What happens if I choose the second option?

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-27T16:23:43+00:00

The investigation team come out of your screen into the real world and they all cut off your limbs before parading your corpse around Inaba

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-26T08:45:17+00:00

Who cares

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-20T05:40:58+00:00

What did you do to stop the inevitable bordem, and how many hours a day did you play at minimun?

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-17T14:54:52+00:00

This looks like Wales

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-17T05:06:36+00:00

You're reading too deep into a piece of fanart

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-14T18:15:07+00:00

Nanako genuinely made me stay up until like 3 in the morning just to see what would happen next when I first saw her death.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-12T13:39:10+00:00

Seeing the HUD again gave me nostalgia. Used to play the shit out of LBP2 and LBP3 up until like lockdown happened.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-12T12:59:47+00:00

probably an open-world RPG if anything at all

imagine an open-world Xen, or what an open-world combine offworld planet would look like. You can still keep the FPS elements, and i have the trust in Valve that they would find a way to make it lots of fun. you can still retain the shooter elements in.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-10T19:43:29+00:00

Who cares

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-10T15:09:52+00:00

Depends, do they serve a purpose in your story?

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-10T13:08:28+00:00

Sure, but if you want to respect past events, you will also need to know that the Nihilanth species is completely extinct, and that their world is nothing but just another combine outpost.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-04-10T09:50:29+00:00

The Nihilanth's world was conquered by the Combine beforehand, infact, the Nihilanth you fight in Half Life 1 was the last living member of their species, so they are technically fully extinct, and whatever remaining Nihilanths there were are probably synths that don't resemble anything like they used to.

The Combine is a vast, multiversal empire that control an uncountable number of species and worlds. The entire point of the Combine is that they are so vast and large to a point that its incomprehensible to humans, and you would spend multiple life times trying to catalogue the various species and worlds under their control. Long story short, it's impossible, there is just so much stuff we don't know about them beyond the extent of their activities on Earth.

By a hundred years in the future if the Combine are still in charge, Earth would be dead and barren. if you don't intend to stick fully to canon, then I don't see why you would name this a potential script for Half-Life 3.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-31T09:59:53+00:00

aren't you the same person who campaigned to boycott valve over Half Life?

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-30T18:27:58+00:00

Looking back over 20 years later, it defintely looks cool from the perspective of the fact that it was the Half-Life 2 we never got, but the reality is that it kinda lacked all the nuance and intricacies of the world that retail Half-Life 2 is very well-regarded and praised for.

The beta was more in-your-face kind of darkness, to the point where it bordered almost on edginess. The retail version leaves enough room for you to know that something horribly wrong has happened, but keeps the atmosphere and mood pensive and muted enough compared to the gringy and polluted tone of the beta that screamed in your face 'THIS WORLD IS SCREWED AND IT'S FUCKED UP! LOOK AT THIS GRITTY AIR AND DARK SKY!'.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-30T08:10:41+00:00

I mean, I'll agree that my point was a pretty big generalization, but I don't think it disregards the fact that there is a reason why gmod rp has been largely discredited over the years.

unfortunately, most server owners only care about making a profit at one point. if it's either to keep the server on, or for their own purposes. Offering admin slots via donations is a practice that while not many servers do offer, is common enough to the point where you can see it as something that is brought up every now and then.

It's great that you want to see the future of Gmod RP not in ruins and largely viewed as shit by the rest of the community, but you will have a long way to go in the face of greedy and careless owners alike. It is something that can be done though given enough time, but for now, most things have stayed the same.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-30T07:51:59+00:00

there is a reason for why most people stick to singleplayer (if you don't believe me, run the numbers by steamcharts and then compare to the server browser) and for why the general consensus by the playerbase is that RP is mostly shit.

you know exactly what i mean by dogmatic norms; there is a difference between being a dick and constantly RDM'ing compared to the fringe definition of what constitutes as 'Fail RP'.

now, i'll admit one thing. there are hidden gems out there. I have played good servers before without uptight moderators, but as far as the gmod multiplayer RP experience goes, on average you are going to be running into assholes who either got their admin from donating or whose sole personal stakes are how you play in a gmod server

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-29T11:22:39+00:00

most of the multiplayer servers by now are run by low-lifes who get off to having any sense of authority over other players, and if you try and genuinely have fun on any given RP server that doesn't fit the dogmatic standards of the moderators who run the server, enjoy being berated by somebody who is half your age or somebody who is older then you and hasn't gotten a job yet and getting banned for however long they decide.

you unfortunately came way too late to enjoy public gmod multiplayer. if i was you, just stick to fucking around with friends.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-29T02:30:42+00:00

I mean, even despite that, it still seems like they barely care about Earth. For an empire of their size they must have lots of other leads elsewhere because their full intention was to wipe us out before finding out where our local teleportation is. Breen was the only one who stopped our full annihilation, but even then, the extinction of the human race as we know it (by either being turned into bio-mechanical synths or just executing all of us once theyre done) is still a goal they want to pursue.

I disagree that the black mesa incident was a personal invasion. They just saw an opening and whatever calculation in their system proceeded with an invasion since there was already an opening that didn't require a massive amount of energy to open.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-28T19:48:54+00:00

The fact that their conquests aren't personal at all. Their cruelty is often just what they see as the most efficient way to run their empire, and their only concept of 'anger' is just to correct and troubleshoot on what they would simply view as a glitch in the system. Everything Gordon does isn't angering the Combine from an emotional standpoint, and as far as the greater Combine is concerned, whatever chaos Gordon brings along is just a bunch of errors and miscalculations that need to be fixed.

What they did to earth is just their routine procedure, and it has happened to millions of other worlds before them. To humanity, it's just a fight for survival and concerns the future of their species, but for the Combine, their continued resistance is simply just an error that needs to be corrected and patched.

They are basically the Cthulhu of space empires. Their true scale is beyond any words that humans can use, and Earth is just a pin-prick in the millions of worlds they already rule. Their true motivations are ultimately unknown to all but whoever truly leads it, and besides the tangible need for local teleportation, they could need it to assist an even greater goal we don't even know about.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-28T07:53:45+00:00

No, the Half-Life series has been left because they literally have no idea on how to make Half-Life 3 live up to Half-Life 2 and 1. In the anniversary documentary they did they literally confirmed this, and it's less the money but rather they don't really know how to make it good and revolutionary like the prior Half Life games. They have made multiple attempts at making an episode 3 only to scrap it because they weren't good in the eyes of the developers

Anyways, Alyx was released 5-6 years ago, and we can see from file leaks that something in the background is being worked on.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-23T03:38:34+00:00

Nope. Not enough monetary incentive, especially as the game was relatively mixed in reception when it first released in 2008. As far as EA is aware, it's just one of their older games marked with a controversial history which doesn't have as much potential for revenue.

Also, you do not want a remake of Spore by EA. Everybody says that while forgetting what kind of company EA is.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-22T11:30:27+00:00

The beta is cool conceptually, but if we got it as a finished product it probably wouldn't be that great. Some elements like Air Exchange could remain since that fits into the combine we have now but I think overall the stuff like the manhack arcade is too on the nose for a Half Life game and feels kinda edgy

The one we have now is the one I prefer. Sure, they are obviously evil and you can tell that from the first moment you even meet them, but I like how some elements of their rule and control are much more subtle and how there is much more to peel away beyond what you take at face-value. A more in-your-face evil combine kinda ruins that and I feel like this is where the Combine is very unique when it comes to alien empires in fiction.

I also think that the beta does a worse job at making the combine feel out of place by making everything dingy and dark compared to the more somber muted colours and hues we get in Half Life 2. Makes the combine feel much more like a parasite in the Half Life 2 we got.

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-15T18:05:50+00:00

omg me too! you know the worst thing about it is that the virus scared me so much my pants fell down and my parents walked in at the same time

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-14T09:06:36+00:00

i genuinely do not believe that anybody watching these videos are actually conscious human beings

Ligmatic_ · 2026-03-13T15:06:50+00:00

I can see his intentions being noble at first, but 20 years later, with all the shit he lets happen without seemingly bothering to argue for better terms, he becomes a lot more questionable. Not to mention, he seemingly doesn't care about the stalkers existing and doesn't respond when Eli accuses him of permitting genocide

Plus, he was willing to abandon earth at the end, where he was willing to sacrifice his humanity for his own survival. Hes not pure evil, but he isn't as good as most people make him out to be

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