What I find funny is that all the game sites say that "I met with Doug and he told me...." It seems either the sites are copy-pasting content or Doug has a lot of people talking with him about it.
I've worked at a subway for a year and let me tell you that they are a whore of a company. Since...
G-man giving Gorden some extra abilities to help fight against the combine i.e. stop or control time. Giving Gorden Bullet-time to help get out of sticky situations.
Xen fighting the combine.
Showing the G-man hire Alyx as an intergalatic warrior also. At the end of Aftermath, Everything stops...
I could see a game where you walk through the Black Mesa facility and the focus of the game was to advance up the ladder as a scientist there and finally get to where HL1 started. The main game focus would be more puzzle and task managing based and character interactions would affect your status...