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Auf ein weiteres Jahr ohne EP/HL 3 
Evtl. wird es dieses Jahr was mit BMS ( )
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So, ich habe inzwischen Portal 2 auch durchgespielt. Sagenhaft gutes Spiel. Da tut es umso mehr weh, dass Valve derzeit HL3 (in welcher Form auch immer) so schleifen lässt. 
Allerdings - um auf das Topic zu kommen - am Ende kam ich mir jetzt nicht viel erleuchteter vor was die Geschehnisse im Half-Life-Universum angeht. Ich kann mir nur zusammenreimen, dass, wohl während Chell still gelegt war, die Combine die Macht über die Erde errungen haben und so die Aperture Science Facilities in Vergessenheit gerieten und so verfallen sind.
Oder habe ich was an zusätzlichen Erkenntnissen übersehen?
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| | Zitat von Phillinger
So, ich habe inzwischen Portal 2 auch durchgespielt. Sagenhaft gutes Spiel.
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Ich auch endlich!! echt fantastisches spiel!!
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Also entweder trollen die wirklich hart, oder "bald" kommt irgendwas 
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| | Zitat von CLiX
"bald" kommt irgendwas
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Weil?
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Frohes neues und so
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| | Hello all, I thought I would contribute a (very) brief email exchange with Marc Laidlaw. I initially sent the following email to Gabe Newell:
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Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:33 PM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: Suggestions from a die-hard fan
Dear Gabe:
First of all, let me thank you for creating the best franchise in gaming history, I was 15 years old or so when I first came into contact with Half Life and didn’t even dream of the possibilities, now, 10 years later I’m still waiting in expectation for the third episodic installment.
This brings me to a few suggestions I’d like to contribute. I understand Episode Three is (hopefully) too advanced to change anything significantly but I still would like to suggest a thing or two. Maybe these few ideas could be applied towards future releases, maybe in other franchises. In any event, they symbolize what to me set the Half Life franchise apart from other games, I suppose these feelings are widely disseminated.
1. More “scientific terms”. I consider myself a science-oriented person, I am in a Ph.D. program in Mathematics and thus it pains me that the norm in videogames is the lack of a coherent (scientifically-plausible) backstory. You can imagine my pleasant surprise when I first played HL2 and heard of Calabi Yau manifolds, Dark Energy, Zero Point Energy Field manipulators. Being this accurate with technical information helps place the timeline in context (all these ideas are typically late 90’s, early 00’s) and gives a realistic feeling to game.
I hope you guys can incorporate some more recent ideas on how teleportation
(which presumably should play a part in Ep.3) is achieved. When HL2 came out things like string theory were somewhat cutting edge, not anymore, so why not try to stay a bit current? See for example the ideas of Petr Horava on a new theory of gravity, or for example the work of Perelman on the Poincare Conjecture.
Also, since there may be some decrypting to do at some point, why not mention in passing elliptic curves, or (for games set in a very hopeful future), maybe mention a “proof” of the Riemann Hypothesis.
I am of course making these suggestions from the point of view of a mathematician, but the idea is clear: please stay technologically current (and maybe ahead of the game): it’ll make the games more realistic and will help to set the HL franchise apart.
2. More depth to Vortigaunts. You guys have an exceptional opportunity with the Vorts to explore what another race may be like. Again, I think you had it pinned down in HL2, for example, we learned the Vorts had poetry, a sense of humor, a sense of the “numinous”. However, I feel that Ep1 and 2 “downgraded” the Vorts to more conventional fighting partners. Maybe a good strategy for deciding what they should say / how they should act, etc. would be to ask ourselves: Is this in any way what a human being would say? If the answer is no, then I’d say you have appropriate Vort dialog/behavior.
What I mean is at some points in Ep2 the Vort felt almost like a human partner, I was able at times to forget I was fighting side by side with an alien whose race had suffered at the hands of an intergalactic empire for centuries (!!!). In my opinion, they should behave completely different than most human beings, there is no reason to believe they even perceive reality the way we do, hence they may experience things that we cannot imagine; they should act accordingly.
Some aspects of vortikind I’d like to see explored:
Do they believe in an afterlife? Hints are towards a belief in reincarnation, but if so, why be so upset at the combine, after all, what’s the danger in dying if death is but a mere “oscillation”?
Do they mourn Eli? Again, “what seems to you a sacrifice is merely to us an oscillation, we do not fear the interval of darkness”.
I’d like to see some of their culture, maybe some dances, some bonding, (some mating rituals would make it not PG I presume?), something like the healing of Alyx.
I’d like to see their feelings towards the Combine explored in more detail. If indeed they have “suffered these chaffing bonds for eons”, we would expect them to be incredibly resentful towards the Combine. On the other hand, I’ve always pictured Vorts as being essentially pacific and forgiving (a kind of galactic Ghandi if you will), revenge would seem to not suit their enlightened nature.
Also, how do they perceive time? It has been suggested they posses a “hive mind” and presumably a conception of time and space where they see them all at once. It would be very interesting to have the Vorts hint at some event which hasn’t yet taken place only to find after an hour or so of playing that they were in fact referring to a future event thanks to the Vortessence not being completely attached to the fabric of (our) space time.
I could go on with these suggestions, but my point is the HL franchise is the only where I know of aliens coexisting with the character in a meaningful way, not merely as caricatures of characters but as actual full dimensional beings. Please elaborate on this more, and don’t let my beloved Vorts descend to the lowly status of sidekicks.
3. Keep track of your audience. The first HL came out sometime in 1998, the loyal fans have been around for more than 10 years, many of us are in our 20’s and we have matured. Therefore, please keep the games enjoyable for a mature audience who fell in love mainly with the plotline rather than with the action or the graphics. New engines are certainly a nice thing, but don’t forget that Crysis is not what HL is mainly because of the storyline. With HL I’ve always had the feeling that I’m not just shooting some bad guys in a very realistic island, but rather taking part in an intergalactic war which has already spanned centuries and killed millions. Please keep it that way and remember that pretty graphics and cutting edge engines mean nothing without twice as much work in storyline to back it up.
Please accept these suggestions as the offerings of someone who sincerely wishes the franchise to excel and mark the way for others the way it has been doing it for more than 10 years.
I could not end this email without asking some pressing questions:
How on Earth could Gordon fight the Advisors? We have seen their abilities. On the other hand, not fighting them would be an easy cop-out and certainly I expect more of Valve
How will Alyx react to the death of her dad? Will she turn into a darker character? Will she turned focused on vengeance? How will the Vorts react?
What does a full scale stand off against the Combine look like? Possibly more technology new to humans? New species which can only survive in polar conditions?
Ep 1 focused on Alyx as a companion, Ep2 on Vorts, will we see a focus on the G-man on Ep3? Will it become clear what his role is?
When will we see or hear something about ep3? Some say E3…
Again, thanks"
Newell's response was to forward it to Laidlaw, who replied the following:
"Dear *****, thanks for your very thoughtful letter. We are in basic agreement on many of the subjects you touch upon. More than that, I'm afraid I cannot say, but I do appreciate you taking the time.
Yours,
Marc Laidlaw" | |
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[Dieser Beitrag wurde 1 mal editiert; zum letzten Mal von Olschi am 14.01.2012 1:57]
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Das sagt uns jetzt aber leider nicht so viel darüber, in welchem Stadium sich EP3 befindet. Zumal die Email fast 2 Jahre alt ist.
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Troll Troll Troll the boat...
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Ich fands aber interessant und dachte, es passt gut in diesen Thread.
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QUELLE?
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Ist ein Fake.
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Die konzentrieren sich doch eh in moment mehr auf Dota2 als auf HL³... 
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| | Zitat von Titus^
Die konzentrieren sich doch eh in moment mehr auf Dota2 als auf HL³...
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valve can't count to 3 
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Inhaltsleeres Geschreibsel
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Nachdem ich jetzt nochmal HL1, OF und BS durchgespielt habe, in Ermangelung von guten SP Games auf dem heutigen Markt, sind mir ein paar Gedanken gekommen.
Zunächst: HL Dreamcast (http://www.hlportal.de/?site=news&do=shownews&news_id=9228) lohnt nicht. Mir sind keine Unterschiede aufgefallen, auch wenns neue Modelle waren. Aber nochmal durch Black Mesa geflitzt. Immerhin.
Zunächst hatten wir eine Resonanzkaskade, das heisst irgendwas stand mit irgendwas in Resonanz. G-Man hat den Kristall zur Anormalen Materie gegeben. Die bestrahlen den, und der resonanzkaskadiert mit den Kristallen/Portalmaschinen im λ-Komplex. G-Man wusste das um seine Ziele zu erfüllen, die Jungs im AM nicht, woher sollten die auch wissen was am anderen Ende der Forschungsanstalt vor sich ging. Immerhin haben wir es mit Regierungsforschung zu tun, Sicherheitspersonal, Sicherheitsstufen, Geheimhaltung und der ganze Kram. Da kommt es schnell vor das eine Hand nicht weiss was die andere tut. Ich denke AM und λ wussten nicht mal was die jeweils anderen taten. Genauso wie die aus Fragwürdige Ethik nicht unbedingt vom Biodome wussten. Ziel war aber bei beiden die Erforschung von "Getier", sie sollten nur nicht fragen wo die herkommen. BM selbst ist nicht als eine Einheit zu betrachten wie Aperture, da es konkurrierende Abteilungen gibt. Bei denen eben nicht alle alles wussten.
Wie groß ist BM? Ich bin nur ins grübeln gekommen wegen der Atombombe. Die wird unterirdisch gezündet und pulverisiert das ganze Gelände? Reicht die überhaupt aus? BM ist verdammt groß, liegt in bergigen Felsen, unterirdisch, viele Meter tief. Wenn man das Ding wirklich zernichten will, sollte man schon mehr als einen Sprengkopf haben, da Atombomben ja vorallen oberirdisch gezündet werden wegen der Schadensmaximierung, Stichwort reflektierte Druckwelle.
Nur so als Gedanken und vielleicht einen Denkanstoß sich nochmal mit dem zu befassen wo alles begann.
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[Dieser Beitrag wurde 1 mal editiert; zum letzten Mal von monischnucki am 29.01.2012 19:54]
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OF und BS gehören offiziell doch nicht zur Story, dachte ich?
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Dabei.
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Wobei... Samstags, 20 Uhr...
Maybe not.
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Man muss ja nicht zwingend der Gruppe beitreten, einfach spielen reicht doch schon, oder? Und ja, Samstag 20 Uhr ist ein blöder Termin...
Ich versuch's.
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Mal gucken. Denke verkehrt wäre es nicht aber die Zeit
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Achso, gruppe und dann spielen. Klingt doch ganz nice.
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Kann mir mal einer bitte sagen ob wir nicht ein Gegenstück zum HLPortal.de hatten? Die Redakteure da drüben scheinen etwas... eingerostet zu sein.
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| | Zitat von Cthulhu
Kann mir mal einer bitte sagen ob wir nicht ein Gegenstück zum HLPortal.de hatten? Die Redakteure da drüben scheinen etwas... eingerostet zu sein.
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City17.de. Noch früher Eingerostet als HLPortal.
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Wohl eher komplett eingerostet und verfallen: Die Seite lädt bei mir nicht mal den Banner komplett oder irgendwelchen Inhalt.
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