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I read your comment after watching the whole video and legit forgot that those real half life characters were even in the beginning of the mod, considering how off-the-wall it got.
Just wait till you see what he did with Kleiner. Breen is alive and acts as a Bond villain and that's the least out of character interpretation. Kleiner is straight up some edgy anime character who has a manic grin and fights both protagonists and antagonists.
Half life does have cutscenes such as gman speeches or eli's death but they are rare and added in a way to not break gameplay but i agree the cutscenes in the mod kinda ruins the gameplay
This game reminds me of the weird dreams I had about Half life 3. They started out normal, and then slowly started to lose focus, to the point it wasn't Half Life anymore.
Thatscientist dude same, im not sure of it was half life but alot of video games are in my dreams and by the ene of the dream they become extremely weird
"How do zombies work if they don't have headcrabs?" "Maybe it's under the helmet" "That's not how headcrabs work" "Maybe its a ~baby~ headcrab, you don't know!" "I don't think that's how baby headcrabs work" "How would you know? This doesn't consistent with the Head.. the Had.. the Head-Life cannon.." You can almost hear the synapses misfiring
If only they knew somebody who had access to the development tools on steam, maybe they could get an exception but I guess you know if wishes were horses.. the furries would never stop.
Why is nobody talking about the fact that Leon's idea of an "easter egg" is having the name of some other game randomly put in a level in giant red letters?
I would expect Kleiner to care about Alyx while Magnusson would say something like "Are we really going to possibly sacrifice All of Man Kind to the Combine just because of one girl's Depression?"
@@dafungazzzz4573 but for some reason, the "half-life : ep 3" actually uses the assets in a way that it'll looks decent and rich in map design. unlike HDTF which is really bland and shitty, and goddam long ass and a chore to play
@@redactedgamersgd1788 I have actually tried the mod out for myself and you are indeed correct. If you pay little attention to the details you can actually find the game pretty amusing. Though one thing I found weird was that I found a porn comic while playing the game?
Poor Leon/SPY, I ve followed all his projects for a decade, he is a one man army who did 3 mods who worked as unofficial follow up to HL2, the Closure of course but also Coastline to Atmosphere and Strider Mountain. Each counting 15-25 hours gameplay on a first run. Many people were a jerk to him because cutscenes, Gordon talking, etc... but in the end he dedicated nearly his entire time and life to those projects. Of course, even not considering all the infidelities about HL Lore, it is long, hard, too much battles and too much head scratching paths but all in all you can see that as a giant melting pot of nearly everything a man can put into a single mod, and each time the ending feels a bit heartbreaking, you know the ending should have come 5 hours sooner and indeed you got the main objective at this time and the next chapters are just « encore » or some ideas he did not have time to put early... freed by any money considerations, this is just fan made projects for die hard fans who can t just get enough of HL.
Dedication isnt merit to much beyond "hey, you tried." I cant tell if this was a shitpost or an actual attempt, just because autism exists online. Glad people bullied him lmao
I think you can actually swap them out, I don't know if it was in the options or if it was something you had to do in the game files.. he had both the fear guys, and then he had a custom combine setup.. like I immediately got rid of the few guys cuz it's just like whatever.. but what surprised me was there was a bunch of custom combine skins that ended up replacing them.. so.. yeah.. I kind of get what he did that cuz like if he's been modding and playing Half-Life 2 for over a decade at that point, probably get kind of annoyed and not wanting to see their face ever again.. I just don't know if I would have made that to default. What's funny though is when I was younger back in the s mod days.. I ended up doing that with the Counter-Strike source models.. I don't know why exactly I wanted to do that, cuz I could have just swap them back out.. I know I didn't put them in on purpose.. it was defaulted in the mod, but I could have just easily taken them back out.. so I don't know.. man I miss the days of smod... I remember when valve Force updated The source engine, and I didn't know anything about steam Depot or how to like manually roll back anything back then.. and it didn't seem like a lot of people knew how to do that either.. and oddly enough I was running the game offline for some reason, and I had been working on my own version that was just really coming together.. could do everything I wanted to do in a shooter and it was so fun and fixed a lot of problems that Half-Life 2 had just in general as well as adding you know gameplay LOL.. I'd go around just downloading source maps and.. then one day I accidentally put steam back into online mode cuz I just did I guess cuz it wasn't even a thing.. and I would never play Half-Life 2 again until 17 years later when I was able to actually get the mod State back to where I was back in 2005 2006.. that was that was a bad day LOL... Episode 1 comes out and it's like.. I've turned half life two into fear at this point and you want me to go back to vanilla source engine gameplay? Which was outdated at the time it came out in the first place LOL... I wish the s mod guy hadn't dropped off the face of the Earth.. although it seems like even though it took a good minute, people brought it back.. and then it went away of course cuz of the 2013 update.. I think by 2009 I stopped checking to see if I could get it back again and I just didn't even know.. And it's too bad that old ladies project seems to be dead.. with the BS mod discord being a dead link and the forums where the development had been incrementally dropping completely went down and.. it really is a shame because they were doing some of the coolest things that source engine can do.. like all the dark Messiah stuff with kicking people off of cliffs and having them rag doll and be able to come back up if they don't die and stuff like that.. just watching two NPCs beat each other to death with shovels and all these animations that they had pulled in from like left for dead and whatnot or customs.. like literally just two NPCs going at it and it was a genuinely entertaining fight.. This is definitely a golden window into an alternate timeline of modding and game design that we will never see in the modern age thanks to unreal and unity and all that garbage.
I remember that Leon B. uses some of those cutscenes as ways to teleport the player around to different sections, it’s odd but I think his mods have a charm to them I haven’t felt from other mods
its 90s early00s fps thing, when new weapon shows up you have to showcase it somehow, also showing in a cutscene where to go what to push after the level is loaded such 90s thing.
To air conditioning rocks :0. That's actually a thing in real life to keep deadly gasses from leaking out that's trap within the rock. They pump that freezer liquid into pipes that are cut into the rock to keep it froozen lol
I love that this video just feels like two friends playing a goofy mod, not RUclipsrs putting on a show. I don't know why, but hearing them occasionally stutter and mess up made it way more enjoyable.
Half Life 2: Episode **3!?** (REAL) (NO FAKE) *Insert random red arrows* I mean, props to the author for putting in that much effort in making the mod, but geeze.
Because it's all in-game done with no unique animation work, not done with a point or with unique animations like in Underhell, nor done with SFM like in Hunt Down The Refund.
SFMs in HDTF were decent tho. If only the creator got better models (Face textures and eyes were so bad) and if Royal Rudius used the final version instead of the unfinished ones.
They are copying probably ironically the weapon reveals in resident evil where the gun even shines in front of you but there's still a cut scene to shot it with that same zoom
Rest in Peace to the beta tester For real tho, massive props to the guys who made this mod. It may not be the most amazing thing ever, but it clearly had effort in it.
That's the point. Half life is about those seemless player interactions. It didn't had any cutscenes unless it was integral to the story (except those with g man and teleportations, or when Gordon was stuck somewhere), all the other time you could just look around and sometimes even get some dialogue
Those spaceship hallways, turret, and teleporter are modeled after Star Trek: Enterprise! It would not surprise me in the least if those models were stolen from a recreation of the NX-01 someone made.
The amount of cutscenes in this mod is astounding, clearly the owner put many efforts into this since its commonly extensive to make. Sadly this mod is categorized as wack.
This mod is supposed to be half life 3 but for some reason he went out of his way to deviate as far as possible from half life in like every way, including the use of so many cutscenes, which is the opposite of what half life stands for. It is comically dumb design for a game, especially one supposedly an unofficial sequal to a half life game. But you know what? The effort is there, so props to this dude. Even if he did not have good game sense, he put all this work and dedication into it, and I think we are all better off for having seen it- even if it is just because it's comical and can stand as a good example of the importance of game design.
@@therealbubble4696 Yes i will judge a person for liking a show made for children about ponies. But seeing as how infantilized younger generations have become maybe i shouldnt be surprised that someone rushed in to defend his manchild tendencies
I know that this has so many problems, but this man has managed to make an entire game (although modded), which is probably much more than what I can manage to do in my life tenfolds.
I think the air vents in the cave are meant to pipe air down from the surface. In Arx Fatalis(a very underrated fantasy rpg) you would occasionally see the same kind of thing.
I wasn't mad (dunno about Mahogany though), just thought it was weird since there was no explanation at all. If it had been in or near the borealis it would have made more sense since it was an Aperture shipping vessel in the first place, but it was in some random mineshaft in the beginning of the game so...
From the very beginning, this is the complete opposite of half-life, like what made half-life unique is that there were no cutscenes you saw everything through Gordon's eyes.
7:44 this is quite literally the interior of the NX-01 from star trek enterprise. That little turret thing that drops from the ceiling later is also from star trek.
This mod is surreal to me in how the mod author explains his side. He legitimately does not understand or grasp the importance of story or continuity in the design of a game. The guy obviously has a good grasp of first person mechanics and map design but to be almost braindead in the other regards is unbelievable. The guy basically said he hadn't played the original games in years when he bothered making this mod. Who anyways spends all this manpower on something you don't even care about that much. I don't understand any of it.
Considering Leon started modding duke nukem, he probably only stuck with source modding because the engine is very capable compared to the likes of the doom engine while still being (relatively) easy to mod. A lot of the level design feels more like something out of that pre-half-life era of fps mixed with half-life 2 mechanics. (which are nearly engrained into the source engine) Examples: The maps don't feel like real places, instead feeling like something out of a hazy dream, or a map from a 90's fps being remade in HD. The amount of enemies is unbelievable, sometimes you'll encounter about 15 soldiers at once in a small area with little to no cover, which does not go well with how half-life 2's gunplay was designed. (in hl2 you'll never fight more than about 7 soldiers at once, and when you do fight that amount, you'll have rebels, a vehicle with a gun, or antlions, usually in an wide open space or in a small space with lots of cover.) There are 0 breaks between combat, which fighting enemies constantly was the appeal of those games. The arbitrary "walk over here to this random place then a cutscene starts then you can progress" seems to be rooted in the keycard based progression of older fps games rather than the player based progression of all the half-life games. Leon is a fucking enigma of a source modder and every time I see a positive reaction to his work I wonder how any half-life fan could derive enjoyment from it. (P.S. If you want to see how doom like gameplay can be made in the source engine and still be enjoyable; I recommend the the 10th map from map labs #3 abstraction, called shake.) Also to anyone reading this, have a good day.
15:54 If I remember Tyler McVicker's stream from this, he was freaking out from the pistol reload most. I wish I could find the stream where he played it, but it looks like it's lost to history.
Well you can’t get “infected” in the half life universe and turn into a zombie, you have to have a headcrab latch onto you:edit: 13:12 the headcrab, went, WEEEEEEE:edit 2: knowledge: +1000
To anyone curious, the song at 0:48 is called The Road To Berlin by Michael Giacchino. I only know this because it's part of the PS1 Medal of Honor soundtrack
how i owuld fix this mod: i would first, remove the cutscenes and replace them with interactive gameplay scenes, make the main characters more like how they were in half life 2 (make magnusson egotistical and want the borealis more than alyx) alyx may be depressed and not want to go but not to the extent of what the mod portrayed
At one point it sounded like the mod was playing Doom (2016) Ambience. I've played enough snap map to guess that. Why does it use basically EVERYTHING BUT Half life 2 assets?
Oh my god, the glock sound effect. I've USED that in some of my old games, it's a stock sound from freesound or soundbible with only some minor bass boosting.
I really like the force awakens too but feel it was slightly dependant on the other two being good to make it more than just a fun adventure. Moments like "a good question for another time" were annoying at the time but I originally accepted them thinking that the other movies would answer that questions, but now it's just annoying.
We went into more detail after that topic was brought up and we mentioned the fact that the two other movies ruined everything, but I cut it out because I figured no one would care about our thoughts on it lol
@@DeadwaterGaming mad respect for ya. Most people on RUclips won’t edit out opinions that are either irrelevant to the video or just aren’t that interesting, (not saying that about your opinions) but your dedication to editing is top notch.
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Well that sucks sorry to hear that
Sucks man
what is the music from?
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Make me
Magnusson saying that Alyx is more important than the Borealis is so out of character.
Definitely, the fact that he even cared for Alyx as much as he did is out of character
I read your comment after watching the whole video and legit forgot that those real half life characters were even in the beginning of the mod, considering how off-the-wall it got.
"Alyx is more important to me than that whole damn ship." It really sounds like Magnusson has some ulterior motives here.
Also "Kleiner always keeps contact with me on daily basis."
Just wait till you see what he did with Kleiner. Breen is alive and acts as a Bond villain and that's the least out of character interpretation. Kleiner is straight up some edgy anime character who has a manic grin and fights both protagonists and antagonists.
Even still, as stupid as this is, at least it's still better than HDTF. At least this one actually functions.
@A halo Spartan Hunt Down The Freeman. Piece of junk, that was selling for real money.
@A halo Spartan Oh, sweet summer child...
A halo Spartan watch tehsnakerers video about it.
Christian Armstrong yeah, but I don’t think anyone else went in depth for over an hour.
Lmao * what did he say he deleted his comment
There are so many wrong things in this mod, yet you can see that the creator put some effort into it. It makes it kind of charming.
There are also *m a n y e n e m i e s*
Taking in account that it is a free mod made in 2011 and not trying to follow the half life cannon, I'd say it decent
@@apyr1439 2016
It was more intended for the creators sanity and satisfaction of a closure beyond a blog post
@@Mr.Crawlyo it was made before that.
Half life with cutscenes is kinda a sin
It defeats the whole point of Half-Life in the first place, where things were happening around you and you could somewhat influence how they happened.
Half life does have cutscenes such as gman speeches or eli's death but they are rare and added in a way to not break gameplay but i agree the cutscenes in the mod kinda ruins the gameplay
@@Sneakyrat_Gaming Heres the thing too, it's always in gordon's perspective
the cutscene where Gordon and the rebels are in the mines litteraly uses COD2 soundtrack
The only times Half-Life has cutscenes are when it's very essential to the plot
This game reminds me of the weird dreams I had about Half life 3. They started out normal, and then slowly started to lose focus, to the point it wasn't Half Life anymore.
Do you remember them?
well put, that's exactly what this mod feels like.
dr.coomer?
Thatscientist dude same, im not sure of it was half life but alot of video games are in my dreams and by the ene of the dream they become extremely weird
I had similar dreams about Doom Eternal Ancient Gods DLC.
"How do zombies work if they don't have headcrabs?"
"Maybe it's under the helmet"
"That's not how headcrabs work"
"Maybe its a ~baby~ headcrab, you don't know!"
"I don't think that's how baby headcrabs work"
"How would you know? This doesn't consistent with the Head.. the Had.. the Head-Life cannon.."
You can almost hear the synapses misfiring
Yep
This is what it sounds like when your brain cells decay
@@kristoffersonsilverfox3923 They decay to half of there lives
@@kristoffersonsilverfox3923 they half-life : decay
@@ourgoldenspires They decay so fast they *blue shift.*
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.
Now I know why Valve wouldn’t make a third game, it would go before the second game in the library
they had the game fully complete but then realized this and scrapped all of it
If only they knew somebody who had access to the development tools on steam, maybe they could get an exception but I guess you know if wishes were horses.. the furries would never stop.
@@jakedill1304i have no idea what that expression means
@@MailMainbutnotIt means we’ll complete our world domination plans.
Why is nobody talking about the fact that Leon's idea of an "easter egg" is having the name of some other game randomly put in a level in giant red letters?
Many enemies
half life 2: episode 3 (real no fake)???
Definitely real because freeman doesn't have a 9 year old voice acting him
pretty sure that's the citizen voice.
Why would he?
Watch Dorkly video about Freeman where he has assistant he has voice on there.
I would expect Kleiner to care about Alyx while Magnusson would say something like
"Are we really going to possibly sacrifice All of Man Kind to the Combine just because of one girl's Depression?"
This mod is literally “The Amazing Bulk” of half life
No, hunt down the freeman is.
True, both of these mods do take a shit ton of assets
@@dafungazzzz4573
but for some reason, the "half-life : ep 3"
actually uses the assets in a way that it'll looks decent and rich in map design.
unlike HDTF which is really bland and shitty, and goddam long ass and a chore to play
@@redactedgamersgd1788 I have actually tried the mod out for myself and you are indeed correct. If you pay little attention to the details you can actually find the game pretty amusing. Though one thing I found weird was that I found a porn comic while playing the game?
@@dafungazzzz4573 the author is a 50s something dude, he was a cartoonist i think
Top Games: *Increased Hostile Targets*
Generic Games: *More Enemies*
Leon: *_Many Enimen_*
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw
*_E x a c t l y_*
@@MrGermandeutsch what did he say?
@@mrscruffles801 I certainly do not know.
Poor Leon/SPY, I ve followed all his projects for a decade, he is a one man army who did 3 mods who worked as unofficial follow up to HL2, the Closure of course but also Coastline to Atmosphere and Strider Mountain. Each counting 15-25 hours gameplay on a first run. Many people were a jerk to him because cutscenes, Gordon talking, etc... but in the end he dedicated nearly his entire time and life to those projects. Of course, even not considering all the infidelities about HL Lore, it is long, hard, too much battles and too much head scratching paths but all in all you can see that as a giant melting pot of nearly everything a man can put into a single mod, and each time the ending feels a bit heartbreaking, you know the ending should have come 5 hours sooner and indeed you got the main objective at this time and the next chapters are just « encore » or some ideas he did not have time to put early... freed by any money considerations, this is just fan made projects for die hard fans who can t just get enough of HL.
Wait, this dude made strider mountain?
He would have gone real far if he had 'dedication' to something else
beauty sleep 2016
Dedication isnt merit to much beyond "hey, you tried." I cant tell if this was a shitpost or an actual attempt, just because autism exists online. Glad people bullied him lmao
@@CapcomGod you are problematic
I love how halfway through the thing the 'combines' just become replica soldiers from F.E.A.R 2 lol
Or Counter Terrorists.
Imagine if they yelled *”FLASHLIGHT”*
🎶MINIATURE REPLICA SOLDIERS!🎶
you guys remember that?
@@IDoABitOfTrollinwut
I think you can actually swap them out, I don't know if it was in the options or if it was something you had to do in the game files.. he had both the fear guys, and then he had a custom combine setup.. like I immediately got rid of the few guys cuz it's just like whatever.. but what surprised me was there was a bunch of custom combine skins that ended up replacing them.. so.. yeah.. I kind of get what he did that cuz like if he's been modding and playing Half-Life 2 for over a decade at that point, probably get kind of annoyed and not wanting to see their face ever again.. I just don't know if I would have made that to default.
What's funny though is when I was younger back in the s mod days.. I ended up doing that with the Counter-Strike source models.. I don't know why exactly I wanted to do that, cuz I could have just swap them back out.. I know I didn't put them in on purpose.. it was defaulted in the mod, but I could have just easily taken them back out.. so I don't know..
man I miss the days of smod... I remember when valve Force updated The source engine, and I didn't know anything about steam Depot or how to like manually roll back anything back then.. and it didn't seem like a lot of people knew how to do that either.. and oddly enough I was running the game offline for some reason, and I had been working on my own version that was just really coming together.. could do everything I wanted to do in a shooter and it was so fun and fixed a lot of problems that Half-Life 2 had just in general as well as adding you know gameplay LOL.. I'd go around just downloading source maps and.. then one day I accidentally put steam back into online mode cuz I just did I guess cuz it wasn't even a thing.. and I would never play Half-Life 2 again until 17 years later when I was able to actually get the mod State back to where I was back in 2005 2006.. that was that was a bad day LOL... Episode 1 comes out and it's like.. I've turned half life two into fear at this point and you want me to go back to vanilla source engine gameplay? Which was outdated at the time it came out in the first place LOL...
I wish the s mod guy hadn't dropped off the face of the Earth.. although it seems like even though it took a good minute, people brought it back.. and then it went away of course cuz of the 2013 update.. I think by 2009 I stopped checking to see if I could get it back again and I just didn't even know..
And it's too bad that old ladies project seems to be dead.. with the BS mod discord being a dead link and the forums where the development had been incrementally dropping completely went down and.. it really is a shame because they were doing some of the coolest things that source engine can do.. like all the dark Messiah stuff with kicking people off of cliffs and having them rag doll and be able to come back up if they don't die and stuff like that.. just watching two NPCs beat each other to death with shovels and all these animations that they had pulled in from like left for dead and whatnot or customs.. like literally just two NPCs going at it and it was a genuinely entertaining fight..
This is definitely a golden window into an alternate timeline of modding and game design that we will never see in the modern age thanks to unreal and unity and all that garbage.
I remember that Leon B. uses some of those cutscenes as ways to teleport the player around to different sections, it’s odd but I think his mods have a charm to them I haven’t felt from other mods
leon is a treasure
its 90s early00s fps thing, when new weapon shows up you have to showcase it somehow, also showing in a cutscene where to go what to push after the level is loaded such 90s thing.
To air conditioning rocks :0. That's actually a thing in real life to keep deadly gasses from leaking out that's trap within the rock. They pump that freezer liquid into pipes that are cut into the rock to keep it froozen lol
Wait, youre telling me the mod is... Realistic?
@@patrlim Yes, ONI, you are always watching us
Ohhh sweet! I just thought it was meant to be a thing for ventilation (I know there’s a name for it, I just forgor)
"It's to air condish the rocks".
Can't confirm it, but according to another commenter on this video, that's a real thing.
@@boxcarz was about to say the same
"here have a bon bon" top 10 things said before disaster
*O H N O !*
He's allergic
This is why Gman changed the timeline
and saved Alyx father so this future will never happen
wait how?
@@NoahGooder It was in Half-Life Alyx.
@@firstnamelastname7244 oh right i still need to figure out how to play that game without vr.
@@NoahGooder tbh playing it without vr is doing it a massive disservice.
@@crylune as somone with vision issues that require me to wear thick glasses with the headset as well and also get eyestrain yea no.
I love that this video just feels like two friends playing a goofy mod, not RUclipsrs putting on a show. I don't know why, but hearing them occasionally stutter and mess up made it way more enjoyable.
This lackbof structure js what I miss in gaming videos. It feela human.
Good god I must've been really tired when I wrote that
@@mrscruffles801 it feela human
Half Life 2: Episode **3!?** (REAL) (NO FAKE) *Insert random red arrows*
I mean, props to the author for putting in that much effort in making the mod, but geeze.
Why do the cutscenes looks like a gmod animation
Because it's all in-game done with no unique animation work, not done with a point or with unique animations like in Underhell, nor done with SFM like in Hunt Down The Refund.
SFMs in HDTF were decent tho. If only the creator got better models (Face textures and eyes were so bad) and if Royal Rudius used the final version instead of the unfinished ones.
Source is limited
They are copying probably ironically the weapon reveals in resident evil where the gun even shines in front of you but there's still a cut scene to shot it with that same zoom
Rest in Peace to the beta tester
For real tho, massive props to the guys who made this mod. It may not be the most amazing thing ever, but it clearly had effort in it.
*Walks into room with a shotgun on a table right in front of you*
Leon: HEY GUYS, LOOK AT THE SHOTGUN
Imagine if Leon is Dr. Coomer
"Look Gordon, Shotguns. We can load this thing into--"
(Bunch of Headcrabs shows up)
*"HELP ME GORDON"*
No matter how many times I watch this video, it never gets old.
yeah i rewatched it so many times already
@@alika3651 I watch it like once a week to help myself relax.
@@mrscruffles801 same
For those looking for the main menu music of that mod, it's "Road To Berlin" from the Medal of Honor soundtrack, by Michael Giacchino
Just commented this, really glad to see another MOH fan
I wish he used the HL1 PS2 soundtrack instead...
The funny thing is more effort was put into this than hunt down the freeman
And hdtf sold for REAL MONEY!!
That's something anyone can say about themselves, though
this one had actual passion behind it
My favourite moment of half life 3. The world ends because alyx is sad
Somehow that reminds me of Neon Genesis Evangelion
this mod could fit perfectly in the same universe as Chell's Way To Home
So, wake up, Mr. Leon. Wake up and, steal the assets.
Magnusson saying "Alyx is more important to me than that entire ship" is the biggest plot hole I have ever seen in any game ever.
Half-Life with cutscenes is so odd.
Yes, 20 years of half life and they do this
That's the point. Half life is about those seemless player interactions. It didn't had any cutscenes unless it was integral to the story (except those with g man and teleportations, or when Gordon was stuck somewhere), all the other time you could just look around and sometimes even get some dialogue
Honestly, I felt like the gamebanana assets had a certain charm to them.
timbleweebs calling mahogany mom is like calling your teacher mom on accident
Why is Gordon fighting an army of Adrian Shephard clones in space.
lore reason
This is not always consistent with Half Life lore, don't question it
Those spaceship hallways, turret, and teleporter are modeled after Star Trek: Enterprise! It would not surprise me in the least if those models were stolen from a recreation of the NX-01 someone made.
It's literally from a cancelled HL2 Star Trek mod. Most likely used with permission tho.
I knew I recognized the hallways from somewhere.
I literally recognized the hallway from the show instantly, and the transporter pad confirmed it.
The hallways, the consoles, the phase turret, transporter pad. Really tripped me seeing it! Glad I wasn't the only one
Really glad I'm not the only one who recognized that
The amount of cutscenes in this mod is astounding, clearly the owner put many efforts into this since its commonly extensive to make. Sadly this mod is categorized as wack.
He's trying to be the next Hideo Kojima
This feels like the ultimate antithesis to Half-Life in its entirety
This mod is supposed to be half life 3 but for some reason he went out of his way to deviate as far as possible from half life in like every way, including the use of so many cutscenes, which is the opposite of what half life stands for. It is comically dumb design for a game, especially one supposedly an unofficial sequal to a half life game.
But you know what? The effort is there, so props to this dude. Even if he did not have good game sense, he put all this work and dedication into it, and I think we are all better off for having seen it- even if it is just because it's comical and can stand as a good example of the importance of game design.
oh my god i thought that more or less enemies thing was one of you guys doing a horrible impression
This makes me think. Why don't we see any other human weapons in Half-Life 2 amongst the resistance? Why do they all use Combine guns?
because they're more plentiful and produced. Also because this is an FPS with a classic FPS weapon roaster.
This mod is actually really good. Big respect for the creator for the effort putted into this project, made by only one person. I appreciate this mod.
I like it ≠ its good
Degenerate opinions dont matter :)
@@therealbubble4696 Yes i will judge a person for liking a show made for children about ponies. But seeing as how infantilized younger generations have become maybe i shouldnt be surprised that someone rushed in to defend his manchild tendencies
@@chromosomedcollector Your name is Yeet Machine, your pfp is a flaming skull. You are literally nobody lmao
@@OpusTheLeftie stay mad :)
I know that this has so many problems, but this man has managed to make an entire game (although modded), which is probably much more than what I can manage to do in my life tenfolds.
Come on, even the Quake series has too much Quake 2, and now this?
I think the air vents in the cave are meant to pipe air down from the surface. In Arx Fatalis(a very underrated fantasy rpg) you would occasionally see the same kind of thing.
Pretty sure the green eyed guys are supposed to be HECU soldiers. Why the hell they're still around or why they're helping the combine is beyond me.
I like how these guys get angry about a portal turret even though portal and Half Life are same universe
I wasn't mad (dunno about Mahogany though), just thought it was weird since there was no explanation at all.
If it had been in or near the borealis it would have made more sense since it was an Aperture shipping vessel in the first place, but it was in some random mineshaft in the beginning of the game so...
I was kinda hopping they'd pick up the turret and carry it around as auto hand cannon
@@isaacworrall8004 oh my god yes
@@DeadwaterGaming I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they were using it to protect the mine.
I love how the maps are made (there are some mistakes, of course). Best part, in my opinion, are the winter levels.
From the very beginning, this is the complete opposite of half-life, like what made half-life unique is that there were no cutscenes you saw everything through Gordon's eyes.
20:00 i don’t know why but this moment was so heartwarming to me in the funniest way possible
"I swear if Chell shows up" I died
Oh god, I remember watching the VNN stream of this when it came out.... Tyler straight up just ended the stream
26:24 the gnome jumpscare is hilarious to me
This looks really promising, I hope valve takes some notes because this is something that can really be part of the lore.
*Please tell me this is sarcasm.*
Is this like sarcasm or a joke?
yo
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@@sipeb587 😎
It's become something of a weird tradition for me to rewatch this series in its entirely around the Holidays each year.
Right ? For me it's my comfort stream whenever I'm sick.
"Spy Maps"
Spy from TF2 made this and his name is Leon
Omg. There are so many references to other sci-fi movies/series in the tutorial/cutscenes lol
7:44 this is quite literally the interior of the NX-01 from star trek enterprise. That little turret thing that drops from the ceiling later is also from star trek.
This mod is surreal to me in how the mod author explains his side. He legitimately does not understand or grasp the importance of story or continuity in the design of a game. The guy obviously has a good grasp of first person mechanics and map design but to be almost braindead in the other regards is unbelievable. The guy basically said he hadn't played the original games in years when he bothered making this mod. Who anyways spends all this manpower on something you don't even care about that much. I don't understand any of it.
Considering Leon started modding duke nukem, he probably only stuck with source modding because the engine is very capable compared to the likes of the doom engine while still being (relatively) easy to mod.
A lot of the level design feels more like something out of that pre-half-life era of fps mixed with half-life 2 mechanics. (which are nearly engrained into the source engine)
Examples: The maps don't feel like real places, instead feeling like something out of a hazy dream, or a map from a 90's fps being remade in HD.
The amount of enemies is unbelievable, sometimes you'll encounter about 15 soldiers at once in a small area with little to no cover, which does not go well with how half-life 2's gunplay was designed.
(in hl2 you'll never fight more than about 7 soldiers at once, and when you do fight that amount, you'll have rebels, a vehicle with a gun, or antlions, usually in an wide open space or in a small space with lots of cover.)
There are 0 breaks between combat, which fighting enemies constantly was the appeal of those games.
The arbitrary "walk over here to this random place then a cutscene starts then you can progress" seems to be rooted in the keycard based progression of older fps games rather than the player based progression of all the half-life games.
Leon is a fucking enigma of a source modder and every time I see a positive reaction to his work I wonder how any half-life fan could derive enjoyment from it.
(P.S. If you want to see how doom like gameplay can be made in the source engine and still be enjoyable; I recommend the the 10th map from map labs #3 abstraction, called shake.)
Also to anyone reading this, have a good day.
15:54 If I remember Tyler McVicker's stream from this, he was freaking out from the pistol reload most. I wish I could find the stream where he played it, but it looks like it's lost to history.
I've been looking for it too, remember it being hilarious based off depressed he got. Guess it's been deleted
This is the ideal tag team. I’m glad I found your channel
dang i wish this mod had just a room where the ceiling was just all barnacles
Here have a bon bon!
(Kills grub)
OH NO!
He's allergic.
how does this amazing video keep finding its way onto my reccomendations
Sure feels weird after valve released Half Life: Alyx
Well you can’t get “infected” in the half life universe and turn into a zombie, you have to have a headcrab latch onto you:edit: 13:12 the headcrab, went, WEEEEEEE:edit 2: knowledge: +1000
To anyone curious, the song at 0:48 is called The Road To Berlin by Michael Giacchino. I only know this because it's part of the PS1 Medal of Honor soundtrack
This still continues to be one of my favorite series to rewatch.
Me too
Same here
I mean, he tried to make a good mod, I can respect it.
I played the mod for a bit. It lost me when I realized it was using classical music. Felt too bizarre.
Damn little did we know that in the Half Life 2 universe Quake 2 is owned by EA.
Mad respect for the "future" reference.
The parts where you do an action like press a button then it moves the camera to the door that you opened reminds me of a lego game
*I needed this. It made my fu-FRICKING day*
Half life but half life Alyx never takes place:
how i owuld fix this mod: i would first, remove the cutscenes and replace them with interactive gameplay scenes, make the main characters more like how they were in half life 2 (make magnusson egotistical and want the borealis more than alyx) alyx may be depressed and not want to go but not to the extent of what the mod portrayed
Most of episode 1 he didn’t have Gordon’s crowbar
these are some hello neighbor ahh scenes
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Not a soul:
Leon: QUAKE2 ᴱᴬ
nobody
not a single soul
literally no one
not even keanu reeves
me: wholesome 100 big chungus diamond lava minecraft fortnite bad
@@now-semen-up that pretty much sums up the whole "nobody:" joke at this point lol
"Half-Life cutscenes don't exist, they can't hurt you"
i love the fact this mod is clearly made by someone who knows how to make maps
Most of the music in this mod is from Medal of Honor Allied Assault.
the first 5 min are already better then the whole hunt down the freeman game.
Incidentally, the 'millennium falcon' reminds me of the vault from Half Life Alyx, which came later
Thanks, I forgot all about this mod, and you made me remember
At one point it sounded like the mod was playing Doom (2016) Ambience. I've played enough snap map to guess that. Why does it use basically EVERYTHING BUT Half life 2 assets?
Oh my god, the glock sound effect. I've USED that in some of my old games, it's a stock sound from freesound or soundbible with only some minor bass boosting.
"Not the millenium falcon but the ship where... _describes the millenium falcon_
I started laughing so hard when the developer jumped in to explain the difficulty
it's the mic quality. It elevates this beyond the bizarre scenario.
I really like the force awakens too but feel it was slightly dependant on the other two being good to make it more than just a fun adventure. Moments like "a good question for another time" were annoying at the time but I originally accepted them thinking that the other movies would answer that questions, but now it's just annoying.
We went into more detail after that topic was brought up and we mentioned the fact that the two other movies ruined everything, but I cut it out because I figured no one would care about our thoughts on it lol
@@DeadwaterGaming mad respect for ya. Most people on RUclips won’t edit out opinions that are either irrelevant to the video or just aren’t that interesting, (not saying that about your opinions) but your dedication to editing is top notch.
i didnt remember i had actually played this mod until you were in the Quake hallway. i got stuck there for like hours! i remember else.
there is a easter egg in this level!
"This is a fan made mod & isn't always consistent with Half-Life lore."
*Names it Half-Life 2: Episode 3*
7:36 - What about most of HL 2 EP 1?
we don't even make it 5 seconds into the mod and theres a cutscene in the third person...
It's like a mad fever dream and somehow I love it
it is
4:30 hl3 confirmed, there is sun in the night
That main menu music makes me think the game is gonna start with a PI talking about a dame with legs that won't quit