Are all the valve games connected?
The Valve™ valve games are. The expansions done by gearbox are on a "kinda sorta" basis
>>727738925Isn't BS canon? Barney is in HL2.
>>727738157YesDay of Defeat happens in the WW2 eraThen Team Fortress 1 and 2 happen around the Cold War era.Counter Strike goes from the 90s to the 2000s.L4D happens at the same time as HL1 and Portal.Then the Combine invade, wipes "zombies"/infected and HL2 and Portal 2 happen.Alien Swarm is in the future.Dota 2 is in another Dimension.
>>727739751From what I understand the gearbox games are canon until valve decides they aren't. So Barney as a concept is canon but the stuff he does in BS is only canon as long as valve doesn't come out and say "this is changed."
>>727740281Plus I think BS being "canon" also implies that op4 is canon since they all take place at the same time as each other. Race x is a whole can of worms for valve so I think that's why they choose to not really mention either of the expacs. It's like a Schrodinger's canon. Oh and decay I guess. I always forget about that one.
Half-Life, Blue Shift, Opposing Force and Decay are all canon, HL2 is a tech demo Gordon programmed in his spare time because he got early retirement after the Black Mesa incident.
>>727738157L4D games are all movies in the universe of CS, TF2 is its own thing, Portal and HL share a universe, Dota is its own thing, I neither know nor care what Deadlock is.
>>727739751every Hl1 security guard is called Barney
Where does Ricochet fit into the wider canon?
>>727739751sounds like 4chan
>>727741218Ricochet takes place inside a vidya gaem, specifically Cave Johnson's attempts to make a virtual reality video game. Didn't pan out, people hated it.
>>727739751The model file for the security guards were named "Barney" in HL1. Gearbox didn't invent the character, although Valve did adopt semi-adopt the "Calhoun" part of the name. It's listed as Barney's last name in the credits, but he's never referred to by in the game script.
>>727740881>L4D games are all movies in the universe of CSAnd both Counter Strike and TF2 are video games in the universe of L4D.
>>727742239I honestly don't know if this is legit or not, I haven't played Portal 2 since it came out. It feels like the kinda gag they would have included.
>>727738157Can lorefags explain to me who G-man is?
Is Gordon wearing a helmet during the events of Half-Life?
>>727738157>Gman= Gordan Man>gordan man turns out to actually be gordon mann, of the mann family from team fortress>he says you have to find the portal gun from portal to get to the mann family vault>you fight through aperture labs, meeting familiar characters along the way, to get the portal gun>the portal gun is damaged and sends you to the ricochet arena where you mean john ricochet>the ricochet arena is overrun by zombies, the cast from left 4 dead show up to extract you>DOTA characters show up to fix the portal gun and you head to the mann vault>the terrorists from counterstrike have captured the mann vault, so you team up with the counter terrorists>you play a game of artifact to unlock the vault entrance>inside the vault, a rusted plaque with the world "borealis" on it>To Be Continued: HL3:E1!
>>727742717My theory is he is a member of a yet unseen alien race that is many times more advanced than even the Combine. His race has discovered the secret to perfect time and space travel and his job is to keep humanity and Combine in perpetual war so that neither discovers this secret.
>>727738925how is this not just a fandom speculative stance born out of a feeling of being spurned that Adrian isn't referenced later? Valve hasn't affirmed or denied their canonicity. what could possibly fuck up the Half-Life universe in Opposing Force and Decay?
>>727743602It's more of Race X being the issue, which very much stands out as a fan-fictiony made up bullshit kind of thing.
Does Gaben exist in the Half-Life universe?
>>727743602Race x, I'm assuming. I think a better answer is just valve wants total control over their IP and don't really let other devs do that shit anymore.
>>727743738Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2 are explicitly mentioned by Louis and Ellis in Left 4 Dead, so that would imply that Valve Software and Gaben exist in the Left 4 Dead universe at least. Which also means that there's a possibility that Gaben canonically became a Boomer in L4D.
I'd really like to see what the combine used in the 7 hour war.
>>727744056I was always under the impression that the current Combine force on Earth is their equivalent of mall security, with it mostly just being a force of assimilated humans. So whatever they used in the 7 hour war was probably some massive super weapons capable of deleting entire continents effortlessly.
>>727744056They flooded developed countries with brown people
>>727743715>>727743754bam. fixed. if it was a real problem Valve would have said something. is race X kind of corny? yeah, but we already have a world where aliens exist in other universes trying to invade others and Half-Life has always had a bit of a corn factor. what's one more discreet faction of aliens?
>>727739830HL zombies are based around headcrabs you moron not 28 Days Later infected. HL has nothing with viruses.
>>727744492>tfw you'll never get to eat the bugs, live in the pod, and watch your neighbors get disintegrated for insubordination
>>727744317Right? That's why it's so interesting to me. All the soldiers we see in hl2 are converted human military personnel
>>727742735he simply has to bethe original helmet is way cooler than the new one that just makes it look like generic power armor
Pyro is a Combine.
>>727742735He's not wearing a helmet in any of the official artwork, there's no helmet included with either of the HEV suits you obtain in-game, and his third-person model in HL1 doesn't have one either. So I don't think so.
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>>727738157Yes even dota 2 sb and tinker hints at that
The real mystery is what race is Chell?
>>727746165BEANER
