Something they don’t want anyone to know about. Eli is freed, and has news of some kind of super weapon that’s being held by the Combine. The stakes seem low, and it feels like we’re merely going over the same ground as previous games, narratively speaking, except this time we’re in VR.īut Alyx actually succeeds in her first goal long before the game is over, despite everything we’ve been led to believe. The game itself reminds us of this fact in its opening moments. The game begins by admitting that the mission Alyx is on - a journey to save her father Eli Vance from the Combine - is doomed to fail. So let’s talk about that ending, because it’s a doozy, and it certainly does seem to suggest a lot. “The ending certainly suggests certain directions that we’re all really excited about, so it’s not like there’s no idea, but no, there’s not a concrete, 300-page manual of where the game goes after this,” Valve writer Jay Pinkerton said in agreement.

“There’s certainly no bible that lays everything out for the next three games, I would love that, if Marc had some secret book,” Valve writer ( kinda) Erik Wolpaw told Polygon, laughing. What those games will be, however, is up for some debate. Everything old is new againĪs we’ve reported before, there doesn’t seem to be much question about whether there will be more Half-Life games in the future. What might have been a game that kept the story in a holding pattern became something that changes the nature of Half-Life’s narrative as we thought we understood it.īut of course, to go any further, and to ask the game’s writers about what it all means, we’re going to have to spoil some stuff. Half-Life: Alyx ends where Half-Life 2: Episode Two ends, after having changed everything we thought we knew about where the story was going, or what will happen next.

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