Half-Life: Alyx | Girlfriend Review 

That's so wholesome

He did?! That's hilarious!!! Wish I could've seen that!

Lmao that's funny

Oh man, I wish you videotaped it.

Aaaawwwweeee

Didn’t she do that when she played doom

Also she goes from a nitpicking backseat gamer with pretty much no understanding of games and what makes them great, to a competent and valuable game reviewer on her own right. The later Girlfriend Reviews are not just good fun, but they also count as legitimate reviews, if a little brief. Shelby's insights into what makes a good game are really great, considering that her own gaming career is fairly short.

Bran the broken still has a better story.

This isn't even her final form!

Yeah, she is freaking good at shooters now!

The number of times I've done the same in various VR games...

Once, after taking off the headset I tried to pick it up by poking it with a controller while pressing the trigger.

when I first got my Oculus Rift... playing a flight sim I was in an old biplane. Went to get up, using the plane as my support, fell flat on my ass. *LOL*

I let my mom try this as her first VR experience, one of the first things I told her before she put the headset on was to remember that nothing she's going to see is real and you can't lean on anything, she laughed like I was joking because it's so obvious, then a few minutes later she tried leaning on a wall and fell over.

@@ghurcbghurcb ok I call bs on that

Just play wireless lol. I played through Alyx 2 times already using the oculus quest and virtual desktop 5GHZ wlan streaming. The quest is also 399,- and not a 1000 bucks lol

coolertuep damn lol I had no idea this would work, how’s the lag

madagaska Im not noticing any lag at all. Using a 5ghz router in the same room.

coolertuep good to know since I also have a quest and want to try this game, probably needs to upgrade my internet first

madagaska Your internet isn’t really important - it’s the router. I got a 20€ on amazon and it works flawless - that’s cheaper then the link cable lol. Make sure the router is 5 ghz and has like 786mbs or so

I DON'T NEED YOUR REALITY!!!

I'M AN -ADULT- GAMER!!!!!!

Breaking shit is fun.

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Eh, I'll settle for YT playthrough

@@GigglingStoners Yeah, I dont exactly have the money to buy the game, the headset, and a pc good enough to run it. Think I'll settle for yt playthroughs.

Started gaming with Chuckie Egg on BBC computer, bought a Vive day one and Alyx on release, the future has arrived mate.

Honestly feel really bad for anyone who has to watch it on youtube

@@FHD80057 Dont be, there are mods as well.

Not as smooth as Linus.

Go watch Scruffy’s videogame sound design video, seriously the smoothest shit ever and a lot of effort put in

It’s called ’what is adaptive audio?’

Adam Regusea

Same!

I almost choked on my Dr.Pepper

Best. Moment. Ever.

Me too! If I was drinking at that moment, it would have probably come out of my nose 😂.

Ever one in the lounge looked at funny

Me: plug me already, I can't take this anymore!

Its soo well written, them some educated folkss

Isn't this literally the premise of Ready Player One? Actually I think that line was a quote from it

@@flashgnash“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.” ?

@@star_memory that's the one

Magnus Stephansen As long as the tube that keeps feeding me nutrients keeps me alive, still works, I'm okay with it.

@@bbrbbr-on2gd ignorance is bliss *takes bite of juicy and delicious steak

@@bbrbbr-on2gd Hail the might tube

"Mr. Stephansen"

well eventually she will find out about anime.

Well, we want to play the games not to pretend to be in one... that kind of sentiment gets old fast, the reason why valve released this game as VR only is because this is first a VR experience and secondly a game, everything is too slow paced in here, enemies are dumb and easy in comparison to normal half life games

Eugen M “We want to play games not be in one.” Every rpg player would like to know your location

@@TheWarKeeper Speak for yourself. Immersion is a pretty big deal to a lot of people, and in that regard VR can't be beat. I'd argue that the gameplay looks like that, but, feels much more daunting when you're playing. It certainly is never as hard as Half Life 1 or 2, but it never really claims to be. It still manages to create a novel gameplay experience imo.

​@@Scorch052 To be fair I get it where you come from with the immersion argument, but consider this: If we can immerse ourselves into a story completely by reading a book, we certainly can by playing a game on a monitor too! Humans are pretty good at pretending to be in somewhere or in someone elses shoes, so my argument would be, even if VR adds an extra layer on top of that immersion, for me its not worth it. For me im not feeling VR, at least not yet, not even in this game, you sacrifice too much for the sake of having a screen strapped to your eyes, the entire game of HLAlyx i couldnt help feel this was a VR experience first and a game second. But eh, each to their own opinion i guess.

@@TheWarKeeper tbf, I questioned VR up until the day I tried it then I decided to get it,

*Y* *E* *S*

Please kill me before then

Best part of the video hahaha

Made me laugh...

SEALING GANG! REEEEEEEEEEE!

Yeah, I find that bug in real life really annoying as well. I wish Valve fixed it.

I smashed my controller after playing Tabletennis, cause i lay them down in VR and realise: There is no table in front of me..... and i smashed a glasbottle on my floor and covert my pc in water. But i'll never stop playing VR. Since i've tried im in love

Wheee...

True, but relаx, most of us аre too poor to escаpe reаlity (unless we settle for smelling glue), аnd аre only going to be poorer in neаr future. So there is аlwаys а silver lining))

Regina Lannister It’s time to eat the rich. No seriously, Bezos invests in space travel meanwhile his employees work 40+ a week and still have to sleep in cars...

@@justalostlocal " eat the rich"

I welcome our future robot overlords if this is the future :0

@@justalostlocal What are you? A communist?

Konosuba 😂

I've just started playing recently and didn't know that was possible, expetimenting ensues

relationship goals

@@UNSCPILOT what are your findings?

@@katechaste It is indeed possible, and disorienting XD

To be fair half life has usually been pretty linear

That's fine. It only works when it's genuine.

she was too busy having an existential crisis

Jennifer Fischer Thats lamaarr from half life 2

Lamarrrrrrrr!

I think they have

they should do skyrim vr with mods. i heard about a few that make it crazy realistic like one that allows you to say your dialogue choice out loud to pick it.

Skyrim Vr is pretty good as well - hopefully the next elder scrolls game is build from ground up for Vr

@@coolertuep Oh man, the first time one of those giant spiders came down from the top of a cave I nearly pooped myself, those things are HUGE in VR :O

Hey all Scott here

Owen YT hey Scott, all here

Not surprising since they praised him in a Q&A video

We need a woz/gf crossover

RS I still try to grab stuff by flicking it over to me in real life I need to take a break from VR...

How's the motion sickness? I played about 30hrs of Skyrim on the PSVR and it was incredible but it would always give me motion sickness, I just couldn't do it any more (nothing in the real world makes me sick).....

@@khimaros Personally, continuous movement made me feel REALLY sick right off the bat. Especially when I stopped moving I felt like I was about to fall over. Teleportation was fine, but a bit confusing to me (but I literally started HL:A on my second day of owning a VR set), I got disoriented pretty quickly. My favourite was the shift movement. It really helped me avoid disorientation without causing motion sickness.

@@khimaros How did you play it? With teleportation or smooth locomotion? Can't speak about the PSVR (never tried it) but with my Rift it was an adaption process over time as I've always been sensitive to motion sickness IRL. In the beginning I could only play with teleportation and would still start getting slightly nauseous after about an hour's play, but that was gone after a couple of weeks of frequent play. After 3-4 months I could start playing racing games (generally very predictable smooth movement) and after a year I could start using smooth locomotion in general (played through Subnautica in 90+ hours). I've seen many VR users report very similar experiences but of course with variation. Some adapt quickly (within weeks/months) and others (like me) are more slow.

I was hoping the Valve mascot guy with the bald head and valve in the back of his head would be rendered in VR in front of me and turn around and spook me

@Thomas Johnson .....oh boy, waaaaay too soon

@@AaronRJPower why the 'XD' though? He literally died of corona. RIP double rainbow legend.

@Nabil Yusoff you are absolutely correct, I’ve removed the emoji. I didn’t mean to be insensitive - I was just laughing at my own ignorance. I’m so sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way 👍

@@AaronRJPower nahh I've no problem with it. Just confused lol.. Good day!

Too soon, bro. Too. Soon.

I agree. Best first person movie I have ever seen.

@@danielduncan6806 there are others?

@@feryth I can't think of any off the top of my head.

@@danielduncan6806 So its also the worst you've ever seen :(

@@deale- There is that part in the Rock doom movie so that count as the worst one for me

My favorite review is Nier Automata.

It was fantastic...when I watched it on my laptop. When I watched it on my big TV I was ready to hurl a few times.

i completely agree

@@dasdovian7785 Bruh even on my laptop that clip got me screwed up LOL

same

Yeah, I fricking hate them. Hands down the best games developer in the business. But the bastards hardly ever develop any games. Then, just as we've given up on the buggers, they go and do something incredible. Then make us wait. And wait... And wait!

what implications?

Crysis, Halo and ghost recon next

thank you!

Seriously. A Quest is the console, TV, everything you need to play. It's much cheaper than say a PS5 + TV would be. Anyway the Quest has been sold out for most of the past year, so people are waking up.

They bought an Index to play Alyx. Also, you need a serious PC to play Alyx properly, even with a Rift S (or Quest with link and mods) you'll be spending well over a thousand to stably play at medium to high settings (I spent 3 thousand cause laptop). Been VR'ing for over a year and frame dips plus head rotation in a shooter with full spacial movement equals incredibly nausea and cold sweats.

@@lsevent I bought a gaming laptop just for half life Alyx early this year paid 1200€ for a rtx 2070 (no max q) and i7 9750h. Runs Alyx completly fine. What did you bought for 3k lol?

I'll always think of him as Goliath from Gargoyles.

I always think of the voice of Arbiter in Halo :)

I always think of him as Captain Anderson in Mass Effect

Or Big Tim from Requiem for a Dream

@@concinnus Wow I didn't even know he was in that. I saw it almost 20 years ago and vowed "never again!"