Recent content by Fadeaway

I consider the Strider to be more mechanical than biological - something which the synths seem to balance in different proportions. Now if it were unalert and its brains exposed, maybe a Hunter (which leans towards organic rather than machine, as hitting it with a pulse ball shows) could become...

Then you got lucky.

1. Nightfall Beneath a pair of twin moons, one of the many grassy plains of Hawkerf shimmered in the light night breeze. An unnatural one at that. Aside from the freak heavy rain which plagued the Union Core-Border world, rain was lacking. At all times, save for even the slightest...

Easily Half-Life. Not the sequel or any of the Episodes.

Looking back, their earliest excuse makes me laugh: "the AI was too good." As if there's any AI on that scale in Half-Life 2. But seriously, bad coding made it impossible to fight.

Read: it's a floating slug. There's a reason something like the advisors don't choose to fight you directly and that's because they don't take too well to being shot.

A ) Not many people choose to kill their enemy by giving them a cold. B ) It's a floating slug. All that stands between them and being killed from a single bullet is an army. Narvi raises a good point: we know next to nothing about the Combine's true scale: all this tip of the iceberg is...

If it were canon, then surely you would hear about it? Wouldn't there at least be a slight reference to Shephard? Talk of Rosenberg? Even a clipping of some anonymous nuclear explosion in the desert of New Mexico?

They obviously would conquer Earth: for starters, it was too busy fighting on another front. Now compare that to a high-technology humanity armed to the teeth with an orbital defense network. In short, Halo's Earth was much more well equipped to defend themselves against...

Says Valve. Of course there are some references, but nothing more, which is why you don't see or hear about Race X, Corporal Adrian Shepherd, Dr. Rosenberg or a dead Gina in Half-Life 2.

Immortal? Tell that to the Overwatch soldiers we so enjoy massacring in single player. That said, this thread is pointless: nearly everyone has produced the numbers argument out of sheer, blind devotion to this game. On a universe to universe basis, I highly doubt that the Combine would win...

The Westernised version or the good old Japanese Godzilla which can breath atomic fire? The numbers argument is ridiculous and I'm with the using-an-infinite-number-of-chimps-to-take-on-Godzilla argument. Stalingrad during the Second World War proved one thing: manpower means little in the...

He's after some variety in answers, I guess. Still, it would be a better idea to group five or so questions together in one thread.

No one can say for certain. I'd assume that eventually, a corpse host becomes too decomposed / damaged to use and that they abandon it. Ignore what the site says: the gonarch seems to be some other completely different caste or the other gender, much like how most insect societies work, with a...

The Combine would lose in a ground war. Unless you're one of the few who think that Overwatch soldiers were deliberately underpowered so you wouldn't have to waste entire magazines on human enemies like in the first game, then their infantry plainly suck, especially if they can have their...