My Half Life 3 Story Concept - Games

Just a simple (and [I]serious[/I]) little idea for HL3. I made this bullshit up as I wrote it. Note that this isn't a direct continuation of EP2, this text assumes an actual EP3 is being made and THEN we'll get HL3. [video=youtube;2e22gOxmcKI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e22gOxmcKI[/video] ^ here's some music to set a nice theme for this post ^ [I]In 2025 AD, planet Earth was liberated from the imperialistic forces of the Universal Union, after a two-year campaign in which humanity wiped out the last remnants of its vast occupational force, with help from the legendary Gordon Freeman, who destroyed their last hope for reunion with the homeworld: a quantum translocation machine on board a stranded ship, the Borealis. He was not there to behold the great freedom he had helped humanity regain, however. In that last vital moment, as he faced fierce members of the Union's master race -the Shu'ulathoi- he destabilized the translocator and was swept from reality in a vortex of quantum energy. -- Eons have passed. Empires have risen and fallen, wars ravaged the world, nature helped restore it. Many things have changed. But there are some things, concepts, ideas, that have remained, and even now are told across planet Earth as legends always have been. -- There is a schism in the beliefs of man- and vortikind, a rift in the ideology based upon a wider view of the world, conflict in worship that is interwoven tightly with the ever-present Vortessence. On one hand, the [B]Vortal House[/B], an order that worships a mortal messiah, the Free Man (child of all humanity and all vortikind), who tore the claws of the demonic Combine union, which held Earth tightly in their grasp, to shreds and gave his own life for that of a free world he would never experience again. On the other hand, the [B]Hand of Sh'rrasannh[/B], men and vorts who believe that all life is imperfect, and must reach a higher state of reality through synthetic manipulation. The Hand worships the ancient Union and its godlike masters, the Shu'ulathoi, and eternally laments the day the Free Man tore them from the Combine like an infant forever seperated from its mother's loving embrace. -- Long have the House and the Hand been in a cold war, preaching endlessly, glaring at one another with hateful eyes. Until now. Your name is [B]A[B]hkir Serka[/B].[/B] You are a member of the Vortal House. Your mundane life in this peaceful world has been shattered, promptly, with the first of many brutal Hand attacks on House members. Churches burn, people are slaughtered or converted into religiously brainwashed synths en masse, and Earth has spiraled down into a holy war. With your family dead, your hometown ruined, you pray to the Free Man and join your Brothers and Sisters against the Hand, who has become as wretched as the demons they bow down to. [/I] -- TL;DR: [I]Gordon dies saving the world, thousands of years later is worshipped like a new Jesus, Combine-worshipping cult gets jelly and starts attacking the Gordonchurch. Bam, holy war.[/I]

Sounds like a good storyline for a mod, maybe, but not half life 3. IMO, obviously.

Here's my suggestion: You're this dude in a suit you're mute and you got a crowbar you'll use to beat the living shit out of aliens with. The end. [editline]26th January 2012[/editline] If gordon speaks it'll be dissapointment of the century.

I thought it'd be interesting to take Gordon's legendary status one step further and feature a religion centered around his heroics. After all, each main HL game has been quite different. HL1 was a survival horror scifi shooter, HL2 a dystopian guerilla war game. So why not one that revolves around religious conflict that has its roots in previous events? Also, yeah, in the end this shouldn't be HL3 actually. It'd be interesting as a mod, indeed!

hey u copying my idea . i will call policez

I agree, it sounds more like a concept for a modification.

Did I meantion you're playing as a mute dude with a crowbar?

maybe

[QUOTE]Shu'ulathoi [/QUOTE] Geeze.. how did you come up with such a name? (Nothing offensive here)

[QUOTE=rikimaru6811;34419608]Geeze.. how did you come up with such a name? (Nothing offensive here)[/QUOTE] It's what the vortigaunts call them in Episode 2.

Don't see why this would be a HL game, it doesn't seem to share any connection with the HL universe at all Same could have been said for HL2 though I guess

Sh'rrasannh Shu'ulathoi You are very good at making words that I can't pronounce :v:

[QUOTE=rikimaru6811;34419608]Geeze.. how did you come up with such a name? (Nothing offensive here)[/QUOTE] While I do tend to come up with almost Lovecraftian, impossible to pronounce names, Shu'ulathoi is the [URL="http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Advisor"]official term[/URL] for Advisors. [I](though I must add that it might only apply to Advisors that are yet to hatch, but I always thought of it as a name for the species as a whole)[/I]

[QUOTE=Chaotic Lord;34422697]Sh'rrasannh Shu'ulathoi You are very good at making words that I can't pronounce :v:[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;bZ1KDf3O-qU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ1KDf3O-qU[/video]

[IMG]http://combineoverwiki.net/w/images/7/7f/Gordon_stained_glass.jpg[/IMG] Seems to fit to your idea.

The Half Life story could almost evolve infinitely. There are so many different ways to go with it.

The way I see it, you can't have a real Half Life title when you don't play as Gordon Freeman, but expansions are not out of the question. (see: Blue Shift, Decay, Opposing Force) In addidtion, if this was to be an official game, I highly doubt that killing off Freeman would be a good choice (Burst of quantum energy, swept from reality, perhaps GMan taking him away again, but not outright killing him) Though it's a little unlike the game, the religious ideas you've got here are pure gold.

I know they said they're ditching the Episodes, but I think it'd be cool if this game were to be like Half-Life 3 Episode 1. Then like near the end, the Free Mans are about to lose the war. Then in Episode 2, Gordon Freeman comes out of nowhere(probably out of stasis by GMan) and you play as him and help with the Free Mans in the war. Or maybe something like that.

[QUOTE=Sie-Sveinhund;34441431]The way I see it, you can't have a real Half Life title when you don't play as Gordon Freeman, but expansions are not out of the question. (see: Blue Shift, Decay, Opposing Force) In addidtion, if this was to be an official game, I highly doubt that killing off Freeman would be a good choice (Burst of quantum energy, swept from reality, perhaps GMan taking him away again, but not outright killing him) Though it's a little unlike the game, the religious ideas you've got here are pure gold.[/QUOTE] If Valve ever gets around to doing a new Half-Life game, I'm certain Freeman will remain the protagonist, or at the very least would play a major role in the story. I would think it's kind of expected by this point.

Exactly. Any game based around Half-Life canon and not featuring Freeman as a protagonist would wind up as an expansion or adopted mod.

[QUOTE=iqiq123;34431431][IMG]http://combineoverwiki.net/w/images/7/7f/Gordon_stained_glass.jpg[/IMG] Seems to fit to your idea.[/QUOTE] Looks like watevaman

[QUOTE=Sie-Sveinhund;34441431]The way I see it, you can't have a real Half Life title when you don't play as Gordon Freeman, but expansions are not out of the question. (see: Blue Shift, Decay, Opposing Force) In addidtion, if this was to be an official game, I highly doubt that killing off Freeman would be a good choice (Burst of quantum energy, swept from reality, perhaps GMan taking him away again, but [I]not outright killing him[/I]) Though it's a little unlike the game, the religious ideas you've got here are pure gold.[/QUOTE] He wouldn't actually be killed, of course, just literally swept from reality, be it G-Man's fault or transcending into a higher plane of the Vortessence or something. The House, however, believes he did, simply, give his life to save Earth.