Join Us |
Sign In |
Sign in with:

Hot News

Diablo 3 nerfs Monk with 'drastic' rune change 193 2days 18hrs ago
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad 111 14hrs 30mins ago
Diablo 3 Diary: 10 tips to prepare for Nightmare 94 4days 15hrs ago
Diablo 3 declared 'fastest selling PC game' ever 91 2days 20hrs ago
Blizzard investigating Diablo 3 account hack reports 87 3days 20hrs ago
Diablo 3 review 76 1day 20hrs ago
Dead Island gets inexplicable Game of the Year edition 72 3days 15hrs ago
Shadow of the Colossus movie gets Chronicle director 71 2days 13hrs ago
Report: Average Old Republic server has less than 350 players online 70 1day 15hrs ago
Max Payne 3 PC delayed to June 1 69 3days 14hrs ago

Latest News

Half-Life 2: Episode One Post Mortem

by Maarten Goldstein, Oct 12, 2006 2:06pm PDT

Related Topics – Half-Life 2, Valve

There's a Half-Life 2: Episode One article on Computer & Video Games, with Valve's Marc Laidlaw and David Speyrer on hand to look back at the development of this Half-Life 2 expansion.

Read all the News

« Previous Story
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos Movie

Next Story »
European Gothic 3 Patch Released

Comments

2 Threads | 11 Comments

#4

Refresh Thread

By: dlr(2) x Show Full Post

Reply

This type of comment makes me think that Valve really doesn't have a master story for HL and just makes it up as they go along:

Laidlaw There were hardly any Vortigaunts in the city in HL2, so we were like, 'OK, they're all outside of the city' - and there's a reason they're all there. So as we move out of the city, we can finally bring the Vortigaunts in and play up their role in the world. So that's another example of how we keep story elements hanging out there, until finally the time is right to really develop it.

Oct 12, 2006 8:31pm PDT

toggle
This type of comment makes me think that Valve really doesn't have a master story for HL and just makes i : dlr(2)
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 8 replies.
- toggle
  Yeh, a lot of their comments indicate that, though I think just playing the games you see a lot of incong... : cplturboturd
  - toggle
    "Logical enough, I suppose, but I think the sense of immersion if disrupted by constantly reinforcing the : thesubtlesnake
    - toggle
      I'm well aware of the actual content of the plot's progression and Valve's intentions in doing the things... : cplturboturd
      
      toggle
      "The thinness with which information on higher-level elements of the plot are spread - such as the detail : thesubtlesnake
      
      toggle
      Again, listing a series of self-evident plot details isn't sufficient to conceal the plot holes, contradi : cplturboturd
      
      "Again, listing a series of self-evident plot details isn't sufficient to conceal the plot holes, contrad... : thesubtlesnake
  - this kind of storytelling approach always seemed to me to be a bit pretentious. Remember that guy in you... : the archvile

#1

Refresh Thread

By: thaperfectdrug x Show Full Post

Reply

Interesting fo sho, but not as postmortemy as I'd hope. More of a "here's how x ended up in here" with the occasional salty shot of "here's what we thought was cool".

And I didn't think the Zombine thing was that funny....

Oct 12, 2006 4:25pm PDT

toggle
Interesting fo sho, but not as postmortemy as I'd hope. More of a "here's how x ended up in here" with th... : thaperfectdrug
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 3 replies.
- toggle
  steve and i chuckled heartily at that zombine part when he came across it. : Maarten Goldstein
  - Thinking about it, it probably got spoilered for me in a review or something. : thaperfectdrug