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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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"
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*
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
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.”
"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."
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
"Wheatly is left to float throughout space with him only wishing to go back to earth so he can apologize" somewhere in the back of my mind: *eventually, he stopped thinking*
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
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.
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....
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"
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?
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.
@@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.
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...
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
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.
"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.
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.
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..
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.
@@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.
"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.
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
@@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
It'd be incredibly satisfying to see the conclusion of these two stories to involve one another. Like Gordon re-routing the combine forces into Aperture labs for Glados to have an infinite supply of test subjects to kill. Food for thought!
interesting. although those helmets look to be air tight, and given the fact that most of the Combine soldiers on earth are not really human anymore save for having the same general body shape of a humanoid creature, we don't know if neurotoxin works on them, so how would Glados kill them?
@@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131 'sides were it other synth combine troops or even the Administrators then Glados wouldn't stand a chance i dont think, they would just rip out anything in their way towards her location.
@@greengarnish1711 to be fair, I doubt they would be able to kill Glados. Defeat her, probably, but I feel like, given all the technological stuff in the facility, I think it's more likely that upon being defeated, Glados would pull an Ultron and transfer her consciousness to another place in the facility and rebuild/rearm herself/her surroundings and keep fighting somehow. Who knows, maybe she'd weaponize those snarling cores to have guns and or sharp "Teeth", and sic them on the combine. heck, just have 'em self destruct while they're at it!
@@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131 My headcanon is that since aperture was an underground facility, the combine didn't even find it and thus it was left alone.
So we gonna talk about how glados just threw chell into the zombie infested world Portal: Aftermath Chell surviving the alien and zombie infested world by traversing the world with her portal gun to escape the aliens and zombies and eventually meets up with the half life crew
@@noobsteedbred3356 Portal 1 takes place shortly after half life 1, when the combine invade the earth. Portal 2 is set 50 000 years after Portal 1 and the combine invasion
@@noobsteedbred3356 chemsi lestrat said that portal 2 took place 50,000 years _after the combine invasion,_ meaning the events of half life 2 happened 49,980 years before portal 2.
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
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
Good recap of the story to prepare for Half Life: Alyx! I hope there will be a reference to Aperture Science in the new Half Life game. I want to know even more about the universe!
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
@@roszalinrosidin there is a pc port mod of Decay for Half Life, but you need to play it with a friend because there are 2 characters. However, a single player mod is being made by someone, where you can play only as Gina Cross (since she's more important to the story than Colette Green).
@@xeyon Basically theres Half-Life, and 2 expansion packs called Opposing Force and Blue Shift. You can pretty much summarize them as "more Half-Life", which is why by the time Blue Shift came out, it had gotten a bit stagnant. There was already an over abundant amount of Half-Life mods (like CS), and Opposing Force and Blue Shift seemed like high budget Half-Life mods. Still very good games. I mean it's still Half-Life. Valve then outsourced the development of a third co-op expansion to Gearbox Software which became Half-Life: Decay, a PS2 exclusive game.
Damn right, talk about 6 half-life protagonists/perspectives. Gordon Freeman in HL1/HL2+episodes, Alyx Vance in HL: Alyx, Adrian Shephard in HL:Opposing Force, Barney Calhoun in HL:Blue Shift and Gina Cross and Colette Green in HL:Decay
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.
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?“
I legit just looked up Half Life lore right now and just now understood why everyone wanted Half Life 3. Heck, even I want Half Life 3 now and I haven't even played the previous games yet. (Except Portal and Portal 2)
@@SuggestiveGaming GLaDOS is known to twist words and meaning when speaking towards those two robots on a 'need to know' basis. Though she may as well be speaking the truth since she didn't come off as being sarcastic saying that, if i remember correctly. And nobody of importance will be around to hear any admissions of such sorts. Though for all we know it could just be another way of her saying "Source: Just trust me bro" or something similar.
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.
The time from HL2 ep2 to Portal 2 is way less the 50,000 years, and is more like 75-85 years after the events of portal 1, due to the deterioration of Aperture, overgrowth, rust and overall damage. It also makes more sense, as 50,000 years would show much, Much more damage, to the Enrichment facility, and even the Innovations facility.
yes but in the Portal 2 ending when Earth is shown from the surface of the Moon it looks Combine-free which means it happened A LONG time after the events of Half Life 2, quite possibly thousands of years
@@crazziemonkke And I think I remember that some devs or someone said that they didn't want Portal 2 and HL2 to be related so they came up with a random large number, like 50 000 years.
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.
When I saw the end of portal 2 it really got me to smile knowing in the Half-Life Portal universe the last remaining pre combine tech remains in Aperture Science
