That was incredible.

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

Wait... That's actually you!

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

I saw almost all you HL movies last night, just for a refresh 😁

@andromeda32916

Ай бұрын

omg real theparrygod

@TheParryGod

Ай бұрын

@@UnknownDino Haha, ty! Can't wait to see what else you'll make. The portal startup sequence was chef's kiss. Also very glad to see that the almighty algorithm seems to be picking this one up. Well deserved.

@enverse244

Ай бұрын

We’re in the presence of greatness

So, this is how that 'permanent off-world reassignment' looks like.

@franciscoandres4907

Ай бұрын

Imagine playing as a "reassigned" human who manages to escape custody after the Citadel is destroyed, now having to fight their way through the Combine's home turf to get back home.

@stuntpenguin

Ай бұрын

@@franciscoandres4907 Half Life : Gray shift

@Benjamin_340

Ай бұрын

BOGER STRPODERS RAHHHHHHHGHHH

@vonderkunstler

Ай бұрын

I have always thought it as just a fancy word they use for death. Since even Combine does not know what happens after death.

@Comfortable_crow

Ай бұрын

Permanent CBT Mr.Freeman, permanennntttt

Dr. Gordon Freeman with 25 HP, no shield, and armed only with a super gravity gun: "They don't stand a chance."

1:40 *portal opens* Combine troopships: "LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!!"

Who would win: Incomprehensible bio-mechanical alien civilization Or 27 year old MIT grad with a crowbar

@Galaxy613

Ай бұрын

But what does "winning" look like at this scale? Somehow getting the combine cut off from earth forever? They'll just re-establish connection sooner or later. Find and destroy the "head" of the combine? Surely they have an administration structure that can reconstitute itself in such an event if they are universe-spanning..

@escapegulag4317

Ай бұрын

chad grad

@H31MU7

Ай бұрын

one orange boi

@escapegulag4317

Ай бұрын

@@H31MU7 Trump's boi

@rino4995

Ай бұрын

The old fat guy who can't count to three wins

This is fucking VALVE quality animation, this is BEYOND amazing.

@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth

Ай бұрын

Don't forget the audio design! That stuff really stood out to me!

Love the image of all these striders in this large-scaled environment basically looking like Opilione spiders. Can't wait!

@GeneraluStelaru

21 күн бұрын

Can't wait for what?

@CallMeSlade

20 күн бұрын

bro its a fan made trailer, its not real 🤣🤣🤣

Screw a return to ravenholm or the borealis, the combine overworld would be sick as an episode 3 or 4

@trainenthusiast5199

Ай бұрын

We already have the Borealis sidestory. Why not have another sidestory?

@IdentificadorNoDisponible

Ай бұрын

Entropy: Zero 2 is Borealis, we now need Overworld

@Paraceratheriumedits_P

Ай бұрын

​@@IdentificadorNoDisponibleYes, we need a game just like in this video!

@dkkanofkash8798

Ай бұрын

@@IdentificadorNoDisponible This trailer has so many Scorn vibes to it and nails the Combine aesthetic PERFECTLY. We need a game like this.

@naturesquad9174

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure that was the eventual destination in old script drafts

Bro you nailed the combine aesthetic so well. Biomechanical beings + some unfathomablely large architecture + sharp and assymetric edges = Combine

@artisticgamer777

Ай бұрын

true, it looks really good and accurate to how they might be.

@ETA801

Ай бұрын

Wow sensei youre here? Lol

2:35 I would be so fire if valve made the full game this way

@spacemanYoutuber

23 күн бұрын

I hope to see a battle 2:35 Gordon Freeman VS. Combine Overlord On the Combine Over World Would be Fire..

0:30 If you look up in the middle to upper part of the screen, you can see G-MAN!!! I love all the details in this, honestly!

This is so peak. Really gives the vibes the Combine are just playing a giant RTS game

@Taron_HaiTar

Ай бұрын

More like interdimensional version of Stellaris, mixed with few RTS missions in invasions, sometimes leaving their AI to play a hybrid of City manager and Lambda Wars (RTS Half-Life 2 mod) style RTS game hybrid, with Advisors playing "no-build/limited resources" missions when shit gets real, like in Half-Life 2 and Episodes!

@ashdjones

Ай бұрын

Sh gets real ™ Valve+ MFX (mind effects)

@ptolemaicfoxxo3032

Ай бұрын

Its when you already beat the mission but dont finish the objective so you can harvest every resource and build the biggest base you can imagine

@dkkanofkash8798

Ай бұрын

@@ptolemaicfoxxo3032 And you leave a little bit of your enemy remaining so that you can continue toying around with their forces, while your opponent is doing their best to not even try to beat you, but to survive.

@sowpmactavish

Ай бұрын

So you mean like an empire Next youll comment on a WW2 documentary "this shit is so peak, it really gives the vibe that the allies were playing Company of Heroes"

0:13 Zombie bear very cool

@Goldsrc17

Ай бұрын

A zombear

@unfunny3313

Ай бұрын

@@Goldsrc17 the spas-12 in my HEV suit:

@Gaelic-Spirit

Ай бұрын

A zombie combine bear? That's like some kind of zomcombear

@MetalArrow

Ай бұрын

I demand a zombear to be produced as a plush.

@NodRodge

Ай бұрын

Also absolutely terrifying!

What makes this fascinating is the massive scale is coupled with speed and efficiency. In particular on how the massive tower structure receiving the final piece, being powered up, opening the portal and the reinforcements pouring into it in the span of thirty seconds. Human technology is ponderous in comparison.

Half Life has been incredibly successful in many ways, but the fact that the art, writing, design, and lore continues to inspire stuff like this is a testament to its lasting success.

@spoodarman7748

20 күн бұрын

too bad a lazy company has the rights to the game, rip hl 3

@Un_revealing

13 күн бұрын

@@spoodarman7748 No They acctually want to make games more impressive and intractable, But there's not enough good tech to push the limits

H. G. Wells' idea of aliens having three legs in The War of the Worlds was genius, I'm so glad they gave a nod to that in Half-Life 2

'It'll be the Seven Hour War, all over again. Except this time we won't last seven minutes...' - Eli Vance

@ZeGmodPlayer

Ай бұрын

YEHEY TEAM CLOWN.

@thechrissguy

Ай бұрын

Damn, just like me fr

@ZeGmodPlayer

Ай бұрын

They won't last 7 minutes because the Earth's military is VERY VERY WEAKENED after the xen race x and combine wars or They are becoming MORE aggressive and stronger (Universal union)

@mrviking2mcall212

Ай бұрын

If Gordon gets into the Overworld, it’s the grubs that won’t last seven minutes.

@thesaddestdude3575

Ай бұрын

I cant even last that long!

I love how there's almost no humans present, and just original alien combine synth designs, and I love the giger aesthetic for the overworld bio-structure things

@chewy99.

Ай бұрын

Yeah only 2 humans, including Gordon. Actually 3… including… breengrub lol

The combine in general feels so unimaginable to me that I’m surprised someone was able to come up with something like this

The fact that watching this in fullscreen with the best resolution really feels like playing during a cutscene of a Half-Life 3 type game is just amazing.

@UnknownDino

28 күн бұрын

Yeah, I would suggest people to try and watch it on the largest screen they can find. The sound though is not great...

@efraimkent

23 күн бұрын

⁠@@UnknownDinosound could definitely use some tweaking, mostly the music however as voice sounds good imo. send me the vox and music files separately if you want and i’ll master it for you (professional audio engineer) image could be ever so slightly colour graded for better contrast ratio, if we’re nitpicking, but already looks great as is too. amazing job either way! could have easily fooled me that it was the official HL3 trailer we’ll probably never get…

Getting giant Oddworld and Scorn type vibes, this legit looks like a final level in a Half Life game. Remember this all happened because a guy was late for work

@ilkeribrahim6541

Ай бұрын

Not really, his lateness to work made other people's lives longer with at least 30 or minutes with the incident for people that died instantly and bit longer for others.

@RootVegetabIe

Ай бұрын

​@@ilkeribrahim6541 They're being humorous. You don't have to reply seriously and "acktually" every fucking thing.

@ilkeribrahim6541

Ай бұрын

@@RootVegetabIe Well I know ,but it's still not accurate as a joke . There are many reasons basically, why this happened and being late is not one of them . Yes it's funny ,but it will be funnier if was actually true . :)

@ChezzyKnytt

Ай бұрын

@@RootVegetabIe This is a worse response tbh

@santiago8816

Ай бұрын

@@ilkeribrahim6541 I think freeman forgot to take the straight train and instead he take the scenery route

Making the Striders look like crawling spiders on giant Combine architecture was GENIUS.

@KFishproductionII

Ай бұрын

its like a spider crab colony

Absolute masterpiece. You mastered the combine design language and got it even more powerful. Great architecture, animations, rendering, scale, vfx and world building. Congrats man !!

no generative ai used at all, SEE PEOPLE, PURE CREATIVITY ALWAYS WINS

@Krisfer.

15 күн бұрын

ok and?

@BoSPaladin-102

9 күн бұрын

​@@Krisfer. And...using fully generative AI is just bad and kind of lazy.

wow the combines home world looks like such a bright ray of sunshine

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

Lol, it's a happy workplace, like a big family.

@CoolSs

Ай бұрын

I actually got the vibes that this is not their homeworld but more like worlds between world. a portal hub in sort. also from the HL2 lore. some of the combine penalties is to send you to "off world relocation" for their soldiers and Civil protection officer who disobey them. this probably one of them.

@Gubbus.

Ай бұрын

@@CoolSsreal

@fyraltari1889

Ай бұрын

@@CoolSs I don't think they even have a single homeworld anymore.

@cjthebeesknees

Ай бұрын

I sure hope the locals are friendly to tourists, I’m sure theirs nothing to worry about.

not sure if was intentional, but I love how you made it feel like how all the synths were just 'part' of the overworld, like cells in a unimaginably massive body, fitting with the combines use of medical jargon when dealing with humanity. Showing the combine isnt really an alien empire, but a single organism that is never ending in its growth, an organism so huge that it has to spread through universes to keep itself alive.

@roman11777

Ай бұрын

That's definitely my interpretation, too. I like to imagine that there is no 'top' to the combine, no actual leaders or species that's at the helm. The Combine is probably just a giant, impossibly vast AI; a blind idiot god that expands and consumes simply for the sake of it.

@quox3987

Ай бұрын

A perfect asthetic for something called “the combine”

@MisterZimbabwe

Ай бұрын

That's the best way to put it. There is no "leadership" caste or ruling government for the combine. The combine is a super complex series of interlocking systems that brutalizes and absorbs other individual organisms and intellects into itself, reshaping them to become just another extension of The Combine.

@literalsarcasm1830

Ай бұрын

So they're the ultimate cancer

@trainenthusiast5199

23 күн бұрын

ye. kinda reminds me of the Iris of Gemini Home Entertainment, which literally consumes other eldritch beings in order to keep itself alive. And I wrote this cause I just read these comments lmao

It’d be sick if this actually turned out to be HL3. I’d love to see those new combine units fight alongside the remaining garrison on Earth.

Damn man, this has it all, the complete 'other-worldness' and true might of the Combine, G-man cameo, the Aperture logo on Gordon's gun, bloody amazing. Not to mention praise from the messiah himself; TheParryGod!

was really skeptical about this video because fan projects that usually try to capture the deeper and more alien aspects of the combine miss the mark or make them too familiar. but this was absolutely amazing. practically perfectly captures the disturbing, unimaginably massive, alien aspects of what make the combine so interesting. great work!

MAN! This captures the essence of Half-Life 2 and draws up on it in such a perfect way! Incredible new creature designs, showing how truly alien the Combine are, and that even with their humanity removed, the soldiers we fight in HL2 are the most human part of the Combine we could ever see, and that the desolate streets of City 17 are the most cozy and familiar place humanity can inhabit; the sense of scale, in which even the enormous Citadel dwarfs in comparison, showing how the force we fought was merely a policing garrison. And the last scene showing Gordon's POV making us imagine what Half-Life 3 could have been... Also, this feels a lot like the alien homeworld scene in Pacific Rim (In a good way!)

@trainenthusiast5199

Ай бұрын

The Precursor homeworld...I remember that.

@niono1587

Ай бұрын

You have quite the artsy mind

@TheKitMurkit

Ай бұрын

What about the crazy design of the gravity gun

@shiBuyaking109

Ай бұрын

I loved that scene in Pacific Rim! It really concluded for the imagination of the viewers thoughts about what or who was sending the Kaiju from the other side 👍 it was amazing for cinema because it fits pretty well for the ending of that movie! it’s done even better here for half life to reiterate the combine threat using its unknown technology to open gateways across the multiverse 😮 this scene also shows the audience how hidden humanity was to this sinister empire had it not been conducting experiments in territories of science not understood! Tie this combine over world scene back to half life Ch1 and it’s the perfect title choice unforeseen consequences! This strikes so many cords for my sci fi itch because I’m starting to see the subject of not what if in this universe but what if in the multi universe has become a serious topic since in actual scientific theory it’s become pretty obvious the multiverse is real!

@fluxdr1ve143

27 күн бұрын

@@TheKitMurkit The gravity gun reminds me of the gun from Prey (Q-Beam). It has a similar design to it.

Love how it goes from machinery to straight up Geiger art

Can’t imagine how long this took to put together; this is ridiculously good quality ❤

@desko2041

23 күн бұрын

Its mox…!

I like the part where the combine casually invaded probably another planet like it’s just another day as usual. really gives off that earth was just another number to the combine

@linnick4393

Ай бұрын

I think that’s still earth

@escapegulag4317

Ай бұрын

@@linnick4393 yep

@chewy99.

Ай бұрын

The Earth is actually really insignificant for the Combine, they’re just so large that they can send what seems like a giant amount of forces to overwhelm the Earth when for them it’s not even 0.0000000001% of their forces. They are literally a multidimensional empire. They must be in control of trillions of worlds with life or far more. They see an entire planet as one being basically. Gordon was the one individual who changed that.

@engineerzy3124

Ай бұрын

314

@bornstellar7468

Ай бұрын

Yea that's still Earth lol, but it being another casual dimension invasion would be just as good

Hello? Peak cinema?

@sectorsweep14

Ай бұрын

Kino, perhaps?

@phazon911

Ай бұрын

it's not bad but still pretty mid idk about "peak" lol

@john-fe5fi

Ай бұрын

@@phazon911 and no constructive criticism offered, great job dude!

@tetonis2452

Ай бұрын

@@phazon911 im not even a second in and i already know its peak just from the hd mud

@SnakeKoRn

Ай бұрын

Sir this is a Wendy's.

Oh man I hope someone can make a game out of this short it looks so peak

Anyone notice that the gun Gordon is holding at 2:50 has the Aperture science logo?

Seeing the Combine Overworld being explored by fans (even conceptually) is something I've always wanted to see. I've had a lot of thoughts on what it may look like myself but THIS has to be the most accurate. I gotta love the striders climbing the citadel like spiders too. That and seeing breen grub was just... chilling. EXCELLENT work, mate!

@mr.killjoy4753

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure the grub was Gordon

@whnvr

Ай бұрын

@@mr.killjoy4753no, definitely breen

@mr.killjoy4753

Ай бұрын

@@whnvr he’s wearing glasses. If you look at Gordon’s right hand in the last shot, you can see he’s in a host body

@Spark412

Ай бұрын

@@mr.killjoy4753 No... that's Breen.

@mr.killjoy4753

Ай бұрын

@@Spark412 am I high cuz I swear even in the first person shot at the end you can see part of the host body

Finally after roughly 5 months of work, here we are! Which was your favorite, part/element/design? How did it differ from your expectations?

@krounos1

Ай бұрын

Capturing the magnitude of the Overworld is something that's not an easy task or really been accomplished but I think this has done it. This is the official depiction of the Overworld to me.

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

@@krounos1 and this is supposed to be a tiny "walkable" section of it.

@user-eq3ub3ye9x

Ай бұрын

What are the long-legged spiders doing and what are some armored jellyfish flying as buses for striders?

@nsv8613

Ай бұрын

@@krounos1 Same!

@AsinEyad

Ай бұрын

The designs really capture it well!

2:30 Past Breen: " Is it worth it ?!?!? " 2:32 Present Breen : .......

i cant believe this doesnt have at least 5 million views by now

This guy just leaked HL3 trailer and still doesn't has even a few million views? Give this man some fame!

@damsen978

Ай бұрын

I hope you're joking on the "leaked" thing, because i can't tell if you're joking or not lol

@Iz4kiTiago

Ай бұрын

🥸

@Joe-dy7bb

Ай бұрын

This video game out five hours ago, calm down, fanboy. Also this much of the plot has been known for almost 5 years now.

@rickeyheard4454

Ай бұрын

​@@Joe-dy7bb Dude don't be so rude. You're even more weird than he is.

@myblaonga

Ай бұрын

@@Joe-dy7bb Piss off let him be a fanboy. We've been depraved from Half-Life 3 long enough. Let us have excitement for something probably we wont live long enough to see it.

0:33 Everybody's favourite alien bureaucrate spotted!

@Falllowman

Ай бұрын

I love g-man sightings

@damonnugent1993

26 күн бұрын

Seeing him in the Combine homeworld is weird.. as if he's arrived to make war against them.. "Now we take the fight.. to THEM..."

Both nostalgic and inspiring. In our AI driven age the fact that you didn't use any AI makes me appreciate just how much work went into this. On behalf of all half-life fans, thank you!

In case you missed it, G-Man sighting at 0:32, a masterpiece video.

@georgeoldsterd8994

17 күн бұрын

I thought that was Gordon. 🤔

the striders climbing over that citadel like tiny spiders this is so cool

The Combine seeing a Lambda graffiti on the wall In earth: kalm IN THE OVERWORLD: PANIK

This is amazing! I generally skip ahead of concept trailers but I watched this with play pause repeat to see every detail. Respects!!

I can't stop rewatching this video, all of the alien designs are phenomenal and truly on-point with the style and feel of half-life. This video really makes me want an entire series based on this world you've created.

Valve, hire this man.

@habibpines

Ай бұрын

If I were them, I would hire this man and just announce that Half Life 3 is on the way, since this dude certified chef.

@unknownmaskman

Ай бұрын

eh, they are busy making money with steam and cs2.

@atsizbalik

Ай бұрын

​@@unknownmaskman they don't even care about cs2 anymore, just dota

@snark567

Ай бұрын

Why? So he can be can be surrounded by a team of people who don't do anything all day?

@gues.t

Ай бұрын

@@atsizbalik ?, They've been updating the game constantly. It isn't just one team working on all games, it's multiple. I know that CS2 is ass as of now, mainly due to input lag, peeker's advantage, and the anticheat, but it's definitely going to improve later on There has been leaks of a new Cache being made, a snowy cobblestone map in the works, a possible operation, and Danger Zone as well. Danger Zone used the codename "survival" in csgo, and there has been mentions of it in cs2's code I might be coping hard, but I'm hopeful that CS2 is going to be polished in a year or so

Love how genuinely alien these Combine look. No conveniently human-sized Combine for us to shoot at like normal soldiers, everything looks massive and like a human should never have gotten here. Taking on these enemies might be the creativity needed to get Valve off their asses to make the next game, since they only ever care about making tech demos.

@CometAurora

28 күн бұрын

metro cops are regular humans and the combine soldiers are humans that were genetically altered by the combine, but i definitely agree, the first half life had way more crazy alien stuff than the second one for some reason, would have been way more interesting if they went even weirder in half life 2

@MrDecessus

28 күн бұрын

Lovercraft like things. The stuff of nightmares.

@SgtHawk45

28 күн бұрын

Same, love the looks here!

@nagger8216

28 күн бұрын

@@CometAurora I didn't really mean that as a criticism towards Half Life 2 and the Combine soldiers in that, I actually think they wrote in a pretty decent explanation for it since they are actually human soldiers. I'm just appreciating how the Combine here look truly alien and completely different from what we'd normally expect, especially in an FPS. As opposed to something like Halo where almost all of the aliens are conveniently human-sized because they obviously have to be since it's an FPS. Or even like Mass Effect, where all the aliens are basically normal people. Like, this is the *actual* Combine that originally conquered Earth, not the ones that were babysitting it after.

@greenbow7888

27 күн бұрын

Wish Valve would convert HL: Alyx for monitor / no VR.

I have to admit this is the most actuate way i would believe the alien designs we saw in HALF LIFE would actually look. Valve take notes. lol

i absolutely Adore how "organic" this all is. With bio-mechanical pieces of the grand machine scuttling around, crawling on things like giant spiders and ticks. Everything looking so alive

Good GOD, this is an absolutely stunning depiction of the Combine Overworld. By far the definitive one in my opinion. Every part of this is perfect from start to finish, showing how completely different The Combine is in a way that is impossible to fully describe. The choice to make Breen a malnourished corpse on life support as opposed to a host body is a little odd but it can be excused, because it’s a brilliant visual and only one part of this masterpiece. The part at the end with Gordon is also underrated. Helping to demonstrate how vast the environment is from a first person POV AND setting him up with a weapon CONSIDERABLY more powerful than his usual fare. Like the entire power ceiling just got boosted by a hundred and now he’s going to be fighting what would’ve normally been considered bosses as regular enemies. GOD I’d love a game set on the Overworld now.

This is fucking insane and perfect, they need to hire you. I can’t believe it only too 6 months. I love the striders, the combine architecture is perfect, valve would be proud.

For one second I was like "WHAT???" But still... nice work. :)

This was incredible! So much good will in this IP, and so much longing for content, but none to be had. Can't wrap my head around it.

This is actually the most incredible fan interpretation of the greater Combine empire I've ever seen in any form of media, and I've been scouring the web for this sort of thing for eons. Absolutely exceptional work with the synth designs, to me they seem to fit right in with what we've seen thus far from Valve. Please don't stop producing this sort of content, it's simply too good to show briefly and never again.

This is the greatest Half-Life cinematic I have ever seen

Great work! Your animation and choriography/direction really stand out in this.

Wow, just WOW this was truly AWESOME. The design, the visual, the flow of the story so makes me want this as a full game. You made this with suggestions and just one friend? Again wow and much respect!

HEADCRAB BEARS

@ned2916

Ай бұрын

Where

@mrman2476

Ай бұрын

@@ned2916 At the beginning.

@tobcyxob

Ай бұрын

We had zombines. Now we could get a zombears.

@concept5631

29 күн бұрын

The horror

@JohnyK07

24 күн бұрын

@@tobcyxob I was bummed when HL: Alyx foreshadowed Zombapes at the zoo, and then never delivered :(

You, my friend have perfectly captured, nay, PERFECTED the Combine design language. Everything, biological or machine, moves and acts as if it were part of a single, omniscient, uncaring being. Breen's grandiose ranting contrasted with his fate is horrifically amazing. And the overall quality of the video is beyond words. 100/10. Cannot recommend enough!!! Valve ain't got nothin on you!!!

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

I'm happy someone finally noticed what I was aiming for with Breen's speeches! He is an amazingly written "villain/victim".

@darthflipyap7040

Ай бұрын

@@UnknownDinoHe truly is! It makes you wonder if he truly believed in what he was saying, deluding himself into believing it to justify his actions, or if he just did it all for power, and is just spewing out whatever ge thinks will make the Combine reward him.

@MrDecessus

28 күн бұрын

@@darthflipyap7040 Or is he even able to think for himself any longer.

@jjconsi2

25 күн бұрын

Valve needs to hire you immediately.

You just made my entire week with this video dude. This is amazing literally a work of pure art

The entire Alien army with super modern weapons, vehicles and smart creatures vs an orange boi, who wins?

Ok now this, this is the real Combine army that fucked the earth in 7 hours. (edit: i did not expect 1k likes)

@chickennugget8112

Ай бұрын

There is a reason for that..

@gustawbobowski1333

Ай бұрын

The earth never encountered real combine army, just the small scouting contingent.

@nerdgusgun

Ай бұрын

@@gustawbobowski1333 nah that wasnt the scouting party, they prob just sent in a single big arse carrier-like ship, which then proceeded to spam the shit out of those fly synths that rode on the strider 👌

@gustawbobowski1333

Ай бұрын

@@nerdgusgun ?? it's well established it was a tiny scouting contingent wat are you waffling about

@hugo8500

Ай бұрын

@@gustawbobowski1333 When is that ever stated?

I imagined when Breen said he was heading somewhere else he ended up in some fucked hellscape like this

@dr.cheeze5382

Ай бұрын

I wonder if we'll ever get an answer. I'm of the strong opinion that the barn advisor is Breen, given how it seems to toy with it's environment when it first wakes up.

@balaclavakid3905

Ай бұрын

​@@dr.cheeze5382 Plus, the scene in episode one where an old recording of Breen plays and then an Advisor in a pod emerges directly after definitely seems like it was foreshadowing this

@user-pq2mu5xc2x

Ай бұрын

BreenGrub was always a thing

@DutchGlow-fi2ip

Ай бұрын

I've always thought that they put breen's mind into chell. Like she was a vegetable until they could find a good science brain for her.

@SirKolass

Ай бұрын

@@dr.cheeze5382 Why do you guys keep saying Breen is an advisor? He never got his host body, he never crossed the portal. When Gordon destroyed the portal generator, the sphere Breen was in fell, and then the reactor exploded, turning Breen and everything else into dust. He's Dead. Plus, that advisor is not toying with the environment, since it was forced out of its life support, it couldn't see properly, so it had to touch things with its tongue to find out what they are.

WOW!!!! The level of creativity going on here! Incredible all around!

Ok brother, you caught me out there; I was ready to pre-order, lol. I'd imagine The Combine homeworld to look something like this, with their life-forms and tech even more unimaginable and terrifying than what was already witnessed on earth.

Half-Life: Combined.

@Ilovecatsverymuch2009

Ай бұрын

Full life

Absolutely greatest unofficial video-art on Half-Life that I've ever seen!

The continuous camera shot is incredible!

Valve should hire you as a designer.

Man I would love an interactive game demo based upon this, even if it is only 5 minutes.

@hcutter9802

21 күн бұрын

Ooh, you just gave me a flashback of how good the short demo-game version of OPPOSING FORCE was!!

Also : the aperture insignia on the only terrestrial component of the new gravity gun , masterpiece .

@user-iq6gp8qo8b

Ай бұрын

Imagine if aperature tech allows Gordon and team to teleport into their world and you go on rescue, sabotage and infiltration missions like Warhammer Darktide. I could Imagine this game playing like Half-Life+Doom+Quake

@andreisechi7871

Ай бұрын

And then gman becomes super Saiyan and Eli vance becomes a Better nihilant ....but Alyx uploads Her consciusness in Glados and Ripley boxes vs dog in xen

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

Very few have noticed that!

@Galaxy613

Ай бұрын

What?! That makes this perfect!

@qwertydavid8070

Ай бұрын

@@andreisechi7871 half life if it was peak:

This is perfect. It’s wild that it’s been 20 years since Half Life 2.

Nice ! And hey, yeah it matters to some people whether AI was involved ;) Although I'm pretty ok with it for concept, but having done everything INCLUDING concept art without AI is still even more impressive, so kudo for pointing it out ;)

g-mans gotta make a shit ton of nudges for gordon to pull this one off

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly 😅

@Galaxy613

Ай бұрын

@@UnknownDino Half Life 3: You thought Dark Souls was hard?

@thelelanatorlol3978

24 күн бұрын

Gordon doesn't have his crowbar, he is powerless.

0:34 Gman quietly walking on that platform with all the chaos around him gives me chills.

@Zoidberg420

26 күн бұрын

Nice catch!

@user-lb5cp5mw4u

26 күн бұрын

I thought he is not with combine. His employer is supposed to be someone else.

@Sonic-Tonic-

26 күн бұрын

@@user-lb5cp5mw4u He's not with the Combine, right, his Employers are enemies of the Combine, but of course he's here keeping an eye on Gordon and supervising his progress, as he always has been

@Marl-uo2xk

26 күн бұрын

​@@user-lb5cp5mw4u i think he is some sort of anti hero

@Marl-uo2xk

26 күн бұрын

He doesn't seem to like the combine but he also exploits Gordon and Alyx for mysterious ends

Wow! This is next level Half Life for sure! I had to watch it multiple times in a row just for all the details and immersion. And a hearty 'Thank You' for not using AI in my humble opinion. This is well designed and illustrated. It's the Half Life successor we all deserve. Amazing job!

That... was.. amazing... Makes me think of Breen's words. "Really, well, let's see how well it serves you.. on the far side of a combine portal."

Giving Breen the HL2 early Consul's worm form is a nice touch

I absolutely LOVE the Striders (?) crawling around the portal gate at 1:10. It really evokes that sense of unease and disgust that we get when looking at a cluster of wooded stick-insects and the seemingly unnatural way that they move and behave. They're like bacteria infecting an open wound.

@gospelofrye6881

27 күн бұрын

I reckon the four-legged ones should be called Bigmites.

@Jimmyknapp2

26 күн бұрын

The synth hit right there is perfect half life

@WhoThisMonkey

24 күн бұрын

Stick insects sway back and forth on their legs to imitate leaves blowing in the wind. These things are more like a daddy long legs with legs pulled off.

@ydk1k253

9 күн бұрын

They're probably janitors

Everything i had to say were said in comments below. Fantastic project and absolutely on point visualisation of how Combines base could look in my perspective. I hope your work will be noticed by the masses and thank you very-very much!

Holy shizen! Fine work sir. Things sure have come a long way since I first put on the hazmat suit for a reactor maintainence test 😂

To think this is but a fraction of the Combine Empire's actual strength... I also love the design of the extended Synth Forces such as those Striders and Dropships, really sells their aesthetic.

@lestart5091

28 күн бұрын

Actually, it's like a grain of sand on a beach, considering that the alliance knows how to create Dyson spheres and conquer worlds. For them, Gordon Freeman is like an ant that managed to survive the flooding of an anthill

Perfection. You've managed to capture the inhuman, biomechanical, almost insectoid nature of the combine down to a tea. I really didn't think anyone could do the combine homeworld justice, I stand corrected. You sir are an inspiration!

Oh wow man, this is probably the best depiction of the overworld I’ve ever seen. If it had a canon look this would be it

Amazing job! This was stunning!

The most important thing about this imaginative sequel is the absence of a "3" in the title - so it might just happen. Good job!

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

I wouldn't dare 😅. Glad you noticed that detail!

The madman solo made the Half-Life 3 teaser trailer, are you even human?

@Galaxy613

Ай бұрын

Nope, UnknownDino is an advisor grub now

@OXY187

Ай бұрын

Gordon going into the Combine Homeworld to close off the portal from inside after the Combine’s discovery of Borealis.

Alien train track right from another world was a goo idea. Practical, efficient...

The amount of talent this man has to make a cinematic masterpiece like this in 5 MONTHS! Wow, Your good.

I can see a mix of HR Giger and War of the Worlds aesthetics here. Gabe would be proud.

Your portrayal of the overworld is honestly the best I’ve seen. From the mix of machine and synths, to the different types of striders that carry different purposes. To it feeling like the inside of an organic system and it feeling both futuristic and nightmarish at the same time. It’s just *chefs kiss*

Dude, this was some insaaaanely visually satisfying footage. Bravo!

The music and his speech gets to me. Very well done!

The models look so good and you even redid the gravity gun from scratch and made me realize it was the weapon in just a few seconds? Really well done needs more attention in my opinion.

Bruh, this is EXACTLY how I imagined the Combine Overworld to be! I really love all the unique synth designs, and the sheer magnitude of everything presented. Also, in this interpretation, is the Overworld just a local command center/nexus or the real “capital” of the Combine?

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

This shown here is just one of MANY interdimentional-portal generators. Many of them operate simultaneously whenever a massive attack is occurring. We happened to look at the one being managed by "BreenGrub"

@Thescifienjoyer55

Ай бұрын

By the way, why does Dr. Breens host body still have his original body latched on to it? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just completely transfer Breens consciousness into the host body?

@UnknownDino

Ай бұрын

The consciousness copies of Breen were "incomplete" and "disfunctional" to say the least (based on Mark Laidlaw writings on breengrub). This here was the latest version, the actual body parts of Breen that made it on the other side of the portal in the end of HL2. So the combine kept alive the only version of Breen that did not betray them, the original one.

@SirKolass

Ай бұрын

I think this might be intended to be one of many consecutive sections, and whenever there is an invasion they connect the power plugs to turn the portals on and direct all the troops to them.

I initially thought this was a game trailer and I was SO EXCITED. Then, realization - I was gutted. Then, amazement at the project. You do fine work.

Just coming back on here to watch this again and tell you how much it kicks ass.