Half-Life: The Lore Behind Barnacles
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- čas přidán 17. 12. 2020
- While traveling around the wasteland, one of the most deadly creatures to be found is one that you have to be REALLY careful not to touch. How do the barnacles settle in such places and where did they come from ? I went to the Half-Life universe to find out.
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''Look Gordon, ropes. We can use these for big pits.''
I just visualised that. Now I'm uncomfortable haha
“Help me Gordon!”
Why do I keep seeing this meme
“Look Gordon, the rope helped me.”
hlvrai is cringe
I always wondered how barnacles show up in random places.
Same..
Spores it’s confirmed by hl:a
I've also noticed an interesting thing about barnacle eating habits that might count as lore. In HL1, barnacles could only eat human prey (how they survived on Xen like this I don't know,) however, in HL2 they are able to eat animals and headcrabs (though not zombies,) and in the episodes, they are able to bite the headcrab off of a caught zombie's head. While these changes are likely just for the sake of gameplay, they could also be seen as the barnacles evolving over time; first they can only eat one specific prey, then adapt to be able to eat unpaired headcraps, then they adapt again to be able to separate paired headcrabs from their hosts.
“Headcraps”
But in Black Mesa, a Half-life 1 remake, the barnacles can eat animals, headcrabs and zombies. And bethinking it's a remake of HL 1, something like HL 1 itself, it ruins your theory.
@@michalreingraberskaliasmiz185 Is Black Mesa cannon tho?
They can eat zombies in alyx
@@cringelord8716 Basically it is. It has the same story, plot, steads, memorable events, characters and ending as HL 1 does. Black Mesa has even better correlation with HL 2 when it comes to characters and their fore-incident background events. BM is literally the same as HL 1, of course with fully new graphics and performance.
Barnacles are basically re-imagination of the ceiling tentacled monsters from _Another World_ if you remember (or played the game). At the cave chapter (code: XDDJ) you'll meet several such monsters in the caverns, except they have multiple tentacles, and it's possible to jump thru them. Xen Barnacles are a lot moar dangerous, as they have longer tongues and cannot be avoided once touched.
Also, Barnacle is the *ONLY* Xen creature whose blood is red.
I thought they were inspired by the Podsnatchers in Space Quest III.
Moar
I enjoyed these Half Life: Lore videos. Not only Half Life has such creative, disturbing and morbidly amazing lore, but also using an eerie music background and a calm yet powerful voice multiplies the effect.
You have earned a subscriber.
Glad you like them! I look forward to talking with you more!
I started with Half Life 2, and when i accidentally ran into the tounge of a barnacle, I nearly shat myself
same
I almost threw up because it vomited on me after I killed it, barnacles are so f*cking disgusting i absolutely hate them I'd feed a barnacle radioactive waste so that it dies
I’m glad I found this channel, you deserve more Subscribers for the work put into it.
I appreciate that! Thank you for the kind words!
this is a whole ass documentary on a fictional creature and I LOVE IT
even your voice is absolutely fitting for those nature videos
That's the direction I wanted to go in to! I'm glad you're enjoying them.
bro sounds like he could be in s netflix documentary
Hey, it seems youtube is putting the algorythm in your favor! Im a fan of half life already and I'm glad to have another youtuber to watch. Keep up the good work man, it looks like you're going to have a good subscriber count soon.
It seems like that. I'm hoping it brings even more people this way. I appreciate you watching and commenting!
@@Skyrionn remember me and everyone else when your sub count gets high
started replaying half-life 2 and got into the lore. Tha ks for these videos i love learning about the world
I'm glad they're helping!
Barnacles Skin seem to change
HL1 = Dark
HL-Alyx = Pale and less scaly.
They most likely adapted to Earth's atmosphere.
It's stupid feature of half-life 2 that barnacle's tongue kills instantly any npc. First half-life's version makes more sense.
but the barnacle wraps it’s tongue around the victims neck, suffocating them to death
@@Its-pronounced-ay-zaer-e that's dumb and inconsistent anyways, in hl1 you can free people from their clutches, but in hl2 people instantly die when the tongue touches them, and to make things weirder, the victim still lets out a sound when being eaten implying that the tongue didnt actually end them. It's so stupid
Hey man great videos. I love them!
God every time I hear “Barnacles” I always think of my childhood show Octonauts.
*why did you remind me of my favorite childhood show i hate you*
@@earthsdeepquotes3018 *HEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEH*
"Look Gordon, ropes! We can use them to-HELP ME GORDON!"
I love your videos my fellow resistance member keep up the good work
Awesome! Thank you!
I swear to god, everytime i saw a rope hanging from the ceiling in games i immediately start shooting at it
One question how do barnacles move, are they like some worm like organism, they can't just grow out of the ceilling, cuz if they can't move then how did they get into the Black Mesa facility and City 17
I wanna theorize that in the larval state they can move up walls in a snail-like fassion, slowly, but I also do recall that they spread via spores in-lore, spores that are airborne and can attach to ceilings and then stay there for good
Not sure but according to the lore, they're spreading by spores.
Sweet another great vid keep up the good work
Thanks! Will do!
i just found your chanel and it amazing
I used this video to convince my grandma that barnacles were real lol
The barnacle doesn't just have a big mouth.....
....It IS a mouth.
A disgusting mouth
Keep up the hl videos!
Everyone: U DIE IF BARNACLE GETS YOU!
Me: If you have a knife, just cut the tongue. Easy right?
Plz stay on CZcams as long as you can
Barnacle:*Catches Somebody* Also Barnacle:UR GOING TO BRAZIL
C o m e t o b r a z i l
Plot twist: Xen is Brazil in the far future.
they are so powerful that in hl2 they can lick up and swallow a dropship, as well as being able to suck up an antlionguard
Now for the more terrifying version: the underwater barnacle
oh jeez - could you imagine
@@Skyrionn no need to, it's in Black Mesa: Xen! Absolute nightmare!
@@KyberEagleProductions now called the beaneathacle
@@Its-pronounced-ay-zaer-e im guessing it is instead on the seafloor and its mouth and tounge point upwards, and the tounge probably evolved to have stingers like a jellyfish
@@Its-pronounced-ay-zaer-ecute Slugcat avataar
nice work
Barnacles in hl2 have 4 beedy black eyes, and one yellow eye resembling the tentacle from hl1
why don't we just detach the barnacles and use them as a grappling hook like in half life opposing force
It was not as easy as you think, i believe
@@FoxderjaAwdFox good point they would have a strong grip so we would need to either destroy the object they are on and catch it or spend hours on end getting the barnacle detatched
*(laughs in scissors)*
I guess I'm all mixed up. I didn't think barnacles ate humans. I also didn't know they had a tongue.
They eat zombies too(well, they don't eat them but the zombie still dies) so that's another plus when playing HL
@@demonking86420 that’s not the joke
@@jonahmoran3751 sir im more concerned with helping the barnacle and headcrab find true love
@@demonking86420 idk if gmod is different but in gmod if a barnacle grabs a zombie, it will just bite the headcrab off and the headcrabless zombie corpse just falls and dies
Oh man, I tried playing Half-Life Alyx, and I even just a few minutes of seeing those barnacles in VR was enough to make me Nope out of it.
There's something about barnacles that's just unreasonably disturbing to me. It's not phobia-class, but close enough that maybe I can start to imagine what a phobia feels like.
the only thing i want to know is how the got in various places
Do one on Overwatch Elite Soldiers, or Father Grigori
Anyone else kill every barnicle they see ingame? I personally partake in the barnicle genocide.
that some gnarly fleshlight
The first time I played half life I tried to climb them, I learned quickly they where not.
This is terrifying
Yes he did a video on my favorite enemy
The lore behind the Gravity Gun maybe???...
good idea!
Very good idea!
But how they move or how they got in such places?
Needs more houndeye lore but otherwise good
guys i found a modof half life 2 and its called Half Life: Inside Alyx
Dat one dude got his neck broken by a Barnacle and died.
In this video in particular you speak and sound suspiciously similar to Gman
can someone tell me a game for android that had an alien species that is kinda like a barnacle. the game is a 2d pixel platformer game and it starts whit you crash landing into an abandoned planet where there are spider like alien creatures and the game ends you defending someone random you met from a horde of those alien spiders while thee guy is filling a space ship whit fuel and then he leaves. ive been trying to find it but whit no luck and it is one of my childhood games maybe even my fav mobile game. i fear that it is no longer on google play.
Ah yes, the single scariest creature in the Half Life Franchise to me.
Interesting
Barnacles are deady until it eats a poison headcrab
They have saved me like 5 times so every time I see them I go "yo it's the homies"
how
@@tatotaytoman5934 one is the prison a head crab jumped at me and it ate it the was the first one ever since then I've had respect for them
@@scpfoundation2040 the barnacles aren't much of a threat anyway, they give you plenty of time to look up and shoot at them when they get you
@@tatotaytoman5934 true
Glow worms do same thing
I love the environment in half life 2,i noticed that i love games based in eastern Europe can anyone recommend me games based in eastern Europe I can't find them on youtube.
Stalker trilogy is awesome
To what i think Barnacles are They are Either Evolved or Devolved BullSquids
I've always been thinking, how "hard" is the tongue? is it possible to cut it with fx. a machete, after being caught? Can it regrow its tongue and how long is its maximum length.
Good questions. It'd be interesting to find out
doesnt seem to be that hard, considering how floppy it is
Lower behind barnacles
He cute little fella he is the cutest delivery boy
Will be “Lore behind Gargantua”?
Well IMHO there's not much to say 'bout it. Take the Xenomorph from _Alien_ ,give it a big inflated head with red eyes, a stomp attack, flamethrowers, and there...
Barnacles are nothing, well at least unless they were invisible
and what at sea? electric eels?
do the lore behinf uchthyosaur....maybe with some half life 2 beta maps
Fun fact the barnical wraps their tongue around a victims neck witch will choke them
Imagine getting caught on something while getting pulled up and the barnacle just snaps your neck.
@@omegawilliam95s36 i think thats what happens in hl2 considering all npc's ragdoll and die instantly upon being grabbed by the barnacle
I have a question why do Barnacles dont have eyes?
why would they
but,where the swallowed bodies go?
How do they reproduce???
Xen bees
They release spores into the environment, this also means that a Barnacle can grow anywhere.
Do. Dropship plsss
I have started writing an episode on it. I fear there isn't enough information though!
My mom got eaten by a barnacle
Hey it is me croperza
Yes new code
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Barnacles are disgusting
What a rotten way to die.
wtf is the subtitles
SORRY I ment new video