Half Life 2 is a game people are STILL talking about. What made it so special? Why are people begging for a Half Life 3? Let's talk. Subscribe for more: / gameranxtv
Who else could hear the start dialog in your head. “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Freeman. Wake up and... smell the ashes...”
When this game first came out, not only was I blown away at how much of a jump in realism it was, but also how low the system requirements were and the smooth frame rate.
Yeah, it ran really well on average PCs of its age for such a good looking game, the only issue with HL2 was the loading times. The opposite of HL2 was Crysis, one the most resource hungry games ever, still a very good game, later when we finally got better PCs that were able to run Crysis.
It plays on my laptop lol that thing has trouble playing games with 1/4 of the graphic capacity on low and HL2 runs at high on almost everything with impecable frames
could that be about game engine? I don't know, Source engine really gives you the sense of freedom in the movement, console etc. Maybe that's why the opmitization is so good. Then again, it might not and i might be talking nonsense.
@@bluehornet197 PS3 And Xbox 360 caught and again In 2006 Crysis was revealed and launched in 2007. The game that defeated Crysis was Warhead and then in 2009 Shattered Horizon. 2010 Metro 2033. 2011 Crysis 2. 2012 Far Cry 3. 2013 Crysis 3. So in the 7th generation in every year PC had the best graphics.
I wish I could forget the entire Half Life series, just so I could play it again, and experience it again. The experience of playing Half-Life was so different and so alien and so amazing, that no other game that I've played since has came near it.
yeah, I wish I never looked stuff of it up, cause lil me back then, never had money to buy that, so I was watching gmod videos and going like "tf is that turkey? Holy shit is that a flying whale aircraft thingy? Holy mother of jesus, those soldiers look cool!"
I finally got to experience the feeling the new half life again this year and my god after over 15 years it was not only worth the wait but overcame all possible expectations. If you haven't played Half Life Alyx yet and you can afford a quest 2 for 300 and your PC is up to the task do yourself a favor and play this game. The weight I've felt since Episode 2's ending has finally lifted.
Im sure you have, but after I play, or “complete” a game, I jack up the difficulty and keep my weapons to a minimum, almost creating a different game…almost, not quite. The AI for the time seemed to allow limitless scenarios! 🤷🏻♂️
@@nawlsone586 thank you i just purchased them now haha so i will be playing them both very very soon haha i am SO pumped although i am pretty spoiled by modern graphics haha so idk how i will go with the first game but I will be giving it one hell of a go through haha
@@bluehornet197 if you were to be underwhelmed, consider how much time has passed. HL was like the first game to have serious ai. (When the Marines jump in and start outsmarting you, that was the most mind blowing experience at the time, almost a shock haha)..
Physics still hold up today. They had weight and didn't feel floaty. If something was meant to be heavy it felt like it when it was tossed around or moved.
Rickydo Totally this. People don’t realize it, but back then there were tons of invisible walls that blocked where your character could go, lots of objects that you couldn’t move, or break, or interact with. Even voice-acting in games back then was a treat. Half-Life changed all of that.
The crazy way they delivered it was also amazing at the time. When I downloaded HL2 from steam it was quite the difference to running a CD and being able to play it the day of release without having to go to the store was crazy.
For me the fact these guys made a game of the year game and basically told all the fans to go f%$k themselves by leaving a cliff hanger and never making an ending has made me relegate this game to the I'll never touch it again pile. At this point I wouldn't even steal part 3 let alone buy or borrow it.
I Have one, Half life is one of the most creative game i ever played in my life, the story, Characters, music, everything about Half life is a masterpiece and i still have my Copy of the Half life games, to this day i still think Half life Graphics holds up pretty well and the gameplay never gets old, Every Christmas to New Years i play all Half life games, it became my tradition because i love this game so much
I feel like the best level in Half Life 2, is the citadel. Specifically Our Benefactors. During this chapter you ride inside a pod where you can admire the citadel. You can see gunships being fixed, soldiers frantically trying to deploy, striders exiting to deploy to the city, and the ambience just embraces the alien of it all. It was just so astounding for me when I first experienced it.
Bethesda: You keep buying our games, we're going to keep shoveling shit graphics with our same obsolete, dilapidated engine at you, until you force us to take pride in our graphics and animations. But until that day comes, eat 💩.
@Josh Wallace That''s precisely it isn't it? Beth have grown very satisfied with themselves over their decades of success, by the time they released FO4, they could just barely even bother caring about RPGs anymore. Fo4 was so dumbed down, lazy, and generic, compared to their past work of the last decade. You'd not even recognize it was from the same creative team of Morrowind and FO3. If not for half balked animations, mannequin NPCs, and landscape seams everywhere from a procedural generated computer, that no human ever bothered to come in and fix. Bethesda Softworks is a prime example of a company that gets so fat and lazy with success, becomes blind to criticism, and too satisfied living off past success, with no competition to push them. But I do think they're paying attention to CDPR, if those devs from Poland can't motivate them, then Bethesda is truly creatively and likely morally bankrupt as a RPG developer.
@@minners71 Not true. having sunk hundreds of hours into Half life 2, I can tell you as a fan that it has the best level design out of any first person shooter I've seen, Graphics that still kinda hold up, An absolute blast in every stage. Ravenholm has an amazing horror atmosphere, the lighthouse level is definitely cool, the characters feel real, the physics-based puzzles are fun as all hell, and many other things that make half life 2 revolutionary and fun as fuck
Half Life 2 absolutely holds up, even in 2022. It feels like you were dropped into a story happening around you, and you just turn out to be central to it.
Half-Life 2 is the best game ever made... and for anyone who havent played it yet. its litteraly 0.99 USD on Steam right now. so pick it up.. also portal 1 and portal 2 and episode 1 and episode 2. all below 1 dollar
First level that comes to mind is Ravenholm. There are so many great levels but Ravenholm was truly the first time I ever got to experience horror in a video game. The tone and dark aesthetic behind it was so incredibly genius. It might actually be one of the most interesting, terrifying and atmospheric levels in a game period. It's so iconic within the HL lore and is definitely a highlight of the game and franchise overall.
rodrrico half life 2 is a series of boring physics ‘puzzles’ and average shooting. The canal level is atrocious and overlong. The journey with the buggy and antlions is straight up frustrating. The last level in the tower is an absolute shit show of level design. The flying enemies 🤦🏻♂️. I don’t remember anyone taking about anything other than how impressive the tech was, which I agree with, which is why Gary’s mod is the real MVP here. I don’t think HL2 is average. I think it’s terrible and a great candidate for the most New Kings Clothes of gaming. People who honestly hold HL2 in high regard as a game are sycophants without the perspective or experience of other art an media to discern how completely average it is as a whole.
@@fioredeutchmark I don't even think your own mother could take this seriously. Or you are just taking thr long way of saying, you don't enjoy video games because they cause brain damage..
@@Yggdrasil42 i've played the game back when i was 16 yrs old and i had a blast it was perfect, now these days kids dont know what a good game is, they only know fortnite and graphics lol
Then the title appears ''We don't go to Ravenholm'' then you make 3 steps and there's a sign on the ground that reads ''Ravenholm'' and you're like ''Aw crap.''
Its gmod zombie panic tf2 every source game basically thats half life 2 and still half life 2 people still play the various mods for half life 2 coop zombies etc its a legendary game great memories have been made and are being made with this classic
My favorite part was at the end when you get the modified gravity gun. It could pick up basically anything and throwing combine soldiers around like rag dolls was just amazing fun to me.
Best part of HL2 for me is honestly everything through the boat chase. I just remember finishing that part and being like, “holy shit. I have literally been in a two hour chase sequence and it is exhilarating.” Getting the super gravity gun is also just plain fun.
I finally got around to playing this, and it has outdone nearly every game I've played. Such a pity they never finished the series... Prime example of a TRUE game.
Ravernholm level was always the creepies and most scary level I played, and I played a lot of horror games, but that level really brings the horror out..
i think they got a caught up with all their other projects and HL3 kept getting pushed back again and again and it happened so much that the generation it was made for became the old generation and the new generation had and still dont really have a clue what half life is or how revolutionary it was.
It was a privilege to have been of a certain age when the world was experiencing that game for the first time. Kinda like when Van Halen's 5150 came out when I was 12 years old, it changed me forever.
The best area was the zombie infested resistance outpost after you exit the antlion cave in episode 2. Everything is just so interconnected, that whole area is a single map.
I loved that cave where you have to set up those tri-pod turrets. at each mouth of the tunnels, and when one gets run over, you'd have to rush over to frantically set it up before more come. That game was filled with so many great little moments, besides just the obligatory boss battles standard games only bother with, sandwiched between generic filler. HL2 Ep1 Ep2, had zero filler. Adrenaline rush, and clever set ups, from moment to moment.
The road-trip to White Forest, in Episode 2, is my favourite part of the game. It's this lonely ride through the war-torn countryside that has so much atmosphere to it, and unlike the hovercraft ride in the main game, isn't a chore to travel.
haha yup i remember pulling all nighters just checking out the realtime physics....wait you can pin characters to walls with the crossbow bolt AND theye still physicall simulate??? incredible. Garrys mod was a dream come true when it came out after I was a part of the source weapon creation modding community for a handful of years CS 1.6/CZ days
Many of us saw some of that already in the first Far Cry. They just made sure to demonstrate the physics engine in HL2 a lot more, almost as a demonstration.
@@FrederickdA And of course on the hype that it was a new Half Life. I also think the leaked beta helped to sell it, it created quite a bit of downloads as people wanted to try it based on the demos they had seen and seen it happen in their own systems. Personally I had fun with it, but I never felt like I played a real classic.
@Souper Effective You sure about that? Because you didn't like it, doesn't mean no one did. Sure, it was different compared to Doom 1 and 2. But it wasn't a bad game at all. And sure, not everyone liked it. But not everyone dislikes it either.
The only thing that legitimately bugged me in the slightest amount was the whole "Hey, it's me, from Black Mesa!" that came from a lot of the characters... Which is it. The rest of the game to me was flawless.
Ugh. I hate cliffhangers like that, but I loved HL1. Yes, that was a cliffhanger as well, but in light of what the franchise turned into, I'd rather imagine my own further adventures for Doctor Freeman from HL2 onwards, than use the actual material.
I remember learning about game mechanics and what makes a good game, flow state and all that stuff in school (learned game design). I never played Half-Life 2 before, so a good friend invited me (we lived in the same appartment block) to come over that day, get high as a kite and play HL2. I'm usually a bit unmotivated when it comes to playing "older" games, but holy shit. I sat there and played, while we were smoking weed and my buddy just watched me being completely blown away by this game with a big smile on his face. I think we played until Ravenholm that day and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. The game had it all, all the stuff we talked about in class, how it changes from relaxing areas to stressful ones to keep me in my flow, the world building, the characters, everything. I played this game for the first time in my life that day and until now, if someone asked me what the perfect game is, I'd say Half-Life 2.
It's probably a tie between Nova Prospekt, and Ravenholm for my favorite levels. If I had to choose one to be a second, it would definitely be Route Kanal/Water Hazard.
My favourite is definitely Route Kanal/Water Hazard, because you really get a sense of desolation and desperation from it. Highway 17 had some of that but it was a bit on the too-bare side and is an area I think could do with a mild overhaul. The bridge was fantastic though.
@@InnuendoXP canal and water hazard i think are the most beautiful chapters because the water graphics, i remember when a play them for the first time i got really stunned for that reflections and water physics.
I mean, Dishonored is a good example of a more modern game that's stylisticly similar to Half-Life 2, but both projects had Victor Antonov as principal "art director", so it's a bit cheating :D
Best levels for me: that part with the wrecked bridge where you have to get to the other side and back again while a gunship is shooting at you. And the second one, "Our benefactors" chapter where, after you spent the whole game in ruined, filthy areas, you get to that place that seems ordered and immaculate.
I was 7 years old I think, when I first played Half life 2 on my cousin's pc. I didn't understand English. I didn't know who I am, what am I doing, why am I doing. Burnt corpses and zombies everywhere. It was fricking scrary at the time(I was only 7! The only fps game I played before was the first call of duty and I found some sections scary in that game too for some reason...) The only thing that was familiar is the city. I'm from Eastern Europe and the cities look like City17. It made it even more scary because it could have been my city. City 17 seemed to be huge. Of coure it's just an illusion, but I was young and didn't know the tricks developers use. I thaught the combine soliders were aliens. I didn't understand why they murder the people. 5 years passed and I bought a gaming magazin and the gift was half life 2 episode1 and 2. These games were the first on my steam account. I couldn't buy half life 2 because we didn't have credit card, and I couldn't buy on steam. I later bought it on a sale for 2 euros. The Half life series is probably my favourite one(but I love fallout too) If you made it this far: Thank you! And sorry for grammar mistakes.
A Valaki - great story dude. I remember staring at the reflections of the surface of the water for over an hour before starting the mission in the demo. Just beautiful!
@@alarmclock8445 Valve themselves had said that it wont be mouse and keyboard after release, the game is built around VR they can't just change the control scheme willy nilly. Also it's not HL3 canonically it's HL1.5, and if you're going in terms of game order then it's technically HL5 or even HL8 if you count the HL1 expansions. Unless you cite your sources I'm willing to believe that you're full of shit.
Everyone complaining about the title typo and I'm just here at 2:47 scratching my head at them calling the headcrabs, "face-huggers" like this is Alien Isolation or something
God I loved this game so much it’s a masterpiece of storytelling, I’m still salty with Valve for not completing this amazing series.. Going to replay this soon.
Portal was always so much more light-hearted. It was apparently the same universe, but it doesn't feel that way. I don't put totalitarian Eastern European empires alongside companies bankrupting themselves by buying moon dust paint. It feels neat, but it seems like it would be difficult to really put them together in a satisfying way.
@@joshuadungan9577 The world in Portal is as dark as the HL2 one, you can feel it in the general sense of decadence of the facilities. The only reason why it seems more light hearted is because of Cave Johnson. He was Aperture Science's founder, and basically a mad scientist that put pieces of his personality in all of his creations.
Been wondering if Valve would ever release half life 2 episode 3 and have been for as long as i can remember but iv'e kinda lost hope but I don't hesitate to play the game now and then for nostalgic feels
The level design and smooth gameplay was great. However, the sparse story telling caused some character development issues. (Spoiler) For example, Judith's betrayal completely falls flat. A double cross like that is generally done to create some sort of emotion in the audience. For that to happen, there needs to be development around the character to make the betrayal feel despicable. In the case of Judith there is no development prior to that point other than a 10 second conversation in Black Mesa East. So, she is basically a stranger who has given you no reason to put your trust in her. As a result, when she betrays you it comes off as meh because why should you feel a sense of disloyalty from a person you have no reason to trust. I do get its legendary reputation for the physics and its level design and such, but its not perfect. At least for me.
i loved nova prospekt chapters, the enter to the prision and the in prision part, the maps where really nice and give you the impresion to be lock all the time, like asking when you gonna get out of there.
I've tried liking Half Life 2 since I loved HL1, but the level design is just so boring to me. It's constant "drive a long corridor, do action, drive more, do action". It tries so hard to force you to drive through those long, boring and monotonous settings and just repeats that process. HL1 had an interesting setting, everything felt real and surreal at the same time and you couldn't really guess what crazy insane set piece you'd run into next in Black Mesa. With HL2 it's most likely a long corridor disguised as a beach that you drive through.
The laboratories, the caves, the desert, a nuclear plant, military bases, even a trip to another planet, yeah there were very nice places in HL, in contrast HL2 is more plain looking but still a very good game.
Ravenholm. Terrified the hell out of me the first time I played it but it became my favourite level just based on the atmosphere. Hell even the music that plays when you start the chapter and the name of the chapter "we don't go to Ravenholm" is amazing.
True Story: HL2 is older than 80% of Fortnite players.
Holy sh*t
i dont understand fortnite.
I would push that to 90%
thesinaclwon 99.
fortnite is for kids xd
"Gordon Freeman, the fate of the entire human species is in your hands.....here's a crowbar."
😁😁😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
good luck
Lol🤣
Oh hi midnight club still cancelled soz.
Half-Life 3 still cancelled soz
Also you cannot talk about HL2 without talking about the music. The score in this game is phenomenal 👌
What music? You mean the oh fuck oh shit oh God NO sound is playing! Shit is about the hit the fan Ahhhhhhh! Take cover!
That soundtrack that plays on bridge hits you deep. Excellent score
+Dean Terrell
Also, the AI is just simply insane even for today's standards.
@Psychedelic Drug User it's very subtle but very immersive at the same time.
Ikr vortal combat is my fav.
For me HL2 is just the perfect game. There isnt any other game that i can play every year and still enjoy.
Hellblade is a GREAT second best game
@@chrismarzarella2106 I saw it on sale in steam i was thinking about buying it. I have been looking at that game for a while.
Last week I finished "The Last of Us" on PS4.....I wasnt so blown away from a game since the HL2. And that is saying something for me!
@@postrock I want to play that game so much but i dont want to buy a ps4 just for it. I will wait for the ps4 to get cheaper and i will play it :D
The Last of Us and Half Life 2 are in my top 3 favourite games of all time. I have played them over and over.
Who else could hear the start dialog in your head.
“The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Freeman. Wake up and... smell the ashes...”
Gustavo Rodriguez “sometimes, I dream about Cheese”
"prepare for unforeseen consequences..."
Or the first HL. Gordon. Gordon! you're late again. Oh I see Gordon's late again. Here he comes now, late again!
I feel like I just got into a time machine.
With that weird pausing. Makes the g-man feel kind of non-human right away.
When this game first came out, not only was I blown away at how much of a jump in realism it was, but also how low the system requirements were and the smooth frame rate.
Yeah, it ran really well on average PCs of its age for such a good looking game, the only issue with HL2 was the loading times. The opposite of HL2 was Crysis, one the most resource hungry games ever, still a very good game, later when we finally got better PCs that were able to run Crysis.
@@danielgomez7236 I played HL2 E1 and E2 on my Intel Celeron Powered laptop. It ran at a stable 30fps in high graphics settings.
It plays on my laptop lol that thing has trouble playing games with 1/4 of the graphic capacity on low and HL2 runs at high on almost everything with impecable frames
could that be about game engine? I don't know, Source engine really gives you the sense of freedom in the movement, console etc. Maybe that's why the opmitization is so good.
Then again, it might not and i might be talking nonsense.
It's amazing, the game still works just fine on my old windows 7 laptop.
The water graphics were mind boggling too. This was the game that finally pried me away from Quake 2.
I was blown away by the water in this video lol 2004 this came out and game consoles only caught up in the PS3 and 360 days
@@bluehornet197 PS3 And Xbox 360 caught and again In 2006 Crysis was revealed and launched in 2007. The game that defeated Crysis was Warhead and then in 2009 Shattered Horizon. 2010 Metro 2033. 2011 Crysis 2. 2012 Far Cry 3. 2013 Crysis 3. So in the 7th generation in every year PC had the best graphics.
I wish I could forget the entire Half Life series, just so I could play it again, and experience it again. The experience of playing Half-Life was so different and so alien and so amazing, that no other game that I've played since has came near it.
Let's continue our journey
I played Half Life a decade ago. And I legitimately have forgotten most of it. I'll enjoy it when I get back into it.
yeah, I wish I never looked stuff of it up, cause lil me back then, never had money to buy that, so I was watching gmod videos and going like "tf is that turkey? Holy shit is that a flying whale aircraft thingy? Holy mother of jesus, those soldiers look cool!"
I finally got to experience the feeling the new half life again this year and my god after over 15 years it was not only worth the wait but overcame all possible expectations. If you haven't played Half Life Alyx yet and you can afford a quest 2 for 300 and your PC is up to the task do yourself a favor and play this game. The weight I've felt since Episode 2's ending has finally lifted.
Im sure you have, but after I play, or “complete” a game, I jack up the difficulty and keep my weapons to a minimum, almost creating a different game…almost, not quite. The AI for the time seemed to allow limitless scenarios! 🤷🏻♂️
What a rare gem Half Life 2 was, im glad i got to experience it the day it came out. Fond memories.
I am actually buying both half life games today never have i played them because i couldn't afford a PC
@@bluehornet197 your gonna love it, congrats.
@@nawlsone586 thank you i just purchased them now haha so i will be playing them both very very soon haha i am SO pumped although i am pretty spoiled by modern graphics haha so idk how i will go with the first game but I will be giving it one hell of a go through haha
game was really buggy for a lot of people on release to be fair
@@bluehornet197 if you were to be underwhelmed, consider how much time has passed. HL was like the first game to have serious ai. (When the Marines jump in and start outsmarting you, that was the most mind blowing experience at the time, almost a shock haha)..
"We don't go to Ravenholm" is the best stage. Creepy atmosphere, deep back story, emotional scenes, heart-wrenching moments, etc. RIP father Grig.
I thought he did not die
@@Mklb22 he didn't die lol he just took shelter inside the building that had tombs in it.
@@grIMAG3 It is unknown whether he survived the destruction of the Citadel though.
@ Ravenholm is quite a bit outside city 17, the airboat sequence showed that
totally agree
Physics still hold up today. They had weight and didn't feel floaty. If something was meant to be heavy it felt like it when it was tossed around or moved.
It's great. Just look at the boat being crashed into at the start of the video.
When I was a kid I was used to stuff like n64 and ps1 games.
When I installed hl2 on my pc I just couldn't believe my eyes.
It was something else.
I remember the gravity gun's physics totally blowing my mind like....this shit is unreal! Lol
Rickydo Totally this. People don’t realize it, but back then there were tons of invisible walls that blocked where your character could go, lots of objects that you couldn’t move, or break, or interact with. Even voice-acting in games back then was a treat. Half-Life changed all of that.
The crazy way they delivered it was also amazing at the time. When I downloaded HL2 from steam it was quite the difference to running a CD and being able to play it the day of release without having to go to the store was crazy.
More surprised u had one that can use it
i played half life 1 on pc and was blown away, played half life 2 on xbox and it was still utterly brilliant.
Normal people: Why was Half-Life 2 a big deal?
Gameranx: *_What_* was Half-Life 2 a big deal?
Normal people: accept it's a typo and enjoy the video without whining..
@@MorrisseyMuse
_See:_ Ironic
_See:_ Joke
@@MorrisseyMuse or is it?! Maybe we dont have the iq high enough to understand
Woah
Me: What made Half-Life 2 a big deal?
Dammit! I’m trying to find comments about people opinion on HL, instead I find comments about the title error...
Yea it's annoying
So if I wanted to know just where Falcon goes to find stock photos of douchebags you'd be angry with me?
For me the fact these guys made a game of the year game and basically told all the fans to go f%$k themselves by leaving a cliff hanger and never making an ending has made me relegate this game to the I'll never touch it again pile. At this point I wouldn't even steal part 3 let alone buy or borrow it.
Doing the same thing
I Have one, Half life is one of the most creative game i ever played in my life, the story, Characters, music, everything about Half life is a masterpiece and i still have my Copy of the Half life games, to this day i still think Half life Graphics holds up pretty well and the gameplay never gets old, Every Christmas to New Years i play all Half life games, it became my tradition because i love this game so much
It's one of the best games I've ever played. Period.
Have you played rdr2?
Kyle Bracken agreed that air boat level is insane
@@Kinobambino rdr2 has an insane story but very wak gameplay
@@Jane-qh2yd Witcher 3 Beats RDR2 imo
Rise and shine gordon freeman rise and shine
I feel like the best level in Half Life 2, is the citadel. Specifically Our Benefactors. During this chapter you ride inside a pod where you can admire the citadel. You can see gunships being fixed, soldiers frantically trying to deploy, striders exiting to deploy to the city, and the ambience just embraces the alien of it all. It was just so astounding for me when I first experienced it.
Ditto.
That part still gives me the chills and I've played the game for... I don't know how many times.
Well, HL2 faces look much better than the ones on Skyrim or Fallout 76...
Or Anthem
@@eshcroft3942 no, anthem is fine, the rest aren't.
Bethesda: You keep buying our games, we're going to keep shoveling shit graphics with our same obsolete, dilapidated engine at you, until you force us to take pride in our graphics and animations. But until that day comes, eat 💩.
@Josh Wallace That''s precisely it isn't it? Beth have grown very satisfied with themselves over their decades of success, by the time they released FO4, they could just barely even bother caring about RPGs anymore. Fo4 was so dumbed down, lazy, and generic, compared to their past work of the last decade. You'd not even recognize it was from the same creative team of Morrowind and FO3. If not for half balked animations, mannequin NPCs, and landscape seams everywhere from a procedural generated computer, that no human ever bothered to come in and fix.
Bethesda Softworks is a prime example of a company that gets so fat and lazy with success, becomes blind to criticism, and too satisfied living off past success, with no competition to push them.
But I do think they're paying attention to CDPR, if those devs from Poland can't motivate them, then Bethesda is truly creatively and likely morally bankrupt as a RPG developer.
I disagree i think skyrim was okay in my opinion not great but not bad
I’m not crying, I just have a crowbar in my eye.
I'd get it out of there if I was you
That must be blood then
Hunt down the freeman be like
Half life 2 greater than any first person shooter to this day
Lol OK here's my opinion half life most overrated game series of all time.
@@minners71 correction: bioshock
@@sydnilatiolais1282 Yes that as well both games are boring as fuck.
@@minners71 Lol that's just simply not true.
@@minners71 Not true. having sunk hundreds of hours into Half life 2, I can tell you as a fan that it has the best level design out of any first person shooter I've seen, Graphics that still kinda hold up, An absolute blast in every stage. Ravenholm has an amazing horror atmosphere, the lighthouse level is definitely cool, the characters feel real, the physics-based puzzles are fun as all hell, and many other things that make half life 2 revolutionary and fun as fuck
Half Life 2 absolutely holds up, even in 2022. It feels like you were dropped into a story happening around you, and you just turn out to be central to it.
Half-Life 2 is the best game ever made... and for anyone who havent played it yet. its litteraly 0.99 USD on Steam right now. so pick it up.. also portal 1 and portal 2 and episode 1 and episode 2. all below 1 dollar
Quick shoutout to Black Mesa which is getting the Xen update in November and is a great way to get introduced to the Half Life universe.
Its a great game but cant touch QUAKE 2 or DOOM 3 :)
@@ashdoglsu sorry but half life 2 is way better than doom 3 and quake 2. Still cant touch halo CE tho.
@@awayforthewin1325 hl2 is better than halo, but neither compare to Doom 1 and 2.
@@S7Gama there you go with that bs
Ravenholm was scary but very fun... as in the slicing alien zombies with a flying saw blade part
"We don't go to ravenholm" best part of the game
I was scared of the guys with the face huggers that jump at you
Launching that blade, ripping the zombie in half with such authority. So satisfying.
@Hukodz bruh I nearly shit my mf pants
the clunk clunk of them climbing up the drainpipes! You cower down and hope they don't jump when they get to the top. Awesome game.
I could recommend this game to almost everyone... It's that good.
crazyfunkystyle66 It was boring. Good story, but repetitive fights
@@atomicshrimpFT Nah , all the sections that u pass makes the experience dinamic as fuck
@@atomicshrimpFT i dunno about u or how u played Half life 2
But there is nothing repetetive
Awakened Garou What? yes It sometime feels like arena shooting
I don’t know if I’m stupid but I would walk around for ages and not find the objective,
First level that comes to mind is Ravenholm. There are so many great levels but Ravenholm was truly the first time I ever got to experience horror in a video game. The tone and dark aesthetic behind it was so incredibly genius. It might actually be one of the most interesting, terrifying and atmospheric levels in a game period. It's so iconic within the HL lore and is definitely a highlight of the game and franchise overall.
When i played the game as a teenager i was FUCKING AFRAID of that level. Finished it and never got back until several years later.
Man I REALLY don’t know WHAT was it a big reason...
EDIT: Aight they fixed it.....for now
deal** now IM doing it-
Hahaha
@@odinbone7163 It's contagious...
What was a big deal
It still says it!!! 11 minutes later!
Yes, what was half life 2 a big deal indeed
haha
I hope he will answer other common questions like "what am the sky?" and "why is fire?" and "how does eat food?"
Glad to say I was here while it still says this
I’ll do YOU one better, WHO WAS HALF LIFE 2 A BIG DEAL
Numberonejohnny how do you mess up a title that bad🤦🏻♂️
People who say Half-life 2 was average or lacking story also need to be told how to walk forward. Lacking a few basic chromosomes there.
rodrrico half life 2 is a series of boring physics ‘puzzles’ and average shooting. The canal level is atrocious and overlong. The journey with the buggy and antlions is straight up frustrating. The last level in the tower is an absolute shit show of level design. The flying enemies 🤦🏻♂️.
I don’t remember anyone taking about anything other than how impressive the tech was, which I agree with, which is why Gary’s mod is the real MVP here.
I don’t think HL2 is average. I think it’s terrible and a great candidate for the most New Kings Clothes of gaming.
People who honestly hold HL2 in high regard as a game are sycophants without the perspective or experience of other art an media to discern how completely average it is as a whole.
Nice hot take there, edgelord.
@@fioredeutchmark I don't even think your own mother could take this seriously. Or you are just taking thr long way of saying, you don't enjoy video games because they cause brain damage..
Fiore Deutchmark You probably weren’t around when HL2 came out. It’s easy to criticize looking back from a different era.
@@Yggdrasil42 i've played the game back when i was 16 yrs old and i had a blast it was perfect, now these days kids dont know what a good game is, they only know fortnite and graphics lol
I'm so hyped from the half life alyx announcement that I'm watching every video I see about half life at this point.
im actually trying to beat all the half life games ive owned them for two years but never beaten one
SAYYYYME
Same, cant wait for this masterpiece
@@crodojoe I've beaten HL2, Episode 1 and Lost Coast. Still haven't beat Episode 2 in all these years.
Here before grammer gets Fixed, why was Half-Life a big deal.
G R A M M E R
*gets
@@k0vae nah nah what was half life 2 a big deal?
Gammor!!!!
What made Half-Life 2 a big deal?**
And it still looks better then fallout 76 🤣
*than* Fallout 76. Than means you are comparing.
Not too hard to be honest
@Arriaga Twolooks better than your brain
I’m_Lonely You’re_Lonely thanks man
I remember falling off my chair when i saw this game released and on my friends PC... looking at it like i was looking at a real face
Usually I hate FPS games, but there is something very very special about this game. The atmosphere is just so unique. I'm in love with this game
"That's the old passage to Ravenholm. We don't go there anymore." Still gives me chills
Yeah, and my first thought when she said this was: "She is announcing my next level..."
Then the title appears ''We don't go to Ravenholm''
then you make 3 steps and there's a sign on the ground that reads ''Ravenholm'' and you're like
''Aw crap.''
I'd always crap my pants if i heard something
I had a Arachnophobia
I crapped my pants several times because of that Poison Headcrab
@@jonathanallard2128 bruh we don't go to ravenholm.
Gameranx: So excited to see people’s opinions on half life 2 and its significance.
Comments:
*WHAT* wAs HaLfLiFe 2 a BiG dEaL lmao ExDee
And this is the exact reason we wouldn't be able to stop a combine Invasion lol
Creator Lockin well we would never be able to...
Its gmod zombie panic tf2 every source game basically thats half life 2 and still half life 2 people still play the various mods for half life 2 coop zombies etc its a legendary game great memories have been made and are being made with this classic
Just re-played this series again... And it was fantastic. Again.
My favorite part was at the end when you get the modified gravity gun. It could pick up basically anything and throwing combine soldiers around like rag dolls was just amazing fun to me.
I'm still left on the cliffhanger from after Episode 2!!! 😭😭😭
You and everyone else who played it....
look up project borealis. a group of people are working on their interpretation of Half Life 3
PhantomTissue
We would probably get a half life 3
It would just be from a long time from now.
And probably not as good ):
@@h.palternativeproduction3514 It'd be a disaster, let's just face it man the soul that created HL 2 is gone for good...
@@majed8192 He did release his plot outline for HL3 somewhere, though im not sure where to find it
HL2 still looks better than some modern games
Seb like which one?
@@locs13000 pubg.
Clyde Frog
Thats too much. Sure half life 2 looked good, and still looks decent, but PUBG definitely *looks* better
@@user-pp3sv8pu2i Pubg looks shit
@@nova_gazeyou must be playing on "very very very low" "very low" settings.
Basically 1x1 texture resolution
Simply put, "The best game ever made."
I still can't decide: is Half Life 1, or Half Life 2 the greatest PC game of all time?
I'd say Minecraft is better but comparing Minecraft with anything is just kind of unfair. It's a titan.
062234davmar i really hope you are joking
@@leostubbs9379 I'm not. Minecraft has had a huge impact on modern day gaming.
062234davmar impact has not much to do with the quality
Best part of HL2 for me is honestly everything through the boat chase. I just remember finishing that part and being like, “holy shit. I have literally been in a two hour chase sequence and it is exhilarating.”
Getting the super gravity gun is also just plain fun.
I finally got around to playing this, and it has outdone nearly every game I've played.
Such a pity they never finished the series... Prime example of a TRUE game.
*laughs in Alyx*
Oh boy
;)
Agedlikemilk
@@dauzlee2827 wat
Ravenhold was just splendid
Sudden move from science and labs and combine fighting to a horror shooter
That was amazing
We don't go to Ravenholm
*shudders*
Plus the game reveals surprising mechanics with spinning and throwing blades
Viktor Kock Appelgren gotta agree that cutting zombies in half with sawblades is hella fun though
I get so happy when I see that people still makes hl2 videos
15 years later still in my top 3 games of all time...
what are the other 2
@@lodeyoI will tell you mine.
1. Terraria
2. HL2
3. TF2
Only 90s kids will remember when there was an error in the title
Why are you reading this they didn’t change it yet tho
Luisma Roberto when they do, this comment will actually make sense
I'm glad I saw this amazing piece of balloon poppin history
I saw it in the notification but watched after it was fixed.
and only 80's kids will remember "I am error".
Just bought it on Steam for €0.90 a freaking bargain!.
but i didn't pay at all
Go get the graphics upgrade mod.
For those who get the versions that are fan made with better graphics...shame ...Pay for it is worth it
It's a fucking old game. You didn't win anything. I got it for 0.10 in Argentien region.
Get the episodes too
half life 1 and 2 (just like thief 1 and 2) SHOWED and did not TELL
like good games
Back when i first played HL2 what wow'ed me the most was water reflection and the sky. Both looked damn realistic.
Ravernholm level was always the creepies and most scary level I played, and I played a lot of horror games, but that level really brings the horror out..
ravenholm is the only horror related thing that has actually given me a proper jumpscare
People still play Half Life 2 Deathmatch and it's cheap on Steam.
Just bought it two days ago. Considering playing it but I don't know if there's enough people
Cola BotelsOVA There really isn’t
I find full 32 player lobbies every time i get on
Just play gmod if y wanna play this online
If you have the orange box they did include it in your library a few years ago
The end of episode 2 was so sad. Valve couldnt figure out how to finish the story
i think they got a caught up with all their other projects and HL3 kept getting pushed back again and again and it happened so much that the generation it was made for became the old generation and the new generation had and still dont really have a clue what half life is or how revolutionary it was.
@kuato lives sad face, also awesome name.
By the time they were launching Steam and almost forgot about making games.
@@danielgomez7236 luckily a new half life game is coming
@@Xenderman if you happen to have a thousand bucks for VR, then yes, a new HL is coming ^^
It was a privilege to have been of a certain age when the world was experiencing that game for the first time. Kinda like when Van Halen's 5150 came out when I was 12 years old, it changed me forever.
The best area was the zombie infested resistance outpost after you exit the antlion cave in episode 2.
Everything is just so interconnected, that whole area is a single map.
I loved that cave where you have to set up those tri-pod turrets. at each mouth of the tunnels, and when one gets run over, you'd have to rush over to frantically set it up before more come. That game was filled with so many great little moments, besides just the obligatory boss battles standard games only bother with, sandwiched between generic filler. HL2 Ep1 Ep2, had zero filler. Adrenaline rush, and clever set ups, from moment to moment.
The government: can't come together to end starvation
UA-cam: comes together to obliterate a single video for poor grammar
Why people want to trust government and put more power into its hands, I'll never know. But the citizens of the USA keep doing that.
It's crazy how people actually make "FUN" of other people because their grammar is bad
Find it funny 90% retards who correct grammar on here use auto correct for every word they type. 😂
@david turton wow what a comeback most of took what little brain cells you have to think of that👏 😒
Here's a tip kids stay in school because you will end up like david turton.
"...also it would be nice if there were a 3rd one, VALVE..."
You're so funny.
The road-trip to White Forest, in Episode 2, is my favourite part of the game. It's this lonely ride through the war-torn countryside that has so much atmosphere to it, and unlike the hovercraft ride in the main game, isn't a chore to travel.
I remember the ragdolls and I was just: "OMFG!"
Except omfg wasn't a thing so no.
haha yup i remember pulling all nighters just checking out the realtime physics....wait you can pin characters to walls with the crossbow bolt AND theye still physicall simulate??? incredible. Garrys mod was a dream come true when it came out after I was a part of the source weapon creation modding community for a handful of years CS 1.6/CZ days
Many of us saw some of that already in the first Far Cry.
They just made sure to demonstrate the physics engine in HL2 a lot more, almost as a demonstration.
@@FrederickdA And of course on the hype that it was a new Half Life. I also think the leaked beta helped to sell it, it created quite a bit of downloads as people wanted to try it based on the demos they had seen and seen it happen in their own systems.
Personally I had fun with it, but I never felt like I played a real classic.
2004 was stacked for shooters
Half Life 2
Halo 2
Doom 3
Battlefront
etc
@Souper Effective You sure about that? Because you didn't like it, doesn't mean no one did. Sure, it was different compared to Doom 1 and 2. But it wasn't a bad game at all. And sure, not everyone liked it. But not everyone dislikes it either.
The game got good reviews. People only say that because it was different from the previous games in the franchise.
@Souper Effective I loved it
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Don’t forget Far Cry The Chronicles of Riddick Unreal tournament 2004 battle field Vietnam !!!!!!
Ravenholm. BRILLIANTLY done. Father Grigori is an unforgettable character.
The only thing that legitimately bugged me in the slightest amount was the whole "Hey, it's me, from Black Mesa!" that came from a lot of the characters...
Which is it. The rest of the game to me was flawless.
_"...Time? Doctor Freeman?"_
_"Is it really, that time again?"_
Ugh. I hate cliffhangers like that, but I loved HL1. Yes, that was a cliffhanger as well, but in light of what the franchise turned into, I'd rather imagine my own further adventures for Doctor Freeman from HL2 onwards, than use the actual material.
I got shivers just by reading this.
Welcome to half life 2. The game that just doesn't frickin' get a sequel.
Wow! Thanks for all the likes! U guys are the best!
It got 2/3rds of a sequel.
>ok
I have half life 3 but they only gave it to me too test and then they never put it out
@@zexsin2117 are you from the future?
They ended with Alex dad dying... And just left it there...
I remember learning about game mechanics and what makes a good game, flow state and all that stuff in school (learned game design).
I never played Half-Life 2 before, so a good friend invited me (we lived in the same appartment block) to come over that day, get high as a kite and play HL2.
I'm usually a bit unmotivated when it comes to playing "older" games, but holy shit. I sat there and played, while we were smoking weed and my buddy just watched me being completely blown away by this game with a big smile on his face.
I think we played until Ravenholm that day and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. The game had it all, all the stuff we talked about in class, how it changes from relaxing areas to stressful ones to keep me in my flow, the world building, the characters, everything.
I played this game for the first time in my life that day and until now, if someone asked me what the perfect game is, I'd say Half-Life 2.
Just finished playing HL2 for the first time, I can confirm that it *does* hold up today
It's probably a tie between Nova Prospekt, and Ravenholm for my favorite levels. If I had to choose one to be a second, it would definitely be Route Kanal/Water Hazard.
yeah men there really good parts there, im going to nova prospekt in this one, its make feel in cage all the time.
My favourite is definitely Route Kanal/Water Hazard, because you really get a sense of desolation and desperation from it.
Highway 17 had some of that but it was a bit on the too-bare side and is an area I think could do with a mild overhaul. The bridge was fantastic though.
@@InnuendoXP canal and water hazard i think are the most beautiful chapters because the water graphics, i remember when a play them for the first time i got really stunned for that reflections and water physics.
I mean, Dishonored is a good example of a more modern game that's stylisticly similar to Half-Life 2, but both projects had Victor Antonov as principal "art director", so it's a bit cheating :D
Best levels for me: that part with the wrecked bridge where you have to get to the other side and back again while a gunship is shooting at you. And the second one, "Our benefactors" chapter where, after you spent the whole game in ruined, filthy areas, you get to that place that seems ordered and immaculate.
Blew my mind when that smokestack on water course tipped over and broke apart. Genuinely was in awe.
We don't go to Ravenholm. And there's a damn good reason behind that. Still the scariest thing I've ever experienced while playing games.
It's genuinely unsettling even at 34 years old
I saw the old title, I screenshoted it, I will save it as a trophy of the imperfections of mankind
Title* Only pointing it out because of the raw irony.
New Ideas Are Scary Did you screenshot it?
@@boiwifeyasmr4U shhh
No, but you can see he edited his comment.
Also, it's screenshot. Not shoted. It's past tense.
11:03 “In the comments let’s talk about the best levels/area” yea sure.
Ok I've never played this but i have a PC now so i think it's time to check steam.
It's kinda overrated. Best part is when the gravity gun gets an upgrade towards the end of the story.
If you're a fan of rich atmospheric dystopian overtones in a fast-paced, physics-based fps, it's right up your alley.
How i wish i was you
@@deant.4382 definitely.
@@Adszdosya i know that feeling all to well.
Thank you for video. Rambles some and I still don’t really know what it is about but all the snippets of info got me interested. Checking steam.
I was 7 years old I think, when I first played Half life 2 on my cousin's pc. I didn't understand English. I didn't know who I am, what am I doing, why am I doing. Burnt corpses and zombies everywhere. It was fricking scrary at the time(I was only 7! The only fps game I played before was the first call of duty and I found some sections scary in that game too for some reason...) The only thing that was familiar is the city. I'm from Eastern Europe and the cities look like City17. It made it even more scary because it could have been my city. City 17 seemed to be huge. Of coure it's just an illusion, but I was young and didn't know the tricks developers use. I thaught the combine soliders were aliens. I didn't understand why they murder the people. 5 years passed and I bought a gaming magazin and the gift was half life 2 episode1 and 2. These games were the first on my steam account. I couldn't buy half life 2 because we didn't have credit card, and I couldn't buy on steam. I later bought it on a sale for 2 euros. The Half life series is probably my favourite one(but I love fallout too)
If you made it this far: Thank you! And sorry for grammar mistakes.
A Valaki - great story dude. I remember staring at the reflections of the surface of the water for over an hour before starting the mission in the demo. Just beautiful!
Community: valve should make a half life 3
Valve: no, I don't think i will.
Funny joke , dont make more pls
Valve now: it's A possibility again
Alyx Vance was the first bad a$$ female companion I can recall. I'm playing Black Mesa again. Sad there's not going to be a Half-Life 3.
I still play hl2 and black Mesa. Best games imo
brickbatz blue shift and opposing force remakes will be released within the next year or two for sure.
Half-Life Alyx, Still not HL3 and VR exclusive.
@@OrangeBox93
Valve themselves said it IS HL3. It'll be Mouse and Keyboard available soon after its release.
@@alarmclock8445 Valve themselves had said that it wont be mouse and keyboard after release, the game is built around VR they can't just change the control scheme willy nilly.
Also it's not HL3 canonically it's HL1.5, and if you're going in terms of game order then it's technically HL5 or even HL8 if you count the HL1 expansions.
Unless you cite your sources I'm willing to believe that you're full of shit.
Dynamic water reflections. Something HL2 did that most games still don't do today.
I'll be honest: Alyx was one of the first characters I had a crush on when I was young...
For me shani from Dune 1
You’re not alone.
weirdos
Christian Grey You mean Chani
@@sydnilatiolais1282 How are they weird? Don't be a judgmental prick.
Everyone complaining about the title typo and I'm just here at 2:47 scratching my head at them calling the headcrabs, "face-huggers" like this is Alien Isolation or something
Thank you! I was looking for this comment.
Idk if I remember correctly, but I think Barney calls em that too
I only found this comment after mine was posted about the same thing (facehuggers)
"We don't go to ravenholm..."
my favorite chapter
Describe someone who is living a very long life: He/She who saw the release of both HL & HL3.
Why all know the glowing rebar launching crossbow was the best, but only if there was more ammo for it
Loved the sound effect too
The best troll of the last decade: Valve's Half Life 3....
Unfortunately so but I'd still love it tho but it doesn't look likely
@@seanstanley7886 After 12 years, you'd be lucky if it wasn't panned as badly as Duke Nukem Forever, if it DOES come out at all.
Half life 2: update is still an amazing game. I play it every year for 15 years
God I loved this game so much it’s a masterpiece of storytelling, I’m still salty with Valve for not completing this amazing series.. Going to replay this soon.
"Count to 3......"
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I love how portal and half life are in the same universe
Portal was always so much more light-hearted. It was apparently the same universe, but it doesn't feel that way. I don't put totalitarian Eastern European empires alongside companies bankrupting themselves by buying moon dust paint. It feels neat, but it seems like it would be difficult to really put them together in a satisfying way.
@@joshuadungan9577 The world in Portal is as dark as the HL2 one, you can feel it in the general sense of decadence of the facilities. The only reason why it seems more light hearted is because of Cave Johnson. He was Aperture Science's founder, and basically a mad scientist that put pieces of his personality in all of his creations.
I literally just replayed this last week for the first time in 15 years. What timing!
Been wondering if Valve would ever release half life 2 episode 3 and have been for as long as i can remember but iv'e kinda lost hope but I don't hesitate to play the game now and then for nostalgic feels
Best level, Ravenholm, I still go back and play that once in a while.
I'll do you one better, *WHY* was Half-Life 2 a big deal?
I'll do YOU one better, *WHO* was Half-Life 2 a big deal?
ATOOTA HOLOOOLOH l’ll do YOU one better, I am half-life 3
I'll do you one better, how was Half-Life 2 a big deal?
I'll do yOu a better one! WHENCE was Half-Life 2 a big deal?
I'LL do you a better one,whomds't is half life 3.
What WAS Half Life 2 a big deal?
PLEASE!! what is that music near-end video?? souls touching :)
The level design and smooth gameplay was great. However, the sparse story telling caused some character development issues. (Spoiler) For example, Judith's betrayal completely falls flat. A double cross like that is generally done to create some sort of emotion in the audience. For that to happen, there needs to be development around the character to make the betrayal feel despicable. In the case of Judith there is no development prior to that point other than a 10 second conversation in Black Mesa East. So, she is basically a stranger who has given you no reason to put your trust in her. As a result, when she betrays you it comes off as meh because why should you feel a sense of disloyalty from a person you have no reason to trust.
I do get its legendary reputation for the physics and its level design and such, but its not perfect. At least for me.
To be honest
I gave no atention to the story and only played it for the Gameplay
I quess i am gona play it again
But this time i am gona pay atention
Because it's not someone you knew it's someone the people around you knew so you can infer the betrayal if you weren't a self obsessed person
I still believe..
They are going to give us something, some day...
Come on Gabe?
My favorite level was the place we don’t go to.
i loved nova prospekt chapters, the enter to the prision and the in prision part, the maps where really nice and give you the impresion to be lock all the time, like asking when you gonna get out of there.
When he started talking about Kabals I couldn't help but think he was talking about that fighter off Mortal Kombat
Narrative, the music everything about this video brought so much Justice and made me feel nostalgic. it made me want to play it again thank you falcon
I've tried liking Half Life 2 since I loved HL1, but the level design is just so boring to me. It's constant "drive a long corridor, do action, drive more, do action". It tries so hard to force you to drive through those long, boring and monotonous settings and just repeats that process.
HL1 had an interesting setting, everything felt real and surreal at the same time and you couldn't really guess what crazy insane set piece you'd run into next in Black Mesa. With HL2 it's most likely a long corridor disguised as a beach that you drive through.
The laboratories, the caves, the desert, a nuclear plant, military bases, even a trip to another planet, yeah there were very nice places in HL, in contrast HL2 is more plain looking but still a very good game.
Ravenholm. Terrified the hell out of me the first time I played it but it became my favourite level just based on the atmosphere. Hell even the music that plays when you start the chapter and the name of the chapter "we don't go to Ravenholm" is amazing.
God that Half life 2 footage was painful. Using an SMG to take down man hacks and badly aimed pistols.