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  • @vxlley_flower5672
    @vxlley_flower5672 Před 6 lety +20305

    It's 11:55 where I am. I could go to bed, since I have my first day of school tomorrow, ooorrr I could watch Game Theory.... I guess you know which I chose.😂😅

    • @IamDogge
      @IamDogge Před 6 lety +173

      lily davenport do the one that will help you learn OBVIOUSLY WATCH THE GAME THERIOST

    • @Jason_Ultimate
      @Jason_Ultimate Před 6 lety +127

      lily davenport
      YES! THIS IS THE ONLY TRUE EDUCATION YOU NEED!

    • @johnny5172
      @johnny5172 Před 6 lety +48

      lily davenport it's 6:45 where i am and it's my first day of school.

    • @nukesrus2663
      @nukesrus2663 Před 6 lety +37

      Glad I don't live in England

    • @johnny5172
      @johnny5172 Před 6 lety +8

      A Canadian i live in sweden.

  • @CalastrophicTV
    @CalastrophicTV Před 6 lety +16164

    G man the owner and founder of g mail.

  • @luxbigbux
    @luxbigbux Před 4 lety +1529

    “The combine is a powerful force”
    Them: *gets run over by a boat*

    • @marcoseduardocastro781
      @marcoseduardocastro781 Před 4 lety +73

      You gotta remember those are human-based Combine Soldiers,We dont know the true force of the combine as the only threats we see are the hunter-choppers,hunters,gunships,dropships and striders

    • @AlexanderAzarov
      @AlexanderAzarov Před 4 lety +36

      @@marcoseduardocastro781 Don't forget the Advisors.

    • @supremefearow7053
      @supremefearow7053 Před 4 lety +5

      @@AlexanderAzarov they are the true g-man according to some people, but a hatched one unlike the babies you see in half life

    • @fischaventine8313
      @fischaventine8313 Před 4 lety +4

      Boat OP pls nerf

    • @Arthurschkil
      @Arthurschkil Před 4 lety +1

      The humans working for them are getting run over so that means credit to humans

  • @Somespideronline
    @Somespideronline Před 2 lety +693

    "I'm not a large open headed baby. Where did you get that...preposterous hypothesis?"
    - G Man

  • @OhHeyJude
    @OhHeyJude Před 5 měsíci +180

    Theory seems fine enough, though one thing I will mention is that the "comes another" line is most likely not warning about another nihilanth rather it's probably just a taunt by the creature. Throughout the chapter you see multiple corpses of previous subjects who dared to step foot into xen and never made it back. So "comes another" isn't about another nihilanth rather another subject who dares to enter xen.

    • @AG_Makes_Stuff.
      @AG_Makes_Stuff. Před 5 měsíci +7

      Bro took 6 years 💀💀💀

    • @XeonbX
      @XeonbX Před 4 měsíci +10

      ​@@AG_Makes_Stuff.took 6 years for you to be 12 my guy

    • @MakerManX
      @MakerManX Před 4 měsíci +4

      ​@@XeonbXfire comeback

    • @TuxedoDogss
      @TuxedoDogss Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@AG_Makes_Stuff. blame the algorithm

    • @bacontastesgreat
      @bacontastesgreat Před 3 měsíci

      👉👌 👉 👌 👉👌

  • @09kingarthur
    @09kingarthur Před 3 lety +3680

    Note: It isn't Gordon's first day. No one addresses him as "the new guy" and most scientists seem to know him quite well.

    • @gregorylumentut435
      @gregorylumentut435 Před 2 lety +143

      Except for some security guards in decay which is (possibly) canon

    • @FluorescentGreen5
      @FluorescentGreen5 Před 2 lety +246

      plus he already has a locker there

    • @PouLS
      @PouLS Před 2 lety +129

      also this video is clickbait and the mystery hasn't even been solved.

    • @hweaver888
      @hweaver888 Před 2 lety +20

      yeah i dont know where he got that

    • @yesyes-om1po
      @yesyes-om1po Před 2 lety +8

      he is young though

  • @BlackKnight66600
    @BlackKnight66600 Před 4 lety +4922

    “Valve is too busy printing money with steam”
    *laughs in Half Life: Alyx*

    • @BlackKnight66600
      @BlackKnight66600 Před 4 lety +100

      GoTi4No as a diehard half-life fan I couldn’t care less if this is true or not.

    • @user-cr3pn7rk2v
      @user-cr3pn7rk2v Před 4 lety +24

      *Valve is too busy printing money with VR

    • @juscusimkool8409
      @juscusimkool8409 Před 4 lety

      BlackKnight 6660 can you shut up, like stop begging for comments or likes

    • @djaydeved
      @djaydeved Před 4 lety +4

      i would like this, but its at 169 likes, so nope

    • @Wellepay
      @Wellepay Před 4 lety +18

      @GoTi4No "only"? Sorry, but there's nothing intelligent about that level of cynicism.

  • @ender-cq1ec
    @ender-cq1ec Před rokem +509

    You can tell mat is trying his hardest not to laugh in the start

    • @chickenman...
      @chickenman... Před rokem +15

      i was also trying my hardest not to laugh.

    • @monkebanana2506
      @monkebanana2506 Před rokem +5

      How come you guys were trying not to laugh?

    • @I.O_Productions
      @I.O_Productions Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@monkebanana2506 "Your hour has... C O M E ." and the rest of the funny dialouge

  • @torm0
    @torm0 Před rokem +139

    The G Man could also be one of the grubs. If you read over Episle 3 (The short story that was meant to be the original story of Half life 3) and the writers tweets from "Breen Grub" they detail that the grubs, also known as the advisers were not originally combine. They were a race called the shu'ulathois and have incredible psychic ability. They are supposed to be able to take whatever form they wish when they hatch but the combine control and keep them in the larval stage. The G Man could be a hatched shu'ulathois.

    • @addman1952
      @addman1952 Před 4 měsíci +5

      yeah but his observable powers fit way too well with all the Zen creatures, him being a grub wouldnt make as much sense.

    • @Suddsy11037
      @Suddsy11037 Před 3 měsíci

      Yup this is my personal theory

    • @torm0
      @torm0 Před 3 měsíci

      @@addman1952 If the grubs without combine interference have the psyonic power to create shared worlds and fly. What don't they have that zen creatures have?

  • @stefano7868
    @stefano7868 Před 3 lety +2668

    13:00 According to that logic, Barney Calhoun is also a Nihilanth.

    • @gamingsuper9872
      @gamingsuper9872 Před 3 lety +138

      Our murder toy in half life 1 is actually a nihilanth

    • @hunterketch989
      @hunterketch989 Před 3 lety +96

      you can ignore it and the theory still works

    • @SpricketGus
      @SpricketGus Před 3 lety +165

      Actually, benrey is.

    • @stefano7868
      @stefano7868 Před 3 lety +59

      @@SpricketGus Lmao I just realized that connection

    • @1nkyo
      @1nkyo Před 3 lety +66

      @@SpricketGus i need to see your passport

  • @enhancereal
    @enhancereal Před 4 lety +2295

    Half life alyx: Exists
    CZcams: Ight imma recommend this 2 years later

  • @nadpro16
    @nadpro16 Před rokem +624

    We need more Half-Life Theories.

  • @TinyDeskEngineer
    @TinyDeskEngineer Před rokem +149

    Barney is also voiced by the same voice actor, so I guess that means Barney can teleport and manipulate spacetime then.

    • @ripnob
      @ripnob Před rokem +2

      @FameWolf benrey

    • @swindle8359
      @swindle8359 Před rokem

      the fact someone could make it make sense because of the ending of blue shift

    • @monkebanana2506
      @monkebanana2506 Před rokem

      @@ripnob Guess Matt hasn’t watched ‘that’ series yet. New lore discovered!?

    • @ripnob
      @ripnob Před rokem

      @@monkebanana2506 the lore about tommy “Thomas”

    • @AnesTheIdiot
      @AnesTheIdiot Před rokem

      b-man

  • @aStritti
    @aStritti Před 4 lety +2116

    "Miss Vance, You Wouldn't Need All of That To Imprison Gordon Freeman."

    • @therascalboi9548
      @therascalboi9548 Před 4 lety +144

      So, uh, spoilers btw for anyone else
      You finished it too, easily the best game ending like ever, picked up he briefcase and accepted his deal.

    • @namnguyenphuong2610
      @namnguyenphuong2610 Před 4 lety +20

      @@therascalboi9548 dumb question... can you not accepted his deal like in HL 1?

    • @PekaCheeki
      @PekaCheeki Před 4 lety +30

      @@namnguyenphuong2610 no, you never got a choice like you did in hl1

    • @namnguyenphuong2610
      @namnguyenphuong2610 Před 4 lety +1

      @@PekaCheeki cuz watching the vid about hl1, you can be send to a weird dimension with all tons the demon guards if you don't accept his deal... just dumb question...

    • @therascalboi9548
      @therascalboi9548 Před 4 lety +1

      @@namnguyenphuong2610 lol tbh I wasn't sure myself and was thinking of doing the last part again to check lol

  • @thecorn1689
    @thecorn1689 Před 4 lety +2180

    G-man: *exists*
    Time, space, and physics: he played us like a damn fiddle

    • @traviswood1572
      @traviswood1572 Před 4 lety +72

      We’ve been tricked, backstabbed, and quite possibly bamboozled.

    • @FishTankk6578
      @FishTankk6578 Před 4 lety +1

      Not gonna lie that sounds wrong af

    • @SteveOnlin
      @SteveOnlin Před 4 lety +4

      @@FishTankk6578 There is a joke about the fiddle in the video

    • @stoppienick8887
      @stoppienick8887 Před 4 lety

      G-ood half life 3 confirmed-man

    • @saymyname2896
      @saymyname2896 Před 4 lety

      Gman is op

  • @victorkoppel9404
    @victorkoppel9404 Před 2 lety +86

    Hey dear MatPat. Could it be of your interest to make at video about how Russel (from Half-Life: Alyx) was able to "download most of the internet" before the war in the Half Life universe?

    • @rozzano635
      @rozzano635 Před rokem +6

      How the frick did he download the internet

    • @NellyPawes
      @NellyPawes Před rokem +2

      @@rozzano635 he downloaded chrome

    • @Kicksarross
      @Kicksarross Před rokem +2

      that seems better for Austin's 'The Science!'

    • @TuxedoDogss
      @TuxedoDogss Před 4 měsíci

      isnt the daily amount of data generated over the internet in terrabytes? and the total storage several 1000s of magnitude above terrabytes?

  • @ShonaS
    @ShonaS Před 2 lety +30

    i think it's interesting that Marc Laidlaw said that the Nilianths predecessors have been captured by the combine, and if Mat is correct about this theory, then it shows that the Gman was captured by the combine in HL:A, neat little detail, since they were already working on the story for HL:A 2 years previous

    • @kitsunemusicisfire
      @kitsunemusicisfire Před 2 lety +1

      I see I'm not the only one binging old Game Theory videos in 2022. Interesting tid-bit.

    • @ShonaS
      @ShonaS Před 2 lety

      @@kitsunemusicisfire great minds think alike

    • @Jason75913
      @Jason75913 Před rokem

      the Gman's capture was an impressive feat, I saw a clip about it here as I'm not equipped to play HL:A

    • @supershadow11123
      @supershadow11123 Před rokem

      How the hell does the words of the creator of the game become a theory?

  • @allanopassador3923
    @allanopassador3923 Před 4 lety +1707

    I think this theory needs revision after Half-Life: Alyx. Just saying.

    • @mariarogers74
      @mariarogers74 Před 4 lety +69

      Me too, the ending though short has a wealth of information to make new theories

    • @harshithpillai7782
      @harshithpillai7782 Před 4 lety +102

      11:30 Marc Laidlaw said their predecessors might have been captured by the combine, and g man was captured by the combine in HL:A WTF??!?!?!?!?!?

    • @nikolakuzmanovic2626
      @nikolakuzmanovic2626 Před 4 lety +59

      @@harshithpillai7782 Marc Laidlaw has confirmed that gman isn't nihilanth,

    • @craigsanders9268
      @craigsanders9268 Před 4 lety +11

      @@nikolakuzmanovic2626 he did?

    • @doclouis4236
      @doclouis4236 Před 4 lety +22

      Somebody already did it and isn't as annoying as MatPat.

  • @thedragonfolly570
    @thedragonfolly570 Před 4 lety +1450

    "There probably wont be a half life 3"
    Me in 2020: "interesting..."

  • @goldenshadow9776
    @goldenshadow9776 Před 2 měsíci +15

    If i see 1⃣ guy saying "its the guy from skibidi toilet" i swear to god

    • @fazarfazar58
      @fazarfazar58 Před 2 měsíci +1

      its the guy from skibidi toilet!

    • @goldenshadow9776
      @goldenshadow9776 Před 2 měsíci

      @@fazarfazar58 ( ͡°Ĺ̯ ͡° )

    • @The_Oracle66
      @The_Oracle66 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Skibidi toilet ruined G man. Tiktok ruined everything.
      CZcams kids exists for a reason, yet, these kids go on CZcams (not the kid's version).
      Skibidi toilet should be extinct.

    • @finixmoon127
      @finixmoon127 Před 28 dny

      Bro is literally from skibidi toilet, this is a certified W rizz moment for sigmas. Fanum tax.

  • @ThunderXtaTic
    @ThunderXtaTic Před 2 lety +61

    The Nihilanth theory definitely makes sense now, as the Nihilanth warns Gordon about the G-Man throughout his visit to Xen, as if he knows exactly what the G-Man is. It's easy to assume that the Nihilanth knows the G-Man is simply just another alien, but the Nihilanth seemed to know EXACTLY who he is. They could even be related.

  • @silasmayes7954
    @silasmayes7954 Před 6 lety +3537

    Every time I think about half life I get depressed because might never see an ending to one of the best video game series of all time.

    • @freezingjazzy
      @freezingjazzy Před 6 lety +31

      Silas Mayes what are you talking about we did get an ending Alyx's dad dying

    • @OGKoudelka
      @OGKoudelka Před 6 lety +21

      Silas Mayes sadly I think that's the case

    • @bobafett1877
      @bobafett1877 Před 6 lety +87

      A Jazzy Gamer Well it left off at a cliffhanger, as we may never know what comes after this.

    • @violentviolet8544
      @violentviolet8544 Před 6 lety +73

      We never got to see how it truly ended, that was a cliffhanger, the third game was supposed to come out in 2009

    • @zacross8504
      @zacross8504 Před 6 lety +22

      +Osuka The Oracle Turret December 2007 actually. Also HL3/HL2:E3 would not have had an ending and Ep 4 is just a ravenholm spinoff game. (L4D Style)

  • @zacharymccue14
    @zacharymccue14 Před 3 lety +799

    Didn't Opposing Force show Gordon as Employee of the Month, therefore is wasn't his first day on the job

    • @jrena9443
      @jrena9443 Před 3 lety +13

      Isnt opposing force kinda unofficial canon

    • @MajinMist603
      @MajinMist603 Před 3 lety +36

      @@jrena9443 Yea but no . . .

    • @ahzrukal4603
      @ahzrukal4603 Před 3 lety +88

      he got that wrong in the video. i don't know why he said this but it's not gordon's first day on the job. when you play the game yourself all the people even greet them and it seems like he has some friends among the guards. i don't think you're all buddy buddy with your colleagues on the first day. they obviously know each other

    • @zacharymccue14
      @zacharymccue14 Před 3 lety

      That's what I was thinking

    • @minecraftsteve4130
      @minecraftsteve4130 Před 3 lety +5

      Kinda, the manual for one of the games give some dates to imply that it's his first day but other aspects of the games retcon it (like hl2)

  • @bench3411
    @bench3411 Před 2 lety +14

    My theory was and still remains the same. Gman is actually a metegame concept. He is beyond the world of half life and he is employed to "nudge" things in a peculiar way. His employers? None other than the game developers themselves who use the gman to nudge the game in the way they want. In other words, the gman is nothing more than an embassador of the game developers, of the "true world" inside the game itself. This is why he is omnipowerful, but at the same time he answer to someone above.

  • @NotProtos
    @NotProtos Před měsícem +5

    G-Man Back Then: Half Life 2 🗿
    G-Man Now: Skibidi Toilet 😭

  • @leojackbo22
    @leojackbo22 Před 4 lety +1163

    “The G-Man is actually voiced by the same actor as the Nihilanth Boss”. What about Barney Calhoun, he’s voiced by Micheal Shapiro. You telling me he’s a Nihilanth too!

    • @epifaniocastillo6422
      @epifaniocastillo6422 Před 4 lety +58

      Yes

    • @TurUwU
      @TurUwU Před 4 lety +85

      Maybe he is the 3rd one? He was able to fit in with the combine. Maybe the 1st one was the hostile one, middle one is the Gman who is mysterious and likes to be the Chessmaster to change the world the way he wants. And Barney sometimes is sudden and feels like he just appears sometimes. He is the silly one tho who doesn't like about Gman playing around and probably appears there where Gman has been causing trouble.
      Seriously tho, when you played through half life 2, didn't you feel sometimes that Barney just appears? Gman wakes you up and suddenly he is disguised as combine to let you get trough. Sounds odd to me

    • @TurUwU
      @TurUwU Před 4 lety +26

      Also i just remembered that he was waiting you in Half Life 1 too and kept appearing helping you trough out the game.

    • @GabeMiller2SpoonsOfDoom
      @GabeMiller2SpoonsOfDoom Před 4 lety +10

      I think he was just saying that as even more details that help his point. I think barney is just barney

    • @xd-gm1mq
      @xd-gm1mq Před 4 lety +12

      @@TurUwUmaybe barney is sent by the gman alien baby ppl to protect Gordon freeman from events that would have happened unless barney shows up

  • @zyartist4646
    @zyartist4646 Před 6 lety +572

    "Why is his character model so much uglier than everybody else's"
    Story of my life :/

  • @scrapykatofficial
    @scrapykatofficial Před 3 měsíci +4

    Mat's G-Man voice is extremely unrealistic, don't forget to breath in like you're gasping for air every zeptosecond
    this isn't a actual issue, just to clarify

  • @climatectrl3350
    @climatectrl3350 Před 10 měsíci +7

    Further supporting Gman is not man: He is clearly not used to his human form. Even in HL2, he has odd jerky movements for everything that he does. His speech pattern is unique because he's used to conveying through telepathy and not speaking out loud. He took on a disguise as a human to hide his true form to you, so that you'd be more likely to trust him rather than his true form. And existing in a bipedal form and speaking to you through vocal cords is, pun intended, an alien concept to him.

  • @pak-gg5601
    @pak-gg5601 Před 4 lety +1292

    Subject: MatPat
    Status: Hired
    Awaiting next theory

    • @PapBenedek
      @PapBenedek Před 4 lety +11

      Nice job! But here is a litle thing : Subject:MatPat not Name:MatPat

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 Před 4 lety +7

      Dont let matt make a new theory about this series. He got this one wrong and So many other lore videos that it would be terrible for this game.
      Here is evidence of all of the problems in this video.
      1: it is not Gordon Freeman's first day. That statement is wrong on so many levels.
      1.a: the security gaurd says he is late again.
      1.b: why would a government facility allow a new hire to handle highly secretive and dangerous materials.
      2: the vortigaunts dont control time they have a link with the nihillanth in which they share a mind. The link is broken which explains why they dont attack you. They dont see you as a threat.
      3: there is no evidence that shows the nihlanth and gman are connected except the portals they control are similar. But if they are the same species based off of that alone. Then humans are related to the nihilanth.
      There is much more but i dont have time

    • @lightgreen3479
      @lightgreen3479 Před 4 lety +3

      @@alyx8815 I agree with you on the 1st one although it doesn't affect the theory at all. However... remember that? "You are man. He is not man. For you he waits.... for you." Who else would this be referring to? At this point in the series, there are no real special characters except for the G-Man. Then there is the point that the Nihilanth looks like a human fetus and the G-Man has a human appearence. The word Nihilanth literally means not man and that fits so well with the Nihilanth's description of the G-Man. He calls him Nihilanth. And lastly there's the point that the G-Man seems to always be staightening his tie. Although it is always straight? Anyway that is the place where most Xen creatures have their 3rd arm. Now to the second one. If the vortigaunts only had their powers because they were linked to the Nihilanth, then why were they able to still use their powers more than 20 years after the Nihilanth's death?

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 Před 4 lety

      @@lightgreen3479 1: The nihilanth is talking about himself in 3rd person.
      2: i didnt say they lost their powers. I said they dont have time travel. At all. Also how did you come to the conclusion that i said they didnt have powers?
      3: the "He is waiting" could also be reffering to the nihilanth because he was in that room waiting for you to get there. He knew you were coming so he decided to put up a fight.
      4: the tie thing is so he appears more human. Or he is straightening it and we dont see because it is an old game.

    • @lightgreen3479
      @lightgreen3479 Před 4 lety

      @@alyx8815 why would the Nihilanth be talking about himself in the 3rd person but then also have lines like "The last.... I am the last." it just doesn't fit together. And then of course is the voice actor thing. The Nihilanth and the G-Man are both voiced by Michael Shapiro. Who returned for Half-Life: Alyx by the way. The developers were a bit worried he wouldn't know how to do him anymore after more than 10 years but he did it right immediately. Also the tie staightening thing you mentioned because it's an old game, that does not contradict the theory. That would be technical limitations. And technical limitations don't have anything to do with lore.

  • @ssencipe250
    @ssencipe250 Před 6 lety +491

    Half Life 3? No
    Team Fortress 3? No
    Portal 3? No
    Doctor Who Part 3? __

    • @jofhjyv1017
      @jofhjyv1017 Před 6 lety +16

      Could MatPat be Valve?

    • @ASLTheatre
      @ASLTheatre Před 6 lety +3

      Don't forget Kingdom Hearts 3. Wait we have seen production on it so Valve must of lost the rights to Kingdom Hearts.

    • @Fem_V
      @Fem_V Před 6 lety +7

      Ssencipe 《》 I don't think we need a TF3 as much as portal 3 and Half life 3 honestly

    • @limabeanyes3344
      @limabeanyes3344 Před 6 lety +2

      Jofh Jyv
      Wait...
      3-> MAT. PAT.

    • @NotBigSurprise
      @NotBigSurprise Před 6 lety +1

      TF3 would be a bad idea. It would split the TF2 community between the people who decide to stay in TF2, and the people moving to TF3.

  • @evanthienes661
    @evanthienes661 Před rokem +24

    I watch this theory at least once a year in hopes Half Life 3 may be confirmed

    • @ehrenkot1937
      @ehrenkot1937 Před 9 měsíci +3

      It could happen now with source 2

  • @andrewgivens5070
    @andrewgivens5070 Před rokem +4

    Where is your evidence to support your claim that it is Gordon Freeman's first day on the job? Considering that so many of the black Mesa personnel seemed very familiar with Gordon, I would think that it is most certainly not his first day.

  • @Eternal-pj8zh
    @Eternal-pj8zh Před 3 lety +360

    "What? It was obvious! He's the red spy".

  • @nu_kercat1
    @nu_kercat1 Před 4 lety +1246

    i hate how badly matpat explained gordon in hl 1
    one of guards at the end of train raid says "You're late again" which means it wasnt his first day at work

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 Před 4 lety +130

      That is Matt. His writers are really bad at this. Lore is just not this channels strong point. From Sans is Ness to The Hollow Knight is The Pale King's reincarnation, no matter what all lore videos are just terrible. I knew this was terrible when my only knowledge of the lore was watching Freeman's Mind videos, He needs better writers.

    • @RandomCatWithStick
      @RandomCatWithStick Před 4 lety +25

      Why you guys gotta be rude

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 Před 4 lety +116

      @@RandomCatWithStick because he gets the lore wrong of every game. If he cant do that than just stop. People have crticized him for his stupidity and he just doubles down. He says it is just a theory because he knows he can fall back on that. Then his fans take what he says and thinks it is fact because his earlier content was about science and he mostly got that right.
      There are few exceptions, if any, where he got his science videos are wrong. His fans think he can never do wrong and that he is always right because of his past. He built this channel for science but switched it when his fnaf series got popular. He always looked at that and thought it was because he was great at understanding the lore (which only got worse because Scott Cawthon congratulated him for that) when in fact it was because it was a popular series.
      He needs to go back to where his channel started. A place where he was showing the science of videogames and a place not filled by videos wanting to get high views and lots of money. And honestly his older videos were actually educational and the reason i got into science in the first place. It would be better for everyone if he just goes back to the early days.

    • @rubygail349
      @rubygail349 Před 4 lety +27

      @@alyx8815 if you don't like MatPat's theories. Then why are you watching them?

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 Před 4 lety +75

      @@rubygail349 I watched it because it got reccomended. I continued because he got things so wrong that are super easy to get right that i can make it a drinking game.
      Also reddit karma.

  • @namgyel2010
    @namgyel2010 Před 3 měsíci +24

    If anyone is reading this then you watched goodbye internet and wanted to watch his old videos

  • @hamburgerlover9825
    @hamburgerlover9825 Před 29 dny +2

    crazy to think that fidget spinners and jake paul is now a bygone era

  • @TheBLUEMask-ru3ds
    @TheBLUEMask-ru3ds Před 5 lety +1252

    Remember when valve made games ahh the good old days

    • @joeyanimations591
      @joeyanimations591 Před 5 lety +67

      Very much. One day valve will rise again to take down epic game once and for all.

    • @shadisalman414
      @shadisalman414 Před 5 lety +22

      @@joeyanimations591 don't count on it too much .

    • @mr.meeceecss452
      @mr.meeceecss452 Před 4 lety +41

      Remember when valve cared about us

    • @kevinthecockroach
      @kevinthecockroach Před 4 lety +5

      Steam printer.exe

    • @acuny4516
      @acuny4516 Před 4 lety +11

      They do make game but they never finish them

  • @JoyScreams
    @JoyScreams Před 3 lety +842

    Voice actor of nihilanth: michael shapiro
    Voice actor of gman: Michael shapiro
    Voice actor of standard security guard: Michael Shapiro
    Voice Actor Of Barney: MICHAEL SHAPIRO!!!

  • @catgamplay
    @catgamplay Před 4 měsíci +9

    POV Someone says omg matpat made a vid for skibidi toilet 6 years before the release:
    X suicide
    O give up

  • @Da_Trololz
    @Da_Trololz Před měsícem +6

    We needed more HL theories..

  • @boofiman6082
    @boofiman6082 Před 5 lety +2080

    G(ordon Free)Man

  • @xandermurdock6131
    @xandermurdock6131 Před 4 lety +410

    Just how the Nihilanth said it:
    "The truth, you can never know the truth."

    • @pussinboots9983
      @pussinboots9983 Před 4 lety +12

      Yes, I heard that while searching for codes in the Half-Life directory.

    • @mykelmellen2378
      @mykelmellen2378 Před 4 lety +3

      I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get an answer, even if we got HL3.

    • @apollo6718
      @apollo6718 Před 4 lety +2

      Just as giorno giovanna once said “you will never reach the truth”

    • @Algorithm_God_Cult
      @Algorithm_God_Cult Před 4 lety

      Nihilanth: The Truth, you can never know the truth
      Nihilanth = G Man = Old Giorno Giovanna

    • @mrbonk9560
      @mrbonk9560 Před 4 lety

      nick is away Half life 3 was revealed by the half life alyx ending

  • @nicoanims3379
    @nicoanims3379 Před 2 lety +8

    3:00 The Nihilanth actually has 2 arms.

  • @jpitt300
    @jpitt300 Před 2 lety +5

    Even after 4 years, we still haven't gotten another half life video, mat pat if you see this, PLEASE DO ANOTHER

  • @GoblinGreed
    @GoblinGreed Před 3 lety +500

    He's obviously just an employee of Aperture from another dimension.

    • @not7170
      @not7170 Před 3 lety +28

      He’s a sad little octopus

    • @Omega-jg4oq
      @Omega-jg4oq Před 3 lety +7

      Another dimension? Wtf?! He has no interest in Aperture science, he cares more about Black Mesa or Should I say Area 51...

    • @shivertron
      @shivertron Před 3 lety +12

      THATS BEING TRICKED TO PAYING FOR TESTS, LIKE MR. JOHNSON SAID!

    • @Vantablack000
      @Vantablack000 Před 3 lety +9

      @@Omega-jg4oq r/wooosh

    • @saravelasco5807
      @saravelasco5807 Před 3 lety

      GREG.

  • @PanVaheVA
    @PanVaheVA Před 3 lety +588

    Nihilanth: voiced by Micheal Shapiro
    Gman: voiced by Micheal Shapiro
    Barney: where am I?

    • @gregorylumentut435
      @gregorylumentut435 Před 2 lety +15

      Barney after finding matpat forgot that Michael Shapiro voiced him: what the Sh*t is this Sh*t?!?!

    • @TheAmazingDoorknob
      @TheAmazingDoorknob Před 2 lety +4

      I thought nialanth was gman

    • @09kingarthur
      @09kingarthur Před 2 lety +6

      Half-Life VR But the AI is Self Aware: Oh hey, I'm here now!

    • @PanVaheVA
      @PanVaheVA Před 2 lety +4

      okay so CZcams didn't notify me about my comments but you guys really made my day better finding out I have 200 likes and funny replies

    • @Rirky
      @Rirky Před 2 lety

      Cheese

  • @mellowyellowproductions
    @mellowyellowproductions Před rokem +4

    2:35 Barney knew Gordon well as well as the other staff of black mesa so it was never his first day

  • @BazookazVR
    @BazookazVR Před 2 lety +8

    The gman is definitely hostile to combine, tried it on garry's mod. They attacked him!

  • @emigarcia1993
    @emigarcia1993 Před 6 lety +379

    Freeman didn't start a 'new job'. It wasn't his first day. The game doesn't make clear for how long Gordon has been working at Black Mesa, but it does make it clear, through many dialogues and interactions with NPCs throughout the game, that he's already a well known figure there.

    • @zEynnaTor
      @zEynnaTor Před 5 lety +26

      +1 when barney says "just one of those days i guess ... "

    • @whatever7645
      @whatever7645 Před 5 lety +35

      We know for a fact Gordon worked at Black Mesa before the resonance cascade since in Opposing Force we can find an 'employee of the month' picture with Gordon's face on it, also in half life 2 episode 1 Alyx tells Gordon the following "I heard a story about you and vents Gordon, that whenever Doctor Kleiner locked himself out of his office, you and Barney would race through the vents to get inside and unlock it." and because of what Alyx said we know for sure that Gordon worked at Black Mesa before the resonance cascade.
      NOTE: Alyx's quote is not 100% correct, I wrote it out of my memory, so it isn't the same as in game (I think I messed up the last part of it)
      EDIT: Correcting grammar and spelling mistakes

    • @pkbroiler2000
      @pkbroiler2000 Před 5 lety +14

      Super late reply to this, but Alyx also mentions in episode 1 that Gordon and Barney would have contests to see who could get into Kleiner’s lab fastest through the air vents.

    • @djr4yman
      @djr4yman Před 5 lety +4

      I believe it is treated as a first day because he got tasked with pushing the crystal into the machine. So that may leqd people to believe that it was his first day on the job at Black Mesa, when in reality it was the first day for that specific project.

    • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
      @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Před 5 lety

      He's new but it is not gis first day. He has been at Black Mesa for around a month.

  • @willreese7114
    @willreese7114 Před 2 lety +5

    He really nailed the inflection and cadence of the G MAN’s voice

  • @minask9tchupienojeongyeonn456

    The way he impersonated The G Man, he nailed it 🔥

  • @rrai1999
    @rrai1999 Před 6 lety +360

    But.. It wasn't Gordons first day on the job.

    • @GilWanderley
      @GilWanderley Před 6 lety +13

      I think that bit of the lore has changed back and forth over time.

    • @fractaldunes2903
      @fractaldunes2903 Před 6 lety +49

      no, its established that he was going in for the experiment, and he's worked there before

    • @Ixia.
      @Ixia. Před 6 lety +63

      I agree, you can see his Employee of the Month photo in the office. And loads of people recognize him.

    • @plank2112
      @plank2112 Před 6 lety +32

      he also got it wrong when he said that xen was the dimension of the vortigaunts. Xen was just a bridge to cross dimensions, the actual home of the vortigaunts was taken by the combine.

    • @plutoniumfish8368
      @plutoniumfish8368 Před 6 lety +14

      It was originally, but was retconned in Half-Life 2. Still, do your research MatPat!

  • @user-xg8yy7yl1d
    @user-xg8yy7yl1d Před 3 lety +613

    The combine's inability to teleport within a dimension makes me wonder if Portal borderline confirms that they fully lost in the end. Raiding Aperture for a portal gun would be extremely useful.

    • @sui4271
      @sui4271 Před rokem +68

      iirc Glados kept the combine away from aperture sience/ didnt let it through

    • @Me-wx1mt
      @Me-wx1mt Před rokem +141

      It’s actually sort of a comedic part of portal. Cave Johnson never realized how revolutionary the portal gun really was, and just kept working on other stupid stuff instead of marketing that. He sort of saved the world with his own stupidity lmao

    • @misterwizardman4309
      @misterwizardman4309 Před rokem +39

      Just imagine the combine shooting portals around the white forest and doing like backflips to try and kill Gordon 😂

    • @Niiwastaken
      @Niiwastaken Před rokem +6

      @@misterwizardman4309 or imagine gordan doing that 😂

    • @chefpyro8586
      @chefpyro8586 Před rokem +8

      They didn't know about aperture science as far as they knew the borialis was the only portal tech except for rebel teleporters

  • @Deepusk826
    @Deepusk826 Před měsícem +3

    one ofmy favorite theory episodes to date. Thanks for the memories, MatPat.

  • @Narses_the_aremnian
    @Narses_the_aremnian Před 4 měsíci +5

    You need to finaly remake it! Becouse of half life alyx

    • @AnthonyPompa
      @AnthonyPompa Před 3 měsíci

      I’ve got some bad news for you…

    • @Narses_the_aremnian
      @Narses_the_aremnian Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@AnthonyPompa that means humans are not meant to know to truth that means my employers took care of him luckly

    • @AnthonyPompa
      @AnthonyPompa Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@Narses_the_aremnian You're definitely a Shu'ulathoi, not a Nihilanth.

    • @Narses_the_aremnian
      @Narses_the_aremnian Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@AnthonyPompa truth is relative concept but you are right

  • @scrash5086
    @scrash5086 Před 6 lety +313

    Combines defeated earth in 7 hours
    *turns Half Life 2 on*
    the first thing what combine does is to throw a grenade and accidentally kill 3 of his colleagues

    • @makigames6530
      @makigames6530 Před 6 lety +8

      The Scrash just combine Things

    • @theseductivepotato7459
      @theseductivepotato7459 Před 6 lety +38

      Those combine forces you fight are humans that have been brain-washed

    • @grayd98
      @grayd98 Před 6 lety +33

      The combine soldier you fight aren't the ones that invaded earth. It was most likely striders and headcrabs and stuff that the combine used against Earth. The soldiers are just augmented humans.

    • @T--kq3pj
      @T--kq3pj Před 6 lety +3

      grayd98 the striders are a little bugs, i think a lot more powerful synths were used

    • @tellmeninetails5819
      @tellmeninetails5819 Před 6 lety +1

      The combine is not the guys fighitng for them btw.

  • @james_2752
    @james_2752 Před 6 lety +411

    Yo what if the g man is actually gaben.

  • @chillerdontknowontwitch1302

    I've always though that the G-Man had something to do with Xen. I remember saying to my brother that maybe the G-Man was the leader of Xen, until he said that the Xen leader was killed. But now that I've seen this I can now tell him about the ''Comes Another'' And also bring up that fact that the Nihilanth talks like G-Man too. Like the weird speech that the G-Man has is the same as the Nihilanth when it said ''You are man, he is not man. For you he waits. For you.''

  • @retr0breezy
    @retr0breezy Před rokem +2

    11:10 You mention the interview on how the Nihilanth was the last of its kind and never captured but some of its predecessors might of been. But let me ask you this, who was the "important" person captured by the combine in Half Life Alyx? Thats right the Gman. That reveal confirms your theory way more then it did when you released it. Boom!

    • @keelanbarron928
      @keelanbarron928 Před rokem

      Really? I thought that because of alyx's father dying in HL2:E2, that he went back and changed things so that he would still be alive?

    • @retr0breezy
      @retr0breezy Před rokem

      I thought the Gman only did that for alyx to set in motion his plans that needed Eli alive since Eli and Gman had once spoken before and had some history. And that Alyx just opened gmans prison that was held captive by the the combine.

  • @csakdavid5729
    @csakdavid5729 Před 3 lety +404

    i think the ,,comes another" isn't related to G-man, bc it starts to play when Gordon arrives to Xen. And the Nihilanth saying this, bc another human has arrived to Xen. There are lots of dead bodies with HEV suit.

    • @drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749
      @drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 Před 3 lety +6

      Alternate Gordon's?

    • @synthomite405
      @synthomite405 Před 3 lety +29

      @@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 no

    • @dragonmarius4565
      @dragonmarius4565 Před 3 lety +4

      Ow u mean the guy from opsive force or barny?

    • @FrogClem
      @FrogClem Před 3 lety +14

      As someone who is knowledgeable about Hungarian internet culture, obligatory “Bojler eladó”

    • @ZeroSubsYT
      @ZeroSubsYT Před 3 lety +7

      Barney in Blue Shift has gone to Xen before Gordan had too.

  • @bananaspice1967
    @bananaspice1967 Před 4 lety +391

    Nihilanth: dies
    Valve: *there is another*

  • @SDRlegacy
    @SDRlegacy Před 2 lety +3

    I have a teory! In episode 2 the gman talks about his superiors asking him to stop helping Freeman and Alyx. This remind me about the old greek mitology, where Apollo, the mailman of the gods, helped Ectore in some fights and Zeus told him to stop. So, is the gman some sort of divine entity or something like that?

    • @avocadosensai139
      @avocadosensai139 Před 2 lety

      Damn

    • @nR00R
      @nR00R Před 2 lety

      He is almost certainly some kind of extra dimensional being

  • @jillionjangles4177
    @jillionjangles4177 Před 2 lety +18

    Matpats impression of the g-man was actually amazing

  • @gillianlister4523
    @gillianlister4523 Před 6 lety +907

    "Why is his character model so much UGLIER than anybody else's?" ME AS A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER

    • @camellia1942
      @camellia1942 Před 6 lety +6

      StuffAndThangs lol me too

    • @_vla
      @_vla Před 5 lety +3

      StuffAndThangs dat was the pass grafiks

    • @marvelmine7857
      @marvelmine7857 Před 5 lety +3

      #metoo

    • @bobthescienceguy6700
      @bobthescienceguy6700 Před 5 lety +6

      people who were around when # was called the pound symbol find that # quite hilarious I bet and especially when a feminist says it

    • @pan1915
      @pan1915 Před 5 lety +1

      Me toooooo

  • @TheBloodswordsman
    @TheBloodswordsman Před 6 lety +511

    As much as I love your theories, I'm going to have to disagree. The greatest theory in gaming TO DATE, is "Will Valve ever learn to count to 3?"

    • @cosmonautduckling6402
      @cosmonautduckling6402 Před 6 lety +3

      1, 2 and what is the next? 4?

    • @crodojoe
      @crodojoe Před 6 lety +9

      team fortress 2, portal 2, left 4 dead 2, half life 2, dota 2 wow thats a lot of 2's

    • @SlendHQ
      @SlendHQ Před 6 lety +1

      There is level 3 structures for engineer in tf2.
      Team Fortress 3?

    • @ChrisOfTheDead
      @ChrisOfTheDead Před 6 lety +2

      Insert joke about King Arthur not being able to count from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

    • @slimer2135
      @slimer2135 Před 6 lety

      smaknis225 very original

  • @handsomemedic975
    @handsomemedic975 Před rokem +3

    G man, also known as Garry Newman the creator of Gmod, a world where gman gave all the power for freeman he ever wanted, starting from tool gun to gravity gun and physics gun, from flying to identity change, for a bit of a deal ofcourse (just a random theory i just made xd)

  • @The_Infamous_Boogyman
    @The_Infamous_Boogyman Před rokem +1

    The g man is that guy, you know that guy, always hangs out at the g spot, always sings songs about being a G, lives between F and H, right down the street from my family and I.

  • @jwise85
    @jwise85 Před 4 lety +846

    > jake paul
    > fidget spinners
    this video didnt age well

    • @Pittre
      @Pittre Před 4 lety +22

      If it's in my recommendations tab
      I'd say otherwise

    • @chazlomack8662
      @chazlomack8662 Před 4 lety +13

      This presentation style has not aged well....

    • @dazzlingsky8863
      @dazzlingsky8863 Před 4 lety +2

      6 9 likes nice

    • @SU76M
      @SU76M Před 4 lety +3

      Who the hell is that Jake Paul?

    • @Kj16V
      @Kj16V Před 4 lety +12

      What's a jake paul?
      Who is Fidget Spinners?

  • @budmeister
    @budmeister Před 5 lety +620

    Actually, the biggest mystery is Valve's inability to count to 3.

  • @THE-CRT
    @THE-CRT Před 2 lety +2

    That’s why G-man says “employers” so weird compared to his normal voice

  • @Skikopl
    @Skikopl Před 2 lety +3

    "Why is his Character Model uglier than others?"
    The Guy after which Gman was modeled: 😢

  • @captainmarvelous982
    @captainmarvelous982 Před 4 lety +229

    Ik this video came out a long time ago but if G-man was a Nihilanth I'm wondering why he would be happy after he gained possession of Xen when members of his species were already there

    • @ironicdutchmoonshade1394
      @ironicdutchmoonshade1394 Před 4 lety +37

      Exactly what I was thinking. It seems weird but the video never touches on it

    • @jacobhogan3208
      @jacobhogan3208 Před 4 lety +70

      To be fair Matt also said that it was Gordon's first day.
      When literally everybody there knows who he is and there are pictures of him at black Mesa not taken that day.

    • @hazer3248
      @hazer3248 Před 4 lety +9

      @@jacobhogan3208 yeah i think that might of been a joke

    • @ScaldGlaicer
      @ScaldGlaicer Před 4 lety +9

      Well we really can't tell if he's lieing or not about being happy. The G man is a manipulator and if he said that he isn't happy, Gordon probably wouldn't have accepted his offer. So my guess is the G man is lieing to trick Gordon into taking the job

    • @zacharygilmore1075
      @zacharygilmore1075 Před 4 lety +30

      Perhaps the G-Man's employers are against that particular Nihilanth being in charge of Xen. Perhaps the Nihilanth is simply a cruel dictator that the G-Man wants overthrown. It did enslave the Vortigaunts, after all.

  • @HumansFreshlyBorn
    @HumansFreshlyBorn Před 6 lety +288

    "After all these years I have found that The G man, is Sans"
    GOD DAMMIT MAT AGAIN!?!?
    *slams laptop*

    • @ordepapap806
      @ordepapap806 Před 6 lety +16

      obvious joke though

    • @twotiredbikev9708
      @twotiredbikev9708 Před 6 lety +4

      No it goes one step deeper.The G man is Sans which is actually Ness.This is crazy.

    • @SirJad_
      @SirJad_ Před 6 lety +3

      ordep apap It's a shame the joke isn't very funny.

    • @cade-parkvilleproductions1039
      @cade-parkvilleproductions1039 Před 6 lety +1

      Wait, lemme get this straight. The G-Man is Sans, who is Ness, but also a revenant ?
      That's an abomination I don't want to see happen.

    • @smallfiygamer606
      @smallfiygamer606 Před 6 lety +1

      The theory sounds cringy but it's pretty reasonable if you actually watch it

  • @sAihiE
    @sAihiE Před měsícem +1

    Scrolling in facebook, saw and watched a speedrun of HL1, nostalgia kicks in, goes to YT and search Half life explain, this is the 4th vid for tonight

  • @Geekwithapencil2048
    @Geekwithapencil2048 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I know it's a bit-but honestly Mat's G-Man impression in the beginning gave me CHILLS hearing it again after not watching this one for awhile-that was pretty cool!

  • @blissridden
    @blissridden Před 3 lety +565

    the fact he watches you through the games is horrifying to me

    • @Chillerll
      @Chillerll Před 2 lety +26

      I love it when he watches me through the games. It makes me feel so alive.

    • @mdaniyal9349
      @mdaniyal9349 Před rokem +1

      @@5040. Oh my goodness true

    • @MisterRelatable
      @MisterRelatable Před rokem +10

      @@Chillerll In my case, It makes me feel like my talent is being appreciated, pretty nice.

    • @bl4ckrabb1t
      @bl4ckrabb1t Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@MisterRelatable It really is, he actually says he's impressed.. Same for Alyx

    • @Glitchmouse2
      @Glitchmouse2 Před 7 měsíci

      We are a god to the xen population

  • @pingeee
    @pingeee Před 4 lety +2244

    Who's here after the half life VR announcement?

    • @Janmee
      @Janmee Před 4 lety +13

      Disappointed people

    • @quintonmoody927
      @quintonmoody927 Před 4 lety +28

      HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMEDDDDD

    • @pingeee
      @pingeee Před 4 lety +37

      @@Janmee why is it disappointing

    • @Janmee
      @Janmee Před 4 lety +34

      @@pingeee cuz now I'm forced to watch a walkthrough since I don't own a vr

    • @AwesomeTheAsim
      @AwesomeTheAsim Před 4 lety +57

      @@Janmee Well I don't have VR too but I am going to buy one. I'll have to find a job for a game lol.

  • @ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7ds
    @ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7ds Před měsícem +2

    Maybe The G Man is just Gordon Freeman from the future..

  • @kevinr7216
    @kevinr7216 Před 4 měsíci +2

    heyoo just a few years later, Alyx comes out, and I think it supports your theory even more-so

  • @Hilol-nx3wf
    @Hilol-nx3wf Před 3 lety +73

    7:25, It's the resonance cascade that caused the combine to notice Earth. Not the nuclear explosion. If the nuclear explosion did cause the combine to notice Earth, they would have noticed Earth when humans did first start to test nuclear weapons.

    • @gamepad3173
      @gamepad3173 Před 2 lety +8

      and it was the black ops team that decided to plant that Thermal nuke to level the entire building plus everyone in it.

    • @alensday2974
      @alensday2974 Před 9 měsíci +5

      He still did give the xen crystal to black mesa for it to happen

  • @elvinatombender5992
    @elvinatombender5992 Před 6 lety +107

    Gordon was employee of the month before the resonants cascade

    • @eliel1815shadow
      @eliel1815shadow Před 6 lety +3

      and just after that the lazy bastard was half hour late for the test and even douchbagging around before it...

    • @belmarfilms
      @belmarfilms Před 6 lety

      *resonance

    • @ThePensiveWalrus
      @ThePensiveWalrus Před 6 lety

      Which is pretty good for your first day on the job.

    • @TheViralEvolution
      @TheViralEvolution Před 6 lety

      Elvin Atombender He worked for Black Mesa for years.

  • @gordygohard
    @gordygohard Před 18 dny +3

    With the fallout show being a huge hit...what about a Half Life series!

  • @toast3188
    @toast3188 Před 3 měsíci +3

    i already miss this guy 😢

  • @Arson_Hole
    @Arson_Hole Před 5 lety +618

    12:51 Okay I can accept the rest of the evidence, but using the voice actor as part of your theory is stupid. According to that logic, that would mean Barney would be a Nihilanth too

    • @drdurchblick6871
      @drdurchblick6871 Před 5 lety +78

      Yeah, I though that too, voice actors often get reused in video games, especially if one of the voices is heavily edited and you can't tell the difference anyway (like with the Nihilanth. Gabe could probably have voiced that himself and nobody would have noticed).

    • @locomotivefaox
      @locomotivefaox Před 5 lety +7

      Arson Hole He isn’t?

    • @thepotatoking2504
      @thepotatoking2504 Před 5 lety +8

      It would be cool though if he could be and plus Barney could be one because he disguises himself as a combine soldier and the combine are "a powerful species that's nearly impossible to kill" and do you think that Barney could kill a freaking combine soldier no so just saying

    • @ChrisTheSaiyanhog
      @ChrisTheSaiyanhog Před 5 lety +5

      @@thepotatoking2504 Barney was disguised as Civil protection, not an elite. Civil protection consists of regular people who volunteered to be combine. the "Powerful species" combine soldiers are the elites as they're the ones that have actually been modified to be more obedient.

    • @thepotatoking2504
      @thepotatoking2504 Před 5 lety +1

      @@ChrisTheSaiyanhog well now I just sound like a dumbass

  • @lolicanadian
    @lolicanadian Před 4 lety +484

    Nice thesis, Gordon: *_An Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Non-Linear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array_*
    In laymen's terms, it's an observation of "teleportation effects [caused by faster-than-light quantum tunnelling, aka the EPR paradox] on large[r than quantum scale] objects achieved by firing lasers of extremely low frequency (3 kHz and below) very quickly at crystals made of heavy, radioactive elements"-which sounds quite a bit like the very experiment in which you conduct in the first game…and so it turns out Dr Freeman was right all along, in the worst possible way.
    I like to think that MIT had neither the funding nor the resources to actually confirm his thesis experimentally when he got his PhD, but Black Mesa did, so the anti-mass spectrometer experiments were really _his_ ideas being tested…by experimental physicists who didn't respect Dr Freeman enough to let him be in charge of his own experiments.

    • @AAM11237
      @AAM11237 Před 4 lety +25

      But hey, that’s juuuuuuuuuust a theory

    • @gokusan2256
      @gokusan2256 Před 4 lety +8

      That's a pretty nice answer :)

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy Před 4 lety +48

      It's a little better than that thankfully. Dr. Kleiner was his professor and biggest supporter, and when Kleiner went to Black Mesa, he brought Gordon onboard. So it's more like it's Kleiner's original theory that his brilliant protege managed to complete and together with his heterosexual life partner Eli Vance they did it. Sadly, their boss was a Bond villain.

    • @yeetydab1672
      @yeetydab1672 Před 4 lety +2

      In even lamer terms, it's pretty much just beating aliens with a crowbar until they are dead

  • @blacklight683
    @blacklight683 Před rokem +1

    mat the only thing missing from your impression of g-man is the aggressive breathing and i didnt know how perfect it was until it was missing

  • @ahilanisbored
    @ahilanisbored Před rokem +1

    bro they show the lambda symbol in physics back in 9th, i got "THEY MADE THE HALF LIFE SYMBOL A REAL THING?"

  • @robo9031
    @robo9031 Před 5 lety +376

    All the evidence is proving, except for one detail.
    You forgot when the Nihilanth says "Comes another..." He says it right when Gordon enters Xen. He could just be referring to another human entering Xen, since we see other humans in HEV Suits throughout the dimension. Other than that, clean-cut!

    • @MrChickennugget360
      @MrChickennugget360 Před 5 lety +25

      that and the nuke is not why the Combine found earth- they found it do to the resonance cascade.

    • @robo9031
      @robo9031 Před 5 lety +7

      @@MrChickennugget360 actually, he was correct on the nuclear explosion attracting them. I saw on the wiki

    • @Superschokokeks
      @Superschokokeks Před 5 lety +6

      @@robo9031 G-man reactivating it is probably not canon though since valve declared opposing force non canon

    • @Ruru_desu
      @Ruru_desu Před 5 lety

      dudes with helmets getting killed

    • @ak47toh
      @ak47toh Před 5 lety +14

      @@Superschokokeks Valve never declares OpFor non-canon. This is an urban myth.

  • @parkerlovein6042
    @parkerlovein6042 Před 6 lety +678

    Do a theory on why there isn't a goddamn half life three yet.

    • @Andrew-zy5tv
      @Andrew-zy5tv Před 6 lety +18

      If you do some basic research you'll find out why. You don't need Game Theory bullshit to find out why

    • @s.m.2523
      @s.m.2523 Před 6 lety +14

      Because why would they bother when they are making money by the bucketload selling other people games with steam and adding anew hat to TF 2 once in a while ?
      Hell it got tot he point where a number of writters and artist that were core to HL2 have quit because they felt their talents were not used at all

    • @reltihfloda6420
      @reltihfloda6420 Před 6 lety +3

      Pantsformer they want to hype it so much so that people freak out when it comes out and they make as much money as possible by bringing people to the franchise who only know the game for it's half life 3 confirmed meme and want to fit in with their memer fiends and buy the game. And who knows maybe they have been working on the game since half life two ep two came out so they can make the most critically acclaimed game ever (after halflife 2).

    • @-TheFacelessGamer-
      @-TheFacelessGamer- Před 6 lety +12

      *+Pantsformer* Didn't anyone tell you? Valve can't count to 3.

    • @rabbidyoshi9564
      @rabbidyoshi9564 Před 6 lety +3

      Pantsformer that's what I thought this theory was about :/

  • @alex_ig_
    @alex_ig_ Před 2 lety +1

    2:41 he's bean working there for a while before the game started. he
    was just late, either sleeping one the job, or just traffic

  • @katphoodplaysagame9260
    @katphoodplaysagame9260 Před 2 lety +4

    4:46 this is why you came here.

  • @toasterman3218
    @toasterman3218 Před 5 lety +720

    The true mystery
    Is valve even going to finish the damn series

    • @dassysancal8895
      @dassysancal8895 Před 5 lety +41

      The even realer mystery:
      Can valve even count to 3? They have 3 well-known series'

    • @nolaz010
      @nolaz010 Před 4 lety +15

      No. Gotta rip that band-aid off now

    • @G_Silent
      @G_Silent Před 4 lety +3

      I recently shared my own theory about G-man, not only his entire storyline, but even how he connects both Portal and Half Life together. Check it out if your interested!

    • @nolaz010
      @nolaz010 Před 4 lety +2

      Cathogen isn’t Portal and Half-Life already linked?

    • @G_Silent
      @G_Silent Před 4 lety

      nolaz010 yes, portal and half life happen in the same portal/half life universe.
      With my theory though, I show how G-Man was involved with both Aperture science and Half life. And provide a whole theoretical background story about the G-man.

  • @RainAngel111
    @RainAngel111 Před 6 lety +505

    But if he's a Nihilanth, who are his "employers"?

    • @lulenny6738
      @lulenny6738 Před 6 lety +3

      RainAngel111 yup

    • @yousefseed1874
      @yousefseed1874 Před 6 lety +5

      Probably Combine forces

    • @RainAngel111
      @RainAngel111 Před 6 lety +77

      But the Combine are the enemies of the Nihilanth. That's who they were running from.

    • @TweakCityGeekers
      @TweakCityGeekers Před 6 lety +75

      The other nihilanths. There could be a higher up, or maybe something even bigger than a Nihilanth.

    • @yeahyukerson4511
      @yeahyukerson4511 Před 6 lety +173

      the g man's employer is valve.

  • @Omni-Charlie
    @Omni-Charlie Před 2 lety +2

    If I had an account back then I would have said how the Nihilanth only has 2 real arms as the third one is stitched on

  • @SpringBon87
    @SpringBon87 Před rokem +1

    I kind of hate how everyone is nit-picking this vid years later because it isn't Gordon's first day and the fact that he linked gman to the nihilanth using Micheal Shapiro. Sure he messed up one minor fact, and he had other points besides the same voice actor=same person. I actually think this is a pretty solid game theory and would also love to see another half life theory in the near future.

  • @izices
    @izices Před 6 lety +311

    The moment he started reciting the G-Man speech, I started going through it XD
    But he skipped my favorite part. "The right man in the wrong place, can make all the difference in the world Mr. Freeman."

    • @ichweissnichtgenau92
      @ichweissnichtgenau92 Před 6 lety +2

      He didnt say the most legendary Part of The Text. ffs XD

    • @xao5378
      @xao5378 Před 6 lety +11

      Makes all the *diff-er-ence* in the world.

  • @acmorris
    @acmorris Před 6 lety +103

    10:06 "Able to send Gordon Freeman outside of time for 20 years" OUTSIDE TIME FOR 20 YEARS, OUT OF TIME, 20 YEARS

    • @cassie267
      @cassie267 Před 6 lety

      Thang ding

    • @silentjoker45
      @silentjoker45 Před 6 lety +7

      BladeBur next year 20 years of half life. Half Life 3 confirmed

    • @acmorris
      @acmorris Před 6 lety

      huh?

    • @Jamiedunford74
      @Jamiedunford74 Před 6 lety +6

      BladeBur meaning that Gordon is outside of time, but can be put back into time whenever G man felt the need. Just so happened to be 20 years after hl1

    • @cassie267
      @cassie267 Před 6 lety

      Tertiary

  • @sr.kehronix7624
    @sr.kehronix7624 Před měsícem +3

    man i will miss him
    o7 matpat

  • @user-lw1ev6tb8g
    @user-lw1ev6tb8g Před 16 dny +2

    buddy disappeared like half life 3