How the Combine Invaded Earth -- The Seven Hour War Explained | Half Life Lore

We take our very first look at the Half-Life Universe, with a breakdown of the 7 Hour War, which, by Half-Life 2, saw the Combine gain full control over Earth.
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[@CesarDaSalad]

*"How the Combine Invaded Earth"* "We don't know how they did it." -Ecks

[@greyscaleb1537]

LMFAO why did i find this so funny? 😭

[@TheDiscusserOriginal]

Derrick Simmons Because its so ironic, and downright stupid.

[@greyscaleb1537]

No i find it funny how this guy summarized Ecks whole video.

[@MazzaAzi]

You had one job Ecks

[@mike-fr2vf]

*just one job*

[@mrcomp1971]

I wish there was more official lore on this subject. The earth was conquered in 7 freakin' hours and you can find almost nothing about it.

[@catbertz]

Valve has so much potential story material to utilize. They could go prequel and show the 7 hour war and it's immediate aftermath. Or they could wrap the story they left unfinished. Graphics isn't even a big deal. Just do the story and we're happy. This isn't dnf at all.

[@Gmanunit13vers2]

It was to quick to document and categorize c:

[@thucydides123]

There IS more. The portal storms created from the Black Mesa event allowed many alien creatures from Xen to crossover to Earth all over the globe. When this happened it caused mass panic amongst the human population and people fled the countrysides for the cities. Unknown how long this lasted until the Combine showed up, but supposedly lots of people died from attacks from the Xen aliens & wildlife and the rest fled to the cities which were much easier to defend. Then the Combine showed up out of nowhere. If I recall correctly, the Combine used the wormholes or whatever they were to teleport their armies to Earth. The most devastating thing they did was they teleported these giant towers like the one in City 17 straight into the hearts of cities across the planet, and when that happened it caused massive devastation and killed millions. If that's not bad enough, as we well know, the towers opened up and let loose the armies of the Combine which supposedly contained much worse and terrifying creatures than the ones we're familiar with. The creatures we encounter in Half-Life 2 are mostly just a token police force.

[@headheretic1580]

Well there is "Hunt Down the Freeman" that shows some of the Seven Hour lore but A: It's not canon in any aspect and B: We don't speak of this game

[@twosphere-e5f]

Im looking for official lore of pre-synthified combine units and other combine homeworlds/units

[@clevermcgenericname891]

Next video: how massive combine army is smashed by a middle aged nerd with a crowbar.

[@th3comb1ne13]

Clever McGenericName 2 words: Plot Armour

[@robertagu5533]

Yeah an the Combine should be embarrassed about that. Dont think an evil sci fi force has been so embarrassed and humiliated since the ewoks kicked stormtrooper ass on Endor in the original star wars trilogy

[@owenurban5122]

When I read this comment I thought you were talking about the farming machine

[@TheHalcyonTwilight]

There's actually an in-universe moment in Nova Prospekt where Breen is chewing out the Combine forces for not being able to stop Freeman, saying, "this man isn't a soldier or a saboteur, he's a theoretical physicist for God's sake!" You can hear it over the tannoy.

[@MikMoen]

Not even middle aged, Freeman was 27 at Black Mesa.

[@rolltide727]

The earth wasn’t invaded by the overwatch, they were invaded by the full combine *army* . This means billions, likely trillions, of robots, mechs, etc. invaded earth and incinerated any opposing forces. The overwatch are very very very, universally, extremely, weak compared to the combine army. This is why freeman is even able to have a fighting chance. If the combine army were guarding earth, he’d never get close to killing one soldier. They are using earths resources to fuel their fight to control all of the dimensions.

[@blackshogun272]

You are a bold one I want some Combine Scientists to open a new portal and let forth a single Dalek that goes on a murderous rampage before downloading their interdimensional info so that it can summon a Dalek Invasion...

[@th3comb1ne13]

It is unlikely that the 7 hour war was even their full forces. This is because the combine have been shown to have incredible efficiency and adaptability. With an emphasis on efficiency, and considering they know their going to invade primitive beings, it is incredibly unlikely that they would use what they would consider a formidable force to fight primitives.

[@hunter-zu3hk]

Yeah, there was never any chance of a human victory. It’s like the us army getting taken out by a Stone Age tribe. Just not going to happen.

[@plasticballs]

Did you forget the Elites guarding Breen?

[@moppypuppy781]

A newspaper in HL: Alyx has an image of a ravaged UN building with a caption stating that it was bombarded from space. It's highly likely the 7-hour war was nothing more than orbital bombardment, any invading ground forces were likely nothing more than spotters for the orbiting ships.

[@okacha_0632]

U.S.A finds oil in Xen U.S.A : We are gonna bring democracy to aliens

[@requiem7817]

7 hours war 2: But its the Combine turn to die now.

[@christiancinnabars1402]

Combine: Hold up, _those are our resources you're eyeing._

[@CurtisJensenGames]

Does anyone here know the full list of reasons America is at war in the Middle East?

[@Kervvy]

Napoléon Bonaparte fax

[@tetsuo2222]

Hahaha

[@WhatIsLove170]

"Right?" Over 10 years have passed since ep2 ):

[@lewiscain-mcaliece1805]

Look up Projfct Borealis. Fans are making their own closure.

[@TheRealLaking]

or read the leaked ep3

[@sethleoric2598]

@GDO G *episode

[@sethleoric2598]

@GDO G oh sh%!^ you're right

[@rgvgunner7935]

Fisto Hey The Atomic Wrangler needs You

[@CommissarTommy22]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Gaben The Wise, so powerful and wise he could use the force to influence the midichlorians to create Half Life 3

[@soupcake3092]

Is it possible to learn this power?

[@thelonehunter6025]

Nerdy Nachos Not by a Jedi.

[@Warmaka]

His franchise became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing its power...which, eventually of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentices everything he knew, then they created greater video games and surpassed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save other franchises from death... but not his own.

[@__Theta__]

@@Warmaka sometimes you gotta sacrifice one precious thing for the continuity of others

[@dynamitedinosaur4601]

Oh yeah, and you forgot that the Valve alliance fell to the Steam Rebellion.

[@safs4929]

Actually, there is an explanation as to how the Combine invaded Earth during the 7 Hour War. In Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (a book about HL2's development published by Valve), a character 'cut' from the final game named 'Eli Maxwell' was supposed to explain to Freeman about how the Combine invaded. Apparently, (according to him) the Resonance Cascade had created multiple Superportals throughout Earth which -- in turn -- caused Portal Storms all over the planet. The Combine sent Citadels through each of these Superportals in order to ensure that they "stay open". After that, they deployed their massive army on Earth. Maxwell was also supposed to show Gordon a slideshow of some pictures of the 7 Hour War, one of them being a picture of the Consul (another cut character) declaring global surrender of humanity while -- in the background -- two Combine dropships can be seen preparing to land, buildings destroyed and much more carnage. But since this stuff is pre-release, we can't know for certain that this plot point is "canonical" or not.

[@Brieg_Skald]

It makes quite sense. The Combine didn't show up until the dimensional rift was extremely wide and spreaded all over Earth. Even before they arrived, the world was in a mess, millions and millions of people died already. The Combine just broke what remained of a frontier and poored on Earth.

[@ESCalation]

Hey EckhartsLadder, your Thumbnail artist here! You are the first one to be so nice an actually credit me! ...been subscribed to you for a while, was surprised to see it^^

[@HumanGrunt]

didn't expect to see you here

[@ziuper9913]

The thumbnail is wrong there we're no combine soliders during the 7 hour

[@weeerazer3099]

Warte du machst die thumpnails? Wow gute arbeit

[@ESCalation]

Ne nur das eine, er hats aus meiner alten Gallerie genommen. Sind größten Teils 40K artworks.

[@ziuper9913]

I don't speak german sorry

[@TeraQuad]

Get a STEM degree ladies and gentlemen. Cause you never know when you need it to fight off aliens!!

[@DalekTurtle]

Marc Pascual At MIT tho

[@mrglaciator]

Isaac Clarke too

[@jpeg.600x2]

STEM is for idiot get a real PhD in Theoretical physics

[@ESL1984]

@@jpeg.600x2 but theoretical physics is a STEM subject...

[@caddydonstans116]

That MIT education really pays for itself

[@simpleprotection6558]

Combines: We can easily kill all military on earth! Gordon: Hold my guns

[@khanaratsadon]

Hold my glass.

[@projectkepleren]

@MUSTAFA AHMED i disagree as he doesnt need gun

[@marksmant50gaming11]

Gravemind* hold my flood infection forms

[@Mr-Ad-196]

@@marksmant50gaming11 Gordon and master chief team up and successfully contained the flood......with just two of them.......

[@TitanBeats]

well i mean the combine forces you see in game are like mall cops compared to the combines biggest forces

[@stormcommando1640]

Well, considering how short the “war” was, we can assume a few things. 1)The attack would have to be from everywhere at once: Judging from what we see of Combine forces, they aren’t much faster than our military forces, which means it was likely overwhelming firepower which arrived on every region of the planet. 2) They didn’t face much of a fight: Seven hours is not nearly enough time to mobilize any military forces, it’s like nobody knew what was going on. Most troops probably dead before they could even get out of their barracks, the most resistance probably coming from forces already on missions. Unlikely that the Combine faced any serious amounts of armour and their forces slaughtered any infantry. The actual fighting probably lasted only 2-3 hours, the rest was just the UN getting their shit together and the actual process of surrendering.

[@stormcommando1640]

They forgot to read the rules before playing the game :(

[@Vulcano7965]

Mostly kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3WVkqSNn8uCrs0

[@EnclaveSOC-102]

@@Vulcano7965 actually that's probably a better explanation as to what really happened than this.

[@Vulcano7965]

@@EnclaveSOC-102 It's also more or less canon lore from ingame references and newspaper articles.

[@stormcommando1640]

@@tophatgaming1873 wrong, we’re dealing with a inter dimensional superpower, who’s technology is light years ahead of ours. Even looking at real-world conflicts like iraq, where there was only about 30 years technology difference, the Iraqi’s were entirely incapable of putting up a capable resistance. Even if the world’s military had all the time they needed to mobilize, they’d be routed by enemy weapons they can barely comprehend, let alone fight.

[@rebel1717]

It’s scary how effortless is was for the Combine to invade Earth during the 7 hour war. I can’t even imagine what the upper extent of their power would look like. Not even the Advisors from episode 2 are their strongest units.

[@wholsomecontentye7420]

Considering the combine have the ability to take over entire universes, I doubt what they used to invade earth was more than the equivalent of mall cops

[@rebel1717]

@@wholsomecontentye7420 Even less than that! It's more like sending a Huntsman spider to hunt the cockroaches in your house! How in god's great...UNIVERSE do you stop something like this?!

[@wholsomecontentye7420]

@@rebel1717 I don't think you can, and even if the rebels were to liberate the planet, the combine see Earth as nothing more than a water fountain. I mean what's stopping them from simply destroying it?

[@rebel1717]

@@wholsomecontentye7420 They were about to when they first arrived, but Wallace Breen managed to negotiate with the Combine, and stop them from completely destroying Earth. It was a matter of servitude or extinction. The Combine probably didn't even need humanity alive, but since they keeled over, they decided "why not" it's not like humanity's an actual threat to them...depending on what the Borealis does.

[@usmaniqbal6623]

@@wholsomecontentye7420 not meaning to offend u but they took over dimensions

[@shelkton.7991]

I like how you do other sci-fi universes it keeps your channel fresh.

[@jackmulford2661]

Star trek maybe?

[@CommanderTK9091]

Isn’t it neat how one scientist with minimal security access at some lab was able to defeat two different alien races almost singlehandedly.

[@piratekingthaszar7912]

Don't fuck with the science team

[@janedoe4586]

all of this was manipulated and arranged by the G-man and his employer.

[@NotClosedMinded]

The combine forces on earth when Gorden shows up is basically just a garrison. No where near the entire combine. And because the portal was destroyed, the combine can no longer send reinforcements, they are cut off. And hoping they can't make such super portals themselves so they can come back.

[@TacoRepublic]

**half-life 3 confirmed intesifies**

[@highlanderjeff2720]

What a dark universe, could well get into that

[@TheMorbidAsshole]

I don't even care about hl3 anymore. Fps market is too saturated, I doubt valve could raise the bars again and not just another game just for nostalgia's sake

[@fenrirrising131]

dont do this to yourself man

[@iliketrains0pwned]

Project Borealis *CONFIRMED*

[@deanmc]

People have literally died waiting for this... Tens of thousands of people....

[@shptz]

I think that a big part of why the Half-Life's universe is so fascinating and exciting is that it doesn't care to explain itself too much. It leaves space for imagination to complete the picture and makes it unique for every player. Valve are masters and they do it intentionally. They could have packes both Half-Life chapters with long narrated cut scenes and intros explaining everything in details. But instead, they simply leave subtle hints in the games that you should notice and analyze yourself. Bottom line: We should all thank Valve for not pumping money out of the franchise by producing tons of additional off-spin content. It truly shows their sense of good taste and professionalism.

[@wolf0184]

I agree completely.

[@b.c.s.o4169]

it also adds to the realism of the narrative, if it were to happen in real life the scale of the whole conflict is way too big for us to comprehend it let alone document it, think about it, we went from dominating the planet for thousands of years only for all of that to come crashing down in less than a day, we just wouldn't be able to process what the hell happened.

[@Nevermore2790]

"There is evidence that the US Military moved into Xen...." They didn't get into Xen. Marc Laidlaw states that the 2nd area where you got teleported after the 1st area of Endgame is on Earth. The game can't handle 2 skyboxes at one map.

[@delofon]

Ooh. I've never heard of that. It's like, a whole new perspective has opened.

[@delofon]

But hey, they could've hacked it somehow like in Opposing Force.

[@znspyder]

I think black mesa fixed the one yeah?

[@Nevermore2790]

@@znspyder Yeah, but they used a little nice trick for that and used that area in Crossfire.

[@garden0fstone736]

Right? Lmao why would the military want to get into xen 😂

[@bacsi4242]

M Y F E L L O W A M E R I C A N S

[@HumanGrunt]

L E T S G E T R I G H T I N T O T H E N E W S

[@cringevidshub3767]

@@darkfireproject2102 oof

[@yw5617]

Shut up mortal, mortals aren't permitted to quote him.

[@mikebuston7407]

Blackbird Sadly the combine is too strong nothing we can do to stop them

[@timur5241]

My fellow americans. There's ebola in America, which means we're screwed.

[@genericname1238]

"We don't know how they did it." *THEY USED SYNTHS*

[@NJWebCrawler]

I wish there was a game about the Seven Hour War where your fighting and the character goes through the horrors of realizing that they cant win the war, and having to surrender to the combine

[@garden0fstone736]

It’s called American politics

[@Kazami_Kagari]

and I think the combines invading earth wasn't even their entire army

[@justacat2]

@@peanutzuz2241new alien weapons would be added

[@justacat2]

@@Kazami_Kagariit was like 0.0000000000000000000000000000001% of their army

[@RemoveOhio]

@@justacat2 the equivalent of growing a Venus flytrap to kill the houseflies

[@Pingthescribe]

"I'm absolutely positive we'll see how the conflict ends someday." Maybe when I'm old and senile. Great works, as always. :)

[@maxstirnersego]

You toyed with my emotions with that pinned post

[@thestarwarsstop2936]

Dear humanity we regret being alien -Yoinks!- we regret coming to earth and we most definitely regret that the corps just blew up our raggedy -Yoink- fleet!

[@rasputinjagger3078]

gold

[@craignewsome2058]

The Star Wars Stop HOORAH!!!!!!!

[@rebelfleetcommander5138]

I love that line!

[@Renorick1]

The Star Wars Stop OORAH!

[@monklie2735]

Hoorah!

[@kal5206]

Mr. EckhartsLadder, I loved your video! However there is one factual error you made at 1:36 (I'm a LORE Expert at Half Life). The United States HECU Marines and any leftover military forces, actually never moved into Xen to neutralize remaining hostile forces. The only known member of the military to enter Xen besides the Black Mesa staff, is Corporal Adrian Shephard. The scene you have with the Gman in Xen with the bodies of dead Marines and destroyed vehicles, is a result of the Gold Source Engine limitations back in 1998. It was meant to be on Earth since the ground and surrounding textures are that of the desert and Black Mesa scenery, but the engine couldn't switch to an Earth night skybox mid-level unfortunately. Valve developers had to leave it as one of the Xen skyboxes since it looked dark and just never ended up changing it in order to make their release date for the game. It was never fixed even with the Source Engine conversion of the game later on.

[@jellyray1686]

i was requesting something from the half life universe a long time ago thanks Ecks

[@Ikelae]

You're the best, man! Looking forward to you pitting the combine against other factions!

[@itaybron]

"say we knew they were coming? Then what, we call it the ten hour war?" - Mike civil protection

[@Terra-Antares]

I like to think all of the combine military forces you see on earth are *light occupational forces* a very miniscule presence that's just there to keep the planet subjugated. The combine was mentioned to be an *interdimensional empire,* such a classification warrants *extreme* technological capabilities. This means that the armies deployed on earth by the combine are *unimaginably* more powerful than what we later see in half life 2, one of the newspapers pictures the HQ of the UN in ruins, it's definitely safe to assume that weapons of mass destruction were used during the war. We are but tiny ants when compared to the enormous military might of the combine.

[@platonicchutoy4]

The british empire didn't use their special power *COLONIZATION*

[@wyattbottorff2473]

I am becoming a big fan of Half Life. I never understood it because no one I was around introduced me to it proper. Getting to know it over the last few months has been incredible, very grateful for it, this is quite the series! And so much your style. I love the weirdness that isn't strictly weird for the sake of itself, there is also a point to it. Whether it is an exploration of horror, oppression, human ingenuity, sci fi, what have you, Half Life does it extraordinarily well. I respect it's presentation of independence and individuality holding out against external control from malevolent forces. Humanity's arrogance being barely balanced by our creativity, compassion and ingenuity.

[@sethleoric2598]

America: we are the strongest Military! Combine: Ima bout to ruin this man's whole career

[@ortherner]

lilol

[@papyconnors4935]

5:13 The doggo: Humanity The guy: the combine

[@sterilizer5497]

Lmao

[@vitmartobby5644]

The combine is probabpy far more powerfull than a tier 3 civilization, not only dominating galaxies, but also entire dimensions, the fact that they prob demand an entire new tier on the Khardashev scale is mind blowing

[@thefilipinokid3575]

Well a Tier Omega civilization is the highest tier on the Khardashev scale and they have the ability to create entire new universes. The Combine are strong, but I don’t think they are that advanced yet.

[@daltongoh9062]

“Uploaded 7 hours ago” If this isn’t perfect timing then I don’t know what is

[@creepermaster3436]

Well there were other groups on Earth left that would not work with the Combine *cough* Aperture *cough* but SHE just likes to test and test and test until the end of time

[@sbugmanthenoobinator]

There is a reference in portal s credit , that implies that glados shits herself by The thought of combine ' s dominion of earth , and prefers to stay inside , where they don t know of her , anyway combine surely found aperture science tech, as evidenced by many technologies typical of The enrichment centre now in The hands of the combine . with this i don t think that they found it , maybe other aperture facilities...

[@zanekrystyan3220]

Which makes a lot of sense, because the combine use the high energy pellets right? Which was originally used by aperture

[@zanekrystyan3220]

Not to mention apertures endless goldmine of portal technology

[@JanSzafraniec-m4f]

*Gordon goes back in time to the 7 hour war* The Combine: oh shi-

[@Dalipsingh111111]

-Darth Vader VS. Obelix -Could The Galactic Empire conquer the little gaulish village? -How Asterix defeated the Romans in Gaul - Battle Breakdown

[@nobleman9393]

He just beat them

[@Gophilio4567]

THIS NEEDS A VIDEO

[@Radonatos]

How would the world be like today if druids brewing magic potions were real?

[@2Potates]

A Half Life lore video? Nice!

[@2Potates]

Calm yo titties.

[@2Potates]

Nee.

[@owenurban5122]

It’s to bad this video isn’t 7 hours long

[@gorogorogoro-chan]

Nice Nagatoro pfp

[@armenianispogs8087]

@@gorogorogoro-chan Yeah the mangas doing good so far

[@enclavesoldier8893]

Seeing how the Combine control multiple universes and dimensions it is somewhat impressive we lasted 7 entire hours.

[@anormalstreetlamp6878]

I love your choice in music , from resonance to other marvelous products of HOME

[@smileyllc209]

Swanky little change up here...I like it eck. As always well done sir!!

[@ZENMC-y3j]

i love how the alien army which is the combines literally almost conquer the entire multiverse and get folded by a middle aged guy with a crowbar

[@combinestrider117]

EckhartsLadder featuring Half Life?? My life is complete

[@WartimeTrench]

OH BOY 3 PM *watches eckhartsladder*

[@WartimeTrench]

actual real woman that does exist it was 3 pm when it was uploaded tho

[@Gmanunit13vers2]

Oh Its 3:10 and I just discovered this channel...same?

[@lsdcyclops7316]

A multidimensional empire < One nerd with a crowbar

[@jar6264]

No This is not the combine These are just temporary peace keepers

[@raddarat8471]

The "combine" we seen in half Life 2 are manipulated humans that have been converted into cheap brainwashed combat units with very low training They arent the real combine, rather a very cheap way to keep earth in check as they dont even waste their own soldiers

[@coltforceplayer]

We can all agree that to this day, Half-Life 2 is fascinating in its setting, characters, backstory and how it handles its themes

[@EckhartsLadder]

Thought I'd upload something a little different, in celebration of today's Half-Life 3 announcement. If you enjoyed, and want to see more videos on other universes, make sure to drop a like! If you haven't seen the trailer, it's available here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWGWaHSabtuWh6s

[@a_person5660]

noice

[@unscHelljumper]

Looks great, nigh-realistic. Valve really knows how to make life-looking games. Can't wait to buy the beer I owned Gordon as Barney.

[@beasticy4216]

EckhartsLadder Damn man you should do some Warhammer battles Ecks you know we're fans of your channel as well hell even ships battles etc

[@lieutenantnomad9198]

T-70 X-Wing VS E-Wing PLEASE!!!!!

[@avie828]

git prenkd

[@nostalgiafest7318]

I like how you heart every comment

[@soupcake3092]

If every comment is hearted, then no comment is.

[@darkfireproject2102]

HAHAHAHAHAhahaha!!

[@sG_Paradise]

Nerdy Nachos 🤔🤔... what?

[@soupcake3092]

@@sG_Paradise you need a high IQ

[@sG_Paradise]

Nerdy Nachos hmmm... u may be right 🤷‍♂️😒

[@weirdogiant6886]

3:03 That looks like...you know what, nevermind.

[@sterilizer5497]

Weird position haha

[@pman56789]

I personally think it went similar to Denmark's invasion in World War II. There's no indication to suggest that humanity wouldn't have been able to put up a fight - it's possible that the international community just realised there was no way they could've fought off the invasion in the end. Still, their full invasion force is definitely much more powerful than what we see in Half-Life 2, but who knows.

[@tba113]

I love how the Freeman's Mind series can release a fifteen-minute episode about once a quarter (a slow pace, but absolutely worth it), and is _still_ managing to catch up with Valve.

[@stefanwalicord]

I really think diversifying your content a little bit is smart. Keeps stuff fresh. Also good that you'll still do lots of Star Wars. Keep up the good work man.

[@fisheyebrick1670]

Took the whole earth in 7 hours while can't take out a scientist with a crowbar That's how powerful Gordon is

[@theyfw_ash]

To be fair, that was merely a token police force that Gordon fought, not the invasion force.

[@therealderjett]

Thanks for this change of pace.

[@andrewlee-do3rf]

5:15 Lol....I am kinda impressed how your dog still has enough battery life all this time, to make dubstep music when smacked in the head XDXDXDXDXDXDXD ;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D

[@anomalocaris7436]

A lot of people say that the combine must be weak because one man is defying all of their attempts to kill or capture him, but wouldn't it be fair to say that Gman is manipulating probability in Gordon's favor so that he never dies?

[@Pontsman]

Combine is basically playing Clash of Clans raiding people's base but planet edition

[@sandwich_masterX]

Half-Life 3 confirmed

[@emergence109]

Sandwich_masterX stop

[@mannyperez6096]

@@emergence109 why they want half life 3 so be patient

[@TheM41a]

Sandwich_masterX it actually is now haha

[@veryveryold]

I would LOVE to see more stuff like this. Honestly, you have some of my favourite content on KZbin, and Half-Life and Portal are my favourite games of all time. Plus, we're kind of starved of any good Half-Life content right now (obviously from Valve, but I mean more from the community) aside from Freeman's Mind 2 (which is of course amazing). Anything you can do regarding this franchise will be absolutely soaked up and appreciated. Amazing job as usual.

[@calebneal8876]

Never played this, but u talking about it makes me want to play it. Thx for the video!

[@sandwich_masterX]

Get it. November 19th is its 20th anniversary and there might be a sale. Grab the Orange Box and Half Life, it's worth it.

[@calebneal8876]

@@sandwich_masterX. Thx for letting me know!

[@johnsonmeattower8011]

I played them out of order, starting with 2 and then Ep. 3 and then going to the first one. If you start at the very beginning, then play the other 2 games you will enjoy it. The story is completely unique and I really can't think of any other sci-fi universe even remotely similar in style or lore to the Half-life universe. It really makes you think about what is going on in the game and it may not give you a ton of information explaining a bunch of stuff outright, but it gives just enough info just so you can come to the proper conclusions (with your own spin on them too). Gameplay is solid as well, for a game so old it is amazing how well it plays still (in my opinion and i am sure others as well). Also the whole silent protagonist thing is actually pretty nice, besides the info already given about Gordan Freeman, it lets you come up with your own story in a sense. You should definitely play them, and if the graphics are a problem then I do believe the modding community for them has some graphic overhaul mods. anyways, just figured i would throw in my 2 cents.

[@igorkostic6684]

There is no ep3 though ;_;

[@jiraffe9600]

Johnson Meat Tower how the fuck did you play episode 3, are you a time traveler, and can you give me ep 3

[@eeejah]

I know this was 5 years ago but I hope this guy learned to make videos about whatever he wants, you should never limit yourself, be ur best self bro!

[@SpanishDio]

do you really heart every comment? that so lovable!

[@RUOK2000]

Love it man, the Half Life world is ripe for your style of imaginative exploration and there is a great cross over of interest with your audience. Keep up the good work

[@Matt-bg5wg]

I just played through Black Mesa, Half-Life 2 (with MMod), Episode 1 & 2 (also with MMod) and HL:Alyx. I've never been more ready for Half Life 3... HL2 holds up surprisingly well if you mod it a bit. Just goes to show how genius level design and story telling will always stand the test of time. I'm also glad that Black Mesa was so well done, and Xen was expanded upon greatly to show much more Black Mesa 'influence" as well as how the Combine were also controlling Xen and the Voutigaunts (something HL1 didn't really do that well).

[@garden0fstone736]

I’m doing that now lol

[@Voucher765]

It can be implied that HL2 takes place during the 2020s which would be now but in this timeline every resource is drained by Combine forces and almost all of humanity is oppressed.

[@insited4043]

Seems about right except its toilet paper, hand sanitizer, masks and races like asians and blacks are being somewhat oppressed

[@justacat2]

@@insited4043there is no racism in the combine empire, you dont cooperate you die

[@jeanniemaycrawford4466]

I always found it weird that earth lost without a fight. Knowing us, we'd literally forsake the universe than actually loose.

[@johnwest5957]

It was a fight. We got knocked out after seven hours of combat. Its supposed to be a refence to the six day war.

[@jeanniemaycrawford4466]

@@johnwest5957 I get that but I think we'd rather make the earth uninhabitable than let them invade us.

[@fwuan]

I subbed last week but ive been watchin ur videos since the dawn of time

[@groovygray3210]

More half life Ecks!

[@kiernanmccleerey]

Ive waited for this video. Thank you for making this. Keep up the great work

[@Myname-il9vd]

EVERYONE ECKHARTS BACK

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

Ronan Linnett Where'd he go?

[@Myname-il9vd]

Roland Deschain where ever youtubers go when they're not making vids

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

Ronan Linnett But he has been making vids?

[@Myname-il9vd]

Roland Deschain nvm this is tradition I do this on all his new vids I catch

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

Ronan Linnett ah alright.

[@djentspace6030]

Absolutely goated intro song

[@jollygrapefruit786]

The Combine VS The Flood would be interesting

[@sterilizer5497]

Yep

[@esotericmissionary]

Fun Fact: The 7 Hour War is based upon _The War Of The Worlds,_ by H.G. Wells, in which the Martians had conquered the Earth in seven hours. Half-Life, in general, has many nods to plenty of classic sci-fi and conspiracy stuff, if one (like me) is nerdy enough to know them.

[@nickprice2165]

I love your Star Wars/Halo content and good on your for reaching out from it with stuff like this

[@GageAndrist13]

omg that outro tho XD

[@curlyshrub3222]

Holy crap! This is great! Please do more of these half life vids as I love half life and its great that your now doing half life videos

[@ishack_vessel5075]

I didn't know you would actually do it

[@Grivian]

So basically Earth is just another planet the Combine conquered in their Stellaris playthrough

[@gojira7824]

*Insert President Keemstar here*

[@tTaseric]

lmao

[@axazilharper5571]

Great video as always man!

[@policevauxhallastra6591]

Universal Union logic: Can conquer the the whole world. Can't stop a guy with a crowbar.

[@jar6264]

This unfunny joke is old And there's already a lot of shit to debunk this First of all, Gordon is fighting the combine OVERWATCH, not the combine MILITARY. Second, If that portal never closed, they'd be dead in less than an hour, since earth doesn't have a military force anymore. Why? Because the earth fought back the MAIN COMBINE MILITARY with their Trained Marines, Air force etc. not undertrained guerilla forces.

[@philsiem]

3:04 Alyx having fun😏

[@pancakes4193]

Love love love the Half-Life universe, and seeing fresh, new videos about it after such a long time since the game's peak point is refreshing and very welcome. More Half Life please!

[@locomotivefaox]

As soon as the Guinness factories were blown up, Ireland and Scotland would surrender in sync

[@bathynomusgiganteus2916]

You should do a video on Raising The Bar and the rather extensive cut half-life 2 story. The mod Dark Interval is a partially complete, faithful adaptation of some of this material.

[@eternal7912]

A bit of clarification. The portal storms didn't start till after the Nihilanth's death, because the Nihilanth was focusing the rift between Earth and Xen on the Black Mesa area. Once it died, it obviously couldn't focus it any more, so widespread portal storms started happening.

[@gramps6016]

0:30 can someone tell me what this is, please :]

[@thevarietychannel1017]

Don't know what it is, but it looks like something from Star Wars.

[@YZ1N31]

It's the Mass Effect 3 intro

[@Contra1828]

First time seeing this channel, and I did *not* expect the part with the dog :D

[@kennethkates3140]

Interesting topic, from a certain point of view. Personal shield technology compared: Dune, Halo, Star Wars, Star Trek and Stargate.

[@puppetmasterey]

Kenneth Kates Don't forget the Mass Effect trilogy.

[@kennethkates3140]

Joey Frye I did forget Mass Effect. Next video I will add it

[@puppetmasterey]

@@kennethkates3140 keelah sa'lie

[@battleoid2411]

You could just edit it in?

[@puppetmasterey]

@@battleoid2411 He meant in future videos.

[@CapitalTeeth]

Just imagine going to bed at the night, and then you wake up seeing the entire fucking world has crumbled while you slept.

[@arctroopernull8733]

Stormtrooper corps vs the locust horde

[@fergusabrams1012]

Awesome video Eckhart's.

[@hiroshitheferretgunzel103]

What about the combine empire Vs gallatic empire

[@Altair2000]

The 7 hour war began a few weeks after the resonance cascade

[@svijj_]

Half Life ona Star Wars channel? COMBINE VS GALACTIC EMPIRE PLZ!!! (sry for caps)

[@svijj_]

@Edward Branton A strider, of course. The combine has modified and brainwashed soldiers, so there would be a 0% chance of some of them escaping or refusing to carry out orders

[@Kj-ff6kx]

Your dog always gets me at the end

[@scrp6638]

Meanwhile, underground: _“It’s not out of the question that you may have a very minor case of serious brain damage.”_

[@tachi1034]

If only multidimensional cave Johnson had bought black mesa before it happened.

[@dk2776]

I've always thought there was more rebel factions not just the one you see in half life 2, like maybe a rebel faction that are human supremacists, so they hate the vortigaunts almost as much as the combine.

[@Deej78898]

Idk how supreme humans feel when they lost in 7 hours lol

[@GodofWeird]

I mean humans don’t currently seem good at doing peace so not unlikely and if not now then later. That memory erasing water might help in the unity thing though.

[@jacko4932]

Combine when they have oil: shit *freeman has appeared*

[@carterl8160]

could you do something with the Contingency from stellaris? Ive always wondered how they would fair with other factions

[@sebastian-paultasmoc9205]

HAL 9000 i think that "The Spiffing Brit" did it already . =)