Let’s gather all the info:
Barney Calhoun from Gearbox’s BlueShift returns as Barney in Valve’s HL2.
Adrian Shepherd is a favourite among fans, Gabe stated he would like to include him once again in a Half-Life game for this reason.
The nuke in Opposing force was added on request by Valve, that is FACTUAL CANNONICITY.
Race X has never appeared in any other Half-Life game, perhaps all the witnesses (save for Shepherd) of Race X were killed by the nuke so Race X was forgotten. It is fact that Valve had no say with Race X. Also, the later stages of Head-Crab mutation were an addition by Gearbox, these later stages did not return in Valve’s HL2.
Race X had similar plans that the Combine in HL2 had, hey, we found Earth on the other side of Xen, it’s probably worth jumping through Xen to take over this new planet. Race X’s assault had it’s cock-blocked by a warhead.
Uh, but he’s right. They went over Warp 14 in TOS episode “That Which Survives.” When TNG was being thought up they decided to stick with a Warp scale of 1-10, but the Warp 10 in TNG is way faster than the Warp 14 in TOS. Different, revised scale.
Really? I seem to recall it being 9.5 but… I’ll have to check that.
The whole Xen thing makes sense to me. Such little gravity between particles that most of the land masses float and orbit slowly…somehow…And ofc the atmosphere thing works.
BTW, keep in mind that Valve and Gearbox are not scientific institutions but game companies. They wouldn’t know about this kind of thing.
The official canon is that the warp scale was changed after a successful 2nd attemt at the ill-named Transwarp Project.
So the Warp 14 in TOS would most likely be something around Warp 8 in the new scale.
It’s not wrong tho.
It’s somewhere on thar, but I can’t be arsed to search for it now.
Er, I’m pretty sure that was never mentioned in any actual Star Trek episode or movie. If it was from a novel or game or something then that was just the creator of that work attempting to fix the continuity mistake in the main series. As far as I’m aware Star Trek books and games are not generally regarded as being canon.
So don’t say “Please do not talk about stuff you obviously know nothing about.” In the old series they could go up to Warp 14, in Next Generation Warp 10 was the speed limit of the universe, it’s a fact and I’m not wrong. The obvious explanation is the warp scale having been changed, and it is quite likely that some Star Trek novel or technical manual threw in some reference to that, but that doesn’t mean I have no idea what I’m talking about.
In the same way, any minor inconsistancies between HL1 and HL2, or the Geabox expansions, can be explained with a little bit of creative thinking. The point is that just because a later work contradicts something in an earlier work, and certain details become uncanon, doesn’t make the entire work invalid.
This is what I always imagined…like the Egyptian head things in Stargate (the movie)
I thought it was Stephen King’s “The Mist”.
I don’t understand all the fuzz about Race X being canon or not. I fon’t give a fuck! They were freaking cool new enemies, period! And I’d like to see what they’d look like in the source engine. If Marc Laidlaw who has provided most or major parts of the Half-Life story doesn’t think Race X is canon, well then let him! Who cares? He can’t tell ME what to consider canon. I played through all the games and addons, and everything I experienced I CONSIDER CANON! Nor can George Lucas tell me what to consider canon in his Galaxy Far Far Away And Full Of Logical Errors. That would leave out such heroes as Kyle Katarn! Mara Jade! Hello? Forget it. Get on with this thread and leave the canonicity where it belongs: In some moron’s mind who hasn’t got anything more important to think about.
Better stop before you start sounding like Fundamentalist Christians arguing over a few words in three different translations of the bible.
That’s my five cents on it - now go ahead and flame me. I don’t care.
-nevermind-
Delete this plz :o
Gordon should have to salvage the lungs from dead enemies on Xen. Every set of lungs that he picks up, he gets more air. Bigger enemies drop more lungs when gibbed. If he runs out of air, game over.
That has to be the stupidist idea ever. Are you high on crack or something? Oh and Xen is breathable you know.
I believe it was supposed to be a joke… And well done on stating the whole point of the thread.
Maybe the the oxygen is suck into The Xen when the portal is open?
well here is a thought…
in hl2 as alyx talks to gordon through the whole thing, it would be rude for him to have a helmet.
also alot of canon artwork of mr.freeman shows him without a helmet.
and another fact is in hl1 only offworld teams have helmets and there is no reference to one for gordon.
same for hl2 when you get the HEV suit again, no reference to a helmet there.
- he would look silly with a helmet, we wouldn’t be able to see the BEARD!!! :fffuuu:
I always thought that his beard saw YOU!
Surely the beard is where he keeps his weapons?
Think about it:
Hl1 - 9 guns, 10 grenades, 10 snarks, 5 package charges, 5 perimeter charges and a crowbar. Not to mention 317 9mm in bullets, 42 magnum bullets, 133 shotgun shells, 30 crossbow bolts, 5 rockets, over 100 units of depleted uranium and a giant back-pack containing a miniature nuclear reactor.
Yet in all the pictures he carries only a crowbar.
His beard is obviously capable, not only of holding almost a ton of weaponry, but also making it weightless. Allowing him to jump, cat like, around all the vents, ledges, and hovering granite blocks recquired to kill a giant telepathic alien being.
I’m going to grow a beard.
Gordon doesn’t need air because he breaths awesomeness, the stuff the Xen atmosphere is made of!
On a more serious note, maybe Xen’s atmosphere is made from the gases found on earth, just much less dense.
this theory stands.
helmet + beard = no beard seen = bad
no helmet + beard = beard seen = makes all the children and people of city 17 happy and all the black mesa scientists giggle with glee with joyous gumdrop smiles :freeman:
lol.its realy said that is is the first word i say in this forum.what ever.
(back to topic before ban ram lockes this thread)