Half Life 2 Update - Gravity Gun vs Modern FPS (Zero Punctuation)
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"Is half life 3 taking so long cus you need another innovative thing to showcase in it"
Wow, he hit the nail on the head
well, valve discovered VR so now we have a new one coming out.
@@Comedy-Mode fuck you beat me to it
No i did when half life 2 was still newer
Give me half life 3 with ray traced graphics. I need to convince myself this $1200 brick wasn't a waste of money.
I'm commenting so this goes to the top. He really did.
The Half Life series is like a really good fanfiction. you know the one, that you get really invested in until you realize that it says "unfinished" and hasn't been updated since 2009
And not just the one that hasn't been updated since 2009, the kind where the writer continues to show up freely around and constantly updates his previous or newer stories called "Team Fortress 2", "Counter Strike Global Offensive" and "Dota 2" while every time someone asks him about Half Life they simply say that they have a plan and they'll post the follow up "soon".
Emma Young I try to stay away from those and just pick the best of the best in post, (still can't believe Turnabout Storm managed to end).
Or y'know, like the Game of Thrones books.
travistotle i didnt read those because i love myself
travistotle Try reading Berserk.
Press E to magnetise face to ladder. Use W and S to rise and lower using your lips (since Gordon doesnt use them for anything else)
That's a beautiful mental image. I shall cherish it.
*mwah-mwah-mwah-mwah*
And, if not facing the ladder, press E to wrap your buttocks around one of the rails and press W and S to clench and un-clench them to rise and lower (Since, again, Gordon seems to not use them for sitting or anything, really)
Sam Kirby
Gordon must have some beautifully well-toned glutes. mmmmm~
SmileyCirrusOz actually he only uses his legs.
SmileyCirrusOz Turn 90 degrees sideways and attempt to strafe away fro the the ladder and fly up or down the ladder even faster. Or was that only half-life 1?
Maybe the thing on the Borealis that everybody wants is actually a properly working ladder.
Maybe Half-Life and Portal will connect in Half-Life 3.
What do you mean "will"?
Yeah, Alyx and Gordon were getting ready to climb into a helicopter and fly to the Borealis at the end of Half-Life 2 point 2 divided by 2 carry the 2.
Though, it basically isn't going to happen.
The Garden of Eatin C'mon, don't lose faith. I know Valve cares about their overflowing wallet, but please.
-scratch that it was the bootstrap device all along.
I actually sent Valve an essay about Half-Life 3 when I was in middle school. They sent me a letter back that said it was gonna be great and smothered me in TF2 merch.
and it indeed was.
I know another comment probably already said this but I'm going to point it out anyway, the Vortigaunts saw Freeman kill the alien leader at the end of Half Life 1 and then allied with humanity. They would have told the resistance who would have told the rest of the populace, spreading hope.
Was this in the main game, or a mere theory?
My question is how the feck do the aliens speak human with no jaws to begin with?
The vortigaunts would've figured it out; you went through a factory with vortigaunts who didn't attack you; this is when you figure out they are slaves.
Hey this going to sound crazy but a mute skinny scientist in an orange jumper killed a giant floating baby that was invading a secret facility and he killed a bunch of his own race to teleport to a dimension thats floating swamps and some old guy with a stutter shoved him into a fridge, hes totally a good guy.
@@kenkastlekausmo701 There are a couple of quotes ingame you can pry out of them.
"We see you still in Black Mesa. Clearly we see you in the Nihilanth's chamber."
"We bear witness to the bright eternity of the Nihilanth's demise. You leap, you fall, we see you flash beyond the barriers."
"While our own lay scattered at your feet, you severed the vortal cord that bound the Nihilanth to life, and to us."
By mentioning Half Life 3 you have now delayed it by another month it will now be released in March 2122
What if I mention Half-Life -3?
SSJ God April 2122 now
Skwalker guys stop talking about Half-Life 3 so it wont get delayed moreOH SHIT
May 2122
Skwalker But I said minus 3
It still contained the forbidden symbol which offends the great Gaben
Oh god...Source ladders: The true enemy of Half-Life.
Damn right
50Calabyte To this day I never trust ladders in a video game.
50Calabyte Ahh, the good ol' "ladder shuffle". Not really surprising the ladders are a bit awkard, considering that you never physically grab onto them. You just stare at them reeeal hard and magically slide up/down.
***** I used to think you just...levitate...which when you think about it removes all needs for ladders...
That moment when postal 2 has better ladders then source games.
"It's a wonderful game, stop liking it so much"'
^75% of the comments.
Do you though, do you care, or do you just want to be controversial.
ThoroinEsp Degenerate.
ThoroinEsp I can clearly see how little you care now that you took time out of your (very important, no doubt) life to reply to my comment. But telling people to "stop being alive" is rude, do you want me to call your mommy and tell her what you said?
ThoroinEsp Then why are you responding?
Oh yes please, if you can some how magicaly stop her from being dead for the last 10 years, that would be great. im responding because im boared out my mide and this is fun.
This was around when Half-Life: Alyx entered production. Now, I'm not saying Yahtzee triggered the creation of a new Half-Life, but he was pretty convincing.
Yahtzee, you said something critical about Half Life and Valve! You'll have to go into the Gamer Witness Protection Program for this!!!
I for one will miss you.
richard1701able I will miss him too... That's why I will join him by also being critical of Valve:
Valve needs to seriously make up their mind about whether their making Half Life 3 or not. I get that they may not want to work on it considering they're so preoccupied with steam and just want to sell used games from now on. But if thats the case then they should just simple flat out tell fans no Half Life 3 instead of being so mysterious about it. It would be kinder then leaving them in a state of suspense for decades.
Rock Steel I've been in the Program for a long time and I look forward to meeting you. It's pretty safe here, the Fanboys haven't found me yet.
I would be very surprised if Valve made HL3, they are too busy making money off other people's hard work with Steam, and DOTA or LOL. Which ever one is theirs. Valve making HL3 is as likely as Square remaking Final Fantasy 7. They haven't ruled it out, but they've made no commitment to making it.
I didn't like the HL series because (My my opinion) they didn't know what they wanted to be. HL1 was either a survival horror or a fps. HL2 was either a fps or a 3D puzzle game. At least Portal knew what it was and wasn't jumping genres. Yahtzee addressed this (In part) and that's why I respect him as a critic.
Rock Steel ill say it for valve. HL3 IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN EVER
richard1701able To be fair I can think of one good reason as to why Valve would make half life 3. The Steam Machine, look it up Valve is pretty much trying to make and ship their own console and by the looks of it they are taking a big risk. Declaring Half Life 3 a steam machine exclusive would greatly boost sales the same way Halo being an X-Box exclusive boosted its sales.
My one question is does Valve even have any game designers left in its employment? I wouldn't think so since its been so long since they actually made a game themselves and have focused on steam for so long that their game designers would laid off and replaced with web software people.
***** Agreed thats why I think they might ship Half Life 3 as a steam machine exclusive out of pure desperation to sell a doomed console.
Actually half life two wouldn't be full life, it'd be quarter life. That's how atomic half lives work, it measures decay of parent atoms in the amount of time it takes to reduce the original number by half.
George Sears NEEEEEEEEEEERD!!!
George Sears schizofrenic
George Sears or just lonely?
Lgs260495 I just have an unending compulsion to always make pop culture references when given the opportunity. So... why not both?
leon musial I know, right?
I never got what was the hype over Half-Life until I watched a colleague, who generally hates FPS games, play it. Now, I still don't get what the hype is, but I have watched someone start off going 'God, I hate FPS games' and then become an avid fan of HL in the span of about fifteen minutes, so I kind of have to accept that it's either a good game or literally enchanted with dark sorcery.
If you're talking about the first game, it's a supremely well-paced FPS game with simple controls that never change but nonetheless work perfectly well for the three different modes that it goes into (survival horror, tactical action and crazy bouncy rocket-jumping action) along with a deep and engaging storyline that nevertheless doesn't interfere with the action.
@@juliettami77 Half Life 2 meanwhile is a road trip through hell-blasted Europe. And it's also great as long as you aren't expecting any form of challenge from the combat (the enemies have fantastic AI on paper, but said AI crippled by their weakness to getting lured around a corner and stunlocked by every single gun you own)
@@TARINunit9 Also there's the oversight where the A.I. will normally only move to you and out of cover if you break line of sight, but you can break line of sight for .1 seconds and they'll start moving.
"either a good game or literally enchanted with dark sorcery." Or as Yahtzee said a while back "Freeman's beard emits a pheromone"
Well, both, and its more of interdimensional energy than sorcery
Half Life 2 and its physics engine was like the Half Life 1 train intro showcasing their shiny new Quake engine, _but for an entire game._
"Is that a big thumping laser machine being presided over by a dude with skeletal animation, _I think it bloody is!_ "
Seriously?
I've never had a problem with ladders in Half-Life
[presses E and calmly dismounts ladder]
TA-DAAAA
The Doctor THIS
The Doctor Yeah, it was Half Life 1 that had the treacherous ladders. Ladders in Half Life 2 were comparatively easy to use.
sooperchikken Ah, yes, the infamous Surface Tension cliffs...
The Doctor Christ in a hammock, don't even get me started. -_-
sooperchikken And then they redid it for the Coat area in HL2, near Nova Prospekt
The resistance knows about what Gordon did because the vortigaunts told them.
Sure buddy, where exactly did you hear that? And even if that is case, still would a really bad awkward way doing it
@@reverberateddreams7958 Umm, the vortigaunts are a part of the resistance, they basically tell Gordon that he is very important to them, they can speak English, and it's implied that they may have a degree of collective consciousness.
Given all that, it's not hard to imagine that they told the resistance what Gordon did.
Also, this is a four year old comment, wtf are you doing?
Theory; HL3 has been made and is just sitting on a HD somewhere. Steam keeps it locked up till the day their stocks drop and the outlook of the company is becoming grim then BAM. HL3 is brought out, updated to whatever is the current engine, hd textures and whatnot and is put on steam for 59.99 plus DLCs for 20$ each.
To which least half the Steam community instantly buys regardless of reviews just to finish the fucking story.
Valve doesn’t have stocks, its a private company
I’d argue this is almost correct - they saw Epic Games doing so well, so they brought out the big guns and decided to revolutionise virtual reality; bringing Valve back into the big leagues of gaming.
@@RandomPerson13 I don't know the timeframes etc, but yep - this is probably a lot more likely.
The funniest part of this video is that the ladders _still_ have problems, even in recent games like Black Mesa (technically fan-made but still suffering) and Half Life: Alyx.
I will always prefer this game to most modern shooters simply because you can shoot someone with a toilet.
you cant really shoot someone with a toilet altho i get your meaning, its more like, being able to use gravity to punt a toilet into a enemy soldier and kill him cause the gravity and all of the sharp toilet pieces lodged into them
xalphahunter personally i like to give gifts to the hard working soliders, passing them water to congratulate them on a job well done oppressing the world but of course due to their stress they faint
@@xalphahunter4176 punting a toilet at someone sounds so much better than shooting a toilet at someone
Wow, that would make the enemy flush with embarrassment.
Incidentally, you CAN polish a turd. Recently watched a mythbuster episode where they did just that.
You can polish a turd, but that doesn't make it smell any less like shit.
Finnish Person you can't polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter
can can polish and glitterify a turd but you can shit it in the ground and fertilize new plants
the rudest of clouds
Best to just use the turd to fertilize new plants then try to polish it.
Seems to me this is one of those "can you"/"should you" situations
"Like mines in a graveyard"
I love this series.
I want the final boss of a valve game to just be a long ladder you have to climb. #theintimidationisreal
GammaWALLE I want them to be huge dragon dildos
*climbing on ladders*
[Furfagging Intensifies] Isn't that a meme somewhere?
GammaWALLE
No, it's a sex toy in my ass.
Ladder of Eternity from MGS3
[Furfagging Intensifies] Well okay then.
yathzee, half-life^2 is actually 1-fourth-life
Hold on one cocking moment. Does that mean that we should say, not "Half Life Two", but "Half Life by the power of Two" ?
+Josef Stalin stalin you're right again
Runeruiter When was I right ?
+Josef Stalin communism
+McZidanne noo 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25
Got stuck on the first chapter for 20 minutes because of that ladder.
Dominik Fiksel I was joking. But the ladders are actually fucking weird.
Calum Byrne Agreed, I'm constantly falling off those damn ladders! Half-Life 1 aswell!
In pretty much any Valve made map (see: original campaign) there are ladder dismount points in 3 cardinal directions from the ladder, press E in a direction and it will slide you off the ladder in that direction. It should be brought up in a tutorial though, as I never knew that until I played with Hammer.
Calum Byrne They're basically like elevators. One can only only enter/exit at the top or bottom.
(excluding the times where you can leap onto a ladder)
Calum Byrne instructions: walk into ladder, keep pressing W until at the top, look at desired direction, press W again.
how is that so difficult?
4:51 yep pretty much
Most of the people I know who hate on Half Life 2 are those who didnt get to Ravenholm.
Seriously the game gets soooo much better from Ravenholm onward, after you get the Gravity Gun.
Classy Splatter Not really, the worst chapter in the game (sandtraps) is still to come. The beginning of the game and the end of the game are my favorite parts.
***** Sandtraps was the worst part? I loved sandtraps! It was so satisfying to control those antlion motherfuckers after being conditioned to hate them with every fibre of your being throughout highway 17. It'd be like if after Ravenholm you got to mind control toxic headcrabs and have them ambush combine soldiers, making them piss themselves with terror.
Haariroy It was fun for a few minutes but dragged on way too long, same with almost all of HL 2's gimmick levels. After a while I just wanted to get back to shooting things.
Plus you actually liked the "Floor is lava" part?
I liked the first 3 games alot more then half life 2
***** I have to agree with that. Excluding Xen, I think Half Life 1 is the superior game.
I still like Half Life 2, but it just felt unfocused and sporadic.
this is the most brutally honest critique of HL2 i have ever seen.
well played, mr yahtzee.
Nearly all my deaths in Half-Life 2 are due to bad ladder physics.
Just press E
I've never had a problem with Half Life ladders.
most of mine are helecopter/falling off at the bridge section based
Half Life 1 ladders are more bad than half life 2.
Stasi Memelady CRUNCH
0:32 Sounds like my beginning of Dark Souls 2
You see a homely, alabaster-skinned humanoid staring vacantly into the middle distance as if he could see through the very walls. The inflatable penguin he holds under one arm farts squeakily as he nervously shifts his grip.
"where it was only 90000 clones of the same five guys" XDDDDDDDDDDD I laughed too hard at that!
Yahtzee, a half-life is a rate of decay that literally decays half way when the half-life is up and then decays that percentage half way and so on (100% 50% 25% 12.5%) as time passes. So the second half-life would be a quarter of the original percentage
Half Life 2 is still my favorite VR experience Ive tried with the rift dk2 and it wasnt even designed for it.
The Half Life engine gave me a life long fear of in game ladders.
Can i just say, the music at the end seemed so much quieter than normal, and was exactly that much better for it? i hate having to manically prepare myself to jump the volume up after the intro and then down 10 notches at the end of every video.
Oh, the fucking ladders part got me. I thought you couldn't give me giggle fits anymore, but you went and proved me wrong.
Yahtzee's review of Half Life 3 sure is taking long enough.
He has to edit out all the punctuation.
Technically 2 half lives gives you a quarter of the original item
Half life is the time it takes for something to be reduced by half
the ladder at the end is spot on!
this has to be the funniest zero punctuation in months.
Good showing!
So I was trying to watch this on some dodgy WiFi, and as soon as he said “Let’s get ret-tro” it cut out on ret and went black.
Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Chapter 2: Ladders
That fucking tunnel with the balancing puzzle was the bane of my existence. It warms the cockles of my heart to see it referenced here, it really does.
The ladders aren't even just bad mechanically. They're also almost always the same color as the wall not matter what color the wall is & usually in a corner. It's like the goal was to make the ladders hard to find. I rarely had that problem because the level design usually lead me to them but everyone else I watched play it spent a lot of time trying to figure out where the ladders were.
Half-Life 2 vs Bioshock?
Para Soul I like the story better on Bioshock, but the gameplay on HL2. I played thorugh HL2 dozens of times and Bioshock only twice. Guess I have less time now, or story is not as important as gameplay for me I guess.
Para Soul I'd say it's an unfair comparison considering the differing release dates, but I love them both for their own reasons and I find that neither necessarily has anything above the other. They're just great for different reasons.
jameshetfieldserbia yeah ya can, its why i can happily say that star wars republic commando is a much better fps than say aliens colonial marines
*****
Why?
Taggart I fucking love star wars republic commando
Nice review, now were is your Black Mesa review?
Zafran Orbian wait until the xen levels come out.
Zafran Orbian Yeah wait until Xen comes out, so far its just half finished.
Ryan .The Sofa King Xen is only 10% of Half-life, its not half finished.
Jesus fucking christ.
A Trusted Friend In Science™ they are redoing Xen from scratch and are making it longer.
right at the end. so many times playing HL did i fall from a ladder to the sound of a great crunch
_Update is still pretty good though._ Definitely polishes it up to where it looks as good as the later stuff in Episode 2 and Lost Coast. It's really amazing what a good lighting engine does for making a game look good.
Guess valve answer is VR
There's a reason they won't make another HL game, it's because over the years the hype has grown to the point where people only expect the best game in the history of forever, Valve knows the next Half life won't live up to the hype.
Fear isn't a factor in Hl3's delay.
Well ... looks like you were wrong
@@seberrino8506 How? Alyx isn't HL3, and it's only any good because it's a AAA VR game. Half Life is otherwise DOA.
Valve chose profits for distribution over development of games a decade ago.
@@filthyshoggoth have you played Alyx? the whole game is basically a retcon of a story in order to advertise for a half life 3
@@seberrino8506 No, I won't buy a VR setup until it's justified.
One faux AAA game isn't selling me on VR when 80% of VR games aren't even actual games but demos and minigames. (Alyx is the only game I feel comfortable criticizing on watching a playthrough instead of playing it, again, price of entry is way too high for me, as I said, I'm criticizing the game as a HL game, and the retcon didn't leave me feeling anything but meh.)
Don't get me wrong, I was super hyped for HL3 after I completed the Orange Box.
Eli Vance has a better chance of being alive than Valve does of making a good game in HL3.
To be fully honest, Valve has always kind of been a bullshit developer after HL 1 came out; most of their latter games only exist because they bought out mod/addons makers.
Sure, the optics are that they buy and help smaller devs, but the reality is that every Valve game since 2005 besides the episodes and Alyx/Artefact are derived from Half Life mods.
The idea that Valve innovates is hilarious, they're the Apple of gaming.
Then there's the math involved: Valve has a clear vested interest in selling VR units, and almost none in a massive cost risk required for HL3. It's been nearly 17 years...would you gamble 50 million or so dollars to bet that gaming's biggest hype train won't derail?
If you have to retcon a story that doesn't actually have all that much story to begin with, then you better do it better, and Alyx did not.
It definitely gave me the opposite impression it gave you.
It only made me hope they finally let it die.
1:40 Is this referencing The Ego Review? Yhatzee you you cheeky bugger.
3:11 Your Freeman's Mind reference, i see it.
Do the escapist (the game)
It's not perfect, but the thing I love about half-life 2 is just how god damn fun it is. Firing razor blades with the gravity gun, rocketing down giant insect aliens, forging an army of antlions... Half-Life 1 is definitely superior (by quite large margin), but Half-Life 2 has still aged better than any other 2004 shooter.
I found half life one far worse mostly because of its age. Half life 2 stand up better to me. Better story and charecters, physics and even alright graphics now.
@@jamesoleary2476 i've never heard anyone say something so stupid in my entire life. First of, graphics aren't important (at least not for me. Art style however, is something I find much more important). Secondly, the characters are bland. They have boring dialogue and but more importantly, they don't feel like real people. Like, why are they so god damn cheerful while they are literally living under a 1984 style dictator ship, they can't breed so the human race will go extinct and they aware of the fact that they are last humans toever trade earth. The earth is also completely fucked, most of its water has been drained, you and do walk on the bottom of the ocean. Third of all, they combine doesn't seem like scary threat despite all of the before mentioned atrocious act that have succeeded in doing. If they are so strong and truly have everything under tight surveillance, than how come still walk around and painting god damn lamda symbols everywhere? Also like he said in the video, people shouldn't know about Freeman's acts. And while intro to the combine is kinda alright, you still don't experience enough of it for them as real dictator ship, in 1984 it's only at the end the mc even meets the rebellion, Ingsoc made difficult to ensemble, or rather, they made it near impossible. And my forth and final point, god damn the gameplay sucks. The combat is boring because the enemies have terrible ai and the shooting feels unresponsive, you alao don't get enough unique and interesting weaponry. Most of the physics puzzles sucks and the wholengame seems like one big tech demo.
I first started playing Half Life 2 last year and I think it holds up as well as any other game that came out last year, if not more. It's still a lot of fun.
That last bit is so true.
The don't want to make another until they can show that it's groundbreaking...but that time has passed.
YES THE LADDERS!!!!! :LKJS:JDF:ALKJSFLK:JDKL: sorry... some rage.
Actually, if you went through two Half-Lives(Life, Lifes, something or other?), it would only be a Quarter-Life.
I'm fun at parties.
It's Lives.
And I am too.
Everyone says "you should have played HL2 when it first came out" when people say it's overrated but to be honest I played HL2 about a year ago and it is my favorite FPS still. I just love how the world is so interactive and thus alive. A feeling that you don't really get these days. The world looks pretty yes, but that's it. All I can do is watching the world. The only game I remember that had this much interactivity was the first Crysis and Warhead. You could grab and throw things. Objects and dead bodies would move when you touched or walked over them instead of being intangible ragdolls.
One does not have to use the bricks on the seesaw. If one just jumps on the back end of the board a couple time until it's near the grown and sprint jumps, one will land on the other side.
***** that would work too.
Frankly I don't think they'll ever release Half life 3. No point, I guess.
Steam is making them more money than HL3 ever could. My theory is that they almost finished it many years ago, but by this point rivals already released several FPSs who were at least as good as what they had in mind. Who would be their target audience? I bet half the people who played the original Half life games don't even play video games any more. Releasing it would only guarantee that it'll fail. Might as well reboot the franchise and reset the count.
The Solmanian I`m 18 years old, startet playing Half-Life 1 a couple of months ago and it`s by far one of the best FPS games I have ever played. The games age has nothing to do with it as long as it`s available, updated and stands the test of time. Why should people care less about HL3 now than they did 5 years ago?
Jonas Kristiansen It was one of the best FPSs of it's time, I'm not arguing it. But today, it's a lot more competitive. It's nice to see some of the younger generation interested in oldies; but let's face it: people have an aversion to sequels. Today developers want every game in a series to be a stand alone entry point. Playing more than a decade old games, shouldn't be an entry requisite. Even when developers do make sequels, they remove the numerical. Bioware refuses to call "Dragon age: Inquisition" DA3, and rage when anyone refers to the next Mass effect game as "Mass effect 4", despite the previous games being called ME, ME2 and ME3, and not providing any alternate name... It's ironic that Bioware is also the company that made the best solution to this problem by "giving away" the previous games for anyone who buys the sequels.
The Solmanian valve could release half life 3 alone and a special pack containing black mesa, all half life 2 games and half life 3
likeajon And? With the nature of steam, IF HL3 would be released, than sales to the kind of what you mentioned would likely occur.
The question is, why would they release HL3, when their are much more lucrative avenues to pursue. Mainly, establishing a trucking company to move all the ridiculous money that Steam is making for them.
They could develop a game, and publish it, and it might even be successful. But it's much better to let multiple developers make games, and take their cut when they release it through Steam.
The Solmanian yeah they really said to themselves "okay portal 2 didnt sell as well so we are gonna cancel making games"
I love the analogies for triple A publishers/games.
I wonder how the nostalgia-blind are gonna take this.
AtrumDelorox as a humour. Game still remains best fps, because none of the modern fps's could offer anything more or better.
***** lol. Dishonored isn't fps.
***** by this logic ESV: skyrim was an FPS as it had First person and you could shoot arrows.
***** bioshock is, gameplay wise, not as good as hl2 or as a shooter in general. in bioshock 1 the stongest weapon was by far the wrench and infinites gameplay wasnt very good either, all they had was the story (and infinites story falls apart pretty quickly if you investigate the time travel mechanic as its poorly implemented, more focused on making shocking reveals than consistency or logic). Singularity has similiar problems, metro last light has extreme problems in terms of gameflow (play it again and ask yourself how much you are actually playing in the first hour), in half life you could at least jump on tables when you arent interested in the story and just wanted to play. also, its more of a stealth shooter and not enjoyable without ranger mode, at least in my opinion.
Dishonored is not really a fps, and has a lot of its own problems. Never played the darkness so im not sure how it fares.
i will, however, concede that wolfenstein was better in its core gameplay (if lacking something like the gravity gun), but the execution was not that good, as the akimbo feature was useless due to lacking ammo, some rather extreme cases of artificial stupidity from the ai (at least at release, not sure if they fixed it, not interested to pla it again to check), and the story had ups and downs (ever realized that everyone treats you like the errand boy even though you fight all battles alone, and win them?).
and no, i played half life 2 for the first time around the time infinite got released, so no real nostalgia here.
Jason Hargreaves Could also argue that it's a puzzle game because of the puzzles you have to solve in the dungeons. You could argue a few points for many different games.
Half-Life 2 feels huge.
Other games are bigger in content and maps, but this one really feels like an odyssey.
It doesn't feel like you're in command of a big fish in a small pond like all of those FPS that USsies teens enjoy so much,
but rather a small fish heading through the ocean, like any other regular person in a pre-smartphone era would feel in Gordon Freeman's shoes.
That's why players feel so invested (in fact that's one of the things you love Dark Souls for).
And since proportions are colossal, the feeling is legit (much more at least than any other FPS a.k.a. average-teenager-power-fantasy).
It's not a bad thing to make the setting as proportional as the adventure (that being one of the things that defines an epic),
instead of a series of streamlined corridors with varying degrees of textures (the exception being Rapture and a few more, of course),
like the industry has been doing massively since they can't understand why Half-Life 2 still works, it seems.
Or probably because they revere it so much they don't have the guts to try to best it,
which could be understandable if game prices were half as what they usually ask for.
4:54 Genius!
I didn't play half-life 2 when it came out. Actually, I didn't play it until...I think 2013, haha. I will say, I definitely enjoyed the game. I wouldn't call it the best game out there, or the best shooter out there. It did, however, keep my interest throughout the whole thing. I never really liked the gravity gun either. Don't get me wrong, really cool idea and it works really well. I just think it was never as useful as everything else you got (well, maybe its a bit more useful than the crowbar...then again...uh maybe they are about the same in usefulness.) It was just very gimmicky. Story is obviously nothing really to care about, at least for me. For some reason, none of the characters feel like they actually have any character. I don't know why that is for me though, maybe because the player character feels so detached and unrelated to them most of the time. Like, yeah they knew each other from black mesa, but even in the first game none of the characters except G-Man catches your interest. Actually I think that is the same here in HL2 as well for me. I cared more about the G-Man than anyone else in the story. Everyone else might as well not even be there for me. The cutscenes bored me to death for the most apart, again except for when G-Man was involved. Even though all the levels are a bit linear, I always felt like I was going somewhere and that I was in a huge world, even though really it was pretty much a big room, then a corridor leading to another big room, with sometimes a physics puzzle or two to solve. Overall, I think it is a fun game, and obviously very important when looking at how it shaped the gaming industry. Honestly though, I think the only thing that really will hold up is the gameplay, like in Half-Life 1. That is, until some innovation occurs that makes the current methods of controlling games look clumsy and obsolete, like with old shooters on the PC and N64 with their less than ideal (at least by our standards now) controls.
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I played this game recently and I think that it has got a beautiful atmosphere
I play games that are great even 15 years later....
I didn't play it until a week ago and beat it in two days.
+Gaj B
The original Dooms and Deus ex are excellent games decades later.
HL1 was good HL2 is at best meh.
This video got 6 dislikes, this game is half-life 2, 6 divided by 2 is 3......... HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!!
This joke is funny right guys? .....guys?
Tacodude11NL Yes, this joke is most definitely still relevant. (y)
Tacodude11NL My god. Illuminati confirmed.
Tacodude11NL 3 POINTS IN A TRAINGLE, ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED.
ThoroinEsp Somebody didnt click ''read more''
No I did, thats what made it worse.
I just realized that The Orange Box came out after Yahtzee started chugging these delightful things out, what with there being a review of it and whatnot. I don't know what amazes me more: How long it's been since Episode 2, or how long Zero Punctuation has been going on. I mean, Yahtzee's technically re-reviewing a game he reviewed when it came out as *retro*.
"None of the actually saw him blow up the alien leader." What about the vortigaunts? I always assumed that people deified Freeman because what they heard from them.
He....he criticized Half Life 2. None are safe.
Source engine physics are shit. In real life, I can place a thing on another thing. In game, doing do will make one of those things fly into your gut faster than your eyes can blink.
COYADD Ok. No. That's just stupid. Now your just _trying to copy_ Zero Puncuation. God. The gaming community has gone to total shit these days.... _god...._
*[Walks out of Room Frustrated]*
***** >said words
>words also had opinions in them
>that means I'm copying yahtzee
wat
how is a thing that never happeneds a opinion...
***** Whatever you call it, it wasn't copying yahtzee.
4/10 troll
COYADD Lol don't answer my question. Try to walk out of it like a boss. Cool move man. :3
1:54
Cheapest rocket you can get for school projects up in here.
1:00 Wait, there was a video game about Fahrenheit 451?!?!?
This game's biggest flaw, is that it's just too easy. Even on the hard difficulty. It's still one of the very best FPSs ever made though.
***** Modern shooter? The game was released in 2004. If you're going to troll, at least get your facts right.
***** So you're using the word 'modern' to describe a period of time that featured shooters that you don't like?
I didn't start properly playing FPSs until the early 2000s, but I have played a sizeable amount from before that, afterwards(I doubt You've even heard of Exhumed, which I'm recently playing). I'm aware of what constitutes a good shooter. Half Life 2 doesn't necessarily have great shooting mechanics. What makes it so great, is that it plays out like an adventure game, and not just a shooter. What you do in each level changes frequently. You are not just running and gunning for the duration of the whole game. That's something that distinguished the Half Life series from previous FPSs that existed. That and its subtle storytelling were ground breaking things.
***** Mabye it`s a modern shooter because Half-Life itself was the definition of a modern shooter with scripted event`s unlike anything doom could ever show off. I`m not saying Doom is a bad game but it`s difficult to copy Half-Life because it set the standard. Are you saying that modern FPS games in general are shitty or that there are good ones but Half-Life isn`t one of them? In both cases you`re wrong. Games are more than just point and shoot, they`re an experience..an experience ( atmosphere, story-telling, graphics, voice acting, high definition surround sound, epic scripted events) Doom just can`t deliver. Gameplay yes but everythign else... no. If I want an experience I will remember for years to come I go with games like Half-Life, Bioshock or The Last of Us, not Doom, Shadow Warrior or Duke Nukem 3D
Great game, ridiculously overrated. Not the best FPS ever, not the best game ever (not even close).
HCH Millwall 99% of games are overrated though.
If you played it back on the release date you'd be saying otherwise. Sure by today's standard it's pretty run of the mill. However you can't argue the fact that the half life series changed the FPS genre for the better
Chad Hook It reflects on the quality of the game itself how?
HCH Millwall Best game,ridiculously underrated.Please tell me what you think is the best FPS game and in general the best game of all time,I would very much LOVE to hear your oppinion and explain to you why that is not the case.
Plamen Marinchev and we never heard of him again~
Actually, the "2" in half-life 2 is in superscript, so it would be a quarter life, not a whole like (.5X.5=.25)
love the ladder joke! :D
So glad someone finally gave honest criticism to half life 2. Seriously is it a good game? of course, but even for 2005 I played more enjoyable FPSs.
*****
I actually played half life 1 after 2 so nostalgia isn't even speaking when I say its a better game
*****
My issue with 2 is mostly with pacing. Much of the puzzles and physics sections did feel like demos of what the engine can do. I do admit that half life 1 does have some pretty eh chapters (especially when you go to the other world) but the pacing is much better. I even don't mind the platforming. Don't get me wrong the gravity gun is cool, but I feel like its more fun in combat than it is with puzzles, which the game seems to disagree with me on.
Also the biggest criticism I agree with in this video is the fan commentary. pretty much digital masturbation.
*****
Don't be shreking up my nitpicking Ogre
noideac what games? plus its preety harsch critisising this game now thats like critisising the first car for not being as good as the cars who followed it
***** Sorry but I agree with ulgy fox here. I played both in 2013 and I finished HL1 while I couldn't finish HL2 because it was Long and boring!
Half Life 2 the most overrated game in gaming history.
Preidon Honhonhonhonhonhonhonhonhon.
Preidon Good game? Yes. BEST MOTHA F*CKIN GAME EVER? no.
+Elite x62 yes to both actually
*Ocarina of Time
***** XD My profile picture's from a fighting game and I haven't played it in a good few years. My point still stands. OoT is hella overrated
8 years it has taken me to realize he said "Pie and chips" not "Pine chips." Idk, pine nuts are a thing, I figured it was just something I hadn't heard of before.
I always get stuck on ladders in any game with the source engine! Im running from some CPs and I come across a ladder, "hmm, maybe I can use this to get away..." But nope I'm stuck at the top of the later trying to run away but I keep getting teleported back as the popo are still firing away!
I guess many people look at the tutorials because if you look at a ladder then hit "e" you attach to it. You detach to close ground from it if you hit "e" again.
I have just subbed to this channel and I would like to say that I have not laughed this hard in a long time. I was about 10 minutes away from giving up with youtube for all it's repetitive channels and even more bullshit videos. But this genuine humor has made my day and given me hope for the gaming community. Thank all the aussies and thank you.
i never thought id see Stan Laurel do that!
"Well fucking played Valve."
LOL
HOLY SHIT I HAVENT LAUGHED THAT HARD IN A WHILE
4:54 So true!
i played half life 2 for the first time years after it came out. surprisingly, when it came out, i never heard anything about it. anyways, years later i hear all the hype about the game and decide to take a look for myself. im usually jaded and cynical when it comes to games but never the less i went into half life 2 with an open mind. surprisingly, i had a blast with HL2. the environments were immersive as well as the characters. the weapons were fun, the enemies were challenging. its just a really fun fps.
volt792000 Had a very similar experience. Played through it since i had some time to waste and loved it, just a really great game.
I've watched 10 of these and this is the only of the games I've played. This guy's hilarious regardless and on point about Half Life.
God this one had some of funniest animations of the whole series.
I love his metaphors!
You are the best at reviewing games no joke.
Oh those ladders... woe woe woe
It has been 8 years since episode 2 came out and we are still no closer to a release date than we were back then.
The retro-metro… Lovely train.
"you cant polish a turd but you can always reminiscse about the lovely pie and chips it used to be"
words to live your life by 😂😂
If Half-Life 3 ever does come out, they're going to do something incomprehensible with it.
It will start out fine, but will end with you facing multiple clones of Gordon Freeman in a battle royal simulator that requires you to drive a car around an arena to knock a ball u into a net. After which you have to physics puzzle your way to each new stage until you reach the end where you face the final boss in a space harrier minigame.
To top it all off, the final cutscene will show an old Gordon reading a book where after closing it, he'll saying something along the lines of, "Damn kid went and exaggerated my story. New I shouldn't have talked to that reporter."
Every time I see that fucking face, I can't help but go "AYY LMAO"
Committing Sudoku dank meme
Speccy Jesus is my new favourite name for Gordon Freeman
To me at least, half life 2 is a lot like a vacation. You don't enjoy it as much while you're in the vacation/playing the game, but afterwards when everything is done and it's all over, the memories of the game/vacation seem More pleasant than they were.
what?
Oh the times I've fallen to my doom from those god forsaken ladders