I wanna help out with the Lambda Resistance, because I've been thinking about a custom Half Life 2 mod about a young autistic 20 year old man who's working with the resistance group to remove the combine from planet earth! But I still haven't figured out on how the story plot should start out but I'm still working on it so no worries.
Given enough time and advancements, humanity would prob become worse then the combine lmao, just imagine if u found another planet with the resources of earth on + humanity would most likely use it to itd fullest for ours
@@deathmaster38interesting theory, the combine could be a remnant of the human race that expanded so hard that it lost all touch with itself if that makes sense
It must be such a pain in the ass to get all of this b-roll footage captured, and in such a cinematic quality too. Just know that your efforts are seen and appreciated a lot, even when algorithm doesn’t do you justice you’ve most definitely earned.
It was a long one to put together but absolutely worth it. While it's nice to see content doing well in the algo sometimes, this does come mostly from a love of the series. I think this one is doing better than normal though
The ultimate irony of the Combine's subjugation of Earth is that humans would have become an entity much like the Combine given enough time to evolve and expand unchecked.
I hate that you are right, we think of combine enslavement of humans to be this big scary event. When in fact it is just a larger scale holocaust, we pretend like we didn’t already do exactly what the combine did to us, but we did it to each other. That’s why I love the combine, the scariness in them, is the same horrors we can find if you simply look within
@@jpassa9093Not just the Holocaust. Look at how we treat other species. It's disgusting and it's all because humans were brain washed by industries into thinking it was okay. Humans treat animals horribly in the agricultural and fishing industries
"...They're always departing but they never arrive... and the ones that do arrive... they never leave... you never see them go they're always full... no one ever gets on but they're always... they're always departing but they never arrive..."
Ahhh, hell yes. I was waiting for something like this. The Combine are some of my favorite villains in any medium at this point. The idea of fusing biology and technology in the way that they have has really expanded and/or awakened something in my mind creatively, and I'm kind of obsessed with the idea of such an entity now. I'm relatively new to the series and I genuinely can't believe that I skipped over this for so long. Anyway, thanks for the content, and this vid in particular.
Philosophy aside, the combine is just a huge multidimensional technological entity trying to survive. Imagine humanity in the eyes of simple creatures, we are super powerful and will destroy entire ecosystems for our own gain.
"The first contact was bound to happen. The galaxy, let alone the universe was simply too big for just a singular species to develop intelligence in. Any delay in contact only meant a heightening of the eventual culture shock. In humanity's case, this "culture shock" meant the complete extinction of mankind as it had come to be known." -The Author, All Tomorrows
The Combine was aware of Earth for some time before their invasion, they just weren't quite able to reach Earth with their portal technology. The Black Mesa Incident, however changed that; enabling the Combine to either pass through Xen to reach Earth or the resonance cascade and/or portal storms as a result created the dimensional conditions necessary for Earth's dimension to accommodate a Combine port directly to their overworld.
There's a certain Lovecraftian cosmic-horror aspect to the Combine that goes understated - we hear hints that the Combine have conquered worlds and dimensions so far beyond human understanding, that we are basically nothing to them. It's like if a single village of a couple hundred people in the Australian outback rebelled against the British Empire at its height of power in the early 20th century. Their power is so unfathomably vast they could eradicate us all within minutes if they wanted to. Yet, we still resist, we still choose to fight this control. I think that's the real "lesson" of _Half-Life_ - that the human spirit is utterly indomitable. But there's a layer of control above even the Combine - the Employers - guiding and nudging events unseen. It's like the Ghoul says in _Fallout_ - "there's always someone behind the wheel".
You never fail to put out good videos. You put in such effort and your love for Half Life doesn't seem to ever die. Hope Half Life 3 comes out soon, and when it does, I can't wait to see what you'll make from it. Keep up the amazing work, Skyrionn!
So... The combine desired localised teleportation? insane that all they had to do was keep fighting and invading the home of that Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System in order to get it. (Though I think we can all agree anyone sent into that facility would be absolutely massacred via turrets, goo, neurotoxin, and mashy spike plates.)
''I'm the only one standing between us and THEM" -GLaDOS I think aperture was hidden by her so the combine won't find it I dunno how she'd hide an entire facility but whatevs
@@denifnaf5874 To be honest hiding a facility within what originated as a salt mine isn't too bad. Plus I don't think she even needed to hide it as the entire combine forces would most likely barely be able to break in at all due to the sheer amount of insane defences and weaponry within that facility.
I think the qz combine deserve more of an explanation like the "unseen lore" since there is no official explanation on specific things. Lemme explain So we know that the combine units deployed in the qz come in the 4 variations, but in the files of there voicelines, its shown that they would use tactics that would emotionally manipulate unfortunate victims, in a scene of HLA it can be heard that the combine grunts are calling out for Alyx pretending to be some sort of friendly, whats interesting for that is that ALL units have voicelines for that specific task as well, which are gone unused. Going further with the idea of unused voicelines there are the unusued charger voicelines, lines of switching weapons and charging towards the player hence the name, there was a cut feature that would include the charger running at the player while wielding a stunstick to strike the player. There is still more lore that can be speculated around the grunts from hla as well, from one single death voiceline that cant be heard in game but only seen in the captions, one line the grunt cant say when killed by the player is "im sorry", this fact alongside the other voicelines the grunt has showcases that he is the least augmented like the captain, suppressor, and charger, but enough to complete decent tasks within the quarantine zone. More hidden lore that can be found is about the workers, theres so much we can speculate from just the scenery and destruction when playing through, you can find dozens of dead grunts and works alongside each other showcasing that covering up the qz is not an easy task, and in some parts you can see them using some sort of device to spray against the xen fauna covering the walls, those tanks that are filled up are seen in the antlion section of the game where its showing antlions being extracted from there sacks right into those said tanks. Whats interesting about the antlions is that they are all slow and heavy, a lot more bulky than the hl2 variations, this can be supported by the nests that they build which are on the surface of the qz, which means whatever the combine extract from the antlions, they turn that mix into fluids used by the workers to wipe out the xen flora and fauna. Straying away from all that, the big question is why we dont see any of these soldiers outside the qz and in hl2, well I think tge answer to that is they were deployed somewhere else, by the time hl2 came around, city 17 was probably finished and the only thing they needed was less troops to worry about which is why they only use cps and standard transhuman soldiers, which by that time the city grunts were not needed and the qz units were probably deployed else where in other quarantine zones, I dont believe one bit that the suppressor and wallhammer would evolve into the hl2 soldiers, especially from how effective they are shown in hla. Now is all that I explained canon? It can be, valve themselves have conflicted with there own lore, but the way I explained things can definitely explain how city 17 and everything would be different the time hl2 comes around, best possibility to make everything in hla canon to exist in hl2 somewhere else in the world.
Another note, cmdrrileysv4000 shows a lot of cut content from hla which could definitely add some more lore to what the combine could've added or already added by just arent seen
The combine are cruel but there nothing compared to the qu from all tommorows who biologically made humanity into whatever they wanted such as living plants and forced them to stay on the worlds to suffer
@@Judgemenlt I feel like intentions are important. I also feel like "good and evil" is a concept that can be easily twisted, the combine probably don’t even understand the human concept of right and wrong and evil and good. On the other hand I feel the Qu were fully aware of their actions.
@@denifnaf5874 I think the disfigured monstrosities known as "humans" probably lost most of their sex drive, it was probably only done for the sake of procreation
They could very easily be compared in one sense to the Borg of Star Trek lore. It's essentially a conquest and assimilation of all inhabited worlds. A story about the Combine's encounter with the Nihilanth's species would be an interesting exploration.
Honestly, I genuinely wish the Combine officially became one of the top 10 strongest factions in science fiction. I might sound a bit selfish, but at least I'm expressing my honesty and passion for my favourite antagonist faction of all time. I think Wallace Breen's quote about indescribable wonders whether carbon stars with sentient fungi and gas giants that are inhabited by vast meteorological intelligence effectively convey the vast scale of the Combine, as these wonders mentioned by Wallace Breen are likely just glimpses and used as examples to highlight the futility of the resistance against the unstoppable force like them, as these mentioned wonders suggest there are countless worlds across the multiple dimensions filled with both imaginable and even unimaginable species and resources that the Combine has conquered and assimilated into their arsenal. Perhaps there are more powerful entities just as powerful as the race, like Nihilanth, if not more so. Also, I loved your video! I rarely comment on RUclips videos because I'm an introvert, so I consider this comment one of my brave actions. :) Edit: I felt unsatisfied with my previous response, so I edited my comment to remove my previous theory.
It would cool if we get a idea of what the original species of the combine is. like a vague description of a low raking average Joe combine but describe like a lovecraftian style that would make the advisors look like pathetic maggots.
I have a theory that the combine conquest was initially peacefull for the first couple worlds or even the first few universes When other races where still almost as advenced as the combine Way before a civilazation would be an ant in comparison Those days where long gone by the time they discovered the Nihilanths species hovewer...
it's insane that all the effort everyone puts in to be free of the combine in all 3 games, its only a small occupational force they were fighting. mere planet prison guards.
Fun fact the combine over watch soldiers used to be humanoid aliens that were in those suits. That was the original idea that they were going to go for but then they just made him human augments. For my own sake I like to say that some of them are human augments and I like to say that the soldiers that we see in the game are not human they're kind of like humanoids from other planets and dimensions that are just humanoid soldiers being used as a battle platform. I don't know it just makes it sound cooler to me when you think of it like that. It truly makes them alien like they're some kind of political military enforcer on a planet.
In my head cannon the head of the combine is a rouge Ai built by the original combine race prior to their demise and so the AI kept following what it was programmed to do protect the race that built them so it did by taking over new species to better help protect a long dead race
Sometimes i wonder if the combine exists in our universe, since lets say that the multiverse theory is true, then one day the Combine will come to earth, which is a scary thought
Thanks for these videos. I always love deep dives into half life lore. Something I always wondered was the original games design of the nihilinth with it having scars and mechanical components grafted to it suggests this story was allready thoroughly planned out. Also any chance of getting an ichtyosaur deep dive ? They scare the living shit out of me but it's driven to a point of almost obsession
Good one. Always enjoy a new Half Life lore video from you. Although I have a feeling you'll get through all possible lore someday soon... :D Shame they never made a HL3. Or episode 3. Shame for us anyway. Though I do understand why they didn't want to continue back then. I hope they will, eventually.
With fictional settings like this I often find myself wondering what I would do if I was there. As much as I'd love to think I would resist, I don't think I would have the emotional fortitude for it. I'd probably end up in "an eternity's repose". It brings peaceful thoughts, does it not?
The Epistle 3, even if it is not cannon, can take so many turns. Instead of a pointless Kamikaze attack, they could use the ship to travel through space and time to give humanity the technology to prepare for the invasion. Later they could recruit the Nihilanth specie and other species enslaved by the Combine to fight back. This in turn would ironically turn Humanity into the new Combine, starting a civil war between those who wants the power and become conquerors, and those who reject it and know the dire consequences of that. This would only create a new resistance that would fight back, in some sort of cyclic story.
My guess is that The Combine have a grasp on the concept of memory transfer and don't fully understand the idea of cut and paste versus copy and paste. As such, they go from planet to planet to "refine" a species. Taking the ones that are useful and copying their minds to their repository, while the rest get their memories wiped as soldiers are needed or are just left to die out. That's a concept that I wish was explored, a soldier quota, when The Combine lost soldiers, they harvested random citizens to be transformed. So, you' be responsible for the transformation of countless people through fighting them.
Something I think about from time to time since I like listening to sci-fi e books and a fan of the half-life series is what if two hyperaggressive civilizations such as the Combine and the Qu of the novel All Tomorrows would interact or conquer one another.
One would hope we might see some of the adapted creatures rebel in future material, like Overwatch that get memories back and regret or stuff like Gunships acting almost like giant pets to ressistance members who care for them and nurse them back to health. As to our Base location it's in Nunya, just outside of Business.
The Combine stationed *_on Earth_* were desperate, the rest of the empire probably couldn't care less if one of its many colonies is suddenly cut off. In a presumeably infinite multiverse, it's only a matter of time before some other poor civilisation has their own Resonance Cascade, allowing the Combine to try their luck again.
Gta 7 sounds the most reasonable out of these, es6 was teased years ago and nothing came out since, gta 6 has trailers already, until es6 comes out rockstar will prob work in gta 7
A new half life game is in development. It was supposed to be an vr gane and could have been Alyx 2. But the name of the project “whitesand” point at New Mexico, where Black Mesa is.
Is it just me who thinks the combine claw logo looks like a human with ist arms up. Like look at is sideways and the circle is the head and the claw is the arms. If that is what valve thought of that is really cool!
I really wish the HECU and Adrian Shepherd would have dealt with these assholes. I think the Combine are still a "This bad thing happened, oh well it's the plot".
I really like the idea that once you reach the home world of the combine that you kill the original combine and there are the weakest enemy because of thousands of years of really on other. Why because we never see them which I take that there are lazy because of the thousand of year people severing you they make other people work and they do nothing thousands of years not working staying storng powerful. Some might how do they control there empire well because people are scared to be crashed again by there boots without know that they because weak the original combine
I don’t think the “Original” Combine race still exists. I’m willing to bet that they are long dead but their empire is so vast that most of their slave races have no idea.
I wonder if Marvel's Franklyn Richards (or any of his versions) is pretty much a new G-Man or Combine to happen. And the Power Pack ? What would they go through under them ? There's so much Lovecraft story potential to do with Marvel kids. Especially if they write it as some kids tale of old, when horror was their mainstream. We could use such crossover between "Half-Life" and Marvel.
It's so annoying when people act like Laidlaw's revelations aren't literally 'voice of God' lore dumps for the universe he's responsible for creating. JFC. Like who has to cOnFiRm it's canon? Gabe f@#$%ing Newell? Who cares, what did he ever write?
We wish to help The Resistance. Where is your base located and how many of you are there?
I wanna help out with the Lambda Resistance, because I've been thinking about a custom Half Life 2 mod about a young autistic 20 year old man who's working with the resistance group to remove the combine from planet earth! But I still haven't figured out on how the story plot should start out but I'm still working on it so no worries.
In engineers voice yaaayy you can't fool me with those basic tricks combine
Well... it was Ravenholm, but-
Mine was ravenholm, but you know how that ended
classified
It's disturbing how creative the Combine is in destroying all it touches during its conquest.
And worse, we, humans, (probably) help them get to Xen.
Given enough time and advancements, humanity would prob become worse then the combine lmao, just imagine if u found another planet with the resources of earth on + humanity would most likely use it to itd fullest for ours
@@deathmaster38interesting theory, the combine could be a remnant of the human race that expanded so hard that it lost all touch with itself if that makes sense
@@jackdaniels5071And somewhere out there that ancient human civilization build giant rings in space…
48 MINUTE HALF LIFE LORE VIDEO LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO
edit : he even put in subtitles, what a chad
LETS GOOO
Always with the subtitles. They're so easy to do. Thanks for being here
@@Skyrionn not created by your haNd but tooIs?
@@sheeringobjectI mean all he'd have to do is copy-paste his script into the caption generator and add timestamps
It must be such a pain in the ass to get all of this b-roll footage captured, and in such a cinematic quality too.
Just know that your efforts are seen and appreciated a lot, even when algorithm doesn’t do you justice you’ve most definitely earned.
It was a long one to put together but absolutely worth it. While it's nice to see content doing well in the algo sometimes, this does come mostly from a love of the series. I think this one is doing better than normal though
The ultimate irony of the Combine's subjugation of Earth is that humans would have become an entity much like the Combine given enough time to evolve and expand unchecked.
I hate that you are right, we think of combine enslavement of humans to be this big scary event. When in fact it is just a larger scale holocaust, we pretend like we didn’t already do exactly what the combine did to us, but we did it to each other. That’s why I love the combine, the scariness in them, is the same horrors we can find if you simply look within
@@jpassa9093humans will cooporate when aliens invade mfs when ota soldier:😮
Literally, the combine could just be a "future of humanity" if we advance far enough
@@jpassa9093Not just the Holocaust. Look at how we treat other species. It's disgusting and it's all because humans were brain washed by industries into thinking it was okay. Humans treat animals horribly in the agricultural and fishing industries
They just had to hit us first before we reach the 41st millennium
Don't drink the water, they put something in it to make forget. I don't even remember how I got here.
You got here by train.
"...They're always departing but they never arrive... and the ones that do arrive... they never leave... you never see them go they're always full... no one ever gets on but they're always... they're always departing but they never arrive..."
Same guy but in the Half Mind mod:
“GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!:
The water even made you forget to use the word you in that sentence
This is a joke btw
Ahhh, hell yes. I was waiting for something like this.
The Combine are some of my favorite villains in any medium at this point. The idea of fusing biology and technology in the way that they have has really expanded and/or awakened something in my mind creatively, and I'm kind of obsessed with the idea of such an entity now.
I'm relatively new to the series and I genuinely can't believe that I skipped over this for so long.
Anyway, thanks for the content, and this vid in particular.
They're brilliant. They're very high on my list of villains too. The Strogg are very close to them too.
Philosophy aside, the combine is just a huge multidimensional technological entity trying to survive. Imagine humanity in the eyes of simple creatures, we are super powerful and will destroy entire ecosystems for our own gain.
damn that was good, you've become the top source of Hale Life lore bar none.
"The first contact was bound to happen. The galaxy, let alone the universe was simply too big for just a singular species to develop intelligence in. Any delay in contact only meant a heightening of the eventual culture shock. In humanity's case, this "culture shock" meant the complete extinction of mankind as it had come to be known."
-The Author, All Tomorrows
All Tomorrows. One of the best pieces of fiction out there.
The Combine was aware of Earth for some time before their invasion, they just weren't quite able to reach Earth with their portal technology. The Black Mesa Incident, however changed that; enabling the Combine to either pass through Xen to reach Earth or the resonance cascade and/or portal storms as a result created the dimensional conditions necessary for Earth's dimension to accommodate a Combine port directly to their overworld.
i need you to know how much i appreciate these videos still, don’t stop putting in effort
There's a certain Lovecraftian cosmic-horror aspect to the Combine that goes understated - we hear hints that the Combine have conquered worlds and dimensions so far beyond human understanding, that we are basically nothing to them. It's like if a single village of a couple hundred people in the Australian outback rebelled against the British Empire at its height of power in the early 20th century. Their power is so unfathomably vast they could eradicate us all within minutes if they wanted to. Yet, we still resist, we still choose to fight this control. I think that's the real "lesson" of _Half-Life_ - that the human spirit is utterly indomitable.
But there's a layer of control above even the Combine - the Employers - guiding and nudging events unseen. It's like the Ghoul says in _Fallout_ - "there's always someone behind the wheel".
You never fail to put out good videos. You put in such effort and your love for Half Life doesn't seem to ever die. Hope Half Life 3 comes out soon, and when it does, I can't wait to see what you'll make from it. Keep up the amazing work, Skyrionn!
Half-Life 3 could be in the works. We hope anyway. Thanks for being here every week
so the G-man is an escaped Shu’ulathoi that had chosen his own form and is twisting fate to see the downfall of the Combine in the future?
This has always been a popular theory and if U go back and listen to the nihilinths voice lines from the first game it kind of reinforces it
So... The combine desired localised teleportation?
insane that all they had to do was keep fighting and invading the home of that Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System in order to get it.
(Though I think we can all agree anyone sent into that facility would be absolutely massacred via turrets, goo, neurotoxin, and mashy spike plates.)
Oh I would have loved to see them go up against GLaDOS
''I'm the only one standing between us and THEM"
-GLaDOS
I think aperture was hidden by her so the combine won't find it
I dunno how she'd hide an entire facility but whatevs
@@denifnaf5874 To be honest hiding a facility within what originated as a salt mine isn't too bad. Plus I don't think she even needed to hide it as the entire combine forces would most likely barely be able to break in at all due to the sheer amount of insane defences and weaponry within that facility.
Havent even watched it and I know I am going to love it already. Love your content.
Ngl falling asleep to this - rewatching / relistening to sleep to again
One more month left for the 20th anniversary of HL2 release.
I think the qz combine deserve more of an explanation like the "unseen lore" since there is no official explanation on specific things.
Lemme explain
So we know that the combine units deployed in the qz come in the 4 variations, but in the files of there voicelines, its shown that they would use tactics that would emotionally manipulate unfortunate victims, in a scene of HLA it can be heard that the combine grunts are calling out for Alyx pretending to be some sort of friendly, whats interesting for that is that ALL units have voicelines for that specific task as well, which are gone unused.
Going further with the idea of unused voicelines there are the unusued charger voicelines, lines of switching weapons and charging towards the player hence the name, there was a cut feature that would include the charger running at the player while wielding a stunstick to strike the player.
There is still more lore that can be speculated around the grunts from hla as well, from one single death voiceline that cant be heard in game but only seen in the captions, one line the grunt cant say when killed by the player is "im sorry", this fact alongside the other voicelines the grunt has showcases that he is the least augmented like the captain, suppressor, and charger, but enough to complete decent tasks within the quarantine zone.
More hidden lore that can be found is about the workers, theres so much we can speculate from just the scenery and destruction when playing through, you can find dozens of dead grunts and works alongside each other showcasing that covering up the qz is not an easy task, and in some parts you can see them using some sort of device to spray against the xen fauna covering the walls, those tanks that are filled up are seen in the antlion section of the game where its showing antlions being extracted from there sacks right into those said tanks.
Whats interesting about the antlions is that they are all slow and heavy, a lot more bulky than the hl2 variations, this can be supported by the nests that they build which are on the surface of the qz, which means whatever the combine extract from the antlions, they turn that mix into fluids used by the workers to wipe out the xen flora and fauna.
Straying away from all that, the big question is why we dont see any of these soldiers outside the qz and in hl2, well I think tge answer to that is they were deployed somewhere else, by the time hl2 came around, city 17 was probably finished and the only thing they needed was less troops to worry about which is why they only use cps and standard transhuman soldiers, which by that time the city grunts were not needed and the qz units were probably deployed else where in other quarantine zones, I dont believe one bit that the suppressor and wallhammer would evolve into the hl2 soldiers, especially from how effective they are shown in hla.
Now is all that I explained canon? It can be, valve themselves have conflicted with there own lore, but the way I explained things can definitely explain how city 17 and everything would be different the time hl2 comes around, best possibility to make everything in hla canon to exist in hl2 somewhere else in the world.
Another note, cmdrrileysv4000 shows a lot of cut content from hla which could definitely add some more lore to what the combine could've added or already added by just arent seen
given enought time aperture could have fought the combine to a stalemate
100%
Half Life really is a goldmine for a fucking horror anthology, Valve COME OOOOOOOON
The combine are cruel but there nothing compared to the qu from all tommorows who biologically made humanity into whatever they wanted such as living plants and forced them to stay on the worlds to suffer
I remember hearing some of the stories and illustrations, some super bone chilling (hopefully) fictional futures.
at least the combine’s augmentations were somewhat practical, but the qu were being evil just for the sake of being evil
@@Judgemenlt I feel like intentions are important. I also feel like "good and evil" is a concept that can be easily twisted, the combine probably don’t even understand the human concept of right and wrong and evil and good. On the other hand I feel the Qu were fully aware of their actions.
At least the qu didn't ban sex
@@denifnaf5874 I think the disfigured monstrosities known as "humans" probably lost most of their sex drive, it was probably only done for the sake of procreation
They could very easily be compared in one sense to the Borg of Star Trek lore. It's essentially a conquest and assimilation of all inhabited worlds. A story about the Combine's encounter with the Nihilanth's species would be an interesting exploration.
Honestly, I genuinely wish the Combine officially became one of the top 10 strongest factions in science fiction. I might sound a bit selfish, but at least I'm expressing my honesty and passion for my favourite antagonist faction of all time.
I think Wallace Breen's quote about indescribable wonders whether carbon stars with sentient fungi and gas giants that are inhabited by vast meteorological intelligence effectively convey the vast scale of the Combine, as these wonders mentioned by Wallace Breen are likely just glimpses and used as examples to highlight the futility of the resistance against the unstoppable force like them, as these mentioned wonders suggest there are countless worlds across the multiple dimensions filled with both imaginable and even unimaginable species and resources that the Combine has conquered and assimilated into their arsenal. Perhaps there are more powerful entities just as powerful as the race, like Nihilanth, if not more so.
Also, I loved your video! I rarely comment on RUclips videos because I'm an introvert, so I consider this comment one of my brave actions. :)
Edit: I felt unsatisfied with my previous response, so I edited my comment to remove my previous theory.
It would cool if we get a idea of what the original species of the combine is. like a vague description of a low raking average Joe combine but describe like a lovecraftian style that would make the advisors look like pathetic maggots.
"THEY come from anywhere and everywhere"
-BreenGrub
THEY rule all
25:40 Awesome, thanks for this lore, didn't know that. We do have a place in the union :)
I really like this new editing style! Nice work as always Skyrionn
God i love this long half life lore videos, subbed.
“The combine could not penetrate the Shu’ulathoi physically” - Skyrionn 7/10/24
Or 10/7/24 for you Americans.
freakgrub
Skryionn, you absolutely need to do STALKER and Metro, they are both rich with lore, and they are all cool
He sure knows how to yapp for hours to make content in a good way.
That's crazy.. It's reminds me of one leader of Earth who keeps yapping on the screen all day 🤯
Breen was spreading the values of our benefactors. We needed to here those valuable insights
Fun fact: in the newspaper of both HL2 and HL:A the Combine used large ships and orbital bombardment against humanity in the 7 hour war.
in the combines alien mind, they could maybe think they are doing us and all the other species they assimilated a good deed
They're helping us in the long run. Praise our benefactors
the scariest part about them is that we only saw in Half Life 2, Episode 2 and Alyx, thats all in one country, they have a Multiverse worth os units.
The moment the Combine try and go against aperture/GLaD0s will be something nuts.
You've become one of my favorite content creators
I love this channel
Thanks for being here
i am convinced that the combine is the BEST and the STRONGEST fictional empire and it's not even close of the size or horror that they are
Bro was like: you know what. No more single video ima make a movie of LOOOOOOOORRRRRRRREEEEEE and the combine
I have a theory that the combine conquest was initially peacefull for the first couple worlds or even the first few universes
When other races where still almost as advenced as the combine
Way before a civilazation would be an ant in comparison
Those days where long gone by the time they discovered the Nihilanths species hovewer...
Also i think the advisors aren't even at the top
That's how op the universal union is
Interesting theory - anything could have happened in those early years
Yessss another Half Life video!! What a great thing to wake up to.
Ok, this is my favorite one so far. The videos about The Combine Lore are the best of this channel IMO.
Glad you like them! Could be more to come
it's insane that all the effort everyone puts in to be free of the combine in all 3 games, its only a small occupational force they were fighting. mere planet prison guards.
The combine was kept out by glados to prevent them from breaking into aperture
GLaDOS could've beaten them easily
Love your lore videos. Thank you for another!
Fun fact the combine over watch soldiers used to be humanoid aliens that were in those suits. That was the original idea that they were going to go for but then they just made him human augments. For my own sake I like to say that some of them are human augments and I like to say that the soldiers that we see in the game are not human they're kind of like humanoids from other planets and dimensions that are just humanoid soldiers being used as a battle platform. I don't know it just makes it sound cooler to me when you think of it like that. It truly makes them alien like they're some kind of political military enforcer on a planet.
In my head cannon the head of the combine is a rouge Ai built by the original combine race prior to their demise and so the AI kept following what it was programmed to do protect the race that built them so it did by taking over new species to better help protect a long dead race
Sometimes i wonder if the combine exists in our universe, since lets say that the multiverse theory is true, then one day the Combine will come to earth, which is a scary thought
A scary thought
Thanks for these videos. I always love deep dives into half life lore. Something I always wondered was the original games design of the nihilinth with it having scars and mechanical components grafted to it suggests this story was allready thoroughly planned out.
Also any chance of getting an ichtyosaur deep dive ? They scare the living shit out of me but it's driven to a point of almost obsession
The combine can be use as a antagonist for other video game franchises that involve the multiverse
Wonderful video, as are all your videos!! Glory to Skyrionn!!!
Good one. Always enjoy a new Half Life lore video from you.
Although I have a feeling you'll get through all possible lore someday soon... :D
Shame they never made a HL3. Or episode 3. Shame for us anyway.
Though I do understand why they didn't want to continue back then. I hope they will, eventually.
Love this video already
With fictional settings like this I often find myself wondering what I would do if I was there. As much as I'd love to think I would resist, I don't think I would have the emotional fortitude for it. I'd probably end up in "an eternity's repose". It brings peaceful thoughts, does it not?
The Epistle 3, even if it is not cannon, can take so many turns. Instead of a pointless Kamikaze attack, they could use the ship to travel through space and time to give humanity the technology to prepare for the invasion. Later they could recruit the Nihilanth specie and other species enslaved by the Combine to fight back. This in turn would ironically turn Humanity into the new Combine, starting a civil war between those who wants the power and become conquerors, and those who reject it and know the dire consequences of that. This would only create a new resistance that would fight back, in some sort of cyclic story.
Love your content man, you are amazing as hell, thanks for you and your job man. Wish you all the best.✨
Thanks for watching the videos. I appreciate you! I love putting this stuff together because I love the series
My guess is that The Combine have a grasp on the concept of memory transfer and don't fully understand the idea of cut and paste versus copy and paste. As such, they go from planet to planet to "refine" a species. Taking the ones that are useful and copying their minds to their repository, while the rest get their memories wiped as soldiers are needed or are just left to die out. That's a concept that I wish was explored, a soldier quota, when The Combine lost soldiers, they harvested random citizens to be transformed. So, you' be responsible for the transformation of countless people through fighting them.
Ur content is so awesome. I like ur story telling and editing!
Thanks for watching it. I love this community.
just wen i think uve covered it all, u come back and suprise me with a combine lore. bless ur soul
Oh man - there's so much more to cover
Great video, as always!
I feel like if valve was planning to wrap up Half-Life episode 3 it would involve Gordon time traveling back to black Mesa incident.
Something I think about from time to time since I like listening to sci-fi e books and a fan of the half-life series is what if two hyperaggressive civilizations such as the Combine and the Qu of the novel All Tomorrows would interact or conquer one another.
An obsession with evolution
One would hope we might see some of the adapted creatures rebel in future material, like Overwatch that get memories back and regret or stuff like Gunships acting almost like giant pets to ressistance members who care for them and nurse them back to health.
As to our Base location it's in Nunya, just outside of Business.
Always making fire videos!
The Combine stationed *_on Earth_* were desperate, the rest of the empire probably couldn't care less if one of its many colonies is suddenly cut off. In a presumeably infinite multiverse, it's only a matter of time before some other poor civilisation has their own Resonance Cascade, allowing the Combine to try their luck again.
Amazing Video! Please do more!
Awesome vid! Such great storytelling & analysis… On a related note, does anyone else be gettin’ WEF vibes too?
i vote up and hope youtube won't autoplay this video everytime I finished one like that one before
Thank you for making these videos
Thanks for watching them
Hey Skrionn just dropped another Banger !
Thanks for watching and being here!
I wonder what we will get first GTA7, Elder Scrolls 7, or Half life 3
Gta 7 sounds the most reasonable out of these, es6 was teased years ago and nothing came out since, gta 6 has trailers already, until es6 comes out rockstar will prob work in gta 7
I'm hopeful for Elder Scrolls then HL3
If we hope for either GTA 7 or Elder Scrolls 7, then Gabe will probably release HL³ first out of spite
A new half life game is in development. It was supposed to be an vr gane and could have been Alyx 2. But the name of the project “whitesand” point at New Mexico, where Black Mesa is.
why do you make 10/10 content
IM ABOUT TO SLEEP AND SAW THIS UPLOADED FEW HOURS AGO LETS GOOOO
Sweet dreams of The Combine
Do one for the the G-Man and/or his "Employers"
Is it just me who thinks the combine claw logo looks like a human with ist arms up. Like look at is sideways and the circle is the head and the claw is the arms. If that is what valve thought of that is really cool!
I don't think I would handle the conquest. I think I would simply have my soul explore the other mysteries beyond.
Well a ton of people did perish in the 7-hour war. Many of us may have fallen then
Yes time to bring out the cans of Dr Breen's Private Reserve for this one !
Grab yourself a few cans. Settle in and learn about our benefactors
HL lore from you is an insta like
Love to see it
glad you covered these daddies.
They needed covering at one point. Combine Daddies giving us new options for the future of our species.
You know i always, Wonder what happens if the combine somehow discover xen and take control of it?
I really wish the HECU and Adrian Shepherd would have dealt with these assholes. I think the Combine are still a "This bad thing happened, oh well it's the plot".
Love this guy
Love you too
I really like the idea that once you reach the home world of the combine that you kill the original combine and there are the weakest enemy because of thousands of years of really on other. Why because we never see them which I take that there are lazy because of the thousand of year people severing you they make other people work and they do nothing thousands of years not working staying storng powerful. Some might how do they control there empire well because people are scared to be crashed again by there boots without know that they because weak the original combine
I don’t think the “Original” Combine race still exists. I’m willing to bet that they are long dead but their empire is so vast that most of their slave races have no idea.
lol 7 hours ago is that a 7 hour war reference?
ALSO WOW 48 MINUTES LORE CRAZY
funny you kept saying "our benefactors"
All will kneel before the glorious Combine Empire.
R I P America in half life😢
Brits be chilling ☕️
Defeated only in 7 hours?? 💀 Bruh Skill issue..
go combine go
Your Video is of so High quality RUclips in Germany thinks of it as a Documentary every other video on this feed are German Documenteries
I wonder if Marvel's Franklyn Richards (or any of his versions) is pretty much a new G-Man or Combine to happen.
And the Power Pack ? What would they go through under them ?
There's so much Lovecraft story potential to do with Marvel kids. Especially if they write it as some kids tale of old, when horror was their mainstream. We could use such crossover between "Half-Life" and Marvel.
No Marvel sucks.
It's so annoying when people act like Laidlaw's revelations aren't literally 'voice of God' lore dumps for the universe he's responsible for creating. JFC.
Like who has to cOnFiRm it's canon? Gabe f@#$%ing Newell? Who cares, what did he ever write?
The greatest of all time! Thank you 🙏🏾
Thanks for watching!
cool stuff thx man
Man is farming same subject over and over again
And i listen every video
Perfect for bedtime
Half-life lore always slaps
God, watching this and all I can think is how similar they are to the Borg from Star Trek, I mean, can't anybody else see it?? 😭
Good Stuff :)