Half-Life 2 originally had Gordon in a black, leather torture suit instead of the HEV

>Half-Life 2 originally had Gordon in a black, leather torture suit instead of the HEV
I forgot the late '90s/early '00s were so fucking EDGY

Half-Life always had a lot more horror than what made the final cut, although a good amount of body horror still made it in. I think the episodes were the most lacking in the horror aesthetic even if we had spoopy zombines and flying grubs.

tfw no mr friendly bf

Oh absolutely but you can tell with that black suit idea in particular that Valve all went to see The Matrix and were like "HOLY SHIT LET'S DO THAT"

The Matrix came out in 1999, user. Half-Life came out one year before that. Leather trenchcoats are also not the same thing as leather suits, if anything the inspirations would be late 80s/early 90s edgy teen shit.

Considering they hired an actual teenager to do their concept art, it's not surprising. It's still really fun going through their concepts though. Raising the Bar was a good read.

We're talking about Half-Life 2 m8, this was early in development around 1999-2000

That thing looks like its straight out of Quake.

Oh, fair enough, I'm retarded.

Why don't they make video games with these type of models? It would allow them to get more objects into the game. More objects to the environment, more mobs etc.

Fuck your "half-life".

You're not wrong though the suit was specifically described as a "Clive Barker thing"
>Cremators are never encountered in the game but are still implied to exist in the world of Half-Life somewhere
I always liked this

>mr friendly

God I wish he was in the final game. He was such a fucked up character design.

they keep those assassins at least

I feel like a lot of cut content made its way into the game anyway, almost as if all the concept art and supplementary info you find is extra flavour as opposed to cut as in "doesn't exist in the world."

The revelation that Borealis is out there only really carries impact if you knew it was a level in the leaked HL2 build and cut from the final thing. Your mind goes, "wait, it's an actual thing now?" and the NPCs are meanwhile saying the same thing. I thought it was pretty clever.

MDK?

Was this the enemy they wanted to be able to knock off Gordon's glasses and blur your vision? Would have been incredible if they could have pulled that off

It would be stupid. Like nothing else can knock them off, but only this guy.

Yeah it would be very unrealistic for the interdimensional rape alien to do that

The pitch dark zombie section in EP1 was pretty spooker for me.

Yes, it would be.

>we never got edgy Gordon who was fueled by pain