Nihilanth's race

rx33gundam · November 24, 2018, 9:15pm

You call arms… legs?

Pettifogg · November 24, 2018, 9:15pm

Okay, limbs if you’re being pedantic.

rx33gundam · November 24, 2018, 9:15pm

Maybe you have legs for arms… that’s why you said four legs. Are you sure you belong with humankind… or… do you belong with “fourleggedhumankind”? :retard:

mechaelite · November 24, 2018, 9:15pm

INSERT facepalm and LoL HERE.

rx33gundam · November 24, 2018, 9:15pm

Done

Ballsopt · November 24, 2018, 9:15pm

so yeah, what were you talking about again?

rx33gundam · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

We were talking about that Gordon was already fighting COMBINE in HL1 and how the Agrunts and controllers disappeared in HL2.

Ballsopt · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

Well he wasn’t. He was fighting Xenians.

rx33gundam · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

Re-read my first post please.

mechaelite · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

well If I remember this well is that even in the beta the Agrunts and the Controllers didn’t even appear but the vortigaunts, houndeyes, bullsquids and gargantuas did so I think those 1s wich appeared in the beta nihilianth controlled them 'til he died and all the others were just serving him even when his ‘‘king’’ was dead… all I think is the fact that the combine or the HECU annihilated them for that.

mechaelite · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

sorry for double posting but here’s something important:

Combine overwiki:

Until recently, many players speculated that the Combine may have possibly controlled Xen, based on the similarities to some practices and technologies used by the Nihilanth. However, Valve’s marketing director Doug Lombardi has stated that the Combine had, in fact, invaded a different homeworld from which Nihilanth’s race was forced to escape. The defeated Nihilanth sought refuge in Xen, where the Combine could not (or would not) follow.

"We had a glimpse of the larger threat when we were working on Half-Life. In other words we knew that once you cleared out the Nihilanth, you were going to discover something worse beyond it. We knew that some immense threat had chased the Nihilanth and its creatures out of their own world and into Xen, from which location [i.e. the world beyond Xen] they were all too glad to seize the opportunity to continue on to Earth with suppression through the Citadels. But the exact nature of the threat was left to be solved in Half-Life 2.’’

This does, however, establish that Nihilanth and the Combine are former enemies who would have had knowledge of each other. When contacted, Marc Laidlaw provided more information:

“I’m pretty sure Doug was restating something I’d told him; I [am not] clarifying it, since it’s the foundation on which the series continues. What we saw in HL1 was the very end of a long struggle between the Combine and the last of the Nihilanth’s race … The Nihilanth’s “world” (if it could be said to have) was long since in the past as far as the Nihilanth was concerned; Xen was their final retreat, and they had their back to the wall, as it were, when the fissure appeared that let them spill into our dimension. Xen itself is sort of a dimensional transit bottleneck–an area of continual contention.”

Ballsopt · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

:hmph: You said that in your first post too. Are you getting enough oxygen?

rx33gundam · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

No. I mean read the top post in the first page:rabies:

Orpheon · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

…so what are we talking about again?

Ballsopt · November 24, 2018, 9:16pm

…I still have no idea what the fuck you’re on about :hmph:

Seriously

MarshmallowRadiation · November 24, 2018, 9:17pm

We’re trying to discuss whether the xenians were combine or not. Mechaelite just cleared that issue, so now we’re just here to talk about random stuff and kill the thread.

Ballsopt · August 11, 2020, 4:09am

okay

Spycrabz · August 11, 2020, 4:09am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy

mechaelite · August 11, 2020, 4:10am

after an entire madness-like replies I think that’s the best end of this crazy world worst than hell ever did before.

Deadline99 · November 24, 2018, 9:17pm

wat