Well worth the wait. Fun Fact: The voice of doctor coomer managed to get her voice to sound almost exactly like a half life scientist mainly due to the weird voice quality of Gmod mics. (Her coomer voice sounds a fair bit different if you listen to the actual discord audio of the "AI" in the behind the scenes specials.)
Everything in this series is Improv comedy very few things are actually planned later on. The passport joke is one good example. Benry needed a reason to stop Gordon to initiate RP and Passport was the first thing that came to mind and everyone just went with it making it a very long running gag. The entire series was streamed live it took 4 streams to play through the game Wayne was not expecting the the series to become as popular as it did with the last stream having a massive uptick in views. This series takes place inside Gary's mod or Gmod for short they found entire half life 1 maps that someone uploaded, Wayne the actor for Gordon is the only one in VR using a VR mod. Wayne wanted them to keep Gmod items to a minimum to help sell the the act that they were Totally playing real Half Life but Benrys actor Scorpy used the Wowozella an instrument item in Gmod, or as it's known in HLVRAI as the "Black Mesa Sweet voice." in the very first scene. Tommy's Character was made up on the spot Bauulp the Actor did not plan it at all. It's never Confirmed if the Bubby we meet after the test is the same guy who jumped in and died during the explosion. And Bubby's name was made up on the spot. Dr. Coomer is the most NPC of all the NPCs awesomely played by Holly (she/her). Holly Chose the name Dr. Coomer because it was one of the legit names on one of the lockers in the locker room. Dr. Coomer's character attempts to imitate a Tutorial NPC with broken triggers for when he says things. Hence the constant "Hello Gordon." Lines The weird A posing security guard in the Lazer room was a weird map glitch. For whatever reason the map calls for a half life 2 Barny to be placed in that spot and it's the only time in any map that happened. They rushed past it because it would have created a really awkward RP. There is an invisible stage hand that flies around doing his own things making sure that things are running smoothly. If you see people catching on fire randomly that's the Stage hand's doing. Another job of his is Teleporting people when they get lost. The VR mod has some limitations. He can't pick up items like the others, climbing up ladders can be really difficult, he can't jump out of water unless it has a slope, and if he ever sits down he can't get back up. Shortly after this series however those issues were patched. All the scientists in the bathroom were spawned in by the Stage hand but while spawning them in the accidentally spawned in The Nihilanth the final boss of the game and he quickly deleted it. If Wayne would have seen that happen the series would have ended then and there most likely as Wayne has no idea how he would have Improved out of that situation. Ohh and the scientists were all killed by a grenade thrown by Bubby.
Oh hell yeah. This is good stuff. Definitely would like you to continue. A little clarification: They aren't actually playing Half-life 1, they're playing a Garry's mod *map* of Half-Life 1, both games use the same engine, but that explains the weird weapon menu you see Wayne use at around 22:23. Also, as you've guessed, the other “AI” are just people, (but I ask that you maintain a certain suspension of disbelief towards that subject while watching) it's important to note that Wayne is playing on VR, but the others are not.
One of my most important series it helped me so much during my grandfathers passing. Thank you so much for reacting to this. They also have a director commentary of the whole series talking about how they made everything.
Yoooo such nostalgia I wasn’t expecting! I can never forget that infamous “HOW THE *FU-* “ that send me into many giggle fits lol Also I’m sure this has already been said but once you finish the series I highly recommend at least watching the behind the scenes on your own time since there is quite a bit of stuff they cover on the production team’s perspective!
Oh I absolutely love this series and it made the channel, wayneradiotv, and his friends, usually referred to as radio tv solutions or rtvs, as some of my favorite youtube channels and I highly recommend nearly anything they post as well Also as most people have already pointed out, this whole thing was done live and was all improv. They did a little bit of planning for the last few livestreams I think, though it was mostly just ideas they said. Also they said they only had a few hundred viewers during the first few livestreams, but this series helped them blow up and they said the last few had more viewers than they ever thought they'd get.
I actually thought about this a few days ago and this happens. First time I saw this it was pretty obvious that they're people but Coomer made me doubt about it so many times.
Been a long time fan of the channel dunno if I ever commented Just wanted to say that your videos are really fun to watch and actually help my mental health
I see you calling me out I had to make sure you we're being serious about reading all the comments and seeing them it was all out of the love for the channel
Yea a few people requested it including me! But he didn't want to have half life 1 spoiled for him V The comment below this one contains a Spoiler don't read it Duck V
Yes, I love this series so much!! Please do react to part 2 I know it's a really long series, but I'd love to see you react to the whole thing, it's well worth the watch :D
@@theduckgoesmoo it's 4 Acts long, each Act being split into 2 to 3 ca half hour videos, except for the final Act which is split into two ca 50min videos (this is not counting any of the bonus material they made for HLVRAI) I guess it isn't really 'too' long for a series, but I have seen people get turned away by its length before ^^' If you want to make sure that you have the right Acts and Parts in order, look for wayneradiotv's "The Half-Life VR: Self-Aware AI Saga" playlist
Why is Kirby not here watching this with you? Her reactions to this would be welcome as well... Also, you should watch the full VODs of this, there's so much that got cut for time...
donkey kong is in the first episode. he is pointed out in the series where their watching their own series. and talk about behind the scene stuff and other things.
ig you like this you should do freeman's mind. it's sorta a similar idea but it's one dude in charater as a nerotic jerk freeman. it's old as hell but you should check it out.
Agreed, I think both are equally great but for completely opposite reasons. Really though, I would love more people to see Freeman mind if only so it can get more appreciation. The amount of work Ross puts into his videos is admirable. I'm so curious how that movie he's making is going to turn out. I mean, he's been working on it for about 10 years now. Honestly, I wouldn't mind reactions of his game dungeons. I haven't found any reactions of those. I've always liked game reviews, but I don't know. Something about Ross Scott is both intelligent and precise, while also being chaotic and unhinged. It's only natural that some of him goes into Freeman. Thankfully, though, he is not Freeman. I'm pretty convinced Freeman could end humanity one person at a time if you gave him long enough. "Is that an MP5? It is! Now I can solve up to 800 problems a minute!"
@angrybrony I'm glad he doesn't. I do think he's a bit too particular about things, but as a creative myself, I do understand. Although I find myself on the less organized side of things. As someone who loves long form content. For example, the person who got me back into minecraft when it had that sudden boost in popularity. Ibxtoycat. I watched a few other channels, but overall I could never get into minecraft channels. I prefer playing the game itself. Ibxtoycat though I found to realy like for a number of reasons. One he never does mods. He pretty much only plays survival. He does do challenges to keep things interesting but generally he just makes what he wants to make. He just recently made a 10 hour video destroying a structure. That's the other part of it. While he is very interested in minecraft to some extent as it is his career. It becomes like a podcast where he talks about any number of things. I remember watching him cover his end in glass and his whole conversation turned into an existential nightmare as he talked about philosophy. Anyway even though I'm out of minecraft again he is the only channel that has remained and I will continue to watch him for years on end because why I like him as nothing to do with the popularity of a game. But even though his videos are long they still work with the algorithm because streaming content is a lot easier to get out in a timely fashion. Any form of content that takes a long time to create though, the algorithm spits in the face of. If someone makes a 10 hour long video essay that took lots of time to organize and edit, RUclips isn't going to recommend it to anyone. Makes me so sad how much the animation community has been hurt.
just noticed this is up and def should react to ALL of it it's wonderful chaos with all the stuff rachet akarui said being true tho I feel like you don't super need to be aware of the story or anything of half life 1 to realize something is off so you prolly coulda taken this on whenever there's also the next one half life alyx but the gnome is too aware that should be finishing soon and is also gold but simpler in some ways that could be a very fun follow up to this or to playing half life alyx if ya get there~! small edit/note the other playlist prolly includes the cast commentary stuff at least.
Please react to the rest of the series, you are in for a ride. Plus I recommend to react to the Half Life Alyx series from the same channel after finishing entirety of HLVRAI, it's the most recent one and also great
@@theduckgoesmoo Well, then it's for the better to react to it after playing, I just had no idea if played it or not yet. And I should probably mention that his Alyx series, just like HLVRAI, has a twist to it, it's not gonna be just him playing Alyx. Which is why I mention it in the first place. So yeah, again, it would be better if you watch it after you play Alyx yourself.
Well worth the wait.
Fun Fact: The voice of doctor coomer managed to get her voice to sound almost exactly like a half life scientist mainly due to the weird voice quality of Gmod mics. (Her coomer voice sounds a fair bit different if you listen to the actual discord audio of the "AI" in the behind the scenes specials.)
Everything in this series is Improv comedy very few things are actually planned later on. The passport joke is one good example. Benry needed a reason to stop Gordon to initiate RP and Passport was the first thing that came to mind and everyone just went with it making it a very long running gag. The entire series was streamed live it took 4 streams to play through the game Wayne was not expecting the the series to become as popular as it did with the last stream having a massive uptick in views.
This series takes place inside Gary's mod or Gmod for short they found entire half life 1 maps that someone uploaded, Wayne the actor for Gordon is the only one in VR using a VR mod. Wayne wanted them to keep Gmod items to a minimum to help sell the the act that they were Totally playing real Half Life but Benrys actor Scorpy used the Wowozella an instrument item in Gmod, or as it's known in HLVRAI as the "Black Mesa Sweet voice." in the very first scene.
Tommy's Character was made up on the spot Bauulp the Actor did not plan it at all.
It's never Confirmed if the Bubby we meet after the test is the same guy who jumped in and died during the explosion. And Bubby's name was made up on the spot.
Dr. Coomer is the most NPC of all the NPCs awesomely played by Holly (she/her). Holly Chose the name Dr. Coomer because it was one of the legit names on one of the lockers in the locker room. Dr. Coomer's character attempts to imitate a Tutorial NPC with broken triggers for when he says things. Hence the constant "Hello Gordon." Lines
The weird A posing security guard in the Lazer room was a weird map glitch. For whatever reason the map calls for a half life 2 Barny to be placed in that spot and it's the only time in any map that happened. They rushed past it because it would have created a really awkward RP.
There is an invisible stage hand that flies around doing his own things making sure that things are running smoothly. If you see people catching on fire randomly that's the Stage hand's doing. Another job of his is Teleporting people when they get lost.
The VR mod has some limitations. He can't pick up items like the others, climbing up ladders can be really difficult, he can't jump out of water unless it has a slope, and if he ever sits down he can't get back up. Shortly after this series however those issues were patched.
All the scientists in the bathroom were spawned in by the Stage hand but while spawning them in the accidentally spawned in The Nihilanth the final boss of the game and he quickly deleted it. If Wayne would have seen that happen the series would have ended then and there most likely as Wayne has no idea how he would have Improved out of that situation. Ohh and the scientists were all killed by a grenade thrown by Bubby.
Ohh and please watch more! I will try to say some interesting stuff as I've seen all the developer commentary's multiple times
No these are real ai I saw
This is actually crazy!! The fact there’s someone behind the scenes and that they’re not even playing half life
I aint reading allat
@@florentinamicu14 ok
It's finally happening!
HELL YEAH!
Fun fact: the scientist at 13:28 is canonically Eli Vance
This is perfect, time to experience this series once again
I adore this series. Fun fact Bubby (mastergir) was one of the guys from the moonbase alpha John madden video. Can't wait to see more
Wasn't Wayne also was there?
@@inspector_beyond i don't think so but I believe Holly was
@@HornAndHaloEntertainment it was gir and scorpy
@@pk-raichu ah thanks for the info
I have never heard anything so surprising, yet so unsurprising. Moonbase Alpha is exactly the vibe of HLVRAI.
HLVRAI is literally my favourite RUclips series, I'm so happy that you are watching it!
I really liked episode one
i love the va for coomer and Bubby literally sounds exactly like kleiner and the other scientist from the actual half life game.
You're in for a big treat🎉 with this series
Oh hell yeah. This is good stuff. Definitely would like you to continue.
A little clarification: They aren't actually playing Half-life 1, they're playing a Garry's mod *map* of Half-Life 1, both games use the same engine, but that explains the weird weapon menu you see Wayne use at around 22:23.
Also, as you've guessed, the other “AI” are just people, (but I ask that you maintain a certain suspension of disbelief towards that subject while watching) it's important to note that Wayne is playing on VR, but the others are not.
half life 1* not 2
@@Silver5kull Oh right! I'm surprised I messed that up. I'ma just change that real quick.
Edit: There we go.
One of my most important series it helped me so much during my grandfathers passing. Thank you so much for reacting to this. They also have a director commentary of the whole series talking about how they made everything.
Yoooo such nostalgia I wasn’t expecting!
I can never forget that infamous “HOW THE *FU-* “ that send me into many giggle fits lol
Also I’m sure this has already been said but once you finish the series I highly recommend at least watching the behind the scenes on your own time since there is quite a bit of stuff they cover on the production team’s perspective!
This series is one of the best examples of improv comedy, it's crazy how natural everything feels and how it actually flows into its own story !
This place is old Gordon
Oh I absolutely love this series and it made the channel, wayneradiotv, and his friends, usually referred to as radio tv solutions or rtvs, as some of my favorite youtube channels and I highly recommend nearly anything they post as well
Also as most people have already pointed out, this whole thing was done live and was all improv. They did a little bit of planning for the last few livestreams I think, though it was mostly just ideas they said.
Also they said they only had a few hundred viewers during the first few livestreams, but this series helped them blow up and they said the last few had more viewers than they ever thought they'd get.
Any chance you're going to watch "Freeman's Mind"? Its another fun poke at the Half Life series, like this one, but of a different perspective.
I actually thought about this a few days ago and this happens.
First time I saw this it was pretty obvious that they're people but Coomer made me doubt about it so many times.
This is has been the best day of my life, and now i see that you are reacting to one of my favourite series on youtube. I am in absolute bliss!
Definitely one of the things Wayne is most famous for along with the Deltarune Spamton Value Network
YES! YES! YES!
AHAHA!
Oh thank you so much, just please don't drop this like far too many others have
thank you thank you bro!
Why would anyone drop this series?
@@theduckgoesmoo I have no idea, but other reactors have
EVERYBODY STAY CALM. ITS HAPPENING. ITS HAPPENING
IM SO HAPPY MORE PEOPLE ARE FINDING THIS SERIES
YESSSSSSS! I saw this yesterday and literally screamed in joy.
I love the end song of every video from here, mainly for the fact it’s from a very dark, but fantastic game.
Been a long time fan of the channel
dunno if I ever commented
Just wanted to say that your videos are really fun to watch and actually help my mental health
Thank you so much for telling me! I’m really glad I can help
I see you calling me out I had to make sure you we're being serious about reading all the comments and seeing them it was all out of the love for the channel
Hahaha this was recorded before that 😂 I’ve just had people check to see in the past
Can I see your passport? -Hlvrai built of that quote
This is the best possible way I could have discovered that you played Half-Life! What great news all round, can't wait to see you react to this series
Ah, at long last you can also experience the madness of this series.
Yes! I requested this at some point, though it seems I wasn't the only one
Yea a few people requested it including me! But he didn't want to have half life 1 spoiled for him
V The comment below this one contains a Spoiler don't read it Duck V
@@Fennalope Yes, we all know that the security guard is the true final boss.
Oh boy. Get ready for a fucking ride.
Oh no way!! I only found out about this two year old series like a month ago and now I notice you started reacting to it??? Rad!
YES- I never knew if you'd react to this, but this is my favorite series on yt. You need to watch the whole thing.
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO ALL OF THESE YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED
Hell yeah round whatever of rewatching this series let's go!
been waiting for this since i subbed, hell yeah
I literally just rewatched this series are you kidding me
Care for another?
Looking forward to the Freeman's Mind reaction
Hope the next part drops soon!
YES LET THE PASSPROTING BEG- Hello Gordon
I'm so glad you are watching this series
A
-Salad
This is one of the best series out there- Definitely worth watching it all!!!
Also you seem pretty cool, +sub
Oh HELL yes! I'm gonna check your HL playthroughs too, didn't know about those.
I just finished the second game yesterday!
Yes, I love this series so much!! Please do react to part 2
I know it's a really long series, but I'd love to see you react to the whole thing, it's well worth the watch :D
Wait how long is it? I absolutely loved this
@@theduckgoesmoo 9 videos ranging from 22 minutes to 54 minites long
@@theduckgoesmoo it's 4 Acts long, each Act being split into 2 to 3 ca half hour videos, except for the final Act which is split into two ca 50min videos (this is not counting any of the bonus material they made for HLVRAI)
I guess it isn't really 'too' long for a series, but I have seen people get turned away by its length before ^^'
If you want to make sure that you have the right Acts and Parts in order, look for wayneradiotv's "The Half-Life VR: Self-Aware AI Saga" playlist
this series is amazing really looking forward to you reacting to this series.
Can vouch, our boy here does indeed read chat and comments.
Hey, you were supposed to watch "All Dogs go to Heaven" before this.
A dream come true, reaction from someone familiar with HL!
hlvrai is based on a vr mod for gmod and the maps are from hl sourcs
I was watching the latest video of the self aware gnome and it was amazing and then RUclips recommended me this video, nice.
Hope you do the full series
such comment reading dedication that's cool
God i loved this series so much
I have been watching since the meet the team reaction, and i have a message for you. Stay strong duck!
Thank you
@@theduckgoesmoo That was extremely fast, But on behalf of the thousands of duck-followers out there, We give you one huge “You’re Welcome!”
this is a good series according to at least a few people (including me)
Fun fact. Dr. Coomer's voice "actor" Hollow_Tones. Is a woman.
And she does an amazing job at playing Dr. Coomer
Finally, another reaction to this series has begun! There are too few, if you ask me.
genuine question to the people in this comment section how many of you who love HLVRAI have ever interacted with a wayne stream outside of HLVRAI
The day had finally arrived
This is amazing
Why is Kirby not here watching this with you? Her reactions to this would be welcome as well...
Also, you should watch the full VODs of this, there's so much that got cut for time...
It’s hard enough to make the videos we do make she sadly can’t be in every video
@@theduckgoesmoo speaking of Kirby! I commented this on an older video but you should rewatch Red Vs Blue with her!
Love ur vids man
Keep it up
donkey kong is in the first episode.
he is pointed out in the series where their watching their own series.
and talk about behind the scene stuff and other things.
Close it was actually Lanky Kong
@@Fennalope thank you for correcting me
I hope you finish this series!
YES FINALLY AFTER SO LONG WAITING
Hello, Gordon!
P A S S P O R T
about time. jk but im glad you're checking this out
Yes, please continue the series!!!
ig you like this you should do freeman's mind. it's sorta a similar idea but it's one dude in charater as a nerotic jerk freeman. it's old as hell but you should check it out.
Agreed, I think both are equally great but for completely opposite reasons.
Really though, I would love more people to see Freeman mind if only so it can get more appreciation. The amount of work Ross puts into his videos is admirable.
I'm so curious how that movie he's making is going to turn out. I mean, he's been working on it for about 10 years now.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind reactions of his game dungeons. I haven't found any reactions of those. I've always liked game reviews, but I don't know. Something about Ross Scott is both intelligent and precise, while also being chaotic and unhinged. It's only natural that some of him goes into Freeman. Thankfully, though, he is not Freeman. I'm pretty convinced Freeman could end humanity one person at a time if you gave him long enough.
"Is that an MP5? It is! Now I can solve up to 800 problems a minute!"
@@midnightfire9277 eh sadly ross can't pump out episodes to the algrithums liking.
@angrybrony I'm glad he doesn't. I do think he's a bit too particular about things, but as a creative myself, I do understand. Although I find myself on the less organized side of things.
As someone who loves long form content. For example, the person who got me back into minecraft when it had that sudden boost in popularity. Ibxtoycat. I watched a few other channels, but overall I could never get into minecraft channels. I prefer playing the game itself. Ibxtoycat though I found to realy like for a number of reasons. One he never does mods. He pretty much only plays survival. He does do challenges to keep things interesting but generally he just makes what he wants to make.
He just recently made a 10 hour video destroying a structure. That's the other part of it. While he is very interested in minecraft to some extent as it is his career. It becomes like a podcast where he talks about any number of things. I remember watching him cover his end in glass and his whole conversation turned into an existential nightmare as he talked about philosophy.
Anyway even though I'm out of minecraft again he is the only channel that has remained and I will continue to watch him for years on end because why I like him as nothing to do with the popularity of a game.
But even though his videos are long they still work with the algorithm because streaming content is a lot easier to get out in a timely fashion.
Any form of content that takes a long time to create though, the algorithm spits in the face of. If someone makes a 10 hour long video essay that took lots of time to organize and edit, RUclips isn't going to recommend it to anyone.
Makes me so sad how much the animation community has been hurt.
I would love to see you react to the rest of the series.
OMG yes! please react to all parts (if you can/want to) they are hilarious
please react to half life alyx vr but the gnome is too aware after finishing this series I AM BEGGING YOU
Omg yesssssss
*HAH HAE*
@@vinsmokeythebear6562 hahaha-ho!!
He has to play halflife Alyx first unfortunately.
i have seen no one react to the gnome and i'm still mad
Yes please a part 2
YES!
Yesssssssss
Please watch more❤
i love Gmod
It’s about time
barney the npc
just noticed this is up and def should react to ALL of it it's wonderful chaos with all the stuff rachet akarui said being true tho I feel like you don't super need to be aware of the story or anything of half life 1 to realize something is off so you prolly coulda taken this on whenever there's also the next one half life alyx but the gnome is too aware that should be finishing soon and is also gold but simpler in some ways that could be a very fun follow up to this or to playing half life alyx if ya get there~! small edit/note the other playlist prolly includes the cast commentary stuff at least.
Please react to the rest of the series, you are in for a ride.
Plus I recommend to react to the Half Life Alyx series from the same channel after finishing entirety of HLVRAI, it's the most recent one and also great
I kind of want to play Alyx in the future so I probably won’t
@@theduckgoesmoo Well, then it's for the better to react to it after playing, I just had no idea if played it or not yet.
And I should probably mention that his Alyx series, just like HLVRAI, has a twist to it, it's not gonna be just him playing Alyx. Which is why I mention it in the first place.
So yeah, again, it would be better if you watch it after you play Alyx yourself.
very λ video, keep it up
after you finish this series you should watch his other series half life alyx but the gnome is self aware (I think that's the name)
please watch more HLVR: but the AI is Self-Aware its so good
I hope you watch all of it. It’s super funny
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
I predicted this!
OH HELL YEAH
Oh my goodness, God is real
Oh
My
God
YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
HELL YES!!
No fucking way!
Day Seventy Nine of asking for a reaction to Max0r's "An Incorrect Summary of Metal Gear Rising"
OH SHIT
Fun fact: doctor coomer is voiced by a woman
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!
HELLO GOR-
HELLO G-
@@Fennalope H-
Look Goron ropes! We can use these to help with- HELP ME GORDON!
When are you gonna react to Emesis Blue. Ain't no way you got no comments about it.
FINALLY! :D
Finally
Are you still reacting to sfm videos? if you do, please watch emisis blue