The Development of Half-Life | 20th Anniversary Retrospective 

Yes, I believe he's actually the face model for Barney. ETA: By that point he had left Vivendi/Sierra and was working for Valve.

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He's so right..

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Not dead! Editing a video right now on the first Fallout game and then getting a few more lined up for Q4.

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You’re probably hearing the drums from the backing ambient track. Might have mixed that a hair too low b

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Me to, but i have google class room today :)

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Half-life and Jagged alliance 2. The two games that trully marked my teen years. Kinda feel nostalgic now.

what did the monster look like... imma find the name of it.

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yes, and when it released it wasn't as broken. still was really bad on release but it was more of an experiment so DON'T GET HALF-LIFE SOURCE!

@@XENON2028 I will get it at some point, just to screw around with its content in Garry's Mod. 😂

@@JoBot__ yeah that's basically it's only use now but there are some mods that use stuff from the original game

@@XENON2028I’m from the future and bring good news: valve celebrated the 25th aniversary of half life by releasing a documentary, updating goldsrc half life, and DELISTING HL:SOURCE!!!!!

@@alexello1189 yes

I was just thinking that the other day!

@@Arcadology although I’m not sure where he was going with the cards 😬

Gaben was already rich from working for microsoft in it's early days, including microsoft stocks.

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who downvotes a reminder??

Gravious No idea! Haha I was just trying out this premieres feature and people seem to get annoyed I guess? I mean the thing is it wouldn’t have changed the time either way.

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Half-Life 1 didn't bring too much over Quake engine except model animations and dynamic textures excluding the gameplay elements like AI and scripted sequences. I think the brilliance of HL-1 was in its realism focused art direction for an arcade shooter game, i.e. the experience wasn't "flashy" like all the games at the time were. From the get go you weren't a military and gunned hero. It's probably the first "3d shooter" where the experience was focused strictly on realism and immersion. I can't remember any other FPS game at the time that did this on this level (somehow Thief 1 comes to mind, but it still favored gameplay over immersion/realism). HL-1 has set the genre for the FPS games to follow.

I agree but I think the way it was done makes it unique and innovative, here's why I think that's the case: I think the brilliance of HL-1 was in its focus on realism and immersion (and minimalist art direction) for an arcade shooter game at the time, i.e. the experience wasn't "flashy" like all the games at the time were. From the get go you weren't a military and gunned hero. It's probably the first "3d shooter" where the experience was focused strictly on realism and immersion. It had the prototypal elements of later to be popularized elements like survival horror (at the time this wasn't quite a thing yet). The story was not told explicitly like in most other story focused games at the time (e.g. SS, Thief). You lived through it, and so it revealed itself to you via circumstances, not pieces of text that you read or told by other characters. I can't remember any other FPS game at the time that did this on this level (somehow Thief 1 comes to mind, but it still favored gameplay over immersion/realism). HL-1 has set the genre for the FPS games to follow. I vividly remember my experience playing the game, it was different than anything else (the closest I felt to this was with Doom when it came out, although in a different way). I took the game very seriously as the events happening seemed intriguing and beliavable when most other games made one feel like: "clearly I'm playing a video game looking at the screen with all the funny HUDs, cut-scenes, text appearing, jumps between scenes and camera work". In contrast HL-1 made you think: "I'm looking through someone's eyes who's late to work in a subterrenean scientific research facility". Only in an hour you found yourself thinking: "an accident occured, and things beyond my understanding are happening, but I need to survive". At the time, this was a unique and innovative. Then it became the standard for almost all FPSs.

What constitutes dead. I’m writing things right now. If you look at 2018 I had the same day job related hiatus.