Half Life Episode 3 Script "Leaked" - Main Writer Marc Laidlaw makes his own ending

[millais]

No Barney Calhoun? No beer? Trolled again by Gabe Newell.

Maybe as the screen fades to black at the conclusion of HL3, you hear footsteps behind you and a familiar voice say, "Now about that beer I owed you..."

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

From what I can gather the G-Man is just an "un-person" with an ungodly creepy look who just needed Gordon Freeman as an asset, maybe he's a parallel manifestation of Gordon? Perhaps, perhaps not.

This is good enough for me honestly, and now everyone can stop with the fucking crowbar memes .

 

[CWCchange]

I gave up on Half-Life for a good reason, and this solidifies it.

 

[vertexwindi]

I find it sad that all these great writers have been leaving Valve one by one.

 

[A Hot Potato]

I find it sad that all these great writers have been leaving Valve one by one.

I would leave if all I did at work was do nothing.

 

[Overcast]

While I wasn't TOO heavily invested in the series. I had fun with the games I played. (HL2, ep 1 and 2)
So it's kinda sad to see such a well done series fall to the wayside.

It's funny, not too long ago, Valve was considered by many to be champions in the game industry. Now they're just a shell of what they used to be. A very wealthy shell mind you but still.

 

[SpessCaptain]

 

[Quijibo69]

This is the true ending to Half Life:

 

[Puukalikka]

If they want something new and something not seen to create Half-Life 3 or episode 3, why not just make a short animation serie, that would be unexpected and new from valve

 

[vertexwindi]

If they want something new and something not seen to create Half-Life 3 or episode 3, why not just make a short animation serie, that would be unexpected and new from valve

They tried to get a TF2 cartoon going once, actually. It was gonna air on Adult Swim but that didn't go through because lol valve time.

 

[Another Fellow]

They tried to get a TF2 cartoon going once, actually. It was gonna air on Adult Swim but that didn't go through because lol valve time.

I remember hearing about that awhile back. IIRC, the Expiration Date short was made as a pilot of sorts. Would have been interesting to see how a full series would have fared, considering how popular the "Meet the Team" videos were/are.

 

[Linako 2.0]

I still think my ending was better

Spoiler

 

[Puukalikka]

They tried to get a TF2 cartoon going once, actually. It was gonna air on Adult Swim but that didn't go through because lol valve time.

That's just.. Sad. Well, one can hope at least some kind of closure. It's kinda sad if this is the closest we are going to get.

 

[Room312]

Great now if they finish it they'll need to go in a different story direction.

Hey, how about a mysterious child called the Catalyst appears?

 

[P.A]

john freeman, saver of humens

 

[Fork Cartel]

Damn, that

Spoiler

Dyson Sphere reveal and cliffhanger ending

just selled it for me. Sad it doesn't have any G-Man reveals tho

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Not good enough, needs to be in video game form.

 

[Quijibo69]

Not good enough, needs to be in video game form.

I bet some modder some where is already doing it.

 

[millais]

Due to the hype regarding the Laidlaw script, Tyler McVicker (the autist who runs Valve News Network) and his collaborators have put together a mod that showcases all the developmental assets and artifacts of HL3 that have been leaked by Valve over the years.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/hl2aftermath/news/hl2aftermath-release-1

It includes

• 11 levels created by Valve between 2012 and 2013, intended for Half-Life 3. Keep in mind that these levels were gameplay experiments, not actual storyline based levels.
• 4 demonstration levels created by Lever Softworks to show various functions and NPCs not seen in those levels.
• weapon_proto1, a Combine laser-gun that shoot through walls, intended for Episode 3.
• hl2eb_weapon_proto1_debug, a command which toggles the Developer Console spam created by weapon_proto1.
• npc_combine_armored, an Armored Combine Soldier, intended for Episode 3.
• npc_wpnscanner, a City Scanner with a laser gun, intended for Episode 3.

 

[AnOminous]

It's funny, not too long ago, Valve was considered by many to be champions in the game industry. Now they're just a shell of what they used to be. A very wealthy shell mind you but still.

Why bother making games when you can just shit yourself and do nothing while sucking up a cut of everyone else's?