Would you stay at The Northern Star Hotel? The algorithm gods haven't been too kind lately. Any interaction would be highly appreciated! I'll get you some cheese.
@ServeraServera04 ай бұрын
Too many bugs for my liking
@inkedthedemon4 ай бұрын
Ehhh no
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
@@ServeraServera0 I'm sure they'd offer a reduced rate.
@Jahoo4184 ай бұрын
only if freeman is watching my back
@Capitalismiscool4 ай бұрын
Give the cheese now
@samuelantoniocastillomeza50344 ай бұрын
Alyx got it really rough for having to navigate the Quarantine Zone without even wearing an HEV suit or any other proper hazmat equipment.
@Hally-oc8ry4 ай бұрын
Yeh but she covered her mouth.
@aaaaaa-lt2tl4 ай бұрын
Dont forget the occasional traffic cone or bucket hat
@Itsmeiplayz4 ай бұрын
There were gas masks scattered throughout the map, they usually found in yellow crates,I assume the gas masks and any other equipment was deserted by the Infestation Control units
@johnynoway91274 ай бұрын
why didnt alyx ever use one?@@Itsmeiplayz
@QueerDisasterKitty4 ай бұрын
@@johnynoway9127You totally can use them in game
@alidashti26334 ай бұрын
What I love about half life lore that at the begining it seems its little but the longer you look into it the deeper it becomes .
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
It goes so deep
@inendlesspain47244 ай бұрын
The Half-Life and Portal series do world-building in such an organic way that you don't even realize when you're learning more about its world. It's a shame not that many games since tried to learn from its way of telling a story in a video game.
@ryanwielewski51924 ай бұрын
It goes so deep it put my vortessence to sleep 😴 wait.. what?
@magma52673 ай бұрын
@@inendlesspain4724 Because this way of story telling sucks for the player, you have to watch youtube videos online or play the game multiple times to understand the basic lore/story of this game No wonder games like "the last of us" are more revelant nowadays than half-life, you just play the game and you just get the story. no need to watch 30-40 minute videos explaining lore
@Mr_Scoopy4 ай бұрын
I love the narrative detail of other scavengers living in the QZ. The idea that some people would rather take their chances with the xenian life than live under the combine rule is a really interesting concept. I especially like the room of the “combine killer” that is talked about a bit in the developer commentary. It shows that even though we play as only a few people, every person can be a “protagonist” in their own story.
@DrW33kend4 ай бұрын
It's one of my favorite things about half life. Gordon is a bad ass. But, those rebels were already resisting- making gains, building a future. It's the best of humanity on display.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
The "Combine Killer" was fascinating. I loved what you said too. "every person be a protagonist in their own story".
@UndeadGhostGirl4 ай бұрын
The Combine always felt like they were *going* to fail to me. Like they were always on the edge of collapsing, but always managed to take *just* enough from everyone else to make it to the next invasion. Them being unable to keep peace *and* deal with Xenian infestation just reinforces my head canon; displace enough people in enough places and you've built the revolution's army for them.
@jankington2164 ай бұрын
I wonder how they managed to get started at all, even the advisors are a conquered race
@miguelzavaleta19114 ай бұрын
Is there a source taking about how previous combine invasions went? I always figured they probably just miscalculated the amount of resources needed to occupy earth and didn't send enough. That's why they're trying to open up a portal again when shit goes south.
@UndeadGhostGirl4 ай бұрын
@@miguelzavaleta1911 The problem wasn't a lack of resources, the problem was how sterile and rigid the Combine system itself is. It's greatest strength is also it's greatest weakness; a system designed to easily integrate into others is *by design* going to be easy to study and easy to plan around.
@oatmealman15864 ай бұрын
Essentially, the combine are the USSR if they were an alien empire that knew about dimension hopping, and we are just one of their many satellite states. That's why they were always declining and extracting as many resources as possible; they're trying to be the winners of their own cold war and they're getting desperate.
@alanmichael56194 ай бұрын
@@UndeadGhostGirl It always feels like an overextended empire to me. They have a huge amount of resources at their disposal which, in many ways, makes them a formidable force that could wield a lot of power. But it meant they were really slow to react to new threats.
@bluefoxbrawler3 ай бұрын
The resonance cascade happened in New Mexico. The quarantine zone is located in eastern Europe somewhere. Given that these two locations are so far apart and have had a heavy influence Xenian life invading them makes me think that Xenian flora and fauna are already capable of traveling and adapting to the world with little to no issue. Who's to say there not already more "quarantine zones" all over the world already?
@sergiofonseca228519 күн бұрын
City 17 means there are at least 16 others
@VladMcCain6 күн бұрын
The portal storms where a global problem. Tho most of the portals where, yes in and around the black mesa NM area.
@elsimain4 ай бұрын
Seeing the word "quarantine" in the most aesthetically dystopian looking thumbnail ive ever seen made me activate fight or flight
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
You're welcome haha
@UndercoverAnims4 ай бұрын
2020 moment
@Spartan_TannerАй бұрын
i always hear Unyielding and feel the need to drive a spectre whenever I see the words quarantine zone,
@MBSteinNL4 ай бұрын
... Something I didn't realize is that Valve recycled the QZ for HL Alyx. So basically both the leaked beta as well as HL2 live existed, just in different timeframes. Minus perhaps the air exchange and some other stuff.
@ryszakowy4 күн бұрын
they put airex in nova prospekt as well while i would like to see it citizens comment about air being different when prison explodes
@WolfyStudio1154 ай бұрын
I love the mention of the Qz being more of a time capsule which now seeing it from that perspective brings a whole new meaning to the Quarantine Zone, and near the end where you mentioned city 17 exploding which could also indicate the Qz was still active but abandoned, we can only assume the combine did there job to exterminate all creatures within the zone which is why we don't see any of those creatures in hl2, which can also indicate it to the combine sending the soldiers, recources, and equipment to another place in need of cleanup. Maybe when you cover these soldiers you can dive deeper into the differences and similarities? Or the fact that the grunts yell out guilty lines of code upon death, so much about them makes them so unique and diverse, I love them!
@Dj_met_real4 ай бұрын
Hi :3
@kevinanjos65194 ай бұрын
gordon doesn't need to hear all this he's a highly trained professional
@kristinglab3 ай бұрын
but i do
@SeriousApache4 ай бұрын
That's happened because combines didn't have cremators.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
They could've made a huge difference
@FLandFL2devsgoated3 ай бұрын
True
@Nic0reda4 ай бұрын
Thank you for the subtitles on video release! It helps a lot when English isn't your main language
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I didn't realise how important it was until I actually did it! It seems a lot of people use the subtitles!
@coobk4 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionn i dont have any hearing impairment or similiar but having both auditory and visual text can absolutely help with knowledge retention
@EtherealWonders1216Ай бұрын
It's helpful for my adhd, like coobk373 said, it helps me learn easier
@ShaktiChaturvedi4 ай бұрын
Possibly one of the most horrifying areas in all of Half-Life. The fact that it came out when many of us were in actual quarantine zones due to COVID-19 (like me and my family) made it somehow even more eerie. A weird case of the real meeting the virtual (of course, reality does not have headcrabs.... thank goodness)
@theenceladuschannelcool57774 ай бұрын
What do you mean it doesn't have headcrabs? I made them real
@enemy84974 ай бұрын
^doesn’t have real headcrabs *yet*
@mohamedmiloudi64554 ай бұрын
i can't believe that you uploaded this video 30 mn ago i started watching your series on half life Lore today and i finished it and i was like when will be the next upload and here you are Great content a lot of information in it keep up
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard! I'll be happy to see you every week!
@black_foresst4 ай бұрын
Thank you for the great videos on the lore of this series. These games are extremely popular but no one seems to do proper lore videos unlike you. Keep up the good work!
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
It just comes from a love of the series. There's still more to explore too!
@KarkofNorheim4 ай бұрын
Best lore vids for sure
@DecimeCuba4 ай бұрын
almost 4 years and i still have not been able to play Half Life Alix :(. Hopefully by the end of the year my PC will be ready to do so. Great video!
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I hope so too!
@ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7ds4 ай бұрын
I played it for the first time, a week ago. It's soo good. It exceeded my expectations by far
@origami834 ай бұрын
Every time you post a half-life video Iam thinking it must be the last one, since you covered pretty much everything already but yet you keep surprising me with new videos! Keep up the good work sir!
@AnTOnioOOo_243 ай бұрын
Am I the only one that find the universe of half life just incredible ?
@markgrehan37264 ай бұрын
Another great lore video, they really did a good job making the side effects of the invasion creepy as hell.
@Mfmfmfmr3054 ай бұрын
I like your funny words magic man!
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I like your comment
@bankaiiibankaaa45734 ай бұрын
I love the lore, but most of all I love your extremely calm and beautiful voice👍
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!
@That_Mazzini_Fan4 ай бұрын
this is literally so alyx
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
100%
@ThommyofThenn4 ай бұрын
It's the G-man she can see
@elidatkitty16944 ай бұрын
YEAAAH ALYX MENTIONED
@pinkjelly60144 ай бұрын
Half-Life Alyx has such amazing graphics, and in vr it's actually so horrifying. (I've screamed out loud because of it) Even if vr headsets are buggy as hell, and you need at least 10 minutes to boot up the damn game; Alyx is worth it.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Source 2 is stunning. I'd love to see the other HL games in the engine
@thisnameisbad36094 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionnhalf life source 2 😨
@AdamMi14 ай бұрын
I really like your Half Life lore videos! Keep up the great work, i can't wait to learn more.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks, will do!
@Datch994 ай бұрын
I truly enjoy these Half-Life Lore videos. Something about your voice makes it even more interesting and fascinating. Amazing work man! I little question: Could you possibly check out or consider doing lore videos on the Lost Planet franchise in the near future?
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words. I didn't realise there was more than 1 Lost Planet game. I may look into it if there's enough lore?
@Datch994 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionn You're welcome man. There is a lot of lore and I believe you would like the game yourself.
@raulportela30394 ай бұрын
As powerful as G-Man is, it truly speaks to the terrifying might of The Combine that they managed to build an effective prison for G-Man.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I know right. What is more terrifying is what the G-Man hides. If he is just an employee of "something", imagine just how powerful they are.
@ryszakowy4 күн бұрын
the fact that combine went from destruction of the zones to mere containment speaks volumes about their inability to deal with xen fauna and flora if not for gordon nihilanth might have stopped combine empire
@6l1t3h_Official19 сағат бұрын
Sure do you realise why the Nihilanth fled to Xen in the first place? It's because of the Combine, they almost destroy all of his species leaving him the last of his kind and fled to Xen where with and enslaved the Vortigaunts and alien controllers probably brought many alien flora and fauna with him for defences way before the events of Half Life oh also the Combine don't even care about Earth and left their garrison force to deal with the Xen flora and fauna, this is why it took 20 years for the Combine to clear off the Xen infestation.
@brickrigsandstuff39814 ай бұрын
Finally, a great lore update with some of the best detail!
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@captainarch11Roblox4 ай бұрын
i love this dudes videos ngl, especially half life lore. ty for making my day every time you upload
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I love that you watch them. There's more to come :)
@dukenukem3dfx5724 ай бұрын
Man the level of detail and knowledge that go into these videos. Well done!
@ImperialEmbers4 ай бұрын
How did you get the scenes of Alyx without HUD and on free cam mode? Maybe it's something really obvious and easy, but I'm really interested in the topic. Great video as always.
@MBSteinNL4 ай бұрын
Probably mods
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I used the Half-Life: Alyx novr mod :)
@saschaberger32124 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionnsmart
@starsjosephfrost4 ай бұрын
I think the G-Man could’ve escape if he wanted to, all he wanted was to trick Vance into sending Alyx to “safe” Gordon Freeman.
@6l1t3h_OfficialАй бұрын
Isn't the Vault powered by vortessence? Because this is something that clearly can counter G-man himself as shown in EP1 no way G-man can easily escaped the Vault especially if Alyx failed he would be trapped there forever.
@HR15DE4 ай бұрын
it hurts to love half life. already been 4 years huh. who knows when we gonna have another half life entry
@SDCored4 ай бұрын
Love these lore videos. I like to think I'm a pretty knowledgeable half life fan but I still always end up finding something new
@R4ndomUser5674 ай бұрын
Same lol
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
There's always something new to find
@NoahGooder4 ай бұрын
some points when i played hl:alex and got to this part (these points were taken using the novr mod) First thanks for bringing up the zoo/tanker yard area more I always wondered what was going on the but due to the antlion spawns I really didnt want to stick around for too long. the zone almost reminded me of chernobyl in a way with how stuff was preserved (outside of the xenian infestation).
@BilabaLabiba5 күн бұрын
you know xen creatures were a force to be reckoned with when they gave the combine a run for their money
@usamaryan7910Ай бұрын
I remember when I was a kid I used to call antlions zucchini crabs 😂😂😂
@Kopust12374 ай бұрын
Beautifuly told story. Half life is my favourite game and stories of all times. Love your videos!
@philippenkov56224 ай бұрын
I always enjoy your video. They are awesome with a lot of detail about the game and are perfect while I eat dinner. I did try this mode that you play Half Alyx with, but I was stuck in her room not being able to take the call, so I uninstalled the game :|
@melvinschrab5054 ай бұрын
Can you make a video focusing on the razor trains?
@breakthecycle52384 ай бұрын
Lol i listen to this channel to sleep occasionally and here is what it sounds like b4 i nod odd off...... ....... ... ................ .... ... SO ... . .............. .......... AND .............. ... ... ........ ... ..... HERE .... ... .. ......... BECAUSE ... .. .. ...... SO 😅😅😅
@empireniko34584 ай бұрын
Keep up the good work!
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks, will do!
@32BitJunkie3 ай бұрын
I'm kinda concerned that Alyx is going to turn into a Jeff after coughing up all those spores...
@drawingmonsters27214 ай бұрын
i love this series im a big fan of half life🙂🙂🙂🙂
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I appreciate you watching! It's a great series to explore.
@CSXBoys4 ай бұрын
Mannnn you posted this right as im sitting here playing through half life two for the first timeeee
@Wojtek_Ch4 ай бұрын
My man's about to become a man. I'm so proud I could cry.
@CSXBoys4 ай бұрын
@@Wojtek_Ch i liked them so much that i got the original lol
@memirsultan12274 ай бұрын
We need sawmill lore
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I don't think there would be enough lore there haha
@WiggleOcto4 ай бұрын
Hell yeah, more Half Life Lore
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
And there's more to come
@that_one_fucking_idiot4 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionn bro has whole half life 3 worth of lore
@ImAHumanThatExistz4 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionnyay!
@georgemen4 ай бұрын
Damn, bro, wth's up with the youtube. Been so long since i've seen a video of yours I forgot how much I enjoyed this. My expectation is that if I subscribed to you, KZfaq would recommend me your videos. Gotta use that notification button.
@sometimesidreamaboutcheese4 ай бұрын
During this video I caught insight of my thoughts (that I didnt got before)... that the Vault atmosphere and population lived there reminds me of great, dark and gritty anime Texhnolyze where.. humanity meets even worse fate than in Half-Life. I love this anime and can highly recommend it to any HL fan. Also, i like how author of this video using Kelly Bailey soundtrack. This shows Kelly Bailey's importance to HL world again and even more, because HLA is way more weak without his genius talent as composer and sound designer. Lack of Bailey's work in HLA is so obvious when you can hear his soundscapes with this environment.
@abandoned_green4 ай бұрын
Keep up the good content man 👍
@kruxxme53724 ай бұрын
Great content as always! Looks like you're playing Alyx flat screen¿
@thiagovidal61374 ай бұрын
Say what you want... but HL Alyx is the best HL game and the coolest story of all of them. The amount of context and environmental story telling is beyond any video game I've ever played.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
It does have a pretty great story. The environmental storytelling is peak in Valve games too. Probably why people love this series so much.
@czechcrusader64614 ай бұрын
Awesome video as always, would you be interested in making Crysis content? The lore is surprisingly massive with the addition of books and for me its also one of the best alien species ever designed for media.
@AmericanMephistopheles3 ай бұрын
The lightening headcrab looks more Race X than Xen, honestly.
@ValveBoi-ps8zx4 ай бұрын
It would be cool to see a half life 2 mod were they did a makeover kind of like black mesa
@MufMof4 ай бұрын
Love the Xen spores!
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Although horrific. They're pretty nice to look at.
@Kurisu3433 ай бұрын
since the release of hl alyx i always wondered what happened with the QZ, exists in the timeline where gman didn´t was imprissoned? :O
@LastArchangel014 ай бұрын
Do enjoy your lore videos. Thanks for the hard work.
@zeckfive75744 ай бұрын
Another upload from Skyrionn, another reason to live.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
We're just holding out until HL3
@zeckfive75744 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionn Hope
@ugipse4 ай бұрын
I wonder how many years it would take to get the world back to a reasonable normal. Portal 2 suggests that 999 years had passed and no one had yet found the massive underground facility. Although the computer could have glitched when saying 999.
@Zachary-po8qw4 ай бұрын
3:58 Phone guy FNAF IS IN HALF LIFE
@berkeokur994 ай бұрын
Nice renders as always
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Glad you like them!
@male074474 ай бұрын
Finally, my ideas has been made into a video :D
@dmoney86023 ай бұрын
Loser.
@MCVRI4 ай бұрын
I have been waiting for the day Skyrionn ( half life lore guy ) would talk about the Quarantine Zone
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Half-Life lore guy. I like that.
@user-lw3wb3bc3t4 ай бұрын
"Did you kill or save Jeff?" - I thought they were the same option🥲
@Johnny-zi6lw4 ай бұрын
Commenting to support Skyrionn
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the support!
@eodinoow30514 ай бұрын
always a work of art from the hands of skyrionn
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I appreciate you
@eodinoow30514 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionn genuine happiness
@nocturnalsimulacrum63852 ай бұрын
I wonder what a Head Crab Tiger would be like 😂😂
@user-wb1pv2xh8v4 ай бұрын
Could you make a video on enotropy 0?
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Maybe one day
@topcat594 ай бұрын
Cool vid bro.😺
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks :)
@andreworders73054 ай бұрын
8:36 how would those dangers differ at all from those on Zen
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Earth has a different atmosphere.
@redcrysis12324 күн бұрын
THE G man is you, the player.
@natecolbert77824 ай бұрын
Thank you for your videos !
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@Dovah27984 ай бұрын
I think that the cmb succed at the qz since hl2 shows 0 flora at the whole city zone that we visit, there are only headcrabs that are there as the result of using them as a weapon. And as always the cmb didnt have problems with the qz since they used humans which have 0 value for them, thats why the use them, so the planet can be rule with the local species meaning that the do not even need to be at the qz to deal with it, like humans using robots or tools that cause 0 human losses
@juliusmalcovsky40924 ай бұрын
Good video, thank you ❤
@thomasmundy93984 ай бұрын
This was fantastic!
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Best comment
@thomasmundy93984 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionn best reply!
@le_bungus4 ай бұрын
love the content, it would be really nice to listen to this on spotify. Would you consider uploading there too? 😅
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
I have considered it. Maybe in the future. Currently, I just don't have the time
@le_bungus4 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionn no prob, thanks for the reply!
@ebonhawken5744 ай бұрын
I love Half-life lore videos, I also love Half-life too haha
@LucyWoIf4 күн бұрын
I would love to see a tiger 1v1 a antlion tho
@SaintJamn4 ай бұрын
Keep up the good work.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Will do! Thanks for watching
@natalialuca4 ай бұрын
Great Video Also an Idea i got maybe Fallout Lore Videos Only an idea
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Cool idea but the algo didn't like me making Fallout sadly. I have a couple Fallout videos on the channel :)
@natalialuca4 ай бұрын
@@Skyrionn you have? I will Check them Out thanks
@DrMedicsGameSurgery4 ай бұрын
i stil lthink the reviver seems more liek an evolved/mature shock roach in its nature than anything related to a headcrab personally
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Oh great theory
@ELASPED4 ай бұрын
They need to make a hl3 just so he can keep uploading lore videos
@MisterCake4 ай бұрын
how Cool would it be if VALVe made another early HL2 storyline where you play out Barney's Story & perspective
@kermitclassified3 ай бұрын
Half-Life: Calhoun
@RainBird88x4 ай бұрын
I like the theory that the Combine were originally trying to help earth, but eventually became disillusioned with the constant interference from humans, and so turned earth into a prison planet.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Your welcome haha
@wolvetica4 ай бұрын
based black mesa music use. underappreciated ost
@andreworders73054 ай бұрын
2:25, 2:37 fauna isn’t plant life
@RepensiYT2 ай бұрын
How did you play on pc in the last part?
@x_hibernia4 ай бұрын
alien empire= universal union, capital persecution=civil judgement, ones a tech demo while the other is a full fledged game with two dlcs and a later added tech demo, also combine regime=combine overwatch?, they really have both nothing to do with each other than a brief appearance of being Gordon freeman which was the whole selling point that they might give a demo of hl3 in about 11 more years based of of the realise date of the last entry if you can even call it that, if it was up to me it would have been at least three or four times larger, like we get huge chunks of lore in half-life 2 that has her driving the scout car? or how she held the record for the fastest speed run to black mesa east?, of course valve hadn't a clue of what to do, what was the excuse oh yeah they were waiting to finish the new engine, half-life 2 after the German leak spent only six months and made hl2, I believe they spent 2 years based off there little documentary, so wtf were they doing for 18 months.
@koskettaja6094 ай бұрын
so excited for this
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Enjoy
@irispaiva4 ай бұрын
A small correction on 3:45 its capital punishment, not prosecution. Also, I wonder what happened to other parts of the world, like south america or china. It would be an interesting spin off to see the combine trying to subjulgate a place like afghanistan or vietnam
@Atlas0184 ай бұрын
Half Life Alyx, to see if you are afraid of headcrabs.
@michaelmcgowan77794 ай бұрын
Amazing how all the HL lore reminds me of the SCP Foundation.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
SCP is top tier
@CrysisYaDig4 ай бұрын
ahh I love half life lore so much
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
It just goes deeper and deeper
@5969destiny4 ай бұрын
Love the videos
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thank you :D
@dxfan184 ай бұрын
Makes me wish I had a VR set so I could play HL Alyx, maybe the no-VR mod is the answer?
@Azmina_the_warlock4 ай бұрын
It rly needs VR to fully appreciate it tbh
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
It deffo gives you a complete playthrough. I replayed through the entire game in the novr when making this video but it's nothing in comparison to the full experience.
@CrumblinerCrumbine4 ай бұрын
great video.
@Skyrionn4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@CSXBoys4 ай бұрын
sorry i know i already commented once but like, imagine a multiplayer game where you and your team are deployed as combine "disinfectors", and you are tasked with trying to clear different areas in the qz. do something similar to lethal company, quota, different areas, blah blah blah