few questions on HL story

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ok i cant be bothered buying Half life.

Is this basically the story ?

Some scientist (freeman) is trying to escape a factory thats got infested with aliens and he has to escape. The army are sent in to kill the aliens and freeman ?

1. How did the aliens get there ?
2. Why would freeman be set-up (if he was) ?
3. Do all the aliens get destroyed ?
4. Who the hell is the G-man?
 
Originally posted by slicknet
ok i cant be bothered buying Half life.

Is this basically the story ?

Some scientist (freeman) is trying to escape a factory thats got infested with aliens and he has to escape. The army are sent in to kill the aliens and freeman ?

1. How did the aliens get there ?
2. Why would freeman be set-up (if he was) ?
3. Do all the aliens get destroyed ?
4. Who the hell is the G-man?
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Yup, but it's really more of a military complex.
1. As freeman, you are conducting an experiment with some mineral that has something to do with teleportation. Problems occur though, and aliens start warping in. G-Man and the Administrator may be the cause of the accident.
2. No one knows, but it I believe he was tricked into fighting the aliens by making it seem that an invasion was taking place. Because the G-man wanted all the alien's leader dead for some reason.
3. All the aliens that warp in get killed when a nuke blows up the base after Gordon leaves. The aliens on the home planet may have now been taken over by G-man? (Guessing)
4. No one knows, but it seems that he is responsible for all the shenanigans and goings-on.

That said, you should play HL and its expansions. It's got the best and most complex plot of any game i've played.
 
I would recommend you to buy HL and play it yourself. It's an excellent game. Well here's the story just incase you can't buy it or can't bother:

Gordon Freeman is a scientist who works at the Black Mesa Research Facility. It's a huge underground lab-city(in my eyes it's big enough to warrant as a city) that has been expanded from a cold war nuke base.(with some silos still intact) Anyways one day Freeman and some other scientists are conducting some experiment with a strange crystal they got from Xen(an alien world). When Gordon pushes the crystal into a giant laser thingy it creates a rift in time-space that causes aliens from Xen to teleport into the facility and start killing anything they see. Gordon runs into some survivors who tell him to get to the surface and find help. He gets hold of some weapons and fights his way to the surface. There he runs into the military. Shockingly they are at Black Mesa to silence the scientists rather than rescue them and he ends up fighting them. He then runs into another survivor that tells him to get to a section of Black Mesa known as the Lambda Complex. When he gets there(after a very long and rough journey through Black Mesa)he finds a scientist who teleports him to Xen. He kills Gonarch, which is some huge alien spider that gives birth to headcrabs(a type of alien monster). Then he finds the leader of the aliens, Nihilanth, and kills him. Suddenly he's teleported to a train traveling through space where he runs into the G-man. he offers gordon a job and the game ends there.

As for your questions:
1. An experiment created a rift in time-space which teleported the aliens there
2. no idea
3. apparently in Opposing forces(a HL expansion) a nuke that still remains in BM is detonated and destroys everything in and around the facility. We do know that a soldier called Shepard, a small group of scientists led by a security guard, and possibly a few army units safely escaped the facility.
4. You see him at various points during the game. He always carries a suitcase and he's always calm and somehow one step ahead of you at all times.

I'm sure my explanation is ridden with errors and plot holes. I never played Blue Shift and opposing forces. Some of the more hardcore HL fans in this board can give you a much better explanation. HL's story can get complicated at times.
 
Originally posted by Apocalypse89
I would recommend you to buy HL and play it yourself. It's an excellent game. Well here's the story just incase you can't buy it or can't bother:

Gordon Freeman is a scientist who works at the Black Mesa Research Facility. It's a huge underground lab-city(in my eyes it's big enough to warrant as a city) that has been expanded from a cold war nuke base.(with some silos still intact) Anyways one day Freeman and some other scientists are conducting some experiment with a strange crystal they got from Xen(an alien world). When Gordon pushes the crystal into a giant laser thingy it creates a rift in time-space that causes aliens from Xen to teleport into the facility and start killing anything they see. Gordon runs into some survivors who tell him to get to the surface and find help. He gets hold of some weapons and fights his way to the surface. There he runs into the military. Shockingly they are at Black Mesa to silence the scientists rather than rescue them and he ends up fighting them. He then runs into another survivor that tells him to get to a section of Black Mesa known as the Lambda Complex. When he gets there(after a very long and rough journey through Black Mesa)he finds a scientist who teleports him to Xen. He kills Gonarch, which is some huge alien spider that gives birth to headcrabs(a type of alien monster). Then he finds the leader of the aliens, Nihilanth, and kills him. Suddenly he's teleported to a train traveling through space where he runs into the G-man. he offers gordon a job and the game ends there.

As for your questions:
1. An experiment created a rift in time-space which teleported the aliens there
2. no idea
3. apparently in Opposing forces(a HL expansion) a nuke that still remains in BM is detonated and destroys everything in and around the facility. We do know that a soldier called Shepard, a small group of scientists led by a security guard, and possibly a few army units safely escaped the facility.
4. You see him at various points during the game. He always carries a suitcase and he's always calm and somehow one step ahead of you at all times.

I'm sure my explanation is ridden with errors and plot holes. I never played Blue Shift and opposing forces. Some of the more hardcore HL fans in this board can give you a much better explanation. HL's story can get complicated at times.
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So how did they get to Xen for the crystal in the first place ?

I think thats all i need to know.
 
They used more primitive teleportation devices that didn't use the crystals. You saw it in Blue Shift.
 
They were already sending scientists to collect them in Xen long before the incident occured. (In Blue Shift it makes light of that fact that they've been using Xen since Black Mesa was first built, the original labs are so old they've been abandoned.)
 
ok heres my rig,

A7n266-vm mobo with 32megs onboard gf4 graphics.
2400 + CPU
WD 40 gig 8mb cache
256Mb PC2100 RAM

will this be fine for HL with all the blueshift improvements , just unitl i get a decent video card and more ram ?
 
no.

not good enough at all.

you probably wont be able to play it until you get a mutch better GFX card and at least 512mg ram.

try and get a radeon 9600pro only a £100 in scotland

(but thats the Trade price witch im getting it for *im a comp engineer so i get discounts* so its probably £150 in stores.
 
Slicknet, the min CPU requiremens were a P133... I think you'll be just fine.
Play it before you play HL2 though, otherwise it'll be all screwed up.
 
IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED AND BEAT HALF LIFE AT LEAST ONCE, THEN YOU DON'T DESERVE TO PLAY HALF LIFE 2! (in my opinion)
 
Originally posted by HeNdRiX
IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED AND BEAT HALF LIFE AT LEAST ONCE, THEN YOU DON'T DESERVE TO PLAY HALF LIFE 2! (in my opinion)
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stfu
 
Actually it's true. I really recommend you buy HL before you play HL2. I still haven't finished it yet so I won't buy HL2 until I do.

BTW I just finished the "On a rail" chapter in HL1. It turns out that on the way to the lambda complex Gordon launches a sattellite into space that helps the scientists teleport Gordon into Xen.
 
Originally posted by slicknet
So how did they get to Xen for the crystal in the first place ?

I think thats all i need to know.
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First teleporters on Earth constructed at Black Mesa were built without crystals, but could only transport things to Xen, since there is a high concentration of teleport crystals.

They sent up equipment to Xen to counteract this problem, but later they found a new way to teleport things from one point on Earth to another without Xen, so the old lab was shut down, and the Lambda Complex was built as a replacement.

Note: this info was all from Blue Shift.
 
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