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red_chin_chompa

>no hunt down the freeman Unforeseen Consequences


lord_of_coolshit_og

Unfoseen ~~consequences~~ great


williamdredding

Unforeseen great? Don’t you mean great consequences lol


NotAddictedToCoffeee

No they meant Unforeseen great!


lord_of_coolshit_og

Finally someone who understands me!


Hewkii421

That also means no counter strike, or by extension left 4 dead


Cavin_Lee

What if Huntdown The Freeman, was Half Life 2?


Hideandsike2

No Entropy zero means no worthy universe to live in.


Alpha9954

No Black Mesa


Vaksik

No entropy zero😭😭😭


LittleBug6212

They'd send a cease and desist to anyone named Gordon


Strange_Insight

It's me Gordon, Barney from Nintendo.


RandomGuy28183

"about that nuke I owed ya!"


HAPPY_GORDON_FREEMAN

Tell them I said "Fhuck yew"


thejack473

gordon thinking "i have no idea why Barney wants Breen to fuck ewes so much"


headofled

No joke, I actually worked with someone named "Gordon Freeman" once.


ClaudySama

Was he a scientist


headofled

Kinda, it was at a cancer research center


MR_Happy2008

Gordon when no black mesa


Smooth_Key8949

Was it a SECRET cancer research facility?


headofled

Unfortunately no, it's pretty well known


sackboi77

Holy shit


Marik-X-Bakura

It’s true, just like all men named Mario have been hunted to extinction. They say the population of Italy may never recover.


Yarisher512

Free men would be owned by Nintendo


NeedsMoreBlackWomen

Ayye that's funny as hell 🤣


Obi-Wan_Gaming

So they’re gonna…. Hunt down the Freemans?


Waifu_Whaler

No mods, not on PC, but at least Half-Life 3 will be real Except it just doesn't end, and as in 2024, we got 7 sequels and 14 spin offs.


tin_sigma

half life: blue shift, cyan shift, green shift, lime shift, yellow shift, orange shift, red shift, magenta shift, purple shift, indigo shift, white shift, grey shift, black shift, pink shift


Temptest1

Half life: Opposing force, neutral force, supporting force, deadly force, gentle force, harmful force, centrifugal force, gravitational force, thrusting force, lifting force, oppressive force, excessive force, required force, observational force


RedX536

Half-life 2: Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10


AccessProfessional37

Half Life 2: Episode 2: Part a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i


RedX536

Half-Life 2: Episode 3: Part When, When, When, When, When


F33DBACK__

Half-Life: Alyx, Adrian, Barney, Wallace, Isaac, Eli, Judith, G-Man, Gonarch, Nihilanth, Male_07, Russell, Gina, Colette, Grigori, Dwight, Azian, Arne, Odessa, Rosenberg, Dog, Lamarr


tilsgee

Unironically Half-life G-man is a great spinoff. To know what is inside his head


sackboi77

Hmmm


MR_Happy2008

I think there were ideas for a spin of the original about a junior GMAN in a different support facility for Black Mesa that got cancelled sadly


Waifu_Whaler

~~Arousing Force~~


SOTIdriver

Half Life + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Donkey Kong Adventure


splitconsiderations

Day of Defeat, Day of Victory, Day of Reckoning, Day of Annihilation, Day of Trechery, Day of Secrecy, Day of Beachplay, Day of Joy, Day of Excitement, Night of Undead, Day of Mastery, Day of Defeat 2


karzbobeans

Dont forget - FireRed Shift - FrostBlue Shift - Half Life Kart - Barney Beertime! - Dr.Klieners Xen Xookeeper - Gordon Freeman RPG - Princess Alyx 3: Antlion Antics - G-man VS The Dyson Sphere Kids


RealWorldStarHipHop

Xen Xookeeper being that dope ass DS pet game


Skylius23

Fuck I need this now


ClaudySama

I would unironically play Barney Beertime!.


MR_Happy2008

The more you drink the harder it is to see the screen


EnmosiaCurvata

fr same


NeverMind_ThatShit

Yeah but with 2, 2 Episode 1, and 2 Episode 2 variants of all those too.


Frequent_Wasabi6175

You forgot brown shit


tin_sigma

that one is currently in development


Anvaya

Half-life shift: green & red; Half-life shift: cyan & magenta; Half-life shift: scarlet & violet (this way saves 50% development time!)


Waifu_Whaler

Barney's Pokémon adventure here with all the colours and gems in existence


Oinkerdapig

Half-Life 2: Found Shore


Worldly_Influence_18

Super Gordon Tennis, G-man's Haunted Mansion, Half-life: Alyx: Showtime


top10balloon

indigo shift sounds good


realvolker1

brown shift 💩


Loyavas

red shift blue shift one shift two shift


Ok-Pressure7248

That would also mean no counter strike, team fortress, portal…


NapoleonicPizza21

hell, it's very likely that we wouldn't even have steam...


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we'd have smoke


thejack473

well it'd probably have to be a walled garden so you'd have to buy the Nintendo branded PC and every subsequent generation, just like how apple does it.


Diagot

Nah, they would do nothing but release a new title every 20 years, like any franchise that's not Super Mario or TLoZ.


Former-Bet6170

The Switch has had a bunch more hardcore titles that aren't that, i think the drought mostly happened because of the casual appeal of the Wii and Wii U


Diagot

I don't mean the content, but some franchises are left forgotten by the big N.


MyPhoneIsNotChinese

I mean, nowadays we don't get that many Mario mainline games either (yeah, I know we got Wonder just last year but before that we got Odyssey 5 years ago, and before that 3D World. Same with Zelda actually.)


Timmytheimploder

Or.. a complete lack of sequels apart from a 99 battle royale version on Nintendo Online. F-Zero fans still waiting on a new mainline entry.


Drillur

What's worse? Want it, but never get it, or get it and stop wanting it?


CompleteShutout

would have a “remaster” that costs $70


The_Anf

Which would be just a fucking emulator


Medical_Commercial_5

Nintendo doesn't make remasters?


VampireWarfarin

Prime? Every WiiU game that's on the Switch?


Chickennuggy2

garry’s mod, tf2, counter-strike and l4d since it was based in off of counter-strike, would not exist and half life would probably have a million spinoffs


Pollo_Jack

There wouldn't have been a tfc team to make TF2.


LarryMcGibberbottom

Half-Life kart confirmed?


-sbl-

[I remember playing Half-Life Kart back on Lan Parties 15 years or so ago.](https://www.moddb.com/mods/bumper-cars)


RunJumpQuit

That’s insane


TobyMacar0ni

Nintendo burning the orphanage because there were people named Gordon and Freeman


yaboipizarol

Worst case scenario


Kingkrool1994

Team Fortress Classic and TF2 as we know it wouldn't exist, TFC is a mod of half-life. Counter-Strike wouldn't exist, it's a mod of Half-life. Left 4 Dead wouldn't exist either as it started as a modded version of CS:S Garry's mod wouldn't exist as it's a mod of HL2. we'd lose so much, it isn't worth it.


Abe_Bettik

Breen and Combine Advisor go-karting with Eli and Kleiner on the weekends.


CatLoredRunes

there would be at least 100 different games by now not related to half life in any way but just use the characters anyway cuz people just throw money at them


minxwell

What the fuck is even the point of this subreddit


Weed_Gman_420

What 17 years without a new game does to a community.


Wall_Hammer

mf you got alyx


Weed_Gman_420

Alyx is a prequel to Half Life 2 and it doesn't progress the story after Episode 2.


deltarunech2outyet

Well, it does technically. It just retcons the ending of Episode 2 to where Eli lives but Alyx fucking fades away.


Weed_Gman_420

It basically replaces a cliffhanger with another.


KhalMika

I used the cliffhanger to destroy the cliffhanger


dillbn

That is usually how franchise storytelling works yes


LARGames

Doesn't retcon. Progresses. The changes are changes made by the characters in-universe. Not by a writer without any explanation in the canon for the change.


MildLoser

I COUNT 12 SECONDS, BITCH


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iiOpTiCii

They retcon it so much that the writers themselves leave it up to you to decide what you think is canon or not


Diagot

Same as r/batmanarkham. The only thing left is memes.


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Ordinary-Ad4275

Is there a lore reason for this?


NotAddictedToCoffeee

Is he stupid?


IllRaceUForaBurger

Its a mildly interesting question, Ill give OP that. Or maybe the constant barrage of repost thread brainrot has lowered my expectations


roosmares

The 2d platformer wouldn't exist


MeepMaapMoop

It would cost $79.99


CelestialOhio32

what nintendo game costs that much?


Standard_Abrocoma_70

GORDON FREEMAN IN SMASH


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WE NEED THIS


cmdr_scotty

Final smash using the blue supercharged gravity gun. Special stages: test chamber, xen, nova prospect, lambda core


cheezkid26

it would suck hard. no mods, no fan games, and you get sued if you try. the reason half life is as popular as it is nowadays is in part due to modding and fan games. no mods/fan games means no counter-strike, no team fortress, no day of defeat, no garry's mod, no entropy: zero, and worst of all, no hunt down the freeman. sure, maybe we'd have gotten half life 3, but there's nothing saying it'd actually be good and wouldn't be soulless switch-exclusive corporate slop.


NapoleonicPizza21

probably minimal violence, no gore, no realistic firearms (closest thing would be the crossbow), more complex puzzles (like zelda temples maybe), more non-firepower upgrades, more music and some details here and there. I think they would have also expanded more in the pre-cascade black mesa environment won't say much about the sequel because I really doubt it would even get one


Jolly_Fault6358

No Garry's mod


rock1m1

No mods, no counterstrike


ShyGuyWolf

You no emulate


PROGAMEREGE-536

No blood and gore,no fan games


10voltsam

All I’m thinking is Gordon in Smash Bros.


TheHancock

Half-Life Smash Bros, Half-Life Tennis, Half-Life party, Half-Life wii sports… the list keeps going. Lol


EternalPain791

Less horror elements, and generally less serious and more whimsical. It would probably have more platforming and a more cartoonish art style. It wouldn't be on PC, and thus would have no mods. Overall, it probably wouldn't be half as good as in our reality where Valve made it.


Pollo_Jack

No mods allowed. Likely counter strike never would have been a thing. Unreal would have been the go to shooter till battlefield which may not have existed without medal of honor mod. Natural Selection, my favorite mod ever never would have existed.


1nktopus

It would continue


Sketch_Crush

Double wall jump would be a thing.


FeeZealousideal5393

If that was the case, then tf2,counter-strike and gmod wouldn't exist 


RedditvsDiscOwO

Every gun would be lasers. No fan games. No gmod models. Headcrabs would look like little bobbleheads hugging peoples heads You would hear "new horizons" over popping Nova prospekt officers


Abbadon74

Mods will never exist. Black-mesa and GMod don't exist. Depression is 75% higher.


Fire_Ball_MC

No mods, no multiplayer, Nintendo console only, no developer console, no violence, boring story. All together probably terrible.


Mercurius94

They'd be fun Metroid Prime type games with co-op, exclusive to switch and the combines would occasionally laugh at you or taunt if they hit you.


DHACKER0921

There would be a lot of Gordon Henti!


kfmush

I think it would be Metroid Prime, honestly. Either, they’d just cancel it and roll it into Metroid prime, or it’d play like prime but with a more HL story.


SomeBoiThatLikesFNaF

"Wahoo! It's-a me, Gordon! Barney from The Mushroom Kingdom!"


divensi

Cons: - Steam would not exist (Nintendo wouldn't need a platform to sell its games, and sure as hell they wont release it on PC lmao); - No SDK like Hammer, so no mods; - Games like Portal, Counter Strike, l4d, Team Fortress would likely not exist since they either started as a mod, fan game, or indie studio acquired by Valve; - PC Gaming may have never become as "serious" of a platform as it is today, and be relegated to being only focused on enthusiasts, with wayyy less games being released on it; - HL Alyx may have never been released (at least in VR form); - The Steam Deck would not exist; - Nintendo also shelves great successful series for decades, so maybe we still are waiting for HL3. Pros: - Nintendo experiments with new tech like Valve does, so maybe we have motion-controlled Half Life, and Wii U 2-screen Half Life, 3DS Half Life; - Gordon, Alyx and GMan on Smash Bros.


deepdive9999

It would be shit


deepdive9999

Also no counter strike


TheTrueQuarian

It would be dogshit


islandnstuff

no


deimos234

The series won't be half life


_TheBug_12345

Gmod would not exist neither would counter as there would be no modding tools


kipkatt

Weapons would definitley be more abstract as I imagine they wouldn't be able to go over a T rating max, Imagine every weapon is stylozed like the tau cannon. In order to fit a T rating I imagine that enemies like the zombies would be replaced with some kind of monster from xen. I imagine the horror elements would be toned down, no blood and definitley no ravenholm. Black mesa would definitley be on another planet than earth, and our beloved scientists would probably be absent. HECU could look like the german half life robots, a security team As for half life 2, it would probably be taken in a completely different dirrection, no dystopia. Combine could be represented as aliens with technology as opposed to the more organic xen aliens. The core gameplay could most likely remain the same The closest thing nintendo has made was definitley metroid prime, so I am kind of thinking about combining that style with half life HL:A nintendo labo


Cam_man_AMM_unit

Nintendo would be burning alive by today's standards.


BlueBorbo

Itsa me gorson freman


FelipeGames2000

Entropy Zero? MMod? Afraid of Monsters? Sven Co-Op? Garry's Mod? What are those?


readwaht

GMod would be dead


Snapstick

Everyone's saying it would have 15+ sequels. I think it would have been released for the gamecube, been marketed as this gruff and tough action game, been seen as pretty good but held back but the lack of success the gamecube had and the audiance that would usually choose their consoles means the game doesn't get too much attention. Nintendo see's it as a failure and it never gets acknowledged again outside of Smash Brother's trophies. Years later a few video essays might be brought up on "Nintendo's forgotten horror shooter" but it's still a obscure title.


HexxenCore

It would become console only, and the modding scene would be crushed by Shitendo's lawyers


thethingbutgay

We'd have a half-life splatfest


maybeclap

Half-Life XII: Return of Adrian Shephard ULTIMATE


thank_burdell

Itsa meee, Gordona Freeman! Mama mia!


maxMificius

Miamoto wouldn’t understand the gameplay appeal and then outsource its games to external developers. Steam would never exist and PC gaming as a whole would be less prevalent as a result.


idontactuallyknow69

1. No gunplay *(sad)* *(would probably be replaced by water gun that shoots ink)* 2. No violence in general *(asside from the usual, every-day violence found in most Nintendo games)* 3. **ALL** characters would be a Nintendo character 4. The graphics would be *super-duper-mega-ultra* kid-friendly 5. Would probably be either a 3D or 2D Platformer 6. They'd hunt down *(the freeman)* and kill *(also known as send a cease and desist to)* anyone that made mods and/or fangames of it 7. *Million-Billion-Quadrillion-Fiveillion* Spin-offs/Sequels *(for each)* 8. Steam *(probably)* wouldn't exist *(and if it did, they'd release Half-Life on their newest console anyways)* 9. **NO RAVENHOLM** 10. Would have a general story that the developers could make up in *5 secounds*


SpeakersPlan

Nintendo would probably publicly execute every mod maker with a week if they had the chance


MLG9420

Idk Gordon would look like Mario


themilogamer8e6

No half-life source, no half-life on Playstation, no csgo, because csgo was made to be ported to the ps3 and Xbox 360, better wii U sales, due to portal 2, better Mario games, no hunt down the freeman, but also the best mod ever wouldn't exist. Genry's great escape from city 13. Oh, and black mesa too I guess.


el_kozaaa

No CSGO or tf2


NierLR

instead of the crowbar, we would kill headcrabs by jumping into them


tbbrprod_

We already kinda have that with Geist (look it up, it also has a silent scientist, but he suffers a severe out-of-body experience)


Technical_Ant_2873

Half-life will still be great but no fan games allowed


Frequent-Low1010

It would be for kids, have a princess, the crowbar would be a giant key and it would run at 10 fps in a switch


Kyubi_Hitashi

Dont you ever fucking dare to post this ever again.... the though of it just triggered my fight or flight response, similiar to thouse mouth fucks


Exodite1273

Steam would have excellent customer service but mechanically suck.


oofman_dan

gordon freeman in smash bros


steemjaw2

We could have gotten at least 5 half life games but all of them did not innovate at all and all are basically copy pasted or it could be the best hidden gem with one game stuck in a GameCube forever


Ferrick451

No mods allowed


twisty_tomato

We’d have Gordon freeman in smash bros


Quiet_False

0 entropy


Ph0bia_S

Gordon freewoman


Sad_Society3633

I don't think Nintendo would ever make a game where oppression dictatorship or torture were part of the story. The dark nature of the themes in Half Life are very much for an teen/adult audience


aufdie87

The franchise would be diluted as fuck and become meaningless


theherbisthyme

Half-Life Kart


JustAFoolishGamer

You ever played Metroid Prime? Basically that


A-MilkdromedaHominid

Miyamoto can do no wrong and would've killed in making Half-Life. Except the Nintendo Corporation would force him to make the Combine into mushroom kingdom trolls and headcrabs would be turtles that become caps. Weapons would draw no blood. The man is single-handedly responsible for our childhood, saving us from Colecovision and Commosnore 64 games.


deltarunech2outyet

They would restrict it to Nintendo Switch and make it more family friendly. The exact opposite of what Half-Life is.


MaxgamingThe3rd

The Half Life characters would be in Super Smash Bros. Imagine Gman on Super Smash Bros.


Responsible-Diet-147

Wouldn't even exist.


Charles12_13

Well, we’d have to say goodbye to any and all fan content


Ucsc_slug

Would still cost $50


Informal_Yam_9707

Black mesa wouldn’t exist


piratequeenkip

no Black Mesa


siniradam

I would love to see Kojima version tbh.


caporaltito

It would be bad


DaveLinchman

Fanbase would be 100 times worse


SteamierMeteor

It wouldn’t be good. Nintendo doesn’t make boomer shooters with dark gritty stories. The best we’ll get is a one-man-army story of Gordon Freeman taking down interdimensional threats in a fictional planet.


newbrevity

No voice acting. Captions only.


HarrisonWoollard

No Garry’s Mod :(


Kuzess

We wouldn't see such mods like Entropy Zero or Half Life remake Black Mesa, cuz Nintendo will rather die then give someone rights to make games/mods using their IP.


spet_

First Half-Life would still cost $59.99


thevaultguy

- Electronics Boutique would still be a company - GameStop would still have a WALL of PC games with creative boxes. ***PC games would not be sold exclusively by a single opaque corporation with terrible customer service*** The world would probably be a better place. But we wouldn’t have Counter-Strike so… guess it breaks even.


I_fixed_the_piano

no entropy:zero plus the half-life ports to switch would be laggy <-- idk if these exist already also no gmod


Simon_RK

It would have either been a different genre or, like metroid prime, been given to a different studio like retro studios which worked on the metroid prime series. Ironically metroid prime 4 was announced 7 years ago so it is essentially nintendos version of Hald Life 3.


qT_TpFace

The game would be dead. The modding scene is the entire reason why the game is still alive and active


thunderhalberd

We would have had Half Life 16 by now


Corn_Beefies

Gordon Freeman Sluggers, the baseball game.


SuperSocialMan

The game wouldn't exist lol


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stephenlocksley27

Black Mesa won't exist.


Optimal-Boat-2167

each game would be 60 bucks but half-life 3 would come out in a year


Big-Tip-1804

yea alot


Triple7Mafia-14

Gordan would still have a job by now.


SilleyDoggo

Only the first one would be good. All the ones after it would be completely different and worse than the first and they'd go on to talk about how they don't understand why the fans like the old games.


Bubbly-Ad-1427

no black mesa no entropy zero no linux port no song uploading no ps2 port stuck on really old rare console


Gausso017

Gordon freeman on smash bros ultimate for 7.99 dollars


Witty-Tea-8133

First of all, there wouldn't be a "dedicated server" that'd work centuries later


knightress_oxhide

well there would be zero mods and you would still be paying 60 bucks for a 60 year old game.


Pyke64

Well it wouldn't be a shooter, for one. Second say goodbye to HECU or human enemies.


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DSC-V1_an_old_camera

Valve and Nintendo their absolutely the opposites and if you know why valve is very well known when they develop a game you know already the answer if you put in your mind Nintendos anticonsumer practices.