What REALLY Happened on May 16th, 200-? | Black Mesa Incident | FULL Half-Life Lore

Which version of Half-Life did you prefer? The original or Black Mesa.

I believe that G-Man had a veeery good reason to rearm the nuke: The lambda reactor and portal system linked to it. Imagine that black mesa was just evacuated/ abandoned leaving that reactor basically intact. 20 years later you have the combine that is completely cut-off, desperately trying to find a way to reconnect and fight the rebels..just to find a portal system basically ready to be repaired and used for their needs...

G-Man is fascinating. The most believable theory is that he is associated with some kind of resistance towards the combine. A representative of some kind of interdimensional shadow group. And that his cadence and laboured speech is due to him not being entirely comfortable taking human form. Its a skinsuit that he has adopted. He can also move in and out of time. So whatever he is. He is powerful. Best case scenario is that his interests coincide with humanity. Even though he doesn't empathize with humanity in particular or anything. Like the elder gods from Lovecrafts mythos his interests doesn't necessarily conflict with humanity's survival and that's about it.

Very well put together. In the big picture, the Black Mesa fight was a turf battle between different factions that were manipulated into it and in the end, none of them really won anything. Just the GMan and ultimately the Combine who came and seized everything from everyone.

24:20 I could've sworn I heard somewhere that the osprey Adrian was going to board actually got shot down shortly after takeoff, implying the G-Man knew it would happen and wanted to save Adrian's skin.

It really makes you wonder what Gman's conversations with the other scientists was about. I also wonder what he sounds like, his cadence, tone, and if he was cryptic with the people who aren't as important in setting the events in motion. Imagine having a normal conversation about lunch with gman haha.

I could never get tired of Valve lore! The OG writers were a different breed. I’m so glad you make these videos. You’re perfect at it. These are extraordinarily well done. Can’t wait to see what other topics you will cover.

I love HalF Life's universe!

i think my favorite part about the half life 1 is the build up to it. we see the facility being brought to its absolute limit, scientists questioning the safety of the experiment, and generally a uneasy idea of what could happen.

I've always felt Half-Life was like playing a big game of Stellaris but from a first person perspective. The G-man just represents some unknown alien civ, using the Earth to gain control of Xen. They're clearly rivals to the Combine, as shown in the sequel. But Earth and humanity is just a pawn in both of their wars, like we're nothing but a pre-warp civ they've both stumbled across and are fighting over.

The G-Man is from the future. His strange speech and mannerisms indicate that he is from a different society. He was sent back in time to make sure that events follow the proper order. If you look at his actions you will see that he is monitoring the situation and adjusting the events in order to maintain the timeline he is interested in preserving. When Gordon confronts the G-Man at the end of Half-Life, he puts Gordon into time suspension. It is implied that no time has passed for Gordon in Half-Life 2. It is also significant that the G-Man talks about time: the wrong man at the right time. In other words, Gordon was a man in the wrong time but brought back at the proper moment in the timeline in order to preserve the timeline that the G-Man is trying to preserve.

For me what made me love Half Life to begin with was in its most basic form, it's a science fiction game about humanity where we actually lose for once. Really really badly (realistically at that)

Let us have a moment of Silence for what I'm sure was meant to be the original release date of May 16th.

One of the theories for what G-Man is that I've heard is that he is a character for the game developer, he employer being who ever made the game. Main reasoning being the control G-Man has over the story of the game, to tell it to the player who partakes in it. The theory gained little popularity when Half-Life: Alyx came out, as G-Man would have reason to split the timeline due to Epistle 3, as because of Epistle 3 VALVE doesn't want to make Episode 3 in fear it would anger the fans of it, or fans who wanted something other than what was told in Epistle 3. With Alyx now gone and Eli alive, VALVE has a new beginning to whatever-3 that doesn't anger either fans. Adding to this, this could be the in-game reason why there is always a medkit or ammo when needed, and how something like item_dynamic_resupply exist. The theory does have it's problems, especially with the Vortigaunts' ability to block him. If they wanted the story to continue, as the fans and the player who want it to, their killing in Half-Life 1 would sound even worse.

good video, very nostalgic and makes nice use of the new mod assets for the background shots. i played all 3 of the expansion packs for hl. remember when they had expansion packs that were like new standalone games? those were the days. i never delved deep into the lore, but this video makes sense of all the events very nicely

Probably the most instantly exciting video of yours yet. Can't resist but watch straight away

Impressive level of effort and great narration, as always. Great work big guy, loved it

Videos like this is why I come here. Wonderful video, extremely well thought out and put together. Thank you for your great high quality longform deep dives.

This video was very well done! I understand a hell of a lot more about the whole incident than i did before watching! Also you don’t feel bad about telling Gordon’s or any other protagonists stories, they are the most important human figures in the story after all!

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