Yeah. Too bad they don't care to make HL3, making money off of other developers making and releasing games has killed every monetary reason to make another good game.
Something always lost on people I think is the idea that the alien invasion is less an "invasion" and more like someone took a swatch of alien eco system and dumped it into Black Mesa. All of the creatures were intended to be like real animals. With a full behavior set and different "social" structures. Some were scavengers, others are pack hunters, some are organized and intelligent, others are more like parasites. It truly is a shame that it is more evident in the game. Thanks for posting the video Marphitimus, it's always a treat to see your analysis.
It started off with random teleportation, but became an invasion later on in the game as the Nihilanth saw that the rift could be used to give his people (the intelligent species: vortigaunts, grunts, controllers) an escape from the borderworld. That's why the aliens are making a coordinated assault on the military in Forget About Freeman, with alien grunts being airdropped from living plane creatures and everything.
***** Nihilanth itself was a former slave of the Combine; escape was in everyone's best interests. According to Marc Laidlaw: "What we saw in HL 1 was the very end of a long struggle between the Combine and the last of the Nihilanth's race...although it's a bit different than the word "prompted" implies. The Nihilanth's "world" (if it could be said to have) was long since in the past as far as the Nihilanth was concerned; Xen was their final retreat, and they had their back to the wall, as it were, when the fissure appeared that let them spill into our dimension." "The Resonance Cascade was not harnessed by aliens; it was an opportunity they exploited. First the Nihilanth and its kind came through, under desperate pressure of pursuit by the Combine; and eventually, more leisurely, the Combine tracked them and followed them through. So the poor Nihilanth was squeezed by enemies on both sides. In general, hunamity's experiments with technologywere noticed and attracted unwelcome attention...like a fly suddenly twitching on a spider's web."
***** no, the nhilianth is the slave. he/she controls the aliens (not houndeyes and other animal-like aliens) the combine enslaved the nhilianth. it found the earth to be a good place to escape the combine further. so, it holds the portal open to allow the aliens to run free.
The houndeyes were meant to actually be friendly to the player, but the game testers from Valve would kill them anyway, so they changed them to be hostile. I honestly never felt so much hate towards anybody orher than the testers, I mean... imagine! A friendly houndeye! It's like it would be a helping dog on your journey!
So many people are saying "Ew, their eyelid looks like an anus." I can live with that. The actual eyes freak me out way more, and I don't eben really know why.
Hey, mr one year late here The likely answer is humans are psychologically conditioned to be afraid of those kinds of patterns. Leftover instincts from the cave days. Chances are if something has that pattern it's either a bug nest or a nasty skin condition, both of which are hazardous to your survival.
Makes me think of a world where the Humans and Xenians were friends, where if a Houndeye falls asleep with Humans present instead of fellow Houndeyes, it's a sign of trust and companionship between the two species. They feel safe enough around humans to let their guard down and trust them to keep them safe while sleeping as if they were part of the pack.
y'know the one thing i really love about this after coming back to it after a while is just what the pack leader behavior implies. it gives the group the feeling of a natural family unit with the leader taking the role of a primary parent, which kinda has the unfortunate implications that you're likely killing a mother and her pups in a lot of these group encounters. 'course, social animals on _our_ planet don't exactly stick to one pack dynamic exclusively, so it could also be litter led by the eldest sibling, a pride of a breeding "male" with its harem of "females" ( y'know, assuming houndeyes even have distinct sexes, though it could also come about if they were hermaphroditic yet still had a pride-like structure ), or even just a bunch of unrelated houndeyes that formed a bond of mutual trust, possibly meaning that the "leader" is just the one taking its turn of guard duty, and we just don't get to be around 'em long enough to see a shift change ... probably makes the "killing" part worse. we out here destroying _all_ types of families, even found ones!
+DarkeTribute, pareidolia. And actually, animals with compound eyes do not have eyelids. So it's more likely a cool "human" (or rather, canine.) touch by Ted Backman.
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You know your game is good when NPC AI was better back in 98’ than it normally is currently EDIT: Not to be that guy but holy shit where did y’all come from and why tf you arguing over what does and doesn’t classify as AI?
+Corporal Xander This is not ai, this is pre-programmed non combat related behaviour it shows that the devs were passionate enough to add extrea subtlety to make them look lively not just finish at the marginal deadline
Just imagine that - 2017: A student built from scrap his own City scanner drone from HL 2071: A sudent built from biological scrap his own Houndeye from HL
***** Meh, the zombies were maybe a little creepy at first, but for the most part I just view them as dimwitted. They're slow, they're stupid, and they're easy to kill.
I dreampt I was petting a tame houndeye and everything was good and then all of a sudden it started making the most demonic sound I've ever heard. Turns out my girlfriend's snoring was fucking with my dream.
This is actually something you can find in a lot of games. Half Life was basically made twice. After a year in development they reworked the whole game using the first version as a base. When this kind of thing happens to a project it's not unusual to find remnants of obsolete or disabled code
Would be really cool, if someone could inform the Black Mesa developers about all those subtle features (if they don't already know about them), Probably make Black Mesa even more cooler than before and will also bring a nostalgia feeling to it.
even by today standards these behaviors are pretty advanced, most games would just have them standing still in place until you're in their view then they start attacking
Much better. The thing is that these AI only have just a few more lines of code than average. but yet they still have better AI than most modern games.
The Abominable GMan I know. Its just sad how modern games could have the potential to have AI as good as this if they gave the game literally 5 more minutes of work.
I would love to see, in a future Half-Life game, a human being a Houndeye pack leader, taking care of them and in return, Houndeyes protecting the human. It can be Gordon, Alyx, maybe a totally different character, playable or not. These alien doggos are just so cute and it's a shame ValvE had to make them aggressive. Edit : Father Grigori could be a badass candidate imo : in his fight to purify Ravenholm and possibly other places, he would become a Houndeye pack master, which would be quite a powerful one. Grigori's convictions and madness, combined with the Houndeyes' volatility and cuteness, would make quite a good duo.
I don't know if this is accidental or intended behavior, but I am noticing in the last example how the squad leader runs at the threat to attack while the rest of the pack run away. Not sure if that's just a consequence of the terrain or not, but if it isn't, that's truly impressive behavior.
I dont think there there will be any houndeyes because it makes no sense. Theres no portal storm and the only xen wild life creautures are the headcrabs used by the Combine to bomb cities.
Part of me wishes they kept the behavior for Houndeyes being friendly, because every time I learn something about their behavior patterns I just want to pet these weird green ham babies.
Houndeyes used to be passive, but because they were passive they were unmercifully murdered during play testing. Damn i need that passive behaviour back. They act like dogs
Why is the AI in this 23-year-old game so damn good that people are making wild-life documentaries on it 16 years later? I wasn’t alive when this game came out, and some how it is still so impressive that we continue to play it and discuss its intriciacies to this day. God bless Half-Life.
It's simply amazing how many parameters this all must require in order to work, the attention to detail and effort to truly re-invent the way we look at entertainment that went into it, in 1998 mind you when no other game existed with this level of narrative, is just a testament of how creative we can be, what humans can think of and make when they're not too busy being negative and petty and actually try and make something for everyone's joy.
2:33 **flips Gordon off** Fuck you, dude. Can't I get some sleep around here?
Nope.
Wow XD I was laughing so much
*gordon shoots the shot gun*
houndeye: holy fuck dude! what the hell!
gordon:what?
Adeius Fuq Yu Meen
More like
Gordon: "..................................."
"A quiet sound causes a sleeping Houndeye to awaken lazily"
**Shows clip of the Houndeye getting up in less then half a second**
Wait, Half Second...Half Life In Half a Second..HALF SECOND IS THE NEW HALF LIFE
@@mintfennecfox7781 MATH IS MATH
@@synthwave809 floor is made out of floor
*Y e s*
gregg
This feels like an animal documentary lol
who said it isn't
Ye
what do you mean
it is a animal documentary
@@toastergod360 alien you know
@@toastergod360 Xeno zoology documentary based around the Hound eye, a Tripedal carnivore.
2:33 That move it does with his foot is saying: "Could you be a litte bit more quiet with your shotgun, please? I am trying to sleep". :)
2:44 The world's cutest war cry.
LET ME HEAR YOU SCREAM!
"doooòooò"
ferocious
I JUST WANT TO SCREAM AND SHOUT AND LET IT ALL “weoooo”
Huh.. I never noticed until now that they've only got 3 legs.
What?!?!?!
@@DehToadKing I have 3 legs also.
Half life 3 confirmed!!!
crazy stuff
@@algunlugareneltiempo ...
It's amazing how much AI was put into this game that the player never sees. Attention to detail, that's Valve.
Yeah. Too bad they don't care to make HL3, making money off of other developers making and releasing games has killed every monetary reason to make another good game.
*That WAS Valve
Jesus, learn to english and improve your grammar
amir moises "learn to english"
ohhhh rekt
Something always lost on people I think is the idea that the alien invasion is less an "invasion" and more like someone took a swatch of alien eco system and dumped it into Black Mesa. All of the creatures were intended to be like real animals. With a full behavior set and different "social" structures. Some were scavengers, others are pack hunters, some are organized and intelligent, others are more like parasites. It truly is a shame that it is more evident in the game.
Thanks for posting the video Marphitimus, it's always a treat to see your analysis.
Mark Carchidi Yes, you are right.
It started off with random teleportation, but became an invasion later on in the game as the Nihilanth saw that the rift could be used to give his people (the intelligent species: vortigaunts, grunts, controllers) an escape from the borderworld. That's why the aliens are making a coordinated assault on the military in Forget About Freeman, with alien grunts being airdropped from living plane creatures and everything.
***** Nihilanth itself was a former slave of the Combine; escape was in everyone's best interests. According to Marc Laidlaw:
"What we saw in HL 1 was the very end of a long struggle between the Combine and the last of the Nihilanth's race...although it's a bit different than the word "prompted" implies. The Nihilanth's "world" (if it could be said to have) was long since in the past as far as the Nihilanth was concerned; Xen was their final retreat, and they had their back to the wall, as it were, when the fissure appeared that let them spill into our dimension."
"The Resonance Cascade was not harnessed by aliens; it was an opportunity they exploited. First the Nihilanth and its kind came through, under desperate pressure of pursuit by the Combine; and eventually, more leisurely, the Combine tracked them and followed them through. So the poor Nihilanth was squeezed by enemies on both sides. In general, hunamity's experiments with technologywere noticed and attracted unwelcome attention...like a fly suddenly twitching on a spider's web."
***** no, the nhilianth is the slave. he/she controls the aliens (not houndeyes and other animal-like aliens) the combine enslaved the nhilianth.
it found the earth to be a good place to escape the combine further. so, it holds the portal open to allow the aliens to run free.
+OpenMawProductions the vortigaunts did invade, everything else didnt.
They fall sleep because feeling safe by some of them guarding
Awwww that's cute
The houndeyes were meant to actually be friendly to the player, but the game testers from Valve would kill them anyway, so they changed them to be hostile.
I honestly never felt so much hate towards anybody orher than the testers, I mean... imagine! A friendly houndeye! It's like it would be a helping dog on your journey!
god
The tester save you from feeling bad when you could not save your houndeye
@@AADP the same feeling when your Minecraft dog dies
*Friendly alien creature*
Tester: "Haha shotgun go BOOM"
Sometimes I just can't kill houndeyes. So fuck those testers
I had always believed these puppies simply wanted a hug.
Perhaps they communicated their affection through sonic waves.
Same.
Feel rather bad after killing them
Dalziel45 Unt you see one eating a a deadbody in blue shift.
CrazyDolphin actually, it was investigating the body, they do that a lot, looking at stains or random objects. Or corpses.
valve officialy sayd the dont want to kill the player. they just want to play
2:30 I love how the Houndeye's all like: "The fuck dude, I was sleeping!"
I KNEW I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE
They are cute and fucking terrifying at the same time.
those grunt radio call-outs were pretty spooky
ericsbuds those grunts are more "human" in Black Mesa. Kinda liked the newer grunts although I love the AI of the original monsters.
Brandon Clifton they're not terrifying at all, search up "Mr. Friendly" which is a scrapped alien for HL
ericsbuds WE. WILL. TAKE. YOUR. ASS. GO. RECON. AFFIRMATIVE. SIR. WE. WILL. TAKE. YOUR. ASS.
@Ret Neychozken sus 😳
2:50
Freeman: *jumps over houndeye*
houndeye: You weren't supposed to do that :/
So many people are saying "Ew, their eyelid looks like an anus."
I can live with that. The actual eyes freak me out way more, and I don't eben really know why.
I know. They are up there with the Flood carrier from Halo in terms of disturbing/terrifying videogame enemies
*eyes*
Maybe you have trypophobia?
Hey, mr one year late here
The likely answer is humans are psychologically conditioned to be afraid of those kinds of patterns. Leftover instincts from the cave days. Chances are if something has that pattern it's either a bug nest or a nasty skin condition, both of which are hazardous to your survival.
@@alexsilva28 ikr, i kinda flunch when i see one
I don't care if they kill like crazy they're still adorable
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62 likes, one reply
82 likes and my big cocc
it still is. sadly
186 likes, 6 replies
Makes me think of a world where the Humans and Xenians were friends, where if a Houndeye falls asleep with Humans present instead of fellow Houndeyes, it's a sign of trust and companionship between the two species. They feel safe enough around humans to let their guard down and trust them to keep them safe while sleeping as if they were part of the pack.
Cousin Vinnie you must be a devil with the ladies
Cousin Vinnie there is a mod that have that idea, is called "Half-Life: Peaces like us"
female hunter
That's basically what humanity did with cats
you are going to make me cry
I never realized how terrifying the houndeye's eyelid is..
Anus eyelid.
Wasp something something pinkeye
Pinkeye...?
it's more like a fleshy aperture that covers the natural sight orbeez inside of them
@@Tuntor689 more like a butthole lol
2:27
Gordon: *BANG*
Houndeye: _WHAT_
Houndeye: What the hell man
Lmao
true
You make me drop my croissant
pfft that's exactly what went through my head lol
lol, that's the exact same thing I thought
y'know the one thing i really love about this after coming back to it after a while is just what the pack leader behavior implies. it gives the group the feeling of a natural family unit with the leader taking the role of a primary parent, which kinda has the unfortunate implications that you're likely killing a mother and her pups in a lot of these group encounters. 'course, social animals on _our_ planet don't exactly stick to one pack dynamic exclusively, so it could also be litter led by the eldest sibling, a pride of a breeding "male" with its harem of "females" ( y'know, assuming houndeyes even have distinct sexes, though it could also come about if they were hermaphroditic yet still had a pride-like structure ), or even just a bunch of unrelated houndeyes that formed a bond of mutual trust, possibly meaning that the "leader" is just the one taking its turn of guard duty, and we just don't get to be around 'em long enough to see a shift change
... probably makes the "killing" part worse. we out here destroying _all_ types of families, even found ones!
game of the year for 1999. More like game of the bloody century!
lulubeloo 1998 and 1999 i think
1998
lulubeloo You sir have my respect
+lulubeloo Yeah I'll just leave it at game of 1999, an incredible game but my heart belongs to Unreal and Doom 2 ;P
Ahh I get it becomes the next century the next year
Is it just me, or does the look of the Houndeye's closed eye look a bit...suspect?
You're not alone.
+DarkeTribute, pareidolia.
And actually, animals with compound eyes do not have eyelids. So it's more likely a cool "human" (or rather, canine.) touch by Ted Backman.
+Quietbut_Deadly also known as: "butthole"
benis in foresgin :-DDDDD
was making sure this comment existed after seeing…
Jesus christ valve.
they manage to be cute and gross looking at the same time
1:18 A 3-legged dog would have a hard time scratching itself though :P
Very nice in-depth look. Makes me want a Houndeye even more now.
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Dood! Where are you?
Yay bigmac
Wild Bigmac appeared!
Go Half Life 2!
Half Life 2 Used "DO A GAMEPLAY OF ME YOU LIL SHIT!"
Btw, not trying to rush you
You know your game is good when NPC AI was better back in 98’ than it normally is currently
EDIT: Not to be that guy but holy shit where did y’all come from
and why tf you arguing over what does and doesn’t classify as AI?
Yep...fuckin Dogmeat...
+Corporal Xander 98*
+Corporal Xander This is not ai,
this is pre-programmed non combat related behaviour
it shows that the devs were passionate enough to add extrea subtlety to make them look lively
not just finish at the marginal deadline
+williampan29 But that applies to AI too.
williampan29 ... AI isn't just limited to combat behaviour... Do you even know what AI stands for?
Aww, how cute.
I like how the houndeye that was waken up by the shotgun blast looks at the player like "What the fuck, dude?! I was sleeping!" >:I
sthu
“What the fuck Richard”
"What the fuck is up, Kyle?"
0:35 when they sleep they look so cute
Damn playtesters, they are why I cannot have a houndeye.
2:30
"what the fuck was that, man"
Just imagine that -
2017: A student built from scrap his own City scanner drone from HL
2071: A sudent built from biological scrap his own Houndeye from HL
Imagine This
2019: *AN ACTUAL GAME WITH THIS QUALITY AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL*
@@indeepjable I know that this game will come out in Q4 2020, but Ready Or Not's shotgun is detailed.
Link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=&t=1m7s
TheTimoprimo ready or not has me hyped since the last years
God i just want to play a swat 4 sequel
Johny West 2170:Student's grandson builds Black Mesa and City 17
3069
Local video game company makes half life sequel
Well.
Now I love Houndeyes more than Headcrabs.
+Bill Kerman Am I the only one who absolutely hates headcrabs? Any time I kill one, I'm like "That death wasn't nearly harsh enough"
+Particular Particle same here
+Particular Particle At least Headcrabs don't insta-kill you like in Half-Life's Alpha.
Degrungeon I haven't played the Alpha, but I've seen videos of people playing it. It looks hard as fuck. I still hate the headcrabs though.
***** Meh, the zombies were maybe a little creepy at first, but for the most part I just view them as dimwitted. They're slow, they're stupid, and they're easy to kill.
I dreampt I was petting a tame houndeye and everything was good and then all of a sudden it started making the most demonic sound I've ever heard. Turns out my girlfriend's snoring was fucking with my dream.
Player: alarm clock
Houndeye: me.
2:22
Houndeyes are fucking adorable!
Headcrabs are as well when they don't attack you and you don't see their underside.
They look like Christmas turkeys.
I wish I could have a pet Houndeye. I'd name him Squeaky. Cause their attacks sound like they're squeaking. Or screaming. But squeaking's cuter.
Degrungeon Same
+Degrungeon their*
am I the only one who thinks that houndeyes are cute?
no.
Nah, fuck that, they're cute as shit.
Hello sir, spare a few minutes to talk about our lord and savior Nihilanth?
I think the bullsquids(at least in the eyes) are cute..
"stanowski"
czyzby polak? :D
Valve did a good job on the behavior of Houndeyes. They feel so believable.
The cutiest thing in game
2:33 I like how the houndeye was like: "Can you keep it down? im sleeping"
Am I the only one thinking that Houndeyes were similar to pugs?
Ugly fucks that everyone still loves? Yeah.
Except I don't think Houndeyes were inbred to hell and back.
No man me too
GD Clazzi well, they are :3
this is why I hated pugs...
they were really annoying.
*but the butthole is on the other side*
I really enjoy this series. It's always interesting to see these kinds of things, even if they aren't too noticeable in-game.
Just shows how incredible Half-Life is. Beneath the dated graphics and AI is a trove of secret treasures.
This is actually something you can find in a lot of games. Half Life was basically made twice. After a year in development they reworked the whole game using the first version as a base. When this kind of thing happens to a project it's not unusual to find remnants of obsolete or disabled code
2:04 freeman tposes in the air over a sleeping houndeye
To me, Houndeyes have the most fascinating AI in Half Life.
Your content and Valve's programming skills still manage to impress me. Awesome work from both.
soft houndeye
warm houndeye
little ball of Xen
Demonetized
@@fiddlesticks7628 bro this comment was made before the adpocalypse even existed.
@@rreprah9515 oh ok
It's kinda cute actually. I want one.
2:27 “THIS IS WHY MUM DOESN’T FORKING LOVE YOU!”
xd
I understood that reference
2:23 "So I'm just taking a sleep and you wanna bother me like that?"
Would be really cool, if someone could inform the Black Mesa developers about all those subtle features (if they don't already know about them), Probably make Black Mesa even more cooler than before and will also bring a nostalgia feeling to it.
I know I’m like 5 years late, but I think you got your wish, atleast they fixed the Sleeping eyelid problem.
Valve added so much detail into their AI in HL1. Unlike BM.
Gamer Dude XD
in BM, the houndeyes have the cut animation, and they sleep
BigBoss7007 Yeah, but it lacks alot of small little details than the original half life. Like feeding the bullsquid in the meatlockers,etc.
They have that too
No matter what it's missing, Black Mesa is still a million times better overall.
ok, Gordon freeman sneaking up with his crowbar out is about the funniest thing ive seen in a long, long time xD
1:01 wE LIvE iN a sOCieTy
Half Life's A.I. programming is a lot more involved than I ever realized, and I've played it 100 times. Good stuff!
For an old game, the monster AI is, actually quite good if you look at it from this perspective.
even by today standards these behaviors are pretty advanced, most games would just have them standing still in place until you're in their view then they start attacking
Omfg houndeye eyes become buttholes when they slumber
these guys have better AI than every enemy together from modern games
Much better.
The thing is that these AI only have just a few more lines of code than average. but yet they still have better AI than most modern games.
The Abominable GMan I know.
Its just sad how modern games could have the potential to have AI as good as this if they gave the game literally 5 more minutes of work.
A hound eye does these three things eat, watch tv, nap time
They're so huggable!
What if you kill squad leader with a crossbow when he is not see you? Will others Houndeyes wake up?
Let sleeping dogs lie.
I think they will just react same way as they hear low sounds.
I would love to see, in a future Half-Life game, a human being a Houndeye pack leader, taking care of them and in return, Houndeyes protecting the human. It can be Gordon, Alyx, maybe a totally different character, playable or not. These alien doggos are just so cute and it's a shame ValvE had to make them aggressive.
Edit : Father Grigori could be a badass candidate imo : in his fight to purify Ravenholm and possibly other places, he would become a Houndeye pack master, which would be quite a powerful one. Grigori's convictions and madness, combined with the Houndeyes' volatility and cuteness, would make quite a good duo.
other comments say houndeyes are supposed to be friendly, but then got made aggressive because the testers kept killing them
I don't know if this is accidental or intended behavior, but I am noticing in the last example how the squad leader runs at the threat to attack while the rest of the pack run away. Not sure if that's just a consequence of the terrain or not, but if it isn't, that's truly impressive behavior.
I think the rest of the pack ran because they couldn’t immediately see the threat.
2:28
“Sorry bout that”
“Nah it’s all good”
I swear the more you show them nap, the cuter I think they are
I really hope hound eyes will be back in hl3. And other stuff from the beta would be cool too
hl3 lol. the russians will have nuked us before thats released.
*****
I promise not to nuke you. I want my hl3 as well :"D
Наталья Лоринаитис ha ha ha thanks mate
Наталья Лоринаитис You are a hero :,)
I dont think there there will be any houndeyes because it makes no sense. Theres no portal storm and the only xen wild life creautures are the headcrabs used by the Combine to bomb cities.
Houndeye - xen dogs
Headcrab - xen cats
Itchyotsaur - xen fish
Alien grunt - xen grunt
Tentacle - ?
Snark - xen bugs
Gargantua - giant cockroach
Alien controller - ?
Baby headcrab - xen kittens
Gonarch - giant armoured testicle with legs
Nihilanth - ?
Vortigaunts - xen humans
Barnacle - ?
I guess Gargantas could be giant cockroaches and the Gonarch is a giant armoured testicle on legs
@@PrisonMike196 okay I changed the text
Barnacles are just xen organic things detector
Marphy's like the pannenkoek of the Half Life 1..
I came down to the comments section just to say this. I'm glad im not the only one who thinks so. I think we need to throw a houndeye jamboree
Making houndeyes agressive was a mistake
2:26 i like how the houndeye just straight up looks at gordon and goes “tf bro?”
I love this series
2:33 Houndeye : Hi there
0:53 That look is fucking terrifying!
Don’t make fun of their eye pls
Part of me wishes they kept the behavior for Houndeyes being friendly, because every time I learn something about their behavior patterns I just want to pet these weird green ham babies.
I prefer to call them Peeper Puppies, but to each their own
Houndeye is their official name
Houndeyes are the cutest.
They look really cute to me, probably because I love dogs.
Houndeyes used to be passive, but because they were passive they were unmercifully murdered during play testing. Damn i need that passive behaviour back. They act like dogs
Nap time. Rest peacefully and let your body regain the energy, regenerate. Take your time, find the most comfortable position and just relax.
They don’t look that scary
There actually kinda cute
In Black Mesa, the Houndeyes are more simple, they're aslept in some areas, some are not.
It's a shame Black Mesa didn't try to assimilate these ideas into their modification.
Greenpeacekiller
They aren't in the game.
StegoBROrus black mesa the mod lol
StegoBROrus How did +MarphitimusBlackimus found out of this?
Ingo Gerth Found this kind of information in the code of the game, maybe?
1:10 -- r/tippytaps
I wish that some day we’ll see someone in the Half Life universe who has tamed a houndeye, and has it as their loyal companion.
The more I learn about the Houndeyes the more I like the nickname "Peeper Puppies".
1:55 HELLO MY BABY, HELLO MY HONEY
ah yes...
*the dogs of half life*
Welcome to RUclips, aand this week's theme on random recommendation will be ...
Half-life
Kind of adorable actually
Oh man the sound design is just epic.
Houndeye: Sees Gordon.
Also houndeye: huhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
the AI is better than cyberpunk 2077
"bro what the hell man" 2:27
2:28 the houndeye: what the hell is wrong with you?
I would think Houndeyes were cute if they weren't trying to rupture my internal organs.
Why is the AI in this 23-year-old game so damn good that people are making wild-life documentaries on it 16 years later? I wasn’t alive when this game came out, and some how it is still so impressive that we continue to play it and discuss its intriciacies to this day. God bless Half-Life.
Yeah, I wonder if it would hold up as a modern release with better graphics and stuf- oh.
Tbh a in universe xen documentary would be a good idea
Mind you, this is before games even needed graphics cards!
Well technically... No I'm not that guy
You still needed a graphics card
@@crunchytoast4993 Half Life supported software rendering.
@@user-no3tu9kh3p you can play Crysis entirely on CPU as well
@@user-no3tu9kh3p why don't you just Google Crysis on CPU
2:28 Mom shots door: Waiky waiky you laiting for school!
It's simply amazing how many parameters this all must require in order to work, the attention to detail and effort to truly re-invent the way we look at entertainment that went into it, in 1998 mind you when no other game existed with this level of narrative, is just a testament of how creative we can be, what humans can think of and make when they're not too busy being negative and petty and actually try and make something for everyone's joy.
If you save the game while a houndeye is sleeping, than reload, the houndeyes eyes will stay closed.
2:26 Mom waking their children to school every morning.
American mom (this is just a joke)