I am an avid gamer and my favorite series of all time is the Half Life series. The great thing about the first Half Life was the SciFi story and hilarious dialog of the scientists. Although it has nothing to do with Elder Gods I have always felt it very Lovecraftian and though there are no fishpeople or tentacled monsters, both the barnacle and headcrab have a HPL feel to them. I recently came upon this interview with Marc Laidlaw its creator and found this...... You have said no author’s work has meant more to you than H.P. Lovecraft’s. Your short story “Leng” appears in the inspired-by-Lovecraft anthology Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow. Can you talk about Lovecraft’s influence on you, and the Half-Life series? The Lovecraftian influence is buried pretty deep in Half-Life—perhaps you can spot it in the sense we try to create of mankind being a tiny speck in a vast cosmos. The most Lovecraftian passage is probably Dr. Breen’s speech at the end of Half-Life 2, when he is trying to entice Eli with glimpses of the wonders he has been shown by the Combine. This sort of teasing view of things beyond imagining is one of Lovecraft’s techniques, on display most clearly in “The Whisperer in Darkness.”
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:27:49 +0000
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