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Gordon Freeman (Half-Life): The Story You Never Knew | Treesicle
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*redownloads Half Life, plays the entire thing and beats it, just to not go through the portal*
...oh
***** Half Life 3 confirmed? loljk
Treesicle It's terrifying ;-;
What happens?
ivan1352 You get teleported into a room with rows and rows and rows of the big buff alien dudes, and the room fades into black as
Subject: Freeman
Status: Terminated
Appears on your screen. It's... scary.
*****
thanks.
Half Life is pretty much one of those fucks-with-your-head franchises
It goes from being a scientist fighting aliens after fucking up that experiment,to overthrowing a multi universial alien empire that enslaves humanity,to keeping you waiting for the next and possibly the last game in the series.
With that
Where the hell is Half Life 3...
It's the story of a theoretical particle physicist turned experimental research assistant, who, due to circumstances beyond his control, is forced to abandon his life's work and career and become a mercenary instead while bearing witness to his former colleagues becoming either dead, zombified, or promoted to the highest offices the planet has to offer.
These things, they take time.
Half Life 2 episode 3 is being written right now by me, the real Gordon Freeman. I will write the plot, publish it and sell it to Valve. If you're wondering why I didn't write it yet, in 2008 I had decompression sickness and lost my memory and in 2012 I was in a car accident that made me lose even more memories. But I got them all back now thanks to Coconut oil (oil pulling) and started writing Half Life 2 episode 3 in March.
Half Life 3 or Half Life 2: Episode 3 is 99% surely never coming out. The game is actually done, but it is complete shit. Only about 10 employees of Valve have been working on the game and they made it really bad. Gabe said that it is probably never going to come out.
Unless I am there to guide the team. Gabe told me in 2008 that when he is ready for me, he would get Vulkan out and wait till Marc Laidlaw retires. That happened so I started writing. It's going to be a fun game.
how does it really fuck with ones head? ;/
that morgan freeman joke went on longer than it needed to.
Yeah it was a bit cringy
Nah it didn't go on long enough
Haven't watched vid yet, thanks for heads up
Agree
Disagree
1:27 silent "hero" *kills security guard*
...nice.
did you know that harf life and portal protagonists have same voice actor
Cheeasy Gamer They're in the same universe too!!!!!!!!! lol.
harf life? Never heard of it.
But the protagonists doesnt speak ah you
@@ЦветомирИванов-т8ь r/whooooosh
Ross Scott also voices Chell?
The greatest story that was never finished.
Saddly that's true
so am i gonna be the first one to grace this comment with half life alyx? welp okay then
Half Life 3 is confirmed my dudes
@@jojojclown3101 b u t a t w h a t c o s t ?
@@dr.coomer5115 A l y x .
Am I the only that had a crush on Alex as a kid playing H-L 2?
No :3
i was really surprised at how good the character is, i played with valve commentary and when they said that they wanted to make alyx as natural and likable as possible, i noticed that they DID do a brilliant job at that
*****
Well... I was 16.. :P Guess I'm getting old :P I call teens kids as well
+The Doctor I PLAYED IT WHEN I WAS 9 AND STILL I FOUND IT WIERD AS FUCK
+The Doctor she is ugly
4:33 NO! I don't WANNA be schizophrenic!
XD 4:30 What... the... Fuck?!?
Aah! Another Freeman's Mind fan xD!
8:38 Yeah Fedex it and everything....
jackh902 Series ended 5 days ago D:
Why did we usher forth the green apocalypse!?
"Unexpectedly captured."
AKA, willingly climbed into a metal coffin.
+Benjamin Fuller (Dallenson) Yeah that irked me.. He wasnt exactly captured lol
12:25 AAAAAAAAAAH, LANGUAGE!
But this video was funny as heck
They obviously don't understand what made half life 2 so amazing. Actually they got some of it right, but their opinion of alyx is just wrong and biased. It wasn't the damn sexual tention of Alyx Vance and Gorden Freeman. Honestly that's never even implied until episode 2 as a passing comment. Hell the reason why most gamers love her is because she's the greatest support character in the world. She even is used to bring emotion to the otherwise mindless shooting of gorden freeman. Showing reactions to events to help guide the players emotional state without being in the way, providing exposition when needed as well. She's not a damn sex object!
You're not wrong about why Alyx is awesome but when you first meet Eli in person he says there's nothing she can't handle with the possible exception of Gordon, as far as I remember there's also at least one other comment. Another thing said by Eli about the reproductive suppression field going down, implying Alyx and Gordon should make babies so you are not right about the first comment being in ep 2.
Not sure what Your problem is here. Alyx is already a strong female character on her own, a little romance wouldn't hurt her image the least.
Yeah, they really focused on the few suggestive moments here, kinda made the video come off as just weird and sorta creepy
She won't fuck you pal, don't be a white knight.
why does everyone spell "Gordon" wrong????
The Doom-Slayer: Literally too angry to die.
The Freeman: Literally too Silent to die quietly.
we need a third one. It isn't even funny anymore.
16 years??? Learn to count.
Epistle 3 by Marc Laidlaw (original writer for Half-Life 1 and 2) is as close as you'll get to Half-Life 3. He left Valve and wrote Epistle 3, the story of Half Life 3, or Half Life 2: Episode 3, based on existing concepts and early drafts from development. For copyright reasons it is not called Episode 3, Alyx is a man named Alex, Gordon is renamed and gender swapped too, combine are renamed, and so on. But it is the intended plot for Half Life 3. I'll summarize below if you can't be bothered to leave RUclips.
SPOILERS FOR EPISTLE 3
Basically they find the Borealis, but the combine are already on top of it. They fight their way in and find Mossman alive. The ship is also phasing between dimensions at regular intervals. The combine want the Borealis to make another portal, Mossman wants to use the ship's tech to help the resistance, Alyx wants to blow it up since she views it as a Pandora's Box, and it was her father's wish that Borealis be destroyed.
Things come to a head and Mossman is shot and killed by Alyx. Alyx and Gordon manage to rig the Borealis into an interdimensional bomb, and set it to fly into the Combine's dimension, to their invasion staging ground. As the ship hurtles to its destination, they realize that the Combine is too vast a force to destroy, the massive explosion from the Borealis will be like trying to blow up Europe with a matchstick, it won't do aything.
As they get ready to die meaninglessly, the G-man arrives. Gordon has essentially outlived his usefulness. G-man offers Alyx a job, like he did Gordon, and with one last look back at Gordon, she accepts, leaving Gordon to die on the Borealis. (This could well be the result of pre-programming, as indicated with her "prepare for unforeseen consequences" bit in ep. 2)
Gordon is recovered at the last minute, though, by the Vortigaunts. He awakens after an unknown amount of time to find the Earth resistance is no more, nobody recognizes him, and everyone he knows is gone. This last bit is essentially a coded monologue for the author Marc Laidlaw. Gordon (Marc) finds the Resistance (Valve) to be unrecognizable, and that nobody he knows is left (I assume he means the team that worked on Half-Life is all gone). It does end on a note of hope, the thought that someone else will carry the torch of the resistance. But ends with Gordon recognizing that his part in the story is over.
@@jasonfenton8250 Thanks for posting this. I like that last paragraph in particular, it explains more about why Half Life 3 will never come to be and how sad that is for all who love the series, both gamers and developers. I guess it's just time to move on. But it will never be forgotten.
@@NOTDeezy. black mesa : xen
This is so sad
even leonardo got his oscar and we are yet waiting for HL3...
There will _be_ no Half Life _thREEEEEE_
@Ignan Alyx surprised me. I guess there will be
So, I've played HL2 more then a few times and didn't even realize the lack of children reference.
Christopher Duncan its because of the suppression field the combine have in place that prevents fertility.
@@MrByrne9831 also that by then all the kids already grew up
13:00
"Things are pretty shitty in the year 2020 something"
Coincidence?
I think it's not
You never mentioned why the black ops were killing the military
It is a cover up over the cover up. It to keep the Military from talking. "Well who cover's up the cover up? Freeman..."
Ethan
I did play the game many of times and I know this. I was mad because he did not mention it
Ethan Why was the video utter shit? Because you know what some others don't? Arrogance at its finest.
Ethan
Don't see why it's an "utter shit" video when it was well written, well narrated and well edited. It was also entertaining and, clearly, many people have learned something new, if you actually read the comments. I never told you to "fuck yourself", so I don't understand why you must recur to personal offences. Perhaps it makes you feel like a big man, or it makes you feel like you've got big boy pants, or it overall makes you feel so "cool". Well, who knows.
A.M. Arteaga
Because the title says "The Story You Never Knew" which from the title I would expect the video to go into deep detail about half life and every little piece of information and he only quickly sketches over the half life story.
Ya'know, in afew years or so, HL3 is going to actually release, and everyone is going to go fucking insane, and the lines at gamestop will be long as fuck, and the game is going to be amazing, and we're all going to die from heart attack of its awesomeness...
Or it could suck, and a wave of suicides would sweep the world.
Hayden Powell Yeah that too.
Jonathan Pepper Wouldn't it be great if one day, Valve released Half Life 3, but didn't put it on the front page, no promotion or anything, just let it show up on the store?
Hayden Powell That would be both evil and awesome, evil because when I go to Gamestop and see HL3, I'll be saying in my head "WHAT IS THIS SHIT! WHATS GOING ON! OMGOMGOMG IS IT REAL!!!" and awesome because HL3 WOOOOO. That also would be clever of them to do.
Either way its an extinction level event for the world
why is it called the story you never knew? I played the damn game i know the story.
But great video though.
He is talking about certain philosophies about the characters, what they represent and the themes.
Gustav Ferreira oh ok
+Aidan McWhirter And there may be some people who never played Half-Life... like me.
***** what is this heresy get out foul beast and go play the game.
The story that you MAY don't know is there are two ladies wearing HEV suites and they've prepared that crystal
Which you pushed it to the portal
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More like, "Gordon Freeman: The Story You'll Never Know", am I right?
Yep.
Sadly
Gordon/Alyx romance is a lot more subtly implied, if you ask me... and possibly not even an actual thing. Stress romances tend not to work out anyway, so half this video feels like a serious reach to me.
Totally. From Gordon's perspective, Alyx is just a child. He could dance with Eli's baby, flirt a little, maybe, but…
I doubt Gordon did any flirting, even. The way I read it, Alyx has just come down with a case of 'Freeman Fever' like the rest of the planet.
Have you noticed how creepily reverent everyone is toward him? He's no Messianic figure, he only killed the Nihilanth because he didn't really have a choice about it and look how that ended! Maybe the survivors of Black Mesa have just built him up in his absence? Like, if Gordon did all this they can absolve themselves of a lot of the responsibility.
But enough rambling on my part, it comes down to this; Maybe Alyx is a harmless flirt? Maybe they *just* have a good working relationship and joke together? Maybe there's nothing there but Valve fans desperately want to crowbar (haha) a romance subplot into their favourite science-fantasy game?
MrMortull I agree with you. I, too, thought it was creepy. And annoying.
I rather got the impression that Valve themselves were pushing for romantic tension between the protagonist and Gordon, not the fans.
My reference to flirting was actually a quote from an old song I thought relevant. There really was no way for Gordon to get flirty.
well gordon is only 27 and alyx is around 25 or so. I think he could probably get his head around the time jump after fighting aliens and a dystopian totalitarian government.
I dont see why a goodlooking intelligent badass couple couldnt be into one anouther after fighting for thier lives for days or weeks. Gordon is a fish out of water with alyx as his guide, and alyx is kinda star struck with gordon who is a living legend who incidentally lives up to all the hype.
***** Good points, but I just can't imagine it working out for very long. I guess it depends on whether Gordon can resume his career as a scientist, or has to abandon it entirely and go into politics instead.
"Gordon Freeman (Half-Life): The Story You Never Knew"
*Tells us the story we already knew*
Yeah lmao
As if everyone who doesn't play half life but wants to know the story didn't know about it
"Yes, plenty of well-received titles have writing similarly ridiculous, however not a single one of these garnered even close to fifty Game-of-the-Year awards."
CANT
BREATHE
David Ralphsky I suppose we should have clarified. 50 game of the year awards in 1998 means a hell of a lot more than it does now. Many games have gotten more since Half-Life, but there's also so many more reviewers (thanks to the internet being way bigger now) to give such awards. 50 back in the day is equivalent to exactly a bazillion now days.
Treesicle "Repetitive but very entertaining! Definitely our choice of GOTY (9.5/10) -IGN"
It's really dumb how any kind of group can just give out award and the company can simply put that on their "award count". The value of amount isn't just same.
+Treesicle can you guys please do a mass effect vid id love it so much to hear your thoughts on one of my favorites itd make my day personally.
Treesicle I was laughing mostly because of how straight-faced it was told, like "Many games have tried before, but they fucked up."
"After much Gravity Gunning, and various pew pewing" XD
wow. 6 minutes in and there's really absolutely nothing a HL player never knew.
Cope
This was very informative for me. Before watching this video I knew absolutely nothing about Half-Life.
Thanks! Good to know our points are sticking =D
Same for me ! Thank you ! Continue the good work man !
zen is actually a place where creatures travel through to get to other dimensions
i cant wait for the baby freeman
Its Xen
☢_Prism _☢ yea sorry
according to lore with portal. Using xen is a way of traveling but not the only way. Since portal 2 cave johnson from another dimension did use his own portal technology without any alien crystal or xen to get from one dimension(or alterante reality) to another.
Its xen not zen
Epistle 3 by Marc Laidlaw (original writer for Half-Life 1 and 2) is as close as you'll get to Half-Life 3. He left Valve and wrote Epistle 3, the story of Half Life 3, or Half Life 2: Episode 3, based on existing concepts and early drafts from development. For copyright reasons it is not called Episode 3, Alyx is a man named Alex, Gordon is renamed and gender swapped too, combine are renamed, and so on. But it is the intended plot for Half Life 3. I'll summarize below if you can't be bothered to leave RUclips.
SPOILERS FOR EPISTLE 3
Basically they find the Borealis, but the combine are already on top of it. They fight their way in and find Mossman alive. The ship is also phasing between dimensions at regular intervals. The combine want the Borealis to make another portal, Mossman wants to use the ship's tech to help the resistance, Alyx wants to blow it up since she views it as a Pandora's Box, and it was her father's wish that Borealis be destroyed.
Things come to a head and Mossman is shot and killed by Alyx. Alyx and Gordon manage to rig the Borealis into an interdimensional bomb, and set it to fly into the Combine's dimension, to their invasion staging ground. As the ship hurtles to its destination, they realize that the Combine is too vast a force to destroy, the massive explosion from the Borealis will be like trying to blow up Europe with a matchstick, it won't do aything.
As they get ready to die meaninglessly, the G-man arrives. Gordon has essentially outlived his usefulness. G-man offers Alyx a job, like he did Gordon, and with one last look back at Gordon, she accepts, leaving Gordon to die on the Borealis. (This could well be the result of pre-programming, as indicated with her "prepare for unforeseen consequences" bit in ep. 2)
Gordon is recovered at the last minute, though, by the Vortigaunts. He awakens after an unknown amount of time to find the Earth resistance is no more, nobody recognizes him, and everyone he knows is gone. This last bit is essentially a coded monologue for the author Marc Laidlaw. Gordon (Marc) finds the Resistance (Valve) to be unrecognizable, and that nobody he knows is left (I assume he means the team that worked on Half-Life is all gone). It does end on a note of hope, the thought that someone else will carry the torch of the resistance. But ends with Gordon recognizing that his part in the story is over.
Also, Breen's consciousnees was stored and transferred to an advisor body. Read the Breengrub Twitter, also by Marc Laidlaw for more info. It is revealed that the advisors are not the "boss" combine race, but are slaves like any other combine race. It is speculated that G-man is a mature rogue advisor with his own agenda, which is why he can present himself in human form, unlike the baby grubs we see in the games.
Anyway, Gordon and Alyx encounter Breengrub in Epistle 3, near the Borealis. Breengrub helps them out and then begs Gordon to kill him, because Breen has nothing left, losing his humanity, being a failure to his combine superiors, and realizing the race he is now part of are victims to the combine, just like humanity. I thought that was important to mention, but it didn't fit neatly in the rest of the synopsis.
And that's the Story you Never Knew, not this recap bullshit.
damn i read that over and over, we need half life 3 NAO
This guy doesn't seem to have a full grasp of the half-life story and lore. There are plenty of things within the games that tie most of these things together. It isn't some ludicrous story that happens to work and props for Valve for that. No it's a very well thought out complex story that must be discovered and put together by the player since you never leave Gordon Freeman's body or even lose control of his body (This is also a reason as to why HL is better than other shooters cause it never holds your hand and is never a rail shooter). Combine attacked the Vortigaunts. Vorts escape to Xen, an interdimensional plane that Humans are using to slingshot through to teleport between 2 different points on earth. Black Mesa is performing these experiments. They are using crystals from Xen which vibrate at a specific frequency (this is based on real world theories where there are other dimensions and each has a unique frequency. It's theorized that if we could match that frequency we would no longer be in this dimension but would enter the dimension with a matching frequency). When they insert the crystals in the Ani-Mass Spectrometer it causes them to vibrate more intensely, they are using this to try and open a portal through Xen to another point on earth. G-Man, for whoever he is working for, got a much bigger Xen crystal and had the admin of Black-Mesa use it instead, they also upped the output of the anti-mass spectrometer because they were told to in order to properly analyze the much larger Xen crystal. When Gordon inserts the crystal it causes a "resonance cascade" (which yes is made up by valve but has it's roots in actual theories concerning alternate dimensions). This allows the Nihilanth to invade Earth with his minions including the newly conquered Vortiguants. Gordon fights for his life against the aliens from Xen and the HECU "Hazardous Environment Combat Unit" which are a group of marines trained with high tech armor very much like Gordons HEV suit. They are well funded and trained and knew about the mission before any of the scientist knew what was going to happen (Implying that our own government knew and set this up to happen via G-Man, or G-Man being an actual government man set it up in secret to keep it secret) Gordon launches a rocket on earth that closes the rip between Earth and Xen on Earth's side but the Nihilanth is holding it open from the other side. Gordon crosses over to Xen and defeats the Nihilanth which closes the gaping rift between Xen and Earth. Gordon is stuck on Xen and G-man offers him a job and puts him into stasis. The rift is closed but the "fabric" between Earth and other dimensions is weakened due to the Resonance Cascade. So the Combine, a bunch of enslaved races ruled by giant floating worms, tears a hole into earth and in 7 hours has conquered earth. They are using Earth for it's resources and turning humans into servants. Either as combine soldiers or as mutilated working class slaves. That's the set up going into HL2. It isn't full of holes, it's not ridiculous but still somehow good. It's very well done and thought out and complete. You just have to figure out the story yourself by exploring, listening, and reading. It's elaborate not ridiculous, at least IMO.
Anthony Elmer Actually Gman is working for other forces trying to destroy the combine and the combine wer attracted to earth from a nuke the HECU deployed and if you played opposing force they went in blind and the the goverment pulled them out and sent in black ops to finish the clean up job of trying to kill every witness and the remaining marines too for some reason
i was gonna point out the nuke part but you beat me to it
@Josh JeanJacket Jaeger Breengrub tweets hold the answer.
G-Man is an adult advisor that isn't controlled by the Combine. His employers are larval Advisors or Shu'ulathoi as the vortigaunts call them.
G-Man is using Gordon (and humanity) to free his race and destroy the Combine.
@@yuothineyesasian You'd be right except for one thing. We're not sure that's their only goal
And he played Half-Life source
6:13 NEIL DEGRASSE FREEMAN, fighting socialism since 1998.
what does socialism have to do with half life anyway
socialism?
More like the story I always knew.
Paul Chapman Yeah I watched the whole thing looking for some kind of plot twist or SOMETHING that would change my view on Half Life, but nope, I was just told the story I've already known for the past 8 years.
Paul Chapman Well shit I don't even wanna see the assassins creed one. This is the first and last Treesicle video I'm watching. Nuff said...
GA. Luigi Lmfao yeah I was expecting something else but It's just him retelling the story with humor that falls flat on it's face.
Doktor Tuurtle Exactly. The only thing semi-funny in this is how he talks, but other than that this video is shit.
What a misleading title. There's nothing here that people who have played the game don't already know. :P
Rob Freebeard actually i played the game (hl2 that is) in my early teens and somehow missed the whole no children theme.
so yes this video was rather informative for me :)
Rob Freebeard One fact about the Combine was misinformed, the Combine had invaded Zen and was the reason the Nihilanth was keeping the portals open. The Vortigaunts were slaves of the Combine in HL1 and attacked Freeman, then in HL2 were allies because the Combine lost control of Zen because Freeman killed the Nihilanth. That is why the Vortigaunts really like Freeman.
Actually no, the combine TRIED to enslave the vortigaunts home world but they defended themselves which lead to combine destroying their planet, the vorts escaped to xen aka zen but they meet nihilanth and he takes control over them, if they try to resist it's either the combine kills them or nihilanth, but Gordon killed nihilanth so the vorts are now freed from his control and are thankful to freeman.
YeahCoolWhatever Where did you find that out?
+Lemon Lore.
have anybody wondered how gordon freeman is just a physicist but yet he knows how to use firearms and manage to kill a horde of soldiers, zombies, aliens and even the big alien boss?
of course we know, nerdy school kids that know nothing better than spending their days in cs\quake took possession of him.
+dushasssss lol their spirits came through the residence cascade and possessed him
somemysteriousguy I grew up shooting guns. I also study physics. 'Merica. FuckYeah!!!
and i am somehow skilled enough with my guns that i managed to kill hordes of special force soldiers who are trained to kill
*a physicist in HEV armour
Too bad this series is not so popular these days. And that some 'fans' don't get the story right when it's told in such a brilliant way and it's brilliant itself. Also, it's really rare to see vids like this using footage of vanilla HL1 and 2 instead of those shitty HD packs and Cinematic mods, and I apreciate that.
I hope that once Half-Life 3 comes out, it'll blow our minds :)
the footage is half life source which is fucking shit lol
where is father Grigori :(
dead
pitfallseed Nope, if you play the game and you watch when you leave he doesn't die :P
rares galeteanu hes fighting zombies while on fire when you go back, he probably died shorty after
you're right but in the game he doesn't die :P
rares galeteanu its implied, they made him invincible so that hes actually helpful but that was for gameplay purposes.
I got uncomfortably attached to Alyx while playing HL2.
Half-Life 3 will come out...when Valve has their fucking story!
Agree with that wholeheartedly. Can you buy the original Half Life on steam?
Yes you can my friend!
Thon Ryan I reccomend getting the original
enderrevolution2 Bought the Valve Collection for Christmas, started with Half Life, fucking love it!
Thon Ryan I got it really cheap near the end of September. Did the same
That Mulan reference was slick.
GOTTA DEFEAT THOSE HUNS!
Treesicle Lol
well, there is 1 short cutscene when gordon gets in a room and lights get cut out and you know the army guys drag you and stuff happens...
no you hear them punch you and you lose some of your blood
i remember that, they tried to shaft him. just put him in a dark crushing box and make sure he's dead because he just won't die otherwise. Combine, Xen aliens, Special Forces, nothing works.
But in a particular series I know, Gordon gets his hand cut off
@@contendo285 Ik, I wasn't really saying it was canon. Nontheless, sorry
50 game of the year awards. Has it relay been that long?
+Olly tehaawsm You get different awards from different events, all in the same year, stupid.
I know, it was a joke
@@TjorvixLP r/whoooooooooosh
I actually did not view Alyx And Gordan's relationship like the way you did. I viewed them as just friends but I guess your idea makes more sense.
Fataltyler08 I agree, Alyx and Gordon never seemed to have a romantic relationship to me either. But his theories do make sense, even though I disagree on the matter.
+Fataltyler08 Same here. I never saw them being romantically involved. Then again, I never saw Alyx or Gordon being romantically involved with anyone, because they're so badass and I can't see them being soft
I don't see what you saw and you don't see what i saw.
You guys must not have been paying attention to the looks she gives you and the way she speaks
i am a noob, i never noticed that the combine were draining our oceans... does explain a lot in certain levels though...
"Cross-dimensional alien race empire."
Shows CP marching.
(CP are human volunteers.)
In a nutshell, Gordon:
1. Was born sometime between the 70's and 80's.
2. Had an affinity for science ever since his childhood.
3. Went on to study in the MIT university after finishing highschool.
4. Took a Ph.D course in theoretical physics.
5. Completed his course, majoring in said branch of physics after writing an awesome thesis.
6. Met Dr. Isaac Kleiner a Black Mesa scientist who became his mentoring figure.
7. Went to the University of Innsbuck to compete with another fresh graduate, Judith Mossman, in a competition to see who was better with handling experiments to get a job at the BMRF.
8. Won against Mossman and was recruited by Kleiner to work for Black Mesa.
9. Befriended a Black Mesa security officer named Barney Calhoun.
10. Worked for Black Mesa in total of only 11 days (assuming that Gordon's year of recruitment was identical to the year the Black Mesa Incident took place).
11 Arrived late to the facility on the eleventh day of his job and was then informed of an important experiment.
12. Got suited up with the HEV suit for the purpose of experimentation.
13. Executed standard insertion procedures on a nonstandard specimen (sample GG-3883, an extraterrestrial and extradimensional crystal).
14. Accidentally created a Resonance Cascade, which caused a crack or rift in the multiverse between spacetime (Earth) and the Borderworld (Xen).
15. Swore to stop the aliens of Xen from taking over the Earth.
16. Went on an alien-killing rampage throughout the facility.
17. Found out that a unit of marines were dispatched to the facility for a cleanup ops.
18. Went on an alien and marine-killing spree throughout the facility before ultimately being sent to Xen to kill the aliens' leader (the Nihilanth).
19. Fought against hordes of Xenians until he reached his target.
20. Killed the Nihilanth.
21. Kept in stasis for 20 years, while Earth was conquered by a multiversal alien empire called the 'Combine'.
22. Released back onto the Earth in a Huxley-Orwellian hybrid dystopia.
23. Lead humanity against the Combine's occupation army acting as a provincial 'government' for Earth (i.e. Overwatch).
24. Attacked and successfully destroyed the Overwatch prison facility 'Nova Prospekt' with an endless army of Antlions.
25. Joined the Battle of City 17, going on a rampage throughout the city.
26. Infiltrated the Citadel, confronted the Combine's Interim Administrator of Earth and killed him.
27. Returned back to stasis just before the Citadel blew up.
*Now THAT is one hell of a journey. ESPECIALLY, for a simple nerd.*
Oh dang this video was soo fun and amazingly edited, props to you guys^^
You guys need more views! There's obviously a lot of hard work being put into these videos and it's really great. But no one starts out big, you start out small and grow from there.
Definitely sharing you guys on Facebook and wherever else I can.
Hope to see more great vids and keep up the good work!
We definitely put in a lot of hours for this series, you're awesome for being so supportive =D Thank for the shares too, man! Every bit of exposure counts!
For fucks sake, dude. Do some research on your topic next time... This was so inaccurate.
"After graduating from MIT, Gordon travels to Austria, and observes a series of teleportation experiments conducted by theInstitute for Experimental Physics in Innsbruck. Eventually, he becomes disappointed with the slow pace of teleportation research in academia and begins to search for a job outside the education sector. By coincidence, Freeman's MIT mentor Dr. Isaac Kleiner has taken charge of a research project at a government-owned, integrated research facility known as theBlack Mesa Research Facility and offers Freeman a job."~Half Life Wiki.
Is that actually on the wiki, or are you being sarcastic?
+DanGamesNow TV, yes that is part of the story.
+DanGamesNow TV it's on Half Life wiki not the Wikipedia lol
Black Mesa is located in New Mexico. If that's really from the Wiki, then the Wiki is wrong.
+Facelord It never says where Black Mesa is in that quote. It says that Gordon was working on a project in Austria, AND THEN he was offered a job at Black Mesa.
Maybe part of the game is based on some part of string theory,maybe G man is a 4th dimensional being,able to step in and enter different parts of time
G-man exhibits 2 traits of 4th dimensional capabilities. The ability to alter the flow of time, and Teleportation
I always called every security guard I found Jim the Timelord...
Dude, who else found it relatable when he said, "Yep, things are pretty shitty in 2020-something?"
What part of this was a story that none of us knew? this was basically just a recap of everything we knew from playing.
the right men the wrong place ----------------------------can make all the difference
i sing this before i go to sleep
Okay, so what's the story we never knew? Didn't see anything here I didn't already know.
i just now noticed the only reason gordon is fearless is because he is well aware of what the gman has in mind for him
This is really awesome bro. Most informative half life story line summary in YT
HOLY SMOKES! 23 minutes. This must have been a pain to edit. Great job though!
MP haha yeah buddy it was pretty tough to edit this one, but well worth it! We all really liked how it turned out :)
first half life is still my favorite game ever. Now I need to go play it again.
+Atomic Sunrise do it...
+Gordon Freeman I think half-life 2 is better. Im in there :P
@@alyxvance508 what do you think of your new game
What about this is "the story you never knew"? It's literally JUST the whole damn story. There is nothing subtle or secret in that nonsense.
who else found the nihilinth the hardest boss battle ever, it was such a nightmare
+zombieking2222 Yassssss!!!!The teleporting drove me insane!!!!!!
It's actually a walk in the park if you know which Xen crystal to destro
I can't thank you enough for this video!
It was great like all your other "The Story You Never Knew"-videos, but this one was particularly amazing.
Maybe it was because I was a child back when I played HL1 and HL2 half a life ago, and the fact that I'm not a native English speaker. But I never caught any of these underlying themes and stories in the games.
It all makes sense now that you tell them to me, I defeinitely see and understand them.
It feels like you just gave me the missing pieces that made these already fantastic games EVEN better!
I understood the GENERAL story when I was playing the games; humans vs aliens, the mysterious G-Man with sketchy motives (and even more sketchy... employers). But I never caught on to the fact that humans couldn't have children anymore (HL2). I never caught any romance between Gordon and Alex (until now).
I never understood WHY the military was there in HL1 and why they attacked you. I do now.
Thank you again for clearing this all up on an adult level that my child-self didn't understand way back when :D
Loved the video, love the Half-Life series. You're doing a fantastic job.
Maybe Agent 47 next?
Ah good suggestion! He seems like he's got something below that stoic surface.
Treesicle Make it!
Treesicle Don't forget Sam Fischer and the Splinter Cell franchise!
This video is titled "The story you never knew", but you just summarized the plot of the half-life series. I did know that, the game makes all that obvious. Waste of my time.
That's because is about philosophy of story you silly
WasabiBeast2000 hahahah iliteratep
Half-Life 3, I Believe In It
If only for your disappointment ;)
I like how in HL2. The Gorgon creatures help reaffirm the idea of Gordon as a Messiah
as "The One Free Man." Which in a way, could be used to reference Bioshock with Andrew Ryan. A free man chooses, a slave obeys. In this case, from Gordon's actions, he is a man on a never ending quest.
I never thought the relationship between Gordon and Alex was anything memorable or special.
So I'm still waiting for the stuff "I don't know" about the Half Life story...
7:50 HEY LOOK ITS ME! XD
i did know this story. i played it. title is misleading.
great video, the history of Half Life is so perfect
i better get to spraypainting one of my crowbars red with the extra spraypaint i have
What is this cool animated Version of Half-Life 1?
I'm dying to know this too! It's not form Half-Life: Source. Just finished that yesterday!
Wow over half the video is done and you haven't said anything even close to being a story no one knew.
Cool, one thing thoe, how does freeman swim in water and not have his glasses get wet???????????
The same way he can kill a heavily armed soldier only using a crowbar.
The same way he can whack a crowbar into a dead body and have they body's organs explode everywhere
man that music, makes me miss the golden years of cs 1.6, joining surf servers and having that music while downloading the map and such
Sp, until now i didn't realize just HOW much the suppression field stuff ment. I never connected those spray paintings. glad i found this
I wonder what will happen to Gordon and the Earth when the G-man is satisfied with all the alien cultures we've destroyed in the half life games.
What if Gordan Freeman was "infected" by a headcrab at the beginning? and all of this was the headcrab making him see things that he wanted him to see (like him being a hero and saving the world for example...) just so that he wouldn't try to escape its hold on his mind?
but people with headcrabs are dead :v
TheWarriorGamer
Not necessarily. They are still somewhat alive, however the headcrab is controlling them. What I am saying is that the headcrab controls people by "covering" their eyes with what they actually want to see.
+Im Bad at Good Names humm, it's an interesting theory
There’s a mod for half life 1
Now that would be depressing, such a great series was all in the mind of an innocent scientist-turned-zombie
The camera in HL1... How? Mine did not have advanced animations like that...
yeah,me too,im wondering
One thing that wasn't mentioned was the amazing tying in of portal to half life. both games reference each other and it has caused so much backstory and fortelling of events for the possible half life 3
Why do people insist on saying that Gordon is "straight out of MIT" The game doesn't begin on his first day at Black Mesa.. the guards make fun of him for cutting his pony tail, so they've seen him before. The other scientists say Gordon is a "trained professional" when they are talking about the risks of the experiment; if he was straight out of university or it was his first day - wouldn't they reference that sometime...
Well Breen does describe his work at Black Mesa as a "brief tenre" so I don't think he was there long. Maybe a Month tops.
Gordon Freeman? Who's he?
I'm the one who brought the RESONANCE CASCADE.
Half Life series and Elder Scrolls series are the best stories in the world, best games in the world, imo.
0:00 - 0:05 where that footage from?
+Collision Same for 0:38 - 0:49
Half life trailer by james benson or something lol
"Things are preety shitty in 2020 something" That aged like fine wine
It works so well because you always feel like there is a logical explanation for all of the weird stuff happening, you just don't comprehend what that is, kind of like real life.
just beat all the half life games that released it was pretty good, ending was very crazy. As said in the vid you should play the game, the ending is crazy. Btw the ending is crazy
did you play the episodes too ?
yea
which one is better ? just comleted the first one it was short
half life 2 was really cool especially towards end and ep1 was ok ep 2 was my favorite
i love listening to the commentary mode
what is that footage, the half life original models but really modern animation. please link or tell
XrossFade Half Life: Source!
No it's fanmade trailer, just type in Half-life trailer and you will see it. Hl source is totall copy of hl1 without any alterations animation wise, only benefits of source engine + slightly better "vista" in surface tension
Half-Life: The Story You Already Knew Because You Played the Games Already??
Extremely well-made, thx for sharing.
"Immersion" is exactly what you just said, and also just about every other cool thing a reviewer wants it to mean :)
0:40 Where are these cinematic scenes from?
Where he get the footage of half-life 1 is like I never seen this animation before 0:02
I think it from Half-Life: Source!
A fan made trailer
It's a fan-made trailer
What is the name of the animation/movie during the half-life 1 first person segments of this video?
I ALSO WANT TO KNOW
Half Life : Source trailer I believe.
An4LDr1p616 IT LOOKS FUCKING AMAZING!
Django Mandingo It's Called: Half-Life Trailer by James Benson.
I'm just playing half life 20 years later for the first time and its great so far it is rough nowadays but for 1998 this is mind blowing that they could pull off some of the stuff they do with the a.i. and scripting I see why this got like 50 game of the year awards
**When you realise we are in Half-Life 2's decade in the story**
and so far it's not looking good
0:39 where can i find that, TELL ME NAO.
FINDING THE SAME THING CANT FIND IT.... LMAO
+buratski dotdot lol
CALM DOWN GUYS IT'S A HALF LIFE 1 TRAILER YOU CAN FIND IT ON RUclips BY SEARCHING FOR "HALF LIFE 1 TRAILER" kurwa blyad
You Can Because i Found it Searching for "Half Life 1 Trailer."
I wrote "you can find it on youtube by searching for "half life 1 trailer" what is your point?
Gman is Gordon and Alex's son
+ever eady Wut?
Yep wait for the next game it will be confirmed
Nah....Valve never makes 3 games about the same thing.
it will be a game a bout Gman and his Life
+ever eady You are fucking sick.
At the beginning, how does gordon look at his hands and such? is that a mod? (i'm sorry i dont know shit about mods for half life.)
its from this:
www.joystiq.com/2011/06/01/fan-made-half-life-trailer-will-amaze-you-with-its-first-person/#continued
thank you! :D
16:53 haha combiners go **helicopter noises**
A brilliant analysis of the greatest three games that ever were. I will never forget the bereavement I felt when they were over. I've always felt that the story was somehow connected with the two Portal games. I feel sorry for anyone who feels that he or she is too sophisticated to enjoy games like these. Good job guys; thanks.