since the suppression field goes offline when the citadel goes to hell
No. They probably phoned Mark with a threat if he doesn't fix the situation. They are a bunch of sneaky bastards, never confronting.
>realise its full potential.
Lol no. It's because Troika have always made unfinished shit. Just look at Arcanum.
VTMB is perhaps the most overrated game on Sup Forums
Tied with New Vegas
user
We can only travel into the future
Not the past
>they didnt know it was a futile effort at the time
Imagine you're in a pitch-black room and you know that somewhere in there is a wild animal that's going to eat you. You have a gun with a single bullet. What do you do?
You obviously fire the gun in a random direction and just hope for the best.
So, is Alix gonna chill with Shepard in the GMAN dimension?
and what about Dog?
>teleport the Earth somewhere else to hide from the Combine
>"oh fugg, we forgot about the sun"
>everyone dies
Fucking hated Alyx from the start. Taking the spotlight away from Barney Calhoun, who apparently wasn't even worthy of a mention in Episode 2. Cunt of a thing.
>[pain]
>[pain]
Horrifying.
The earth's core would go cold too. Without the tidal influences of the sun and moon's (and frankly the rest of the solar system) the molten core of our world would become static after its constituents settled. In time, probably less than we realize, it would bleed off all its heat and there'd just be a cold lifeless rock in the void of space.
>Combine gets access to the Borealis
>Now they can invade any place in the universe
Alyx was completely right.
I never liked that mixed nigger bitch.
There, I said it.
Then they can take the Vortigaunts with them to prevent his meddling
Wait for it to attack, so if it goes for a limb I'll have a better chance at killing whatever it is since its right in front of me, preoccupied with chewing my arm or something.
Maybe I try to back myself into a corner and wait until I can hear the animal and guess where it is within reason.
I think you faggots may have missed the point.
>don't worry Gordon, I'll take REAL good care of her *wink*
I suppose that they would have found otherway to open the portal
He will finally have his revenge after getting shit in Opposing force.
Shepard is /ourguy/ .
Anyone tried the fanmod Propekt with Shepard? people say it's pretty good.
And maybe I'm just answering a hypothetical.
>>I think you faggots may have missed the point.
no, your logic is just flawed. the two anons just proved that someone can use their head to problem solve. Which was Dr. Mossman intentions, yet Alyx, under g-mans control, decided to fire the borealis as a suicide missile.
Yeah, you completely and utterly missed the point.
She did in Cinematic Mod.
FULLY
>Yeah, you completely and utterly missed the point.
Cause your analogy was shit