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Anyone who says HL2 has a good story just pretends Alyx doesn't exist and ignores Valve progressively making her more of the focus over the episodes until the VR game was just entirely about her.

Ep 3 was literally going to be the final chapter of HL2 but rehashed for space. The Combine are found to be impossibly huge, Freeman blows up the Combine base anyways, Gman leaves him for dead and the Vortigaunts save Freeman. It's clear the writer already had an ending in mind and the episodes totally messed everything up. No wonder they scrapped it with the MCU/Rick and Morty alternate universe ending in HL Alyx that retconned Ep 2's ending.