HλLF - LIFE ² (2004 Windows) Full Playthrough
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- To celebrate the 20th anniversary release day of Valve's HλLF - LIFE ² we go back to 2004 to see how HλLF - LIFE ² was experienced by people on release day, the computer used to play this is a 2002 Dell dimension 4400 running xp with a pentium 4 2.00 ghz processor a Ati radeon 9550 gpu from 2003 and 1 gb of ram, now sure this isn't my greatest Playthrough of the game by far but I say it gets the job done just to show how HλLF - LIFE ² was experienced on release day in 2004.
Period accurate screen tearing and physics framerate drop! Still awesome!
The period accurate load times is what got me
Something about it being played on period accurate hardware is just so satisfying.
Fr. I usually try to emulate it by intentionally setting frame rate low and using a 4:3 ratio, even if on a widescreen 1440p monitor lol
Unfortunately simply lowering the resolution usually makes it blurry rather than just pixels, since the individual pixels are mushed together
@@ceoofcringe5176There should be settings in your graphics driver utility for integer scaling. Look into it.
Not gonna lie 1:15 I got a little emotional watching the loading bar slowly fill, for a few seconds i was 8 again excitedly waiting for the game to load up on my dad’s work computer. I completely forgot this feeling.
Those loading screens remind me of when I played the game on my shitty laptop. I'd say good times, but I don't exactly miss waiting 30 seconds
Man I love this. Pretty much the way I played it in 2005-2007 in my early childhood. My second PC game ever. I always found HL2 super cozy game for evenings. Also had all tracks and sounds from it on my PSP
the airboat ignition just makes ya feel some type of way
You know, watching this and seeing just how it truly looked at the time, it really does put into perspective just how technologically mind-blowing HL2 really was. Seeing character and facial animation and physics that were this good in 2004 is still just nuts. Also shows just how well the game has held up to today.
If this game were totally new and came out today with these old ass textures and resolutions, it would still get a 10/10 even though people would question why you're releasing such a good ass game in 2024 with 480p textures and shit.
THIS is how I remember my HL2. 1024x768, frame drops, just incredibly beautiful. Playing this on my CRT monitor in the background for added effect, it's like a time machine.
Man, the Source engine was considered revolutionary back then. What a time to be alive.
A gameplay where the player didnt bhop and skip some cutscene as soon as the game load? Yes! This IS 2004!
So many children games rated around ages of 7 on the desktop and then there's just Half-Life 2.
maybe its a family computer
@@DanielWindowsperiod accurate desktop
Memories of playing stuff like this, Doom 3, Battlefield 2 demo, and even discovering emulation for the first time with ZSNES (and discovering Lufia) on my older bros' Compaq desktop PC when I was like 10 back in 2004. Radical times, man.
Still have our boxed copy of HL2 sitting in a display case, the Gman one. Half the discs don't even work hah, so I burnt my Steam copies of HL2/EP1/EP2 and WON HL1 onto a DVD, put it in a jewel case, and stuck it in the box. I even kind of remember how we bought it, I just randomly saw it in a store on a shelf against the wall one day when shopping with mom, and I'm like "Whaaa? When did this come out?!".
When I wasn't sneaking on my bros' PC to play more demanding games, I'd be on my own hand me down potato PC with a 4 gig hard drive from '98 playing stuff like Half-Life 1, Starcraft, and Tomb Raider 3 and 4, and somewhat laggy SNES emulation through ZSNES. Choppily emulating Secret of Mana, man.
That wallpaper man 😢 Good memories from my uncle's XP desktop.
Game ran like hell but I loved every minute of it 😅
Nice video, thanks! This is what I was doing 20 years ago on the night of release. I think this was the first full game released on Steam for download. Before that, Steam was only for updating games we had bought on disc.
This is probably the single most - rose tinted, nostalgia driven, inaccurate memory but I swear to god the lower framerates did make the game feel more cinematic.
I think I will always take my crispy smooth 165hz 1000fps modern HL2, but I remember this game ‘FEELING’ like a movie. My dad used to come watch me and ask me to reload certain parts because he wanted to see how the bullets hit the water or how an event was triggered by me moving into an area. Reminder me of how we used to watch movies together.
Rip Dad, I know ur not dead but maybe more people will like this comment if they think you are.
It's not just the frame rate. It's the resolution. It's the monitor. All of the textures, colors being used, etc... were all purpose-built for OLD monitors.
Fully accurate most of us had to stay playing HL1 cuz couldnt afford new compy
This goes to show that although the episode updates improve the graphics of the game, it still looked absolutely stunning even on release.
this gives me so much nostalgic vibes
half life 2 and its episodes oozes some kind of artistic quality i just dont know how to describe. half life 2s intro, half life 2 episode 1's intro, and half life 2 episode 2s g-man cutscene as the vortigaunts are reviving alyx all elicit this feeling to me. this suave luxury esque sophistication that i've yet to see any game recapture. sometimes they come close, cause they all want to be these AAA hollywood like experiences, but half life 2 just feels different. its UI, the background music, the characters, the timing of events and cutscenes, its all just this really sensual blend of good shit. i don't know how to describe it.
I remember playing and completing this game as an 8 year old back then, this is even a smoother performance than what I had, the frame drops, the tearing, the aspect ratio... Nowadays I complain when im at 59fps 0.1 low on 4k... How times change...
Best game of all time!
I was 8 too when this came out. Played and beat it over time and it changed gaming for me. I have so many memories with Source games that I hold dear to my heart!
This was painful to watch (I mean this in the best way). You had better framerate than I did in 2004, yet I still somehow beat the damn game.
Good to see it in its original form!
The audio stutters in the dialog at 33:55 when you teleport around really brings me back to playing on the old family computer. Strangely cosy after all this time.
3:34:47 that sniper fire sound effect, oh god, I liked it so much
I used to hate those super long map transition loadings, now I miss them
This game looks like it came out at least 3 or 4 years later than it actually did and it still looks visually great 20 years later.
5:04:03 Finest mind of his generation
i miss 2004
That’s an incredible assortment of desktop icons.
realistic
like behind the front fender on an old stock car
How nice to watch the original Half Life 2))))
that old source logo has to come back for the update. come on! its exactly that one which i have remembered for years
I miss this version of the game albeit I started with the 2006 build. Both had fire effects that actually look good, a cooler vortigaunt skin similar to Half Life 1 and underwater noises among subtler things like better light maps & physics. We can sort of recreate some of that in the new Anniversary build but only for the base game, not the other two games that used Classic fire etc (Half Life Source, Lost Coast & Episode One)
Rise and shine mr freeman
@7:43:18 It Gives you an uneasy feeling with the Distorted Trumpets, where G-Man watches you on the TV with a Raven on his shoulder.
i play half-life in 2003. half-life 2 in 2007
you magnificent bastard you. I done filled up on 'member berries watchin' this.
The quality gives me venturiantale vibes for some reason
It would also bell cool af to see the first two Max Payne games done like this too
the fact the game loads the moment you click feels so weird to me.
Appreciate the video. It would be great to have it uploaded in 4K for archival purposes
Something told me that I am watching the right video when I see the screen tearing
Man, i kinda miss Windows XP
I used to play this game as a Kid
9:22-9:40 - aawW yes! That's how it went... or even longer... exquisit.-
Should have played with 256mb ram for period accurate post load stuttering.
10:11 Pick Up That Can!
THE ETERNAL LOADING!!!
*the legend!*
0:12 So back then they never showed the Source logo in the splash screen?
Half life 2, Midtown Madness, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 AND Microsoft's Train Simulator? Did we all have the same stuff back then?
Is this the first release of HL2? Because on my 2nd playthrough I was totally convinced that the warehouse (or what) at 9:06:30 did not exist previously. Maybe it is just my memory were not very good even 20 years ago :D
I need an Xbox (original) playthrough. Two of them. One normal and the other one where the player is bored so the player decided to get out of bounds when the player could.
Thats what I did. I had an thought of "Am I bored of this game?" After the fifth playthrough where instead of listening to Alyx on the elevator down to Kleiners lab I just jumped around a bunch.
This is unrealistic. The game launched as soon as you clicked it.
Legend game 20th anniversary 😢😂
I don't remember the in engine menu always being there though
that load time 😂
awesome!
4:59:52 This blurry effect in the windows has been lost in the new updates
It's because it's a rendering thing. You can see it's still like that when the window is broken.
How you managed to install this version?
I bet you can find it in the vastness of the internet
where i can load day 1 realise game version?
4:14 poor vortigaunt😿😿
Bit rate needs to be higher
swag
Please make fps counter visible.
don't drink the water it's $2.95
what were your graphics settings?
There is a torrent which contains the non steam retail version..I have it, but it's only meant for educational purposes :)
Is that the one with the ragdoll physics where they tighten up and go slack when dying? I torrented a version when it came out and it was like that, retail was different
@@kidnothing5826 thats cuz of a update later on
Midtown Madness >>>
>Capitalism 2
A man of good taste I see
I'm guessing this is running on a, let's say, modified copy of HL2 since Steam will not run on XP anymore
No steam crack
It's a shame that the 20th Anniversary Update no longer needs Windows XP.
Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 are unavailable to support Steam, but what about HL2's minimum requirements? It's nearly outdated and misleading to test.
Its very nostalgic! The early PS3 level graphics and all 😂❤
the game came out 2 years before the ps3 lol
@Blanket420 I didn't say it was SPECIFICALLY a PS3 game... But it's graphics look like a PS3 game... Nothing wrong with that...
@nicholasdelaney1407 I meant it in a way that, along with the gameplay and physics being ahead of its time, so were the graphics lol.
Not really. Games like Gears Of War, Uncharted Drake Fortune or Resistance were proper seventh gen titles visually. And they didnt needed to load every two steps.
PS3/360 were way more powerful than 2004 PCs.
1600x1200 era
@5:42:05 shit my pants
@6:48:00 Portal Zero
It looks better, lol.