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Well i didnt realy know where to put this so move or lock it doesnt fit here.

Ive been replaying Half life2(again) and realy taken my time to examine the enviroments, and just come to think at Klieners lab.
Theres a picture of Gordon there. Oh snap! Why? The discusion about why there where no mirrors in half life was that you whouldnt feel like Gordon seeing yourself looking diferent or someting.
But thats Not realy what held me up, The guy who got his face scratched of, must be Breen, right?

And hell, the guy on the far right looks like Gman! (know its not but still.)

Ive seen that picture before but didnt realy think about the guy missing a head.


Also i fighured outm where half life takes place. Right here in Sweden. I saw a gasmachine or gas pump, in the coast, and it said: Kronor. and: Volym. I couldnt put in the picture of the gaspump becouse the picture was to big.
 

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Wow that's a really nice find mate :thumbs: Don't know how i missed this one. I always like to explore each place where i am now before going into the action, but somehow i missed this cool thing.
Tnx for the pic
 
how is the gas pump proof that hl takes place in sweden? :p

I missed the photo too, thanks. they look kinda short ...
 
Is the gas pump old news too?
And its not old for everyone.

Well the text on the gas pump is in swedish. So thats the proof! :D
 
Yes.
Yes I suppose.
No. There are multiple signs in Russian and I believe Polish as well.
 
they can have been brought by some russians who wanted to feel more at home. I dont think any swed whould bring a gaspump.
 
Rizzo89 said:
they can have been brought by some russians who wanted to feel more at home. I dont think any swed whould bring a gaspump.
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That what I would do. First thing to take with me when an alien race enslaves humanity and I get shipped off to some generic city in a generic country in eastern europe, I'm bringin' the gas pumps and the phone booths. And also, four hundred indentical barrels.
Vegeta: Well, the first time we saw it it was kinda funny, wasn't it?
 
To me, it was more cool and meaningful than funny. HL2 isn't a comedy. And although I know there are some "heheh" eastereggs, I don't think this is one of them. IMO
 
I found most things i think... I heard about some tunnel with some vorts, in route canal, but i never found it :(
 
Rizzo89 said:
Is the gas pump old news too?
And its not old for everyone.

Well the text on the gas pump is in swedish. So thats the proof! :D
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I have a bag that says "New York Pretzels!" on it, am I in New York?

No.
 
Shodan said:
I have a bag that says "New York Pretzels!" on it, am I in New York?

No.
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A gas pump is stationary. Is a hat stationary? No, quite the opposite.
 
Ive seen no good points tjat contradicts what i have said.

(Exept the signs but as i said, they could be brought there by the people. Or the combine, as an evil plan to make people lose themselfs in the streets.)
 
Half life takes place in black mesa, in my state, new mexico. And whos Breen?
 
Dr. Wallace Breen is the administrator of Black Mesa. Come HL2 he surrenders Earth to the Combine and subjects whats left of humanity to an existence of slavery and torture. Great guy all round really.
 
:flame: GRRRRRR Half Life 1 or 2 is no where in fact it is in a computer system like the matrix and it is american and is set is black mesa, city 17 ravenholm and places like that the pump is just a prop :flame: but the photo on the wall has me :rolling: buggad:o i thoght that the face scrached out might have been gordon but i would have to say you are right it is breen i did find the photo kliner (how eva you spell it) uses it to open the eye reader the open the teliport
 
Well Gordon is on the photo.... unless he has a twin brother....
 
Gordon is quite nondescript to me -if he didn't have those glasses, you couldn't even tell it was him. i do believe it's him, but I wonder why they made Gordon look so generic.
 
i know it is gordon we all do so whats the big deal????
 
Oh for Christ's sake. HL2 is NOT set in any specific place, it's not even set in any specific country. There is script and words from multiple languages, architectural features and styles from many different countries, and accents from many different ethnicities. It's an amalgam of European influences and styles, the most specific you can possibly be about C17 is that it's in central or Eastern Europe.
This has been discussed and determined over a year ago. That is why this is not even funny anymore.
 
Well Sweden do have alot of imigrants, and are adapting after it. So if the street signs whould change into multi national ones... i whouldnt be suprised.

Sweden is the most likely place for half life 2. :D
 
Rizzo89 said:
Well Sweden do have alot of imigrants, and are adapting after it. So if the street signs whould change into multi national ones... i whouldnt be suprised.

Sweden is the most likely place for half life 2. :D
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THUD...THUD...THUD...THUD


you know what that is? that's the sound of me banging my head against the wall. I hope you're pleased with yourself.
 
Rizzo89 said:
Well Sweden do have alot of imigrants, and are adapting after it. So if the street signs whould change into multi national ones... i whouldnt be suprised.

Sweden is the most likely place for half life 2. :D
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Be quiet! You're giving our people a bad name!

Read my typing: Half-life 2 is NOT set in Sweden. Now begone!
 
pomegranate said:
Oh for Christ's sake. HL2 is NOT set in any specific place, it's not even set in any specific country. There is script and words from multiple languages, architectural features and styles from many different countries, and accents from many different ethnicities. It's an amalgam of European influences and styles, the most specific you can possibly be about C17 is that it's in central or Eastern Europe.
This has been discussed and determined over a year ago. That is why this is not even funny anymore.
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Rizzo, this guy puts it well, so just drop it

Half-life 2 - Sweeden - No
 
Why are you geting so upset about this? Its just some sepulations.

And form those i draw a conclusion. Half life 2=Sweden.
 
Can you get a hernia in your brain? 'Cos if you can I think I just popped one there.

If I'm getting upset, it's because you're being very thick-headed about this. There is not enough evidence to have C17 being placed in any single real place, and certainly not Sweden. To insist that it's set in Sweden on the basis of what you've pointed out is very dumb indeed. There are lots of bits of evidence as to where C17 could be, but they contradict each other. This means that HL2 = nowhere real. If Valve did have one place in mind, they wouldn't have littered the international styles, script and language about like they did.
 
Sure they whould. Just leave it be. Let me belive whatever i want. You probaly think Gman is gordon and the combine where from xen or something, but i dont flame you.
 
Yeah, good argument. You win. I look so stupid now.

Look, if I proposed silly ideas based upon scraps of evidence, that had already been argued against a year ago, I would expect to be flamed.

Not that I'm even flaming you, in fact.
 
Er I dunno, you're the one moaning about being told you're talking twaddle.
 
I dont think anyone here is trying to say it actually takes place in sweden, their just saying that the Setting is.

The gaspumps are in swedish, and swedish money.
The architecture is a complete replica of sweden! The cars also!
The maps connected looks pretty much like stockholm, with the baltic sea as the coast. And then maybe Gamla Stan as Ravenholm. (also, many towns in sweden ends with -holm, such as the Capital City Stockholm)
The canals are very much like the ones in the area i lived in
Sweden is taking in very much immigrants, so its very multicultural, its getting into a Metropolice. Sweden also uses English, about 90% of swedens people speak english, its in our law to learn in school.

Once again, im not saying that its actually taking place there, but the inspiration and setting is from there. However, there is a very strong proof thats against this theory...if you go up in the citadel and look out on the ground, you will see the map of Manhattan. Some dude took comparison pics of this before. Maybe Valve was to lazy...because they did say that Hl2 takes place in an European Country.

And for you who get angry saying that everyone is stupid because of their theories and speculations...get a grip of yourself. We are not trying to convince or brainwash someone, we are only sharing speculations and theories, not facts....are you so greedy that you want hl2 to take place in your countrey that you wont even think of it being in another? Its not like a contest or fight of which countrey is the best because hl2 takes place in it.....so calm down, its just speculations, you guys have your views, other guys have their views...lets share the views...not kill them!
 
Please re-read what I stated previously, because you seem to have misinterpreted what I pointed out. Hell, I'll write it in big letters and say it slowly, in case it wasn't clear before:
IT. IS. NOT. SET. IN. ANY. SINGLE. COUNTRY.
I don't for a moment believe it is set in my country. That anyone could think that it is set in a specific country after all this time and discussion is what annoys me. The debate is OVER, a long time ago.
 
I never said it was in a country, you must not have read my post that carefully....i even posted evidence that its NOT in a single country.
 
Maybe I can help settle this. HL2 is set in Eastern Europe, Valve chose this location because they wanted to capture the collision between new and old. This would not have been possible had the game been set in the US, for example.

The reason you have found gaspumps that have writing in Swedish (I haven't checked that it is so but I take your word for it), is quite simple. A lot of Swedish material/products such as trains, gas pumps, buses, computers and so on, have been donated to Eastern European countries, and still are today as far as I know.

Sometimes travelling to such countries (give it a try) can be nostalgic, you see buses you haven't seen since you were kid going down the street. Of course, I suspect this will become less common, as many of these of countries have no need for such donations any longer.
 
Ravioli said:
I never said it was in a country, you must not have read my post that carefully....i even posted evidence that its NOT in a single country.
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To say "the setting is" and "it is in Sweden" is the same thing. :eek:
 
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