Half Life: Alyx trailer is out!

[Guest]

 

[kerbiloid]

Not an engineering physicist. So just a fanfic.

[XB-70A]

Me, reading that a new Half Life was announced:

 

 

Me, reading it will be a VR game without Gordon and taking place between Half-Life and Half-Life 2:

 

Edited November 21, 2019 by XB-70A

[cubinator]

On 11/21/2019 at 3:30 PM, XB-70A said:

Me, reading it will be a VR game without Gordon and taking place between Half-Life and Half-Life 2:

 

They've just got to play us like that for another decade...

...but still.

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Edited November 24, 2019 by cubinator

[Kerbart]

Five or six years ago I would have been so psyched that I'd rush out to get a VR headset.

Now? I'll wait until the non-VR version is released. If that never happens? Meh.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Kerbart said:

Five or six years ago I would have been so psyched that I'd rush out to get a VR headset.

Now? I'll wait until the non-VR version is released. If that never happens? Meh.

There probably will be community made mods that do it, but the game is pretty much built around VR - you'll only get a fraction of the game's experience.

[XB-70A]

9 hours ago, cubinator said:

They've just got to play us like that for another decade...

 

Considering Alyx is a kind of Half-Life 1.5, I would bet the next will be a sequel to it, or Half-Life 1.75.

[kerbiloid]

In 2022:
Half-Life 3: The System Reboot

Spoiler

The intro cutscene.
Alyx Freeman is going by monorail tram to her workplace in the Anomalous Materials Laboratories, in the Black Mesa research complex...

The lab personnel is chatting in the corridors.
"Hello, Alyx!" "Hello, Alyx!" "Hello, Alyx!"
"Did you hear about Gordon Freeman?"
"No, who's that?"
"A guy from the neighbor lab. He turned out to be Ivan the Space Biker. "

Spoiler

***

An hour later. The experiments starts.
Alyx is pushing a pushcart with a test specimen to the center of the lab room...