The test chamber makes NO SENSE
Created 14 years ago2009-05-24 02:21:17 UTC by
srry
Created 14 years ago2009-05-24 02:21:17 UTC by
srry
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 02:26:06 UTC
Post #267375
Now ponder this: Black Mesa spends millions on an anti-maspectrometer with its own specimen delivery elevator and they don't bother installing automated rails for the cart or even a remote-actuated Big Red Button. Instead they choose to send a lone human into a dangerous compartment wherein they must complete the demanding tasks of pressing a button and pushing a cart ten feet, while exposing them to all matter of multicolored sci-fi lightning effects. It's madness, I tell you.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 02:28:24 UTC
Post #267376
Black Mesa likes the human touch that only a guy in a HEV suit can provide.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 03:24:31 UTC
Post #267378
The HL story would have worked out whether or not there was actually someone pushing the crystal into the test chamber. No worries.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 04:04:18 UTC
Post #267380
HL1 story is boring nowadays
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 04:18:21 UTC
Post #267381
Totally.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 04:37:57 UTC
Post #267383
Budget cuts caused the resonance cascade!
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 04:38:45 UTC
Post #267384
i thought it was quite interesting. i mean, where else in the confederate states is there a huge science complex that researches teleporting? Makes me wish i lived in New Mexico
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 04:54:19 UTC
Post #267385
Seek not common sense from good games.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 07:01:18 UTC
Post #267389
The story might have still worked, but you would not have felt the same singe of guilt as barney remarked on what he'd do to the "guy that caused this mess".
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 08:16:40 UTC
Post #267391
Gordon would have to have operated it all from behind thick glass is all... press a button, wait, throw a switch into full gear.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 11:45:55 UTC
Post #267395
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 11:47:42 UTC
Post #267396
Yeah, more or less.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 11:54:11 UTC
Post #267397
Oh duh... if their making a teleporter... they need a guinea pig to throw through it.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 19:39:31 UTC
Post #267422
Black Mesa likes the human touch that only a guy in a HEV suit can provide.They're very old-school. It wouldn't have felt the same had it been entirely automated.
Don't forget that technically, this was a decomissioned bunker/missile silo from the cold war times. Perhaps the electrical installation wasn't expansible enough and didn't allow to move the button(s) to a safer location, and it was out of the budget to redo it appropriately.
And they bought Cyrix!
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-24 20:36:01 UTC
Post #267425
Not to mention you need a PhD to do all that complicated stuff...lol...just like Barney says in HL2...
"Wow, i can really see where the PhD pays off and all, the way you threw that switch..."
"Wow, i can really see where the PhD pays off and all, the way you threw that switch..."
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