"Is half life 3 taking so long cus you need another innovative thing to showcase in it" Wow, he hit the nail on the head

The Half Life series is like a really good fanfiction. you know the one, that you get really invested in until you realize that it says "unfinished" and hasn't been updated since 2009

Press E to magnetise face to ladder. Use W and S to rise and lower using your lips (since Gordon doesnt use them for anything else)

I actually sent Valve an essay about Half-Life 3 when I was in middle school. They sent me a letter back that said it was gonna be great and smothered me in TF2 merch.

Maybe the thing on the Borealis that everybody wants is actually a properly working ladder.

I know another comment probably already said this but I'm going to point it out anyway, the Vortigaunts saw Freeman kill the alien leader at the end of Half Life 1 and then allied with humanity. They would have told the resistance who would have told the rest of the populace, spreading hope.

By mentioning Half Life 3 you have now delayed it by another month it will now be released in March 2122

"It's a wonderful game, stop liking it so much"' ^75% of the comments.

Oh god...Source ladders: The true enemy of Half-Life.

Actually half life two wouldn't be full life, it'd be quarter life. That's how atomic half lives work, it measures decay of parent atoms in the amount of time it takes to reduce the original number by half.

I never got what was the hype over Half-Life until I watched a colleague, who generally hates FPS games, play it. Now, I still don't get what the hype is, but I have watched someone start off going 'God, I hate FPS games' and then become an avid fan of HL in the span of about fifteen minutes, so I kind of have to accept that it's either a good game or literally enchanted with dark sorcery.

This was around when Half-Life: Alyx entered production. Now, I'm not saying Yahtzee triggered the creation of a new Half-Life, but he was pretty convincing.

Yahtzee, you said something critical about Half Life and Valve! You'll have to go into the Gamer Witness Protection Program for this!!! I for one will miss you.

Half Life 2 and its physics engine was like the Half Life 1 train intro showcasing their shiny new Quake engine, _but for an entire game._ "Is that a big thumping laser machine being presided over by a dude with skeletal animation, _I think it bloody is!_ "

Seriously? I've never had a problem with ladders in Half-Life [presses E and calmly dismounts ladder] TA-DAAAA

The resistance knows about what Gordon did because the vortigaunts told them.

Theory; HL3 has been made and is just sitting on a HD somewhere. Steam keeps it locked up till the day their stocks drop and the outlook of the company is becoming grim then BAM. HL3 is brought out, updated to whatever is the current engine, hd textures and whatnot and is put on steam for 59.99 plus DLCs for 20$ each. To which least half the Steam community instantly buys regardless of reviews just to finish the fucking story.

I will always prefer this game to most modern shooters simply because you can shoot someone with a toilet.

Most of the people I know who hate on Half Life 2 are those who didnt get to Ravenholm. Seriously the game gets soooo much better from Ravenholm onward, after you get the Gravity Gun.

Incidentally, you CAN polish a turd. Recently watched a mythbuster episode where they did just that.

The funniest part of this video is that the ladders _still_ have problems, even in recent games like Black Mesa (technically fan-made but still suffering) and Half Life: Alyx.

I want the final boss of a valve game to just be a long ladder you have to climb. #theintimidationisreal

Got stuck on the first chapter for 20 minutes because of that ladder.

yathzee, half-life^2 is actually 1-fourth-life

"Like mines in a graveyard" I love this series.

this is the most brutally honest critique of HL2 i have ever seen. well played, mr yahtzee.

4:51 yep pretty much

Nearly all my deaths in Half-Life 2 are due to bad ladder physics.

"where it was only 90000 clones of the same five guys" XDDDDDDDDDDD I laughed too hard at that!

0:32 Sounds like my beginning of Dark Souls 2

Can i just say, the music at the end seemed so much quieter than normal, and was exactly that much better for it? i hate having to manically prepare myself to jump the volume up after the intro and then down 10 notches at the end of every video.

You see a homely, alabaster-skinned humanoid staring vacantly into the middle distance as if he could see through the very walls. The inflatable penguin he holds under one arm farts squeakily as he nervously shifts his grip.

Half Life 2 is still my favorite VR experience Ive tried with the rift dk2 and it wasnt even designed for it.

Yahtzee, a half-life is a rate of decay that literally decays half way when the half-life is up and then decays that percentage half way and so on (100% 50% 25% 12.5%) as time passes. So the second half-life would be a quarter of the original percentage

Oh, the fucking ladders part got me. I thought you couldn't give me giggle fits anymore, but you went and proved me wrong.

the ladder at the end is spot on!

The Half Life engine gave me a life long fear of in game ladders.

Yahtzee's review of Half Life 3 sure is taking long enough.

That fucking tunnel with the balancing puzzle was the bane of my existence. It warms the cockles of my heart to see it referenced here, it really does.

this has to be the funniest zero punctuation in months. Good showing!

Technically 2 half lives gives you a quarter of the original item Half life is the time it takes for something to be reduced by half

So I was trying to watch this on some dodgy WiFi, and as soon as he said “Let’s get ret-tro” it cut out on ret and went black.

right at the end. so many times playing HL did i fall from a ladder to the sound of a great crunch

_Update is still pretty good though._ Definitely polishes it up to where it looks as good as the later stuff in Episode 2 and Lost Coast. It's really amazing what a good lighting engine does for making a game look good.

Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Chapter 2: Ladders

There's a reason they won't make another HL game, it's because over the years the hype has grown to the point where people only expect the best game in the history of forever, Valve knows the next Half life won't live up to the hype.

That last bit is so true. The don't want to make another until they can show that it's groundbreaking...but that time has passed.

3:11 Your Freeman's Mind reference, i see it.

Guess valve answer is VR

It's not perfect, but the thing I love about half-life 2 is just how god damn fun it is. Firing razor blades with the gravity gun, rocketing down giant insect aliens, forging an army of antlions... Half-Life 1 is definitely superior (by quite large margin), but Half-Life 2 has still aged better than any other 2004 shooter.

The ladders aren't even just bad mechanically. They're also almost always the same color as the wall not matter what color the wall is & usually in a corner. It's like the goal was to make the ladders hard to find. I rarely had that problem because the level design usually lead me to them but everyone else I watched play it spent a lot of time trying to figure out where the ladders were.

1:40 Is this referencing The Ego Review? Yhatzee you you cheeky bugger.

Nice review, now were is your Black Mesa review?

Half-Life 2 vs Bioshock?

love the ladder joke! :D

I first started playing Half Life 2 last year and I think it holds up as well as any other game that came out last year, if not more. It's still a lot of fun.

YES THE LADDERS!!!!! :LKJS:JDF:ALKJSFLK:JDKL: sorry... some rage.

Do the escapist (the game)

Half-Life 2 feels huge. Other games are bigger in content and maps, but this one really feels like an odyssey. It doesn't feel like you're in command of a big fish in a small pond like all of those FPS that USsies teens enjoy so much, but rather a small fish heading through the ocean, like any other regular person in a pre-smartphone era would feel in Gordon Freeman's shoes. That's why players feel so invested (in fact that's one of the things you love Dark Souls for). And since proportions are colossal, the feeling is legit (much more at least than any other FPS a.k.a. average-teenager-power-fantasy). It's not a bad thing to make the setting as proportional as the adventure (that being one of the things that defines an epic), instead of a series of streamlined corridors with varying degrees of textures (the exception being Rapture and a few more, of course), like the industry has been doing massively since they can't understand why Half-Life 2 still works, it seems. Or probably because they revere it so much they don't have the guts to try to best it, which could be understandable if game prices were half as what they usually ask for.

Everyone says "you should have played HL2 when it first came out" when people say it's overrated but to be honest I played HL2 about a year ago and it is my favorite FPS still. I just love how the world is so interactive and thus alive. A feeling that you don't really get these days. The world looks pretty yes, but that's it. All I can do is watching the world. The only game I remember that had this much interactivity was the first Crysis and Warhead. You could grab and throw things. Objects and dead bodies would move when you touched or walked over them instead of being intangible ragdolls.

Actually, if you went through two Half-Lives(Life, Lifes, something or other?), it would only be a Quarter-Life. I'm fun at parties.

This video got 6 dislikes, this game is half-life 2, 6 divided by 2 is 3......... HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!! This joke is funny right guys? .....guys?

4:54 Genius!

I just realized that The Orange Box came out after Yahtzee started chugging these delightful things out, what with there being a review of it and whatnot. I don't know what amazes me more: How long it's been since Episode 2, or how long Zero Punctuation has been going on. I mean, Yahtzee's technically re-reviewing a game he reviewed when it came out as *retro*.

Frankly I don't think they'll ever release Half life 3. No point, I guess. Steam is making them more money than HL3 ever could. My theory is that they almost finished it many years ago, but by this point rivals already released several FPSs who were at least as good as what they had in mind. Who would be their target audience? I bet half the people who played the original Half life games don't even play video games any more. Releasing it would only guarantee that it'll fail. Might as well reboot the franchise and reset the count.

I love the analogies for triple A publishers/games. I wonder how the nostalgia-blind are gonna take this.

8 years it has taken me to realize he said "Pie and chips" not "Pine chips." Idk, pine nuts are a thing, I figured it was just something I hadn't heard of before.

1:00 Wait, there was a video game about Fahrenheit 451?!?!?

I didn't play half-life 2 when it came out. Actually, I didn't play it until...I think 2013, haha. I will say, I definitely enjoyed the game. I wouldn't call it the best game out there, or the best shooter out there. It did, however, keep my interest throughout the whole thing. I never really liked the gravity gun either. Don't get me wrong, really cool idea and it works really well. I just think it was never as useful as everything else you got (well, maybe its a bit more useful than the crowbar...then again...uh maybe they are about the same in usefulness.) It was just very gimmicky. Story is obviously nothing really to care about, at least for me. For some reason, none of the characters feel like they actually have any character. I don't know why that is for me though, maybe because the player character feels so detached and unrelated to them most of the time. Like, yeah they knew each other from black mesa, but even in the first game none of the characters except G-Man catches your interest. Actually I think that is the same here in HL2 as well for me. I cared more about the G-Man than anyone else in the story. Everyone else might as well not even be there for me. The cutscenes bored me to death for the most apart, again except for when G-Man was involved. Even though all the levels are a bit linear, I always felt like I was going somewhere and that I was in a huge world, even though really it was pretty much a big room, then a corridor leading to another big room, with sometimes a physics puzzle or two to solve. Overall, I think it is a fun game, and obviously very important when looking at how it shaped the gaming industry. Honestly though, I think the only thing that really will hold up is the gameplay, like in Half-Life 1. That is, until some innovation occurs that makes the current methods of controlling games look clumsy and obsolete, like with old shooters on the PC and N64 with their less than ideal (at least by our standards now) controls.

He....he criticized Half Life 2. None are safe.

I have just subbed to this channel and I would like to say that I have not laughed this hard in a long time. I was about 10 minutes away from giving up with youtube for all it's repetitive channels and even more bullshit videos. But this genuine humor has made my day and given me hope for the gaming community. Thank all the aussies and thank you.

One does not have to use the bricks on the seesaw. If one just jumps on the back end of the board a couple time until it's near the grown and sprint jumps, one will land on the other side.

Source engine physics are shit. In real life, I can place a thing on another thing. In game, doing do will make one of those things fly into your gut faster than your eyes can blink.

This game's biggest flaw, is that it's just too easy. Even on the hard difficulty. It's still one of the very best FPSs ever made though.

4:54 So true!

i never thought id see Stan Laurel do that!

So glad someone finally gave honest criticism to half life 2. Seriously is it a good game? of course, but even for 2005 I played more enjoyable FPSs.

Great game, ridiculously overrated. Not the best FPS ever, not the best game ever (not even close).

I love his metaphors!

I always get stuck on ladders in any game with the source engine! Im running from some CPs and I come across a ladder, "hmm, maybe I can use this to get away..." But nope I'm stuck at the top of the later trying to run away but I keep getting teleported back as the popo are still firing away!

Half Life 2 the most overrated game in gaming history.

1:54 Cheapest rocket you can get for school projects up in here.

i played half life 2 for the first time years after it came out. surprisingly, when it came out, i never heard anything about it. anyways, years later i hear all the hype about the game and decide to take a look for myself. im usually jaded and cynical when it comes to games but never the less i went into half life 2 with an open mind. surprisingly, i had a blast with HL2. the environments were immersive as well as the characters. the weapons were fun, the enemies were challenging. its just a really fun fps.

"None of the actually saw him blow up the alien leader." What about the vortigaunts? I always assumed that people deified Freeman because what they heard from them.

You are the best at reviewing games no joke.

you got me at the ladder comment hahaa

Actually, the "2" in half-life 2 is in superscript, so it would be a quarter life, not a whole like (.5X.5=.25)

I guess many people look at the tutorials because if you look at a ladder then hit "e" you attach to it. You detach to close ground from it if you hit "e" again.

You could review don't stave or the upcoming don't starve together.

The retro-metro… Lovely train.

This channel should just be renamed Zero Punctuation at this point. 24 videos in a row, over the course of five months.

Didn't know about Mayfair till now, thanks from America!

It has been 8 years since episode 2 came out and we are still no closer to a release date than we were back then.

Oh those ladders... woe woe woe

I've watched 10 of these and this is the only of the games I've played. This guy's hilarious regardless and on point about Half Life.

"Well fucking played Valve." LOL

God this one had some of funniest animations of the whole series.

Very funny, Always funny. Well done.

Lol the criticism at the end got me

i don't know how many times i've played through half-life 2, honestly its one of the rarest gaming experiences you'll get. mods just made me play it even longer, a lot of creative stuff came out thanks to this game, you gotta give it credit for that.