Half-Life 3 Confirmed? Everything the New Documentary Reveals

[@1lucia]

THE HYPE IS REAL (Subscribe! :D)

[@Catedits915]

Yeee

[@NotZealot]

"voice of Barney and.. most importantly gman" don't do my guy Barney like that bro..

[@1lucia]

@@NotZealot yeah true, "most importantly" was meant as in "most importantly as for the following". Barney is the GOAT

[@mainsmain]

​@@NotZealot "Gee, Gordon"

[@NotZealot]

@1lucia still owes me a beer

[@lukasjanecek]

Valve shouldn’t name the next Half-Life with the number 3. They should keep the joke going and release 4 straight away.

[@tf2keller398]

Half-Life 2^2 (or 4)

[@KickSilverOMG]

Gaben already said the number 3 don't stress it.

[@lazyxeno9404]

Legacy joke is over 😭

[@itaibram1712]

Half life xen

[@cortinastone]

It WOULD be the 4th game (if you count Alyx)

[@patroller1592]

Gabe Newell said it best: "The half-life franchise is about driving innovation forward."

[@kry9714]

well having players wait for 17 years for a sequel is quite innovative, not gonna lie 😂

[@czdot]

He may have said it the best but we wanted them to continue the story anyway. :-D

[@caboose8110]

@@kry9714yeah it builds a lot of hype I guess

[@AkymarsDoc]

Half-Life: Nuts & Bolts confirmed

[@xhivo97]

​@@kry9714almost like it got a lot harder to innovate in that genre, they even said it in the documentary that they only could have done so much stuff before it's just old tricks i.e. not innovative.

[@aidenlethbridge2675]

It would be hilarious if they either just released Half-Life 3/Episode 3 without warning, or announced it very close to it's release

[@DuneJumper]

I'm sure they will, HLA was announced only 4 months before release

[@lunathecat4318]

"hl3 release: tomorrow"

[@pontifex1]

haha such valve time

[@vibaj16]

HL3 in 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days

[@Arenumberg]

The announcement before release (sometimes very short, sometimes 1-3 months or so) is becoming more common, with the latter you can still build up coverage and interest without risk because the game is done, its not gonna be cancelled, and it wont have features or story hooks or things dropped that were promised because its done. Honestly I think this is better for most games. Its fine to say "we're working on something" and disappear and only come back with a full announcement not long before release when what you've done is largely ready because its just.. better overall. There are few cases where having eyes constantly watching and judging during development is helpful. So, it wouldnt surprise me.

[@kudner]

I don't think there is going to be 'multiple timelines'. I think there is one timeline, and it can be manipulated. Why would G Man spend all this time making things the way they are 'supposed to be' if there were multiple timelines? Couldn't he just ignore the timeline where things go wrong? Seems silly. Nobody talks about the choice you were given at the end of Half Life 1 and potentially the two timelines that were created, and for good reason

[@1lucia]

That’s the best argument I‘ve heard yet. I hope you‘re right

[@kudner]

@@1lucia I hope so too. Multiple timelines seems like a writing cop out. They could do something so much more interesting and meaningful

[@edrichnieuwoudt8459]

But keep in mind Half-life Alyx few things do change like Alyx's father doesn't die at the end, which tells me if Half-life 3 happens they will follow that timeline instead of Episode 2 ending.

[@libbybibby1579]

@@edrichnieuwoudt8459 how can we know that time travel works like that here though? we can assume that time travel creates different timelines but we’re not sure until they tell us, for all we know it could be a single timeline that was edited and the moment of eli’s death is just no longer extant.

[@DoiNkCascade_DOT_org]

“With the current industry today, innovation is most likely possible” Love the indirect shade of the game industry. Even a physics engine is incredibly innovative in nowadays games since no one did it since 40 years ago

[@Kacpa2]

Games regressed painfully in 2010s and especially last few years. Graphics became the only focus and they often look hedious, taking uncanny and borderline disgusting "realism", while physics and even decent sound design became worse or non existant. At best some nieche game effectively copied physics and gravity gun elwments from HL2 like Control or some.of the things indie games try but triole A is just a woeful mess of worthless and increasingly inferior 'products' and 'live services' or remakes and badly made remasters.

[@Jane-qh2yd]

@@Kacpa2 Elden Ring, Doom Eternal, Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3, Hades, Psychonauts 2, Hitman 3, Sparking Zero, Sifu, Monster Hunter Rise, Half Life Alyx, Inscryption, Ghost of Tsushima, Cyberpunk 2077... You should start actually playing games instead of regurgitating shitty video essays and reddit opinions. These last 5 years had some absolutely incredible game releases. Hell, some of my favorite games of all timed came out in the 2020s.

[@rinmeikan6229]

​@@Jane-qh2ydYou are both right. There are good games but there are still an overwhelmingly amount of garbage ass games mostly from triple A developers too.

[@Jane-qh2yd]

@@rinmeikan6229 There have always been an overwhelming amount of garbage games.

[@wm1573]

And Alyx was the only one out of those which created something "new" or innovative. That's the point. The half life series is all about setting new possibilities​@@Jane-qh2yd

[@keeraweera20]

I feel like the tons of ships could have been world building that when The 7-hour war happened tons of people who own ships sailed off into the Arctic to hide away from whatever was going on

[@1lucia]

Good theory!

[@SourceBrother]

Or maybe the Borealis wasn't the only ship with a bootstrap device?

[@vibaj16]

Or maybe that's the Borealis being in multiple places at the same time (and ig also at different ages, thus the different appearances)

[@meinkek7896]

But the world is flat. They sailed into the unknown continents beyond the ice walls.

[@SourceBrother]

@@meinkek7896 Nonono, they would fly off into space!!11!1!

[@MegaSean45]

I think Alyx was taken away for a reason - it's been nothing but Gordon and Alyx for a large majority of the episodes and led her own game after that, that no other characters get to shine that much. Kinda like Cortana in Halo. She was absent for most of Halo 3 (other than visions), and doesn't come back till near the end. She's still involved in the story, but from a large distance from Chief. Alyx might be the same. She might have her own story going on. At least with Alyx gone for half the story, it gives more time with characters like Eli, Barney, Magnusson, Kleiner, Mossman, and maybe some of the new HLA characters like Russel and the scientist.

[@whitefang1657]

I imagined after Eli was killed, Gordan might end up going with Barney to find the Borealis instead of Alyx

[@creamboyfuengshwei]

Not only that: Her and Gordon souls are connected together - that's how she survived the Hunter attack. Maybe Gordon can "feel" where she is as a consequence?

[@Chris_W]

@@whitefang1657 Barney wasn't at White Forest tho, right?

[@MegaSean45]

@@creamboyfuengshwei Alyx becomes the new G-Man cameos!

[@whitefang1657]

@Chris_W he's not in episode 2 at all, last we see of him he's taking a train on the same track Gordan and Alyx took, so he's probably somewhere near by

[@ethernetmumasmr_3231]

I see half life 3 confirmed videos again, nature is healing

[@1upD]

The concept art, the gameplay with the ice gun, the blob, and the story points suggested by Mark Laidlaw's short Epistle 3 (which did not actually involve any Half-Life characters, only similar characters with different names like Dr. Gertrude Fremont) are all remnants of the Episode 3 that the documentary spoke about which was in development for a few months after Episode 2 and was abandoned in favor of Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2. I don't think any of that work has any relation to new games Valve would make. If I had to guess, I think a future Valve might change the direction of the Half-Life series to the extent that the arctic and the Borealis won't even be involved. Those are all ideas over a decade old which the Valve of that time didn't find interesting enough to pursue.

[@1lucia]

I could see all that being the case. No Borealis would mean there will be at least 1 more game afterwards, which would be great news I‘d say :D

[@vibaj16]

HLA was gonna have the Cremator. Valve will almost certainly reuse at least a few of their ideas for episode 3, no matter how long it's been.

[@pietervanderzwaan4295]

How in one day the half life 3 hype has seen a resurgence, i love it.

[@vibaj16]

it was already resurging in the past couple months with all the HLX leaks

[@JayTheSheep]

its what ive been waiting for my whole life

[@palikkalapsi345]

Half life 3 hype resurges every time Valve does literally anything that is vaguely related to Half-Life

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

the borealis was originally supposed to be an adorable tugboat with a face, but it made players too sad to destroy so they scrapped episode 3 entirely

[@haydfors]

Except for the fact that we see imagery of the borealis in episode 2🤣

[@Cyclopeantreegiant]

@@haydforsBut we never see the front!

[@haydfors]

@@Cyclopeantreegianttrue

[@timeryar]

"we have made it to the borealyx" -eli

[@Cyclopeantreegiant]

@@timeryar combine is invading me - xen

[@jd_kreeper]

Something I proposed a while back was the idea that, with the Combine empire cut off from Earth, the forces on Earth fall into chaos, with the command structure tarnished. The Advisors manage to hold everything together for a few days, but once the Resistance closes the portal, the forces feel no need to obey the Combine anymore. My headcanon is that the Combine rely on what I call the Rebel's Dilemma to keep everyone in line. Basically, to start a rebellion, you need someone to make the first move, and nobody's willing to do that because they fear not getting the support they need to continue it. Few join the rebellion because they feel as if any rebellion is doomed to fail, and they don't want to be on the wrong side of the Combine. Now, my theory is that the synths are sentient beings that also think this. The synths need to be smart enough to consider rebellion, and the Combine uses this tactic to control them. Let's apply it to the events of the Episodes. The Citadel falls, and the Combine are temporarily cut off from Earth, so the synths participate in thwarting the Resistance's attempt to close the portal, because they see no possibility of the Resistance succeeding and freeing them from the Combine. THey also hope they'll get special treatment for preventing this. And once again, each individual synth fears the possibility of nobody joining them in their rebellion for the same reason they won't try, so they don't try. Now, once the Portal is closed, the synths realize that the Combine are gone now. So they just refuse to follow orders. The Advisors are forced to do the dirty work themselves when they try to kill Eli or whatever, because nobody wanted to help. Some still feared the Combine would return somehow, but with the majority of synths rebelling, they decided to join in too because they were outnumbered. This effectively removes the Combine as the antagonist, with the synths now either neutral or fighting for their cause, perfectly allowing for G-Man to be the new antagonist.

[@jackrutledgegoembel5896]

Really cool idea. Does make me wonder what antagonistic motivations g-man would have though.

[@unematrix]

You're assuming a lot here. Based on what we can tell about combine soldiers, they have been altered so much that they are barely even human anymore. And even CP's receive drugs to keep them doing their job. If they can do all that, can't they also just block any rebellious thoughts? They can prevent embryonic reproduction but they can't stop a few neurons from firing?

[@loganwhite8094]

One of the ships in the concept art pictures was the S.S. America. It was a beautiful passenger ship which sadly was left on a beach and is now almost completely gone. It's cool to see that ship there in the concept art. Sadly her sister ship the S.S. United States is going to be sunk soon, in about a month it will be sunk off of the coast of Florida or New Orleans. History of ocean liners being written right in front of our very eyes.

[@sleepytwitch]

has it stood its use? why is it being sunk? sounds intentional can you explain maybe?

[@N1kola22]

Half-Life 3 would be the best thing ever. Also workshop for Half-Life 2 already has like 83 pages xd

[@skreem6343]

im still in doomer mode for any half life release, even if id be physically playing it id still doubt it being real

[@1lucia]

Real but I think it’s time to let the guards down

[@MatildaMk2]

​@@1lucia if the guards come down the pain hits harder If the guards stay up the pain still hits hard but... maybe less hard

[@LouSassol69er]

They're staffing up, that's real. The leak show they're definitely putting new R&D work into a new half Life related project. And Gabe said basically in the documentary it's a good time for new ventures in the half life world.

[@Rays_K]

@skreem6343 Same but for me, unless an official trailer comes out showing a hint of continuation of the HL stories, I won't keep my hopes up.

[@gachigasm3210]

@@LouSassol69er Yeah they got so many devs and I highly doubt its all for Deadlock

[@lucypletzke8138]

gosh i really hope xen is seen again. seeing an official redo of the location would be amazing

[@Loopy1330]

I want to contribute some further possible ideas for Half-Life 3 with what I've found from the new developer commentary in Half-Life 2. This is speculation like everything else, only based off of what we already know and what is suggested. 1. In the chapter Entanglement, the developer commentary (I think it was either Marc Laidlaw or Dave Riller) says that they wanted to explore more of Dr. Mossman, but they never finished her character arc because of Episode 3. When Gordon and Alyx reunite with Mossman after learning about her betrayal, the commentary also says that Alyx would never kill Mossman despite the high tension. In playtests, most players would try to shoot Mossman after her betrayal, so Valve had place her behind bulletproof glass and have the beginning of the sequence paced fast enough so that Alyx could size up the situation first, thus discouraging players to shoot. This is in contrast with Epistle 3 which had Alyx killing Mossman in the heat of the moment. It seems likely to me that Dr. Mossman will live in Half-Life 3, possibly spending more time to bond with the player or having something else done with her character acr in a positive way. 2. At the beginning of Anti-Citizen One where D0g throws the van at a squad of Combine soldiers, the developer commentary states that Valve wished they could have had D0g be more involved in gameplay as a companion. The couldn't do it in Half-Life 2 though because D0g's mechanics would be so different from both the player and the types of enemies designed for the player to fight, meaning they would have had to build an entirely new game from scratch with new enemy types for D0g. Valve did experiment with a D0g and Alyx game at some point with concept art that leaked, and the leaked Episode 3 maps had levels where the player could upgrade D0g with new abilities and weapons. Perhaps Half-Life 3 will include at least one section where Gordon and D0g go on a journey to rescue Alyx? I think Xen would be a great place for D0g gameplay because the environment is so varied and there are all sorts of aliens non-native to Xen. It would give Valve total creative freedom to come up with alien enemies and levels tailored to him. D0g fighting old enemies like a gargantua or a tentacle would be cool too, and it would help to make HL1 and 2 feel more connected. I may edit this at some point with further ideas, two hefty paragraphs is already enough though lol.

[@ethosaur]

Thanks for featuring my map "Trek To Borealis" for the BG footage! Its exciting times to be a half-life fan! I feel like something big might be around the corner very soon... Maybe I should make an extended map pack of trek to borealis to celebrate sometime..

[@Medic_Main_TF2]

We getting half life 3 announced before gta 6

[@TheRealClaylex]

I've joked and said the day GTA 6 and HL2 EP3/HL3 come out around the same year we're gonna be eating GOOD

[@Skototr0pism]

Crazy shit

[@xBIGFLATSx]

I am so sick of seeing this joke on literally every video for the last year

[@MegaSean45]

I've been seeing that "before GTA 6" thing alot. I guess that's the new "HL3 confirmed"

[@asterlofts1565]

But we have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 AND GTA VI BEFORE HALF-LIFE 3.

[@sandwichgaming1923]

it would be cool to see gordon defeating the gman and freeing himself, they could use it for marketing, and the whole theme of the game would be "becoming the free man"

[@rms1493]

Since graduating MIT, Gordon has been a pawn whose contract was open to the highest bidder, as Dr. Breen stated. I have a hypothesis that Gordon and Chell were given the same treatment by their respective organizations: augmented, possibly lobotomized, and essentially enslaved. The great irony of Half-Life is that Gordon has NO control and is in no form "free". Rather, control is given to the player- the Singing Vortigaunt in Water Hazard speaks of this directly: "Far distant eyes look out through yours. Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass?" As nice as it might be to see this entity be liberated, I am not entirely sure if Gordon could even comprehend free will.

[@NoNameTaken117]

So, what I'm getting at that the Half-Life series was always meant to be an experimental think tank for game devs It would explain why Valve was so keen on mod support and etc.

[@DrFunk98]

I think it would be funny if the game did open in the arctic. And the Borealis just gets destroyed at some point. As a meta way of being like "this ship has tied everyone down for too long. Time to move beyond it."

[@ThesentrynamedVasser]

I love your content Lucia And your speed at speaking And i wish that Valve someday will talk about entropy zero

[@1lucia]

thank you :D

[@hazzmati]

why would Valve talk about a fan mod?

[@CSXBoys]

@@hazzmati i mean, they did with gmod. valve is pretty good about appreciating fanworks, at least as far as ive seen

[@jeanhoux202]

I doubt they care about fan mod game where you play as a cringe redditor

[@skaynne54]

​​​​​​​@@jeanhoux202Jealous the mod did overwhelmingly well ? It literally raised the bar on modding. Quit btching and do something with your life, instead of shtting over a mod that was very much loved. You get new mods to play, but all you have to say is "mAiN cHaRaCtEr BaD". Like, jesus christ, that comment alone makes you quite the insufferable person. At least, the Breadman Team did something fun to play. You may not like it, but you are clearly in the small ass minority, here. Get over it.

[@PosibilLupu]

finally, the game I've been always waiting for... Half Life: Arctic Boogaloo

[@Josh-ge4lh]

gordon being in the distant fututre reminds me of chell whos also in the distant future afaik, i wonder if they ever thought about having them meet or something

[@JamesR624]

That could make a lot of sense considering how Portal 2 ended. I wonder if we'd be seeing a merging and Chell and Gordon breaking back into Aperture to get GLaDOS's help with the Combine?

[@tomorrowisyesterday3215]

Imagine both of them meet, they just silence and only do body language

[@jamaigar]

​@@tomorrowisyesterday3215 or a sick ass dance battle

[@Chris_W]

@@tomorrowisyesterday3215 Can't do ASL without dropping the cube...

[@DazyBrad]

I have this theory going on my mind for some time: what if eli and gordon find a way to put out people out of gman's stasis and try it but instead of alyx, they put another person out of stasis: Adrian shepherd

[@LucidNightmarez]

What if all those ships in the Arctic, are the borealis. Like every version of the borealis from around the multiverse just co-exists in the same universe, glitching in and out of space and time at will. That would kinda explain the side-ways ships.

[@stormbreaker7373]

Maybe the real half life 3 was the friends we made along the way

[@princessarialeer]

Their explanation is WHY I’m not stressed about ‘half-life 3’. Half-life, at its core, is a passion project made by people who want to show what can be done with technology. It’s a demonstration of the limit at that time. There has always been passion behind the half-life games. There will always be more, as long as there is passion for it.

[@MajeureX]

2:07 Shame you didn't discuss or speculate on what innovations Valve might be drawing on for Half-Life 3. AI is biggest new tech so I could see Valve trying to draw on that. Perhaps characters you can converse with directly, or perhaps a more advanced LLM driven AI Director like that of Left for Dead.

[@KhaledIron]

yea im with your theory, GMan being antagonist, what if objective is to eliminate him and somehow everything is rewinded back to being in Black Mesa LOL, feel like a crappy ending but not far out

[@dominik948]

1:16 The same weapon skin as the Portal 2 Beta Paint Gun (weapon_paintgun). 🥶

[@itsmanos_]

There isn't a paint gun in Portal 2, I'm guessing you are talking about the mod which wouldn't make sense considering it isnt an official mod from Valve

[@dominik948]

@@itsmanos_ In the Portal 2 Beta, there was a weapon_paintgun. Information about it can be found on the Combine Overwiki, and a video about it is linked under the "External links" section at the bottom of the page.

[@dominik948]

@@itsmanos_ Search for it on overwiki

[@frank_calvert]

the gel gun looks completely different

[@dominik948]

@@frank_calvert Just search for it on the internet. This is a deleted beta content.

[@jd_kreeper]

Imagine if Alyx was already taken by the G-Man in the HL2 timeline, and replaced by an imposter. Real Alyx is abducted and a fake Alyx is placed in the ruins of the vault to continue the timeline up until the aircraft hanger incident in Episode Two, with Eli's death never happening to begin with but rather was something that *would've* happened if Alyx didn't kill the advisor. And this is what Eli is freaking out about. He just watched a second younger Alyx appear out of nowhere, fry the advisor that was about to kill him, and disappear, then the first Alyx grins at him before being thanos snapped out of existence. After speculating for a while before Gordon woke up, he realized that the second Alyx was real and involved with the G-Man, and the first Alyx was a fake all this time, tying the split back to the vault incident 5 years prior.

[@1lucia]

Would be insanely evil of Valve to do lol

[@D4RKMA7TER]

I don't care much for new innovative mechanics in each game even if it is cool and unique... I think most of us just want to know what happens and the overall story and who the G-Man really is and who he works for. Stuff like having to return to Black Mesa or heading to Aperture Science would be amazing through the borealis, I just want the story to continue already.

[@wolvertox311]

Valves writers are smart enough not to plainly just say who or what the g man is or who he works for

[@fubar12345]

The mystery of Gman is what makes him interesting, I doubt they will ever explain everything about him - it would never be as intriguing as just leaving it to people's imaginations.

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

I MISS BARNEY CALHOUN :(((((

[@Faalout]

Ich habe noch nie ein video so schnell angeklickt Edit: Deine Videos sind wirklich gut und noch eine frage weißt du warum portal und portal 2 nicht mehr auf steam erhältlich sind

[@realdonaldtrump69420]

Bei mir ist Portal 1 & 2 auf Steam erhältlich

[@Faalout]

@@realdonaldtrump69420 Komisch bei mir nur soundtrack bei 2 und Demo bei 1

[@saschaberger3212]

Kein Problem mit Portal oder Portal 2. Muss bei dir liegen

[@Faalout]

@@saschaberger3212 ok sehr komisch starte meinen PC nochmal neu vielleicht dann

[@Faalout]

Jetzt ist es da ich bin absolut verwirrt

[@zerroukyoucef3013]

i think gordon will use the borealis to telport to the combine overworld to cut the connection between the earth and combine

[@lithium444]

I still can't believe we got HL3 footage of the blobster in action

[@NoNameTaken117]

We have come full circle from Gordon being theorized to be the G-Man to not being the G-Man, then back to being the G-Man Also I think the development of smart A.I. in hl3 could be a rather nice innovation

[@JayTheSheep]

Great video, very well done. God, the Half-Life series is everything gaming encapsulates for me. I grew up with HL when I was a teen, now I'm 28 and I can't wait to experience the next chapter...

[@nadirafurry]

Adrian Shepard and Gordan get into a 3 hour knife-fight and then the credits roll. Honestly, I wish valve just drops an "episode 3" thats a short experience like the sierra/gearbox expansion like the original half-life. It would be nice if an "episode 3" just wrapped up some loose ends.

[@AtomicSuperGuy]

Can't believe we're getting Half-Life 3 announcement before Half-Life 3

[@RickOShay]

When perception becomes reality

[@madsiguess]

I really agree with the idea that HLA’s Alyx is from a separate timeline. It would explain the different enemy types and characters. Along with the fact she could be “plucked” from the past.

[@VanGtfogh]

I think the teleportation/oscillation mechanic could be interesting and something notably forward-pushing, but I can also see that it’s still not necessarily the new tech they are looking for. It’s tough because gaming breakthroughs have become few and far between over the last decade, when by comparison, just having a physics engine in 2003/04 was revolutionary. It makes sense that they pivoted to Portal and other IPs when they did. I was always hoping that the portal gun would make its way into HL3 haha. I look forward to what they do next.

[@StereoCoda]

I personally think in HL3, Xen will be a major factor of it. Perhaps we use the Borealis as a portal to travel between different areas, much like how they teleported the Borealis to a random ice area?

[@Bneboy]

I'm so invested in the half life universe now that I would still be thrilled if they released episode 3 for stories sake, even if nothing new is implemented lol

[@JeremiahWilliams-pc5rm]

Tbh im not expecting hl3 soon, but they're definitely not finished with half life.

[@danialzulkifli5416]

I wonder if half life 3 adds unused npcs and weapons

[@MikeDest]

hell yeah, Gordon IS the G Man

[@buddyisbored2355]

5:18 is it just me or does the arm look like a tentacle from Blast Pit?

[@complex8201]

cant wait for half life arctic boogaloo to release

[@Thomas-v9n8k]

Hello Gordon

[@Real_Gordon_Freeman]

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[@The-Australian-alligator]

Hello Gordon

[@Thomas-v9n8k]

Hello shepherd

[@BreadTeleporter1968]

Another day another dollar

[@StarObeliskZ]

It's good to see you

[@Kestrel0907]

A really out of the world take but it's a pretty cool one I thought of right now. Brace yourselves: Gman is not an alien but in fact a human; a shareholder funding the Borealis project stuck in a multi-dimensional time loop by himself as a result of being on the ship during its teleportation. There are no employers, but rather the employers are other versions of himself moving from one dimension/timeline to another, an unconscious unison that keeps him safe and somewhat sanely functional to his goals(but keeps the mulitple versions of himself as employers as a motif, signifying that he lost his marbles due to the Borealis experimentation from Aperture, thinking he is still working for some company). He/They work in unison to find a lead to stopping the Combine. He never finds a solution, just sees multiple dimensions and trying everything to no avail. A Sisyphus myth in a corporate suit that never reaches the desired outcome or never decides upon one. He nearly gets captured by the Combine but got freed through his clever foresight time-weaving with his/him-employers(the combine stopping his copies from running altogether) by Alyx -> That's when the Combine nearly got him when they reached the Borealis - he is somehow stuck there. The solution: Gordon "demoting" the Gman by killing the Gman and harnessing the power of the Borealis, scene called "You're fired/demoted". How he does that? Maybe by discovering the dimension weaves or the imprisonment tech already present from the Combine. The remnants of the other versions of Gman are fading away all traveling, however wherever they step they help Gordon trace the correct dimension pockets, as he does not know how to travel between these dimensions and where they go.What goes on in the Half-Life universe? Will Gordon get mad over his new power? Will he stop the combine? We will find out in a next release! The events remain the same with the concept art, finding the Borealis with combine tech -tralala. But to be honest this would be a clever switcharoo. I hope my English makes sense. Not a native speaker and am a tad bit tired. lmao

[@TheSixteen60]

The Blob entity almost looks like a Metroid. Maybe we’ll see a blob like Metroid in Prime 4.

[@rizzo-films]

Building the story around gameplay innovations is honestly a brilliant game design philosophy. That means you'll never be bored by drawn out, uninteresting story beats because every story beat is upheld by new and addicting gameplay mechanics. The genius of Half Life is that the story is actually pretty cool. So you get both a compelling story and an incredible gameplay loop. And I disagree with Laidlaw about the lack of story for EP 3. It sounds like their best story yet. It sounds darker and more epic than even HL2 with unbelievable landscapes, an intense, vengeful Alyx and a Freeman who sacrifices everything to save the world. I'm guessing those ships littering the ice sheets were ships that disappeared either in gravitational anomalies created by Aperture or failed experiments on Aperture ships done over the course of decades, maybe even longer if time travel was involved. This would have been such a trippy game.

[@torikazuki8701]

Here's something interesting that I bet most people don't know (or have forgotten) that would be shocking if it wasn't directly related to Post-'Alyx' Half-Life, I.E.- Half-Life 3. In January of 2021, Gabe gave an interview in New Zealand (why there? No Clue.) In it, he talked about their state of Brain-Computer-Interface technology (BCI) essentially their ideal control mechanism for 'Alyx' and VR in general. However, it goes MUCH deeper than that. He basically said that they ALREADY HAVE (and this was just shy of FOUR years ago, remember!) not just BCI functional interfaces, but VR-Experiences that, for lack of a better term, are essentially 'Sword Art Online' in quality. He said they could create Virtual Worlds that were 'more real than reality' and that regular life seems somewhat dull and flat by comparison. He talked about how they discovered that the human brain was extremely adaptable and could even learn to control having many tentacle limbs, like an Octopus. (Which also may be a subtle reference to SAO, for those familiar with the Anime.) He said that their biggest problem, was that the technology was developing SO fast, that they were having a very difficult time deciding when to 'lock things down' for commerical release. Saying that if they did that, then a mere six months later, that new tech would make the 'old' versions look antiquated. SO. In less than two months, that interview will have been given four years ago. Since then... Nothing. Not a Peep. No additional interviews, no brief mentions of the project, not even little hints. Zero. Nothing. Nada. Was it abandoned for some reason? Did they have to close down public discussion? Did they decide to go 'Radio Silent' and dedicate this tech for Half-Life 3, so that it can be as big of a leap as each new HL game has been? Questions, questions...

[@proto_shane5059]

Haflife 3: battle for 5€ döner

[@G7ue]

My theory on why the concept art had so many ships, is that the Borealis in the main HL2 timeline was the cause of some sort of slip in time and space, allowing changes to take place between timelines, such as the one in HL:A. The other ships would have been the Borealis from alternate timelines and universes, all converging to our Borealis due to whatever fuckery was going on inside, causing it to become a sort of anchor. The idea that Alyx from HL:A, and Alyx from HL2 are two entirely different entities could play into that. If that's the reason for the change in VA's, that's a next level move from Valve, setting up the next game.

[@zerrrp]

Valve can't count to three, so if HLX isn't a spin off it'll most like be Full-life 1

[@themeadowshadows]

I’m waaay to invested I. The possibility of hl3. It’s such a big part of my life I wonder if I’m autistic about it lol. Anyways, I was upset at the new documentary about hl2 because of Gabe’s corporate speak about the continuation of hl3. Honestly( anything I would’ve heard other than hl3 is confirmed from Gabe was likely to disappoint me. This video changed my mind though. I heh you look at his words with a more hopeful standpoint they line up with what he said after Alyx: they’re returning to half life! Also, why else put episodes 1 and 2 in half life 2? It seems like a respectful move to finally put all the half life 2 stuff together and give us a little closure!

[@saschaberger3212]

Half Life Artic Boogaloo

[@NotZealot]

Halbes leben drei is real and it takes place in frankfurt

[@Creature_Gaming_YT]

Basically the city 17 of Germany...

[@slav4335]

will all the characters speak turkish?

[@raigeki2k605]

@@slav4335Turkish and Arabic

[@mikhailross8360]

I'd really like to enjoy half life 3 and left 4 Dead 3 with my dad. We played CS, l4d, TFC, HL all of it together since the 90's. We would be so happy to get to enjoy the final installments together...

[@Juke_boy]

Omg i teally hope half life 3 will finally release, Valve has all the tools necessary and this can finally happen i also like how you explained everything and got it all clear

[@albertofranco5619]

People is waiting for HL3 but the great majority hasnt even played Alyx yet.

[@BasiliskX]

I think the G-man is definitely a good guy, I think he is aware of a way to defeat the combine. He is trying to get all of his pawns into the correct places, but in doing so he is unintentionally creating distrust. I think the ending where the borealis doesn't destroy the combine may be caused by disobeying the G-man, and the cut back to Black mesa is the G-man reversing time and trying again. half life is basically groundhog Day for the G-man. The ending of hl alyx is perhaps another run through of events, because Eli's death and alyx's emotions led to humanity losing.

[@fainyance11]

On the topic of showcasing scale, I think the wall of ships stacked like a canyon would be an excellent way to demonstrate how easily the Combine can manipulate our Earth. They went digging for the Borealis through a ship graveyard and doing so lead them to effortlessly stack the dummy ships aside like they were just building blocks.

[@brycefilms101]

The fact that getting a new Half-Life game is a genuine possibility is really exciting. If I had my way I’d probably have the next game be a sort of ‘episode 3’ and wrap up the Combine’s occupation of Earth plot point with a game after it being a more full fledged ‘HL3’ that centers around the Gman and his employers as the primary focus.

[@notime2583]

Glad the Half life Alyx changed the future so epistle 3 is not happening, because i think epistle 3 story sucks and is mostly meaningless.

[@jamesjames7601]

Hooray, we'll get another sequel that ends on a cliffhanger, more unanswered questions, and another 10 year wait time for a follow up

[@Bacxaber]

Don't tell me to subscribe.

[@Freelancer837]

I hope Half Life 3 isn't a complete ending. I don't necessarily want infinite sequels and the series to never die, I'm one usually in favor of letting a story end, but Half Life has simply just shown us a world and forces so large and strong that one more game would NOT be enough to put an end to it, so it shouldn't. And I get there's the worry of "But what if we don't get that next game again?" but the only reason we're upset that that happened with Episode 2 is because Episode 2 was a major cliffhanger. As Gaben even said, the original plan was for Episode 2 to have its own ending like all the previous ones, but was given a cliffhanger just to excite people for Episode 3. You can have an ending for a game that isn't an ending for the series, and I think that's what HL3 deserves to be and should be.

[@fidow]

I see a few possibilities, one of which is having the Borealis end up as the "gateway" into Xen. It would make up for the 'lackluster' Xen in HL1, and would allow pull the games full circle in another return at the end of a game. Another possibility is that it may be a sort of "weapon" used against G-Man. Although Eli was previously afraid of the Borealis and what it could do in the wrong hands, his anger and hatred towards G-Man may change his character and opinion. I suppose we'll have to wait and see. It's impossible to know what the game really might have in store until it's actually announced by Valve themselves.

[@kane8649]

I wish they'd get in contact with the people behind Entropy: Zero and somehow work the cop into the story. Like he appears there for some time or is somehow mentioned. Those guys had some amazing ideas.

[@xx_big_man_xx]

My theory is Barney is actually an version of G-man and he’s been helping Gordon all along and because the G man looks old, that would mean Barney has gone older too, so that’s why that is there

[@JuanGamer0202]

All things aside, the ice gun frezzing the combine soldier to death then causing and he falling to the side like a rock has to be the funniest shit I've seen in a while

[@MrThecoolman]

Pretty sure all the ships were the borealis. Several versions across time that all culminated in that space creating a huge labyrinth of decaying identical vessels merged into one timeline. The art shows the ships all looking similar too. 4:46 the silhouettes of the ships are very very similar.

[@MarcussJay]

For many years when I was younger I was almost angry at the fact that they didn’t do an Ep 3 years after HL2 ep 2. But as I got older .. I got what they meant by wanting it to be proper, bigger, better more innovative. It truly shows just how much they care for the game, the story, and more importantly how their fan base views the game.

[@UhYeahNoThanks]

if you had told teenage me back in 2007 that we'd still be theorizing about what Half Life 3 will be and when it will release

[@SteveAdmienn]

I have a little theory, or more like story line, that is so long it leads up to Half-Life 4. But TLDR: Alyx is in the Arctic due to Gman's demands. When Gordon enters the area, Gman then awakens Corporal Shephard to hunt him down, clearly showing that he doesn't want him to intervene in Alyx's mission. Gordon, Eli, Mossman, and Barney get to the Borealis where they accidentally go back to the 7 hour war. Gordon needs to fend off the Combine forces at that time for the Borealis to recharge and go back to the current timeline. Eli ends up breaking the Borealis. They end up in Aperture Science where they all get captured by Glados. Gordon is able to get his suit back but uses the portal gun to battle Glados who has modified herself with the Gravity gun and knowledge she got from Eli. After escaping Aperture in Glados's death, (here's the part I really want to see) Gordon gets reunited with his lost family (Gordon canonically has a niece or nephew from the baby photo in his locker back in Half-Life 1). Then with the still functioning Nasa spaceship modified to jump dimensions, Gordon, Barney, Eli, Mossman, Kleiner, and Gordon's relative go to Xen since Eli somehow finds Alyx's coordinates there. In Xen they find old Black Mesa equipment and research sites, Kleiner now picking up samples. Gordon is hunted by a giant Combine mech that is twice his size. Gordon needed to sacrifice himself again in Xen to let the others escape, then battles the mech as the final boss. The mech is destroyed open revealing that Alyx was inside the mech the whole time, seeing differently through the mech's lenses. Gman appears disappointed that his plan backfired, so he makes a wormhole that pulls Alyx and Gordon into the Combine Homeworld. This is where Half Life 4 could be at. My idea for the Combine Homeworld is possibly an artificial solar system, with giant superstructures connecting the planets they had captured, one structure empty where Earth is supposed to be. There we meet the remaining alien species that are the base aliens the Combine uses to make Striders and some other living weaponry. Gordon is then given the task to revive the old rebellion in the Combine Homeworld where he then faces the Combine leader itself. I have many ideas about how the leader might look like. One cool idea I have is that the leader has been modified so much, it's original species is now extinct. A literal living fossil, modified to live forever. Another idea is a living planet. Thats all I have for now.

[@Amadeone]

My guy, what were you smoking. Cool ideas tho. I also feel inspirations from other games, like the mech with wolfenstein the new order.

[@KickSilverOMG]

man this would be a rainbow pool of absolute top tier gaming entertainment. Like a Valve all-games party.

[@phant0mdummy]

They truly do push boundaries, and the leaps that their games make are exceptional. I hope the next half life pushes farther with Physics, soft body material simulation, AI enhancements and elemental interactions... if they drop HL3 looking something like Alyx, cut with the gameplay freedom that 2d gaming brings... it will be sick. VR is cool for the immersion, but gameplay gets limited in many ways, and a true HL sequel on mouse and keyboard, bringing their awesome reflection implementations and attention to detail... oof.

[@angela-2-4]

i dont care how long it takes, as long as its releasing, ill always be hyped

[@Dimasterim]

I think the Vault from HLA kinda uses some of the ideas from the original concept of the Borealis. The vault also warps time and space once you enter it, and experiencing it in VR makes it more impactful than a similar idea in flat screen. I don’t know if Valve cares about that, but if they do they either have to top the mind fuckery of the Vault or come up with some completely new idea to make it feel more impactful instead of more of the same.

[@onlypardo3902]

I love German people

[@saschaberger3212]

[@TheSixteen60]

I do too. They have such amazing voices. (No out of context please)

[@SuperMarioMarioO]

Thirst isn't evened

[@stollstoll1691]

Mediocre country

[@Max-ej4oh]

IF THEY DON'T TELL ME WHO G-MAN IS THIS TIME, I'M GONNA LOSE MY MIND. The flesh is weak after all these years, they can't just leave G-man a mystery forever.

[@consciencexp116]

If the multiverse isn't going to be implemented, it would mean that the Alyx we know from Half Life 2 and the episodes died instead of Eli, so it'd be the Alyx from Half Life Alyx we'd be rescuing.

[@KeirosDragon]

Alyx (Merle Dandridge) meeting Alyx (Ozioma Akagha) would be MIND BLOWING.

[@Patrick-y7l4n]

No way were getting half life 3 before gta 6

[@1lucia]

I expect it to be a close race at least

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Gordon can't be the G-Man. The G-Man actually talks.

[@thicboibigsmoke7220]

I’d be very interested to see what they could do with asymmetrical Co-op, like maybe a VR and non vr co op mode. What id also like to see is a completely destructible environment, pushing the physics to the absolute limit, for some gigantic scale battles.

[@RSOA-001]

4:42 And there we have the png wreck of the SS American Star

[@lonergothonline]

I still believe hlx, is going to be like portal. part of half life but not all that integral. maybe even just a wrapping up of xen in general. but something you said in this video made me think that they could be using xen as a relay, like they currently use it for their transportation. maybe aperture science messed up and instead of transporting/opening a portal to xen, the device they were using ended up inheriting aspects of xen, such as the time shenanigans. we are pretty sure the vortegaunts see the world and timeline differently, I was listening to the vort in the tunnel that sings, after defeating the hunter-chopper in the end of the airboat section, so it makes sense to me that gorden was guided each time he went to xen. something made the parts gorden visited tangible, walk-able, and probably influenced the organic teleportation devices' destinations. so I think the apature science device doesn't have that innate guidance. its a wild-card that nobody can predict. putting all these thoughts together we get: likely a different protagonist. likely mostly only xen maybe escape from xen borealis inherited aspects of xen somehow something in xen, perhaps the vorts themselves guided gorden. you aren't guided as much, and with an open world environment as a focus, we can imagine that HLX is likely going to be one of those far cry, ghost of tsushima type games. ultimately two alyx theory is too good to ignore, but lets make it simple, young alyx is a different character, and she seperated from her own time-stream events, but can interact and guide others in other time-streams, she can influence people through xen even. so I'd imagine she uses her green to travel 'literally anywhere' and ends up in xen, and out-of-time. this means that the borealis likely holds AN alyx but not 'the' alyx, as well, perhaps aperture was successful in opening a portal to xen, but something came out that was unstable, alyx. but not your alyx. some other time-god-alyx being. oh and chell helps gorden with an exasperated look on her face whenever she does. while gorden handles the combine for her.

[@reeeboi1]

Theory for HL3 (HLA spoilers) It will end with Gordon and Eli (also probably the Vortigaunts) saving Alyx from Gman and then maybe just maybe Gman will bring Adrian Shepherd out of stasis to replace Alyx after she is saved like how he used Alyx to replace Gordon in HLA.

[@stopidhoodleum3232]

A man can only dream A hl3 announcement would genuinely save my life Im Ngl

[@SuperFluffyCarrot]

They have no idea how many people are waiting for this, how much money they will make on one game is insane hahaha

[@bendfi674]

I want to see valve turning Alyx turn into what the "G-man" "Is" since, in my head canon, she's in two different timeline.

[@Stix_Zidinia]

They very clearly wait for new and breakthrough technology to make their flagship game, half life. Aside from VR - there's really no new jaw dropping tech that has come out recently; and they already made a VR game in the HL Universe. HL3 isn't coming out until something BIG happens in the industry.

[@skydefender7554]

I don't have a full plot theory but I bet that HLX will end with us somehow destroying the Combine empire, and then whatever comes next is stopping the G-Man and his employers who obviously are up to no good