Half Life Alyx VR - Part 12 - Chapter 11: Point Extraction + hidden scene (Oculus Quest 2 Gameplay)
0Part 12 (last part) of Half Life Alyx VR (Chapter 11: Point Extraction). Playing on the Oculus Quest 2 streamed from the PC via Airlink. Rendered on a GTX 1660.
Inside the Vault, Alyx finds the remains of the building the Combine trapped within the Vault in order to capture their prisoner: however the building appears to defy reality itself, with numerous rooms being oriented differently and the objects within them defying the laws of gravity. Making her way into the main prison, Alyx discovers her gloves can absorb the Vortigaunt energy previously used to power the Vault and uses them to fight off the remaining Combine forces. Inside the Vault she finds a giant cage and frees the individual inside, only to find the prisoner was not Gordon but the mysterious G-Man.
The G-Man offers his services to Alyx in return for her releasing him, but when Alyx asks that he remove the Combine from Earth he turns her down, noting it would be against his employers' wishes. He then shows her a vision of the future: her father's death at the hands of an Advisor in the hangar at White Forest in five years' time. He then rewinds time to just before Eli's death and gives Alyx the chance to save her father. Alyx uses her gloves to destroy the Advisor and free Eli. However, the G-Man explains she has proven herself a worthy successor to Gordon Freeman, whom the G-Man is disappointed with for failing to follow through on his directions. Despite Alyx's pleas to let her go, he places her into stasis.
Gordon wakes up at White Forest base five years later to discover the Advisor dead, Alyx missing, and Eli alive and well. Eli realizes that the “unforeseen consequences” were the G-Man using his death to manipulate Alyx into joining him, and swears revenge. Dog arrives with Gordon's crowbar, which Eli hands to Gordon and declares that they have a lot of work to do.
Interesting stuff :
- The name of this chapter is a play on Point Insertion, the first chapter of Half-Life 2.
- The appearance of Gordon Freeman during the G-Man's interaction with Alyx is the first time in the series since Half-Life: Decay that Gordon has been depicted in-game.
- Alyx's extended interaction with the G-Man is the first time the G-Man has been depicted having an audible conversation with another character in the entire series.
- The decision to rewrite Episode Two's ending nearly 13 years later came about from conversations between the game's writers Erik Wolpaw, Jay Pinkerton, and Sean Vanaman. The challenge of Half-Life: Alyx was that the game risked being low-stakes due to its status as a prequel, so the team questioned what they knew of the G-Man and what he could offer as a reward for freeing him from prison. Wolpaw joked that one version of the game could have ended with the G-Man simply agreeing to get rid of the Combine, snapping his fingers, and ending the entire series without a Half-Life 3. Other endings that were considered include an alternate sequence where the G-Man guided Alyx through a series of red doors which depicted familiar environments from the Half-Life series, or an ending where Alyx stopped Gordon from pushing the Xen crystal into the Anti-Mass Spectrometer in the original Half-Life.
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