Half-Life 2 - Overwatch Voice Analysis 

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i would rather listen to glados killing overwatch with neurotoxin

@@TravisaInc I love hearing GLaDOS say "neurotoxin." She makes it sound so sexy.

Littering is clearly a gateway crime.

*I SAID PICK UP THE CAN, NIGGA*

*Chucks can at officer* Officer: THE FUCK YOU SAY TO ME YOU LITTLE SHIT!

“Anticitizen One demonstrates malcompliance with Civil Protection team. Priority warning: liquid ration vessel illegally detected unconfined to liquid ration dispenser. Security alert: acquire liquid vessel and mandate removal of vessel into waste device. Civil Protection team, report. Failure to sterilise liquid vessel will result in permanent off-world relocation.”

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She goes full glados, even the voice!

@@derdurstbursch yea. Episode two makes her voice close to Glad0s

@@derdurstbursch Papa?

@@luuk3213 co, synku?

Her voice after in the episodes is freaky.

xD. Even Freeman won't understand. Submissive means to accept orders easily(this is my own meaning) Divisive must be to not follow orders. Sociology is the study of groups of people. Suicide is to take self life, to murder oneself. Sociocidal must be degrading the lives of groups of people based on self actions. obeyance is to obey. Individual, you are charged for not following instructions, you are harming lives of other individuals, obey and follow orders.

Overwatch: STOP! You’ve violated the law!

There's a lot of newspeak in Portal 2 and they really cut their teeth on it in Half-Life 2

Sounds like regular legalese to me.

I just love that vernacular, it makes me so wet

Go commit permanent off-world relocate

I’m fucking laughing to tears. That’d be funny af

Lol no one would know what to say to that.

“Five ration units deducted.”

It would just be: Friend: "I'm telling you the earth is flat" You:"FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH MY POINT OF VIEW WITH RESULT WITH PERMANENT OFFWORLD RELOCATION AND 10 RATION UNITS DEDUCTED"

For real though!

LMAO i hate and love how true the last one is

When was there a teleportation device in portal 1?

@@carlosbustos8096 The portals

@@carlosbustos8096 You have a portal gun

Well you don't have to it's the same voice actress

"It's all up to you now..."

YOU FAILED! Stalemate!

I can actually imagine her saying "hahaha" as "Ha. Ha. Ha."

@@specialunit0428 She'd do the glados laugh

dear god

@Henrique Batatinha *no..*

(edited)

debride and cauterize.

@@chopper6408 you did collect every voice file?

More like severe brain damage.

he gave her PTSD in general

She was in Pacific Rim?

AzulGatos41 yep

You mean GlaDOS, Overwatch Voice and the TF2 Administator? :D

Sam Haley no he means Freemen, Chell and the wood cut out of a cow on 2fort.

It's to be noted that she has kind of the perfect voice for this kind of job

Bro I'm elite what you talking about

Terminal verdicts

@@oriiif Prepare to receive civil judgement

*gets gatling gun* *delivers 5000 verdicts per minute*

Sounds like something out of judge dredd

Pretty sure she's AI

Maybe glados

Or maybe an office full of stalkers pressing buttons to make the voice talk.

@@philthephilosopher9235 That seems... Horribly inefficent. it doesn't feel like the Universal Union

@@philthephilosopher9235 thats pretty primitive and inefficient. Do you really belive an alien civilization that took all of earth in just 7 hours, terraformed quarter of said planet in a span of 20 years after. And are half way done completing their version of a Dyson Sphere on their home system. would only use pulleys, and late 80s computer science of a used to be dominant native species who they dismantled into nothing more than last generation of cattle, while what has remained of their past infrastructure, refurbished and recycled into an Authoritarian [Orwellian-like] society, which its only purpose is to re-educate and assimilate its last pockets of humanity into what the Citadel AI deems worthy to The Combine cause?. I don't know about you but i doubt that a type 2 civilization that deemed humanity a questionable species would let them rule themselves on one of their newly aquired turfs do the 1's and 0's, which alone is like cavemen digitaly banging rocks in comparison to what The Combine have at their disposal. Thus The Combine AI operated citadel towers comes to play. acting as a judge, and as prime authority of the last few decaying bastions on earth.

I agree. Last time Ivwatched a playthrough of the game I was wondering what she was saying. Only caught bits here and there. "Contain." "Sterilize" Sounded...Cold.

@@noble20xx56 In subtitles she has BIG RED TEXT that really pops out

@@KyokuiGhostASMR Yeah I just watched it. She had to let them mf's kno you mean bidness. 🔫

Turn on çaptions bro

Captions: I don't exist

Heh, I bet someone will request this now.

@@RescoeZ if I were still in high school I might've. Loved this stuff back in the day. I guess I did find my way to this video though.

@dead squid on keyboard I could imagine the rebels one. Every time one of them died, one of the other rebels would scream "NOoOoOoOo!" Ahhh, so soothing.

@@RescoeZ 24 hours version pls

@@robertd4100 go commit permanent off-world relocation

Good to know I'm not the only one thinking of that.

wut yo tolkin boot?

A pair of combine grunts in half life alex my friend.

"Overwatch Augmentation Team, report synthetic detachment damage assessment." "He's kicking it." "Mmmmmmmmm what? Tell him to stop kicking it." "Overwatch says stop kicking it." "Report." "He stopped kicking it."

Sulphurous what kind of chatter?

When you pass the metrocops you can hear them talk to Overwatch that they suspect a miscount and when your fresh off the train a scanner takes a shot of Gordon and a shot from the security cam from the Nova prospect checkpoint, this indicates that metrocops are given visual huds or advance input or output of information in their masks given by the combine which isn't talked about

I’m pretty sure G-Man canonically spawns Gordon in a citizen uniform so he wouldn’t be noticed, but even then they have the population so locked down via the Combine force field grid blocking most unscheduled traffic on the streets and a ridiculous number of cameras, scanner drones, and facial recognition systems *constantly* validating that everyone is where they’re supposed to be that they immediately knew something was up as soon as Gordon got off the train.

This was actually put together as exactly try by the voice lines found in the files that play during that period. Channel: Wibble has a video, (watch?v=jAfdegijras) on it all put together alongside the active time of playthrough. It's fascinating.

@Jp there's one line in the canals where the Voice says "prepare for download of his face" or something like that, so this is pretty likely.

I sort of wonder whether Overwatch's orders and code words are just supposed to be shorthand for soldiers' instructions, or if Combine units are literally programmed to follow Overwatch's directives, and couldn't ignore them even if they knew they should.

@@PsychadelicoDuck Thats right theyre brainwashed to follow the orders. Theyre not CP's at leastCP has human personnels too and they can ignore orders.

@@ladyselin35 Well it's seemingly clear enough that the Combine Units, or at least the standard grunts, still have some human capacity left. They occasionally scream "Shit" when grenades are thrown at them, and they can still be threatened with Offworld Reassignment, implying they still are capable of dissent, or at the very least, an unwillingness to sacrifice.

advisors were relocated to positions where confused overwatch inbound.

Stale Bagelz dosent take out the human part tho dude

It does effectively state that the advisors are taking direct control after Breen's gone, the lines mention taking over "autonomous units" and complying with the advisors' orders.

@@asteroidrules that's exactly what I thought, I think the overwatch before was essentially a human brain implanted into a computer (shouldn't be difficult considering aperture science has done it before, in a more personality state Vs a more psychological state). Then in episode 2 one of the advisors implanted their brain into the computer and since they lack any of the empathy or the psychology of a human, they are more direct in a more "universal" state. (It reminds me of someone...)

I always assumed that it was the difference between urban and rural. In the urban environment, AI speaks slowly and communicates in legal terms. In the rural environment, where no-one is watching, AI is quick and warlike.

I think that the second version is a less advanced one deployed by advisors to control the remaining forces.

@SuperMarioFan 3001 Definitely

can we please hit this comment with at least 500 likes

Now I'm feeling sympathetic and protective for an oppressive alien AI.

Yeah, I was feeling sorry for it at that moment.

I hate it when people try to be deep but fail miserably

That's you, I'm talking about you

Sounds like Glados, no?

@@-INK- Definitely

Watched the vide till the end - its the same voice actress! That explains a lot...

@@-INK- Get this: the Overwatch Voice in Episode Two sounds like the Intelligence Core from the same game GLaDOS debuts in, which is also voiced by the same voice actress. It's actually her speaking in her GLaDOS voice but the pitch is decreased a fair bunch.

@@randomtexanguy9563 it’s really no surprise. I don’t know why they made it sound just like fucking glados

Where does she say that? Is that in the video?

Saruman38 no but it’s in the civic protection video. It’s said as “Family cohesion maintained”

These are just perks to keep a leash on them. Its not humane. They know that humans care about what's left of family or partners. To encourage recruiting yourself to the ranks of your overlords. It's like... manipulative coaxing.

@@ConradFiat Was talking about Civil Protection, mate. Their motives are human.

It said something completely different before. But i do get what you guys mean now.

But also familiar

A pity that the Valve we have now isn’t the same Valve we had then.

Pretty much, yes.

Lmao 69 likes

@@mr.bucket8308 lmao 111 likes

@@RescoeZ HEY, I KNOW THIS IS LATE, BUT I TOO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. WHEN THE OVERWATCH VOICE SAYS THE LINE: "VANCE SUPREME ENGAGED" WHAT DID THAT LAST PART MEAN (ABOUT THE CAUTORIZING AND THE OTHER STUFF)? I FEEL I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS BUT I WANNA BE SURE SO I DON'T MISINTERPRITATE IT. OH, AND ALSO, WOULDN'T ELI BE ANTI CITIZEN ONE OR MAYBE EVEN DR. KLEINER BECAUSE ALYX PROBABLY WASN'T THE FIRST ONE TO CAUSE TROUBLE...RIGHT...IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE? OR IS IT BASED ON HOW MUCH DAMAGE THEY CAUSE OR SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S SIMILAR TO THAT? BECAUSE IDK AND I'M CONFUSED TBH LOL. ALSO, ONE LAST QUESTION, WHEN YOU REACH THE TELEPORTER NEAR THE ENDING OF HL2 IS THERE A SCRIPTED EVENT THAT MAKES BREEN TELEPORT AWAY IF YOU WAIT TOO LONG FOR HER TO COUNT DOWN, OR DOES EVERYTHING...REPEAT SO TO SAY? BUT ANYWAYS, THANKS FOR MAKING THIS! YOU CLEARLY PUT SO MUCH LOVE AND DETAIL INTO YOUR WORK/RESEARCH, SO GREAT JOB, KEEP IT UP. :D P.S FORGIVE MY BAD SPELLING AND/OR GRAMMAR MISTAKES IF ANY ARE PRESENT.

@@GORYGIRL Woah now, no need for all caps lol, I can see your questions just fine. I'll answer them as best as I can :-) 1. The Combine uses medical terminology in their vocabulary. The word "cauterize" means "burn the skin or flesh of (a wound) with a heated instrument or caustic substance in order to stop bleeding or to prevent infection". So they treat Gordon and Alyx as a disease/infection to be removed. Basically, it's the Combine's way of saying "kill them." 2. Eli and Kleiner are high priority targets (or at least Eli is, it isn't known whether the Combine know of Kleiner), but not as much as Gordon and Alyx, who both have caused serious damage to the Combine's rule on Earth (i.e, blowing up Nova Prospekt which started off the Uprising). Whoever is designated "Anticitizen One" is the Combine's current highest priority target, which would be Gordon during Half-Life 2 and its episodes, whilst in Half-Life: Alyx it's Alyx. 3. For the question about Breen's portal, I'm not sure. His portal starts to move more the higher up you get, but I'm not sure if he actually teleports if you take too long, it may have been taken out the game, but I haven't really tried it. Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you enjoyed the video :-)

Ellen McLain give her voice to both "villains". I hope we will hear her again.

Gustavo Santos I’m hoping we get to hear her voice Overwatch again in HL: Alyx

@@gustavosantos106 portal 3 would be great now that valve is finally learning how to count to 3...

Both. Both is good.

This is even better

Yeah, it even goes deeper with Overwatch occasionally referring to Gordon as freeman. It almost seems to be adopting the name from the local or Dr. Breen, as the overwatch doesn't know who Gordon is (which is a bigger deal than you'd think once you realize that overwatch seams to be able too and is keeping track of all of humanity, including genetic and designated identification). It's all just so fascinating... as if this massive combined super entity is literally calling out and addressing Gordon in it's own inhuman way.

when the metro cops shoot the explosive barrels

when someone sneaks a crowbar in the apartment building so Civil Protection needs to burn the whole complex down to ensure safety

The Cremator.

​@@asteroidrules Meet the Pyro

Firebombing approved by Overwatch.

Typical GMod RP lockdown)

Confirm*

Right here, ma'am

Dang it I just realised I forgot to put an intro clip in. It would have been that very quote. Ah well.

@@RescoeZ Haha really? I'm sorry about that lol

But.. it'll be such a cool last moments of death, though! Seeing the sky peppered with combine aircraft and the entire military of earth getting beaten into shit in 7 hours would be such a cool sight! And imagine seeing hundreds of super-portals lighting the sky with a flush of neon blue!

lol ok This man is a sadist

@@Lucas-mh9ow he's not a sadist. He's an ignorant fucker.

TreeMobile. Someone’s mad

@@akeiai oof what happened mom didn't let you play Fortnite?

I like "Sector sweep."

There's a really great remix by morch kovalski

Well, it was the same VA

I remember there being theories that Overwatch was a modified copy of GLaDOS, stolen from what remained of Aperture Science somewhere between HL1 and 2 and Portal 1 and 2.

Considering what the combine does with other technology, that could actually happen

@@TheRogueWolf im really starting the think the combine went to aperture between portal 1 and 2, since glados wouldnt have seen them, and the door to the borealis is clearly blown off. they probably copied glados ai while they were there

@@chefbob662 This made me think of a scenario where Gordon and Alyx end up in aperture to get something to use against the Combine and seeing there will be most likely timetravel involved with HL:A, we'd get throwback scene where we're shown it was actually G & A who took the ship in the first place, causing it to teleport across the dimensions. Or maybe they'd just backtrack to where it came from to get more information. Idk.

dear god…

@@camera2178 there's more

no...

Quite a ephumastic way of saying that being netural is committing an act of treason

Yep, because unlike most of the populace, he isn't compliant, and is acting as an individual with free will.

Record it some time, I'd stay away from that hospital too, too many zombies

Attention. Patient is on the immediate way to permanent off-world relocation. Advance immediately.

Code: Treat.Sterilize.Disinfect.

Eliminate Antibody 1

" _What kind of hospital is this?_ "

She sounds so grasping linguistically, really like an AI that's breaking down, but also like a human struggling with her mistakes. She keeps repeating: "Reverse.. Singularity.. Reverse... Singularity..." which is the gravitational field manipulator held by Gordon that allowed all the hell to go down. Half-life 2 is really scientifically accurate with Einstein-Rosen bridges and the gravitational SPACE-TIME fields that allow them. I feel like the "slow teleport" Kleiner "invented" in hl2 is a setup for time or multi-space-time travel in hl3, which the Borealis in the epistle literally goes for. Man, Mark Laidlaw really did his Max Planck homework

Or like something akin to a stroke victim. Which makes sense, as she's probably suffered damage to a significant portion of her "brain".

I think it’s to add to the creepiness to the citadel being in a badly damaged condition

Because it's closer!

You could see them on one of the 144p Combine security monitors in Nova Prospekt.

Me too

Legit.

Even with all that technology, 144p is their HD.

Wasn’t the Overwatch Voice in Episode 2 the same voice actor that played GLADos in the Portal series

@@Rouge_GamingYT yeah this is mentioned in the video

They use different vocabulary but means common things. Refreshing really. I don't wanna hear common crap with this entirely different alien race.

Off-world assignment/service means exactly that: being sent in different Combine world.

@@ceu160193 Perhaps sentenced to some sort of prison or work camp?

@@sami0123456789ful Serving Combine in their goals, just in other world, yes. Combine is rational, and forcing offenders to perform some pointless tasks as punishment is waste of resources. Most likely it would be service in some world, that Combine is currently taking over.

@@ceu160193 It does make you wonder, whether there is a force out there that is at war with the Combine (or Universal Union as thier official name) and is keeping them busy. If the Combine managed to make an Intergalactic Empire, who's to say there are no others?

I always thought the Russian version was a bit funny

Buka is pure shit. Still have flashbacks from the horrible Dark Crusade localisation. HORUS OF HERESY, wtf

@@Brandelwyn нахуй ты на английском обсуждаешь русскую локализацию?

@@KeksimusMaximus тебя еьет?

@@KeksimusMaximus она ж и правда говно

Longest I've seen soldiers last against Antlions is 5 minutes.

Conquered the entire planet in 7 hours, yet the longest they can withstand antlions is 5 minutes. So, here’s how the Earth wins back: adopting antlions and then breeding an army of those.

@@RescoeZ not if, maybe they are near a thumper so antlions can't really get closer, a similar situation to the one at the end of this vid. Also with MMod they last longer because they are smarter (they jump n all :D )and they are using the secondary attack of both the MP7 and the OSIPR.

Combine AMSR: Soldiers fighting off Antlions on a coastline.

But would they bother ? They're just humans not very useful, and have shown to be non compliant. Maybe they could be given really bad jobs mining some far off planets for the rest of their lives, or maybe their just rounded up on earth and shot

@@televisionandcheese I thought off-world was refering to afterlife since permament could of imply death in this context.

The frightening part is we don't fully understand what it means, just that "permanent off world relocation" is bad. It could be death, could be a lifetime on a fringe world. It could be either/or, whatever Overwatch deems fit for your misgivings. Your mind just knows it's not good. And neither do active Overwatch officers.

Off-world assignment is not death, but worse. Most likely they would serve as stalkers after some brain and body parts parts "amputation".

my headcanon was you get sent to some rancid space gulag on Xen or somewhere similar in the Universal Union, being forced to build infrastructure for Combine colonies or mining for resources while trying not to get eaten by the local wildlife. If a civil protection guy fucks up, he gets the miserable job of guarding you. Overwatch gets sent to die in some horrible meatgrinder of a battlefield against the Combine's more capable foes that take them more than 7 hours to defeat. If you're an active rebel, then its stalker time for you.

Hearing the voice has no gameplay relevance so they could make it realistic and believable instead of in your face

Turn on closed captions

Because you used crappy speakers instead of good headphones.

@@aolson1111 I use HyperX headphones but still can't hear the voice that well

Makes you stop and listen

You're welcome :-)

hear hear!

Cancer

@@FV4030 you have cancer ? zamnnn bro

maybe a part of overwatch that's deployed locally in case of a major fuck up, basically overwatch but will kill anyone that shows even the tiniest bit of insubordination

It seems like this game is highly inspired in 1984

Big sister

Discovaria Big Sister is watching you

@@OXY187 G-man was most certainly inspired by the smoking man from the X-files.

​@@discovaria9507 Onee-chan

Or deprioritise exogen contamination. Or Biotics containment.

thats the code, not the number of crimes

@@alpacaChillMusic r/wooooooooooooooosh

rookie numbers

There's not enough info about them

There was more info on Marc Laidlaw's BreenGrub twitter if you're willing to take that as canon.

That's true, and although I do consider it canon personally this channel is about known information and justified speculation

@@nick8052 and the official writer's own theories, who came up with almost all the concepts we see in half-life and half-life 2, can't be taken as justified speculation?

they're not approved by the rest of the half-life team

it sounds like a damaged and dying human being with the last shambles of the brain just going haywire. similar to a human acquiring brain damage from an ied blast or a landmine, its morbid i know

like a damaged computer trying to run, except it seems more biological in this instance

Not finished just because there was cut content? Things where cut for a reason you know.

@@fungusamongus9686 Not finished in the sense that the storyline never had a cannon ending put in game.

because valve has very shitty management

Yes and no, the combines in general won't listen to a pure human, so instead they create a synth computer with a human brain inside of it considering most of their stuff is forcing them to become extinct and not fully trusting Breen but he has helped them throughout the time. (Although it did seem like they were experimenting on cloning perhaps?)

yes

Found the collaborator

If anything episode 2's overwatch voice sounds more human

:(

You got your wish

Well they didn't change the VA. All the more reason to assume that the voice is some other AI system, maybe operating on Advisorial behalf. Now that I've been thinking about it, why did the combine make her assume a female form? It's like on a horse farm - they lead the female in front of the herd so that the males follow her. So essentially they utilized this like a farmer would. Man...

@@ged-4138 It's pretty common to give computers female voices. I remember seeing something back in the 90's where they were discussing why airplanes would have female voices for cockpit warnings. It's simply because most pilots are male and males are psychologically hardwired to pay attention to female voices.

Citadel not a Citadel anymore... It reminds me of a Glados line in Portal 2 (door mainframe)

@@BoraEdu "Let's just say he won't be... well, 'living' any more."

It's the same voice actor

Well, true, but her manner of speaking, tone, and even voice is a lot closer to GLaDOS than HL2 Overwatch.

probably because portal and episode 2 came out in the orange box, so she probably dubbed them at around the same time

My theory is that it is purposeful. They wouldn’t of made it so similar to Glados for no reason

KingOfDance when? (When in the game?)

@@portal6347 you dont see her directly, but you can see her shadow and hear her in the section when youre behind the brick wall

That's not the Overwatch. The character in HL Alyx you are referring to is someone new to the franchise.