Half-Life Retrospective 

He wakes up In a world where all people are the last generation. His apartment no longer has a door. He is contemplating life as he walks to the toilet to make sure he has less of a chance of a break during work. If hes even able to get break today. He walks out of his apartment, onto the streets and sighs. Then, He sees it. Cheese. The snack he cant crave anymore. It leads to cheese heaven.

@@st4rsh1pz kkkkkkkkkkk

Yeah gus doesnt have any story to tell ;(

I could eat a horse, hooves and all.

Ew

see, episode 3! oh no wait, that's alyx...

Damn this comment makes clear just how much time has passed

Admiral Anger so we still need to wait

Just wait damn it. The more you wait the better the final product will be

@@akiraeatsguitarpicks491 which means more pressure for the Valve Devs to work on something to match the expectations and hype. oh boy am I glad that I'm not working there

Alyx

@@mad2fan2018 No shit

my idiotic self thought it was the lab vr

@@antlionworkerfan2007 If this isn't sarcasm, I retract my former reply, and also my faith in humanity.

@@denverbeek you saying you had faith in humanity?

Indeed, an environment filled with bad guys who want to kill you is certainly quite hazardous!

I mean it technically describes the world in general nowadays.

He forgets we see bodies people wearing those suits in Xen showing that they were likely designed for combat scenarios as well since it appears the scientists have been making trips to Xen and capturing life forms as specimens for some time.

@@elsiebartlett6808 I was going to say exactly this. Great minds think alike.

I that black mesa scientists were too excited for unlimited budget and packed as much stuff in the suit as they can without thinking if anyone actually needs it.

your grandma loves you

She bought you what you wanted, that doesn't sound like an accident

thats a good grandma

Portal was only ever sold in the Orange Box at retail.

@@Lanthanideification you’re correct. Half Life 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 were only released on 7th generation consoles through the Orange box collection.

Damn that son of a bitch and his unforseen consequences Now here's a crowbar. Go crazy

Jed Donaldson go stupid

go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid go crazy go stupid Maybe I over did it

The first 2 minutes in this video has aged terribly bad.

Dam him and his unforeseen consequences.

I think you will be old and crazy before any of us get to see the crazy! I was 14 when Half-life came out and just started to get my first greys!

@@PaulGirdlestone my hairs going grey due to lack of ep3

Honestly, while it's probably gonna be decades before Half Life 3 actually starts being made and comes out, when it eventually *does* happen it'll be amazing. If it does happen and it's somehow shitty, then I don't even know what to say, I pray we never have to experience that absolute hell of a timeline, that's fucking worse than never getting it

Bro i was 9 when half life 2 came out, now im 25… still waiting

@@theleonpasta7336 That's pretty optimistic to say it'll come out, I would love to see it but I'm not planning on it releasing sadly

I really enjoyed this video author's overview however I feel he was a bit too harsh with 'the delays' toward the end of it. I mean honestly it's bad saying this in a way but if Valve closed down tomorrow; Gabe is still one of the greatest people to have ever lived for me; sometimes you just gotta be grateful and really consider what we've been given. Yes, as a HL nut you'll always want more and the waiting burns but; they haven't closed have they? And then; we got it all revealed only last year. Let Valve do their thing.

@@netweed09 Just when you're at the end of despair with Valve they allow Black Mesa and then drop Half Life - Alyx on us... I hope the plaudits and success of Alyx convinces them to give us more. Dare I say Half Life 3.. God I hope so..

@@netweed09 not that I've been able to play either. Console guy. Contemplating getting a computer next year just for Black Mesa and Half Life 2 mmod. Not being able to play Black Mesa is a killer..

@@obi-potobi790 Not going to play Alyx! Simply because I can't us a VR set. I need to able to keep an eye on my kids while playing. With that blindfold on, I can't see, if my 2 year old is eating his toys. And IF there's going to be either a Portal 3 or a Half-Life 3 and it's VR only as well, then, as far as I'm concerned, they might as well not make them. But hey, 3 is a mythical number for Valve. Like the holy grail. They know, it exists, but they haven't found it yet.

@@brozy5720 You getting a steam deck?

Liam Montgomery HALF-LIFE ALYX DOUGH

The real Episode 3 was Half Life: Alyx

if episode 3 is alyx by that logic opposing force is half life 2

@@lishanglong6762 no it was hunt down the freeman

Well, this comment shut me up. Beautifully said, sir.

Honestly, I can't blame him for being so pessimistic, especially given that we only got Alyx after nearly a decade of silence from Valve. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy Valve was still able to capture the spirit of Half-Life with Alyx, especially after a majority of it's story writers left, but it didn't seem likely beforehand.

Morgoth Bauglir Exactly.

@Morgoth Bauglir it technically is a actual game

@Morgoth Bauglir lmao how is it not actual game. Quit crying just because you can't get VR. People had to get a whole graphics card for half life one and there was many doubters like you now. Half life alyx is the same length as HL 2 btw so what's your point?

@Morgoth Bauglir Plus HL had always been about change so try it or get left behind

Who fucking cares... Its a game, a boring as fuck one at that.

@@HistorysMysterys that’s an opinion

@@BenefactorsBlade kind of a bad one but yeah

@@HistorysMysterys All of these flavours, and you chose to be bitter.

@@HistorysMysterys we waited literally decades for another half life game you see now?

lmao I just got a suppressed memory of 14 year old me doing that exact thing and thinking I was so fucking clever

@@vanilla8956 damn

@r2zeke2 Thanks for the advice, Cave Johnson.

Lol i did that but you can still get killed

Bring the turrets into one of the cells and hide behind them. The turrets will mow down any combine that approach the opening.

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@h_grunt What should they have called them? Super Alien Suit?

And HECU soldier use the derevitive of HEV. Forgot it's name but Adrian Shepard has it so HEV is probably previous version or more lab oriented one. Besides, the thing monitors everything, so why should you be supprised it monitors ammo? The damn thing has onboard morphine injector

@h_grunt yeah that's why it administered morphine and protection other than caustics and radioactive contaminants right?

@h_grunt Isn't it Hazardous Environment Vehicle??

That’s so incredibly cute and wholesome

Same. I'm 11 as of the moment and I first played through the half life series when I was about 7 or 6 and ravenholm was the spookiest part of the series. I still get chills when I go through it even in gmod. Truly shows how skilled valve is.

@@dallas2697 Glad a kid of your age is still playing half life 2 and appreciating what truly good games are, rather than the crap peddled to you all the time by ea and the like.

When I was 11, I think, I remember I was jumpscared by a headcrab. Normally, that wouldn't be scary and you would just kill it but I had one HP so whenever I died I heard the jumping sounds of headcrab and the death beep. Probably the scariest moment in my life.

Well I'm from 2003 but i love Half Life. My favourite game from series is Oppoaimg Force

What i did is pulling the balls back by using the first fire of the Gravity gun

Just finished that part this morning the hard way and now I feel like a fool reading this comment hahaha

Since this game's creation I never used the door for this, and I play it every year. 🤣

Funnily enough, the commentary points out that the solution is open-ended. I just simply spammed the primary fire which you can do while the Gravity Gun's supercharged.

and here i was dodging the balls like a fucking idiot

I'm sorry but, PEANUT WATER

@@jeddonaldson7526 no, scoliosis grape

HOLY SHIT half life 3 had to be at least a little far in development by that point because that is way too close

wait, is that quote from portal2?

@@Kururu265 yeah

I'm brazilian and understand a bit of the entirely vídeo But would be nice subtitles in portuguese and some others languages.

I was wondering why this just popped into recommended, then I hear Vinny mention it in VOD. Awesome production.

Half life is part of the reason I get a PhD in physics (no joke)

@@bbsonjohn legend

@@bbsonjohn Fucking legend

@@bbsonjohn do you work at black mesa with that PhD?

He doesn't need to hear all this. He's a highly trained professional.

does every school have this or you from Finland too? Like wtf because that happened to me too! Even tought we didn't play against each other (or any multiplayer at that matter). Would have been cool tho

@@Duckboyfi Im from the U.S.. I checked other computers in other classroms and the games only showed up in one classroon.

In hungary we had them too

Hahah dude, yeah, smth similar we experienced in middle school. We had to play secretly during class time, though, as we didn't have access to computers after the class. Later the teachers discovered and erased it. LOL

From Australia and the same thing with my school right now. There’s this one classroom my stem class has with a bunch of computers that have half life and CS-source.

Ammo, bulletproofness, Russian tactic (rushing) hunter choppers, gunships, gas, medical supplies, bombs, etc. Yes I'm that guy sue me

Now, the shotgunner combines are a different story

Really awesome content, man! This series is really important to me and I found myself agreeing with every single point you made. Absolutely fantastic video!

I can honestly say its the best HalfLife retrospective ive seen. I even had to share the video with my friends. Thank you

in hindsight halflife 2 sucks and the dlc sucks even more. half life 1 is always amazing. thanx for this video, i wish gabe would stop eating and release a new game

what is this intro remix? i NEED TO HAVE IT!!!!!!!!

@Smunstu Stinkymonster yeah i was going to write episode 1 and 2 but i was on my phone so i rounded it down to dlc , sorry

Zalinki true stuff.

GadgetWalkmen nah

There’s a really good documentary on RU-vid about the development process behind Half-Life and its expansions, as well as touching on Half-Life 2 iirc, called “Unforeseen Consequences: A Half-Life Documentary”.

What effect? Extreme boredom?

You should check out Noah Caldwell Gervais' Half-Life retrospective. It's really good

Yeah I didn't think about that, It makes sense now XD

yeah that's what i had been thinking recently for why it's a thing

but how does it know

​@LOAN NGUYEN Yeah, Gordon doesn't have conventional pouches and pockets, he has to use the suit's storage compartments. It's apparent that the HEV's compartments have internal sensors that maintain a manifest of what he's carrying, including type and amount of ammunition. The Hazard Course in Half-Life 1 makes it clear that the HEV suit has integrated systems designed to employ weaponry (likely due to the expeditions into Xen, as was mentioned). Black Mesa was staffed to the brim with scientists and engineers, not to mention cutting edge facilities.. it's conceivable that the entire suit, and all its systems, were designed and fabricated on-site, as and when the need arose.

They also work on equipment for the military The HEV suit is built to eventually be rolled out to the military Thats why it provides armor Its meant to be an all purpose all terrain suit Think about it One man with this suit was able to do more than all the world's armies Ofcourse the military would have interest in surviving hazerdous environments

Valve:you mean Game Cards? Oh sure

Annnd half life trailer released *GAMERS RISE*

This comment aged like milk :p

Jeff is a scary bastard

I wish i could afford VR

Cries in Intel HD 520 and i5-6200U, which means I can’t have VR.

I found more affordable way to immerse in game. I've just purchased 32" 1440p monitor, good sound card, pro wide-stage headphones. VR is too much efforts, preparations..imho

@@journey4109 seeing the prices of windows mixed reality headsets and the price of a good 32" 1440p monitor + good sound card + good headphones, I think VR is as expensive or even cheaper.

@@journey4109 have you ever actually experienced VR?

My dead wife would have loved this small thesis! Great work!

Same here. Scared me shitless at a young age and Deathmatch was my first ever game on steam (step brother exposed me to CS in between that).

The Ashes of Gorden Freemans Contract

smell the asses

@@susa.k.a.pinkguy2036 Big Mitch and his shit

Woah this comment is buried

Might wanna pin this one liam lol

Yoooo wut xD

You should pin that

Wtf you mean? We've had a war that's lasted the same amount of time 😂😂 dumbf

“PLEASE FUCKING HELP ME”

Wait, they aren't just screaming about their icing?

@@parrot998 YABBA MY ICING

so.. They're just screaming "DOG! DOOOOG! DOG!!"

@@sundalosketch4769 Say dog in reverse...

No, that’s the moment your kid becomes an adult.

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 "It seperates the boys from the men"

It's a rite of passage.

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 or the kid doesn't even touch the game because "lol these graphics suck" and just plays fortnite for 5 hours

@@jockeyfield1954 This is why abortions should be allowed until they turn 18

and that the sodas give you a little bit of health! somehow..

@@PurpleMoon799 gordon *THORSTY*

Ha. My favorite detail was the little animations when you’re holding the weapons. Amazing how a small thing can give a character personality like that.

XM177, not an M4

​@@stuglife5514okay nerd

High-res model of G-man you say?

I think there was a space in the car's engine from episode 2 where you could wedge the gnome into place so it wouldn't fall out

Secondly, Yes you could have dodged the energy orbs. Or... use the door you pry off the vent as a shield that absorbs the shots.[Sorry for the split comments, I'm one of those beta cucks who types as the video goes on]

Who the fuck are you and why am I being recommended your videos?

Very well done on the advert placement, works like checkpoints throughout the video.

Even moreso is the fact that it was also ported to the original Xbox..WITH the vehicle levels intact.

Badass graphics for a 2004 game tho.

@@beefar0ni Really? I almost exclusively get uncanny valley vibes from HL2 & other early Source games

@@rs6000_ that's a common thing though, isn't it? like empty gmod maps and the like

@@cat_lord6415 Yeah, Gmod especially since it almost exclusively uses HL2 assets. I dunno, every Source game except the very late one like CSGO & Portal 2 gives me the spooks.

Amen!

You obviously are simple if you are imitating a lame joke. Keep on lemming!

@@666chapelofblood Sure will

We all watch it cuz it's part of our life bro,its Half-our lives (no pun)

at which part of the video

@@weiinn9944 1:38:00 or so. Or just watch it yourself...

@@rucker69 you ever hear of a guy named Tyler McVicker?

He made this video before the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx

Um, dont mean to burst your bubble but it takes place in Eastern Europe, a very not Island place.

Lol, instead of Barney its the main character from hunt down the freeman

barney on a row boat with an ice cooler full of beer "about that beer i owed ya"

@@nyl0n733 The towns are inspired by eastern Europe, but the game itself is not actually based in eastern Europe. It isn't meant to be anywhere technically in our world, but the characters speak as if they are American. The weather and landscapes are like something from western France, the towns and buildings are eastern European styled, the characters are Americans etc. Clearly this game is inspired by a lot of different areas.

@@mmomakemoneyonline486 its after aliens have taken over earth so its very possible that they took over and moved Americans to Eastern Europe.

:)

yeah, i am... lets hope Half-life 3 comes. but for now, we all have to triage at dawn. :)

Ethan White if HL3 comes it wont be a conclusion to the HL2 story :P

Ayyy

hahah i did that

Albert Ślusarek I agree completely

I agree 100%. At first i thought rhis video was gonna be like 20 minutes long. Then i heard it took a year to make. Then i saw the length was almost 2 hours. Then i sat through the whole thing and i STILL wanted more. This video is a work of art, and a great one to say the least.

- when it`s time for a divorce, but one side keeps clinging on

@@afrog2666 Weol said

Couldn't have said it better just lost all respect

We aren't angry at you, Valve, we're just disappointed...

shit hurted

An important thing to remember about HL3 is that it's not for the lack of trying on the staff's end. There have been multiple fully-fledged iterations of the game, with far more work than has been put into any half-life project. It's been started over multiple times, yet nothing has been finished. and it seems largely a fault of the company structure. They have virtually unlimited resources, and people constantly working on things, with long work hours, however, nothing came out.

That's okay they're working on VR though which will solve all the worlds problems /s

Valve and Half Life fill me with happiness and with bittersweet sadness, as if remembering a long ago friend who has passed on, or a lover who has grown apart from you. Sad but happy. Wanting to forget the memories you cherish still. It is with a heavy heart and a weary love that I say, with a hint of mirth behind desperate pleading: Gaben plz HL3 confirmed?

@@bloodmachine6049 Everyone who comes in, nothing goes out.

There`s a billion games with either mostly puzzles or a LOT of puzzles, there is NO shortage of puzzle games..

Being right has never felt so good.

Aqua Marine YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

its so good, just finished it

people still say that half life alyx is nothing but a way to promote the valve index and a tech demo for source 2 even though the lab (a vr source 2 portal game) was made to test the source 2 engine along with promote the valve index

@@jdmnissan if you have like $1000 :l

By the time I started getting involved in video games, particularly Valve and their games, Half-Life 3, or Episode 3, was already a lost cause. Something people would mention, but never actually consider happening. I’ve played both Portal games, Team Fortress 2, and plenty of Garry’s Mod, but never any Half-life. So while I have little actual connection to it, I’m familiar with the series. The state of the series has never really bothered me. It’s a shame, yes, but I held no stock in the matter. This video made me feel genuine sadness about the state of Half-Life, and of Valve. It made me realize the true tragedy of seeing such a revolutionary and compelling series being stopped in its tracks and left to gather dust, leaving the fanbase in just the same situation. Thank you so much for this video. It gave me a new appreciation for the Half-Life series.

Agreed wholeheartedly. Same here exactly same

Seems like it was only Marc laidlaw who had any genuine love for the franchise. I genuinely had hope every single year for some type of release from half life or the half life universe since 2011 after portal 2. But after that goodbye letter from Marc laidlaw explaining the plot of HL3, that was where my closure was found. Unsatisfying, annoying and yes it made me mad with the franchise, but I no longer have hope for that series. Not now, not ever. And I hope they don’t attempt to release it one day for money because none f the original writers are there anymore and none of them love the franchise.

@@user-qs9ps3hw6u Laidlaw is so kickass. His writing was awesome and when Valve stopped making games to rest on their stacks of Steam money he left. And he finally gave us the ending we wanted, well, as much as was developed. He basically admitted Half Life 3 was never happening, something the higher ups in Valve apparently don't have the guts to do.

Jason Fenton I still believe the whole situation is shady. Why go from (and I’m referring to gabe newell,) yes HL3 is in development and sounding excited to suddenly not even wanting to speak of it. It just doesn’t seem normal to me. Something happened during development that thoroughly put them off making the game. Either way yes laidlaw is an absolute legend and I’m so glad he took it upon himself give us the closure that we all deserved. Nobody at that company today is worthy of even drafting a structure for half life. They let it die and those who loved it have gone. They’re a selfish money grabbing company and gabe is a liar

Dog that was some Actual Alein Facesucker (The Alien Films) but it's a Floating Worm that is A.K.A Brainsuckers ewwwww

the voice acting sells it so well. truly heartbreaking

Society is the same group of wretched, selfish, panicked sheep it always has been (COVID 19 being a perfect example at the moment). It's the people affecting positive change that make it bearable and fun to live. Be one of those people. By the way, I fucking loved playing HL and CS listening to Tool and SOAD.

That was a beautiful era. Being born in 1986 your description of the past really resonates with me

@@merces47letifer4 You sound like a sheep to me.

@@merces47letifer4 4nite isnt 4 shep

@@merces47letifer4 Even without Covid, society was already being ossified by mega corps buying everything up and using it to control the media, the internet, and the narrative, it was already starting after the dotcom crash, but was accelerated by the advent of smart phones a social media, which allow mainstream access to the internet. Covid&Trump only made this clearly visible, with alternative narratives being labled misinformation, whilst supplying only misinformation themselves. I mean back in the 90s and early 00s, when playing online you'd get name called, bullied, ridiculed, in _at least_ 10 different languages EVERY OTHER GAME, you'd just shrug it off, shouted back or ignored it. These days a single swear word could get you kicked or banned, cyberbullying is has many foundations to combat it and what not...instead of growing a thicker skin or fast rebukes, the seeds for snowflakes were already being sown. If you got banned from a server back then, you'd simply join another, but everything is so centralized these days, you're basically locked out of the game after having a few reports filed against you. The internet was more of a wild west back then, in regards to people being absolutely free in to do whatever they wanted, with privately owned dedicated servers, forums, (voice) chat channels all with their own mods, add-ons and rules and a small community around it, almost like some freehold out in the desert where people relied on each other for funding, technical support and what not. Being an asshole was only fun for a short time, joining a gaming clan or forming your own community was much more fun and meaningful, and it automatically made you less of an asshole as you'd have a stake in the community. It's this shift that basically drove me from gaming, for me signified by the advent of CoD:MW2, where the loss of private servers obliterated the communities and sense of ownership. No longer just joining your favorite server and encountering the same online friends with a few strangers in the mix, unless setup or agreed in advance. It wasn't long for more and more games forced this central lobby paradigm, often combined with microtransactions or pay to win...which basically turned them into an online casino. Of course this was done to 'combat piracy' and 'allow consoles to join the fray', but consoles are no match for pc gamers(I've never had a console, when a mate with a ps4 challenged me to a game of MW2 on a console, I absolutely struggled with the controls. Yet, playing dual screen allowed me to see where the fuck he was spawning and knowing all those maps by heart, I still managed to completely obliterate him), so i don't get why these two ecosystems had to be combined anyway, this apart from many games requiring always online connections, even if you were just playing locally on LAN.

im gonna watch it again now i think

Project borealis a group of people, who are putting effort to make ep.3, check them out. They have a yt and discord channel

i bet you feel dumb right now!

...not

Valve: SIKE

OR DID THEY

levi ackerman he made a video called “my thoughts on half-life alyx.”

ThePcGamer oh yeah, I just watched it

@@jiraffe9600 that's nice, but what are your thoughts on half-life alyx?

@@jockeyfield1954 Stop asking the same question dude, but what are your thoughts on half life: alyx?

@@anhkietduongdo stop asking the same question but what are your thoughts on half life : alyx

alyx isnt 3

@@dontsubscribetome3262 go watch 3kliksphilip video, he made some good arguments why we should consider alyx as half life 3 Short history: With every new half life game valve pushes technology forward, storytelling and level desing, physics and graphics, and now VR and world interaction

@ Neither of the episodes pushed the technology forward. They were expansions of HL2.

Valve has always been one to play the long game (no pun intended) in order to revolutionize the industry and be the first to profit, granted they do it well.

I wish i could afford VR :(

Bro I thought the Little Rocket man Trophy Was getting Lamarr in the Rocket and launching it not the friggn Gnome. But I still got my 360 Disc and play it on the Xbox One X

he'll be visiting a nuclear crater because of what happened in opposing force

Yeah on my last playthrough of the game when I got to the first area where you get the first friendly turrets I thought “what if I could just take these with me?” and I tried it and to my surprise it worked, and I took all of the turrets to the end room and it is some of the most fun I’ve had with this game ever. I even tried taking at least one through the teleporter but I couldn’t figure it out

@@dylon4906 That was my thought process too. It's quite a test of patience to take all 5 of them to the final room. It is so worth it though. Also you can't take one with you. You go to a completely different level and not just another load area of the same map

Great idea! I'll try that next time.

Don't they try to shoot the characters

@@Journey_to_who_knows They're the reprogrammed ones. They shoot only the combine.

Yeah the glock is baddass; I use it consistently through just about the whole game.

But without a Grenade launcher and Auto Fire

@@uncanny-hector-1906 17 rounds, more damage < 50 rounds, higher fire rate (more DPS), and a grenade launcher.

i think only the crowbar and crossbow have perfect accuracy outside maybe the magnum also the glock DOES have have rapid fire with secondary mouse but the accuracy drops to MP5-level, so not worth using i find myself using the MP5 slightly more due to cramped and close quarters you'll be fighting in since it's accuracy isn't terribad...if only i could say the same for HL2's SMG, only use that for the grenade launcher which is not often lol speaking as FPS casual that barely experienced Half-Life outside gmod, make of that what you will

@Ben Silva: it barely outdamages the crowbar, besides that once you get the pulse gun you'll never go back to the SMG if you're at all conservative with its ammo

We still make games, it's just they are already finished. AKA updates.

... and when we do, it's ARTIFACT!

Valve no Longer Cranks the Crank they just sit there and Rust and dust.

@Explodingsatellites :)

Half Life Alyx :D

holy shit it’s tobuscus

holy shit it’s tobuscus

Holy shit its Tobuscus Thanks for filling my child hood with fun btw, you made me and my brother so happy! we loved your songs and you are a huge part of me growing up. Thank you seriously. From the bottom of my heart thank you

I love you Toby

holy shit it’s tobuscus