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.
@@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.
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.
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!
@@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
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
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.
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.
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.
@@oski4022 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.
@@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.
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.
( 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.
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.
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.
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
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Valve could legit combine a half-life 3 and portal 3. Have some snarky name about the number 3. Have 2 chapters, 1 with Gordon as the main protagonist, continue the story where it left off with more portal references, maybe even have him go to an early aperture science and/or the spot Chel enters the surface. Have some sort of story reason explaining why Gordon was there and what is goal is (the borealis probably) and end half-life satisfyingly but leaving the door open for Chel to finish what Gordon started. Have gman say some cryptic shit and have "chapter 2" show the future when Chel exists, have her finish whatever story reason Gordon was there (probably the borealis or something) have chel use the portal gun in a more open world setting with confined story beat sections for puzzles. Then have her finish where Gordon left off and finish whatever other portal story we needed (probably would be something connected to Chels parents since they were teased so much, maybe the worked on the borealis!! Idfk) wrap it all up with a gman monolog. Both fanbases get thier 3rd game, both stories end properly, and it connects all the dots that haven't been fully connected in thier joint universe. This is all random garbage. Obviously something proper, but something in this vein could be done.
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.
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.
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
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!
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 💀
nothing outright says this ever BUT; Half Life 1 female assassins bear the same boots as chell from Portal, the point could be made that Aperture sold some of these shoes to the government or something, where they were given to the few highly trained HCU Assassins from Half Life 1, that later ended up being dispatched to Black Mesa as the clean up crew. Explains the lack of fall damage, and maybe even the high velocity jumps the assassins always made along side mid air backflips.
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.
Half life alyx makes it more confusing as the world map shows us that the entirety of north america was destroyed during the 7 hour war, which means that aperture should be completly destroyed in the first game. But it isnt
Well we don't really know what that could mean. Is North America completely destroyed or is it uninhabitable? In Portal 1, I kind of like to think it was a part where it wasn't really affected. In EP2 we are driving through beautiful forests and environments. So I think it's possible that is something like that. Portal 2 takes place 10,000ish years later so that is another can of worms
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 🔥
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
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.
Some wild ideas: The infamous ship is named "Borealis" and was built as an icebreaker. It was built in a very deep mine Somehing happened and the ship ended in the Arctic People in-universe refers to the happening as some kind of tragic teleportation accident. But, for all intents and purposes, the ship ended in the place they wanted it to be. So, whatever happened, the teleportation part worked as intended. The ship is in the correct place and looks pretty much intact. If there was some kind of tragedy or failure, it wasn't the act of teleportation itself, but something linked to it, that we know nothing about (but Eli knew). Those are the things we can know for sure.
But then, what did really happen? My speculations: -Kleiner is very eager to study the ship. That means the tech involved is superior to their actual teleportation tech. Reasons for that superiority: 1) Escalability. Rebel teleportation tech seems to be able to transport three people at most, while Aperture tech transported a whole ship, its cargo, and part of the dock 2) Eficiency: Aperture teleportation tech looks much more energy eficient: the portal gun allows as many portals as one will with no external energy input, and no energy seems to be needed for the teleportation itself. Rebel teleporters seem much more power-hungry (outside Kleiner's lab there is a yard full electrical apparatus to power the teleport, Eli's uses vortigaunt power). Combine teleportation seems to be even less eficient, requiring dedicated massive and dangerous dark energy reactors. 3) Usability: Borealis tech doesn't seem to require a receiver at destination (if it needed that, the ship wouldn't be lost, Aperture would know where it ended because they built the receiver part first, on location) Large-scale local teleportation would have incredible advantages in a confrontation with the combine: You could transport armies, refugees, war machinery, bombs, even the invading forces themselves, wherever it was more tactically convenient, at any moment. -Eli wants to destroy the ship at all costs. What could be the reason? 1) Danger of being used by the combine. At the end of Episode 2, the superportal was destroyed, and the Combine were cut off, at least for a while. If the remaining forces of the Combine on Earth used that tech, they could use it for transporting more forces from their home world and retake the Earth. 2) The tech itself is dangerous. Something wrong happened with the Borealis, that little we know. But, what was it? 2.1) The portal gun uses a miniature black hole as a power source. A much bigger teleporter could need a bigger, more dangerous black hole, that has the power of destroying the whole Earth if something goes wrong 2.2) The teleportation did something to the people who were teleported along the ship. Maybe there are g-forces, temperatures or electric fields involved too big for people to survive the teleportation. Or maybe weirder things that just death: the whole affair of the teleporting ship is based on the story "the Philadelphia experiment", where the US Navy teleported a warship, and, even if that looked like a succes at first, the people who were teleported ended very, very badly. 2.3) Judith's teleporter had some weird unintended time-related consequences (the "we made a very slow teleporter" affair, were Alyx and Gordon experimented one week delay) Maybe large scale teleportation has the chance of messing with the whole space-time continuum in some unsavoury way.
Well technically tf2 is linked to portal, (See the Ap-Sap) meaning it is linked to Half life. That's correct. Australium is in half life, and I am willing to bet that is what the sample on the trolley from the beginning of half life is.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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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
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.
@@oski4022 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.
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.
( 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.
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.
Great video for the 25th anniversary!
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.
Nah, the Combine are really done for💀🙏😭 14:15
One of the best comment I have gotten on this video (dead ass)
I kinda assumed that Aperture Desk Job took place in the pure intellect Cave Johnson universe from the peti dlc
Maybe so
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
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
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
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!
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 👏
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."
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.
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.
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.
13:35 Pretty sure Black Mesa stole it from Aperture
Happy 25 anniversary to the og half life
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
0:47 Gee Whiz! For a second there, I almost thought he thought one was better than the other! Glad to know I was just wrong!!
Portal is good still 💪
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
Valve could legit combine a half-life 3 and portal 3. Have some snarky name about the number 3. Have 2 chapters, 1 with Gordon as the main protagonist, continue the story where it left off with more portal references, maybe even have him go to an early aperture science and/or the spot Chel enters the surface. Have some sort of story reason explaining why Gordon was there and what is goal is (the borealis probably) and end half-life satisfyingly but leaving the door open for Chel to finish what Gordon started. Have gman say some cryptic shit and have "chapter 2" show the future when Chel exists, have her finish whatever story reason Gordon was there (probably the borealis or something) have chel use the portal gun in a more open world setting with confined story beat sections for puzzles. Then have her finish where Gordon left off and finish whatever other portal story we needed (probably would be something connected to Chels parents since they were teased so much, maybe the worked on the borealis!! Idfk) wrap it all up with a gman monolog. Both fanbases get thier 3rd game, both stories end properly, and it connects all the dots that haven't been fully connected in thier joint universe.
This is all random garbage. Obviously something proper, but something in this vein could be done.
Hope you get big i like your editing style
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.
there’s actually was, and old scrapped ending to portal 1, where chell would actually travel to xen? In order to escape somehow.
I'm aware. At the time I didn't wanna add it for reasons
GOATED channel name I must say
YOU CANT KEEP ME IN HERE, MEGATRON! *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
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.
They could kill 2 birds with 1 stone by just making a game called "The Third" or something and its just a 3rd portal AND halflife game. easy.
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
If we ever get a Half-Life movie they NEED to have Freeman be played by Ross Scott (basically canonize Freeman’s Mind and have his scenes be a best bits from that AMAZING series😂), and for Otis to be played by Kevin James since he’s basically Half-Life’s Paul Blart (there’s even a line about how he used to be a mall cop🤣). That would be funny!
Great video bro
Thank you
Wait didn’t Russell say that he interviewed for Aperture right before the cascade?
No that was Black Mesa
@@ElephantsDoingCrack oh
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)
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Lmao me too
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 💀
3:15 I think they built test chambers in the ship
nothing outright says this ever BUT; Half Life 1 female assassins bear the same boots as chell from Portal, the point could be made that Aperture sold some of these shoes to the government or something, where they were given to the few highly trained HCU Assassins from Half Life 1, that later ended up being dispatched to Black Mesa as the clean up crew. Explains the lack of fall damage, and maybe even the high velocity jumps the assassins always made along side mid air backflips.
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.
4:00 4:34 7:10 11:04 15:45 17:50 18:32
Were these like your favorite moments or something?
Nice vid!
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
16:20 desk lab duh
Half life alyx makes it more confusing as the world map shows us that the entirety of north america was destroyed during the 7 hour war, which means that aperture should be completly destroyed in the first game. But it isnt
Well we don't really know what that could mean. Is North America completely destroyed or is it uninhabitable? In Portal 1, I kind of like to think it was a part where it wasn't really affected. In EP2 we are driving through beautiful forests and environments. So I think it's possible that is something like that. Portal 2 takes place 10,000ish years later so that is another can of worms
@@ElephantsDoingCrack yeah its just really confusing isnt it
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 🔥
0:31 Lee Harvey Oswald
Think you need to research this better
Thats crazy
the most erm akshually voice ever
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11:58 when I came across this, I had no idea what it was. Because I never played half life.
Things can have two different tones and can exist in the same universe,
I never said they couldn't 💀
Wows
"Because I'm a potato" 💀
The original portal ending had the protagonist end up in xen
Yeah I know. I didn't wanna mention it
Sucks there is nothing left of it. No footage, no screens. Nothing
there actually was a video on this. but this is great too. thx for the content
4:48 what game is this? a mix between the two games is interesting
The Portal Beta?
Thx@@ElephantsDoingCrack
half life alyx manages to combine to darkness or half life and comedy of portal together so there you go
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
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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
Maybe black mesa? That was a joke, haha fat chance!
I already watched the other video earlier 👍
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
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.
Some wild ideas:
The infamous ship is named "Borealis" and was built as an icebreaker.
It was built in a very deep mine
Somehing happened and the ship ended in the Arctic
People in-universe refers to the happening as some kind of tragic teleportation accident. But, for all intents and purposes, the ship ended in the place they wanted it to be.
So, whatever happened, the teleportation part worked as intended. The ship is in the correct place and looks pretty much intact. If there was some kind of tragedy or failure, it wasn't the act of teleportation itself, but something linked to it, that we know nothing about (but Eli knew).
Those are the things we can know for sure.
But then, what did really happen? My speculations:
-Kleiner is very eager to study the ship. That means the tech involved is superior to their actual teleportation tech. Reasons for that superiority:
1) Escalability. Rebel teleportation tech seems to be able to transport three people at most, while Aperture tech transported a whole ship, its cargo, and part of the dock
2) Eficiency: Aperture teleportation tech looks much more energy eficient: the portal gun allows as many portals as one will with no external energy input, and no energy seems to be needed for the teleportation itself. Rebel teleporters seem much more power-hungry (outside Kleiner's lab there is a yard full electrical apparatus to power the teleport, Eli's uses vortigaunt power). Combine teleportation seems to be even less eficient, requiring dedicated massive and dangerous dark energy reactors.
3) Usability: Borealis tech doesn't seem to require a receiver at destination (if it needed that, the ship wouldn't be lost, Aperture would know where it ended because they built the receiver part first, on location)
Large-scale local teleportation would have incredible advantages in a confrontation with the combine: You could transport armies, refugees, war machinery, bombs, even the invading forces themselves, wherever it was more tactically convenient, at any moment.
-Eli wants to destroy the ship at all costs. What could be the reason?
1) Danger of being used by the combine. At the end of Episode 2, the superportal was destroyed, and the Combine were cut off, at least for a while. If the remaining forces of the Combine on Earth used that tech, they could use it for transporting more forces from their home world and retake the Earth.
2) The tech itself is dangerous. Something wrong happened with the Borealis, that little we know. But, what was it?
2.1) The portal gun uses a miniature black hole as a power source. A much bigger teleporter could need a bigger, more dangerous black hole, that has the power of destroying the whole Earth if something goes wrong
2.2) The teleportation did something to the people who were teleported along the ship. Maybe there are g-forces, temperatures or electric fields involved too big for people to survive the teleportation. Or maybe weirder things that just death: the whole affair of the teleporting ship is based on the story "the Philadelphia experiment", where the US Navy teleported a warship, and, even if that looked like a succes at first, the people who were teleported ended very, very badly.
2.3) Judith's teleporter had some weird unintended time-related consequences (the "we made a very slow teleporter" affair, were Alyx and Gordon experimented one week delay) Maybe large scale teleportation has the chance of messing with the whole space-time continuum in some unsavoury way.
i think no episode three because
they just don't do 3
People remember LD 😊 13:51
I remember Deez nuts
1:20 Portal 1 I think counts as a horror game
Well technically tf2 is linked to portal, (See the Ap-Sap) meaning it is linked to Half life. That's correct. Australium is in half life, and I am willing to bet that is what the sample on the trolley from the beginning of half life is.
Portal is good but half life is just better.
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@@ElephantsDoingCrack you jinda sound like 🤓👆though
Sorry man someone beat you to it
1:17 nahh thats crazy
3650 is the connection
Yeah...
14:17 OHHH MY GAD
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
Wow
Batmans parents *die* Wheatley faintly in the background to Bruce FATTY FATTY NO PARENTS
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
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?
the engine, the source engine is connecting them
Good enough for me
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
I don't even know why you talk about future games, i mean it's obvious that valve just doesn't know how to count to 3.
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
Entropy: zero 2
I was a play tester for it too
It is also linked to tf2
what is thewhatshow on about😭🙏🏻
Aren’t u the guy from epic rap battles of half life?
Yes I am
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.
12:15 CJ obviously stands for Cave Jhonson
I said that in the video
@@ElephantsDoingCrack Oh my bad lmaoo
CJ: Cave Johnson, Caroline Johnson… Chell Johnson?
Yes that email was sent to Chell from the 70s detailing the borealis
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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.)
13:29 maybe it's a beta Portal gun
Plot twist: People in half life made the portal guns
I see what they did there in the thumbnail 💀
Thank you!
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