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I haven't played the game, so I'm a bit confused: what parts of the story are slyly referring to Valve itself rather than the HL3 story? How do you get "welp, l
by p49k 9y ago
I haven't played the game, so I'm a bit confused: what parts of the story are slyly referring to Valve itself rather than the HL3 story? How do you get "welp, looks like HL3 is cancelled" based on this story?
- SmallDeadGuy 9y agoThe last paragraph is almost definitely about Valve: "And here we are. I spoke of my return to this shore. It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the terrain has changed. Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I spoke, or what precisely we hoped to accomplish. At this point, the resistance will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me. Old friends have been silenced, or fallen by the wayside. I no longer know or recognize most members of the research team, though I believe the spirit of rebellion still persists. I expect you know better than I the appropriate course of action, and I leave you to it. Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final episode." No more HL2:Episode N coming, the development team is too different.
- Nition 9y agoOriginal says "my final epistle" which makes more sense contextually. But epistle has certainly been used as a clever stand-in reference to Episode.
- SmallDeadGuy 9y agoYeah, I should have said that I copied this from the "corrected" version which replaces the character and place references.
- erikj 9y agoThis part: https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/6vvn00/a_laidlaw_thing_that_you_might_want_to_see/dm3epgx/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/6vvn00/a_laidlaw_...