I used to play. Had the shit kicked out of me for being so good. I miss this. 36 thousand views. 36 thousand people who deemed the swirly electrical weapon unethical. Good times. All hail GabeN.
lol a lot of valve games were mods based on mods half life was made on a modded quake engine counter strike was mod for half life left f4 dead was a mod for counter strike team fortress was a quake mod before valve hired its devs
@@unsubtract It definitely looks like a game from the very late 90's. What are you talking about? Aging isn't always something bad, you know? Even the graphics from Half-Life 2 show their age, but they still look good
@@tremendousyeet3467 If you are already showing that you may be closed-minded, then you are wrong. If it looks like something that some games may want to mimic with the aim of giving a retro vibe, then it has aged in a good way. The introduction with the train isn't as effective as it was in the 90s though, especially if you compare Half-Life to a recent game. For example, when I played Quake Champions for the first time, I was amazed by the character selection screen because of how realistic the characters' models looked. Back when Half-Life 1 got released, players thought it was the most realistic video game ever created. It even was a GOTY! When I played that game for the first time, so in the 2010s, I didn't think it looked realistic, it looked like an old game that was still playable and very enjoyable. It has aged, although NOT in a bad way. It still is a very good game. You can't just ignore the improvements its sequel has, especially the physics. You can't just ignore the technical progress that has happened afterwards. You can't just ignore the lightnings in games like Doom 3 or Batman Arkham Asylum...
This is the fun of an arena shooter: No holds-barred ultra violence with zero concern for points or skill, just jump in, grab what you can, and shoot. Matchmaking is good and all for competitiveness, but honestly letting people group themselves into servers of certain skill levels makes for a real fun time
Exactly. If I hop into a server and I'm way outclassed, I'll have some fun and practice against high skill opponents or I'll just find a server with a lower average skill level. Matchmaking treats you like a kid, server browsing treats you like an adult who can make their own decisions.
@@zackquillan7292Matchmaking always give me 1v9 (terrible teammates+better enemy teammates) if i have that match in server browser in multiplayer games,i would just spectate and wait to see better enemy players leave the game and then hop back at the game. This is the reason why server browser multiplayer games so timeless to play compared to matchmaking
Exactly. Playing original COD4 the higher level players would often fight each other even on the same map and same game. Like they'd know the best places on the map to go and usually meet there and duke it out. Us newbies would usually rush straight out into the open and spray and pray until someone died lol, and eventually get better and the cycle continues haha
u make FRIENDS that have the same sense of humor LOL. Once i entered in a battlefield 4 canadian server and got banned BECAUSE I WAS TELLING A STORY were n(word) was used in substitution for buddy. This here in brasil is the most commom word, its just like "how the f u want me to describe my guy?" or "u want me to speak right? are u a teacher or my mom?" . also memes are create. But it was only 1 time. The rest of my life i lived in much more hardcore servers and had tons of fun with very few fights because of EGO and not because of words. Were happier before because we make connection with people. Like play 100 hours together
Hearing you giggle like a child playing tag for the first time is actually heart-warming, it show’s how much of an influence Half-Life had on people way back when it came out in 1998!
And most people were still on 56k modems. If you were lucky or in college you would be on ISDN and DSL. If you were rich then you would have cable internet. So that fast speed mixed without everyone accelerated bunnyhopping and tau jumping with super low frame rates and latency meant even more chaos.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassivei remember thinking 10mbps was unrealistically fast. here i am with a gigabit internet plan (that only gets 300m at midnight in a good day, thanks spectrum) and thinking that 10G is unattainably fast. times change, and the electrons dance faster
The fun part about it is that is not even a full server XD I played a server with 32 people in it and it was peak madness, but it was great. Been playing one match a day since the update, trying to make the most out of the current playerbase while it last.
The days when you had maximum fun whether you won, lost, killed or died, the whole journey was a barrel of laughs anyway. I wish that whenever games were designed this way nowadays, they didn't just die 2 months after launch because people are obsessed with progression and battle passes.
I played plenty of Half-Life Deathmatch long before the update. I was trying to look for servers to play on that had players, and I ended up finding a few favorites. But yeah, most of the players, if not all, were just bots (one of the servers would only be filling with actual people once a week) and I did want to see what maps they had so I felt they were enjoyable. When the update came I went on looking for more servers to play on and one of them had a whole bunch of players and it was mad crazy in there. I only felt like it was a true multiplayer experience that time.
One of the funniest experiences there is in Half Life Deathmatch is: -Putting on a skeleton skin -Using ONLY your crowbar -Not using the voice chat Playing like that genuinely made my day and i hadn't raged a single time because of how much i was laughing
I like how in the midst of all this chaos, while your character moves at 80km/h, he reloads the pistol with the same enthusiasm and energy as me picking up the toothpaste in the morning just after waking up.
Every single weapon in Half Life has its place and that's what's so awesome. Someone with a crowbar relentlessly chasing you can be very intimidating in close quarters even if you have one of the more powerful weapons
I remember the incredulous giggling whenever someone was insta-gibbed or a body blew straight past my FOV. Good times. So glad this game has such a renaissance A QUARTER FRICKIN CENTURY LATER! Jesus, I'm old!
Oh man, this made me feel old even in my thirties. Yes, it was this fun back then, and it was even crazier when you met your friends bringing your own PC to make a LAN party. I wished that time lasted just a little longer
My god the amount of nostalgia I'm experiencing is off the charts This was my only gateway in my early teens. Even my sister liked playing with me and the friends
You could take any 5 seconds out of that entire video and it'd have meme potential. proof? 1:41 guy spawns in, starts shooting dude 1, dude 2 comes into the room with a fucking rocket launcher, shortly behind him dude 3 is chasing him with a crowbar.
Played some HLDM with some friends earlier today and honestly it was so refreshing to not have to be forced to play ultra-competitive and at the mercy of matchmaking systems designed to keep you playing for as long as possible, with no regards for if the experience is actually any fun.
playing hl deathmatch is fun, even tho I die 5 seconds after spawn half the time. I don't think I've ever seen a more hectic and loud game before lmfao
I'm glad you made this video, I can never count how many times you've had an authentic really good laugh and genuinely had fun while playing it. Half-Life is totally ballin'
Life was good back then. My old lan cafe was closed due to short customers ( ppl start to play online game). I wished i got to play with them 1 more time on the same place. Last time i play with them was 10+ years ago. Good times bro. Good times
Enjoyed this when it came out. This, counter strike beta, etc. were actually the pinnacle of hardcore gaming. We all used Kali matchmaking to find servers.
Christ, this video blew up. Hope you all are having a good Thanksgiving^^
WOAH its been a few days since i checkedcbro how
Good job
I used to play. Had the shit kicked out of me for being so good. I miss this.
36 thousand views. 36 thousand people who deemed the swirly electrical weapon unethical. Good times. All hail GabeN.
@@OmarBaassiri-wd6wcLove me steam deck, hail GabeN for sure
"What the fuck is going on?!"
Yep, that sums up the whole Half-Life Deathmatch experience. It's just absolute chaos.
Wasn't Counter-strike based on HL?
@@ojjoooooo It's just a Mod before for Half Life.
lol a lot of valve games were mods based on mods
half life was made on a modded quake engine
counter strike was mod for half life
left f4 dead was a mod for counter strike
team fortress was a quake mod before valve hired its devs
Graphics, mechanics, and game-design may age, but fun is timeless.
time has been kinder to half life than some shooters released within about a decade after its release
Tbh HL1's mechanics and game design aged perfectly
@@unsubtract It definitely looks like a game from the very late 90's. What are you talking about? Aging isn't always something bad, you know? Even the graphics from Half-Life 2 show their age, but they still look good
@@PolarGuy it definitely hasn't aged at all. any more from you is cope.
@@tremendousyeet3467 If you are already showing that you may be closed-minded, then you are wrong. If it looks like something that some games may want to mimic with the aim of giving a retro vibe, then it has aged in a good way. The introduction with the train isn't as effective as it was in the 90s though, especially if you compare Half-Life to a recent game. For example, when I played Quake Champions for the first time, I was amazed by the character selection screen because of how realistic the characters' models looked. Back when Half-Life 1 got released, players thought it was the most realistic video game ever created. It even was a GOTY! When I played that game for the first time, so in the 2010s, I didn't think it looked realistic, it looked like an old game that was still playable and very enjoyable. It has aged, although NOT in a bad way. It still is a very good game.
You can't just ignore the improvements its sequel has, especially the physics. You can't just ignore the technical progress that has happened afterwards. You can't just ignore the lightnings in games like Doom 3 or Batman Arkham Asylum...
This is the fun of an arena shooter: No holds-barred ultra violence with zero concern for points or skill, just jump in, grab what you can, and shoot.
Matchmaking is good and all for competitiveness, but honestly letting people group themselves into servers of certain skill levels makes for a real fun time
Exactly. If I hop into a server and I'm way outclassed, I'll have some fun and practice against high skill opponents or I'll just find a server with a lower average skill level. Matchmaking treats you like a kid, server browsing treats you like an adult who can make their own decisions.
@@zackquillan7292Matchmaking always give me 1v9 (terrible teammates+better enemy teammates) if i have that match in server browser in multiplayer games,i would just spectate and wait to see better enemy players leave the game and then hop back at the game.
This is the reason why server browser multiplayer games so timeless to play compared to matchmaking
Exactly. Playing original COD4 the higher level players would often fight each other even on the same map and same game.
Like they'd know the best places on the map to go and usually meet there and duke it out. Us newbies would usually rush straight out into the open and spray and pray until someone died lol, and eventually get better and the cycle continues haha
u make FRIENDS that have the same sense of humor LOL.
Once i entered in a battlefield 4 canadian server and got banned BECAUSE I WAS TELLING A STORY were n(word) was used in substitution for buddy. This here in brasil is the most commom word, its just like "how the f u want me to describe my guy?" or "u want me to speak right? are u a teacher or my mom?" .
also memes are create. But it was only 1 time. The rest of my life i lived in much more hardcore servers and had tons of fun with very few fights because of EGO and not because of words. Were happier before because we make connection with people. Like play 100 hours together
1:41 the way dude walks in with a rocket launcher just to be bopped by the crowbar should not have made laugh as hard as it did.
Fr, I saw he got bopped and lost my shit when I went down
**THUD**
*BONK*
*CLANK*
*DINK*
"24 hour bar fight" most perfect description of anything ever 😂
106% of accuracy
Hearing you giggle like a child playing tag for the first time is actually heart-warming, it show’s how much of an influence Half-Life had on people way back when it came out in 1998!
This HL server is so quiet and peaceful.
It’s like white noise, you could go to sleep listening to it. Very cosy.
6:30 "is this how it was back then" yes but everyone moved at 10x the speed because it's the meta.
And most people were still on 56k modems. If you were lucky or in college you would be on ISDN and DSL. If you were rich then you would have cable internet.
So that fast speed mixed without everyone accelerated bunnyhopping and tau jumping with super low frame rates and latency meant even more chaos.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassivei remember thinking 10mbps was unrealistically fast. here i am with a gigabit internet plan (that only gets 300m at midnight in a good day, thanks spectrum) and thinking that 10G is unattainably fast. times change, and the electrons dance faster
@@manitoba-op4jxI hate Spectrum too :)
We played this on LAN. Fun times.
@@manitoba-op4jxlove the end of your comment
"is it how it was back then?"
always has been
The fun part about it is that is not even a full server XD
I played a server with 32 people in it and it was peak madness, but it was great.
Been playing one match a day since the update, trying to make the most out of the current playerbase while it last.
Yes sir. Make the most of it lol
Current playerbase are full of cheaters, my dude. This is humanity nowadays
The days when you had maximum fun whether you won, lost, killed or died, the whole journey was a barrel of laughs anyway. I wish that whenever games were designed this way nowadays, they didn't just die 2 months after launch because people are obsessed with progression and battle passes.
And toxic streams that aren't fun to watch
@@hadookin47 *Le gasp* You mean that back then, people actually PLAYED games MORE than they watched others?
I know multiplayer is supposed to be hectic, but this is just ridiculous. 🙂
Just like the ties we have to wear.
This used to be normal to me haha back in the day. HL:DM, TFC...many many hours..
This is what you call a genuinely fun gameplay. They don't make em like that anymore. Authentic fun. No cod or other garbage come close
@@martinmarcinkevic3893 eSports is the cancer that killed fun in multiplayer.
bro you should see a instant respawn full server, this is nothing.
I played plenty of Half-Life Deathmatch long before the update. I was trying to look for servers to play on that had players, and I ended up finding a few favorites. But yeah, most of the players, if not all, were just bots (one of the servers would only be filling with actual people once a week) and I did want to see what maps they had so I felt they were enjoyable. When the update came I went on looking for more servers to play on and one of them had a whole bunch of players and it was mad crazy in there. I only felt like it was a true multiplayer experience that time.
One of the funniest experiences there is in Half Life Deathmatch is:
-Putting on a skeleton skin
-Using ONLY your crowbar
-Not using the voice chat
Playing like that genuinely made my day and i hadn't raged a single time because of how much i was laughing
*BONK BONK BONK BONK BONK*
GET SMACKED GET SMACKED GET SMACKED
Dude, the way you flick after every shot feels like you have recoil irl XD
😂 Honestly, it got my blood pumping from how much fun it was. I was real jittery.
As our lord Gaben had intended for our combat to be. For real though, I miss how hectic deathmatch was in games like HL, ah to go back 25 years.
You can hear this man giggle at 1:45 and that's what multiplayer gaming is supposed to be about.
I can see why people were on this for hours in the 2000’s. hopefully that SDK update leads to custom map servers as well
same
I swear these Gen Z games nowadays can't even compare, you can see how much fun you have with old school games compared to the modern ones
better than any modern game
I'm 35 now but I spent hours/days of my teenage years doing exactly this and giggling like a kid just like you 😅
It's incredibly simple and incredibly addictive
Crowbarring the guy filling his armor was way funnier than it should be 3:49
Fuckin' good old days 🫡
HL deathmatch, original TFC and Counter-Strike 1.6 almost prevented me from getting out of Grad School back in 2001 😅
Damnn, I've played games all my life and no game until now was able to pull me in back into multiplayer like this one. It's insane👀👀
you gonna continue?@@Golemcombat
"is this how it was back then." Alright... Time to show you Quake.
Exactly how I feel playing this game. I love it, its hysterical.
I love that this game is seeing a resurgence of people thanks to the 25th anniversary update.
Voices of the void youtuber meets half life
*Join game*
*gets called all the slurs by some guy who can barely spell*
"Ahhh the good old days"
I don't know why, but seeing Gman going all out with a gun is hilarious
Reminds me when I used to play LAN Half Life deathmatch with friends, it was so much fun. It was a _blast_ xD
Back in 2005 we'd spend hours at the cyber café playing this with friends. Good times.
Back in the days when fun and messing around was king
This, quake arena and unreal tournament.
These were the fucking kings.
Remember to set Multiplayer Max Decals to 4096 (MAX) for blood everywhere.
I swear, if I ever open up a bar I will dub it: The Crossfire Lobby.
Best Half-Life map ever.
This game is pure joy, i spent a lot of afternoons playing it after school.
Back when the main focus of games was making them fun and good
I like how in the midst of all this chaos, while your character moves at 80km/h, he reloads the pistol with the same enthusiasm and energy as me picking up the toothpaste in the morning just after waking up.
the new skeleton model is amazing lmao.
I'm 20 years old now and seriously, it never gets old. It makes me laugh every time 😂
The fact that your melee weapon is a crowBar makes a lot of sense now.
Every single weapon in Half Life has its place and that's what's so awesome. Someone with a crowbar relentlessly chasing you can be very intimidating in close quarters even if you have one of the more powerful weapons
This is what we used to call an arena shooter
internet was made for this
This is so nostalgic. I played the hell out of hldm back in the day. I am summoning the old gang for a match this weekend.
I' play yesterday, accurate as fuck. intense WAR 24/7
The giggling makes it so much more. Literally impossible to play without smiling
Glad to see they fixed people wallhacking with the gauss rifle
So fun to see your reactions. Was it first time you playing?
Yee, first time playing deathmatch
Pls revive it mate it was great haha
Somebody killed himself with a tau gun. HE COULDN'T HOLD THAT MUCH OF A PURE POWAAAAAH
And of course it's crossfire being played. Some things never change.
for some reason the shotgun pumping sound plays later than it should in this update. im glad to know im not the only one running into that
Endless barfight is the perfect word to explain HL:DM, heh.
WOW that has got to be the most accurate description I've ever seen
Its still more smooth gameplay ocmpared to CS 2. Movement is much more fluid and reactive. When I go back to CS 2 it feels like being a deer on ice.
I agree with ya on that.😂👍
true, movement in CS2 looks strangely slower than most of other CS games
I remember the incredulous giggling whenever someone was insta-gibbed or a body blew straight past my FOV. Good times. So glad this game has such a renaissance A QUARTER FRICKIN CENTURY LATER! Jesus, I'm old!
This is why I still love HL DM. It's chaoticly fun.
All the things you were laughing at are exactly the shit I be laughing at . That was really fun to watch LOL
Oh man, this made me feel old even in my thirties.
Yes, it was this fun back then, and it was even crazier when you met your friends bringing your own PC to make a LAN party.
I wished that time lasted just a little longer
I'm 23, grew up with classic games from before and after 2000 but didn't experience online play to the modern area, this looks like pure fun
I dont even need to state it but, its The Fun that was the first thing all of us noticed.
My god the amount of nostalgia I'm experiencing is off the charts
This was my only gateway in my early teens.
Even my sister liked playing with me and the friends
You could take any 5 seconds out of that entire video and it'd have meme potential.
proof? 1:41 guy spawns in, starts shooting dude 1, dude 2 comes into the room with a fucking rocket launcher, shortly behind him dude 3 is chasing him with a crowbar.
i like how people react to first time being on crossfire and not knowing what the alarm sounding means with what comes next
Played some HLDM with some friends earlier today and honestly it was so refreshing to not have to be forced to play ultra-competitive and at the mercy of matchmaking systems designed to keep you playing for as long as possible, with no regards for if the experience is actually any fun.
i barely have been laughing out loud for something at all in the last year and this title made me freaking explode lmfao thank you for existing
1:42 - Man brings bazooka to a gunfight, gets a crowbar to the face
It's like a bunch of fish shooting each other in a barrel.
The way you're constantly shaking just makes it better
it was even better back in the day. this is just a small sliver of what once was.
playing hl deathmatch is fun, even tho I die 5 seconds after spawn half the time.
I don't think I've ever seen a more hectic and loud game before lmfao
Accurate description and depiction - the only thing missing was the one asshole in every round who would run around and release snarks all over.
I think I need a nap after watching that
Lmao
I'm glad you made this video, I can never count how many times you've had an authentic really good laugh and genuinely had fun while playing it. Half-Life is totally ballin'
im old, i used play this on LAN back in the day, so much fun.
I started playing online with this map, 23 years ago. Then I played TFC.
free for all death match usually does
*This is what peak gaming looks like*
2:19 "This game is hectic" best compliment for an action game.
Life was good back then. My old lan cafe was closed due to short customers ( ppl start to play online game). I wished i got to play with them 1 more time on the same place. Last time i play with them was 10+ years ago. Good times bro. Good times
Half-Life Deathmatch & Lego Star Wars Cantina lobby. Different games, same vibes
Bro Your Back To Back Shotgun Combo Was Awesome
this video single-handed increased active players on Steamcharts from 70 to 400 for Half-Life: Deathmatch.
I would always wait for Dad to come home after work in the 90's to watch him play Doom, Half-Life, Warcraft, or Unreal Tournament. Good times.
Duuude, you brought me back by 20 years when I used to come home straight after school and rush to play this game lmao. Shit was fun AF.
I remebered my childhood man.Thanks for video.Damn late 1990s and beginning 2000.Those years were best of my life.
Imagine you pass out and someone transplants your brain in a jar in a computer forcing you to play this for an eternity.
3:51 love how they team up to beat to death the guy charging his shields and then go about their business
If you liked this, give a shot to Zombie Panic Source. It's not this fast paced, but it's very, very funny, atmospheric and intense.
this was such a golden age honestly
When you see a headcrab zombie with an RPG over his shoulder, you know you're in the right place
i've been playing these game since 2007 and I still laugh just like the dude in the video when playing HL hahahah
I feel like I have to lay down for a while after watching this
Wonder if TFC, CS 1.6, and Day of Defeat will kick off again after all this time.
hl:2 deathmatch is goated too, the one big open cube shaped map with the grey walls and props to fling at people on the ground was so much fun
2:04 The death animations are priceless.
Enjoyed this when it came out. This, counter strike beta, etc. were actually the pinnacle of hardcore gaming. We all used Kali matchmaking to find servers.
Best part was trying to reach the bunker and activate the bomb😂
Holy shit! This is timeless and priceless! Looks like mad fun too...