>Erm... crowbar? Vents? I'm a scientist, not an HVAC repair man! >Are these *gulp* aliens? What the triple heck is going on? >*kills a headcrab* >*looks at crowbar* >Holy shrimp I frickin LOVE this thing!!
I'm a big Half-Life fan, but how so if Gordon Freeman is a silent protagonist? Would the story be narrated by Gordon's inner voice? Would the story follow another character and Gordon is a side character?
You gotta make changes on that front. Have Gordon go from silent protagonist (which does not imply that he was ever mute in-universe) to a protagonist who speaks only when necesary. Inner monologues could work for fleshing out his personality. Much like how I think a Portal movie shouldn't vehemently follow Portal's gameplay (as it would be uninteresting to watch (Just adapt Rattmann and add to it)), A Half-Life adaptation (preferably a mini-series format) shpuldn't strictly be focused on Gordon alone, but on the characters he meets along the way.
not always. I watched The Young Poisoner's Handbook the other day and it worked well, also reminded me of Dexter. it makes sense for main characters with little opportunity for verbal exposition of themselves
I think a mute or very quiet Gordon could work. You'd need to characterize him through facial expressions, body language and problem solving. It could work.
A series might be better showing the resistance with Eli, Kleiner, Alyx, and Barney as the focus characters >Oh no Eli, the combine have instituted white supremacy and patriarchy. >Yes, Izzy, we are truly living Half a Life. >*Both turn to look at camera*
? Please explain. Half-Life is 95% combat with a few people talking to you now and then, and you can even kill them if you want. And the only cutscene in the game is like 15 seconds long where the marines are carrying your body to the compactor.
>And the only cutscene in the game is like 15 seconds long where the marines are carrying your body to the compactor.
not true. citadel. regardless, although you're technically in charge the rest of the time, there are a lot of setpieces where you have to wait for npc's to stop talking already so you can finally move on
>Half Life would translate very well onto the big screen I reckon
homie the protagonist is mute; it'd be pretty advant guard of them to make a half life movie and have Gordon be a mute protagonist, but it'd never ever happen in a million years. Americans need constant stimulation or else to them, the movie is too boring. A main character that isn't constantly cracking quips and dropping references to movies and TV shows from my heckin childhood? Ugh, that's not bussin fr fr.
Also, I hate to be that guy, but I'm pretty sure they aren't looking to make too many movies these days about a competent, intelligent, brave white scientist with a masters from MIT. You just know they'd emasculate the dogshit outta him, and Alex would be a 100% dark as midnight jungle African who makes Gordon look incompetent and all that, despite already being a mulatto. Yes, even half black isn't enough for them anymore; the blacker the better.
A Half Life movie with a mute Gordon shot entirely in 1st person perspective, and like the games it has 0 cut scenes that happen outside of player/Gordon's view, done by a competent director who's a fan of the series? Maybe it'd be cool. But that'll never happen.
>I read somewhere that what goes on your mind is what Gordon says
So you're telling me when Alex pushes her firm, plump, mutt ass past Gordon in the 3rd act of HL2 and I thought to myself "GOD DAYUM I'd crush some lemons between those brown cheeks and drink the lemonade with a bendy straw", Gordon actually said that out loud? What a pervert, he's supposed to be the one free man, the leader of the resistance, what the frick??
It could easily work if Gordon only spoke when necessary, it's not like he's canonically a mute in the games. And Valve is not too keen on letting other professionals riff off their work. They were in talks for a Half-Life movie around ten years ago with JJ Abrams directing--which fell through obviously, and we'll never get a show/movie--but if we did, I imagine they'd hold a real tight leash and we'd get something that's at least decent. >A Half Life movie with a mute Gordon shot entirely in 1st person perspective
what a moronic idea, holy shit. Why did I even take the time to reply to this post.
Setting wise sure, but Gordon already does everything in both games, and he'd be a shit movie protagonist. Unless you want to do some lame ass rebel story like Rogue One where they do some generic side quest and one of them is Lazlo because >reference
It's too late for half-life
Zoomers barely gave a shit about HL except for the memes, alphoomers won't even know what HL is. The fans who played these on release are dropping dead like flies
It's fricking over
https://xyvir.medium.com/dreamworks-set-to-adapt-skibidi-toilet-into-feature-length-movie-823810a1995d
Too bad boomer, we're getting a skibidi gyatt the movie
it's a pretty cool sci-fi story >scientists discover potential of portal technology >old missile silo is converted into massive classified research facility of unprecedented scale >stumble upon distant galaxy/dimension harboring alien life rich in exotic material key to teleportation >keep fricking around with it and upping the scale of the research >tear a rift in spacetime and alien life spills into the facility which proceeds to break down spectacularly >military tries to wash it >facility destroyed by supernuke >turns out the aliens are an assortment of creatures some which are telepathically linked slaves fleeing alien supercommunism >they follow them to Earth to integrate humans
Aside from the continuous journey format in the games, I like the story aspect of how there's a permeating conspiracy going on behind the scenes like why the alien invasion happened and whether it's not an accident but by design.
it's pretty clear it was intentionally caused by external forces (G-Man ensuring the delivery and use of the sample that caused the incident) but we're left to wonder how the initial breakthrough in portal tech was achieved. possibly invented by Aperture
Apparently Aperture and Black Mesa's portal tech is completely different. I don't know how Aperture does it, but Black Mesa uses Xen crystals to bounce energy and matter from a point on Earth, over to Xen as a relay point, then back to a different location back on Earth, creating a sort of dimensional ping-pong.
As far as I know, Aperture's portals are just a tear in reality.
The military funded Black Mesa's portals because they felt it was more practical to use earth-based resources than to spend trillions of dollars on moon-rocks. Evidently they didn't think to just put a portal on the moon so they could have an infinite source of moon-rocks, but hey, Portal 2 was stupid.
Half life 1 is excellent but it wouldn't translate well to a non interactive medium
Half life 2 is moronic dog shit and I can't believe people like it and praise any aspect of it. Horrible game, horrible not1984 story and world, floating brain worms, long awful exposition that keeps you from the game, worse ai by a huge margin, floaty shitty guns that ask you to use gimmick weapons instead
nah
The Mist (2007)
Also War of the Worlds or however the Tom Cruise flick was called
Day After The World Was War: Reckoning
The first thing they would do is make Alyx a darkie
I mean, she is half black.
her mom is black
I already pitched my casting for this but we didn't get enough funding
We already know how woke it would be.
>no idris elba
Cast Gary Oldman as Eli and we're good to go.
>Mike Myers as Grigori
Honestly don't know if that would be good or not but I would pay to see him attempt it
Jej
No Asians or trans, that's why it didn't get approved
Alyx should be played by Sochee
they'd make Gordon a quipping redditor
>Erm... crowbar? Vents? I'm a scientist, not an HVAC repair man!
>Are these *gulp* aliens? What the triple heck is going on?
>*kills a headcrab*
>*looks at crowbar*
>Holy shrimp I frickin LOVE this thing!!
I'm a big Half-Life fan, but how so if Gordon Freeman is a silent protagonist? Would the story be narrated by Gordon's inner voice? Would the story follow another character and Gordon is a side character?
You gotta make changes on that front. Have Gordon go from silent protagonist (which does not imply that he was ever mute in-universe) to a protagonist who speaks only when necesary. Inner monologues could work for fleshing out his personality. Much like how I think a Portal movie shouldn't vehemently follow Portal's gameplay (as it would be uninteresting to watch (Just adapt Rattmann and add to it)), A Half-Life adaptation (preferably a mini-series format) shpuldn't strictly be focused on Gordon alone, but on the characters he meets along the way.
Funny how Gordon ingame already does the moronic "battle with no helmet on" thing so loregays couldn't reee at the actor doing that (vide Halo).
Inner monologues are fricking terrible in movies and shows.
not always. I watched The Young Poisoner's Handbook the other day and it worked well, also reminded me of Dexter. it makes sense for main characters with little opportunity for verbal exposition of themselves
though a monologue in a Half-Life movie sounds majorly moronic
I think a mute or very quiet Gordon could work. You'd need to characterize him through facial expressions, body language and problem solving. It could work.
A series might be better showing the resistance with Eli, Kleiner, Alyx, and Barney as the focus characters
>Oh no Eli, the combine have instituted white supremacy and patriarchy.
>Yes, Izzy, we are truly living Half a Life.
>*Both turn to look at camera*
no shit, it's already a movie game
? Please explain. Half-Life is 95% combat with a few people talking to you now and then, and you can even kill them if you want. And the only cutscene in the game is like 15 seconds long where the marines are carrying your body to the compactor.
>And the only cutscene in the game is like 15 seconds long where the marines are carrying your body to the compactor.
not true. citadel. regardless, although you're technically in charge the rest of the time, there are a lot of setpieces where you have to wait for npc's to stop talking already so you can finally move on
even if you include hl2 its still 90+% of actual gameplay
>gordon is a black guy who talks nonstop
film it like Hardcore Henry and include every chapter of the game
>Half Life would translate very well onto the big screen I reckon
homie the protagonist is mute; it'd be pretty advant guard of them to make a half life movie and have Gordon be a mute protagonist, but it'd never ever happen in a million years. Americans need constant stimulation or else to them, the movie is too boring. A main character that isn't constantly cracking quips and dropping references to movies and TV shows from my heckin childhood? Ugh, that's not bussin fr fr.
Also, I hate to be that guy, but I'm pretty sure they aren't looking to make too many movies these days about a competent, intelligent, brave white scientist with a masters from MIT. You just know they'd emasculate the dogshit outta him, and Alex would be a 100% dark as midnight jungle African who makes Gordon look incompetent and all that, despite already being a mulatto. Yes, even half black isn't enough for them anymore; the blacker the better.
A Half Life movie with a mute Gordon shot entirely in 1st person perspective, and like the games it has 0 cut scenes that happen outside of player/Gordon's view, done by a competent director who's a fan of the series? Maybe it'd be cool. But that'll never happen.
he's not mute. I read somewhere that what goes on your mind is what Gordon says.
>I read somewhere that what goes on your mind is what Gordon says
So you're telling me when Alex pushes her firm, plump, mutt ass past Gordon in the 3rd act of HL2 and I thought to myself "GOD DAYUM I'd crush some lemons between those brown cheeks and drink the lemonade with a bendy straw", Gordon actually said that out loud? What a pervert, he's supposed to be the one free man, the leader of the resistance, what the frick??
>advant guard
It could easily work if Gordon only spoke when necessary, it's not like he's canonically a mute in the games. And Valve is not too keen on letting other professionals riff off their work. They were in talks for a Half-Life movie around ten years ago with JJ Abrams directing--which fell through obviously, and we'll never get a show/movie--but if we did, I imagine they'd hold a real tight leash and we'd get something that's at least decent.
>A Half Life movie with a mute Gordon shot entirely in 1st person perspective
what a moronic idea, holy shit. Why did I even take the time to reply to this post.
I agree. The Half-Life parts of Captive State were kino, too bad the rest was utter shit.
>literaly has no story, action or characters
>made for anything
No.
Setting wise sure, but Gordon already does everything in both games, and he'd be a shit movie protagonist. Unless you want to do some lame ass rebel story like Rogue One where they do some generic side quest and one of them is Lazlo because >reference
https://vocaroo.com/12pZuv3xc7t1
It's too late for half-life
Zoomers barely gave a shit about HL except for the memes, alphoomers won't even know what HL is. The fans who played these on release are dropping dead like flies
It's fricking over
https://xyvir.medium.com/dreamworks-set-to-adapt-skibidi-toilet-into-feature-length-movie-823810a1995d
Too bad boomer, we're getting a skibidi gyatt the movie
FULLY
MODELLED
half life is shit
why do people pretend it's a good story?
first game was fun for the cool environments, but everything else is garbage
it's a pretty cool sci-fi story
>scientists discover potential of portal technology
>old missile silo is converted into massive classified research facility of unprecedented scale
>stumble upon distant galaxy/dimension harboring alien life rich in exotic material key to teleportation
>keep fricking around with it and upping the scale of the research
>tear a rift in spacetime and alien life spills into the facility which proceeds to break down spectacularly
>military tries to wash it
>facility destroyed by supernuke
>turns out the aliens are an assortment of creatures some which are telepathically linked slaves fleeing alien supercommunism
>they follow them to Earth to integrate humans
Aside from the continuous journey format in the games, I like the story aspect of how there's a permeating conspiracy going on behind the scenes like why the alien invasion happened and whether it's not an accident but by design.
it's pretty clear it was intentionally caused by external forces (G-Man ensuring the delivery and use of the sample that caused the incident) but we're left to wonder how the initial breakthrough in portal tech was achieved. possibly invented by Aperture
Apparently Aperture and Black Mesa's portal tech is completely different. I don't know how Aperture does it, but Black Mesa uses Xen crystals to bounce energy and matter from a point on Earth, over to Xen as a relay point, then back to a different location back on Earth, creating a sort of dimensional ping-pong.
As far as I know, Aperture's portals are just a tear in reality.
The military funded Black Mesa's portals because they felt it was more practical to use earth-based resources than to spend trillions of dollars on moon-rocks. Evidently they didn't think to just put a portal on the moon so they could have an infinite source of moon-rocks, but hey, Portal 2 was stupid.
>alien supercommunism
it's supercorporatocracy
combine are an interdimensional parasitic corporation gestalt
They're Microsoft
You're not wrong. There's some good short films that do it pretty well.
Not half life but pretty close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eIMafROjyo
I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p7Mz-a5XCw
It's pretty much Die Hard in Area 51 only with aliens and such, it's perfectly doable.
Half life 1 is excellent but it wouldn't translate well to a non interactive medium
Half life 2 is moronic dog shit and I can't believe people like it and praise any aspect of it. Horrible game, horrible not1984 story and world, floating brain worms, long awful exposition that keeps you from the game, worse ai by a huge margin, floaty shitty guns that ask you to use gimmick weapons instead
True kino is Boneworks.
They’ll do some gay shit like have Pedro Pascal as Gordon and make it a commentary on policing in minority communities or something.
A first Half Life movie could be three interwoven stories and follow Gordon Freeman, Barney Calhoun and Adrian Shephard
the scene in Opposing Force where Shephard finally breaks his way into the Lambda core and see Freeman jumping into the Xen portal was kino
Probably, but it'd be best to wait 10 or 15 more years for this and anything else that might be good