How Are the Portal and Half-life Games Connected?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video analysis, I try to find the references in how both universes acknowledge each other and how they are connected. It's a question that no one has really tried answering in video format. So I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to do something about that. But it does bear the question: how are the Half-life and Portal games connected?!
Make sure to check out Mauricio's video about Black Mesa and Aperture Laboratories’ working conditions: • Which is Safer? Black ...
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Opener
2:17 - Half-Life 2: Episode 2
4:30 - Portal 1
9:53 - Portal 2
13:11 - Portal 2: Lab Rat
13:47 - Lego Dimensions
14:19 - Robot Repair
15:41 - Moondust
15:54 - Half-life: Alyx
16:16 - Aperture: Desk Job
17:26 - Closure
Music Used:
Me for You - Spongebob
Cavern Ambiance - Half-life
Nether Animal - Unreal Tournament 99
Dark Interval - Half-life 2: Episode 2
Mall 2 - Postal 2
Syntek Residential - Alien Swarm/Portal 2
Procedural Jiggle Bone - Portal
Perchance to Dream - Halo: Combat Evolved
Mall of the Dead - Blood
Bust - Half-life: Opposing Force
Self Esteem Fund - Portal
Vitrification Order - Portal 2
A Brand New Start - TrackTribe
Fuelled By Hate - Manhunt
Ghost of Rattman - Portal 2
Adrenaline Horror - Half-life
Loading Screen Theme - GTA 4
Anti-Citizen - Half-life Alyx
Peril - Halo 2
Cara Mia Addio - Portal 2
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So this video took a LONG time to get out of the door. I am pleased to see that our collab made it out just in time for Half-Life 1's 25th Anniversary, but I will admit it was a tiresome process. This video is kinda of product of me in Mid 2022 and even late 2021 (with some changes in late 2023). It was at a time where I wanted to continue with the Demos video and milk out Half-Life content but... never did. This video is like going back in time for me. I wish I could tell you about the delays, the rewrites and the unexpeceted problems. Mauricio Jara had a lot happening with his side of the collab with delays and life. Despite that, I still had some enjoyment with this and was able to build a bridge to a good friend. I hope people enjoy our event and that it will spread joy.
It might have been hard for me, but I am just happy it is finally here.
Fun fact, you used to be able to find dead headcrabs on the CSGO map Shoots
I do like the idea Cave Johnson looks at something and goes "can this end the world? if yes, shut it down, if no...I don't care"
He mentions several times experiments with time travel that could "wipe out time, forward and backward."
@@Awesomeness-iz3dh Yeah, Cave Johnson is honestly a very hypocritical dude lol. Resonance Cascade? Nah. The possibility of destroying time forward and backward entirely? Sure why not lol
I also think (if what real Cave would actually do) that leans into the Theory Breen made contact with the combine pre 7 hour war. If *Cave Johnson* believed it was too dangerous it would have to be the single most dangerous thing humanity has ever thought of.
Meanwhile the portal gun casually ripping a hole through space and time to teleport to the moon
Meanwhile the portal gun casually ripping a hole through space and time to teleport to the moon
I love how at the end of portal Lego dimensions, Lego intentionally added those black mesa boxes. They didn’t have to but they did implying that there is a Lego Gordon Freeman fighting Lego combine on the surface which is so fucking funny to me. Even though we won’t get a Lego half life set or game because Lego doesn’t use violent brands I think it’s still so funny that it is implied that the events of half life 2 are taking place on the surface. Also I am not ashamed to admit that Lego dimensions portal was my introduction to half life and portal being in the same universe. When I played Lego dimensions portal back in 2015 I saw the black mesa boxes at the end and I was curious to why Wheatley became so interested in them. So I looked up something along the lines of “portal black mesa” and that’s how I found out that portal and half life were in the same universe which I am still not ashamed of admitting to this day!
Imagine the combine being the antagonist in Lego dimensions since they are quite multiversal
@@tiberiusdawn2042 that would actually be a really cool concept! Now that you think about it there could possibly be a Lego half-life portal universe just like the Lego Spider-Man universe in Spider-Man across the spider verse, since portal 2 introduced the whole multiverse thingy and Lego dimensions expands upon the half-life multiverse by including the Lego portal universe
@@winstonmt2043 indeed and maybe it can finally show what the true power of the combine and maybe they fight other multiversal empire too
If there ever is a sequel…
Imagine if Lego Dimensions 2 has a Half-life section
And a Mario DLC, if the first game had a Sonic The Hedgehog DLC, then the second one could have Mario
There is also another reference to half life in still alive, the line "when i look up there it makes me GLaD i'm not you" most likely refers to the surface being under control by the combine
My memory is a little blank, but when I was doing this in 2022 I remember including it. But I decided to not use it since I wasn't completely sure of it and felt the Black Mesa reference was good enough. In retrospect, it wouldn't have hurt to mention it.
The tone difference isn't an issue for me. I make a comparison like this sometimes: A talking raccoon with laser weapons that have adventures in outher space exists in the same universe as Frank Castle that guts criminals with a improvised razor thing in the prison. The grounded and the weird help each other feel more impactifull in the same world. Real life isn't that different, I mean, you have kids forced to traffic drugs in the slums and New Zealand and Dolphins exist.. and we have no idea what might exist in planets from different star systems or galaxies. Reality doesn't have one unique tone, every brain perceive it's own reallity while being all in the same.
ok
Not sure, but i think dolphins are more of assholes, puppys in other hand
I think the best way to connect both universes is for Aperture Science to somehow actually have an impact on Half-Life's story such as how the Borealis might be so important, making Aperture's existence actually a crucial part in the story of Half-Life. (That was probably ABOUT to happen, but you know...)
Or they could do something crazy in Portal 3 where G-Man meets Chell who is coincidentally another silent protagonist controlled by the player who has survived impossible odds...
... wait, no, that can't happen. We all know Valve can't count past 2.
Yeah man... I still wish Episode 3 happened
Oh, it probably did. But G-Man stopped that timeline from happening in Alyx. Only took him YEARS.
That's right. This was planned from the start. The people at Valve are GENIUSES. Not receiving Half Life 3... was the unforeseen consequence.
hey man theres rumors valve is making another puzzle game which would be likely to be portal
well, portal's the only valve franchise that doesn't really need a third installment. the 2nd game pretty much did everything they could have done. plus ending the story started by the first game.
@@jaski4022 Yeah. Every major mod for Portal 2 is basically just the fans being like
Fan 1. "Hey man, want to play more Portal 2?"
Fan 2. "Sure."
*Mod happens.*
The mods show that Portal could keep going, but the innovation has kinda reached it's limits. Anything coming out now is just being made because people care, and just want to play more Portal.
14:36 If they can power their whole facility with a hydroelectric dam in the middle of the New Mexico desert, sure, they can put a lumberyard there, too.
well there is also the Lambda Reactor, and a lot of auxilary generators are seen throughout the complex (in Power Up for example)
@@evablouseblanche112 As far as I'm aware, the Lambda Reactor is specifically to power the Xen teleporter in the Lambda Labs and maybe the other teleportation technology that's kinda spattered everywhere for no reason. This isn't ever actually confirmed in text, but considering the teleporter is literally built into the top of the reactor, I think it's a safe bet.
But yes, there are more sources of power than just the hydroelectric dam; it's just the most significant one we see.
Great to finally see this collab surface from the depths, after a year and a half of delays.
I will always be drawn to, and love Half-Life forever, man.
Something i really like about Entropy Zero is how well Aperture fits into the Half Life world. It honesty never felt like either dev teams actually wanted to make there games take place in the same universe and only did it for marketing purposes.Infact them actually being in the same universe kinda creates alot of problems (like for example… how does the Portal Gun exist when literally the combines whole goal is creating teleportation and will go through relentless lengths to get teleportation LESS stable than the portal gun.). Entropy Zero really fixes both problems and makes it seem like these worlds were always meant to collide.
I LOVE how you included a HDTF clip. I personally consider it canon purely because that would be the funniest thing in the world. In fact, for my ideal Half-Life 3/Episode 3 has a three way fight between Mitchell’s child soldiers, the Resistance, and Combine remnants fighting over the Borealis. President Keemstar would return and replace Brien as the new Combine puppet leader who commentates on what’s happening at that point in the game. The way Alyx’s ending would feature into this is have a scene where Eli and Gordon are doing auditions where they need a replacement for Alyx after Gman vanished her, and the player gets to choose from the different alternate Alyx models from Cinematic Mod. NOW THAT WOULD BE FUNNY! I’d pay good money to see this dumpster fire be made a reality🤣
I just want to say, you can't add a game to valve's half-life franchise section your self as a steamworks developer, valve has to do it, and HDTF is in the half-life franchise funny enough.
( 7:27 ) Well i have an counter argument, maybe its not reusing assests, and Maybe GLaDoS made a Deal with The Combine to not invade them, GLaDOS give the Combine some Aperture Tech and The Combine don't invade Aperture.
1. The Combine Turrets and The Aperture Turrets have the same behaviour, both fall and both shoots bullets like crazy as an reaction
2. Since Portal 1 is years apart from Half-life 2, maybe the Deal has been made after the Humanity Surrender.
3. Since Aperture and Black Mesa are in a Race for govermant funding, in Oppsing Force, maybe Black Mesa tried to copy Aperture's Portal gun, and i know some ppl does not count the expansions as Canon.
4.I Know Mods are not Canon at all, But in Entropy Zero 2, Bad Cop says how Breen was interested in Aperture Science, further making the "Treaty or Agreement Between Combine and GLaDOS" Theory more plausible.
That ends, my Argument, in case i said something wrong or said bullshit correct me in the replies.
I kinda assumed that Aperture Desk Job took place in the pure intellect Cave Johnson universe from the peti dlc
Maybe so
I watched a vid on the entire timeline of halflife and portal (combined) before back when alyx came out, and god this shit is wild
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
14:45 my best guess to what the lumber co. would be is that maybe it was a part of white forest? there were several lumber mills surrounding it
must've been crazy working at the black-mesa™ lumberyard with the MTM-8 Robotic Loader
Great video for the 25th anniversary!
The Portal gameplay in the first seconds of the video made my day! It was too funny. Liked and subbed just because of that.
I knew people would love that!
Happy 25 anniversary to the og half life
Hope you get big i like your editing style
There is no way that a lot of portal fans don't know it's in the half-life universe. It's brought up several times in unmissible dialogue.
A lot of them I interact with don't know it. Hell there was this one time where someone I once knew was like "Are you sure they are connected?" It's not really brought up all that much in the Portal Games. There is more stuff in Portal 1 and as the video goes on I lost more and more things to talk about.
It's even in the song... can they not be clueless.
Yeah for some people that is when they found out both games were connected. While in other cases and people I have talked to, they didn't know what Black Mesa was. Also, mentioned that song in the video.
It's always nice that there's people out there that remember that the two games share the same universe together. I actually started out as a fan of portal but when the drought of portal content made me curious as to what happened outside of the confines of the aperture facilities, the answer was the parent half-life series. I had a lot of fun playing the half-life games up until I reached the ending for hl2 ep2. Again, another drought of things related to portal and half-life. That is until valve announced half-life alyx and stated it's a prequel to half-life 2. At first I was a bit saddened by that, I didn't have steamvr bac then, but it's half-life nonetheless. What I wasn't expecting was the ending they pulled for half-life alyx and it got me standing up from my chair and screaming at whatever streamer I was watching haha
anyways, I love both portal and half-life, even if it's just a few games but the community mods around the two makes it worthwhile to enjoy other people's take on the half-life/portal narrative going forward
Good comment 👏
I friggin' love this TH-cam channel
I always thought that Portal 1 was before or close to the time HL1.
Then Portal 2 to be very distant in the future, long after the combine left earth.
You are correct about Portal 2. Portal 1 takes place around 201X, so between HL1 and HL2. Bring your daughter to work day happened a week or so before the Black Mesa Incident in 200x. Now Erik Wolpaw said 1998 in the past when talking about the Black Mesa Incident/bring your daughter to work day was. However, Marc Laidlaw has corrected him on this and Erik just got the release date of HL1 mixed up. So no, Portal 1 takes place 10 years after HL1.
Nah, the Combine are really done for💀🙏😭 14:15
One of the best comment I have gotten on this video (dead ass)
GOATED channel name I must say
GLaDOS monologue during the Portal 1 bossfight after you destroy the third core:
"Are you trying to escape? [chuckle] Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here."
"I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I'm not sure what's going on outside."
"All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us and them. Well, I was."
"Unless you have a plan for building some supercomputer parts in a big hurry, this place isn't going to be safe much longer."
13:35 Pretty sure Black Mesa stole it from Aperture
I stayed and watched the whole video because I love the editing. lol. 10/10 from a video editor like me.
I love your style that made it super engaging. A good editing similar like yours is Kelski! You should check his HL Contents too.
Keep making more content. You've earned another supporter 😎 Love it so much
Thank you so much for your comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I do know about Kelski and think that is an interesting comparison. If you wanna know my best editing it's probably in my POSTAL video. I really cooked in that video.
another EDC upload clutch
I am flattered, but this video has kind of been done since 2022. All of the "good" parts are what I tweaked or added this year to make up for it. But yeah, hopefully next video will be better
Great video bro
Thank you
also the two colors of the portal gun are orange and blue and black mesa logo is orange and aperture is blue
Yeah that is what me and Mauricio did for our thumbnails
Nice vid!
when that guy in half life said "Our peers" he said it in a away to say "we are better then them in every way and you know i kinda agree
18:10 glad to know i am not alone
Not even joking, best comment that I have gotten so far (or at least my favorite)
👆👆👆
Lmao me too
Marc Laidlaw starts to come across as worse of a writer when it comes to these series, with a lack of commitment to connecting these universes in fun ways that would delight players. Saying it'd make both universes seem smaller if... two of the most ambitious research companies in the country were aware of one another?? Smart dude but definitely needs to put more effort into challenging himself to connect these universes is compelling ways, instead of the hand-wavy "not canon" nonsense which adds nothing interesting to their existing work.
While watching, I was wondering how many subscribers you have (counted in millions). Man, how I was disappointed when 2,17k slapped my face. U deserve better.
Thank you man! That means a lot, one of the more wholesome comments I have gotten on this video in recent times. Not long ago I was at 1k so it is not so bad.
Plus I feel I have made better videos than this one 💀
Portal 2's ending kind of confirms a happy ending for earth. With Portal 2 being set in the far future, yet in the end there is a healthy wheat field showing that life persisted. Also the co op stuff showing that there are signs of technology that aperture science defends against, might show that whatever society lives has higher end technology maybe.
This videos kinda odd to me... these two labs are across the united states from eachother and never get close enough to necessarily directly interact, however they very much are in the same universe. Why does it matter if they do or dont have a bunch of other connections
The fact the two labs are connected at all is odd, the only reason i can think of is cave johnson was upset his company was going bankrupt and he just googled "science labs" and picked the first result to make public enemy #1
@@averagenecoarcfanwhy the fuck wouldn't he know his competitors
Lmao I love G1 Starscream truly, Armada Starscream is who I grew up with though (off topic ADHD)
Bro... Fucking based. Armada Starscream is an adaption of the character that I will never forget and will always live with me. One day I wanna talk about the Unicorn Trilogy, it would be fun videos to make
@@ElephantsDoingCrack Hell yeah, Unicron trilogy would be amazing. But I agree, they wrote Starscream beautifully in Armada I won't forget that either 🔥
11:58 when I came across this, I had no idea what it was. Because I never played half life.
I already watched the other video earlier 👍
there actually was a video on this. but this is great too. thx for the content
Wait didn’t Russell say that he interviewed for Aperture right before the cascade?
No that was Black Mesa
@@ElephantsDoingCrack oh
3:15 I think they built test chambers in the ship
1:17 nahh thats crazy
YOU CANT KEEP ME IN HERE, MEGATRON! *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
16:20 desk lab duh
Wows
To be honest i dont think we need a portal 3. I think it would be so much better if half life 3 came out and it did the whole thing with the ship and had gordon meet chell and glados somehow and stop the combine together. And maybe to explain more of portal 2s ending with chell being throw to the "surface" it would be cool if there was a portal DLC where the outside was another test my glados. And just explains how glados and chell would meet up with gordon. That would be a perfect sequel to BOTH games and tie them off with a bow.
Nice
Do you have a discord?
Not a server, an account I do
@@ElephantsDoingCrack can I friend you, you seem cool like half life and old fps are cool as fudge
Yeah sure thing man!
My username is elephantsdoingcrack
0:31 Lee Harvey Oswald
New sub
Thanks for subbing!
@@ElephantsDoingCrack you jinda sound like 🤓👆though
Sorry man someone beat you to it
half life alyx manages to combine to darkness or half life and comedy of portal together so there you go
"Because I'm a potato" 💀
the most erm akshually voice ever
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Wow
People remember LD 😊 13:51
I remember Deez nuts
5 hours after release the "which is safer?" video has over 5000 views. this one (DESPITE BEING TOLD TO WATCH IN HIS VIDEO) has 358. :/
He deserves the views more than me in my opinion
No idea why people ain’t going over here. We gotta spread the word more to not just check out this video, but EDC’s CHANNEL
**Unreal tournament music detected**
It was my childhood : )
@@ElephantsDoingCrack same here man, keep the good vids going
I hope to get another out by next month
@@ElephantsDoingCrack I hope so too
3650 is the connection
Yeah...
Maybe black mesa? That was a joke, haha fat chance!
Amd ypu can go to the Borealis drydock in portal 2 (forgot the chapter but the 60's aperture)
Watch the video
@@ElephantsDoingCrack ye when i got to the part i was like oh it is in the video and forgot to remove this comment
what is happening at the start of the video lmaoo im trying to focus on what youre saying but I just see you flying around almost dying shooting portals everywhere hahaha
in portal 1 ther are rooms with projectors in it the can display a chart with says that aperatue proposes more stuff to the us goverment then black mesa but not geting any funding while black mesa nearly proposes nothing but geting a lot of funding
Dude... I literally mention this in the video.
oh shit @@ElephantsDoingCrack
1:20 Portal 1 I think counts as a horror game
4:00 4:34 7:10 11:04 15:45 17:50 18:32
Were these like your favorite moments or something?
If we ever get a Half-Life movie they NEED to have Freeman be played by Ross Scott (basically canonize Freeman’s Mind and have his scenes be a best bits from that AMAZING series😂), and for Otis to be played by Kevin James since he’s basically Half-Life’s Paul Blart (there’s even a line about how he used to be a mall cop🤣). That would be funny!
The original portal ending had the protagonist end up in xen
Yeah I know. I didn't wanna mention it
13:29 maybe it's a beta Portal gun
Aren’t u the guy from epic rap battles of half life?
Yes I am
Entropy: zero 2
I was a play tester for it too
thumbnail unappealing, the A in ARE is not a lambda symbol but the O in connected is a portal (this is satire)
It used to have it in early drafts of the thumbnail, but that was like 2022 and I hate this video too much to really care
the gravity gun is probably an example of aperture tech that never made it out of the facility which others unknowingly recreated. kind of like how the resistance and combine are trying to invent local teleportation completely unaware of the fact that it was already invented by aperture like 50 years earlier. the med stations and hev suits were probably stolen by black mesa along with the energy balls. idk about the combine tech tho
the engine, the source engine is connecting them
Good enough for me
Now Valve needs to make literally every other IP they own into a single universe
Valve Cinematic Universe
I’d kill for a movie about how Cave and Caroline met, who they were as people and how Caroline dealt with Cave’s death and becoming the CEO for a short while before being put into GLaDOS.
I see what they did there in the thumbnail 💀
Thank you!
Plot twist: People in half life made the portal guns
CJ: Cave Johnson, Caroline Johnson… Chell Johnson?
Yes that email was sent to Chell from the 70s detailing the borealis
I WAS THE 1.7K LIKE
12:15 CJ obviously stands for Cave Jhonson
I said that in the video
@@ElephantsDoingCrack Oh my bad lmaoo
great vid but as a member of the portal community i would like to let you know i have played all half life and know how they connected and what you said about the portal community is a bit rude as most of us have played half life
Good for you.
Portal's Community still sucks, sorry man.
@@ElephantsDoingCrack what do you dislike about the community?
What do you dislike about the community?
I prefer to ignore Portal 2. Too cartoony, comedic, and scripted. None of the quiet, horrific, open-ended feel that made the first one such a staple.
Portal should have been either a one-hit wonder, or the sequel should have been ENTIRELY different.
Lore of How Are the Portal and Half-life Games Connected? Momentum 100
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June the month I was born in
1:26 Tucker Carlson jumpscare
Uncool username
@@ElephantsDoingCrack idc
THUMBS DOWN FOR HD MODEL SIGHTING
When will the Half-Life community ever stfu about the HD models?
They are bad and if you use them you should feel bad! (Obviously I'm joking but they are kinda trash.)
Portals better❤
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Portal is better than half life
L+Ratio
>:(half life is better
both are good.
Both parties are allowed to have an opinion (I am cum)
Both are great, its often really a matter of opinion
huh
Huh what?
Garfonzzzzzz
Are you on crack?
☝️🤓
When the otherwise of the colab has 16 times the views
Good.
Mauricio deserves it more than me since he put in a CRAP ton of effort into his video. Plus we have both talked about it and I'm kinda glad I didn't get that many views. This video is mid at best and we both have mixed feelings about the videos. So much so that it kinda made us wanna be done with Valve topic videos.
Nuh-uh, Portal is better
L + Ratio
Why do you sound like Neil from Family Guy?
*cough you sound like a real 🤓🤓🤓
Thx
why is bro talking like: 🤓👆
Okay Boomer
@@ElephantsDoingCrack my fault man
@@ElephantsDoingCrack my bad
Please. Next time you make a video, hire a voice actor and just write him the script.
What a ignorant thing to say. The best part of EDC’s video is HIM. He is the SHOWMAN! We need more channels that sound genuine and heartwarmingly geeky
I did hire a voice actor, his name is Elephants Doing Crack
@@MauricioJara you can like it if you want. to me its just annoying and takes up to much attention from the actual video, especially the random screaming busting my ears
@@WoherWin Sounds like a you problem man.
yo you gotta put a spoiler warning if you’re gonna show the critical scenes
Bro you are watching a connection video analysis and these games have existed for at least a decade. What were you expecting 💀
speech impediment. don't reply, ill feel bad later
What the actual fuck my guy?
@@ElephantsDoingCrackdon’t say that, you’ll make him feel bad
@@Jws20 I am not sad by it, I get complaints about my voice all the time. I am just bewildered.
@@ElephantsDoingCrack not you, apologize to Liam, you can’t yell at him like that
Sounds like a him problem. Shouldn't have written the comment.
You're wrong about everything here (because Portal is better :3)