Next video: how massive combine army is smashed by a middle aged nerd with a crowbar.

@th3comb1ne13

5 жыл бұрын

Clever McGenericName 2 words: Plot Armour

@robertagu5533

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah an the Combine should be embarrassed about that. Dont think an evil sci fi force has been so embarrassed and humiliated since the ewoks kicked stormtrooper ass on Endor in the original star wars trilogy

@owenurban5122

5 жыл бұрын

When I read this comment I thought you were talking about the farming machine

@TheHalcyonTwilight

5 жыл бұрын

There's actually an in-universe moment in Nova Prospekt where Breen is chewing out the Combine forces for not being able to stop Freeman, saying, "this man isn't a soldier or a saboteur, he's a theoretical physicist for God's sake!" You can hear it over the tannoy.

@MikMoen

5 жыл бұрын

Not even middle aged, Freeman was 27 at Black Mesa.

*"How the Combine Invaded Earth"* "We don't know how they did it." -Ecks

@greyscaleb1537

5 жыл бұрын

LMFAO why did i find this so funny? 😭

@TheDiscusserOriginal

5 жыл бұрын

Derrick Simmons Because its so ironic, and downright stupid.

@greyscaleb1537

5 жыл бұрын

No i find it funny how this guy summarized Ecks whole video.

@MazaAzi

5 жыл бұрын

You had one job Ecks

@mike-fr2vf

5 жыл бұрын

*just one job*

I wish there was more official lore on this subject. The earth was conquered in 7 freakin' hours and you can find almost nothing about it.

@catbertz

5 жыл бұрын

Valve has so much potential story material to utilize. They could go prequel and show the 7 hour war and it's immediate aftermath. Or they could wrap the story they left unfinished. Graphics isn't even a big deal. Just do the story and we're happy. This isn't dnf at all.

@Gmanunit13vers2

5 жыл бұрын

It was to quick to document and categorize c:

@thucydides123

5 жыл бұрын

There IS more. The portal storms created from the Black Mesa event allowed many alien creatures from Xen to crossover to Earth all over the globe. When this happened it caused mass panic amongst the human population and people fled the countrysides for the cities. Unknown how long this lasted until the Combine showed up, but supposedly lots of people died from attacks from the Xen aliens & wildlife and the rest fled to the cities which were much easier to defend. Then the Combine showed up out of nowhere. If I recall correctly, the Combine used the wormholes or whatever they were to teleport their armies to Earth. The most devastating thing they did was they teleported these giant towers like the one in City 17 straight into the hearts of cities across the planet, and when that happened it caused massive devastation and killed millions. If that's not bad enough, as we well know, the towers opened up and let loose the armies of the Combine which supposedly contained much worse and terrifying creatures than the ones we're familiar with. The creatures we encounter in Half-Life 2 are mostly just a token police force.

@headheretic1580

5 жыл бұрын

Well there is "Hunt Down the Freeman" that shows some of the Seven Hour lore but A: It's not canon in any aspect and B: We don't speak of this game

@tellurian7999

5 жыл бұрын

Im looking for official lore of pre-synthified combine units and other combine homeworlds/units

U.S.A finds oil in Xen U.S.A : We are gonna bring democracy to aliens

@requiem7817

4 жыл бұрын

7 hours war 2: But its the Combine turn to die now.

@christiancinnabars1402

4 жыл бұрын

Combine: Hold up, _those are our resources you're eyeing._

@CurtisJensenGames

4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone here know the full list of reasons America is at war in the Middle East?

@Kervvy

4 жыл бұрын

Napoléon Bonaparte fax

@tetsuo2222

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

Half-Life? *A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.*

@bluerobin2982

5 жыл бұрын

Stop

@AnonYmous-dh2zt

5 жыл бұрын

Dew It!

@Warmaka

5 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the time we fell into that nest of antlions!

@darkfireproject2102

5 жыл бұрын

Did you ever hear the story of Dr. Wallis the Wise?

@supertrooper1576

5 жыл бұрын

Wake up Mr Freeman

The earth wasn’t invaded by the overwatch, they were invaded by the full combine *army* . This means billions, likely trillions, of robots, mechs, etc. invaded earth and incinerated any opposing forces. The overwatch are very very very, universally, extremely, weak compared to the combine army. This is why freeman is even able to have a fighting chance. If the combine army were guarding earth, he’d never get close to killing one soldier. They are using earths resources to fuel their fight to control all of the dimensions.

@blackshogun272

4 жыл бұрын

You are a bold one I want some Combine Scientists to open a new portal and let forth a single Dalek that goes on a murderous rampage before downloading their interdimensional info so that it can summon a Dalek Invasion...

@th3comb1ne13

4 жыл бұрын

It is unlikely that the 7 hour war was even their full forces. This is because the combine have been shown to have incredible efficiency and adaptability. With an emphasis on efficiency, and considering they know their going to invade primitive beings, it is incredibly unlikely that they would use what they would consider a formidable force to fight primitives.

@hunter-zu3hk

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there was never any chance of a human victory. It’s like the us army getting taken out by a Stone Age tribe. Just not going to happen.

@plasticballs

3 жыл бұрын

Did you forget the Elites guarding Breen?

@moppypuppy781

3 жыл бұрын

A newspaper in HL: Alyx has an image of a ravaged UN building with a caption stating that it was bombarded from space. It's highly likely the 7-hour war was nothing more than orbital bombardment, any invading ground forces were likely nothing more than spotters for the orbiting ships.

"Right?" Over 10 years have passed since ep2 ):

@lewiscain-mcaliece1805

5 жыл бұрын

Look up Projfct Borealis. Fans are making their own closure.

@TheRealLaking

5 жыл бұрын

or read the leaked ep3

@sethleoric2598

5 жыл бұрын

@GDO G *episode

@sethleoric2598

5 жыл бұрын

@GDO G oh sh%!^ you're right

@rgvgunner7935

5 жыл бұрын

Fisto Hey The Atomic Wrangler needs You

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Gaben The Wise, so powerful and wise he could use the force to influence the midichlorians to create Half Life 3

@soupcake3092

5 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to learn this power?

@thelonehunter6025

5 жыл бұрын

Nerdy Nachos Not by a Jedi.

@Warmaka

5 жыл бұрын

His franchise became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing its power...which, eventually of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentices everything he knew, then they created greater video games and surpassed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save other franchises from death... but not his own.

@__Theta__

5 жыл бұрын

@@Warmaka sometimes you gotta sacrifice one precious thing for the continuity of others

@dynamitedinosaur4601

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, and you forgot that the Valve alliance fell to the Steam Rebellion.

Combines: We can easily kill all military on earth! Gordon: Hold my guns

@iamvinnyyes

4 жыл бұрын

Hold my glass.

@projectkepleren

4 жыл бұрын

@MUSTAFA AHMED i disagree as he doesnt need gun

@marksmant50gaming11

4 жыл бұрын

Gravemind* hold my flood infection forms

@Mr-Ad-196

4 жыл бұрын

@@marksmant50gaming11 Gordon and master chief team up and successfully contained the flood......with just two of them.......

@TitanBeats

4 жыл бұрын

well i mean the combine forces you see in game are like mall cops compared to the combines biggest forces

Well, considering how short the “war” was, we can assume a few things. 1)The attack would have to be from everywhere at once: Judging from what we see of Combine forces, they aren’t much faster than our military forces, which means it was likely overwhelming firepower which arrived on every region of the planet. 2) They didn’t face much of a fight: Seven hours is not nearly enough time to mobilize any military forces, it’s like nobody knew what was going on. Most troops probably dead before they could even get out of their barracks, the most resistance probably coming from forces already on missions. Unlikely that the Combine faced any serious amounts of armour and their forces slaughtered any infantry. The actual fighting probably lasted only 2-3 hours, the rest was just the UN getting their shit together and the actual process of surrendering.

@stormcommando1640

4 жыл бұрын

They forgot to read the rules before playing the game :(

@Vulcano7965

3 жыл бұрын

Mostly kzread.info/dash/bejne/l3hmw9OQmsm1qM4.html

@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vulcano7965 actually that's probably a better explanation as to what really happened than this.

@Vulcano7965

3 жыл бұрын

@@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118 It's also more or less canon lore from ingame references and newspaper articles.

@stormcommando1640

2 жыл бұрын

@@tophatgaming1873 wrong, we’re dealing with a inter dimensional superpower, who’s technology is light years ahead of ours. Even looking at real-world conflicts like iraq, where there was only about 30 years technology difference, the Iraqi’s were entirely incapable of putting up a capable resistance. Even if the world’s military had all the time they needed to mobilize, they’d be routed by enemy weapons they can barely comprehend, let alone fight.

Get a STEM degree ladies and gentlemen. Cause you never know when you need it to fight off aliens!!

@DalekTurtle

5 жыл бұрын

Marc Pascual At MIT tho

@mrglaciator

5 жыл бұрын

Isaac Clarke too

@jpeg.600x2

5 жыл бұрын

STEM is for idiot get a real PhD in Theoretical physics

@ESL1984

4 жыл бұрын

@@jpeg.600x2 but theoretical physics is a STEM subject...

@caddydonstans116

4 жыл бұрын

That MIT education really pays for itself

Actually, there is an explanation as to how the Combine invaded Earth during the 7 Hour War. In Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (a book about HL2's development published by Valve), a character 'cut' from the final game named 'Eli Maxwell' was supposed to explain to Freeman about how the Combine invaded. Apparently, (according to him) the Resonance Cascade had created multiple Superportals throughout Earth which -- in turn -- caused Portal Storms all over the planet. The Combine sent Citadels through each of these Superportals in order to ensure that they "stay open". After that, they deployed their massive army on Earth. Maxwell was also supposed to show Gordon a slideshow of some pictures of the 7 Hour War, one of them being a picture of the Consul (another cut character) declaring global surrender of humanity while -- in the background -- two Combine dropships can be seen preparing to land, buildings destroyed and much more carnage. But since this stuff is pre-release, we can't know for certain that this plot point is "canonical" or not.

It’s scary how effortless is was for the Combine to invade Earth during the 7 hour war. I can’t even imagine what the upper extent of their power would look like. Not even the Advisors from episode 2 are their strongest units.

@wholsomecontentye7420

4 жыл бұрын

Considering the combine have the ability to take over entire universes, I doubt what they used to invade earth was more than the equivalent of mall cops

@rebel1717

4 жыл бұрын

@@wholsomecontentye7420 Even less than that! It's more like sending a Huntsman spider to hunt the cockroaches in your house! How in god's great...UNIVERSE do you stop something like this?!

@wholsomecontentye7420

4 жыл бұрын

@@rebel1717 I don't think you can, and even if the rebels were to liberate the planet, the combine see Earth as nothing more than a water fountain. I mean what's stopping them from simply destroying it?

@rebel1717

4 жыл бұрын

@@wholsomecontentye7420 They were about to when they first arrived, but Wallace Breen managed to negotiate with the Combine, and stop them from completely destroying Earth. It was a matter of servitude or extinction. The Combine probably didn't even need humanity alive, but since they keeled over, they decided "why not" it's not like humanity's an actual threat to them...depending on what the Borealis does.

@usmaniqbal6623

4 жыл бұрын

@@wholsomecontentye7420 not meaning to offend u but they took over dimensions

**half-life 3 confirmed intesifies**

@highlanderjeff2720

5 жыл бұрын

What a dark universe, could well get into that

@TheMorbidAsshole

5 жыл бұрын

I don't even care about hl3 anymore. Fps market is too saturated, I doubt valve could raise the bars again and not just another game just for nostalgia's sake

@fenrirrising131

5 жыл бұрын

dont do this to yourself man

@iliketrains0pwned

5 жыл бұрын

Project Borealis *CONFIRMED*

@deanmc

5 жыл бұрын

People have literally died waiting for this... Tens of thousands of people....

Hey EckhartsLadder, your Thumbnail artist here! You are the first one to be so nice an actually credit me! ...been subscribed to you for a while, was surprised to see it^^

@HumanGrunt

5 жыл бұрын

didn't expect to see you here

@ziuper9913

5 жыл бұрын

The thumbnail is wrong there we're no combine soliders during the 7 hour

@weeerazer3099

5 жыл бұрын

Warte du machst die thumpnails? Wow gute arbeit

@ESCalation

5 жыл бұрын

Ne nur das eine, er hats aus meiner alten Gallerie genommen. Sind größten Teils 40K artworks.

@ziuper9913

5 жыл бұрын

I don't speak german sorry

I think that a big part of why the Half-Life's universe is so fascinating and exciting is that it doesn't care to explain itself too much. It leaves space for imagination to complete the picture and makes it unique for every player. Valve are masters and they do it intentionally. They could have packes both Half-Life chapters with long narrated cut scenes and intros explaining everything in details. But instead, they simply leave subtle hints in the games that you should notice and analyze yourself. Bottom line: We should all thank Valve for not pumping money out of the franchise by producing tons of additional off-spin content. It truly shows their sense of good taste and professionalism.

@wolf0184

3 жыл бұрын

I agree completely.

@b.c.s.o4169

2 жыл бұрын

it also adds to the realism of the narrative, if it were to happen in real life the scale of the whole conflict is way too big for us to comprehend it let alone document it, think about it, we went from dominating the planet for thousands of years only for all of that to come crashing down in less than a day, we just wouldn't be able to process what the hell happened.

Isn’t it neat how one scientist with minimal security access at some lab was able to defeat two different alien races almost singlehandedly.

@piratekingthaszar7912

Жыл бұрын

Don't fuck with the science team

@janedoe4586

5 ай бұрын

all of this was manipulated and arranged by the G-man and his employer.

@NotClosedMinded

4 ай бұрын

The combine forces on earth when Gorden shows up is basically just a garrison. No where near the entire combine. And because the portal was destroyed, the combine can no longer send reinforcements, they are cut off. And hoping they can't make such super portals themselves so they can come back.

I like how you do other sci-fi universes it keeps your channel fresh.

@jackmulford2661

5 жыл бұрын

Star trek maybe?

M Y F E L L O W A M E R I C A N S

@HumanGrunt

5 жыл бұрын

L E T S G E T R I G H T I N T O T H E N E W S

@cringevidshub3767

5 жыл бұрын

@@darkfireproject2102 oof

@yw5617

5 жыл бұрын

Shut up mortal, mortals aren't permitted to quote him.

@mikebuston7407

4 жыл бұрын

Blackbird Sadly the combine is too strong nothing we can do to stop them

@timur5241

3 жыл бұрын

My fellow americans. There's ebola in America, which means we're screwed.

"We don't know how they did it." *THEY USED SYNTHS*

"There is evidence that the US Military moved into Xen...." They didn't get into Xen. Marc Laidlaw states that the 2nd area where you got teleported after the 1st area of Endgame is on Earth. The game can't handle 2 skyboxes at one map.

@delofon

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh. I've never heard of that. It's like, a whole new perspective has opened.

@delofon

2 жыл бұрын

But hey, they could've hacked it somehow like in Opposing Force.

@znspyder

2 жыл бұрын

I think black mesa fixed the one yeah?

@Nevermore2790

2 жыл бұрын

@@znspyder Yeah, but they used a little nice trick for that and used that area in Crossfire.

@garden0fstone736

2 жыл бұрын

Right? Lmao why would the military want to get into xen 😂

I wish there was a game about the Seven Hour War where your fighting and the character goes through the horrors of realizing that they cant win the war, and having to surrender to the combine

@garden0fstone736

2 жыл бұрын

It’s called American politics

@peanutzuz2241

Жыл бұрын

It'd be very hard to make the enemy as we as humans cannot fully comprehend the full force of the combine.

@Hatenver

Жыл бұрын

and I think the combines invading earth wasn't even their entire army

@justacat2

11 ай бұрын

@@peanutzuz2241new alien weapons would be added

@justacat2

11 ай бұрын

@@Hatenverit was like 0.0000000000000000000000000000001% of their army

Dear humanity we regret being alien -Yoinks!- we regret coming to earth and we most definitely regret that the corps just blew up our raggedy -Yoink- fleet!

@rasputinjagger3078

5 жыл бұрын

gold

@craignewsome2058

5 жыл бұрын

The Star Wars Stop HOORAH!!!!!!!

@rebelfleetcommander5138

5 жыл бұрын

I love that line!

@Renorick1

5 жыл бұрын

The Star Wars Stop OORAH!

@monklie2735

5 жыл бұрын

Hoorah!

"I'm absolutely positive we'll see how the conflict ends someday." Maybe when I'm old and senile. Great works, as always. :)

You toyed with my emotions with that pinned post

i was requesting something from the half life universe a long time ago thanks Ecks

-Darth Vader VS. Obelix -Could The Galactic Empire conquer the little gaulish village? -How Asterix defeated the Romans in Gaul - Battle Breakdown

@nobleman9393

5 жыл бұрын

He just beat them

@Gophilio4567

5 жыл бұрын

THIS NEEDS A VIDEO

@Radonatos

5 жыл бұрын

How would the world be like today if druids brewing magic potions were real?

5:13 The doggo: Humanity The guy: the combine

@sterilizer5497

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

America: we are the strongest Military! Combine: Ima bout to ruin this man's whole career

@ortherner

3 жыл бұрын

lilol

Mr. EckhartsLadder, I loved your video! However there is one factual error you made at 1:36 (I'm a LORE Expert at Half Life). The United States HECU Marines and any leftover military forces, actually never moved into Xen to neutralize remaining hostile forces. The only known member of the military to enter Xen besides the Black Mesa staff, is Corporal Adrian Shephard. The scene you have with the Gman in Xen with the bodies of dead Marines and destroyed vehicles, is a result of the Gold Source Engine limitations back in 1998. It was meant to be on Earth since the ground and surrounding textures are that of the desert and Black Mesa scenery, but the engine couldn't switch to an Earth night skybox mid-level unfortunately. Valve developers had to leave it as one of the Xen skyboxes since it looked dark and just never ended up changing it in order to make their release date for the game. It was never fixed even with the Source Engine conversion of the game later on.

Well there were other groups on Earth left that would not work with the Combine *cough* Aperture *cough* but SHE just likes to test and test and test until the end of time

@sbugmanthenoobinator

5 жыл бұрын

There is a reference in portal s credit , that implies that glados shits herself by The thought of combine ' s dominion of earth , and prefers to stay inside , where they don t know of her , anyway combine surely found aperture science tech, as evidenced by many technologies typical of The enrichment centre now in The hands of the combine . with this i don t think that they found it , maybe other aperture facilities...

@zanekrystyan3220

4 жыл бұрын

Which makes a lot of sense, because the combine use the high energy pellets right? Which was originally used by aperture

@zanekrystyan3220

4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention apertures endless goldmine of portal technology

I like to think all of the combine military forces you see on earth are *light occupational forces* a very miniscule presence that's just there to keep the planet subjugated. The combine was mentioned to be an *interdimensional empire,* such a classification warrants *extreme* technological capabilities. This means that the armies deployed on earth by the combine are *unimaginably* more powerful than what we later see in half life 2, one of the newspapers pictures the HQ of the UN in ruins, it's definitely safe to assume that weapons of mass destruction were used during the war. We are but tiny ants when compared to the enormous military might of the combine.

@platonicchutoy4

4 жыл бұрын

The british empire didn't use their special power *COLONIZATION*

Holy Jesus I need to get you a beer

@darthfenrir4892

5 жыл бұрын

Rabbies Rat Eck needs a lot of Beer, and maybe some Maple Syrup.

@darkfireproject2102

5 жыл бұрын

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@RD-xj7wg

5 жыл бұрын

@@darthfenrir4892 Add vodka

@cykablyatthemovie2424

5 жыл бұрын

Commie Sauce hello my child. You're my sauce

"say we knew they were coming? Then what, we call it the ten hour war?" - Mike civil protection

You're the best, man! Looking forward to you pitting the combine against other factions!

A Half Life lore video? Nice!

@2Potates

5 жыл бұрын

Calm yo titties.

@2Potates

5 жыл бұрын

Nee.

@owenurban5122

5 жыл бұрын

It’s to bad this video isn’t 7 hours long

@gorogorogoro-chan

5 жыл бұрын

Nice Nagatoro pfp

@armenianispogs8087

5 жыл бұрын

@@gorogorogoro-chan Yeah the mangas doing good so far

The combine is probabpy far more powerfull than a tier 3 civilization, not only dominating galaxies, but also entire dimensions, the fact that they prob demand an entire new tier on the Khardashev scale is mind blowing

@peanutzuz2241

Жыл бұрын

I think they might be one of the most powerful forces in media, we can't even comprehend their full force.

@thefilipinokid3575

Жыл бұрын

Well a Tier Omega civilization is the highest tier on the Khardashev scale and they have the ability to create entire new universes. The Combine are strong, but I don’t think they are that advanced yet.

@peanutzuz2241

Жыл бұрын

@@thefilipinokid3575 Yes, but if we our human brains can't comprehend their main force, the combine could be anything.

“Uploaded 7 hours ago” If this isn’t perfect timing then I don’t know what is

I am becoming a big fan of Half Life. I never understood it because no one I was around introduced me to it proper. Getting to know it over the last few months has been incredible, very grateful for it, this is quite the series! And so much your style. I love the weirdness that isn't strictly weird for the sake of itself, there is also a point to it. Whether it is an exploration of horror, oppression, human ingenuity, sci fi, what have you, Half Life does it extraordinarily well. I respect it's presentation of independence and individuality holding out against external control from malevolent forces. Humanity's arrogance being barely balanced by our creativity, compassion and ingenuity.

Swanky little change up here...I like it eck. As always well done sir!!

3:03 That looks like...you know what, nevermind.

@sterilizer5497

2 жыл бұрын

Weird position haha

OH BOY 3 PM *watches eckhartsladder*

@matthewcriner1740

5 жыл бұрын

actual real woman that does exist it was 3 pm when it was uploaded tho

@Gmanunit13vers2

5 жыл бұрын

Oh Its 3:10 and I just discovered this channel...same?

I would LOVE to see more stuff like this. Honestly, you have some of my favourite content on KZread, and Half-Life and Portal are my favourite games of all time. Plus, we're kind of starved of any good Half-Life content right now (obviously from Valve, but I mean more from the community) aside from Freeman's Mind 2 (which is of course amazing). Anything you can do regarding this franchise will be absolutely soaked up and appreciated. Amazing job as usual.

Seeing how the Combine control multiple universes and dimensions it is somewhat impressive we lasted 7 entire hours.

A multidimensional empire One nerd with a crowbar

@jar6264

4 жыл бұрын

No This is not the combine These are just temporary peace keepers

@raddarat8471

3 жыл бұрын

The "combine" we seen in half Life 2 are manipulated humans that have been converted into cheap brainwashed combat units with very low training They arent the real combine, rather a very cheap way to keep earth in check as they dont even waste their own soldiers

EckhartsLadder featuring Half Life?? My life is complete

Thanks for this change of pace.

Love it man, the Half Life world is ripe for your style of imaginative exploration and there is a great cross over of interest with your audience. Keep up the good work

Half-Life 3 confirmed

@emergence109

5 жыл бұрын

Sandwich_masterX stop

@mannyperez6096

5 жыл бұрын

@@emergence109 why they want half life 3 so be patient

@TheM41a

4 жыл бұрын

Sandwich_masterX it actually is now haha

I like how you heart every comment

@soupcake3092

5 жыл бұрын

If every comment is hearted, then no comment is.

@darkfireproject2102

5 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAhahaha!!

@couldntfindaname966

5 жыл бұрын

Nerdy Nachos 🤔🤔... what?

@soupcake3092

5 жыл бұрын

@@couldntfindaname966 you need a high IQ

@couldntfindaname966

5 жыл бұрын

Nerdy Nachos hmmm... u may be right 🤷‍♂️😒

I love your choice in music , from resonance to other marvelous products of HOME

Ive waited for this video. Thank you for making this. Keep up the great work

I love how the Freeman's Mind series can release a fifteen-minute episode about once a quarter (a slow pace, but absolutely worth it), and is _still_ managing to catch up with Valve.

Never played this, but u talking about it makes me want to play it. Thx for the video!

@sandwich_masterX

5 жыл бұрын

Get it. November 19th is its 20th anniversary and there might be a sale. Grab the Orange Box and Half Life, it's worth it.

@calebneal8876

5 жыл бұрын

@@sandwich_masterX. Thx for letting me know!

@johnsonmeattower8011

5 жыл бұрын

I played them out of order, starting with 2 and then Ep. 3 and then going to the first one. If you start at the very beginning, then play the other 2 games you will enjoy it. The story is completely unique and I really can't think of any other sci-fi universe even remotely similar in style or lore to the Half-life universe. It really makes you think about what is going on in the game and it may not give you a ton of information explaining a bunch of stuff outright, but it gives just enough info just so you can come to the proper conclusions (with your own spin on them too). Gameplay is solid as well, for a game so old it is amazing how well it plays still (in my opinion and i am sure others as well). Also the whole silent protagonist thing is actually pretty nice, besides the info already given about Gordan Freeman, it lets you come up with your own story in a sense. You should definitely play them, and if the graphics are a problem then I do believe the modding community for them has some graphic overhaul mods. anyways, just figured i would throw in my 2 cents.

@igorkostic6684

5 жыл бұрын

There is no ep3 though ;_;

@jiraffe9600

5 жыл бұрын

Johnson Meat Tower how the fuck did you play episode 3, are you a time traveler, and can you give me ep 3

I really think diversifying your content a little bit is smart. Keeps stuff fresh. Also good that you'll still do lots of Star Wars. Keep up the good work man.

Great video as always man!

Took the whole earth in 7 hours while can't take out a scientist with a crowbar That's how powerful Gordon is

@theyfw_ash

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, that was merely a token police force that Gordon fought, not the invasion force.

More half life Ecks!

I love your Star Wars/Halo content and good on your for reaching out from it with stuff like this

Holy crap! This is great! Please do more of these half life vids as I love half life and its great that your now doing half life videos

I didn't know you would actually do it

You should do a video on Raising The Bar and the rather extensive cut half-life 2 story. The mod Dark Interval is a partially complete, faithful adaptation of some of this material.

Very interesting video loving this

Love your videos keep up the good work

omg that outro tho XD

The Combine VS The Flood would be interesting

@sterilizer5497

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

Great content Eck!

I really enjoy your videos, they help making my job bearable. BTW have you ever thought about doing a Cylon vs the Borg video?

I just played through Black Mesa, Half-Life 2 (with MMod), Episode 1 & 2 (also with MMod) and HL:Alyx. I've never been more ready for Half Life 3... HL2 holds up surprisingly well if you mod it a bit. Just goes to show how genius level design and story telling will always stand the test of time. I'm also glad that Black Mesa was so well done, and Xen was expanded upon greatly to show much more Black Mesa 'influence" as well as how the Combine were also controlling Xen and the Voutigaunts (something HL1 didn't really do that well).

@garden0fstone736

2 жыл бұрын

I’m doing that now lol

do you really heart every comment? that so lovable!

I subbed last week but ive been watchin ur videos since the dawn of time

3:04 Alyx having fun😏

I always found it weird that earth lost without a fight. Knowing us, we'd literally forsake the universe than actually loose.

@johnwest5957

Жыл бұрын

It was a fight. We got knocked out after seven hours of combat. Its supposed to be a refence to the six day war.

@jeanniemaycrawford4466

Жыл бұрын

@@johnwest5957 I get that but I think we'd rather make the earth uninhabitable than let them invade us.

*Insert President Keemstar here*

@tTaseric

5 жыл бұрын

lmao

Another awesome video!

Awesome video Eckhart's.

could you do something with the Contingency from stellaris? Ive always wondered how they would fair with other factions

@sebastian-paultasmoc9205

5 жыл бұрын

HAL 9000 i think that "The Spiffing Brit" did it already . =)

Thought I'd upload something a little different, in celebration of today's Half-Life 3 announcement. If you enjoyed, and want to see more videos on other universes, make sure to drop a like! If you haven't seen the trailer, it's available here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWRnmaOdadnJgaw.html

@a_person5660

5 жыл бұрын

noice

@internetzenmaster8952

5 жыл бұрын

[Ork mode] Now dat's a proppa' traila dat iz![/Ork mode]

@youlikejazz193

5 жыл бұрын

Looks great, nigh-realistic. Valve really knows how to make life-looking games. Can't wait to buy the beer I owned Gordon as Barney.

@beasticy4216

5 жыл бұрын

EckhartsLadder Damn man you should do some Warhammer battles Ecks you know we're fans of your channel as well hell even ships battles etc

@lieutenantnomad9198

5 жыл бұрын

T-70 X-Wing VS E-Wing PLEASE!!!!!

Thank you for putting this to upbeat music.

I never knew you did this video, I’m glad you did cause they are powerful and deadly

Stormtrooper corps vs the locust horde

Interesting topic, from a certain point of view. Personal shield technology compared: Dune, Halo, Star Wars, Star Trek and Stargate.

@puppetmasterey

5 жыл бұрын

Kenneth Kates Don't forget the Mass Effect trilogy.

@kennethkates3140

5 жыл бұрын

Joey Frye I did forget Mass Effect. Next video I will add it

@puppetmasterey

5 жыл бұрын

@@kennethkates3140 keelah sa'lie

@battleoid2411

5 жыл бұрын

You could just edit it in?

@puppetmasterey

5 жыл бұрын

@@battleoid2411 He meant in future videos.

First time seeing this channel, and I did *not* expect the part with the dog :D

*Gordon goes back in time to the 7 hour war* The Combine: oh shi-

Half Life ona Star Wars channel? COMBINE VS GALACTIC EMPIRE PLZ!!! (sry for caps)

@svijj_

4 жыл бұрын

@Edward Branton A strider, of course. The combine has modified and brainwashed soldiers, so there would be a 0% chance of some of them escaping or refusing to carry out orders

Love love love the Half-Life universe, and seeing fresh, new videos about it after such a long time since the game's peak point is refreshing and very welcome. More Half Life please!

I love you Star Wars videos and I love Half-Life. I never knew you made a video about Half-Life! You can't believe how excited I am to watch this.

We can all agree that to this day, Half-Life 2 is fascinating in its setting, characters, backstory and how it handles its themes

5:15 Lol....I am kinda impressed how your dog still has enough battery life all this time, to make dubstep music when smacked in the head XDXDXDXDXDXDXD ;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D

EVERYONE ECKHARTS BACK

@rolanddeschain5161

5 жыл бұрын

Ronan Linnett Where'd he go?

@Myname-il9vd

5 жыл бұрын

Roland Deschain where ever youtubers go when they're not making vids

@rolanddeschain5161

5 жыл бұрын

Ronan Linnett But he has been making vids?

@Myname-il9vd

5 жыл бұрын

Roland Deschain nvm this is tradition I do this on all his new vids I catch

@rolanddeschain5161

5 жыл бұрын

Ronan Linnett ah alright.

The outro is the best thing i've seen in a while, lol poor doggie! LMFAO!

A bit of clarification. The portal storms didn't start till after the Nihilanth's death, because the Nihilanth was focusing the rift between Earth and Xen on the Black Mesa area. Once it died, it obviously couldn't focus it any more, so widespread portal storms started happening.

What about the combine empire Vs gallatic empire

BLACK MISSA

I was waiting for this woo

i LOVE THIS VIDEO ! and the intro music XD

Universal Union logic: Can conquer the the whole world. Can't stop a guy with a crowbar.

@jar6264

4 жыл бұрын

This unfunny joke is old And there's already a lot of shit to debunk this First of all, Gordon is fighting the combine OVERWATCH, not the combine MILITARY. Second, If that portal never closed, they'd be dead in less than an hour, since earth doesn't have a military force anymore. Why? Because the earth fought back the MAIN COMBINE MILITARY with their Trained Marines, Air force etc. not undertrained guerilla forces.

Umm I didn’t come from the notifications I came from the discord lol

Your dog always gets me at the end

yo now ur doing half life two lore!? omg i love u