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We recently got word of a pretty nifty site which goes over the entire Half-Life story (which includes Half-Life 2), If your one of those who didn't understand the story or just, plain confused, take a look.[br][br]
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[br]The site does contain some spoilers, so be sure you have finished to game first.[br]Head on over to the site here.
 
Some of that is a little TOO speculative for my tastes, but it's a good read nonetheless.
 
I highly disagree that the G-Man was the one who set up everything with the Sample. It is made explicit that that was the "Administrator's" wish, and that the Administrator is Dr Breen.
 
Where does this back story about the combine invading Xen and Gordon being 'chosen' by the G-Man (even before the resonance cascade aparently) orginate from? Did Valve release something official about it or is this just someones interpretation?
 
nice read, a lot of interesting ideas.

I hop HL3 won't be the end of this AWsome trilogy
 
Is some of this confirmed with the strategy guide or something?
 
Awesome! This is well done and explains a lot for those tools who keep ignorantly saying, "there was no plot in HL2!"
 
I don't think that the combine was responsible for the invation in HL1, nor that G-man chose the samples.
 
Great read.

Spoiler from article:

"I do not believe that G-Man is Gordon Freeman from the future." Woah.
 
Nice stuff, but i'd rather not believe too much of it, as its based largely on the guy's personal assumptions.
 
rebb said:
Nice stuff, but i'd rather not believe too much of it, as its based largely on the guy's personal assumptions.
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^^

plus a lot of things are ever so slightly wrong. all it seems to do is summarise main things that have been mentioned, and add some opinions/theories. this could still be vastly improved.
eg. I remember reading somewhere (official) there was more than 1 Citadel, this page states that there is only 1, in City 17. Also the years/dates seem a bit weird, I thought it was a bit further forward in the future.
 
I don't know, it's certainly not blind speculation. The Vorts certainly didn't elect Nilhilanth as their leader.

"We have endured these chafing bonds for eons, yet a single moment of further servitude seems intolerable!".

"That sharp spur of hope has not dulled to this day. For once the lesser master lay defeated, we knew the greater must also fall in time. "

And remember, the Nilhilanth too wore shackles, indicating that he had been enslaved by something greater.
 
Well I for one think it's a great start for explaining the story of Half-Life. I'm sure some things will get edited and corrected over time.
 
but thats just personal opinions of that guy and is nothing oficial right?
 
kupoartist said:
I highly disagree that the G-Man was the one who set up everything with the Sample. It is made explicit that that was the "Administrator's" wish, and that the Administrator is Dr Breen.
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And did you not see the G-Man walking around Black Mesa with his Black Mesa briefcase, posing as a high-level employee, and giving orders to scientists that they clearly didn't like or agree with? He was obviously posing as middle management and giving orders under the guise of them being from Breen.
 
Varsity said:
Some of that is a little TOO speculative for my tastes, but it's a good read nonetheless.
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Agreed very much.

Plus, I think the problem is the ending, not the basic ambiguous tidbits of story that are troublesome, just near the end when you expect something to happen it's like valve comes into your house and turns off your computer and says "ok, no more for you".
 
Some interesting theories. I hope the full story will be revealed in Half-Life 3.
 
CriYam said:
Agreed very much.
near the end when you expect something to happen it's like valve comes into your house and turns off your computer and says "ok, no more for you".
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Yup. That's what it felt like to me too. Also felt like there was supposed to be about another 5-10 minutes more until the end of the game.
 
First of all, they begin to replace all the air on Earth with a new type of air, one which the humans can hardly breathe.
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No wonder the combine where gas masks
 
simmo said:
We recently got word of a pretty nifty site which goes over the entire Half-Life story (which includes Half-Life 2), If your one of those who didn't understand the story or just, plain confused, take a look.[br][br]
​
[br]The site does contain some spoilers, so be sure you have finished to game first.[br]Head on over to the site here.
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Very Very kewl, I think I undertand more about HL now than I did before I read this :bounce:
 
kupoartist said:
I highly disagree that the G-Man was the one who set up everything with the Sample. It is made explicit that that was the "Administrator's" wish, and that the Administrator is Dr Breen.
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i think you may be right.. but who knows, that story of events otherwise totally makes the most sense outside of what anyone else thought was going on.

pretty obvious when summarised really, i saw that poster :), very nice ,,one things for sure.. I cant wait to beat the combine round the head again.

and just think... if you were actually gordon in those slow time warps,, it would of seemed like an instant from the end of HL1 to the begining of HL2, so he gets a really long sleep that seems like a second.
 
I swear...that if the G-man is Gordon from the future...I will go to VALVes headquarters and urinate all over their offices...That would be just such a STUPID twist... that i Couldn't help myself...
 
I really wish they'd stop calling all of the Synth the Combine. The Combine (overwatch) is a name for enhanced humans NOTHING MORE. The species behind all this is called the Synth (or so says the stratguide)
 
Seems that he pulled a lot of the "facts" out of his ass, for example: "What did Gordon accomplish? He ended the rule of the Combine on Earth, and struck his second serious blow against the Xenians, showing them that both humans have strength to fight a mighty empire and that the Combine are not all-powerful. Humanity once again is free for the time being." Where the hell did he get that from? For all we know, he didn't even take down the Citadel and I'm sure that it would be easy to replace Breen with another puppet. Second blow against the Xenians? What? Earlier, he said that the "Xenians" were the Vortiguants, and they are Gordon's allies, so what exactly did he strike a blow against? Headcrabs? Also, what's with the timeline? For all we know, the game took place about 10 years after the original, which had no exact date. Way too much speculation labelled as fact.
 
jasonh1234 said:
And did you not see the G-Man walking around Black Mesa with his Black Mesa briefcase, posing as a high-level employee, and giving orders to scientists that they clearly didn't like or agree with? He was obviously posing as middle management and giving orders under the guise of them being from Breen.
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None of that is concrete fact. The whole point of the G-Man is that he's an enigma. It is never said that the G-Man has given anyone orders: I assume that your entire evidence for this hinges on him appearing once behind a glass screen, with his voice muffled. For all we know, he could have been posing as a government man (which he certainly looks like) and telling the scientist in there that he must not go ahead with the experiment. He could be talking about the size of his Wang for all we can actually hear. There is no room for debate on that Breen is the Anomalous Materials Admin. It seems pretty likely that he provided the samples so his "benefactors" could come to earth. The G-Man is unlikely to be Combine. Why would you employ someone to destroy your own Citadel?
 
You can make a rough estimate on the time between HL1 and HL2 by the Vance family portrait in Eli's lab.
 
I think its a awesome read.

I also think that some of the parts between the stories were put togeather as they arnt told for sure. But if you read it, it explains alot of what goes on in HL2 and why the combine are there in the first place, it cant be convinience that the Xen people attack and then the combines turn up. Ithink its been put togeather very well and i think if valve have made a story line in great detail this would be very close!
 
a good read... but

how can we assume the combine took over xen? unless some vort specifically tells you in the game it could be wrong and then the entire story line he put together would be wrong... which could be a problem for people who may take this as fact
 
DeltaBlast said:
I really wish they'd stop calling all of the Synth the Combine. The Combine (overwatch) is a name for enhanced humans NOTHING MORE. The species behind all this is called the Synth (or so says the stratguide)
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The synth are actually just types of biomechanical machines....they include the Strider, Gunship, Mortar Synth & the Crab Synth (check the enemies section).So the synth arent actually a species and arent in charge of anything. The strat guide doesnt say anything about these machines being in charge....sorry.

There are actual Combine aliens who seem to be running the show - you see Breen speaking to one right at the end (the big slug thing - Breens talking about a Host body etc) The strat guide says about this alien 'Behold the true face of the Combine'.
 
thehunter1320 said:
a good read... but

how can we assume the combine took over xen? unless some vort specifically tells you in the game it could be wrong and then the entire story line he put together would be wrong... which could be a problem for people who may take this as fact
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I agree, personally I dont think the Combine are in charge of Xen at all. A couple of things point to this. First is G-Mans speech at the end of HL1....he says how Xen is now under 'our' control...and he sure doesnt work from the Combine.

Second thing is the speech by Dr Mossman about teleportation at Black Mesa East. Xen is the key to teleportation in our universe, however the Combine (who are from another universe according to Mossman) are unable to teleport 'locally' so to speak. Mossman says they are only able to Teleport to and from their universe, (the big teleporter Breen is using at end is to the Combines universe) and have to use local transportation once they're here (thats why they use Drop ships and dont just teleport). The teleporter you use in Nova Prospekt was built by Dr Mossman using Klieners/Vances research.....thats why Breen was so determined to try and get Vance/Kliener to come over to the Combine or kill them - they have knowledge of a technology that would give the resistance a big advantage over the Combine.

Im pretty sure if the Combine controlled Xen, they would be able to teleport around (after all all those portals to Earth/Black Mesa would have been a bit of a giveaway and the Combine would have used em). It is possible the Nilliath was once controlled by the Combine (you hear him saying hes the last , plus about being in slavery at the end), - plus hes been technologically enhanced but I dont think Xen is under or has been under the Combines control at all.
 
shade70 said:
I agree, personally I dont think the Combine are in charge of Xen at all. A couple of things point to this. First is G-Mans speech at the end of HL1....he says how Xen is now under 'our' control...and he sure doesnt work from the Combine.

Second thing is the speech by Dr Mossman about teleportation at Black Mesa East. Xen is the key to teleportation in our universe, however the Combine (who are from another universe according to Mossman) are unable to teleport 'locally' so to speak. Mossman says they are only able to Teleport to and from their universe, (the big teleporter Breen is using at end is to the Combines universe) and have to use local transportation once they're here (thats why they use Drop ships and dont just teleport). The teleporter you use in Nova Prospekt was built by Dr Mossman using Klieners/Vances research.....thats why Breen was so determined to try and get Vance/Kliener to come over to the Combine or kill them - they have knowledge of a technology that would give the resistance a big advantage over the Combine.

Im pretty sure if the Combine controlled Xen, they would be able to teleport around (after all all those portals to Earth/Black Mesa would have been a bit of a giveaway and the Combine would have used em). It is possible the Nilliath was once controlled by the Combine (you hear him saying hes the last , plus about being in slavery at the end), - plus hes been technologically enhanced but I dont think Xen is under or has been under the Combines control at all.
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Xen was probably under Combine control, it's obvious, remember Nihilianth's (probably the xenian equivalent of breen) line: "their slaves, we are their slaves" ? Who else would that refer to? But after the death of nihilianth the border world was fred of Combine occupation, who turned their head toward earth.

Also the synths are just another combine assimilated species, it says so in raising the bar, and Striders are not synths , they are bionic machines.

P.s: Not all the vortigaunts joined the resistance on earth, only the ones who where already on earth, it's what raising the bar says at least.
 
As for the gman speech, when he says "the border world is in our control now" he means you just took control of xen by killing nihilianth, thus freeding it from the universal union.
 
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