Why Everyone Hates HL2 Cinematic Mod
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In this video I break down arguably the most controversial Half-Life 2 mod ever made: Is it really that bad?
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No thanks
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Ironically, this mod butchered Half-Life 2 in every single way Hollywood would, and got about the same amount of backlash that a Half Life movie actually would get. In that sense, it's a resounding success in everything it aims to achieve.
I'd love for some mad lad to make a DEI Half Life mod JUST to rustle jimmies and see the internet rip itself apart lol
@MrAdamske What are they gonna do, make Alyx blacker?
@ lol yeah she'd look like one of those pointless women force users rom the acolyte or something and somehow be more important to the overall story the Gordan because you know, the white male is worse than Satan in their eyes.
@@MrAdamske you sayin DEI with the hard R or do you just want to to troll people who scream at black people on tv like it's 1948?
also yeah do you just make alyx more black? maybe Mossman hispanic? replace Eli with his wife?
ffs youtube keeps deleting my comments >:( Stuff like terrible writing, jumping from plot point to plot point in a jarring manner and ofc making Alyx like those dumb voice of the force idiots from the Acolyte. Alyx would also be the main driving force of the plot because ofc we gotta have *another* strong female lead while completely disregarding Gordan, Kleiner and Eli. Dog would also somehow be female now.
comparing cinematic mod to the average fallout mod list was actually the nail on the head with this
I'm a big part of fallout modding and I swear something 100x more egregious comes out for a fallout game every week but it just never gets any attention unless it's something like the frontier
@@FranknKitty Its because frontier was a truly massive undertaking. It also had some pretty novel stuff in it like functioning vehicles. Like yeah I see insane crap on nexus every day for literally every game but there's almost never anything that comes out at the scale of frontier.
@@FranknKitty and honestly frontier got so much attention because it had a lot of cool things and good ideas, then randomly throws child play and deathclaw sex at you and its just like "HUH??!!???"
@@FranknKitty There are nude mods for literally anything that can have nude mods. I was browsing mods for NFS Unbound and yup there it is nude character model mod not even two pages in.... in a racing game where you look at your car 95% of the time.
@@flamingscar5263 yeah exactly, frontier had so much hype behind it and it's just that some parts delivered and then some parts make the rest of the mod shit simply because of the relation to those parts
fully-modeled anti-mass spectrometer
Standard insertion procedure for a non-standard Specimen.
Do NOT say that again
Now Gordon, if you could enter the testing chamber we can begin the start up sequence, no your HEV suit should be more then enough protection.
@THECHEESELORD69 my mind too dirty for this ToT
@@RabdoInternetGuy the right specimen using the wrong insertion procedure can make all the difference in the world
The fact that the guy apparently got death threats over this is just baffling to me. Like yeah it's weird, it's cringe but holy shit who the fuck cares that much and why? I hate how quickly people can lose basic human empathy in a hate mob.
This is the internet my friend. At this point its just expected
they couldn't get the genius behind the fully modelled alyx
The amount of gonnerism is harmful but death threats are never really a solution to anything
Probably lied to play victim harder.
@@TedBilk bro was the OG gooner
to be fair, a movie company would absolutely put coke in the middle of a post apocalyptic world to act as the only drinks available
it's like monster energy being in death stranding lmao
No one would have teeth
@@IKEACherryChair coca-Cola. The drink that makes you forget the bad times.
@@Potaogirl-qm3ys Don't drink the Cola! They put something in it to make you forget. I don't even remember how I got here.
Wasn't there a Stallone movie where every restaurant was replaced by Taco Bell or something? Because I swear that was a thing, so a Coca-Cola being the only soda left doesn't feel wrong for a movie adaptation.
as a wise french man once said: "the pornography has already breached our defenses"
You've seen what he's done to our colleagues
And worst of all, he could be any one of us!
it could be you, it could be me! it could EVEN BE-
*head explodes*
@@BlenderB-123 It was obvious! He’s the RED spy!
If this mod really was a tongue-and-cheek jab at Hollywood movies of the mid 2000's then this man is a visionary. We need a modern equivalent of HL:A that parodies streaming service slow-burn series.
I don't think it's entirely a jab if I'm gonna be honest.
Less of a jab more of a love letter
Tongue in cheek?
Doing 'The German Voice' for the Fakefaactory guy was really fun!
Nice video!
@@ESCalation was very awesome to see your cameo in this vid!! 😌
you actually brought on a german to voice it nice...
Kinda sad that Lucia wasn'T the guy, he is even German and all! But still, good job.
Lust auf nen Ausflug zur Bergstraße für ein Interview mit FakeFactory?
@@ESCalation you really ESCalated the video with your part!
The 2025 Cinematic Mod would have Gordon voiced by Chris Pratt
Because he's so cool!
This would be 2023 Mario movie all over again
it would be so awesome, it would be so cool...
@@halfhawk718 holy shit has it already been 2 years
"There's another name you might know me by. The One Free Man."
"Who?"
Half-Life 2: Fully Modeled
Skyrim: Fully Modeled w/ Physics
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Half-Life 2: Won 39 GOTY Awards
Skyrim: Won 227 GOTY Awards
Coincidence?
i think not
we need MORE jiggle physics
even on the men
@@DeadMemeMan MAKE THE MEN MORE BUFF AND OILY, PRONTO!!1!11
@AtlasTheCatYT Tick Tock by Joji plays intensively*.
@AtlasTheCatYT Shiny shirtless Dr Breen flexing his biceps on every screen in City 17 as he gives his speeches
I think not!
This mod honestly doesn’t deserve all the hate it gets
Its extreme campiness, over-sexualization, and crazy visuals perfectly replicate any sort of Michael Bay movie
After all, this mod is supposed to be an insane Hollywood remake
I think they captured it perfectly
Correct.
@@Jerome18921 abysmal dogshit is still abysmal dogshit. Regardless of intention or not.
i agree. it is perfect for what it is
I don't know. If those movies can get critiqued for their disliked qualities, then this mod can also get critiqued for emulating those exact same qualities.
Yeah, the mod author shouldn't be sent _death threats,_ but then I feel like the kneejerk reaction nowadays in response to that swings the pendulum too far in the opposite direction: giving it full immunity to any form of hate via "well, it was _meant_ to feel souless and corporate!"
Well, and you can turn almost all of it off.
**plays cinematic mod**
**gets a game that's exactly like the stereotypical cinematic action movie**
"Oh my god! I should tell the creator to alt+f4 himself!"
i dont think when people hear the word "cinematic" their minds instantly go to that.
@@QuiteFunnyIsnt1tinternet disagrees
@@Drift_Potato402 Well, to be honest... our perception of cinema wasn't ruined back then to the degree it is today.
@@RazorsharpLT Still not worth sending death threats over
@@RazorsharpLT 2011 was when micheal bay was at his peak
Cinematic mod makes everything hollywood-esque cinematic, for better or worse. Its almost a satire of Hollywood casting and redundant overused tropes. Except it isnt satire.
I think if the creator makes it more overt in that it wouldn't get half the hate it got. If he named it something like Half Life 2: The Movie: The Mod people wouldn't go down so hard on this project
it's unintended satire but brilliant satire nonetheless
It’s truly like a movie…An Uwe Boll movie. If you don’t know who that is, google “World’s Worst Movie Director”
its literally a mod made by michael bay
A mod that took its contents seriously and not as a parody. Things could of been different if he presented it as an elaborate joke about Hollywood. Then again, he probably would still face criticism for things like the grafitti.
To be fully honest; If this were a kind of parody mod / commentary about film adaptations and or Hollywood in general, then this would have hit so different.
@@dinobebo it kind of is, maybe people just despised the way it was "Fully Modeled"
@@eurobeataddict103 No, it really wasn't a "parody". It was meant to be 100% serious. That's exactly why people made fun of him
@RazorsharpLT I forgot about that, my bad
@@RazorsharpLT Still, it achieved some of it's goals, didn't it? And even then, it's not fair to make fun of a guy trying to do something he actually enjoyed, where majority of other people would not. If you say what you do say fully seriously though, just goes to show how easily it is to let your human decency slip away, so.. There you go. Oh, right, and the guy means an unintended parody, so you have that too.
damn, all the creator would have had to do was lie a little bit after the fact to get people believing this
8:57 Those cars are from STALKER, GSC doesn't have a problem with people using the models from the original games so they show up absolutely everywhere.
Some of FakeFactory's phrasing in the mod description makes me wonder if the intention was to be a more cynical commentary on Hollywood casting: "Imagine, a Hollywood producer got his hands on the game ~ beautiful people everywhere", which could serve as an explanation as to why civilians are caked in so much makeup.
Given how much overly-sexualised content is throughout the rest of the mod though, it might just be an excuse.
Or maybe the truth is somewhere in-between, perhaps starting out as a cynical commentary on Hollywood beauty standards and getting carried away with the cheesecake along the way.
I think it's the in-between answer. Like, it was neither a cynical commentary nor an unironic thing. It was an artistic vision, pros and cons. Think of it like people who _love_ bad movies. Not just in watching them, but to the point of wanting to make their own works that emulate their favorite parts. Like, for an extremely mainstream example, James Gunn. James Gunn started as a Troma guy. He made Tromeo and Juliet working hand in hand with Lloyd Kaufman. Kaufman discovered James Gunn in the first place. Now, real quick, if you don't know what Tromeo and Juliet is, go look it up. Read the plot summary on Wikipedia. It's a fairly normal level of extreme for Troma movies, by the way.
Back? Now, get what I'm saying about James Gunn? Fast forward to Creature Commandos, where DC lets him go full Gunn with it. You can see the Troma DNA in Creature Commandos now, right? James Gunn _loves_ bad movies of a certain kind, the Troma kind. He _wants_ to make movies like that. I think FakeFactory is the same way: a guy who would never say "oh no that is objectively the best form of movie-making" or even that it's objectively _good_ but rather just "I absolutely love it, fully aware that it's not High Art".
as someone that lives close to germany and talks to a lot germans, i would say no. This is just the way germans talk when they communicate in English, especially older indivduals
The Hdoom dev throwing shade is the epitome of, "Don't throw stones from glass houses."
At least Hdoomguy is transparent with what he's doing, not a cinematic mod for Doom but a hentai one...
@@ThiaGamesBR so was cinematic mod guy. Like RO said at the end, he wasn’t promising a better HL2, just a cinematic one and he delivered. This is the most stereotypical “Hollywood getting its hands on a post apocalyptic game and turning everything up to 11”
@@ThiaGamesBRYeah
@@Darthvader-oc5tp Then again, when people see something labeled as "cinematic" their mind doesnt usually go directly to actual porn
@@ThiaGamesBR being open about it doesn't make it less hypocritical that one guy who made porn stuff is giving someone else shit for making porn stuff
0:19 the guns are literally the MOST memorable thing for me, the amount of times i've seen and heard these weapons in gmod videos is absurd
Admit it… all the guns the except the .357 and spas12 feel weak…
@@JuliaJvn_6 True.. not the alt fire of the spas 12 tho, that shit blast
BAWWOAAWWWW
They look great but honestly don't feel as good as the HL1 ones
@ HL1 has a shit ton of cool weapons!!! i wished hl2 had alien guns
@@JuliaJvn_6 Yep lmao!! Not the alt fire for the spas tho, that shit blasts!!
BO-BOWWOAWWWAWWW
"Fully Modeled"
@@Byzz2077 say that again and won't gonna see your dong and bolls ever again
for the "fully modeled" Alyx, its pretty standard for models to do that, you never know what the model is going to be used for if your selling it, ignoring even the sexual side of things you never know if the person buying the model is going to use it for like med school presentations, if your selling a model, its best to have that model be usable in the most amount of situations to attract the most amount of customers
R34 agrees...
SFM artists: 👀
@@mfaizsyahmi LOL
@@ThiaGamesBR fr
@@ThiaGamesBR Still, this guy has spoken a lot of true words. Not sure if you can deny them that.
Gmod cinematic mod when?
@@ProDoofus bro just look on the workshop lol
@@ProDoofus Fully modelled Krystal.
Fully modeled bouncy balls
@@egg9301finally a grey one
Fully modelled skibidi toilet
If it was REALLY cinematic there would be a Wilhelm scream and a dance party scene
Looking at the cut female characters from HL1 like the female scientists with the almost comical playboy “hot nurse” design. Theres a non zero chance valve would have gone with something like the cleavage Alyx.
I feel this mod kinda shows how valve really made the right decision in designing HL2
assassins
@@ava_ava_ava_ava_ava Eh, I mean they fit the tone of Half-Life 1. Half-Life 1 is more like Evil Dead in it's tone (mainly because Valve wasn't far off from being a small indie company back then so their VAs were all just people at the office) with the scientists being comical and over the top (as demonstrated by the "Einstein" model), so the assassins aren't really that out of place, and soldiers boasting about how none of the scientists fought back, just asking you to to do that kill them, misspelling their threats graffitied on the wall, and leaving you in a trash compactor like a Bond villain instead of just killing you.
@@DarthMcDoomingtonhave you seen Chuck Jones' original character design sheet for the assassin?
@ No but I assume it's even more over the top given most of the Half-Life alpha models are more cartoony and over the top.
@@DarthMcDoomington also we're talking about late 90s 2000s attitude era, that era was obsessed with Skimpy outfits for women.
tbf this is somewhat a perfect representation about: what if a bad holywood producer got his hands in hl2
RAINWORLD PFP
@@Zealot8 no (yes)
I actually found that HDoomguy tweet and funnily enough I found this comment on the post-
“I don't think the guy actually knows how to model, he's using DAZ Studio which is a collection of premade models that have sliders and you can make your very own Oblivion-esq abomination of a waifu. Which yes, some of them do come with a fully modeled vagina.”
-of course he wasn’t experienced in modeling himself he even says that and from this comment he honestly might not have even known that that would be in the models. Of course it’s weird but it seems more like a really ugly coincidence than anything else
I've always thought the hate for this mod was worse than the mod itself. I mean think about getting pissed off over something you have to go out of your way to use. It's not forced on you lol
Yep. It sucks that UA-camrs helped direct even more hate for views
@@LordVader1094 I there's one UA-camrs that actually defend it, he also even take a jab at half life community having an extreme amount of lore/Story purist.
@@walterwhite4398Jarek, right?
He also loves iron sights in HL2 mods when others hate it (I’m not hating on irons in mods either).
@@mothchan3411 from what I read for criticism beyond the character models and fully modelled being optional, there was the grafitti which legit made me wonder "okay how bad are they really beyond a dick drawing on a wall?"
@@TheTimoprimo yep him and funny enough I actually first discovered the cinematic mod via jarek himself
As someone who has played the cinematic mod. I treat it like how I treat the transformers micheal bay movies. It’s not a faithful remaster. It’s not a intelligent and though provoking mod. No. It’s a fun time filled with explosions. Pretty women. Cool gear. And some guy making people go “ hell yeah” it’s something that would make micheal bay proud. And that’s all I need to be happy.
Fully modeled Cervix is still the craziest shit I’ve heard about this
@@BrickFighter13 🤣
16 times the detail
While I do NOT agree with the pure vitriol the creator got, I will agree that was out of pocket and a real WTF moment
My take on that is that he reused a nsfw model that was high poly for alyx and didn't bother to cut it out. In the same way the people making nightmare ghouse used also a naked model as the base for the ghost lady, and just blacked out any risky images from the texture file.
@@onemariobroit’s literally one of those things that’s like…did it have to be there
When I made that mod on the right 14:51 (The thick one) I didnt think it was gonna be featured right next to such classics
Sometimes I regret it
do not, for thou art a king among kings. we thank you dearly.
@idoblenderstuffs Appreciated 😭🙏
Honestly, the most egregious part of your mod is the fact the Alyx isn't even that thick.
@@WastedScoundrel yeah sexualised mods are usually best when you can kinda ignore them since they still mostly fit in
@ B-b-b-but false advertising!
I would like to remind everyone one of the most popular Half-Life mods in recent years, so much so that it actually got news coverage, replaces Alyx with Krystal from Star Fox, even getting Krystal's original voice actor to replace Alyx's lines. And we all know how sexulized that blue fox has become on the internet.
But THIS is the mod that everyone hates?
At the time it was fashionable to hate it, so the brain dead just went along with it (they won't show you their skyrim mods list tho)
Ridiculous, ain't it?
Valve games communities in general are surely something
I mean that one didn't face misrepresentation since it's exactly what it says on the tin and the author DID pay VA for the work so it's harder to get mad about. It's there, it's weird, and it doesn't actually contain anything unexpectedly inappropriate within itself.
Two words: Fully. Modelled.
The character model complaints are IMO overblown given that they are optional. I'm guessing the "fully modelled" parts are there likely because FakeFactory bought an existing model. I do agree that the adult posters and the "toys" should be optional. IMO ignoring the model controversy I think the Cinematic Mod would have been better received if people didn't treat it as a remaster as that's where the primary disconnect between FakeFactory and a vocal part of the community was.
As a sidenote it looks like FakeFactory has lost all interest in this mod as the Cinematic Mod domain now contains some random spam website.
Have you heard of Half life 2 overcharged? things being optional doesnt remove the fact the mod has it
@@WeirdWimp My point is that IMO people have overreacted when it came to the character models. FakeFactory was pretty much driven out of the Half-Lfie modding community over those models even though he gave people the choice not to use them.
From what I recall Half-Life 2 Overcharged is a wacky MMOD-style overhaul mod that was heavily unbalanced and unstable.
@@WeirdWimpovercharged had a virus that blocked people critical of their authors. Cinematic mod did not.
@@WeirdWimp The sun is leaking
@@TheTimoprimo Interesting. I never heard about that. I'm primarily familiar with that mod from Jolly Wangcore's playthrough, though that was over 2 years ago.
i can't help but respect this man for 1 having the courage to share his creation. 2 his initiative in making it all for education and dumb fun. annd 3 the fact his idea of american movie "cinamatics" being pretty accurate.
The sun is leaking
THE SUN IS LEAKING
the sun is leaking
Oh no
The sun is comming
The sun is leaking
Richter is not beating the half life and s@x guy allegation with this one.
Sponsor ends at 2:23
Naming it "Cinematic" was the biggest mistake in my opinion. It seems like far too serious of a name for what it's purpose is. If people knew from the beginning that this was meant to be a satirical take on what HL:2 would be if Hollywood were to get their grubby hands on it.
If he called it the "Hollywood" mod or "Michael Bay's Cinematic" mod or something along those lines, people likely wouldn't have as big if an issue with it, because people would know from the beginning what it's meant to be, a joke.
Sadly, I think this is just an example of people from America not understanding German humour.
Yeah, having the name "cinematic" definitely fooled a lot of people that this would be the ultimate graphical overhaul if you're looking to experience Half-Life 2 in a new way, especially if you were new to PC gaming at the time and just wanted those cool graphical mods you'd see on youtube.
I know it did to me. When I first got into PC gaming back in early 2010s, I started looking for any graphical mods for Half-Life 2. A mod calling itself cinematic is definitely gonna stand out if looking for any graphical overhauls.
Fully agree, besides that I'd give FakeFactory much more credit for his CM2013 mod for being a graphic overhaul than the average reshade preset.
Calling it the "Half Life 2: Directed By Michael Bay Mod" would have elevated it to legendary status. FakeFactory would be considered a saint by modders everywhere. Then again, Michael Bay might have sued FF for that. So I guess "Hollywood Mod" would have worked better.
@ Yeah and put in a description that says "Half-Life 2, but its a bad movie-adaption from the mid to late 2000s"
Gordon, you can play the Half-Life 2 Cinematic Mod, AFTER the test.
Whoopsie.
When you consider that the mod is a perfect representation of what a sleazy cash-grab movie studio would absolutely do with _Half-Life 2_ if it were made into a movie, then the mod is pitch-perfect satire.
Except it isn't satire. And something tells me he came up with the whole "hollywood" idea as a cover. I think the guy just has sleazy fantasies, and chose to release them to the public.
@@unknown_user8449 Considering the adult toys and r34 used for graffiti in the mod he's definitely just a gooner with sleazy fantasies lol
True, I never heard of it before this vid cuz I never played the original HL/2, but just hearing that makes me laugh. An over the top, cheesy Hollywood version of a game sounds hilarious. The fact that he apparently gave the levels an overhaul and changed how they played is pretty cool too.
fully modeled cervix
Commitment. I respect the grind lmao
@@mothchan3411
Mios Dios.
The legends were true.
Based
that's just comical💀
11:29 Options to type in the console for those who prefer no viewbobbing:
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@@The_Endless_Now uhhh nie
14:03 i think this truck on the right is also literally from stalker
There are some other models (if they're from other games or not doesn't matter) like the Mi-6 helicopter or the Kamaz-trucks that are not in the original game. And they fit like a glove, since HL2's world is basically Eastern Europe and all these vehicles are still running there in real life.
7:28 Can't be the only one who thinks cinematic G-man looks a little bit like Elon Musk
Trust me, your not
@@Tom-zs6qe I guarantee you are not
He looks more like Gus Fring
@@VERGIL...- whitewashed Gus Fring☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️/j
The cinematic mod turns Half Life 2 trilogy into a movie.
An Uwe Boll movie.
@@DionneDion Spot on
It's like people completely missed the point of the mod, it's a joke.
A funny joke? I can't tell, but a joke nonetheless.
perhaps if there were more 2000's era memes it'd be more obvious.
10:28 bro forgot to blur the shadow 💀
Well it's a shadow not the actual thing
FULLY MODELED SHADOW
I love infamous things that have a simple qoutes and "fully modeled" and the seemingly innocuous image of a close up of the model is so funny.
fully-edited video
Yo, guy making sprites of DOOM hentai is hilarious and honestly quite impressive, but “fully modeled” is a meme for a reason.
15:08 i've never seen stalker nsfw mods, don't compare it to a cesspool that is the fallout 4 nexusmods page 💀
CBBE for the win
Cinematic Mod also runs at a lower Host Framerate. That's why vehicles feel harder to control, and guns shoot slower.
@RichterOvertime
10:56
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Those are not pine trees, they are cypress trees. They are in the Class 'Pinopsida' but are not even in the same Order or Family as Pines as we know them. Also, these types of trees, gymnosperms as a whole (Pines, Cypress, any non-flowering plant that takes the form of a tree) WOULD be present in these numbers roughly 2-3 decades after nearly all human civilization has collapsed. This type of tree is extremely adept at moving into disturbed environments. Any place which humans clear out and then abandon will rapidly fill in with any kind of tree a layman would call 'Pines'. Also about the 'sandy' chapter afterwards. Pines in general love sandy soil. I live in a region where the soil is sandy, and actually, it looks exactly like what I saw when you showed the fakefactory version of Sandtraps. So strange that it just so happens to be more realistic without trying
You think he actually knew this and put it in the game with that intention or did he just find it to be more "cinematic" than a bare landscape like original hf2
@TrizzyB47 No, obviously he didn't mean to. That's why I added the last sentence in my original comment
Thank you, botanist
It’s strange that they are around the greater city 17 area though considering the combine would probably snuff any life out of the place
@@whoisanarnb I doubt they'd have any reason to randomly uproot or destroy a ton of trees. It's also incredibly costly when it comes to mature ones, since they basically maintain the integrity of the surface around them at that point. Other than using bombs, or some massive change in the composition of Earths atmosphere that disadvantages them, I think they would remain and that the Combine would have minimal interest other than as a possible crop to farm Oxygen from
one word: Fully
Modeled, even
Thank.
God.
Reminds me of "deaths last whisper" mod for FNV. People freaking out over absolutely nothing
The fact he was bullied offline is extreme. Mostly because it’s an optional mod you have to go out of your way to get. I’d understand if it was something hyped or has a lot of online personalities behind, but this is just some random guy doing what he wanted.
The closest mod that got this level of scrunity was Fallout The Frontier, but that made some sense as it was a mod heavily advertised with many channels hyping it up.
Should've replaced the ending of episode 2 with a Linkin park song would've really sold it for me
Good video but I'm surprised you didn't mention Fake Factory Remaster, its pretty much just the maps of Cinematic Mod but with a lot of the more egregious stuff removed and is actually pretty popular.
4:49 why does this looks my sister-in-law… it’s feels weird man…
Your sister-in-law is hot
FULLY MODELED
@@official.ajclaveria FULLY MODELED
You need to work on stealing your brother's wife then!
The male npcs having one model while Alyx having fully modular sexy skin choices (over 50) is the most asian game design you could do to a mod.
@@massgunner4152 what is asian supposed to mean
@@martinpachu7125 Most JRPG's and gacha games have an overdose of clothing options for playable characters.
Enough 2000's platforms had multiple clothing options, but outside of online shooters, western games usually limit costume options.
@@martinpachu7125 you know, everything goes to "women" in thise games, and men get like 2 hats tops
@@martinpachu7125 For example, the average mainline Asian Zombie Escape CS:GO server, MoeUB for example, requires to download 5GB of primarily female character playermodels to join.
In my opinion, i think if it was called the “Hollywood mod” or “movie parody mod”, people probably would’ve laughed along WITH it rather than AT it. Absolutely no reason to send death threats over a damn mod that isn’t even required to play with.
15:30 To be fair Hdoomguy did that because it made sense, i mean it WAS for an adult mod,
cinematic had no reason to make "Fully Moddeled" thing.
tbf HL2 was rated for adults in Germany, so he probably didn't think too hard about it when adding said content. Some commenters also say that he might have gotten the models off of a marketplace, so those bits may have come with it by default.
@@INSAne_DrUNkard damn fr? apologies dint know that.
Yeah, much as one could say its pot and kettle, HDoom was full on nsfw with its content. The fully modeled being in the Cinematic mod wouldn't make much sense unless Fake Factory had some kind of use for it if he knew.
Hdoomguy is so silly with that. How can he call others out on that after what he done? 😂 Cmon fellas.
@@towarzyszmarcin474 I mean, one mod flat out shows itself being a gooner mod. The other tried to be more than just a mod with fancy graphics. Still doesn't excuse the fact you have a fully modelled cervix.
4:25 to be fair I can't say he's wrong on that
Imagine getting mad over someone making a mod that makes the NPCs beautiful. Like how every modded game also has available
15:30 to be fair, at the very least you know what you're getting when you take one glance at HDoom
Still, you lose the ability to critique someone else for doing something like that when you make a whole mod like he did
@unoriginalperson72 you got a point and I partially agree.
My issue with the cinematic mod (apart from the fact that it doesnt really "advertise" itself all that accurately) is that it didnt go all out
honestly, if you're gonna have a fully modeled cervix in the game, the least you could do is feature it
@@unoriginalperson72 I don't think it's exactly comparable. Personally, I think there's a pretty major difference between Mr. "Fully Modeled" over here and HDoom for the reasons Richter mentioned earlier in the video. Alyx is someone you're meant to empathize with, whereas the demons in Doom are literally soulless collections of pixels you're meant to enjoy pummelling in droves. And of course, personally, I think the tweet was pretty clearly more "Hey, remember this? That was crazy, wasn't it?" instead of "omg this is so disgusting"
@@noelleholiday61 yeah that
The whole tweet thing is a bit of a "pot calling the kettle black moment" for sure, but it didnt seem that hostile, Richter got a little too peeved about it lmao
@@noelleholiday61also, with HDoom, you know what the mod is about, while with CM It presents itself as what it is, if Half Life were a Hollywood movie, But when you play it you find these quite explicit and unnecessary stuff without any warning
"Chad Cinematic Mod vs Virgin Hunt Down the Freeman" 💀💀💀
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Fake factory is almost certainly still stuck as a virgin with rage
I've gotta say that FakeFactory using the Obsolete Combine soldiers looks cool. They are kinda "genericized," but I think it adds a little charm to them. Kinda like Trepang2's Horizon PMCs. They look generic asf, but it adds to their charm. It kinda loops back around to being unique.
14:48 No dissing Hatsune Miku on this house
15:15 imo there’s a difference between gooner mods and excessive goonery being found in normal mods
I always found it kinda pathetic that the HL community rallied on crucifying a guy for what was essentially a his Mod version of a Deviant Art account getting put on a grand pedestal to mock and threaten him over, all because people couldn't get over that such things could exist....on the internet of all places. I know it's become trendy to give people shit for having any ounce of perversion in their heart (like anyone out there is utterly devoid of that) but the way this guy was treated over this to me is a bigger black eye to the HL community than the actual mod itself and I commend Richter for being peaceable about it at the end despite himself not personally being a fan of the stuff in it.
8:58 That's because those ARE taken from STALKER! LMAO
@alevegaliolios ong when i saw those cars and immediately had flashbacks to the horrible driving model in the old bulids 😭😭
At least I’m not the only one who noticed
"one of the biggest inside jokes in the community" that Richter didn't even know when he first streamed it.
Tbh i'm surprised how that Alyx model isn't used on some sus sites, kinda wished it was.
Oddly over sexual, weird radical new casting, way too many post-processing effect (after effects), yeah this all sounds like an early to mid 2000's movies, or 10's.
I don't get it how some people can act. This is not an official game released by a big company or game that you paid for, but a fun project made in free time by one man. It's a mod that you don't have to play or even believe that exists. But people act like their family was insulted and have to murder that dude.
I THINK people are not mad to those other mods you mentioned compared to this one, because of the inhertingly nature of it.
All mods you compared for instance are inappropriated or out-of-place by nature - yes, but thats in the title. Its the point of them, and so those interresting in them in specific will download them, and those who aren't can just as easily avoid touching the mod by the title and nature.
"Cinematic Mod" however, is selling itself and its point for being "Cinematic", like remaking and re-imagining half life as if it was picked to be some high-budget hollywood production. Yet, it kinda fails at that often, just as you said through the video, while also adding inappropriated and out-of-touch things to the scene.
The hate on the internet of this mod might have been overblown, and the mod might have technically succeded with its mission (since an movie adaptation of a game like HalfLife would turn out weird like this at the time the mod was released after all), but that doesn't mean the hate isn't warranted in the first place.
Asides from the NSFW, I think it pulls of that 2000’s gritty Hollywood look that a half life 2 movie would’ve had if it were made at the time
As someone who isn't overly critical of certain things, this does look like a neat mod, though I'd definitely tone down some of the NSFW content if given the option to if I ever played this.
I always like the concept of a "half life 2 if it was a soulles film" concept but personally i like the HL2 beta aesthetics mod the most I think. The deeper voice for breen gives him a more commanding presence.
The Atomic Heart Twins are literally fully modeled
10:16 I mean, I'd be *more* concerned if no one in the hyper-oppressed City 17 wacked off
supression field, from what i remember just turns off the sexual functions right
Yeah like, what else is there to do ?
@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87 There's a diary in the bridge section of the game, where a hiding rebel is documenting his frustration with the loud trains coming through.
And how there's nothing else for him to do but shake hands with the ham cucumber.
The answer is that the air and water on the city contained something that stopped population reproduction drive, so yeah, no one were supposed to be wacking off during HL2...
@@ThiaGamesBR wait I thought it was a a radio signal-esqe wave that when a human is under its influence it makes them infertile? Correct me if I’m wrong I haven’t played hl2 in a bit
Gordon dosen't need to hear all this, He's a highly trained professional.
3:10 f u l l y m o d e l l e d
The thing when it comes to mods though, is to not be entilted and weird about it. You essentially just have a huge collage of ready made assets to pick and choose from to mod your game with. Pick the bits you like and use them. Remove the parts you don't like.
"Adult" mods are incredibly popular. I think the reason this mod got a lot of flak from the community is that it's meant to be primarily an audio/visual overhaul, but then it just randomly has sexy Alex and nude posters all over the game. If it was one or the other, people wouldn't have mocked it as much as they did.
That said, it's certainly no reason to harass the creator. Criticism is fair, but the guy was just making a mod to learn some skills and have some fun.
Guy took a note from Uwe Boll's movies
I think honestly it's one of those mods most people will hate but you can't fault the man for sticking to his vision. He did exactly what he said he was gonna do
2:08 massive?
@@gaysloth3535 LOWWW TAPEERRR FADEE (I am going insane)
@Moldova_air THE MEME IS MASSIIIIIIIIIVE
LOWTAPERFADEEEEEEEE
@Moldova_air FULLY MODELED LOW TAPER FADE
I'm losing my sanity right now
It was all just a guy having fun and sharing his work online, cinematic mod really doesn't deserve the hate it got
fully modeled
Bought model
Lol
*f u l l y m o d e l l e d*
they be wastin polygons of something that gamers will never see irl
@@kakyoindonut3213 quite self reflective there, ain't ya? Don't worry, the right lady will come into your life any day now, lad
I wonder if richter would look to the Krystal mod, seeing how even a simple mod of adding Krystal as Alyx is, but with the actual VA
3:38 "sir, a second cinematic mod has hit the moddb page"
DUDE!!! It’s like 100 GB for changing environment and model characters but I just want a character or just a couple of small details.
I always did wonder where the Combine Overwatch Soldiers stored their ammo and whatnot, but I don't need to be suffocated while I'm being presumed to be Freeman.
imagine spending 18,000$ on your mod just for it to be hated by every person in the hl2 community and becoming a huge meme
Mod came out in 2005, there wasn't many mods back in those days and cinematic mod was a new coat of paint that was welcome after beating Hl2 a half dozen times.
people who mad/complain to the point sending a "delete yourself" threat to a guy who make a "OPTIONAL" mods as if this guy is the only modder exists is such a childish and pathetic
Oh and Richter if you pull this video off I might just forgive you for that little debacle on hl2 cinematic mod. You know the one I mean, involving a certain 'Fully-modelled' casserole.
It does look like how a movie adaptation would look
Damn... nothing's happening in the half-life part of the internet, time to dig up cinematic mod for the 10th time
4:48 making it feel like a Micheal Bay movie feels like it goes against everything the Half-Life series stood for
Almost like it's an optional free mod