The Faces of Half-Life 2

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Half-Life 2's characters are iconic, but they are also REAL. Let's talk about it.
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Footage Credit:
Gorgeous Freeman by Delak (Beautiful classic)
IGN (Half-Life Alyx footage)
The VOC Podcast (Cheers for the work y'all do)
Harry101UK (Valve tour footage)
Into the Pixel Interview with ArenaNet's Daniel Dociu
Garry's Mod Steam Trailer
This Is Martin Bonner! (Film Trailer)
Land Ho! (Film Trailer)
Music Credit:
Various tracks from Half-Life + Half-Life 2
Various tracks from Donkey Kong Country 2
Various tracks from ISS 2000
Super Mario Sunshine - Welcome to Isle Delfino
Team Fortress 2 - MVM Shop Theme
Resident Evil 4 - Save Theme
Postal 2 - Map Muzak
Pink Guy - Ronald McDonald Instrumental
Shook - Within

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@carnum1159 6 месяцев назад

From skibidi toilet not half life 2

@kwabecikuwu9161 6 месяцев назад

rel

@aquiIa_chrysaetos 6 месяцев назад

oh hell no

@WohaoG 6 месяцев назад

oh hell *yes*

@recang360 6 месяцев назад

The day has come.

@insane.braindamage 6 месяцев назад

half life stiole the gman toilet and give him suit ripoff!!!1

@elliotnutella8044 Год назад

Imagine walking down the street, completely minding your own business, and bumping into G Man.

@rogerphone481 Год назад

"I've been looking for you, Dr. Freeman."

@cheesemanthe2nd Год назад

They really modified his look in hl2, I probably wouldn't recognize him unless I was looking

@Reposterkkkk Год назад

i would shit myself

@elijahreeves4890 Год назад

totally mind fucked

@bitty_01 Год назад

Then he sends you into the shadow realm and you wake up in an alien universe afterwards lmao

@Vvix0 Год назад

A random Janitor becoming an eldritch god-like G-man just for being at a right place and right time is the most G-man thing he could do.

@catpurrito5586 Год назад

Sounds kinda like Ahti from Control 2019

@VinVonVoom Год назад

Hello

@lynxovski Год назад

"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world"

@17_sold Год назад

the gman: “the right man in the wrong place, can make aLL the dif-ference in the world.”

@thebasedspectre3048 Год назад

"Dr freeman I'm going to make you my discord kitten"-gman

@ForgillMaster51 9 месяцев назад

Imagine being Michael Smith walking in the street and being attacked by some random ass kid screaming "THE SKIBIDI GUY! ITS THE SKIBI TOILET FACE MAN!"

@Cheerful__1 8 месяцев назад

💀

@BlyckMesa 7 месяцев назад

Lmao there is no way this is original

@RedBadGaming 4 месяца назад

Rip

@thisnameisbad3609 4 месяца назад

"I'm hurt!"

@jeffriesjohnsonjames6518 Месяц назад

Me: Good bye little Timmy *sends to zen*

@warmongerous Год назад

I don't know where I heard it, but Gmans face actor, when they asked him to come back for HL:A, turned up with a full suit and briefcase. He knows at least a little bit of the legacy he created

@Daveaintreal 6 месяцев назад

Absolute legend

@Kat-327 4 месяца назад

I've been looking for you, dr freeman...

@Quaxo21 Месяц назад

The right man at the right place

@Shea7TDM Год назад

imagine being an avid half life fan and buy half life 2 on release, just for one of the main characters to be your dad.

@creepersammyb2926 Год назад

and he has a pet headcrab (i deleted my original comment because I now know that Ted Cohrt has kids who were half life fans)

@iifireii9885 Год назад

@Cleminite About that beer I owe ya

@sparkyboi4387 Год назад

I like to think that Kleiner's VA bought the game for them and watched them play until they got to the Kleiner part, as a surprise

@FalkyRocket2222 Год назад

@@creepersammyb2926 he mentioned it in the video lol

@FalkyRocket2222 Год назад

@Benny sure but this is not the place

@HLRaven Год назад

It's really sad that the face actor for Eli Vance goes unrecognized. IMO he is one of the most comforting characters in video games

@char7490 Год назад

im glad they bought him back in half life alyx i would love him to be a companion when hl3 comes out soon

@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge Год назад

@@char7490 I don't know. In Alyx Eli just feels... somehow not right to me. Don't know what it is, but something is off about him, like they used a different person's face entirely.

@neevko267 Год назад

@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge it's probably just that he looks younger

@minelayer26 Год назад

@@GlamStacheessnostalgialoungeit could also be because of the voice actor, the voice just doesnt work

@minelayer26 Год назад

@@goti4no820 hes protective of his daughter, that is something he would say

@anonymouse740 Год назад

Larry Heard is not just a house DJ, he almost single handily created the modern incarnation of House music. If you listen to "Can You Feel It" it's produced in 1984 and could be a house track you'd hear today in a nightclub. It was also in GTA5. Really cool guy, I'm amazed he's a HL2 character, I didn't know that!

@1chrisanderson Год назад

TRUTH. I had no idea he was in HL2. As a deep house fanatic and DJ/producer myself, it's hard to overstate Larry's contributions to the genre. He is literally the progenitor of the darker, jazz-infused dance sounds of today (Fred P, Ron Trent, Chez Damier, Space Ghost, and countless others are clearly influenced by his work)

@streeatbeat Год назад

dude my fucking shock when i found out HE'S MR FINGERS!??!

@ar_xiv Год назад

It's a different larry heard, unfortunately. It was a homeless guy in Seattle named Larry "The Count" Heard. Had to fact check this one because it just seemed too unlikely as Larry Heard the DJ is from Chicago and lives in Nashville.

@1chrisanderson Год назад

@@ar_xiv A letdown if it's true but would definitely make sense. I'm gonna rename my DJ act to The Other Larry Heard

@crylune Год назад

I heard that in San Andreas. The song was stuck in my brain ever since.

@warpare6138 Год назад

I went to Warrens obituary page and started to cry. His parents would go and leave comment's wishing him happy birthdays and Christmases. Rest in Peace Warren.

@Josuemaneiros7 Год назад

I think the best 'actor to character" design Valve made was Nick from L4D2 They did a fantastic job at making Nick look like a playable Taymour Ghazi without making him uncanny or clay-faced

@youbaouahdi4358 Год назад

I will never forget seeing his face IRL, I thought the actor was a 3D render haha

@oldman4443 Год назад

Tbh man they did such a good job with nicks face I can’t look at Taymour Ghazi’s face without automatically recognizing him as nick from l4d2, I think I might have a problem

@unclesandvich Год назад

@@oldman4443 Its perfect. I don't know how they done it, but it feels like they took Tay Ghazi and literally put in the game. I can't describe it right now, but it's done perfect. It feels more like "Nick was so popular they made him an actual person" joke. But man, Taymour Ghazi is really handsome and charismatic, no wonder why they chose him for Nick.

@bigbad5067 Год назад

i was in one of a taymour's acting classes and he told us he was nick from left 4 dead and i honestly cant unsee it now, they did a brilliant job

@facilityguardryan8561 Год назад

Nah, the best 'actor to character' valve made was the Holy Mackarel from Team Fortress 2

@gametram6139 Год назад

Anyone who is curious about gordon's face, he is referenced by half life 2's sound designer, kelly bailey!

@notfreeman1776 Год назад

Kailey Bailey also likely recorded gordon breathing from HL1, he is Freeman

@gsp1995 Год назад

Not entirely true as three other people's likeness were also used to compose Gordon's face.

@fredspreadem5638 Год назад

Among others, including Eric Kirchner.

@CAPTAIN_CLOCK Год назад

This might not hold true for HL2 and HLA Gordon, but as far as I know his face is an amalgamation of everyone that worked at Valve at the time of HL1.

@SentenceToDESU Год назад

Not just a sound designer, but a whole composer who made a banger of the OST for Half-Life and Portal

@2diabolical 9 месяцев назад

Imagine booting up half-life 2 after you bought it excited to play, then you see your dad as one of the main characters

@Shyborg0 9 месяцев назад

yea lmao

@BlyckMesa 7 месяцев назад

Kinda wholesome ngl

@Devar Год назад

So. my uncle is Paul Eenhoorn (yes, two O's but you nailed the pronunciation which barely no one does!). I had asked him about this, and he had no idea that the scan he did ended up in any thing until I told him about it. The scan was done quite a long time before the actual release of Ep2. Anyway. I had no idea either, until actually playing... now that was one hell of a surprise! Rest In Peace uncle Paul.

@nobodys-home Месяц назад

eli?

@bigcooltony437 Год назад

Wow! Half Life 2 was so popular they made all the characters in real life!

@Freemelon07 Год назад

It'd be cool to see all their models in Source 2 with 3D hair/facial hair.

@catboy6451 Год назад

@Benny what the fuck are you talking about

@The_Grecian_Empire Год назад

@Benny cultist

@sam.4768 8 месяцев назад

@benny7569 why are u spouting jesus shit on like every comment on a half life video like bro what are u doing with ur life, aint no one reading this and going "omg bro i need to be a Christian"

@Some_guy-on-the-internet 8 месяцев назад

@@Freemelon07gman

@zOOpygOOpert Год назад

I really hope Eli's face actor is okay.

@unoriginalperson72 Год назад

I highly doubt he's in any horrible situation because honestly I think he might be long dead now.

@BOBBY69 Год назад

We gotta face the truth, he's probably not alive anymore. If he is, I wish him all the best.

@Omega-jg4oq Год назад

@@unoriginalperson72 Wow bro.. you REALLY made it sounds so Fcking Dark.. jeez

@flunkiebubs2002 Год назад

He'd probably be in his 90s by now.

@natalie_v0.1 Год назад

@@unoriginalperson72 people are really good at dying.. saddening

@princegoatcheese9379 Год назад

G-Man's quote in the beginning of HL2, "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world," sums up Frank Sheldon's opportunity perfectly. If Valve cast him as Dr. Breen then the world would not have gotten such an iconic face as G-Man.

@commandertoastcz6256 6 месяцев назад

A janitor's role is to be at the right place in the right time, and if he is in the wrong place at the right time, stuff may go around interestingly.

@commandertoastcz6256 6 месяцев назад

A janitor's role is to be at the right place in the right time, and if he is in the wrong place at the right time, stuff may go around interestingly.

@averydissapointedparent6124 Год назад

The eli vance one is such a sad case, unfortunate that someone won’t ever get to see their legacy in a way, he’s forever immortalized by this game yet nobody will ever know his name.

@cacaPoopTrain Год назад

#RescueEli

@TheBreakingBenny 10 месяцев назад

He won't be forgotten... no matter how unknown he is. That man is someone I'd want to fight alongside.

@Trackman71 Год назад

Wow I originally remember hearing some rumors about Eli’s Face actor was a homeless dude but this just confirmed it. The sad thing is he probably wasn’t paid a lot for how pivotal and recognizable he is in gaming. The horrible truth is that he is likely dead. That one hurt the most out of them all. 😢

@Timic83tc Год назад

Makes Ep2 even sadder.

@pigster8 Год назад

it's not that sad bro. honestly

@gugibugi0 Год назад

It's not like he did a lot of work to be paid a lot. You literally just get your face scanned and that's it

@cluckendip Год назад

You just repeated verbatim the video

@Trackman71 Год назад

@@cluckendip Lmao true.

@thememester1190 Год назад

The use of scans of real people is just another reason why Half Life 2 was so ahead of its time. Using random people from the streets of Seattle for civilians really captures the feeling of being amongst the remnants of a downtrodden urban populace.

@olzhas1one755 Год назад

By the time HL2 released this was already the common practice in the industry. As far as I know Goldeneye 64 in 1997 was the first game to use photography of real people on 3D meshes, and this method became only more common since then.

@naturesquad9174 Год назад

and they based the metrocops personalities on the metropolice of seattle!

@omegatrion7139 Год назад

come back to g10 please

@thememester1190 Год назад

@@omegatrion7139 I don't wanna.

@jaidendeprez1842 Год назад

So did Postal 2, which came out in 2003

@PennyroyallBlew Год назад

Larry Heard (aka Mr. Fingers) is actually one of the Godfathers of House music and really important figure for electronic music history in general. It's kind of amusing to see him being somehow present in game series which soundtrack is really inspired by music that he paved way for.

@Joskilani Год назад

It's always interesting how Valve bases their characters off of real people. The actress they modeled Chell from Portal after is Alesia Glidewell, who's also known for being the voice of Zero Suit Samus in Super Smash Brothers, and Carmelita Fox/Neyla in Sly 2: Band of Thieves

@thinkingboi9508 Год назад

The Half Life universe sure does have a weird story with female actors who played furry characters huh?

@LordVader1094 Год назад

@@thinkingboi9508 How so?

@thinkingboi9508 Год назад

@@LordVader1094 A voice actor who voiced a character in Star Fox, which has a cast composed of entirely of anthro animals, came out of retirement to voice a character that was modded into the game

@mattmedrala1947 10 месяцев назад

Alesia was also the original face model for Zoey from Left 4 Dead, and provided the voice acting for Alma Wade in FEAR 2.

@Dowux 8 месяцев назад

@@mattmedrala1947damnit i now know why Zoey and Chell looked so similar

@dextergrif Год назад

I think it’s okay that they used a random guy’s face for Eli and compensated him for it, but they really should have credited him for it. That’s kind of messed up that they didn’t

@VinVonVoom Год назад

It's possible they just never got his name or he didn't want to be credited.

@kennnnny Год назад

@@VinVonVoom Even if either of those was the case, I wish they’d made it more clear in an interview or when the story of his face actor was actually brought up. Because it seems like whatever info Richter could get, it wasn’t conclusive

@samuraijackoff5354 Год назад

Maybe he forgot his name, didn't have ID or a social security. It happens sadly being homeless.

@ZekeFreek Год назад

@@kennnnny That would require Valve to communicate with the public and you know how much they hate doing that lol

@jackspedicy2711 Год назад

credits: Eli Vance - a random hobo on the street

@DrSeaDevil Год назад

7:13 He also appeared in the first Half-Life as the scientist who shouts at you for destroying his cassourole.

@VinVonVoom Год назад

That was indeed his casserole but it's not Magnusson who's watching over it.

@DrSeaDevil Год назад

@@VinVonVoom Oh I see

@agrastiOs Год назад

@@hebbocake he might not have been in the same room his casserole was in

@-Zakhiel- Год назад

It's a retcon... Valve does this in every Half Life sequels, retcons everywhere.

@agrastiOs Год назад

@@-Zakhiel- and they're very based for doing that and expanding the world and the games. Well aside from the Alyx retcon

@JAB6322 Год назад

Imagine if the homeless man who provided Eli's face was both credited and well compensated with Half Life 2's success and actually had his life changed for the better. It would've been one heartwarming story.

@hangry3102 Год назад

The fact we know absolutely nothing about the man behind one of the most loveable video game characters in existence bugs me. The guy literally had the "perfect face" for Eli, and he gets no credit? At this point we're doing a disservice not to find more information on him. He's likely already gone, but damn he deserves more recognition than just "that poor guy who needed money." He is literally an icon.

@hangry3102 Год назад

And by find more information, I'm not saying we should track him down or anything crazy like that. Just his name is more than enough credit wise. The guy deserved his privacy just like anyone else.

@LordVader1094 Год назад

They may have offered to credit him and he refused, given his situation.

@SpecterNeverSpectator 8 месяцев назад

maybe this exactly why, some creep on the internet will want to find out where he lives to give him shit he didnt ask for, like you

@loserghoul Год назад

been a fan of Larry Heards music casually so learning he's been the face of male_03 this whole time is so weirdly specific thats its mindblowing to me.

@kinematosis Год назад

Heh, same. I've been listening to Larry Heard for a while now, and I just played HL2 for the first time a couple of months ago. When I saw his name in the HL2 credits, I thought, "there's no way that's *the* Larry Heard." I looked it up and was shocked to learn that, in fact, it was *the* Larry Heard.

@Michelle_Wellbeck Год назад

Would love to have heard how he got into the game as by hl2 wouldn't he have been quite a famous guy?

@russelledwards001 Год назад

Some guys at valve probably loved his music. There’s quite a lot of techno beats and sounds in the half life series.

@S44BBOI Год назад

Mr fingers

Год назад

Richter, this is a great video! We'd love to see you make one about the voices as well! About Donna Van Buren, we did manage to contact and talk to her - while she was not interested in coming on for an interview because as she says - she likes to stay behind the scenes. She did work as a make-up artist for Valve specifically on the face models for HL2, on Frank Sheldon for sure. She also added the following - "Truthfully, I was only a placeholder head for Dr. Judith Mossman that never got replaced."

@chiefhydropolis Год назад

so judith would have looked wayyy different had a dev not forgotten or didnt like the model now used ingame

@Cheerful__1 8 месяцев назад

Imagine giving your face to a new game and all long time later you see yourself in a toilet singing animation

@DeepWeeb Год назад

Eli's face being based on a homeless man they picked from the streets for a only couple of bucks to run his face under some strange device without any further recognition kinda hits different when you remember *they made a joke about using hobos and bums as test subjects of almost-lethal experiments for $60 in Portal 2*

@Lips0fDeceit Год назад

For as great value has been stuff like thise goes to remind you that they do some of the fucked up things that disney or Netflix or google do they are a company at the end of the day

@vakarianalenko Год назад

Yeah it's fucking sad man

@soupcake3092 Год назад

I really would like to hope they didn't use someone like that and payed him well. But I feel like that's far more likely...

@unoriginalperson72 Год назад

Imagine if that line is actually based on how much money they gave him

@BeyondBaito Год назад

They use astronauts, war heros, and Olympians

@ProfessorProfesorman Год назад

Finally, a video which shows all of the face in HL2. I've been looking for something like this for ages! Awesome job Richter!

@nnikitov57 Год назад

you didn't even watch the video when you commented this, how can you know whether if it's an "awesome job" or not?

@TimTam60 Год назад

@@nnikitov57 and who are you to assume this person doesn't just have an ability to hear important info from videos quickly?

@ProfessorProfesorman Год назад

@@nnikitov57 The title....

@doughboywhine 8 месяцев назад

He didn't include gordons face...

@ProfessorProfesorman 8 месяцев назад

Yeah fr@@doughboywhine

@knoxvolpe Год назад

I tend to forget that the face of Father Grigori is a guy named Daniel Dociu that was born in Cluj, Romania. It's cool to think we have a romanian guy forever in our hearts :)

@mighi3963 Год назад

Nu mă mira are fata de ardelean ngl 😂

@Feasco Год назад

2:17 Imagine calling or having to visit Tanner Electric for some reason and trying to resist the urge to say, "Barney said to tell you this: FUCK YOU!"

@ManiacHatTF2 Год назад

0:36 You know you've made it when you're a brief mention in a Richter Overtime video.

@MMitochondria Год назад

you

@unoriginalperson72 Год назад

Maniac Hat you've officially hit stardom

@spaghettimkay5795 Год назад

Omg is that THE Maniac Hat?!

@highmedic2351 Год назад

Absolute legend!!!

@pigster8 Год назад

you're still a nobody

@CenturyRev Год назад

3:31 Bro thinks he's Walter White.

@adrianwoods2752 Год назад

A quote from the G-man himself is perfectly fitting for how his face actor got the role: “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”

@caitenten 5 месяцев назад

and after all these years barney still owes gorden a beer

@Imirui Год назад

Most realistic characters in valve games are in fact, based on real people. In the Left 4 Dead series, every survivor has their face modeled after an actual person, and the face references are well known among people who know that they are modeled after people.

@uhhhhhyea Год назад

honestly i always found interesting to use as reference real people faces on like a game

@Steak818 Год назад

I always thought that the faces of Alyx was too peculiar to have been created from nothing, sometimes uncanny valley-peculiar.

@Freemelon07 Год назад

Hi G-man!

@uhhhhhyea Год назад

@@Freemelon07 hello mr...uh freemelon

@Detah_ 8 месяцев назад

Imagine seeing your face 20 years later pop out of a toilet

@RedStar441 Год назад

Whoever Eli's look alike is, I hope he had passed through this world peacefully. His face lives on and will be remembered for time beyond now.

@BBPOFFICAL Год назад

3:04 those kids are lucky like imagine seeing the faces of them seeing there father in half life 2 :)

@lambdaspecialist_source Год назад

Really smart from Valve to do this in the developement, because this makes the game more immersive and the faces are iconic another thing why hl2 was and is so great.

@horriblechronicdiseases Год назад

We need to bring back the face scan process for video game development.

@amspook Год назад

@@horriblechronicdiseases Capcom already did that

@friendofp.24 Год назад

Wait til you realize every triple A game does this...

@friendofp.24 Год назад

@@horriblechronicdiseases Literally every game does this...

@lambdaspecialist_source Год назад

@@friendofp.24 not really and at the time HL2 was the first to do this

@RadioMan2023 6 месяцев назад

The janitor after the toilet gets clogged: "prepare for...unforeseen consequences"

@MrPerson9000 Год назад

12:05 Maybe the guy didn’t want to be credited

@Profkol0rado Год назад

He probably didn't want to be famous

@notfreeman1776 Год назад

honestly im happy for Eli's model, hes going to live on for far longer than most of us people watching this video thanks to that chance encounter

@mutantwalnut3390 Год назад

12:52 “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”

@EMAHGERD Год назад

Male03 being Larry Heard is absolutely insane! He is one of the most important figures of electronic music, maybe just short of the likes of Kraftwerk. Both were essential to my younger years.

@epicman1232 11 месяцев назад

dude, imagine your dad being used as a facescan in one of your favorite games. that'd be crazy!

@TheUltimateGunner115 Год назад

7:27 "What are you waiting for freeman, a hug?" RIP

@danbarnes4069 Год назад

I'd love to see a Half-Life 2 movie with all the people who were the characters for the game.

@Myhandlehandlehandjahakoof Год назад

except for the fact that most of them are dead...

@okeoi Год назад

This is actually surprisingly wholesome. It's like you're just checking in on some old, estranged friends to see how they're doing.

@memes.mp3102 6 месяцев назад

Imagine being the guy behind male_07 and you see your face being plastered on a toilet just to rot the brains of millions of children

@kts0717 Год назад

Litterally i see the thumbnail and it Comes to my mind "its starts with"

@wojtek4351 8 месяцев назад

making fun of a man on the phone call was uncalled for, he answered your question

@Mr.Marbles Год назад

wow what the hell. i thought i didnt read it right when i saw larry heard was a character. big 80s / 90s house fan and this guy is a damn legend. his stuff as mister fingers is legendary in the scene.

@purpleourple Год назад

I hope Eli’s face actor gets to learn how famous half life 2 and his character became, or at least got to learn.

@raga.8950 Год назад

9:30 Larry's music was on GTA: San Andreas!

@pnrxyz Год назад

San Fierro Underground Radio (SF-UR) :)

@libertycitysfinest219 Год назад

That game also used real people's faces

@labenvenci1584 Год назад

Fun Fact : During development on a project intended as a potential Half-Life 3, Valve brought back in Frank Sheldon to re-scan his face for the Source 2 engine. The developers were very surprised when Sheldon, obviously familiar with the character his face had been used for, showed up to the photoshoot complete with a suit and tie. This project was ultimately cancelled due to the Source 2 engine's unfinished state, but the scans were re-used for Half-Life: Alyx. The original scans look more like Frank, until they morphed it to make it younger and look like his HL2 Counterpart.

@byyourstruly1599 Год назад

Woah, trippy. I was just looking up the face actors for Half-life 2 yesterday, and all of a sudden you made a video about it.

@Kden21 Год назад

The Eli fact always makes me so sad, I really hope his face actor got to see the impact his likeness set for an entire industry

@xFluing Год назад

I love how half life's ties with eastern europe go beyond just city 17 looking like it (and its confirmed to actually be sofia, bulgaria) into father grigori as well, as daniel dociu is romanian The circle is complete

@floor.mp3 Год назад

Incredibly well made video. You deserve more recognition :)

@RichterOvertime Год назад

Thank you :) I appreciate you saying that more than you know

@Luzum Год назад

this is such a good video for people who are fans of the series, the title alone intrigued me and the video definitely delivered, good job Richter keep doing what you're doing. Very few youtubers do what you do, and do it right.

@stuff31 11 месяцев назад

It's kind of bittersweet to think about the guy who Eli was modelled after. He was probably just a down-on-his-luck, homeless guy, desperate for any work that came his way. After that day he might not have ever remembered taking that job. We don't even know his name. For all we know, he's long since died, from one way or another. But he's always going to be remembered. In taking that job, he became Eli Vance, one of the most iconic characters in videogame history. And in that way, he's immortal.

@gaberino1 6 месяцев назад

Incredible that someone who’s face has been seen tens of millions of times could simply vanish into the pages of history so effortlessly

@facilityguardryan8561 Год назад

1:07 you are wrong, the most iconic character is Male07

@red-hot Год назад

No way they made half life real

@TwoNumbahNiens Год назад

Gabe Newell liked these people so much he hired and contracted them to make a game about them.

@protocetid Год назад

the amount of stuff taken from real life makes the game half real heh

@zerbutterftw Месяц назад

hlfaf lifbe twoo 😱😱

@Someone_1994 Год назад

thank you for making the video because i always had this thought and i never bothered to check until this video

@atotiten Год назад

Imagine your teacher being g-man. Time...to submit your assignments doctor freeman.

@bestbleb7264 10 месяцев назад

I feel bad for the ones who get seen by kids as skibidi toilets people

@urazoktay7940 8 месяцев назад

Amazing video, throughly enjoyed it. Thank you.

@jaski4022 Год назад

Use normal people that you can casually see on the street as the faces of some of the most popular and beloved characters in videogame history is genius. It just makes the game much more realistic and grounded than using big actors with hundreds of movies.

@-Zakhiel- Год назад

Also, it costs almost nothing $

@endi7097 Год назад

the guy who became the G-man was "the right man, in the right place" we could say

@BlueAmpharos Год назад

12:28 "The right man in the wrong place can make ALL the differrrenccccce in the world."

@crank1point3 7 месяцев назад

very informative video. awesome stuff man keep it up!

@fathergrigori-halflife-2 Год назад

6:33 someone said father grigori?

@YourLocalDrugDealer69 7 месяцев назад

*HOLY CRAP HO- OMG ITS THE MAD MAN HIMSELF*

@pavlotretiakov2130 Год назад

Rip to a real one😔✊️

@jackjezewski7270 Год назад

I find it more surprising that the old man citizen is the most athletic I was not actually expecting that.

@jjforcebreaker Год назад

Fascinating. Great work!

@letsgame9740 Год назад

12:12 it literally says in the end of half life Alex that he died may you RIP (insert unknown name here)

@fiskburger Год назад

9:57 low key thought that was Trent Reznor

@John-mp4qc 11 месяцев назад

Male 07 is skibidi toilet

@AudioEsoterixxx Год назад

THE FACE OF THE MALE RESISTANCE FIGHTER IS LARRY FUCKING HEARD?? LEGENDARY DEEP HOUSE PRODUCER???

@lemonbreadsf3828 Год назад

you should do a video on half life's voice actors. i think there's some pretty cool trivia to be found there (such as how barney's va also voiced mczee from microsoft 3d movie maker or how little amount of voice actors there are for hl1)

@wholefttheydogatcentralpoint Год назад

I know it's not really the focus of the channel, but I'd love to see a video like this about the l4d characters! Just finished watching, and I gotta say, the situation with Eli's face actor really is quite an injustice... Even outside of in-game lore, half life has an... Interesting history.

@wealthybone2990 Год назад

Wait the characters faces are based on real people? So do most valve games actually use real faces? But this is actually really cool to know and I probably wouldn't never known and it's nice to know who these people are and what they're probably doing these days. Getting so used to half life it's like kinda uncanny seeing this people irl and I'd probably would mistaken them for their character lol.

@toomerboomer2772 Год назад

Yeah, Chell in Portal 2 (not sure about the first game) is actually modeled after the same person who voices Samus in Smash Bros

@lol3342 Год назад

Hey its you!

@jensen1646 Год назад

Most game characters' faces are based on real faces. More and more companies are starting to use the same person for the face, voice, and mocap captures.

@CAMSLAYER13 Год назад

Even the burned corpse is a real person

@unoriginalperson72 Год назад

@@CAMSLAYER13 Old news bro, nobody cares anymore

@NoNameTaken117 Год назад

I still remember the time when I found out that the hl2 models were actual people, I was scared of that fact because I thought actual people were trapped in the game and I was killing them just for my enjoyment while they were being tortured... Anyways I had a good childhood!

@naturesquad9174 Год назад

1:51 I thought he was about to say something else here

@poultry1 Год назад

its probably been said a million times but just the thought of a half life fan getting his dad in hl2 is amazing

@oblivion5619 Год назад

9:22 YO THIS IS THE GUY THAT MADE THAT "Can You Feel It?" SONG IN GTA SAN ANDREAS LOL

@surytrap Год назад

"lets start with most iconic character of all" so who is the real male_07 "the g-man-"

@JONNYTUBSTER Год назад

Shoutout Mr Fingers! I never knew he was the face of that NPC, that’s bloody amazing! Mr Fingers is such a pivotal producer in electronic music especially acid house. Can’t beat the amnesia compilation, bit dated but damn it’s fuckin great at where the squelchy, chunky house sound originates from

@zaammy3584 Год назад

as much as I think Ted Cohrt is probably a swell guy, that photo of him is just deeply unsettling for some reason.

@mello_bread_art Год назад

They shouldve gotten them together and made a movie. Also i can't imagine how i'd feel if i saw Dr. Kleiner on the street lol

@ArachnoPyro Год назад

I had many hours many valve games and yet this channel teaches me new things every video

@wailmutt Год назад

0:09 perfect wording for gorgeous freeman

@creepersammyb2926 Год назад

oh god seeing the faces of the characters alongside the real faces feels so.... uncanny.... but AWESOME AT THE SAME TIME.

@creepersammyb2926 Год назад

they're all just so..... *accurate.*

@creepersammyb2926 Год назад

I'd immediately recognize the people whose faces were used for G-Man, Eli Vance, and Kleiner. It's insane!

@FissionMetroid101 Год назад

Male07's face actor being named "Michael Smith" is so damn fitting

@tob_mb3736 Год назад

BRO I am a HUGE house nerd and Larry Heard is one of my FAVORITE artists. TO HEAR HE WAS IN ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES???? Dude I love you, subscribed

@ocktowi5317 Год назад

Wait a minute! Larry Heard! That is extremely interesting. I was introduced to his music a few years ago during undergrad. I first heard one of his songs ("Crystal Fantasy") on a Stingray Music Channel. I really love his work, and never knew that he played a role in the Half-Life franchise. Nice!