*A player inside of a cavern walks uphill toward the barricaded exit. Cold air is seeping through the wooden planks....* *A message blinks under the crosshair* [HINT: "G" - Swap to Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator] *Gravity Gun gets equipped. The crowd cheers* *The player removes the planks, and the eyes adjust to a snowy landscape, with gunships flying around and striders patrolling the... subarctic tundra - revealing to the crowd that there was a change of plans, and we're not exactly on our way to The Borealis just yet* The player swaps to the Colt. A few minutes later, the player walks down a river and gets detected by Combine soldiers. VALVe showcases the upgraded NPC movement mechanics from Half-Life: Alyx - Fully upgraded to use unusual rocky geometry and uneven hills. The soldiers start climbing down the rocky formations, some sliding down while using one arm to slow their descent, while others just jump from one boulder to another, showcasing next-gen procedural animations and inverse-kinematics, where the A.I. knows EXACTLY what kind of traversal is capable by the player - Left 4 Dead pathfinding and animations dialed up to 11. Overwatch summons air support, but the AI now takes into account the tundra. The gunship will attempt to airstrike the player just like in the HL2 beta if it's not fully aware of the player's location under the trees. The A.I. will patrol the tundra 24/7 in search of Gordon. Striders, Gunships, Soldiers, Headcrabs, Houndeyes, are all hazards in this quasi Metro: Exodus / Crysis 1 / S.T.A.L.K.E.R. open map, with key locations Gordon needs to go through. Only then Gordon travels to the Borealis which is a linear part of the campaign, and then he finally travels to the Combine Overworld, a middle ground for the gameplay between the Tundra [ACT 1] and The Borealis [ACT 2] - [looking similarly to how it looks like in the fan film Half-Life: Overworld] - but with higher emphasis on immersive sim mechanics, with optional returns to The Borealis and The Tundra for one reason or another. [The Borealis can be the "hub world" that gets unlocked after finishing ACT 2] The game ends similarly to how Marc Laidlaw intended, with one slight change: Gordon indeed finds out we are nothing in comparison to The Combine, however, that tiny spark of The Borealis crashing into The Combine Overworld opens more gateways into the Overworld itself, opening up more portals than The Combine ever dreamed of having. This sparks a galactic uprising, but the bridge to Earth is severed entirely. Stars of Blood starts a few days after this event with the only reference to Half-Life being how much political humiliation The Universal Union suffered from one of the most primeval species known. On a certain layer of the map screen, the player can scroll down to layer 4421. The entire layer is restricted and unidentified, with only one tiny grey triangle near the bottom left - zooming in 100K-X, you might see the vague shape of the Eastern region of Earth with the description: PREVIOUS JURISDICTION: UNIVERSAL UNION - CURRENT: NONE STATUS: CONNECTION SEVERED BY RENEGADE ["Renegade" can mean either Humans, Freeman or Gman ;) ]
You laugh, but that was exactly my reaction in 2004. I had dial-up internet at best. It took days to download the game. But.... it was Half-life 2. I HAD to play it. I had to...
@@smackerlacker8708 Back in the days I got it on a DVD, but was sad because I realized I only had a CD drive and couldn't install it from the disk. 2 days later my brother told me I can just download it from Steam.
"I don't mind. I like to support the developers in exchange for anime textures on my guns. Hey, look at this pink hat everyone is wearing this week!" 🤡
THIS is the reason why modern games suck. Trailers are so enigmatic, that people don't know what to expect. Expectations raise to the sky, hype grows. The final release hits bottom hard, dissapointment and hate floods the comment sections. Sorry for my bad english.
I've met a native English speaker (british) that doesnt know the difference between your and you're (yes, present tense, ive known him for years but nothing changed), you're doing good lad!
Probably my favourite ever fan trailer for a Half Life thing. Breen's speech sets up the theme of the game and the undercurrent of mystery. We are left asking the questions Half Life 2 is fundamentally about.
" How the hell have you failed to capture him? he's not trained in any practical skills for evasion! " " well... you see... when the residence cascade incident happened, he had a big suit? and uh, it caused him to be pretty confident in uh, killing everything. And as it turns out... The placebo effect is one hell of a thing. "
if half-life 2 released by today's industry standards it would launch with only city 17 and the canal levels, and we'd have to wait 2 years for updates to add the rest of the game
And then the next set of updates has some partially open world vehicle sections, and a cliffhanger that remains unresolved because the studio moved onto other projects
@@OtterCynical not in person but I know what they look like. They’re discontinued though so their value is hugely inflated since the government destroys any bills that get turned in. Why do you bring this up?
I imagine a hypothetical situation where valve's about to announce hl3 and on stage Gabe Newell appears, says absolutely nothing, and the only thing he does is raise three fingers, and walks away.
Needs to end on a 10 second shot of a Gordon holding the crowbar from the angle of chief holding his helmet in the halo infinite trailer and the camera then unfocuses from him to focus on a strider looking at him and making that noise they make
Tbf that is a fucking decent reveal trailer. Not an actual gameplay trailer, but one that would have hyped me the fuck up for HL2 The mystery of who that voice is, the gunfire and alien sounds at the end, and that lambda symbol coming in? Perfection
As a person that has never played it (I'm like playing all games in a chronological order, I'm literally in the stone age era right now with far cry primal and dawn of man and ancestros a human kind oddysey) and I'm keeping myself from spoilers, this makes the game sound better than i think it already is.
Nah, gonna have to pass. I mean, an Afro-Asian girl saving Gordon Freeman? SBI got their grips on this one.... a shame to see Half-Life go down this WOKE route.
@@trevorshark16 Nah, Barney goes by "They/Them" now, apparently they're "Non-Binary", and they Even made the bad guy a white man. Half-Life 2 **Literally** 1984.
I'm glad in reality this is not true. Valve stays as the only western gamedev company who is never made their logo rainbow during pride month. Never during their entire career, from the birth...to death.
We have gone from making fake half life 3 reveal trailers to making reveal trailers for a game thats been out for 20 years
man hasn't seen the 3ds max half-life 1 trailer
this is what happens to a community that has not seen new content in over 10 years
"it's evolving, just backwards"
@@Templarfreak half life alyx came out 4 years ago
Half life 2 confirmed!
Half Life 2 confirmed!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been waiting for this since 1999!!!
Chat is this real?
wait is this fake
YAY!
This genuinely got me hyped for a game that's already out
and has been for the past *2 decades*
SAME
@@NoVIcE_Sourcethe master memer himself appears!!
@@mrsubject1 true
I still watch every Game Awards like an idiot in the vain hope that at some point Geoff Keighley will be interrupted by the voice of the G-Man.
is it really that time… again?
damn thats sad
*A player inside of a cavern walks uphill toward the barricaded exit. Cold air is seeping through the wooden planks....*
*A message blinks under the crosshair*
[HINT: "G" - Swap to Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator]
*Gravity Gun gets equipped. The crowd cheers*
*The player removes the planks, and the eyes adjust to a snowy landscape, with gunships flying around and striders patrolling the... subarctic tundra - revealing to the crowd that there was a change of plans, and we're not exactly on our way to The Borealis just yet*
The player swaps to the Colt. A few minutes later, the player walks down a river and gets detected by Combine soldiers. VALVe showcases the upgraded NPC movement mechanics from Half-Life: Alyx - Fully upgraded to use unusual rocky geometry and uneven hills. The soldiers start climbing down the rocky formations, some sliding down while using one arm to slow their descent, while others just jump from one boulder to another, showcasing next-gen procedural animations and inverse-kinematics, where the A.I. knows EXACTLY what kind of traversal is capable by the player - Left 4 Dead pathfinding and animations dialed up to 11.
Overwatch summons air support, but the AI now takes into account the tundra. The gunship will attempt to airstrike the player just like in the HL2 beta if it's not fully aware of the player's location under the trees. The A.I. will patrol the tundra 24/7 in search of Gordon. Striders, Gunships, Soldiers, Headcrabs, Houndeyes, are all hazards in this quasi Metro: Exodus / Crysis 1 / S.T.A.L.K.E.R. open map, with key locations Gordon needs to go through. Only then Gordon travels to the Borealis which is a linear part of the campaign, and then he finally travels to the Combine Overworld, a middle ground for the gameplay between the Tundra [ACT 1] and The Borealis [ACT 2] - [looking similarly to how it looks like in the fan film Half-Life: Overworld] - but with higher emphasis on immersive sim mechanics, with optional returns to The Borealis and The Tundra for one reason or another. [The Borealis can be the "hub world" that gets unlocked after finishing ACT 2]
The game ends similarly to how Marc Laidlaw intended, with one slight change: Gordon indeed finds out we are nothing in comparison to The Combine, however, that tiny spark of The Borealis crashing into The Combine Overworld opens more gateways into the Overworld itself, opening up more portals than The Combine ever dreamed of having. This sparks a galactic uprising, but the bridge to Earth is severed entirely.
Stars of Blood starts a few days after this event with the only reference to Half-Life being how much political humiliation The Universal Union suffered from one of the most primeval species known. On a certain layer of the map screen, the player can scroll down to layer 4421. The entire layer is restricted and unidentified, with only one tiny grey triangle near the bottom left - zooming in 100K-X, you might see the vague shape of the Eastern region of Earth with the description: PREVIOUS JURISDICTION: UNIVERSAL UNION - CURRENT: NONE STATUS: CONNECTION SEVERED BY RENEGADE ["Renegade" can mean either Humans, Freeman or Gman ;) ]
Disappointment every year, but if it ever finally happens the internet will catch on fire and snap in two.
Doctor Freeeeeeemaaaan...
"You mean I gotta install the publisher's own launcher AND make an account? Tch, I'll pass."
Underrated haha
LMAO
You laugh, but that was exactly my reaction in 2004. I had dial-up internet at best. It took days to download the game.
But.... it was Half-life 2. I HAD to play it. I had to...
@@smackerlacker8708 Back in the days I got it on a DVD, but was sad because I realized I only had a CD drive and couldn't install it from the disk. 2 days later my brother told me I can just download it from Steam.
It’s funny to think about that since it is true for valve games on steam, but steam is just so good that no one cares since everyone uses it anyways
The game ends in follow freeman
You need to buy the citadel dlc for 99.99€
fallout 3 moment
"I don't mind. I like to support the developers in exchange for anime textures on my guns. Hey, look at this pink hat everyone is wearing this week!" 🤡
THIS is the reason why modern games suck.
Trailers are so enigmatic, that people don't know what to expect.
Expectations raise to the sky, hype grows.
The final release hits bottom hard, dissapointment and hate floods the comment sections.
Sorry for my bad english.
Ah yes, all modern games, all of them
Dont worry there was nothing wrong with it
"Sorry for my bad English." As he types a perfect paragraph that's better than most high schoolers who are native speakers.
@@mr.shplorb662I see no part where they said "all".
I've met a native English speaker (british) that doesnt know the difference between your and you're (yes, present tense, ive known him for years but nothing changed), you're doing good lad!
This is what years without a game does to a fandom: reveal trailers for almost 20 year old games
4 years
@@thepizzacarpizza1056 whatchu mean, 4 years? Brother, Half Life 2 released in 2004. HL:A is not a contuation of the story, but a sidestep
@@InvisibleSquids It's still a game, though
they only said "years without a game"
And yeah, Half Life: Alyx is basically just Half Life 1.5
@thepizzacarpizza1056 even so, 4 years is still _years_
@@InvisibleSquids Yes. The chess fandom has gone rabid after thousands of years with no update, too
He doesnt need to hear all this, but let him watch
Hes a highly trained professional yk?
i hate when they dont put a release date in the trailers
to be fair i guess its to reduce stress of having to have some bogus deadline
Better than putting a release date and then having to delay it.
@@nope.0. By just delaying it indefinitely. But hey, the fans talk about it now!
Why put a release date? It only forces you to publish a shitty game.
Blue balling is accurate for modern video games. Then when it comes out years later it ends up sucking ass
Now thats what you call a ruined org*sm. Smh
Marketing in a world where game development has seemingly become unprofitable.
i didn't even see a fake gamplay bit...
i am not convinced
*_so, wake up, mister Freeman, wake up and, smell the ashes._*
im waking up, to ash and dust
But its 4:38am.. lemee sleeep
Probably my favourite ever fan trailer for a Half Life thing. Breen's speech sets up the theme of the game and the undercurrent of mystery. We are left asking the questions Half Life 2 is fundamentally about.
Just like every game reveal they never show the gameplay because the game is trash but in this case game is good
could you imagine the hype if hl 3 suddenly just released without any reveal trailer and it was literally better than EVERYTHING in the entire world?
**Something Secret Steers Us blares at 3000dB**
This would've been even better if you'd added in Gman's long, creepy "Doctor _freeeeeeemannnnn...!"_ at the end, after the other dude's voice cut out.
Pissed me right the fuck off. Amazing authenticity. My hat off to you.
what
what
what
what
what
" How the hell have you failed to capture him? he's not trained in any practical skills for evasion! "
" well... you see... when the residence cascade incident happened, he had a big suit? and uh, it caused him to be pretty confident in uh, killing everything. And as it turns out... The placebo effect is one hell of a thing. "
Half Life 2. Releasing with microtransactions, paid story DLC and battle passes for Singleplayer
if half-life 2 released by today's industry standards it would launch with only city 17 and the canal levels, and we'd have to wait 2 years for updates to add the rest of the game
And then the next set of updates has some partially open world vehicle sections, and a cliffhanger that remains unresolved because the studio moved onto other projects
@@SheaStevenson...Yes that's literally what happened with episode 2
@@madladam It's almost like Valve invented today's industry standards, back in 2007
"He's simply that"
Gordon is a highly trained professional, he doesn't need to hear all that!
Man can’t wait for the long-awaited sequel to Half Life! Wonder who the guy talking is :/
Waiting for leaks!
This will be Half-Life in 2004
I can’t think of any trailers that consist of nothing but a black screen with a logo and a voiceover
Ever seen a thousand dollar bill?
@@OtterCynical not in person but I know what they look like. They’re discontinued though so their value is hugely inflated since the government destroys any bills that get turned in. Why do you bring this up?
"No gameplay footage, perfect!"
I doubt Valve would make the trailer about Gordon Freeman even if they were making it by today's standards.
why do people say this is a good trailer i'm pretty sure the point was literally to make fun of modern trailers
Hint: It's the suit. 😉
Others had the same suit. Their bodies litter the battlefield.
The combine have suits with similar levels of power.
I imagine a hypothetical situation where valve's about to announce hl3 and on stage Gabe Newell appears, says absolutely nothing, and the only thing he does is raise three fingers, and walks away.
i think it whould be more like "Doctor Freemmannnn" "your time is needed"
How can you hype up a game that came out 20 years ago?!
Preorder the deluxe edition and get the season pass for episodes 1 & 2 along with an Alex Vance statue for $109.99
okay ill play half life 2 again
i recently did and it made me so sad we dont have ending
me too
Screw 'todays standards'. Games have become better except they are all the same and boring. What is improved is graphics, animations blah blah.
Holy fuck finally, a sequel to half life
OMGGUYS, cant believe it's finally here, so glad we didn't have to wait like 20 years or something
Needs to end on a 10 second shot of a Gordon holding the crowbar from the angle of chief holding his helmet in the halo infinite trailer and the camera then unfocuses from him to focus on a strider looking at him and making that noise they make
this goes crazy hard actually
The striders in the background, chills
Tbf that is a fucking decent reveal trailer. Not an actual gameplay trailer, but one that would have hyped me the fuck up for HL2
The mystery of who that voice is, the gunfire and alien sounds at the end, and that lambda symbol coming in?
Perfection
As a person that has never played it (I'm like playing all games in a chronological order, I'm literally in the stone age era right now with far cry primal and dawn of man and ancestros a human kind oddysey) and I'm keeping myself from spoilers, this makes the game sound better than i think it already is.
I am so fucking pumped for any footage of gameplay I swear I haven't replayed this game for at least a year
Unironically i love this
this goes mad hard tho
If you put a 3 on this I'd be so hyped.
The very end shoulda had gman appear and say "Rise and Shine Dr Freeman" then cut
It would've been cool as fuck if it was revealed like this
Genuinely a fire reveal.
Damn this would make me so hyped and I'm playing the game for the first time in 2024
This should be the trailer for oposing forces 2
cant wait for it to come out
Man, I got so hyped to replay the game again
I just finished it yesterday
for the unknownth time
I can practically hear the reaction channels
we have come full circle...
(loved it)
I remember trying to play the demo at like 15 fps 😅
I replayed this game *twice* this year already, _do not make me go for a third round._ Because I’ll do it. I’m crazy like that.
Slightly ashamed to say I still haven't played it yet.
HOLY SHIT OMG WE ARE SO BACK HL2 BABY
They should do one of these for hl3
Half Life 2 Story Mode: Episode 1
This is so good that I also want to take a crack at it.
Dont forget to say "he's back in 2026. Pre-order now"
What, no gameplay- ohhhh I get it.
Smh didnt say "TIme to rise and shine"
we got half life 2 before gta 6 🔥🔥🔥
I think a fading in and out slow zoom might have done better but still excellent work
this goes super hard
lets go i cant wait for half life 3
"Less is more." as they say.
Incredibly simple, but also incredibly effective.
Good shit all around!!
Nope. Too understated. Where's the drumsplosions?
Man, you didnt advertise the orange box gold edition pro max season pass...
NO FUCKING WAY THEY'RE MAKING A SECOND HALF LIFE
I don't know why, but I feel intellectually insulted by this teaser. Maybe it's because I've been trained to resist hype.
Releases in 2032
Can't wait for half life 2
this makes me want to install hl2 and play again
The hf3 will come when csgo3 is released
It would probably be worse than the one we got while also being five times as expensive.
Collector's Edition doesn't include the game.
Half life 2016
That font is painfully out of place
i want half life 3 so bad its not even funny its unreal
The font sucks bruh
I can’t wait!!!
Nah. The 2 at the end should appear with a delay, sliding from behind the lambda!
Other than that, it's on point.
Too cheesy
@@Whooler6byThat's the whole point of this.
Had it released today, how much would be playable at launch?
I was hoping for some sort of gameplay at least, the beggining was very hyping, though
That’s the joke
No game no hype
LET’S GO GORDON!!! #MAGA2004
(Make Antlions Great Again)
lowk fire
this is so cool!
Nah, gonna have to pass. I mean, an Afro-Asian girl saving Gordon Freeman? SBI got their grips on this one.... a shame to see Half-Life go down this WOKE route.
Expected better from Valve. They probably made Barney gay, too.
@@trevorshark16 Nah, Barney goes by "They/Them" now, apparently they're "Non-Binary", and they Even made the bad guy a white man. Half-Life 2 **Literally** 1984.
I'm glad in reality this is not true. Valve stays as the only western gamedev company who is never made their logo rainbow during pride month.
Never during their entire career, from the birth...to death.
@@Dubstep_Gun I mean... they did add the LGBTQ+ tag to steam so...
please tell me this is a joke
Damn, reveals must be getting boring these days.
Half life 2 2
its afull reveal
filmed on iPhone
Fake, you forgot to include all the info at the end about the pre order digital deluxe edition bundle
By todays standards it would be more like a cinematic video that got yoy really hype. But, eventually, we would get a broken piece of shit game xD
No gameplay lol typical of these new trailwrs