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How Are the Portal and Half-life Games Connected?
How Are the Portal and Half-life Games Connected?
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“Elephants Doing Crack”
In this video analysis, I try to find the references in how both universes acknowledge each other and how they are connected. It’s a question that no one has really tried answering in video format. So I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to do something about that. But it does bear…
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So this video took a LONG time to get out of the door. I am pleased to see that our collab made it out just in time for Half-Life 1's 25th Anniversary, but I will admit it was a tiresome process. This video is kinda of product of me in Mid 2022 and even late 2021 (with some changes in late 2023). It was at a time where I wanted to continue with the Demos video and milk out Half-Life content but… never did. This video is like going back in time for me. I wish I could tell you about the delays, the rewrites and the unexpeceted problems. Mauricio Jara had a lot happening with his side of the collab with delays and life. Despite that, I still had some enjoyment with this and was able to build a bridge to a good friend. I hope people enjoy our event and that it will spread joy.
It might have been hard for me, but I am just happy it is finally here.
There is no way that a lot of portal fans don't know it's in the half-life universe. It's brought up several times in unmissible dialogue.
This videos kinda odd to me… these two labs are across the united states from eachother and never get close enough to necessarily directly interact, however they very much are in the same universe. Why does it matter if they do or dont have a bunch of other connections
14:36 If they can power their whole facility with a hydroelectric dam in the middle of the New Mexico desert, sure, they can put a lumberyard there, too.
I always thought that Portal 1 was before or close to the time HL1.
Then Portal 2 to be very distant in the future, long after the combine left earth.
Marc Laidlaw starts to come across as worse of a writer when it comes to these series, with a lack of commitment to connecting these universes in fun ways that would delight players. Saying it'd make both universes seem smaller if… two of the most ambitious research companies in the country were aware of one another?? Smart dude but definitely needs to put more effort into challenging himself to connect these universes is compelling ways, instead of the hand-wavy "not canon" nonsense which adds nothing interesting to their existing work.
Jesus you're so obnoxious, your voice and jokes.. it was painful to watch
GOATED channel name I must say
Nuh-uh, Portal is better
great vid but as a member of the portal community i would like to let you know i have played all half life and know how they connected and what you said about the portal community is a bit rude as most of us have played half life
Please. Next time you make a video, hire a voice actor and just write him the script.
I think the best way to connect both universes is for Aperture Science to somehow actually have an impact on Half-Life's story such as how the Borealis might be so important, making Aperture's existence actually a crucial part in the story of Half-Life. (That was probably ABOUT to happen, but you know…)
Or they could do something crazy in Portal 3 where G-Man meets Chell who is coincidentally another silent protagonist controlled by the player who has survived impossible odds…
… wait, no, that can't happen. We all know Valve can't count past 2.
14:45 my best guess to what the lumber co. would be is that maybe it was a part of white forest? there were several lumber mills surrounding it
I love how at the end of portal Lego dimensions, Lego intentionally added those black mesa boxes. They didn’t have to but they did implying that there is a Lego Gordon Freeman fighting Lego combine on the surface which is so fucking funny to me. Even though we won’t get a Lego half life set or game because Lego doesn’t use violent brands I think it’s still so funny that it is implied that the events of half life 2 are taking place on the surface. Also I am not ashamed to admit that Lego dimensions portal was my introduction to half life and portal being in the same universe. When I played Lego dimensions portal back in 2015 I saw the black mesa boxes at the end and I was curious to why Wheatley became so interested in them. So I looked up something along the lines of “portal black mesa” and that’s how I found out that portal and half life were in the same universe which I am still not ashamed of admitting to this day!
I already watched the other video earlier 👍
13:35 Pretty sure Black Mesa stole it from Aperture
another EDC upload clutch
( 7:27 ) Well i have an counter argument, maybe its not reusing assests, and Maybe GLaDoS made a Deal with The Combine to not invade them, GLaDOS give the Combine some Aperture Tech and The Combine don't invade Aperture.
1. The Combine Turrets and The Aperture Turrets have the same behaviour, both fall and both shoots bullets like crazy as an reaction
2. Since Portal 1 is years apart from Half-life 2, maybe the Deal has been made after the Humanity Surrender.
3. Since Aperture and Black Mesa are in a Race for govermant funding, in Oppsing Force, maybe Black Mesa tried to copy Aperture's Portal gun, and i know some ppl does not count the expansions as Canon.
4.I Know Mods are not Canon at all, But in Entropy Zero 2, Bad Cop says how Breen was interested in Aperture Science, further making the "Treaty or Agreement Between Combine and GLaDOS" Theory more plausible.
That ends, my Argument, in case i said something wrong or said bullshit correct me in the replies.
I do like the idea Cave Johnson looks at something and goes "can this end the world? if yes, shut it down, if no…I don't care"
Nice
speech impediment. don't reply, ill feel bad later
18:10 glad to know i am not alone
5 hours after release the "which is safer?" video has over 5000 views. this one (DESPITE BEING TOLD TO WATCH IN HIS VIDEO) has 358. :/
If we ever get a Half-Life movie they NEED to have Freeman be played by Ross Scott (basically canonize Freeman’s Mind and have his scenes be a best bits from that AMAZING series😂), and for Otis to be played by Kevin James since he’s basically Half-Life’s Paul Blart (there’s even a line about how he used to be a mall cop🤣). That would be funny!
Great video for the 25th anniversary!
I watched a vid on the entire timeline of halflife and portal (combined) before back when alyx came out, and god this shit is wild
I LOVE how you included a HDTF clip. I personally consider it canon purely because that would be the funniest thing in the world. In fact, for my ideal Half-Life 3/Episode 3 has a three way fight between Mitchell’s child soldiers, the Resistance, and Combine remnants fighting over the Borealis. President Keemstar would return and replace Brien as the new Combine puppet leader who commentates on what’s happening at that point in the game. The way Alyx’s ending would feature into this is have a scene where Eli and Gordon are doing auditions where they need a replacement for Alyx after Gman vanished her, and the player gets to choose from the different alternate Alyx models from Cinematic Mod. NOW THAT WOULD BE FUNNY! I’d pay good money to see this dumpster fire be made a reality🤣
Happy 25 anniversary to the og half life
Wows
Great to finally see this collab surface from the depths, after a year and a half of delays.
I will always be drawn to, and love Half-Life forever, man.