Why Is Half-Life A MASTERPIECE?! 

No, i will not.

Of course sir

Nah

Jesus that opening 🤣

You should try cry of fear

Ayo wait u onto something

But where is Gman? is this his doing by any chance?

Valve, take note of the top comment here.

Neither do act man and Ross or Wayne

I did, and they were kissing

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Doubt it. Gordon Freeman doesnt talk though XD

@@christiananddanyell his crowbar can do the talking

If you comment on all of act mans videos, how come you’re not subscribed to him yet

I finished it today, amazing game

Ah yes half file

You 2 guys need to colab more. Love your vids bud.

great.

No way....ITS YOU!

hey whats up cute lesbian

Please do Collabs With The Act Man

Freeman sends his regards.

All hail the legendary Zanman

The OG kingdom hearts fan. Slayer of weeaboos. I greet thee.

*even angrier crowbar noises*

hey Zancan

It was incredible at the time to see the military soldiers tactically run and hide behind boxes to throw grenades

@@zilliq and putting grenades at his feet and dying thanks to them We'll forgive them because in the ps2 version they can kick the grenades back to you

Even valve admitted that in some ways the HL1 AI was better than the HL2 AI

Search for the AI behavior of the monsters in this game and you'll be truly impressed.

Half Life 1 had some revolutionary AI at the time, but arguably the best AI now goes to FEAR.

a great theory, i've never thought about it like this before such a shame that gearbox ruined this because in both HL expansions you visit xen and are able return to earth afterwards. and even if we decide these games are not cannon, in HL2 when characters are shocked to see you they seem to ask "where have you been" rather than "how are you even here"

@@Gryzly123 well, with Mark Laidlaw out of the picture, I'm sure valve is going to be developing the official canon moving forward (since he actually didn't like the idea of games necessarily having official canon), though it seems to me with the paradoxes present in HL:A that the series could turn into a multi-dimensional, multi-timeline war adventure game where things are canon or not canon depending on what narrative they happen to be going for in each game. In short, I'm worried that valve has bit off more than they can chew, and I'm still not certain that we're going to get HL3, with all the issues in continuity, canon, and story arc.

@@Gryzly123 The theory still works actually. You could return to Earth in the expansions because the Nihlanth was still there to keep the portal to Earth open. Gordon would still be trapped in Xen without the G-Man’s interference because he was there to kill off the Nihilanth, meaning he would have been trapped no matter what afterwards. Asking “where have you been” would also technically work as an appropriate question in this context, but it’s part of a bigger criticism I have with HL2 in general where the characters don’t really act as shocked as I think they should be

@@Gryzly123 Too be fair, the characters in HL2 mainly Eli, Kleiner and Magnusson. Don't send you off to Xen to kill the Nihilanth, nor are really apart of the events that unfold in the later stages of the game/story. Kleiner and Eli last saw Gordon going to the surface with both of them presumably escaping shortly afterwards. Magnusson most probably escaped with both of them. Barney Gtfo'd before the second day. Breen... well as the administrator of Black Mesa (who also had some contact with G-Man) probably was already off site before the events. Also, Judith never got the job and lost out to Gordon. So it's safe to say their reactions are warranted and reasonable. So the nuking of Black Mesa fits in with cannon in my opinion, other wise why would the Combine solely focus on the Borealis when Black Mesa can also be scavenged for teleportation technology that allows them to teleport locally.

Secret plot twist: the true hero of half life is gman

gordon has more phds in fighting than he does in science

Usually how it goes tbh

@@jimmiekarlsson4458 Lol, you kidding? I'd be pissed that I wasted all that money on a Doctorate only for society to immediately implode and render it worthless.

@@patchwurk6652 On the upside, no one is going to be buggin you to pay back all those loans you took out for that doctorate. Downside, the post alien invasion apocalypse isn't the greatest job market for former theoretical physicists.

Id be pretty fucking happy in life.

Half-life 2 is just a glorified tech demo with bad gameplay, low enemy variety and misuse of physics

@@russianoverkill3715 this has to be ragebait

It’s good. It’s more than a port and it’s got it’s own identity.

@@CavinLee You aren’t Act Man! 🫵🏻 That’s a fake mustache!

@@Josh.JustJosh. huh?

@@CavinLee ☝🏻OP asked for the Act Man’s thoughts! I’m starting to think you’re just 2 kids in a trench coat! 🤨

@@Josh.JustJosh. oh, I’m not a channel regular. I was just saying that I’ve played the game and thought it was pretty good.

Valve needs to make a Half Life movie with Act Man as Gordon Freeman

Older act man will look even more similar

Wow, I never fully took-in how old Gordan is when the incident at Black Mesa happens. Don't know who's first day was worst, Leon S. Kennedy's or Gordan Freeman!?

@@warchild4974 it wasnt Gordon's first day, few scientists and guards already knew him before the incident.

@@pawanpoojary7463 well to be fair, some of them may have gone to the same university that Gordon did. Either-way even if it wasn't his official first day, it wasn't a great start to his day at all

@@warchild4974 appparantly he was working as an intern/probably still studying while being at black mesa, thats why scientists know him before his first day of oficially working

@@ishid_anfarded_king yeah that's how I take it, I was stating that for us (as the player) it's his first day on the job and all hell breaks loose

Good, now Play Black mesa, a Dedicated Community Remaster/Remake of the game that can make your balls either explode in absolute shock, or give them an extra 2 ton weight addition on how Incredible it is in general.

Like Team fortress 2

@@macros1852There are too much similarities, Titan Fall 2 even uses a Modified source engine.

OOF that's a tall order, captain

@@TheActMan Well it's a masterpiece sooooooo

@@TheActMan wondering the safe shallows remind you of something Act man would do why *SUBNAUTICA IS TERRIFYING BUT BUGGGY*

@@TheActMan just do each game in small parts to make a normal video, with possibly returning to each game on its own.

Nah do videos on the individual games, they all deserve a separate video

Can they just add black mesa to console? Its really not difficult anymore

cringe

"𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙸 𝚐𝚘, 𝙸 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎."

@@bozoratio7718 how do you do that? Are you on a computer?

Israel start it first by taking land majority of land from Palestine who has been there to minority that is Israrl. UN majority give weapon to them How on earth do you think Palestine start it first if not from your cow bias against Islam?

Yeah. He didn't mention the optional tutorial, so he likely didn't know about it.

Nope and Acting Gods bless that Acting Male

Well when you dump your original fanbase in favor of supporting the Chinese market without actually improving the game and ignoring feedback then I don't know what else to say about the devs.

Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is s awesome

And neither are we as a gaming community PUBG could've been amazing and ground breaking, but they done goofed and now are just a shell of what they could've been.

they made an a$$ of themselves, it was the most pathetic thing when they sued fortnite, how can you be that salty and pathetic?

A cream dream

Lol wake up on a bus with a crow bar fighting soldiers to fighting zombies to then meeting a girl & her robot 😂 definitely the definition of a dream🤣

@@BeastMode-kg7sc and also lets not forget the part where you kill thousands of marines and music is just playing in the background

@@BeastMode-kg7sc aesthetic let that word sink in Crow bar isn’t an aesthetic nor are the aliens

...a dream of crowbars.

I played it for the first time last month, and I absolutely agree. I was coming to it after playing quite an amount of emulated games on PS2. Half Life blew me away for how well crafted it was, to the point that I found it vastly superior to a lot of the PS2 ones (especially in the puzzles department). All around a must recommend for everyone to try at least once

I played this game almost 16 years ago , it was so cool when you go to the other dimension momentarily … epic stuff

CLASSIC

@@TheActMan wondering the safe shallows remind you of something Act man would do why *SUBNAUTICA IS TERRIFYING BUT BUGGGY*

@@mr.lordstarscream1570 subnautica is dope af

@@mr.lordstarscream1570 new ncr ranger huh?

Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome

Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome

Let me get this straight: You comment something that is unrelated to the fact that I have two DANGEROUSLY DASHING girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest RU-vidr ever, having two hot girlfriends is really incredible. Yet you did not mention that at all. I am quite disappointed, dear bas

@@AxxLAfriku That's some interesting channel content you've got there....

@@H3Vtux Bow down

@@AxxLAfriku Oh you're that channel that nobody gives a shit about and I already forgot by the time you read this

FEAR was a brilliant technical showpiece. If it hadn't been for the corporate takeover of the gaming industry about the same time FEAR was being developed, the talent on that team could have brought us some seriously amazing things! The two expansions were what was to be expected back then - decent length campaigns and worth the £12 or so. It was also great of them to release the multiplayer for free. But the consoles becoming the focus of the industry after the vampires took hold and removed power from the creative people in favour of their accountant departments, killed the franchise and turned it into generic trash. I still remember my first playthrough of FEAR with a lowly Radeon 9500 Pro and Athlon 64. The game ran pretty bad, and still I couldn't stop playing till I finished it. The following week I bought a 6800GT, more than doubling my framerate, and played through it again multiple times.

@@TheVanillatech I agree with you completely. It's really a shame what happened to the FEAR series after the first one. FEAR and the expansions are still incredible to this day and are doing some things better than most of the shooters currently. The whole AI was revolutionary at the time where enemies communicated between each other and tried to flank the player as best they could and when their numbers went low, they would try to retreat and cover fire for each other. And the sound design is the best I've heard, like shells dropping on the floor and the sound echoing in the room. On top of that it struck the perfect balance between the fps and horror, where the horror part highly benefited from before mentioned incredible sound design. It's in my top 5 best games.

@@LukeR1M It's a shame what happened to the gaming industry in general BUT that is what happens, whenever an industry becomes profitable, the vampires swoop down and gobble it up. Unfortunately, with creative industries like music and video games, that spells more profit for the 1% but a huge drop in quality of entertainment for the consumers. There is still kickstarter. And a handful of holdouts - it was amazingly refreshing to see what MachineGames did for Wolfenstein and I still firmly believe in Blizzard being able to bring out amazing titles. But from 1992-2004, what a sick time for gaming. Literally every year, the boundaries pushed. Genres being born. Totally original masterpieces coming out of nowhere. And now today - Call Of Duty 27, Tomb Raider 19 and FarCry 144. Almost every game being made for consoles first, with their underwhelming hardware and casual player demographic, then drop ported to PC. No new genre busting titles. No groundbreaking original titles. FEAR was made for PC gamers, for PC hardware, and by talented guys who were fully in control of their own business. As you say, it's astonishing how even today, it hasn't been surpassed in some respects. But now almost every FPS is made with the 8-way directional gamepad as its target control system. You can't HAVE super intelligent an dangerous AI, cos the console players would perma die. Unless you include auto-aim assist, and make the protagonist a bullet sponge with regenerating health. Then you might have just made another COD or Fry Cry or Tombraider! XD

In a couple decades: "Why is Half Life 3 A MASTERPIECE?!"

@@starstorm5338 centuries*

I actually like HL1 better tbh

Better title. "Was Half-Life 2 better then Half-Life?"

@@glctcthnkr8059 still, Half Life 2 is just... A masterpiece, no words other than that, I honestly think Half Life 2 is the best fps ever made, but regardless of that it does absolutely deserve a masterpiece video tbh

Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is s awesome

Now i feel like im not gamer enough that i can only recognize some of them :/

Music at 7:21 please??

@@neilios08 CSGO theme

@@lukkkasz323 thank you!

They are indeed in the same universe.

monster inc. 3

now you're thinking with portals

@@abc-ug5ym If Half-Life is a video game, then what’s Half-Life 2?

@@abc-ug5ym Did you even watch the review and what made this method so good? What the fuck are you even talking about???

@@abc-ug5ym why cant you just have a normal debate about HL2 rather than resorting to insults.

@@abc-ug5ym yeah I wasn't referring to any of that. You said in your last reply "because in your 30s u'll be so fat from screen and mcdonalds I won't even care to reply". So why can't you just debate rather than resulting to childish insults. Also, your grammar and spelling are terrible, i think you should consider reading a novel rather than talking about them on the Internet.

@@abc-ug5ym more childish insults?

"Get a load of this guy, doesn't even know about crouch jumping! He didn't play the training course."

You missed out

I miss Kitty0706 man. We all do miss him.

wow

R.I.P Kitty0706. My introduction to Half-Life was the second game. I only relatively recently played the original, having played Black Mesa first, as well.

RIP

give it 7 hours

@@TheActMan wondering the safe shallows remind you of something Act man would do why *SUBNAUTICA IS TERRIFYING BUT BUGGGY*

Dont be a anti citizen

@@TheActMan *Valve theme plays*

Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome

I wasn't expecting a wholesome comment like this

that’s a very touching story Dr. Butt Hartmann!

That's amazing. Funny enough, I had the exact same experience on the hanging crates section with my older cousins. They said they had been trying to get past that part for 2 days. I got through it on my first try.

Something like this with brother :D

Wholesome

Feed my my coooiiiiiinnsss... Mr. Freemaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn--

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I imagine he grows it back extremely fast.

@@H3Vtux L O L

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Ahh, as a big Half Life fan, now I realize why I also love Dead Space so much. And other shooters with survival-horror & puzzle elements. Thanks for connecting the dots. Those really carry Half Life's inspiration forward & bring back a lot of its vibes, whether intentional or not.

Yes exactly

If you are good enough you can be a action hero

i always like the premise that you are regular civilian or non military proffession try to survive Horror Gordon Freeman: A 27 y.o Scientist Ethan Winters: Maybe an Office Worker Isaac Clarke: CEC 3rd class System Engineer

Especially looking at all of the other scientists who don’t have HEV suits and knowing that if you didn’t have yours you’d be doing just as bad as them

I remember the whole appeal to me for Quake III was the girl in your pfp XD

@@austrakaiser4793 It's actually Doomguy, not Crash, but I get what you're saying ;)

Crouch jumping is probably the first gaming skill I ever learnt, and served me well in all the HL1 engine and source engine games that followed it lol..

@@CalgarGTX same

​@@CalgarGTX Indeed! It's ingrained into my fps gameplay that I do it in games where I probably don't even need to. It just happens subconsciously.

@@CalgarGTXsame with halo

We might get "Why Was Half-Life 3 SO DELAYED?!"

@@TheActMan hint hint

@@TheActMan How to describle the word "pain" in one sentense

@@TheActMan Can we get on why the Yakuza series is a masterpiece or awesome

@@TheActMan Probably because the pressure and expectations are so high that even for HL:a people were expecting a masterpiece. (Which we got imo)

Freemans mind the movie confirmed

Yes

“Those chickens are up to something”

yaaas

Half-Life 2 is garbage though. One of the most overrated video games of all time. Not even being a troll here. That game is disgustingly overrated. Terrible story, terrible writing, terrible characters, terrible shooting. The game was all hype. It is an objectively BAD game, and I expect Act Man here will say as much if he reviews it.

@@jaimealvarado4421 that’s amazing man, like really, force your opinion on us, please.

he looks exactly like this fanmade gordon model www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/comments/fehf86/unofficial_community_made_gordon_freeman_model/

Valve movement shooters in a nutshell

"It's not a bug, it's a FEATURE!" - Valve making the half life tutorial

yep actman plays Call of Duty and not Counter-Strike, or else he would've known

@blu element1235 You don't have to explain about the individual. That is the magic of it.

It's like nobody played the tutorial

me toooooooooooo

Same here, just started playing recently, and its become one of my favorite games, and I was born 6 years after the game came out. Not finished quite yet, am currently on the chapter *Lambda Core*.

Damn does HL1 brings back memories. First played the game in 2005/2006 on a pentium 3 lol.

Better and better until you hit Interloper. Game's still a masterpiece though.

@@jpeg2503 Interloper? Is that a cut level? I never heard of him... nope... never

First played it about 4 years ago on the PC but couldn’t continue due to the door opening glitch at the beginning, now been playing it on the PS2 and I’m definitely getting into it! It’s a great game.

Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome

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Yessir

Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome

@@whiterunguard6415 Skyrim is a tragic failure compared to it's predecessors, and I'd be shocked if Actman himself wasn't aware of this. Oh, except commercially. They marketed it very well.

@@whiterunguard6415 Skyrim wasn’t awesome so why would he make that video,

Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is s awesome

@@whiterunguard6415 It almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

Yeah, he does a pretty good job of explaining how big a deal this was at the time! Man those early death match servers were epic

The whole half-life franchise is a masterpeice. It's like an organism: half-life 1 with opposing force, blue shift and decay are the brain of the half-life world, this games are start of the half-life universe and they are amazing. Half-life 2 with ep1 and ep2 is a heart of half-life franchise, which is give a great plot, characters and one of the best sci-fi world. Half-life Alyx is lungs of the franchise that gave us a breath of fresh air, another revolution in the world of video games, and also developed the world of the Half-Life universe.

@@echo-4656 I have a different analogy to sum up the half life games actually from you. For half life 1 for me, Half-life 1 is the cheeseburger, Opposing Forces is the fries, Blue Shift is the milkshake and Decay is onion rings. Like all this other stuff is unnecessary you just want the burger, but it's nice to have. Before anyone notices, I took these inspirations from Joel vinesauce.

You disagree with me, so I am going to call you a "Naughtsee" and win.

@@Marinealver nazi ur opinion unvalid

A line of based uncles. 😎

Indeed good times....I also remember that I hated when games used to access the disc drive when you were in the middle of gaming because of the horrible drive noise destroying the immersion....the came Steam and you could experience the music without any additional noises 😅

Same for me, for a few years I didn't know there was music at all and I always b believed it was part of the overall sound design / concept

Ngl, i forgot about the ol days where the soundtrack didnt install with the game and was read off the disc.

My game wouldn't load the music for reason. I tried playing recently with the music on and it just seems off. You're right, having no music makes it more immersive.

…HALF-LIFE HAD A SOUNDTRACK!?!

27-28 is around the expected age to finish a phd in physics. Phd programs for physics take around 5 years on average, so if you start undergrad at 18, and go straight from undergrad to phd, you'd be 27 when you finish. Most physicists skip a masters or it's included part way through the phd program

I know people who finish PHD's around their 30s. It's a good thing he has his PhD though so he can skillfully push all those buttons and turn all those valves.

@@illyay1337 Looks like that MIT education really pays for itself...

@@dylanherman2008 I'm turning 26 and I'm still in film school guess I'm an idiot right?

@@yaboydolphin nope, not everyone have the same opportunities.

Truly a masterpiece

The moment Act Freeman became Gordonberg

What's so great about Half-Life's slippery movement? It feels like you're on roller skates the whole time, and there's nothing about it that has any impact on gameplay, besides making things slightly more difficult than need be. It's not even as though the huge amount of air control plays any part unless you're doing speedrunning, and it's not like Unreal for example where there's a dodge mechanic. The only other element is crouch jumping, which is almost a pointless feature.

@@ThisBirdHasFlown Speed, there's a MASSIVE speed difference between HL1 and Black Mesa. It's has a completely different game feel that makes black mesa feel like source game, rather than a goldsource game. Also the slipperyness is just you not having played the game enough. That's not an issue, especially if you can hold a button to walk.

Jarek my man hitting us with FACTS

@@Jarekthegamingdragon I just turned speed on constantly and edited a few settings and it was pretty on-point to the original. I'd have to check to see which settings I changed.

You can turn always run on in Black Mesa for a similar feel

Ayy a fellow RvB fan!

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@@emmywhiten8705 what the fuck is this

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