Because it's clear Valve is never going to finish Half Life, make up your own reason for the G-Man's existence

It was meant to be explained, but Valve decided it was better to make hats than games.
The writer of Half-Life went to Twitter a few years ago under the handle @Breengrub and posted a bunch of shit about the series, it's pretty interesting. He's since left Valve and says he never wrote a script for HL3 during his time there, meaning HL3 has never actually gotten past the concept phase.

Yeah, it's the hack writer's mystery box method of writing mystery: write unexplained shit not even you know the answer to until the very end. The results are always predictably poor quality.

They built up a story spanning several games just to arrive at a rock and a hard place, I honestly can't see how Half Life 3 would end.
And we'll never get to see what's inside that ship that's so important.
is it secret Apeture tech? Black Mesa black project? barney's secret porn stash?

who the fuck knows.

no amount of sold copies for a single game could compare to the moneygrabbing jewry that a whole second of steam simply being active is
You're a naive retard if you actually think you're arguing from a point of financial gain

Gordon Freeman is in an autistic coma, Half Life is the dream he's having, and G-man is his doctor trying to wake him up.

You could say the same for Diablo. Also you forgot Valve owns the fucking Steam, if they want marketing they can use it for free. According to Steamspy it has about 38 million active users

That is most likely true

Source for this?

I always thought it was something like this, but the people that G Man was hired by are a group of aliens different from the Universal Union/Combine, that want the UU/Combine to be destroyed, and his job is to go around looking for agents to help towards that cause, as well as setting up events towards that end.
He helped with the Resonance Cascade to open the portal to Xen so that humans could be involved in the conflict,and humans could tip the balance in the G Man's employers favour.
They don't give a fuck about humanity, and are using them like tools, but they also aren't huge cunts like the Combine.
Also, wasn't the Borealis what they were going after because it could teleport? So I'd say that they were going to sue it to telelprot to the Combine home

G-Man is the embodiment of the rift created between worlds during the Black Mesa incident.

NuValve being a company for filthy casuals doesn't help either. There would have to be EPIC XDDD references to Aperture Science in Half-Life 3, or else it won't be a smash hit.

Except he appears before the resonance cascade.

References to Aperture Science wouldn't be so bad as long as they treat it seriously, and only reference as much as it makes sense to.
Just no "cake" bullshit, and don't try to be "lol so random" or "quirky".

The Combine is looking for ways to locally teleport as they lost their capability to do so with Nova Prospekt. They also lost their long range/multi-dimensional teleporter with the Citadel, so yeah the Borealis might be their only way of getting reinforcement.

Nothing is confirmed of course but the ship was probably carrying teleporting technology (portal-gun or a bigger version? Something different?) when we look at the hints given in Portal 2 and the fact that Half-Life and Portal were meant to be joined.

BTW, I like your theory about G-Man. I have a different version of his employer tho. Seeing he pushed for the events of the Resonance Cascade and finishing Nihilanth off, it could be that G-Man was actually paving ways for the Combine invasion (his employers at the time of the game). In Half-Life 2, G-Man seems like he has a new, different, employer who wants to wreck the Combine, so maybe they didn't pay their bill or something like another user said.

Fuck it bust my balls how with all the potential nothing will ever be made. Or if it does happen, it'll be another Diablo 3 catastrophy

he's a sign of things to come

There won't be any HL3 as long as CSGO and TF2 are bringing in cash.

HL story is shit the only redeeming quality about it is the engine.

HL2 was meant to bring in a new engine that works with new technology and HL3 will probably have the same purpose meaning adapting the HL to new technology but it is highly unlikely that this won't happen because I don't see technology doing anymore risky leaps as it was the case 10 or 20 years ago

He's a representation of the Jews.

Given the rest of HL probably its characters going through the Borealis would question a lot of the goofier stuff, should they have themed its innards after Portal. Cave Johnson lines about mantis men and the like.

You're kinda right.
He's an omnipotent jew,searching for the greatest of goys.
Both Gordon and Shephard got lured into Gman's plan to initiate a race war,go to Xen and the like.Barney was just doing an evacuation plan,so he wasn't interested on him that much at the time.
Both of them succedeed,but only Gordon did it faster,and of course.Shephard experienced a near death situation that could only be solved by GMan,so that's one thing agaisny Shephard.
After thinking about it GMan trapped him for being a non efficient goy.
But honestly I think Valve's going to left the whole Shephard thing as forgotten.

You're talking about the company with junk food right next to employees and actual food in the forgotten area of their building.

You don't understand. Half-Life 3 will be an MMORPG in which people from across a huge map of the world unite in fighting the combine.

(It'd be cool if the map actually had front lines that mattered and shifted and there were actual tactics, but that still doesn't make it a half-life game)

As long as their reactions to Portal stuff are things like "what a fucking mouth breathing retard", or "what a psychotic cunt", or "what kind of faggot finds this kind of stuff funny?"

According to Breengrub the Combine Advisors can choose what they look like after their larval stage. It's possible Gman is an advisor.

Hes old Gordon Freeman from the future. The reason he speaks like an autist is because Gordon didnt speak for decades due to social anxiety. Hes only talking because he has to give advice to his past self, but clearly has trouble forming sentences.
Gordon and G-man (short for Gordon Freeman) both have green eyes too.

I really hope that they never release HL3, the amount off hype is so high that is impossible to make a game that fulfill the expectation.

He is probably a secretary for some lovecraftian horror.

At least that's what I think. I stopped caring about Half Life years ago though. I've just lost hope that Valve can even make a decent shooter anymore. Hell, they don't need to. They can just keep selling cosmetics until the end of time.

Kids nowadays would figure out HL used to be really popular and they'd want to be with the "in-crowd" so they'd buy it in a heartbeat.
The explanation of Valve not wanting to make HL3 because it being a disappointment would ruin their reputation makes no sense.
One, HL3 would sell a shitton, and two, HL3 being shit wouldn't stop people from using Steam anyways, because people are sheep.

My theory he's basically an infiltrator for the combine. What we do know is he's the one who gave the original crystal to Black Mesa, and he only wanted Gordon in the HL2 timeline up until the end of HL2 where the citadel blows up. I don't know how they would, but I guess The Combine somehow knew that humans would be able to develop a much better teleportation system than they use so they took their chance to invade while it was still possible during the resonance cascade, took hold of Earth (While pretending Breen simply talked them out of killing them all) and waited. Then, RIGHT as Dr. Kleiner and Eli Vance had a working teleporter, The Combine needed an entrypoint to Earth again so they had G-Man send Gordon Freeman to go and blow up the Citadel, so they could create a superportal to go on, secure the teleporter technology and finish off earth. However, the Vortigaunts intervene when G-Man tries to pull him out, so now the Combine is FUCKIN' PISSED and probably just wanna teleport a giant bomb to earth and be done with it, which is the "Unforeseen Consequences" and plot of HL3 involves stopping it before the earth blows up.

Given that Valve is managing to sell dumb looking cosmetics and what is essentially Virtual Boy 2.0, I'd say its a safe bet that if they were to open up Notepad, take turns taking a dump on the keyboard and then sell the result on Steam for $99 ($20 when its on sale) it would still sell like hotcakes

Sooo… gman works for Holla Forums?

HL1: Vortigaunts are jewish slaves. G-Man directs Freeman to kill Nihilanth and free the jews from slavery. The jews then come to hate G-Man.

HL2: Combine enslave the humans. G-Man directs Freeman to kill the Combine and free humans from slavery. The humans come to hate G-Man.

HL3: G-Man says fuck it and nukes both species to dust, and goes to look for another race to save.

now that I think about it, he's a jew too. But he's about to be crucified by the people he's trying to save. He's space jesus.

G Man is an alien fighting a war against the Combine. He tricks humans into opening the portal to use us as a proxy army against his enemies.

G-Man was an alien gigolo who came to Earth to give freeman the blowjob of his life, unfortunately, G-Man lacks the confidence to show freeman his true feelings despite being brave enough to save him on many occasions

In a Vaguely related tangent some modder decided to create a piece of shit mod and call it Episode 3, and was later surprised that a lot of people gave him shit for it. moddb.com/mods/the-closure

The only way Half Life 3 has a chance of no longer being vaporware is if Steam somehow has proper competition, which makes valve desperate.

In Half Life 1 he was just a government observer placed as clear intent from the US government to control Xen.

In Half Life 2 he's a super mysterious man with time control powers because HL2's retard fanbase doesn't see big pictures.

When Duke Nukem Forever gets released, it would be one of the most selling games ever, most likely breaking the record of most selling PC game in its release day, surpassing Diablo 3. There's no way 3D Realms/Gearbox would say no to this kind of money.

Funny how that worked out.

They will never perfect that ass of gorgeous

DNF was highly anticipated maybe when the 98-01 trailers came out, and then it became a meme. Nobody expected anything.

HL3 is basically a meme at this point too, but at least it's not in development hell. They're just not working on it at all.

Boring theory but:

G-Man is not a being but rather a force or an entity that can time-shift and teleport other beings around the cosmos.

HL1, the Combine hired G-Man (or whatever "organization" he works for) to teleport them to Earth. Only way to do that was the Resonating Cascade as it was the only thing that could teleport enough people for that.
Unknown to the Combine however, G-Man was also hired by a third party to free the Vortigaunt, so he gives a bit of some help and gets Freeman to do it.

HL2, the Combine's deal is complete, they are now harvesting all the water they want, teleporting it back to their place. But a third-party (likely the same from HL1) wants to stop them so G-Man is employed to get Freeman going again and twart their plans, locking them on Earth since they have no teleporting capabilities anymore.

HL3 would see said third party revealing itself and wether it's merely the contractor for G-Man or the entity he belongs to.
Note that they may not have good intentions, they just want to destroy the Combine for their own reasons (likely competition) and Earth is but a trap to hold them for a massive Exterminatus. The Combine themselves might actually be running away from them or they might require massive amounts of water because they are losing a war against the other party.
The Vortigaunts clearly play a role into this and are supposed to assist that third party, which is why they were released to begin with and show up many times afterwards along side G-Man.

So basically, a first person Iji.

Another opposing forces could have been cool.

Shepard in the first opposing forces constantly is told how gordon freeman caused all this bullshit, he goes through hell, countless rips and bullet wounds.

In the second G-man could plop him into a super combine elite experiment (sort of like what he did in boot camp).

The combine augment him, painfully, all the while the G-man does his best wormtongue impression.

It would be a squad based expansion, call in reinforcements, kick down doors and bust in civi heads.

After reading Breengrub thingy, it seems likely that the third party that requested for the release of the Vortigaunts and further employment of G-Man are those grubs that are not part of the Combine and require a physical form to fight back.
However, seeing the end of Episode 2 with the Vortigaunts keeping G-Man away from Gordon, it seems the Combine hired Gman again who in turn is requesting the services of Freeman but is foiled of that instead.
Or perhaps those vortigaunts are part of the Combine and the contract was for you to keep assistings the rebel grubs but now you got the full attention of the Combine.

Seems kinda generic, race of assimilation tries to assimilate the grubs, some don't go along and form a resistance hiring someone to do the fighting by proxy.

What if in half life 3 you just play as g-man? That could help them in their shitty game with it's retarded story.

Gman tried to bring Earth into the multiversal community via the Resonance Cascade, but caught the Combine's attention in the process by accident and had to on-site hire a merc and put him through job training. Xen coming under his "employers'" control was just a sweet perk.

I guess Valve is saving this card in case they fuck up badly and need to get some money fast.

Le Ambiguous Exposition Man.

correct

Half Life 2 retail has a shit story. This is now a HL2 beta thread.

That makes me wonder something: how many maps from the HL2 beta have been restored to a fully playable state? the only ones I know for sure are Hyperion from the Mission Information team & Some guy that restored Depot, which looked like the originally planned way that Gordon would storm Nova Prospeckt.

Wow this looks like shit. I wonder what little things valve added to maps to make them look better.

Ionno but did you ever read that you were supposed to keep going north and not go up breen's tower? You eventually would reach the north pole from where you were in belarus.

if I'm not mistaken, when the writer quit he said the writing was already complete.

I guess there was a hint of that when I was playing Hyperion, but was anything supposed to happen once you reached the north pole? were you supposed to find some way of cutting off the combine there?

The apeture ship could warp so you would warp to some place to cut them off at the source like a xen level. It would be "to be continued" at that point.

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15 years later and I still can't understand what the fuck was their problem. Why not just finish the thing, especially when you're almost 12 months behind schedule?

It's teleportation tech made by Aperture that went missing during cave Johnson's reign, but yeah, They really wrote themselves into a corner, didn't they? Sure Gordon destroyed the citadel, which cut off overwatch from combine HQ, but that doesn't stop the fact that there is still a shit ton of overwatch/combine forces stationed on earth that are currently in a mad dash for the borealis to start another Resonance Cascade, which they have to beat to the punch to somehow use on the spot because overwatch is already in the plant scouting the older sections that aren't under GLaDOS's watch, which is where the Borealis is.

Something tells me that they were gonna do that anyway, but decided to blame it on the hacker because buthurt. At least we got everything that wasn't deleted yet.

because they can afford to.
using money to fund passion projects can reach stupid levels but it is much better that sacrificing passion projects in the name of money.
also insert Miyamoto quote about delayed games here.

Because the leaked code showed that Valve was bullshitting about what they said they made.
So they actually had to go make it 'really' work to some degree of what they claimed.

Gaben was afraid of the hacker turning his game into a porn simulator with Alyx being the main whore.

He's the spiritual embodiment of autism, which is why he talks oddly, doesn't like to be seen, and only communicates in odd circumstances.

It's beta code. The lighting is actually what retail HL2 looked like and the map was obviously still in production. I actually like the look of the level better than anything from hl2. It has this very large and ominous feel. Most of HL2 was supposed to take place in the wasteland of the dried oceans rather than on the shore, believe it or not.
The biggest complaints about Hl2 are the shit weapons and lack of enemy variety. The Fat Man going full SHUT IT DOWN is directly the cause of this. In the beta there are shit tons of enemies and weapons, many almost fully realized and programmed.

HL3 has been so overhyped through the years that it has become a meme. It is the one game literally fucking everyone agrees is waiting for.
Because of this, if the game ends up being bellow expectations, who Valve managed to put sky high, the game will bomb and the ammount of rage produced would collapse the universe.

Releasing HL3 is a risk of massive proportions. That's why they'll never do it.

That's probably it right there, the total leak of HL2's beta files showed the game was still in a dangerously incomplete state and nowhere near where Valve claimed it was at the time.

Reminder that is absolutely right.

The Last Guardian would sell better on ps3 if it wasn't delayed so many times. Now its so mediocre, it can't beat even some indie game sales. Same fate will be with Half Life 3 the last guardian had.

They would rather make a reboot of the series at this point. Another black mesa shit. They'l just name the next Half Life - Half Life.

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I doubt it, generally in game development keeping everything done in the main branch is generally not top priority, there's probably tons of stuff that was in varying states of completeness and had not been incorporated into the main build and we never got to see.

I agree with this right here. HL2 beta looked like ass. People were probably laughing at the beta. Now the real HL2 isn't too much better but it's a marketable product, the beta didn't look like it was every going to be aside from the huge scope.

It looked more like an alpha, or earlier, or worse.

To my memory the build of HL2 downloaded at the time was the total and complete source.

uhh

development hell implies something (usually suits) is keeping it from being made.
you could argue greediness or laziness is keeping it from being made but I can see his point.

There are parts of hell tailor-made specifically for greed and laziness. It's a different kind of hell, but it's certainly hell nonetheless

Didn't Gaben say on his Reddit AMA that HL3 is never going to happen?

Valve will never make a game again, who are we kidding here?

He said that he doesnt want to be involved with it himself, not that the company wont make it.

They have no problems making games, it's just releasing them that they have trouble with.

Initial sales will be the best Valve has ever seen, but they'll be stuck with bad PR for the rest of the company's career. If they ever do release Half-Life 3, it'll be for the same reason Gearbox will inevitably shit out Borderlands 3: the company is going under and they're playing their best card to rake in what they can.

Probably because it would reflect on their image as holding one of the most monopolized online industries out there. Also because it makes less money than holding one of the most monopolized online industries out there.

As says, there is a much, much easier way to make an equivalent profit without the pressure of creating a video game.

Personally the gman probably is some Rogue or leader of the Vortigaunts who can shape shift into human form. The Vortigaunts who saved Alex and stopped Gman in Episode 1 or 2(don't remember lol) was probably either rebelling against him or was punishing Gman for causing all the events in half life to happen in the first place.

I remember a good jewtube comment that could connect Freeman and Shepard

That's not the entire comment but it would be nice to see Adrian vs Freeman type battle in the next or future installments of half life.

Nah, the twist is that the ending of HL3 is Freeman getting caught in some portal electric thing like Doctor Manhattan and being changed into Gman. Actually that would be a pretty cool ending.

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It would make sense as a sci-fi but knowing Valve today it'd never happen. Besides that I'm pretty sure it was debunked somehow a while ago and if they did it'd break lore. Don't remember how though. Also every 16 year old who played the game at the time made this assumption so it'd be a pretty cheap ending by today's standards. Just another reason we'll never get 3 I guess.

Making leaps like significantly improving AI or making engine that can efficiently render and handle cities worth of NPCs would be leaps welcomed by anyone, not very risky at all, and they could even sell games based on them.

Valve lost any spark of talent it had. Now they are more focused on half-heartedly pushing MULTIPLIER EXPERIENCES!!! and unfinished gimmicks like Steam OS, Steam Machines, and Steam Controllers instead of advancing game technology.

Developement limbo is not really any better than development hell.

Shepard

Really wish people would stop hyping up this overrated piece of shit. It was garbage when it came out, still is. The only people who cling to this have autism.

Everything popular is overrated. And the hype's been dead for a while now.

HL2 was way better than Unreal 2 that came out like right fucking before it iirc. It was good then for sure. Far Cry 1 was right around then and HL2 looked and moved much better.

Here's my theory.

So valve could do what ever they wanted and just be like "oh, gman did it" and I stead of people being like "this doesn't make sense" or " this game is shit", they just say "whoa this doesn't make sense, what's gman"

Before anyone asks: the song is DiGERATi_-_AutoRun_IIIkg and it's a chiptune for some software crack.

Valve going to keep saying no. Stop deluding yourself.

Half Life is dead. The End.

Why do people still not believe HL3 is being developed?
There's leaks all over the place and the script has been written for more than a decade.

Leaks yeah, but script is not confirmed I don't think.

Pretty sure it was. I mean sure it's subject to changes while it's being worked on like any other game story (and knowing valve they'll rearrange it a lot of times to adapt it to whatever gimmick they want) but the general gist of it and the end of the trilogy is surely done.

Have you ever seen the HL2 beta?
People always mourn over the removed enemies and weapons, but had the game not been leaked, the released version would have been fucking terrible.

How?
It's a largely unfinished beta how can you know that

Probably because Valve bled all their talent. Last we heard HL3 was being developed by a skeleton crew at best. And if you look at the history of interviews with Game Newell, his answer to "What about Half-Life 3?" Has changed over the years from "We're still making it so stay tuned!" To "These things take time" to "We have no definitive ETA yet" to finally "Lets just not talk about it and move on okay?"

Its obvious the game became trapped in development hell and they silently gutted it when they realized it would never live up to its hype

I'm pretty sure Marc Laidlaw said he didn't write a HL3 script.

Or maybe since people memed it too hard, creating hype where there shouldn't have been, they're now scared of even talking about it.
They don't mention it because every time they say ANYTHING related to HL3, 200 journos post articles about it getting people interested again.

HL3 won't release until the interest has died down.

I'm still not sure about this meme honestly, on one of the latest leaks a lot of team members were associated with unknown projects, which could easily be fronts for HL3.

there's conflicting info online. For me it makes sense it would be done, since it was probably the first thing that was worked on when HL3 started production.

Sounds like someone needs to actually read the New Testament.

We're more likely to get Left 4 Dead 3 than Half-Life 3 at this point.

HL2 is the most overrated game of all times.

G Man is pretty obviously an agent for an opposing faction, recruiting fighters and observing the course of the invasion. He is likely doing this do destabilise both Alliance and the Earth, so when his employers come it will all be right for the taking. Or maybe he is a mediator, COMCON-2 style.

People will actually defend the HL2 that we got.

It's going to be the next

I thought I read some quotes implying they were developing HL3 after Episode 2,

Is there more of this?

he works for aliens to manipulate events on other planets (e.g. to stop the combine)

he himself is probably an alien assuming a human form, which is why he looks and talks weird. not sure if that ability to shapeshift would be a genetic ability he has (similar to other alien powers seen in-game) or a technology he possesses (such as the briefcase he carries everywhere)

user, do you even know what Half-Life porn is like?

Worse when people say that Beta is a better version because it was not set in Eastern Europe.

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MOAR

The G-man is a reference to masons who also like the G.

Can someone recommend me something similar to Half-Life (2) in terms of the overall atmosphere and aesthetic?
It doesn't have to be a game. Just something with (semi-pseudo)science, mystery and horror elements, and "dirty" setting. A book would be perfect.

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hollaforums.com/thread/12357823/video-games/because-it-s-clear-valve-is-never-going-to-finish.html

You guys just copy paste entire threads or something?

Valve has said they need some technical innovation to build the game around, like the physics in HL2.

0/10 dropped

g-man works for aperture. his briefcase is a time-traveling portal device.

oh and i forgot to mention the g-man is actually cave johnson.

worried

Finally! People like me!
Adrian was always a backup plan for Gman if Gordon goes against him. HL2 Ep. 2 should be about him being send after Gordon after the xenos fucked up Gman's plans. Not about the filler crap what we got!

Im still mad at the stupidity that was the Pulse Rife. Would have been perfectly fine if you could reload a triplicate of those tubes to have a 90 round/3 magazine clip. But nah, artificial scarcity.

The reason HL3 hasn't come out isn't because for lack of trying, but the opposite. As far as I know the game has been in development in various forms pretty much non-stop after Episode 2. Started as Episode 3, which then got expanded into a full blown sequel. Which got scrapped and rebooted development of a Source 2 version which got scrapped AGAIN by what it seems is a open world game that may or may not have RPG shit tacked on. And that's just the shit I've been able to find proof of/have been told about, and this is all assuming the 4th iteration didn't also get dumpstered after several Valve veterans left the company in 2015/2016. As far as I know the radio silence is Valve is trying really hard to avoid a HL2 situation and end up showing shit that won't be in the final product again, combined. Only thing we can do now is wait for E3, and more importantly Steam Dev Days 2017 and Gamescom.

Sure, buddy.

Can you not see the head of a penis?
It's a man, baybe!

I think he's Gordon displaced from time and space in some type of sci-fi way.

G(ordon Free)-man

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

He's Freeman, obviously.

it would but it will also inevitably disappoint, even if its great, which is a risky move to take in the long run.

Talking about Beta Half Life 2 stuff, does anybody have some Raising the Bar pdfs?.

This. G-Man is an interdimensional jew playing both sides to maximize his space shekel earnings.

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i'll bite the bait. holla forums archives posts from Holla Forums. go look at the thread titles then go look at the titles here in the catalogue. they're going to be exactly the same

He's from the IRS, and Gordon was avoiding taxes like a madman until he got caught. And the Combine didn't pay those taxes either. G-Man saw this as the perfect moment to make them both pay, Gordon with service, and Combine with blood, by sending the certain Xen crystal causing a resonance cascade. Of course, both still having a hell to pay, G-Man gave Gordon the choice of death or being his bitch, then ending up with Half-Life 2, and so on, everything being just another tool to fuck the Combine with because of their tax evasion. The army guys were nothing but a bump in the road.

Wait what?

Thats….shy the fuck? Do we not have our own archives ala tg and…*cries* what…oh right.

Thisisnotatrueending?

I legit didnt know.

So like the leekyforums situation some years ago?

What about Race X tho

Race X isn't canon. But it isn't non-canon either, they haven't decided.

It's Gordon Freeman.

To convince Gordon (((Freeman))) the last remaining Jew that racemixing with a half-white is Ok?

Hello newfag. It's just some faggot selling ads on his fake forum that copies posts from here. Now you can lurk moar.

user..

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I guess Yooka Laylee was a good game after all

I want to fist that bullsquid

Could you just imagine if Half Life got the Donte treatment.

Wouldn't that just be Gorgeous Freeman the Game?

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They make hundreds of millions per year thru steam. Even if it went platinum it wouldn't be worth the production costs.

Did somebody say Half Life porn?