What was his purpose ? Why isn't he referenced ever again ?

He had control over Xen lifeforms but is also controlled by something if you look closely at its dissected stomach, enclosed chamber and shackles.
No other human knew of Nihilanth's existence except you and Gman. Maybe the Combine did too but they're not entirely human.

>>382894643
He was a being that was able to create portals, which is why you jump into a portal in his head after killing him. He was being used by the combine to invade other worlds.

I thought he was the Dr Breen equivalent of Xen

>>382894643
It doesnt look like anything else on Xen, probably a Combine (or someone else) puppet there to control the Xen. Maybe a part of a race of psychic beings being controlled by someone else as per the scars and shackles.

>>382894876
Nothing on Xen is from Xen. All the monsters are strangers there just like you.

>>382894876
He looks a giant version of alien controllers

>>382894643
I mean, it's not like Gman is fully human either.

>>382895041
There are literal plants-things that looks just like head crabs growing all over Xen. But maybe they also are alien to Xen, and maybe Xen is a stranger to Xen as well

>>382894335
>What was his purpose?

To be the final boss of the game since every decent 90's shooter had one

>Why isn't he referenced ever again ?

Because the narrative in Half-Life is actually a lot less relevant than you seem to think

>>382895207
>what are seeds

>>382895207
Quoting Marc Laidlaw, the writer of Half Life.

"...they are probably stranded in what
would not have been their natural native environment (nothing's native
to xen)."

"As for race-x being from xen, i'm not sure any of the aliens
we've seen were actually from xen originally. Xen is a borderworld--a
place you have to go through to get to other places. It was colonized
by certain creatures that could adapt to it. The race-x creatures
didn't seem particularly well adapted to xen. I imagine their home lay
somewhere beyond."

"The nihilanth's "world" (if it could be said to have) was long since in the past as far as the nihilanth was concerned; xen was their final retreat, and they had their back to the wall, as it were, when the fissure appeared that let them spill into our dimension. Xen itself is sort of a dimensional transit bottleneck--an area of continual contention."

>>382895284
But what is Xen then? Is everything there a stranger? Was it just a blank slate before the first strangers arrived?

I don't remember much from the original game, but is Xen used as some kind of interdimensional hub world or middleground by everyone traveling through dimensions?

I would love to see Xen again if the ever make another Half Life

>>382895531
>>382895431

>>382895431
>>382895531
Ah makes sense then.

Wasn't Half Life based heavily on The Mist by Stephen King?

He was the Combine's bitch, just like Breen.

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>>382895728
And a bunch of animays

>>382895826
>anime invented freight elevators
this is your brain on weebshit

>>382895762
OUR BENEFACTORS

>>382896076
Yes and the fact that the rooms are identical and that the prefab of the elevator in the map is named akira_elevator is just a coincidence.

half life is a combination of david gerrold, anime, and classic sci fi like the mist and dune

>>382896575
>Dune
What?

>>382895762
Reminder that DR> BREEN did nothing wrong.

>>382895431

So literally

>#refugeeswelcome

Half Life, like any well written material, is openly and unabashedly inspired by multiple sources. Good stories are like Frankenstein's monster; a patchwork of many borrowed ideas. The best ones are heavily inspired (or even plagiarised) and hide that fact well.

>>382896341
You stupid fuck it's a funicular. I guess the one in Picus HQ is inspired by weebshit too?

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>>382896687
Is he, dare I say it, /ourguy/?

>>382896839
You're only making that comparison because your shit for brains is full of memes.

>>382896341
>the prefab of the elevator in the map is named akira_elevator
Really? Well then I guess I'm BTFO.

>>382895431

> This lore will never, ever be expanded upon

>>382896687
Just fucked over humanity.

>>382899126
Are you dense? He was the only reason why there were any humans left at all. He convinced the combine that they were worth keeping as slaves.
Without him, they would have decimated humanity and taken the natural resources, which was what they were here for.

>>382899685
That's not really how Combine works.

>>382899685
"When the singularity collapses, I will be far away from here. In another universe, as a matter of fact. You, on the other hand, will be destroyed in every way it is possible to be destroyed, and even in some which are essentially impossible. "
Oh yeah, definitely not fucking over humanity there

>>382899685
>decimated humanity
>using blizzard's buzz word
From what we can tell in HL2 they did a lot more damage than decimation. Stop using words you don't understand

>>382899685
Yeah, to save himself.

>>382900135
Wow, we have a Roman time traveler here!

>>382900059
It seems you can't even be bothered to read the shit you copypaste.
>>382900135
You're too much of a knucklehead to use a dictionary, you attribute words to game companies because the education system failed you.

This thread sure is full of stupid underage shits, it's uncanny.

>>382898585
It fucking hurts.

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>>382894335
but he was referenced by the the Singing Vortiguant

>>382900135
Learn to not fragment your sentences and learn to punctuate, you mongoloid ballsack.

>>382894643
This explains why the vortigaunts are hostile

>>382894643
>but is also controlled by something
What about that small baby on top of the Nihilanth chamber?

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>>382902530

>There is no distance between us, no false veil of time or space may intervene

>>382898585
>>382901937
Seriously. Fucking hell.