Bored on Friday? Counting down the hours until you’re out of the office? Check this out then. If you somehow haven’t heard of this amazing web series get your ass over to Accursed Farms and peep Ross Scott’s “Freeman’s Mind”. Anyone familiar with the Half Life series will enjoy the hell out of this. Ross takes us inside the head of protagonist Gordon Freeman and gives sound to the silent sentinel. He addresses the absurdities within the game and more while taking us on a nostalgic trip through Black Mesa. The 28 episodes each clock in at 10 minutes or less so they’re easily viewed a couple at a time.
Maybe's he's cancelling it in favor of another theme party...
Admittedly it’s a bit strange that Valve decided to cancel their Portal E3 Event a week or two before the festivities but it certainly is an attention getter. Valve is no stranger to getting attention though, made clear by the clever “blue screen incident” from the GDC Awards. So one has to wonder what Valve has up their sleeves. Speculation is abound and gamers seem to be getting their hopes up about the possibility of an announcement on Half Life 2: Episode 3 – a game that has been highly anticipated, long awaited, and in Valve Time Hell. Fans are even speculating and hoping to the point of making screen mockups.
Other fans have been making jokes regarding the possibilities of Left 4 Dead 3 which Gabe himself has had a good sense of humor about to say the least. When one fan suggested Gabe would need protection if they announced Left 4 Dead 3, his response was “Uh… how about Left 4 Dead 2: Episode 1?”
Another possibility up for consideration is The Orange Box 2 – a follow up to the extremely popular Orange Box which contained the original Portal along with the debut of Team Fortress 2 and more. This would certainly be exciting but how would they roll it out? With all of the content updates for TF2 over the years it’s unlikely that would find a home in an Orange Box Sequel. Our guess is that IF Valve announced this we’d probably see Portal 2, Half Life 2 Episode 3, and maybe a few other surprises. It’s unlikely though because we can’t imagine any other material they would package with those two at the moment. Left 4 Dead 3 would be too big of a game to stick in with the others and given the success of the series, Valve would probably want to market that on it’s own. As far as we’re concerned, all of this is really up in the air.
Valve surely has no intention of disappointing us and everyone is certainly talking about what might be in store for us. Even if it isn’t the long awaited HL2:E3 (E3!? COULD IT BE?) – we know they will deliver and mostly likely in an exciting way. One still has to wonder what is taking so goddamn long with HL2 Episode 3…
Of course, this adventure MIGHT have something do with all of the delays…
According to Joystiq Fox will be airing a 30 minute machinima film using the game alone to produce all visuals. An interesting move from both Fox and Rockstar.
The whole things seems kind of strange, honestly – but I guess no gimmick is beyond FOX. I’m not opposed to machinima or anything. The long running “Gordon Freeman’s Mind” series is an absolutely hilarious series that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. It’s just out of left field since machinima on TV is nonexistent outside of awful gamestop commercials about trading in used games.
Curiously one has to wonder where this falls in Ebert’s tirades on games as art. The merging of media and mainstream appeal of games these days has often led to horrible abominations of games to movies, movies to games, and now possibly games literally as movies. Arien previously mentioned the Heavy Rain movie in the works. The idea of translating a game that was meant to be an emotional movie like experience into a straight up movie is kind of sketchy. It’s only a matter of time before the likes of Uwe Boll turns the 8-bit Human Centipede game into a movie bringing this horrible media frankenstein full circle creating the first movie based on a game base on a movie.
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