Tundra

This is the one thing that totally bugs me that people overlook: From the moment you're on the train arriving at city 17, through to the sobbing fade-out crying of Episode 2, it is all one entirely linear sequence of events. I played HL2+Ep1+Ep2 straight last xmas. The setting starts in daylight and cycless through at least three nights. No unconcious knock-outs, no fade-outs. Jusat four days of Gordon Freeman machinist illusory events.. When Gaben was speaking on a podcast early this year, the team on "Richochet 2" he said - something to the degree - that the team on it are piecing together the entire narrative fiction of the universe at the then present.

I hope that every facett of the HL universe is mapped to a degree of realism, and that maybe there is a virus prevalent in Vortigaunts that passes over to humans; similar to space mumps in red dwarf. It could also lead to some great incidental non-digetic dialogue. I never saw the vorts and humans socialising, non-combine war related.

thinking outside the box this is entirely possible. start in a scripted paced enviroment, whereby new and old users are familiarised with HL3 mechanics... the linear story leads to an open world enviroment as a playground, similar to Dishonoured which ultimately has a boundary further out of the game enviroment. i would welcome it. linear stories get bogged down sometimes, open world game s you can easily lose interest. also coming back to the same enviroment after doing some remote mission to see subtle real-time changes, *mind boggles*.

Half Life 3 open world... so basically Half life x Far Cry 2?

Hey, same story as most people. im one of the ones who caught on after the kickstarter for Thrity Flights of loving, been loving the whole back catalog. Just got into Far Cry 2, after the first horrible 4 hours im loving every minute!