Recent content by Bing_Oh

I, personally, still see too much evidence that Xen was under Combine control to out-and-out dismiss the idea. First, let's remember that there are no Combine on Earth, even less then 10 years after the initial invasion. The only actual Combine we see in HL2 is the slug talking to Breen via...

I suspect that Earth would become just another "production" planet for the Combine...providing whatever natural resources might benefit the Univeral Union. Humans might be bred for use on Earth but, somehow, I got the distinct impression that it's easier for the Combine to enslave indiginent...

But we also see biomodification on Xen lifeforms from HL. Vorts had the metallic-green collars and bracelets, Grunts were heavily armored, and and Nilithank was clarly heavily-modified.

I think that The Matrix has already been released. Gordon is not in virtual reality nor is he a divine savior. To make him such would be highly unoriginal. The closest Gordon is to these things is, in literary parlance, a duex ex machina...though, in the context of the story, I doubt that...

I'd say that the Overwatch is any bio-modified military force on any Combine-controlled world. It's just speculation, but it would seem that the Combine's modus opperandi is to use the indiginous population of a conquered world for that world's pacification. This would make a great deal of...

I seem to recall a pic of a development map that showed a Combine headcrab breeding facility where they had the "sac" from a gonarch. While the idea never made the final game, that doesn't rule out the possibility...

With all due respect to everybody who thinks that Adrian Shephard and Race X are the property of Gearbox, I'd have to speculate they you're (probably) wrong. Gearbox was contracted and licensed by Valve (or, more likely, Sierra or Sierra's parent company at the time...Cendant, was it? I'm...

First of all, if you listen to one of Breen's little telescreen speeches during the resistance's uprising, you'll discover that "the Combine" is NOT their real name...it's a derrogitory name given by the resistance. Breen calls them the...Universal Union? That doesn't sound right, but I can't...

Of course, I'm surprised at what is considered "art" by those who claim to define such things anymore. Some games are, without a doubt, art...while some "art" is, without a doubt, garbage with a title.

el·dritch adj. Strange or unearthly; eerie. While I havn't read the Prima Guide, I suspect that they may have meant that he IS an eldritch entity. Clearly, he seems to be strange and eerie.

I'm afraid that I must take issue with this statement. The story in HL was just as linear as the one in HL2. HL provides no alternatives, no choices for the character. Even the ending, which appears to give a choice, is only a smokescreen...the choice between an unknown life and a pointless...

The foo fighters from WW2 is where interest in "alien visitation" and government coverups really started. Fighter and bomber crews over Europe in WW2 saw strange lights in the sky on missions...some supposedly following the aircraft...and named them "foo fighters." Some people thought they were...

No, Groom Lake is still operational. There was a big lawsuit brought against the US Air Force by a group of former employees of Groom Lake when they were diagnosed with some bizarre illnesses that they said were connected to the burning of toxic waste on the base. The Air Force claimed that...

VERY old. That was one of the "clues" dropped by Valve to the fans before release. There are threads in the general forums with passwords and such if you're still interested.

I've always been a BIG military aviation buff, ever since I was a kid. So, just by association, I've had a pretty serious interest in Groom Lake. Given that the F-117, aka the "stealth fighter," was designed and test-flown from Groom Lake in the 1970's, the plans for the B-2 stealth bomber...