Which version of Half-Life did you prefer? The original or Black Mesa.

I believe that G-Man had a veeery good reason to rearm the nuke: The lambda reactor and portal system linked to it. Imagine that black mesa was just evacuated/ abandoned leaving that reactor basically intact. 20 years later you have the combine that is completely cut-off, desperately trying to find a way to reconnect and fight the rebels..just to find a portal system basically ready to be repaired and used for their needs...

G-Man is fascinating. The most believable theory is that he is associated with some kind of resistance towards the combine. A representative of some kind of interdimensional shadow group. And that his cadence and laboured speech is due to him not being entirely comfortable taking human form. Its a skinsuit that he has adopted. He can also move in and out of time. So whatever he is. He is powerful. Best case scenario is that his interests coincide with humanity. Even though he doesn't empathize with humanity in particular or anything. Like the elder gods from Lovecrafts mythos his interests doesn't necessarily conflict with humanity's survival and that's about it.

Very well put together. In the big picture, the Black Mesa fight was a turf battle between different factions that were manipulated into it and in the end, none of them really won anything. Just the GMan and ultimately the Combine who came and seized everything from everyone.

24:20 I could've sworn I heard somewhere that the osprey Adrian was going to board actually got shot down shortly after takeoff, implying the G-Man knew it would happen and wanted to save Adrian's skin.

I could never get tired of Valve lore! The OG writers were a different breed. I’m so glad you make these videos. You’re perfect at it. These are extraordinarily well done. Can’t wait to see what other topics you will cover.

It really makes you wonder what Gman's conversations with the other scientists was about. I also wonder what he sounds like, his cadence, tone, and if he was cryptic with the people who aren't as important in setting the events in motion. Imagine having a normal conversation about lunch with gman haha.

i think my favorite part about the half life 1 is the build up to it. we see the facility being brought to its absolute limit, scientists questioning the safety of the experiment, and generally a uneasy idea of what could happen.

I've always felt Half-Life was like playing a big game of Stellaris but from a first person perspective. The G-man just represents some unknown alien civ, using the Earth to gain control of Xen. They're clearly rivals to the Combine, as shown in the sequel. But Earth and humanity is just a pawn in both of their wars, like we're nothing but a pre-warp civ they've both stumbled across and are fighting over.

I love HalF Life's universe!

Let us have a moment of Silence for what I'm sure was meant to be the original release date of May 16th.

For me what made me love Half Life to begin with was in its most basic form, it's a science fiction game about humanity where we actually lose for once. Really really badly (realistically at that)

Probably the most instantly exciting video of yours yet. Can't resist but watch straight away

The G-Man is from the future. His strange speech and mannerisms indicate that he is from a different society. He was sent back in time to make sure that events follow the proper order. If you look at his actions you will see that he is monitoring the situation and adjusting the events in order to maintain the timeline he is interested in preserving. When Gordon confronts the G-Man at the end of Half-Life, he puts Gordon into time suspension. It is implied that no time has passed for Gordon in Half-Life 2. It is also significant that the G-Man talks about time: the wrong man at the right time. In other words, Gordon was a man in the wrong time but brought back at the proper moment in the timeline in order to preserve the timeline that the G-Man is trying to preserve.

This video was very well done! I understand a hell of a lot more about the whole incident than i did before watching! Also you don’t feel bad about telling Gordon’s or any other protagonists stories, they are the most important human figures in the story after all!

Many many maaaany years later, and this is still one of the best games ever made.

Half Life can't be any earlier than 2007, as that's when the V-22 officially entered service. Granted it was in development since 1989 but it had a lot of hurdles to overcome to be ready for deployment.

Bro, i love your lore videos about halflife but i have watched every single one and now its just painful waiting for new one every time... i want to thank you for new videos and keep your great work going.

Your lore videos on half life made me fall in love with it

anyone else thinks that Gman speaks like a Nihilanth who just "is better in the language" then the "Endboss" on Xen ? I think even parts of the speech that Nihilanth gives out would be logical to this theory. Especially the weird pauses, word lengthening and general speech pattern - thats a thing what ALWAYS BOTHERED me. Btw - just found you, thanks for your very interresting and well researched Videos! Instasub!

i always like the way you structure and narrate your videos and even though ive played these games multiple time i always enjoy hearing about these event. would love to hear u breakdown Mark Laidlaw's "Nihilanth" and other writings. ❤

The G-man is definitely an inter dimensional being that is without question, but he is also mortal in that less then a dozen Vortigaunts can stop him for a good period of time and that he can be imprisoned by the combine, that or he simply lets it happen to his benefit, he has the ability to put people in a metaphysical stasis with him giving people the allusion of choice

Impressive level of effort and great narration, as always. Great work big guy, loved it

Realky cool and intricate video, Skyrionn! It gives some new helpful lore to Half Life. Now, if possible, we need to discuss the events of the 7 Hour War and the Combine subjugation of Earth.

Thank you for yet another awesome half life video❤ the amount of detail you are able to present in these videos are on a completely different level, amazing job as always! ps. any plans on doing a g-man lore in the future? would love to see how much onfo you can dig up on one of the most secretive chatacters in all of gaming :D

good video, very nostalgic and makes nice use of the new mod assets for the background shots. i played all 3 of the expansion packs for hl. remember when they had expansion packs that were like new standalone games? those were the days. i never delved deep into the lore, but this video makes sense of all the events very nicely

these videos are so cool i never dont find myself insanely interested in this type of videos. keep up the good work!!

Need to play Black Mesa again. Love these long videos with deep dives. Great job!

💯💯💯 Another perfect video. You explained everything in detail clearly. I wish my college professors were as good as you in terms of explaining things!

Videos like this is why I come here. Wonderful video, extremely well thought out and put together. Thank you for your great high quality longform deep dives.

this video feels like watching a documentary, great work!!

These videos are absolutely brilliant! Very well written, talented narration, and superb editing skills. I can’t overstate how good these are, and the cherry on top is learning details of this Half Life universe I never knew. Outstanding! 🖖😀

Wonderful. Love half life lore videos, this is one of the best ive seen!

G-Man's briefcase contains Half Life 3

you are one of my favourite lore youtubers

5 things the G-Man doesn’t want you to know!

I can attest - a fair few aliens died at the hands of Calhoun, Shepherd and Freeman across the games alone! Fantastic video!!!

It is legitimately frustrating that there won't be a HL3. Like seriously, just finish the damn story. If Final Fantasy VII can get a full remake there shouldn't be anything keeping a brand new game from being made. And it's not like it wouldn't sell freaking millions in the first damn week.

Interesting how the Gman was at Black Mesa and the military base at the same time.

I always feel like the Gman and the powers that “be” didn’t expect someone like Freeman. All their planning and forethought and they could not expect someone like Freeman to be such a unstoppable force. I always felt they were like who the fuck is this guy 😂.

I love the video. Good job. Half-Life 3 concept: It follows on from Alyx’s ending, Gordon and Eli manage to get access to Adrian’s stasis dimension, free him to help them find Alyx and the G-Man once and for all.

i love your videos! i am extremely fond of the half life and portal universe. i always put your videos on when im drawing :)

I subbed about two weeks ago, since then I have watched every Half Life video (and some other ones also).

37:26 This is the first time I've seen someone say "dislike it" lol. Take my subscription! 🙂

Such great work on the graphics - must have taken ages! Well done - so professional!

My headcanon is that the black Mesa incident and it’s repercussions was a long con planned by gman and his employers to destroy the combine

Man your so good at these lore stuff keep it up

Awesome video! I learned so much! I just finished Half-life and was left so confused, this has cleared up many things!

This game still amuses me to this day It came out exactly a month after i was born and it's the first game I remembered playing (i was 3 yo and was thinking i opened a portal to real life so i unplugged the pc that's my only memory lol) I'm 25 now i lost count how many times I've beaten the whole series and still every time i discover more lore about it

Thanks 4 all the hard work.

The impression I got from HL1 was that the G man and his employers intended to hijack the resonance cascade. But after seeing g man arm the nuke, I'm having doubts and think he is pulling the strings

skyronn don't change the style of making your videos because they are too good, another great video. for me the best youtuber dealing with half life and portal or various games🙏👍

31:07 I just realized the G Man's Employers are, the Universal Order; The Combine.

My headcanon is that Barney and Sheperd were used as a sort of way to navigate / resolve / calculate a butterfly effect system - they as a person don't REALLY have any big part in the grand scheme of things but they acted as the most replaceable pawns in key moments, causing some very inconsequential things to happen that end up being absolutely consequential. Like, if Barney wasn't shouting about how he's going to pull Gordon out of the malfuctioning teleporter, Kleiner may have had a moment to think and shut down the system before Breen could that see it is, in fact, Gordon Freeman - which impacts Breen's (and the combine's) response in some way that ends up working in the favor of Resistance/Gordon/Gman/Employers. Or having Adrian get promoted up and deployed replaces the one soldier that actually would have caught up to Gordon and killed him as he teleported to Xen.

My headcanon has always been that G-Man's employers wanted to use humanity (due to our ingeneuity and tenacity) as a distraction to occupy the combine, to destabilize them so that they (the employers) could defeat them.

Noticed this a few time but I’ve been subscribing over and over. Not sure if it’s a problem on my end but my subscription to you keep getting undone. Love the content hate missing it.

Great video again. You have a gift with words and stories. Good luck with new projects.

Great upload! More please.

Fantastic work as usual, your passion shows, I cant wait for your videos.

As a chemist, the idea that a sample that is both larger and more pure than any inherent needing MORE power for good resolution is hilarious. If something is pure, it'll give you data way easier

Great video. Definitely adds to the overall mystery around it all.

I still think that it's possible that Gman and his employers knew that humanity was the only one to possibly topple the combine empire. If so, then it's probably another kind of empire that can't go toe to toe with the combine, at least in a standing war.

I don’t know what draws me to this type of stuff but there’s something here that just makes me feel like me

Escapism gamer here & also lore-lover to the bone: I did realised how more deep the lore is, even in the first minutes of this documentation we see & hear that the first contact with Xen made accidently within a team in Black Mesa. The idea is... How much was that an accident? You know what i mean. This is so freaking intense for me, even the whole lore is about fiction can sure top any real wikileaks story 😃 Imagine having such Black Mesa documents somewhere! After Half-Life Alyx few stuff are getting more & more suspect and the Combine. That was planned man, no accidents at all!! Even in politics irl stuff happen in same way cause some dude need to climb up the cooporate lader, earn more money or try to push everyone else his/her own cultural idea / lifestyle. Why not in Half-Life?

This gave me a different view on the resonance cascade Great video

I just can't get bored of your Valve content videos.

Dont take it the wrong way but I listen this before sleep. It fires up the imagination really good, and yet the voice is so relaxing. Keep doing that!!!! You helped me a lot!

Really enjoy your videos dude. Half life was my first favourite game as a kid and what had me hooked as a gamer ever since. But I could never truly grasp or piece together the entire story beyond a surface level if you get me. These lore videos are really really good! I personally accept all the recognised spin off games and laidlaws writings are canon since as a fan I want a fuller more completely story to be presented. Otherwise you’re just intentionally keeping the game franchises story vague.

I just vinge watched all your half life videos. Subbed keep it up mate

Man your editing of the video is great.

Another entertaining lore vid. Thanks Skyrionn!

6:42 The G in G-man stands for "Goverment?" I didn't know until now. I learned something new from this video.

Thanks very much for your HL-verse contents❤ I wonder why didnt you just use Black Mesa Blue Shift mod materials for the video. I would love to see your cover and diving in Legacy of Kain franchise.😁

You know, the theory you explained in this video about Gman kinda fits the bill. He could be one of the Aliens disguised as a Human who infiltrated the government and to set the entire plan in motion to cause the resonance cascade so that the Vortigaunts can escape Xen. He could possibly be under the control of the Vortigaunts and part of their plan to escape from being under the control of the Nihilanth, and where better to do it with Humans already teleporting to and from to Xen and Earth.

I thought I read on half life's wiki page that it takes place in its real world release year (1998). Did you find a contrary source? All this to say I'm not sure how reliable my source is just curious. Love the videos btw high quality content man.

Great video! I like how the origins, identity and motivations of the Gman and his employers is left open ended for fan theories and speculation.

You would think that after all this, that the G-Man and his "EMPLOYERS" would be aware and have plans for Aperture Science as they are transcended beings and should know about Black Mesa's (former) competitors. Apparently in a deleted-scene before Wheatley was called "Wheatley" the G-Man was supposed to be indirectly mentioned by him and say "Hey a man with a briefcase was just here to see you." Do any of you think that G-Man would offering Chell "employment" after making it to the surface after it cuts to black?

Enjoyed this greatly. Thanks for the hard work.

Incredible video Sky! Love these long form vids

Good video! Btw Is there a video on Entropy Zeros lore in planning?

The only thing - G-man is the character's name in the game files. There are no mentions of his name or nickname inside the universe

I have a theory that idk if it's been thought before and gets complicated and doesn't really work if multiverse is viable but: The gman has seeming powers of time and space control. What if he and his employers want to make sure the events of black mesa and the rest of half life happen to ensure that the technology for such feats is discovered (be it by the technology itself making it possible or by forcing an evolutionary adaptation), meaning the gman and his employers are actually beings that came to be in what we'd consider "the future"?

@skyrionn I just wanted to say I love your videos and I just watched this cause I’m behind and I really loved it like I’m learning about things that I never even knew before and I love the game series so I just wanna say keep it up and love your videos dude

I want and need HL2, the combine empire written and done by you just like this video. Well done!

Love the video, thanks for making it.

There's really no plot like the Half Life one. Great video for one of the greatest sci-fi stories in video game history.

i love this sort of video please never stop making this good videos :)

G-Man only appears briefly in '-Blue Shift' and '-Decay' so I'm not sure he considered Barney Calhoun, Colette Green and Gina Cross important players since he didn't feel driven to keep an eye on them. And like I commented in a previous video I'm not sure Gordon Freeman initially was either. I've wondered if by the G-Man's original plan the roles of Calhoun, Green, Cross and even Freeman could have ended as far as he was concerned after the resonance cascade. His advanced interest in Adrian Shephard and his unit suggest to me that there role may have intended to have been something different than what ultimately played out and it remains a possibility that the HECU to be the implementation of Nihilanth's downfall. It didn't happen that way and as you said, G-Man adapted things as was necessary to see his plan through. But I'm not so sure Shephard's stand against RaceX and the Gene Worm was calculated by G-Man; my guess is that's more what the nuke was for. "Maybe" G-Man rescued Shephard from the rising toxic waste and blocked his departure on the Osprey because he still had hopes of him eliminating Nihilanth; only for him to be beaten to it by Freeman. Now you could argue that if that's the case there would have been no reason for him to rescue Shephard afterwards from the waste dump but "maybe" Shephard had impressed G-Man enough that he gave him a further reprieve and later chose to put him into stasis for the same reason. As for the events of '-Blue Shift' and '-Decay', my thought is that G-Man neither helped nor aided the struggles of Calhoun, Green and Cross because he didn't consider them important to his plan. I could be wrong. My theory isn't perfect either but I just thought I'd throw it out there. Hit me with your thoughts; I'm open to suggestions and criticism.

Barney: Hey wtf man? I killed some some stuff too? Someone owes me a beer!

Great video! On my way looking for HL2 lore on your channel:)

Great video as usual my friend. ❤❤❤❤ Thank you so much

Insanely good work

Awesome production!

Love the half life videos!

Impressive work Mr Skyrionn. i will see you up ahead.

18:42 that animation looks like the scene from Interstellar when they pass into the wormhole 😅

Very cool video. Wouldn't now finally be the time for a film or better a Netflix series with at least 10 seasons? :)

The whole Valve Gaming Universe can just be bogged down to a petty squabble between two warring factions of extra-dimensional beings with the human race being unfortunately caught up in the middle being used as pawns in a much larger game to completely control all of reality & the human race was unfortunately completely wiped out as a result..

The fact that in one of the multiverses, Cave Johnson prevents the Black Mesa incident.

Could the islands in Zen be the remnants of some long gone planet or something,what if someone at one point tried to move an entire planet there and failed