Or face the worse. Be a slave for 20 years or be a rebel. The nuclear strike would be the most merciful, at least you wouldn't know about the near total extinction of not only humans but almost all live on Earth.
@@theopinionreaper I believe the facility being nuked is canon either way because the concept came from the official HL writer and not Gearbox, I might be wrong tho
Counter point: They were willing to execute civilians on command. They did in fact deserve this. Also the battles of the civil war were significantly deadlier.
@@sp0ckz0mbi3 They were given orders, its not like they had a choice... in one of their voicelines just show how they dint want to kill the civilivans, but had to
@@sp0ckz0mbi3 620,000 dead in the civil war, black mesa personel, government forces and US Army forces estimated to be over the thousands in that base alone. the following 7 hour war wiped not only americas population into dust, but it took out over 5-6 billion individual lives in only 7 hours. counter point: shut the hell up, these men were following orders.
To me, the most horrific of the voice lines will always be Black Mesa's Forget About Freeman. The absolute fear and panic the VA delivered near that end at whatever was about to happen to him feels so damn genuine. Everytime I hear it I get goosebumps.
@@-secretdivinity The sudden loss of hope as the Marine is denied of air support and told he's on his own paired up with that soundtrack is perfect. Well done.
@@spacekaiser3063 I admit the HECU conversations are easy to find but I added quite a bit of levelled audio in the background that would be very difficult to replicate. I unfortunately no longer have the project.
