Half-Life 2 Opening is how videogame openings should be done. They don't have a giant text wall at the beginning detailing everything, but instead introduces you into the world WITH the world, adding additional lore and context along the way. I'm working on a book inspired by the dystopian feeling of Half-Life 2, and i'm keeping it's opening chapters in a familiar sense.
oh hell yeah, also there were a couple more things I found out about the opening while editing and recording B Roll shots and cinematics in Gmod, that I didn't even realize until rewatching the B Roll footage.. like the dude in the inspection room at the train station that most likely got killed later on. You can actually watch him being sent there while standing in the line, I would've included that fact but I didn't notice it until the video was half way uploading lol.
Problem is people will say this isn’t isn’t free and won’t buy it but will pay hundreds for a Fortnite skin when the game is free they are usually too intimidated to play old games
It really goes for a buck when it's on sale. Those are probably just kids, so don't stress it. Anyway, chances are it's gonna be free for the anniversary in a month and a half.
It's obnoxious when people complain about the price of a game but it's only like 10 dollars. Especially since they seem more than willing to spend 130 dollars on unfinished live-service garbage, garbage that they won't even be able to play most of the time because the servers are horrible and are down most of the day. And most of those games will be unplayable forever when the developers abandon it in 6 months and the servers required to play the game are shut down. But an indie game or a game that is a true masterpiece or a work of art that the developers poured their soul into, and suddenly they become really frugal and pretend like that is a lot of money, and the last 30 years of constant inflation never happened. I don't feel good about the future of gaming at all.
7:54 I feel the need to correct this part. It's been about 20 years since the Resonance Cascade at this point, so all the kids have just grown up with no new ones being conceived thanks to the suppression field. As an aside, that's borne out by the fact the sound you hear isn't kids screaming but playing. Otherwise, good points about a great game.
If i remember correctly, people who were kids during the moment the supression field was activated, was also killed, not physically by the combine, but in a much much more horrifying way.
@@Kateykat nah, I just wanted to make the joke lol, I won’t do anything like that again because it would make it so the rest of the stuff I said might be untrue as well so I’ve learned my lesson. But I have finished HL2EP2, peak life 2
the way that nobody recognizes Gordon is insane, he was the certified badass of the resonance cascade and nobody remembers his face. The only way anybody knows its him is because of his HEV suit
Growing up In the start our pc was not very beefy and we could not ecen run hl2 but now I am glad as not being able to run the new games made me appreciate the old ones a lot more.
Dude you have such great production quakity, you deserve so many more views! And the editing both in technical sence and in the fun factor of it is great, love the video, keep doing what you doing
@@aigeneral9631 I have left 4 dead 2 on disk and play it on my Xbox when my friends come over, I recommend it, it's really fun, also funny you mention L4D2 since that's what I'm currently writing a script for at the moment haha
Btw unless you play Black Mesa, there is no way of knowing which Security Guard is Barney or which Scientist is Eli or Isaac. Half Life 2 was the first time these characters were introduced. Black Mesa retroactively added Barney as the malfunctioning door Security Guard (Half-Life Blue Shift main character's first name is Barney) and the scientists who tell Gordan to head for the surface are now Isaac and Eli. (Eli states in the Black Mesa East chapter that he sent you up to get help after the Resonance Cascade.)
oh, well thanks for the insight, I'll keep that in mind for when I inevitably make another video on this masterpieces of a game, also I was thinking about playing blackmesa, do you recommend it?
@@Spartan_Tanner I’ve already played Half Life, sorry if I didn’t phrase that properly, but thanks for the recommendation, idk why I’m so stingy with money when it comes to games lil
2:44: you used the right word, for that is what Dr.Breen is wanting to build 💀 not to get philosophical or anything but every Utopian dream leads to a dystopian nightmare.
Actually, that wasn't Kleiner's casserole that you blow up in HL1, it was Doctor Magnusson's Also with the time jump of twenty years, i wouldn't be surprised if all the children just grew up But it does give way for it's own kind of horror to realize that humanity is being slowly wiped away, one generation at a time In any case, i agree, it builds the world up in such a monumental way, it prepares you for the kind of dystopian shit you're in for The only argument i can see being made against it is how long it is, which is understandable, i think Temporal Assassin, a mod for Garry's Mod, remedies this problem decently enough You can replay the Half-Life 2 campaign in it, but they give you the ability to fast-forward alot of the dialogue exchanges
You haven't played the original Half-Life, have you? Breen was not a familiar face, he didn't even appear in the original game. His addition as 'the administrator' of Black Mesa was a retcon. Barney and Kleiner weren't characters in the original, either. There were no characters in the original game, there were just a bunch of unnamed scientist and security guard NPCs with the same few skins, repeated. The named characters in HL2, and Gordon's relationships with them, were also mostly retcons.
Isn't the default cop model in Half-Life barney? plus you literally play as barney in blueshift + in half life 2 it's revealed that breen worked in black mesa + kleiner has a locker in the locker rooms if I recall properly, been a while since I've played, and yes, I have played Half Life lol, even Opposing forces and Blue Shift :)
@@ChomChi I don't know what you mean, Barney can't be every one of the HL1 guards. Yes, you play as Barney in Blue Shift but my point is he's not named in HL1, he wasn't a character in the original game - there were no characters, just cloned NPCs.
@@ChomChi yes, I know what happened in HL2 but Breen *wasn't mentioned* in HL1, so he wasn't a familiar face, and he was a retcon. You've misconceived and misremembered a lot of the things you think made the HL2 opening a masterpiece, which actually detracted from it, for players who had come straight from HL1 back in the day.
I was trying to find something goofy, also props to the guy that made that edit, also THANKS!!! but there's a lot wrong with this video, better watch out when my L4D2 video essay releases somewhere before or on Halloween 👀 (sorry for the shilling a video that isn't even done lol)
For the world they created they silently explained what is going on with mostly the visuals. The visuals is the greatest aspect i think. The big citadel for example. They filled it with as many details as possible. To do this you need great inagination, you need to think about yourself in such a world. How would you enslave humanity? Probably put something in the water, opress with a lot of police, dont allow procreation, create a daily life that citizens live for players to witness and their dialogues etc.
HL2 and the combine invading Earth would still happen, because think about this: Even though the science team took the time while Gordon was late to boost the anti-mass spectrometer, they were still going to use the crystal sample that G-Man delivered, which was very deliberately sabotaged to kickstart all the events of HL1. So, BM incident happens, it's just that the power is a little weaker and the destruction is slightly less catastrophic. Combine still gets alerted by the resonance cascade, everything's pretty much the same. So, basically, only difference is like there's 5 less headcrabs in the start of HL1.
This video is .. not great tbh. Many mistakes in the script and the on screen text, and you called the ' Dont drink the water' guy delusional, but Alyx later tells you to not drink the water rations as they put various mood affecting drugs in them, so the video is poorly fact checked as well.
@@YappinUlysses-kh3xe I am aware, It does not deserve the attention it’s gotten, also thanks for the Information since I didn’t know about the half life alyx thing, I’m trying my best to improve the next one massively, thanks for the comment!
@@ChomChi Thanks for listening to the feedback, btw the alyx comment is in half life 2 not in Alyx, she says it when she uses the water vending machine to open the secret door to Kleiners lab.
Great video but you did so many recording gaffes that maybe it would have been best to re-record some parts instead of fixing during editing Also at 5:55, his name is "Gordon", not "Gorgon". Rewatch your videos during and after editing.
@@JackieJKENVtuber gorgon was an inside joke me and Driphub had while editing, also I pushed this video out in 2 days to see how fast we could make something, I know it’s bad, I know it has bunch of gaffes this issue is almost fixed with the new video coming out in a couple of days, thanks for the critique though!
@@JackieJKENVtuber nah I'm not annoyed, genuinely thankful that some people aren't being nice to me since it makes me learn more so thank you for being honest.
Hl2 is alr, but the first hour or two of the game is unbearably slow. Making replays of this game rlly tiresome, you could skip it but thats bad practise. That and some other numeroue grievances but ill keep them to myself. Also the ai... arent that fun to fight against unfortunately.
Omg it’s Gorgon Morgan
Gorgon will Yap your Life 2… yeh
Half-Life 2 Opening is how videogame openings should be done.
They don't have a giant text wall at the beginning detailing everything, but instead introduces you into the world WITH the world, adding additional lore and context along the way.
I'm working on a book inspired by the dystopian feeling of Half-Life 2, and i'm keeping it's opening chapters in a familiar sense.
oh hell yeah, also there were a couple more things I found out about the opening while editing and recording B Roll shots and cinematics in Gmod, that I didn't even realize until rewatching the B Roll footage.. like the dude in the inspection room at the train station that most likely got killed later on. You can actually watch him being sent there while standing in the line, I would've included that fact but I didn't notice it until the video was half way uploading lol.
I wish I could experience this game for the first time again....
@@kisnyirati yeh, same the game is truly amazing
All you need is a mallet. I done it at least 4 times already
@@stormhought hand crushed by mallet?
Ravenholm was terrifying on my first play through.
Just get older so your memory gets worse. I can play a game 5 years later and it feels new again.
Problem is people will say this isn’t isn’t free and won’t buy it but will pay hundreds for a Fortnite skin when the game is free they are usually too intimidated to play old games
@@MogoMojo-50 well I hope that this video will help some people realise that this game is totally worth it.
it is free (demo), and if you only like Point Insertion and Ravenholm, it's peak
It really goes for a buck when it's on sale. Those are probably just kids, so don't stress it. Anyway, chances are it's gonna be free for the anniversary in a month and a half.
It's obnoxious when people complain about the price of a game but it's only like 10 dollars.
Especially since they seem more than willing to spend 130 dollars on unfinished live-service garbage, garbage that they won't even be able to play most of the time because the servers are horrible and are down most of the day. And most of those games will be unplayable forever when the developers abandon it in 6 months and the servers required to play the game are shut down.
But an indie game or a game that is a true masterpiece or a work of art that the developers poured their soul into, and suddenly they become really frugal and pretend like that is a lot of money, and the last 30 years of constant inflation never happened.
I don't feel good about the future of gaming at all.
@@ChomChi still worth it.
Arrrg~
7:54 I feel the need to correct this part. It's been about 20 years since the Resonance Cascade at this point, so all the kids have just grown up with no new ones being conceived thanks to the suppression field.
As an aside, that's borne out by the fact the sound you hear isn't kids screaming but playing.
Otherwise, good points about a great game.
Thanks for the clarification
If i remember correctly, people who were kids during the moment the supression field was activated, was also killed, not physically by the combine, but in a much much more horrifying way.
@@DinMamma2200none of half life games indicate that
@@DinMamma2200Not true at all. Alyx was 4 years old when the resonance cascade happened.
The microwave casserole was actually from Magnusson
I know but I wanted to make the joke, also Magnusson is an opp after the disrespect he gives Gordon in EP 2 lol
@@ChomChithe sass is because of the casserole
why the intro is a half life 2 masterpiece
Rise and grind Mr.Freeman
It Rhymes tho 💀
Half life 2 is one of the only games i EAGERLY replay, most of the time i feel bored when replaying games, but not half life 2
0:28 "why the intro is a half life 2 masterpiece" or " why the half life 2 intro is a masterpiece" lmao
I didn't think about that XD
Valve really had insane creative potential back then. How pitifully tragic it went to waste
Have you played Alyx?
@@bulletbeatboxer yeah, it took them like 15 years to advance the plot by about 5 minutes. Game was cool though
Its dystopian, not utopian. Utopia is the perfect world, dystopia is the opposite (what hl2's world is)
@@leomathguy i am very aware of that, that’s why I put Dystopian* everytime I said the the wrong word
@@ChomChi I was listening to this in the background so I didnt notice, buy this video is an amazing analysis
That sadboy Gordon is cursed af... Ive always imagined Gordon to just go around shooting aliens while being annoyed af!
@@gilzineto it would be funny imagining that he’s just angry in the entire Half-Life franchise because he has to be the one to do everything
@ChomChi not only that, his energy is angry/grumpy cuz dude hasn't slept in over 2 decades 😂
@@gilzineto I think we should let the guy sleep lil XD
"Gorgon Morgan doesn't need to hear all of this, he's a highly trained gooner" - Dr.drippler
Mans forgor that it wasnt kleiners casserole but actually Dr Magnusson or he just didnt play ep2
@@Kateykat nah, I just wanted to make the joke lol, I won’t do anything like that again because it would make it so the rest of the stuff I said might be untrue as well so I’ve learned my lesson. But I have finished HL2EP2, peak life 2
@@ChomChi oh ok fair enough
best game of all time
Funny way of saying Deus Ex.
@@VunderGuy VERY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER
far far far FAR from best game ever
@@Grayson-tk5hn you probably play fortnite
@@czechpishkot3872 fortnite is terrible
the way that nobody recognizes Gordon is insane, he was the certified badass of the resonance cascade and nobody remembers his face. The only way anybody knows its him is because of his HEV suit
Jesus for someone with only 200 subscribers this is great!!! Love the editing
@@loco4loco thanks!!!
Growing up In the start our pc was not very beefy and we could not ecen run hl2 but now I am glad as not being able to run the new games made me appreciate the old ones a lot more.
finally, someone that uses interlaced video
Que buen juego, lo jugué por primera vez en 2006 y cada tanto lo vuelvo a jugar, el mejor juego de la historia
1:02 I still feel that the Half Life games deserve to be made into movies. I’d write that so hard
8:52 that chase scene in the staircase was soooooo scary when you played it the first time in 2004
Dude you have such great production quakity, you deserve so many more views! And the editing both in technical sence and in the fun factor of it is great, love the video, keep doing what you doing
@@nomam9085 wow thanks!
Absolute cinema ✋😎🤚
cannnnn agree, Mr. Freeman. This game is.... *deep breath* really good.
meow
Thats right, they never mention or show City 17 again
@@dave230k33k to be fair… Half Life Alyx XD
Great vid, I really like your style
Thank you!
Playing this on xbox 360 was truly the experience of all time (and yes there is a official xbox 360 version)
@@aigeneral9631 yeh it’s apart of the orange box I remember playing it at a friend’s house, Peak Life 2
@@ChomChi honestly might get left 4 dead 1 and 2 on Xbox 360 as well
@@aigeneral9631 I have left 4 dead 2 on disk and play it on my Xbox when my friends come over, I recommend it, it's really fun, also funny you mention L4D2 since that's what I'm currently writing a script for at the moment haha
@@ChomChi well I will sure have a blast I assume and maybe thanks to the online we could play together.
Btw unless you play Black Mesa, there is no way of knowing which Security Guard is Barney or which Scientist is Eli or Isaac. Half Life 2 was the first time these characters were introduced. Black Mesa retroactively added Barney as the malfunctioning door Security Guard (Half-Life Blue Shift main character's first name is Barney) and the scientists who tell Gordan to head for the surface are now Isaac and Eli.
(Eli states in the Black Mesa East chapter that he sent you up to get help after the Resonance Cascade.)
oh, well thanks for the insight, I'll keep that in mind for when I inevitably make another video on this masterpieces of a game, also I was thinking about playing blackmesa, do you recommend it?
@@ChomChi I recommend playing both atleast once
@@Spartan_Tanner I’ve already played Half Life, sorry if I didn’t phrase that properly, but thanks for the recommendation, idk why I’m so stingy with money when it comes to games lil
Just found this vid, and man, 238 subs is crazy
This video having 5k views is crazy. I am baffled it got more than 100
2:44: you used the right word, for that is what Dr.Breen is wanting to build 💀
not to get philosophical or anything but every Utopian dream leads to a dystopian nightmare.
@@naptimusnapolyus1227 yeh that was totally my intention and not me just saying utopian instead of dystopian yup…
203 subs now. great vid
@@mycomputerthings I did not expect this video to get this much attention, thanks!
Actually, that wasn't Kleiner's casserole that you blow up in HL1, it was Doctor Magnusson's
Also with the time jump of twenty years, i wouldn't be surprised if all the children just grew up
But it does give way for it's own kind of horror to realize that humanity is being slowly wiped away, one generation at a time
In any case, i agree, it builds the world up in such a monumental way, it prepares you for the kind of dystopian shit you're in for
The only argument i can see being made against it is how long it is, which is understandable, i think Temporal Assassin, a mod for Garry's Mod, remedies this problem decently enough
You can replay the Half-Life 2 campaign in it, but they give you the ability to fast-forward alot of the dialogue exchanges
You haven't played the original Half-Life, have you?
Breen was not a familiar face, he didn't even appear in the original game. His addition as 'the administrator' of Black Mesa was a retcon.
Barney and Kleiner weren't characters in the original, either. There were no characters in the original game, there were just a bunch of unnamed scientist and security guard NPCs with the same few skins, repeated. The named characters in HL2, and Gordon's relationships with them, were also mostly retcons.
Isn't the default cop model in Half-Life barney? plus you literally play as barney in blueshift + in half life 2 it's revealed that breen worked in black mesa + kleiner has a locker in the locker rooms if I recall properly, been a while since I've played, and yes, I have played Half Life lol, even Opposing forces and Blue Shift :)
@@ChomChi I don't know what you mean, Barney can't be every one of the HL1 guards.
Yes, you play as Barney in Blue Shift but my point is he's not named in HL1, he wasn't a character in the original game - there were no characters, just cloned NPCs.
@@ChomChi yes, I know what happened in HL2 but Breen *wasn't mentioned* in HL1, so he wasn't a familiar face, and he was a retcon.
You've misconceived and misremembered a lot of the things you think made the HL2 opening a masterpiece, which actually detracted from it, for players who had come straight from HL1 back in the day.
i cant belive im gordan freeman
So many videos about HL2 opening and no youtuber said about references to 1984. Nobody read the book or even watched the movie
1:22 no way I legit watched that short
Great job with the vid - who inspired you to do this?
Like do the video in this style of editing and scripting*
@@BoyoFPS eehhh, I think it might be a mix of Pyrocynical, Turkey Tom and The Right Opinion… or a plethora of other video essay channels
I love how Alyx is blurred, lmao 😂
Not the Gordon Freeman sigma edits
Jokes aside great vid lol :)
I was trying to find something goofy, also props to the guy that made that edit, also THANKS!!! but there's a lot wrong with this video, better watch out when my L4D2 video essay releases somewhere before or on Halloween 👀 (sorry for the shilling a video that isn't even done lol)
btw she finds her husband because in sandtraps you can see her with a man who is presumed to be her lover (he is standing next to her so figures)
10 minute plot explaination
bro is not furry after this game
dude if you saw my discord profile and my VR-Chat avatar, you would not be saying that lol
@@ChomChi 👍
random youtuber trying not to beat a dead horse that half life 2 is kinda good:
@@Grayson-tk5hn maybe 👀
Eye-sack Kleiner.
Keep it up!
All I'm going to say is let me cook with this next one, it's scheduled to release slightly before or on Halloween ;)
i believe with the woman in the opening its implied that she wasnt meant to be on a train with her husband so they took him making it even more awful
backhop are still in half life 2? 2:23
@@videk5 they never got patched lol
For the world they created they silently explained what is going on with mostly the visuals. The visuals is the greatest aspect i think. The big citadel for example. They filled it with as many details as possible. To do this you need great inagination, you need to think about yourself in such a world. How would you enslave humanity? Probably put something in the water, opress with a lot of police, dont allow procreation, create a daily life that citizens live for players to witness and their dialogues etc.
@@zombine7103 yeh Valve cooked with this game, even years later
What if gordon aravied on time in half life 1?
HL2 and the combine invading Earth would still happen, because think about this:
Even though the science team took the time while Gordon was late to boost the anti-mass spectrometer, they were still going to use the crystal sample that G-Man delivered, which was very deliberately sabotaged to kickstart all the events of HL1.
So, BM incident happens, it's just that the power is a little weaker and the destruction is slightly less catastrophic. Combine still gets alerted by the resonance cascade, everything's pretty much the same.
So, basically, only difference is like there's 5 less headcrabs in the start of HL1.
0:39 kelskii
@@self-proclaimedanimator kelskii is probably still coping over the fact that HL3 isn’t coming
morgan freeman?!?!?
@@C0D3RC4T gorgon Morgon was just stupid joke, his name is Gordon Freeman XD
Did you export this as 1080i, it looks interlaced
yeh sorry the video was hella rushed, plus I already had like 500 rendering issues with it from before, It wont happen again
Ok good thought I was going crazy@@ChomChi
I like your vid💯
oh god this compression
what did you do to that poor rendering software
@@fischy0339 I swear, I rendered it on max I could on Davinci, but there were a plethora of rendering issues:(
W channel
2:25 i havent seen MY husband
*spolers blured*
Pretty good video though, very impressive editing!
@@MrGermandeutsch I didn’t even notice that haha! Also thanks!
This video is .. not great tbh. Many mistakes in the script and the on screen text, and you called the ' Dont drink the water' guy delusional, but Alyx later tells you to not drink the water rations as they put various mood affecting drugs in them, so the video is poorly fact checked as well.
@@YappinUlysses-kh3xe I am aware, It does not deserve the attention it’s gotten, also thanks for the Information since I didn’t know about the half life alyx thing, I’m trying my best to improve the next one massively, thanks for the comment!
@@ChomChi Thanks for listening to the feedback, btw the alyx comment is in half life 2 not in Alyx, she says it when she uses the water vending machine to open the secret door to Kleiners lab.
Intrigued to buy it rn
you should
buy it when its on sale
Great video but you did so many recording gaffes that maybe it would have been best to re-record some parts instead of fixing during editing
Also at 5:55, his name is "Gordon", not "Gorgon". Rewatch your videos during and after editing.
@@JackieJKENVtuber gorgon was an inside joke me and Driphub had while editing, also I pushed this video out in 2 days to see how fast we could make something, I know it’s bad, I know it has bunch of gaffes this issue is almost fixed with the new video coming out in a couple of days, thanks for the critique though!
@@ChomChi alright, that explains everything! Thanks for not being annoyed!
@@JackieJKENVtuber nah I'm not annoyed, genuinely thankful that some people aren't being nice to me since it makes me learn more so thank you for being honest.
Hl2 is alr, but the first hour or two of the game is unbearably slow. Making replays of this game rlly tiresome, you could skip it but thats bad practise. That and some other numeroue grievances but ill keep them to myself. Also the ai... arent that fun to fight against unfortunately.
Bro stop changing the thumbnail 💀💀💀
I have 2 more but I won't be changing the thumbnail more as the other 2 were made as a gag and are heavy clickbait, also no lol
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why this shit interlaced
clicked wrong when rendering the video and I was on a hella deadline so I just decided to post it as it is lol.
Hi :3
nihao
what horrid PC is that
@@kakophonien6514 not quite sure what you mean?