@@Unnamed-vp4rhThat is the case if you take Randy's Humphries' obviously satire tweet about a map he didn't even make seriously, which nobody should do
2:55 Valve confirmed in the 25th anniversary documentary that the reason women weren’t in the game was actually due to technical limitations, not because of controversy.
My guess is the hair physics which would explain why they would have only men, and why almost all of them have short hair that wouldn’t be affected by physics.
It’s incredible to think that until this day we still find news things to say about half-life, this game is really full of mystery I love it great vidéo keep it up!
3:23 the reason why women's scientists didn't even get time for modelling because of space on the game. Also that woman shown there was supposed to be a cut character.
@@lookstothetroon I've seen a lot of random channels lately like this reading into things which are simply not there. They take a popular title like Half-Life, create a 30 minute video essay with nothing of substance and somehow convince their audience that this is true lmao.
Valve: We won't add female scientists to Half-Life to avoid controversy. Running With Scissors: We will add heavily stereotyped NPCs to Postal 2 to gain controversy.
Valve didn’t add any female scientists due to technological restrictions, in half life 2 when you get to kleiners lab, there’s a picture that shows a female scientist.
what does postal has anything to do with half life tho? no shit a game that its whole shtick is shock value and dark humor is gonna do exactly that and a game that its about outer space monsters and aliens taking over the earth is not
I used to believe this too, but with some rewatches of HL2 cutscenes, I think G-Man is probably his own unique alien from Xen and works with a faction that wants Xen for itself. He is way more powerful than the grub things, as they're capable of telepathy and telekinesis, but G-Man literally teleports, alters reality, manipulates fate, and more. Advisors can kind of just fly and lift things. The only thing that counters his magical power so far are the Vortigaunts, and he needed you to defeat the Vorts and the Nihilanth so that he could stroll along and take Xen for his employers. Proof of this is in the Episode 1 cutscene where the Vorts interrupt his session with you, and later (or chronologically before) in Alyx, where Vort magic is taken from captured pods and dumped into his cage in that flying citadel to keep him locked up. When he talks about his employers, there's an inconsistency. In HL1, it's suggested that he caused the alien invasion by nudging the crystal along with the efforts of the scientists, and once the Nihilanth is dead, Xen now belongs to the Combine. Meaning he was probably literally employed by the Combine at that point. Gordon is then put in stasis, where his services go to the highest bidder. In HL2, G-Man unleashes you upon the Combine, and they are enemies, as evidently seen in Alyx where he is captured and locked up, probably because he's too powerful to just let go. In the Heart to Heart cutscene, he talks about Alyx and how he saved her despite the protests of others, and that he learned how to quell certain naysayers. Meaning he can harm or kill certain employers, but not others. Advisors have a clear leadership role in the Combine and are quite fragile despite their powers of telepathy and telekinesis, and G-Man rather easily has you kill one in a vision in Alyx to alter the future, whereas Vortigaunts have no issue stopping the G-Man but are easily enslaved by the Advisors and their minions. Since he is so powerful and it is suggested that he is sought out or quite literally employed by various third parties, I think it's unlikely he's one of the grub people. Advisors are strong and powerful, but not to the level of G-Man. If he was a shu'ulathoi, I imagine other members of his kind would also be powerful to the point of altering realities, and thus would not need to "show up to the battlefield" so to speak. He's probably meant to be something like a Vortigaunt or Nihilanth in his true form, but we just don't know. Maybe he's an organic manifestation of Xen itself.
But isnt the third arm of nihilanth the same as the vortigaunts and the metal attacher is actually cuffs, which would make the slave dialogue a make some sense?
Opposing force and blue shift is added here. Couldn’t get my hands on Decay which is why I decided not to include it. And yes, I will be making a Half-Life 2 iceberg as well. Thanks for the support 👍
Very nice my friend! I started to like your channel since the manhunt iceberg , keep it up with this. Will you make an iceberg for half life 2 and the two episodes?
My schedule is completely messed up so I don’t know when but yes, I do plan on making icebergs on Half-Life 2 and Episode One, Two as well. Hopefully soon. Stay tuned and thanks for the support 👍
In an Interview with Valve News Network, Gabe Newell's son Gray Newell said that the boss was inspired by his birth, saying, "The final boss of Half-Life 1, the giant evil baby monster, is supposed to be me. When my mother was in childbirth they were thinking, 'what's really scary?' And at the time, having a child seemed to be the scariest thing to everyone.” It really isn't that deep.
for the Womens being turned into Headcrab zombies. there was actually a Concept art for both Male and Female of the Black Mesa game. You can search it up and see how the Womens are the same like for the Male mutation Headcrab zombies. but Less Gore when the game released showing only Male Headcrab zombies having more gore and the Female having less gore as a Headcrab female zombie
Back in the day, Valve was also asked "Why no female scientists in HL1" The rep just shrugged and said "They had the day off?" As mentioned, there were female assassins with blackops. But Opposing Force introduces male blackops. It's all just hardware limitations, and the female scientist model featured had her entire story cut.
That is a pretty good reason on why we might not have female scientists. But then again, they could’ve cut anything else and have female scientists in the game.
My personal theory for what headcrabs did in xen, comes from a fanfic actually, the idea being that headcrabs were fungal gardeners, feeding off of the fluid in one of the fungal bulbs and using their beak to control the growth in the rest of the colony. It just so happened that human heads and brains were similar enough in appearance and physiology that headcrabs saw them as food, and could control them
The opening about women not being allowed in video games made me think of silent hill 3 and how that game tackles its enemies with a "weak" female protagonist. I agree with your point tho just wanted to leave you a comment.
3:00 There are no female scientists because of technology restrictions at the time, you show the female scientist model, which was planned for half life, but cut, however, in half life 2, in kleiners lab, we can see a picture of the science team, which includes a female scientist.
I may be late to the party but I have an interesting theory about G man's attempt to detonate the nuclear bomb as seen in Opposing Force! And it connects to Half Life 2's events. We have seen the incredible strength of the Combine throughout the later games, including HL Alyx and their technological superiority. But they do lack capabilities seen by both Xen creatures and Black Mesa research... Portal technology; specifically short-range, same dimension kind. It is possible the Combine were at war with Xen for this reason; to acquire this strength for themselves (why a superior race such as the Combine lack such power? Maybe their world is vastly different from our own, making researching inter-dimensional portals EASIER than spatial ones, maybe Xen crystals are the only element they know which can make such a feat possible?). Since Black Mesa managed to successfully research and develop portal technology (albeit not in the most efficient way...), they may possess information ironically important to the Combine or (if they already know all they need) Xen crystals and direct access to the home-world of their adversaries. Since we know G man is no ally to the Combine (as seen in HL Alyx), the detonation of a place that could give them what they were looking for, seems like a logical decision to prevent them from possibly threatening him and his "employers"... (they managed to capture him as seen in HL Alyx so they CAN be considered a threat, same goes for the Vortigaunts' powers). The way he acts and talks suggests an understanding of the events to come, Combine's arrival too. It would be no surprise for everything happening to be part of his plans.
G-Man is very simple, he is from the future. This is why he is only observing and minorly tweaking events. In his timeline, Gordon and Adrian died and were not known to his world's history. Thanks to his ability to pluck Black Mesa personnel out of time and put them in suspended animation, the Black Mesa incident has yielded a perfect pool of individuals to prove themselves as valuable operatives who can adapt to all alien threats. Furthermore, G-Man's timeline must be one that has freed itself of Combine control and possibly even propelled itself to the top dog position in the universe. This was only possible to do by encountering the Combine, but when and how G-Man's timeline met them could have been at any point and maybe not even had a resonance cascade. Therefore I have to assume G-Man is not only a time traveler shaping events to his employer's liking, but probably not the only time traveler either. He merely needs to twist events and Gordon is a useful pawn to do this who would've otherwise died at Black Mesa.
I agree with your theory, in HL Alex the Gman gives choice to Alix to save her father, and we all know he died so this scene does indeed prove that Gman can manipulate time.
Just so yall know gman set the nuke up to get combine to fight humans as he is related to ninliaths with his powers shepard turned it off but the black ops did it again
Its the other way around, black ops first arms the nuke, shephard fights them and disarms it and then we see G Man arming the bomb again but we cant do nothing much
It’s his name in the files as well, gmen basically just refer to nameless government men. I doubt Gman is actually with the government but any random Black Mesa survivor would think that he’s with the CIA or something
You are right. So, here it is. Icebergs are solid as they are ice but they do tend to melt. Even if it is a small amount. But decay doesn’t really happen as when water melts (when its ice), it just becomes liquid.
Half-Life Decay’s protagonist were female scientists. One of them was the hologram in HL1’s tutorial level.
And one of their Bodies is in an opposing forces xen teleport location
No way
@@Unnamed-vp4rhThat is the case if you take Randy's Humphries' obviously satire tweet about a map he didn't even make seriously, which nobody should do
I believe the hologram is Collette Green, right?
@@SniperOnSunday No. It's Gona Cross.
2:55 Valve confirmed in the 25th anniversary documentary that the reason women weren’t in the game was actually due to technical limitations, not because of controversy.
"Technical limitations" lol
They probably didn't have jiggle physics then
I mean female assassin has animated jiggle.
My guess is the hair physics which would explain why they would have only men, and why almost all of them have short hair that wouldn’t be affected by physics.
Yes but those females are never seen getting taken out by headcrabs
It’s incredible to think that until this day we still find news things to say about half-life, this game is really full of mystery I love it great vidéo keep it up!
Wait a second, but there are women still in half life other than black ops, like Gina and Collete
Yes
3:23 the reason why women's scientists didn't even get time for modelling because of space on the game. Also that woman shown there was supposed to be a cut character.
Goes to show the amount of research put into this video.
@@lookstothetroon yep
@@lookstothetroon I've seen a lot of random channels lately like this reading into things which are simply not there. They take a popular title like Half-Life, create a 30 minute video essay with nothing of substance and somehow convince their audience that this is true lmao.
@@PixzL. You know what's up.
Spoiler alert black mesa is area 51 refrence
Black Mesa does look like Area 51
@@Omega-jg4oq
New mexico desert check
Scifi tech ceck
Alien research che[redacted]
@@denifnaf5874 area 51 is in neveada like the the state that stole a county in californias name
@@Omega-jg4oqyeah black mesa looks like an air strip
@@manny7289Area 51 spans miles and miles and goes underground and into the sides of mountains. It’s more than just an airstrip.
Valve: We won't add female scientists to Half-Life to avoid controversy.
Running With Scissors: We will add heavily stereotyped NPCs to Postal 2 to gain controversy.
Valve didn’t add any female scientists due to technological restrictions, in half life 2 when you get to kleiners lab, there’s a picture that shows a female scientist.
Based RWS
@@SniperOnSunday YOOOOO another furry RWS fan?
what does postal has anything to do with half life tho? no shit a game that its whole shtick is shock value and dark humor is gonna do exactly that and a game that its about outer space monsters and aliens taking over the earth is not
Half-life: Decay
There is a theory that gMan might be a fully hatched/developed shu'ulathoi, and personally I likethis take best
I used to believe this too, but with some rewatches of HL2 cutscenes, I think G-Man is probably his own unique alien from Xen and works with a faction that wants Xen for itself. He is way more powerful than the grub things, as they're capable of telepathy and telekinesis, but G-Man literally teleports, alters reality, manipulates fate, and more. Advisors can kind of just fly and lift things. The only thing that counters his magical power so far are the Vortigaunts, and he needed you to defeat the Vorts and the Nihilanth so that he could stroll along and take Xen for his employers. Proof of this is in the Episode 1 cutscene where the Vorts interrupt his session with you, and later (or chronologically before) in Alyx, where Vort magic is taken from captured pods and dumped into his cage in that flying citadel to keep him locked up.
When he talks about his employers, there's an inconsistency. In HL1, it's suggested that he caused the alien invasion by nudging the crystal along with the efforts of the scientists, and once the Nihilanth is dead, Xen now belongs to the Combine. Meaning he was probably literally employed by the Combine at that point. Gordon is then put in stasis, where his services go to the highest bidder. In HL2, G-Man unleashes you upon the Combine, and they are enemies, as evidently seen in Alyx where he is captured and locked up, probably because he's too powerful to just let go. In the Heart to Heart cutscene, he talks about Alyx and how he saved her despite the protests of others, and that he learned how to quell certain naysayers. Meaning he can harm or kill certain employers, but not others. Advisors have a clear leadership role in the Combine and are quite fragile despite their powers of telepathy and telekinesis, and G-Man rather easily has you kill one in a vision in Alyx to alter the future, whereas Vortigaunts have no issue stopping the G-Man but are easily enslaved by the Advisors and their minions.
Since he is so powerful and it is suggested that he is sought out or quite literally employed by various third parties, I think it's unlikely he's one of the grub people. Advisors are strong and powerful, but not to the level of G-Man. If he was a shu'ulathoi, I imagine other members of his kind would also be powerful to the point of altering realities, and thus would not need to "show up to the battlefield" so to speak. He's probably meant to be something like a Vortigaunt or Nihilanth in his true form, but we just don't know. Maybe he's an organic manifestation of Xen itself.
I wanted to point out that, thanks to doctor kleiner's crab Lamar we know that headcrabs can indeed survive without a host.16:30
But isnt the third arm of nihilanth the same as the vortigaunts and the metal attacher is actually cuffs, which would make the slave dialogue a make some sense?
Yeah the nihilism theory doesn't hold up very well
Vidya creator is grasping at straws here.
great video! sad to see it's not as popular as it should be. please make a sequel to your video
(also hl1 has 3 extensions, OF, BS and decay)
Opposing force and blue shift is added here. Couldn’t get my hands on Decay which is why I decided not to include it. And yes, I will be making a Half-Life 2 iceberg as well. Thanks for the support 👍
Very nice my friend! I started to like your channel since the manhunt iceberg , keep it up with this. Will you make an iceberg for half life 2 and the two episodes?
My schedule is completely messed up so I don’t know when but yes, I do plan on making icebergs on Half-Life 2 and Episode One, Two as well. Hopefully soon. Stay tuned and thanks for the support 👍
Damn bro if you keep this up your channel will blow tf up big time you just got a new sub I been loving your iceberg videos
Thank you. I hope to deliver even better content in the future. ❤️
Out of jokes, this man deserves more subscribers and attention, really good video my friend!
Keep up the good work!❤
Thank you for the support! ❤️
Hidden gem. I like the iceberg!
In an Interview with Valve News Network, Gabe Newell's son Gray Newell said that the boss was inspired by his birth, saying, "The final boss of Half-Life 1, the giant evil baby monster, is supposed to be me. When my mother was in childbirth they were thinking, 'what's really scary?' And at the time, having a child seemed to be the scariest thing to everyone.” It really isn't that deep.
bro said it really isn't that deep but actually meant it damn.
for the Womens being turned into Headcrab zombies.
there was actually a Concept art for both Male and Female of the Black Mesa game.
You can search it up and see how the Womens are the same like for the Male mutation Headcrab zombies.
but Less Gore when the game released showing only Male Headcrab zombies having more gore and the Female having less gore as a Headcrab female zombie
Back in the day, Valve was also asked "Why no female scientists in HL1"
The rep just shrugged and said "They had the day off?"
As mentioned, there were female assassins with blackops. But Opposing Force introduces male blackops. It's all just hardware limitations, and the female scientist model featured had her entire story cut.
actually officialy the valve developers said they ran out of memory (or something) so they couldent make more scientists
That is a pretty good reason on why we might not have female scientists. But then again, they could’ve cut anything else and have female scientists in the game.
@@perfectenrager yea
Gabe himself actually said this
No for back then devs dident care of political correctness @@perfectenrager
@@perfectenragercut parts of the storyline to add characters?
No way.
My personal theory for what headcrabs did in xen, comes from a fanfic actually, the idea being that headcrabs were fungal gardeners, feeding off of the fluid in one of the fungal bulbs and using their beak to control the growth in the rest of the colony. It just so happened that human heads and brains were similar enough in appearance and physiology that headcrabs saw them as food, and could control them
"Freeman seeks redemption"
*Half-Dead Redemption 2*
The opening about women not being allowed in video games made me think of silent hill 3 and how that game tackles its enemies with a "weak" female protagonist. I agree with your point tho just wanted to leave you a comment.
18:56 this is also used for the left 4 dead horde sound
Very nice iceberg and good speeking
3:00
There are no female scientists because of technology restrictions at the time, you show the female scientist model, which was planned for half life, but cut, however, in half life 2, in kleiners lab, we can see a picture of the science team, which includes a female scientist.
I may be late to the party but I have an interesting theory about G man's attempt to detonate the nuclear bomb as seen in Opposing Force! And it connects to Half Life 2's events.
We have seen the incredible strength of the Combine throughout the later games, including HL Alyx and their technological superiority. But they do lack capabilities seen by both Xen creatures and Black Mesa research... Portal technology; specifically short-range, same dimension kind. It is possible the Combine were at war with Xen for this reason; to acquire this strength for themselves (why a superior race such as the Combine lack such power? Maybe their world is vastly different from our own, making researching inter-dimensional portals EASIER than spatial ones, maybe Xen crystals are the only element they know which can make such a feat possible?).
Since Black Mesa managed to successfully research and develop portal technology (albeit not in the most efficient way...), they may possess information ironically important to the Combine or (if they already know all they need) Xen crystals and direct access to the home-world of their adversaries.
Since we know G man is no ally to the Combine (as seen in HL Alyx), the detonation of a place that could give them what they were looking for, seems like a logical decision to prevent them from possibly threatening him and his "employers"... (they managed to capture him as seen in HL Alyx so they CAN be considered a threat, same goes for the Vortigaunts' powers). The way he acts and talks suggests an understanding of the events to come, Combine's arrival too. It would be no surprise for everything happening to be part of his plans.
Black Mesa has female scientists, turned out great. There's a couple of scenarios in office complex with lady scientists that are pretty funny lmao
that eli smashed kleiner in the bathroom
Yes gman is not human he is skibidi toilet (kill me)
Nihilanth's third arm is more likely so that it can control the Vortigaunts, who have 3 arms.
G-Man is very simple, he is from the future. This is why he is only observing and minorly tweaking events. In his timeline, Gordon and Adrian died and were not known to his world's history. Thanks to his ability to pluck Black Mesa personnel out of time and put them in suspended animation, the Black Mesa incident has yielded a perfect pool of individuals to prove themselves as valuable operatives who can adapt to all alien threats.
Furthermore, G-Man's timeline must be one that has freed itself of Combine control and possibly even propelled itself to the top dog position in the universe. This was only possible to do by encountering the Combine, but when and how G-Man's timeline met them could have been at any point and maybe not even had a resonance cascade. Therefore I have to assume G-Man is not only a time traveler shaping events to his employer's liking, but probably not the only time traveler either. He merely needs to twist events and Gordon is a useful pawn to do this who would've otherwise died at Black Mesa.
I agree with your theory, in HL Alex the Gman gives choice to Alix to save her father, and we all know he died so this scene does indeed prove that Gman can manipulate time.
Black ops was never a cia thing you know that right
20:00 it was confirmed that black mesa bought the facillety after all of this
Valve didn"t added Female due to controversy but i just wanted to say equal rights equal fights
Just so yall know gman set the nuke up to get combine to fight humans as he is related to ninliaths with his powers shepard turned it off but the black ops did it again
Its the other way around, black ops first arms the nuke, shephard fights them and disarms it and then we see G Man arming the bomb again but we cant do nothing much
Mb Gordon Freeman is just dreaming.
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the video is good , but you gameplay brother xDDDD uhhhhhhhh ,. uhhhhhhhhh ,,,, whats that ,,,, whats that brother xDDD
Jealous that I can bunny hop around even after 20 years but you can’t?
Bro?????@@perfectenrager
maybe eli's wife was a scientist
Kleiner?
what
@@denifnaf5874No Azein. She was wife of Eli and didn’t made it out of Black Mesa during resonance cascade
Your mic is so crisp bro 👍
I would have liked to see female scientists, even if they would be a bit rare.
Well your wish became true in Half-Life 2 :)
Isn't nihilism more about there being no reason for life to have a predefined meaning instead of life simply having no meaning?
Gman is just a fan name
It’s his name in the files as well, gmen basically just refer to nameless government men. I doubt Gman is actually with the government but any random Black Mesa survivor would think that he’s with the CIA or something
@@Jws20 perhaps he is part of a government, just one that transcends earth ?
It’s his name in the game files, and shephards journal refers to him as G-man, which means Government-Man.
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half life cant be that violant, can it?
Sorry but you can not make a solid iceberg without mentioning Decay,
You are right. So, here it is. Icebergs are solid as they are ice but they do tend to melt. Even if it is a small amount. But decay doesn’t really happen as when water melts (when its ice), it just becomes liquid.
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The person who delivered the crystal in half lifeto Gordon was a female scientist
half life decay isnt canon,thus in the original the person who delivered it could be male
@@domcza49cz68 tbe expantions are canon and i'm willing to get oblittarated on that hill!!!
@@denifnaf5874 show proof then
@@domcza49cz68Half Life: Blue Shift in camera’s you can see Gina Cross, pushing a cart. Blue Shift is canon😁
@@frcl6 touche
you kinda sound like dr kleiner
I will take it as a compliment 😊
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Author of half life 1 and 2 aka mark laylaw has said its only that he see hl 1 and 2 as canon but upto us gamers if we see xpacks as canon
you sound like gordan freeman
Ever wondered why you don't see Gordon and me in the same room? 😉
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U stole the Gman theory from Game theory
Its a popular theory on the internet. How can you “steal” a theory when there is no ownership of it?
Per the description “These theories are mostly collected from the internet but some are also my own.”
Vortigaunts also have third arm....hmm