Saving Every Citizen in Half-Life 2

We're back in the HEV Suit in Half-Life 2 stomping through City 17, crushing the Combine with that Indomitable Human Spirit.
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Intro Song: "BirdBrainz" - Otis McDonald

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-- Art Material -- (In Order of Appearance)

-- Video Material -- (in Order of Appearance)

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0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Preamble
4:15 - Rules
5:12 - Point Insertion
8:49 - "A Red Letter Day"
11:29 - Route Kanal
16:00 - Water Hazard
19:13 - Black Mesa East
22:24 - "We Don't Go To Ravenholm..."
26:31 - Highway 17
30:08 - Sandtraps
35:38 - Nova Prospekt
36:50 - Entanglement
42:41 - Anticitizen One
51:58 - "Follow Freeman!"
1:04:46 - Our Benefactors
1:06:28 - Dark Energy
1:10:54 - Total
1:11:44 - Outro
1:12:35 - Credits
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[stupidlizard]

All those drugs from HEV suit gave Gordon hyper speed reaction to save everyone. Remember for us there can be as many tries as we need. But in thr game it's all made in one single shot.

[siren-nate]

Some would ask, "What's the point?" Of the billions of people killed by the Combine even before the uprising, what does it matter if Gordon Freeman personally saves a few hundred?

Doctor Breen put it best. "How could one man have slipped through your forces' fingers, time and time again? How is it possible? The man that you have so consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that: an ordinary man." Gordon is not special. He was at ground zero of the Resonance Cascade and made it out alive just because of his willingness to fight. He may be a brilliant theoretical physicist, hearkening back to how every member of Black Mesa is worth their weight in gold, but that had nothing to do with his survival.

The only thing that sets Gordon Freeman apart is a suit of powered safety equipment, and Alyx is proof that you don't even need that much to be one of the most important people in the Resistance. Gordon Freeman is any of us and all of us who are willing to fight the Combine. Any one of those people he saved could be a Gordon Freeman - and if we had hundreds of him, the Combine would be royally fucked. *That* is why every single life saved matters.

[consoulcommands]

The much higher numbers of casualties and lack of saveable civilians especially in the airboat sections creates this interesting tonal shift from the previous video. Where Half-Life 1 was much more centred on making passages safe and rescuing people, the sheer amount of people you're powerless to help and the overwhelming force the Combine sends after you as you tear through them makes this video at times much less of a rescue mission...and more of a tragic tale of vengeance.

And I think that's very fitting for this game, because it is ultimately hopeless to stand up to the Combine, but when's that ever stopped Gordon before?

Give 'em hell and humanity's regards, Doctor Freeman.

[danielnolan]

1:06:28, The line, "Here, there are no survivors, and no casualties, and no one to save except the world." Is so hard.

[IMeanIt]

I never really thought about the reason the citadel goes into full lockdown in the start of the game
Lamarr really did just cause Gordon to teleport directly into the citadel

[Loch_Ness_Lachster]

I love how he doesn't just save them from a game perspective, but through a lore perspective (or game world). Little things like taking out all the headcrabs and leaving weapons for resistance members to defend themselves.

[monstermaker]

"i won't be counting the zombies for opposing force because there are too many" meanwhile... "Ravenholm has 247 zombies"

[Extendedklips]

Watching this back, the line “did you know your contract was open to the highest bidder” made me realize how good this story was.

[byFb]

17:27 Just imagine you are there and patroling the area thinking that gordon has escaped. But then that maniac comes out of the tunnel he escaped in and starts blasting you. Id imediatly shit myself if I was in that chopper.

[crasher]

I really like how you leave supplies and help ffiendly npcs arm themselves with better weapons. This is the kind of detail that shows you take the challange to heart. All on all a great and interesting video.
Saint Freeman shows himself when he is needed most.

[andreasottohansen]

Considering the way this video goes, I have a new head canon of Freeman having snagged a duffle bag or two, and is just grabbing and handing out guns like candy.

[herobrine]

5:00 one of the first scientists you meet in opposing force says, and I quote "Oh, you've woken up. Corporal Shephard, is it? I've read the tag on your uniform"

[Voidsman]

The indomitable human spirit will not be stopped, the Combine will pay.

[A_Surpluss_of_Stupidity]

I like to imagine that whenever you lock your squad behind a door they're like "GORDAN YOU DONT HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING ALONE" and Gordon's just like "I cant risk losing anyone else..."

[Professor.Chucklenuts]

39:52 I've always liked the detail that Gordon doesn't lower his gun at Dr. Mossman anymore, like he doesn't care if she dies or not.

[DaHitch]

42:00 His head crab is called Lamarr, which is likely a reference to the Austrian-American actress Hedy Lamarr.
Dr Kleiner is just using some clever wordplay with her name sounding similar to "head". Hedy Lamarr was also responsible for the patents which lead to the development of WiFi and Bluetooth (frequency hopping) and therefore also has some science qualifications making for an even stronger connection.

[star-not-moon]

1:08:40 i just wanna point out the combine get disintegrated when they're hit with the blue variant, Gordon just gets knocked on his ass for a second.


Bro truly is the one free man.

[danielsurvivor]

"Combine are pretty chill, maybe you should like, join it?"

Combine at it's peak calm: 5:50

[monstrumenjoyer]

hey, at 11:50, the guy who gets clocked has a breathing animation, he good

[identity__thief]

The anti-rocket trickshot at 48:45 is nuts, this entire video is incredibly impressive but that's definitely the highlight. I never would've considered something like that to be possible - I'm still learning new things about my favourite game all these years on.