Half-Life's Often Overlooked Details 

Hey, dont blame the man! He's just got 100 Hev and is trying to do a grenade launch like gordon. Its a legitemate tactic.

"The HECU are pretty smart." [Watching Freeman's Mind, and soldiers even try to blow themselves up or blowing each other up, or doing stupid things.] HECU #1: "Squad, quiet down." HECU #2: "Negative." Gordon: "Squad, quiet down. Negative. Alright! Works for me! I am to happy to know where everyone is!" [Later, as he killed an HECU Marine as he puts down a grenade that gibbed that soldier upon being dead.] Gordon: "Did that guy ran into his own grenade? Or someone in the shadows THROW one AT HIM? OR, was he charging me suicide bomber style and get his timing wrong? Is this HOW WE TRAIN THEM as SUICIDE BOMBERS? So many questions..."

@@Nevermore2790 Well, to be fair that's Half Life: Source. Which is notoriously buggy. It's insane how bad that remaster is.

@@Snotnarok The squad, quiet down one is in Half-Life: Uplink.... done on Goldsrc.

@@Nevermore2790 I'm referring to Freeman's Mind. It's entirely made in Half Life Source as far as I know. Ross Scott had specific reasons for filming the Source version vs the OG one

Valve: Wow. It's almost as if the fan base see the combine the way we intended. How about that?

@@marcusfraser2790 Shepard : "What's a Combine?"

German community: Wait they were human soldiers??

aereton *excuse me*

@@marcusfraser2790 No, they were talking about HECU soldiers not Combine soldiers

Uhh

YEAH LIKE, Gordon literally just did what he was told to do, how could him know that shit was bout to happen

Yeah, it is what I thought from the start, it really bothers because it really isn't Gordon's faulth, like it isn't a developers faulth that TAKE TWO DON'T WANT TO UPDATE RED DEAD ONLINE, or Valve not wanting devs to pour resources in old games. How did I end up talking about developers when I was talking about a resonance cascade? I don't know

It's really G-man's fault, but it is in some part Eli's fault for not aborting the test

if you were told if you push a button and it ends world hunger byt instead it kills 6b humans are you yo blame or the man who told you to do it

There is 1 cutscene when Gordon gets captured but it was most likely to show off how the engine Half-Life uses (GoldSRC) could have in engine cutscenes other wise it probably wouldn't be there and move the narrative forward.

The same happens in Portal 1 & 2 and that's why these are my favorite games ever (Half Life and Portal)

Devs: *Are literally too lazy to program and animate cutscenes.* Valve fanboys: OMG THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY, NOBODY HAS EVER DONE THIS BEFORE DOOM (1993): bruh

@@EnigmaGameMaster yes but the story here is presented and told, doom has the mentality of you man, you shoot

@@EnigmaGameMaster yes exactly half life was this cool exciting thing because at the time it was a game that told a story which made some sense, doom is the polar opposite since the first Doom had the intention to show that story isnt needed in a game where half life then did the opposite by showing story as one of it's strong points

me too

THATS NICE, CONSIDER IT IS QUITE RARE TO SEEK AN LOWERCASE PERSON, I MUST SAY.

I speak in sentence case.

@@think_of_a_storyboard3635 🙂

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Hi, I'm haven't played Half Life but I've played a fair amount of System Shock. I'm curious, what were the ideas that were carried over? If you don't mind me asking.

Halflife to me was the game. Might be biased because it was my childhood. But I still feel like it set the bar and was way ahead of its time

since*

@@parknplay8328 huh?

@@okie9025 he misspelled 'since' as 'sense'

since, not sense!

Yeah... I like Half-Life as much as the next guy, but the word "perfect" should never be anywhere near this game. This whole video sounds like it was written by Leadhead while Gabe Newell was pointing a gun at him.

Same

Yep same here...

Was going to say the exact same thing.

It's only been a year?

@@georgerobinson4654 look at the upload date

@@aproe610 Too confusing? Half-Life is one of the most linear games of all time. You literally just follow the path laid out for you and blast everything you come into contact with. Doesn't get much simpler than that.

second run was my most enjoyable run, cause i had a hang of things and used every tool to its fullest potential

In Blue Shift the story isn't as great nor is the gameplay but I believe it was on purpose to make you feel not important as you are just a security officer, you took no part in the incident nor were you sent in to stop it; you just happened to clock in on that day and everything went to hell.

@@thetrashmann8140 whoa, that's very interesting

@@thetrashmann8140 yes! I loved that.

But it was G-Man who brought the crystal to Black Mesa.

@@nexusshark G-Man helped them discover Xen initially but the crystal was brought back by the Black Mesa recon team.

When I see enemies in HL1 just standing there and doing nothing when I shoot them I just assume the pain shock from your attacks keep them stunned. Not a big deal for me considering HL1 puts a lot of stress on the player's imagination,

They can do 1 action at a time, therefore it most likely due to the game either not registering the hits (but is doing damage to them) or they are repeatedly doing an action which isn't happening or rather registering.

That must have happened because of an update that Valve released for "Steam version of Half-Life which ended up "breaking" the game and turning it into a mess. I own the original "Half Life: Platinum Collection" and the original "Half Life: Blue Shift" games that came out for PC in the early 2000's and i have to say that the HECU soldiers in those games are some of the meanest, most challenging enemies that i have encountered in a video or computer game. The way they managed to surround and put me in a world of hurt always ended up making me nervous, whenever i walked or ran down a corridor and heard their radio chatter from a couple of feet away before turning a corner and facing them. These guys were a real challenge for me. They even appeared to have auto aim on at all times and could take the same amount of punishment(if not more) that you could take. And that was on the "Easy" difficulty. I even began to suspect that my game was broken at some point, when i originally played it due to how difficult they were to take down. Half-Life came out in 1998 but i didn't manage to get my hands on it and play it until 2001 or 2002. I still remember that in the FPS games that i played before playing Half-Life, human enemies would die from 2, 3, 4, 5 shots and not 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 like in the original Half-Life game. Hell!, the human enemies in HL 2 are easier to take down than the HECU in Half-Life and that's saying something.

@@RayGarraty1985 Nah

Yeah, unfortunately the later releases of the original Half-Life are broken. The grunts in Half-Life used to be quite the force to be reckoned with. If you load up an unpatched version of Half-Life off the CD it's pretty incredible.

I think most people use the retro ones

No the game is not called life, you should have written “retro models for half-life”

same, i never liked the newer models

He meant it like “retro models for the rest of my life”. Douche.

@@discochickvevo4118 r/woooosh

remember that they have a PCV, and actual armor and stuff

@@narrowgauge0727 still too much hp

@@alimertc what about Gordon freeman? He is literally almost invincible.

@@scanbbb HEV suit makes him a juggernaut.

@@narrowgauge0727 I think that only Shepherd got the PCV.

I hate to sound critical, but he’d probably be more popular if he’d put more effort into sounding enthusiastic. He sounds pretty bored.

@Moolinyan No, I like this kinda stuff. But his voice sounds like he's reading off a script. Which to be fair, most youtubers do. But they at least make it sound like they aren't.

Leadhead's Often Overlooked Videos

The music is too loud

The music is wayyyy to loud

Exactly. Everyone is always blaming Gordon, but we literally see the equipment break on the way there and the scientist say it wasn't designed for these levels. We hear them talk about the parameters and contemplating whether it's safe to continue. We learn that the administrator was the one who ordered them to push the limits and ignored safety standards despite scientists warning. We learn Gman provided the peculiarly "pure" sample. Hell, in the chamber before everything goes wrong a scientist points out odd fluctuations and brushes them off, telling Gordon to continue with standard insertion procedures. Gordon just did what his higher-ups said and pushed the cart into the beam. He wasn't the one to crank the machine up to 105% against saftey regulation, to keep going despite malfunctions, or provide the crystal.

Shall we gather for whiskey and cigars tonight?

Metal Gear 2 already has (written rather than voice acted) barks and it was released in 1991.

@@youmukonpaku3168 MGS1 was also released slightly earlier than Half-Life.

Another game I miss...

Yep. Half-Life did not invent "barks" by any stretch, and personally I don't think it did them well even by the standards of the time. The sentence mixing means you can barely understand the barks, which defeats the whole purpose of them. Plus, sometimes soldiers will awkwardly react to situations in total silence, e.g. shooting a stealthy SMG grenade at two oblivious soldiers who run away the instant you right click without saying a word. FEAR basically perfected the "bark" concept for a linear shooter and it makes Half-Life seem primitive in that regard.

Do you need someone to talk to?

I am ok not suicidal or anything. The world is very depressing at the moment but i have family i love that i talk to when I'm getting really down. Great to hear y'all reaching out tho.

@@becketclark9942 I'm glad you're doing alright. Family is really important during this time, especially since you're spending a long time with them inside. You seem pretty chill, wanna add me on insta or snapchat?

did you know there was a 2 watermelons cut from Half Life 2 Episode 2 because of lag issues?

@@breadspy5974 no i didnt

Not at all, hard difficult activates some stuff, for example the behavior of assasin female, the time of the vortigaunts shocks, and other things that are subtle

@@ZombieDeMierda I know but those a few and far between

Not if you aim for headshots, are you magdumping into their backs or something?

Sin underrated game

It weirdly fixes the dissonance of being a science nerd who zooms around the place destroying aliens with a crowbar.

If you blaze through only the places in the game you're absolutely required to go, then resources can get tight in a few places. This is doubly true if: A) Your aim is lousy, or B) you're playing on Hard difficulty. If you spend even a few minutes looking for hidden paths, this becomes moot. So it's more a matter of playstyle that dictates the scarcity of ammo and health. I feel this is a testament to how good Half-Life is. The player sets their own pace.

@@grammarmaid That, and using your other resources effectively. You're going to run out of ammo for your shotgun and SMG if they're the only weapons you use.

Agreed

That could have sounded so awesome and made complete thematic sense, it’s a real shame they didn’t go that route.

Tbf, the Combine still sound incredibly robotic. In fact, I think most of their dialogue is completely incomprehensible. I couldn't tell if it was human speech or text-to-speech for the longest time. The filter makes everything impossible to make out.

half the video he spends describing enemies. "headcrabs die in 3 shots with a glock on hard mode. they can overwhelm you when in group. blablablabla'

RIP

good ≠ popular

Mackenzie Coombe I mean, ok sure

480 likes now, 26 comments. God bless the algorithm.

youtube algorithm

1.6k likes, 114 comments

Me and friends called them dinosaur, giraffe-dinosaur or beak back in 2001 when playing the game for first time

How have I never heard this one? I love it.

Same lmao. Btw that Steely Dan clip comes from their song "Black Cow"

I was thinking I was crazy because everybody talks about the content in the video so I just searched for an MF DOOM comment

Its just a title bro

@@silentfilms7459 Yes.

@@silentfilms7459 who hasnt?

@@szipuden9616 me