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New to HL2 and wondering where all the children have gone? What exactly is the Portal storms and 7-hour war? What are those bony/freaky looking things in the Citadel?

Well, think before you post. Hl2 has been out 2 years. And for 2 years these topics, along with countless, countless others have been discussed numerous times. Over the years this forum has become a gold mine for information and details regarding the Half-life universe.

So take a look at past threads (but don't go bumping them), and you might just find more than your looking for.
 
perhaps you can help us by providing some links oh great Samon.

*Bows repeatedly in the direction of the homeland of the great Samon, England*
 
Just go searching through the archives, I'm sure you'll find something interesting :p
 
Why would you promote that evil site Tea? I thought you cared about the HL storyline!
 
Ha ha ha! Sorry, I haven’t been around here for a while! Didn’t have any other link to “promote.”
 
Capitalize the L in "life" or I will unleash the fury of a thousand kittens on you.

Good idea for a topic, though. Just hope that the newbies see it. :/ But still better than nothing.
 
Samon, did you misspell salmon for your name? Or does it have some deeper meaning?

Oh and G-man is Gordon from the future!! I'm going to spread this theory over the internet and once it has spread, I will hunt down and kill everyone who gives it even the slightest thought.
 
Sam-2k said:
Oh and G-man is Gordon from the future!! I'm going to spread this theory over the internet and once it has spread, I will hunt down and kill everyone who gives it even the slightest thought.
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Nay, evildoer. As long as the wise and wonderful 99.vikram is around, no foul speculation shall pass as facts. :sniper:
 
I consider it "cleansing of the intellectually flawed".
 
Sam-2k said:
Samon, did you misspell salmon for your name? Or does it have some deeper meaning?
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It's pronounced 'Say mon'

I need the accent in there though.
 
Don't! Then you won't be High Lord Samon! (character in a book I read)
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Good idea Samon
Like when someone asks who "that man in a blue costume" is and doesn't even know his "name" is G-Man. Such things feels kinda waste actually :P
Hopefully those threads will disappear now
 
I. Agree.

Though skipping that part, it still gives a pretty much viable history.

-- Mikael Grizzly
 
look ALL that up on wikipedia my friends ALL the info is there, and quite accurate, the 7 hour war, the disappearance of children >hypothetically caused by human genocide<
 
Respect the all mighty Wikipedia. Btw did anyone here tought of making a story? I would love to read what teh mighty Samon would put together ;)
 
Yeah Samon... it would be pretty interesting after seeing your story line of
Ep1!!!
 
well im a newbie at this forum, have you ever talked about the valves video shown in the E3 2003??
 
Crimo said:
well im a newbie at this forum, have you ever talked about the valves video shown in the E3 2003??
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Yes, back in 2003. Why would we talk about? This forum is about the plot and the only thing that was cut that is ever (and always) brought up is the Air Exchange.
 
ríomhaire said:
Yes, back in 2003. Why would we talk about? This forum is about the plot and the only thing that was cut that is ever (and always) brought up is the Air Exchange.
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well.. cause looks like nobody remembers the text that appears in that video, where gordon freeman is supposed to be under treatment:
under observation. Galvanic activation with seve...
...cidence of seizure and muscular catatonia, reco...
...titration of 30 ml sample, sustained alpha activit...
...reeman, Gordon: increased activity in neural iso...
...no response. Subject to availability and urgency...
lambda unknown vector at this time. Requirements of
...eyond current threshold for amgydalic suppressi...
...ark energy remnant in the simulation until basa...
...f evaluation despite objections of caretakers give

i havent read in the forum if that theory of gordon freeman allucinating is false or not, i have read a lot of other crazy theories, but not this one... remember the vortiguants say "we see you still in black mesa..." maybe they mean it, well i hope not but....
 
Vortigaunts have the ability to see without time constraints.
 
Crimo said:
well.. cause looks like nobody remembers the text that appears in that video, where gordon freeman is supposed to be under treatment:
under observation. Galvanic activation with seve...
...cidence of seizure and muscular catatonia, reco...
...titration of 30 ml sample, sustained alpha activit...
...reeman, Gordon: increased activity in neural iso...
...no response. Subject to availability and urgency...
lambda unknown vector at this time. Requirements of
...eyond current threshold for amgydalic suppressi...
...ark energy remnant in the simulation until basa...
...f evaluation despite objections of caretakers give

i havent read in the forum if that theory of gordon freeman allucinating is false or not, i have read a lot of other crazy theories, but not this one... remember the vortiguants say "we see you still in black mesa..." maybe they mean it, well i hope not but....
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It has been discussed. I think it has no revelance and Valve just threw it in to get the speculation wheel spinning.
 
susko said:
Respect the all mighty Wikipedia. Btw did anyone here tought of making a story? I would love to read what teh mighty Samon would put together ;)
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What do you mean? Writing it all out?
 
susko said:
Respect the all mighty Wikipedia. Btw did anyone here tought of making a story? I would love to read what teh mighty Samon would put together ;)
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I considered it. The problem with writing out the HL story is that it'd boil down to a vague play-by-play of major events, and by vague I mean very little in the way of descriptive action. This is because everyone did something different at certain parts of the game, and writing out a story one way would be like nullifying what everyone else did.

For example, I defeated the Nihilanth in a pretty ballsy way, destroying his crystals immediately with the tau cannon, unloaded every bit of ammo into him that I had until his head opened up, and guided a rocket straight up, then brought it down right into the "portal" in his head. But I couldn't write about that because few people might've done it that way. I never used the bouncepads, for example; maybe someone beat the Nihilanth in an equally awesome way using the bouncepads and satchel charges. It'd end up being something like, "Then Gordon killed the Nihilanth," and describe his death scene. But that's the most you could do with it, lest someone say, "That's not how it happened in my game!"

And there's also the fact that if you want to know the HL story you ought to just go play it. Reading about it is all well and good, but it's not a substitute for playing it, especially as, like I said, you'd create your own version of the story rather than reading someone else's.
 
Yeah, Half-life definately bases itself around the player and how much effort he puts into involving himself in the world. Two years on I still manage to bump into things, question things and find things I haven't seen before.
 
Thats the beauty of it. E.G I hadn't noticed The Depot was seperate from Nova Prospekt (I though it was part of Nova Prospekt) unntil my 5th playthrough (which was about 4 months ago TBH)
 
Darkside55 said:
I considered it. The problem with writing out the HL story is that it'd boil down to a vague play-by-play of major events, and by vague I mean very little in the way of descriptive action. This is because everyone did something different at certain parts of the game, and writing out a story one way would be like nullifying what everyone else did.

For example, I defeated the Nihilanth in a pretty ballsy way, destroying his crystals immediately with the tau cannon, unloaded every bit of ammo into him that I had until his head opened up, and guided a rocket straight up, then brought it down right into the "portal" in his head. But I couldn't write about that because few people might've done it that way. I never used the bouncepads, for example; maybe someone beat the Nihilanth in an equally awesome way using the bouncepads and satchel charges. It'd end up being something like, "Then Gordon killed the Nihilanth," and describe his death scene. But that's the most you could do with it, lest someone say, "That's not how it happened in my game!"

And there's also the fact that if you want to know the HL story you ought to just go play it. Reading about it is all well and good, but it's not a substitute for playing it, especially as, like I said, you'd create your own version of the story rather than reading someone else's.
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All the speedrunners would be like
"FTW, I never snuck around a tentacle?!"
 
Haha, I would have a blast writing the speedrunner's version of Half-Life.

"Emerging into the control hub of Black Mesa's old transit lines, Gordon witnesses a squad of marines being crispified by a giant, blue Xenian animal, the gargantua. Impervious to bullets, the gargantua easily dispenses the HECU soldiers before turning its sights on Gordon.

But eff fighting that thing; Gordon dashes over to the hastily-constructed barricade of cement half-walls blocking the escape, stacks up some tripmines as impromptu steps, and hops over before the lumbering beast gets close.

Eschewing the use of a train, Gordon Freeman bunnyhops through On a Rail in thirty seconds."
 
Go watch that 1hr. HL speedrun, pretty sure it was done there. It's entirely possible taking only minor, if any, damage.
 
Hi,
Im new to the forum and have been skimming a few threads etc... I have played HL, Opposing Force (which rocks), HL2 and EP1 . Oh and the PS2 2 player co-op mode. Reading this has made me do a bit of a double take, I have more questions than before and im more confused than ever. If anyone could be bothered to do me a favour then try to answer as many of these as you can! Oh and Btw, i read the wiki entry but its not very specific - not about some of these questions anyway. Oh and screenshots if possible! Thankyou!

format = number. = question - = comment!
1. How do we know / why do we think the combine are aliens?
- I would have thought not. Collaboration between lifeforms from Xen would seem a good stratey surely?

2.WTF is "something in the water to make you forget" all about?!?!
-see below
3. Where have the children gone?
- I dont really get where this comes from, is it related to something in the water to make you forget your kids are gone, Is it possible there arent kids in the game so thet you cant shoot them - putting the age rating up?

4. What is the relationship between combine and headcrabs?
- are the two symbotic or are the headcrabs just weapons of the combine?

5. the "free" man?
- WTF is all this stuff about the free man and the glowing eyes etc...

6. How do we know that the combine arent initially benoveloent?
- Well? lol

7. Any info about Gman that is easily missed?
- I have seen him around , y'know , and at teh endings and starts but WTF?!?!?! is he all about? Is he on any particular side in the HL2 conflict?

Thanks guys!
 
1. We know the Combine are aliens because Valve confirmed it. You can read up on it in Raising the Bar, or simply by picking up various details throughout the game. The Combine were a race, not unlike us, who began to grow far too dependant on the technology they had created to improve their life. As time went on, they began to force this technology on other species and as such have became a 'mass' of species, that conquer and devour other forms of life.

You get a glimpse out the true face behind the Combine Empire in HL2 - the Advisor, a large slug like entity that is seen addressing Breen on the monitors.
The Xen life forms were a group that fled from the Combine, and ended up on Xen (none of the creatures in HL1 are native to Xen). In HL1, they have their backs against the wall.


2. Erm...some form of drug, probably. :p


3. It has been 20 years since the Combine occupied Earth, and in that time they have installed a 'suppression device', which stops people from breeding. Breen talks about this on the plaza monitor, and Kleiner refers to it in Episode 1 (by that time, it no longer works due to the destabilization of the Citadel).


4. The Combine use the headcrabs as an efficient way of dealing with resistance members. We have no idea where the headcrabs were from, but that they ultimately found themselves stranded on Xen, and were subsequently teleported to Earth during the portal storms. The Combine now uses them as a weapon - parasite rockets.


5. Gordon Freeman is essentially 'the Freeman', so to speak, because he hasn't been drafted in like the rest of humanity. He's pretty famous after Black Mesa, especially in the Vortigaunts eyes.


6. They started out with developing technology they wanted to use to improve their quality of life.


7. It is entirely possible that the resistance hired Gordon in HL2, and that Gman had hired him out to them. This is hinted at heavily throughout.
 
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