HL2's last parts/EP1 had tons of black areas. EP2 didn't even have 2 minutes of dark area experience. Dunno why they didn't implement it in the first two games.
Half-Life Barney was all but confirmed by Mike Shapiro in an interview released today. He was asked ""Well, some people are upset that there's not a "3" on it, but it's pretty close. Is this in the same ballpark as a new Half-Life game? " when discussing an unnamed different project from HLA, and answered, "I hear your question, and I want to honor it, but I want to be true to my commitments to not spoil surprises. Do you have a buddy you haven't seen in a long time, and you barely think you'll see that person again, maybe?" So that's good enough for me, as far as I'm concerned.
"Blue darts that explode against you" FFS Phillip. Fleshetts, they're called fleshettes. and a version of them exist in real life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechette
@42 But I believe there are many chances for Gordon himself to die. He now isn't supported by the GMan. Who knows if GMan just sends Adrian with all the stuff he had during Black Mesa against Gordon. He'd absolutely murder Gordon. Even though his story isn't canon.
Episode 2 is my favourite game of all time, the graphics feel like a huge improvement over Half life 2, especially in the tunnels, which look amazing. I love the large open wilderness sections, the characters and the enemies. As well as the developer commentary, which gives great insight into the development of the game and the things that are happening. My first playthrough, I couldn’t even finish the last strider battle without god mode (I can now), and I still loved the game.
I remember hauling my Xbox to my grandparents trailer, 2008-9ish had my first iPod with RU-vid on it lol. EP2 is one of my top 3 because not only is HL My favorite series but I have so much nostalgia of playing through that game while it snowed outside and watching early RU-vid and just ugh I wanna be a kid again
"I couldn't be prouder if you were my own son" - Always kinda weirded me out. Sure Eli is an old man now, but he and Gordon used to be around the same age back in Black-Mesa. Gordon is biologically 27 (according to the internet), back during Black-Mesa, Alyx was 5 and is now 24 (also according to the internet), so Eli is in a ballpark range of 46-50 years old now. Also makes it kinda weird when he keeps shipping his own daughter with his oddly youthful co-worker whose dabbled in inter-dimensional fuckery lol.
Well, he barely saw him in Black Mesa. He's seen him several times in the Half-Life 2 series, though, so I guess he's now used to Gordon being this younger guy compared to himself.
just let the heartwarming human moments be in this world of alien despair. the “i couldn’t be prouder if you were my own son” makes it a better catharsis when Eli is killed. As for the Eli’s fervent shipping of Gordon and Alyx: Gordon’s a chad and Eli knows it, of course he wants his daughter to be with him, rather than some beta male (like the AR3 guy)
You know what's interesting with the Barn Advisor that almost killed Gordon... if you notice something, Alyx is closer to it, and when it looks at Gordon... it just straightly looks at him and despite a minor explosion occurred, it just didn't care and as if it sets its eyes to kill Gordon; only to get interrupted by a bigger explosion that forces it to retreat.
@@Alangmod Well, actually that was the intended story, an in-universe Twitter account run by Mark Laidlaw (HL1 and 2's lead writer) named Breengrub explained this, and it was also a plotpoint in Epistle 3, the story outline by Laidlaw for HL2: Episode 3 that never became a game. Unless you count Boreal Alyph and Project Borealis, of course.
This is my favorite part of the whole game, because it feels the most "Half life-ish" since the very beginning of the base game. If that makes sense. Also: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Valve literally gave the biggest blue ball to so many players in history leaving us on such a plot hanger. Its sacrilegious!!!!
@@G.Freeman92 dragged on for too long, the Magnuson devices were hard to land unless you were right behind the Striders, the strider destruction was scripted as fuck, you could only story one device in your car which means you had to go back and forth if you missed, hunters were a pushover if you rammed into them. Different people experience different things though.
@@rayhanakram9912 +1 for this. In the trailer there was combine soldiers mixed in as well. Would have made for much for interesting combat if they came in different waves of X combines, Y hunters and Z striders from different or same direction, maybe even with some randomness to the spawns so replays would be more fun. However I heard they removed soldiers to make it easier on older hardware. For me the best wave fighting was vs the antlions in chapter 2. Nothing will ever beat that, especially as someone who loves tower defense games.
I still find the ending so haunting. It ends on such a dark note it’s unbelievable. It’s made worse that it took 13 years for that cliffhanger to be almost resolved.
The antlion guard in the antlion den was actually one of the most unsettling thing I have ever experienced in gaming, the sound getting closer as you try to run just made me panic
Bought the Valve Collection on Steam years ago... never got around to play Episode 1 and Episode 2, and probably never will. Thanks for these summaries, my man!
I love watching these summary vids even though i replayed the entire series last week. Thank you for these videos, the quality is fantastic and they are extremely entertaining.
Advisors are too op, they have that telekinesis thing that makes them invulnerable. Now valve must nerf 2 things: 1. The advisor 2. That goddamn krieg/sg 553
@@ironicivan4928 hahah I understand that of course his voice sounds different. But actually that guy meant not Gman's voice but what he actually said ("see her safely to white forest, Dr Freeman...", "when I plucked her from Black Mesa.." and etc.)
Ep2 is so good. The scenery is amazing, the story is amazing and I always get really nostalgic playing this episode especially. That one part where alyx helps you with a sniper, the antlion nest, the high speed chase in the car and the final battle. My favorite half life installment
3:20 I absolutely love this part of the game, because: A) The soundtrack makes you feel like a total badass making a last stand against a massive army B) It shows us the true potential of Vortigaunts. They are not just healers and scientists, they are also skilled warriors.
Notably for the scrapyard laser section, if you can repeatedly crouch and uncrouch enough by spamming the key and holding mid state transition you can get in a state of being physically crouched but acting like you’re standing, allowing you to see better and completely negate bullets and lasers from medium range because they shoot closer to where the top of your standing hit boxes would be while you retain your smaller crouched hitbox
Lol, that factory isn't too unrealistic! I've worked in some pretty crazily designed factories before. Often times they start off small, then when whatever they're doing proves successful, bits are added on. An outbuilding to fit a larger machine, a basement to fit the bottom of this boiler, a hastily built shed because out buyers are downsizing and we can't move product as often... The last place I worked was around since the early 1900s and it's ended up as nutty as black mesa. I occasionally got lost in some forgotten basement section while trying to inspect machines
i love how the gman speech was uniterrupted apart from the speed up effect, as if philip himself can't mess with the gman. Love the attention to the detail
@@tarnishedpose I hope people who complained about Philip messing around too much, would watch Pewdiepie playing this game. They would literally lose their minds lol
Ah yes my favorite part repeating the factory, never leave the gnome with alyx and vortigon that part, gravity gun it to the bridge, is possible to rocket jump (grenade launcher jump) but you need to parkour back to the car expect for the script gets destroyed which happen to me.
Thanks for this summary series Philip! I really enjoyed it. Makes me nostalgic for the old Half Life games. I can't believe it's been 13 years since Episode 2!
5:31 That monologue by The G-Man, the way he speaks... He sounds so scared and psychotic at the same time. As well as being some sort of artificial intelligence. He´s scary!!
I imagine in episode 3 there would be an all out battle with striders hunters combine manhacks vortagonts rebels zombies (both) and new weapons but also it would be just pure fun stepping back in the story again
I’m actually REALLY offended that this dude speculated that Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would be released in 2008. I mean yeah, we’re getting Half-Life 2: Episode 3 soon now that it was confirmed at the end of Half-Life: Alyx, but still! I also want to see more of Half-Life 2: Episode 4.
*Magnusson*: ... You know the one I mean *Me*: Yeah - the *only* incident at Black Mesa...? *Magnusson*: ... casserole... *Me*: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! OH NO, HE KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, that is likely the cleverest segment tying story points together I've ever seen.
It's been so long since i played this i only semi remembered how it ended, i knew eli died and the stuff about the borealis but damn... to leave us on that ending with nothing for so long... thats just a dick move on valves part. i knew it was bad but geez i didn't remember it being THAT bad...
