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'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' (www.pcgamer.com)
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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary by Valve

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I absolutely loved the modern day story. I was so very invested and it still smarts a bit that they lost interest in doing it justice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

The downfall began when Ubisoft abruptly wrote Lucy out of the story after Kristen Bell asked for more money. Then they killed off the literal main character one game later, and nowadays you'd be excused for forgetting Desmond ever even existed given how little the modern day matters to the plot.