Half-Life: Alyx Is NOT An Absolute Nightmare - This Is Why 

Looking forward to see it !

UpIsNotJump you make life worthwhile

UpIsNotJump I hate this...nat hl:a is gooood

Love ur vids

We in sweden do not even have quaratine. this is the still the best

Valve knows its audiance too well xD

i dont get it

@@Kyss007 grabbity gloves? as in grabbing gloves? as in grabbity sounds like gravity? because you use the gravity gloves to grab at long range?

@@_Epidemic_ Yes, and they're replying to someone who said they didn't understand the joke. Try to keep up.

@@_Epidemic_ yes, they're explaining the joke. well done, you figured it out.

Good point, also Covid-19 is slowing down production and delivery of VR systems A LOT. It's almost as if High-Demand and Low-Supply makes things cost more...

I know right. 8 week for my index buy to go THRU. Gaaah!

Media sites are garbage and filled with idiots trying to create drama instead of just reporting the news.

broderick kurtz I know, right? Why does Forbes even _have_ a Games Journalist?

Also the whole millions of people loosing their job so buying a vr headset maybe isn't priority number 1

im sad that Alyx didnt take off

@@internetguy7319 to be fair, not everyone has a vr, let alone an index since that's the best one for the game. I myself wish i had a vr headset

@@bz_animations i dont have one either lol

Valve said basically exactly that in the making of Alyx book!

@@fireaza oh, i didn't know that actually, that was just my theory and i guess i was right. Huh, cool

*laughs in Knuckles*

Marc Dingena laughs in taping my controllers to my hands

@@kaydencebernard7775 *laughs in superglue*

@@corporatecapitalism laughs in flex tape

@@water_hose laughs in flex seal

Wait brother Eroded Stone, perhaps he is susceptible to the conversion process

@@spectacularpoopfly8464 he does say that he joined at the end

Indoctrination complete.

420 likes aaaaaaayyyy

im sorry i couldn't resist

Skyrim has buckets

TF2 Reference!

@@fritz9270 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KDs_RPoAZX0.html

Can i have the bucket?

@@cuteshadow *passes the bucket* This was a waste of time

I mean there is an accessory for the vive that makes it wireless I believe

I mean 2 weeks isn't that different from 7 years,right?

My favorite RU-vidr commenting on another great youtubers video is awesome! Also here's that 7 year old reply you mentioned.

Setting a reminder 7 years from now to return here...

The Quest 2 is wireless lol. Played Half Life Alyx wirelessly on the Quest 2 and it was amazing

I thought the sudden loading symbol was a joke about how half life games are divided up into instances and you have to sit through a loading bar each time but than fallout 76 ads came on and i was like fuck no

WallaJnr For me it was a WEBTOON ad... I already use WEBTOON...

JimmyDaFoxy69 isn’t webtoon just hentai..?

@@fixit9844 No? It's a website where people who can draw can write their own stories. Make their own manhwa! Which is essentially Korean manga... Tower of God is a currently airing anime that got adapted from a WEBTOON manhwa! You should check out the website, their are a LOT of good stories to read on the site.

I got a burger ad during that part. Looked delicious haha.

You can feed the little bug at the start

@Dragonwing 190000 what do you mean? They're already cute

@@qee4617 Yeah, they got that idle animation in HL1 where you tease it with a finger and it goes nuts. Adorable little flesh-eaters.

There are loads of instances like that, in the elevator scene, if you try to push the elevator button one of the combine stops the doors from closing also if you try to touch him he recoils and pulls his gun back, its pretty much throughout the game, most of the time its environmental triggers and they just blow your mind how good they are.

Also 11:12!! The little thing skittering back in response to the hand, at least that’s what I’m assuming is happening?

maximum effort

Stop using the ambassador. Btw I'm not being mean here I'm just stating my opinion.

Fancy seeing you again!

@@Isaac_646 "STOP PLAYING IN THE WAY YOU WANT AND FIND FUN" "btw it's just my opinion"

@@TactfulWaggle I'm sorry, go have some fun with fireworks! :)

*deep sigh*

It’s still going on

@@katybarlow2650 on the bright side at least the vaccines are getting released little by little

Still going :(

same. 😔

Very true, there isn't an UpIsNotJump video I haven't enjoyed

WHY DID She PUT MY NAME IN YELLOW FARTS

No?

@@baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam Maybe?

@@philipyates3194 If you ask nicely and use your manners, maybe.

Reminded me of the how many Earths fit inside the Sun meme: knowyourmeme.com/photos/1159799-tumblr

julius cesar who is dead well over 70 years now,...

Clearly he's been working on this video for five years.

the distance between the sun and earth is larger than two football fields!

I saw someone call him discounted wheatley :D

Tbh I can’t hate him too much. He did help me get through the dark areas

I for one think he's using the humor as a sort of coping mechanism. As Upisnotjump had said, the Combine rule was so harsh and cruel that it made the holocaust seem like a picnic.

Probably doesn't help that he was voiced by a comedian.

@@jacksongrantham4848 Same, he was probably freaking out internaly because he, all out of a sudden, was responsible for the rescue operation of one of the biggest names in the Resistance.

Yeah, I think that's the point. Also, she's constantly making remarks how uncomfortable she is, but she's really not a panicky type, it seems. However, when you walk into the darkness, she's as terrified as you are - and she's used to the darkness having headcrabs, and whatnot. I'm only surprised she doesn't have her own gun at the beginning of the game - probably that's because she's on a recon mission.

@@TheWinjin Or maybe because guns are hard to get, with the combine existing and all. Maybe that's why Russel always wants his gun back (or he mentions it in dialogue a bunch).

I personally felt like the voice actress wasn't even trying

i remember being one of the 71K subs when fallout 4 skits where made IM NOT CALLING THEM MACHINIMAS, Machinima was a company brand that made deals with comedy related channels, that can make skits in games the fact that the term is now used to refer to "videogame skits" baffles me

@@GoldenBeans Yeah, kinda silly how brand names supersede the generic term sometimes. "Could you hand me a Kleenex?" (tissue) "Ah, just Google it." (web search)

If you crush the pill you can still snort it, the more you know

You can snort anything if you're brave enough.

@@mrbarefootbogan6254 how else should I eat eels?

Leon Moir not if it’s a capsule.

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 ... you just open up the capsule and get at the tasty powder within?...

I have a literal phobia of poison headcrabs, so you can imagine how much of a coward I acted on that headcrab pit area

@@aexonity Same I feel like my arachnophobia actually translates to headcrabs

​@@Martinsleep Same here but only for the poison variant for some reason. I think it's cause they hiss and can climb walls like spiders

Stop saying you imagine it when it clearly already happens.

1/10 No bucket does me a sad :(

Honestly since watching upisnotjump its the first thing i do in any vr game.

What else would you do? The main story

buckets are lewd loser

Goliath Projects UpIsNotJump: *There's more!*

@@odysseusinspace9704 Headcrab: *Nooooooo...*

Whatever I expected down here in the comments, it wasn't this reference. I salute you, Sir/Madam.

This is best comment of 2020

Everyone in this thread deserves a cookie

Lol

i like boneworks better than half life

It more than makes up for lack of story in gameplay

Bonelab is better imo

@@DoctorTheo They probably would have agreed if it was out yet lmao

Tiny Cube was thinking the same

Press F

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DAMN YOU SUN!

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Thinking the exact same

he could have just used noclip

same

I was thinking "how in the hell did he get these shots?"

i thought he was using flatscreen mode

If I make a VR game I will always add a bucket falling on top of the person's head.

PTSD flashbacks

VR game: This is a bucket VR fanbase: Dear God

ymfah would like to know your location

You can also wear traffic cones on your head, random masks and construction site protective helmets along with the buckets, I haven't found other wearables...YET

Big time this. It feels weird to have this before a video for Boneworks.

same with the walking dead vr one

He might have wanted to mix his ideas of those games into this video as this isn’t just a review of half life Alyx but a look at VR in total, though he might have needed to shorten some parts as the video is already 22 minutes long.

I think he’s moving out of video game reviews but I would have loved ones for these games. I have to agree that animations and smoothness of walking dead is pretty weak. Half the cut scene type things are glitched our for me and not immersive or clear. And the first time I met both factions neither of them even talked to me.

@@user-hk5fo1nm9h Because the walking dead is a PS2 era style game that people are freaking out about because it's in VR (half kidding :O)

You must have a shallow life.

I agree that was hilarious

@@Sidiciousify that is correct

@@Sidiciousify salt

Same

They have a virtual boy Emulator for quest

Let's not forget how _awful_ the tracking was. And, if you'd twitch and knock the whole thing over and then you'd hear Mario scream out in terror as you missed the tennis ball... because there was only like 4 or so many games for it.

I couldn't help but read your comment in UpIsNotJump's voice

Do not listen to this heretic. The Virtual boy was great and still is to this day. Fun fact: Did you know that each display is actually a SINGLE LINE OF PIXELS, cleverly turned into a full screen with smoke and mirrors (well just mirrors actually).

I played HLA in virtual boy and it was ok

they only do halflife for groundbreaking innovations in gaming, HL2 = physics enigne, HL~~3~~ ALYX VR HL 4 = Full dive tech! :D

@BigBoiRaltor Valve actually causes a resonance cascade and summons the Combine

@@germandragon8136 Well, Elon Musk is already working on computers that connect to our brains at Neuralink. Some decades from here when computational power is higher -and cheaper- and Musk's product is fairly established on the market (if the project is not abandoned) I bet goverments will be eager to create a level of immersion similar to The Matrix / Sword Art Online for military and medical training (specially US and its +700B $ millitar anual millitary budget). When [If?] that happens we will just have to wait until the technology becomes standard. We just have to not die before that happens. Yay

@@looksmaxxer08 Hunt down the pyro

Well, that is if you exclude Artifact from it. That game was one of Valve's greatest disappointments.

I would say that it definitely is a absolute nightmare but in a good way as in the game is so damn immersive that you are constantly running around like a chicken with their head cut off trying to avoid head crabs because it really seems like it's about to bite your face off.

im literally playing every half life game (including black mesa) waiting for my headset to come. i think i am getting through the games a bit too fast unfortunately, really cant wait for my quest 2

Once at like 4am after playing Skyrim since 7 I stared at my phone thinking “where’s the E key”. Unfortunately I’ve done dumber

Or you know at least available... preferably at their retail price

They are all sold out for months now so there isn’t really any reason for the vendors to drop the price currently. That beeing said the Samsung odyssey + (same resolution as index) was often on sale for 230$

Honestly though. On top of already needing a fairly decent PC to even run VR, the full blown units cost as much, or more, than modern gaming consoles. Sure they have the lightweight mobile versions for a couple hundred dollars but it’s nothing like playing on a Rift, Vive or even Valve Index

They are already as cheap as they will ever get with WMR kits at $130.

@@Silentguy_ But they do more than a console does, mechanically and electrically.

All I'm thinking is how did that guy die. Like how did so many people get consumed by the Fungus?

Brilliant Arrow I always start laughing when I hear that

(Slow claps)

Wooooooooooooooo.

what is the definiton of suicide

UUUUUUUGH-

Take my like and get out

Yeah. If I remember right, when Valve had a talk about this game last year, they said something of the sort; that we shouldn't strive to imitate real life, but our perception of real life. It might be more "realistic" to simulate a full physical body, but in real life I never have to worry about where my body is in physical space, or look at it to determine if a part of it got stuck somewhere without me noticing. I think Boneworks went too far with that. Not that other VR games don't successfully show full bodies with IK rigs, but they don't bother to give it accurate collisions which makes them much more bearable.

I would actually say that the statement about it having to be a good game first before being a VR game is actually the most important. Time and time again we see games that truly amazing in terms of immersion but have so little content that you can only get a hour of play time out of it. This is actually what I've been trying to explain to a person I'm working with to make a VR shooter but this tends to be easily skimmed over by developers due to it being far more interesting to make 1 thing that works extremely well rather than 20 things that work good enough

i think the arm thing he was talking about is a bit stupid, i feel like boneworks did it way better than alyx, having holster points (and actual arms) on your body makes weapons way easier to access

dont worry, as someone who hopes one day to make at least one VR game with my team he already has

Real life is a convoluted mess, and we only have 'natural' intuition and control over our own bodies from extensive experience. Making something as intuitive and natural as breathing doesn't mean modelling a lung and demanding we press a button once a second or else pass out and fail. VR is a new level of depth being added to a medium which still considers Mega Man's or Mario's level design as mindblowing just for letting you SEE how a new enemy or mechanic works BEFORE killing you with it. These things will be gotten right eventually, but for now, the fact we're pushing past Wii waggling at all is its own accomplishment.

i did the same thing with an hdmi repeater, an extra hdmi cord, and an i bolt on my ceiling. nice work fam!

I have the ceiling pulleys as well. Miles better than dragging the cable on the ground, but I definitely still crave to go completely wireless. Vive's price for that is still just a little too steep for me.

Jep same, i use pulleys too, and it works great

unfortunately a ceiling fan prevents this for me :/

I played it with my Oculus Quest (via Virtual Desktop) and I think it worked wonderfully.

cave johnson here! introducing safety cages, for your murderous pets

"Cat?, what cat"

QeeThee so you haven’t seen them yet ok

@@yasquishyboi902 i think you didn't understand the reference

QeeThee i really don’t

Judy Manbavaran yeah hla takes place Russia

Kristof Alexy jeff is a terrrifying sound detector zombie that instantly murders whatever made noise. In a vodka factory, filled with bottles, and headcrabs. It’s scary, yeah.

@@AstralSys. Agree, Jeff was the most scary part of the game, the part about not making a sound was frustrating, but effective. I honestly had to pause a few times, because, even though I said to myself, just close your eyes, when he eats you, and you die, the sound was messing with my brain. It's by means realistic, buy my brain kept believing I was there, the game was so immersive.

@Kristof Alexy how are you with spoilers

Fucking jeff, dude... god i hated that chapter

Jeff is scary, but he scared me so much to the point that I realized that Valve knows it isn't a horror game and dying to him isn't as scary as being next to him.

me too. I think its either hes blind or he just dousen't like the game and does that on purpose so he would have arguments against it because i never heard someone complain about that.

@@wewduck6874 and also BONEWORKS is made by SLZ, a pretty small studio, while Half Life Alyx is made by Valve, a massive company.

@@addalittleviolence True, i was thinking of that too.

Is he dead?

Bitch it's been 2 months the hell you talkin about

He dead

Follow him on Twitter then

@@lukerobinson2809 nope hes on twitter today about the next video

Just removed an air vent grate

@@TheAdatto Who has air vents in the UK?

@@jameswilkes451 thank you for commenting my comment

@@TheAdatto I might be wrong but it looks more like water damage because of the staining around the hole

annnnd i just realized the comment was like a year ago lol

ade

*s p a d e*

Well then, you'd love gradeAunderA

Move to London!!!!

That's what we all do

Heck yeah

Ever heard of The Thick of It?

I honestly think it’s better than portal 2 or the lab

Just the intro. The whole game has me squirming haha.

@hucker75 😐

@@khalilb9864 conservatives ruin everything

@@masmanlee6991 I'm actually reconsidering buying it because of the shit I saw in this video... 😅 but seeing as most of the stuff isn't actually _real,_ as in they're almost all alien, I think I'll be alright

@@DasGutStuff To be fair, the first game took place in probably 2003 at the earliest [Citation needed], so I feel like downloading the internet onto a local server farm might have actually been possible to do.

@@G.Freeman92 the Black Mesa incident happens on may 16th 2003, according to laidlaws notes, and the 7 hour war/invasion of earth happend atleast within the timeframe of at most two weeks

Demon: "Kill yourself" Me: "Shut up. I'm trying to farm so I can hit level 3 and gank bot lane. Once I've donated both buffs to the enemy ADC, THEN you can tell me to kill myself but not a moment before."

Mom: Who are you talking to online? Me: Just Shoggoth and Timmy Mom: I told you to stop talking to Timmy, that boy is a bad influence on you

I want to know the music he was using for that section too.

@@theimperiumofman102 I second this

I’ve been searching for that music for an hour and have not found anything.

It*

exactly, players arent after a simulation, they're after a gameplay experience, if you have to be exactly accurate, that ruins the adrenaline rush you get from the battle, "shit! Reloading! I missed, still reloading. Hold on guys, gimme a minute, THERE! okay, carry on..." *begins shooting frantically*

That makes sense for easy and normal, but they could have made the game more difficult in hard mode for experienced VR players, or even add a hardcore mode

Exactly true! Nail with hammer!

Especially as dying is a massive immersion breaker

Science man make boom boom?

im a tree science man make big boom boom

I was wondering if WMR would work! Was there any restriction with the controllers?

@@lucidatrium3200 WMR controllers are of course limited to using the trigger to grab things since they lack individual finger tracking, but the telekinesis to grab items at range still works pretty much as described in the video and I found it to work very well in general. (For right-handed players) The right track pad is used for weapon selection, the right grip button and menu button are used for some of the weapon actions like dropping an empty magazine. I played with teleport movement and increment turning since I have a limited play area, left joystick is your teleport to where you're pointing, right joystick is left/right turn and a backstep, didn't experiment with free movement but I would imagine it's still generally tied to the joysticks. You also don't have to grab things to manipulate the environment, for example if a cabinet is already partially open you can simply move your hand into the opening and push the hand outward, the cabinet door will be pushed out of the way as you would expect. Something the game doesn't really tell you is that you can actually hit things in melee with your hands/guns as well. In a frantic moment when I ran out of ammo I lashed out at a damaged manhack that was rushing at me and destroyed it. I wouldn't rely on it but it can be done.

Whoa that's Soo cool I wish I had a vr headset I'm not going to get one for a long-time

Heh. In Boneworks that probably would've worked. Flawed as it was, I really wish Valve drew from it and I hope other companies that attempt full-length VR games in the future will.

In half life 2 there wasnt much variety in weapons, so youd think the weapons would be great? Wrong, they're average at best. But the setting, like he talks about in the beginning has always been valves strongpoint. Its bloody brilliant being able to explore around and actually have to use a vehicle to get to the different locations, making you feel immersed without VR! so VR basically enhanced that experience by 10 and you find that that is what you get.

you mean 13:11?

@@abramo7700 oh damn yeah! tnx!

The same thing has happened to me with boneworks telekinesis, for some reason you always try to use stuff like that in real life after playing games

sometimes, when I'm searching something in a room, my mind want's to do CTRL+F before realizing that there is no keyboard, and that I didn't leave my keys in a random folder on my pc

wow you watched the video too?!

BRUXXUS I was shocked for a second too, then immediately thought, “There is no way he doesn’t have this set on something.” So, when he showed how it was set on a chair, I felt so relieved, cause that would have been unnatural as hell if he could hold his head that still for that long while moving in-game.

Socrates was very passionate about those questions

Kenneth Chou indeed. "the unexamined game is not worth playing"

Boooo

But the bucket was empty.....

oh god

The exit is over here

The exit is over here

*Hey!*

Starwars: Republic Commando II VR

Nooo not star wars.. AGAIN?! We need an assassins greed VR, or an avatar VR

Star wars; squadron did this, but for pilots.

nothing even close to triple a game like that is gonna be made for vr apart from alyx because valve made it without thinking about making a profit unless alot of people gonna purchase vr headset