Ah yes, the joy of playing a whole series 16 years after it's last installment. You might say "heh what about Half Life: Alyx" well unless Gabe Newell wants to generously chuck a VR headset onto my box braided head, I might as well not entertain its existence (in all seriousness it will be the first thing I play whenever I get my hands on one). But to get back on track, I do feel the pain that many others felt in the years following Half Life: Episode 2. To have such great expansions from what was already a Steller sequel is a blast. Both introducing new enemies and mechanics, as well as playing around with the tools we've already seen in new and exciting ways. The final boss in the this game feels like a forest fires worth of problems, and it's thrilling trying to put all of them out in time. So to have all that and a cliff hanger that is less than chipper, it's kind of disheartening to not have a proper conclusion to the story. But who knows, Alyx looks great from what I've seen, and with the ever-increasing growth of technology we could one day see a proper follow up to this story. Let's just hope Freeman doesn't find himself in another statis void.