It's 11:55 where I am. I could go to bed, since I have my first day of school tomorrow, ooorrr I could watch Game Theory.... I guess you know which I chose.😂😅
You gotta remember those are human-based Combine Soldiers,We dont know the true force of the combine as the only threats we see are the hunter-choppers,hunters,gunships,dropships and striders
Theory seems fine enough, though one thing I will mention is that the "comes another" line is most likely not warning about another nihilanth rather it's probably just a taunt by the creature. Throughout the chapter you see multiple corpses of previous subjects who dared to step foot into xen and never made it back. So "comes another" isn't about another nihilanth rather another subject who dares to enter xen.
The G Man could also be one of the grubs. If you read over Episle 3 (The short story that was meant to be the original story of Half life 3) and the writers tweets from "Breen Grub" they detail that the grubs, also known as the advisers were not originally combine. They were a race called the shu'ulathois and have incredible psychic ability. They are supposed to be able to take whatever form they wish when they hatch but the combine control and keep them in the larval stage. The G Man could be a hatched shu'ulathois.
@@addman1952 If the grubs without combine interference have the psyonic power to create shared worlds and fly. What don't they have that zen creatures have?
@@PekaCheeki cuz watching the vid about hl1, you can be send to a weird dimension with all tons the demon guards if you don't accept his deal... just dumb question...
Dont let matt make a new theory about this series. He got this one wrong and So many other lore videos that it would be terrible for this game. Here is evidence of all of the problems in this video. 1: it is not Gordon Freeman's first day. That statement is wrong on so many levels. 1.a: the security gaurd says he is late again. 1.b: why would a government facility allow a new hire to handle highly secretive and dangerous materials. 2: the vortigaunts dont control time they have a link with the nihillanth in which they share a mind. The link is broken which explains why they dont attack you. They dont see you as a threat. 3: there is no evidence that shows the nihlanth and gman are connected except the portals they control are similar. But if they are the same species based off of that alone. Then humans are related to the nihilanth. There is much more but i dont have time
@@alyx8815 I agree with you on the 1st one although it doesn't affect the theory at all. However... remember that? "You are man. He is not man. For you he waits.... for you." Who else would this be referring to? At this point in the series, there are no real special characters except for the G-Man. Then there is the point that the Nihilanth looks like a human fetus and the G-Man has a human appearence. The word Nihilanth literally means not man and that fits so well with the Nihilanth's description of the G-Man. He calls him Nihilanth. And lastly there's the point that the G-Man seems to always be staightening his tie. Although it is always straight? Anyway that is the place where most Xen creatures have their 3rd arm. Now to the second one. If the vortigaunts only had their powers because they were linked to the Nihilanth, then why were they able to still use their powers more than 20 years after the Nihilanth's death?
@@LightgreenLP 1: The nihilanth is talking about himself in 3rd person. 2: i didnt say they lost their powers. I said they dont have time travel. At all. Also how did you come to the conclusion that i said they didnt have powers? 3: the "He is waiting" could also be reffering to the nihilanth because he was in that room waiting for you to get there. He knew you were coming so he decided to put up a fight. 4: the tie thing is so he appears more human. Or he is straightening it and we dont see because it is an old game.
@@alyx8815 why would the Nihilanth be talking about himself in the 3rd person but then also have lines like "The last.... I am the last." it just doesn't fit together. And then of course is the voice actor thing. The Nihilanth and the G-Man are both voiced by Michael Shapiro. Who returned for Half-Life: Alyx by the way. The developers were a bit worried he wouldn't know how to do him anymore after more than 10 years but he did it right immediately. Also the tie staightening thing you mentioned because it's an old game, that does not contradict the theory. That would be technical limitations. And technical limitations don't have anything to do with lore.
“The G-Man is actually voiced by the same actor as the Nihilanth Boss”. What about Barney Calhoun, he’s voiced by Micheal Shapiro. You telling me he’s a Nihilanth too!
Maybe he is the 3rd one? He was able to fit in with the combine. Maybe the 1st one was the hostile one, middle one is the Gman who is mysterious and likes to be the Chessmaster to change the world the way he wants. And Barney sometimes is sudden and feels like he just appears sometimes. He is the silly one tho who doesn't like about Gman playing around and probably appears there where Gman has been causing trouble. Seriously tho, when you played through half life 2, didn't you feel sometimes that Barney just appears? Gman wakes you up and suddenly he is disguised as combine to let you get trough. Sounds odd to me
he got that wrong in the video. i don't know why he said this but it's not gordon's first day on the job. when you play the game yourself all the people even greet them and it seems like he has some friends among the guards. i don't think you're all buddy buddy with your colleagues on the first day. they obviously know each other
Hey dear MatPat. Could it be of your interest to make at video about how Russel (from Half-Life: Alyx) was able to "download most of the internet" before the war in the Half Life universe?
The combine's inability to teleport within a dimension makes me wonder if Portal borderline confirms that they fully lost in the end. Raiding Aperture for a portal gun would be extremely useful.
It’s actually sort of a comedic part of portal. Cave Johnson never realized how revolutionary the portal gun really was, and just kept working on other stupid stuff instead of marketing that. He sort of saved the world with his own stupidity lmao
Ik this video came out a long time ago but if G-man was a Nihilanth I'm wondering why he would be happy after he gained possession of Xen when members of his species were already there
To be fair Matt also said that it was Gordon's first day. When literally everybody there knows who he is and there are pictures of him at black Mesa not taken that day.
Well we really can't tell if he's lieing or not about being happy. The G man is a manipulator and if he said that he isn't happy, Gordon probably wouldn't have accepted his offer. So my guess is the G man is lieing to trick Gordon into taking the job
Perhaps the G-Man's employers are against that particular Nihilanth being in charge of Xen. Perhaps the Nihilanth is simply a cruel dictator that the G-Man wants overthrown. It did enslave the Vortigaunts, after all.
Freeman didn't start a 'new job'. It wasn't his first day. The game doesn't make clear for how long Gordon has been working at Black Mesa, but it does make it clear, through many dialogues and interactions with NPCs throughout the game, that he's already a well known figure there.
We know for a fact Gordon worked at Black Mesa before the resonance cascade since in Opposing Force we can find an 'employee of the month' picture with Gordon's face on it, also in half life 2 episode 1 Alyx tells Gordon the following "I heard a story about you and vents Gordon, that whenever Doctor Kleiner locked himself out of his office, you and Barney would race through the vents to get inside and unlock it." and because of what Alyx said we know for sure that Gordon worked at Black Mesa before the resonance cascade. NOTE: Alyx's quote is not 100% correct, I wrote it out of my memory, so it isn't the same as in game (I think I messed up the last part of it) EDIT: Correcting grammar and spelling mistakes
Super late reply to this, but Alyx also mentions in episode 1 that Gordon and Barney would have contests to see who could get into Kleiner’s lab fastest through the air vents.
I believe it is treated as a first day because he got tasked with pushing the crystal into the machine. So that may leqd people to believe that it was his first day on the job at Black Mesa, when in reality it was the first day for that specific project.
i think it's interesting that Marc Laidlaw said that the Nilianths predecessors have been captured by the combine, and if Mat is correct about this theory, then it shows that the Gman was captured by the combine in HL:A, neat little detail, since they were already working on the story for HL:A 2 years previous
i hate how badly matpat explained gordon in hl 1 one of guards at the end of train raid says "You're late again" which means it wasnt his first day at work
That is Matt. His writers are really bad at this. Lore is just not this channels strong point. From Sans is Ness to The Hollow Knight is The Pale King's reincarnation, no matter what all lore videos are just terrible. I knew this was terrible when my only knowledge of the lore was watching Freeman's Mind videos, He needs better writers.
@@Hhhhhhhhhhhjhjjjjjjjjnnnnn because he gets the lore wrong of every game. If he cant do that than just stop. People have crticized him for his stupidity and he just doubles down. He says it is just a theory because he knows he can fall back on that. Then his fans take what he says and thinks it is fact because his earlier content was about science and he mostly got that right. There are few exceptions, if any, where he got his science videos are wrong. His fans think he can never do wrong and that he is always right because of his past. He built this channel for science but switched it when his fnaf series got popular. He always looked at that and thought it was because he was great at understanding the lore (which only got worse because Scott Cawthon congratulated him for that) when in fact it was because it was a popular series. He needs to go back to where his channel started. A place where he was showing the science of videogames and a place not filled by videos wanting to get high views and lots of money. And honestly his older videos were actually educational and the reason i got into science in the first place. It would be better for everyone if he just goes back to the early days.
@@rubygail349 I watched it because it got reccomended. I continued because he got things so wrong that are super easy to get right that i can make it a drinking game. Also reddit karma.
Voice actor of nihilanth: michael shapiro Voice actor of gman: Michael shapiro Voice actor of standard security guard: Michael Shapiro Voice Actor Of Barney: MICHAEL SHAPIRO!!!
Skibidi toilet ruined G man. Tiktok ruined everything. TH-cam kids exists for a reason, yet, these kids go on TH-cam (not the kid's version). Skibidi toilet should be extinct.
i think the ,,comes another" isn't related to G-man, bc it starts to play when Gordon arrives to Xen. And the Nihilanth saying this, bc another human has arrived to Xen. There are lots of dead bodies with HEV suit.
Combines defeated earth in 7 hours *turns Half Life 2 on* the first thing what combine does is to throw a grenade and accidentally kill 3 of his colleagues
The combine soldier you fight aren't the ones that invaded earth. It was most likely striders and headcrabs and stuff that the combine used against Earth. The soldiers are just augmented humans.
7:25, It's the resonance cascade that caused the combine to notice Earth. Not the nuclear explosion. If the nuclear explosion did cause the combine to notice Earth, they would have noticed Earth when humans did first start to test nuclear weapons.
My theory was and still remains the same. Gman is actually a metegame concept. He is beyond the world of half life and he is employed to "nudge" things in a peculiar way. His employers? None other than the game developers themselves who use the gman to nudge the game in the way they want. In other words, the gman is nothing more than an embassador of the game developers, of the "true world" inside the game itself. This is why he is omnipowerful, but at the same time he answer to someone above.
he also got it wrong when he said that xen was the dimension of the vortigaunts. Xen was just a bridge to cross dimensions, the actual home of the vortigaunts was taken by the combine.
All the evidence is proving, except for one detail. You forgot when the Nihilanth says "Comes another..." He says it right when Gordon enters Xen. He could just be referring to another human entering Xen, since we see other humans in HEV Suits throughout the dimension. Other than that, clean-cut!
In honor of the announcement for Borderlands 3, I thought you could do a couple theories about the series. Pick your poison: A. The backstory of Krieg the Psycho B. Working elemental guns (electricity, fire, acid, slag) C. The science of "digistructing" (ammo, enemies, etc) D. One-size-fits-all ammo; all pistols being able to use the same bullets, grenade mods, etc
MatPat, you were talking about how Marc Laidlaw said that other Nihilanths were captured in the past... In the new leaked plot to Half Life 2 Episode 3, Marc talks about how Dr. Breen, after death, had his mind transferred into the body of a giant slug-like creature. This was done to him by the Combine. It is very plausible then that when Marc said their were other Nihilanths previously "captured" that he meant a Nihilanth had his mind transferred into a new body by the combine, only in this case, instead of being put into a giant slug body, a more humanoid, possibly combine body. This would make sense since a combine being that *could* teleport would be a powerful asset to them. When doctor Breen was put into the giant slug, he said he preferred death to living in that form, it was probably painful. If a Nihilanth went through the same thing and then escaped, of course he would be an enemy of the combine and of course he would want revenge! He was their experiment and they would want to get him back! If he wanted revenge, it would make sense calling them to earth and forming alliances with earthlings like Gordon. It could be him preparing for war against them as payback. Another thing that supports this theory is real-life phantom limb syndrome, in which a patient that has lost a limb would still feel that limb. When you see the G-man always touching his tie/chest area, it could be Phantom limb syndrome due to him no longer having his third arm.... But hey that's just a theory! Thanks for reading!
Breen is turned to a grub, and while I like the idea of a nihilanth getting his conscience moved into a different body, the true combine aren't very humanoid at all. The only true combine we see that aren't human/transhuman are the advisors, and they're giant beans essentially. I'm glad this has at least people talking about half life again though.
NurdzShotFirst _ Um, what is its all in Gordon's head? He's in a coma after the explosion of Half Life 1 and G Man is his doctor that's momentarily there when he wakes from his coma fleetingly. There was no portal or other dimension, just a scientist in a coma wanting to make a difference.
Matt's hour has come again. The right theorist in the wrong place can make all the differ-ence in the world. So... wake up mr Matpat, wake up and... smell the fanbase.
Although this is obviously the better theory when it comes to law, I really like the theory as well, that the G-Man is infact someone employed by Valve because, if you think about it, he sets up the events for every game. Workout the G-Man nothing would have ever happened
It perfectly fits with unemployment of Freeman and employment of Alyx, meaning that if there will be more Half-Life games, they will be about Alyx. Well, will see about that
Because why would they bother when they are making money by the bucketload selling other people games with steam and adding anew hat to TF 2 once in a while ? Hell it got tot he point where a number of writters and artist that were core to HL2 have quit because they felt their talents were not used at all
Pantsformer they want to hype it so much so that people freak out when it comes out and they make as much money as possible by bringing people to the franchise who only know the game for it's half life 3 confirmed meme and want to fit in with their memer fiends and buy the game. And who knows maybe they have been working on the game since half life two ep two came out so they can make the most critically acclaimed game ever (after halflife 2).
Or ANY video game for that matter. Especially in older videogames when teams/budgets were smaller, but one actor doing multiple voices happens all the time.
The moment he started reciting the G-Man speech, I started going through it XD But he skipped my favorite part. "The right man in the wrong place, can make all the difference in the world Mr. Freeman."
Actually that is a good question because it says his body was in the sacred realm, but how does that explain his sudden knowledge how on all the new items he gets.
Daniel. S i know your joking but its silly cause that question is easily answered. Making a character ugly is an easy way to make them unsettling to the audience on top of all the other stuff like strange vocal patterns. Look up "the uncanny valley" if your not familiar with it
Actually, Half Life, Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1 and Half Life Episode 2. We already had Half Life 3. But Valve deiced to call it 2 still and split it in -3- 2 parts.
Can you do a theory kind of similar to this one? It's another solving of identities. I want to see you try and figure out who the "Friend" from Skyrim is that writes you letters telling you where certain words of power are. Apparently, he has connections *EVERYWHERE!* Don't believe me? Look up all the different places. Everywhere.
Jason Ultimate The friend is supposedly Delphine. Or at least that's the theory around it, but it never made sense to me. Even if you meet with her and the other Blades, why would she be sending you messages in code still? Unless someone's watching, or she's wanted by someone for something... MATPAT PLEASE DO A THEORY ON THIS! MY BRAIN IS FIGHTING ITSELF!
The Leaping Turnip There's two other flaws with it. You can receive the messages before the quest where Delphine goes looking for the Dragonborn (The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller). Plus, even if you refuse to kill Paarthunax, the dragon at The Throat of the World, and the Blades refuse you, you still get the letters. Also, the Thalmor are a thing. That's why she'd hide her name if it weren't for my two other points.
SMSFF7 I like that theory, but beyond the fact that he's interested in seeing you grow stronger there's not much to support it. I want to see what MatPat comes up with anyway though.
I recently shared my own theory about G-man, not only his entire storyline, but even how he connects both Portal and Half Life together. Check it out if your interested!
nolaz010 yes, portal and half life happen in the same portal/half life universe. With my theory though, I show how G-Man was involved with both Aperture science and Half life. And provide a whole theoretical background story about the G-man.
The g man is that guy, you know that guy, always hangs out at the g spot, always sings songs about being a G, lives between F and H, right down the street from my family and I.
I'm pretty sure when Nihilanth said "Comes another" he meant that another human has entered Xen, evident by the dozens of human corpses you see around in Xen.
You are wrong about Nihilanth's quote: "Comes another". It is referenced to the Gordon's first entry into Xen. Scientists were entering Xen before (as the player can see dead scientist corpses in Xen), Nihilanth is simply implying that another person has come....
I really do not know :D This video is awesome and very entertaining, but I (a huge Half-Life fan) really do not believe that the Gman is Nihilanth, or that he is somehow related to him. I belive that the Gman is a human, who undergo some experiments and now he is a human, who can teleport and manipulate time :P But only my opinion. Anyways this theory is one of the best that I've seen, I do not know, maybe he is correct, but, I just stated that the Nihilanth's qoute "Comes another" do not reference the Gman, like it is said in this video. :)
@Connor Woolard Yes, I believe that you are right about that quote. But, ofc, in my opinion :D, "...he is not man..." does not necessarily mean that he is an alien. Example: When I see a skinny man eating 40 hamburgers, i would also say "He's not a man". If you watched Lord of The Rings: The return of the king, Éowyn also says to the Witch King of Angmar: "I am no man", right before she slays him. It also does not imply that she is no human. Although this theory is very good and entertaining, I still stand with one of mine's about the G-man: G-man really is a human, a man who works for the US government, and ether he undergo some experiments, or he carries around in his suitcase some device that can teleport, bend time and space, and put people into stasis. He works for US government, but his employers are some top secret society that is ether bent on Universe domination, or power struggle. :D He displays very much human manners, you can see him in HalfLife 1 (anomalous materials) and Half-Life 2 (highway 17) talking to other people, which would not be so common if he was something other than a human. Again, only my opinion :D
@@miljanvukicevic8631 if you saw a man eating a lot of hamburgers you would say he's not a man? I guess he may have seen gman eat a bunch of hamburgers.
@dutch nut Well, I'm pretty sure that the quote "Comes another..." and "...He's not man..." are too far apart, and "Comes another..." is always said when Gordon comes to Xen for the first time. Also, I believe that it is a proven fact that "Comes another..." implies to gordon coming to Xen just like other scientists had come to mine for Xen crystals.
This piece of evidence to suggest he is a nihilanth seems like the weakest point and I agree that it could be referring to the scientists that cake before him considering their bodies are in that room even (through ammo packs and the teleport rooms), but I will say that I find it slightly less believable that the gman would be a human that got tested on. The portals he opened even match up with the nihilanth. And I figure if they had the tech to make a guy like the gman they’d make more of him, and he’d be far more concerned with removing the combine from earth than he actually was. With that kind of power he could eliminate them all himself. Let alone if humanity made multiple
It's 11:55 where I am. I could go to bed, since I have my first day of school tomorrow, ooorrr I could watch Game Theory.... I guess you know which I chose.😂😅
lily davenport do the one that will help you learn OBVIOUSLY WATCH THE GAME THERIOST
lily davenport
YES! THIS IS THE ONLY TRUE EDUCATION YOU NEED!
lily davenport it's 6:45 where i am and it's my first day of school.
Glad I don't live in England
A Canadian i live in sweden.
G man the owner and founder of g mail.
my god you are a genius
TheRealMini ...
TheRealMini XD
He also made the game, Gmod.
and he also made a film.... G-force
and he also have a spot a G-sp........ im just gonna leave right now
13:00 According to that logic, Barney Calhoun is also a Nihilanth.
Our murder toy in half life 1 is actually a nihilanth
you can ignore it and the theory still works
Actually, benrey is.
@@SpricketGus Lmao I just realized that connection
@@SpricketGus i need to see your passport
“The combine is a powerful force”
Them: *gets run over by a boat*
You gotta remember those are human-based Combine Soldiers,We dont know the true force of the combine as the only threats we see are the hunter-choppers,hunters,gunships,dropships and striders
@@marcoseduardocastro781 Don't forget the Advisors.
@@AlexanderAzarov they are the true g-man according to some people, but a hatched one unlike the babies you see in half life
Boat OP pls nerf
The humans working for them are getting run over so that means credit to humans
Theory seems fine enough, though one thing I will mention is that the "comes another" line is most likely not warning about another nihilanth rather it's probably just a taunt by the creature. Throughout the chapter you see multiple corpses of previous subjects who dared to step foot into xen and never made it back. So "comes another" isn't about another nihilanth rather another subject who dares to enter xen.
Bro took 6 years 💀💀💀
@@AG_Makes_Stuff.took 6 years for you to be 12 my guy
@@XeonbXfire comeback
@@AG_Makes_Stuff. blame the algorithm
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Note: It isn't Gordon's first day. No one addresses him as "the new guy" and most scientists seem to know him quite well.
Except for some security guards in decay which is (possibly) canon
plus he already has a locker there
also this video is clickbait and the mystery hasn't even been solved.
yeah i dont know where he got that
he is young though
“Valve is too busy printing money with steam”
*laughs in Half Life: Alyx*
GoTi4No as a diehard half-life fan I couldn’t care less if this is true or not.
*Valve is too busy printing money with VR
BlackKnight 6660 can you shut up, like stop begging for comments or likes
i would like this, but its at 169 likes, so nope
@GoTi4No "only"? Sorry, but there's nothing intelligent about that level of cynicism.
Every time I think about half life I get depressed because might never see an ending to one of the best video game series of all time.
Silas Mayes what are you talking about we did get an ending Alyx's dad dying
Silas Mayes sadly I think that's the case
A Jazzy Gamer Well it left off at a cliffhanger, as we may never know what comes after this.
We never got to see how it truly ended, that was a cliffhanger, the third game was supposed to come out in 2009
+Osuka The Oracle Turret December 2007 actually. Also HL3/HL2:E3 would not have had an ending and Ep 4 is just a ravenholm spinoff game. (L4D Style)
The G Man could also be one of the grubs. If you read over Episle 3 (The short story that was meant to be the original story of Half life 3) and the writers tweets from "Breen Grub" they detail that the grubs, also known as the advisers were not originally combine. They were a race called the shu'ulathois and have incredible psychic ability. They are supposed to be able to take whatever form they wish when they hatch but the combine control and keep them in the larval stage. The G Man could be a hatched shu'ulathois.
yeah but his observable powers fit way too well with all the Zen creatures, him being a grub wouldnt make as much sense.
Yup this is my personal theory
@@addman1952 If the grubs without combine interference have the psyonic power to create shared worlds and fly. What don't they have that zen creatures have?
G-man: *exists*
Time, space, and physics: he played us like a damn fiddle
We’ve been tricked, backstabbed, and quite possibly bamboozled.
Not gonna lie that sounds wrong af
@@FishTankk6578 There is a joke about the fiddle in the video
G-ood half life 3 confirmed-man
Gman is op
Half life alyx: Exists
TH-cam: Ight imma recommend this 2 years later
Haha same here lol
Fifth time this week
BRUH EXACTLY
better 2 years than 20.
yeah
"Miss Vance, You Wouldn't Need All of That To Imprison Gordon Freeman."
So, uh, spoilers btw for anyone else
You finished it too, easily the best game ending like ever, picked up he briefcase and accepted his deal.
@@TheOnlyRascalBoi dumb question... can you not accepted his deal like in HL 1?
@@namnguyenphuong2610 no, you never got a choice like you did in hl1
@@PekaCheeki cuz watching the vid about hl1, you can be send to a weird dimension with all tons the demon guards if you don't accept his deal... just dumb question...
@@namnguyenphuong2610 lol tbh I wasn't sure myself and was thinking of doing the last part again to check lol
"I'm not a large open headed baby. Where did you get that...preposterous hypothesis?"
- G Man
not my idea.
Game Theory...you, just posted cringe. You have lost subscriber. Hahhhh.
is there a video he made after this one?
Did steve tell you that, per chance?
@@fantasticmrbongo steve...
Subject: MatPat
Status: Hired
Awaiting next theory
Nice job! But here is a litle thing : Subject:MatPat not Name:MatPat
Dont let matt make a new theory about this series. He got this one wrong and So many other lore videos that it would be terrible for this game.
Here is evidence of all of the problems in this video.
1: it is not Gordon Freeman's first day. That statement is wrong on so many levels.
1.a: the security gaurd says he is late again.
1.b: why would a government facility allow a new hire to handle highly secretive and dangerous materials.
2: the vortigaunts dont control time they have a link with the nihillanth in which they share a mind. The link is broken which explains why they dont attack you. They dont see you as a threat.
3: there is no evidence that shows the nihlanth and gman are connected except the portals they control are similar. But if they are the same species based off of that alone. Then humans are related to the nihilanth.
There is much more but i dont have time
@@alyx8815 I agree with you on the 1st one although it doesn't affect the theory at all. However... remember that? "You are man. He is not man. For you he waits.... for you." Who else would this be referring to? At this point in the series, there are no real special characters except for the G-Man. Then there is the point that the Nihilanth looks like a human fetus and the G-Man has a human appearence. The word Nihilanth literally means not man and that fits so well with the Nihilanth's description of the G-Man. He calls him Nihilanth. And lastly there's the point that the G-Man seems to always be staightening his tie. Although it is always straight? Anyway that is the place where most Xen creatures have their 3rd arm. Now to the second one. If the vortigaunts only had their powers because they were linked to the Nihilanth, then why were they able to still use their powers more than 20 years after the Nihilanth's death?
@@LightgreenLP 1: The nihilanth is talking about himself in 3rd person.
2: i didnt say they lost their powers. I said they dont have time travel. At all. Also how did you come to the conclusion that i said they didnt have powers?
3: the "He is waiting" could also be reffering to the nihilanth because he was in that room waiting for you to get there. He knew you were coming so he decided to put up a fight.
4: the tie thing is so he appears more human. Or he is straightening it and we dont see because it is an old game.
@@alyx8815 why would the Nihilanth be talking about himself in the 3rd person but then also have lines like "The last.... I am the last." it just doesn't fit together. And then of course is the voice actor thing. The Nihilanth and the G-Man are both voiced by Michael Shapiro. Who returned for Half-Life: Alyx by the way. The developers were a bit worried he wouldn't know how to do him anymore after more than 10 years but he did it right immediately. Also the tie staightening thing you mentioned because it's an old game, that does not contradict the theory. That would be technical limitations. And technical limitations don't have anything to do with lore.
“The G-Man is actually voiced by the same actor as the Nihilanth Boss”. What about Barney Calhoun, he’s voiced by Micheal Shapiro. You telling me he’s a Nihilanth too!
Yes
Maybe he is the 3rd one? He was able to fit in with the combine. Maybe the 1st one was the hostile one, middle one is the Gman who is mysterious and likes to be the Chessmaster to change the world the way he wants. And Barney sometimes is sudden and feels like he just appears sometimes. He is the silly one tho who doesn't like about Gman playing around and probably appears there where Gman has been causing trouble.
Seriously tho, when you played through half life 2, didn't you feel sometimes that Barney just appears? Gman wakes you up and suddenly he is disguised as combine to let you get trough. Sounds odd to me
Also i just remembered that he was waiting you in Half Life 1 too and kept appearing helping you trough out the game.
I think he was just saying that as even more details that help his point. I think barney is just barney
@@TurUwUmaybe barney is sent by the gman alien baby ppl to protect Gordon freeman from events that would have happened unless barney shows up
I think this theory needs revision after Half-Life: Alyx. Just saying.
Me too, the ending though short has a wealth of information to make new theories
11:30 Marc Laidlaw said their predecessors might have been captured by the combine, and g man was captured by the combine in HL:A WTF??!?!?!?!?!?
@@harshithpillai7782 Marc Laidlaw has confirmed that gman isn't nihilanth,
@@nikolakuzmanovic2626 he did?
Somebody already did it and isn't as annoying as MatPat.
We need more Half-Life Theories.
Yesh
@@hihjtxitx yyeeesssh
Facts
yessir
@@hihjtxitx cringe game
Didn't Opposing Force show Gordon as Employee of the Month, therefore is wasn't his first day on the job
Isnt opposing force kinda unofficial canon
@@jrena9443 Yea but no . . .
he got that wrong in the video. i don't know why he said this but it's not gordon's first day on the job. when you play the game yourself all the people even greet them and it seems like he has some friends among the guards. i don't think you're all buddy buddy with your colleagues on the first day. they obviously know each other
That's what I was thinking
Kinda, the manual for one of the games give some dates to imply that it's his first day but other aspects of the games retcon it (like hl2)
"There probably wont be a half life 3"
Me in 2020: "interesting..."
Alyx isn't HL3
@@Tmob he is talking bout the ending in hl alyx
“There is no distance between us”
@@Tmob but there will be...
Although HlA is not hl3 its ending pretty much confirmed that there will be
Remember when valve made games ahh the good old days
Very much. One day valve will rise again to take down epic game once and for all.
@@joeyanimations591 don't count on it too much .
Remember when valve cared about us
Steam printer.exe
They do make game but they never finish them
Hey dear MatPat. Could it be of your interest to make at video about how Russel (from Half-Life: Alyx) was able to "download most of the internet" before the war in the Half Life universe?
How the frick did he download the internet
@@rozzano635 he downloaded chrome
that seems better for Austin's 'The Science!'
isnt the daily amount of data generated over the internet in terrabytes? and the total storage several 1000s of magnitude above terrabytes?
The combine's inability to teleport within a dimension makes me wonder if Portal borderline confirms that they fully lost in the end. Raiding Aperture for a portal gun would be extremely useful.
iirc Glados kept the combine away from aperture sience/ didnt let it through
It’s actually sort of a comedic part of portal. Cave Johnson never realized how revolutionary the portal gun really was, and just kept working on other stupid stuff instead of marketing that. He sort of saved the world with his own stupidity lmao
Just imagine the combine shooting portals around the white forest and doing like backflips to try and kill Gordon 😂
@@misterwizardman4309 or imagine gordan doing that 😂
They didn't know about aperture science as far as they knew the borialis was the only portal tech except for rebel teleporters
Just how the Nihilanth said it:
"The truth, you can never know the truth."
Yes, I heard that while searching for codes in the Half-Life directory.
I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get an answer, even if we got HL3.
Just as giorno giovanna once said “you will never reach the truth”
Nihilanth: The Truth, you can never know the truth
Nihilanth = G Man = Old Giorno Giovanna
nick is away Half life 3 was revealed by the half life alyx ending
He's obviously just an employee of Aperture from another dimension.
He’s a sad little octopus
Another dimension? Wtf?! He has no interest in Aperture science, he cares more about Black Mesa or Should I say Area 51...
THATS BEING TRICKED TO PAYING FOR TESTS, LIKE MR. JOHNSON SAID!
@@Omega-jg4oq r/wooosh
GREG.
Barney is also voiced by the same voice actor, so I guess that means Barney can teleport and manipulate spacetime then.
@FameWolf benrey
the fact someone could make it make sense because of the ending of blue shift
@@ripnob Guess Matt hasn’t watched ‘that’ series yet. New lore discovered!?
@@monkebanana2506 the lore about tommy “Thomas”
b-man
"Why is his character model so much uglier than everybody else's"
Story of my life :/
I'll join to the club of yours of badlooking guys. :)
Get some muscles just a guy to guy tip.
Same
No worries, all you need is money... And I'm Norwegian...
He looks better than alyx
Ik this video came out a long time ago but if G-man was a Nihilanth I'm wondering why he would be happy after he gained possession of Xen when members of his species were already there
Exactly what I was thinking. It seems weird but the video never touches on it
To be fair Matt also said that it was Gordon's first day.
When literally everybody there knows who he is and there are pictures of him at black Mesa not taken that day.
@@jacobhogan3208 yeah i think that might of been a joke
Well we really can't tell if he's lieing or not about being happy. The G man is a manipulator and if he said that he isn't happy, Gordon probably wouldn't have accepted his offer. So my guess is the G man is lieing to trick Gordon into taking the job
Perhaps the G-Man's employers are against that particular Nihilanth being in charge of Xen. Perhaps the Nihilanth is simply a cruel dictator that the G-Man wants overthrown. It did enslave the Vortigaunts, after all.
Freeman didn't start a 'new job'. It wasn't his first day. The game doesn't make clear for how long Gordon has been working at Black Mesa, but it does make it clear, through many dialogues and interactions with NPCs throughout the game, that he's already a well known figure there.
+1 when barney says "just one of those days i guess ... "
We know for a fact Gordon worked at Black Mesa before the resonance cascade since in Opposing Force we can find an 'employee of the month' picture with Gordon's face on it, also in half life 2 episode 1 Alyx tells Gordon the following "I heard a story about you and vents Gordon, that whenever Doctor Kleiner locked himself out of his office, you and Barney would race through the vents to get inside and unlock it." and because of what Alyx said we know for sure that Gordon worked at Black Mesa before the resonance cascade.
NOTE: Alyx's quote is not 100% correct, I wrote it out of my memory, so it isn't the same as in game (I think I messed up the last part of it)
EDIT: Correcting grammar and spelling mistakes
Super late reply to this, but Alyx also mentions in episode 1 that Gordon and Barney would have contests to see who could get into Kleiner’s lab fastest through the air vents.
I believe it is treated as a first day because he got tasked with pushing the crystal into the machine. So that may leqd people to believe that it was his first day on the job at Black Mesa, when in reality it was the first day for that specific project.
He's new but it is not gis first day. He has been at Black Mesa for around a month.
i think it's interesting that Marc Laidlaw said that the Nilianths predecessors have been captured by the combine, and if Mat is correct about this theory, then it shows that the Gman was captured by the combine in HL:A, neat little detail, since they were already working on the story for HL:A 2 years previous
I see I'm not the only one binging old Game Theory videos in 2022. Interesting tid-bit.
@@kitsunemusicisfire great minds think alike
the Gman's capture was an impressive feat, I saw a clip about it here as I'm not equipped to play HL:A
How the hell does the words of the creator of the game become a theory?
G(ordon Free)Man
oh my gawd- thats just- ok, now i can never unsee this,
So..
The real name of the gman is Ordon Free
Morgan Freeman
I won't spoil, but gman is not Gordon freeman. Just read epistle 3.
Who though that V K? Lul XD
"What? It was obvious! He's the red spy".
I SEE SPY
Buildin a sentry
@@angryasfman9077 Scout: “he..he”
Scout turning to spy: “right behind you”
@@JuralekOFFICIAL deploy secret weapon
“See! Red” “No that’s just blood”
i hate how badly matpat explained gordon in hl 1
one of guards at the end of train raid says "You're late again" which means it wasnt his first day at work
That is Matt. His writers are really bad at this. Lore is just not this channels strong point. From Sans is Ness to The Hollow Knight is The Pale King's reincarnation, no matter what all lore videos are just terrible. I knew this was terrible when my only knowledge of the lore was watching Freeman's Mind videos, He needs better writers.
Why you guys gotta be rude
@@Hhhhhhhhhhhjhjjjjjjjjnnnnn because he gets the lore wrong of every game. If he cant do that than just stop. People have crticized him for his stupidity and he just doubles down. He says it is just a theory because he knows he can fall back on that. Then his fans take what he says and thinks it is fact because his earlier content was about science and he mostly got that right.
There are few exceptions, if any, where he got his science videos are wrong. His fans think he can never do wrong and that he is always right because of his past. He built this channel for science but switched it when his fnaf series got popular. He always looked at that and thought it was because he was great at understanding the lore (which only got worse because Scott Cawthon congratulated him for that) when in fact it was because it was a popular series.
He needs to go back to where his channel started. A place where he was showing the science of videogames and a place not filled by videos wanting to get high views and lots of money. And honestly his older videos were actually educational and the reason i got into science in the first place. It would be better for everyone if he just goes back to the early days.
@@alyx8815 if you don't like MatPat's theories. Then why are you watching them?
@@rubygail349 I watched it because it got reccomended. I continued because he got things so wrong that are super easy to get right that i can make it a drinking game.
Also reddit karma.
Crazy how mat pat started his theory career and retired but we still don’t have a hl3
Voice actor of nihilanth: michael shapiro
Voice actor of gman: Michael shapiro
Voice actor of standard security guard: Michael Shapiro
Voice Actor Of Barney: MICHAEL SHAPIRO!!!
No.. No beer?
Ben Shapiro
G man: Now about that beer I owed ya
Who the standard security guard
so much Nihilanths
Half Life 3? No
Team Fortress 3? No
Portal 3? No
Doctor Who Part 3? __
Could MatPat be Valve?
Don't forget Kingdom Hearts 3. Wait we have seen production on it so Valve must of lost the rights to Kingdom Hearts.
Ssencipe 《》 I don't think we need a TF3 as much as portal 3 and Half life 3 honestly
Jofh Jyv
Wait...
3-> MAT. PAT.
TF3 would be a bad idea. It would split the TF2 community between the people who decide to stay in TF2, and the people moving to TF3.
Nihilanth: voiced by Micheal Shapiro
Gman: voiced by Micheal Shapiro
Barney: where am I?
Barney after finding matpat forgot that Michael Shapiro voiced him: what the Sh*t is this Sh*t?!?!
I thought nialanth was gman
Half-Life VR But the AI is Self Aware: Oh hey, I'm here now!
okay so TH-cam didn't notify me about my comments but you guys really made my day better finding out I have 200 likes and funny replies
Cheese
If i see 1⃣ guy saying "its the guy from skibidi toilet" i swear to god
its the guy from skibidi toilet!
@@fazarfazar58 ( ͡°Ĺ̯ ͡° )
Skibidi toilet ruined G man. Tiktok ruined everything.
TH-cam kids exists for a reason, yet, these kids go on TH-cam (not the kid's version).
Skibidi toilet should be extinct.
Bro is literally from skibidi toilet, this is a certified W rizz moment for sigmas. Fanum tax.
Nobody the skibidi fan said that except the kids
i think the ,,comes another" isn't related to G-man, bc it starts to play when Gordon arrives to Xen. And the Nihilanth saying this, bc another human has arrived to Xen. There are lots of dead bodies with HEV suit.
Alternate Gordon's?
@@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 no
Ow u mean the guy from opsive force or barny?
As someone who is knowledgeable about Hungarian internet culture, obligatory “Bojler eladó”
Barney in Blue Shift has gone to Xen before Gordan had too.
Combines defeated earth in 7 hours
*turns Half Life 2 on*
the first thing what combine does is to throw a grenade and accidentally kill 3 of his colleagues
The Scrash just combine Things
Those combine forces you fight are humans that have been brain-washed
The combine soldier you fight aren't the ones that invaded earth. It was most likely striders and headcrabs and stuff that the combine used against Earth. The soldiers are just augmented humans.
grayd98 the striders are a little bugs, i think a lot more powerful synths were used
The combine is not the guys fighitng for them btw.
7:25, It's the resonance cascade that caused the combine to notice Earth. Not the nuclear explosion. If the nuclear explosion did cause the combine to notice Earth, they would have noticed Earth when humans did first start to test nuclear weapons.
and it was the black ops team that decided to plant that Thermal nuke to level the entire building plus everyone in it.
He still did give the xen crystal to black mesa for it to happen
My theory was and still remains the same. Gman is actually a metegame concept. He is beyond the world of half life and he is employed to "nudge" things in a peculiar way. His employers? None other than the game developers themselves who use the gman to nudge the game in the way they want. In other words, the gman is nothing more than an embassador of the game developers, of the "true world" inside the game itself. This is why he is omnipowerful, but at the same time he answer to someone above.
But.. It wasn't Gordons first day on the job.
I think that bit of the lore has changed back and forth over time.
no, its established that he was going in for the experiment, and he's worked there before
I agree, you can see his Employee of the Month photo in the office. And loads of people recognize him.
he also got it wrong when he said that xen was the dimension of the vortigaunts. Xen was just a bridge to cross dimensions, the actual home of the vortigaunts was taken by the combine.
It was originally, but was retconned in Half-Life 2. Still, do your research MatPat!
Nihilanth: dies
Valve: *there is another*
Yoda is stuck in my mind when i read those words
Another Nihilanth there is
comes another....
369 likes lmao
the fact he watches you through the games is horrifying to me
I love it when he watches me through the games. It makes me feel so alive.
@@48toko Oh my goodness true
@@Chillerll In my case, It makes me feel like my talent is being appreciated, pretty nice.
@@MisterRelatable It really is, he actually says he's impressed.. Same for Alyx
We are a god to the xen population
We needed more HL theories..
too late 😥
@@theloldog12 i know 😭
Yo what if the g man is actually gaben.
i dig that
same
crepyyyyyyy
*I'M G A B E NUEL*
More like Gaben is 5 G-men stuffed into one massive bag of skin.
Half Life: Alyx...
We are waiting for new theory Matt!!!
*matt
sorry i had to
@@judahweinstein6142 didnt see that, thx
We are waiting for your new theory Mr. Patrick
I watch this theory at least once a year in hopes Half Life 3 may be confirmed
It could happen now with source 2
Actually, the biggest mystery is Valve's inability to count to 3.
Yup... Sadly
Half-Life 2: Episode Three
Portal 3
Left 4 Dead 3
Team Fortress 3
Gordon was employee of the month before the resonants cascade
and just after that the lazy bastard was half hour late for the test and even douchbagging around before it...
*resonance
Which is pretty good for your first day on the job.
Elvin Atombender He worked for Black Mesa for years.
All the evidence is proving, except for one detail.
You forgot when the Nihilanth says "Comes another..." He says it right when Gordon enters Xen. He could just be referring to another human entering Xen, since we see other humans in HEV Suits throughout the dimension. Other than that, clean-cut!
that and the nuke is not why the Combine found earth- they found it do to the resonance cascade.
@@MrChickennugget360 actually, he was correct on the nuclear explosion attracting them. I saw on the wiki
@@robo9031 G-man reactivating it is probably not canon though since valve declared opposing force non canon
dudes with helmets getting killed
@@Superschokokeks Valve never declares OpFor non-canon. This is an urban myth.
one ofmy favorite theory episodes to date. Thanks for the memories, MatPat.
Who would have known they had started programming a new half life game two years before this video.
Who's here after the half life VR announcement?
Disappointed people
HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMEDDDDD
@@Janmee why is it disappointing
@@pingeee cuz now I'm forced to watch a walkthrough since I don't own a vr
@@Janmee Well I don't have VR too but I am going to buy one. I'll have to find a job for a game lol.
4:33 The GMan is modelled off of a real-life person. Not cool, MattPatt
Who
even then the irl gman looks much better than gmans face, which is so weird that it seems to be designed to cast creepy shadows on his face
4:35
That's true
He is jokeing
2:35 Barney knew Gordon well as well as the other staff of black mesa so it was never his first day
In honor of the announcement for Borderlands 3, I thought you could do a couple theories about the series. Pick your poison:
A. The backstory of Krieg the Psycho
B. Working elemental guns (electricity, fire, acid, slag)
C. The science of "digistructing" (ammo, enemies, etc)
D. One-size-fits-all ammo; all pistols being able to use the same bullets, grenade mods, etc
Yes Borderlands is getting a 4th game
Jonah Thoennes I agree you shoud do theory on BD series.
Jonah Thoennes they already have one about Handsome Jack
What about the backstory of Face McShooty? BEST CHARACTER EVER!
SoupEpicTrek ikr
It wasn't his first day working at Black mesa.
Menito Bussolini Yea, even the scientists have known him and seem to have a snarky displeased attitude toward him since apparently he's often late.
I know this is an old comment now, but it was originally his first day, but that detail was later changed.
Apparently he probably has the highest degree at black mesa and he still can't open retina doors
Croc Gaming I know he doesn't have the highest degree...I was just lazy and didn't bother to check so I just improvised.
They even mentioned his ponytail being cut off. lol
MatPat, you were talking about how Marc Laidlaw said that other Nihilanths were captured in the past... In the new leaked plot to Half Life 2 Episode 3, Marc talks about how Dr. Breen, after death, had his mind transferred into the body of a giant slug-like creature. This was done to him by the Combine. It is very plausible then that when Marc said their were other Nihilanths previously "captured" that he meant a Nihilanth had his mind transferred into a new body by the combine, only in this case, instead of being put into a giant slug body, a more humanoid, possibly combine body. This would make sense since a combine being that *could* teleport would be a powerful asset to them. When doctor Breen was put into the giant slug, he said he preferred death to living in that form, it was probably painful. If a Nihilanth went through the same thing and then escaped, of course he would be an enemy of the combine and of course he would want revenge! He was their experiment and they would want to get him back! If he wanted revenge, it would make sense calling them to earth and forming alliances with earthlings like Gordon. It could be him preparing for war against them as payback. Another thing that supports this theory is real-life phantom limb syndrome, in which a patient that has lost a limb would still feel that limb. When you see the G-man always touching his tie/chest area, it could be Phantom limb syndrome due to him no longer having his third arm....
But hey that's just a theory! Thanks for reading!
Breen is turned to a grub, and while I like the idea of a nihilanth getting his conscience moved into a different body, the true combine aren't very humanoid at all. The only true combine we see that aren't human/transhuman are the advisors, and they're giant beans essentially. I'm glad this has at least people talking about half life again though.
That seems genius
This is a great theory, I wouldn't be surprised if this is how the story actually goes
T... Third arm!?
NurdzShotFirst _ Um, what is its all in Gordon's head? He's in a coma after the explosion of Half Life 1 and G Man is his doctor that's momentarily there when he wakes from his coma fleetingly. There was no portal or other dimension, just a scientist in a coma wanting to make a difference.
With the fallout show being a huge hit...what about a Half Life series!
We have skibidi toilet, g man is in it
skibidi toilet is NOT a half life series
@@swellybelly5970 well, it's still good
@@QuickScopeChris No.
@@QuickScopeChris it's not a fkn half life series and has absolutely NO CONNECTION, or any relevance to the Gman and half life
> jake paul
> fidget spinners
this video didnt age well
If it's in my recommendations tab
I'd say otherwise
This presentation style has not aged well....
6 9 likes nice
Who the hell is that Jake Paul?
What's a jake paul?
Who is Fidget Spinners?
"Why is his character model so much UGLIER than anybody else's?" ME AS A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER
StuffAndThangs lol me too
StuffAndThangs dat was the pass grafiks
#metoo
people who were around when # was called the pound symbol find that # quite hilarious I bet and especially when a feminist says it
Me toooooo
He didn't even mention the suit case.
MLARBLE the only thing in it is a notepad, a pencil and a gun.
DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
+Dio How do you know ?
[LFPT]Sour Blue in game files
Wry
Even after 4 years, we still haven't gotten another half life video, mat pat if you see this, PLEASE DO ANOTHER
11:56 Actually, that line is referencing the amount of researchers that came to Xen in the past.
But if he's a Nihilanth, who are his "employers"?
RainAngel111 yup
Probably Combine forces
But the Combine are the enemies of the Nihilanth. That's who they were running from.
The other nihilanths. There could be a higher up, or maybe something even bigger than a Nihilanth.
the g man's employer is valve.
"After all these years I have found that The G man, is Sans"
GOD DAMMIT MAT AGAIN!?!?
*slams laptop*
obvious joke though
No it goes one step deeper.The G man is Sans which is actually Ness.This is crazy.
ordep apap It's a shame the joke isn't very funny.
Wait, lemme get this straight. The G-Man is Sans, who is Ness, but also a revenant ?
That's an abomination I don't want to see happen.
The theory sounds cringy but it's pretty reasonable if you actually watch it
If anyone is reading this then you watched goodbye internet and wanted to watch his old videos
Your right
you got me
The end of Half Life Alyx.... Matt you are needed again.
Matt's hour has come again. The right theorist in the wrong place can make all the differ-ence in the world. So... wake up mr Matpat, wake up and... smell the fanbase.
I don't want Matt to talk about that ending considering how wrong he was about this mostly solved mystery
@@Jenamphetam1ne please send link if can to vids explaining the mystery
WELL, RISE AND SHINE, MATPAT.
THE FRANCHISE IS COMING BACK
time?is it really that time again? Matpat?
Although this is obviously the better theory when it comes to law, I really like the theory as well, that the G-Man is infact someone employed by Valve because, if you think about it, he sets up the events for every game. Workout the G-Man nothing would have ever happened
It perfectly fits with unemployment of Freeman and employment of Alyx, meaning that if there will be more Half-Life games, they will be about Alyx.
Well, will see about that
The Gabe Man 😂
I think Gman is the Legendary GABEn
POV Someone says omg matpat made a vid for skibidi toilet 6 years before the release:
X suicide
O give up
X
X
@@smash8192 X
X
O, humanity is doomed
For the record, in the past (pyro theory) you stated that voice actors have nothing to do with the reliability of the characters
CO-OP Gaming
He meant the gender.
i think what he meant was that they sound similar, so it would make sense that the nialinth's voice actor would come back to voice another.
Nice spelling error
Nicholas B lol
The Game Theorists fake
Do a theory on why there isn't a goddamn half life three yet.
If you do some basic research you'll find out why. You don't need Game Theory bullshit to find out why
Because why would they bother when they are making money by the bucketload selling other people games with steam and adding anew hat to TF 2 once in a while ?
Hell it got tot he point where a number of writters and artist that were core to HL2 have quit because they felt their talents were not used at all
Pantsformer they want to hype it so much so that people freak out when it comes out and they make as much money as possible by bringing people to the franchise who only know the game for it's half life 3 confirmed meme and want to fit in with their memer fiends and buy the game. And who knows maybe they have been working on the game since half life two ep two came out so they can make the most critically acclaimed game ever (after halflife 2).
*+Pantsformer* Didn't anyone tell you? Valve can't count to 3.
Pantsformer that's what I thought this theory was about :/
The voiced by the same actor would not be a valid argument in a bethesda game
Guillaume Lapointe Like the beggars in ES iv Oblivion?
With that suspicious, nasally voice,
"Thank you kind sir"
Gets me every time'
You sir are wrong!
Uriel Septim VII *IS* in fact a Starfleet officer
Also, the Jarl of Whiterun is secretly stalking the player.
Or ANY video game for that matter. Especially in older videogames when teams/budgets were smaller, but one actor doing multiple voices happens all the time.
Seth MacFarlane is the G Man
"the last im the last" that line debunks the whole theory certified sans is ness level theory
The moment he started reciting the G-Man speech, I started going through it XD
But he skipped my favorite part. "The right man in the wrong place, can make all the difference in the world Mr. Freeman."
He didnt say the most legendary Part of The Text. ffs XD
Makes all the *diff-er-ence* in the world.
The legend of Zelda: ocarina of time What was link really doing during the seven year time skip
Abubaker Hago well he went through puberty
Where did he get the extra clothing? Or the earrings?
smash and in the mushroom kingdom
Actually that is a good question because it says his body was in the sacred realm, but how does that explain his sudden knowledge how on all the new items he gets.
The Game Theorists
Thou art scammer
As much as I love your theories, I'm going to have to disagree. The greatest theory in gaming TO DATE, is "Will Valve ever learn to count to 3?"
1, 2 and what is the next? 4?
team fortress 2, portal 2, left 4 dead 2, half life 2, dota 2 wow thats a lot of 2's
There is level 3 structures for engineer in tf2.
Team Fortress 3?
Insert joke about King Arthur not being able to count from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
smaknis225 very original
Matpats impression of the g-man was actually amazing
4:34 probably the most important question of the whole series
Daniel. S i know your joking but its silly cause that question is easily answered. Making a character ugly is an easy way to make them unsettling to the audience on top of all the other stuff like strange vocal patterns. Look up "the uncanny valley" if your not familiar with it
Tbh his player model isnt even ugly, just unsettling
How powerful is Crash Bandicoot's spin move?... I mean, it can freaking shoot animals across the horizon...
Mason M. WOAH
PointlessMaster WHOA!!! WO! WO! WO! WO! WO! WO! WO! WO!
helo my name is dongerino pasterino r00d
+Symbol Saw Who?
Yes please
Me: Oh yeah he found out who he is!
Mat: After decades of waiting, the G-Man is Sans.
Me: ಠ_ಠ
Gman is an alien with a human costume from one of the multiverses having control of a science lab corp. there you go.
thank you ♥
That's funny now half life 3 is actually confirmed
@@jerry6181 the ending of half life alyx basically confirms half life 3
No way
@@rayx1679 it is lol
@@Cykbra Where and how. Who said it? When is it coming out? And why didn't IGN mention it.
@@rayx1679 it was confirmed in the end of half life alyx I won't spoil it watch the game
10:06 "Able to send Gordon Freeman outside of time for 20 years" OUTSIDE TIME FOR 20 YEARS, OUT OF TIME, 20 YEARS
Thang ding
BladeBur next year 20 years of half life. Half Life 3 confirmed
huh?
BladeBur meaning that Gordon is outside of time, but can be put back into time whenever G man felt the need. Just so happened to be 20 years after hl1
Tertiary
Bet we won't get a third theory of this game. Just like the series.
Actually, Half Life, Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1 and Half Life Episode 2. We already had Half Life 3. But Valve deiced to call it 2 still and split it in -3- 2 parts.
Shut up and let us be sad
The doctor whoTheories on film channel videos.
Damn. Solid Burn.
I love me some Dead People hey so valve they went to a school called how to make games but they didn't go to a school about HOW TO COUNT TO 3
My theory was that since both doctor who and half life use multiple dimensions, this guy is the master
Can you do a theory kind of similar to this one? It's another solving of identities.
I want to see you try and figure out who the "Friend" from Skyrim is that writes you letters telling you where certain words of power are. Apparently, he has connections *EVERYWHERE!* Don't believe me? Look up all the different places. Everywhere.
Jason Ultimate I agree
Jason Ultimate The friend is supposedly Delphine. Or at least that's the theory around it, but it never made sense to me. Even if you meet with her and the other Blades, why would she be sending you messages in code still? Unless someone's watching, or she's wanted by someone for something... MATPAT PLEASE DO A THEORY ON THIS! MY BRAIN IS FIGHTING ITSELF!
The Leaping Turnip
There's two other flaws with it. You can receive the messages before the quest where Delphine goes looking for the Dragonborn (The Horn of Jurgen Windcaller). Plus, even if you refuse to kill Paarthunax, the dragon at The Throat of the World, and the Blades refuse you, you still get the letters.
Also, the Thalmor are a thing. That's why she'd hide her name if it weren't for my two other points.
I think the likely theory is that the "friend" is really Hermaeus Mora
SMSFF7
I like that theory, but beyond the fact that he's interested in seeing you grow stronger there's not much to support it. I want to see what MatPat comes up with anyway though.
Wake up Shephard, wake up.
Shephard: Wait a minute your gonna just leave me In this space helicopter?
The true mystery
Is valve even going to finish the damn series
The even realer mystery:
Can valve even count to 3? They have 3 well-known series'
No. Gotta rip that band-aid off now
I recently shared my own theory about G-man, not only his entire storyline, but even how he connects both Portal and Half Life together. Check it out if your interested!
Cathogen isn’t Portal and Half-Life already linked?
nolaz010 yes, portal and half life happen in the same portal/half life universe.
With my theory though, I show how G-Man was involved with both Aperture science and Half life. And provide a whole theoretical background story about the G-man.
The g man is that guy, you know that guy, always hangs out at the g spot, always sings songs about being a G, lives between F and H, right down the street from my family and I.
I'm pretty sure when Nihilanth said "Comes another" he meant that another human has entered Xen, evident by the dozens of human corpses you see around in Xen.
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You are wrong about Nihilanth's quote: "Comes another". It is referenced to the Gordon's first entry into Xen. Scientists were entering Xen before (as the player can see dead scientist corpses in Xen), Nihilanth is simply implying that another person has come....
I really do not know :D This video is awesome and very entertaining, but I (a huge Half-Life fan) really do not believe that the Gman is Nihilanth, or that he is somehow related to him. I belive that the Gman is a human, who undergo some experiments and now he is a human, who can teleport and manipulate time :P But only my opinion. Anyways this theory is one of the best that I've seen, I do not know, maybe he is correct, but, I just stated that the Nihilanth's qoute "Comes another" do not reference the Gman, like it is said in this video. :)
@Connor Woolard Yes, I believe that you are right about that quote. But, ofc, in my opinion :D, "...he is not man..." does not necessarily mean that he is an alien. Example: When I see a skinny man eating 40 hamburgers, i would also say "He's not a man". If you watched Lord of The Rings: The return of the king, Éowyn also says to the Witch King of Angmar: "I am no man", right before she slays him. It also does not imply that she is no human. Although this theory is very good and entertaining, I still stand with one of mine's about the G-man: G-man really is a human, a man who works for the US government, and ether he undergo some experiments, or he carries around in his suitcase some device that can teleport, bend time and space, and put people into stasis. He works for US government, but his employers are some top secret society that is ether bent on Universe domination, or power struggle. :D He displays very much human manners, you can see him in HalfLife 1 (anomalous materials) and Half-Life 2 (highway 17) talking to other people, which would not be so common if he was something other than a human. Again, only my opinion :D
@@miljanvukicevic8631 if you saw a man eating a lot of hamburgers you would say he's not a man? I guess he may have seen gman eat a bunch of hamburgers.
@dutch nut Well, I'm pretty sure that the quote "Comes another..." and "...He's not man..." are too far apart, and "Comes another..." is always said when Gordon comes to Xen for the first time. Also, I believe that it is a proven fact that "Comes another..." implies to gordon coming to Xen just like other scientists had come to mine for Xen crystals.
This piece of evidence to suggest he is a nihilanth seems like the weakest point and I agree that it could be referring to the scientists that cake before him considering their bodies are in that room even (through ammo packs and the teleport rooms), but I will say that I find it slightly less believable that the gman would be a human that got tested on. The portals he opened even match up with the nihilanth. And I figure if they had the tech to make a guy like the gman they’d make more of him, and he’d be far more concerned with removing the combine from earth than he actually was. With that kind of power he could eliminate them all himself. Let alone if humanity made multiple
Anyone here after Half Life: Alyx setups a perfect setting for Half Life: 3 to start?
Half life Alyx sets up the settings for Half life 2 not 3
Yeah ready for Half Life 3
@@myezza brouh... The events from half life alyx happen before half life 2...
I hope they make it in source 2 i dont like the new graphics today i really like the old one And supports old PC rams
@Cheese Mac dads gonna buy me 2 8gb rams so okay Lmao i just really like source 2 than todays engine no offense
mat the only thing missing from your impression of g-man is the aggressive breathing and i didnt know how perfect it was until it was missing
I'm being honest here. The first time I played Half-Life 2, I legitimately thought that the 'G-man' was talking directly to ME.
Durandol h it's entirely possible
you and Gordon Freeman are supposed to be the same thing. That's why he doesn't speak. It's an immersion thing.
Crowbar, putting random items on talking NPCs and jumping around in the meantime is truly immersive :DD
I wouldn't be surprised. After playing OneShot, I've realized that anything is possible in video games. :p
The Game Theorists
Ok this is for film theory but here's the theory is Spiderman a villain and venom a true hero.
11:30 Half Life Alyx fits like a puzzle piece here. Damn, that’s incredible.
Yup.
How so?
Freeman's PhD thesis is a fancy way of describing the portal gun.
The way he impersonated The G Man, he nailed it 🔥