Hey about that beer I owe you

@ProtogenRoleplays1698

9 ай бұрын

About that beer I owe you. It’s me Gordon, Barney from black mesa.

@en-men-lu-ana6870

9 ай бұрын

Beer, I owe hey that you. Black Barney me, it's Mesa from Gordon.

@magicsasafras3414

9 ай бұрын

​@@en-men-lu-ana6870Half Life "barney has a stroke"

@Hunter-zf7rt

9 ай бұрын

He's everwhere

@paulaccuardi9071

7 ай бұрын

“It’s me! Barney, from black mesa!” Who???

Yeah the Combine are so oppressive to its people that the Imperium would tell them to dial it back. Side note, I just love the visual designs of the Combine, they look so fucking awesome.

@olivermorin3303

9 ай бұрын

Honestly? I don't think so. To Alexia Vaughn, the totally Original Character Do Not Steal on the penal world of New Prospect, the Imperium is just as brutal and callous as the Combine is to the people of Earth. The difference between the two regimes is that we have a top-down view of the Imperium and a bottom-up view of the Combine. We may not know who, if anyone, leads the Combine, but by that same token... do you think an average menial of Nova Sulis knows what a High Lord of Terra is? Do you think the day-to-day suffering they are subjected to is any less unfair? The only problem that the Imperium would see when it comes to the Combine is that it's ruled by xenos. That's it.

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

@@olivermorin3303 there’s still one very big difference between the two. The Imperium still lets you be human, the Combine don’t. you can still have your friends and family in the Imperium, just seeing your family is the greatest luxury that the Combine will allow you. You can still own things in the Imperium, in the Combine you only have the clothes that you’re wearing. In the Imperium you have a space that is yours, the Combine don’t let you have any such thing. With the Imperium there anger, sadness, joy, pride and shame, the Imperium has for lack of a better word a soul, there’s none of that with the Combine, the Combine is a truly unfeeling state, where the only thing that matters is what is most efficient. Both are complete nightmares to live in but if I had to choose which one I’d rather live in, I’d rather the Imperium for the simple fact that I can still be me.

@animeproblem1070

9 ай бұрын

​​@@olivermorin3303here's the difference the imperium is doing it because literal gods are trying to end humanity along with so many other things that have humanities extinction on their to do list so the imperium needs to be that brutal to just survive while the combine are just tyrannical monsters

@otherspectre1879

9 ай бұрын

The combine has been in the Imperial Guard's DMs for a minute.

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

@@otherspectre1879 what?

The Emperor of Mankind saw would have a stroke if he saw the state of humanity in Half Life 2

And to think that the shenanigans of glados and aperture science share the same universe as half life.

Man I am a 40k fan. Little old innocent me thought I knew dark and depressing stuff. god damn

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

Yep other universes like Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, Star Gate, DooM and Half-life can be just as if not more dark and depressing than 40k.

@captain0ffd244

9 ай бұрын

If you asked me to compare humanity between 40k with half-life as much I know. It would be 40k humanity is “alive and relatively well” treating everyone including themselves worser than we have seen in our history and holding the line if barely. Half-life humility just got screwed over and the majority are just going quietly into long night. While the rest are having mix success.

@otherspectre1879

9 ай бұрын

@@Azorees-oj5zr they have good examples, especially doom. But somehow WH40K is still the darkest actually.

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

@@otherspectre1879 to the point that you can’t take any of it seriously, universes like Gears of War, Half-life and Resistance will always feel darker than 40k to me because they have far less grimderp than 40k.

@otherspectre1879

9 ай бұрын

@@Azorees-oj5zr I agree. Grimdark is fine for what it is, grimderp is the problem.

Hey, boss, about that beer I owe ya.

Yeah the Combine make the Imperium look nice

@Darius0796

3 ай бұрын

At best, their pretty similar. But usually, the combine are meaner. At least the Imperium wants humanity to continue.

Yeah, one of the great things about Half-Life is how subtle it is. At first glance it may not seem like the world's in that bad a of a spot, but when you look closer, you realize just how bleak it really is. Also I don't think there is an alien faction depicted in media that is as terrifying as the Combine. There's doing things for the lol's, but that implies emotion. That implies some semblance of what we call humanity, even if its humanity at its most depraved. The Combine are cold and emotionless, lacking empathy, humor and even desire, and they assimilate everything they see as useful, stripping it of these imperfections until it is nothing but compliant, a biomechanical robot programmed to do as it is told. Perhaps the best way to describe the Combine in a single sentence is this: The Combine is a self-replicating, all consuming, eldritch machine. Also one thing Leadhead's video left out was that if not for Dr. Breen, the Administrator/HL2's Big Brother, humanity would already be extinct. When they showed up on Earth, it was to confront an old enemy (whom you actually killed in the first game), strip mine the planet and leave. They had no intention of utilizing mankind until Breen made contact with them and made the case for our usefulness to them. So while he sold humanity to their interdimensional overlords, you might also say he gave them a second chance they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

@tanknerd7193

6 ай бұрын

That last part about Breen does make sense. While he can come off bootlickiest of bootlickers, he does want the best for humanity and knows that to rise up against a civilisation that is able to drain a world's worth of water, build force fields, anti-matter reactors and (possibly) a damn Dyson sphere would spell doom for our entire race, even with Gordon milling about. Even after HL2 Ep2, the combine superportal was closed but what's stopping the combine from opening another invasion portal? They already invaded earth once, why can't they do it again?

@axelaugust5552

5 ай бұрын

@@tanknerd7193 they used the portal storms from the resonance cascade to invade earth, also i believe they took pretty much everything they wanted from earth already, they managed to figure out local teleportation because of us and they can surely master it without us now.

@tanknerd7193

5 ай бұрын

@@axelaugust5552 I don't think they have, at least not entirely. The portal over at Nova Prospekt is the only short-range Combine portal we ever see, even in the Citadel there are none. It was mainly Mossman who worked on them as well. And if they did get it, what's to stop them from coming back and finishing the job completely?

@axelaugust5552

5 ай бұрын

@@tanknerd7193 waste of resources? humanity will probably die out without the combine, remember, xen aliens ruined the ecossystem of the planet

22:30 in EN theyre called striders

@maglara5007

23 күн бұрын

Funny how they actually kinda look like mosquitoes

Going to put this here as i brought it up on leadhead's video. When they mentioned the miscount, i feel the need to mention that most of the CPs used stun-sticks. If you got hit by a stun-stick earlier in the game after getting too close to a CP the screen would go white and you would wake up a bit away from where you got hit. Half Life doesn't have a 'knock down' mechanic. When Freeman gets surrounded as part of the story they get beaten down before finding Alyx standing over him. So chance are most of those people aren't dead, just beaten down, probably viciously. I mean you meet the crying couple later in the game so they survived but probably got beaten down but not killed. And to add to the CPs, You get beaten down constantly but hey, you got the chance to do some beating on your own. Barney even tells Gordon he is behind on his "beating quota" meaning they probably have to rough up a set number of civilians every month or so.

@pablosoleramaeso4561

9 ай бұрын

Aditionally all those officers had a USP Match sidearm on them, and they don't seem to hesitate on using them, so if they really wanted to kill that entire block, why would they use what's essentially glorified batons when all have 9mm pistols readily avaliable?

@Serpent511

6 ай бұрын

@@pablosoleramaeso4561 Who are you gonna beat if everyone is killed though.

regarding your talk about alien invasions, I know of a setting where the aliens VERY NEARLY won. it's not a movie or a show though. it's a game called Universe at War, and the only reason why humanity survives is because the alien invaders ended up having to fight three separate armies - humans and two other alien factions - who united against them and bringing their own unique strengths, weaknesses and strategies to the battlefield. so if a movie is ever made of it, humans are going to get curbstomped until the extraterrestrial enemies of the antagonists start showing up. edit: I really want to see more games implement AI like this. It gets a little monotonous to fight enemies who have little to no effective teamwork together.

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

You ever play F.E.A.R? Because it’s ai is a lot like HL2’s ai.

@Shalltear773

9 ай бұрын

@@Azorees-oj5zr I actually have but it's been YEARS, so I might've just forgotten

@Xeakquh

8 ай бұрын

Can't forget one of those factions the hierarchy fought were their gods.

@Shalltear773

8 ай бұрын

@@Xeakquh I remember. Though I wonder how the hell the masari lost when just the one city-ship was durable enough to survive having a whole fleet's orbital weaponry being depleted to bring it down. I guess the Hierarchy's ancestors won through the element of surprise and tons of radiation.

Stalker - Fate worst than death, your body being twisted beyond Recognition because you resisted the combine, living in non-stopping Pain. 22:18 - Strider - The Heavy Assault Ground Synth of the Combine, it has 2 Variants, Military Variant and Construction Variant. 12:33 - That Guy - Barney Calhoun is Gordon's Best friend. (Still owns you a beer after 20 Years)

Learning about the combine incinerator, burned corpse, half life alyx combine fakeout techniques or stalker lore next is gonna be crazy

here's a horrifying idea. I can imagine some of the combine soldiers beings ptsd ex soldiers who lost to the combine or ex cp who riddled with guilt over what they've done and unable to escape both opt for the upgrade as a sorta pseudo-suicide. maybe hoping if they have any remaining family this way they're get a secured future at the cost of themselves. Maybe that even is a means the combine further tempt CP's and soldiers. Opts for total memory replacement and massive augmentation in exchange your family if you have any will be guaranteed a good living standard and afforded various luxuries even. and of course who's to say the combine don't lie about this even or perhaps breen himself might honor it as a way to motivate them (In so far as they need motivation.

I've seen relocations in history videos, but that was to alter demographics, establish population centers, and exploit resources in the long run. Not to constantly shake people up like dice at Vegas. So that's them using greater resources to increase the cruelty beyond what was formerly done. Yeah, without Gordan to reignite hope, humanity has already lost the war and the occupation. I personally think history shows we could wreak merry hell on an alien occupation, given how many times small insurgencies with lesser tech have done precisely the same to larger better equipped forces, but only so long as they wanted to conquer us instead of wiping us out and strip mining our world, biosphere be damned. There is the view that if compliance AND resistance both mean death, then fighting to the last is the only logical option, but not everyone sees the world like that. I feel that no totalitarian state is going to catch every dissident. Some will get away. Whether they can light a fire under others is another matter. Especially when the masses are under a lead asbestos blanket like in Half Life. So the Stalkers aren't servitors, but SERFitors. Greeeeeeaaaaat. I'm beginning to see why Bruva's team came to Half Life after GW threw a legal brick through the window. I'd say the widespread fandom of this game is more on it being a then innovative successor over a prior then innovative game. The dystopian elements are not as closely noted until you have time to dissect it, like when you're vainly waiting for a worthy finale to finally come. And sure, people probably noticed it was bleak, just not the full extent of the grimdark lethargic slump into extinction. See, it's this kind of AI in '04 that would have yielded the mainstream marketability over the oppressive shuffle into the graveyard of species. This dude does have a very punchable face, but the video game character who sticks out in my mind for making my blood boil like no other, is Ted Faro. And no, I haven't played forbidden West, I won't let myself until I graduate. And regardless of whatever the second game has, the first made him an eternally loathed character on a personal level for me. Yeah, this is also eye opening, but as an outsider, I say not to believe. At this point, no game could live up to the hype. Even if it came out tomorrow to thunderous applause and was a magnificent finale, it wouldn't be enough. I may have to check out this content creator.

8:03 it would be like stepping on a fly.

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

Pretty sure that the fly would require more effort than the aliens would need to crush us.

owo its half life yay

Was waiting for someone to react to it! I loved it!

BuT tHe BeTa WaS DaRkEr AnD gRiTtIeR!

Boss you really gotta play the Half-Life series one day, you’d love them.

After a few debates with friends there's literally only one thing that I can think of that'd give us any glimmer of a chance in hell of fighting back against the combine... Nuking their forces is pointless since they can just open portals and come back in. HOWEVER. The amount of energy needed to create an inter-dimentional portal would be massive, if we managed to launch Nuclear warheads into their portals (Wormholes are 2 way) and blow up inside the structure creating the portal. That JUST MIGHT screw up enough infustructure to give us an edge if we got enough nukes through their portals (During the 7 hour war of course. Rebels in HL2 dont really have access to nuclear weapons)

@eternal7912

7 ай бұрын

This wouldn't do much to them. It would basically be a fire cracker trying to take down a mountain of steel. Mark Laidlaw's Epistle 3 made this pretty clear when depicting the Combine's invasion center as a massive dyson sphere capable of supporting many interdimensional invasions all at once. Also generally nuking an alien invader, interdimensional or not, is just a bad idea. You're basically shooting yourself in the foot with radiation.

@poseidonetn.u.s.ebranch2610

7 ай бұрын

@@eternal7912 if you're shooting a nuclear missile into a wormhole, it'll blow up on the other side and only a miniscule amount might come through before the portal is shut down, and I never said this was a guaranteed way to "Win" I said this was our only way to have a snowballs chance in hell. Since we have literally thousands of Nukes

@Serpent511

6 ай бұрын

@@poseidonetn.u.s.ebranch2610 Best way would be to send around a dozen warheads with intervals and set a timer on each, preferably 10 or so launch first with the longest timer and the remaining few with shorter and shorter timers, you might take out the overworld and maybe even close the portal from their side. A counterargument would be that the missile timer may get damaged in transit unless there's a different way to set off a nuke.

@poseidonetn.u.s.ebranch2610

6 ай бұрын

@@Serpent511 use an analog timer considering it's a portal that to you seems like a short period of time when going through like a second or two so you could time that right. Even if in the "World" it could be hours or longer Or make it explode on impact

@tearex8688

5 ай бұрын

Then wtfs a nuke if not the episode 3 rocket but smaller and deadlier.

So Boss, gonna say there's part of this video that are debatable, but thats because we don't know for certain why the Combine uses the language they use, nor what form they take outside of Earth. All we know is what they've done to humanity.

This is one of my top ten videos ever. Glad to see a reaction.

Thank you old man for this oportunity >:)

The thing about the Combine in HL2 is, we don't know everything. As in, not a fucking thing. Oh we know it exists and controls Earth, sure. But what we see doesn't even scratch an atomic particle in comparison to what the entirety of the Combine is. To the Combine, Earth is just another place in yet another dimension. We don't even know what the Combine 'race' is, or what species founded the empire. We don't know how big the Combine actually is, or what it's even like outside of Earth.

about that beer I owe you

One correction of the video COMBINE OVERWATCH SOLDIERS ARE NOT VOLUNTEERS!: Yeah we heard some voice lines saying that if a CP volunteers himself for memory replacement he would have "rank privileges", but this seems to only be for being promoted INSIDE Civil Protection and having aditional privileges than just for joining, not being turned into a transhuman soldier and be attached to the "Overwatch Transhuman Arm". This makes sense as none of the privileges that you have for joining Civil Protection apply for Combine Soldiers, as at that point you have completly lost your own free will and you are just essentially a biological robot, so you don't have any privileges to actually enjoy and seeing how much the Combine sucks at propaganda, is clear that pretty much NO ONE would join for loyalty to the combine. This is implied by the Overwatch voice, in which it mentions that in case a Protection Team fails it's mission, they will be "Recalled and Recycled", it's also implied that the former servicemen of the Armed Forces of the different nations on earth were turned into transhuman soldiers, and judging by all the citizens on those chambers at Nova Prospekt I think it's also a punishment for citizens if they violate combine laws. So it's very likely that all combine soldiers we find in game were just former soldiers captured by the Combine from the Seven Hour War, or CP Officers and Citizens who broke Combine regulations or "were in the wrong place at the wrong time", sentenced to being stripped of their former selfs and turned into essentially living weapons.

Leadhead makes other really good video’s, like her currently ongoing Metal Gear Solid analysis. I’d recommend those!

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

Okay sorry to ask but “she”? The person in the video sounds like a dude, am I just missing something?

@Chekibreki

8 ай бұрын

@@Azorees-oj5zrshe’s trans(the video was made before she came out)

@Azorees-oj5zr

8 ай бұрын

@@Chekibreki okay, thanks.

@Chekibreki

8 ай бұрын

@@Azorees-oj5zr no problem homie 👍

Hey Boss, its me Barney! From Black Mesa!

Now he just needs to learn about Aperture and the horrible things humanity was already doing to itself.

Right off the bat, sup rain.

Humanity is f###ed in more ways than one.

i think the stalkers have no memory left i believe.

@tearex8688

5 ай бұрын

Their conscious but don't have a conscience. Their alive and feel but their brain is scrambled.

About that beer I owed ya

We still believe!

More ParryGods animations would be nice.

You know we haven’t seen Tyberos the red wake undergo the rubicon primaris so how big you think he’ll be?

The conversion about how earth would be actually inspired me to go back and continue working on a project called Half-life:Aftermath so thanks guys.

Combine eliminates the idea of free will, indenpendency, and more importantly there’s no privacy nor rights. From water packets they distribute on city 17, constant relocation, frequent raids on apartment units leaving no survivors, rationing of essential goods, and if you want more then you gotta betray your own or snitch on someone or worse join them. Even if you became a rebel, the resources provided is already limited, and if you got captured. Become a walking stalker or what. No flesh is wasted, steel, etc. and the city itself is literally a shrinking city that is bound to cease from existance from outskirts to subdurban areas. Limitation on structure access and false information. Etc.

Look up cut enemies like the cremators or Half life 2 beta version

half life 2 was originally gonna be way darker and I really think we shoulda got that.

@lop90ful1

9 ай бұрын

It's still really dark

@dysfunktional6537

9 ай бұрын

@@lop90ful1 yeah but im talking the beta was much darker. Like child labor and walking corpse incinerators dark.

@dj11o9er

9 ай бұрын

Just cuz we don't see it doesn't mean it don't exist. We seen things from the beta in the released game. Not a lot, but still

@jiraffe9600

9 ай бұрын

TBH, sometimes the beta was so dark that it was kinda goofy.

@Marcharound

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@dysfunktional6537Yeah, but child labor wouldn’t have made sense with the timeskip + sterilization aspects of the combine.

Let's make a bet. If Half-Life 3 comes out, I owe you two a beer.

Imagine if the Imperium of Man saw Half Life videos because someone at NASA streamed them into space, catching thier attention and coming to Earth?

Gman

The video you watch, it's might be off with some detail.

Your telling me that I accidentally commited genocide by killing the cps I don't know how to feel about that

@Azorees-oj5zr

9 ай бұрын

Query: wait you have a conscience?

@alphariussx1504

9 ай бұрын

@@Azorees-oj5zr I'm just confused on how competent I am at doing indirect genocide

25:45

Comment tribute

Resistance is futile.

why is he saying "she" all the time isnt that a man speaking??

@Oooga-Chaka

15 күн бұрын

They're trans

@GimmeSomeChicken

14 күн бұрын

@@Oooga-Chaka No I dont mean the two in the video I mean the guy from the original video

Also "she"? Sounds like a guy to me.

@JodieAbode

2 ай бұрын

In her older videos yes. Not that it's a problem anyone should be offended by. She's enjoying life her way, not anyone else's, and she makes banger videos too so hell yeahh

@Azorees-oj5zr

2 ай бұрын

@@JodieAbode was just confused, that’s all.