Another fun fact: For the animations (most if not all in the game), the lead animator, who worked at Pixar for several years, did motion capture and then cleaned that animation up by hand afterward.
That's pretty common with motion capture, to be honest. Like, pretty much all of the mocap anim you see in any game has been cleaned up by animators afterwards.
russell has wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, downloaded in his computer! that means he has the page for All Dogs Go To Heaven 2!!! HLVRAI canon
32:28 That missing cat is most likely the same cat that Kleiner experience his teleporter on him, Barney talk about having nightmares of cat back in HL2.
@@koorikid7126 What I said wrong? HLA takes place 5 years before HL2 so why not having Kleiner make the experiment during that time and Barney spend 5 years having nightmares about the cat. I am sure the developers intentionally put that "missing cat".
@@Sigma-gb9yd They had limited materials and personnel who actually knew how to build an actual teleport and it's not like they just had blueprints just lying around. Along with the Combine that had just started to settle in it makes sense they had a lot on their plate just to keep up with everything; to survive and adapt for the situation for one but also to start building up an underground community which in time would grow in to the resistance. I doubt there was really any grandiose ideas to try and take the fight to the Combine yet, it was too soon after the 7 hour war that took a huge bite out of all of earths population. They were also missing the very the important catalyst, Freeman. They had to start from scratch and we don't know how long exactly they were working on it, but most likely it took them years. The experiment could have been one of the many failed ones. In the HL2 beta it was said the experiment had caused the cat to turn inside out. Barney even said he had had to turn it right side out to make sure it was actually the cat. No wonder he was traumatized.
Wayne picking up the soap and it acting like how you expect it would when you squeeze- god I’m glad he’s getting distracted by everything a messing around this is so fun to watch
Seeing this after the gnome streams is an exceptionally bizarre experience it would be like watching a very normal wayneradiotv half life 1 playthrough
It hurts my soul that he just went past so many rooms and resin. He missed so much resin and didn't go into so many rooms and area's. Still a great video tho
Eh, you can't expect a ton from anyone's first playthrough, plus he IS trying to be entertaining, so searching for resin the entire game probably would make these streams twice as long and very boring
1:58:52 (from the Latin plumbum for lead) is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing and plumbing fixtures for drinking water systems and the drainage.
>Watching Part 1 of the HLVRAI cast commentary. >He notes that in VR you just dont notice certain things. >Playing alyx on an index with a high FOV and help. >Still cant see jack shit. Yeah I think he's just blind.
ive had major ear wax problems before. pretty frustrated actually cause one of my ears is at half volume cause of wax and cant justify going out to a clinic right now. all i have are wax softening drops from the last time. i just wanna get ear blasted again and get them cleaned so i can hear loud and clear
imagine. your a soldier in WW2 and you look at your hand and a grey rectangle with pogs and Hype Train 55% on it appears and you don't know what it means
Everyone else: “look at our high raze ultra fast graphics!” Valve: “here’s a game that we spent a good amount of time on, hope you like it” *Photo realistic graphics*
It’s interesting seeing someone else who’s super deep in the vr ecosystem play this game for once. I had the same reaction of like, being disappointed by the mechanics but loving everything else. Feels vindicating. I really hope future valve VR games go more extreme. Also, something I love about this game and Half Life in general is how it feels like an oldschool adventure movie from like the 70s or something The arc and characters are just so fucking good and there’s always these mythological feeling moments with some sage character or supernatural aid Good vr mechanics help to maintain moment to moment immersion, but that whole vortigaunt cutscene makes you feel the magic of this world you’re exploring
i watched hlvrai and this is basically my first time watching one of this dudes streams and is2g every once in a while my brain will be like "omg i recognize that voice from somewhere!!!" like yeah. from hlvrai. stfu
Also the story is that the resinence cascade brought Xens population to earth. Gordan freed the Vortigons by killing the boys in HL1. Now shortly after the combine came from space and attacked earth and took over the place. Now that character who's the bad guy in HL2 is the corrupt diplomat trying to keep things chill with humans and combine
2:43:39 well there are generally overall supply shortages and one thing I have noticed in day to day life is places specifically not having pork products
is there anyone else getting irrationally upset that he's only putting 2 shells in his shotgun at a time when it can fit 8? edit: his friends literally told him a couple seconds after i wrote this lmao
"Why didn't Alyx tell Gordon about this?"
He didn't ask.
This has me dead
This is a diffrent timeline as well
@@wiredmetalplant6125 its not
did you not see the part WHERE ELI VANCE DOESNT DIE?
@@wiredmetalplant6125 that part, I assume happens after where it ended in episode 2
holly has 3 phases of laughs
surprisingly gentle
mischevious *_HEE HE HE HE HE_*
and the final one,
the speaker-busting evil-witch-energy cackle
its because of the evil hormones (reference to past stream)
Is that stream archived? I wanna watch that
@@allisonm.323 holly is AVAB assigned villain at birth
*“HEE HEE HEE HEE… YEEAAHH…”*
@@allisonm.323 bro I want fucked up & evil hormones
Another fun fact: For the animations (most if not all in the game), the lead animator, who worked at Pixar for several years, did motion capture and then cleaned that animation up by hand afterward.
That's pretty common with motion capture, to be honest. Like, pretty much all of the mocap anim you see in any game has been cleaned up by animators afterwards.
They have to do that in movies, too. Mocap data is usually pretty shaky and has waaay too many keyframes to render efficiently.
A lot of Mocap (that's not face capture) has to be cleaned up due to noise or jitter.
The animation in this game is so damn good!
Oh yeah, I can definitely see that Pixar influence with how expressive some characters are, specially the injured vortigaunt,
"you are the most easily distracted man in the world" he says as wayne tries to peel a texture
wayne: OH MY GOD YOU CAN DRAW
also wayne: damn it sucks that they didn't account for every possible interaction with any object or person
i mean he was coming right off of boneworks with this lol
Fun fact: Metrocops have a ton of animations that arent used, it's possible Alyx was meant to fight them at some point.
tbf most metrocop/citizen anims were imported from base hl2, so not surprising
@@pivotman319 They definitely weren't, a lot of them, maybe even all for the metrocops are new.
PurpleColonel I wish to see evidence of this
@@CommissarDorothy Valve resource viewer I think its called? Theres a whole bunch of animations.
They scrapped most of the story the year before release, so it's very possible that it once included a CP encounter.
he puts on a hard hat once and then the next 5 times accidentally throws them over his head and doesnt notice he didnt put of them on what a silly guy
i may just have one brain cell but when wayne was squeezing the bottle of soap i was just having a good time
i used one of those to calm me down in stressful areas lmao
"i feel like this should be harder"
2 seconds later
"i dont like how hard it is to load the gun in the dark"
"I pog when i find nutrients"
many people are saying this
I pog when I find nutrients
Wayne: I love the writing and dialogue in this game, it's just incredible
Also Wayne: *Hey-ah I already heard this stupid sandwich dialogue*
russell has wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, downloaded in his computer! that means he has the page for All Dogs Go To Heaven 2!!! HLVRAI canon
Yes
That wave of panic that hits every single veteran Half-Life player when they see a poison headcrab in this game.
Literally the second he turned the subtitles off i couldnt understand anything 😔
32:28 That missing cat is most likely the same cat that Kleiner experience his teleporter on him, Barney talk about having nightmares of cat back in HL2.
HL:A is before half life 2, so most likely not, unless Kleiner somehow made the cat time travel
@@koorikid7126 What I said wrong? HLA takes place 5 years before HL2 so why not having Kleiner make the experiment during that time and Barney spend 5 years having nightmares about the cat. I am sure the developers intentionally put that "missing cat".
@@koorikid7126 I mean, there's no reason that the experiment was 5 years prior to Half-Life 2
@@Sigma-gb9yd They had limited materials and personnel who actually knew how to build an actual teleport and it's not like they just had blueprints just lying around. Along with the Combine that had just started to settle in it makes sense they had a lot on their plate just to keep up with everything; to survive and adapt for the situation for one but also to start building up an underground community which in time would grow in to the resistance. I doubt there was really any grandiose ideas to try and take the fight to the Combine yet, it was too soon after the 7 hour war that took a huge bite out of all of earths population. They were also missing the very the important catalyst, Freeman. They had to start from scratch and we don't know how long exactly they were working on it, but most likely it took them years. The experiment could have been one of the many failed ones. In the HL2 beta it was said the experiment had caused the cat to turn inside out. Barney even said he had had to turn it right side out to make sure it was actually the cat. No wonder he was traumatized.
@@koorikid7126 thats not how time works
Wayne picking up the soap and it acting like how you expect it would when you squeeze- god I’m glad he’s getting distracted by everything a messing around this is so fun to watch
"Where's the gun" he says, pointing the gun at the barnacle and firing
What if Wayne's just blinking.
Now that I think about it I’ve never seen him blink on a stream so it might be his first time
@@jojak0512 imagine if these were his first blinks in his entire life
@@owoberon4947 you had me so fucking excited that I found OwO again
just waiting for Benry to somehow find his way into this one.
Could you imagine he's in the middle of some npc exposition and you see this HL1 security guard show up and go "hey you shouldn't be here"
@@QbertTehKiller what if...they were replacing the combine o3o
imagine at the end, he opens the thing and inside is Benry asking for his passport
At the very end of the game, Benry shows up
HOW THE F****
@@TheDartFrog It's just the Science team.
It’s like I black out when I watch Wayne. I start watching and then five seconds later I’ve watched an entire five hour stream
The man
The legend
The Gordon Feetman
Cicero Fryman :-)
Cicierega Strawman
add in the brain damaged vortigant to Half life 2 VR: But the AI is self aware
Yes god, yes god please yes
yes
It seems like portraying a character with brain damage for laughs might cause... problems
Anything will cause problems with the Twitter crowd that watches these streams.
my favorite fuckin detail out of absolutely everything is the fact that the drawing of Gordon at 1:55:24 has a little fuckin crowbar
"You're the most easily distracted man in the world."
Wayne: Fiddling with a sticker.
it's the adhd
1:03:47 wayne looks directly at graffiti of a portal turret but neither he nor the chat notices
Nah 1 guy mentions it but it goes by really fast
wayne's gonna give me a stress ulcer just *not reacting* to all the threatening growls and context sounds
1:29:59 i absolutely knew that was going to happen. the 5 seconds before that was just “hes gonna walk into it by accident... yep”
Seeing this after the gnome streams is an exceptionally bizarre experience it would be like watching a very normal wayneradiotv half life 1 playthrough
I don't know if he realizes barnacles won't eat the same thing twice, like a barrel or something
It hurts my soul that he just went past so many rooms and resin. He missed so much resin and didn't go into so many rooms and area's. Still a great video tho
I KNOW RIGHT
Eh, you can't expect a ton from anyone's first playthrough, plus he IS trying to be entertaining, so searching for resin the entire game probably would make these streams twice as long and very boring
Personally I'd be spending a day in every room, half of that day being me just tossing a chair around or something...
Speedruns of this game are actually pretty cool, there's lots of clips to skip whole chapters and sections, most chapters are like 3 minutes long.
1:20:47 "Alyx chuffs back a fat dart from time to time .... Oh man I had an idea but I'm not gonna spoil it"
HOLY SHIT ?
"What if they do like something.... Sus?"
-Wayne, April 2020
“Yeah, but he’s from Garfield”. “EEEOOOGHHHHHHH”
1:58:52 (from the Latin plumbum for lead) is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing and plumbing fixtures for drinking water systems and the drainage.
Seeing him go absolutely bonkers over the brain damaged Vort makes me happy.
He's just a fren :)
Out of all the streams I’ve watched Wayne’s the only one to answer Eli’s call
I think you have to?
you definitely have to open the door in order to proceed
i love you guys, you all are so funny and have such good chemistry. seems like fun people to game with
I hate it when he faces the exact opposite direction of where things happen.
>Watching Part 1 of the HLVRAI cast commentary.
>He notes that in VR you just dont notice certain things.
>Playing alyx on an index with a high FOV and help.
>Still cant see jack shit.
Yeah I think he's just blind.
Imagine...
After the introduction, Wayne turns a corner and Dr. Coomer appears, "HELLO GOR... You're not Gordon Freeman..."
Look Alyx, barnacles of the sea!
ive had major ear wax problems before. pretty frustrated actually cause one of my ears is at half volume cause of wax and cant justify going out to a clinic right now. all i have are wax softening drops from the last time. i just wanna get ear blasted again and get them cleaned so i can hear loud and clear
same 😔✊ it's legit making me worry about hearing loss smh
Bro same
Home cleaning kits are affordable and work. Get the ones that use peroxide.
So you heard half LIFe
I love the injured vortigaunt in this game. He's jus a friend :)
One of favorite half life characters: Father Gregory
1:59:47 As soon as he said that, I fucking died. He had NO idea what was coming.
'Half Life: Alyx', the ONLY reason i bought a VR headset.
i got a vr headset to play h3vr then fallout 4 vr then boneworks now this
imagine. your a soldier in WW2 and you look at your hand and a grey rectangle with pogs and Hype Train 55% on it appears and you don't know what it means
3:06:56
Holly: "You always do those HLVRAI streams when I'm busy"
this is so funny looking back lol
Lmao at how the ominous music swells when he starts talking about how the resin is playcoins.
Everyone else: “look at our high raze ultra fast graphics!”
Valve: “here’s a game that we spent a good amount of time on, hope you like it”
*Photo realistic graphics*
1:07:40 This week my left hand has been hurt three different ways. So hearing what Baaulp said hit too close to home.
2:22:43 holy shit they were hinting about since the beginning
1:39:01 I don’t know why but I find this moment to be very wholesome
1:51:41 Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that only Russel can edit now
half life 2 is 20 years after the black mesa incident
just a correction
And black mesa incident happen in year 2000
@@Mirinovic not explicitly 2000 it takes place in 200x
@@d11asian its actually 20xx
1:09:46 Gordon: Look Alyx, ropes! We can use these to traverse over big pits.
its hurting me that he doesnt know the xen clump on the zombies arms or legs can explode them
It’s interesting seeing someone else who’s super deep in the vr ecosystem play this game for once. I had the same reaction of like, being disappointed by the mechanics but loving everything else. Feels vindicating. I really hope future valve VR games go more extreme.
Also, something I love about this game and Half Life in general is how it feels like an oldschool adventure movie from like the 70s or something
The arc and characters are just so fucking good and there’s always these mythological feeling moments with some sage character or supernatural aid
Good vr mechanics help to maintain moment to moment immersion, but that whole vortigaunt cutscene makes you feel the magic of this world you’re exploring
Living Half-Life is one of my dreams, I hope one day I can get a VR and a better pc.
We must do something about the dearth of Mister Magoo knowledge amongst these youths!
rewatching this post gnome stream is quite something
Bro him changing the cam to the right fucked me up XD I am so used to seeing from the left side
I really hate that the flashlight goes on the left hand
i watched hlvrai and this is basically my first time watching one of this dudes streams and is2g every once in a while my brain will be like "omg i recognize that voice from somewhere!!!" like yeah. from hlvrai. stfu
I like how when wayne got the pistol chat was debating if the gun was an m1911 or a hi-power
1:42:14 he got lost in the sauce
Wayne the black flickering you skimmed over a setting called blinking
Also the story is that the resinence cascade brought Xens population to earth. Gordan freed the Vortigons by killing the boys in HL1. Now shortly after the combine came from space and attacked earth and took over the place. Now that character who's the bad guy in HL2 is the corrupt diplomat trying to keep things chill with humans and combine
2:43:39 well there are generally overall supply shortages and one thing I have noticed in day to day life is places specifically not having pork products
is there anyone else getting irrationally upset that he's only putting 2 shells in his shotgun at a time when it can fit 8?
edit: his friends literally told him a couple seconds after i wrote this lmao
I'm about an hour in. Is this the ADHD experience?
36:14 boy this was probably funnier two months ago
wayne hears the word passport and all he can see is red
12:29 Imagine that this is Half-Life 2 Beta. A funny comment, but I don't feel like commenting something else. Also, a nice stream and nice guys.
3:22:44 FORESHADOWING
Barntles (what i know barnacles REALLY are)
Playing Half Life Alyx for the first time is like experiencing VR for the first time all over again
2:26:42 Well purpouse of anttlion grub is to grow up to be adult Antlion
Gods Holly is such a gift
1:03:14 the first time i saw that all i saw was lolathons VRchat skin
Sick wayne bottle trick 53:32
russle has the entire internet download.
russle owns Wikipedia: the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
It’s so funny watching them keep up the masquerade of HLVRAI, like hearing Wayne almost credit Holly for the Wikipedia bit.
Honestly upset wayne didn't grab the photo of prototype dog but instead grabbed a bucket of paint
im glad joshua came to visit the stream
Wish wayne kept spectator hud. Could have spectator only subtitles
now you have three to pick from, dog, cat, or headcrab.
"I'm echoing!" says the guy fucking yelling
alyx keeps dropping shit
Decided to rewatch this stream after binging the gnome series and holy shit is it weird without the gnome
please tell me wayne eventually realizes his shotgun holds more than 2 shells
oh thank fuck
Wayne drawing the pog face looks like sbahj from Homestuck
1:47:10 "Lamar come out of there." - Gir
2:08:45 Joshua
RUSSEL KNOWS WIKIPEDIA
We should make Wayne go insane by making him creat Half life 2 vr but the AI is self aware
omg I have the same ear problem!
56:48 I was BEGGING for someone to say keemstar
27:09 it is Lemonade
1:11:03 look gordon ropes! We can use them for big pits!
HELP ME GORDON!
30:54 in Half-Life 2 VR Mod the middle finger aggros the combine in the opening sequence then gives you an achievement and its great