There is just something so eerie about City 17, and Half-life 2 in general. It truly gives this apocalyptic atmosphere while evoking a sense of isolation throughout the entire game. You encounter others every now again but you inevitably separate and mainly venture by yourself. Truly grim. One of the many reasons why I love this game.
Me too. I love the way it echoes throughout the city, basically sending the message of 'you will not escape from the Combine.' Plus the alarms and chatter sound so amazing. Some of the best sound design in game history.
i wish i could see that on dreams at least, the Citadel getting planted on the middle of downtown, the Overwatch´s voice brodcasting stuff, true heaven for a Combine Supporter like me
+EpicPigmasks It's all voiced by the same woman, Ellen McLain. She voices the Combine Overwatch, 'The Announcer' in Team Fortress 2, the Witch in Left 4 Dead and of course GLaDOS, the turrets and Caroline.
To be stuck in an environment in which a totalitarian government watches your every move. To wake up in the morning to see this menacing structure (The Citadel), which btw is like 3 miles high, hanging over your shoulder. The Overwatch voice ghostly computerized voice softly broadcasting your life or your death. Codes like clamp, direct, purify, etc. This made the game so unique and different from regular games. It was the environment which game you that sense of depression and hell.
was just playing gmod and had 2 manhack patrol sirens at the same time, but one was slightly off, so one beep would end and another would begin right after
The actual sad about this all is people from developed and free countries , from their young age romantizing communism or fascism and all this oppressive depressing state of living..
After the Earth is reclaimed...there's gonna be at least one mf that views the Combine Occupation as "Nostalgic". Kinda like the way that some Germans view the East German era after ww2 to be nostalgic. "Failure to cooperate with your local civil protection team will result in permanent off world relocation." "Ah that really takes me back..."
I love how freakingly uncanny they are, like they are giving you that eerie of feeling alone during an apocalyptic world while you're the only one who's hearing
God, I remember when I first played the game the city felt alive, and dead, at the same time. Just like a true East European city. And how eerie those sirens and alarms were!
The first alarm is an APC's siren, the second is the siren of a scanner, and the third is a manhack siren IIRC. I may be wrong. If you wanna check I'm pretty sure the names of the sound files tell you.
Gives me a gmod vibe, not a hl2 vibe but im thinking about my old laptop with gmod on it, i remember playing with addons, playing on cG servers like on deathrun, ttt, etc. Thanks for making this!
1:47 Individual! You are charged with socio endangerment level 1 Protection units prosocution code: Duty, Sword, Midnight 2:02 Alert community ground protection units local unrest structure detected: Asemble,Administer,Pacify 2:14 Attention Protection Team! Status evasion in progress in this Community Respond,Isolate, Inquire 2:24 Attention Please! Unidentified person of interest, Confirm your civil status with local protection team immediately! 2:35 Individual! You are now charged with socio endangerment level 5 Cease aversion immediately Receive your verdict
There is just something so eerie about City 17, and Half-life 2 in general. It truly gives this apocalyptic atmosphere while evoking a sense of isolation throughout the entire game. You encounter others every now again but you inevitably separate and mainly venture by yourself. Truly grim. One of the many reasons why I love this game.
Might be a bit late to say this but if you like Half Life/ Half life 2 for that then you'd love the Metro 2033 series.
@@johnbean9797 and maybe the following month.
@@johnbean9797 Late to the party, but y'all should watch Colony (the series). It has 3 seasons and is LITERALLY half life, it's so fucking good.
It gives despair and seems like there truely is no good ending. There are endings but they aren’t where the combine leave. Does anyone feel the same?
@@fastpasta Dude city 17 in russia .....
i love how the alert sirens and the broadcaster have that eerie feeling when they are heard
Me too. I love the way it echoes throughout the city, basically sending the message of 'you will not escape from the Combine.' Plus the alarms and chatter sound so amazing. Some of the best sound design in game history.
Not to mention the awesome lines like: "non compliance will result in permanent off world relocation."
+McCade Bell I remember first time playing the game and hearing the echoed voices of the children playing in the playground gave me the chills
McCade Bell exactly
Bro that’s the same reason why I love it to
What a brilliant game, it never gets old. Every playthrough still gives me that 'new game' feeling
are you alive?
@@justarandomguy4516 ehhh
still applies after 21 years
This game is actually depressing
Yes, it is. You're litterally on a planet being overtaken by a force that controls multiple universes.
Yes and you literally save your'e planet by yourself
@William W. Campbell-Shepherd IX yes of course, play entropy : zero!
and even more if u listen to the Path of Borealis track
Your mother is depressing.
Just had a dream that this was happening in my hometown...... It was so scary.
dang... cool dreams.
Marcos Schlack I wish I had dreams like you...
Blobfish. no you don't
Marcos Schlack. that is my mind all the time
i wish i could see that on dreams at least, the Citadel getting planted on the middle of downtown, the Overwatch´s voice brodcasting stuff, true heaven for a Combine Supporter like me
The voice sounds like an airport announcer...
Not even close...
that looks like an austrian/european train station announcer too.
@@TheElvisnator looks????
It does actually
Attention passengers of flight 5, 6 , 8, the flight has been delayed for 2, hours
0:12
Heard this in Fallout and immediately thought of this 😂
Just saw that and I was like “what the fuck?”
Glad i'm not the only one. Vivid flashbacks lol
Literally just paused it for this, lmfao
I've been looking for this comment
i knew that very specific sound from somewhere
Valve seems to have a thing for female announcer-type characters.
+EpicPigmasks It's all voiced by the same woman, Ellen McLain. She voices the Combine Overwatch, 'The Announcer' in Team Fortress 2, the Witch in Left 4 Dead and of course GLaDOS, the turrets and Caroline.
it's Nexus A.I not a female announcer
EpicPigmasks The original Half-Life had a male alarm announcer though.
It just sounds right :)
That was just in Black Mesa. This is combine.
To be stuck in an environment in which a totalitarian government watches your every move. To wake up in the morning to see this menacing structure (The Citadel), which btw is like 3 miles high, hanging over your shoulder. The Overwatch voice ghostly computerized voice softly broadcasting your life or your death. Codes like clamp, direct, purify, etc. This made the game so unique and different from regular games. It was the environment which game you that sense of depression and hell.
Alpha30xyz It was heavily based on books like 1984, so, yeah...
WINston Freeman the series seems to also be based on Aisaac Asimov The God's That Be
Oneworld87 I can't say I've ever read that? Can I get a summary?
+Ricardo D what the hell is the alarm saying at 1:40
+Ricardo D you sure?
When you leave your house in corona
lmfao
The world in HL2 makes the world of 1984 feel inviting.
you know you nail an artstyle and aesthetic/mood when people still come back to it a decade later.
0:00-0:10 Combine APC Siren (Long)
0:10-0:29 Manhack Patrol Siren (Long)
0:30-0:40 Overwatch voice "Attention ground units. Anti-citizen reported in this community. Code: Lock, Cauterize, Stabilize."
0:41-0:52 Overwatch voice "Protection team alert. Evidence of anti-civil activity in this community. Code: Assemble, Plant, Contain."
0:53-1:03 Overwatch voice "Citizen Reminder: Inaction is conspiracy. Report counter-behavior to a civil protection team immediately."
1:04-1:15 Overwacth voice "Attention residents. This block contains potential civil infection. Inform, Cooperate, Assemble."
1:16-1:33 Overwatch voice "Attention community. Un-rest procedure code is now in effect. Inoculate, Shield, Pacify. Code: Pressure, Sword, Sterilize."
1:34-1:46 City Scanner Patrol Siren (Long)
1:47-
You are a good person, you know that?
At 0:40 - 0:30, it's not stabilize, it's sterilize
@@benardylbenefactor726 Actually no! She is saying Stabilize. if it was sterilize then she said it a bit in other way.
was just playing gmod and had 2 manhack patrol sirens at the same time, but one was slightly off, so one beep would end and another would begin right after
Thanks for this I’ve always wondered what each one means
All time she speaks authoritarian and ordering, but suddenly 2:24 a sensitive "attention please". It cracks me up every time.
Rare half-life L 😔
Only peoples from old soviet countries can feel this heavy and thick atmosphere
Reminds me of my home country
The actual sad about this all is people from developed and free countries , from their young age romantizing communism or fascism and all this oppressive depressing state of living..
@@geleiou It's sad that the only thing on your mind is fascism and communism
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I keep hearing these noises in garrys mod (especially gm_big_city)
Im RPing as a rogue combine, Im being chased by Combine while playing this in the background.
I agree
The Scrunched this noise into GMod
@@POOPYDISCORDKITTEN scrunched?
I hope I once wake up in an alternate universe where I can play Half Life 3
Woosh, now you have Half Life: Alyx
Only a little while until Half Life 3 bud
@@DamonKnight39 alyx counts as hl3 for me, its SO good, i can't believe it
@@trm245 Im not joking,It kind of is,We atleast advanced 10 seconds further into the story at the end of the game.
@@DamonKnight393 years ago
Code: secure, contain, protect
"Coat - Assemble - Clamp - Contain"
SCP
it would be pretty cool if combine where mtf
Code: Void
Attention community: unrest procedure code is now in effect. Inoculate, shield, pacify.
Code: pressure, sword, sterilize.
I love those alarms more than some of the actual music.
Stablize! Assemble! Contain!
Almost SCP)
@@Pete4ka228 no
Sack
0:10 just a guy yelling "WOOP WOOP THATS THE SOUND OF DA POLICE" except he forgot the lyrics.
😆
These sounds give me nightmares goddamnit
Dragonosis i listen to this before bed
Every city in 20 years from now be like.
This is the future...
CORONAVIRUS .
HOLY SHIT YOUR RIGHT!
Pookie Pookster HOLY SHIT WOW UR CORRECT
2021 here. Yeah, sth like that is looming
no need to look to the future when china exists
Damn...
Half life 2 = Game of the Year every year
I always found the citadel broadcasting so comforting, the voice is soothing for some reason
This played in my head when HL:Alyx was announced
After the Earth is reclaimed...there's gonna be at least one mf that views the Combine Occupation as "Nostalgic". Kinda like the way that some Germans view the East German era after ww2 to be nostalgic.
"Failure to cooperate with your local civil protection team will result in permanent off world relocation."
"Ah that really takes me back..."
Gordon's not gonna save the earth just for people to have Combine nostalgia... How disrespectful of them.
I feel like we’re gonna have these alerts if anyone leaves their home during the isolation.
Attention, ground units: Plague Bearer detected. Lock, Cauterize, Stabilize.
Damn thats quite relaxing, half life became a solid part of my memory like a realistic fever dream, best atmosphere i ever experienced
Truee.....especially if you grew up with gmod and counter strike: source
I love how freakingly uncanny they are, like they are giving you that eerie of feeling alone during an apocalyptic world while you're the only one who's hearing
The first one sounds like an ambulance passing by. The second sounds like an owl.
First one is a combine APC siren, second one is a scanner siren, sounds kinda like an owl, I thought it was some sort of other animal when I was young
What is the other 3rd alarm then?
0:00 combine A.P.C pasing by
0:11 far away alarm
0:30 ovearwach voice
1:34 far away alarm 2
1:46 ovearwach voice (agein)
2:47 far away alarm 3
3:00 far away alarm 4
Those sirens creep the hell outta me and bring to my mind so many images...
They give me city feelings
God, I remember when I first played the game the city felt alive, and dead, at the same time. Just like a true East European city. And how eerie those sirens and alarms were!
This is why I love this game so fucking much. Everything is perfect about it and the atmosphere is insanely good
combine siren
I really feel sad and horrible for gordon freeman, imagine being chased in an atmosphere like this, a true nightmare.
we can remember freeman in freeman friday :prayer emoji:
the beginning one sounds like a futuristic Police car :P
Soo nostalgic for me because I hear this a lot in gmod and half life
0:33 News Broadcasts when they discuss Covid-19 in 2021....
0:11 1 hour please
I could probably do it for you
@@coltconnorproductions1016 hey can you do the alarm of the beginning of this video
RedFalso Maybe, it’s kinda a tough one, but I’ll give it my best shot
@@coltconnorproductions1016 thanks
Just search pigeon noices, 1 hour
I love The combine alarms because ill use them for gmod 13
Ellen McLain was definitely the right voice.
When you live in Australia
These sounds are weaved into my heart and soul.
Agreed.
love atmosphere of the city17
Ellen McLain does a fine job as a computer voice. Here, Portal, Pacific Rim...
haha yeah I remember watching Pacific Rim and thinking "wait - is that GLaDOS??"
POV you are in New York City and you hear this. I’d be flipping terrified
yea.
Imagine waking up one day and you were in City 17?
I would hide myself from all civilization or attempt to move to a different city
@@POOPYDISCORDKITTEN I would be the Freeman
I would rise and shine
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SOUND FOR SO LOONNGGG
Imagine getting on the top of the citadel then accidentally slip and fall.
The old Webcomic "Concerned" did just that at the very end. "Gordon Frohman" survived until he turned off "Buddha Mode"
I love this one 0:13 I know, you guys agree.
Yes, I love it gives me weird feeling
2:25 darkrp when someone gets wanted lol
NO!
I had placed the first sound as my alarm to wake me up. It smells of burning to hear it and traumatizes me. Damn it.
I could never figure out what the second one meant.
Tyler Coremin What does the first one mean?
Tyler Coremin
Sounds like a cop car driving by.
The first one means either a law have been broken and the second one is the siren for the release of manhacks and scanners.
Wait I thought the first one was the blare siren of an APC..
The first alarm is an APC's siren, the second is the siren of a scanner, and the third is a manhack siren IIRC.
I may be wrong. If you wanna check I'm pretty sure the names of the sound files tell you.
Gives me a gmod vibe, not a hl2 vibe but im thinking about my old laptop with gmod on it, i remember playing with addons, playing on cG servers like on deathrun, ttt, etc. Thanks for making this!
Because.. GMod is a.. mod for half life 2?
@@fringleton I made this comment three years ago.
I dont even remember making this comment actually
@@spiral196 damn lol
those sounds just make an amazing half life atmosphere
When the darkrp server is empty
Pov your in City 17 as Gordon Freeman
Half life 2 is so much awesome !!!! I love this game so much !!!
Me too brother one or better games on this planet
tfw you pause the video but you still hear it in the background
These alerts in the beginning remind me of the good old Dark RP times
very out of context but just noticed you're into drum and bass, that's nice :D
this whole atmosphere is pretty eerie and sad
We'll be hearing shit like this soon lol
I want the old half life look back
I came for this
1:36-1:47
Best alarm sound
When you walking in street without Mask
You are now charge with physio endangerment level 5
This boutta play in every school
I thought that was a bird... One of em...
It always sounded like one guy cheering on a performance going
WHOO
WHOO
WHOO
WHOO
В детстве с батей играли в халф-лайф, поэтому для меня этотакие родные звуки, я под них хорошо засыпаю
Greetings from Coronavirus in Germany right now
ziemlich gruselig wenn man sich das mal überlegt... fehlt nicht mehr viel.
Fuck lofi, i love city 17 alarm
When you didn't pick the can
When you don't pick up that can.
those alerts rewinds me alien movies like the war of the words
Combines go gangsta until Gordon freeman arrives in city-17
If it was real i'd cry so hard if i get captured
im also **** the sponge 👉🏳️🌈
We need a day to have 10 years on this Video
1:47 Individual! You are charged with socio endangerment level 1
Protection units prosocution code:
Duty, Sword, Midnight
2:02 Alert community ground protection units local unrest structure detected:
Asemble,Administer,Pacify
2:14 Attention Protection Team! Status evasion in progress in this Community
Respond,Isolate, Inquire
2:24 Attention Please!
Unidentified person of interest, Confirm your civil status with local protection team immediately!
2:35 Individual!
You are now charged with socio endangerment level 5
Cease aversion immediately
Receive your verdict
1:35 Best moment
Imagine this if this is Siren Head's sound they're making if he's in any of the Half-Life 2 mods.
Imagine if the Combine were good guys..
Well humanity wouldnt be a piece of garbage (in hl universe of course), stalkers wouldnt exist and we'd probably be ACTUALLY immortal.
@@ClydeSum Holy shit I typed this eight years ago lmao
We need this for coronavirus alerts on countries.
Fuck covid one big overreaction
Gordon likes causing destruction and mayhem
Breen bot found
I hallucinate these sounds uncomfortably often
Peak of source games era, obscure graphics and ambience.
Reminds me of a gmod server I used to visit everyday ❤️
i love the overwatch voice of the citadel
0:00-0:10 - Brachiosaurus Sound
0:10-0:29 - Quetzalcoatlus Sound
1:34-1:46 - Parasaurolophus Sound
I always thought the sirens were just very loud birds.
Attention,All ground units.Anti-citizen one spotted in the area.
This helped my constipation cause she scares the crap out of me!
Me: April won't be bad
April:
2:59 sounds like an owl
Its the sound of City Scanners being dispatched
Masterpiece!
there is just something that's off. When i walk through city 17 and hear this alert, it just kind of disturbs me
Half life 2 is a masterpiece