Wait. Wait.
So you're telling me that all this time, Half-Life 2 doesn't end on like. the world's biggest cliff hanger? And that the mythical Half Life: Episode 3 was basically gonna be Gordon blowing up a boat?????
The fact that people have been fuming over this for years makes me... frustrated
Okay I know I'm ranting about this at this point but. It baffles me that gamers can look at the concept of the G-man and definitively say "this story is not allowed to end until we know exactly who this guy is and who his employers are." What??
He's a symbolic entity! His whole gig is that he's mysterious and works for something even more mysterious. Do people seriously think that not revealing everything about him is "sequel baiting?"
I have been going along with "haha valve can't count to three" jokes for so long. Assuming that the reason Valve didn't make HL3 is because it would have to be a huge, bombastic conclusion to the series. Meanwhile the wiki is like