@Artistic Cat Yeah that's what definitely caught me off guard with his encounter. Which, I'm assuming, was intentional by design. My god what a superbly made game
@Artistic Cat Valve would never risk the player "messing up the audio". I've never seen a single player stand still in this scene. They tend to look around and try to face the direction his voice is coming from, as anyone would in real life. Your statements are contradictive. What is your source on their recording setup?
I never even noticed at 8:26 you can hear one of the last bits from the Alyx and Gman conversation, after what she does. That's wild that I haven't noticed, I wonder how many snippets like that are scattered throughout the ending?
This entire final chapter is worth the price of admission several times over. I was in utter AWE while playing this. I was so overwhelmed with emotions at what I was experiencing that by the time I got those Vort powers, I almost had tears in my eyes from sheer joy lol. It sounds insane but the level of immersiveness is just beyond any other form of entertainment I've experienced. Half-Life: Alyx is a top 5 game for me.
Valve's goal with each half-life game was to revolutionize the industry. That's why the episodes felt a bit bland, is because they didn't really add much to the table. Alyx, however, is the best VR game so far, by far, and it wouldn't work at all without the VR part. I heard a theory video a few years back of why half-life 3 hadn't been released, and they said that it's likely because valve wanted to tap into VR.
It pretty much confirms it without directly confirming it. I highly doubt Valve would be brazen enough to tell us “we got work to do” at the end of the game and then never deliver a sequel. I say that even taking into account that they made us wait 13 years for this.
@@yourkingorginal3286 yh but we aint getting no mentions or anything its been like 2 decades since hlf2 and now its been years after alyx with no mention of a sequel even tho they teased it
I just finished the game today myself and I loved the ending! This is my first half life game but I’ve went back and have been doing research and Gman is so interesting and I love his whole aesthetic how he opens the door and everything turns white ughhhhh and I wanna know who his employers are!!! Ugh I can’t wait for a sequel!
alyx was my introduction into half life(i grew up mostly with console games and not many pc games, so sadly the half life games weren't such a big part of my childhood). Even if I knew nothing about half life, this game was still fantastic. This was actually a great introduction to the franchise from my perspective, it got me extremely invested in the entire lore. And curiously, that scene with g-man at the very end is so much more impactful when you actually have no previous knowledge of half life lore. It completely subverted my expectations, just suddenly seeing this guy in a suit turn around and manipulate reality like a god, especially not knowing who he is, completely blew my mind.
@@rreverie07 I know i sounded like a self involved ass in my comment, it's just that I spent way too much time perfecting my VR cables and I'm just being honest, this guys setup will have loads of issues with the cable flopping all over him, feeling pulling sensation from the head, getting tangled if you turn around just a few times... Just giving a PSA that this guys setup is how NOT to do it :) have a happy tuesday :)
@@odavidsilvalima I remember how vehemently against using the Borealis Eli was in Episode Two. Now that Alyx has been taken, is he willing to "start another Black Mesa Incident" just to get her back?
Actually, I hope that they cannonize Gordon being mute throughout HL2 as being some sort of mental suppression field around G-Man's agents that prevents them from telling others any details that might give G-Man away and also prevents others from expecting that agent to speak. Then in HL3, Valve needs to hire Ross Scott (of the Freeman's Mind series) to voice Gordon. Maybe it will never happen, but I can hope!
@@noidTV Maybe he's not. He didn't interact with others as much in HL1. It's possible Gordon just isn't very talkative and with the added shock of resonance cascade and the resulting chaos, he's just too concentrated on survival to speak. By the time he meets up with Kleiner in HL2, I would think he'd be able to talk unless there were something interfering though.
4 years later I also now finished playing the game in VR because I didn't had the hardware. I am glad I managed to remain spoiler free for that time :D
this was my first vr game and i was stunned. iam 38years old, but playing vr, made me feel like iam 14 again. i wasnt aware that i can stil feel so much awe after beeing exposed to game for 30 years now. and it was basically the only game i played. after i was done, my wife tried it. she a very anxious person that only ever tried beatsaber so far. she was afraid of the game. everything felt so real to her, that she was scare that anything could jump out at her, anytime. shes extremly afraid of beeing startled and thus, she was tense all the time while she played alex.. tense because she really thinks, that something might scare her so much, that her heart just stops and she dies. our dog picked up that enormous distress my wife was under and since then, you only need to pick up the headset and the dog is running amok, its obvious that the dog now connects the headset with something that one should be afraid of my wife stopped played vr for good due to this, because the dogs well beeing is very important to her and she wants me to stop too because training the dog to live with it, isnt easy for a 10 year old senior dog and to much hassle for her and she cant afford to loos sleep at night and the dog, reacts to stress with diarhea even during the night hours after the case. i hate the situation so much
This is my favorite reaction honestly. I am so happy you're invested in the HL series, its' been the inspiration and basis of almost every creative works Ive done since 2005 i.e. making maps of my budding sci-fi story, maps of other places, trying to make a mod of my own story its so intensely important to my creative journey that even just seeing younger t ypes makes me so happy. If HL3 takes 40 years, I hope you get to play it even if I dont.
The combine going to such great lengths to imprison him and him saying that his employers don't want to take the combine off of Earth, what is his fuckin goal?!
All this time later and the prevailing thought in my head is just "They actually fucking did it" I'm glad I got to experience something so profound, I'll fondly remember this game long after my willingness/ability to play games is done.
Just like me, you were just at a loss of words during the ending haha It's just how any game should end, the player having to mentally go through it until you can truly realise what you just experienced
Nah because the way that I actually cried in my headset when I heard the HEV Suit beep telling me about my health at the end credits. LOL I'm not even kidding.
Half Life Alyx has got to be the best looking and most polished VR title I've played yet. I'm not even a massive half life fan (although I do love the series) and I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish..
I played hl1 when it was released. Last hl game I played was episode 2. Had no idea they made this game. If I played it through and saw this ending. I would have just laid down and felt like shit.
There were rumors about a cross-platform PC/VR multiplayer game where the PC player would only ever play as Gordon and the VR player would only ever play as Alyx, but nothing was ever confirmed.
That ending just straight up punches you in the gut, and all you can do is look up with tears in your eyes and a smile on your face and say "Please sir, may I have some more?"
Dude i love VALVE so much! after so long they finally made a new game, some people may be mad since its not HL3 but the ending change blew my mind and half life alyx can really change the VR industry, Actually no it already has! VAVLE has a way of blowing us away and thats what i LOVE about them. VALVE brings so much freedom in HL1,HL2, HLA. In both HL1-2 YOU are gordon, you chose how he is. want him to kill scientist's and be a maniac? he will. Want him to kill zombies with barnacles? He can! VALVE, really thank you. I cried at the end of ALYX and im happy to see another fan happy about this. I also cant stop laughing about the brain interface thing at the end, Good day man. If you wanna play TF2 Sometime reply to my comment with your steam friend code or username :D
Normally I'd ignore a retcon, but this was brilliant. Use a prequel to change the future ending to an even bigger cliff hanger, and opening the door to a whole new world of speculation.
So when he was asked to get rid of the combine. He made a copy? I’m inclined to believe that was the original and he went of to try. The remain version was the future version. And he attempted and failed because he employer told him not too. So he came back and said ya I can’t do it. That’s kinda cool
When I read the lines "We have work to do", I immediately went "Valve isn't serious...are they?", but if it's possibly, they're *finally* fucking getting their asses in gear and just making the legendary HL3.
Boggles my mind how people still debate if HL3 is real after this. It was basically valve revealing that they are working on at least one new HL title featuring Gordon Freeman as the main character
@@UNSCPILOT same here! Just finished the game 20 minutes ago after playing it for almost 8 hours straight 😂 can’t wait to go back and play the other games!
If valve takes other 12 years in making half life 2: ep3 or even better, half life 3 i will be fucking done... also the fact that they made hl alyx a VR exclusive kinda upsets me as a low spec gamer lmao
My theory for the apparition in those rooms is it is a younger G-man. He was a citizen of city-17 who was hired by his employers to go back in time and get Gordon to create the resonance cascade and save him from the destruction of Black Mesa and these rooms and apparitions are his memories.
