Still, you have to accept that even without the RTX stuff, HL2 still look amazing TWENTY YEARS after its's release. It is a testament to great art direction.
half life 2 is beautiful, its insane how this came out in 2004. and didnt even need an extremely high end pc either, due to how optimized it is. source engine was way ahead of its time.
I'm actually a big fan of these RTX remixes on older games or even games with more simpler graphics like quake RTX. I've noticed with new games a lot of the little lighting, and shadow details on objects is lost when a game's objects and textures are very detailed. In quake RTX you get to really see how detailed the lighting and shadows are with Ray tracing since the levels and objects consist of flat faces with simpler textures. You can see all the details of how light and colors bounce off objects and project onto other objects.
Back then game textures although low res, had plenty of contrast which makes details noticeable from a distance. Most modern games with high res textures have minimal contrast and the detail is only noticeable when you get up close. Lethal Company with it's artstyle makes texture detail very noticeable. It's like when you take a picture IRL and put the "brilliance" slider all the way up in editing.
Great point, remaking every texture and making new models is a much more daring task than coding and implementing a bew lighting system into Source. Isit on source 2 by any chance?
Ah, yes. Install a Trojan horse within your DNA before you have kids. One of your descendants are going to be dumb enough to try to explore your genetic memories, then it will overlay your personality onto them. Effective Immortality, all in the pursuit of Half life 3.
Went through the main hl series end of 2022/beginning of last year (HL,HL2,E1,E2) as well as black Mesa.Probably one of the best gaming experiences I've had, looking forward to this remake
Half life is the series that should be considered the industry standard for all triple A games. It is amazing that the game this old can still hold up to this day with everything else
It's nice to see updated visuals but it's surprising how little of a difference it seems to make, at least in this trailer. HL2 stands the test of time.
Yeah, theres a lack of geometry and general detail on the level in relation to the increased resolution of the surfaces. That's something most community-made HD projects get wrong in any game... they increase the resolution but overall the game 'does not support' that much texture detail without true geometric detail to keep up with it, so it looks wrong and flat even tough it has insane resolutions on its textures
This is giving me flashbacks to watching the first tech demos / videos of Half-Life 2 and how they blew me away and here we are again, getting blown away.
I'm playing the original Half Life rn and it's aged extremely well! Graphics aren't everything. The game has aged super well in a gameplay and story sense.
Maybe graphically it aged well but the gameplay hasn't aged well. The gunplay isn't great and most of the puzzles are just "look, we have a physics engine, try stacking some blocks and be amazed!", which granted at the time was amazing, but today not so much.
@@H.Collector There are fps games that have better basic (non-moded) shooting combat against human or humanlike creatures, but the Strider, Gunship and Hunter-Chopper figths, to name a few, are unique and very well done, and so are the atmosphere, level design, soundtrack, animations and more.
@@H.Collector That "HL2 is just a physics showcase" argument comes from Halo/Cod fans who can't handle the fact that HL2 is better than the game they are emotionally attached to. Physics puzzles are like 2% of the game at maximum, and they are never feel tedious but instead they give a nice little break from action. What else should there be instead? Looking for a key to open a door? That is booring.
Imagine working and using a huge amount of time on a remaster of a 20 year old game instead of making the most frequently asked sequel in gaming history.
@@themaik882deaf9 it's been a running joke for almost what, nearly twenty years, that Valve would make the third half life game and yet they never have. And it got to such a point that people made conspiracy theories, made all these connections based on tidbits of information, about how a third one was coming. Hence the running (clearly no longer funny) joke, of "Half-Life 3 confirmed?"
hopefully Valve doesn't force them to take it down we already saw what they did with TF2 source 2 and TF2 VR (the portal game had something to do with Nintendo itself so that's self explanatory)
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Please Valve, make a Half-Life 3 in our life time.
After Gabe dies the rights will be sold to Bethesda and we get HL3 on Skyrim engine with huge and empty open world and outpost cleaning
ye@@ratcatcherblack5123
@@ratcatcherblack5123and don't forget, 16 times the plot holes!
Unless there is a fundamental change to the way we perceive first person shooters, there ain’t gonna be a half life game
they already did..its called Half Life Alyx yall missed it lmao
Still, you have to accept that even without the RTX stuff, HL2 still look amazing TWENTY YEARS after its's release. It is a testament to great art direction.
And engineers
Its's O.o
half life 2 is beautiful, its insane how this came out in 2004. and didnt even need an extremely high end pc either, due to how optimized it is. source engine was way ahead of its time.
@@notraeonI could run l4d2 with 4 gb worth of mods and it could run in a steady 60 fps. My computer can barely run terraria!
Half Life 2 was already really pretty especially for a 2004 game, but this just adds another shiny layer of lacquer to it
This. It's one of those games that has aged very very well.
Even with "RTX" off, it still looks cool.
I'm actually a big fan of these RTX remixes on older games or even games with more simpler graphics like quake RTX. I've noticed with new games a lot of the little lighting, and shadow details on objects is lost when a game's objects and textures are very detailed. In quake RTX you get to really see how detailed the lighting and shadows are with Ray tracing since the levels and objects consist of flat faces with simpler textures. You can see all the details of how light and colors bounce off objects and project onto other objects.
2004 was a huge jump in computer game graphics, Doom 3, Chronicles of Riddick, Farcry, Painkiller, and of course HL2...
Back then game textures although low res, had plenty of contrast which makes details noticeable from a distance. Most modern games with high res textures have minimal contrast and the detail is only noticeable when you get up close. Lethal Company with it's artstyle makes texture detail very noticeable. It's like when you take a picture IRL and put the "brilliance" slider all the way up in editing.
Don't forget its not just the RTX, they added new textures and re-meshed models (which is more important then the RTX IMO).
Great point, remaking every texture and making new models is a much more daring task than coding and implementing a bew lighting system into Source. Isit on source 2 by any chance?
the on thing that actually looked forward to the most than rtx. a somewhat rremastered look of it since they change and remake alot of the asset
The Rtx remix demo also show that it can upgrade the texture to 4k with AI, so I'm confused about whether the new mesh was done manually or by remix
@@kylelucien7632these were all done manually.
Check the rtx remix website, it has a function that upscale the texture with AI@@darkblade4104
Still holds up in literally ever aspect for a FPS campaign today. Legendary!
The flashlight needed to be it's own separate energy source like in episode 2, the other two feel antiquated compared to episode 2.
Are you perhaps smoking crack? Looks like there's a difference to me
Too old and not interesting anymore.
@@kyivcity152 dude shut up
That's quality art direction, the same with Portal
it's all foreplay when Valve knows what we really want.
I'd agree with you if this had anything to do with valve, tho I'm sure this is just a mod as portal with RTX was
That's right, Ricochet 2 baby
this isnt made by valve its by the fans bro
@@marlon.8051 Shoutout Orbifold studios!
hell yeah@@BrianPhillipsSKS
Can’t wait to be able to access my descendants genetic memories of Half Life 3 unveiled in the year 2739
Ah, yes. Install a Trojan horse within your DNA before you have kids. One of your descendants are going to be dumb enough to try to explore your genetic memories, then it will overlay your personality onto them.
Effective Immortality, all in the pursuit of Half life 3.
Assassins Creed Moment
Bro needs the reverse animus
@@jakespacepiratee3740 also kinda like Dune
@@Error-ke1tfsecure your soul
Half Life is what other games should aspire to be
That they won't get a 3?
Yes, to not get a third game.
Went through the main hl series end of 2022/beginning of last year (HL,HL2,E1,E2) as well as black Mesa.Probably one of the best gaming experiences I've had, looking forward to this remake
You act like this is an official project
@@Mittzys It's gotta be something
Half life is the series that should be considered the industry standard for all triple A games. It is amazing that the game this old can still hold up to this day with everything else
Hl1 is definitely not that
@@VEE0034
We got like, Black Mesa no sh*t
The game is already 20 years old and it’s still like “the first time”, you can’t take your eyes off it❤
It's nice to see updated visuals but it's surprising how little of a difference it seems to make, at least in this trailer. HL2 stands the test of time.
Makes a huge difference, divides your FPS by 6
Yeah, theres a lack of geometry and general detail on the level in relation to the increased resolution of the surfaces. That's something most community-made HD projects get wrong in any game... they increase the resolution but overall the game 'does not support' that much texture detail without true geometric detail to keep up with it, so it looks wrong and flat even tough it has insane resolutions on its textures
@@geoffdb8118lmao
@@mschulmeister6519explains why the gravity gun looks like plastic ig 😂
OFF: Can see game
ON: Can see shadows
Nice addon, hopefully it will work inside the glorious Half-Life 2 Virtual Reality MOD.
Just played through HL 2 ep1 ep2 in VR and would do it all again, at least it would stress my GPU this time
@@00Clive00I finished HL2 VR a few days ago and yes, my mid-class GPU had a lot of headroom even with 200% supersampling on a Reverb G2
man the old game held up kinda well no?
Yes
Yeah but this is reallu cool (Textures bases of hl:alyx + rtx)
This with the Half Life 2 VR mod, is going to look insane.
This will be amazing in VR 🔥🔥🔥
Is it gonna be ported to vr?
this aint gonna run even on an rtx 6969 in the year 2040
@@syncer1 It's the same team that made the VR mod, so possibly
The GOAT of singleplayer campaigns!
Cant wait to play this on midrange GPU for 15 fps like back in the day.
THE SHADOWS LINE UP WITH THE FEET! FINALLY!
That has bugged me so much while playing.
Can't wait for half-life 3 RTX trailer
coming in 62 years from now
no no 162 years @@kooln
@@DIN_NER*2162
cant wait to see all new ways my pc can burn!
Crazy how half life 2 still holds up to this day
sorta. but at the time, it was insane. looks like a 2010s game.
Ravenholm...one of the coolest missions in the history of gaming.
Remember seing HL2 for the first time as a teenager, this was photorealistic game in my opinion back then :D
This is probably how HL2’s graphics looked to people when it was brand new.
This is giving me flashbacks to watching the first tech demos / videos of Half-Life 2 and how they blew me away and here we are again, getting blown away.
Keep in mind this is a 2004 game and the visuals aged like fine wine unlike original half life
"Fine wine" being the operative term here
Bro who cares people still play doom to this day halflife's graphics are old that doesn't mean they're bad
Have you seen Half-Life RTX? That actually did wonders for that game
I'm playing the original Half Life rn and it's aged extremely well! Graphics aren't everything. The game has aged super well in a gameplay and story sense.
??? black mesa mod makes it look very nice
This is great for those that haven't played it yet like me.
what in the world are you waiting for
@@nobody_gtk No everyone likes old games and its fine
Don't expect this project to be finished for a long long time
@@thecreatorofallviolencebut the original graphics still looks amazing? It will still have the same gameplay and physics, just a new coat of paint
@@thecreatorofallviolence it's not that old and it still plays as well as any other modern game.
Hope its optimized well! I'd hate for it to meet the same fate as Portal RTX.
It probably will be, given that Half-Life maps are a lot larger and active compare to test chambers
I've never had any problems with Portal RTX tbh
@@b4ttlemast0r If your have $500-1000+ GPU of 4000 series with frame generation, of course you didn't.
Portal RTX is optimized really well. It’s a tech demo for path-tracing
It really isn't. It doesn't run terrible but there are other RTX games than are WAY better optimized than this@@bitbat9
1080p video to show dlss ray traicing and etc. interesting choice. What a professionals worked at that video
Half life become such a legend that Valve is afraid to make a new game and somehow disappoints...
When valve announces Half-Life 3 the hype around it will just promote itself
It’s must be legally impossible to make half life 3! I see no other way
Unless it was in VR like half life alyx
Absolutely not. It’s always been legally possible.
@@TV-jf7nl /whoosh
@@TV-jf7nlit was a joke bro
@@TV-jf7nldid you heard that?
My computer seeing this (and approaching 100 degrees Celsius): don’t even think about it
If there is a game that ever deserved a remake, it would be this one. But this will do piggly, this will do.
looks better without rtx tbh
0:29 if you would show that without lables to a random person, the Off version would win imo
This is more of a passionate remaster than just an rtx port
It's remarkable how well half life 2 has aged
On PC
Maybe graphically it aged well but the gameplay hasn't aged well. The gunplay isn't great and most of the puzzles are just "look, we have a physics engine, try stacking some blocks and be amazed!", which granted at the time was amazing, but today not so much.
@H.Collector The story and gameplay are fantastic. Shut up.
@@H.Collector There are fps games that have better basic (non-moded) shooting combat against human or humanlike creatures, but the Strider, Gunship and Hunter-Chopper figths, to name a few, are unique and very well done, and so are the atmosphere, level design, soundtrack, animations and more.
@@H.Collector That "HL2 is just a physics showcase" argument comes from Halo/Cod fans who can't handle the fact that HL2 is better than the game they are emotionally attached to. Physics puzzles are like 2% of the game at maximum, and they are never feel tedious but instead they give a nice little break from action. What else should there be instead? Looking for a key to open a door? That is booring.
0:49 yesss new smg sounds ❤
1080p 40 FPS on the new RTX 4080 Super (with DLSS on)
but if you take the pills that come with the graphics card and turn on frame generation it runs realy stable (60 fps 140p upscaled)
this plus MMod would make the ultimate Half-Life 2 experience
Its cute how the fandom keeps the half life train going even though Valve abandoned it long ago.
I’m getting a new 4K RTX gaming PC soon so this will be fun to play! Looks great!
BRING IT TO CONSOLES!!
pc al knk
@@thatsdai7 PC var, mesele o değil 😄
half life 2 doesn't need any remake or remaster
it still looks great and will be looking so forever
Will this also include the episodes?
pretty sure this is the same team who made the VR mod so probably not on launch but maybe a little bit after it comes out
Nobody
Nice map choice for trailer
Wishlist 😊
crazy how much this game holds up graphically
Just make HL3 already.
This is not a game of Valve. At least they are not developing it.
Can't wait to play half life 3 RTX trailer in 3023
0:30 - no... that grass doesn't look better... that should be changed... ._.
They were showcasing blur reduction, with new ray reconstruction methods.
We don't care about RTX, we just want Half-Life 3!!!
when?
ok FINE maybe occasionally we DO go to Ravenholm...
The remastered assets do far more for this than the ray tracing does.
"We don't go to Ravenholm, Master."
"Not if you're a Jedi...or lack RTX"
My PC barely handled the first RTX Remix
who cares about RTX when you have Black Mesa remake...
This is just Half life 2: definitive edition
at least its a free mod right
Half-Life never dies, it lives on without Valve.
We're getting gta6 before half life 3 that's craaaaazyyyyy yooooo
garry's mod rtx
indeed
This is what the Cinematic Mod should have been.
Path Tracing and PT capable hardware wasn't available at the time genius.
@@BryceCzirr-jz7ju no but weird proportions and detailed genitals were?
Can smell the smoke coming off my computer just looking at this.
So when is RTX L4D happening??
It has no DX7 pipeline so probably never.
Imagine working and using a huge amount of time on a remaster of a 20 year old game instead of making the most frequently asked sequel in gaming history.
alongside forcing an extremely hyped fan project of said series to shut down just because "wahhh we dont wanna lose money to a fangame!!!"
in fairness this isnt valve making this its nivida (a popular graphics card company)
One of the best games is being Abandoned
2024 will be very intersting for half life fans ;)
Half-Life 3 confirmed? 😅
Not funny at all😢
@@alexprost7505 what💀
@@themaik882deaf9 it's been a running joke for almost what, nearly twenty years, that Valve would make the third half life game and yet they never have. And it got to such a point that people made conspiracy theories, made all these connections based on tidbits of information, about how a third one was coming. Hence the running (clearly no longer funny) joke, of "Half-Life 3 confirmed?"
@@Fightforthelost yes, ture
Yes please! Looks great guys, fantastic work!
RTX우려먹지말고 3편을 만들라고!
I'm just now playing black mesa after following is development since 2012. LFG, IM READY TO PLAY THIS. IT LOOKS HAUNTING!
Not impressed. While technically it's superior and the assets are modernized, the old lighting has way more character.
This soundtrack is so great!
Please come out for ps5
maybe if they ever do an orange box 2 lol
just noticed how dope the guns look
What comes after 2 Valve?
Valve, “RTX???”
This has pretty much nothing to do with Valve.
Because this absolutely totally went well the last time
Found the AMD owner
If this is gonna be like Portal RTX its gonna run horribly
That game uses full path tracing. It's meant to be a demo for 4000 series cards in a way.
Cool, every shot without RTX looks better.
Well, at least changes are actually visible unlike some remasters.
Orbifold Studios is a sick name. Love the logo too.
Can't wait to see the models for alyx and barney
About time they made the HL: 2 one
this video should've been 4K and you know it :)
this boutta be less optimized than Portal RTX lmao
FINALLY MORE STUFF ON THIS
this looks more like Half-Life 2 Source 2 than just with RTX
The "Off" looked better in some examples.
I'll definitely give the game a revisit with this... BUT YO HALF LIFE 3 PLZ
Remember they also did this presentation for The Day Before.
so?
Welcome to the RTX mark 4.Have a very safe day.
oh no, another reason to play through Half Life 2 again
Cant wait for the Fsr 3 mod for this
nice another reason to do a another playthrough of half-life 2!! :D
Hopefully it's compatible with MMOD. Wich make the game so much fun.
This is more fire than my pc trying to run it🔥🔥🔥
1080p videos in 2024... really??
Ok cool. But we need this for a multiplayer game like LFD2.
Half Life is just better tho
hopefully Valve doesn't force them to take it down we already saw what they did with TF2 source 2 and TF2 VR (the portal game had something to do with Nintendo itself so that's self explanatory)