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Chadwick wrote:
> On that subject, does anyone know WTF has been going on since HL1? I
> know there are a couple of clues in newspapers and the like, but it's
> never really explained. Please don't point me to that timeline website;
> so much of that is simply not in the game that I think the author has
> just made up a story to fit the available facts.
I think most of it is in the game, just heavily fleshed out. Marc
Laidlaw of Valve commented on the Timeline site saying "it's fairly
accurate" (As the guy who wrote the HL storyline, i guess he'd know best..)
> What do we know?
> - All the monsters except alien slaves and headcrabs have disappeared.
> The slaves have become slaves to us humans and the headcrabs appear to
> have diversified. There are Striders now, which appear to be organic
> and work for Breen.
The vortigaunts don't appear to be "slaves" any more... At least, The
human race doesn't exactly have any mind-control device like the
combine's in order to enslave them... so I'd say the vortigaunts were
now the human's allies against the combine.. The slaves in the game are
the combine overwatch, who maybe still are human underneath... but have
drunk so much water that they "forget"
As for the rest of the Xen aliens.. it's possible that, like Earth, Xen
only has 1 intelligent species (vortigaunts), the rest are just like
dumb wildlife which got caught up in the resonance cascade or somehow
found their way through the portals.
> - The Black Mesa Administrator, Breen, is in league with a huge slug of
> unknown provenance, and with its support has developed an army of some
> kind of hybrid.
Breen himself may not have been human to start with.. We only know
that he looks and sounds human during his time on earth
> - Breen's dominance is so great that he has been able to change the
> common name of at least one city to just a number "City 17".
However Breen's influence only extends over Earth as far as we know.
There are possibly entities above Breen with far more power.
> - Breen is brainwashing the population and enslaving them to be his
> troops.
> - There is armed resistance but the fighting has been going on for a
> long time with no real success.
> - Two scientists from Black Mesa have been working on technology to
> fight Breen.
> - Gordon has become a legend among the resistance, many of whom would
> only have been children at the time of Half-Life 1.
There was also the 7-hour battle for earth before Earth surrendered and
Breen was appointed "Interim Administrator" (Suggesting, possibly, that
the 'benefactors' intended to remove breen and apply another form of
control over earth)
Other stuff which seems logical from HL1 - the satellite launch created
Portals between Xen and Earth.. that may only be significant for one
game, or it may also be the reason that the combine were able to invade
earth.. and could have implications for other alien things being on
earth too.
Also, Breen was most likely responsible for the resonance cascade..
G-Man appeared briefly before the resonance cascade took place talking
to Kleiner.. perhaps this was G-Man's attempt to stop the resonance
cascade ever taking place.
> Have Valve ever explained what they think happened between HL1 and HL2,
> or is it more likely that they created a scenario for the game and made
> no attempt to have any real connection beyond a few repeating
> characters? Personally I think the latter.
Valve haven't created a comprehensive story, but they certainly have
created an interesting and complicated universe that spans across
multiple games... and alot of background information can be derived from
the clues scattered across the games
The "story" itself has been left wide open, probably deliberately, in
order that they can extend it to HL3, and some of the addons
I suppose in one sense, the story is Gordon's journey from becoming a
geeky PhD research associate, to a legendary intergalactic superhero who
kicks serious alien butt, and then back to do it all over again
🙂
--
Ben Cottrell AKA Bench
All these modern celebrities are endorsing supermarket products now...
I got a pack of sausages from Tesco the other day and there was this
picture of Anthony Worral Thompson on the front. Below, it read 'prick
with a fork'.
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