Talk:Developer commentary/Half-Life 2

Community commentary

Should we also included the 2015 fan commentary? have a transscript of the additions from them?

It's from a mod (which doesn't have a page on it at the moment) and most of the commentary is recited Raising the Bar or Overwiki itself, with a few others being somewhat questionable interpretations like Breen having a mental struggle justifying the Combine, or Metrocops being "middle-class". Dev commentary is there to give insight one otherwise couldn't have, firsthand from the developers. The Update's commentary isn't quite that, as it's largely retold and compilative. Personally, I'd say no. Cvoxalury (talk) 02:52, 3 August 2025 (MSK)

Understood, maybe under another category with clear banner however? CrowbareEditor (talk) 23:19, 4 August 2025 (MSK)

(re)ordering

i think this page should, if not MUST be categorized into a level per level section for easy reading. CrowbareEditor (talk) 23:05, 4 August 2025 (MSK)

I also think we should order it Chapter - Speaker - Transcript (also including the name for each section, not shown in subtitles) - Filename. It is rather unwieldy to look at at present. CrowbareEditor (talk)

I was thinking just the other day if all the commentary pages can have a new column added, briefly describing their location (such as: "d1_town_01, starting area" or "d2_coast_03, NLO basement"). Perhaps if it's deemed a good idea it can be combined with sectioning as well, as sectioning would help with navigating from the table of contents and with linking from other articles. Cvoxalury (talk) 23:20, 4 August 2025 (MSK)