With those outfits the apartment raid and rooftop escape now really look like The Pianist, its original inspiration.

@517342

Ай бұрын

@@mz4637 mentioned in Raising the Bar: Uncorrected Proof and several of Marc Laidlaw's emails.

@517342

Ай бұрын

@@mz4637 Several Laidlaw emails and Raising The Bar

@Coccyx69

28 күн бұрын

​@@mz4637I couldn't find anything on that. I always assumed it was just supposed to look like an occupied European City. Nothing from the movie really seems unique enough to say city 17 is based on it. Unless there's a traitor combine soldier that starts helping humans and I missed it.

@naturesquad9174

27 күн бұрын

​@@Coccyx69 maybe it would make more sense to compare it to the Warsaw uprising, or Theresienstadt ghetto, which seem like actual inspiration for early city 17. Perhaps also Gaza strip, combine had merkaba tanks at one point, and the Banksy graffiti everywhere. And of course, 1999 was the Seattle WTO riots, when nearby Valve and most americans for the first time watched a modern army of iconic gasmasked riot cops dressed like darth vader locking down an urban city. If you watch that some of that footage, and then "Free TV" Demo, its pretty clear valve was taking notes since they were one city away from the action. There was a resurgance of anarchist movements in the pacific northwest at the time of HL2's development, and there's undeniably an anarchist partisan vibe to the rebels in C17, right down to their spraypainted Lambda "Circle-A" logo

HL2 if directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

The Combine Suit looks Awesome

Good vid.

Definitely worse than canon version

Mid vid.

@tubaraofeio1053

Ай бұрын

Me when I comment bullshit:

@cheeseydoodoo

Ай бұрын

mid pfp, 2014's over lil bro

@straitmlgpug

Ай бұрын

@@cheeseydoodoo made it in 2014 goofball

@hiyves9880

28 күн бұрын

Then fucking change it cause it sucks

@straitmlgpug

27 күн бұрын

@@hiyves9880 mad cause bad