O_o

fucking...

Hmm, interesting, but Valve is one of those companies that enjoy to joke around with their community with pranks.

i think valve knows how a character works and she's going to be depressed through the whole game

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Her father's just been killed. And I don't know if you know people, but having seen people go through this several times, you don't usually get back up and keep fighting. You usually break down for hours. Then there's a brief window of time, around the next day, when you decide that the best way to get over the tragedy is to go back to work. But this only lasts for about a day, and then you go back to the grieving. My concern is that she's going to be fine after a five-minute cutscene and she's going to be, like, "Okay Gordon! Let's get to the Borealis!" I have more faith in Valve than that, but it'll really suck if at any point she's just like, Oh, my father just died but I'm going to be normal now.

" i think valve knows how a character works and she's going to be depressed through the whole game "

I think Valve is just messing with people. 

Yeah, could be just them messing with us.
 
I'd love to hear something official about Episode 3 or HL3 or whatever it is they're doing with Half-Life. The more time that passes by, the more I lose interest, especially in such a narrative driven game. Hell, I think I may have forgotten what HL is about by now. Who the hell is this Alyx character?!

" @ZanzibarBreeze said:  

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Her father's just been killed. And I don't know if you know people, but having seen people go through this several times, you don't usually get back up and keep fighting. You usually break down for hours. Then there's a brief window of time, around the next day, when you decide that the best way to get over the tragedy is to go back to work. But this only lasts for about a day, and then you go back to the grieving. My concern is that she's going to be fine after a five-minute cutscene and she's going to be, like, "Okay Gordon! Let's get to the Borealis!" I have more faith in Valve than that, but it'll really suck if at any point she's just like, Oh, my father just died but I'm going to be normal now.

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They'll probably just kill her off too :o

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Rebel FM talked about the "How will Alyx react in Episode 3" thing for almost a half hour in the last episode of their HL2 Game Club. If you're interested in this, that might be worth checking out.

" Rebel FM talked about the "How will Alyx react in Episode 3" thing for almost a half hour in the last episode of their HL2 Game Club. If you're interested in this, that might be worth checking out. "

If this is real, this is awesome. 
 
It's probably just Valve fucking with us, though.

That's an interesting find!
 
In regards to what's in your spoiler tag, I find it funny you hope they deal with that issue seriously, but seem to have no problem with accepting the fact she's fallen madly in love with someone who never speaks or reacts to anything she does or says. "Oh, Gordon. you're so dreamy... for a statue. "

Since Gordon does not say a single word during the entire saga, it is not clear to what extent he exists as a separate character outside of the player's influence. Since the start of Half-Life, Valve has made sure that the player's and Gordon's experience are one and the same. An example of Valve's player strategy is shown during the scene in Eli's lab. Investigation of certain props (most notably the newspaper board) triggers Eli to give some explanation to their meaning and history, thus indicating that Gordon presents emotions that the non-player characters can detect. The chapter Captive Freight from Blue Shift also shows an example of the character apparently speaking but being unheard by the player. When Rosenberg asks Barney how he knows his name, there is a slight pause, then Rosenberg confirms the name of the scientist who told it to Barney, as if he was answering him. 

 To extrapolate some more, I also find it interesting that Freeman seems to be so regularly voted as the Greatest Video Game Character of all time (Empire, GameSpot et al). For a character that's not actually much of a character as you say, it's certainly vexing. "

" @Symphony: Yeah, but he's a doctor statue. "

" it's just so strange we place him on a pedestal when he's really no different than any other generic Every Man. "

Shit i shouldn't have read that spoiler, i still haven't finished Half Life 2 :D 
I don't care about that dude though so no harm done :D

" @ZanzibarBreeze said:

 To extrapolate some more, I also find it interesting that Freeman seems to be so regularly voted as the Greatest Video Game Character of all time (Empire, GameSpot et al). For a character that's not actually much of a character as you say, it's certainly vexing. "

How so? Gordon Freeman is a character with a rudimentary backstory and little display of anything you might call "personality" outside of  A) what he does B) what the player can make him do C) what happens to him D) what he goes through  and most importantlyE) how other, VERY human characters react to and relate to him  This makes him much more interesting, memorable and engaging that most other video game protagonists. In fact if you look at the top spots in these "greatest video game heroes" lists there is a striking dominance of characters that do not show their face much if they even have one, have either no voice or speak very little if at all. (Mario, Gordon, Link, MasterChief, Samus, Cloud Strife) "

This is an interesting find but I don't think we can really extrapolate anything about Episode Three from these assets. You know with the way Valve have promoted their games and teased their fans in the past I'm pretty sure that they expected this stuff to be found.

"but it mostly is the player's own extrapolation. "

Interesting... Have you figured out what exactly this does? Like, what's the message? 
I'm intrigued.
 
Episode 3 will probably be the last game Valve develops for the current "source engine" TF2> L4D > L4D2 > probably Portal 2 are all running on heavily modified versions of the Source Engine.
It's not a bad engine or anything, considering how old it actually is (6 years), with modifications, it competes with top engines on both PC and Console. However, you can still see a lot old gaming quirks with the engine. look at the feet of the swarms of infected if you are wondering what I'm talking about in L4D or the spinning models in any FPS. The engine doesn't track the position of the torso and move the feet accordingly, the model just spins in circles.  
 
Another issue is the net code and processor usage. Mind you, the engine was built in 2004, when processors were more heavily relied on than GPU & GPU RAM.

They are messin with ya. Why would stuff from HL be in this game? There is no connection to the two at all. No reason to put that in there unless they are screwing with you. Same reason Portal has black mesa refrances and all that. 

Unless a day comes where the game is sitting right in front of me, I don't think I can believe anything.

" @Symphony said:

" it's just so strange we place him on a pedestal when he's really no different than any other generic Every Man. "

He is different, special and unique in the way he and his world and his travels are presented to the player. On paper, Freeman might not be much different from Nukem - but as a medium or avatar, he certainly is. I enjoyed being Gordon Freeman much more than I enjoyed being "any other" FPS protagonist - including Mr. Isaac Clarke, who is as close to Freeman as you can get.   Getting told about Freeman through the interactions with other characters only might not be realistic / naturalistic, but that doesn't mean it cannot be effective.  "

I just updated the Wiki article with more information that was found:
 

A short time later, the community at Steam discovered further hints in the SDK: "This is a blood color script for the so called blob_brain entity, as you can see it has a decal for FROZEN. Which means it would be some kind of a creature which can be frozen," wrote one poster. This would work with the supposed Arctic setting of Episode Three. There are also references to Antlions, Zombies, the Gravity Gun, and one thing labeled "HL2_EPISODIC". The Combine are also mentioned, as well as two types of weapons: the Tau Cannon, and Flachettes, the type of projectile fired by the Hunters. 

The plot thickens.

i have NO idea what im looking at