(spoilers) HL Alyx is a prequel, does the ending make sense?

[Haba]

I just can't understand the ending

Sine half life Alyx is a prequel, on the time line it happens before half life 2 and the episodes.
Logically, half life 2 shouldn't happen the way it did then since Alyx is in stasis. Eli is saved and tells Gordon that they need to save Alyx from gman.

So how does half life Alyx ending make sense since it is a prequel yet half life 2 episode 2 ending which is supposed to be the future doesn't match?

[E3kHatena]

Think of the actual time gap between Half-Life games releasing as being from the GMan's perspective. Gordon hasn't done much in the last twelve years, so he has gone into the past and manipulated a young Alyx Vance into setting a different series of events in motion, and she is then abducted right before Eli would have died in Episode 2.

It's clear that the GMan and his benefactors don't work on the same sense of time that Gordon and other characters experience in-universe, and describing him as seeing little progress made on Ep3 and thus making a sequel to change events to freshen up the trail seems easier than explaining that the GMan might experience all of time all at once, and he's no stranger to stepping around in time the same way we have no problem exploring a three-dimensional space.

[Haba]

Publicado originalmente por E3kHatena:

Think of the actual time gap between Half-Life games releasing as being from the GMan's perspective. Gordon hasn't done much in the last twelve years, so he has gone into the past and manipulated a young Alyx Vance into setting a different series of events in motion, and she is then abducted right before Eli would have died in Episode 2.

It's clear that the GMan and his benefactors don't work on the same sense of time that Gordon and other characters experience in-universe, and describing him as seeing little progress made on Ep3 and thus making a sequel to change events to freshen up the trail seems easier than explaining that the GMan might experience all of time all at once, and he's no stranger to stepping around in time the same way we have no problem exploring a three-dimensional space.

That explains it quite well, the only thing that still bothers me is the fact that if gman has such powers then surely he would see millions of futures like dr strange in avengers and thus should of skipped Gordon and went straight for alyx.

Idk though, half life and its speculative at times lore probably has an explenstions that could be revealed in half life 3 but who knows

[Caldor]

Publicado originalmente por Haba:

Publicado originalmente por E3kHatena:

Think of the actual time gap between Half-Life games releasing as being from the GMan's perspective. Gordon hasn't done much in the last twelve years, so he has gone into the past and manipulated a young Alyx Vance into setting a different series of events in motion, and she is then abducted right before Eli would have died in Episode 2.

It's clear that the GMan and his benefactors don't work on the same sense of time that Gordon and other characters experience in-universe, and describing him as seeing little progress made on Ep3 and thus making a sequel to change events to freshen up the trail seems easier than explaining that the GMan might experience all of time all at once, and he's no stranger to stepping around in time the same way we have no problem exploring a three-dimensional space.

That explains it quite well, the only thing that still bothers me is the fact that if gman has such powers then surely he would see millions of futures like dr strange in avengers and thus should of skipped Gordon and went straight for alyx.

Idk though, half life and its speculative at times lore probably has an explenstions that could be revealed in half life 3 but who knows

There are limits to his powers... we do not know the limits we just know they exist. So that gives them a lot of freedom with him.

We now know he can be imprisoned, but... that took a LOT of effort to do. This is happening between Half Life 1 and Half Life 2, so they do know of Gordon Freeman and it is after the event at Black Mesa.

Doctor Strange did control time and could see much of time all at once, but... that does seem a bit strange. Even with the ability to manipulate time it should take a lot longer to see into the past and future. Usually when being able to move in time, you still have to move around to collect information and get to know different timelines, so he might be able to go to the future or the past to figure out how things unfold, but he is not omniscient even though he does know much. He knows a lot because of his abilities, but its not like Doctor Strange that he can just know everything from several thousand timelines in seconds.