What do you think Aftermath is about?

[Rennmniscant]

Kupoartist:- I love your ideas and chapter reviews!!! :bounce:

Stanners:- Yes, very interesting approach to both Aftermath and Newbieness...

 

[BeaverMon]

What I'm thinking is the entire City 17 gets teleported to Xen when the Citadel explodes.
I mean come on. HL3 should be able battling in Xen, or working on some huge vacuum cleaner to suck the Xen Creatures back in Xen, then excape Xen, close the boarder to Earth, and that will be that.

Gordon will finally undo the incident in Black Mesa.

 

[Asknoone]

What I'm thinking is the entire City 17 gets teleported to Xen when the Citadel explodes.
I mean come on. HL3 should be able battling in Xen, or working on some huge vacuum cleaner to suck the Xen Creatures back in Xen, then excape Xen, close the boarder to Earth, and that will be that.

Gordon will finally undo the incident in Black Mesa.

City 17 is destroyed, and you can't teleport a city

 

[ReDeemer_]

City 17 is destroyed, and you can't teleport a city

Why not? Half of houses, pieces of asphalt, parts of cars, dead bodies etc.

 

[BeaverMon]

Okay. Then maybe Gordon will teleport to Xen while City 17 blows up with the Citadel.

 

[Asknoone]

Why not? Half of houses, pieces of asphalt, parts of cars, dead bodies etc.

Because its pretty much impossible. And overly cheesy if that happens - which it doesnt, as already confirmed in PC GAMER

 

[Rennmniscant]

What I'm thinking is the entire City 17 gets teleported to Xen when the Citadel explodes.
I mean come on. HL3 should be able battling in Xen, or working on some huge vacuum cleaner to suck the Xen Creatures back in Xen, then excape Xen, close the boarder to Earth, and that will be that.

Gordon will finally undo the incident in Black Mesa.

Very abstract idea, but I don't like the idea of going back to Xen again. How are they going to teleport ALL of c17? I also like the idea of going to an identical c14 or something.

 

[BeaverMon]

Ok, maybe the idea of teleporting all of City 17 is far fetched, and probally impossiable, and just alittle stupid.

But the point is, HL3 should end with what Gordon started, which would mean going to Xen and closing the residence cascade, then trying to defeat a boss in Xen, while trying to excape Xen before the rift closes, or Gordon will be stuck in Xen forever.

But if he manages to excape, sure, every human on Earth will probley be dead that didn't excape the blast of the Citadel of City 17, but Gordon will be a hero, AND...as a bonus, learn the mystery of the G-Man.

 

[Cole]

Why would the enter City 17 get teleported to Xen. The teleport WAS NOT set for Xen.

Anyway, what will aftermath be about?
The Aftermath of HL2!!!
OOO! DID I WIN!!!
No seriously, did I?


Well think of it like this,
In Black Mesa, in the start the enviroment was our enemy. Things would fall, lasers would come out. Since the citadel is blowing up and things..why not try and made the enviroment your enemy once again in the start .

 

[r2000]

Why would the enter City 17 get teleported to Xen. The teleport WAS NOT set for Xen.

Anyway, what will aftermath be about?
The Aftermath of HL2!!!
OOO! DID I WIN!!!
No seriously, did I?


Well think of it like this,
In Black Mesa, in the start the enviroment was our enemy. Things would fall, lasers would come out. Since the citadel is blowing up and things..why not try and made the enviroment your enemy once again in the start .

Exactly.

 

[halflifeguy]

Its about me taking a dump......................lol...............i like potty humor

 

[lonestar]

Since the citadel is blowing up and things..why not try and made the enviroment your enemy once again in the start .

this is a sweet idea. i really hope for it.

 

[kirovman]

Yeah, you play as Gordon Freeman. As the G-man walks out of the door, he has forgotten to restrain you, and you walk out of the door behind him and see...the beginning of the Aftermath expansion...

Maybe.

 

[Rennmniscant]

Why would the enter City 17 get teleported to Xen. The teleport WAS NOT set for Xen.

Anyway, what will aftermath be about?
The Aftermath of HL2!!!
OOO! DID I WIN!!!
No seriously, did I?


Well think of it like this,
In Black Mesa, in the start the enviroment was our enemy. Things would fall, lasers would come out. Since the citadel is blowing up and things..why not try and made the enviroment your enemy once again in the start .

Excellent!

Keep in mind also folks, that there is the possibility (small though it may be) that HL will continue past the expansion, and maybe even beyond 3!
From my experience, expansion packs aren't necessary to continue a plot from part 1 to part 2. It may just be a really cool sub-plot or side-quest.

 

[Frraksurred]

Co0l. Lots of creative conjecture here. I have a couple of ideas of what may take place...

In HL you'll recall all the aliens (except headcrabs, zombies and Gargs) were being used against their will. They all had neck and wrist shackles on and seemed to be under some kind of mind control that the Vorts in HL2 have escaped from. With this in mind, I believe the Citidel is not destroyed, but rather disabled. Releasing thousands of Combine Soldiers, Civil Patrol, etc. to think for themselves. Some stick with the Combine cuz it's all they know, others rebel, join the resistance or just go freelance (hence Alyx and CP fighting side by side against an Ant Lion Guard).

Since the Citidel is powerless, perimeter shields come down allowing all kinds of wildlife to run amuck. Hopefully includung old favs like the bullsquid, houdeye, ichythaurous (however it's spelled) as well as new creatures we have not seen yet.

My theory is you work your way back down the Citidel, picking up tidbits of info about Breen and the Advisor, finding technology Eli and Kliener can use to build a portal to where ever the Advisor is. When you reach the ground you must fight through hords of otherworldly wildlife side by side with Vorts, Combine and resistance alike. Kliener sends you on a "parts run" (hopefully involving the tanker level cut from HL2) for the new portal technology and in the end you face and Combine enhanced Breen guarding your way to the Advisor.



...or we could just spend the entire game following Alyx around drooling.

 

[gabriel]

aftermath

this is what i want to happen in aftermath:

alyx dies (she's right there at the center of the blast. i mean come on)

gordon is in stasis again due to g-man

you don't find out the mystery of g-man (because that would take away the fun of not knowing)

you play as someone else (maybe barney, that'd rock)

and you're trying to lead the people out of city 17 before the citatel melts down and obliterates everything

in the meantime, xen creatures invade city 17 from the outside of course

while leaderless combine try to regain their dignity by shooting you

and the whole thing would climax with a HUGE xen/human/combine war on a HUGE battlefield

But yeah I know, Alyx lives, and you play as Gordon. but whatever they do, it'll still be great.

 

[Asknoone]

Co0l. Lots of creative conjecture here. I have a couple of ideas of what may take place...

In HL you'll recall all the aliens (except headcrabs, zombies and Gargs) were being used against their will. They all had neck and wrist shackles on and seemed to be under some kind of mind control that the Vorts in HL2 have escaped from. With this in mind, I believe the Citidel is not destroyed, but rather disabled. Releasing thousands of Combine Soldiers, Civil Patrol, etc. to think for themselves. Some stick with the Combine cuz it's all they know, others rebel, join the resistance or just go freelance (hence Alyx and CP fighting side by side against an Ant Lion Guard).

Since the Citidel is powerless, perimeter shields come down allowing all kinds of wildlife to run amuck. Hopefully includung old favs like the bullsquid, houdeye, ichythaurous (however it's spelled) as well as new creatures we have not seen yet.

My theory is you work your way back down the Citidel, picking up tidbits of info about Breen and the Advisor, finding technology Eli and Kliener can use to build a portal to where ever the Advisor is. When you reach the ground you must fight through hords of otherworldly wildlife side by side with Vorts, Combine and resistance alike. Kliener sends you on a "parts run" (hopefully involving the tanker level cut from HL2) for the new portal technology and in the end you face and Combine enhanced Breen guarding your way to the Advisor.



...or we could just spend the entire game following Alyx around drooling.

Your partially correct, the citadel does lose power and all of the city defences go offline leading to an invasion by xenish wildlife. However the game is focusing on fleeing from the city and getting the citizens out because the citadel is going to go into meltdown (Says Marc Laidlaw, for the record) which is basically a nuclear explosion destroying the city.

The humans/Gordon don't have the firepower or capability to even attempt to attack a combine world when they are busy with thier own if you think aboout it.

Plus with the Citadels reactor gone critical theres no way you can even get the frequency for a combine world because the tunneling entanglement system is destroyed ala the combine can't get to earth either.

 

[Rochet]

i just hope this game doesn't get delayed like hl2 and hl1, that will sux.

 

[r2000]

Goddamn. Are we all really thick-skulled?
Citadel is collapsing. Melting. Its you along with Alyx, and maybe overwatch, vs. Xenogens. Lots of them. Myrmidonts, headcrabs, and hopefully many many other alien species. I'm predicting gonarch and garg bosses