Which is your favourite Universe? Mine is the "Robot-O-Cop" universe. They had to use their police skills to solve chambers. I laughed so many times and rerecorded the lines so many times for these!
I hope we'll play as that multiverse-traveling test subject in Portal 3. "Robo- No, Robot-O-Cop" I laughed so hard on it when I first heard that, especially because I loved the original movie an I immediately got the reference. Also, I wonder how Cave and Dark Cave got away with the money from the "Moneyverse". I'd imagine every agency from all over the world would immediately start investigating 1; how a science company on the verge of bankruptcy suddenly having a literally infinite source of money and 2; how could they get an infinite source of money for themselves.
@@PelemusMcSoy I was talking about the event you are referring to, not about you directly. 2 CJs fighting each other and suddenly becoming friends sounds like something out of an AI-generated movie.
I like to imagine that every beta iteration of the Half-Life and Portal games, as well as every single mod ever created for the Half-Life and Portal games exist in the multiverse.
I like how Valve used the multiverse to make the community test chambers canon to the story in a way. It also means that mods to the game can even be considered canon in an expanded universe sort of way!
I also love how when Cave buys out Black Mesa, he scolds them for their experiment. Idk if it's bc he explored the multiverse and realized what would happen, or if he genuinely thought it was too dangerous, but if Cave Johnson thinks something scientific is too dangerous, you know you messed up. (Or I suppose you were ABOUT to mess up?)
That makes total sense. The events of any game could have happened in the multiverse. By proxy they are technically canon in a way. ikr. If Cave says something is bad then its really bad!
It would also make our real life Universe cannon aswell in a way, just a Universe that does not feature Aperture as a real life place but as part of a game..... If that is the case, our Universe is Cannon in a game made in our Universe......................................... MIND BLOWN.
i feel that the combine have encounterd other earths before, but they didn't try to take over them because they lost to cave johnson, so they have to look out for cave and see if he's alive or not. it's even worse when they encounter 9 mercs in the 1970's on some of these earths
Or they had conquered other Earths before and another factor why they so easily won the 7 hour war as they became more experienced in taking over races, especially humanity with each world they invade
I didn't realise the half-life/portal has so much vast lore to it. At the start the combine sounded so scary and unbeatable but.. Cave Johnson and his infinite copies sounds like they could give the combine a run for their money! Wow!
I'd like to think there was a version where there was a more successful Cave Johnson, who left aperture science and became one of those CEO's that end up going from one company to another. and as a result although the portal gun, moon rock panels, turrets, and shower curtains are canon, they ultimately got left behind as Cave went to different companies and made cold hard cash. putting his flair for testing things to companies all over. such as crash test cars, crash test airplanes, crash test submarines, crash test buildings.... and that as a result when the combine invade, the aperture tested tanks, airplanes and boats absolutely destroy the combine.
I have a little theory that the Combine is some alternate universe version of Aperture Science or Black Mesa that became so advanced and powerful that they began their own government, taking over their own universe before invading others (possibly millennia later, which gives them more than enough time to advance beyond many other civilizations and eventually take on a new name)
It makes sense! The large-scale portal tech, the semi-abstract architecture in test chambers, and desire to dominate. However the only problem is if they were aperture science, they would have known about the portal gun, which enabled local transport.
I love how about 10 minutes in this goes from being a very well thought out essay into an Aparature Science fever dream starting Cave Johnson. You can even hear Skyrionn lose his narrative seriousness for a sec too lol
6:20 A thought I've had about Striders, Gunships, Hunters etc. is that they are actually what the Combine would consider light artillery. I think this because the Resistance when properly armed and organized can put up a good fight against them. I'm guessing that there was probably heavier Combine arsenal that hasn't been seen in the games that was used during the 7 Hour War and isn't part of the occupation force that was left behind afterwards. They might have been seen again if the portal storm in HL2:E2 hadn't been stopped but fortunately it didn't come to that.
We know at the very least Striders were used during the 7 hour war according to the legible and readable version of THE TIMES newspaper from Half Life 2 that was featured in Half Life Alyx as an silhouette of one can be seen strutting past the United Nations Secretariat building in NYC. The article therein also makes mention the HQ was "Torn apart" by projectiles from outside Earth's atmosphere according to the article. Seems to suggest to me that the Combine utilized orbital bombardment from space to some degree either by starships or space based portals allowing weapons from Combine Occupied space to shoot out from one dimension into the prime Half Life universe in a form of "Four Dimensional Warfare"
Man, this gives me strong scp vibes in that it opens the Half life universe up to so many canons. So many cool universes with so much potential, I freaking love it, good stuff man!
@@Skyrionn Volgun and The Exploring series are my go-tos, each in their own way, I highly suggest both. Been listening to their stuff for years now - the former doing immersive stuff, and the latter interpreting the articles in his own way. I wouldn't say this if I didn't really mean it, but I really think you'd be great with trying out an scp narration, just gotta find your own subtle twist, but your voice alone feels fantastic for scp stuff, in my opinion.
I like how the universe, where Cave Johnson explores the parallel multiverse, is a true good universe. He stops everything bad that could happen, like GLaDOS and the resonance cascade, because he has the knowledge from an infinite amount of parallel multiverses. But this makes me wonder if the Combine and Cave are exploring the same kind of multiverse. The Combine seem to be exploring and exploiting a multiverse with radically different set variables than Cave. While Cave discovers universes where Aperture and Earth exist, the Combine encounter entirely different species, planets and technologies. Maybe the Combine only understands themselves as multi-dimensional and multi-universal conquerors, but in reality they just teleport locally in their own universe to different galaxies, which are such a vast distance apart that they can't know in which universe or dimension they are, thus their mislabeling. With Cave I have no doubt that he actually is exploring parallel universes, because he sees different iteration of everything and sometimes even different laws of physics in each.
I think maybe the Combine's technology only allowed them access to random universes whereas Cave somehow tapped into technology that allowed him to scan specifically for Earth's that had Apertures. It's a great addition to the series.
hearing you talk about the ridiculous aperture universe concepts in such a serious manner never fails to cheer me up. i love how the lore of these games can be so harrowing and hilarious at the same time
I think the thing that started the combine isn't a race, but some kind of an AI with an integration directive. Makes more sense that everything is unified under an AI control with all the tech integration than being retrofitted by an advanced race that could just make the perfect soldier
Can't wait for half life 3, where a massive cave Johnson amalgamation formed of household appliance turrets, completely annihilate the combine by using the borrialis to make a army of copies of him from slightly different times.
I know it’s technically not part of the canon since there fan games. but I consider entropy 1/2 as part of the original HL timeline.Since they do fit perfectly into it. Also since it will be another 15-25 years until we get a new half-life game and since valve rewrote Hl2ep3/HL3 timeline with HL:A anything is possible. Side note theoretically any fan game could be part of the multiverse but that’s up too you Thank you for reading my Cavetalk comment .
They do fit perfectly into the timeline but as they're not made by Valve - I don't consider them. However, Valve have basically said that canon doesnt exist. It's kinda up to the player at this point to determine was is and isn't canon. I agree with your sidenote. With the multiverse theory - everything is possible. Thanks for the comment!
@@Skyrionn Thank you for covering HL and the Portal series. I always really look forward to your videos , thank you again for making for making such great content
Love that you try to reply to as many people as possible, not something that many entertainers do anymore. Your videos are great to sit down and watch when you have a lot of free time, and it gives you something to think about for awhile too.
What a video I can’t get enough from your content. Truly pure love and effort as always set you apart from other channels that make lore videos. Anyhow cheers from your Belgian neighbour
Theory: The Borealis worked in universe prime, and the technology that caused it to teleport to the Arctic actually just teleported them from universe to universe, so in the "canon" universe, they finally appeared in their own universe decades later, similar to that one Phineas and Ferb movie. The Borealis succeeded in universe prime, so they used its universe-hopping technology to explore the universes.
I don't necessarily hate it. But I feel like the mystery and awe behind the Half-Life universe (G-man, the scale of the Combine etc) is diluted out by the perpetual testing initiative. It's taking the best parts of what makes the Half-Life and portal universe unique (imo) and then commits thematic suicide.
The Valverse sure is amazing, i dont even think Valve themselves are aware of it tbh... Great job exploring it for all of us btw, *especially* us who dont play much games, or simply have the attention span of a headcrab.
I'm happy to help. I learned a lot of things while putting this episode together. It has surprised me how many people didn't play the Portal 2 DLC. It really was fantastic.
something i dont think most people realize with (most) multiverses theres an infinite number of universes but its a bit more then that theres an infinite number of infinitely different universes and because its infinite means theres an infinite number of entirely identical universes hell theoretically theres an infinite number of universes where their whole thing is that its entirely identical to any and every other universe infinite is INFINITE
Hey! This videos are great and I love them! But I really suggest buying half life alyx so you can use source 2 filmmaker to the make the 3d animations much better, or you could also try using source flimaker too! Just a suggestion
Thanks for the tip! I have thought about it but if I used filmmaker, it would just take too much time and I'd end up posting every 2-3 weeks instead of weekly. I appreciate you watching!
Watching this video, I couldn't help but putting "two and two" together. The "sentient cloud" had GOT to be the cut Half-Life 2 beta enemy called "Particle Storm" that took Eli Maxwell's. Otherwise it's just a huge coincidence. Could it be that the "Particle Storm" entity *is* canon regardless of whether it was cut from HL2?
I rememebr seeing a theory about the multiverse and how Aperture explored it in another universe and how Aperture could have evolved into the Combine, and this video feels almost like proof of that theory
Pretty sure black mesa discovered either long range teleportation (just ftl travel) or they discovered other universes, while apertature discovered SHORT RANGE teleportation
7 hours is actually rather impressive for a bunch of hairless apes with peashooters to hold out against an alien empire with potentially several universes worth of technology and expertise to call on.
A lot of these Aperture parallel universes have a lot of potential as self-contained spin-offs. Some that has a similar tone to Portal 1 & Half-Life 2, and some that have a lighter, less serious tone as Portal 2.
19:35 A character voided by J.K. Simmons who's obsessed with the paranormal and is in cahoots with a powerful demon? Now where have I heard that before...
The problem with the multiverse is that is removes all dramatic stakes. Why care if Gordan Freeman succeeds or is defeated if there are just infinite copies of him? Apply that same logic to everything. Nothing matters in an infinite multiverse. Luckily, Half-Life seems to suggest that each universe is home to completely different species and not exact copies of things from other universes. The community level tutorial video in Portal 2 unfortunately contradicts this, but I think it's easy to brush off tutorial videos as non-canon.
that's not that much of a probelm . because yes there is an infinity of version of any character you'll ever encounter . but it's never a perfect copy . there'll always be something different . and so there might be an infinite number of gordon freeman , they are not the gordon freeman we know
Yeah this is why I like portal 2 but also kinda hate the lore implications and tone shifts that came with it. Like don’t want a spider verse multiverse type of thing in half life universe ever.
All of this makes sense, except that you say it would take only a slight alteration to the “video games” universe for Valve to learn to count to 3. I’m afraid that would require huge changes to the laws of physics.
Given that the Vortiguants know the scientific name of the Advisors and have uses for headcrabs with ancient tales of both, I think its probably safe to say those 3 species are all from the same Universe. In addition i think it is likely Headcrabs and Vortiguants are the same planet explaining how Both got to Xen and how the combine uses both.
@@Skyrionn I’m doing okay now! The accident was not my fault, but both cars are totaled. Quick visit to hospital and I was set out with a few scrapes and bruises
makes you think, what if the CMB came across different earth's, like the L4D earth, or the TF2 earth, they'd probably want to weaponize stuff such as the green flu and australium
Thank you for doing this video. Can i ask where did the information for the multiple portal universes come from as ive completed both portal ganes and all 3 halflife 2 games, alyx and opposing force. I cant believe i missed such a huge section of the lore and would love to find it out "in game". Thanks again, great video. Love this channel.
I can't comprehend how did you manage to read out the nonsensical throwaway joke lore of Aperture Prime with a straight face (voice?). I am laughing out loud listening to this 🤣
What’s crazy is I didn’t even know there was a bunch of story behind the half-life multi-verse so it kind of makes you wonder if Cave was literally running through all of these universes just for ideas . it makes me wonder did he ever really truly run into the combine and if so he either had to have somehow bumped into the G-man at some point to and I guess if he was able to hold them off for this long from our universe that I can only imagine how he would be half life’s equivalent of Rick Sanchez not only that but it makes you wonder about the possibilities of what valve cutter business they actually kept expanding the world I had the universe as half life also makes me wonder if cave Johnson also exist in the left for dead universe and if so was he responsible for that zombie outbreak
gotta love me some lore and a video by skrionn!.. anyhow good video! can't really say anything since this IS canon lore so.. yeah already knew bout it but still watched it
The multiverse doesn’t necessarily mean infinite universes, just more than one. Hopefully for the half life multiverse, there are a finite number. I don’t like the concept of infinite universe becuase that means there’s universes where every possibility happens, and they happen infinite times. There would be infinite Gordon Freemans and infinite Kleiners. Also, infinite Nihilanths.
The big question is what would happen if the Aperature Science Perpetual Testing Initiative came in contact with the Combine Empire? I'd like to think that Aperature would be the one power that could have a fighting chance against the Combine.
Due to the multi-verse being canon to the half-life and portal series doesn’t that mean everything can be canon to half-life and portal due to the multiverse
What about the Alyph universe (from a Breen's voice line cut from Ep. 2)? Some speculate that it is either the Combine's 'prime' universe or even the 'Library' universe (from their cancelled game Prospero)
Am I the only person who thinks Cave Johnson sounds kinda like "Kang The Conquer" from the MCU? Versions of himself at war with the other versions of himself, with Cave Prime being like "He Who Remains" (Seen in Loki, He is a version of Kang).
Which is your favourite Universe?
Mine is the "Robot-O-Cop" universe. They had to use their police skills to solve chambers.
I laughed so many times and rerecorded the lines so many times for these!
Thats the best one XD
cheers for taking the time to make your vids, keeping the HL vibes alive. Shame Cave didn't find a universe where they could cure moon poisoning.
Blappeture Mesa
I hope we'll play as that multiverse-traveling test subject in Portal 3.
"Robo- No, Robot-O-Cop" I laughed so hard on it when I first heard that, especially because I loved the original movie an I immediately got the reference.
Also, I wonder how Cave and Dark Cave got away with the money from the "Moneyverse". I'd imagine every agency from all over the world would immediately start investigating 1; how a science company on the verge of bankruptcy suddenly having a literally infinite source of money and 2; how could they get an infinite source of money for themselves.
I could hear you about to laugh in many lines LOL
Black Mesa Multiverse Exploration: Leads to death and destruction
Aperture Science Multiverse Exploration: Leads to a wholesome lasting friendship
Aperture science beat black mesa to their own game and even mastered it. 🤣🤣🤣
comedy wins always
That part sounded AI-generated
@@NovaAge Second time this week I've been accused of being an AI bot thingy. Should I feel amused or hurt?
@@PelemusMcSoy I was talking about the event you are referring to, not about you directly.
2 CJs fighting each other and suddenly becoming friends sounds like something out of an AI-generated movie.
I like to imagine that every beta iteration of the Half-Life and Portal games, as well as every single mod ever created for the Half-Life and Portal games exist in the multiverse.
i love the concept of Gordon dying at the end of HL1 or during the uprising causing similar events to the Half-Life 2 Beta to happen
It does make sense!
i feel bad for the people in the hunt down the freeman universe
Every death of freeman, when you respawn, your on another parallel universe.
Good job you just made hunt down the freeman canon and it can't be undone
I like how Valve used the multiverse to make the community test chambers canon to the story in a way. It also means that mods to the game can even be considered canon in an expanded universe sort of way!
I also love how when Cave buys out Black Mesa, he scolds them for their experiment. Idk if it's bc he explored the multiverse and realized what would happen, or if he genuinely thought it was too dangerous, but if Cave Johnson thinks something scientific is too dangerous, you know you messed up. (Or I suppose you were ABOUT to mess up?)
That makes total sense. The events of any game could have happened in the multiverse. By proxy they are technically canon in a way.
ikr. If Cave says something is bad then its really bad!
Cave is the guy that could scam the Combine and get away with it.
Which also can explain why Wheatley exist in TF2 as a sapper
It would also make our real life Universe cannon aswell in a way, just a Universe that does not feature Aperture as a real life place but as part of a game.....
If that is the case, our Universe is Cannon in a game made in our Universe......................................... MIND BLOWN.
i feel that the combine have encounterd other earths before, but they didn't try to take over them because they lost to cave johnson, so they have to look out for cave and see if he's alive or not. it's even worse when they encounter 9 mercs in the 1970's on some of these earths
Sorry to say but I don't think the mercs stand a chance against the combine...
@@mell7249 gman actually died from finger gun heavy
i hope half life 3 ends in some all out war where all 3 franchises turn into one so they can defeat the combine
Or they had conquered other Earths before and another factor why they so easily won the 7 hour war as they became more experienced in taking over races, especially humanity with each world they invade
Those lemons hit hard ;)
I didn't realise the half-life/portal has so much vast lore to it. At the start the combine sounded so scary and unbeatable but.. Cave Johnson and his infinite copies sounds like they could give the combine a run for their money! Wow!
I'd like to think there was a version where there was a more successful Cave Johnson, who left aperture science and became one of those CEO's that end up going from one company to another. and as a result although the portal gun, moon rock panels, turrets, and shower curtains are canon, they ultimately got left behind as Cave went to different companies and made cold hard cash. putting his flair for testing things to companies all over. such as crash test cars, crash test airplanes, crash test submarines, crash test buildings.... and that as a result when the combine invade, the aperture tested tanks, airplanes and boats absolutely destroy the combine.
I would like to see that game.
I have a little theory that the Combine is some alternate universe version of Aperture Science or Black Mesa that became so advanced and powerful that they began their own government, taking over their own universe before invading others (possibly millennia later, which gives them more than enough time to advance beyond many other civilizations and eventually take on a new name)
true
It makes sense! The large-scale portal tech, the semi-abstract architecture in test chambers, and desire to dominate. However the only problem is if they were aperture science, they would have known about the portal gun, which enabled local transport.
What if they never invented it@@WindyHeavy
They found and destroyed the lemonverse, which sent them down a universe destroying spree
I love how about 10 minutes in this goes from being a very well thought out essay into an Aparature Science fever dream starting Cave Johnson. You can even hear Skyrionn lose his narrative seriousness for a sec too lol
6:20 A thought I've had about Striders, Gunships, Hunters etc. is that they are actually what the Combine would consider light artillery. I think this because the Resistance when properly armed and organized can put up a good fight against them. I'm guessing that there was probably heavier Combine arsenal that hasn't been seen in the games that was used during the 7 Hour War and isn't part of the occupation force that was left behind afterwards. They might have been seen again if the portal storm in HL2:E2 hadn't been stopped but fortunately it didn't come to that.
Imagine an armored gonarch
We know at the very least Striders were used during the 7 hour war according to the legible and readable version of THE TIMES newspaper from Half Life 2 that was featured in Half Life Alyx as an silhouette of one can be seen strutting past the United Nations Secretariat building in NYC. The article therein also makes mention the HQ was "Torn apart" by projectiles from outside Earth's atmosphere according to the article. Seems to suggest to me that the Combine utilized orbital bombardment from space to some degree either by starships or space based portals allowing weapons from Combine Occupied space to shoot out from one dimension into the prime Half Life universe in a form of "Four Dimensional Warfare"
@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 Cybernatic enhanced Gargantua.....
Or legion of genetically modified alient grunt
Man, this gives me strong scp vibes in that it opens the Half life universe up to so many canons. So many cool universes with so much potential, I freaking love it, good stuff man!
I JUST got into SCP and I am obsessed with it!
Thanks for watching this video too.
@@Skyrionn Volgun and The Exploring series are my go-tos, each in their own way, I highly suggest both. Been listening to their stuff for years now - the former doing immersive stuff, and the latter interpreting the articles in his own way.
I wouldn't say this if I didn't really mean it, but I really think you'd be great with trying out an scp narration, just gotta find your own subtle twist, but your voice alone feels fantastic for scp stuff, in my opinion.
@@Skyrionn you should make scp videos those would be amazing
I like how the universe, where Cave Johnson explores the parallel multiverse, is a true good universe. He stops everything bad that could happen, like GLaDOS and the resonance cascade, because he has the knowledge from an infinite amount of parallel multiverses.
But this makes me wonder if the Combine and Cave are exploring the same kind of multiverse. The Combine seem to be exploring and exploiting a multiverse with radically different set variables than Cave. While Cave discovers universes where Aperture and Earth exist, the Combine encounter entirely different species, planets and technologies.
Maybe the Combine only understands themselves as multi-dimensional and multi-universal conquerors, but in reality they just teleport locally in their own universe to different galaxies, which are such a vast distance apart that they can't know in which universe or dimension they are, thus their mislabeling.
With Cave I have no doubt that he actually is exploring parallel universes, because he sees different iteration of everything and sometimes even different laws of physics in each.
I think maybe the Combine's technology only allowed them access to random universes whereas Cave somehow tapped into technology that allowed him to scan specifically for Earth's that had Apertures. It's a great addition to the series.
Imagine, that cave is where gman came from
@@noralex777cave is gman lol
Actually that could be a good story for the gman and would explain why the gman knows all
@@B.L.U.Swhat if the gman is an evil cave (like dark cave but actually evil) or what if the "employers" are just a council of cave johnsons
@@generalemmanuel Gordon finds the employees and he just see the same guy repeated by 10 to the power of "Aleph"
Thank you for putting the time and effort into making these, they are a lot of fun to watch.
Glad you like them!
hearing you talk about the ridiculous aperture universe concepts in such a serious manner never fails to cheer me up. i love how the lore of these games can be so harrowing and hilarious at the same time
You know you really messed up when Cave Johnson of all people deems your project extremely dangerous.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think the thing that started the combine isn't a race, but some kind of an AI with an integration directive. Makes more sense that everything is unified under an AI control with all the tech integration than being retrofitted by an advanced race that could just make the perfect soldier
Can't wait for half life 3, where a massive cave Johnson amalgamation formed of household appliance turrets, completely annihilate the combine by using the borrialis to make a army of copies of him from slightly different times.
I'd be down for that.
I didn’t know about Cave Johnson’s multiverse conquest. I had lots of laughs from this video, thank you!
Happy to entertain. I also laughed a lot putting this together.
I would highly recommend listening to Cave Johnson Quotes from Portal 2 DLC
Somewhere, in a bizarre alternate universe, Valve can count to 3...
I know it’s technically not part of the canon since there fan games. but I consider entropy 1/2 as part of the original HL timeline.Since they do fit perfectly into it.
Also since it will be another 15-25 years until we get a new half-life game and since valve rewrote Hl2ep3/HL3 timeline with HL:A anything is possible.
Side note theoretically any fan game could be part of the multiverse but that’s up too you
Thank you for reading my Cavetalk comment .
They do fit perfectly into the timeline but as they're not made by Valve - I don't consider them. However, Valve have basically said that canon doesnt exist. It's kinda up to the player at this point to determine was is and isn't canon.
I agree with your sidenote. With the multiverse theory - everything is possible.
Thanks for the comment!
@@Skyrionn Thank you for covering HL and the Portal series.
I always really look forward to your videos , thank you again for making for making such great content
Since I'm sure we won't get a HL2 Episode 3, the Entropy Zero games will have to be enough for me and I'm happy with that.
multiverse is infinite, it's impossible fir the fangames to not happen in it
@@SkyrionnDamn valve is doing Micheal Kirkbride route lol
Love your content so much. I’ve never been so invested in the lore of Half Life/Portal before. Never stop making content, thank you.
I'll keep going for as long as I can. I appreciate you watching.
It sucks that Half-Life going forward probably won’t touch on this.
What if there’s a universe where Adrian Shepard still was part of the plot
We're still looking for it!
This is the best half-life lore channel by far. Hopefully valve will bring out another game.
Love that you try to reply to as many people as possible, not something that many entertainers do anymore.
Your videos are great to sit down and watch when you have a lot of free time, and it gives you something to think about for awhile too.
The greatest universe is not even mentioned: Aperture Desk Job's Toilet-Turret Universe
When superhero writers run out of ideas:
I imagined all the things in Cave's voice, his voice is so perfect I can imagine it perfectly
What a video I can’t get enough from your content. Truly pure love and effort as always set you apart from other channels that make lore videos. Anyhow cheers from your Belgian neighbour
Thank you so much for watching! There's so much more to come too!
Theory: The Borealis worked in universe prime, and the technology that caused it to teleport to the Arctic actually just teleported them from universe to universe, so in the "canon" universe, they finally appeared in their own universe decades later, similar to that one Phineas and Ferb movie. The Borealis succeeded in universe prime, so they used its universe-hopping technology to explore the universes.
I love this theory.
Haven't even watched 5 seconds yet, but putting Escape Array as the first song in the background made me interested instantly.
I don't necessarily hate it. But I feel like the mystery and awe behind the Half-Life universe (G-man, the scale of the Combine etc) is diluted out by the perpetual testing initiative. It's taking the best parts of what makes the Half-Life and portal universe unique (imo) and then commits thematic suicide.
Been watching all your Half-Life videos, they're so relaxing and soothing. now waiting patiently for the full lore on G-man.
"Breaking news: Michigan man found a way to have infinite money"
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Cave Johnson prime definitely stole test chambers from the combine, but with an infinite number of universes comes an infinite amount of the combine
these are the best half life lore videos hands down
That's very kind of you to say!
The Valverse sure is amazing, i dont even think Valve themselves are aware of it tbh...
Great job exploring it for all of us btw, *especially* us who dont play much games, or simply have the attention span of a headcrab.
I'm happy to help. I learned a lot of things while putting this episode together. It has surprised me how many people didn't play the Portal 2 DLC. It really was fantastic.
something i dont think most people realize with (most) multiverses
theres an infinite number of universes
but its a bit more then that
theres an infinite number of infinitely different universes
and because its infinite means theres an infinite number of entirely identical universes
hell theoretically
theres an infinite number of universes where their whole thing is that its entirely identical to any and every other universe
infinite is INFINITE
The gradual escalation of the Portal universes is fucking hilarious. Well done, 10/10, no notes
Bro you earned it on this one wow.❤ so happy your channel exists
Knowing that Into The Multiverse on the workshop is 100% cannon makes me happy. Long live Blapeture Mesa
The whole irony that Cave Johnson would scold Black Mesa for questionable experiments, given his own motto
I love how a joke trailer of a map builder became a legit part of the Half Life lore
Man, I can't beleibe you are almost at 100k! You definetelly deserve it!
It's so freaking close. Thanks for the support!
@@Skyrionn Happy 100k in advance to you!
In this universe, Skyrionn is a younger version of the G-Man. 😳
Awesome content delving deep into the Half-Life lore.
Hey! This videos are great and I love them! But I really suggest buying half life alyx so you can use source 2 filmmaker to the make the 3d animations much better, or you could also try using source flimaker too! Just a suggestion
Thanks for the tip! I have thought about it but if I used filmmaker, it would just take too much time and I'd end up posting every 2-3 weeks instead of weekly. I appreciate you watching!
@@Skyrionn its okay and remember that quality is over quantity
Portal 2 is just deranged and I love it.
This DLC just went nuts
Opened my mind a lot on the lore of HL and Portal series thank you!
Happy to help. I have so much more to come too!
18:50 I was thinking it before I saw the pinned comment:
Thought: "I can hear you smiling while you talk about these"
Honestly, it's the funniest video I've put together.
Watching this video, I couldn't help but putting "two and two" together. The "sentient cloud" had GOT to be the cut Half-Life 2 beta enemy called "Particle Storm" that took Eli Maxwell's. Otherwise it's just a huge coincidence. Could it be that the "Particle Storm" entity *is* canon regardless of whether it was cut from HL2?
I rememebr seeing a theory about the multiverse and how Aperture explored it in another universe and how Aperture could have evolved into the Combine, and this video feels almost like proof of that theory
That is a theory that could make sense. I guess we'll never know though.
It would explain how the Combine and aperture both have energy pellets.
and we have mclain as overwatch lady...
Just finished Entropy Zero. Holy duly. That was amazing
I need to finish the second one
@@Skyrionn The Second One was epic. Gameplay and story. Do not forget to bring Wilson with you. He is amazing
Because of multiple universes canon in portal that means there's canonically a universe where portal 3 exists
Pretty sure black mesa discovered either long range teleportation (just ftl travel) or they discovered other universes, while apertature discovered SHORT RANGE teleportation
i knew nothing about Aperture's explorations
damn they're kinda badass
7 hours is actually rather impressive for a bunch of hairless apes with peashooters to hold out against an alien empire with potentially several universes worth of technology and expertise to call on.
A lot of these Aperture parallel universes have a lot of potential as self-contained spin-offs.
Some that has a similar tone to Portal 1 & Half-Life 2, and some that have a lighter, less serious tone as Portal 2.
I'd love to see some alternate universes as games, like the one where Cave is GLaDOS
Valve are sitting on a goldmine of potential content. It's a shame they haven't explored it.
these different universes are like something out of the tf2 comics
most of this is from the portal 2 DLC voice lines... soo yeah its valve so its gotta be funny
Literally. Valve does comedy best.
19:35 A character voided by J.K. Simmons who's obsessed with the paranormal and is in cahoots with a powerful demon? Now where have I heard that before...
Not many people even know that Hλlf-Life is a Multiversal story. Hope this video will clear things out
The problem with the multiverse is that is removes all dramatic stakes. Why care if Gordan Freeman succeeds or is defeated if there are just infinite copies of him? Apply that same logic to everything. Nothing matters in an infinite multiverse.
Luckily, Half-Life seems to suggest that each universe is home to completely different species and not exact copies of things from other universes. The community level tutorial video in Portal 2 unfortunately contradicts this, but I think it's easy to brush off tutorial videos as non-canon.
I hadn't thought about it that way. I'll try not to from now on.
Valve had said that canon isn't a thing so that could also make sense.
that's not that much of a probelm . because yes there is an infinity of version of any character you'll ever encounter . but it's never a perfect copy . there'll always be something different . and so there might be an infinite number of gordon freeman , they are not the gordon freeman we know
Yeah this is why I like portal 2 but also kinda hate the lore implications and tone shifts that came with it. Like don’t want a spider verse multiverse type of thing in half life universe ever.
Skyrionn never stops with the good lore
Imagine discovering a headcrab on the street while walking to the shop and then realizing what this thing actually means for humanity😂
Nice one
Will you make any lore videos related to the HL1 Alpha?
Thanks! I actually hadn't thought about it. I may look into it though!
BTW will you also focus on Saint Olga and the Fisherman from Lost Coast?
So, the multiverse is real in Half life?
Great, i cannot wait for the moment the Combine encounters the Glactic Empire. That shit would be legendary
7:44 that the G-Man or his employers doing (nudging their experiments just enough so they discover Xen)
so wait, the games of portal and portal 2 are covering MULTIPLE universes? wow
Yeah - the DLC's really went out there.
If only the Nihilanth actually decided to become Allies with Humanity instead of destroy it.
All of this makes sense, except that you say it would take only a slight alteration to the “video games” universe for Valve to learn to count to 3. I’m afraid that would require huge changes to the laws of physics.
Some say it may not even be possible in the multiverse. We need to start looking.
Just realized portal and half-life is just a big game Into two parts🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Imagine you are living in the woods,going to sleep and after 7 hours the Earth is not the same and waking up of 9 hours of sleep and wtf is happening
That'd be the worst.
I think all the alien monsters coming through killing everything would be a more immediate concern for you.
One of universes where Gordon Freeman pay visit(in my mega-crossover) are one where GLADOS was Cave Johnson living his technological afterlife
Hey I've a question where did all this information about Aperature's exploration of the multiverse come from?
Given that the Vortiguants know the scientific name of the Advisors and have uses for headcrabs with ancient tales of both, I think its probably safe to say those 3 species are all from the same Universe. In addition i think it is likely Headcrabs and Vortiguants are the same planet explaining how Both got to Xen and how the combine uses both.
I got into a car accident with this playing on the Bluetooth radio. Bet you’ve never heard this before
I hope you're okay!
@@Skyrionn I’m doing okay now! The accident was not my fault, but both cars are totaled. Quick visit to hospital and I was set out with a few scrapes and bruises
makes you think, what if the CMB came across different earth's, like the L4D earth, or the TF2 earth, they'd probably want to weaponize stuff such as the green flu and australium
Oh Jeez. Imagine if they weaponized the Zombies. That'd be awful.
Thank you for doing this video. Can i ask where did the information for the multiple portal universes come from as ive completed both portal ganes and all 3 halflife 2 games, alyx and opposing force. I cant believe i missed such a huge section of the lore and would love to find it out "in game". Thanks again, great video. Love this channel.
This is my new favorite Channel
I've always knew Aperture was Cooler!! (thanks for the new rabbit holes too-)
No problem!
the combine versus 100 scientists with mantis DNA:
LOL
Maybe the Cave Johnsons, are the ones the ones we make along the way
I just realized something... what if the combine are from a universe, where Cave Johnson is their leader
I can't comprehend how did you manage to read out the nonsensical throwaway joke lore of Aperture Prime with a straight face (voice?). I am laughing out loud listening to this 🤣
What’s crazy is I didn’t even know there was a bunch of story behind the half-life multi-verse so it kind of makes you wonder if Cave was literally running through all of these universes just for ideas . it makes me wonder did he ever really truly run into the combine and if so he either had to have somehow bumped into the G-man at some point to and I guess if he was able to hold them off for this long from our universe that I can only imagine how he would be half life’s equivalent of Rick Sanchez not only that but it makes you wonder about the possibilities of what valve cutter business they actually kept expanding the world I had the universe as half life also makes me wonder if cave Johnson also exist in the left for dead universe and if so was he responsible for that zombie outbreak
Oh no. This means that hunt down the Freeman is cannon. Oh dear.....
Hunt Down The Freeman confirmed 100% canon
I admire the bravery in commenting this.
@@deaderontheinside6871 i agree there... this dude has balls...
The bravest comment.
Balls of steel.
I love binging your source game lore. Cheers.
gotta love me some lore and a video by skrionn!.. anyhow good video! can't really say anything since this IS canon lore so.. yeah already knew bout it but still watched it
A true Portal fan there. So many people haven't played to DLC and it was great to bring this to them!
The multiverse doesn’t necessarily mean infinite universes, just more than one. Hopefully for the half life multiverse, there are a finite number. I don’t like the concept of infinite universe becuase that means there’s universes where every possibility happens, and they happen infinite times. There would be infinite Gordon Freemans and infinite Kleiners. Also, infinite Nihilanths.
And infinite Laszlos the finest minds of their generations
I'm sure aperture paranormal would be a fun game
I wanna see the demon inside of Cave's mouth.
Closure and White Mesa
The big question is what would happen if the Aperature Science Perpetual Testing Initiative came in contact with the Combine Empire? I'd like to think that Aperature would be the one power that could have a fighting chance against the Combine.
Due to the multi-verse being canon to the half-life and portal series doesn’t that mean everything can be canon to half-life and portal due to the multiverse
25:00 Maybe someday we’ll find these two universes..
We can only hope
@@Skyrionn i am hoping a universe exists where half life 3 and portal 3 release
I think all the vortigaunts escape because if they had vortigaunts working for them it would be a lot crazier
Amazing stuff as always
Glad you think so! I appreciate you.
What about the Alyph universe (from a Breen's voice line cut from Ep. 2)? Some speculate that it is either the Combine's 'prime' universe or even the 'Library' universe (from their cancelled game Prospero)
Am I the only person who thinks Cave Johnson sounds kinda like "Kang The Conquer" from the MCU? Versions of himself at war with the other versions of himself, with Cave Prime being like "He Who Remains" (Seen in Loki, He is a version of Kang).
Yesss! Just not as evil or intelligent. Wanda is Kang's true equal. She could take him out so easily. I wonder who the HL equivalent would be.
Skyrionn you're my favorite lore scrungly
I don't know what a scrungly is but I think its a compliment!
@@Skyrionn internet speak for little guy, love your content
Good video, part 2.