Which ending is Canon? EP2 or Alyx

[|| Soup (/◕ヮ◕)/ ||]

So. I'm pretty confused by something. At the end of Half-Life: Alyx, you save your dad and start working for the Gman. However, in Half Life EP2, he dies at the end, and Alyx doesn't save him. So, which one is canon? Are we meant to pretend that EP2's ending had ended with Eli being saved and the Gman taking Alyx...Or does Eli die and Gordon and Alyx go on together?

[Joker Thanos]

Originally posted by Soup:

So. I'm pretty confused by something. At the end of Half-Life: Alyx, you save your dad and start working for the Gman. However, in Half Life EP2, he dies at the end, and Alyx doesn't save him. So, which one is canon? Are we meant to pretend that EP2's ending had ended with Eli being saved and the Gman taking Alyx...Or does Eli die and Gordon and Alyx go on together?

Okay so this is how it goes, at the end of episode 2 eli dies clear and due to gordan freeman not doing his work the gman went to the pass to get alyx hired, he knew she would get their and it would workfor him, then he asked what would she want since she saved him, she obv said combine off earth but then he offered saving eli, since she took it she was hired and then put away which is the true unforseen consequenses

[Joker Thanos]

Eli Dies > gman goes into the pass> lures alyx to save hinm > alyx saves him > gives alyx one nudge > saves eli > he hires alyx > alyx is put in staces > after credits scene

[SilentCaay]

Both.

[Titans of Time]

Originally posted by SilentCaay:

Both.

[Debosy]

Originally posted by Soup:

So. I'm pretty confused by something. At the end of Half-Life: Alyx, you save your dad and start working for the Gman. However, in Half Life EP2, he dies at the end, and Alyx doesn't save him. So, which one is canon? Are we meant to pretend that EP2's ending had ended with Eli being saved and the Gman taking Alyx...Or does Eli die and Gordon and Alyx go on together?

Both...

In Ep2, Eli died and Gordon lost consciousness. When he wake up Eli was alive and Alyx was gone.

[Muse Snooze]

Basically, Gman set up a scenario to entrap Alyx. CHANCES ARE, when Gordon appeared on the train, some random person there vanished. Same thing. Gman can only do trades.

[|| Soup (/◕ヮ◕)/ ||]

Ahhh, this makes a lot more sense. Just one more question, if Alyx saves Eli and then sells herself to Gman, doesn't that mean she was in stasis during the events of Half life 2? because Alyx happens before hl2

[LemonyNebula]

Originally posted by Soup:

Ahhh, this makes a lot more sense. Just one more question, if Alyx saves Eli and then sells herself to Gman, doesn't that mean she was in stasis during the events of Half life 2? because Alyx happens before hl2

We simply do not know how it works yet.
However, due to the ending of Alyx, we can assume that everything in Half Life 2 still happened, as it carried on towards the end of the last game with events being mostly the same.

This could be due to a number of reasons, maybe it diverges and converges the timeline, perhaps there are multiple, maybe time and events can overlap with minor effects on each other, maybe set points will always happen, maybe it's not the alyx we know, and probably more possibilities.

They could go a number of ways with it and with only a few minutes at the end of Alyx showing the effect, we have yet to have it explained.

I think this is what annoyed some people as they don't like not knowing, especially when it revolves around a cliffhanger they waited years for. But people are rushing into calling out the writing as bad before giving it a chance to explain itself sadly. Enjoy the ride and all that.

They no doubt have a plan, but we will have to wait and see exactly how this trade/effect works.

[SilentCaay]

Eli is the one that says "She's gone!". He would have said something very different if old Alyx hadn't been there, then young Alyx popped into existence and then she disappeared. We can safely assume he was talking about old Alyx disappearing which means the events of HL2 haven't changed. She was there just as she was when we played HL2.

[|| Soup (/◕ヮ◕)/ ||]

Originally posted by SilentCaay:

Eli is the one that says "She's gone!". He would have said something very different if old Alyx hadn't been there, then young Alyx popped into existence and then she disappeared. We can safely assume he was talking about old Alyx disappearing which means the events of HL2 haven't changed. She was there just as she was when we played HL2.

But after the credits in Alyx, you wake up and find Eli there, neither Alyx is there however

[SilentCaay]

Eli says "She's gone!", though. Which means the older Alyx WAS there.