

All their games are tests for different technologies or business models. In hindsight, Gabe has never cared about the story of Half-Life. He just happened to have hired a good writer for HL1 and HL2 by accident. It’s why I’m more interested in the fanon then the canon at this point. Half-Life: Echoes and Entropy: Zero are criminally underplayed.
I would like to know how Marc Laidlaw was going to end the story. Well, we have Epistle Three, but it’s not the same as if he had stayed on board. Entropy: Zero Two is staying closer to what Marc Laidlaw’s laid out in Epistle Three then anything Alyx decided to do.
Hell, I’ve become disinterested in the Halo franchise because of the revolving door of writers constantly throwing out the previous team’s ideas. The moment new writers come in, the line between canon and fanon starts blurring.