A Tape from City 17 - A Half-Life: Alyx Short [S2FM] 

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@@TheParryGod thank God

What cat? Barney, what cat?

@@ImNotFine44 xD

@@TheParryGod omg she so cute

I've never seen them personified like this but it's so good to see.

Actually, that’s not true. Synths are modified organic creatures that were scanned and recreated synthetically. Hence the name, Synths. Stalkers and Soldiers are predecessors to the Synth process.

@@jimjellyjinjamjimbo i don't understand how what you said makes what they said "not true"... I'm not being a jerk, I just don't see that they were wrong

@@jimjellyjinjamjimbo this is the first I'm reading of this, where is that information found, in-game or otherwise?

@@kevinbuchanan67 They’re implying that Synths are still living and are basically cyborgs or heavily augmented. They’re not, they’re like androids. Similar to Ash and Bishop from the Alien franchise or Roy Batty from Blade Runner. Ted Backman even stated he was inspired by Bishop from Aliens and synthetic life-form research being conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico when designing the Synths

Half Life's writing is so tongue-in-cheek that it's easy to forgot the world is so bleak. This makes it feel so real.

I am from Bulgaria, where the originals of many of the buildings seen in game are Sourced (ahue-hue) from. My country sadly does look like an apocalyptic wasteland. Most of my fellow countrymen look at it with disgust I however always found weird beauty in seeing decay, trying to decipher how things fell apart. That's why Half-Life especially Half-Life 2 and Alyx hit me slightly differently than most. Most people would look at Half-Life and think it's what the world could be 10 years from now, I look at it and I see what the world could be 2 minutes from now.

yeah i too sometimes see beauty in bleak surroundings when its cloudy

Not only that... just look at the buildings that are intact or partially destroyed... you notice a sad aura because you know that nothing is going to be the same... abandoned places and in poor condition due to lack of maintenance and what Most important: people. Places mixed with those rare alien technologies adapted for use by human Combine soldiers, pollution everywhere, Xen wildlife consuming life on Earth, the same the Combine with its great surreal black walls, silence, death, domination, control, all in a despot form, places that now seem like improvised military bases where before they were parks, houses, restaurants, streets, vacant yards, apartments, etcetera; those towering alien creatures allied or enslaved for various purposes of the alien Empire... and then, those alien constructions placed on top of human constructions just poorly to support themselves, as if it were a temporary support building... that mix of human brutalist art and alien with some cyberpubk, raypunk, oilpunk and biopunk.

@@NazarovVv It certainly isn't a coincidence that Valve set the dystopian stage of Half-Life among the old Communist Bloc architecture. One of the first things I've always thought of when it came to Half-Life's "grayness" atmosphere was the Soviet-era buildings, cars, and house-hold items (even the automated Russian intercom system heard in the Central Zoo level of Half Life: Alyx).

Poor dude didn't know what that sound meant.

@@thevisitor1032 the game was rigged from the start.

truly great detail.

Thank you! The secret ingredient is not having a social life.

@@TheParryGod Done, next step?

@@TheParryGod I succeeded at that 10 years ago, and I still can't do anything like this what am I missing?

@@TheParryGod You have been honored by CoreyLaddo himself!

@@Brick9 ummm that’s it.

Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it.

IT'S ANIMATED?

If Harry101UK likes it you know it’s good.

I experienced the same

Plot twist: This is all real footage, so nothing to be impressed by here

se ve genial parece un oceano muerto y seco arido

More pleaseeee

What you mean most? We've only been shown one, and I don't think there are many more, if there are more.

@@SirKolass I think the wastelands are the Balkans, the true wastelands are Australia, even if the combine “destroys” it, *it always comes back*

@@evagineer9165 People misunderstand the wasteland though, the wasteland in the retail are all the places with human waste. That would be the coast, Ravenholm, ep2 forest, etc. The barren wastelands are just part of it, we've only seen one and we don't know where it is. People also think the flora is dying, but the flora is perfectly healthy in the retail, earth is not dying. The only thing that sure happened is the extinction of animals because of invasive xen wildlife.

ay it's reinstated guy

@@WENY47 hey I know that guy! ;)

@@SheathEntertainment lol

What I am surprised about is how "free" the humans are portrayed as here

@@Sniper_XPEHOB it was like that in the early days of combines presence, than it got worse over time

At first I was like, "Is this a prequal to Protectors?" Then I saw the bodies and went "Oh..."

@@ZackaryWilliams77 Sequel. Several weeks after the fact, given the state of the remains.

it's soooo good

Continuity baby.

the best

facts

Hope it doesn't turn into GW

@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen What's that?

@@khanzy. a few months back there was a number of Fan Animation of W40K some of them reaching up to millions of views especially "Krieg" made by Sodaz but for God knows what reason GW the company that own the IP decided to pull a Ceast and Desist on most of them with a reason to "Protect" their IP and then there's the whole other mess called Warhammer+

Thank you! Managed to find some good references, haha.

Thank you! A smoker will get his cigarettes even during an alien occupation, haha.

@@TheParryGod In that case I might make it 😂

Thank you! I'm happy with a small audience that actually cares and loves these games as much as I do.

@@TheParryGod The world of Half-Life is one I've always wanted to see more of but never be subjected to. Marvelous work, man.

salio excelenta la escena perturbador.

Notice the two CPs. One has the newer voice lines and urges the civilian to return to his block. The other one uses the HL2 voice lines and warbles emotionlessly at him like a robot, droning on about a second and final warning, and then just immediately braining the civilian without hesitation even when the more human CP continues trying to warn him off.

It seems they took the rebels' weapons at least, but they left the wreckage of the destroyed manhack.

Well, they probably took the bodies of their own soldiers.

Thank you :) I gotta say... I'm damn proud of those dropship noises, haha.

someone needs to make a Source 2 Hunters. RIGHT, NOW.

Makes me think a hunter is stalking him… letting out a signal for the others to help move in for the kill. This is why you don’t go to the wasteland! You’re either gonna get eaten alive by antlions or get impaled/shot/stomped/ran down by combine hunters!

This animator has a great storytelling ability and attention to detail! All of their work is amazing.

oi que eran suministros combine para construccion de instalacion combine .

recurso de suministros combine a la zona de cuarentena o construccion citadel.

Thanks! Yeah getting that shake right never comes on the first try :d

Это класс

@@amideos8 да

раньше именно так и снимали в 90-х. очень круто сделано.

I’d love to see a continuation of the Ordinal and the Suppressor! Maybe call it Backup!

Мне также кажется, что это намного интереснее других анимаций в этой игре.

В некоторых моментах в видео чувствуешь тревогу , будто ты и есть оператор и ты в опасности постоянно. И это прекрасно 100% погружение

Нухуясе как россея изменилась 🤭👍

Holy shit, good catch.

Glad you enjoyed it! I also adore the subtext of these games much much more than the main plot.

The only thing that would keep me occupied is probably getting a job with the Civil Workers Union of C17

I read every single comment. Thank you for the kind words. I don't know if I want to make a series out of this format. I pretty much told everything I wanted to with this. It's possible I'll make a found camcorder footage video in the future but that'll be a different story to this one.

@@TheParryGod Yeah, like a HL2 camcorder movie, like Cloverfield (2007)! Keep up the good work!

Probably more accurate to just call them HL animations now, rather than HL2 animations, right? But yeah, it's really cool to see that "slice of life" element here. HL:Alyx did just the same as the previous games and gives you that brief glimpse into the day to day nature of peoples lives in the setting, but same as 1 & 2, it doesn't last too long before you're off running with a gun in your hand. But the parts where you do get to stop and observe were all the more powerful for being there "in" the world directly. Am really curious how much HL3 might expand on things. The dropship scene here reminds me a little of the scene with the two combine and the downed strider.

Remember camera always survive.

Yep

;)