Half Life: Facts Trivia and Secrets (Video Analysis of Half Life Series)

Half-Life Series
#1

I am a long time Half Life fan and during the summer of this year I made a video that investigates and reveals extensive Secrets, Trivia and Facts about the Half Life video game series. I put a lot of work into this video so I hope you like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJmwYIWoNQk

You guys are the experts so let me know what I missed out on or did right. Hopefully you will learn something new about the half life series that you had not known until watching the video. Also youtube restricts the length of all videos submitted to be under 10 minutes so you will have to use the pause button if the slides go too fast for you to read.

Thanks!

Jdshald

#2

I saw this on your post in the Podcast 17 forum, a lot of it I already knew, but only cause I had scoured several places. In fact I found out quite a bit of it only a few hours before watching your vid. So good job in cramming it all in. You mentioned there were Ep3 concept art in the Ep2 files something, could you elaborate on that?

#3

needs a bunch of incorrect information about the burning temperature of jet fuel and demon faces in smoke

#4

you sort of paved over the influence of Stephen king’s The Mist, and why the game was codenamed Quiver.

#5

You spelt Alyx wrong.

#6

spelled a lot of things wrong, actually.

#7

why is this mass spectrometer dropping at the speed of freefall obviously a controlled demolition

#8

The center picture at around 5:44 is of Eli Maxwell. He and Captain Vance were smashed together to make Eli Vance. And he originally lost his leg to a portal storm.

#9

no, to a bullsquid, when he was climbing over a fence.

#10

No, originally to a portal storm, then to a bullsquid. I think.

#11

then why were traces of thermite found in the wreckage

#12

No! Come on, get it right!

First he lost it during a portal storm, then they decided it got torn off by a zombie, then they thought it should have been crushed by an emergency blast door, then someone suggested it was burned off with acid, then they decided it got shot off by a marine and THEN finally they decided, “aw screw it. Let’s just say it got ate by a bullsquid”.

Does it really matter? They haven’t made reference to it in game so it’s not really important information. What Valve REALLY needs to explain is how Kleiner ripped the back shoulder of his labcoat. Seriously! That little tear bugs the shit outta me! :stuck_out_tongue:

-Kawai Tei-

#13

hercule poirots nutsack - i see what you are doing here and i approve

#14

This was a very enlightening video. I didn’t know a lot of this stuff before. Thanks for educating me :slight_smile:

#15

Interesting, but just to be a smart arse lambda is used for wavelength and the decay constant in physics…

#16

Very nice video, could add a few of the things mentioned above, and transitions between slides need to be slowed down a bit to allow more time for reading.

Otherwise, brilliant!

#17

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