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Bubbha

"Pick up that can."

d3r

HL3 was not made because Gabe came out with Steam and took over PC gaming (distribution). Fun read though, I'll smoke whatever you're smoking.

BarryOSeven

It's because HL3 is reality. We are playing HL3 right now.

Iceboundend

That saying about truth being stranger then fiction

Eventually all fantasy media diverge to essentially, how a government should run or how it naught too.

Pick any book, any idea, all converge to a theme

Seems to me the theme is better to be a freeman who has the capability for evil vs a slave with no free will, the loss of free will makes you inherently evil

But what is free

AfricanZionSafari

The original Half-Life was better then the sequel in my opinion. There was no other game like it at the time, it had the tech from Quake with the "realistic" level design of Duke Nukem 3D. No other game compares to the "feel" Half-Life had. HL2 was very technologically revolutionary with the physics and gravity gun, but I never really got into the feeling of City 17 like I did with Black Mesa.

It wasn't until the last 5 years when I have been hearing about Deep Underground Military Bases on youtube, although I understand the reports of DUMBs have went back to the 1980s. I think the Black Mesa Research facility was highly based off of actual underground military bases like Area 51/S4 Facility, Dulce Base/Archeluta Mesa, and Montauk.

At the beginning of the game there are no aliens until Freeman pushes that orange crystal thing into the anti-mass spectromoter. If I remember correctly the crystal came from the end boss the Nihilist. The whole Half-Life story seems a lot like the Dulce Base incident, although at Dulce, the ET's were already in the facility (or they had their own underground base at Dulce that was stumbled upon during construction of the DUMB at Dulce.)

I never made the connections when I played HL1 as a kid, but now I see the whole game was based off actual covert government ops. So I would believe that there is some shady stuff going on between Valve and the black hand of the government between the use of Deep Underground Military Bases and HL2's 1984-esque society. They had some knowledge of what was going on behind the scenes, or at least they were somewhat aware of the "conspiracy theories" and used them to base the games off of.

Pizzagate709

This was actually a great post. Thanks for the read

SaneGoatiSwear

that moment when you realize you just became gamalek.