What was up with the epileptic zombie in HL...?

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Does anyone remember that guy? I've intended to make this thread for a while now, and now something someone said in one of the other forums reminded me...

The zombie is just sitting there, in the chair, spasming. If you turn the lights on, or the monitor off, or something like that, it stops, and just sits there, inert...

Is it some sort of epileptic reaction to the flickering light? Is he being electrocuted somehow?

Only thing I'm sure of is that the headcrab jumped the guy in that position... why would a zom sit down in front of a computer?
 
Maybe he was playing video games and sitting in front of the computer all day made him a zombie...
 
LOL! There's usualy a group of them at the LAN's on a saturday :p
 
Yeah, it works with football fanatics and football telecasts, too...

My grandmother was able to feed my grandfather cardboard, once...
 
epileptic? no
a little excentric? certainly.

I think he's simply having a little "seisure" in reaction to the lights, not necessarly epileptic. Maybe he has some problems.... :eek:
 
But is it a problem between the flashing lights and the metamorphosis, or is it that the 'crab just chose a bad host?
 
I think the headcrab's job was made easy since the guy was having a seizure and the headcrab jumped him then. The world may never know. I think we should just concentrate on how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop. :cheese:
 
Mikey Canuck said:
I think the headcrab's job was made easy since the guy was having a seizure and the headcrab jumped him then. The world may never know. I think we should just concentrate on how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop. :cheese:
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Or how many blondes it takes to screw in a lightbulb? :LOL:
 
I assumed that the headcrab had recieved a new host, and was "infesting" him..... yeah, I shot him up pretty good...
 
The zombie thinks its a disco strobe light, and so its doing a little jiggle to the none exsistent music
 
*Nods to Six Three*

That was my take on it. Had nothing to do with the flickering monitor. I think the headcrab was just making all the connections from itself to its host's nervous system, hence the spasmic movement as it got accustomed to its new body. It was rewiring nerves and stuff so that it could control it.
 
That guy was probably the 'scariest' portion of half life. I'm surprised they didn't use the strobe effect elsewhere. Strobes probably aren't the best effect to use in a computer game though. Real epilepsy and all that. The screen refreshing 60 to 80 times a second is enough on the eyes and the brain.
 
*Nods back to Darkside55*
*Quick nod to FictiosWill*

I'm glad they didnt spam the strobe! the fact that they new it was cool, but didnt go overboard with it impresses me!

*Nods back to Darkside55*
 
I always figured the scientist's body died during the takeover, in effect killing the zombie/headcrab
 
Im pretty sure it was just the headcrab traking over the hosts nervous system, like six said
 
AzzMan said:
Im pretty sure it was just the headcrab traking over the hosts nervous system, like six said
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Doesn't quite explain why it spasms and stops moving though
 
or maybe the scientific were drunk looking porno in the computer and the headcrab just jump to him and is just killing him and morphing him
 
i think your all looking into it a bit too much, it was probably just a programming glitch in the game ;) ah well, im all for speculation 'theories'
 
Err... no, crushenator, I seriously doubt that. It was too realistic and exact-looking to be a bug...
 
Brian Damage said:
Err... no, crushenator, I seriously doubt that. It was too realistic and exact-looking to be a bug...
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oh, okay then, i guess i shouldn't post without seeing something again then :dork:
 
Well, maybe it was reqiring nerves while the host was having an epileptic fit...

Seriously thought...you actually see a headcrab take over a scientist just a few metres away from that...and he doesn't twitch. Maybe it doesn't twitch till later stages of the transformtion. In fact, don't you see a headcrab take over someone in OpFor? And it happens VERY quickly. I always asuumed it was epileptic anyway...
 
I've got the answer:
it looked cool and scary.

Done.
 
the headcrab didn't realize until too late that the engine that it was in didn't allow scientists to get out of chairs or for the chairs to move, so when it treid to get up all that happened was it shook.
 
Maybe we all live in like, a really advanced game engine man....

It was just a cool effect and was meant to illustrate part of the transformation to a zombie.
 
I doubt Vlave thought of any particular reason for that. It was just a cool effect, like the other guys said.

This is like arguing if one of the teletubbies was gay, or if barbie had fake breasts
 
Barbie do have fake breast and ALL the teletubbies are gay,

The host might have looked at some porn and then he got headcrapped and then the headcrap thinks "hey thoose earth girls are pretty hot" and then he jerks it off.

I just shoot the freaking zombie a couple of times then smashed it with the crowbar and went on with the game.
 
Heres a question.Why was the screen flashing like that in the first place?
 
Maybe it was hooked up to that server in the control room that tipped over and exploded? So it shorted out, I guess.
 
Darkside55 said:
Maybe it was hooked up to that server in the control room that tipped over and exploded? So it shorted out, I guess.
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Lol christ you guys sure like to make up stories.

It looked cool and it was clever to do. Nothing else to it.
And I'm almost positive the reason the zombies stopped 'shaking', had something to do with the 10 glock bullets you put in its brain.
 
Heh, that just got me thinking...if headcrabs could be stopped with flashing lights, scientists could just make Gordon an "Epilepsy Gun." Guaranteed to instantly send headcrabs, combine soldiers, and the occasional unfortunate bystander into convulsing, spasmodic fits!
 
Like a little TV screen at the end of a gun, and when you press the trigger it blinks. :p

It might even show that one webpage on the internet, "Japanese Seizure Robots."
 
I think the only victim of the strobe gun would be my eyesight. : )

Also, I'm pretty sure that there was at least one part of HL1 that featured a healthy zombie walking through strobe lighting, to no ill effect.

I'd bet that the seizures were just part of the takeover process.
 
hmm, that's simply a scientist who got pwned by a headcrab and that was muting into a zombie...

So he was muting...
 
how come in HL when a headcrab got you... it didn't stick on?
 
Glo-Boy said:
how come in HL when a headcrab got you... it didn't stick on?
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Gordon had the good sense to wear his helmet.

But in the spirit of this thread... Gordon being related to the gman, who was an alien, made his neural physiology incompatible with the headcrabs mutation process, meaning the headcrab could not forcibly control his central nervous system because of the interference from the massive plot hole. That, coupled with the intense stream of technobabblion particles emitted from the technobabblion emmision ports on Gordons hazard suit reconstituted the deoxribose nucleaic acid contained in the headcrabs cerebral cortex.

OK, I got carried away. A prise for anyone who figues out what I was saying!
 
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