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Things you didn't know about Half-Life 2
2005-01-13, 2:52 PM #1
Post a fact about Half-Life 2 you think nobody else knows.

The character Eli is voiced by the same actor that did the voice of Rafiki from The Lion King.
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2005-01-13, 3:04 PM #2
Hah. I knew that voice sounded familiar!
2005-01-13, 3:09 PM #3
Eli has a hook for a leg :(

Didn't notice it untill Gary's Mod.
2005-01-13, 3:10 PM #4
Barney and the G-man have the same voice actor
2005-01-13, 3:22 PM #5
If I didn't know... how would I be able to post it?

:)
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2005-01-13, 3:54 PM #6
... The AI is no smarter then its predecessor.
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2005-01-13, 3:56 PM #7
Gordan Freeman is the great great great grandchild of Big Boss.......(it would make the game cooler if it were true)
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2005-01-13, 4:02 PM #8
Didn't realize this until recently, but the background behind the Gman when he shows up on one TV screen (that's quickly turned off as you enter the room) is the same that appears behind Breen when he gives his speeches.

[http://sine.geekvision.net/comparison.jpg]
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2005-01-13, 4:06 PM #9
I think GMan appears at least once in every chapter.
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2005-01-13, 4:28 PM #10
I dunno.. I've got the Raising the Bar book (very awesome by the way) and have read it cover to cover... I could post something I learnt from there, but there's no guarantee someone else here hasn't read it.

Although, that TV thing that Sine posted... didn't know that.
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2005-01-13, 6:03 PM #11
The seagulls poop on the ground in the Highway 17 levels.
2005-01-13, 6:11 PM #12
Are the zombies saying something backwards?
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2005-01-13, 6:13 PM #13
They took out the part where you were supposed to be on a ship... you know, they had a big story about how they actually went on a fishing boat or something, and modeled it in 3d.... I thought that looked cool, and then I played through the entire game without getting on any boats (other than the airboat).
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2005-01-13, 6:13 PM #14
Yes.
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2005-01-13, 6:22 PM #15
*Probable spoilers*

The vortigaunt is actually powering the TV-set with the G man in Sine's pic that they're watching as you drop in through the roof.

The same "I don't know if I can go on" "It'll be OK" couple that you see earlier in the game are resistance fighters later on. Not that she's any more corageous.

The muffled zombie wails are actually reversed recordings of someone going "Oh GOD! HELP ME!" clicky

Lot's o neat trivia.
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2005-01-13, 6:23 PM #16
yeah, kyle... i dont think it fit in with the plot they went with. kinda like how some scenes in a movie destract from the main story, and are cut, and most people probably will agree we didnt need any of that.
2005-01-13, 6:27 PM #17
Alyx's pistol has animations to transform into both an SMG and a rifle, but neither were ever used in the final game
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2005-01-14, 6:36 AM #18
There are some finnish words used in some ads / things around the game, Veikko International comes to mind first.
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2005-01-14, 8:19 AM #19
I bet everyone knows this by now. The CTs and Terrorists models from CS:S have a silly animation of them dancing like Micheal Jackson.
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2005-01-14, 8:21 AM #20
I didn't know that one. How do you use them?
2005-01-14, 8:51 AM #21
Some of the lines the troopers say are quite weird. Two for examples are "sometimes, I dream of... cheese" and "when this is over, I'm gonna mate".
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2005-01-14, 11:31 AM #22
Heh, those are funny. The "mate" line is referring to one of breen's speeches near the beginning (something about suppressing the human reproductive system)... so that's like 10 years without teh sex0r o.o

"Outbreak! Outbreak! Outbreak!" is the combine codephrase that they yell whenever all but one of them in a squad has been killed
Moo.
2005-01-14, 11:40 AM #23
Quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomen
Didn't realize this until recently, but the background behind the Gman when he shows up on one TV screen (that's quickly turned off as you enter the room) is the same that appears behind Breen when he gives his speeches.

[http://sine.geekvision.net/comparison.jpg]



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2005-01-14, 12:39 PM #24
I was the voice actor for Gordon Freeman. Um . . . yeah.
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2005-01-14, 6:33 PM #25
I didnt know they'd left out the whole barge-area, where you get to shoot down the chopper with gas tanks. That sucked.

I didnt know the story would cut off just as it was getting good, and I also didnt know I would be extremely pissed because of it.
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2005-01-14, 7:08 PM #26
If you manage to throw Dog's ball over the cliff (it's possible, I've done it over the cliff opposite Dog's house) Alyx says "Where's your ball, Dog?" and Dog will throw the ball's container instead.

If you wait before going inside after the scanners arive, headcrab rockets crash outside and headcrabs and scanners and manhacks start attacking you.

And I hear ya FullMetal, I was hoping for a really good Metroid-ish escape sequence.

2005-01-14, 7:11 PM #27
Quote:
Originally posted by Avenger
I was the voice actor for Gordon Freeman. Um . . . yeah.


And a fine job you did of it, too.

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