How One Game Rocked A Community - The Story Behind Hunt Down The Freeman | TRO
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- The Right Opinion: How One Game Rocked A Community - The Story Behind Hunt Down The Freeman | TRO
0:00 - Hunt Down The Freeman
6:30 - Hunt Down The Backstory
13:39 - Hunt Down The Funding
20:49 - Hunt Down The Release
27:29 - Hunt Down The Response
42:30 - Hunt Down The Refund
52:23 - Hunt Down The Controversy
58:32 - Hunt Down The Berkan
1:05:54 - Hunt Down The Conclusion
1:13:11 - Outro & Credits
Intro:
Recently, I have been the recipient of shocking allegations, that I, am frankly astounded anyone would suggest, these are of course, the allegations, that I am in fact, not a gamer.
Fitting reaction of shock
I know my friends, I am as outraged as you are, once again, the pineapple on pizza loving heathens have the audacity to cast doubt on my gamer credentials, needless to say, I would be crying at the club, if it was open. So I guess I will have to debunk these claims by taking on another gamer topic, one which will serve as indisputable evidence for my unflinching gamer status, but for this intro, let’s talk about another curious video game that serves as the backdrop for today’s subject.
Half-Life, it’s a video game, for gamers, like me, who wish to immerse themselves in a first-person shooter with a bit more depth, with the first being released in 1998, the second in 2004, and further successive instalments being released in 2006 and 2007, as well as some additional expansion packs in between. The first game focuses around an individual by the name of Gordon Freeman, who, like many people, triggers an alien invasion when an experiment that he’s running opens up a dimensional rift in time and space. Obviously, antics ensue, and he finds himself up against a diverse plethora of enemies in his mission to return stability to this facility, and the planet alike. Obviously, my synopsis of these games will remain relatively short so I don’t spoil it for anyone planning to play it themselves, but generally speaking it’s considered by many to be one of the greatest games ever published. This is the same story with Half-Life 2, which follows our good friend Gordon a couple decades on after the events of the first, it incorporates many elements present in its predecessor, while adding new features and improving on existing ones. In spite of their shooter status, the series was characterised by its heightened sense of ambition, with Valve President Gabe Newell stating that “if Half-Life 2 isn't viewed as the best PC game of all time, it's going to completely bum out most of the guys on this team”. But Gabe need not have feared, it was released to universal acclaim from reviewers and audiences alike, and is also regarded by many as one of the greatest games of all time.
After the success of the first two games, the developers decided to further metamorphose their approach, with the plan to release a trilogy of episodes, continuing the story from the lens of our protagonist, and a new non-player character by the name of Alyx Vance, a lovely young lady who was present in the previous game, but was now receiving a more prominent role as a companion to Mr. Freeman here. The first two episodes were released to highly positive reception, however, it wasn’t quite equivalent to the rampant appraisal that the previous games had received, though this did not appear to deter them. Episode 3 should have completed the trilogy, and was planned for release in Christmas 2007, however, was initially postponed, and then cancelled following a sequence of delays and changes to company trajectory.
Since then there has been a lot of speculation as to when the long anticipated “Half-Life 3” will be released. In fact, as I’m sure many of you know, there is an infamous meme, revolving around people’s rather excitable nature to seek confirmation of the game’s announcement, indulged by many throughout the industry. On Wikipedia, there is a page exclusively dedicated to documenting unreleased Half-Life games, it seems that in spite of their revered status within gamer society, the hype surrounding prospective Half-Life projects precedes them.
The series have elevated itself to this cult-level status, and wherever there’s a devoted fanbase, there’s typically market potential, combine this with the desire simply for more Half-Life content, yet a significant lack of it in the decade following the uncompleted trilogy, and people were longing for a saviour, holding out for a hero to give them what they wanted, and from the darkness, came an unlikely salvation, but was it the one we needed, or the one we deserved.
Happy New Year guys, have something a bit lighter to start off your year.
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Pog champ
Big video!!
nice
Hunt freeman the down
Happy late new year!
"Sir the aliens are coming"- Petscop player
"Sir the ayys are cooming"- Sheriffdomestic player.
"so guys we did it"
No we're not
We've been compromised!
We are so fucked.
*furry burp enthusiast
"I don't think these guys are scam artists, I just don't think they're artists at all"
I love that quote
hey berkan is the best bad developer of all time i will hear no speaking out against our king.
I'm gonna count that quote as an insult to the entire SFM...
So, some clarification, I knew one of the people that worked on this "game", and I've even seen their work on the L4D2 Steam Workshop, they are extremely well talented as a map designer and even has a dedicated group of testers to make sure the maps were structured well together, that way there wouldn't be a cases of people being attacked by Smokers through a wall or a ceiling, something I've even reported directly to the creator about when I was playing one of their campaigns after all feedback is still feedback so long as it's constructive.
Then comes along HDTF well they did work on the "game" but only as the talent they had which again was map design and I'm sure they did a damn fine job at that but once they were finished with them after that it came down to the level designers on how the maps should flow which from what I can recall was something that my buddy didn't really have much of an input about so they probably were shocked to hear people have issues with the maps feeling disjointed.
I will never get over the “you f’d up my face,” line.
I had an aneurysm just reading your username. ;-;
The aliens are here, we’ve been compromised!
@@Rephical oh colonel..._were so fu*ked !_
I was holding my laughter throughout the whole scene and then *"the aliens are coming, we've been compromised"* launched my sides into orbit.
Pyrocynicals opus
@@Ene-Chan the pinnacle of acting
@@thecannedslap it would be better if he never speak as he read an essay with deep voice....
“Ah colonel, we’re so f*cked” makes me laugh every time I hear it
Pyro's voice is too much.
@@Altzar2011 yeah he has just such a stand out voice it never could have worked
@@Nachocheese-np6it its like Dory talking Whale in that one scene
The aliens are coming! We've been compromised!
its the best line in the game my dood
TRO isn't just a classy man, he's a gamer. That's why he makes so many gaming videos, to remind us that he is in fact 'a gamer.'
As a gaming James I wholeheartedly support my gaming James comrade.
He is a classy gamer.
He's a *classy gamer*
@@gargamel679 yup. Indeed my friend.
TRO is NOT "a gamer".... TRO is "the game."
As someone who actually modded games and learned how to be a 3d artist from it, Berkan is your typical "idea guy" in a mod team. The only difference is he lacked the skills for the project he thought he could do. I do not believe the game's failure is because of actual malice. Just reality catching up to naivete, inexperience, and ego.
Do some people think they can make a game and it will be easy?
@@kummakummakummakummakummac8606 You;d be surprised. I remember there were tons of people posting on forums in the early 2000s asking for "artists and programmers" for a game idea. People who themselves have no skills to contribute, and the ideas themselves are usually extremely ambitious AAA-scale games.
Your profile picture is so familiar. Where is it from?
@@user-jl7cz2pe6d I honestly don't remember.
And probably add: lack of getting the right people to work with him. It takes a great team of modders, I think, to make a successful project. I hope Berkan can see this video to understand why his belief failed him ultimately.
You know that keemstar only agreed to be in it if he was the president and would not take anything else
the ego tripping asshole wants to ego trip. shocker
@@AnymMusic lmao honestly dude who gives a shit
@@andrewbaiocco304 you, if you feel the need to defend keem by acting like he isnt a bit of a dirtbag. "whooo cares or gives a shit its not a big deaaal" Downplaying is still defending, caring and "giving a shit" You can still like him but to not admit he has issues is being naive on purpose.
@@ParasiteEvel never once did i say he wasn't a dirtbag. i was simply inquiring on who cares that he wanted the role as the president; they obviously didn't care to get professional voice actors, so in all honesty who really gives a shit if he wanted a specific role? literally everybody knows he's a fuckin douchebag lmao and i would love for you to tell me when i implied he wasn't.
@@ParasiteEvel also, it's not like the developers sought out voice actors who fit the roles, they wanted a youtuber cast to promote their game. they prioritized advertising the game through these youtubers more than they ever did in the actual art itself. that's why i asked the question: who gives a shit?
“The aliens are coming! We’ve been compromised!”
“Spit it out corporal!”
“Oh colonel we are so fucked”
Beautiful acting pyro
To be fair, he admits how shit it is. Still, keemstars was worse imo
it sounds like an old youtube skit
for the longest time i thought he added that in editing his vid i am only now coming to terms with that existing
the game reminds me of good old days where every mod just straight up ripped gamebanana skins
Gamebanana is a name I havent heard in a century holyfuck
@@thepingy6499 its
crazy cuz , as a gen z kid, I literally only heard about it today when looking up friday night funkin mods . Its like the internet looped back on itself
this game feels like a high budget gmod map lmao
ah yes
OGs remember when it was called FPSBanana
Now all we need is a Fallout The Frontier video. It will complete the unholy trinity of indie/fan-made game controversies: Yandere Sim, HDTF, and finally The Frontier.
Yandere sim is another beast entirely but I agree that HDTF and Frontier part of an unholy trinity and I hope to see another one of these type of disgraces
The frontier really isnt that bad lol
YAS
Frontier and yandere sim are actually pretty fun but the people behind them make me not want to play them
@@deedtheghost the problem with the frontier is that its fun to play, but absolutely trash if you pay any attention to the story. This of course makes it pretty bad in the context that its a mod for the best 3d roleplaying game in the last decade.
A pretty big mistake to have commentary UA-camrs as voices in the game
Cuz If the game sucks they're all just gonna make videos on how bad it is
Annnnd they did. It was fun watching this train wreck getting dissected. That's not some publicity you want when the voice actors shit on the game.
They literally hired a guy who runs a channel called “I Hate Everything”, what did they think would happen?
@@noizepusher7594 Well he did praise The Last Jedi and whined about people hating on it.
@@Edax_Royeaux really????
@@beertlont776 He cites "How can you hate The Last Jedi when it has such strong themes about protecting the light and holding on to hope? I just don't get why people are so negative about it when it's themes of positivity are so strong." or something to that effect, completely making a hypocrite of himself on his Destiny reviews since in that game, you literally fight back the Darkness and he tore those games and DLC a new one.
I refuse to believe that the cast wasn’t a giant joke.
Yes sir president keemstar sir. Hey if trump can be president the bar is real low for keem
I Hate Everything voice a character and he has a video on this. It was certainly not a joke, but he saw it go down the shitter like right after he submitted lines
@@kaydwessie296 That's quite unfortunate really, Alex is the last person i would expect to be apart of this dumpster fire of a project.
@@kaydwessie296 I’m subscribed to him and I watched his video on it. Still blows my mind, though. It’s so funny that it feels fake.
@@Seb2404 "captain the aliens are coming"
I live for these level shit shows, where literally everything goes wrong from start to finish and what's released lives on in infamy forever, things like The Room, Fyre Festival, Dashcon, I could literally watch a Netflix documentary on any of these dumpster fires.
I guess you can count netflix and cuties fiasco on that list
EXACTLY, with all the arguing that people do over the internet, it’s always great to see everyone band together and collectively make fun of something
Who needs Nexflix documentaries when we have TRO?
There actually is a Netflix documentary about Fyre, and it's pretty good!
id add miss officer and mr truffles but that still didnt even get released
this is just TRO's long standing grudge that HDTF didnt hire him to voice a Polynesian Canadian character
Society: “follow your dreams and don’t let anyone stop you.”
HDTFM: *releases*
Society: “no not like that.”
Fallout the Frontier: *releases*
Society: "We said not like that!"
Soceity when
What is HDTFM? (Humor me i'm ignorant)
jabanana hunt down the freeman?
this reminds me of an edit of this meme
Society: -Follow your dreams and don’t let anyone stop you.- Stop using child slaves in mines
Elon Musk: No -not like that-
I can't accept TRO as a gamer until I see him selling his gamer boy bath water
How much would it cost? Not for me, my friend wants to know. And do they take PayPal?
Mmm...Earl Grey. I'll buy it.
I’d buy it just for the meme.
Edit: yes please bathe in just a lot of tea instead of bath water
Gay-mer*
Earl Gay flavored Bathwater
Hunt Down The Freeman: a game so bad that it woke Valve up and made them say "...Okay, maybe it's time to make another Half Life game!"
Thank God half life Alyx was very good
“Hey, a horrible fan game just got released on our store. Everyone hates it, and it seems to be getting a lot of attention. What do you suggest we should do?”
“ *Make a better game to compensate for the fan game.* “
The only good thing came from this
half life alyx started development in 2016
so are you saying making a bad "fan" game can make valve make new entries now we just need bad fan games of team fortress, left 4 dead, portal, and another bad half life game
“Why are they all voiced by me!?”
That cracks me up every time XD
I love Pyro in the thumbnail. he’s obviously excited to be featured in a TRO video
still trying to reconcile with the fact that Berkan Denizyaran used this game as a stepping stone to get hired by Activision & go on to work on COD Mobile.
Talk about failing upwards.
while you're here, can you tell us why you deleted your old vids? (blumhouse, killing floor, etc.)
Well honestly the video only makes me feel even more for the dude. He didnt seem dishonest, just over his head and out of cash lol
The man wasn't an idiot he played us all to get a job
@@NightDany16 Giga Brain plays
President Keemstar is a good laugh every time.
Yeah, I also enjoy his very reserved and lackluster promotion of the game, very amusing.
yEs
To this day, I'm still convinced it was a funny editing prank done by Pyro
The best voice acting bit is "My mama is dead!?"
I'd rather have him really
lol that part with Pyro playing the game and every single one of the guys has his voice is classic.
Hello Captain!
The editor who made you enter his desktop is fucking god tier. Good job, dude, that was hilarious.
I can't help but think about how Cats 2019 tried the same thing. "Look at all the celebrities we got!" Then they rushed the production, didn't really do much rehearsal, butchered a lot of the music, put the orchestra through hell (Sideways has a great video explaining it), and the CGI team had crushing deadlines, and the director refused to put the actors in mo-cap suits. This game project seems to have gone in a similar direction.
That’s a shockingly great parallel. Just how the demo for this game was poorly received like the cats trailer, and then the final projects weren’t much better.
@@godsnintendog Yup, and I forgot the parallel of financing, too. Cats 2019 had a budget big enough to build a quarter of a literal space shuttle. Just goes to show that securing massive financing never guarantees a good final product if the people in charge don't know what they are doing. A story of hubris to be sure.
Only problem is while Cats works great for Broadway, it doesn't work as a feture film, because the plot is paper thin.
@@sapphireannahope8121 I think there were ways they could have gone to make it work, provided they didn't try to do the "grit-filled Oscar-bait realism" thing. That was the biggest mistake of all. The other problem was making Victoria the odd-one-out, because the 4th wall is supposed to break in both the beginning and the end, and Victoria has no reason to pretend like she just learned, "A cat is not a dog!" in the end. :P
@@indigothecat I heard they were debating an animated version of Cats and honestly I feel like they could have made it work in an animated medium. There's room for suspension of disbelief in pure animation that you don't really get with the CGI bullshit they ended up with.
valve was so embarrassed by hunt down the freeman that they released alyx to make up for it
Maybe if we do it again, then we can get another
@@hays4475 Yess! I'm starting work on an awful mod as we speak where you play as the antlion that kills Lazlo in HL2!
@@aarontheperson6867 Awesome! Maybe I'll get into mod making and make a terrible Left 4 dead mod to get another game out of valve XD
@@hays4475 perfect lol!
I’ll get started on a game where you play as lazlo
when a self-appointed "perfectionist" says: "I don't want to release anything because my work has to be perfect” it is a huge red flag.
Part of the experience in sharing an imperfect thing (And put it into testing) is to learn how to improve on it.
"The perfectionist" is a pretty common sign in petty fanfiction
To be fair that is a symptom of perfectionism... with the other part being giving up *because* it's not perfect. But that doesn't excuse the behavior.
its one thing to be a perfectionist but you still have to work within the system youre in. Perfectionist or not, youre still expected to deliver on promises and meet deadlines as per the give-take relationship you have with your audience and anyone with a vested interest in what youre creating like investors or larger gaming companies. You have to show them what you've done within a certain time frame or your audience is going to lose interest and one you lose interest its hard to get it back. Regardless of whether you're personally satisfied with what you've made so far. And thats just the way the gaming community works. Even while being a perfectionist , you still have to honor and respect that thats the environment youre working within and that you have to play ball in order to get more play later on.
Plus proclaiming yourself as a perfectionist is too easy of a way to bullshit other people. I get immediately suspicious when someone cites that as their reasoning for not delivering on their promises. I'm more inclined to believe there are more bullshitters than perfectionists in the world. Even if he was genuinely a perfectionist, even perfectionists have to respect their audience's time and investment in their dream. Making a game isn't your way or the highway.
As a developer you have to abide by the rules of the gaming community or no one is going to care what promises you make or how ambitious your dreams are. And they are basic rules: Respect other people's time and interest in your dream, no one is expecting you to overdeliver on your promises so just deliver on what you promise within a reasonable time frame, if you cant meet your deadline its ok but make having to wait longer worth it, dont make promises you cant keep, dont be a dick to people who try to help you, accept help when you cant reasonably manage on your own, take responsibility for your own faults and recognize when something is your fault.
I was going to leave a funny comment but I’m a perfectionist who needs to get it just right. trust me though, it’s hilarious.
"You think you're so cool with your STICK." I just about fucking died.
that sounded like me playing with my action figures when i was 7
Reminds me of Scopeshot's skit "When you meet another Stick User"
As a wise man once said “hunt down the refund”
Indeed
THE ALIENS ARE COMING!!
I believe he also once called it “shit down the piss shit” so he can’t be that wise
That man also said "sweaty moobs", I guess.
I think you mean "chid predator"
The increasing aggression of "I am a gamer" over time is really rather amusing.
We know people saying that have to be pinapple on pizza lovers.
@@Targisvear Hey now, nothing wrong with pineapple on pizza. Also is he _really_ a gamer? Maybe he's a candy crush player only!
@@Cosplaythief You're pushing it with TRO on so many accounts...
Tro is definitely a gamer bud
Are you doubting his gaming credentials?
TRO I just wanted to make you aware that under the facebook post advertising the Onision documentary on Discovery + it's filled with comments about how you handled the covering of the story ten times better as well as a ton of love on how you're the most underrated top tier youtuber. We are lucky to have you. Thank you.
The snippet of the game was so painful to watch. The voice acting. The fact that the guy kept saying “ughhh. U..ughhhh ughhh..” he just got shot he should act like it.
Yeah, I don't think that's what getting shot sounds like... it sounds like he's just being annoyed by Scarface McMitchellson, rather than being shot by him. In fact, are we even sure he's even being shot? It sounds more like a bad parody of someone being shot or something. "No, I can explain". Real razzie worthy acting there... if they gave out razzies for bad game voice actors. I'd hate to even think Alex(ihe), was even involved with this, but he was. But seriously, President Keemstar just sounds hilarious. It sounds more like a bad SNL skit. How'd the rest of the cast not break down laughing just hearing his stupid performance?! "My fellow Americans". It's just too stupidly hilarious. It's like a joke I'd expect South Park to make or something. And from the way it sounded, it's like they want us to take it seriously! No way! I keep laughing every time I think of how bad that idea was!
Finally, a video about a community that doesn't end in somebody being a P*do. How refreshing.
*Nice work TRO*
Wait until he made a video about FNV: The Frontier.
With its weird lizard fetishes, horny dialogue that makes Houshou Marine chaste by comparison, bizarre politics (Playing as the Enclave is wrong because they're fascist but you can play as Caesar's Legion who literally owns slaves), devs with their heads so far up their own asses they can see the back of their teeth and one of them being a child abuser.
Sky is right there in the thumbnail. Lmao. Speaking too soon
@@DrZuluGaming there's more to it then that, espically with all the drama within the group between certain devs, TKMantis who did call out the lizard stuff but also just got in a lot of arguments, and then him milking the controversy for views and community posts, there was /v/'s siege on the discord and reddit where they took it too far and started harassing all of the developers while posting child porn, and just a lot of hate was spat between both sides
Espically as not all of the team were to balme for the actions of the more fetishist ones, who many of which worked hard to make the mod playable and add in stuff like the driving (too bad the writer of the NCR storyline was so far up his ass that he didn't let anyone else have a say in it)
And Frontier is a Free mod, Hunt Down the Freeman costed money
At least the team wants to take time to fix it up Too (pulling a Shaun Murray and not just running away)
Problem is that V and the people aganist Frontier are so pissed off at the dev team (and again, raided the discord and reddit) that its pissed off the memebers of the discord and people who support the devs who haven't been taken off or left by choice
And thus both sides are memeing eachother and keep getting into arguments over the mod
Which just keeps this all up and going for way too long
Pryocynical was recently accused of grooming an underage boy
@@Redneck_Hero Allegations which turned out to be bs.
"My fellow Americans"
-President Keemstar
I think I missed that part of today's inauguration.
THE ALIENS ARE COMING
@T teg Egg idk i watched pyrocynical's video essay about it. That's how i got to know about this game
@@makchot3263 Same.
@@makchot3263 WE'VE BEEN COMPROMISED!
Bioshock is a example of a game that doesn’t use a lot of cut scenes but you still know the premise of the story
As is most source games as a whole
@@rabidredpanda2888 yep
@@rabidredpanda2888 idk why people find half-life 2's beta more interesting than the actual story we got. it would be fun to theorize how the game would work like that, but, half-life 2's beta had little content. it had barely any story, no combine lore, and everything about the environment of those early levels made the game feel so... artificial. i get that, as they're cut content, but i can't possibly imagine anything to make those environments feel real besides completely changing them up
@@jockeyfield1954 focused more on the combine. We saw much more on how evil they were. Retail just... lacks that part of its story. The combine isn't as evil as beta.
imagine if gabe newell just showed up and said "yup, hunt down freeman is 100% canon guys"
Keemstar as president is an intriguing yet terrifying concept
Someone as egomaniacal as he is would probably try running for president sometime in the future, and I can’t rule out the possibility of him winning 😱
Keem is a MAGA bro, and considering Trump was president I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few decades we have Premier Keemstar
Ah
Unified (Voice)Actor Theory
Who would you prefer as Veep? Morpheus, or a snake-hater?
XD
He's going to cause beef on the administrative level of government if only to have them on Drama Alert
I'm from the future, after the implosion of establishment over unending impeachments, Keemstar raided the White House and decided to set his base of operations there. His Drama Alert went to federal level. Everything changed when the Combine attacked
“Needless to say, I’d be crying at the club, if it were open” christ if that isn’t the 2020-2021 vibe in a nutshell, I don’t know what is
Haha very funny year bad joke
real talk is "clubbing' appealing at all to an introvert without drugs/appreciation for house music???
@@TheBfutgreg Sorry if I misunderstood, but do you mean going to the club only for the music?
@@TheBfutgreg Not really tbh
@@TheBfutgreg dancing/awkwardly jumping up and down in time with music is p fun, sober or not! 😊 so imo yes
The minute I saw cutscenes the first thing that came out of my mouth was “That’s just ignoring the entire point of Half-Life; the Source Engine games as a whole, at that.”
i feel like it’s a lack of innovation. it’s the easy way out. telling a story through a generic, overdone cutscene instead of a creative, unconventional way to tell a story. it’s clear the dev didn’t know what he was doing and this is more proof lol.
At least they look somewhat good.
The first two cutscenes worked because they only took control from you in a context that would make sense (establishing the past of Mitchell and being kicked to the ground by “Gordon”). Once the cutscenes started taking place outside of Mitchell’s perspective though, that’s when the Half Life method of storytelling was lost.
The biggest problem with TRO's videos is that they're so good that it hurts waiting for the next one. I don't want TRO to change anything about how his videos are made, I just want to be able to fast forward to when the next one releases.
I feel that, almost 3 whole months but its gonna be worth it, last time we waited this long we got nikacado avocados vid which was 4 hours long
@@user-en4hd1er3z Yeah, that was a SOLID video. I just wanna fast travel to whenever that next upload is lol
I love everything Half Life related, but Hunt Down the Freeman does not bring me joy
All hunt down the Freeman no half life makes aleks a dull boy
It’s only as related as that one cousin you find out you have right after you win the lottery
Idk, I find “you fucked up my face” to be amusing.
But it does bring joy to see everyone trashing it
@@toolatetothestory you fucked up my face
"Daddy, what's Hunt Down the Freeman?"
"Hunt Down the Freeman... now that's a name I haven't heard in years..."
Don't talk to me! I am famous! Don't dislike my good good GOOD videos! Don't talk to me, dear br
Has it been years already
Damn
Yeah, it feels like it was just yesterday when the game was released
@@BeatRiceIsHere
I still remember the shit storm that happened when it came out
Kid: I want Half Life 3
Mum: We have Half Life 3 at home
Half Life 3 at home:
President Keemstar is an existential nightmare that will keep me up at night in fear
Sir! the aliens are "coming", "spit it out" corporal!, ohh colonel... we are so "fucked"
The day that ‘somehulabaloo’ stops being a patreon supporter and I don’t get to hear his name at the end will be a sad day, if it ever comes.
the way TRO says it is so flavorful
Honestly, I'm so used to hearing SomeHulabaloo's name pronounced at the end of his videos that I'd somehow assumed it was part of his outro.
@@icybeverage9276 In a way, it is.
"Hunt Down the Freeman isn't a tragedy, it's a comedy." -Joker, probably
Well, the tens and thousands of people who disliked it on Steam surely forgot to laugh if that's the case.
@@theotv5522 Who says they aren’t laughing?
✊🤡👉🗺️
@@vallisdaemonum255 We speak words here sir.
@@fdsajfldaskjf Leaders of the free world consist entirely of carnival, circus or sideshow-like entertainment.
Finally I have context to why everyone is saying "New Vegas: Frontier is the Hunt Down the Freeman of Fallout."
I don’t know why but that “Oh colonel, we are so fucked” line actually made me feel less depressed somehow.
This game is the reason Valve got off their asses and made Half Life: Alyx, you cannot prove me wrong.
I can, Half-Life: Alyx was in development since around 2016 based on code leaked from Dota 2 (or the Lab or the Steam VR Home can't remember which one) referencing something called "HLVR" as Valve occasionally gets sloppy or purposefully leaks code referencing unreleased projects to generate hype and get opinions about their ongoing projects (Source: a Steam Dev Days conference by Robin Walker which can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/Fwv1G3WFSfI/v-deo.html ) most infamously leaked code referencing a Half-Life 3 in 2015 from Dota 2.
@@thetrashmann8140 It definitely had an effect on them *finishing* Alyx. Hunt down the Freeman completely rocked Valve. They sold off source like a mfer just to make people think "Hey we aren't liabel for this game and all these other shit games using our engine!!!!"
They needed to wash off the blemish that was that game. And they fucking did it.
Man if this had been fully true and alyx was solely because of hunt down the freeman then people wouldn’t be comparing it to the room we’d be comparing it to dragonball evolution
Then Artifact.....
@@thetrashmann8140 certainly fun at parties
''President Keemstar'': those words should not be in the same sentence...
Its just a matter of time...
@@rebeccaconlon9743 oooh noooooooo
I can make it q good sentence
Keemstar will never be president.
Now the should be in the same sentence
I won't be shocked if he does at this rate.
I forget, why is he bad?
Hahaha, I know there are a lot of commenters talking about disliking the "Hunting Down The Response" editing but I thought it was really funny! :) It was really creative and fun, I'm assuming they must be a younger or newer creator trying out a new editing style. Hats off to them for pushing the boat out a little bit, I really enjoyed it a lot! :) Xx
Definitely stood out, but not ditracting. I always forget it's there until I rewatch the video and suddenly I get this big corny smile on my face.
As someone who was in game development, it is HARD. You can come up with a great idea but if it isn't executed well, then it's going to be a dumpster fire. That's the biggest leason I've learn from it.
Thats the issue with these loudmouthed shmucks. The rest of us failed hard for years in silence before actually releasing some semi-viable crap.
TRO: where you go to find out about scandals you've never even heard of because you aren't in a niche community. I am always entertained.
100th like dude
101st like dude
389th like dude
I wise man once said
"You fucked up my face"
But a wiser man replied
"HMMMM ADAM!"
But another wise man said
"Now you have permission to be die!"
The era of Half Life prior to Alyx was definitely a pretty fascinating one .
You know our boy’s got something cooking when it’s been three months since the last upload.
That and that he dropped a bomb on a certain Swan and is probably recovering from that shit show.
@@oliverp3545 what?
@@nelsonraley the John Swan drama.
@@oliverp3545 ohhhhh right thanks
EDP445 video probably
*cough* "There was no game design document."
There it is. That's the line. The one that should never have been crossed.
"You fucked up my face" - Solid Snake from Hunt Down the Freeman
*Geralt from MGSV
No that was duke nukem
Nuke Dukem from metal gear solid 5 hunt down the refund
Ah yes. Moint Snake.
Berkan actually learning from his mistakes and moving on is actually wholesome in some kind of way
"You can hype up the pudding all you want, however, the proof will always be in the eating". Damn.
"The Aliens are coming, we've been compromised," Pyro said calmly.
THE ALIENS ARE COMING!!
WE'VE BEEN COMPROMISED!!
SPIT IT OUT CORPORAL
A masterclass in voice acting
@@BeatRiceIsHere OH COLONEL WE ARE SO FUCKED
If james wasnt a gamer, what would he be? a bri'ish man with insecurities about his monocle?
Even if he wasn't a gamer, he'd still be a player
Let's go!
*Bri'ish?!* 😔
The spiffing Brit
British people are elite.
Are you saying those are mutually exclusive?
TRO: "Many considered him to be the tommy wiseau of gaming"
Gilson b pontes: "am i a joke to you?"
*cue ten minute credits consisting of only gilson b pontes*
It's good that's all of your videos are such high quality, I can literally rewatch them all one after each other to stay entertained.
Ex-dev here,
When I first met Berkan and started working on HDTF, he showed me an in-development map over Skype, where Father Grigori didn't actually die at the end of the Ravenholm chapter in HL2, but went through an underground tunnel that the player also goes through to confront him in an arena. The player would have been unarmed and would have to dodge Grigori taking shots at them until help arrived.
Somebody: TRO isn't a gamer
TRO: And I took that personally
That statement itself proves he isn’t a real gamer. Gamers from Japan to Jerusalem, Shadow Moses to Shujin High are proud of our ignorant nature and would never take anything personally.
Except campers.
If there’s one good thing I can say about HDTF, it’s this: It’s what originally really got me into Half-Life
Can't wait for the sequel
*How One Game Rocked A Community - The Story Behind Fallout: The Frontier*
"Half Life Alyx came out this year"
I'm guessing this was meant to be a 2020 video, haha
I thought at the beginning he said “allegations that I’m not a GAY” instead of “gamer”
needless to say, I was very confused
Hahaha!
he can fight back against both allegations now
who could accuse known homosexual james therightopinion of not being a gay?! inconceivable
Gay-mer
@God Sweet Sunflower Same, and I was ready to just go with it. "How dare they assume you are not a homosexual male!"
I've been meaning to have a sitdown with this video since its release. Other videos have distracted me, I'm dealing with the death of a parent... thus I'm late.
Once again, you keep a high bar of quality with this release. Great editing by all your collaborators, your own 👌essay. Keep up the great work, and I hope you keep getting better.
Is no one gonna talk about how pyro and keem's voice acting is in the exact same scene?
They probably didn't interact with one another.
It's almost fitting that Activision Blizzard hired him, a company already well versed with riding rough shot over criticism. He got that job by affectively getting away with the con.
Wait what?
@@loganh4642 Are you unaware of the number of controversies Activision Blizzard has been through?
@@Th3MrJ3st3r i think he is just unaware that blizzard hired him
This post aged like wine.
Maybe it’s quarantine but TRO’s angry fanged avatar is making me feel some type of way.
Down bad mane 🤦🏾♂️
Go outside pls
I mean, the avatar is indeed kinda hot ngl
Yes same
why would you force me to confront this
I appreciate the attempt at this way of editing in “Hunt for the Response”, but I must agree it felt a bit strange. Still, a fairly creative way of doing it
and now, we have a new Hunt Down the Freeman: *FALLOUT NEW FRONTIER*
Fallout the frontier could have been good if the writing was more well thought or original and if there were no weird fetishes and lizard people.
Hell, they don't even allow you to join the Enclave
@@gomen-ne5460 Because thats a ton more development for something that was planned to just be a NCR expansion
@@rosaparks6479 Ohhh i see
@@gomen-ne5460 yeah. The "enclave is objectivly evil" line is also said to a guy thats pretending to be the enclave, and you can say that once you figure out that hes not actually a part of it. Its just snark
TRO's back again, flexing his certified gamer status across the world.
i dont even like keemstar, but president keemstar was the highlight of the game
I love how varied the topics are on this channel. Not many attain this size and are willing to branch out of an already proven formula.
Fuck yeah, Red Onceler's back with another kickass video! These are always such a joy to watch.
Me: *Sees Hunt Down The Freeman*
My Brain: "THE ALIENS ARE COMING"
"WE'VE BEEN COMPROMISED"
SPIT IT OUT CORPAL
@@ilikegoblo4665 WE ARE SO FUCKED
“You think you’re so cool with your stick.”
"Where's Gordon!?"
*WhErE iS tHe FrEeMaN!?*
Berkan: Gonna use investor money to make a game that's an overpriced, boring slog using lazy storytelling and recycled mechanics
Activision: *HUNT DOWN THE BERKAN*
From what I heard, throughout the development of this game, most of the assets were funneled through Discord, which, for obvious reasons, is a pretty bad idea.
out of all the HDTF response videos, this one is the best, not my personal favorite, but the best and here is the simple reason: It doesn't sound biased toward the developer and the team or the voice actors who gave their own personal opinion on it. it gives a "disconnected" point of view on it. It just feels genuine and real (I am NOT saying that the voice actors or the RRE team aren't genuine I'm just saying that this is extremely unbiassed).
To me, the weirdest thing was the character art. Like, it's not bad, but all the characters look like they're from Metal Gear. They don't look like Half Life people.
They look like dollar store metal gear characters.
Firm Lizard
Flintlock Oncilla
Large Manager
mitchell is the weirdest one he goes from looking like geralt from the witcher to looking like john connor from terminator salvation in a timeskip and the later looks younger than the former.
Also, Mitchell's scars abruptly stop above his eye and start again below it, as opposed to going through it. I guess he'd look a bit too similar to Punished Snake if he was one-eyed.
Some of the audio sounds like it’s a dub by a youtuber rather then the actual audio
CDawg’s Hentai voice overs are better quality than the game sound quality.
QUITE ODD
Because it kinda is.
It’s so ironic how their use of UA-camrs was intended to amplify its reach to their respective audiences, but it only backfired and amplified negative press regarding it when it turned out to be a terrible, terrible mess.
My favorite youtuber to listen to while I game thank you for taking so much time in making these videos I wish I could donate but I cant at the current moment
I can honestly say this is the second worst controversy Pyrocynical was ever involved in.
This wasn't controversial for Pyrocinical just a humiliation
I say this is worser than being outed as a Furry smut rper.
@@defiantcornball9115 Lol and the other one wasn’t humiliating at all.
I still remember watching pyros vid on this, Jesus I was shocked how poor this game was and so high price too
I know we dont like him as much now, he done goofed, but that video and the one about the ugandan knuckles memes, were glorious...
@@TvTrollByIvy What happened to pyro, i havent followed?
@@benjaaaMF pyro got hit with false grooming allegations he did some furry role play and didn’t 100% confirm his accusers age and ended up role playing with them but he had no sexual attraction to them, he admired his faults and the guy who you responded too is probably latching on to the groomer accusations
@@benjaaaMF i've seen comments about him having inapropriate interactions online with minors.
Tipster has commented on it and Pyro has a video addressing it.
ps: no these are not those bullshit allegations that Keem made, it's not a rehashed drama, it's new stuff, with people coming out about it, from a few months ago.
It really sad he had to resort on revealing his fetish
The transitions in this video are insane, props to your editors
Comes out at a perfect time right as Fallout The Frontiers controversy begins, hopefully TRO makes a video on it too
The main character design makes me physically angry.
Just like the grub hub ad
They really wanted this to be the MGSV of Half-Life mods.
“YOU FRICKED UP MY FACE!”
It made me metaphorically angry the worst kind
Ikr as if a crowbar would make cuts it’s so edgy and dumb
You know the TRO opinion is a gentleman when his character can spit fiery remarks without crossing his arms.
That's when you know it's all over
the The Right Opinion
if he crossed his arms he'd spill his tea
@@lyrqk5829 fixed
tro Congrats on 1 million im so glad to see your channel doing well keep uploading great and intresting content and just congrats man
You and Fredrik Knudsen are my long-form content gotos. Thank you for your unique style of journalism and the extent and quality of your vocabulary.
To be fair, some of these “voice artists” had no business being there in the first place. UA-cam narration does not an actor make.
Not really a shocker that you tubers don’t make good voice actors. Like Keemstar and Pyro stuck out like a sore thumb.
@@ethanrust3038 Should I mentioned certain UA-camrs like Edd Gould?
UA-camrs make shitty voice actors lol. I think The Right Opinion would be good though.
@@mee091000 Should I mentioned Abridged voice-actors like Takahata101?
They think it makes them actors.
For the longest time, i believed that all the cinematics from the game became memes BECAUSE they were re-dubbed by UA-camrs....
@T teg Egg i heard of it but i thought that the original cinematics from it were being redone by UA-camrs to make them funnier.
i didn't know that it was the original cinematics from the game itself that were being played everywhere. I mean, KEEMSTAR lmao
I hope one day TRO makes a video on Fallout: The Frontier.