Half Life Alyx ending doesn't line up with half life 2 story

[SoNiC]

I just watched a gameplay footage of the ending of half life alyx where she saved her father from an advisor changing the ending of half life 2 episode 2 which is fine but then she get's hired by g-man against her will leaving her in stasis which means she shouldn't appear in half life 2 at all but she's is.

Now that being said the developer would have to rewrite the half life 2 story so it matches up otherwise the game series they made from half life 2 onwards becomes completely useless.

I think the developer had forgotten the half life 2 story when they did that part.

I wish there was a way to let the developers know about this stuff up.

So what are everyones thoughts on this???

[AnCapGamer]

It's canon that this is between HL 1 and 2.

[SoNiC]

I know that but the ending of Half life alyx doesn't link it to HL 2 because she's left in stasis after being hired by gman

[Gweenie]

Originally posted by Nightwing:

I know that but the ending of Half life alyx doesn't link it to HL 2 because she's left in stasis after being hired by gman

I think the intent is to be an alternative storyline

[SoNiC]

That is possible but that would mean they'd have to make another half life 2 which would be silly.

[Interesting]

they basically changed the HL2 ending using G-Man's time travel to save Eli at the end of HL:A

[SoNiC]

but having alyx in stasis before Half life 2 means she shouldn't be in half life 2

[SoNiC]

Look let me make this easier to understand...

1. Half life Alyx ends just before half life 2 starts
2. At the end of half life alyx you get shown the future being the end of HL2 E3
3. G-man gives you the chance to save eli and you do changing how HL2 E3 ends
4. After that alyx is put into stasis and the game ends

Now what i'm trying to say is that if alyx is in stasis before HL2 started and during it and the following episodes she shouldn't be in any of them.

So the only way for valve to fix that blunder is to have in the next half life game ( if there ever is one) have gordon somehow confront g-man and force him to bring her back and correct the events of HL2 and it's following epsiodes.

[Interesting]

HL:A and HL2 are probably in different timelines then

[IanL]

All been debated to the nth degree in here before, suggest you read some of the previous discussions. This thread should of had a spoiler warning too!

[LemonyNebula]

Half Life 2 likely still happened exactly how it did, which is why the video at the end continues from the point of the change in the same manner as before.
Otherwise the timeline would be incredibly different, which would be a "considerable nudge".

We simply don't know what method they are going with to keep it as this yet, but that's because we only got like 5 mins at the end of Alyx to show it happening, it's not been explained yet.

[Mandolinguist]

i think its called an alternate timeline pogu

[JNK]

Originally posted by Nightwing:

Look let me make this easier to understand...

1. Half life Alyx ends just before half life 2 starts

Half life Alyx ends when half life 2 episode 2 ends

[Mae]

The understanding I had at the end was that Alyx was taken from the end of episode 2, not the end of this game. So after he gives her what she want but doesn't know yet, he puts her back in the timeline where she should be, then takes her at the end of episode 2. That's why Eli and Gordon see her get taken by Gman at the 'end' of episode 2.

[Daddy Shark]

It's most likely a completely new timeline. The entire story of HL and HL2 is about super string theory. SST enables multiverses.

It could also be that Alyx is under the Gman's orders the entire time we're with her in HL2. If Gman's employers can manipulate time - Gman could have taken Alyx to somewhere else for brainwashing for years and then returned her to 10 milliseconds after he took her in the first place and no one would have any idea but them.

The writing team at Valve is pretty darned good. I'm pretty sure they've put some thought into this. We just don't know the answer yet.

[e&]

bruh eli not ded anymore tho