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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @wellplayed6061
    @wellplayed6061 5 лет назад +13028

    The combine will never again control earth, as they have met their ultimate match: Valve's release schedule.

    • @terner1234
      @terner1234 5 лет назад +741

      So THAT was gaben's plan all along, he knew gordon freeman couldn't defeat the combine, so he didn't continue the story

    • @boxylemons7961
      @boxylemons7961 5 лет назад +488

      @@terner1234 Gabe Newell: The True Hero of Half Life

    • @terner1234
      @terner1234 5 лет назад +196

      @@boxylemons7961 and portal, and team fortress, and left for dead

    • @thecombinesoldier6611
      @thecombinesoldier6611 5 лет назад +38

      **insert distant fuuufufufuuufuuu**

    • @Albert_C
      @Albert_C 5 лет назад +25

      But they didn't really lose control of Earth anyway.

  • @charleslathrop9743
    @charleslathrop9743 5 лет назад +6959

    When you're a first person shooter character, but the antagonist is playing Stellaris.

    • @overlordmgcover2262
      @overlordmgcover2262 5 лет назад +553

      Especially when there is actually a mod which let's you play as the Combine after the events of the games. It has some nice static portraits. Combine it with the Astronomical Emblem Pack and the Combine Overwatch VIR mod and you have a nice empire for roleplaying! The mods name is Universal Union and it has a buildable Citadel. The only problem with this citadel is the inability to build advanced buildings and upgrade others. The modder is trying to fix this.

    • @SkorMedia
      @SkorMedia 5 лет назад +77

      OverlordMGC Over - That is righteous

    • @landynlinhares9494
      @landynlinhares9494 4 года назад +66

      *Galactica Universalis

    • @KlaussMarcellus
      @KlaussMarcellus 4 года назад +54

      @@landynlinhares9494 *Hearts of Stars

    • @ecogreen123
      @ecogreen123 4 года назад +27

      i never thought of it that way, that's really interesting

  • @wolpertinger1275
    @wolpertinger1275 5 лет назад +5861

    "Transhuman Arm of the Combine Overwatch" ah, yes, the terrifying TACO

    • @raiderfox7229
      @raiderfox7229 5 лет назад +175

      Get the joke, but combine ain't an official name.

    • @Cacowninja
      @Cacowninja 5 лет назад +30

      Wouldn't it be TAOTCO?

    • @raiderfox7229
      @raiderfox7229 5 лет назад +254

      @@Cacowninja "The" "and" "of" Are usually not included, since it makes it unnecessarily long and mouthful.

    • @Sierra026
      @Sierra026 5 лет назад +186

      So, TACO Tuesday? Lord Business is pleased

    • @Ribbons0121R121
      @Ribbons0121R121 5 лет назад +26

      its tako tuesday all over again

  • @neonsolace2748
    @neonsolace2748 5 лет назад +858

    Dude just imagine taking a nap for like 8 hours and then finding the earth another place
    You'll think that god sent you to hell way early

    • @exewarrior1937
      @exewarrior1937 4 года назад +68

      Meh, I would wake up and see my roof blown away and saw a tall Strider above me.

    • @xDamage69
      @xDamage69 4 года назад +63

      imagine the noise of a global scale battle, scary

    • @kafuchino3435
      @kafuchino3435 4 года назад +37

      imagine living somewhere where the war is taking place at night when youre about to sleep

    • @ashleycat4
      @ashleycat4 3 года назад +43

      I find it amusing realizing that Chell slept through the 7 Hour War.

    • @sushiinyourface293
      @sushiinyourface293 3 года назад +33

      @@ashleycat4 Even better, Chell (probably) slept through the downfall of the combine as well

  • @sulphuric_glue4468
    @sulphuric_glue4468 5 лет назад +4976

    Some say that the secret teleportation technology needed to defeat the Combine is hidden deep underground in a vast labyrinth of testing chambers...

    • @bal_masque
      @bal_masque 5 лет назад +719

      Nope, its somewhere in the ice in an undefined arctic location, and the technology is apparently a ship called the Borealis.

    • @dalekrenegade2596
      @dalekrenegade2596 5 лет назад +106

      Bird is the word.

    • @KEVMAN7987
      @KEVMAN7987 5 лет назад +356

      Half Life 3 & Portal 3 would be a single game?

    • @edenjung9816
      @edenjung9816 5 лет назад +545

      @@bal_masque Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? in this part of the country? Entirley located in your kitchen?

    • @RiveryJerald
      @RiveryJerald 5 лет назад +26

      @@edenjung9816 old shit meme

  • @WingsOfFreedom07
    @WingsOfFreedom07 5 лет назад +2832

    The key to defeating the mighty Combine Empire lies somewhere along the mysterious number... '"3".

    • @plasmaxl8626
      @plasmaxl8626 5 лет назад +133

      Never heard of it. Sounds important

    • @WingsOfFreedom07
      @WingsOfFreedom07 5 лет назад +93

      @@plasmaxl8626 it is! But do not worry my friend! Valve didn't hear about it neither :D

    • @RevolverRez
      @RevolverRez 5 лет назад +43

      Which number would that be? All you posted was some strange emoticon thing.

    • @dolengea1523
      @dolengea1523 5 лет назад +24

      This is a caracter Valve does not approve, delete it or be exterminated XD

    • @cakeswithbutterandsteroids7700
      @cakeswithbutterandsteroids7700 5 лет назад +1

      lel, you're still alive? I used to slaughter you on Crysis 3 MP.

  • @laggrenade863
    @laggrenade863 5 лет назад +5296

    Plot twist: the G-Man's employers are the Templin Institute

  • @Auditer2009
    @Auditer2009 5 лет назад +616

    *"Don't drink the water.. They put something in it, to make you forget.. I don't even know how I got here."*

    • @odyseuszkoskiniotis6266
      @odyseuszkoskiniotis6266 4 года назад +60

      Their tactics were truly terrifying. And all the knowledge the consultants have provided around the Earth. Damn

    • @ldbonq
      @ldbonq 4 года назад +13

      Dr. Breen's Mind Altering Chemicals

    • @f.palmero5010
      @f.palmero5010 4 года назад +35

      *"Were you the only ones on that train?"*

    • @Bananappleboy
      @Bananappleboy 4 года назад +32

      *_This doesnt make any sense. Ive got a standard relocation schedule just like everybody else!_*

    • @tidepod10yearsago97
      @tidepod10yearsago97 3 года назад +6

      *Grabs the empty noodle box and puts it back in the table*

  • @PanzerMan332
    @PanzerMan332 5 лет назад +1713

    My favorite part about the Combine is how vast and powerful they are. Once you actually get a scope for how impossibly big they actually are, it feels like playing through the events of Half Life 2 is a fool's errand. City 17 is just one city on one planet in one galaxy in one universe. The Combine will always have more troops to send. They're so vast that we don't even know what the original race that started the Combine looks like.

    • @49mozzer
      @49mozzer 5 лет назад +188

      You could say the same about XCOM 2. The only real advantage XCOM has is the Avenger which allows them to strike anywhere but other then that they are out-manned an outgunned by an alien force that can call on limitless reinforcements. It's only through the tactical genius of their commander and their ability to adapt alien tech to their own needs that gives them a chance but it's still an uphill battle.
      While the Lambda resistance doesn't have a giant ship or a master tactician they do have a competent science team that is working on adapting combine tech for their own needs and more scientists are being trained. With the combine super portal gone it'll probably take the combine years if not decades to return which is more then enough time for humanity to reproduce and prepare for them.

    • @omarabe26
      @omarabe26 5 лет назад +221

      +@@49mozzer That is true. But the tech that the Combine left on Earth is only basic OTA Tech that is moddled and innovated from human tech. I don't think humanity would be prepared for the sophisticated Synth walkers and soldiers, advanced robots that can use Dark Energy as a weapon (the same shit that we humans irl barely know anything about) and the vast number of diseases and fungi that would not only surpass the headcrab infestations, but also possess sophisticated sentience. And that's only the surface of the Combine military infastructure. Fuck knows what else they have.

    • @49mozzer
      @49mozzer 5 лет назад +10

      You seem to be throwing around alot of assumptions here rather then facts.

    • @omarabe26
      @omarabe26 5 лет назад +131

      +@@49mozzer What do you mean? Most of this is mentioned in the lore that the Combine tech on Earth is pretty basic and is mostly remade human tech. Why do you think they call the Combine Earth Outpost the Overwatch Transhuman Arm?

    • @LeviForWaifu
      @LeviForWaifu 5 лет назад +47

      @@49mozzer depends on what the G man was thinking.
      I think he wanted the combine to all out invade earth so that his employers can take the combine in a weakened state, selling earth short.

  • @Sizifus
    @Sizifus 3 года назад +352

    Even if humanity would escape the grasp of the combine, they'd be scarred forever, as the existence of the combine would be an ever present thought.

    • @lazycarrot6592
      @lazycarrot6592 2 года назад +62

      and the damage they had done to earth seems irreversible. so even if the resistance somehow managed to beat combine, it's never gonna be the same since then.

    • @Sizifus
      @Sizifus 2 года назад +20

      @samsalaz That's one of the things that make their presence so horrific, imo

    • @firebottle8402
      @firebottle8402 Год назад

      @@lazycarrot6592 Nothing is irreversible in planetary scale except for the total destruction of the planet. It would take many years but in the end Earth and its species would redcover

    • @DanielsArtStudioGamesAnimation
      @DanielsArtStudioGamesAnimation Год назад +3

      People did this to themself. Have they not open the portal to the Zen World. The Combine would never knew what earth is. And won't have come here.

    • @Burnthealphabetpeople
      @Burnthealphabetpeople Год назад +3

      @@DanielsArtStudioGamesAnimationthey would have found out that just made them come sooner than they would on their own

  • @SpanishDio
    @SpanishDio 5 лет назад +692

    *'Their slaves, we are their slaves'*
    -Nihilanth (refering to the Combine Empire)

    • @serbianslav5494
      @serbianslav5494 4 года назад +65

      Nihilanth tried to warn Gordon, but he did not listen.

    • @nogunk147
      @nogunk147 4 года назад +42

      Not combine. The trans dimensional beings Gman is aiding. The characters of half life are all just pawns in their game

    • @adeadchannel4129
      @adeadchannel4129 4 года назад +9

      @Gordon Freemanarent the alien grunts an artificially produced soldier?

    • @memedude8303
      @memedude8303 4 года назад +9

      @@adeadchannel4129 i myself am not a lore master but i do know that enslaving the vortigaunts is an asshole thing to do.

    • @bluegum6438
      @bluegum6438 4 года назад +15

      @@adeadchannel4129 I'm fairly certain the alien grunts are mutated vortigaunts, like how the orcs were made from elves in LotR

  • @LocalHeretic-ck1kd
    @LocalHeretic-ck1kd 5 лет назад +2167

    8:28 I see what you did there.

    • @MrChristheWise
      @MrChristheWise 5 лет назад +63

      : (

    • @notfreeman6809
      @notfreeman6809 5 лет назад +68

      "But it seems like that the sheer determination of humanity to live in a world where the third event happened might be enough"

    • @jacobaurelius5361
      @jacobaurelius5361 5 лет назад +5

      😢😢😢

    • @1urie1
      @1urie1 5 лет назад +10

      hope is fading confirmed

    • @ACogloc
      @ACogloc 5 лет назад +9

      Haha... ha.. ow..

  • @empathicspade8637
    @empathicspade8637 5 лет назад +2166

    Rise and shine

  • @Trash_prince
    @Trash_prince 5 лет назад +1058

    "Welcome to the Combine Overwatch, here's your Pulse Rifle, Keys to the new apartment, a doubled ration of food, and a flesh light"

    • @theprepaintedcanvis3452
      @theprepaintedcanvis3452 5 лет назад +69

      Do I get a APC?

    • @CAPTAIN_CLOCK
      @CAPTAIN_CLOCK 5 лет назад +76

      Flesh or flash? Those are VERY different concepts lmao

    • @CAPTAIN_CLOCK
      @CAPTAIN_CLOCK 4 года назад +56

      @RockabillyFox if im not wrong its both "mechanical" and "non-mechanical", so maybe its the fleshlight, and some sort of mind fucking device? i cant possibly understand what non-mechanical could mean.

    • @CAPTAIN_CLOCK
      @CAPTAIN_CLOCK 4 года назад +34

      @@yuriko_AH mechanical is sex, like physically the dick on the... whatever. non-mechanical could be chemicals applied on your bloodstream to make you have an orgasm?

    • @chryon315
      @chryon315 4 года назад +62

      I think it’s Civil Protection you mean, not Overwatch.
      Overwatch are highly disposable troops and they can’t really feel anything. They can still feel fear of being relocated to other planets or fear of death but they can’t think of defecting due to the Combine brainfucking their heads.

  • @Flamme-Sanabi
    @Flamme-Sanabi 3 года назад +499

    The Combine is the closest thing we have to a lovecraftian empire.

    • @KorianHUN
      @KorianHUN Год назад +41

      One of the most terrifying detail is their memory manipulation. Regular people don't have too many memories left but the soldiers were mindwiped. You are still you to a degree but you don't know what memories you lost.

    • @convergence9042
      @convergence9042 Год назад +6

      *Laughs in Xeelee and Downstreamers*

    • @DogeickBateman
      @DogeickBateman Год назад +2

      A Lovecraft Empire spreading its grip via memetic ideology akin to 1984 INGSOC

    • @jollygrapefruit786
      @jollygrapefruit786 Год назад +25

      It really is fascinating to think they could have started as a humble single race empire which got really good at both space faring and colonialism, but were so overwhelmingly successful at assimilation that the original species is no longer even remembered as the beginning, and the empires scope may be so grand that there's no reason to bother honoring that origin in the first place. Cold, calculated, and vicious, like a devourer of sentience itself that seeks only to grow its database with zero understanding of culture, self identity or empathy. It grows only because it can, like a replicating machine who's creator turned it on and died before being able to shut it off again.

  • @GunRunner106
    @GunRunner106 5 лет назад +884

    Wake up, Mr. Freeman.
    Wake up, and smell the ashes.

    • @PewPewPlasmagun
      @PewPewPlasmagun 5 лет назад +24

      Rice and milk, Mr. Freeman.
      Waky waky. Smell the roses.

    • @ardagus9917
      @ardagus9917 5 лет назад +9

      Argaaahaa!!!
      Back the fk up!
      Back it up... keep going!

    • @Lukas-ev5zr
      @Lukas-ev5zr 5 лет назад +5

      mmmmmmmmmmm thats some good ash you have got there

    • @vermin4275
      @vermin4275 5 лет назад +1

      Nooooo. Grandpa is dead.

    • @TheFlodyo
      @TheFlodyo 5 лет назад +5

      Wake up, Mr.Newell
      Wake up, and hear the disapointed fans

  • @buggyboy2849
    @buggyboy2849 5 лет назад +956

    Carbon stars with ancient satellites colonized by sentient fungi. Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membranes where the dimensions intersect... Impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary!

    • @elopeous3285
      @elopeous3285 5 лет назад +153

      What I've seen is also impossible to describe. Genocide. Millions of people enslaved to do the combines bidding

    • @geeworm
      @geeworm 5 лет назад +140

      "Vast meteorological intelligences."
      That just might be the Particle storms, described to be mostly assumed as an electrical disturbance, but Maxwell thinks they're more than that.

    • @eitkoml
      @eitkoml 5 лет назад +53

      @@elopeous3285 Not millions, billions.

    • @trippyulyanov2012
      @trippyulyanov2012 5 лет назад +111

      >says stuff is impossible to describe with our vocabulary
      >tries to describe it anyway

    • @celeb909h6
      @celeb909h6 5 лет назад +83

      "What I've seen is also beyond words,Breen. Genocide. Indescribable evil."

  • @rdw1731
    @rdw1731 5 лет назад +878

    Welcome to City 17

    • @mattstorm360
      @mattstorm360 5 лет назад +48

      It's 'safer' here.

    • @sbugmanthenoobinator
      @sbugmanthenoobinator 5 лет назад +29

      One of our finest remaining centres...

    • @NomadKolibria
      @NomadKolibria 5 лет назад +63

      Welcome, welcome to city 17. You have have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I have thought so much of city 17 that I have chosen to establish my administration here, in the citadel so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. So whether you're here to stay or on your way to parts unknown, welcome... to city 17. It's safer here.

    • @tmack11
      @tmack11 5 лет назад +14

      Pick up that can

    • @mrtannzr
      @mrtannzr 5 лет назад +21

      Don't drink the water!

  • @ShyGuyXXL
    @ShyGuyXXL 5 лет назад +568

    "The Combine" is not a name they have chosen for themselves. It seems to be a name the citizens of earth have come up with. Breen states it's a name that "small minds" use.
    So maybe the Rebels came up with it. He refers to them as the "universial union".

    • @renownedhonor
      @renownedhonor 4 года назад +55

      Maybe they call them combine because they don't know the origins, since they use alot of races for themselves.

    • @DrDoobius
      @DrDoobius 3 года назад +81

      I'd say the name also came from the Combine (as in the farming machine) which cuts down anything in its path (aka draining earth of its resources)

    • @xylogram4168
      @xylogram4168 3 года назад +30

      Question: Then why, if "Combine" is such a disrespectful term, does Breen use "Transhuman Arm of the COMBINE Overwatch" when refering to the soldiers and alike in Nova Prospekt? Even the iconography around the city doesn't have "UU", but "CMB".

    • @ShyGuyXXL
      @ShyGuyXXL 3 года назад +12

      @@xylogram4168 To be honest, I don't know anymore. I guess the combine are like... part of the universal union? Or like... they are a force sent out by the universal union? Like their military division or something? I dunno. It's hard to glean any concrete info from these vague statements.

    • @juliendacoolien3454
      @juliendacoolien3454 3 года назад +14

      @@xylogram4168 I'm thinking that the Combine is so ambivalent that it doesn't really enforce whatever it's referred to.

  • @AsparagusVideo
    @AsparagusVideo 4 года назад +773

    The Combine: to conquer everything, for absolute power.
    The Nihilanth: to survive, bulldozing everyone in its way.
    Earth: to explore, even where we're not meant to go.

    • @Burneth_
      @Burneth_ 3 года назад +20

      Sounds legit

    • @firesmash600
      @firesmash600 2 года назад +105

      Gordon Freeman: to beat the shit out of everything, despite being a theoretical physicist.

    • @bloodysimile4893
      @bloodysimile4893 2 года назад +15

      Remind me of Star Trek with Q warning the enterprise and given the a much needed reality check by making the crew encounter the Borg.

    • @Man_Aslume
      @Man_Aslume Год назад +1

      Houndeye gaming: Get back to Xen and drink sprite

    • @AurelionSass
      @AurelionSass Год назад +3

      @@firesmash600 -"NOOO, you're just a regular joe in a stupid orange suit, you can't just topple our multiversal empire!!!"
      - "Hehehe, crowbar go BONK."

  • @hanloncaldwell8571
    @hanloncaldwell8571 5 лет назад +413

    Yes! I love the lore behind the combine! I really wish we had more cannon lore about them. But l supposed that the level of mystery is what makes them so intriguing. Not really knowing their full capabilities or what kind of resources they have access to.

    • @L.Mandrake
      @L.Mandrake 5 лет назад +47

      I agree! also the fact that information about them is acquired in bits and pieces through NPC chatter, or inferred from seemingly unimportant scenical details, or even discovered by digging through cut content (like the manhack arcade or that portal under the ocean).

    • @hanloncaldwell8571
      @hanloncaldwell8571 5 лет назад +45

      @@L.Mandrake definitely! Also I like how you kind of get the feeling that the combine presence on earth is a lot like an iceberg, in that we're really only seeing a small part of the whole that exists in their own dimension(s) and how we're probably not much more than a blip on their radar. maybe like a small Outpost in some Backwater part of the universe, and they really only colonised us out of opportunity, what with the resonance Cascade and everything.

    • @hanloncaldwell8571
      @hanloncaldwell8571 5 лет назад +3

      @@L.Mandrake what portal under the ocean are you referring to? I couldn't find any info on it

    • @L.Mandrake
      @L.Mandrake 5 лет назад +1

      @@hanloncaldwell8571 I'm not sure, it's a blurry memory (hl2 days have long gone by, unfortunately). But the narrator briefly mentions it at 5:59

    • @L.Mandrake
      @L.Mandrake 5 лет назад +3

      @@hanloncaldwell8571 the only reference I could find is here: combineoverwiki.net/wiki/The_Coast#Behind_the_scenes
      They say more info can be found in HL: Raising the Bar, which I never really got my hands onto...

  • @JRed-jf7jn
    @JRed-jf7jn 4 года назад +206

    NOW I get why Half-Life 3 is the most hyped game of all time.

    • @mho...
      @mho... 2 года назад +9

      HalfLife games itself where absolute Gamechangers! thats why ppl are soo after part3!... the exploration of the story is pretty much secondary in the "hype"!

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked Год назад +5

      half life always innovates, every entry has innovated into gaming in some form including Half Life Alyx, that game showed everyone that VR is not a gimmick and has a future in gaming

    • @jaysonmacdonald7770
      @jaysonmacdonald7770 6 месяцев назад +2

      It also explains why it's taking forever to make it, this kind of hype must be handled VERY carefully

    • @Blackandwhitecat-to5ll
      @Blackandwhitecat-to5ll 2 месяца назад

      ​@@jaysonmacdonald7770Wait it's actually being developed?

  • @Niko-gt3hr
    @Niko-gt3hr 5 лет назад +893

    I, for one, welcome our new Benefactors.

    • @cynk2780
      @cynk2780 5 лет назад +64

      The Benefactors did nothing wrong.

    • @prebenjaeger
      @prebenjaeger 5 лет назад +29

      hAiL tHe CoMBinE

    • @Surkee
      @Surkee 5 лет назад +37

      Make Earth great again

    • @Ribbons0121R121
      @Ribbons0121R121 5 лет назад +7

      you are both a heretic and a fool!

    • @kryswilkins8615
      @kryswilkins8615 5 лет назад +35

      Welcome to City 17.
      It’s safer here.
      Notice how he doesn’t say “safe”.
      He says it’s “safer”.

  • @mr.nthanneres4662
    @mr.nthanneres4662 5 лет назад +3961

    who would win:
    the most power full army in the entire multiverse
    or
    crowbarman

    • @GloriG_C17
      @GloriG_C17 5 лет назад +180

      with god and sv_cheat 1 code

    • @ukilledmydog9628
      @ukilledmydog9628 5 лет назад +78

      Whos Rambo or John Wick near Gordon Freeman? Hes the Chuck Norris of the Games

    • @Journey_to_who_knows
      @Journey_to_who_knows 5 лет назад +55

      That's why they had to close the portal near the ending, if the earth overwatch managed to get reinforcements from the rest of the empire then the planet would be completely gone

    • @satina1169
      @satina1169 5 лет назад +65

      Imagine the half life series was actually just called crowbarman lol. Crowbarman 1, Crowbarman Blue Crowbar, Crowbarman Opposing Crowbars..

    • @froschreiniger2639
      @froschreiniger2639 5 лет назад +27

      crowbarman will beat them all to death

  • @Sammie1053
    @Sammie1053 4 года назад +429

    Okay, wow, I think I just figured out how the franchise is likely to end.
    The Combine are bad at in-universe teleportation, potentially teleportation as a whole. They didn't get to earth by creating a new dimensional rift, they merely exploited an existing one, the one created during the resonance cascade. In Episode 1, when the Citadel is set to explode, Kleiner tells the surviving residents of City 17 that the cascade failure of all the Citadel reactors means the Combine forces on earth are cut off from reinforcements. When the super-portal is closed at the end of Episode 2, that traps the Combine forces on earth.
    Now, what's stopping another invasion force from just teleporting into this universe again? They didn't have infrastructure on earth the first time, so that's no biggie right?
    Well, like we've established, they exploit existing dimensional rifts, they can't create new ones. And the former Black Mesa team is GREAT at closing dimensional rifts and manipulating Xen travel (Gordon, Barney, Adrian Shepherd, and the protags from Decay all helped deploy machinery to either help guide intradimensional teleportation or to pinpoint and close existing rifts). So the Combine can only invade for a second time if there's still an active dimensional rift being created and/or held open by something.
    Enter the Borealis.
    If the Combine forces can capture the Borealis, they can use its busted ass teleportation device to either go back to their home world and regroup or just to let reinforcements in. If the resistance can capture it, they can shut it down or destroy it, closing the only un-accounted for dimensional rift a secondary invasion force would be able to use to enter our dimension. If Black Mesa can destroy the Borealis, the Combine are cut off from our universe forever.

    • @addust
      @addust 4 года назад +75

      And Aperture has full access to the Borealis systems, meaning that once the teleporter is off GLaDOS can pump it with WAY too much neurotoxin for even a combine mask.

    • @Ghost-ql3hl
      @Ghost-ql3hl 4 года назад +33

      One of the rare times we might actually see Glados do something good

    • @thegrayinthefield8764
      @thegrayinthefield8764 4 года назад +60

      They do suck at teleportation.
      There's still the question of how the Combine grew to be as large as it is, especially if they'd need some kind of dimensional rift to enter a universe.
      It's been established that they "tunnel" into a universe, so what I'm thinking is that this universe must've been far beyond the Combine's influence and they wouldn't have been able to find it even if they wanted to or had the means (at least not immediately). They somehow detected the resonance cascade and followed it to Earth but because it was beyond their grasp they couldn't actually find it's location in the Multiverse. Even if they did find this universe they could still end up on any other planet instead of Earth.

    • @admiralkaede
      @admiralkaede 3 года назад +13

      @@thegrayinthefield8764 or most likely it is irrelevant to them assuming the combine owns hundreds of dimensions all with millions of planets whats earth relevance to them its so unimportant they don't care

    • @eyesack6845
      @eyesack6845 3 года назад +31

      @@admiralkaede because earth is the only place that has in universe and trans universe teleportation. They need that technology to expand their empire.

  • @Nephonull
    @Nephonull 5 лет назад +547

    “Black Mehssa” -Great value G-Man

    • @NoFlu
      @NoFlu 5 лет назад +56

      "We surrender to the Alee-N threat" -Best president ever

    • @supermachine2275
      @supermachine2275 5 лет назад +7

      What about Discount G-Mister and Miss?

    • @youwanagethi
      @youwanagethi 5 лет назад +10

      Sqev to be fair, "Mesa" is pronounced as "meh-sah".

    • @nynchliggers7160
      @nynchliggers7160 5 лет назад +17

      It appears that you have severely messed up my visage

    • @unimportantcommenter4356
      @unimportantcommenter4356 5 лет назад +5

      You screwed up my face!

  • @pikecell9525
    @pikecell9525 5 лет назад +632

    That Xen footage is from Black Mesa, if anyone cares

    • @crypto1223
      @crypto1223 5 лет назад +37

      PikeCell I do. That looks like they’re doing a great job at remaking the image of Xen. Now if only they’d fully release it.
      (If they already have. Sorry, I haven’t been keeping up with them for months.)

    • @GTAram855
      @GTAram855 5 лет назад +12

      Q2 this year will be release date. So probably May or June.

    • @thatonewaguy7841
      @thatonewaguy7841 5 лет назад +7

      They have been saying that for 14 years, but one can hope.

    • @mharizsaifuddin7059
      @mharizsaifuddin7059 5 лет назад +2

      The high quality footage is from Black Mesa ? Please explain...

    • @El_Descarriado
      @El_Descarriado 5 лет назад +24

      @@mharizsaifuddin7059 Black Mesa is an early-access Source engine remake of the game Half Life. The final chapters of Half Life take place on the 'planet' Xen, and the footage used in this video is from the development blogs detailing the progress towards remaking these Xen chapters.

  • @SirAroace
    @SirAroace Год назад +34

    The Combine are like a Eldritch Horror; you beat then not by destroying them, but by locking them out. Humanity has won at the end of HL2-EP2, but until the remaining Combine on Earth are destroyed that victory will never be secure.

  • @TheNaz01
    @TheNaz01 5 лет назад +301

    "reproductive simulations" Free porn for life, pretty strong argument against a world falling apart

  • @midgerm
    @midgerm 5 лет назад +383

    the combine is actually the human term for them, dr breen even states as much
    "-the universal union that small minds call the combine"

    • @kafuchino3435
      @kafuchino3435 4 года назад +18

      yet he himself calls the "universal union" the combine

    • @midgerm
      @midgerm 4 года назад +43

      @@kafuchino3435 he is human after all, he just wants to be liked by all the hip young kids. but in all seriousness, its a term that all humans have assosiated with the universal union and its quicker and easier to remember. so i cant imagine why he wouldnt use it. perhaps when talking to advisors or other higher up life forms. he could use the official term as a respectful manner, but combine is much easier and rolls off the tongue better then universal union

    • @tripleb5197
      @tripleb5197 3 года назад +16

      @@midgerm One idea I've heard is that Breen knows "Combine" is disrespectful, but he really doesn't care - he doesn't actually think the Combine will help humanity transcend to a new plane of existence or evolve into anything, he just helps them because they give him power. Perhaps he does honestly think the Combine rule has some legitimate benefits to humanity, like when he's talking to Eli about all the new sorts of life they can interact with, but at the end of the day the only thing he really, truly cares about is himself.

    • @rabbitdrink
      @rabbitdrink 3 года назад +2

      @@tripleb5197 i like to think that dr breen knew what he was doing by talking peace with the combine, waiting for gordon freeman to step up instead of letting the 7 hour war destroy humanity completely. maybe he started tripping on the power, maybe he didnt. he probably wouldve said something before the reactor blew up though, unless he knew what he was saying was bs, and he knew gordon knew too, and just wanted to break into the combine world to do damage on their end.
      ep3 leaks kinda match with this i think?

    • @idkwhattoputhere.9891
      @idkwhattoputhere.9891 3 года назад +7

      @@tripleb5197 I mean, if breen didn't surrender earth to combine all humans in hl2 would be, dead.

  • @safs4929
    @safs4929 3 года назад +59

    Keep in mind:
    The Covenant (Halo Reach) took approximately *6 WHOLE WEEKS* to destroy planet Reach's (not Earth, itself but a human colony) surface.
    The unnamed alien regime (in XCOM 2) took *quite some time* (most likely, months) to take over Earth after many fierce battles with the Extraterrestrial Combat organization.
    The Combine took only *7 HOURS* to completely decimate human militaries and conquer Earth alongside wipe out nearly all life on the planet.
    Now THAT, is impressive. I wished we can have a more _GRAND_ depiction of the Combine in later HL games. Because the outside-Earth Combine units are seriously underrepresented in HL2 and it's Episodes.
    The closest "extradimensional" depiction we had of the Combine, was only that scene in HL2's final battle when Breen opened a portal to the Combine Overworld. But that's about it.

    • @erwinsetyo1061
      @erwinsetyo1061 3 года назад +7

      considering that there are portal storm that decimating most of earth military, i think that isn't much impressive than the other

    • @karlkarl93
      @karlkarl93 Год назад +1

      Earth was greatly weakened by the onslaught of hostile alien fauna taking over many continents of the world. From what I understand, Americas, Africa and most of Eurasia has been lost to alien fauna. Japan was decimated by war and resistance to both the fauna and the combine. Most of these cities (like City 17) are set up in Eurasia, mostly in the Asian part.

    • @MoroMoro-q8h
      @MoroMoro-q8h Год назад

      City 17 is in eastern europe though @@karlkarl93

    • @CHRB-nn6qp
      @CHRB-nn6qp 6 месяцев назад +2

      I much prefer that we aren't given a lot of insight into 'offworld' Combine forces. As the saying goes, your imagination can be much scarier than reality. You don't need to see the initial alien invasion force, just knowing how quickly they decimated all resistance is enough and your brain can marvel at the rest.

  • @ottoleois9323
    @ottoleois9323 5 лет назад +379

    This is definitly not Hawaii

    • @REVAN2338
      @REVAN2338 5 лет назад +2

      I said this the other day, I forget exactly why. Where is this from ahah?

    • @ottoleois9323
      @ottoleois9323 5 лет назад +17

      @@REVAN2338 Freeman's Mind 2.

    • @tba113
      @tba113 5 лет назад +8

      @@Red_Lanterns_Rage I hear it's a magical place...

    • @itz_ex0_279
      @itz_ex0_279 5 лет назад +7

      As person who lives in Hawaii, this is exactly what it looks like

    • @nucleus691
      @nucleus691 5 лет назад +1

      >valve has their own property on hawaii
      >valve wont release Half Life 2: Episode 3
      >LETS GET TO HAWAII AND FIND EPISODE 3

  • @womp47
    @womp47 4 года назад +87

    Combine soldier: H-how are you not dead?!
    Gordan: I'm the main character.

  • @MarlsbysDragons
    @MarlsbysDragons 5 лет назад +1227

    They're bad at in-universe teleportation, eh? One might say they can't
    think with portals

  • @tTaseric
    @tTaseric 3 года назад +44

    The Combine are probably one of my favourite Sci-Fi factions. Their AI and gameplay is honestly really impressive and the way they cherry-pick specific creatures to boost their forces is amazing. Seeing a Strider or Hunter makes you wonder where these creatures came from, how the Combine captured them, and how they've been enhanced. The fact that the vast majority of Combine forces we see on Earth are simply technology and species they've retrieved from Earth (Headcrabs, Metrocops, Overwatch Soldiers, Choppers etc) always makes me wonder just how big the Combine really are.

  • @khartog01
    @khartog01 5 лет назад +440

    They are no match for the silent protagonist.

    • @BillyDaMarten
      @BillyDaMarten 5 лет назад +14

      Doom Slayer

    • @Slendermən
      @Slendermən 5 лет назад +17

      @@BillyDaMarten Imagine Doom Slayer against the combine

    • @thatdudemetro6271
      @thatdudemetro6271 5 лет назад +4

      @@Slendermən eh probably gonna ruin the earth forces but the true forces, yeah good luck.

    • @chaosbros7744
      @chaosbros7744 5 лет назад +3

      @@Mushroom1882 if it's just the combine overwatch, then mabye but if it's the entire godamn empire, then no fucking way

    • @leeonardodienfield402
      @leeonardodienfield402 5 лет назад +1

      Artyom. Metro series.

  • @JJsiN84
    @JJsiN84 3 года назад +29

    The Combine is like the Mongolian empire but on a literal universal scale. Conquering and enslaving everything in their path on a galactic scale. One of the most intimidating and also interesting antagonist in gaming imo. Always loved Half life lore, very dark and ominous to put it lightly.
    Too bad Valve just said: "fuk it" once they started printing money with Steam. I have faith they can still pull off an amazing finale if they wanted to.

  • @CoolDrifty
    @CoolDrifty 5 лет назад +172

    I've always wondered what the actual combine looks like. It seems like we only see other species that have been captured and transformed into soldiers/transports and stuff like that. Even the advisors seem to be forced against their will

    • @cmanlovespancakes
      @cmanlovespancakes 4 года назад +81

      Yes the advisors are the Master race in the combine hierarchy but even they are slaves. I believe the combine is just a autotantous system that captures and enslaves other world's to expand the empire. It is so ancient that the originating species is long extinct.

    • @Jupiter__001_
      @Jupiter__001_ 3 года назад +19

      @@cmanlovespancakes So like the Borg, but spookier and better developed?

    • @PETRIXXXX
      @PETRIXXXX 3 года назад +3

      @@cmanlovespancakes So the combine’s leader is a robot?

    • @hansoberhaus3950
      @hansoberhaus3950 3 года назад +7

      @@PETRIXXXX no, it's Satan

    • @RatzCarnatz
      @RatzCarnatz 2 года назад

      @@hansoberhaus3950 no, it's your mom

  • @FryderykG523
    @FryderykG523 5 лет назад +142

    fun fact: Transhuman Arm of the Combine Overwatch in short is TACO.

    • @raiderfox7229
      @raiderfox7229 5 лет назад

      Nice, but the Combine isn't exactly an official name.

    • @spaaaghetti7106
      @spaaaghetti7106 5 лет назад +13

      Zbrojmistrz The official name is Universal Union :)))

    • @FryderykG523
      @FryderykG523 5 лет назад

      @@spaaaghetti7106 i Know but this is funny any way.

    • @raiderfox7229
      @raiderfox7229 5 лет назад +3

      @@FryderykG523 Yup, technically they are called the OTA, Overwatch transhuman arm.

    • @jakespacepiratee3740
      @jakespacepiratee3740 5 лет назад

      "The *S* is silent!"
      -Lord Business

  • @bootleg686
    @bootleg686 5 лет назад +94

    I like to think that Value named the Combine due to the farming machinery of the same names' ability to harvest materials. Whether the matieral in question is a species or a planet's resoureses, it makes no difference as far as the end result is concerned. They manage to put to use just about anything that could be remotely useful and I believe that is what makes them so terrifying and Lovecraftian by nature.
    They're just such a cool antagonistic force in Half-Life 2.

    • @nopushbutton
      @nopushbutton 5 лет назад +4

      this would seem to be corroborated by the Half Life 2 music track "Combine Harvester" and the more overt resource-gathering bent of the Combine in earlier beta iterations

    • @supermaximusfagetti9836
      @supermaximusfagetti9836 3 года назад +1

      I believe part of the inspiration was The Combine, the imagined institution of control believed by the protagonist of Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    • @puddingfell5288
      @puddingfell5288 3 года назад

      I agree.

    • @ElysiumCreator
      @ElysiumCreator 3 года назад +3

      Yes!! I always thought that considering the emphasis is the first syllable like a harvester (COM-bine) rather then the verb (com-BINE)

    • @deviateedits
      @deviateedits 2 года назад

      @@supermaximusfagetti9836 That book has way too many similarities with HL2 to just be a coincidence. I'm 100% convinced it inspired many of Valves decisions with HL2's world

  • @OverlordZephyros
    @OverlordZephyros 5 лет назад +264

    The Combine
    The big bad guys that we will Never see completely... Thank you Valve 😒

    • @LeviForWaifu
      @LeviForWaifu 5 лет назад +5

      Read Epistle 3

    • @tango5thetargeted73
      @tango5thetargeted73 5 лет назад +10

      The secretis what keep it interesting

    • @bourbonkills4767
      @bourbonkills4767 5 лет назад +3

      PROJECT BORIALS

    • @sasha-rg3nd
      @sasha-rg3nd 5 лет назад +5

      Because you wiped them all my Emperor.

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 5 лет назад +7

      Maybe, like the Nihilanth, the Combine aren't really the big bad guys they appear to be.
      Earth is just another planet with resources they can use, and they use them to the best of their abilities, which isn't saying much, really. Their approach to resource extraction is rather crude.
      It is only by their technology and their thralls that they are able to rule the planet, but they don't behave like colonists or conquerors. They don't pit the locals against each other to wear down potential resistance, and they don't just sterilise the planet to have their machines/slaves mine everything. Nor are they building military bases. It all appears to be rather makeshift and hasty, more like a cheap, largely inconsequential resource grab, like picking an apple from a tree while looking for something else.
      But more telling is the fact that the Combine brought not only equipment and slave soldiers with them, but also parasites, most prominent among them the head crabs and antlions. This isn't a well-planned invasion. This is just something that happened.
      Maybe they plan to use the Freeman as a secret weapon against something that actually merits their concern, a cosmic threat to existence that requires a good working knowledge of particle physics and situational awareness to deal with. Maybe Dr Breen had been their initial choice, but he was more an administrator concerned with the survival of humanity than an actual man of science.
      Yes, the Combine made humans infertile, which must have given rise to orgies unprecedented in history. The resulting lack of children is why I am convinced that GTA IV takes place in the same universe.

  • @sethnelisher1923
    @sethnelisher1923 5 лет назад +249

    I would love to see you guys do the Necrons from Warhammer 40k

    • @annelisemeier283
      @annelisemeier283 5 лет назад +10

      I’d much prefer a rundown of the necontyr

    • @Alpharius93
      @Alpharius93 5 лет назад +2

      Same here!

    • @Azoth86730
      @Azoth86730 5 лет назад +9

      The War in Heaven, please? Thus, Templin can cover the Old Ones, Enslavers, Necrons and C'tans in a single video.

    • @theprepaintedcanvis3452
      @theprepaintedcanvis3452 5 лет назад +4

      OH LOOK, A WARP SPIDER.

  • @MDPToaster
    @MDPToaster 5 лет назад +50

    “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world”

  • @undead890
    @undead890 4 года назад +45

    What I am most curious about is how the G-Man fits into all of this. The Combine are unfathomably powerful, but who brought them here in the first place after all? The G-Man's Employers seem to be something even more powerful than the Combine considering he can manipulate time itself in little nudges to achieve certain goals.

  • @AlanTheBest97
    @AlanTheBest97 5 лет назад +23

    That ending quote just gave me goosebumps.

  • @paveldaman1820
    @paveldaman1820 5 лет назад +42

    The only reason why the Rebels on the Earth had the option to destroy the citadel, was because the Combine did not care that much for the Earth, so it is OK for them if the Rebels take it back.
    If the Combine really wanted to keep the Earth, the Rebels would have no chance

    • @tectonical5347
      @tectonical5347 5 лет назад +3

      They def didn't want the citadel to go down but overall it isn't too much of a problem for them

    • @Callsign_Bear
      @Callsign_Bear 2 года назад +1

      @LOAN NGUYEN Episode three?

    • @kid_toucher
      @kid_toucher Год назад

      ​@LOAN NGUYEN and that's exactly why epistle 3 isn't cannon

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 Год назад +1

      I think the Combine did want to keep the Earth, because it has developed same-universe teleportation, which would be extremely useful for them, but they just sent what they assumed would be strong enough forces to take over the Earth. They didn't expect humans to be so resistant. But they realized their error too late, the portal was closed before they could sent reinforcements. The data they were sending was probably an attempt to save coordinates or something like that to be able to later find Earth's universe again and reopen portals to Earth.

    • @kid_toucher
      @kid_toucher Год назад

      @LOAN NGUYEN they only know brutality, the combine only strives for more power, and more misery to thoses who oppose them, they were greedy and underestimated humanity and that's why earth has been freed from the combine

  • @roddydykes7053
    @roddydykes7053 5 лет назад +13

    Good god, I got both tears and goosebumps at that last line, the quote from G-Man
    Hopefully in our lifetime there will be a conclusion to possibly the most immersive sci-fi series ever created

  • @rebel1717
    @rebel1717 5 лет назад +8

    By far my favorite video explaining the Combine. Such fluent explaination, a perfect documentary on what the Combine actually are. I did not realize the Combine were this powerful and honestly terrifying even after I played all of Half-Life 2. Amazing job!

  • @WalrusQuake
    @WalrusQuake 3 года назад +24

    I feel like one of the coolest things that kind of got talked about here is the fact that the combine essentially uses brain matter as basic computing power
    It kind of makes sense, if you could identify every neuron's function you would have the fastest computer ever for those particular functions.

    • @KorianHUN
      @KorianHUN Год назад

      In Alyx they use abominations created from mutated rats with massively enlarged brains. It is body horror, every piece of tech they make is.

  • @somearmeddude
    @somearmeddude Год назад +4

    *One man, One crowbar.* -Earth and some random robots in upper Michigan in a salt mine.

  • @Anudorini-Talah
    @Anudorini-Talah 4 года назад +14

    8:02 This has me hyped so much
    Imagine a Half Life 3 or another title involving that story. Where you visit the ruins of Black Mesa to find those secrets. Please make it happen.

  • @Augustus_Imperator
    @Augustus_Imperator 5 лет назад +16

    Beautifully done. I always thought that the Combine as a concept is fascinating.

  • @Fr4nk4000
    @Fr4nk4000 3 года назад +11

    I love the fact that the combine basically doesn't have a leader, the person "behind it all". It makes the combine seem more ominous, but I think that without dr. Breen, it would've been harder to "humanize the combine" because if we're given a person to hate rather than a whole colony without a leader, we'll be more focused on taking down the combine and be more engaged in the sotry of half life.

  • @hurk_lifeless_explorer7718
    @hurk_lifeless_explorer7718 5 лет назад +153

    Who would win?
    A very complex and very dangerous species of aliens are called "The Combine"
    Vs
    Some Silent Nerd with Metal Stick

    • @armintor2826
      @armintor2826 4 года назад +9

      Its like if doomguy got a college diploma

    • @professionaltaxevader2699
      @professionaltaxevader2699 4 года назад

      @@armintor2826 I mean yeah I guess

    • @kato1kalin
      @kato1kalin 4 года назад

      I personally found closure with epistle 3. Read it if you want to know Valves plan for ep3 and what happens to Gordon and Alyx.

    • @ZackNathan41
      @ZackNathan41 3 года назад +2

      combine would win,
      if you count the invasion force.

    • @admiralkaede
      @admiralkaede 3 года назад +3

      @@ZackNathan41 it's most likely the invasion force its self was still a very small part of the overall combine assault forces

  • @chedd2y
    @chedd2y 5 лет назад +4

    This channel deserves so much more recognition than it currently has. Stellar content that clearly shows how passionate the creator is. I don't say this on anything but this is probably the most well made half life combine video so far.

  • @festival3051
    @festival3051 5 лет назад +11

    You only have to look at the size of human teleportation machines compared to the 4 story high combine ones. It's amazing to see them in the game and is the real reason the combine are here. For our teleportation technology ⚙

    • @KorianHUN
      @KorianHUN Год назад +2

      The even more impressive one is the literal HANDHELD PORTAL DEVICE that some moron made his scientists invent in the 50s and then used it to test magic goo and jumping boots. Aperture had that tech for a long time.

  • @Atlastheyote222
    @Atlastheyote222 3 года назад +8

    Chell escaping Aperture now realizing that maybe she was better off staying.

  • @mitchypdx
    @mitchypdx 5 лет назад +4

    Loved that little jab at Valve right there at the end. This is my second favourite world you've done next to the GTU!

  • @toandinh1668
    @toandinh1668 3 года назад +23

    Nobody:
    British empire after discovering a way to travel interdimension in space

  • @SplotchTheCatThing
    @SplotchTheCatThing 4 года назад +18

    If the suppression field really just suppresses one or two protein chains, I'd be very surprised if there weren't already some mutations already within the population that render some people immune.
    Not everyone's proteins are entirely the same.
    It's incredibly difficult to control an entire population through a blanket means like that -- someone always slips through the cracks.

    • @toddkes5890
      @toddkes5890 2 года назад +4

      The other idea is wondering which other creatures use those protein chains and are also unable to reproduce

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 Год назад +1

      there's probably some proteins that are absolutely necessary. To reproduce without them, reproduction would have to be changed so much that mutations wouldn't be enough.

    • @SplotchTheCatThing
      @SplotchTheCatThing Год назад +1

      @@toddkes5890 Apparently not headcrabs and barnacles! XD

    • @SplotchTheCatThing
      @SplotchTheCatThing Год назад +2

      @@vibaj16 Would have to do some serious perusing of scientific journals to say for sure, I guess. But it does seem like the rule of thumb for dealing with biology, especially biology you've only just barely become familiar with, is that it absolutes generally won't work.
      That's to say even if there are one or two proteins that are absolutely 100% necessary every single time, an alien race that's only discovered life according to the physical laws of our universe a few years ago, let alone carbon based life with a DNA genome on the planet of Earth -- particularly a carbon based life form with a DNA genome on the planet of Earth with generation length that's much longer than those few years they've spent studying it... they're probably far more likely to settle on one of the ten or twenty proteins that are 95% necessary 80% of the time.
      'cause I don't care how advanced their science is, they'll still have to create what amounts to an entire new field of that science any time they find a new kind of life in a new kind of universe. If they were omniscient enough to do *that* without a single mistake... well, whatever mistakes they made that allowed the resistance to even get started would have definitely been avoided.

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 Год назад +2

      @@SplotchTheCatThing Well, our brains are also extremely complicated, yet the Combine learned how to read humans' minds in just a few years, so...

  • @franzsanders9573
    @franzsanders9573 5 лет назад +17

    Easily one of my favorite villainous factions _ever_ , with them basically being the Party from 1984 combined with the Martians from the War of the Worlds. Thanks for doing this, Templin Institute!

  • @Bum_Numba_One
    @Bum_Numba_One 5 лет назад +8

    8:27 "Hope is fading that such an event might happen for a third time". This is as fourth wall breaking as it is sad.

  • @NauticalCoffin2404
    @NauticalCoffin2404 4 года назад +6

    1:31 Yes there is. The combine control multiple universes, making them a Kardashev 4 - 4.9 civilization.

    • @HuntingTarg
      @HuntingTarg 2 дня назад

      The glimpse of the Combine's native plane has no stars, attestedly because they've ALL been encased in Dyson Spheres. The Combine break the Kardashev scale.

  • @hydromancer4916
    @hydromancer4916 5 лет назад +19

    The "claw" symbol used by the combine is actually a dyson sphere.

  • @griffinlaw9367
    @griffinlaw9367 5 лет назад +25

    The Templin Institute's logo bears a passing resemblance to the Combine's insignia, hmm...

    • @ArcturusOTE
      @ArcturusOTE 5 лет назад +4

      Yet oddly enough they seem to agree that the theory of them being the G-Man's employers. Weird

  • @thegoodlifeonlybettr
    @thegoodlifeonlybettr 5 лет назад +3

    Just wanted to say... thanks for these. It's like reliving my childhood all over again. Keep it up!

  • @xandermurdock6131
    @xandermurdock6131 5 лет назад +29

    6:50
    Well THAT one's new.

  • @Lilmiket1000
    @Lilmiket1000 2 года назад +9

    I love love love the look of the combine citadel and technology they chose to go with. All the other designs were seriously lacking that dominant overwelmingly powerful look. The look they chose to go with is nothing less than perfect.

  • @deisk2707
    @deisk2707 3 года назад +8

    imagine you slept for 10 hours. Then when you wake up, after you left your room, you can see a big whole on your wall and sees blood, fire, corpse, and a giant strider sounds.

  • @pgetheelderscrollsturkiye68
    @pgetheelderscrollsturkiye68 5 лет назад +16

    So they won the war in 7 hours, depleted all resources but even after all of these, humanity alive and have hope cause of science ,the secrets, the borealis ! We need half life 3 so hard.

  • @JohnDoe-cz5yz
    @JohnDoe-cz5yz 5 лет назад +10

    Now we'll never know how it all ends. Thx, Gaben!

  • @jimmylander2089
    @jimmylander2089 5 лет назад +3

    Thank you so much for making this! I loved it to bits!

  • @jimbow7787
    @jimbow7787 5 лет назад +22

    I love seeing half life videos in 2019

  • @liam-ethanwallis4924
    @liam-ethanwallis4924 5 лет назад +32

    Damn that Half-Life 3 joke at the end was good

  • @Luchoedge
    @Luchoedge 5 лет назад +6

    "hope is fading that such an event might happen for a third time"
    That's the best way to say ""we've lost hope for HL3" I've heard so far.

  • @xanthosparashis8819
    @xanthosparashis8819 5 лет назад +5

    they attacc
    they opress
    but most importantly...
    they gather and unite the scattered combine forces
    I'll show myself out now.

  • @BalhaMilan
    @BalhaMilan 5 лет назад +5

    Yes! Finally! I love the Combine and the world of Half-Life, thanks for making this :D

    • @puddingfell5288
      @puddingfell5288 3 года назад

      Please consider joining Civil Protection in your area.

  • @G-741-S
    @G-741-S 2 года назад +3

    Every combine gangsta up til' a Nerd equips his Crowbar

  • @0NoName9
    @0NoName9 Год назад +2

    The Combine are the most horrifying antagonist I've ever seen in a video game. They're an All Tomorrows, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream levels of horrifying.

  • @jodolphushitlin8222
    @jodolphushitlin8222 3 года назад +5

    noob: galactic empire
    pro: imperium of man
    god: combine empire

  • @ultralord8919
    @ultralord8919 4 года назад +4

    lol glad you mentioned the "reproduction simulation" that combine soldiers get as a reward. Always cracks me up hearing the Combine Lady remind metrocops about it.

  • @jakespacepiratee3740
    @jakespacepiratee3740 5 лет назад +22

    Probably the strongest Alien Empire in fiction, if you ask me.

  • @pencrows
    @pencrows 5 лет назад +13

    Any sci-fi/dystopian game:*exists*
    Templin Institute: it's free real estate

  • @a0001521
    @a0001521 Год назад +2

    I just realized, the combine is a low key cosmic horror element

  • @Skiivin
    @Skiivin 5 месяцев назад +1

    This video’s great, up there with Leadhead’s video on the Combine, and for one simple reason: the combine is one singular organism, to be referred to as IT, not THEY; it isn’t an empire or a military, it’s simply… the Combine.

  • @aquilax5896
    @aquilax5896 5 лет назад +8

    7:43 We will probably never know how this story ends

  • @love_woomy6953
    @love_woomy6953 2 года назад +3

    I feel like when chell escaped in portal 2, she would find the resistance groups and join them as they could use the portal device technology inside aperture science that only she knows of. She could also help them get into aperture science laboratories to steal the portal technology that can be used to take down The Combine.

  • @kristensberzins3156
    @kristensberzins3156 5 лет назад +7

    A game where Gordon freeman joins a coalition of other alien civilizations to beat the combine would be awesome

    • @Scoffslaphead72
      @Scoffslaphead72 5 лет назад

      We can only hope that someone decides to continue half life. Whether its valve or someone else.

  • @really1337
    @really1337 5 лет назад +7

    I kind of want the Templin Institute to do a video on the "what if" stuff from that Half Life game developer when he released a rough plot of what 3 would've looked like.

  • @GenghisVern
    @GenghisVern 5 лет назад +4

    Epic documentation. It appeared to be original in-game shots too. Makes me want to take another run at medium difficulty

  • @Alvaro89Rus
    @Alvaro89Rus 5 лет назад +59

    X-Com 2 Advent borrowed so much from Combine.

    • @thepaintingbanjo8894
      @thepaintingbanjo8894 5 лет назад +6

      Same with the Reapers from Mass Effect. Although the Combine are much more subtle and Lovecraftian with their pacification.

    • @Alvaro89Rus
      @Alvaro89Rus 5 лет назад +17

      @@thepaintingbanjo8894 Reapers are straightforward genocide, they don't build occupation goverment and use collobrators

    • @jakespacepiratee3740
      @jakespacepiratee3740 5 лет назад +7

      I'm actully making a video comparing the two governments, and I can certainly say, I'd take ADVENT over Combine any day..

  • @TorricRoma
    @TorricRoma 5 лет назад +23

    Combine? Posted 7 hours ago? Half-life 3 confirmed!

    • @unknownhiddenname6645
      @unknownhiddenname6645 5 лет назад +1

      Shut the fuck up idk it dead meme or not but please no
      I didn't hate hl3 but I'm waiting for project borealis too.

  • @Utylike
    @Utylike 5 лет назад +9

    Finally, an actual Multiverse threat level video. Another amazing one Institute.
    PS: You should really consider the SCP Foundation, people have been suggesting it since your Inception.

  • @remyrichardson2741
    @remyrichardson2741 4 года назад +4

    "WILSOOOOOON, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
    -Some Combine Metrocop guy
    Gorgeous Freeman, Episode III.

  • @Kuberniccus
    @Kuberniccus 5 лет назад +9

    In my opinion ,Half -Life has one of the best story in a first person sf game .Long live Valve

  • @IronPiedmont
    @IronPiedmont 5 лет назад +3

    It makes you think of what is going on in other parts of the Combine's empire. How many worlds and dimensions do the Combine actually control? Whats more is that maybe the uprising on Earth may have triggered other uprisings across the Combine Empire. We'll never know until Valve does something.

  • @satanicdude
    @satanicdude 3 года назад +3

    5:40 "Elevate humanity to a greater position of equality within a great universal union." hmmm this sounds oddly familiar... *soviet anthem starts playing*

  • @wolfgod6443
    @wolfgod6443 5 лет назад +6

    Always loved the Combine. Definitely one of the more unique Sci-fi factions out there.
    Btw please do Metroid's Space Pirates.

  • @stefanbezema
    @stefanbezema 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you so much Templin! Was hoping this one would come!

  • @bruhistantv9806
    @bruhistantv9806 4 года назад +2

    Combine: *is multi-universal interdimensional empire/space mafia*
    Also Combine: *blown the fuck out by funny suitcase man and his lackeys*

    • @DylanoRevs
      @DylanoRevs 4 года назад

      To be fair
      Those were just the police force