Can someone explain the HL1 lore briefly? I do not wanna play the whole game and i just wanna go play HL2.

[BR13]

Can someone explain?

[GamerXT]

Experiments at a science facility called Black Mesa, which may or may not be totally to do with some magical guy in a suit known as the G Man.

Aliens invade due to said experiments.

The player known as Gordon Freeman goes to source of invasion on another planet called Xen to stop it.

The G Man tries to make a deal with the player. Either team up with them, or stay on Xen in some sort of battle royale scenario.

[BR13]

Alr, if you can also pls make a detailed one if you can

[GamerXT]

I edited the previous message, although can't you use Wikipedia ?

At the Black Mesa science facility, they're experimenting on crystals from a world known as Xen, which they're exploring with teleportation technology.

One such crystal is gave to them by someone in a suit known as the G Man, who isn't a regular person, even if they seem regular to begin with.

The experiment on this crystal, which a scientist known as Gordon Freeman is part of, is the reason that aliens invade using teleportation.

The government sends soldiers to deal with the invasion and everyone else at Black Mesa, as a way of covering it up.

Gordon helps other scientists and Black Mesa guards as he tries to get thru this, which includes launching a rocket to stop the alien's from invading. When the rocket fails, he goes to the source of the invasion on Xen instead.

Along the way, the G Man is seen to monitor the player in parts of some maps, although not on Xen as far as I know.

He gets thru Xen until reaching the main boss, who says things that might regard the G Man and perhaps the main enemy from HL2.

After this, the G Man appears with an offer, either team up or stay on Xen. If Gordon agrees, then they're put in stasis until HL2.

[dirtysouthdejay]

https://youtu.be/E-eDQHX78Vg?si=BPgCNPGkA6rljcXk This is a great video on Half- Life

[Snark]

Half Life Freeman goes into a laboratory and makes an explosion that causes aliens to appear. The military chuds from the government try to kill the nerds working at the science facility. Half Life fights his way through aliens and soldiers and is sent to Xen to kill the biggest baby in the galaxy in order to stop the portals from appearing.

In Half Life 2 it is revealed that Half Life wasted his time fighting the big baby because the portals never stopped and generic guys in gas masks took over the Earth.

This is where Half Life 2's journey begins.

[Cat]

Dr Freeman is late for work... again. He puts on his HEV suit (basically a power armor for dangerous experiments) and began working in a test chamber messing with some alien crystals which ended up opening a portal where aliens from Xen starts warping into the facility and killing everyone.

With a trusty crowbar (and a slew of other weapons he found along the way), Freeman fights his way through a growing army of aliens and zombies to reach the surface to contact help, but is forced to retreat after finding out the government is hostile.

A scientist tells him to reach the lambda labs so he goes there after launching a satellite delivery rocket to seal the portal but the scientists at the lambda labs said there is a single alien keeping the portal open, meaning the aliens are not all there by accident.

Using the same technology that opens the portal, freeman travels to the alien world and slayed the alien responsible for the aliens teleporting. Suddenly, a man in a suit appears, offering freeman a "job". Freeman stood silently, whether or not he should accept the offer.....

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The combine came to earth because of this portal they found or had previously found xen therefore found humanity

[Hellektronic]

It's a lot like Doom.

Gist is, Black Mesa was a giant, underground top secret government funded test lab for advanced weapons and technology in the Arizona desert. Well, they were performing experiments into teleportation using a parallel dimension, but unlike Doom, it wasn't Hell, lol. It was just a bizarre, primeval alien dimension that seemed to defy the laws of our dimension, kinda like floating asteroids surrounded by colorful nebulas with all kinds of weird animal-like alien creatures living on it. They call it Xen. Well, a big experiment was performed at Black Mesa with a large crystal from this dimension, and Gordon Freeman was the guy in a test chamber with this crystal when everything goes haywire. This is where most of the aliens in Half-Life 2 came from, because the crystal opens up a massive portal storm called a resonance cascade scenario that brings thousands of them to our dimension, including the alien animals.

Well, with this chaos occurring on a large scale, the government tries to cover up the experiments at Black Mesa with an elite force of commandos who are sent in to kill everybody in addition to contain the aliens. Gordon Freeman has to fight the aliens and these special forces soldiers to escape Black Mesa. Eventually he ends up teleporting to the alien dimension, in an attempt to close the resonance cascade from the other side and possibly save the entire human race. He fights a large psychic alien overlord there who was exploiting this teleportation chaos to try to escape this dimension and get to Earth, to escape something else. After this, Gordon meets a mysterious man in a business suit. He gives him two options, to work with him, or to die. Obviously he chooses the former, and is trapped sleeping in another dimension for many years, not aging, for reasons unknown

Well, in Half-Life 2, it's revealed the giant alien overlord was running from the Combine, who are a big interdimensional alien empire that turns the races it conquers into cyborgs. While Gordon was asleep, the Combine invaded Earth in a war that only lasted seven hours. So Gordon wakes up many years later, again for reasons unknown, to a world where the Combine have conquered humanity and instituted their own government of sorts to control us, using human cyborgs as their military. The aftermath of the resonance cascade is also apparent, because now many species that came from Xen are living on Earth like natural animals. The Combine now control humanity in a stereotypical Nazi-esque dystopia where humans are treated like dirt and herded into large cities against their will, often to be turned into cyborgs. This is the start of Half-Life 2.

[Darth Fentanyl]

Play hl1.

[sniper]

so hl1 is gordon screwing things up and escape bles mesa

[Monster Inc]

Squibidi

[SiriusLee]

i recommend you play halflife 1, its actually a great game. you can play the valve original or the black mesa version, both are good.

[BR13]

Playing hl2 because at least I know hl1 lore now

[Jozie Pop]

Originally posted by Hellektronic:

It's a lot like Doom.

Black Mesa was a giant, underground top secret government funded test lab for advanced weapons and technology in the Arizona desert.

*New Mexico