Half-Life: Alyx ending - full ending and post-credits scene
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Heavy: It costs 113,000 hours to move the story of Half-Life forward...
For twelve seconds.
That's probably what Gaben earns in a second thanks to steam.
r/unexpectedtf2
twelve is divisible by 3 though
that means....
12 years = 12 secs
@@thienlongtran3169 expected, actually. tf2 uses hl2 engine and Valve's fanbase has the orange box as an icon of greatest games ever.
13 years...and we have advanced 10 seconds further into the plot...this is so much more than I expected
Okay but half life 3 confirmed??
@@RageUnchained Valve confirmed another instance of the Half Life series. Now we play the waiting game... again
@Brooklyn Turner I estimate about 5 years from now until we get Half Life 3.
@@derpypixel4951 I hope the fans can keep safe to witness the sequel
@A Foi Production But half life 3 was confirmed, so it can’t be more than 10 years.
Valve: resolves cliffhanger
Also Valve: adds a new cliffhanger
except this cliffhanger gives us, and them, something to work with
I used the cliffhanger to destroy the cliffhanger
I screamed “goddamit valve” after the ending
10+ years later: they finally follow up on that only to yet again trade one cliffhanger for another
I prefer this cliffhanger. Now, we can move on to Half Life 3 without it feeling weird. Let's be honest, HL2 Episode 3 was way past due, to the point where it would be weird to release it in this day and age. Valve did the smart thing by creating a spin-off game that managed to be a great game on it's own merit while resolving one of the most frustrating cliffhangers in video game history in a way that both makes sense in the context of the world of Half Life, while also leaving enough room for enterpretation. Will Gordon find Alyx? Where did G-Man take her? Will we finally know G-Man's intentions? We will find out in another 13 years lol
“We got work to do” *as he hands Gordon his iconic crowbar*
Absolute euphoria
Everyone I've seen play this treats it with reverence. It's _immensely_ fitting.
Me: Suit up and get the helicopter ready, Eli.
We're going to the Borealis...
@@whatsacone Although barely used as a weapon; its symbolic of Gordon Freeman’s escape from Black Mesa and is used as a symbol of resistance against unknown and higher powers.
We've got work to do. in like 10 years when hl3 releases
@@whatsacone well the crowbar can one shot any headcrabs regardless of how much health they have, so.... that's something?
The game was just a big "Half Life 3 Confirmed" lmfao
well it's true.^^
I thought that game was a meme. Not an actual game in production. Wtf!?!?!?!?!?
@@user-uc9cu2lg9h How old are you?
@KneeHighNinja05 yeah I know what half life is. It's on psp
@@user-uc9cu2lg9h wat? the original half life is on pc, released in 1998!
Eli Vance: *Dies*
G-man: It's rewind time.
3:47 Major mistake, Alyx jacket should have 2 holes in it from end of episode 2
G-man: KILLA QUEEN, BITES THE DUST.
@@joshbailey5512 kira queen, daisan no bakudan baitsa dusto
R/comedycemetery
@@MrBridgewater12 ffs its different timeline
i just imagine adrian and alyx talking to eachother in the void
"so, what are you in for?"
"well you see i tried to save this guy named gordon freeman, but-"
"...."
*VIKING GROANING*
*A N G R Y G A S M A S K S C R E A M I N G*
*angrily reloads MP5*
(Stopping Race X noises)
RELOADS MP5 WITH MALICIOUS INTENT
"We've struggled to find a suitable replacement" says G-Man as Adrian Shepard is stuck on an Osprey just chilling.
Gearbox expansions aren't canon I thought
@@zephyrp8836
They are canon
@@zephyrp8836 they are Canon, but we just haven't seen shepherd in another game yet
@@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 i would love to see him in another game, Valve is disappointing honestly. They have so much great material to work with, even with Marc gone i bet they still have rough drafts
@@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985 Arkane briefly signed on to work on a spin-off of Half-Life 2 set in Ravenholm that would have featured Adrian Shephard as a protagonist, but it got cancelled.
Rest in Peace to all those who literally died, waiting for HL3.
Robert Guillaume for one
@Farglior X every Half Life fan waiting since 2007 till now that passed away, will never get to experience it.
Etika
RIP Kitty0706
Stan lee
No one can spoil the ending if I watch it first.
I mean I guess you aren't wrong xD
WeSmart
BIG BRAIN
5Head
1000 iq
The moment you hear the HEV suit. Heck. Yes.
when i heard that voice i got chills like never before
I felt like if I was really wearing the suite and it was telling me, my life is in danger
I looked like that soy dude crying while watching a starwars trailer
Morphine administered
Funny thing, when you grab the crowbar it also makes an audible noise, as if meant to be thematic, but you can just spam grab it.
Now that we got Half Life: Alyx, I would love it if the next game's title is Half Life: Freemλn
A prequel - Black Mesa: Eli
Al Pantalone I feel like that would ruin things
Or just simply Half-Life 3.
Calling it now, its eventual trailer will troll us with the "can't count to three" thing. Title will fade into appearance like:
HALF LIFE
......
E
E E
R E E
F R E E M A N
@@Al_Pantalone Half-Life: citizen07
I found it funny how the G-Man is disappointed by Gordon's lack of progress. It's as if Valve is subtly mocking themselves for it.
Meta joke.
I did share the same chuckle, but just inmediately I felt kind of cheated... I mean, I (we all) played as Gordon and made unbelievable advancements towards fighting the combine. And now the G-MAN just discards him as if he hadn't gone above and beyond?? That sucked, Gordon deserves better
@@maurogalindez3901 Well we cant say that defeating the combine was Gman's and his employers' goal. Gordon made a mess of the combine but that's not the reason Gman brought him out of stasis
@@DanteKG. why else was gordon woken up and pointed towards the combine?
@@breakerboy365 i dont know. Fighting the combine seems the most obvious and likely reason but why then would gman state that he didnt perform his tasks (unless he was lying)? We just dont know
“As a consequence of your action this entity will continue and this entity will not” -Source engine console
Lmao
"There is only so much....entites, we can spawn, Alyx Vance..."
ent_remove npc_advisor
is gman the embodiment of the source engine itself? dictating the course of the game. and the ramifications of it's modifications? 🤔
not really... but fun to think about.
@Eric Miret 🤔
"You wouldn't need all that to imprison Gordon Freeman"
HL2 speedrunners would disagree...
He couldn't even finish ''You woul-'''
6:00 it’s remarkable how many TH-camrs and streamers missed the G-man cameo here. I though, got goosebumps on my goosebumps.
I didn't notice when I played because I was more distracted with seeing Dog again hahaha which is why seeing this just now gave me chills that he was there the whole time
He’s the scary version of where’s Waldo. I’ve scene this clip a couple of times and only spotted him after you pointed him out.
i love the fact eli looks right at g-man and says nothing about him being there.
@@manumaker0135 most likely because Gman uses his powers to make it so he can only be seen by individuals he wants to see him.
@@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118 at the time he looked at the right gman had already disappeared
Alyx: *breaks combine prison*
*inside*
Barney: About that beer I owe ya-
Underrated comment
Underrated comment
Not gonna lie, that would be one hell of a twist.
@@avtechnick5845 I saw some people say they were convinced it was Kleiner because he is conspicuously missing for the whole game. I could see that. But G-Man really was the best option here
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep i thought it was kleiner when i heard the people talking about some guy surviving the black mesa incident
I like how Gordon Freeman is such a badass that when they heard whatever was in the vault survived Black Mesa, they just assume it's him and not like, an alien or something. Nobody even questions it.
Honestly when the I saw the G-Man I was like, “oh thats super obvious why didn’t I see that earlier...”
@@RatedKforKevin I remember hearing they were keeping something inside and thought, "Wait, the Gman, maybe?" I knew it made sense given he's a huge threat (and goes on to release Gordon on them), but figured that maybe having them capture the Gman went too far, and accepted that maybe Gordon's being held there (despite it's incongruity with Half-Life 2's opening).
nobody gives barney any credit
I want to know what will happen to Adrian Shephard.
@@AsianTheDomination now thats an avenger's level threat
At first I was a little sceptical about this, about time travel. But not only the Gman was already able to momentarily stop time, multiple timelines always existed in HL I think. There was a timeline where Gordon refused the G-Mans first offer and was left to die in Xen.
There was another where he took Gordon out of the citadels explosion and no vortigaunts intervened (or arrived later) so he put him on stasis once again (as the original ending of HL2, episode one revealed the vortigaunts). And there was a timeline where Eli Vance died. All of these where altered by the G-Man.
I Like at. The story is Never set and events can be remove or added onto. I think Half life. the past is the future and the future is in the past?"
@@Drakesonone nope
The people writing and developing HL:A actually looked through Half Life canon for any examples of time travel so they could get their plan to set up the next Half Life game in place, and they concluded the Vorts rescuing Alyx and preventing the G-Man from putting Gordon in stasis to be what they were looking for.
I JUST NOTICED THIS
idk if this is been mentioned before or not but the advisor is literary looking at Alyx before she kills it
Yeah, I noticed it too. It is as if the advisor had a sudden deja vu moment and notices Alyx before the "retconning"
Also how the prison that G-Man is trapped in is shaped like a Nihilanth, weird...
It is hinted in the other games that that Advisor is Breen, in which case he/it would recognise Alyx
@@fellowship_of_the_goat how is that even possible when he is dead 🤦🏻♂️
@@Mr.PR2000 "a body, I can't possibly--- Alright fine, if that's what it takes."
It’s weird hearing Gman have a back and forth instead of just a monologue.
That's what happens when your protagonist can actually speak
EDIT: WOW DID NOT EXPECT THIS TO BLOW UP
THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER
@@daniel-andersson wow I just noticed gordan never spoke in the half life games. Kind of reminds me of claude from gta 3
Maybe Gordon's just shy.
Gordon can grunt in pain.
Philip Godsworth that’s what happens when you talk to an extrovert.
"We have struggled to find a suitable replacement."
So that's why we've had to wait 13 years.
G-Man spent 13 years trying to find someone.
@@tacticalpossum7090 No he was not.
Gordon have been in stasis all this time you are talking about. He wasn't in a position yet, to do something that would disapoint G-Man.
When the vortigaunt woke Gorden up, it is implied that this went against the contract that G-man and Gorden had with eachother. As such, he retroactively chose to appear to alyx and give her a contract, letting Eli live
@@TonyOneBlairoby This line has confused me so much. That is what I thought, so why is Gman talking in a condescending tone about Gordon as if he was disappointed in him? I don't understand lol
@@Uollie same, gordon literally just accepted gman's offer before going into stasis
What i'm wondering is how G-man and his employers have any trouble regarding anything. They have time travel and parallel realities at their desposal, making them... basically gods. They can solve problems before they exist.
The snwser is vortessence
Maybe idk its really not clear
The combine, humanity etc are all just pieces in there interdimensional chess game.
I've read from somewhere that high ranking/the elite Combine are 5D beings. This explains why something like a grub shaped advisor is able to float and levitate. They have also been said to subjugate several universes already. I think G-man's advisors and the Combine are at each other's throats. But knowing that G-man was disappointed with Gordon after he destroyed the Combine portal. G-man already said this in the vid but just like he said, having the combine off earth wouldn't align with the interest of his employers.
G-Man is literally Q and his employers are like The Continuum Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation. And the Combine Empire is pretty similar to The Borg Collective.
What is an animal to a human? To an animal a human can do just about anything: Destroy entire ecosystems, create artificial ones, create massive canals connecting two oceans, ect. But there is another layer to this that animals would not understand, Humans also abide by their own laws be they international treaties, zoning laws, or just community guidelines, ect. Now think of Humanity, Vorts, and maybe even the Combine as "animals" to G-man and his employers being "human." To us how incomprehensible could the "laws" they follow be to being such as us?
"We were unable to find a suitable replacement... until now..." Me: *cries into HECU gas mask*
He is canon and non-canon
I don't think we'll ever see him again in the series :/
@@thee-wastegamer4044 so he will stay in the void prision forever? maybe the vortiguans can release him and help him to join the fenix forces to fight agains the combine to buy more time
I don’t even understand how he considers Alyx remotely comparable to Gordon. Their gap in skill is monumental.
@@TheAlienGangster maybe he put alyx in extasis in exchange to release grdom and keep figthing the combine and release earth who knows
@@TheAlienGangster have you played the games? Alyx does just as much as Gordon does in HL2 in terms of being able to handle combine soldiers, they have equal amounts of plot armor.
The g-man saved her from black mesa as another investment into "brilliant people". Now he's cashing out. It's implied g-man or his employers are omnipotent and break the fourth wall a bit. The story completely justifies it by nature.
Also at this point Gordon is facing more "retribution" and the residence regardless of what happens. That's probably why g-man wanted to get rid of him. He kept misbehaving
"We couldn't find a suitable replacement"
Meanwhile Adrian Shepard has been in stasis for 20+ years
Dude has probably been thrown into the trash.
Didn't you see? Gman tolds Alyx she will stay while Adrian gets free.
@@LennoxParsec what are you talking about?
@@ogulcanors5529 the guy behind G Man. He had a soldier's uniform on, it might have been Adrian Shepard. Valve has confirmed his existence in their timeline some time ago
@@MatadorShifter I think that was Gordon.
I fell bad for kitty0706 , he didnt see Half Life 3 confirmation with his eyes. Rest in piece kitty..
man i wish kitty0706 was alive and come back :,(
Kitty0706 living in our hearts
I hope he seen it in the afterlife
Kitty is G-Man
U made me sad
I guess Gordon is really a "freeman" now, since the GMan isnt there to trap him in some kind of sleep. Sucks Alyx got chosen though.
*Everyone tired of making HL3 confirmed memes*
Valve: Fine, I'll do it myself!
Cringe
@@memesauce7703 yeah u cringe
@@TheLegendaryMantis yeah i cringe
@@cisco2733 what?
"What if I could offer you something you don't know you want?"
*Briefcase contains Day of Defeat: Global Offensive*
Well, *i want it*
Oh god inb4 new meme template
Best comment i've ever seen
I would love that...
Team Fortress 3, DoD of Defeat: Source2, Quake 5, and Ricochet 2
Valve: Ha-
Community: Look he's going to say his first sentence!
Valve: Half-
Valve: Half-Life 3 confirmed.
*_THEY FUCKIN DID IT THEY FUCKIN' DID IT_*
@@CARLODDOCSI No u
@@ACCOUNTUNAVAILABLE7 yup except it wont be out for a decade. So are you down waiting 10 years to play it??
@@arg7380 I think they know we have been waiting so long for this they may have already started work long before this possibly working on Alyx and HL3 at the same time or at least I hope so
F a k e
Subject: G man. Status: wtf. Post Mortem: subject created temporal paradox
he has no post mortem as hr is not dead yet
only valve can turn a cliffhanger into an even bigger cliffhanger
Everybody: *doing complicated maths and memes to confirm Half Life 3*
Valve: *does next level math creating a new game engine and 10 hour story to confirm HL3*
This game was a 12 year old HL3 reference in the making
10 hour story? Alyx took me 20 hours to complete lol. I took my time and soaked everything in and savored it all.
@@bjamiork well some of us are abit slow
@@mokies7811 not slow, but like to enjoy every single part of the game instead of yeeting through it.
Biggest meme of the year award goes to Valve
took me 15 hours
I like how not only does this setup Half-Life 3, it sets up a _completely different_ Half-Life 3.
So Project Borealis is the original Laidlaw timeline, and now we're on the new Valve timeline.
Thanks to that project, we don't have to bother about the 'original' ending of Gordon's arch (We will have both endings, nothing was lost in this painful waiting process)
It's like Half Life 2 beta mods, as well as the beta itself. Nothing was lost.
Maybe he knew this was going to happen, and that's why he released the Borealis timeline?
Why not both?
That... is actually genius. The fans get to make their fan project, and Valve's official product doesn't counteract it. Genius.
I love it when VR players kind of act out the scene with their hands. It really adds to the videos.
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The flipping off is cringe and doesn't even match the conversation or overall scene playing out. She isn't even showing animosity towards Gman.
Lol I do that stuff when I'm playing alone. Also yeah, the middle finger was a bit much.
Anyone else find it funny that the Gman never asked Gordon what he wanted in return for becoming his "employee" (and Gordon couldn't reply anyway), but Alyx was at least asked what she wanted done?
@Paul Thomas Johnson I have to agree with this.
imagine alyx asked just for a cheeseburger or something and not for combine off earth. would had g-man denied her wish anyways xD
Alyx saved the G-man from imprisonment. He felt obligated to give her something in return.
Gman kinda chose for him, it was two fold, one was getting off Xen, the second was his HEV suit
@@peterenis4107 try the fabled club sandwich she was told all about
Gman: We have struggled to find a suitable replacement...
Adrian Shephard: Am I a joke to you?
Gordon and Alex have both the brain and the brawn. Adrian only has the brawn. It takes both to save the world, you know.
@@MrDosonhai "save the world" most like do his services without any doubt to do it
@@MrDosonhai Gordon pushes buttons and moves levers. It isn't exactly showcasing that he has any sort of higher education.
I want to see a half life game other than Opposing Force where Shepard is running around with the military grunt text yelling, like “SHIT. WE. GOT. COMBINE.”
@@Liberator130 He is a theoretical physicist who went to M.I.T, I'm sure he has higher education
The guy playing: “I’m just gonna look anywhere but where the story is happening”
Also a middle finger. What a douche.
This is 1 of the problems of VR
@SpazzMellow You don't see it because the guy's not facing it
You're only seeing one eye. The person playing sees a combination of this screen and one to the right producing the 3d. No videos will ever do the game justice but I'm glad people are showing it.
G-man is on the left in the background watching Eli and Gordon, that's why.
I've just experienced this in VR, without any previous spoilers. I honestly had to sit down to take it all in. Masterpiece
I was on my knees by the credits
Each time the Gman doubles himself it's another timeline being created. Most visible at 2:34 where Gman himself goes away and vanishes and a copy of him takes over.
The other copy most likely accepted the nudge, while this staying copy declined.
genius, and when the conversation keeps on goin more split,....
What if he actually checks those timelines, really quickly to see what would happen if he did do it and he probably denied because he knew something worse would happen.
@@toothbrush-guy More than likely is, he checked the future, then saw that it would be far too dangerous/would result in events of the episode 2 ending we saw.
I love how they retroactively made the G-Man's message from ep2 make more sense. He had Alyx tell her dad 'prepare for unforseen consequences', said consequences apparently being his death. Not much use for saying that to him if he dies anyway, right? This, though, makes much more sense!
This also explains why Gman had control over Alex, being able to implant a message she would deliver to Eli
She probably does not remember al this to have happened until a suitable time comes round again for Gman to share them with her
@@MrDwarfpitcher d-did you j-just call her ALEX?
@@MrDwarfpitcher anyways all jokes aside, My theory is that the butterfly effect exists in the HL universe so when the voritguants freed gordon from gman, he timetraveled to be captured by the combine and eventually be freed by alyx and hire her. And then the changes rippled to the present which is the ending of hl2
and there you see gman on the side watching them as he finally have a replacement
@@MrDwarfpitcher I think it's more him going back in time since he definitely isn't bound to time. He (IMO) has gone back in time to "employ" Alyx, after Gordon acted in "Unsatisfactory ways"
So Gman changes the future due to Alex's choice for saving her father. And half life 3 confirmed
Well that’s new. G-Man can stop and change time, while communicating to other beings
Probably why he needed her alive? Her fate was already set in stone from the moment she changed the future, so that she vanished the moment the "concequence" accured...
kyouda Best news I’ve heard in a long time
InfernoJoe I think it’s sort of neat given how HL2 goes off the timeline that Gordon accepts his offer and HL3 would now go off the timeline that Alyx takes his offer too.
Multiverse theory is dope
@@complacentTactician Nah its not multiverse I think Valve wants to go away from Marc Laidlaw's story because he already told it after he retired. They used HL:A to see how a game in Vr would perform and any changes they could make and also to change to story. This sets up Half Life 3 perfectly.
Gordon has seemed to have lost his plot armour.
So if I am to understand it correctly, the events of HL 2 and its two episodes still happened, but right after when the screen fades out in Episode 2, Alyx suddenly vanishes, Eli is back to life, and the Advisor is fried on the floor, dead, giving us the post-credit sequence.
Pretty much
I wonder if Alyx will be completely unaware of the events of Half-Life 2 and the Episodes, or if she'll now have two contradictory sets of memories, one based on the series of events portrayed in HL:2 and another based on the ending of this game. I feel like either could be interesting and it will be interesting to see how they deal with the fact that Gordon's journey in HL:2 becomes effectively impossible with Alyx out of the picture.
Everyone's talking about how good he looks but not how he pointed the middle finger to Gman
Dude ur a God.
@@Chappie432 Dude go away...
Speedzracing yeah go away noob
@@Chappie432 get noob
@@Chappie432 noob
We were wondering how they would announce Half-Life 3, they litteraly made a whole game to do it the absolute mad lads
Tbf nobody was wondering how they would announce HL3, but if.
@@MrSpruce Speak for yourself. I was always wondering "when". I thought they would target this upcoming console generation because the previous was too weak, not enough of a step up to deliver a genuine upgrade over HL2. Looks like that's exactly what they're doing.
@@MrSpruce when you start looking into it you relize they spent most of the time between making a new engine to run the game and bouncing ideas about what the next game would be so it starts to explan why it took so long. Its like wine it takes time.
@@forasago What are you on about?
@@forasago i knew Valve would do this, one way or around. But they most certainly didn't look at the console market. Valve are basically fathers of PC gaming and they never looked to make the games for consoles in the first place. What I have thought throughout the years, is that Valve was actually making a completely new game engine (check) and new ways to play the game (check).
We are in the future, Mr Freeman. This is the moment when you watch the finest mind of his generation die. Unless...
Lazlo!
The occasional glow of his eyes no doubt signifies the Gman as a higher being, I am pretty sure many theory videos beforehand noted his strange eye color being 'otherworldly'. When it glows as he first approaches Alyx is truly menacing, and almost reassuring of the fact that the Gman, is no man at all.
No man indeed
literally no one thinks the gman is human. you just want to speak to the internet.
I mean, we all know he's Nyarlathothep, it's obvious and this only makes that clearer.
Here we are all together. we got to see the beginning of Half Life 3. I cannot wait for Half Life 3 to Officially release
See you in 13 years
I suppose Gordon will be the playable character
Trying to defeat Gman
people have died waiting.
fuck that hurts
In 2024
Edit thanks for 11 likes
Mean while Adrian Shepherd has been floating in space for god knows how long.
What if he's doing jobs in other worlds?
From what i know since Opposing Force was made by Gearbox it isn’t cannon. Which really sucks because it might be my favorite Half-Life game
Edit: I understand it’s cannon no need to post another 15 replies.
@@doctorfaker391 I think Valve acknowledged Shepard's presence in their timeline a few years ago so it might be cannon.
@@doctorfaker391 it is cannon
@@gabrielc404 good thing HDtF isn't canon
The entire final chapter left me speechless from the moment I opened "that door" and it flew off its hinges to the moment I realized I could shoot energy from my palms like the Vortigaunts...I almost had tears in my eyes from how overwhelming everything was. You need to experience this game.
I love that during this conversation, Alyx asks G-Man who he is and he responds with “what I am...”
It was just a small line, but one a lot of us know to be true.
“You are man, he is not man. For you he waits... for you...”
Man I love it.
And Alyx, too, was deceived by the G-man with the illusion of free choice.
"Deceived.. you will be deceived".
"Rather than offering you the illusion of free choice, I have taken the liberty of choosing for you".
If only they played “Hazardous Environments” when you picked up the crow bar
This is such a missed opportunity they just HAVE to patch it in.
It was in the development build, but all playtesters came in their pants when "Hazardous Environments" played, so Valve had to cut the music away.
I’ll do you one better, Klaxon Beat.
but pitched down slightly
Maybe they¡re saving it for the intro to Half Life 3
“As a consequence of your this entity will continue and this entity will not.”
I love that line because it shows how an Advisor to us is force not to be reckoned with but to the G-man they’re just another lab rat to be observed and tested with.
I can’t figure out what such an advanced being like the G-man would want with humanity. Perhaps whatever its “employers” are are at war or in conflict with the combine. The Combine seem to have an insurmountable amount of power spread far and wide, but most of what we know about the Combine seems tangible. The G-man shows to have some sort of metaphysical abilities, which could be the only threat to the Combine. To me that explains Gordon and Alyx’s badassery as well, given that they are monitored by the G-man when we play as them.
@@EP-nl6fd my thinking is that to some extent G-man just cares about getting getting people as capable as Alyx, Freeman, and Shephard hired into his organization, knocking the combine off of earth could potentially be little more than an incidental side effect of that, hence why G-man doesn't just knock the combine off earth when Alyx requests it.
@@EP-nl6fd "Did you realise your services were open to the highest bidder?"
imo G-Man and his employers don't really have their own end goal but are more of an interdimensional hiring agency/mercenary provider. Other interdimensional forces go through them when they want something done. G-Man doesn't have plans for humanity, but he's the company's way of monitoring Earth, selecting potential agents and nudging things in accordance with their client's wishes. In Half-Life 2, G-Man and his faction aren't at war with the Combine themselves, but one of their clients is in conflict with them and so uses their services to disrupt their operations on Earth.
@UCDGZ8QJrYU6RpTEzAPymbqw will def read that. Really appreciate the reply brother ! I’ll come back after I read
@@EP-nl6fd Well, they clearly arent in conflict with the Combine, because G man says the combine off earth would be against his employers intrests.
Eli handing the crowbar to Gordon still gives me goosebumps to this day.
This game literally just followed up to the intro part of Half-Life 3.
Eli: "When I find him, i'm gonna kill him!"
Gordon: WHA- WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? HE'S RIGHT THERE! YOU JUST LOOKED AT HIM!
I can imagine Ross Scott's voice saying that haha
@@Trainz4days If Freeman's Mind ever gets to that point that's what I expect him to say.
i think you meant
Gordon:
Who gman
He says when he figures out how.
"Node graph out of date. rebuilding........."
Failled to Rebuild. *crash*
@@lagermanrevolution5697 LOL
MY FACE
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Another great Valve's attention to detail: you'll see G-Man looks fade away and looking away at 2:36 which maybe indicates that he paused the time during talking with Alyx to ask his employer afterwards
"We struggled to find a replacement...until now." I felt that ending with the GMan looking for a replacement for Freeman just shat on Adrian Shephard returning anytime soon.
Note on 2:36 how the G-man splits into two as he answers Alyx's request.
He just created two Universes. One in which he said yes, and one in which he said no.
Holy shit that's true. So, Ep2 would be if he answered yes to her request, because the combine's portal was destroyed.
@@limited3502 Horrible consequences, regardless of the outcome.
or they added it so it would look cool
@@limited3502 you could say...unforseen consequences.
Maybe he did that to see the outcome if he said yes
Rest In Piece
"Half-Life 3 Confirmed" Memes
{2007 - 2020}
Conspiracy theories, let begone!
Don’t worry, we can switch it to Portal 3
@@sethheusted9021 I mean...Nobody except for maybe 4 people actually care about Portal anymore.
Looks like portal has ended
@@saturn21207 I care.
Can't wait for my grandkids to see what happens next
For those who haven't seen this in VR...it's a trip. It was exciting to see G-Man in 3d as if he was actually standing in front of me. It was also a little unsettling as well. He looks like a normal human in a suit, but the way his eyes occasionally glow when emphasizing something reminds you that he likely isn't human at all.
welp see ya guys in 30 years when they release half life: Eli
@German Ugalde half-life Barney: beer debt
HALF-LIFE: KLEINER CONFIRMED
Half-life : Lamarr Adventure ( game where player control Kleiner pet, the headcrab. Venture around city and cause Mischief to other people or entity it could find along the way. Rip-off gameplay from Untitled Goose Game basically. )
half life: gman adventures
@M. Also And it’s a 2-d platformer..
The symbolism of us, Half-Life fans literally 'picking up' the crowbar again after all this time... Maybe I'm overthinking this but this gave me chills...
Goosebumps ❤
SAME, Does this confirm hl3?!
Nice one..
nah dude, it's normal, we are a single man, Gordon Freeman.
Raise the bar
it’s such a shame that not everyone can experience this in VR cause being in space and the dark areas and not knowing where gman is or was going to show up really really made him feel that much cooler
the ending music near the vault is so well made. I love how the vault's noises are part of the music too.
HL3 confirmed.
- After all this time?
- Always.
A quote from Harry Potter was the last thing i expected to see here, lol
@@darkySp which part?
@@user-mm5py7wz4l snape dialogue with dumbledore from the eighth movie I think
Snape talking about love and Lily with Dumbledore
Holy shit, HL3 is such a massive title that the only reasonable way that Valve thought to announce it was by releasing a revolutionary, industry-shaking title. In all seriousness, that ending's incredible.
I had this theory for a long time that the only way Valve would be able to not have HL3 be a let-down would be to release HL2: Ep 3 first announcing HL3 within it.
@@chiffmonkey hl alyx is not hl2ep3 tho
@@chiffmonkey HL:2 episode 3 would be just as big of a reveal since people were literally asking for Episode 3 and expecting it years ago. The meme of asking for HL:3 evolved from asking for when’s Episode 3?
@@collinslogan01 a
I feel bad for the ones that parted with us during our wait for HL3. I hope they're watching us in the afterlife.
Gman: A previous hire has been unable or unwilling to perform the tasks before them.
*flashback*
Gman: Tell Eli Vance to prepare for unforseen consequences
Gordon: ...
Gman: *Angry teapot noises*
Thanks for the LOL
@@buddy4350 It would indeed be funny, because he referred to Eli not by name, but as "your father". Assuming he still meant Eli in this scenario, that would mean Alyx is Gordon's sister. Which would make the part near the end of Episode Two, when Eli encouraged Alyx and Gordon to procreate together, hilarious and creepy in a whole new way.
Well brothers... after 13 years of waiting, we finally got that 30 seconds of Half Life 3.... R.I.P to our comrades who died on the way
May their names be remembered as we fight along the way!
@@mergen3125 yes!
wait... 1(3) years, (3)0 seconds, Half Life (3) 333
@@mrhouse9036 confirmed!
war threat, brexit, corona,Olympics moved, hl3....this is realy end of the world
but the war threat subsided 2 months ago ...
@@nezaniatoimya not really, iran accused us of making corona.
and you know, shit' s about to go down
The 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse...
Economic meltdown, famine, social upheavel, global warming...
Add Doomguy/DoomSlayer speaking to the list
I love how they retconned a 13 year old cliffhanger ending for an even more confusing cliffhanger ending.
If HL3 is made, I do hope Aperture Science somehow gets involved. There's always be nods and references between both games but It'd be awesome for Aperture to play a substantial part in Half-Life.
yeah, that would be HUGE SUCCESS
I loved playing Portal!
That's why me and my friends weren't happy with this ending that much. It seems they switched focus from the Borealis to now rescuing Alyx. A bad sign, might be pointing to cutting away from the Aperture science connection since Epistle 3 was put online.
The Borealis is literally in Apeture science and it's Apeture Ship, of course it's will get involved
well duh
this is ALL ABOUT finding Borealis, and that ship is Aperture's property
Wait so Half-Life 3 is confirmed?? Holy shit after all those years..
Cynical Yeah lol finally
its not half life 3 she changed the future its half life alex 2
RafoIgra Extra don’t twist it lol
@@rafoigraextra7441 It'd still be Half Life 3, or whatever they wind up calling it. Just because she changed the future to save her Dad, doesn't mean Gordon's story won't continue on (literally as he's being given the crowbar to continue on) as is just with Eli Vance still alive instead of dead and Alyx, someplace else doing G-Man stuff or in stasis etc.
@@LordLOC playing half-life 3 in VR its will be so stupid ai think will call half-life freeman
sorry but can i say that was the best continuation of a series / ending of a game that we have had in a good 10 years?
Absolutely 👏
Yes! After this ending it would have been boring if they just casually kept the story going from where they left. This made things extremely interesting.
404 gamer
@@mcskillet7106 not really man, id still like a real half life 3 that actually concludes the story, ive been waiting since 2010 😂
@@notjimpickens7928 But they're still going to borealis so it will pick up where they left off but with a twist.
Everyone is waiting for Half-Life 3
When I'm waiting for Half-Life 2: Opposing Force
Op can be really tough sometime though. But cool how there are more weapons.
Arkane’s Return to Ravenholm was basically Opposing Force 2 since the protagonist was Adrian Shephard. It’s a shame it has never seen the light of day.
I love how Dog's beams when he's holding the crowbar form a Lambda symbol. Just another layer of imagery in an already beautiful game.
Subtle things I noticed and probably some other people too.
When Alyx asks Gman who is he, he says “what I am” which means he’s not someone but a thing, just like Nithlanth tells us “he’s not a man”
When Gman talks about Gordon not willing to do his biding. He’s talking about episode 1 and 2 when those Vortigaunts take Gordon away from Gman.
Which means that the Vortigaunts know what Gman is and what he is up too. And that they somehow convinced Gordon to disobey him, but since Gordon doesn’t speak, is hard to tell how or when that happened. That can be proven when Gordon seals the portal with the rocket in episode two, because Gman says to Alyx in this game, that having the combine out of Earth was not in his Employers interests.
And finally, when The title Alyx starts to fade away. The y looks like an downsides lambda symbol, the classic Half Life symbol, why is it upside down? Who knows, but like a cross upside down. I don’t think is a good sign.
I like your analysis. I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up with this, but I have a feeling that the the Gman's mysterious "employers" is supposed to be Valve itself. It's not in the interest of Valve to get the combine off the earth.
A cross upside down is not a symbol of anti-Christianity. It's symbol of Saint Peter. The upside-down lambda I believe is a deliberate choice by the designers.
Organic Shelter there’s always dick in the TH-cam comments.
You’re missing the point lad.
I found some info online (to which sources I don't remember) that GMan is actually a physical part of a Shu'ulathoi (the name of the Advisor creature) and is not used to using a lung for talking.
From a drawing in :Alyx, the Lambda is actually Freeman holding the crowbar down at the top of the Citadel, which means the fight's over. This one is Freeman holding the crowbar up, ready to fight.
yo that's dope they brought back gordon's VA
hahaahah
Yeah I chuckled at that lol but I am surprised they either got the original G-Man VA back, or someone who sounds just like him. Pretty good stuff, though Eli sounded a bit off to me, but considering Robert Guillaume passed away recently, obviously they had someone else playing him and did a pretty good job overall.
@@LordLOC I think Gmans voice was a bit different
@@Skikopl It's the same voice actor though, Michael Shapiro did it and it's confirmed and in the credits.
Skikopl well it has been over a decade since he last voiced him 😂
Its still sad that the original voice actor for Eli Vance passed away a few years back.
6:06 "Gordon? Gordon? Are you paying attention? Why do you keep looking all over the place? Hello? DUDE I'M TALKING TO YOU!"
G-Man:I'm tired of these silent protagonists. Be my employee and I'll pull a pro gamer move for you.
Oh my god, when the HEV suit sounds kicked in, i almost cried man.
The scene when Gordon puts on his glasses with G-man next to him is also so badass also! I love how it's all dark too.
Valve did a fabulous job
"Warning:
Vital signs critical;
Seek medical attention."
I SWEAR TO GOD I CRIED
I did.
Yep, I admit it, I cried.
when eli handed over the crowbar i cried like a bitch
It entirely depends on when he decided to leap out of time to get Alyx. As how I see it, after
the events of Half Life 2 episode 1, when the vortigaunts freed Freeman
out of his stasis, G-man had to search for other options, as soon as he
got out from the vortigaunts he travalled back in time, let the combine
capture him and spread the information the Gordon was in the chamber, so
it would lead Alyx to him. The first version of HL2: EP2, when Eli
dies, it was the main timeline, but because meanwhile we were playing
Episode 2, HL:Alyx was happenning at the same time 5 years ago, because
that's where the alternative time-line got made, because I think Alyx
didn't meet G-man in the original timeline, just after we fucked with
him in the begginning of Episode 1. So after HL: Alyx, the timeline
would have been the same, if G-man wouldn't made Alyx kill the Advisor,
but because she did kill it, and save her father, an alternative
timeline was created at that is where we continue in Half-Life 3.
Agree, we never see/play the original timeline.
I was 13 when Halflife was released, 20ish when Halflife 2 was released, now I'm mid 30s, have 2 kids a cat and a mortgage, haven't played a computer game since 2011 and valve just pops this out like its a normal experience to wait 13 years for a cliffhanger plot to be moved forward 12 seconds to the cost of a small fortune in a VR ready PC.
Still, it was worth it somehow 😂
Date: March 23, 2020.
Today was the release of Half-Life Alyx, Valve's biggest VR title. The game's ending... gives us "something promising."
Let me put it simply.
After all the memes, speculation and such... it's now safe to say the words we've been saying for years.
*Half-Life 3 confirmed*
I wouldn't say it's the first one. The Lab was the first one.
Well see you in the next 10-20 years until its released
@@FloppyFiona Now I can die peacefully, knowing it did existed... Thank you.... valve..... *Dies and fades into obscurity*
Son it took them 13 years to make this Half Life 3 is still a pipe dream
@@TimeBomb014X do you really think valve would just make one game and disappear again for a decade? That just makes no sense. Valve said themselves they wanted to make games again.
The project borealis guys are REALLY not going to like this!
no.
That's the risk with modmaking and fanfic writing. Your entire work can be jossed in a snap of the fingers.
@@DinnerForkTongue Valve: "Reality is whatever I want" _snaps fingers_
Could just be seen as an alternate timeline.
@@Skeletoncross No that's not whats happening. Half Life 3 will likely be about Gordon and Eli finding Alyx as well as Borealis stuff happening.
Tbh, I like Eli's new voice actor.
Same.
1 year later....it still gives me goosebumps. I can imagine that post credit scene in a movie theatre, would literally explode.
1:57 This is my favorite moment! I always wanted to do that in Half-life!
No game is complete without this feature.
Meanwhille, Corporal Shephard still chills somewhere nearby.
Come back to us, soldier.
I wish he would be mentioned in Alyx, but no. I think they totally forgot about him.
I'm pretty sure valve did state that any half life game not made by Valve is not cannon, doesn't mean they won't say it's cannon in the future
@@keeraweera20 What are you talking about? If I am correct, Half Life: Opposing Force was also made by Valve. Half Life: Blue Shift also comes to mind, as you literally meet the protagonist (Barney Calhoun) in the beginning of Half Life 2.
Those games are not cannon
@@jimmyalone3190 Both Op4 and Blue Shift were made by Gearbox. Op4 had too many new things and fitting them in future Half-Life games would be pain in the ass, but at the same time it is a Half-Life game, an "official" one, so Valve can't really say if Shepard is canon or not.
Maybe I was just too emotional for no reason, but did anyone else cry? I played the original Half Lifes like 3 times each back when I was like 7. Im 20 now. So i basically grew up with this game. Here's hoping I live to see the true ending😭🙏🙏
Given the franchise’s history, they’ll probably never give it an ending and just make it go on forever
I actually did really well until Eli handed the crowbar over. Never thought we'd ever get to play as Gordon again, even if it was only for a couple seconds. As soon as I picked it up, the floodgates opened 😭
*And Alyx, too, was deceived by the G-man with the illusion of free choice.*
"Deceived.. you will be deceived".
"Rather than offering you the illusion of free choice, I have taken the liberty of choosing for you".
I love how valve explicitly state the death of the old storyline: “this entity will continue, and this entity will not”. Not creature, entity...
Struggled to find suitable replacement, i think they might refer to a developer team and/or storyline to carry on.
"struggled to find a suitable replacement"
Adrian Sheppard: *Am i a joke to you?*
I also think the "employers" could be valve itself. It's not in their interest for the combine to leave earth because video games.
Eric Miret mate, the major storywriter and his storyline left valve, not to mention some of his fellow developers. But excluding all that, the original story line can also be referred to as the “entity” in question.
@@PawelSlab You literally sound like an english teacher lmao
@@23billiejean1 Kek, probably because I am not a native speaker.
They created HL:A just to announce Half Life 3. Say it with me now! Bruh.
I knew it. HL Alyx is just a demo for HL3, much Like Ground Zeroes is demo to MGS5!
@@T--kq3pj Valve ain't konami pal
@@sovereign5091 Valve ain't fire people and make pachiko machine
@@barney10240 damn, you didnt have to say it like that
@@barney10240 damnnn did you just burned whole company?
I love how the ending switches prospective in a very smooth way, I missed this badass.
The best ending of any Half Life game IMO! I was so emotional at the end of this game as i felt i was part of the adventure with VR.