Half-Life: Poke646 is a Masterpiece, here's why
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Taking a look at what some call the best Half-Life Mod ever made
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I love your videos!
You are a GOAT in my books
Why are you not mentioning the possibility that since this mod was released back in 2001 long before HL2 was even announced, people don't know anything about what happened after HL1 yet so the dev are making up their own interpretation of BM aftermath and for the follow up mod since it going to be a hassle to retcon the mod with HL2 story, they just gonna stick with their original story ignoring the canon lore
Hl1 is free for a limited time
lucia at the beginning those were not pipes they were barrels
Why are you not mentioning the possibility that since this mod was released back in 2001 long before HL2 was even announced, people don't know anything about what happened after HL1 yet so the dev are making up their own interpretation of BM aftermath and for the follow up mod since it going to be a hassle to retcon the mod with HL2 story, they just gonna stick with their original story ignoring the canon lore
Because these people are too young to even know the full context, as he says, the mod is older than him.
That’s actually a really good point, I somehow only thought about that when it came to the hopper mines/chumtoads. Though to be clear, the sequel did release after Half-Life 2 did!
because who cares
@@1lucia But it followed more the story of the first game then half life story maybe
You’re younger than me? FUCK
18:07
Absolutely true. Here's some Valve dev quotes to back that up:
"One bizarre fact of game design is that, without some serious prompting, players will rarely look up. In this case, the prompt is a ladder. Most players will investigate where the ladder goes, which is up. The ladder actually falls apart as soon as it's touched, but by then it's served its purpose." - Jeep Barnett
"Originally, these exit portal surfaces were static geometry in the final position, but playtesters stubbornly refused to look up to find them. This is another example of the classic game-design problem of coaxing players to look up. By putting the portals on moving pistons, we were able to start them in a position that players were more likely to see." - Bill Van Buren
"Since we never take control away from the player, it can be a real pain to get them to notice important environmental events. It's a constant design challenge for us. The Citadel will be erupting in a massive light show that took ten of us two months to orchestrate, and, if we're not careful, the player will end up facing the other direction staring at a tire. In this case, to establish that the Citadel is coming apart at the seams, we wanted the player to notice the debris falling off of it. We used a pretty straightforward method here - Alyx explicitly mentions the citadel while pointing at it." - Matt T. Wood
I never thought about it until Valve started whining about it in their dev commentaries, but it's so true.
Valve Soyjack: "NOUUUUUUUUUUU LOOK AT OUR CITADEL, WE WORKED SO LONG ON IT!1!11" 😭
Average Player Chad: "Haha tire goes brrrrrrrrr, Half Life is a masterpiece, look at the pixel count on that tire!" 🗿
I personally think Xen is what is between portals(like the nether in Minecraft)or something between worlds since the G-Man says this in the ending sequence of Half-Life:
"The 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱, Xen, is in our control for the time being, thanks to you."
And if you consider Gearbox expansions canon(which I personally do) there is a chapter in Opposing Force called "Worlds Collide".
Yeah, Xen is a borderworld. You're correct. It's a space between dimensions that you have to traverse through to teleport or get around. Half-Life 2's teleportation uses dark energy or something to basically slingshot past Xen and straight to a destination.
@@JackFoxtrotEDMye using a complex equation to simulate xen to teleport in the same dimension.
I always contextualized Xen as being like The Lost World, from Turok.
This mod is a masterpiece. Probably on my top 10 mods of all time. The plot twist in the end is crazy and the different weapons and gameplay is really cool. (I played it trough xash 3d)
eita br que gosta de half life ai sim
@@TitoAnima Brasil!!!!!
What is your top 1?
@@Smirving Sven-Coop (Technically not a mod but a standalone game but whatever)
@@rbahiaofc fair i would say for me entropy zero 2 but if you mean half life 1 mods then i would probably say cry of fear
I always believed that their spaceship could teleport itself, and that's how they got there. The flying was to navigate the floating Xen Islands.
This is one of the golden ones! Always recommend this when someone asks for a good mod to play.
3:29 "Who placed a pipe there?"
MY BROTHER IN ALLAH, THOSE ARE STACKED BARRELS
Holy shit how did I miss that lmao
Man I love these videos where you play different mods and just have this fun playthrough. Sort of like LamWarp. Please keep making more of these !
21:05 Black Ops from Half Life Opposing Force already have that idea during the Black Mesa crisis.
I'm glad you're covering more mods. Great content as usual!
4:28 It says "color blind people suck"
Double barrel shotgun with pump action. Wtf
Ah, yes. The double barrel pump action shotgun, a homage to Valve’s Shotgun logic like TF2 and Half-life.
slight correction: the "Custom voices" in the spaceship are actually a text to speech system by Microsoft. It's for narrating your system windows for accessibility reasons. I love watching your videos though. Thanks mate.
Great video into this mod. I first saw it played by Jolly. Didn't know it had an anniversary edition.
Me too. I played the anniversary edition tho
This mod sort of predicted the seven hour war story in half life 2, considering the part about xen and aliens invading earth after the black mesa incident
This mod and is sequel are very neat gems in my eyes. If they ever make a sequel based in the source engine or a remake, I do wonder if it'll try sticking with HL2 lore.
Also, to clarify on some things. I don't think that the green alien weapon is a mutated rat, it's called the "xs" in the files which I think stands for Xen Shooter. It seems to be a creature from xen that kind of resembles a spore launcher in it's similarity and appeared in the training course for Poke646. Also, I think the same creator of Poke646 made a Max Payne styled mod for HL1 called just "Black Ops" which is one of the very few mods you play as a black ops, so if you do consider it then I think reviewing it would be cool. Also the sounds for the Xen Shooter came from Gunman Chronicles, I don't think you've reviewed it but if you do I'd highly consider it. Lots of cool features are in it
I do recall it being called the Xen Squasher somewhere
I remember playing it back in the day, seen it in a pcgamer magazine, was pretty good, good mapping and lighting 8/10
May I ask in what country? I got it in Germany from a Gamestar CD. But I always thought that this was because the developer was German. Didn't know that magazines in other countries included it also on their cds.
I love how you inspect mods with details in these videos.
yay, the "lore discussion" bit is back!
i saw that in one of the first videos i discovered this channel through, and was kinda sad it wasn't really used in any others.
2:04 The way you pronounced doctors name sounds like he's done funny german mustache ww2 guy 😅
oh boy oh boy do I love new lucia uploads
10:24 FAX, I hated this part. I actually thought since the mod used a lot of crouch jump puzzles I thought they wanted me to somehow crouch jump up from the window into higher elevation and I tried it so many times 😅
14:42 Actually it's even better, because in HL1 freezer room, freezer dmg actually can't kill you, it'll just remove 99% of your health but leave 1 point of it, so technically HL1 is beatable without being hit since if you go into freezer room with 1 hp you won't lose it 😊
21:33 Actually, it was said on a note or computer that you detonated satchel charges that one of the workers sneaked into the conference meeting, we even see corpse of one of the co comspirators who planned to do what Damien did but they aren't as badass as Damien so they die to military
The mod's art style does indeed resemble more of Counter-Strike Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes in its levels architecture, the custom textures and lighting.
P.S. And the city level kinda reminded me of Deus Ex.
>Sees the info link
>It looks just like the one from Quake 2
>Vomits
I remember when i got this mod on a Gamestar CD back in ~2002 and still today it's my favourite mod. I only miss some of the original sound datas, that have been replaced, like one hiphop track, it fitted so well into nation city, but i understand that this was done for copyright reasons.
new lucia video just after the hl1 update, perfect
8:45
I'm writing as you mention this
But the main dev for Poke646 worked for Gearbox on their cancelled CS:CZ iteration
One of the best mods of all time. The secret areas are ingenious. And Vendetta is a great conclusion!
HE SAID LORE DISCUSSION! MY MAN!
wow you triggered a childhood memory of mine
I distinctly remember playing this way way back in the day, mostly because of the cool nailguns
Hey Lucia, could you please check out Heart of Evil? its a HL1 mod that i played back in the day, inspired by apocalypse now. I recommend playing the OG version over the Napalm Edition since that's what i played but idk if its broken nowadays or not. It's a flawed mod but it's also full of charm!
Hope, you do Paranoia duo soon.
1:49 hold on, I remember the half life decay campaign, they sent a rocket to stop the portal storms before
I think this mod takes place in a universe where that dint happen
They also say that black mesa was closed down insted of being blown up by a nuke
Before everyone dies by smug cloud, farting that this mod 10/10, just watch Joly's playthrough, he exactly pinpoints the problames. And I get it, it's Joly, who wants to enertain us with the goofy things, stillhits the problemes well.
This guy usually clickbaits his videos with titles like that. Makes his word seem less reliable unfortunately
@@hazzmati , yeah I am not talking about the just video, scroll down on the comment section.
25:50
I am a bit late to the party, but those are not the nuke detonators, but satchel charges. They were placed there by a security guard of the facility, when he found out about the plan to nuke the city and wanted to stop it. You can find his messages to his friend and his wife, where he talks about it.
Volvo broke Counter Strike and Condition Zero with the anniversary update tho
New Lucia vid less gooooo🎉
I thought this was going to be a pokemon mod... this is so much better. Also, 2000's squad unite.
The best looking Half-Life 1 mod I ever played.
Cry of Fear is a HL1 mod btw
Woaaaaa haven't heard about this in like forever
Looking through your channel i am surprised that you haven't made a video about a mod for Half Life 2 i remember playing when i was a kid which i think is decent.
It's called 'Get A Life' and changes a lot in terms of gameplay such as survival mechanics. Would love for people to know about that mod again!
They Hanger 4 the movei? Oh man i cant wait!
I completely forgot about this mod. It’s been over 20 years. I’m gonna play this again
I played this as a kid and didnt really understand it because I thought there was gonna be pokemon.
Thanks for another amazing video.
Will you ever do The Mistake of Pythagoras? HL2's most surreal and unique mod I think.
I thought the nail guns were cool until i quickly realized they were just reskins! Also i like the mutant rat gun
I'm, like, 100% sure that Xen is a border world between dimensions, which is basically a bridge between dimensions. You could theoretically use Xen to travel to other dimensions, like a hub but for dimensions.
bro is color blind
also i always watch but i never comment, so here we go :D
man source engine is great always gave them older games maps life some how even if it was empty it just has this vibe about it like you're not alone.
23:41 When did he say "Canon is not canon"? 😮
I’ve played through half life 2 more than a dozen times and just learned that you can shoot away hopper mines in mid-air
You sold me on this! I will now stop watching to not spoil myself
You should cover absolute redemption sometime, it's interesting to see how people made their own half life sequels before half life 2 came out
There was a time when half-life had better mods than doom
Cool, I am yet to play any HL1 mods, so this might be a good starter
Wait, you're birthday is after 2001? Holy shit, now i feel super old for remembering the first Half-Life as a kid, i thought this channel had similar experiences. Eh, oh well.
You really like this dual-wielding pose lol
oh god, if a mod from 2001 is older than you then that means i'm older than you too!
this mod used the light conspiracy theming of HL1 in a really cool way
IUIC stands for Information Unit Integrated Circuit
18:30: I've been playing GString recently and got stuck on a puzzle that required me to look up XD
I wish someone talk about Amnesia The Dark Descent mods like you 😅
Really worth playable!
HL modding changed the gaming world. I hope, if VR ever becomes widely adapted, that that same explosive drive to create will still be there.
Shooting the Chumtoad makes it detonate it as well, so this is your primary means of dealing with them safely.
Lucia: "I am retiring the lore discussion bit, I've done it too often"
Lucia later: "Lllllllllllore discussion!"
The community fought long and hard and so I gave in lol
Losing my mind over the shotgun. Pump action, double barrel, with an internal magazine. Lmao I love it
either it is made as a joke or they don't understand weapons
@@BigSavageG OR it was made as a homage to quake 2's super shotgun.
Some of the best HL1 mods.
9:43 Force-A-Nature reference wait but it was released in 2001 so did valve copy that AND MADE IT A SCOUT WEAPON?!?
21:45 Don 'cha mean... QUESTIONABLE ETHICS?!
lets go a new video
Well, while it probably isn't what they meant, flying through a portal SHOULD technically be entirely possible... Y'know, portal storm and all. The ascribing of no ill-intent to Xen though would basically just be going native, because it's somewhat hinted that the Nihilanth (the being who converted all of the vortigaunts into unpaid interns) was planning for this for a while, along with both some aspect of at least the US government and G-Man... Possibly at the same time, as G-Man does seem to have a pretty well-connected network of fellows.
Yay more up loads
I would play all the single player Half-Life mods as they were released. Never been into multiplayer. I'd either download with dial-up or get from magazine cover discs. I thought Poke 646 was stunning. My fave HL single player mod by far.
if the mod came out in 2001, The combine weren't a thing yet.... Makes sence they would make it a year after the Black Mesa incident .
I PLAY BOTH GAMES OF POKE! IS AMAZING!
The IC stands for info card
Why I include *Poke646* in my canon: (SPOILERS)
Officially it's the retconned that the portals in HL1 were happening all over (even though the whole retreat and nuking implies it was Black Mesa centralized) and that the portals didn't close when the Nihilanth was killed, and that doesn't sit well with me. That and just how uninteresting it is to have no time between the Black Mesa Incident and the 7 hour war just makes the official answer extremely less compelling to me than it being after Poke646 on top of the whole "Days" thing being one word in an email from poking Laidlaw in 2020 well after he said "Please don't expect consistent 'canon'-confirming answers from me on these subjects. I don't have old notes to consult. At this point fans have devoted years to analyzing things we threw in the game with close to zero thought other than 'that looks cool.'"
Whereas with *Poke646* you get an invasion they *don't* close the Portal because the plan was literally just to blow up Xen to stop more from coming and Reeves stops that, and it doesn't seem like the government ever knew about the portal closing satellite that was sent up in Half-Life 1 probably because *they nuked the guys who were using it.*
I just also find it way more thematically appropriate that the government goes to all this effort to cover up the Resonance Cascade that happened at a secret facility, killing enough of the witnesses to scare the rest into hiding and form a new organization with people who do not know what the old researchers did... and then the next portal storm happens publically in the middle of a blinkin' city and it's probably all their fault from trying to cover up the incident in the first place.
It really appropriately continues the whole espionage plotline with a focus on the futility of it all in a way that Half-Life immediately drops officially, and I can't say I buy that the Combine invasion retcon was anymore planned to happen soon after HL1 than it was planned to happen after *Poke646.*
Oh as for *Vendetta* it honestly doesn't feel like it fits at all as a second half, taking Damien Reeves, the most boned man on earth (not sexual), and then making him out to be a genius and a hero as who's here to get revenge with all the politics being mushed into "kill bad guys, get promoted." Heck he goes straight back to killing the Aliens with no regret or thought in the world.
I do think it's worth playing though even if you don't like that story because it does fit in one way: Vendetta really feels like a blissful dream Damien had his first night trapped in Xen, revealing that despite his revelation that the aliens weren't invading, still wishes he could go back to killing them all on sight, get revenge, and be recognized and promoted for it! If *Poke646* reveals what the world was like after the Black Mesa Incident and how Xen life spread throughout earth, *Poke646 Vendetta* reveals exactly what kind of man that game's protagonist really was.
AMAZING
Nice video! Can you make a video for the mod "raising the bar redux" next time?
IC is Integrated Circuit aka a chip. Ale that could be one meaning tho
2:23 It probably stands for "Info Unit Intellegence Center"? Eh still sounds weird
A pump/break action double barrel shotgun? Wat?
i went to play this because i thought itd be cool
the graphics are great, the guns looks great, everything is great
EXCEPT THE GAMEPLAY
i swear to fucking god, whoever made this decided to be the most anti-puzzle person ever
the part with the subway, my first thought was to go to it, its locked? ill shoot it, doesnt work? well i see a bright powerbox, ill shoot it, doesnt work? well i give up
how was i supposed to know that i had to go onto the streetlight that fell over? there was nothing telling me that i had to do that, then i have to go into an apartment through a window, but its not the right apartment, so i go into the one thats closer to the streetlight to find out that the attic door that i was JUST fiddling around has to be fiddled again to be opened, and i get the key, open the apartment, and go through the vent
now, whats wrong with it? multiple reasons
1. the game was making me think of going to the subway first
2. there was nothing to imply i had to go onto the streetlight
3. seeing a pipe and a wire blocking my way makes you think "oh, i either have to turn off the power or the water!" but theres nothing, you just go through a vent around it
4. the powerbox when turned on BLOWS UP the locked fence with NO FUCKING REASON
this is absolutely not a masterpiece, i legit do not get how people love this, it fucking sucks horribly.
4:27 all you need to do is squint your eyes with stuff like this it says "color blind people suck"
You do realise he is colour blind, and as such cannot see that even while squinting (im colourblind)
What's the song that starts at 19:34 that uses Vague Voices in it? Or is this a mashup you made?
you didn't mention the cameo of GUNDULA GAUSE
it makes me really mad that the double-barrel shotgun holds eight shells, is reloaded by shoving shells into the bottom of it, and is pumped. Like how do you mess up a double-barrel shotgun that bad?
i think iuic stands for Info Unit Identification Card
19:29 "seems to have a fortnite map"💀💀💀💀💀
that double barrel pump action shotgun just bothers me
You sound like TrilluXe with a cold.
I'll see myself out.
Cool
In first person games i feel like its more often we dont look up but if you move to third person, for me, i look up more often.
Liebe dein videos bruder
1:28 *a military unit
IC - IDENTITY CARD, i guess
Nvm, i just reached the point where you find out the meaning
Very edgy mod, making you play as the biggest villain in the Half Life universe.