Breen was a heroThe Combine are the good guys The human resistance is misguided Anyone else feel this way?
>>726001224Breen was a heroYes, but only initially.>The Combine are the good guysNo.>The human resistance is misguidedFar from it.In conclusion, get off /v/ you filthy slug sympathizer.
By what fucking metric is the Combine good?
>>726001731Humans are racist sexist chuds so sterilizing them and removing their genitals is good
>>726001848Permanently destroying the Earth's atmosphere and oceans and killing all life is also good
>>726001224When i was 12 i did. I unironically fantasized about implementing combine rule and torturing all the people who bullied me at my middle school. I eventually realized it was cringe.
>>726001901The GDP went up
Half-Life 2 reminds me of that terrible movie with John Travolta where they make a big deal about how the alien race is so advanced they conquered all of Earth in a matter of days but then a bunch of retards somehow manage to defeat them with relative ease anyway. It's so fucking stupid. Awful writing.
>>726001986You never see or encounter the "real" Combine in HL2. Just the human collaborator regime. It's like fighting Vichy France, as opposed to fighting Nazi Germany. The whole plot of Episode 2 is stopping the portal from opening so the real Combine don't come and instantly exterminate every human on earth
>>726001986The whole HL2 plot was that all the resistance was fighting was the occupation clean-up crew. That's why blowing up the Citadel was such a big deal, so the Combine couldn't send their actual army back in.
>>726001986Gordon Freeman is literally getting help from an interdimensional being "nudging things" in the right direction. Not that Gordon Freeman isn't an exceptional person, but it's not like "a ragtag team of humans" is fighting off the combine. You're not paying attention to the story. Please don't critique anything ever again.
>>726001986I believe HL2 justifies it by implying the Combine have long left Earth and that the entire planet is only being managed by 1 or 2 leftover slugs, while Overwatch and Civil Protection run the whole deal. It's somewhat decentralized by the time Gordon Freeman arrives on the scene, so it isn't entirely out of the question that he could overturn City 17 with a rebel militia.
>>726001986NGL, HL2 is really bad on replays. The OG Half-Life is still fun to play.
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>>726001224Somewhat, yeah.It's less combine good and more universal union is the only viable choice for continued existence.The planet is completely fucked, best chance of going interstellar if not interdimensional is sucking up to the hyper advanced invaders and hoping they like us enough to don't let us go extinct, which the rebels are not helping with.
>>726001904But thats based!
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>>726004343>The planet is completely fuckedIt's fine, you'll just have to eat headcrabs and antlions instead of cows and pigs.
>>726004343>Combine are extradimensional and have to use Xen to get to Earth>Black Mesa East know how to prevent any more Xen portals opening up>it would only take being able to explore the solar system reliably to gather the resources to undo the damage the Combine have done to Earth or terraform Mars>"the only way to survive it to allow humanity to be ground up into inhuman cogs in a vast machine that exists only to turn species into tools to keep the machine going with no true goal or purpose"
>>726001224No, the UU is an empire unemphatic to any life it crushes in its quest for constant growth. It's a machine more than it is a society. They are interested in Earth for our local teleportation technology. Breen (presumably with the UU's consent) let the resistance exist to complete their research. In the meantime they pilfered Earth for her useful resources. Presumably, after Black Mesa East cracks the local teleportation problem, all the information will be given to the UU and humanity as we know it will be extinguished. Useful minds (like Breen) and slaves may be spared, but they'll probably wish they were dead. That was the plan, but then Freeman arrived just as the former BM scientist were completing their research.The Combine are also "compromised" and "riddled with cracks" as Breen would have described it in Ep3. I think the entire UU is made up these kind of tortured intellects, orphaned from their extinct species and inhabiting a body that's not what they were born in. That's what I mean by the Combine being a machine more than a society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdue3gcaAA0Breengrub is a great little lore dump on what could have been in Ep3. Breen always wanted to save humanity, and he probably did, but that probably wasn't the Combine's intention.
>>726002269>Acktually. real combine occupation has never been tried!
>>726006792And Valve decided to throw all that kino out for this fucking shit.HL3 (if it's real) is fucking doomed man.
