The Development Hell of Half-Life 2
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"You know, people were starting to post x-rated screenshots of our characters having sex with each other and doing all of these things..."
I guess some things just never change on the internet.
Sauce?
@@dophelsinette 8:43
@@schneitzbutcher the hand motions 🤣🤣
Eli Vance is like:"can you blame a man for wanting grandkids"-from hl2 ep2.
Lmao was r34 a thing already or was that just a isolated meme
Fun fact: HL2 beta still uses GoldSrc gui
i mean at first source was builded on the top of goldsrc back in 1999-2002 thats why hl2 beta still has goldsrc assets and materials on it
@@matthewnathanael2512 valve just called their HL1 source code "Source". They had experimental features which never were used in retail Half-Life 1, so they cut the "big source" leaving only "good stuff", naming it "Gold Source". They kept adding/improving upon the uncut "source" and released it with HL2.
@NICULL Valve took Quake 1 engine as base and built upon it. They called the source code for HL1 "source", as, you know, "source code". They really didn't care about the engine's name. They had experimental features in their source code that didnt need to get shipped with Half-Life 1, so they made GldSrc branch of their source code, keeping only required features in it. At that point, the full source code could be described as "GldSrc with extra experimental shit", but as they developed HL2, Source changed a lot and became the "Source" engine we know since 2004.
Valve even reimplemented some Source features back into GldSrc - new menu GUI and improved renderer (32 bit and more resolutions).
@@CossackHD Honestly after all these years that's the first time I've read that. And it makes complete sense - I just never thought about the naming of the engines like that. Is this info from something in particular or a best guess? I'd be interested in reading more for sure
@@ryanw1541 I can't recall where I found this info :/
HL2 2004 games with 2010+ Quality. The legendary Games ever
2010? It looks like a game from 2018
Considering the foundation of the game began late 1999, with storyline and characters changing significantly a few years later. This game still holds up well in 2021, spanning over 4 decades (90's, 00's, 10's, 20's)
@@Spookoffi yes
the legendary games ever
The game already had the PS3 or even PS4-era graphics way before they came out. Valve are awesome I swear.
the fact that we had graphics like this in 2001 still intrigues me to this day.
I’m pretty sure they were working on this WAY before 2001, the physics demonstration, the facial animations and such. How did that work on computers with low specs
@@agentburningbutters3655 optimization ;)
@@C.A._Old they started it in 1998 right after hl1
Yup, this game was considered crazy realistic for its day. Especially the faces.
i'm glad younger players can enjoy the game as much as the older ones did
my little brother loves to play games but also hates half life ._.
I feel ashamed
i'm 11(on going to 12) but i love these old games. sadly i should crack it due because i'm just a kid
you are not the only one who cracked half life 2 son
I have recently replayed the half life series from half life 1 to episode 2, sadly I will not be able to play half life alyx, but either way I enjoy this series so god dam much and hope to see half life 3 come out.
@@user-qu1xl3ee1d Do u think that half life 3 will even exist in the future 😂
It's crazy to think that HL2 was in preparation just a year after HL1. The technological leap was absolutely massive.
Several points that I think were simplified in this video:
1) Development of source started immediately after Half-Life went gold. That's where the goldSrc and source names came from - the former was the name of the source code base that "went gold".
2) Saying that the team agreed on Viktor Antonov's eastern European setting's idea on the get go is plainly wrong. The leaked beta files, and the trailer that you showed, clearly indicated a game that's set around the US eastern board. The beta fans are unanimous on this.
3) Playtesting didn't start when the game is playable from start to finish. It's always happening. It's Valve's philosophy to test as soon as it's playable. To wait until the whole campaign is completed would be way too late.
Thanks for the added information! Definitely important to clarify.
@@DesolateLavender it was definitely supposed to be US and then changed to Eastern Europe some time before or after or during the leak, given the maps from the leak some are consisting of US City levels for example the latter being Eastern Europe so there is a mix of both. Clearly the US was pitched first and they experimented with both US and Eastern Europe before going with only Eastern Europe for retail, which I think is a shame because having both US areas and Eastern Europe would give a greater feeling of being grounded in the whole world of earth, it would also show that the combines rule over earth is worldwide whereas otherwise in retail its plausible to assume The Combine have only taken over Eastern Europe, that other places are at risk from Combine Occupation and Oppression on earth but as the world is decentralised and they rely on local transportation when they get somewhere on earth it could mean these places are left alone as they could be a lot more trouble than they are worth to take over, and while they could certainly take over US they have a lot more access to weaponry of all kinds and deadlier weaponry. And the Combine have their Citadel in Eastern Europe no such base of operations exists in US because as I said retail change the setting to Eastern Europe moving The Combine's base of operations with it. You could create a headcannon that the combine have citadel buildings in each or every region of the world but I think this is unlikely. But still we're not given enough information in the game(s) to know for sure, what we do know is that The Combine are catching up and chasing Mossman's group in the Arctic and this is where we should be flying next maybe in Half-Life 3 in Alyx's repaired old war/soviet era style Russian Helicopter. Though it's a bit confusing if this will be the way forward as Eli is no longer dead and Gordon has to recover Alyx first from the grasps of GMAN's stasis. But still should be a good game if it ever comes out. Though I will be disappointed if we don't end up flying that chopper for a lengthy section and maybe have a gun fight and missile fight with it, otherwise if they don't I think that'll be a real missed opportunity.
Yep that's right, they started out with City 17 being inspired by Chicago in 2000-early 02 with a surreal retrofuturistic look the closer you got to the Citadel's inner wall. Then they phased out the US setting in favor of Eastern Europe starting in mid 2002
Gaben doesn't need to hear this , he is highly trained proffesional
Is highly trained proffesional
highly trained proffesional
Highly trained proffesional
highly trained proffesional
"The source code is leaked!"
"DELETE IT"
"Im trying" " Its not deleting, its, its not deleting!"
mfw 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004: I schleep
mfw *DARK GRITTY 2001: YO*
What is mfw?
@@silvergaming3953 my face when
@@OMGWTFBBQ1902 MY FACE WHEN WHAT
@@OMGWTFBBQ1902 wait
@@silvergaming3953 yeah MFW is My face when
HL2's history that causes it to be the Valve's best game
HL1>HL2
@@damarvelousone Yes
@daniel strong its fine now but maybe a bit more types of enemies would be good. I dont like the locations that much in the beta storyline
@daniel strong It already is.
@daniel strong Sorry for misunderstanding you, then.
9:45 bro gabe killed me here (laughing)
You were the pinata?
The history of the game which won an game of the year award
*a game
Game of the decade would work
@@OriginalWaybackMate would it be a stretch if i said.. game of the century?
for me it is at least
"The History of Half Life 3"
*This video is unavailable*
How noclik didt see you???211?1
@@Spookoffi his unfortunate day
8:35
Lol, imagine telling them that Source would take up a considerable portion of the porn industry
it is man, many animators use source to create porns
@@Aim_HR Alyx
@@PINKGUY-c2x I remembered there's a old video from maybe 2010, it was long time ago. The video have age restricted on RUclips cause the uploader upload some Half-Life 2 mod when Gordon having a "Naked Alyx's party" and then having sex together, all of it was censored but the video was no longer to be found.
@@みなみ南-s6e what the fuck
When Half-life AI is more better than Cyberpunk2077
Yeah lol
I don't know if english is your first language or not, but the more is redundant
nice engrish
half life is one of the most best games than any game
@@realdunky69
That is much very true.
So, while Gearbox is working on Opposing Force, valve is working on Half Life 2, thats why they didnt help much gearbox with the expansions?
I guess you are right
exactly!
I'm amazed that people born after HL2 was released have enjoyed this game as much as we the older people did when it was released in 2004.
HL2 was originally meant to be set in North America, then it was relocated to eastern Europe in 2002.
It's sad that they deleted the gasmask citizens
Sad story
They deleted you
But only in game also 2003 leak
As much as I like it's consept, it would ruin the realistic face expressions. Of course, there are other characters without face masks but, you know.
@@combineadvisorwithinternet6040 you are that guy that makes those cool animations am I right
Next must be team fortess 2 or left 4 dead
Half-Life 2 takes place in the Eastern European country Bulgaria, that’s where me and Viktor Antonov were born and raised. It’s one of the many things that make me proud and happy to be Bulgarian. If anyone ever has the time to travel, Bulgaria is an amazing tourist location. You will immediately see the similarities between my country and Half-Life 2. Many places in HL2 are actually modeled after real life locations and places in Bulgaria too!
Sad to disappoint you, but half life 2 takes place somewhere in Russia
@@zorgapb4691 what are you talking about? It is OBVIOUS that the game takes place in Brazil.
Edit: I mean, it is HORRENDOUSLY OBVIOUS that the game is on Brazil, don't talk shit m8. (I'm brazilian also)
@@niccbilac I'm gonna take that as sarcasm
@@zorgapb4691 it is, sorry for not making it so clear, lol
@@zorgapb4691 HL2 takes place in Ukraine... Odessa city... but the City ingame is inspired by the rest of the Slavic world... so Bulgaria... Ex-Yugoslavia... Ex-Czechoslovakia ... Poland... a lot more... it's a cocktail city... but the actual location is in Odessa Ukraine... because it's featured in the game the map of the area... and the place called Little Odessa
But HL Alyx kinda says it's based of Sofia... the capital of Bulgaria... and the map featured in there strongly resembles Sofia...
HL is weird dude xd
8:43 he hated rule 34 before it was mainstream.
I was 14 in 2003 when my buddy hooked up HL2 beta on a dvd for me. I think I spent more time in the prop physics demo room than in the actual campaign. I get warm and fuzzies seeing that menu screen
3:54 is that the guy in the OBSOLETE icon in the hammer editor?
yes!
I would really like valve to remake the beta because it seams so interesting how much information has been lost
Holy shit, you even used RadHaz's theme as part of the music?! Amazing!
Edit: Nevermind it isn't RadHaz's theme
HL Team: "The next Half-Life will take place across multiple planets, spanning galaxies!"
Art director: "What if we set it in Eastern Europe?"
HL Team: "YES, love it!"
they kind of took the idea of multiple planets as the combine, which rule all the planets
Remember that time when
Valve almost made No Man's Sky
But cancelled it
I’ve noticed that every HL game has gone through development hell in a way
What about the expansions
0:20 now i understand why city 17 looks so familiar to me
NOCLICK PUTS ''ñ'':
me, an argentinian: THE PURGE BEGINS
"You know, people were starting to post x-rated screenshots of our characters having sex with each other and doing all of these things..."
and then... GMod
He postponed HL2 to 2004 because he doesn't like 2003 and September 30
Half Life 2 was the first game I played coming out of the 8 bit era, so It's very close to my heart.
And this is how one of the greatest masterpieces was released
0:21 they set it in America until 9/11 happened and they decided the Bakuza Sniper scene should be moved from a city street to a trainyard. Eastern Europe has only put in there after the events at the World Trade Center.
3:32 the way that that beat syncs up with the picture and the words makes it so much funnier
gabeNs hand gestures at 8:45...
Half Life 2 was really a game couldnt wait to play it myself in 2004. So much atmosphere, great graphics and a joy to play. Haven't had that experience with any other games that released after hl2. I still play this game and ep1 and ep2 every year again.
I have said this before and I will say it again. I was mere sperm when HL1 was released and learning to read or walk by the time HL2 was released, yet I found these games to be amazing when I bought them in 2017 or 16. These games were also what got me into PC gaming, as they were able to run on my laptop.
Next video: The Development Hell of Half-Life 3
That will be like watching the original Ben-Hur! (3h 44m long)
I'm glad I was born at 1999 and I can see my big brother was playing half-life games. Good times.
the Lab Practicum theme still hits different. Ma heart...
"the source source code" 😭
Waiting for HL3 development hell. It's gonna be hours long video I guess.
Well. At least part of that already exists, it's Geoff Keighley's Final Hours of Half Life Alyx. It covers the development hell that the entirety of Valve was in for the last 10 years.
combine soldiers comes to city to help metrocops
scp foundation : cant let you do that bitchhh
Valve HQ be Citadel 💀💀💀
6:23 LMAO
8:40 EVEN BACK THEN WTF
Release dates sure are hell of a thing to accomplish
Because there is always something that the devs miss
Huh, maybe thats was the reason why we lit never knew about Half-Life:Alyx, and when the trailer came out from nowhere, it was already finished and polished.
Half-Life 2 was supposed to be in an american style urban city, it was changed to an eastern european city in early 2002, not in 1999, if it was supposed to be in an eastern european city, there wouldnt be leaked maps of american cities full of skyscrapers
8:40
And on that day SFM porn was created
I wish we could've gotten a darker Half Life 2, but the game we have right now is still amazing, although I do think it could've done even better with darker and more mysterious undertones.
look up dark interval on moddb, they've been trying to recreate the beta for about 3 years now I believe and they're almost done with chapter 2 which has a looot of content in it
This game was a milestone. Games haven't such physic and facial expression years after years. I remember dead island and how silly was expression there.
Gabe needs to get his finger out of the KFC box and back into Half Life 3!!!
0:29 "The tam likes this idea"
*Gaben approves, team must follow*
Sometimes I forget that HL2 was released in 2004.
It wasn't? I thought It came out in 2009
imagine stealing a tv when world colapses lol
i was just watching a video of lots of people getting shot down and minors being taken away in isreal and now i see the get your free tvs map
Fun fact: the the cremantor in the thumbnail is not a half life 2 concept art,its half life alyx concept art.
Not a fact. The Cremator originally was designed as a Half-Life 2 NPC, but was cut. Half-Life: Alyx wasn't even thought about back in 2004. However, Half-Life: Alyx team did get inspiration from the cut concepts from HL2 development but most were changed or cut, including The Cremator.
"People started posting pictures of our characters having sex with each other"
Yep. Classic internet right there
Wow hearing the new pistol with the old pistol sound is so jarring
You just watched the steps developers go through to make a legendary game which can still be played 20 years later and players don't get tired of it...
one man vs one dozen of aliens
I thought in 1999 and 2001 it was supposed to take place near New York then it shifted to an eastern Europe setting
im glad valve didn't give up
Mfw the 2004 game is more technically advanced than 2024 games
my man straight up ignored the entire 1999 half life beta and storyline set in the USA
someone acknowledged it 😂
"you need at least 128MB of RAM to play half-life 2".. my pc that time only 64MB T_T
I do not feel comfortable with Lord Gaben casually destroying a brotherin for fun...What do our lives mean?
Everybody says half life 3, but technically its half life 2 episode 4
When i was 13
I was more like a portal fan,i thought hl2 was a trashy shooter game
When i started playing hl2,i saw how much i was wrong about it
Now im in love about the original hl2 and the mods
0:03 funfact: the concept art you see is actually real and can be seen in new york near park called wollman rink, you can see that the skyscrapers look same as in concept art. So that means HL2 was orginnaly to be set in new york
They did so much, but forgot to put light on fire.....
Even the music in HL2 was next-gen
If the someone didn't hack the source code back then, the final game will never be the same
funny thing: no it wouldnt be. they already had like retail hl2 at that time, and all the cut stuff was left-over because its source code and they didnt bother removing it.
@@binguslover0508 yeah, people seem to think that the 2003 leak was what caused the major storyline change in beta, but that happened in late 2002/early 2003 as this video shows and the reason it was SO unfinished was because it was so early on, the 2002 variant of the story is much more polished then the leaked 2003 one because it had at least a year for stuff to be made and refined for it, whereas the hl2 current storyline was being worked on and having maps made for it at the same time and maps needed to be remade and updated all the time for the first bit of 2003, i reckon the hl2 2003 maps only were worked on for about 6 months before the leak but if anyone can correct me let me know
I wish they had the cremator as an actual boss or something and not an easter egg. The cremator really gives me Cry of Fear vibes
This is so interesting! Thanks for the video!
In my point of view, Half - Life 1 has great claustrophobic climate. You are trying to get out of underground lab complex, when you reach the top - bang helicopter attack and here we go again. I bought HL2 because of sentiment, but after playing it I started wonder why I bought it - easter europe gray climate is not on my side.
It's not claustrophobic like the first game, but it's certainly oppressive in its own way.
The Half Life 2 Beta will forever remain one of the most interesting game betas ever.
8:42 bolloxed joined the chat
Gore poster, child abuser, and harasser extraordinaire
Me?
@@PTSD-c2j no bolloxed
Once in a decade game
Alright this doesn't even mention that so much time was didn't developing the Source engine that the release game was basically only made in the last few years, since constantly changing the engine meant they had to constantly change ideas
Led to the downfall of many games
Awesome vid 👏 but you left out the part where they try tricking the hacker to come to the US to have him arrested
Gabe seemed happier back then
8:42 rule34 artists at it again! super speed!
Oh awesome! Morning everyone
I believe this game was once compared to Duke Nukem Forever, also a vaporware game back then. Then HL2 eventually came out while Duke remained missing in action. When the latter came out it wasn’t even as good as HL2, quality-wise.
Duke hates Valve puzzles.
no wonder he never did hl3, dude is traumatized
I actually liked the part where a combine soldier gets dragged by a unknown tentacles
Well, sad it was removed the combine soldier death was detailed even from the beta.
I don't know how but Half-Life 2's graphics have aged really well.
Isn't it Radiation Hazard's music on 5th minute?
free TVs! free TVs!
Cool history bro
At the end, it was REALLY worth the wait tho
Poor piñata :(.
What happened to Valve back in 2003 is what’s happening now with CDPR with cyberpunk 2077
Valve went smart and released it a year later when it wasn’t broken
This game is older than me but still looks good in 2021
I love this fucking game
i wish hl2 had a dlc where you could play the beta as if it were the full game, like dark interval kinda
before premiere: 4:34 nice gun ngl