Now I never said it had to be about the whole thing. Just saying there's a colorful event about which little is known wherein lies a potential scenario to explore. It doesn't even have to take it to conclusion, but it has the framework for an invasion narrative plus the benefit of not being directly tied to the game…

The key to your dilemma is in the word "rehash." But I've been taken to task for saying that before. I just can't play a Zelda game without crossing a few hundred yards of familiar ground. I've played other adventure games in the same vein without having that experience (Example: Okami), because the mechanics and…

So much recall to Link's Awakening while watching this.

No, I paid attention. Trust me, I paid attention. I've likely been more deeply involved in the Half-Life community than a metric ton of other people on this site, and have discussed every stitch of detail in the games to death.

Oh, ok. I didn't get that you were driving for that at first. I think there's room for a movie in the HL side of the universe. The Seven-Hour War was a global event, there's a large font of possible scenarios to draw on with that alone that could make a good 90-120 minute movie, compared to the rather capsulized…

Okay...okay....now you're possibly on to something, here.

Problem being is time. Dinosaurs and humans exist in the same universe, but not at the same time. Everything seems to suggest the same for Portal/Half-Life. And besides, crossing the stories in a single movie is a horrible idea. Just horrible.

Half-Life movie should absolutely NEVER include Gordon Freeman beyond a cameo photo or brief mention in dialog, if even that.

Key word is "technically." As I mentioned to someone else, that's effectively pointless to mention because of how wildly different the approach to each is.

Which is effectively meaningless to even mention in this discussion, given how wildly different the approaches to writing and characterization are in each.

Not sure Portal is going to work for good movie fodder. Half-Life's universe is a little more rich and provides plenty of vague material to work with and expand that universe, and given Abrams' reasonable sci-fi backing I think he could do that one well.

I had internet all of the time right up until I suddenly didn't. As I lost my entire XBLA library for over 18 months due to a console switch, I view that kind of justification in a different light.

But you probably got the game for $5 in the first place so it washes out.

Given their dogged insistence to keep the paywall for apps when everyone else offers them for free, and their exorbitant 'Games on Demand' prices, I wouldn't count on it.

Yeah, red and gold. Red, then gold.

Online required?

I did not know that trivia about Tecmo Football. Or that Plimpton ad. Thanks for both.

$6?

Shoulda been the robot...

All of this and no mention of Cordyceps fungus.