it's still the best vr game ever made which isn't saying much but i liked it hl2 is the best video game ever made to this day tho with it's innovations this series changed fps games forever
@@ulrikahaggard9923 i wonder how he even became a scientist if he dont even talk. I can imagine his coworker do the "Igor flip the switch" phrase on him.
Fans: So we saw Gordon at the end right? Valve: Uh-huh Fans: So it makes sense that Half Life 3 will be the next game right? Valve: I guess Fans: So Half Life 3 confirmed? Valve: *Half Life Gordon*
abd alrafi3 gamer Gman put Gordon in Stasis, Gordon took down the City 17 Citadel. So Gordon is really the super weapon held by Gman, held by Combine Empire.
It's also important to note that G-man is actually the one responsible for the events that happened at Black Mesa because hes the one who delivered the test sample to Black Mesa.
A lot of lore mistakes in this video... For one the Combine rule in several universes not just ours! They can jump from one universe to another but can't teleport within them thus why they need Black Mesa/Aparture's portal tech to be able to spread within the universes they invade.
@@LucasMiddleNameandLastname22 minor details but it's the "7 hour war" rather than "7 day war". Also he mentioned something about " the combine mastermind the advisor" implying there is only one. When in actuality there are many combine advisors
You can harness the space-time curved motions of the Black hole. Using that, you may travel in time and travel any limited space in short time ( teleportation ). "Time is relative btw" - Einstein, meaning any evolving living things can exists at the other dimension and study the laws there while their primary universe is dying within the cause of nature to let it happen or just us ( such as pollution but universally ).
G-man employers are the development team VALVe. he refused to get the combine off of earth because who Gordon freeman will fight if he eliminate the combine. so like he said "it's not in his employers interest"
Valve would definitely not pull that shit. G man's employers could be other creatures from Zen but definitely not valve, do you know how much backlash they would get if they pulled that and no one would know that better than valve.
Yunno I gotta say man, contrary to what these other people are saying, this is actually a pretty good idea. Although, I can almost tell you for certain that this is not the case.
It’s insane to think that this game came out less than a year ago. Waiting for a new Half-Life game for so long has made short amounts of time feel like ages.
Don't know why Judith would be that close to something like that especially since she was with the resistance if anything she was a spy for them on the Combine's activities which is probably why they made her out to be the other way around during the reveal in Nova Prospect. Of course the question remains on what character even for this VR title, where was Breen during all these events because he wouldn't have been in the citadel (which seemed to have been under construction) so where was he being kept.
@@cursedhawkins1305 I'm pretty sure it could be Judith. The shadow seem to have the same kind of haircut Judith have. It could be possible that Judith worked with Breen and thus the Combine for longer that we thought!
@@kulkisJulius I don't believe it is her, in HL2 we only see her a total of three times in the main campaign as well as a cameo in the following episodes since the game is supposed to take place five years before those events its more than possible that Eli and her might not have run into each other yet, yeah they might have worked at Black Mesa but that was the past compared to the present heck Eli or Alyx doesn't even mention her once during their interactions with each other, not even Russel so I'm almost certain they didn't run into her until sometime down the line.
Cursed Hawkins It’s still a possibility even if Alyx and Eli haven’t met her yet. And Judith mentions in HL2 that she wasn’t at Black Mesa. It s almost obvious that it’s her. The haircut, tha was she talks.
@@kulkisJulius No I do think she was at Black Mesa just a different area we never visited in HL1, Eli did say she was up for his job at Black Mesa but his experience is what got him the position, that doesn't mean she wasn't hired for a position somewhere else in the facility. Remember what she says when you first enter the airlock! "I've been hearing about you long before the Black Mesa incident" Someone like Judith who seems to be more aware of the incident than she lets on makes me believe that she was at Black Mesa just in a different area but was able to see the experiment take place which is also where Alyx mentions this "you should hear her drown on about how it should of been her in the Black Mesa test chamber that day"
Victor Yee Wouldnt make sense as she’s now working for Gman after Episode 2, so there’s no real new story to explore for Alyx that will advance the story in a meaningful way...
@Irsyad Aman Half Life: Alyx is a prequel... by your logic Borderlands the Pre-Sequel is Borderlands 3, and 3 is Borderlands 4... Makes no sense, just call it what it is, a prequel.
@Irsyad Aman by your logic it would mean episode 1 of half life 2 is half life 3 and episode 2 is half life 4 and alyx is half life 5 meaning half life 6 confirmed
Not only. They confirmed G-Man's role in the series as the puppet master and that vorts actually helped free him from G-Man's "employment". This changes who your antagonist is.
@ G-man is not even the puppet master, only a tool for said master. G-man works for his "employer". Plus, we already know that the vorts helped free The Freeman, but in the events of HL2:EP2, G-man is still talking to Gordon, which means he still think he can use Gordon. In this game, we know that G-man officially releasing Gordon and took Alyx instead.
Perhaps in an alternative Universe the combine could have told Alyx. Combine: "Alyx, an enemy to us both has been trapped by us. Do not set him free!" Alyx: "Huh?" Combine: "Tell your Dad we have imprisoned G-Man. He'll explain everything to you." Alyx: "Uh, ok?" Alyx: "Dad, one of the combine soldiers told me that they trapped someone called the 'G-man'. He also mentioned that this person is an enemy to the combine too." Eli: "Oh my god. Alyx do not go into that vault! Find your way back to me and Russell, I'll explain everything." Alyx: "Alright Dad, love you!" Eli: "Love you too sweetheart!" G-man: "Well... shit."
But neither alyx nor the combine realy know who "g-man" is. He never says his Name in any game, we only know his name from the game files. So if the combine would tell her that they've caught some Kind of a mysterious man able to travel in time and space, i think alyx wouldn't belive it but instead think that it's a trap.
Wow, now we finally know something about the G-man, we know that he is super powerful, so powerful that the combines are extremely terrified of him, the combine must be pretty formidable too, able to build something to contain him.
@@INF2.160 The difficulty is not easy. I played on hard mode (the hardest mode) and it took me several days to beat the game. One zombie takes almost an entire magazine to kill, heavy combines take 2 shotgun bullets at point-blank range, antlions take an entire smg mag to kill without missing, and in the endgame, you are at the brink of running out of ammo / healing. And I played like I do in Skyrim, saving every single resource till this end. Don't even mention the lightning dogs, those things are near impossible to kill in hard. The problem is normal mode is NOT "normal", it is much much easier than hard. I beat the game without dying once on normal, and you are left with many excess reserves.
JK It’s not easy, but it isn’t hard either. It’s more difficult to go against enemies than in flat, since you have to physically reload and aim the gun.
When I got to the green energy part, i didn't know you could just throw it, and instead would flick my wrist upward in the combine's direction. This resulted in what I can only describe as me feeling like iron man. By far one of the coolest parts of the game.
The ending shook me. Like, it took me a bit to figure out what happened. But now I've got it. Right after Eli was kllled, Gordon refused to work with the G-Man any longer. In doing so, G-Man used his abilities to reset certain events. Namely, the last moments of Episode 2. This results in Alyx reviving her father, but with some time-mumbo jumbo, has been taken by the G-Man and put into stasis, and now Gordon, Eli and Dog must save her from her captors, and hopefully take down the G-Man, and maybe even his employer's in the process.
Actually, G-Man already take interest in Alyx during the "Heart to Heart" scene in Episode 2. We can assume that G-Man already fired Gordon at start of Episode 2.
@Marky Playz G-Man is strong, but he can be defeated. A group of vortigaunts manage to stop him. Episode 1 is the only game where G-Man is nowhere to be found. It could be either: 1. Vortigaunt is protecting Gordon from G-Man influences 2. G-Man travelled back to the past to hire Alyx. Either way, G-Man is playing 5D chess here.
I actually think that the way they connected this to the other games is really interesting! I cannot wait to see what happens next, if Valve decides they will do anything at all, of course. It may have been from a younger Alyx's perspective, but this actually is just a story of how G-Man goes back in time to make things go his way when Gordan Freeman becomes... a free man. Honestly, the only thing you really needed to gather from this game is that G-Man went back in time and hired Alyx as his new... tool and now that those series of events has occurred, Gordan is now free and Eli Vance is no longer dead. But now that Gordan truly is a free man, what do you think he will do? The rest of Half-Life Alyx is pretty much irrelevant. But what comes next? How about this... We prepare for unforeseen consequences. The next Valve game I hope actually brings Portal into the mix as well since Portal 2 Clearly takes place after or during the events of Half-Life 2. Maybe the next game will focus on the Borealis and what kind of a ship it really is... maybe it can tie into how to... interact with the G-Man and in turn tying the Portal series back into the Half-Life series. Yet I wonder what unforeseen consequences that will bring along.
That scene at the end where a hazy Gordon Freeman picks up his glasses and vanishes...I'm not so certain that means he was released from his assignment, and is now free. Or does it?
This all depends on where in the g-man's timeline it is.. If it's post hl2 then it's cos he is saved by the vorts and no longer in the employ of the g-man. but if pre hl2 then it's that he refuses to help. but he decides to help when ask to help earth at beginning of hl2.
I love the fact that Larry is wearing a spiked colander on his head, presumably to protect himself from the ceiling trap things. Wearing a hat can have a *distinct advantage* when you accidentally come to close to them. Also wearing the respirator mask is good too at certain points. I wore a helmet and respirator pretty much the whole game.
FINALLY 😭 this is the first time in years that I've heard something about half life....will this be the key to half life 3???? I hope so😭 Holy shit I was not expecting all of these likes thank you guys. (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ)
SHB- I just wanted to let you know that in this dark time you have been a light in the darkness. You have kept us happy and uplifted a ton of sad and worried people. Thank you for all the work you do to keep us happy. We really really appreciate it.
After so many years we finally get this! Yaaayy!!! I was hoping for a continuation from where the game originally ended but this is also alright for me👍😎👍 Half Life has been going through so much as it already is and we all deserve other perspective from other characters as to how everyone else coped and here it is. Well appreciated and cannot wait to get my hands on it!!!
When he called the galactic and enslaves species across the universe triggers me. The Combine mostly only go from one Universe to another conquering 1 or more systems for their natural reasources and species value in their army.
2:16 It's explained in a series of tweets from Breen Slug(he's in advisors body) that Advisors are ALSO enslaved species by The Combine. So they're in the same boat as the rest of the combine forces in HL2
Earth surrendered in 7 hours not 7 days. Just noticed that around 1:15ish. Great video, I enjoyed very much, love the half-life games, specially HL2 :)
Nice, I like how everything is connected. I was wondering how this impacted the ending from other games. I knew the G Man would mak a appearance at some point.
It is really fantastic work from valve. You know, the ultimate problem of prequels is that everybody knows how will the story end, well not this time. Valve just have shown to everybody how prequel could alternate the story of well known, 13 years old storyline with fatal cliffhanger. Which is of course the bonus because the main thing was to make this game at least as good as the previous one. And that is something that wasnt easy to achieve after 13 years of making the half life godlike by the fans, so to dissapoint the fans was very much easier. But well, they did it, they did it great, and its not just perfect game, its a perfect VR game and they show to everybody not just how to make a great VR game but also how to make a working prequel with unexpected ending.
This is probably the best way to retcon an event without risking too much of the main plot, gman was always warnings us for our choices so givving us an even deeper choice of change was fitting as long as it suit gmans power to do so by our actions.
@@archivist_13 you could have for free for a month now but now all the half life games or no longer free to play you missed out, but I still recommend buying them it's worth it
During the post credit scene Gman is watching Eli and Gordon, look left and he will be standing there on a platform. Also the phantoms that Gman creates during his conversation with Alyx could indicate that multiple/alternative timelines/universes are created with each choice.
Interesting how valve decided to take hl3 in a different direction than they thought 13 years ago. They did it so brilliantly that I’m just in awe. I shed a tear when I saw the ending scene because finally the story will move forward.
@@mr_man-to7bv source is a shitty remaster, blue shift and opposing force happen at the same time as half life 1 (at different segments) and deathmatch isnt cannon nor it has a story.
Just finished the Alyx as my first VR game with no idea of what Half life universe was all about. This made everything clear. Now I can join everyone in waiting for the next Sequel where we save Alyx. Thanks
So G-Man travels back in time but this time he allows himself to be captured by the Combine to unfold a more favorable set of events for himself and or his employer
Nice video here's the current status of the other protagonists we play as in the Half-Life universe Barney Calhoun: Unknown status after Episode 1 assumed to be alive with the resistance Adrian Shepard: In stasis since Black Mesa incident Gina Cross & Coletta Green: Unknown status after Black Mesa incident assumed dead except for 1 theory which that scientist is one of them (the one speaking to an advisor)
7 hour war. Not 7 day war. Also the headcrab is not a fan favorite, while yes, alot of people like it, it is still bold to assume it's a favorite of every fan. Some diehard fans love the G-Man, some the Combine and so on. Also also the base at the end of EP 2 was called "White Forest" not "White Woods"
Doomguy: *insanely powerful man who later got supernatural, god-like strength and speed. The entire hell fears him* Gordon Freeman: *a morphine addict with a crowbar*
The game looks amazing I wished there was a normal version of this. Ive got a serious problem with VR and motion sickness. But this video helped me to keep with the lore, thanks. Like
Kingsservant83 As much as vr can cause motion sickness, you can get around it. Just stop playing when you start to get sick, have a fan blowing at you, drink ginger ale when you are sick, and slowly build up an immunity by playing more intense games. It’s some of the most fun I’ve had since getting a pc many years ago.
This video title: Half-Life alyx story explained This video: *literally just recaps everything that happened in hl:a* Gg guys, you really put effort into this
16:32 The way they phrased this makes it seem like Freeman because who would even expect the G-Man? Looking back this dialogue fits his actions as well.
Thanks for this! I don't intend to buy a VR device any time soon, so this was needed. I didn't realize it's been 15 whole years since Episode 2 left us on that cliffhanger. I think it's about time they gave us a finale. Also give Freeman voice lines. The silent protagonist trope is not one I enjoy.
I'm still confused about how this new revised timeline plays out, since this is a prequel to hl2. If alyx is put in stasis at the end of this game, does hl2 end up continuing without her? Or does gman just let her go then and plucks her out of the timeline later
@@smugglersolovr6182 It’s how I’d write the story. Time travel stories are fun but difficult so I usually like to misdirect so it looks like it will be time travel then it just isn’t.
I would imagine such a reaction from someone named "ThePlatinumBloxer" like what are you, six? Come on dude, nobody plays roblox anymore. Ah good thing I wrote this so late, it's probably your bedtime.
Im guessing that went right over your head. Its called a JOKE, (Though in all seriousness i did throw it, luckily it is undamaged.) But i am not seeking attention as much as the next person, simply posting something that made me smile and i hoped it'd do the same for others. And, i wasn't bragging either, if you look at the context of it it is a joke. this belongs on r/whoosh
@@owenstephens3389 First off, you do not know me personally, i'm actually pretty funny. Second off, what is your problem? I posted a comment, do you really need to be an asshole about it? I swear to god, its people like you who make the internet a sucky place. I'm just having fun, sorry you live too sad a life to have fun like me.
fun fact, Russel wears a painted combine worker jacket, which makes me think he was a former combine member, because of his knowledge of combine tech an vehicles.
Love the Gman ending and that hidden drawing of the Gman, so creepy very alien looking. Doubt he is some future Gordan or Alyx Gordon child theories now.
Hey, SuperHorrorBro. I have a Bendy theory for you; so Norman Polk (the projectionist) is down in level 14, right? And you can kill him right? Well if you kill him, later in Bendy Land there is an area where there is... The projectionist, even though you already killed him. And also on level 14 there is a recording by Norman Polk where he says: "It's just the nature of us projectionists to seek out the dark places" notice that he says "PROJECTIONISTS" not just saying that HE seeks out the dark places. This could just be a coincidence, but in Bendy and the Ink Machine... I don't think so. Anyway you can look into it if you want, just an idea.
After 13 years they finally advanced the timeline with 10 seconds
10 seconds is way more than we ever thought was possible
Nice...
it's still the best vr game ever made which isn't saying much but i liked it hl2 is the best video game ever made to this day tho with it's innovations this series changed fps games forever
WORTH IT
But tbh it changed ALOT
The greatest legend of Gordon Freeman, the man who did not utter a single word for 20 years.
Not even a grunt or a sigh? Huh, then what have I been watching
@@Goldenglare_thewindeater I don't know, it's been so long since I played the game. But I remember Gordon's suit talked more than himself.
@@jj987987987 Gordon never grunts, sighs or a single sound to my knowledge
@@ulrikahaggard9923 i wonder how he even became a scientist if he dont even talk. I can imagine his coworker do the "Igor flip the switch" phrase on him.
Doomguy?
7-day war? I think you meant to say 7 hour war, man.
Yeah, 7 hours.
That’s annoying
he can not ignore that - such a MAYOR mistake
@@twentytwoedits2442 Was that supposed to be a pun or did you misspell it instead of using major?
Robbie Schroeder pun city.
Fans: So we saw Gordon at the end right?
Valve: Uh-huh
Fans: So it makes sense that Half Life 3 will be the next game right?
Valve: I guess
Fans: So Half Life 3 confirmed?
Valve: *Half Life Gordon*
Coming out in the year XXXX
Half-life *4*
Half life barney
Valve has Triophobia Confirmed. They are irrationally fearful of the number 3.
Of course it's gonna be half life *name*
They can't count to 3
"Gordon freeman is the super weapons the combine trying to lock away"
" Doom-Guy is the Super weapons the demons trying to lock away"
Nice crossover
Coincidence...I think not
No gordon is not the weapon that the combine is trying to lock away it was G-man
Didn't you see the ending?
Are you really that dumb
abd alrafi3 gamer Gman put Gordon in Stasis, Gordon took down the City 17 Citadel. So Gordon is really the super weapon held by Gman, held by Combine Empire.
@@reedrazor7546 Gman Put Gordon Freeman To Stasis DUMMY dumb
“Gordon Freeman, the man we play as in all previous games”
Barney Calhoun, Adrian Shephard, and Cross and Green: are we jokes to you
What about Cross and Green?
The Epic I’m a PC gamer, I don’t care about them
No lol just kidding, I’ll add them
@@societalrevival1218 pc master race huh
Garan Gaw Heil
@@garangaw3501 bruh
Compactor opens
"Oh my god, Jeff, are you okay?"
"Hehehehe"
Holy shit Alyx, slow down there.
lol shes wild
Lmao
Testaforastuff Main she’s a incredible memer
Zombine, get it? Heheh....aaaalright.
Effing brutal.
valve: gets stuck after killing eli and can't continue the story
also valve: make a whole game just to revive him
V _alve_ sauce: I'm gonna do whats called a pro gamer move.
@@mundanest they pulled a we can't count up to 3 move
Its half life 1,Alyx, then 2
@@Hhhhhhhhhhhjhjjjjjjjjnnnnn The next half life is: Half life before 4 after 2
@@postvideo97 oh ok
It's also important to note that G-man is actually the one responsible for the events that happened at Black Mesa because hes the one who delivered the test sample to Black Mesa.
wait, really? how do you know?
@@masonkaltz3234 Eli says it pretty soon before he is killed
Also Shepherd is in G man's void
@@Darkhunter218 is Shepard like dead?
@@humanman2358 he's literally trapped in a void in time and space
A lot of lore mistakes in this video... For one the Combine rule in several universes not just ours! They can jump from one universe to another but can't teleport within them thus why they need Black Mesa/Aparture's portal tech to be able to spread within the universes they invade.
ok, anything else?
@@LucasMiddleNameandLastname22 minor details but it's the "7 hour war" rather than "7 day war". Also he mentioned something about " the combine mastermind the advisor" implying there is only one. When in actuality there are many combine advisors
Him calling zen a world
@@Just-A-Bit It's a borderworld between dimensions
You can harness the space-time curved motions of the Black hole. Using that, you may travel in time and travel any limited space in short time ( teleportation ). "Time is relative btw" - Einstein, meaning any evolving living things can exists at the other dimension and study the laws there while their primary universe is dying within the cause of nature to let it happen or just us ( such as pollution but universally ).
You don't actually need to kill Jeff, only imprison him, so, technically we don't know if that's canon :D
"Half Life 3: Jeff" confirmed
Capuccino Pintucciono that may be a fun spinoff that plays like the gmod stalker game mode
The Jeff Story would make a nice dlc. Ending with him Fully converting to the Jeff we know here.
Finally a game for 5.1 audio system alone. No VR, no monitor needed.
My name's jeff
@@EviGL Omg that would be some meta shit. I'm lowkey considering making a game with no visuals just to see what it'd be like (no pun intended).
Alyx is such a charming character and her voice is also so sick, I love every piece of dialogue
i didnt like the new Eli Vance voice, Robert Guillaume original voice actor died 2017 :(
G-man employers are the development team VALVe.
he refused to get the combine off of earth because who Gordon freeman will fight if he eliminate the combine.
so like he said "it's not in his employers interest"
Valve would definitely not pull that shit. G man's employers could be other creatures from Zen but definitely not valve, do you know how much backlash they would get if they pulled that and no one would know that better than valve.
@@elevatedmeance6807 they will be never say it, it will remain a mystery of who's are the G-man employers.
simple
Yunno I gotta say man, contrary to what these other people are saying, this is actually a pretty good idea. Although, I can almost tell you for certain that this is not the case.
@@catfan__ Why does it have to be set in current time?
@@catfan__ I don't think you understand what I'm saying.
I love that Gordon and G-Man are described as a Super Weapon. They're in the same league as the Death Star.
Fr gordon is just some poor nerd who got put in a bad situation.
@@A_Black_hoodie The right man in the wrong placed. Makes all the difference.
It’s insane to think that this game came out less than a year ago. Waiting for a new Half-Life game for so long has made short amounts of time feel like ages.
The unknown female is probably jutith mossman just my theory.
Don't know why Judith would be that close to something like that especially since she was with the resistance if anything she was a spy for them on the Combine's activities which is probably why they made her out to be the other way around during the reveal in Nova Prospect. Of course the question remains on what character even for this VR title, where was Breen during all these events because he wouldn't have been in the citadel (which seemed to have been under construction) so where was he being kept.
@@cursedhawkins1305 I'm pretty sure it could be Judith. The shadow seem to have the same kind of haircut Judith have. It could be possible that Judith worked with Breen and thus the Combine for longer that we thought!
@@kulkisJulius I don't believe it is her, in HL2 we only see her a total of three times in the main campaign as well as a cameo in the following episodes since the game is supposed to take place five years before those events its more than possible that Eli and her might not have run into each other yet, yeah they might have worked at Black Mesa but that was the past compared to the present heck Eli or Alyx doesn't even mention her once during their interactions with each other, not even Russel so I'm almost certain they didn't run into her until sometime down the line.
Cursed Hawkins It’s still a possibility even if Alyx and Eli haven’t met her yet. And Judith mentions in HL2 that she wasn’t at Black Mesa. It s almost obvious that it’s her. The haircut, tha was she talks.
@@kulkisJulius No I do think she was at Black Mesa just a different area we never visited in HL1, Eli did say she was up for his job at Black Mesa but his experience is what got him the position, that doesn't mean she wasn't hired for a position somewhere else in the facility. Remember what she says when you first enter the airlock! "I've been hearing about you long before the Black Mesa incident" Someone like Judith who seems to be more aware of the incident than she lets on makes me believe that she was at Black Mesa just in a different area but was able to see the experiment take place which is also where Alyx mentions this "you should hear her drown on about how it should of been her in the Black Mesa test chamber that day"
1:19 Correction: It was a 7 *Hour* War, not 7 Day War, although it would still be equally terrifying how quick we surrendered.
The world or the entire universe?
Combine took it in 7 hours, the freeman takes it back in 30 minutes
One does not surrender until they've given up and the human race hasn't given up
There are wars where people surrendered before 7 days buy before 7 hours idk
@@thetrashmann8140 you are correct
next game Half Life Alyx : Episode 2
half life 3
I wouldn’t mind that.
Victor Yee Wouldnt make sense as she’s now working for Gman after Episode 2, so there’s no real new story to explore for Alyx that will advance the story in a meaningful way...
@@byReece it's just a joke bruh.
Half life alxy : Episode 2 part 2
Half Life 3 Confirmed? After all these memes?!
Didn't they actually revealed what Half-Life 3 would've been or something like that.
@Irsyad Aman Half Life: Alyx is a prequel... by your logic Borderlands the Pre-Sequel is Borderlands 3, and 3 is Borderlands 4...
Makes no sense, just call it what it is, a prequel.
@Irsyad Aman no half life alyx is technically a prequel
@Irsyad Aman by your logic it would mean episode 1 of half life 2 is half life 3 and episode 2 is half life 4 and alyx is half life 5 meaning half life 6 confirmed
@Irsyad Aman ALYX IS NOT HL3
valve made entire game just to add another 5 minutes of hl2 ep2 plot
You mean 5 seconds
Not only. They confirmed G-Man's role in the series as the puppet master and that vorts actually helped free him from G-Man's "employment". This changes who your antagonist is.
@ G-man is not even the puppet master, only a tool for said master. G-man works for his "employer". Plus, we already know that the vorts helped free The Freeman, but in the events of HL2:EP2, G-man is still talking to Gordon, which means he still think he can use Gordon. In this game, we know that G-man officially releasing Gordon and took Alyx instead.
@@pharydkobra i believe tüy are some powerfull combine slaved race gmans species
And retcon everything for no damn reason.
Valve learned about decimals before they decided to learn to count.
'' A 7 day war '' me when its 7 hours :pensive: :punch:
What is :pensive: :punch:
😔 🤛
if all those combine shooting alyx had just told her that gman was in there then maybe we wouldve got those end-credits earlier
long chin man She didn’t know who he was, so telling her that wouldn’t have made a difference
Perhaps in an alternative Universe the combine could have told Alyx.
Combine: "Alyx, an enemy to us both has been trapped by us. Do not set him free!"
Alyx: "Huh?"
Combine: "Tell your Dad we have imprisoned G-Man. He'll explain everything to you."
Alyx: "Uh, ok?"
Alyx: "Dad, one of the combine soldiers told me that they trapped someone called the 'G-man'. He also mentioned that this person is an enemy to the combine too."
Eli: "Oh my god. Alyx do not go into that vault! Find your way back to me and Russell, I'll explain everything."
Alyx: "Alright Dad, love you!"
Eli: "Love you too sweetheart!"
G-man: "Well... shit."
But neither alyx nor the combine realy know who "g-man" is. He never says his Name in any game, we only know his name from the game files. So if the combine would tell her that they've caught some Kind of a mysterious man able to travel in time and space, i think alyx wouldn't belive it but instead think that it's a trap.
Wow, now we finally know something about the G-man, we know that he is super powerful, so powerful that the combines are extremely terrified of him, the combine must be pretty formidable too, able to build something to contain him.
Half-Life: Alyx is the most immersive game made so far, change my mind.
Minecraft has a better plot
The difficulty is apparently to easy. I would play the game if vr headsets weren’t out of stock everywhere
Hunt down the freeman, obviously
@@INF2.160 The difficulty is not easy. I played on hard mode (the hardest mode) and it took me several days to beat the game. One zombie takes almost an entire magazine to kill, heavy combines take 2 shotgun bullets at point-blank range, antlions take an entire smg mag to kill without missing, and in the endgame, you are at the brink of running out of ammo / healing. And I played like I do in Skyrim, saving every single resource till this end. Don't even mention the lightning dogs, those things are near impossible to kill in hard.
The problem is normal mode is NOT "normal", it is much much easier than hard. I beat the game without dying once on normal, and you are left with many excess reserves.
JK It’s not easy, but it isn’t hard either.
It’s more difficult to go against enemies than in flat, since you have to physically reload and aim the gun.
The Doom-Slayer: Literally too angry to die.
The Freeman: *Literally too Silent to die quietly*
When I got to the green energy part, i didn't know you could just throw it, and instead would flick my wrist upward in the combine's direction. This resulted in what I can only describe as me feeling like iron man. By far one of the coolest parts of the game.
We not gonna talk about how good dog looks in HD
The ending shook me.
Like, it took me a bit to figure out what happened.
But now I've got it. Right after Eli was kllled, Gordon refused to work with the G-Man any longer. In doing so, G-Man used his abilities to reset certain events. Namely, the last moments of Episode 2. This results in Alyx reviving her father, but with some time-mumbo jumbo, has been taken by the G-Man and put into stasis, and now Gordon, Eli and Dog must save her from her captors, and hopefully take down the G-Man, and maybe even his employer's in the process.
Actually, G-Man already take interest in Alyx during the "Heart to Heart" scene in Episode 2.
We can assume that G-Man already fired Gordon at start of Episode 2.
@Marky Playz G-Man is strong, but he can be defeated. A group of vortigaunts manage to stop him.
Episode 1 is the only game where G-Man is nowhere to be found.
It could be either:
1. Vortigaunt is protecting Gordon from G-Man influences
2. G-Man travelled back to the past to hire Alyx.
Either way, G-Man is playing 5D chess here.
I actually think that the way they connected this to the other games is really interesting! I cannot wait to see what happens next, if Valve decides they will do anything at all, of course. It may have been from a younger Alyx's perspective, but this actually is just a story of how G-Man goes back in time to make things go his way when Gordan Freeman becomes... a free man.
Honestly, the only thing you really needed to gather from this game is that G-Man went back in time and hired Alyx as his new... tool and now that those series of events has occurred, Gordan is now free and Eli Vance is no longer dead. But now that Gordan truly is a free man, what do you think he will do? The rest of Half-Life Alyx is pretty much irrelevant. But what comes next? How about this...
We prepare for unforeseen consequences.
The next Valve game I hope actually brings Portal into the mix as well since Portal 2 Clearly takes place after or during the events of Half-Life 2. Maybe the next game will focus on the Borealis and what kind of a ship it really is... maybe it can tie into how to... interact with the G-Man and in turn tying the Portal series back into the Half-Life series.
Yet I wonder what unforeseen consequences that will bring along.
it takes place long after. leaks confirmed it. also half life ep 3 was supposed to include aperture sciense
That scene at the end where a hazy Gordon Freeman picks up his glasses and vanishes...I'm not so certain that means he was released from his assignment, and is now free. Or does it?
I think it meant G-man has no further use of Gordon. Thus, he is fired
@@pharydkobra Nope
Right? He was being protected by the vortigons, not in the void, so I saw it as a symbolic image of him being fired.
This all depends on where in the g-man's timeline it is.. If it's post hl2 then it's cos he is saved by the vorts and no longer in the employ of the g-man. but if pre hl2 then it's that he refuses to help. but he decides to help when ask to help earth at beginning of hl2.
STeven Grice good point
I love the fact that Larry is wearing a spiked colander on his head, presumably to protect himself from the ceiling trap things. Wearing a hat can have a *distinct advantage* when you accidentally come to close to them. Also wearing the respirator mask is good too at certain points. I wore a helmet and respirator pretty much the whole game.
1:17 it was a 7 hour war
This game was so fantastic, best VR game I’ve played so far.
FINALLY 😭 this is the first time in years that I've heard something about half life....will this be the key to half life 3???? I hope so😭
Holy shit I was not expecting all of these likes thank you guys. (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ)
Toxicdeadbunny Watch the ending..
@@yes5937 i did°^°
Toxicdeadbunny Ah then, yes we are
it technically is
@@Supasauce91 well hell😅
Alyx:*uses trash compactor to kill Jeff*
Star Wars fans:Trash compactor on the detention level,trash compactor on the detention level!!!
SHB- I just wanted to let you know that in this dark time you have been a light in the darkness. You have kept us happy and uplifted a ton of sad and worried people. Thank you for all the work you do to keep us happy. We really really appreciate it.
After so many years we finally get this! Yaaayy!!! I was hoping for a continuation from where the game originally ended but this is also alright for me👍😎👍 Half Life has been going through so much as it already is and we all deserve other perspective from other characters as to how everyone else coped and here it is. Well appreciated and cannot wait to get my hands on it!!!
When he called the galactic and enslaves species across the universe triggers me. The Combine mostly only go from one Universe to another conquering 1 or more systems for their natural reasources and species value in their army.
I hope they don't run into Hell or the Maykers, who do the same thing.
The character we play in all previous games.
Blue shift: **Barney crying in corner**
Apposing force: *shepard crying in the corner*
Half life: Alien Mode Vortiguant: first time?
Half-Life...Is Back…
That’s all I can say! ❤️
Man i feel like we are going to look for the Borealis in HL3 to save Alyx
14:46 She is even more dead on the inside than Jeff in general, THAT"S MY GIRL!!
2:16 It's explained in a series of tweets from Breen Slug(he's in advisors body) that Advisors are ALSO enslaved species by The Combine.
So they're in the same boat as the rest of the combine forces in HL2
"you don't need all of this to imprison Gordon Freeman" Oh yeah, but what about DOOM SLAYER?!
Half life: Vortigaunt. Basically oddworld, but now you can fight back and Freeman sometimes help
It now make way more sense that he has traveled back in time.
Earth surrendered in 7 hours not 7 days. Just noticed that around 1:15ish. Great video, I enjoyed very much, love the half-life games, specially HL2 :)
Nice, I like how everything is connected. I was wondering how this impacted the ending from other games. I knew the G Man would mak a appearance at some point.
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@@amo8804 what?
Nicely done. Here's a thought: Gordon and Alyx end up together, have a child, "Chell", who goes on as the focus of Portal.
No.
That’s nonsensical
It is really fantastic work from valve. You know, the ultimate problem of prequels is that everybody knows how will the story end, well not this time. Valve just have shown to everybody how prequel could alternate the story of well known, 13 years old storyline with fatal cliffhanger. Which is of course the bonus because the main thing was to make this game at least as good as the previous one. And that is something that wasnt easy to achieve after 13 years of making the half life godlike by the fans, so to dissapoint the fans was very much easier. But well, they did it, they did it great, and its not just perfect game, its a perfect VR game and they show to everybody not just how to make a great VR game but also how to make a working prequel with unexpected ending.
This is probably the best way to retcon an event without risking too much of the main plot, gman was always warnings us for our choices so givving us an even deeper choice of change was fitting as long as it suit gmans power to do so by our actions.
Maybe this is the kick in the pants I need to get around to playing the games.
Have you played any of them?
@@turbochop3300 not yet
@@archivist_13 you could have for free for a month now but now all the half life games or no longer free to play you missed out, but I still recommend buying them it's worth it
@@gabepvpz ok thanks
@@archivist_13 Make sure to play Black Mesa too, it's a great remake
"handy dandy hacking tool"
me: i love you already
My guess is that at the end, The G Man is not a good guy but he isn't a bad guy either. He simply needed you to get stuff done.
When Eli gives the crowbar to freeman you can see G man watching them from the staircase on the left.
@@SamTheMan55555 no i don't
cvetan Botev my bad, you were right.
18:43 this thing looks so similar to a bacteria phague
First thing I thought
During the post credit scene Gman is watching Eli and Gordon, look left and he will be standing there on a platform. Also the phantoms that Gman creates during his conversation with Alyx could indicate that multiple/alternative timelines/universes are created with each choice.
The man we play as in all previous Half-Life games... So Barney and Adrian don't count?
Don't for get cross and green
Those are expansion packs, not games.
@@nunuhermansyah7562 decay is a game
22:00 Gordon Freeman talking ... Hmmm ... Never thought that Ross Scott had a role in HL Alyx!
Interesting how valve decided to take hl3 in a different direction than they thought 13 years ago. They did it so brilliantly that I’m just in awe. I shed a tear when I saw the ending scene because finally the story will move forward.
This is not half life 3 if you were to count blue shft, opping force, source, death match, it wiuld be half life 6
@@mr_man-to7bv source is a shitty remaster, blue shift and opposing force happen at the same time as half life 1 (at different segments) and deathmatch isnt cannon nor it has a story.
16:00 that's clearly Judith Mossmen
Not necessarily
Its not
No it's Karen
Na
Sad Toast she worked with Breen to spy on him so I doubt she has a direct line with an Advisor.
1:18 7 hours, not 7 days
Ikr people want money ....
Just finished the Alyx as my first VR game with no idea of what Half life universe was all about. This made everything clear. Now I can join everyone in waiting for the next Sequel where we save Alyx. Thanks
Damn that new Gordon Freeman model kinda hot though.
i like how you casually mentioned one of the saddest moments of both half life and gaming
So G-Man travels back in time but this time he allows himself to be captured by the Combine to unfold a more favorable set of events for himself and or his employer
I didn’t even crush Jeff I just left him there I didn’t even know you could crush him
"Whitewoods revel base" it's the White-FOREST revel base.
Rebel*
You said unfortunately she gets on the wrong floor for the elevator scene but that is the floor she intended on going to
I do hope to free Alex in the next installment. But I hope that Valve doesnt forget about the Borialis.
its not a seven day war, its a 7 HOUR war lmao
I am curious as to how you knew about the Gman realizing that Gordon Freeman tried to alter events. Like when and where was Gordon trying to do that?
Nice video here's the current status of the other protagonists we play as in the Half-Life universe
Barney Calhoun: Unknown status after Episode 1 assumed to be alive with the resistance
Adrian Shepard: In stasis since Black Mesa incident
Gina Cross & Coletta Green: Unknown status after Black Mesa incident assumed dead except for 1 theory which that scientist is one of them (the one speaking to an advisor)
7 hour war. Not 7 day war.
Also the headcrab is not a fan favorite, while yes, alot of people like it, it is still bold to assume it's a favorite of every fan. Some diehard fans love the G-Man, some the Combine and so on.
Also also the base at the end of EP 2 was called "White Forest" not "White Woods"
Doomguy: *insanely powerful man who later got supernatural, god-like strength and speed. The entire hell fears him*
Gordon Freeman: *a morphine addict with a crowbar*
The game looks amazing I wished there was a normal version of this. Ive got a serious problem with VR and motion sickness. But this video helped me to keep with the lore, thanks. Like
Kingsservant83 As much as vr can cause motion sickness, you can get around it.
Just stop playing when you start to get sick, have a fan blowing at you, drink ginger ale when you are sick, and slowly build up an immunity by playing more intense games.
It’s some of the most fun I’ve had since getting a pc many years ago.
Who would win?
A scientist with a powerfull suit vs
A girl with gloves
This video title: Half-Life alyx story explained
This video: *literally just recaps everything that happened in hl:a*
Gg guys, you really put effort into this
I thought this aswell, there’s not much explaination, just exposition of the whole story
It’s not the advisor it’s an advisor
we have waited this many years just to get a teaser for half-life 3 which will most likely come out in another 20 years
16:32 The way they phrased this makes it seem like Freeman because who would even expect the G-Man? Looking back this dialogue fits his actions as well.
"The man we play as in all previous Half Life games"
Half Life Blue Shift, Opposing Force, and Decay: Am I joke to you?
Thanks for this! I don't intend to buy a VR device any time soon, so this was needed.
I didn't realize it's been 15 whole years since Episode 2 left us on that cliffhanger.
I think it's about time they gave us a finale. Also give Freeman voice lines. The silent protagonist trope is not one I enjoy.
It took 13 years to make a good damn twist
I think every series has this pattern:
First,sequel,sequel,sequel,sequel,sequel and then prequel and reconning everything
I'm still confused about how this new revised timeline plays out, since this is a prequel to hl2. If alyx is put in stasis at the end of this game, does hl2 end up continuing without her? Or does gman just let her go then and plucks her out of the timeline later
I think he lets her go without remembering this talk so the rest of events up until that moment can happen then she vanished after the advisor dies
Yeah i have the same question
Im just going to go off of your answer @projectechoshadow
@@smugglersolovr6182 It’s how I’d write the story. Time travel stories are fun but difficult so I usually like to misdirect so it looks like it will be time travel then it just isn’t.
it probably takes place in an alternate timeline and it will probably combine with the normal one in a new entry
@22:00 if you were to look left at this moment before you take the Crowbar...you'd see G-man standing there looking over you.
I like to know how Portal fits in all this. As both Portal and Half-life take place in the same universe.
Portal is 50 000 years in the future, thats all
branimir CLASSIFIED that was never confirmed.
@@branimirgacina4 that was a joke to keep portal ambiguous in the timeline.
In portal dont you visit the boat dock where the borealis is missing?
There are several plot points across two games about keeping Eli Vance alive. I’m thinking he’s more important than both Alyx and Gordon.
16:14 Dr. Mossman?
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That Russell guy looks like the portrait for a SC2 terran unit I just can't remember... scv?
“-and waged a seven day war-“
*pauses video* Did i hear that right?
*replays*
“-and waged a seven DAY war-“
My literal reaction: throws phone
I would imagine such a reaction from someone named "ThePlatinumBloxer" like what are you, six? Come on dude, nobody plays roblox anymore.
Ah good thing I wrote this so late, it's probably your bedtime.
Lmao stop attention seeking dude. Even if you did throw your phone, why in the hell would you brag about it?
Im guessing that went right over your head. Its called a JOKE, (Though in all seriousness i did throw it, luckily it is undamaged.) But i am not seeking attention as much as the next person, simply posting something that made me smile and i hoped it'd do the same for others. And, i wasn't bragging either, if you look at the context of it it is a joke.
this belongs on r/whoosh
@@thatdapperplat7805 your jokes suck. Don't grow up hoping to be a comedian.
@@owenstephens3389 First off, you do not know me personally, i'm actually pretty funny. Second off, what is your problem? I posted a comment, do you really need to be an asshole about it? I swear to god, its people like you who make the internet a sucky place. I'm just having fun, sorry you live too sad a life to have fun like me.
fun fact, Russel wears a painted combine worker jacket, which makes me think he was a former combine member, because of his knowledge of combine tech an vehicles.
7:53 Did he say "White Woods" instead of White Forest?
still a good artist so
Love the Gman ending and that hidden drawing of the Gman, so creepy very alien looking. Doubt he is some future Gordan or Alyx Gordon child theories now.
The real twist, Gordon Freeman is Morgan Freeman's younger brother
Aydin Parks yeah and their big brother is Morgan Freeman.
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I liked hes vidoe!
Hey, SuperHorrorBro. I have a Bendy theory for you; so Norman Polk (the projectionist) is down in level 14, right? And you can kill him right? Well if you kill him, later in Bendy Land there is an area where there is... The projectionist, even though you already killed him. And also on level 14 there is a recording by Norman Polk where he says: "It's just the nature of us projectionists to seek out the dark places" notice that he says "PROJECTIONISTS" not just saying that HE seeks out the dark places. This could just be a coincidence, but in Bendy and the Ink Machine... I don't think so. Anyway you can look into it if you want, just an idea.
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