I Finally Understand The Heartbreak Behind Half-Life...
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Half-Life 2 Episode 1 follows the immediate aftermath of Half-Life 2. The destruction of the Citadel has lead to the mass evacuation of CIty 17, and it's up to Gordon, Alyx, and the rest of the humans there to escape as quickly as possible and hold off the Combine's reinforcements for as long as they can. Episode 2 picks things up right where things were left off at the end of Episode 1. An infant "superportal" has emerged from the ruins of the Citadel, and if it's not closed off soon, it will be the end of Earth once and for all.
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@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
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@mujtaba_1315 2 ай бұрын
Hey Mr. Jarhead, if you ever plan on covering Half Life 2 mods in the future, try playing Minerva: Metastasis first. It’s a pretty enjoyable mod and the ending leaves you wanting more, especially after the outro soundtrack plays. It was also planned to have two more sequels, one of which was Minerva: Out of Time. If you do a little bit of digging, you can find plenty of extra lore about Minerva Metastasis and what Minerva Out of Time was supposed to be. It’s a shame the mod creator never continued the mod but you should give Metastasis a try.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
@@mujtaba_1315 I'll probably be checking out the Entropy Zero mods first but I'll have to add this to the list
@mujtaba_1315 2 ай бұрын
@@MrJarheadTV Alright. If you do end up playing Minerva at some point though, pay special attention to the ‘text’ you receive throughout the mod. That’s where alot of its magic comes from - atleast for me.
@hauntedbuilder9694 2 ай бұрын
Fun fact! Black Mesa has made a mod for Blue shift. so you can give that a glance.
@C.A._Old 2 ай бұрын
*They Cancelled 3 times half life 3 in 2011-2013 and 2015. and then Half-Life Alyx start project in 2016.*
@CobraDBlade 2 ай бұрын
If Valve is waiting for something "groundbreaking" to release Half Life 3, they should take a look at the current state of gaming and realize that releasing a good game would be considered groundbreaking. We don't want the brain interface controls Gabe dreams about. We just want our favorite mute in the blaze orange.
@wedoalittletrolling723 2 ай бұрын
No you want brain interface controls, please drink the water.
@limoneadeGlass 2 ай бұрын
@@wedoalittletrolling723 Don't drink the water, they put something in it... to make you forget... I don't even remember how I got here...
@benjaminzarkhin1293 2 ай бұрын
Releasing good games is an absolute minimum bar for them, it has to stand out.
@HuugTuub 2 ай бұрын
@@limoneadeGlass what are we gonna do? 😢🛋
@Immolator772 2 ай бұрын
they don't even have to put some technological advancement to release it, ep1 and 2 had pretty small graphical improvements and nothing groundbreaking.
@theatomiclemon1 2 ай бұрын
''Now I'm in the same boat as the rest of you miserable fucks'' might be the best description of being a new Half-Life fan.
@Elfcheg 2 ай бұрын
*slaps ass*: welcome to the club, buddy.
@acamera367 Ай бұрын
Yeah I got to play HL a year ago since I never had a computer to play it on for a long time and man I want HL3
@Palbizu Ай бұрын
@@acamera367 one of my best friends has been a huge HL fan since HL1 and played HL2:2 when it came out. I played it over ten years ago and it’s been a miserable existence. I’m personally a huge Portal fan so I literally only have two games and a tech demo regarding games
@saladtop8499 Ай бұрын
if the halflife fandom was on the borealis it would make a lot of sense. we aint going nowhere
@Marksman3434 Ай бұрын
Same. Played all Half-Life games last year and now I’m desperate for HL3 like all the longtime fans lol
@Runha240 2 ай бұрын
Valve in 2007: *makes episode 3 with concluded story* also valve, 5 minutes later: "Start over. We can do better." rinse and repeat for a decade
@mr.killjoy4753 2 ай бұрын
Valve has an insanity chamber where bad workers are sent to develop half life 3 for all eternity
@FreakinMagic 2 ай бұрын
@@mr.killjoy4753 so it's like valve's shrek, the misbehaving employees are punished to create a masterpiece while the competent waste time on what was thought to be the cash cow
@mr.killjoy4753 2 ай бұрын
@@FreakinMagic exactly what I had in mind
@stevaloo5544 2 ай бұрын
@@mr.killjoy4753IIRC they use "productivity evaluations" to decide wether or not your making money for shareholders and then just arbitrarily fire you. And this is supposed to be one of the better game companies to work for- so that should tell you everything you need to know about the complete lack of worker's rights in this industry.
@coffin7904 2 ай бұрын
Yall are creative as hell but that's not really how their dynamic works at all lol. Generally people aren't working on it because it's such a huge undertaking.
@LCOfficerUNIT097 2 ай бұрын
"Oh, and Freeman! If you pull this off, I might just forgive you for that debacle at Black Mesa. You know the one I mean - involving a certain microwave casserole."
@ANIMshit 2 ай бұрын
This was so funny :D
@El.fish.the.chocolate Ай бұрын
"Uh, I hate tunna casserole, they should lock up that thing with those monstrosities." Some agent on the pizza day.
@ElPolloLoco7689 Ай бұрын
@@El.fish.the.chocolate Bro hit me like a truck with that SCP nostalgia
@Karthikkun2805 20 күн бұрын
? @@ElPolloLoco7689
@anonimus370 2 ай бұрын
"Perfect is the enemy of good" It's almost like this phrase was designed for Valve.
@chpsilva Ай бұрын
The more I think about it the more I find Valve is falling in the same mistake 3D Realms did with Duke Nukem: lack of focus, always pursuiting new technologies and gimmicks instead of just delivering great games with what they could already do (and they had a lot of talented people working there, I don't know how it's nowadays).
@sockpuppermcgee7920 Ай бұрын
@@chpsilva Way I see it is there's always a way to overmilk a good franchise, HL being no exception. If they just milked tf out of this game by releasing sequel after sequel with no groundbreaking evolutions, it'd get stale. There's currently HL1, HL2, HL2 Ep1/2, along with playable tech demos, extra content you could consider as DLCs, and a metric boatload of fangames. Valve wants every version of Half Life to be insane, something no one else could create at the time. Sure, they could just pump out games like nothing, but so can other people, it'd have no value to them if anybody could do it. 'least, that's how I see it. I want them to innovate, it's why I love them so much. They had all the money in the world and still made HL:A, they don't need profit, they want to showcase their skill and passion. No one's released a game like HL:A prior to Valve.
@thelordoftime803 Ай бұрын
No it's not, it's what made HL games groundbreaking. They were perfect.
@sjfs231 Ай бұрын
@@thelordoftime803 they are not, revolutionary yes, but far from perfect
@thelordoftime803 Ай бұрын
@@sjfs231 Nothing is perfect, so it's a figure of speech because they were pretty much that for their time. Revolutionary, close to no bugs etc
@gghhoosstt1233 2 ай бұрын
when alyx relays those words to her dad then right at that time Gman appears on the monitor screen and both alyx and ellie gets a bit dizzy too. Also in portal 2 there is a secret path which leads to a dock where borealis was not there in the dock.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
I saw that about the borealis in Portal 2 when I was researching for this video that's so cool
@Freelancer837 2 ай бұрын
Slightly off. G-Man appears on the monitors which is what causes Alyx to grab her head and then relay the words to her father. Eli was just shocked because he found out his daughter is being used as a puppet by the G-Man.
@TripAndJoy 2 ай бұрын
For me it looks like Valve got themselves some sort of analysis paralysis situation: they are not sure how to finish this series so, they never finish it.
@DanielAnderssson 2 ай бұрын
I think Valve is a more tech-driven company rather than story-driven. If they release Half Life 3 it's because they want to release some tech to the world. They have great writers sure, but the writers don't have that much power like in other companies. This is also shown in HL Alyx when they completely changed the story
@lucascoval828 Ай бұрын
"Always plan out your stories, boys and girls!"
@hellyeavesx Ай бұрын
@@DanielAnderssson If i remember correctly, the 2023 leak had some half-life concept maps testing freeroam mechanics that could have been planned for episode three
@blockhead4791 24 күн бұрын
@@hellyeavesx Where can I find these?
@LordVader1094 14 күн бұрын
They basically had it finished, they just never went forward with putting it into action. They're too focused on a "big tech breakthrough" than finishing their game.
@saladspinner3200 2 ай бұрын
The fact that the Half Life franchise still has THAT much grip on the gaming collective to help this wonderful content creator gain a 1000 new subcribers over night is "chefs kiss".
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Half-Life fans are frothing at the mouth for any content possible it's crazy, I totally get it now though lmao
@vlim5601 2 ай бұрын
@@MrJarheadTV Can confirm, have been frothing at the mouth for 17 years now. Shelled out for an Index headset for Alyx's release even though I already had a Vive. We're a delusional bunch, truly
@ni__wolf143 2 ай бұрын
@@vlim5601 Did you try Half Life 2 VR yet? It's really fun to re-experience the game through the actual eyes of Gordon Freeman instead of a flatscreen
@wiaf8937 Ай бұрын
@@MrJarheadTV can you blame us? Know that you know the ending? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabe! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
@RudyMemes Ай бұрын
The story is just that good. The gameplay was just that good. The esthetic, the music, the source engine, the mods, the multi-player, all of it was, and still is, just that good. Valve focused on other things, overthought what we wanted from the game, and honestly, we would've been perfectly happy with more of the same, as long as it Was. That. Good.
@bugtogs9344 2 ай бұрын
My life goal is to stay alive until half life 3 comes out so I can die happy
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Take your vitamins and say your prayers cause we could still be waiting a loooonnnggg time
@bugtogs9344 2 ай бұрын
@@MrJarheadTV i'll see you in the nursing home when it releases
@Medicalguy 2 ай бұрын
Cardio my man. Lots of cardio.
@Gelatinocyte2 Ай бұрын
Wouldn't it be ironic if you die just as it releases, not even getting a chance to play it?
@mohammadbuhamad7744 Ай бұрын
And convert to Islam and save your afterlife
@Coxick 2 ай бұрын
Fun fact: There were several versions of Half-Life 3 prototyped/developed and all were cancelled. If you search for "30 cancelled valve games explained" video, between other games there is HL2 EP3 and 2 versions of HL3 described
@deutschesmanutter1395 2 ай бұрын
Truly this puts the other *Half* of this series into stasis
@ninjaguyYT 2 ай бұрын
You need to get a Life
@deutschesmanutter1395 2 ай бұрын
@@ninjaguyYT a HALF LIFE!... god liberate me from my own mind
@deepflare1028 2 ай бұрын
I've been waiting for a Half Life game for Half of my Life
@boy_with_sleeveless_jacket7951 4 күн бұрын
We're all spending half of our lives for half life 3
@agostonpahi3816 2 ай бұрын
the coolest part for me in ep 2 is when Alyx says what gman told her to say you can actually see a picture of gman flicker on the screen most people miss it cause you turn to Alyx
@DanielAnderssson 2 ай бұрын
It's G-mans world we are just living in it.
@silverhawkscape2677 28 күн бұрын
@@DanielAndersssonScarily. Always has been.
@amy_grace 2 ай бұрын
Interesting how you're "Mr. Freeman" when the G-Man's in control, but as soon as he needs a favor it's suddenly "Dr. Freeman" 😂 (Everything else I would have commented, you ended up saying. This video kicks ass.)
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Huh... that's a really interesting little detail
@idk6596 2 ай бұрын
He called Gordon "Mr." because he put him in stasis, and also hired him. When it's time for him to get out he goes back to getting called a Doctor cuz he still is, let's say he put his doctorate degree on the shelf while in G-man's stasis
@markusandrews1607 2 ай бұрын
On the other hand, what if the G Man didn’t know Gordon had a doctorate for way too long?
@KyllingThyme Ай бұрын
@@markusandrews1607How tf would he have worked as a scientist in Black Mesa if he didn't? Also it's stated a million times beforehand lol.
@muggins2279 Ай бұрын
You really get the concept that he is an alien doing his best to be charismatic to get what he wants
@Flamma_Dreemurr 2 ай бұрын
You’re in the same boat as us now It has “BOREALIS” slapped across the side and it used to be miles underground
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Happy to be a part of it 🙃
@Geeler 2 ай бұрын
I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds the Antlion Guardian section tense as fuck
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
It's so good and I hate it so much lol
@reikoow 2 ай бұрын
Everytime i play EP2 again i need to change my pants 69 times at least, that section is so scary
@Helperbot-2000 2 ай бұрын
every time, man, every time. i dont get how its so tense, its not like im scared of it, and i have played through it a dozen time, yet its far more tense than any horror media ive seen
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
@@Helperbot-2000 I think it's just that primal fear of being chased by something. The last time I was as scared as I was by the antlion caves was playing Amnesia The Dark Descent, those chase sequences are the WORST
@Helperbot-2000 2 ай бұрын
@@MrJarheadTV hmm yeah that might be it
@ZeallustImmortal 2 ай бұрын
Reminder that pretty much the only thing preventing the combine from actually causing global extinction is that they needed knowledge on a piece of human tech. A piece of tech Eli understood, and his mind has just been absorbed. Then all these years of nothing.
@uligallardo8110 2 ай бұрын
If you didn't watch or play Half-Life Alyx, then go do it. I'll only say that there's some kind of time travel involved.
@arsenii_yavorskyi 2 ай бұрын
@@uligallardo8110 it's the worst thing they could've possibly done.
@spookd8700 2 ай бұрын
@@arsenii_yavorskyi How delusional can you be
@sovietunion7643 2 ай бұрын
it would at least be interesting if they made a game that was a last stand type of deal then like halo reach. you can try to kill as many combine and creatures as you can, but humanity is simply not needed anymore
@ZeallustImmortal 2 ай бұрын
@@spookd8700 Nah man, it was dumb.
@sonikku956 2 ай бұрын
Every single time I replay Episode 2, I stop right before we have to go inside the helicopter room so I don't break down into tears again. Good lord, what a tragic ending.
@swaggetiyolonaise4345 Ай бұрын
Dude... Play Alyx. Or see a waltrough. Honnestly... Its just Amazing... And the ending.... The ending...
@Carbal27 20 күн бұрын
@@swaggetiyolonaise4345sounds like you’re nutting to the thought of HL:A’s ending. Can’t blame you
@swaggetiyolonaise4345 18 күн бұрын
@@Carbal27 i am, and tired of pretending i'm not.
@Caramel_Custard_Flan 2 ай бұрын
With the ending of Half Life Alyx and The developed Source 2 engine, i will continue to BELIEVE 🙏🙏🙏
@nadrewod999 2 ай бұрын
At least with the new post-Alyx story, we have a chance of seeing an Episode 3 or a Half-Life 3 where we get some extra lore on the lead-up to the Black Mesa incident while we're gearing up for an all-out assault on the G-Man.
@uncannycato 2 ай бұрын
the source 3
@milklover4253 2 ай бұрын
they made half life alyx just to retcon out epistle 3
@arsenii_yavorskyi 2 ай бұрын
modern Valve will not make the HL3 we want or deserve. just look at HLA: instead of healing the festering wound that was the Episode 2's ending, they just abandoned the plotline altogether. it's one of the most disheartening plot twists I've ever seen in the history of gaming.
@peartry 2 ай бұрын
@@milklover4253 now all we need is to survive another 10+ years
@SilverGeFer 2 ай бұрын
15:37 Wow I totally forgot about that interaction. Eli is so on the nose about his ship between Gordon and Alyx. I love him haha It’s like the meme people created about Chris wanting Leon to continue the Redfield bloodline with Claire in the Resident Evil games, except it’s actually canon in the case of Half-Life.
@uligallardo8110 2 ай бұрын
Well, he has known Gordon from more that 20 years ago, and then he essentially traveled in time to the future... I can imagine him wanting a good man for his daughter, so...
@FailBerryI3 2 ай бұрын
@@uligallardo8110 And then you think about the fact Alyx was FOUR (4) years old when the Resonance Cascade occured, 20 year stasis of Gordon, makes Alyx ~24 during HL2... I do not know if I would be able to act like Eli at that point. Gordon is chronologically ~47 during HL2.
@doomguy2553 2 ай бұрын
@@FailBerryI3but he is still the same he was during HL1, both mentally and physicly, so I think it's okay
@uligallardo8110 Ай бұрын
@@doomguy2553 That's what I'm saying. Gordon practically traveled in time, so he's still 28 years old, and with Alyx being 24 years old... They are just in the right age.
@a7super_07 2 ай бұрын
Fun fact: The combine advisor's true species name is called the "Shu' Ula thoi"
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
I should've brought that point up I totally forgot, oh well
@OneFreeMan17 29 күн бұрын
Shoe Oola THOY!
@kajmak64bit76 5 күн бұрын
Sounds French Lmao
@TehTezMan 3 күн бұрын
What's also interesting is theres implication that just like the striders and the gunships, they're an enslaved species.
@dandyspacedandy 2 ай бұрын
you cant be on _any_ kind of boat with us because we still havent gotten to the borealis
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Yeah... I guess you're right...
@Phoebe5448 Ай бұрын
Every time I see boat I think of Berserk fsr
@JoshSweetvale 15 күн бұрын
Entropy Zero
@ootboot3487 11 күн бұрын
@@Phoebe5448 oh god not the boat arc
@lecooldude 2 ай бұрын
it was crazy to get to the end and hear "1k subscribers, 2k subscribers". I swear it felt like watching a video worthy of a 100k subscriber channel. instantly subbed
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed so much thank you! And yeah, it's been a pretty wild ride this year lol
@monkeychief1904 2 ай бұрын
22:43 I will never forget how much this ending absolutely gutted me. I’m super close with my dad and found myself relating a lot to Alyx and Eli’s relationship so when he died I was bawling my eyes out, it’s just such an effective scene and the voice acting is top notch. I also only got into half life in the last couple years and the pain of being a valve fan is so real….
@JoshSweetvale 15 күн бұрын
Half-life Alyx adds more Alyx content, obviously. The end provides some closure in exchange for a lorehole.
@grizzerz64 2 ай бұрын
Welcome to the Half-Life 3 pain train. We appreciate your love for the game and contribution in keeping this series alive. In all seriousness, fantastic video, my dude!! Loving your work!!
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed so much!
@M.C.11Mc7 2 ай бұрын
Congrats for finally making it into the same boat as the rest of us! The message in the live chat got cut off by the ending so I'll repeat it here: saving the Entropy Zero series for much later would be a good idea since EZ:2 has a major update in the works that would add in dynamic combat animations for your allies. Also, Entropy Zero: Uprising would be getting Episode 2 somewhere around this summer and it's worth checking out as well (it's a mod of a mod, fyi). Lastly, I do want to talk about the Zombine (Combine zombie) because their presence has some terrifying lore implications for headcrabs. Example: We know headcrabs can take over a person fast, but the Zombines prove they could do it ridiculously fast! Headcrabs can chew through the gasmask helmet and take over a cyborg human faster than their comrades can shoot it off. And the fact that we can find multiple Zombines in the same general area shows that headcrabs may be more numerous and/or agile than what the gameplay shows!
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Well that's nice to know I have some good justification for putting the Entropy stuff on hold for now lol. And I didn't even think about that with the headcrabs that's crazy
@polskahistoria6090 2 ай бұрын
Now that CS2 showed us how source2 works on pc instead of vr, a half-life 3 showcasing even more of it's capabilities is very possible
@joeyoung9596 Ай бұрын
Yeah, with the rumored Citadel game, i doubt it's gonna be a traditional game. It would definitely be VR for sure. :(
@blehh_mae 13 күн бұрын
@@joeyoung9596 i REALLY hope that boring looking valorantesque leak was false or actually not what citadel became
@abduluthman918 2 ай бұрын
We should be thanking you. A series that a lot of first experienced years ago and had all the thoughts and experiences you are currently having, it’s just so refreshing seeing someone else experience it for the first time and have all the reactions we had all those years ago, this is the closest we will get to “Erasing our memories and experiencing Half Life for the first time”. So Thank You, For Making Us Feel Something About Our Favourite Game We Haven’t Felt In A Long Time. Lots of people we know and love have seen this franchise and wondered where Half Life 3 was, aren’t with us now. But we can happily say that someone would always be thinking about and loving Half Life, even after over 20 years
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
That's awesome to hear my experience could make you feel that way!
@Victorpollack 2 ай бұрын
I am 31 and hoping to play this franchise to conclusion before I die.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Hopefully you don't have to wait much longer
@kainhall 2 ай бұрын
im 30.... my back and knees hurt . same my 93 brother.... same
@cellophanezebra4663 2 ай бұрын
For years of being a Half Life fan, i did not know the combine were actually trying to destroy the citadel to send a distress signal. Which is so cool
@Randy.Bobandy Ай бұрын
It's quite literally explained in the game.
@primrose5031 2 ай бұрын
During the post-credit scene for Alyx, there’s a pretty direct hint/nod to another Half-Life game potentially coming in the future. Maybe it’s just hopium but it’d be really weird if Valve hinted at another game *within* their other game without at least having some ambition to release HL2e3 or HL3 or literally anything (preferably non-VR) at some point.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
I think so too, also nice profile pic lol
@nadrewod999 2 ай бұрын
Always remember that besides the Half-Life series, Valve is also famous for operating on Valve Time™, with their games having a release date of "When It's Done"©®. If they're working on it, you can bet that they'll be as quiet about it as possible until it releases like Alyx and Desk Job.
@luiso1149 2 ай бұрын
please continue with this kind of essays, they're so good
@Earo16 12 күн бұрын
the advisor flying out of the house and breaking the roof apart is one of the best visual effects I've seen in any game or movie
@johnbadman3340 29 күн бұрын
that one vortigaunt saying "THE EXTRACT!" always cracks me up
@psicogames5509 2 ай бұрын
"gordon, please..." I'm wheezing 😂
@demilung 2 ай бұрын
To quote someone from like 10 years ago (Jesus) the thing about "Where's Episode 3?" is not not only was it promised, several times over, but Episode 2 ends on one of the hugest cliffhangers of all time.
@darrengaither3428 Ай бұрын
play Half life Alyx
@sjfs231 Ай бұрын
@@darrengaither3428 that's a prequel, not episode 3
@darrengaither3428 Ай бұрын
@sjfs231 so I judging by your comment you haven't played half Aylx , although a prequel it changed the end of ep2 hitting at a ep. 3
@SkinnyNinja420 Ай бұрын
@@darrengaither3428not buying peripherals. If they wanted me to acknowledge it, wouldn't be VR.
@erickane8163 2 ай бұрын
I think I found your channel because I just finished half life series myself about a month ago and I just watched like 7 videos from your channel back to back I didn't even really need a recap or anything but your scripts, personality and editing are absolutely top notch, so much so I stuck around to see what you had to say. I am shocked that you only have 7k subs, I think if you keep pumping out videos like this at a steady pace covering different older classic games you are now playing and giving a fresh perspective on them you're gonna blow up big time man.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Thank you man glad you enjoy the videos so much!
@linksbro1 2 ай бұрын
I also played Portal first, before going through all of HL2 in the Orange Box, then back to HL1 (insert the startings of 2k hours of TF2 intermittently). It's been amazing just watching how the community has made their own Half Life 3. The best in my opinion being Entropy: Zero & Entropy Zero 2, where you play as a combine soldier dealing with an uprising in a canonically irrelevant location, City 10, but in Entropy: Zero 2, you are the combine hunting down Judith Mossman and the Borealis in the arctic. I *highly* recommend you play through them if you want a continuation.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
I definitely will play them eventually. I've had countless recommendations for them
@Randy.Bobandy Ай бұрын
Entropy Zero is meh at best and really adds nothing to the lore.
@vamperjr1376 24 күн бұрын
@@Randy.Bobandy 🧢
@Carbal27 20 күн бұрын
Entropy Zero IS meh at best, but Entropy Zero TWO is a must-play
@TrueDiox 20 күн бұрын
And now you know why finding out the first Half Life game releasing in like 13 years was a VR-exclusive prequel felt like straight up trolling.
@TheLostProbe 2 ай бұрын
I watched your previous videos on HL1 and HL2 and thoroughly enjoyed them both, so it was a very pleasant surprise to see this pop up in my notifications. now I'll need to go watch the Opposing Force and Blue Shift video because I somehow missed that one
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed them! Hope you like the Opposing Force / Blue Shift vid too!
@TheAttercop 2 ай бұрын
We wouldn't resent Valve so much if they didn't spend years trolling the fans with leaked dekstop shots, details, show up to cons with HL 3 T-shirts on, and essentially taunt us that they will NEVER give us HL 3. Alyx is a heck of a VR game, but retconning away the most impactful death of the storyline and deviating from the storyline with a paradox is a punk move.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Yeah I'm still very new to the Half-Life fandom but from the little bits I've heard about how trolly they like to be with Half-Life 3 I can totally understand resentment from fans because of that too
@Corle0ne 2 ай бұрын
Well that's what poor writers do when they paint themselves in a corner. You see the same stupid shit at the end of Dexter season 4 and it's suddenly obvious that the people in charge of the story has no idea what they're doing (anymore).
@xXYannuschXx 2 ай бұрын
" Alyx is a heck of a VR game, but retconning away the most impactful death of the storyline and deviating from the storyline with a paradox is a punk move." In the "Half Life Alyx Final Hours" documentary they said that Gabe Newell hated the ending he wrote for Episode 2. He felt like it wrote the series into a corner, especially with the long wait for E3.
@TheAttercop 2 ай бұрын
@@xXYannuschXx Gabe can claim that now, but it smells like cope. You've got the entire hunt for the Borealis and the Combine survivors still out there-plenty of room to grow. And frankly, given how Gabe has trolled us for decades and smirked about doesn't make me give him much trust.
@Randy.Bobandy Ай бұрын
@@xXYannuschXx Gabe didn't write HL2:E2.
@criqcan 2 ай бұрын
Amazing essays, I've binged a lot of them and have subscribed! Would love to see you "continue" the Half Life story with the Entropy Zero series, it's so good that it should be canon
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
I'll definitely play Entropy Zero eventually
@nomonames2 27 күн бұрын
Every time Gaben sees a 'can't count to 3' joke he adds 6 weeks to the release date
@shaymorcormick8743 2 ай бұрын
Valve realized it was much easier to create a platform for other actual game makers to sell their games instead of making games
@themindfulmoron3790 2 ай бұрын
That's not the full picture. Valve's writers realised that with the plan they were going for with Episode 3, they were writing themselves into a corner for future installments, which doesn't gel with Valve's "Always leave your options open" philosophy. Things kept getting more complicated as they tried to work their way around it, and eventually, it was just taking too long and getting too out of hand. Episode 3 was canned, and multiple teams within Valve afterward *tried* to get HL3 going, but between audience expectations soaring higher and higher, and the project having to deal with so many loose ends and having to live up to such high standards, it just wasn't feasible. Nothing they could realistically make would be enough, and fans were bound to be left disappointed. There's also the matter of innovation. Every main HL game is made for the sake of innovating and showcasing something. HL1 had a cohesive atmoshperic story and a grounded setting. HL2 expanded on that while also introducing a fully fledged physics system and integrating it naturally into gameplay. But as the industry gets further along, the rate of innovation slows down. Valve is still a very small company, and it'd take them a shitload of work to make a game that innovated and lived up to HL's legendary pedigree in the 2010s and especially in the 2020s compared to other companies. Given that and the impossibly high expectations mean that the next HL game, even if it came out as a masterpiece, would take an astronomical amount of effort to make and would almost certainly *still* leave a lot of fans unsatisfied no matter how good it actually was. That's why Alyx was the way it was. If you can't make something greater than, you're gonna wind up being less than by default. Unless you do something to be *different*. VR was a way out of the HL3 problem. A way to write themselves out of that corner and still push boundaries the way HL is expected to, by taking a new medium and getting the most out of it. And it even abides by Valve's philosphy of leaving doors open, by ending with a cliffhanger, a direct goal for the next game, and a lot of potential. The HL universe is new again. We may get another game out of it or not, but HL Alyx NEEDED to happen the way it did for the series to get out of this hole
@Inventure751 2 ай бұрын
@@themindfulmoron3790 Marc Laidlaw's "Epistle Three" pretty much confirms that.
@me67galaxylife 2 ай бұрын
@@themindfulmoron3790 nah man you're wrong because "vAlVe UsEd tO maKe GamEs"!!!!!!
@boy_with_sleeveless_jacket7951 4 күн бұрын
@@themindfulmoron3790 so HL3 can only possibly happen under the conditions of new innovation but the only thing I can think that valve could use is probably G Water
@Wolfmansgeneralchannel 2 ай бұрын
Oh boy oh boy! And here MrJarhead now understands the blueballs that is the episodes! Not sure if youre gonna cover Alyx at all given its a VR exclusive but if youre able to I recommend just from what Ive seen its a stellar experience
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
When I have a stronger computer I definitely will be checking it out!
@deepspacecow2644 2 ай бұрын
@@MrJarheadTV I ran it on a ryzen 3 1200 and an rx480 4gb, it does not need much power.
@thing. 2 ай бұрын
@@deepspacecow2644 HLA on that CPU is wild
@Ferroxian 2 ай бұрын
I believe some people made an non-VR version of alyx
@gabesszor1 Ай бұрын
@@deepspacecow2644 It uses built in resolution scaling, it pretty much runs good on almost every config, thats why. I do recommend a beefy pc, as it really enhances the experience.
@alecz3843 2 ай бұрын
one thing about valve is that the employees choose what they want to work on rather than being told what game to work on so if a team cant get put together by its own employees to work on a hl3 then it won't get developed especially with all the hype and ambition everyone puts to the name it might be hard to form a team of people who are confident enough to try to take it on
@mygodisyahweh8634 Ай бұрын
Not true
@alecz3843 Ай бұрын
@@mygodisyahweh8634 Go look at valve's employee handbook
@mygodisyahweh8634 Ай бұрын
@@alecz3843 Don't have too, just read the facts from former employees of Valve. Quote In theory, employees are allowed to (supposed to, even) work on whatever they think is valuable. In reality, you should be working on whatever the people around you think is valuable or you're gonna get fired really quickly. This usually means doing whatever the most senior people on the team think is important, both because they should know if they've been there for a while, but also because they wield enormous power behind the scenes. (Fewer than half of new employees make it to the end of their first year.)
@Ennocb Ай бұрын
I read that they stopped doing that because things allegedly don't get done
@arekszewczyk2636 2 ай бұрын
One more joined the resistance🤝. My man! I'm 41yo now. First time I played Half-life when I was 12-13 on 4:3 monitor and even if I didn't fully understood the lore, it was my favorite. I played a lot of games in my life and really liked and enjoyed many of them but Half-Life series is still undisputed number one for me. And HL: Alyx just blew my brains out. If you ever want to replay old Half-Life games I would recommend you do it in VR. Modders did amazing job with that.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
When I do eventually get a VR headset I'll replay the series with that for sure, I know it'd be a blast
@oroszgabo 2 ай бұрын
The closest thing to Episode 3 is Entropy Zero 2. It is the Opposing Force of HL2. A completely different view of the HL2 timeline, but with a LOT of content. The best mod for HL2 ever.
@Rullisi 2 ай бұрын
As long as they can do something new and revolutionary again, like Half-Life Alyx which was a smart move to have it be a side story thing and not an actual Half-Life 3 since a lot of people still don't have access to VR on such adequate level. We just have to wait. I still believe.
@xXYannuschXx 2 ай бұрын
VR has gotten ALOT cheaper over time though. A Quest 2 is only 300$ or less nowadays.
@nooux1966 2 ай бұрын
Hey man, as much as I've enjoyed your commentary and editing, the lot. The growth to your channel also just shows how much people still love HL and will do anything for a refreshing take or new content on it, haha! Keep up the great work man, this channel is a breath of fresh air.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Glad you've enjoyed! And yeah that is true, it's crazy how starved people are for any Half-Life content they can get lmao. But I totally get it now so I can't say I blame them
@axelmailman Ай бұрын
I rarely comment on videos but felt i needed to here. I stumbled upon one of your HL videos and it got me really intrigued to watch the rest. All of them have a very high production value and i love your analysis and humor. I've been laughing out loud several times during all of these videos. Half-life has a special place in my heart since it was this game that turned me into a gamer. The HL series is undoubtedly my favourite games of all time and I usually replay the whole series every year or other year. Thank you for making awesome content and keep up the good work!
@MrJarheadTV Ай бұрын
Thank you so much I'm glad you enjoyed!
@alexnazato5393 15 күн бұрын
the music when the strider shows up 😂😂😂😂
@0trax0n0fficial 2 ай бұрын
4:23 WE'RE STILL SO SORRY ABOUT THAT😭😭
@kainhall 2 ай бұрын
bro.... last week a woke up to smoke and was like "how da fuq is montana on fire again?" then the news was like "yo, blame Canada bro" . i literally said "you mother fuckers.... on fire again, damn!" . na.... look up "lodgepole complex fire"....... happened in eastern Montana i hope ya get her put out soon / get some rain!!! . i THINK the farmers might get a good crop this year 2 years ago we got no rain... then hoppers ate EVERYTHING left (dudes were getting 3 bushel an acre of wheat... not even enough to pay for the diesel) hoppers so thick, you had to slow down on the highway because the corners were GREASY with hopper guts . last year.... no rain, still bad hoppers.... but not even enough rain to support hoppers!!!
@Vazooka 2 ай бұрын
Loved the vid. I can't get enough of Half-Life videos even tho I already know the story from A to Z and your storytelling is so catchy. Props for ending the vid with Triage At Dawn btw hahaha. Got a new sub over here!
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Hell yeah man happy to hear it
@thesyndrome43 2 ай бұрын
Great videos dude, I've played every Valve game on release day (I was 9 when Hl1 came out) and the wait for episode 3/HL3 was painful for a few years, but I honestly feel that I've kinda accepted that it's not coming out at this point, after you've been through the "MAYBE THEY'LL SHOW IT THIS YEAR!" disappointment cycle a few times it gets annoying, but when you've been through it for nearly a decade then you just become numb to it. Alyx was great, it was amazing and I don't regret playing it, but it didn't give me hope for HL3; if anything it might have taken away hope because it was such a technological achievement that they are going to spend FOREVER trying to one up their previous effort.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching I'm happy you enjoyed!
@pman56789 2 ай бұрын
EVERY Valve game on release day? Even Ricochet? Lmao
@david_os1010 2 ай бұрын
Oh man that was a very nice video series to watch into one sitting! Valve really knows its stuff, and you really know how to make good videos, ya got a new subscriber ♥ Also some other interesting Valve tidbits (maybe you don't know them yet) Valve created their own VR hardware/eco system where Half Life Alyx was the system seller showing how well VR and the Index is. Valve created and launched the Steam Deck a year ago. Portable gaming handheld running on linux. Once again innovating a lot on handheld gaming experience both hardware and software wise. (Plus it came with a "Aperture Desk Job" a portal tech demo introducing to the steam deck) Now according to steam client/VR data mining, Valve is working on a stand alone VR device (code name Deckard) using some of the same bits and chips as the Steam Deck. If/when this device launches it will likely launch together with a game or tech demo thingy at least. So there's definitely hope. Tl;Dr: Valve is cooking, but instead of hiring more cooks they keep expanding the size of the kitchen.
@xXYannuschXx 2 ай бұрын
From what I could gather, the Deckard will have a XR2 chip on board, which can run Meta OS (considering they are releasing it for other HMDs now), but also be used wirelessly with either a PC or a "compute unit", a Steambox so to speak, as Valve had planned a decade ago. AMD will release new high end APUs in Q3, so I guess (or rather hope) we will see something in Q4.
@MynameJeff32134 2 ай бұрын
You should check out the mod Half-life: Field intensity, it's brutally good. The story of the mod covers the time from arrival of Marines all the way to the nuclear explosion in Black Mesa. And yes, the protagonist of the mod is the HECU Corporal, just like our boy Shephard. There are also new enemies, some of which were cut from the original game. The game also has all the weapons from HL1 and Op4rce, plus two new custom items.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
That sounds really cool, I'll have to look into that
@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her 28 күн бұрын
Ooh, I'm adding that to my massive to-play list. I LOVED Opposing Force, & it's even LESS likely to ever get an official revisit sadly. As a lil girl that expansion was my favorite part of the OG HL trio (I never finished Blue Shift), & I spent so many years longing & hoping for sidequels, or that the next Episode would bring back Shephard, before interviews basically dashed that hope... 🥺 So yeah, something a little more like that might be right up my alley! 😄 Thanks for sharing news of its existence.
@Македонија1 2 ай бұрын
with source 2 coming out im felling a small sence of hope
@qwerty222999 2 ай бұрын
Everything about Episode 2 screamed good game design. Even the final battle with the striders is over cumbersome, because it has that achievement of you not letting any outposts fall. An achievement that seems impossible at first, but then you learn that only a select few striders actually target those outposts and they arrive at select moments. Had this been a modern game, I'm sure they would've fucked that part up, and made the rushing striders come at your outposts at random, making the whole thing much more frustrating.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
For sure man, Episode 2 is so so good
@spookypaladin4667 2 ай бұрын
I grew up with this game. It was the very first game I ever played and the very first game I shared with my father. It's been a huge part of my life since. Whatever happens to this franchise, however many more years we need to wait - this game has changed my life already. I carry a piece of it, no matter what. So, in a sense, they've already done it. They've given me Half-life 3. Sappy shit aside - wonderful video. I'm glad to see the series continues to drag in new players, it's a genuine joy.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Glad you liked the video! Games like this where you've had shared experiences of them are always awesome. A lot of the earlier reviews I did of games like Crash Bandicoot and Ratchet and Clank were ones my dad shared with me when I was a little kid
@spacemanYoutuber Ай бұрын
26:12 Toy story 2.. "Is it ready? You can't rush art" So true.. it's better if it's done right.
@markpetersen1738 2 ай бұрын
Goddamit now i'm crying for half life again 😭 I know you want a break from half life and that's totally understandable, but i will VERY much be looking forward to your Entropy: Zero 1 and hopefully 2. EZ:2 is Unironically my new favorite half life game, it is my personal head canon and even if it make me sound like a psychopath, I relate so much with the main character, if you know the entire story of EZ:2 i think you'll know what that means on a personal level. Anyway my heart is bleeding for half life again so i'll go go look at funny videos in the hopes my sorrows will get drowned out. Ps. Great fucking video my man, I'll be rewatching it over the next couple of days and hopefully next month i'll be able to join your Patreon you really deserve it ❤❤❤❤
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the video so much! I really stressed myself out over it trying to make it as good as I could. Checking out the Entropy Zero games eventually should be a lot of fun. You guys have set the expectations pretty high with all your comments lol
@markpetersen1738 2 ай бұрын
Don't stress yourself too much man, otherwise it's gonna go sour. You have a clear natural talent in making videos so don't make it go bad. Make sure to set your own boundaries and your engagement will grow. Anyway like i said you're doing fantastic and if you keep up this production value and seemingly keep hitting the nostalgia notes you will be at a 100k this time next year. I don't know what you feel like you want with your channel. But just make sure you keep doing what you want, don't give in to our feelings otherwise it'll go sour. Any anyway You're amazing, keep doing it. You're gonna go far. I WILL join your Patreon next month as long as i'm not going bankrupt. Cheers 🤣
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
@@markpetersen1738 Thank you man I really appreciate that seriously! It's just how I am really, I wanna make sure everything is as good as I can get it. I don't wanna disappoint either myself or you guys so it's great to know that you guys appreciate my work so much
@markpetersen1738 2 ай бұрын
@@MrJarheadTV Sounds like you got the recipe for success my man 😆 Keep doing what you are doing and you will go far, I believe in your abilities and i will certainly return whenever you upload You deserve the success you get, keep it up my man.
@gitfindasettahpanzy9892 2 ай бұрын
"DOWN BOY DOWN!" That methodology of dealing with the stalker made me chuckle, and sub.
@TheOldMachines 2 ай бұрын
This content is top notch man keep it up! Really good summary of all the current history and the fans hope for an episode 3
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Glad you think so! I tried my best to sum things up as well as I could
@lucassmith3790 2 ай бұрын
To me at least, the post credits scene of Alyx makes it clear to me that Valve does care to continue the story. It feels like an MCU post credits. Even if it hasn't even started development four years later, it's not even close to impossible that they're considering it. But maybe that's just me coping because I only joined the wait a few months before you did. It really does seem like they only make their big games when they can revolutionize the industry, like how Alyx showed what VR games could be, and no VR game has come close yet. Also also, (spoilers for Alyx), if the Administrators take memories, and Eli is no longer dead, then the Combine *don't* end up with Eli's knowledge (which would be immense, assuming he knows the technology behind teleportation and the location of the borealis). My favorite thing about Alyx, is that g-man expresses intrest in Alyx as a potential hire here in episode 2. Wild stuff Valve.
@ElekiSerket 2 ай бұрын
What do you mean the Borealis is back in Aperture? Last time I played Portal 2, the Borealis was missing from its dock and likely in the arctic as per HL2E2... did they do a silent update or something?
@M1X41I 2 ай бұрын
Fans: We want new Valve games! Valve: Deadlock!
@puncleV Ай бұрын
You sir deserved my subscription for all it matters! Good video, played HL series long ago, and it was so nice experience TO BE SAD AGAIN ABOUT THIS CLIFFHANGER THEY'VE LEFT IN THE END, DAMN GABE! But seriously, really good video
@markzuckerbread1865 5 күн бұрын
i love watching long video essays about games ive played a dozen times over and also have watched a dozen dozen video essays about
@Insanebeast123 2 ай бұрын
It feels like valve only makes a game whenever they have some big tech/engine to show off which is cool but also fucking sad when we have to wait so long just to see anything related to half life or other valve games
@OpticalPotato40 2 ай бұрын
Video was actually really good, dont really see why there aren't more subscribers
@Anthrocarbon 8 күн бұрын
You concluded so nicely! Imagine another 15 years of waiting - that's the level of unfulfilled you can look forward to. HL2: mE3 is why I scoff when people say they've waiting too long for the next Game Of Thrones book. I have kids almost finishing high school who weren't even conceived when I first completed Episode 2. Mr. Jarhead, I'm so glad you've joined the team, but I think you still understate the despair of this abject lack of closure. We never had a reason to doubt Episode 3 was coming, but then months became years became decades. This shit left some of us with trust issues.
@unpleasantname Ай бұрын
This is some good quality stuff and i'll just leave my comment here as a mark next time i'd like to bingewatch more of your videos
@Tylerson 2 ай бұрын
God, I wish I could view Half-Life through fresh eyes again. Thank you for these videos, it's a pleasure watching them.
@Inventure751 2 ай бұрын
Did anyone read Marc Laidlaw's "Epistle Three"?
@Randy.Bobandy Ай бұрын
Yes and HL:Alyx pissed all over it. Such a shame.
@Carbal27 20 күн бұрын
wtf is epistle three
@Carbal27 20 күн бұрын
Nvm just finished the video
@nickybee6878 2 ай бұрын
Pure peak this video was. Am soo glad you're channel is growing up with each day you deserve more love man! ❤
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@adamshadow9881 2 ай бұрын
Just when I was watching your previous videos. Perfect timing.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
The right man in the *right* place
@UntiPa 2 ай бұрын
Valve, will take how many years that Gabe has left to make HL3, and with valve knowing that they can't improve or create something NEW, as it was intended with the rest of the saga, we'll have to wait, there's a chance that, Alyx had years on writing as for Epistle 3 cliffhanger involving G-Man using Alyx to hit the combine, which also implies that the script for HL3 is being written or has been already written, just still being developed, we'll never know, and it's better that way, no ending is what keeps this alive, to whatever is coming has to be revolutionary for valve, it's like Nintendo with mario, they use him to experiment, valve does similar but even better, it's really amazing for what it is, and will stay that way for the upcoming years...
@Big_Stin 2 ай бұрын
I'm so glad you're getting a sliver of the recognition you deserve now. It's only up from here pal
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Wouldn't be getting this support without you my king
@CamiloLascoutx 2 ай бұрын
I just peeped a little bit over your old content and im in disbelief on how is it that it took you a decade to reach 1000 subs. Your humor, editing, analysis and writing is top notch. Genuinely the best half life video I have seen. Amazing fucking stuff dude, excited to see more
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Hell yeah dude thank you so much, that really means a ton
@avalanx Күн бұрын
Great work, thoroughly enjoyed watching this production!
@MrJarheadTV Күн бұрын
Thank you! 😁
@Anonymouthful 2 ай бұрын
VR Half Life retconning the cliffhanger was criminal.
@jonahc2807 Ай бұрын
Nah, I think it was a good move. Without him it feels like a doomed timeline.
@Anonymouthful Ай бұрын
@@jonahc2807 It feels extremely cheap.Over a decade of waiting on a cliff hanger that was just completely nullified by a VR exclusive side story.
@Anonymouthful Ай бұрын
@@gaelurquiz5755 Now thats not true, theres good ways and bad ways to do a retcon.
@Anonymouthful Ай бұрын
@@gaelurquiz5755 Darth Vader was not always going to be Lukes father.
@Anonymouthful Ай бұрын
@@gaelurquiz5755 It was a retcon, Anakin and Vader were supposed to be two different characters but it was changed.
@mcgfn 2 ай бұрын
I feel like the next big innovation used to justify the creation of Half-Life 3 would be very valid if it was just a desktop first person experience using the new Source 2 engine. They don't have a complete title using the new engine yet, Counter Strike 2 is the only desktop game released that actually runs on the engine so far.
@ElekiSerket 2 ай бұрын
Alyx runs on Source 2, and I've seen people modding it to work like a regular fps with no VR, so that's something for the time being at least
@sterky_ 2 ай бұрын
Great video, I see your sneaky use of Jack II and Ratchet music in there haha
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! I snuck in a little Crash Bandicoot music in there too 🤫
@YordleQueen 2 ай бұрын
People still making great videos about half life/portal is what keeps me going. Subbed
@EnderDoomSlayer 2 ай бұрын
Bro the Canadian wildfire joke was so accurate. For context, I live in Canada for like half my life, get it? Half my life? Nevermind. It was like 28 Days Later. I don’t know how to ended up on my fyp page but I love your content! Thanks for making these and keep them up!
@beencomfy 2 ай бұрын
I just realise the Vortugants are voiced by the guy who voices Slyrak in Dota 2: Dragon Blood, damn
@saltierdongs7760 2 ай бұрын
Yeah its Tony Todd in ep2 and Alyx. The original voice actor was Louis Gossett Jr. though he passed away March this year.
@aussieman4791 7 сағат бұрын
If you want the unofficial HL3 play Entropy Zero 2... After the first one for some context, it's like the closest thing we got until it drops
@videoghost 10 күн бұрын
God the editing in this video made me laugh so fucking hard. I love the added SpongeBob sounds effects lmao
@zipkitty 2 ай бұрын
Moment of silence for all our fallen brethren who will never get to see HalfLife 3 or GTA VI
@luiso1149 2 ай бұрын
i'm edging to this
@THEPIECRAB 2 ай бұрын
Always that one guy
@OneFreeMan17 29 күн бұрын
@@THEPIECRABJust like Halo 3 match making back in the Xbox live days, one person wouldn’t join the last slot and it would restart 🤣
@Warbringer95 17 күн бұрын
As a fan for 20 years now, this was an excellent dive back in. Great job on the video! I replayed all of the core games (minus Alyx because no VR) about 6 months ago and was rewarded all over again for what are some of my favorite games of all time. It's awesome that other people are still discovering these games now.
@Alkaris Ай бұрын
Source 2 took a very long time for them to perfect enough in a way that allowed them to create a VR game like Half-Life Alyx, surely they want to make more use of their game engine with more games being built with it. I certainly would.
@IvanVladVodka 2 ай бұрын
Everytime I hear Dark Interval it hurts man, it really is the theme for the limbo it feels like our community is in. When Alyx got announced literaly had tears cause the wait has been that painful lol
@kingofflames738 2 ай бұрын
You should definitely play Entropy Zero and Entropy Zero 2. Those two mods(?)/hacks(?) of HL2 take place around the same time as the main games (at least EZ2). The first EZ has some points that drag a little, but EZ2 has a really great story and excellent humour imo.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Definitely will at some point!
@OneFreeMan17 29 күн бұрын
I loved that game. Especially at the end on the borealis when the ship was travelling through the time wormhole. I stayed on the ship in place just to stare at the FX and the immersive sounds
@HazenMire 2 ай бұрын
A retrospective mini-documentary love letter to my favorite game sprinkled ever so thoughtfully throughout with WRASSLIN meme's!? Buddy, you just got a new subscriber. I look forward to more.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
Hell yeah brother 😎
@GeddyRC 2 күн бұрын
I played the original Half Life on release and the same with HL2 and Episodes 1/2. It's really fun watching someone experiencing these games for the first time, it's like a whole generation of gamers fed up with modern stuff is going back and playing these older games and it's a hoot to see more HL content lately. It's like someone picking through your childhood like "hey, look at this cool thing you did!" and you get to watch someone else experience it for the first time, brings you right back to playing it for the first time all over again. And hell I'm not very old at all (in my own mind).
@Aleksander-cz1yj 2 ай бұрын
valve just can't count to three
@supermegabenji1026 2 ай бұрын
This game has the Hardest and yet Impossible Achievements if you want to 100% This game. For Example in Episode 1, You have to complete the Game without using any Guns like Shotgun, Rifle, Combine gun, Pistol and revolver. In the Citadel core, You have to beat the level without killing any Stalkers. In Episode 2, you have to COMPLETE the game while carrying a Gnome you have since the first chapter of the Game. There is other ones like Killing a Chopper without Missing a single bomb, Win the Strider level with them not destroying any buildings and, Find and kill every Grub in the Mines. This is the Hardest achievements to get, Even on the Console ports.
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
I don't think I could ever do even one of those things lmao
@supermegabenji1026 2 ай бұрын
@@MrJarheadTV I did try getting the Achievements on xbox 360 and, It's really REALLY Hard to do.. It's Like trying to do an Exam and seeing if you Actually did well or not.
@CowCommando 2 ай бұрын
@@supermegabenji1026I got every grub in the mines except 1, twice, even with the help of a guide. Most frustrating achievement I've ever attempted.
@supermegabenji1026 2 ай бұрын
@@CowCommando Yes, Literally I didn't know there was 1 outside of the Mines. I swear, the achievements in Valve's games are really just the most Hellish experience to do. Even on console.
@_negat1ve_466 2 ай бұрын
Lol, these achievements are quite easy to do. I did 100% the ep1 in a single run. The real hard is to 100% black mesa because there are a few items which need to be carried throughout the entire game, also there is no gravity gun, which makes it even harder.
@Dallasrocker124 2 ай бұрын
Now I understand what half-life as a series is, good vid dude. Back in like the early 2010s I remember I saw the ending scene of half life 2 out of context and even I knew something shocking was going on, it just blows that it ended in a cliff hanger that hopefully one day would get another game
@MrJarheadTV 2 ай бұрын
It feels like with the 20th anniversary of HL2 this year that now would be as good a time as ever to finally get that elusive HL3 but I definitely won't be getting my hopes up for anything. I'm glad you've enjoyed watching my takes on Half-Life so much
@imightbedisturbed4752 Ай бұрын
I just played through episode one and yesterday I started with Episode 2 and the whole heart to heart with the gman just gave me goosebumps. I listened to it 3 times in a row, because of how good it is.
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