Half-Life & Portal - The Complete Story (What You Need to Know!)
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After nearly 13 years of waiting, Valve is finally giving us a new installment in the Half-Life franchise. While it may not be Half-Life 3, Half-Life: Alyx takes us back to City 17 and fills in the gap between the first two mainline Half-Life games. But what about everything else? Well, that's what we're here for; let's take a run down memory lane with the entire story of the Half-Life (and Portal) universe!
0:00 Intro
0:36 Black Mesa & Aperture Origins
0:58 GLaDOS Awakens (Portal 2: Lab Rat)
1:35 The Morning of May 16th (Black Mesa/Half-Life Decay/Half-Life Blue Shift)
3:09 The Resonance Cascade and After (Decay/Black Mesa/Blue Shift/Half-Life Opposing Force)
10:18 The Seven Hour War (Half-Life 2)
11:22 Doug Rattmann's Plight (Portal 2: Lab Rat)
11:57 Chell is Tested (Portal)
13:08 Rattmann Helps Again (Portal 2: Lab Rat)
13:47 Gordon's Second Assignment (Half-Life 2)
20:13 Gordon and Alyx's Return to the Citadel (Half-Life 2: Episode 1)
22:04 The White Forest Operation (Half-Life 2: Episode 2)
27:07 Chell Awakens in the Far Future (Portal 2)
32:51 Outro
Marc Laidlaw's original plan for Half-Life 2: Episode 3:
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Please *avoid posting* Half-Life: Alyx spoilers. I know it's exciting having new information on the story, but most folks watching this video are doing so _BEFORE_ playing the new game. Have some respect for their playthroughs and let them enjoy something they've probably waited over a decade for.
I didn't realise the game is coming out this Thursday
BlueFlag Alpha it’s already out
Hey there, could you tell me where did you found these comic images? Is there a comic series?
@@JoshPicard thx a lot!!
You should make a similar video in a little while incorporating alyx into the timeline! I’m interested on your take on how the events change what we know about the lore.
If Cave Johnson was alive for the black mesa incident he wouldn’t even care about the alien attack, he’d just be laughing at the fall of black Mesa
True
And laughing
Black Mesa, you can eat my bankrupt....
Sir, we're recording.
Briefly misread that as 'Carl Johnson' from GTA: SA
"However she instantly becomes self aware." "I am a potato."
ah yes, potatos
@CHARLESON CHEN so THATS how my brother burned his house down
@CHARLESON CHEN potato
“You see that? That is a potato battery. It’s a toy. For children. And now she lives in it!”
@@generalkt5398 CAN A MORON DO THIS
Fun trivia: Wheatley is so incredibly dense, when he and the Space Cube are sucked into the vacuum of space, Space Cube immediately begins orbiting Wheatley.
I always wondered why the space core was orbiting him, but now that makes perfect sense.
I love how much they drive in the point that Wheatley is a dense moron lmao
When glados says the paradox all the Franken turrets short circuit so they are smarter than Wheatley
@@Leoliat lmao that’s great
spaaaaaaace
But like can we talk about the genius of Portal 2s ending, like the song that the turrets sing literally being just Glados saying how much she loves Chell, proving she didn’t actually delete Caroline but made it Italian because she’s too petty to say it in a language Chell actually understands
@@foxxy-3748 She cant delete Caroline, Caroline is basically GLaDOS mainframe, glados was made for the purpose of housing Either John (in case he didnt die) or caroline, since john died caroline was the one that was turned into a machine, the name itself spells it out, that GLaDOS is a mix between a human mind and a machine, kinda like Half half, Caroline/glados continues with her experiments for the sake of science, GLaDOS said it herself at one point in the game, that weathley is in it for the thrill of doing the tests (he cant help it, it was programed like that), but GLaDOS was always in it for the science (Which she got from the Caroline part of herself). Also the ending credit and the turret song kinda proves that Caroline was never ''deleted''.
@@muatring Cave said "If I die I want Caroline to run his place" and all the dialogs of GLaDOS realizing about Caroline just makes too much sense. I believe GLaDOS *IS* Caroline. (edit was a grammar mistake I did)
I thought it was in Latin.
@@goldninjagaming9505 It is.
@@conic2721 I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to speak Latin isn’t it?
the whole universe started because gordon forgot his passport
I almost pressed like
Oh no now its 70
And chaotic beings pestered him
@K-Soursin 123 That ANYONE can edit?
R E F E R E N C E
Glados: *kills everyone* Glados: “now I’m lonely”
Glados: we were bad now we are good
Uh oh.
@@Chara-chan we're movin' in to your neighbourhood
İs glados a shreks offender?
Elijah Almacen “I’m GLaDOs, I just won. So I’m apologizing for what I’ve done. In case your wondering what it was: I RELEASED A DEADLY NEUROTOXIN AND-48kiejn&@3?-8?:&’keivbek ivdmjrnen’fj&$!;&:9?’S:@?chsjskdocongjsjj””:@ lnf666”
I like how portal 2 confirms that the combine were kicked off the planet with the simple sight of a field, something that disappeared under combine rule due to them sucking the life out of the planet
I don't think it confirmed tho. Since it's been so long, it's possible the combine won and during those 50,000 years the empire colapsed
@@gabisuciu6785 Or both sides lost due some unforseen force.
Or the combine could've just left
@@RommekePommeke with unforseen consequences
@@bananaempijama idk man kinda sounds like halo
Man, it feels like there's so much lore left unexplored in portal. I know it's the longest of long shots but deep down inside I still have to retain some hope that valve will eventually revisit it.
Apparently they did make a portal fr game but it caused extreme motion sickness
If you want another portal game try legos
I'm hoping it takes place in Aperture's infancy, while Cave Johnson was still alive.
@@a.sanford8731 did somebody just say STILL ALIVE
There's alot of things in portal that I never understood why the fans took at face value. Everyone blames moon rocks for caves illness, because he does, but he's also not an honest man. Nobody notices his demise coincides with the effects of asbestos poisoning, and forgets the entire facility was made with asbestos during his most active period of life. People assume cave never managed to make it to be a digital construct because he wasn't glados, and Caroline was. However there's the turret that pre-figures cave quotes, implying they tried to capture his mind but either his mind deteriorated, or the process was imperfect first. People assume glados was rebuilding the facility because she said so... yet through the elevator up sequence we see areas that are still overgrown, implying apature has a fake "apocalypse recovery" testing area. I believe portal 2 is a story about a crafted story. The events aren't happening "naturally" its all part of the test, and that test is to find humans resilient enough to cope with a post-combine world.
If Cave Johnson were alive during the Half-Life alien invasion: “Cave Johnson here. Well, it’s finally happened! Black Mesa has screwed up majorly. Their stupid experiments have blown up in their face and released aliens into the world. We ARE all under attack, and probably screwed, but it’s still satisfying to see them fail for once. Anyway, keep testing.”
And find me that Spider-man!
I think that in the PTI addon there is a line like that. That Black Mesa was responsible for the destruction of Earth and he taunts them.
Why did I read that in an Obama voice
GLaDOS when/if she ever hears this: “Oh yeah, that happened, forgot to mention that... Sorry”
"Hello! Cave Johnson here. It's finally happened. Those backwater bastards at black.... bastard...esa.... have finally hit the nail on the coffin! Now... the government isn't offering us more funding - they're currently dealing with a 6 hour invasion and to that I say, good luck! But, as I leave for my luxury villa in the middle of the pacific ocean that my budgeting staff told me I didn't have the budget for and I told them "stuff it", I just want to relay a message to black mesa if the test subject currently in testing is or has been an affiliate of Black Mesa. AAAAHAHAHAHAAAA I TOLD YOU SO! Suck my... what? Oh right, I'm sorry. Anyways, this test is probably gonna be your last, so expect your 650 bucks on the way out and keep a good spirit! Will you be entering a hostile world filled with murder? Yes! Will you be heading into a hostile world filled with murder with a fat stack of six hundo in your pocket? *YES!* So keep your chin up, and finish up this test. *Away from microphone* Get me out of here, I want nothing to do with these lunatics, I swear. They drove me off the wall twenty years ago, they drove me off the wall NOW."
Crazy how one scientist being late for work leads to the entire world being destroyed by a multiuniversal government
Thanks Gordon, very cool.
multiuniversal would be an oxymoron it would just be multiversal
@@kingbasti23 he's got a point though
@@wta1518 He's an asshole for stating a fact?
@@grimes558 sorry. At least it resulted in a sweet game.
You missed the most important part. The microwave casserole incident
Take a shot every time a character loses consciousness. Then you can level transition half life style.
true
GLaDOS: Became sentient* GLaDOS: kills 90% of the staff* Well, that escalated quickly
For science!
Better. She discovered hundreds, mby even thousands still alive human test subjects, whom she kills within week of testing. She's very effective at science I must say.
wenxiaomei Yeah, that’s pretty much how it happened
Yeah, she was a ruthless CEO. But she sure knew how to cut costs for maximum return to the shareholder.
I think I’m seeing a pattern. Seems people become less alive when the ai becomes snarky. So new proposed plan: All humor is evil. Any ai showing wit, sarcastic behaviors or the use of puns is to be decommissioned effective immediately. All ai that show blatant disregard to the wordplay will be put on the front of the line. That should stop the ironic death traps....
Aperture Science: Create portals and got all killed Black Mesa: Create portals and got all killed Doom: Create portals and got all killed *I'm beginning to see a pattern here that I'm not so sure I like*
Creating a portal to another extraterrestrial being is an ambush welcoming.
The more I think about portals, the less I like them
Aperture was different as the portals weren’t why everyone died lol
Got it, no computers.
The Mist: Arrowhead project Created Portals got everyone killed.
As sadistic and dangerous glados is, it wouldn’t surprise me if the combine just gave up and never tried breaking in since most of her defense systems were so terrifying
Interestingly. There is a theory that Glados struck a deal with the Combine. Due to the fact that the combine energy bubbles are similar to Apatures. Glados would supply them with weapons and they would leave her alone.
Fun Fact: Originally, G-man was supposed to meet Chell before Wheatley comes in.
@@aymarafan7669 Unused voice files in Portal 2 in where Wheatley says: A mysterious man in black was here to meet you. This is referring to the G-Man
@@Kermiitti that is.... unsettling
@@Kermiitti needs more likes. More people should know about the depth of the (possible) overlap
If it's unused, is it really canon?
@@mosshivenetwork117 no. But still fun
Have we talked about Chell’s AMAZING aim? She hipfires the moon shot, and it lands within 10 meters of the Apollo 11 Lander and buggy.
Couldn’t be 11, that mission didn’t include a buggy
@@HRVipertm it does include a buggy tho or it isnt??
I'd guess thats just unimaginable luck.
@@professionaldisappointment1654 the first moon rover was part of Apollo 15. The Apollo missions before that had no rover.
I find it more impressive how Chells lungs didnt just get sucked out her asshole due to the vacuum of space.
I can't wait for Portal: Rattmann
wait it's pronounced ratt *mann* ? I'm seeing a possible connection to TF2.......
Reivo Meedla indeed...
Honestly i'd be more than down to play that
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Oh my god, that would be amazing! I could imagine it being physics/stealth, considering hes hiding in the walls, you @AwkwardStepho are a genius
Imagine be Chell who escape finally Aperture Science after tons of years and see those Half life's monsters.
Ah shit here we go again.
I would go back in
oN tHe MoOn
I'm a bit confused why there is no xen life in Portal 1 and 2. Surely a headcrab or 2 would have snuck in aperture during the 50,000 year time skip
@@engineerfromtf2585 me too lol
32:00 Portal 2 takes place long long after hl2, and the ocean being present on earth most likely means the resistance won the war, because the combine had a plan to dry up all the oceans
When did they say they were going to dry out the oceans? Source pleae?
@@supergirlpyro5705 you can see the drained ocean water near the coasts
@@Breached18 thanks
The ocean levels had sunk several metres already by the time of Freeman's second coming, and there is no ocean in sight when GlaDOS kicks out Chell.
@@davidwuhrer6704 yes there is. Look at the clip of Chell in space. We get a view of earth
I like how the Combine only took 7 hours to defeat all of Earth, and then in the game, 1 person mows through all of them like they're nothing.
The 7 hour war would've involved much more powerful stuff than what we see in HL2, for all we know they had synths the size of skyscrapers. All we see in the games is a small force they left on earth once it had been taken over.
@@dankbeluga9636 well the combine didn't use humans at first. And only used creatures from off world. Aka. Robotic creatures or organic. Monsters. Etcetera. After they've won the started to use conscripts and troops as a first. Before having their own loyal overwatch and police force. Since the conscripts deemed useless to the union. As they went to rebel against their own overlords.
what these replies are saying is that when they invaded, they had a star destroyer, when they were ruling earth, they had a huge ass army
the combine knew that they could only station a main force on earth for so long. the black mesa resonance cascade allowed for a temporary easy way to travel to and from earth, as even basic portal technology was able to bridge the gap between dimentions. but the combine knew that the effects would eventually dissipate and that any force still on earth at this time would be trapped there. so instead, after defeating earth and gaining control of its governement, they started their plans to create a human made overwatch force and retreated most of their forces, using the gigantic citadel as one of the only transportation points left to them. this is why they left the citadel to be destroyed, in the citadel's final moments, combine forces managed to beam a message to send reenforcements to earth ASAP, and the combine planed to use the portal storm to invade just like they did last time, but were eventually stoped. with the citadel gone and the portal storm stoped, combine forces are stuck on the planet and isolated, unable to comunicate with their wider empire. Their plan is the same as the resitance, the only artefact left to them is the borealis, an experimental apperture science ship that was designed to carry and advanced and fully operational teleportation technology. unlike black mesa's tech and even the combine one, this allows the borealis instant and pinpoint teleportation abilitites to pretty much anywhere, and whoever took control of that tech would gain a gigantic advantage in the war. If the resistance got to it, they could use it to perform pinpoint strikes on combine infrastructure, making up for their small numbers. if the combine got it however, they could reenforce or crack down on resistance camps with little effort. The last unknown really is the borealis itself, as being an aperture construct, it is likely that the rise of glados was responsible for the borealis disapearing, however if she was in direct control of it or still is in control of it is unknown.
He is THE FREEMAN!
Can we just appreciate that, the Black Mesa incident happened in the 2000's, and the sequel happens 20 years later? 2020 be like: o shit
Lol True
Dont spoiler the april alien invasion pls, im still watching this movie
Ah hell no
if combines appear and try and take over the world to be stopped by a random Half-Life fan i will shit myself.
Alexey Stulevich Why are u looking at comments then
“How are you holding up? Because I’m a POTATO” -Glotato or potados.
first name option makes her a GLOWING POTATO u should change it to Glatato edit: i will agree if the name is changed by the devs to Glatato
PotatOS
PotatOS
Hello there :D
i read "how you holding up" in doc Mitchel's voice
Has anyone ever realized that Eli’s replacement leg is the back of a long fall boot?
Wait whaaaaaa-
Black Mesa did steal some of Aperture Science’s products.
@@generichuman4651 or he just found some scraps after the black mesa incident
Eli IS a spy from aperture to spy on Black mesa after all!
Eli's leg and the LFB look similar because they have the same origin. They are both inspired by real-world leg prosthetics.
Black Mesa: *ruins World* Aperture Science: *has to fix it*
@Textbook Gaming ah yes, cave ego never get old...
Sure did a bang up job now didn’t they?
GLADOS is our saviour!!
G L A D O S SAVED US
Quite hilarious considering how both companies operate you would think those rolls would be reversed. P.S. I really like your profile picture, did you make it yourself?
“So how many times do you want people to get concussions in these games??” Valve: *y e s . . .*
also valve:all the charecters get concussions
666 likes
@@brumo2413 Not anymore. 😔😔
It’s like how George Lucas hated hands, valve hates consciousness
Valve, to the characters: “you might get a very very minor case… of serious brain damage”
I'm going to use the fan remake, Black Mesa Me: For a more visually coherent video? Him: Because I'm selfish Fair enough
He forgot to add Gmod, bruh that is the most canon game in the series...
If Gmod is short for Garry's Mod, does that mean that Gman is short for Garry man?
garry man lmfao
@@GlowsLythos it wasn’t funny till you said it again 😂
@@GlowsLythos Garry MANN. Now TF2 has been roped into this!
@@saturniidspectre MORE
Half-Life is just a revolving story around people losing consciousness.
Half-Life in a nutCHELL
@Axolotl Is Cool No pls
possible link to elder scrolls where you regain it?
The other half of life is unconsciousness.
True
Is getting knocked unconscious a personal hobby for half life characters?
Probably
It’s the only way for time and plot to progress without actual cutscenes in a valve game xD
Apparently
Yes
probably, it's in half life 1, half life 2, half life alyx
Me: *hears borealis* My brain: „AURORA BOREALIS? AT THIS TIME OF YEAR? AT THIS TIME OF DAY? IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY? LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR KITCHEN?“
No, Borealis is a chemicals company.
...May I see it?
@@JamesScholesUK .... No
I was there for the original Half Life game when it first came out. And at the time it was the coolest game I had ever seen, even though the computers back then were really primitive compared with today’s systems. Being a total gamer over the years I have played all of the Half Life games and of course Portal. I am now playing Half Life: Alyx in VR on my completely wireless Oculus Quest 2. (I actually got into VR gaming with the HTC Vive when it first came out back in 2017) I can only imagine what advances will occur in the world of computers?? Quantum computing, Full Haptics suits, The Oasis like in Ready Player One?? who knows...
Maybe a fully aware artificial intelligence with the ability to control an entire govement funded facility? Who knows
“I’ll just sleep in an extra five minutes, what could go wrong?” ~Gordon, shortly before everything went wrong
Technically, he delayed the end of the world by half an hour by being late
@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 I'm pretty sure Gordon being late caused the end of the world. It gave more time to tweak the mass spectrometer and push it beyond it's capabilities. If he was on time everything would have been fine lol.
but he can’t talk
@@PETRIXXXX but he can think
nah i think it more went like this “ “ - Gordon Freeman
I love the fact that Valve made Half Life and Portal take place in the same universe, leaving room for some kind of crossover, only to make sure that never happened
Here is hoping we get to find and use a portal gun on the borealis in HL3
Portal 3 and half life 3 is very possible, the story may take place at the same time. So in both portal 3 and half life 3, I believe they will be taking place from each other’s perspective.
@@urmomisgay916 probably why it has taken them so long to think of a crossover story. They're probably worried it won't live up to the expectations.
@@bipolingdaco1607 I’m pretty sure it will! Valve has not let me down once!
I heard that they decided to do that because portal and half life contained same textures
Constantly thanking my brother for showing me these games. I miss him so much, these games make me think about him.
i did ur mom
"You just keep on trying Till you run out of cake And the science gets done And you make a neat gun For the people who are still alive." You've still got cake, my friend. His memory lives in you, so make sure you live your best life.
just took a dark turn real fast
I dont miss your brother
Has your brother moved out or....? I hope it isn't what I think it is....😣
My theory is that Chell woke up 9 years later because of the cabinet at the end of the game,if hundreds or thousands of years passed,the cabinet would be even worse,or not even be there
It’s not that deep
Deep
Well I mean all the furniture in the relaxation room was badly damaged.
Good Morning. You have been in suspension for *Nine Nine Nine Nine* *Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine*.
what cabinet
Come on, we all know the REAL reason Black Mesa blew up..... Gordon forgot his passport.
HELLO GORDON
@@martineamosantonio Look, Gordon, a rope!
Hello, Gordon!
Attention FREEMAN, you have ten seconds to explain your actions before we open fire.
@@CyberController- We can use this to help with pits!
“I want me some Portals!”, both companies said at once. But neither were prepared for unforeseen consequences...
@@3ggsy Yeah, they only destroyed every single human being that had anything to do with the company.
@@dreamystone To be fair. Their families were compensated.
@@deejnutz2068 With 60 dollars. 120 if you opted in to get your body taken apart.
Aperture dealing with Wheatley and glados, also black Mesa dealing with aliens. ＦＵＮ．
@@dreamystone which is still better than killing millions of people.
This is hands down, one of the best videos i've ever watched on youtube
I do hope that one day your dream would come true.
Cave: " Black Mesa can eat my bankrup- "
"sir, the testing..???"
barney: literally dies at least 13 times, Half life 2: Nah, he’s still alive
He's a Perpetual, yes HL2 is now part of Warhammer 40K.
yeeeess
It's that goddamn cat, giving him all those lives
He load save
Sheppard dies or gets jailed in the void for no reason
There are a lot of concussions in this series
I was thinking that, at the third concussion in, I thought “AGAIN!?,” there were many more concussions to happen yet, though.
It’s a great way to get characters where they need to be without having to explain or show how they got there
Autistic Pigeon Also kind of where that trope came from
yeah apparently HL2 is actually concussion simulator
Same with the amount of train crashes
Fun fact: it is stated in the credits song of Portal 2 called “Want you gone” that Glados was unsuccessful at deleting Caroline and resorted to suppressing her emotions, which partially works
We could certainly theorize that based off of Chell’s ending in Portal 2, the Combine are no longer on Earth and it somehow managed to regenerate its resources. This most likely means that the Combine got defeated or at least left Earth at some point.
When I first played Half Life, it never occurred to me that Black Mesa had access to Xen before the events of the game. I just saw all the creatures in cages and stuff for experimentation and thought "wow, science is fast"
Legit. It thought that the scientists were just like “well I guess now or never”
Or when I saw the big human look alike creature stuck in a glass cage I was like “guy really teleported to an unlucky place” little did I know
And I never knew about the aperture science thing and it was in the same universe
lmao
@@drillbit8280 that's funny
My only gripe with this is that you didn't mention the fact that GLaDOS began to malfunction due to the crow pecking at an old Aperture control panel, and soon finds herself taking care of the crow's babies once Atlas and P-Body scare the crow away.
Um... wasn't it that Glados got scared after the events of Portal 2 that someone was hacking the facility? And it turned out it was a bird randomly clicking buttons? That had nothing to do with Glados "malfunctioning"
Piro Man The bird kept doing things to the facility is what I meant, like certain areas were destroyed or the lights would turn off and on.
LoveThomas the bird had nothing to do with the facility... the old aperture enrichment center was sealed off and left to fall apart
Donut5162 Play the DLC
LoveThomas my point still stands
I love at how 18:05 his pet Headcrab peeks through the door between his legs
That proofs that Lamar is a good headcrab
If only Gordon had brought his passport that morning, they could have avoided all this
Poor Sheperd hes still at the void
same with Rattman, he's still in stasis
Imagine that the concluding game will be a cooperative game where one player is gordon, and the other is chell
@@alexeystulevich3744 sadly that won't be possible given chell's storyline.
@@m.jailam8861 unless something happened in between, somehow.
Alexey Stulevich most they could do is a cameo or mention
Dang I didn’t realize Portal was only like one sixteenth of the story
Shepherd’s fate is unknown still, which meant that, he might be coming back in the next half-life sequel after alyx.
No, he's probably been forgotten about by Valve to be honest, they most likely have no way of knowing how to incorporate him back into the story.
Valve forgot about TF2 which has millions of players so I doubt they would remember Shepard with their goldfish memory
Shepherd wasn't recruited like Gordon or Alyx. He was kept in containment after his experiences at Black Mesa. Why exactly Gman think Shepherd is too dangerous to let out is unclear, but it is clear he isn't employed by Gman's faction like Gordon.
@@NATIK001 I think it's because he tried to stop the linear and planned explosion of Black Mesa.
Valve stated OP4 is canon as long it doesn't interfere with the main franchise. So Shephard will be kept in GMan's fridge.
You missed Rattman's ramblings about the Borealis in Portal 2! "They took me to Mesa, humiliation" "The ship is gone, the ship died. Impossible."
Well, we don't really know if that's _really_ what he's saying.
The Commenter We already know for a fact that the ship disappeared, what do you mean?
No one cares about Rattman ;)
Borealis? at this time of year
@@-Gug- ....May I see it?
27:09 Can we take a moment to recognize how amazing Portal 2 graphics are still?
@Мишаня 2011
Ik it's crazy. It still stands up to today's graphics. Compared to portal which basically half life 2 level of detail
You need to take a look at a little game from 2004... Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Portal 2 does stand the test of time, but I would be ecstatic to see a Portal game in Source 2. Heh heh.
ye the keep updating the source engine so its not exactly the same as it was on release
Fun fact: Kleiner’s pet head crab is named “Hedy Lamarr” after the early 20th venture actress of the same name. Lamarr (the actress, not the head crab) is also credited for a patent that led to frequency hopping technology, which is used today in modern smartphones and cell phones to connect to towers for network communication.
As someone who has never played these games, Half Life seems to be summed up by: "The good guys that are scientists or related to scientists are knocked unconscious by aliens.
22:37 it is at this point Gordon becomes mentally unstable and begins to carry a garden gnome with him everywhere he goes.
Rooster Floyd Good ole Gnome Chombsky
A man had a mental breakdown in city 17!
@SomeFukinPeep and of to the rescue Ready the pass port
@@agentburningbutters3655 flyingkitty
@@averagegamer6831 Pick up that can!
My favourite quote from Wheatley... " *I AM NOT A MORON* "
YES YOU ARE! YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!
I prefer ,,hello, this is the part when i kill you" or ,,aaaaand... nothing", but that one is funny too
"I! AM! NOT! A! MORON!" "YES! YES YOU ARE! YOU ARE A CREATION OF THE GREATEST MINDS OF THIS EARTH! DESIGNED TO BE A MORON!" "DOES A MORON DO THIS! AND THIS! o h o h" And thats why ladies and gentlemen Portal 2 is a great game.
@@Qira Oh sorry. That was a book you were earing. See ? I'm not a moron !
Fattie fattie fattie! No parents! Adopted! Fattie fat! What’s wrong with being adopted? Well uhh, lack of parents...
I didn’t live in English speaking country so when I was 10 and I played Half life 2 for the first time I used to think that dr. Breen was leader of the Earth and by killing him the game just happily ended.
That crowbar really is the key of the story
after all these years, we will finally get what we wanted. PORTAL HALF-LIFE Chell and Gordon meet and talk by jumping and crouching repeatedly as a sign of peace. and then they eat cake that was not a lie
no no no its HλLF LIFE: PORTAL 3
Eat the cake with a crowbar of course.
That would be cool, but seeing as how Chell, was 50,000 years in the future, at the end of the second game. But maybe valve could make it so, Chell found a way to transport back in time using the portal gun.
don't forget drinking beer that barney promised
The cake was real it was trapped
I just realized engineer from tf2 beat two whole government funded facilties in the race of teleportation.
"It ain't much but it's honest work" - Engineer, probably
And had the least devastating consequence
"I have done nothing, but teleport bread for three days."
Team fortress 2 is actually a prequel to Portal and Half Life because it takes place in 1968
@@tonydang772 nah its different universe cause rocket jumping dont exist
I have a potential theory about what happened between the end of half-life 2 episode 2 and portal 2 You can see near the ending of portal 2 when they're being sucked out into space that earth looks exactly like it would otherwise normally look, implying that the Combine are no longer present as the ocean levels appear to be practically normal (in the 20 year span between half-life and half-life 2, the oceans were lowered quite substantially as seen on the shore levels of half-life 2, making canals empty. This means that the oceans could've well been gone in 50,000 years, maybe even sooner). Another hint is that Chell steps out into a cornfield, which appears to be well maintained, hinting at a human presence maintaining the cornfield (this also debunks the theory of the normal earth being an accident by the devs, yes it probably was but in relation to the story we'll say it was one of those happy accidents). She exits a shack which honestly should've been a lot more dilapidated than how it looked due to oxidization and well, 50,000 years of existing. Sure, an AI of some type from the facility could've maintained the shed for whatever reason, but then why would there also be parts that Aperture wouldn't have made or used (a counter-argument could be as to why a person would fix it)? There are pieces of what appear to be primitive (in comparison to Aperture's tech) technology that Aperture would otherwise not have a use for, implying that this was used by humans not related to Aperture (and by the state of the materials, they seem to be fairly recent). You also never see parts of this type ever in Aperture and due to the fact that one of them is a part of a windmill basically clarifies that it isn't Apertures at all. With the combination of the normal looking earth, maintained cornfield, and presence of tech foreign to Aperture, I conclude that the Combine were eliminated in such a way (in a small enough timeframe) that they were basically eliminated from the image and allowed Earth and society to heal (society most likely had trouble though). I can think of 3 variations that I like the most (note that this is purely speculation beyond this point): A. The Restart The Combine are defeated shortly after the ending of HL:2 E2, probably consisting of a massive battle, having millions upon millions of casualties (they're an interdimensional empire after all) and what little that remains of the Human Population are scattered about the earth, probably in tribe-like groups. This essentially rewinds the clock on history and puts humans back in the stone age as newer generations forget what existed before them. After a considerable amount of time, basically being 50,000 years, humanity has once again ended up at the same point it was 50,000 years ago. Technology previously lost was eventually found and reused or otherwise reinvented. The impact of the Combine still resonates on earth as humans are still low in population numbers, consisting of possibly around 1 billion (after all, a large amount of water and other resources were removed and cannot be retrieved) and settlements tend to look more rural than before. B. "Time Travel" Similar to the previous scenario except a little altered. After the war with the Combine, mankind wins although more damaged than scenario A. A group of around possibly 1,000 occupants are put on a ship that will accelerate nearly to the speed of light (utilizing what was left of Combine tech) to essentially "fast forward" nearly 50,000 years to allow Earth to heal to a point where the Ecosystem has fully healed and human presence can be reintroduced. This would explain why technology 50,000 years ago is indistinguishable from the tech seen by the shed. The knowledge of the past still exists on the ship and in the minds of the people that were on it. It would also explain why there isn't too much infrastructure nearby Aperture. C. Rebuilt From the Ashes Same premise as A and B except no ship was sent and humanity eventually died out over those 50,000 years. Due to the massive size of Aperture laboratories, there's almost a guarantee that more than 2 power grids exist, the main ones being the power grid for GLaDOS (also being used for high priority things) and the reserve grid, possibly a multiuse grid if other power grids got shut down. Thus, theres a possibility that an area too far from GLaDOS had a seperate power grid (after all, Aperture looks like it utilizes almost the entire 4km area of the saltmine and with that much power drawing tech, its very likely, to me at least, that there would be more grids present). This location probably consisted of another "vault" of humans that happened to get damaged enough to allow nature to tap into it. Something happens roughly 50,000 years later that makes the vault wake up the people inside (maybe Wheatley accidentally woke them up or something while exploring the place) and allows them to escape into the world. They would still have the knowledge of basic tech and could potentially grow into a new civilization. Don't treat these as pure fact or all that serious, It's just speculation and honestly its just fun!
yes it's a beast of a comment but maybe you should give it a read, especially if you have some unanswered questions or something. :)
That theory set would work, but only if the lengthy time gap was indeed confirmed. In the game, it doesnt explicitly state how long Chell was in stasis, it defaults to constantly repeating 99999, which, given the dilapidated ruins the facility is in, could just be the result of a computer error. This is compounded by the fact that the computer stating these is frequently experiencing glitches. There's a good likelihood that she hasnt actually been asleep for long, as if she had been, the combination of salt and moisture in the lower levels of Aperture would have made pretty much all of it compacted rubble and rust long before she would have woken up and made the 50's and 70's areas completely lost, instead of the relatively well preserved state we find them in.
also in credits of portal 2 NASA is credited for the earth images so its supposed to br a normal earth
Honestly, though half life has a more established story line, I'm more interested in the portal arc, since it's more mysterious
Speak for yourself. I think portal ruins half life's story with it's confusing time placement in the arch, advanced technology sentient robots and reality bending portal technology. which ruins the post apocalyptic, raw nuclear technology which half life is based on. The worst decision was to interlope these two really different stories into the half life universe. Because half life's story feels like it could actually happen somewhere in real life.
@@dannass5 Opening a portal to another dimension isn't reality bending, or unrealistic? OK...
@@Section927 the technology they use are nuclear powered and made of steel, the whole point of black Mesa was to study the crystals which, combined with the nuclear emitters, created an unstable portal. It's Sci fi. Portal is way too polished to fit that narrative in any way.
“Portal ruins Half-Life” No, just no!
@@UnsightlyThinker here comes the portal fanboys. It doesn't fit at all.
In another timeline: Look Gordon, ropes! We can use these to- HELP ME, GORDON
Don't forget your passport.
lol, you also watched WayneRadioTV?
But where is the lamb sauce
@@wanou_4259 The Lamb Sauce may stay as a legend
Ah, Hello Gordon! Another day, another dollar!
I always thought that Chell would have a peaceful life after going through the events of the portal games. But now that I know she was just being released into a world taken over by the Combine, that is a lot more bleak.
Well yes and no Its more likely that the resistance drove away the combine empire in the span of the 50k years that chell was sleeping Or the empire fell and was devastated by their own doings Either way theres no telling if the combine was destroyed
@@ghianvasig6012 the oceans were there from the space view in portal 2
@@h.l4650 there were still ocean yes cause the combine didn't survivd whatever thing is in earth And that gave earth a way to heal again Like what you see on portal 2 ending Theres a wheat field
@@ghianvasig6012 there is second option that all humans died and chell left alone. And the combine just leaved the earth
@@antekpl.8205 the combine wouldn't leave cause they want to take and control the universe
Who else just keeps coming back to this video to enjoy. Becuase this is truly one of *THE BEST* videos explaining the timelines of Portal and Half Life.
GLaDOS: *kills everyone within a week of testing* Fallout fans: Hey, I've seen this one before!
*AND THEY ARE IN A VAULT*
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This is a classic!
Jesus Christ glados killed hundreds of human test subjects within a *WEEK?* Edit: just to clarify, I was being dramatic
test subjects will eventually escape and pass the tests. And once they rebel, she'll kill them and then repeat process onto another human. Having no tests being conducted means that Glad0s will... Do something, I forgot. She just has a constant urge to test now
She released a neurotoxin killing hundreds of aperture science members only 7 micro seconds after being turned on so it's not that surprising lol
Yea, I'm pretty sure this is going to be retconned at some point cause it feels like a story point that their just throwing away.
Also consider that they were all thousands of years old at that point...
They are 1970's test subjects, meaning they are hoboes which Cave took from parks. They survived the old Propulsion Gel spheres because they were easy, but GLaDOS' tests are much harder and them being in stasis for thousands of years can't have helped.
It's such a shame this story wasn't continued. It's so damn good and well thought. I really hope they continue it at some point
26:19 dog dancing is so cute!
Even if he isn’t a real dog I love him like a dog
I want Wheatly to somehow discover the Zen place after years of floating in space and make an epic comeback
Or possibly "Blue Sky" becoming canon...
But Zen is in an entirely different dimension
If my son dies I’m rioting. I don’t care if he tried to kill everyone, we all make mistakes and to be fair he was corrupted.
Yeah it would be cool to see Wheatley be teleported to Xen.
@Indestructable_cocx **xen**
Though I like how as Glados dies in Portal, her distorted voice lines imply she could have stopped the combine had Chell not killed her.
Glados was full of it.
@@humansvd3269 I don't think so, considering the Combine's plan is to steal technology from Aperture.
@@babyyoshi3099 and where did you get this idea from?
@@endermorpher8667 Which idea? Be specific.
Babyyoshi309 steal tech idea
18:29 I always thought Alyx’s capture was so forced. Like you can see the tunnel that you end up taking from where you are on ground level.
Lets pay F respects to Adrian shephard who left alone in void forever.
F
1:50 "Due to Dr Gordon Freeman's tardiness, the team in the Black Mesa Sector C"... end up breaking the world. I've never related so closely to Gordon before..
So because Freeman had a late night rager the world got fucked? Dame I'll never be late for work again.
CaptainAmerica: wakes up 70+ years later from being frozen Senku: wakes up (or rather awake the whole time) 3700 years from his petrification Chell: HOLD MY PORTAL GUN
Dave Lister: "I still have that library book!"
Chell: Woke up potentionly millions of years in the future
The Twelfth Doctor: "Tell them I came the long way around."
I ruined your 69 likes >:)
@@josephdavison4189 i wanna say mean things at you
This is the most comprehensive and still pleasant portal/half life video ive found on the matter. Thank you very much!! Thoroughly enjoyed it and it helped connect dots i hadnt known about before
14:50 that thing at the top of the teleporter kinda looks like a Aperture personality core.
"with the new half life game around the corner" *I swore i would never here that sentence on all my days on this planet*
As a person who got into Half Life in 2010, "New Half Life" is probably the most foreign thing I've heard in years
I've only heard of the game as a reference, almost an internet legend from people like Markiplier. Seeing how well Half life:Alyx was done got me looking into the lore behind the series, and now I'm here xD
Dude, think about how we feel, the people that got into Half Life in 1998...
I only got into it a few weeks ago but I played (and loved) portal so I knew of it
If Portal 3 is ever made, it needs to have Ratman escaping and meeting up with Chell as well as the events of Blue Sky happening
Great summary of the Half Life and Portal timeline - details and Easter eggs scattered throughout the games are often hard to piece together like this.
damn a lot more events happened in half-life than i remember
I just remember the shooting and stuff
@@masterbaiter5533 The shooting of staff*
play Black Mesa, the fan remake. they actually incorporate a hell of a lot of info from the whole story back into the main narrative
the story is pretty disperse, so it's fair
Me: Hmm it’s getting late, I should head to sleep. Suggestive Game: I’m gonna stop you right there. *post new video* Me: ... Okay.
Meh, didn't need to sleep tonight anyways.
Well, if you insist
This happened to me.
Succinct and well paced throughout! Been awhile since I played the 2004 Half Life so this recap was awesome! Thank you.
Thanks so much for making this video as it gave clear answers to a lot of questions that I had. And there is no doubt we need a well written Episode 3 to bring closure to Gordon and Alyx's story.
but valve cant count to 3
Chell: "After 50,000 years of sleep, it's time to go home"
Considering how Chell lived before she volunteered for the Portal testing initiative, *and* the fact it's been at least 50,000 years since even was on the surface, I think it's sufficient to say she doesn't exactly have a home anymore
@@benjaminclay8332 technically speaking Yes
I to, love to go back to my house, which by this point, is a pile of dust.
That’s not how this format: “works. neither how citation works, dummy”
Combine: "Home? What home?"
Im glad portal is getting more attention again, maybe we might see portal VR One can only dream...
Yes, that would be really vomit-inducing. I already had vertigo from all the gravity shifts in regular portal games, can't imagine trying them out in VR.
@rjdim ^ wanted to say the same. BUT someone was faster ;-;
Just play Budget Cuts...
@@Posiman Well I can tell you that I didn't. Plus, people said smooth locomotion would be horrible for vr yet look at vr now.
Rattman series?
Incredible video my friend. Thank you for this!! Getting to learn the details and relive the story was nostalgic. Need to replay all of these games now lol
please note that black mesa east IS NOT related to black mesa, eli decided to name it like that in honor of bmrf
Paradoxes: "this statement is false." "New mission: refuse this mission" "does a set of all sets contain itself?"
Wheatley: T R U E
It’s a paradox! THERE IS NO ANSWER!
1) Yes. 2) NaN 3) Yes^Inf
If you hear a loud crack, that's just my brain breaking.
@@bigdoggo5827 Aperture: Self destruction imminent Wheatley: F A L S E
27:08 I think the day counter is just broken. So we're not sure exactly how long in the future Portal 2 takes place. Doesn't have to be 50,000 years.
you're right- it could have been longer
@@allebas8705 Or shorter.
@@allebas8705 to me max 100yrs due to the rusing of metals and the overgrowth
@@cookiechip3306 I'd say anywhere between 20-40 years after the first game, which takes place around the time of the Black Mesa incident if I'm not mistaken. Otherwise, the electronics would be likely inoperable from material degradation and electromigration would read data on flash memory chips unreadable. And the urban decay would be much worse.
@@sulphurous2656 according to The Final Hours of Portal 2, there's a time gap of over 50,000 years between 1 and 2. It's not just the counter at the start of the game, it was confirmed by the creators. There's even an unused voice line of glados mentioning a 50,000 year time gap
these games are my favorite of all time and i still wasn't aware of some of the timeline specifics. thanks for such a thorough, interesting summary.
This video is great man, I knew most of the story beats before hand but it really helps having them put in chronological order. A little side note, during the temporal displacement Green and Cross go through, only Green makes it out alive as you can find Cross' body when playing as Shepherd. She teleported under water when she escaped the displacement and drowned. Green or Cross also save Gordon before he's dumped in the trash compactor by shooting the HECU marines before they execute him. Ik that bit there was cut but I consider it canon just cause it makes no sense for the HECU not to shoot Gordon first.
I never realized how much of a "wow that was convenient" series that half life is
Fair I like your pfp
thats literally the only reason it remotely makes any sense
That's the writing of fictional stories for you. Things hardly ever get to happen "naturally". It must require a insanely good writer to do it and prevet people from thinking "that could have gone in any other way... how convenient".
@@tarnishedpose Actually I've found that to be something that far occurs more often in a game of DnD. If the party messes up something that the DM planned, they all die and that's it. If your character fails a check, the story just ends. There's no plot device there to save them. On the other hand, writers of a narrative that needs to reach a conclusion/finale can't just kill off main characters. They need to find a away to create an illusion of danger, so a character about to fall off a cliff will always grab onto a vine or a root. A single scripted bullet wound will never really be fatal. And whenever they go through some mysterious portal, it always happens to take them exactly where they need to go. This is why I prefer roleplaying games to story driven ones, since the events flow more naturally, and every threat has to be taken seriously.
I know
At the start : *Both casually making teleportation devices to help travel* DOOM Players : *SWEATING INTENSIFIES*
Oh yeah
*ANIME GIRLS ARE TEMPORARY, BUT DOOM IS ETERNAL.*
Make video about your walkthrough of this game. It would be very interesting. I've been rewatching this video for a long time. I just love these all games, episodes, universes.
Thank you for making this video it really helped me understand the story
Ok now I understand why everyone wants half life 3 this story is amazing!!
Unpopular opinion, but I found it rather lackluster and predictable. Maybe it would be more immersive if I had actually played the games, but the whole story feels like one big clustertruck of isolated events that seem to somehow coincide incidentally. All of these timelines intersect, even though they really don't need to.
@@notgray88 Sorry, but that's Hunt Down the Refund and not Half-Life.
Vivrs same!
Centorea 88 “ more immersive if I had actually played the game “ how to debunk your own opinion 101
@@ahmeryaa865 that's not at all the case. I love the story of Warhammer 40k, despite not ever having played any of the video games or the tabletop game, which proves that a story can be good enough to stand out on its own. Also, you're using the word debunk incorrectly. This is a matter of opinions, not objective facts. Shut your mouth kid.