Forgoten Monsters Created 18 years ago2005-12-13 11:56:36 UTC by Elon Yariv Elon Yariv

Created 18 years ago2005-12-13 11:56:36 UTC by Elon Yariv Elon Yariv

Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 11:56:36 UTC Post #152021
What heppend to the Genomes in Hl2, they were only an advenced stage of zombies. :confused: Also what heppend to the X-Species? Not all of them could have been killed in the explosion! And what heppend to the bullsquid and other forgoten Hl1 monsters? :zonked:
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 11:59:28 UTC Post #152023
Um.. They weren't included, that's all.. :
Some of the monsters were just removed, coz there were lots plenty of new ones..
Although I missed icky in the water hazard chapter :)
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 12:02:46 UTC Post #152025
I keep to what I said before.
Genomes equals Fast zombies.

At least, I think so. :quizzical:
Madcow MadcowSpy zappin my udder
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 13:24:31 UTC Post #152038
Icky was included in HL2. can't you remember where?

Think back to the very start of the game. It was a red letter day.
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 13:26:17 UTC Post #152039
Well yes, but there was no gameplay with him.. :(
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 13:30:42 UTC Post #152041
Icky is scary :o .

Anyhow, Race X is simply not included because they're no longer on earth.
My theory is, when the combine took control, they removed the remaining species from earth. They kept the Headcrabs (= Zombies) to use as flush-out weapons against human resistance.
A_slaves are vortigaunts, no longer under nihilanth influence.

Alien grunts and houndeyes where removed aswell.
The icky might have escaped black mesa and somehow made it to human waters, where combine can't touch them and they multiply.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 13:46:53 UTC Post #152044
problem solved! now someone tell me how barnacles end up where they are!? :
Strider StriderTuned to a dead channel.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 13:53:25 UTC Post #152047
remember in OPP4, you get that gun that shoots the green spores. They were barnacle spores and stick to those sticky things. when they hatch, a barnacle is born.. you hear a scientist's recorded message about it just before you get the barnacle as a weapon
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 13:57:44 UTC Post #152050
oh yeah forgot that! Thank you o'wise Hunter, you are indeed powerful...
Strider StriderTuned to a dead channel.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 14:13:09 UTC Post #152062
Hmm, I wish the Ichyso...ichetho..the sea lion thing was in Half-life 2, it looked great in A Red Letter Day, when you fall into the water, now imagine how terrifying it would be having that chasing you through the water in actual gameplay, I found them to be the scariest part of Half-Life.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 16:40:33 UTC Post #152139
Good I managed to move this discassion away from hunter's thread. :badass:
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 16:44:39 UTC Post #152141
My thread actually :glad:
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 18:24:34 UTC Post #152172
Race X and gonomes weren't included in HL2 most likely because Opposing Force was created, for the most part, by Gearbox. Had Gearbox been a contributor to Half Life 2 there might have been gonomes and Race X aliens. there were bullsquids in the betas, but for one reason or another they were taken out.

Want gameplay with icthyosuars? Map an ocean and throw one of those beasts in there. Not sure if they were coded to react though, the one in HL2 might have just been scripted but its worth a shot.
now imagine how terrifying it would be having that chasing you through the water in actual gameplay, I found them to be the scariest part of Half-Life.
They still scare me to this day :nuts:
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 18:49:31 UTC Post #152179
remember in OPP4, you get that gun that shoots the green spores. They were barnacle spores and stick to those sticky things. when they hatch, a barnacle is born.. you hear a scientist's recorded message about it just before you get the barnacle as a weapon
I don't rember the message saying anything about that, it was something about getting the unattached banical, not about the spores. But i still hate em all the same, I was playing sven coop the other day going thruogh some pipes happly when theres an opening and there barnicals, I waited for someone to come and kill em. Thats how much i hate them. :nuts:
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 19:11:46 UTC Post #152183
Sorry about the icthyosuars, I think they are only coded to do the motion when you get near them, at least in a gmod map, there were a couple of them in the water, all they did was just stay there untill you came up in about two feet from their face. And you could kill them which they would turn upwards and just kinda stay their. But through cheating you can spawn them in the actuall game.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 19:33:04 UTC Post #152189
Those newer monsters were Gearbox's idea, not VALVe's. I remember reading somewhere that VALVe ignored most aspects of Op4 and BS.
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 22:18:12 UTC Post #152202
HA! I WIN!
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 22:49:50 UTC Post #152207
I was happy how it all turned out, but I wish they could have shown more scenic areas ;)

Like the desert that you and lamar travelled to, a night/dusk level there could be fun :)
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-13 23:34:50 UTC Post #152209
Yah, Valve didnt like a lot of gearboxe's ideas, so they simply werent included.
Luke LukeLuke
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-14 00:28:30 UTC Post #152211
What are the Race X aliens, are they the Things on four legs, the squidshooter, and the other thing, like the shock gun, with the dude attached to it(well, its the other way around) or do you mean the Big blue thing at the end. What the heck was that by the way

Also, i think we can get to know all of the "remembered monsters" easier than we can name the forgotten ones. Headcrabs, zombies, barnacle, vorginant, and ichty(sort of). Ok, now we can say that Valve didn't want the others in because of issues(wether gameplay or they belong to gear box) or if you want to make the HL universe seem more real, the Xen creatures all died when you killed Ninilanth, because he countrolled them with his mind. The ememies from Op4 and blue shift all died when black mesa was nuked. There. Wasn't that simple?
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-14 18:31:58 UTC Post #152304
Shock Troopers, shock roaches, pit drones, and there was one other I believe.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-14 19:06:55 UTC Post #152312
Gonomes (weren't they?) too.
Play opposing force. Anything in-human and non-xen is probably Race X.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-14 20:40:32 UTC Post #152324
Gonomes, thats what i forgot. Shame on me.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 04:21:32 UTC Post #152361
icky wtf is that? :>
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 04:31:22 UTC Post #152362
the ichtyosaurus, i think that's how you spell it. The mutant shark thing you 'meet' when you first get the crossbow in hl1.
Strider StriderTuned to a dead channel.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 06:27:21 UTC Post #152384
Gonomes (weren't they?) too.
Play opposing force. Anything in-human and non-xen is probably Race X.
Mutants, gonomes would be classifyed as mutants with zombies i think.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 08:50:10 UTC Post #152403
The ichty is in other places too for example they are in the water if you go to far offshore...
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 09:41:00 UTC Post #152407
Really? :o
So he WAS included! :glad:
I'll check it out!

And.. Really. How do barnacles appear in the places they are? How do they breed?
I've never seen a barnacle teleport in.. :confused:
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 10:23:36 UTC Post #152413
hey have sticky spores.

And that shore thing is a LIE, I tries going far out into the ocean several times for the soul purpose of finding an icthyosaur and didn't find jack. All you see out there are leeches.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 10:31:39 UTC Post #152416
You guys forgot voltigores and that big worm.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 11:04:35 UTC Post #152419
I bet they killed all of those, what you call "Big worms" (You mean that one from OP4 or what? :S)

And there are voltigores/Alien Slaves in HL2.
They are no longer slaves though
Madcow MadcowSpy zappin my udder
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 11:13:37 UTC Post #152421
Voltigores? Bullshit. No such thing there :
Did ya mean the antlion queen?
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 11:39:24 UTC Post #152425
madcow probably meant vortigaunts, voltigores were those slug things people mentioned right?
Strider StriderTuned to a dead channel.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-15 19:47:55 UTC Post #152521
vortigores are a part of race X from OP4 I think the big things that shoot purple at you
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 04:43:51 UTC Post #152559
The itchy do exist but not every where... Only on some few places...
The first time i played i didnt se an itchy(exept for red letter day) and complained about it to a friend of mine and he showed me a place where it was an itchy...
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 07:50:15 UTC Post #152584
Vortigaunts=Alian slave
Voltigores=An alian from the X races, that big brown one with the purple stripes that shoots purple bolts at you... I just love killing them :badass:
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 09:18:34 UTC Post #152600
yeah, now where else do you see the icky in hl2? and that barnacle/spore thing doesnt sound right. those spores were ammo for those green slug weapons that the barnacle just happened to be able to stick to!
Strider StriderTuned to a dead channel.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 09:19:34 UTC Post #152601
Yeah
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 10:06:30 UTC Post #152612
Oh, yeah, I meaned vortiguants, voltigores are sweet, lol, shame they were'nt incoluded.
I still don't understand this "Alien race X" shit,, where did they come from, any way?
Madcow MadcowSpy zappin my udder
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 10:08:24 UTC Post #152614
From Gerabox, stupid.. ;)
Daubster DaubsterVault Dweller
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 10:14:26 UTC Post #152615
green slug weapons
Those were baby shocktroopers(the big blue guys with the shock rifles), ever wondered why they also throw these spores.
I still don't understand this "Alien race X" shit,, where did they come from, any way?
They are another race from Xen. They came through the second experiment's portal.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 10:19:03 UTC Post #152616
They are another race from Xen. They came through the second experiment's portal.
I thought they came from an other planet.. :S
Well, stupid scientists. :P
Madcow MadcowSpy zappin my udder
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 10:54:57 UTC Post #152619
No i think they were sent to kill gordon but never made it in time, not though a second experement ,plus i think black mesa would be a bit too much destoryed to be holding more experiments
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 11:09:31 UTC Post #152621
I bet elon is right.
I mean, the only one that would send aliens, would be Gman.
Not the humans.
That's why the black ops came to black mesa!
To get rid of this "alien race X", but they failed, so they decided to blow the place up instead.
Leave no evidence, you know.
Madcow MadcowSpy zappin my udder
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 11:10:42 UTC Post #152622
Lol blowing something up as big as black mesa is going to leave a mark in the ground.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 11:14:07 UTC Post #152624
lol, well, they wouldn't know who did it. :)
Madcow MadcowSpy zappin my udder
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 11:45:29 UTC Post #152632
Probably took 2 nukes.

As far as forgotten monsters go, it'd be cool to see all of them in source all pretty and high-res, but they seem to have lost a place in the HL2 setting. Perhaps if you get further away from the cities, you'll see more wild and strange creatures.

edit:
Aren't they remaking a source version of HL1?
Rimrook RimrookSince 2003
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 11:54:56 UTC Post #152635
The ichty is in other places too for example they are in the water if you go to far offshore...
no. they're not.. its little leech things that kill you..

the only itchy in HL2 is in 'a red letter day'

(love the avatar, rimrook)
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 12:14:22 UTC Post #152642
yeah black mesa source rimrook, get to see all our favourite monsties in hi-res
Strider StriderTuned to a dead channel.
Posted 18 years ago2005-12-16 12:30:39 UTC Post #152643
User posted image
Real life ichtyosaurus.
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