Half Life Alyx G-man Radio Easter Egg

found this while messing around with the radio at the beginning of the game. These sounds were in Half Life 2 with a TV showing the g-man standing while this played in the background, pretty spooky

[@MrGoose-vn1lp]

When it said "G-Man radio Easter egg", I thought it was gonna be G-Man on the radio saying "Prepare for unforeseen consequences"

[@drxduca]

same

[@gamingcatdude3251]

Ok?

[@cowwithinternet]

@David well yes, but actually no. the music plays from a tv found in a destroyed building in the first level of the city 17 uprising. on the tv, gman is shown

[@waspanimations7037]

​@@Harrycarpio_603 What?

[@Quotethe]

You did not prepare for the consequences

[@doodlenoodle7370]

The fact that this sound has been in the half life universe for over a decade is just terrifying.

[@IEatDirtForFun]

What’s the sound even called, I never knew the name

[@turbofist9]

@@IEatDirtForFun Distorted Trumpets

[@mythologue]

They're really getting a lot of use out of this sample, huh?

[@yeth797]

@@mythologue its creepy, no wonder they're using it

[@myrontheson1019]

@@IEatDirtForFun Distorted Trumpets+ Is that a door?

[@purplethumb8961]

I love how the radio looks like it's got a rtx 3080 strapped to the back

[@broncosbroncos5489]

Someone’s tech savvy

[@iambreadbear3325]

4k ultra hd audio

[@southpaw117]

It's got a couple Noctua fans on top.

[@dabidmydarling5398]

rtx not gtx

[@purplethumb8961]

@@dabidmydarling5398 dang, autocorrect

[@minecraft132321123]

When i found this first time playing alyx it really hit right in the feels

[@ArdentPrayer]

I like to think that the distorted trumpets is not simply only a song, but an in-universe omen

[@loganjelinek2226]

This is a compelling idea. New headcanon.

[@erroneous3493]

My take is that gman is a separate entity so far ahead of the combine that they cannot comprehend his goal or endgame. Gman plays with the fabric of reality. This the only thing that they understand. This is why they built the trap. To snag him in one instance of reality. This is all they can do. Gman knows that due to entropy he can just wait. His perception of time is non existent. It was almost as if the trapping and his escape are happening at the same time. It was just an eventuality for him. The scary thing is that gman isn’t even the leader of what ever this race is. He’s simply a salesman.

[@thezman9001]

He intentionally walked into that trap too

[@nickperfetti7976]

Yeah gman definitely allowed himself to be captured. The one question is why were the combine so lazy instead of moving the vault off world? When the mystery scientist was speaking with the advisor it almost seems like the combine wanted her to free gman

[@yourlocalpiebro4390]

@@nickperfetti7976 mystery scientist was Judith I believe, sounded very familiar

[@kevinmoore2474]

His employers have nothing better to do than to pick a chosen few to “Hire” to set in motion their very plans, or it’s all one massive elaborate ploy for their entertainment. The endgame, revealing that there was never any cascade, and that it was all their making, to see how humans would react to such a world? Who knows

[@aymanbhr4436]

@@yourlocalpiebro4390 She was not, VNN (valve news network) found her model and gave it textures, doesn't look like judith at all

[@guiguig5999]

In the Half-Life:Alyx files, the file isn't know as "radio" anymore, instead it can be found as "sounds/music/places/c17/radio_1_processed.vsnd_c"

[@theironycomedy6]

Yeah, that's pretty much the same thing though.

[@caingamin2]

I imagine its different as its a vr game

[@kiddingrelic2472]

In general Half Life is an action shooter, but its lore makes it so depressive, horrific and hopeless, that its like a horror game hidden in a cover of action and epic things

[@Tabsau]

I get a feeling of unease and anxiety whenever I hear the "Distorted Trumpets" theme, something about it makes my chest very heavy like there's something watching from the distance.

[@justnormal2521]

You'll never guess who

[@ThatKidBobo]

Seeing Gman in the tv scared the shit out of me when I played hl2 for the first time.

[@LambdaField2006]

its a boat

[@ThatKidBobo]

@@LambdaField2006 scout gaming

[@blueshit199]

elevator door opening?

[@caboose8110]

@@ThatKidBobo N word

[@yeth797]

elevator door opening?

[@zachthorn998]

This music plays at the play ground at the start of half life 2

[@Miguel-hu1lu]

Also in Anticitizen One, when you enter a building

[@ragmayor]

@@Miguel-hu1lu it plays from a tv which displays a gman in a boat with a crow

[@bafer6365]

Wait what it plays in point insertion as well?

[@betterthanthatvideo]

@@bafer6365 I dont think so, Thats the kids playing

[@halo091]

@@ragmayor creepy but also sadly nostalgic

[@TheAlienGangster]

So much teasing from Valve. This game better lead to something.

[@Jamesharveycomics]

...I think it's pretty unambiguously leading to Half Life 3

[@qu1v3r]

Don’t touch that dial, now.

[@sagevoyage]

We're just getting started

[@bobm_g]

I remember the tv that when you looked at it it had Gman on it and shut off as he straightens his tie

[@realreinjurings2761]

This could just be an old radio station out in the countryside broadcasting a looping message that has long since been distorted, due to the disrepair the station has fallen into without people

[@allseeingirene]

It is creepy because, in half life 2, when this audio was first found, there's an unplugged TV that plays the audio for the first time as a hidden Easter egg alongside a showcase of Gman with a crow, fixing his tie.

[@GameyAnimates]

It is very sad, the radio might be an old run-down radio station that was distorted ever since the combine invaded. Or it was an abandoned number station that doesn't work anymore. Half-life 2 is Depressing.

[@omariowaltuh]

This further proves that the G-Man intentionally got caught, knowing that Alyx would get him out and make and then hire her after intentionally doing her a solid.

[@davidlima9461]

so they decided to put it again nice

[@ZeanyZX]

i was so confused when i was on half life 2 and i heard that music, it was so familiar to me, then i found the tv

[@lennrd5912]

Who actually remembers (the scary easter egg) where you find the Unplugged Gman TV and then the elevator with a doll and G-man's suitcase... this could mean a lot of things... Half Life is full of mind tricking messages and a constant mind blowing story. Gman is a rebel shu ulathoy embryo that hasnt been enslaved by combines "reincarnated in g-man" and he wants to destroy combines using Gordon "his DOLL in the half life series". fact is... G-man could even be related to Gordon freeman (G- Man) as being his father or something

[@VzMightyMousezV]

I remember that part. I was 10 on my first playthrough and I saw the TV, then the suitcase and the doll. The instant that I picked up the doll my flashlight died and I thought it was correlated. Scared tf out of me

[@naylik2562]

nah I don't think he's a NIHILANTS, it was pretty clear that you killed the last one in HL1. I think the g-man is something far more sinister than this.

[@lennrd5912]

GUYS!!! so im WRONG but i have A BETTER THEORY. G-Man is a Shu Ulathoi an Advisor... advisors are some god like power freakin animals right? well well... see the combines enslave many species during their path. and they infected the shu ulathoi with a technique called fake information like they made the advisors think wrong things and now have them! G-MAN AND HIS EMPLOYERS are way older advisors that are embryos. they arent shu ulathois like the advisors with all the mechanical parts.. they are shu ulathois with powers that the combines want to get from them. they have lots of informations in their head but they went in a deep deep sleep when they got caught by the combines, that's why they are carrying them in HL alyx. G-man is the only embryo shu ulathoi that decided to reincarnate... in a G-Man "a government man" and he works at black mesa: knowing everything! HE PULLED THE STRINGS in the half life series. but he needed some mercenaries such as Gordon, cpl Adrian Shepard, and Alyx. but Eli vance knows much about him and wants to "kill him, as well as end the combine's domination" thats why he took alyx at the end. Half Life 3 is going to be great that for sure.

[@seifelshenawi6211]

Lennik yeah i kinda think this is true

[@lennrd5912]

@@seifelshenawi6211 more of a father a babysitter or something 😂 or the doll just meant: shu ulathoi embryos

[@webbtail245]

Valve, thank you. Seriously.

[@LetsGoGetThem]

And you look around frantically for Gman....

[@Emiester1130]

Those scary-ass trumpets.

[@ordinarymann47]

Like a rusty squeaky swing set somewhere in the middle of the Chernobyl

[@chpsilva]

@@ordinarymann47 played by the siren head

[@sillkthashocker]

Long time listener, first time caller

[@jonahjaworski5555]

It's probably the radio station he's listening to inside the vault

[@dabidmydarling5398]

This song isn't much of a "G-man" easter egg. It was in Half-Life 2 and it's a combination of the songs: "Dostorted Trumpets" and "Is that the door?" Where the "Is that the door?".

[@Asupreme]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pquYhIF5oN9-g9E The sample for "Is that the door?" comes from Zero G. Here's a video that showcases this sample being used in several video game audios.

[@thecannedslap]

I think this song played on a TV with a distorted gman face on it, I’m not 100% sure on this though. I’ll have to check later

[@TheBreakingBenny]

Keep moving, soldier Postal Dude. We've got more people to save from this… hate plague.

[@auqajenkins3411]

That laugh at the end made me crap my pants

[@MK-ld6il]

Just loops to like that thing is calling for you

[@GloriG_C17]

Someone who hear this Music Will meet Gordon and become his Partner

[@Evzone1821]

Beautiful.

[@MajinMist603]

Yup

[@GreibelZOH]

amazing

[@bafer6365]

It warns you of the impending dooms

[@HerahKobayashi]

some moonlords?

[@thiesvanderkooij8421]

OOHHHHH SHOT FIRED

[@brandonlewisgaming6982]

that is so ungodly gnarly

[@Zemlyaa]

ayo that radio got that rtx 3090 on the back

[@kolosok1711]

Oh, G-man....

[@eleskeletitto4900]

this is an ambiance from half life 2

[@thatdudemetro6271]

Nostalgia huh.

[@drunkonsuccess779]

I knew something was up with this radio.

[@huntersvoice2754]

Break the radio while you have the cha- oh wait you can't.

[@ismafelix3062]

a

[@near5148]

Me: aw yes how do i stop this!

[@vtresa]

I dont know, but this radio meaning for something in real life i think, because this radio used in Half Life 2 and after 16 years ago on release of Half Life Alyx, It still used.

[@fishingfish223]

Bro when i had heard this the first time in 2008 i was so fucking creeped off...

[@priorabrat]

rtx 3080 radio xD

[@AceAxolotl]

It’s in my recommended again.

[@crabletman8421]

Get better

[@AceAxolotl]

Its back. Im back.

[@Brown-streak_studios]

This is giving me postal flash backs

[@o2xide503]

This plays at the end of triage at dawn ost

[@eleskeletitto4900]

really?

[@user-tx9gk7ho8h]

it is only in the path of the borealis remix

[@kristupassaltenis]

BTW TRY PLAYING THROUGH THE START OF ANTICITIZEN ONE IN HALF LIFE 2. I FOUND THAT TV

[@Jacon8r]

Ngl if started hearing that after all these years again im throwing that thing off the balcony.

[@justnormal2521]

I wanna see it in a spectrogram

[@vidsontheside_]

Foreshadowing

[@_Majki_2137]

It's almost like a number station tho - Sad that there is no woman telling numbers it would be awesome

[@GameyAnimates]

It is very sad, since it might be an old run-down radio station that was distorted ever since the combine invaded. Depressing

[@michkx9173]

TAKE THAT GODDAMN RADIO AND THROW IT AWAY

[@raddirl2923]

is gman working against the combine

[@seasoningdille3627]

I don't wanna know what or who is broadcasting this to radio's...

[@gracz24PL]

have you guys tried to put that song in to spectograph? or decode picture from audio/radio transmission what possibly could be in that sound? (the same method were used in one easter egg in portal 2)

[@fullmetalanarchist6521]

DarkK iirc one is the songs in HL:2 has the half life symbol embedded in it,however I’m not aware of the portal Easter egg, what was it?

[@gracz24PL]

@@fullmetalanarchist6521 Wait, you put that already in to spectograph? oh ok. so, just type "portal transmission received decoded" on youtube

[@fullmetalanarchist6521]

DarkK I didn’t, I remember watching a video about Easter eggs in hl2 and that was one of them

[@computer_dude]

2 years late, but nope. The Portal ARG (yes, an actual ARG, not a series of creepy GMod videos) contained morse code and some SSTV audios, but Half-Life has none of that, as far as I know. Nor spectograph shenanigans.

[@allseeingirene]

​@@gracz24PL mwa mlp+!!!!

[@ricardasist]

Could have a coded message hidden in the audio

[@Jukebocks]

The audio is from HL2

[@ricardasist]

@@Jukebocks ah, gotcha

[@fullmetalanarchist6521]

as far as im aware it doesnt have any specific meaning, however it does play when the G-man was present in ravenholm

[@ricardasist]

​@@fullmetalanarchist6521 "prepare for unforseen consequences", you hear the thing that causes alyx to relay the message to Eli at the very start of the game, foreshadowing the events in half life alyx

[@guilhermeveigadeandrade7428]

They say that you can hear someone say "they are all dead gordon"

[@user-wi2ns5tf3y]

Hi there

[@007spudmanSpudsArmy]

When I put the antenna up and move the dial nothing happens?

[@mat_3447]

I know this is from the hl2 soundtrack but I don't remember the name. does anyone have it?

[@crabletman8421]

Mat _ don’t remember what it is titled in hl2 but I do know that in half life alyx it is referred to as “radio 1”

[@cancerdeporonga666]

@@crabletman8421 the theme has no name just"half life 2 radio theme" but i notice that also appears in a silent hill shattered memories soundtrack

[@cancerdeporonga666]

@@crabletman8421 there is : kzbin.info/www/bejne/roW6iHamfNWepdE

[@huntersvoice2754]

People call it distorted trumpets apparently.

[@cowwithinternet]

I think the file is called radio.mp3

[@germanwarrabbit]

what the hell is this sound and why

[@squash589]

Oh God please no....

[@Mart-E12]

I did it on my first playthrough but after that I just can't get it working

[@razpor513]

I recongnise the sound so well but I don't know where it originated. can anyone help?

[@razpor513]

Nevermind. I remeber. I don't know where it is but it's on a TV screen where you see gman somewhere later in Half life 2. wonder what the sound means? interesting

[@aurorafox1283]

It was not only in half life 2 and Alyx. This track is a combination of "Dostorted Trumpets" and "Is that the door?" Where the "Is that the door?" Were used in many games like Silent Hill and Postal

[@angellm8192]

its so familiar because its been used a lot in media

[@ernstthoren102]

I dont understand how this has anything to do with G-man, i only hear weird music

[@Asupreme]

Easter egg relates to when you find a TV in the start of Half Life 2. The TV is heard playing this music as you advance up a staircase. When you approach the source of the noise and look at the TV, you see G-Man for less than a few seconds. The TV near immediately shuts off and you are left with nothing but ambience. Nearly nothing but silence. Like what you just saw didn't even happen. That's about the only relation.

[@nerf2752]

does it have name ?

[@tenshimerodikku450]

It's her in the future trying to contact Gordon from the Void she's been put in Half Life Alyx "Gordon do you hear me? Exetrera

[@JotunBoss]

It should be Exile Vilify from Portal 2.

[@skoo_dah]

What

[@Bordie3D]

meth

[@crabletman8421]

keep speaking your truths ✊

[@Bordie3D]

@@crabletman8421 I shall

[@netty.]

"Gordon? Can you hear me?" "They're dead." "Gman has control over everything." "Hello?"

[@vladls]

Nope, it's actually this sound: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3zLZJqMl9uCeacsi=fhi-52zigolcpRSL but pitched up a bit

[@Cesar_412]

I 1 hear gordon you hear I 1 hear gordon you hear me? They are all dead can you help me help