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I strongly doubt that the conflict in HL1 was the result of a misunderstanding or a panic attack. The Nihilanth tells you that he and his race ARE slaves. They wouldn't still be slaves if they had managed to get away from the Combine.

The thing that just doesn't fit for me with the whole safe haven idea is the fact that Xen is ATTACKING Earth in HL1. If Nihilanth and the Vorts had already escaped from the Combine, why are they hostile? Nihilanth is the cause of the Vortigaunt rampage, and you acknowledge that the Combine made...

I haven't taken a close enough look at the Controller model, but reading on Wikipedia it seems that people notice some mechanical parts inside their heads. That stitch job on the Nihilanth reminds me of that of the Stalkers. I'm very sure that the Combine was responsible for both. Just because...

Yes, the Nihilanth is part mechanical. So are the Controllers. Want to know who is responsible? The Combine. The Alien Controllers are card-carrying members of Overwatch. I'm going to have to put my foot down and say that Xen as a safe-haven is a bogus theory. Doug Lombardi said something, and...

I can't find the GMan in any of them, and in ones with answers, the answer doesn't look like the GMan anymore since it's been shrunk and fuzzed up.

I've always assumed that the humanoid Xen aliens were different castes of the same species since they all have that extra arm protruding from their chest. Vorts are indeed hive-minded. I didn't make that up; it comes straight out of the Prima Official Game Guide, bearing credence to the caste...

If weapons are important to you, HL1 has a much wider and varied assortment of weapons than HL2 has.

I think the Nihilanth is a slave, and the Combine uses Nihilanth's natural control over hive minded vortigaunts to indirectly enslave those too. Nihilanth is like the Dr. Breen of the Vortigaunts. Breen is a slave too, whether he realizes it or not.

Oh, the Vortigaunt race are the Combine's slaves at the time. The Vortigaunts are like colonial insects, in that they have workers (regular Vortigaunts like you see in HL2), soldiers (the big ones with the hive gun), drones (the flying Vortigaunts with the big heads), and a queen (Nihilanth). If...

That's the device I was talking about. I should have been more clear, I wasn't talking about the thing you had to find a battery for and power up. Barney has to "fix" the machine on Xen by realigning it and hitting a button or something.

What makes Half-Life so great is it's method of storytelling where the facts are never laid right out in the open for you, but the game gives enough clues for you to piece together the facts through exploration, attention to detail, and mental pondering and sharing ideas with others. Think...

Yeah, I think that device you had to fix as Barney is the "slingshot" mechanism. When you make the teleport, you kind of move into that device, and it kicks you back to the world you came from, like you are bouncing back, just like a slingshot.

One thing to note about Xen is it's importance in teleport technology. What I'm about to explain is what I pieced together mainly from what the scientists tell Barney in Blue Shift. In a normal teleport, an object can only be moved from one universe to another, and not to another location in...

You did leave the crowbar at Black Mesa.... your first one, that is. In the chapter "Apprehension", you got ambushed by soldiers in that room, and you lost all of your weapons. Your crowbar was probably laying on the floor in that room, and Barney probably went in there looking for you and...

I personally hope that this time the Vortigaunts will make themselves useful in combat. I want to see more of the resistance squad action, but this time with Vortigaunts mixed in instead of just humans.

Are you saying that there is no point in putting something in the game if you can't kill it? The purpose of Stalkers should be to remind the player of the level of evil the Combine represents.

The impression that I get is that humans are shipped to facilities like the one you start the game in. They get treated harshly, and are given poor meals. They are encouraged to become Civil Protection in return for better conditions. Civil Protection are simply traitorous humans in a suit. This...

A lot of us seem to believe that Breen will have lost favor with the Combine, but I'm starting to think that the Overwatch Soldiers could lose the Combine's favor as well. My rationale is from a particular Breencast in Nova Prospekt, in which Breen is addressing the "trans-human arm", suggesting...

Are you trying to say bio-mechanical? It's some creature with a lot of legs that have thrusters attached and a thing to carry people around in. I imagine that the dropship being a living creature, it would gracefully make complicated maneuvers just by thinking about them. I don't think it is...

Hmm, after listening to it closer I agree it says "are they" and not "is he". It's a little hard to make out I guess. I think the dropship could get down there comfortably if some of the platforms fell out of the way first. It'd be a tight maneuver but I can see it happening.