And Medal of Honor is coming as well. Now publishers need the gamers to show up and buy the games so they can keep making them. This is really the next generation of gaming. New experiences, not only better graphics.
“attention ground units, anticitzen reported in this community, code lock, cauterize, stabilize.” hearing the classic overwatch voice again gives me chills. 3:16
@@DrAnimePhD Honestly I was more mesmerized by the ai of the plant itself rather than the xen grenades, I mean, it's just classic grenades with some fancy colors, doesn't beat snarks !
It's seems this time....it took a bit more time, so, I do apologize for that ms Vance, but do realize, things such as these cannot be rushed as you know.
the ultimate shocker would be if valve had developed other games along with this such as portal, l4d, etc and dropped it all at once as a surprise as like a new orange box.
Well. They ARE developing 3 new “full” games, and Half-Life Alyx is one of them. I wonder what the other two will be... :) Left 4 Dead and Portal could indeed be viable candidates.
I THOUGHT EXACTLY THE SAME! The design of that place near the elevator and all the moving panels... and the sound! It's just all so portal-like! and I think it's portal supposed to be kinda like half life, no the other way around! maybe besides what valve said in the past, the portal and half life stuff will finally cross a bit more :o
@@tuckeredout2887 A Rattman VR game could be nice. Maybe not as a full game but as a little experience where you crawl thorugh the backstage areas of Aperture
@@unluckyfriedkitten4808 Creating stereoscopic 3d and hi jacking your vision exactly the way your brain sees the world with 2 little stupid eye balls strapped to your skull
And mosto f us can not play it bceause we dont have vr headsets and will never get one! vr destroys our brain and health i will never touch vr and most people will not!
Especially the part where the door explodes in the wrong direction. Absolutely fantastic. Or maybe it's an imploding grenade, and the door did explode in the right direction. What do I know.
@@TheHarcipoter I also found it odd that the door landed there and then I wondered, if it was also possible to no throw the "grenade" through the gap but to have it explode on Alyx's side.
@@Nico-fl3tq I'm really hoping it's an imploding grenade and it "sucked in" the door. Otherwise, I'm going to be very disappointed that, if they chose that evident mistake as something to show in the trailer, what amount of herp-derp are we going to see in the game?
This is basically Valve testing the waters, whilst also training themselves in what makes a good VR game and how to make them. Provided Alyx is successfully received and VR continues to grow, you can bet anything they'll quadruple the budget and go all out on HL3 afterwards. They want HL3 to be the best it can possibly be, and to release into a good environment where topics like "Why VR? Should be desktop" no longer have any traction. HL:Alyx is them shaking off the dust and doing their warm up stretches.
And mosto f us can not play it bceause we dont have vr headsets and will never get one! vr destroys our brain and health i will never touch vr and most people will not!
Fuuuck, seeing all the Xen-Lights, and other Xen """plants"'" make a return is so satisfying, coming from someone who used to be almost obsessive about Xen wildlife.
As beautiful as Black Mesa's Xen areas are, this game really does a far better job of bringinv the *Half-life* Xen look and feel to a modern generation
@@viliussmproductions The fleshy moss and weird fungi shown on this video are still present in Black Mesa's Xen, they just live along many other lifeforms, which makes Xen so much more interesting. We can assume that all the weird alien goo is invasive, thus it infested many places on Earth after teleported creatures carried the spores on them. The fancy glowing plants however are not as aggressive, so they stayed in Xen
@@msfritz9158 I honestly don't get the same vibe in Black Mesa's Xen that I got in Half-life's. Still, great job on that, but it just doesn't feel right.
That siren sound effect is being used by the Valve Index Availability Checker, so hearing it gave me a minor heart attack. I thought the Valve Index had just come back in stock.
@@jamesbryan287 : Yeah, the VIAC can be found at this website, which also links to their Discord server. valveindex.ua.ms/ Along with communication, the Discord server also acts as an "In Stock" alarm. And for redundancy, you can also follow @BotValve on Twitter.
@@Pikminiman I don't really get the point of that site. Anyone and everyone who has entered the email waiting list will get their Index before the store page itself will ever list as being "in stock" for immediate orders. Anyone waiting for some website to sound an alarm tone, is only wilfully letting everyone else get theirs first. For everyone who has placed an email reservation, it's meaningless. '-'
@@UnknownSquid : Obviously, I signed up for the official email notification from Valve as well. Can't be too redundant, though, when there's this little supply and this much demand.
It’s really interesting to see this section was reworked to be shown with 0 spoilers just for this video. The actual level has an entire extra section to play through before reaching the elevator.
@@GogosUTube but never before there was a sequel/prequel or somerhing which took the role of a speaking character from HL universe. So thats what he wanted to say i guess and it makes sense
@@thatoneguy2023 bruh every character "spoke" to npcs by using "E" but you would never hear it. So you can say characters never spoke when you cant hear it
@@Dirk1337 That is true now that I think about it. Except, what if Gordon would just intensely stare down the npcs when you press e? And they only try to make small talk as an attempt to break the awkwardness?
@@bobbybaeX If you haven't already, go to the store page and enter the email waiting list. Everyone on that list is shipped their Index in the order they entered the list. The store pages themselves will not be back in stock until those lists are empty. If you're waiting for a "back in stock" notice, then you're simply waiting to be last in line.
Talk about revolutionising the game industry, you have managed to make me buy a vr headset for the sole reason to play half-life alyx! A comedic and terrorising game franchise with the same old fashion of getting the best graphics in their times!
I literally just finished building a new pc almost entirely for this game. Now I just have to muster up the cash to get the headset if it’ll ever be available again 😂
When Ellen McLain came up I audibly cheered. I LOVE the overwatch voice it always gives me the heebie jeebies. Feels so 1984 When I heard it it was the moment I went "holy shit... this is half life"
RIGHT?! I'm so glad Valve brought her back to do more lines for this game! I can't wait to hear them. I've been using HL2 audio files and music for my ringtones, message alerts, and voicemail alert for like 10 YEARS. Can't wait to get some new ones. lol
I love how the panel she interfaces with as soon as the video starts has its own boot-up logo and jingle. Its the little details that make the combine seem even more real this time around.
@@VeryDAWD XD OK sorry then XD thought its just because of the overwatch game ;) never got into overwatch because to me its *€&"'.... But i do know this voice from hl2 so i was kinda confused but now i See what overwatch means... Im german XD
God dang, hearing the Overwatch voice and sirens just now hit me with a wave of nostalgia. These three weeks until the release suddenly seem worse than the long wait for a new hl game.
I like how we were led to believe that the Gravity Gun was an impressive piece of technology when they already miniaturized it and turned it into futuristic space gloves.
The main gravity gun feature was it's ability to lift, move and accelerate very heavy objects. The gloves might have been the low power prototype. The gameplay I've seen so far, the gloves are only able to accelerate light weight objects. Remember that the overcharged gravity gun was strong enough to rip consoles out of the citadelle walls.
@@wm1573 me too, but unfortunately, I think valve will be releasing games only when those games mean a technological innovation :/ which makes a sequel to EP2 as we've played before kinda unlikely imho
Hearing those classic sound effects (the grenade activation, the siren and the barnacle) is just so nostalgia inducing ;). Also thank you Valve for bringing this franchise back, it needed a return for ages.
It's fascinating to see Xen flora has established itself on earth, you never saw any hint of it in Half-Life 2 aside from the barnacles, the only time something similar was seen in game was in opposing force, where the fungus and light stalks are seen growing in zombie infested patches within Black Mesa.
It's safe to assume that by the time of HL2 the Combine managed to 'sterilize' the environment, leaving just barnacles and headcrabs behind, but of course they manage to learn how to weaponize headcrabs from the quarantining and spread the infestation to Ravenholm. City 17 is safe until the uprising takes place, then it becomes taken over by Xen once more.
The animation still looks like an explosion, and I think I saw debris and stuff heading towards the player, it looks like the door just teleports there, maybe it assumes you don’t throw it over? Either that or it is an implosion and it doesn’t look like it.
Hopwire grenade, possibly has become an implosion grenade, or the area is so small/the nearby headcrab sets it off right away that we dont see the wires.
Just imagine.... Alyx:deathmatch ^^ What i really like is how they recycled the old sounds. This feels really as you go BACK to that universe. After over 10 years...
Interesting how City 17 is infested with Xen flora and fauna in HLA, while in HL2 the urban environment is "safer" and seemingly contained, i'm guessing it's because the Citadel is still being constructed and the defenses against the creatures are not yet put in place, hence it's basically under quarantine, the Combine have to deal with the Resistance AND Xen threat, interesting background detail!
They will release a SDK for HL:Alyx, but no general purpose one yet (that will likely come with HL3, that comes after this) so you will be able to mod HL:Alyx into something, but cant make new standalone game with it just yet.
Smooth motion definitely looks more immersive when you see gameplay footage. I guess actually *playing* the game yourself will be a different experience altogether though
Depends on your ability to stand it. Personally I hate teleporting in vr, it's very disconcerting. Smooth motion is more immersive, and makes tracking things easier.
1:09 something incredibly unsettling about the headcrab zombies but more specifically the zombine creatures was the fact that they would say lines that normal humans would and cry out as if they are in extreme pain. zombines would say lines like "necrotics in bound" "sector is not secure" "biotic overrun" as if their microphone was still on recording their speech. it made you realise that the host is infact still alive and barely functioning and that specifically the combine soldier zombies are desperately trying to warn their friends that they are under the headcrab's influence. I surely hope they add this unnerving feature into the game. Im already excited already anyway
march is 03 of the year... its 3 march... gameplay footage is made out of 3 parts... dude i promised that i wont do it anymore but HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED
no one outpizzas the hut. trust me. I've tried. I've tried so hard to outpizza the hut and it cost me everything. no matter how much cheese, how many cheap toppings i put on my pizza i always got outpizza'd by the hut. No matter how much my pizzas tasted like plastic, pizza hut pizzas always tasted even more synthetic. for months I've been seveely depressed trying to figure it out. it all started as a little hobby, a bit of a goof - "can i outpizza the hut?" but it soon became my obsession and eventually my downfall. the fateful moment i had that thought was the moment I doomed myself. They must have some sort of secret ingredient i thought. after trying literally everything from the supermarket and not coming close to the plasticy taste of the hut i actually went insane. i started clawing at my skin, scratching my face for hours with my long sharp fingernails. at first it was almost unnoticeable but i knew i could not hide the scars forever, soon enough karen would find out. I needed to put an end to this but the only way to do that would be to outpizza the hut, as i knew. so i tried one last ingredient. i cut off a piece of my own arm and put it on the pizza. i added the shittiest sauce i had and cheese made from 50 percent plastic and 50 percent wood chips and baked it real good. the taste was almost exactly like pizza hut but the meat wasn't tender enough. i knew it had to be younger meat. from someone much younger than me. i knew what had to be done. there was a moment of doubt as i grabbed the knife and went into holly's room, up to her little crib while karen was at work. but i knew what had to be done. I'd finally done it. I've created a pizza even shittier than pizza hut or so I thought. but it still wasn't horrible enough. when karen came home and saw what i had done she freaked out. i truly loved karen just like i loved holly but she was going to call the cops on me and I couldn't let my pizza hut mission be compromised by her. they were only my first two victims. i went on to sacrifice many more in the name of pizza perfection before i got caught. Now i am sitting here on death row, my execution is only hours away. Do you want to guess what I'll choose as my last meal?
This is amazing guys! So happy to see the stylizations of the old games art brought to modern standards so faithfully! Spot on. Game mechanics and physics both look solid. Thank you for reminding everyone that linear story-driven games are still strong and here to stay!
This game is amazing. All the detail is beautiful and I love when games have areas that can't be seen that are ruined and destroyed and also the broken aesthetic of everything is so beautiful.
Half Life is the most surreal and fascinating experience I've ever had with gaming, it was the first full length Video game I played, it came bundled with my PC , I got my hands on it in 2003 which is pretty late after release because I lived in a small town in India, it took me a while to finish it, gave up on it multiple times, but once I got out of the Office Complex it was a thrilling ride
this is the future of gaming right here. hopefully this inspires big devs to publish triple a vr games because this looks insanely good, cannot wait to pick it up.
More Half life games coming in the future Source: www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-03-04-valve-we-absolutely-see-half-life-alyx-as-our-return-to-this-world-not-the-end-of-it \
This already looks awesome in flat version, what will it be in VR ?!! I can't imagine the reaction of the people playing VR for the first time with this game :o
It does, doesn't it? it's got a similar synthy flair to it. And it looks just gorgeous, there's a real contrast between this and HL2 for sure. Like Portal 1 and Portal 2. The music is seemingly a mix between Kelly Bailey and Mike Morasky, that alien-y horror aspect and more dynamic fluidity to the composition. I'm very impressed! This is a huge success! I am making a note here!
These videos look like those cool early demo trailers that you would see to show off a new game, but this is actually just straight gameplay!! I'm so excited to play in a few weeks!
![PATIENT ZERO - A Half-Life Short [S2FM]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Bm3le9s3-A/mqdefault.jpg)
The classic sounds of the city makes this gameplay soo nostalgic
Hmm
Prepare for the unforeseen consequences ...
Two Gmen in the same comment thread... shits bout to get wild
Hmh.
This is like the VNN podcast with the G Man
This is exactly what vr needs, no more small "test" games, but a full on large game. Thank you valve!
That's the only real thing missing from vr right now. There's lots of neat tech demos and set pieces but few good 'games'.
@MrClassiccarenthusia and the folks and oculus had some pretty badass games like Robocalls Recall
And Medal of Honor is coming as well. Now publishers need the gamers to show up and buy the games so they can keep making them. This is really the next generation of gaming. New experiences, not only better graphics.
2020 had the first real games for VR. Gorn got a full release, Stormlands and Asgard's Wrath, and of course Boneworks.
@@arnopisspot5115 vr makes me sick and im not the only one so thats already some percent of people that cany even play this games
Alyx - "im really starting to think i shouldnt be breathing this stuff."
Gordon in XEN - " *BREATHING IS BREATHING* "
Xen in black mesa was a jungle not so bad, but the factory part? Nah..
Well, he was wearing a Hazardous Environments suit, so...
@@Jamesharveycomics no helmet thought
@@PHoMi126 GODDAMNIT, KLEINER!
@@PHoMi126 a dev mentioned that he does wear a helmet and thats why you see the HUD at the start of hl1
"Maybe breathe less"
great idea
yoooooo
@@eltiolavara9 YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
KIRYU CHAN
@Hot choclolate she's in the name of the game of course it's her
bruh moment
This feels like I just watched a cinematic trailer, I cannot comprehend this being gameplay
It's really incredible
yep, no consoles port to hold it back...
Same. I'm really curious to see what this'll be like for real once the let's play's start coming in.
@@rcadenow7543 be sure this game will be on ps5 and the next xbox... and this time valve will make sure the quality is just as pc
This is seriously a level ahead of all the games ever been, for now.
“attention ground units, anticitzen reported in this community, code lock, cauterize, stabilize.” hearing the classic overwatch voice again gives me chills. 3:16
Hearing the combines' overwatch voice again gave me chills. It's the same voiceline as in HL2 but still!
Nope, it's remade! They took the time to remake the voice lines and they still sound extremely similar! I love this
Aaaaagh same
@@InitiateDee it's the same one. I really hope it's just temp audio.
@@InitiateDee yeah... no it's the same audio just reused
@@KikisCheetos1310 And why shouldn't they use the same audio? In-universe, it's a computerized voice.
The Overwatch voice and siren... chills.
u ar gay now
yoo, its Shrugtal!!
That siren was a massive throwback. Hearing it in a brand new game was amazing.
I straight up froze, overcome by nostalgia.
Overwatch is garbage
Imagine seeing valve guy turning his head in VR.
Valve's logo in VR already exists. You can boot up The Lab and you'll see it -- it's a room with a bunch of red valves everywhere.
Zoomer generation would never get it
Fucking terrifying lmao
@@kronniichiwa9909 I'm a zoomer and o played the half life games. You being old doesn't mean I can't play half life. Get over it
@@kronniichiwa9909 I have played all of the half life games and portal games, please shut up
0:43 the sound of that machinery ramping up gives me chills.
That's a good thing right...?
I have flasbacks cuz its sound like Stuka siren to me
@@deadtech28 Well, it inspires that the threat of the invaders is real and overpowering.
At least it’s not a houndeye or fast headcrab zombie
Gave me some portal 2 vibes...
3:18. Ahh that woman voice coming from far away is so chilling. It reminds of Half life 2
pretty sure the voicelines are straight from HL2
@@lereff1382 ye
They are. Kinda disappointed at that, ngl
@@schwebschweb No need to change that is perfect.
@@schwebschweb no
Can't imagine speedrunners playing this in VR bunnyhopping at 300mph
Dont think u can jump
go watch Boneworks speedruns, it's totally possible.
You're underestimating speedrunners xd
Half Life: Alyx Vomit%
bind_mwheel_up +jump
bind_mwheel_down +jump
Xen biomass, now THAT is something i thought never seeing again!
Frying Pan What did you think of the new Xen Grenade?
@@DrAnimePhD Honestly I was more mesmerized by the ai of the plant itself rather than the xen grenades, I mean, it's just classic grenades with some fancy colors, doesn't beat snarks !
@Makhi Makharadze i'm guessing it just pulls back if you're too slow to pick it. Nothing huge but nothinh scripted either
I think the grenade creates an implosion the way the door was pushed back onto the headcrab
Frying Pan I know right???
*Time?*
*Is it really that time again?*
Yes!
*Its seems as if you only just arrived*
It's seems this time....it took a bit more time, so, I do apologize for that ms Vance, but do realize, things such as these cannot be rushed as you know.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't contemplate them... but these *are* extraordinary times.
Time Mrs.Freeman
Is that time again?
the ultimate shocker would be if valve had developed other games along with this such as portal, l4d, etc and dropped it all at once as a surprise as like a new orange box.
Or at least a new left 4 dead. The multiplayer is laggy as hell anymore and id love to see some dedicated servers and stuff like that.
omg portal in vr would be making so much people sick xD
Well. They ARE developing 3 new “full” games, and Half-Life Alyx is one of them. I wonder what the other two will be... :)
Left 4 Dead and Portal could indeed be viable candidates.
The greenish brown box
l4d in vr would be pretty horrifying
"Attention Protection Team: status evasion in progress in this community. Respond, isolate, inquire."
"We remember the Freeman. We are coterminous."
Soo nostalgic !
Hearing Ellen McLain
's voice as Overwatch warms my heart. And brings chills to my spine!
edit:spelling
I swear after this game going "Portal: Caroline".
where gordan freeman????
@xxx killer portal - Rattman
I THOUGHT EXACTLY THE SAME! The design of that place near the elevator and all the moving panels... and the sound! It's just all so portal-like! and I think it's portal supposed to be kinda like half life, no the other way around! maybe besides what valve said in the past, the portal and half life stuff will finally cross a bit more :o
you become gladois and test on the remaining test subjects until you hit chell as the final one
@@tuckeredout2887 A Rattman VR game could be nice. Maybe not as a full game but as a little experience where you crawl thorugh the backstage areas of Aperture
Holy shitballs is this polished. Wel done Valve!!!
Community will be able to make levels like this too!
@@aselwyn1 You can walk around. The player in some of the videos just chose to use teleport locomotion.
@@aselwyn1 Look on the website. It says that there are 3 types of movement. Smooth locomotion (walking), instant teleporting, and slide teleporting.
Actually theres more than 2 ways of locomation, its pretty neat really.
@@hmrdev-billnye8166 I can't wait to see Half life Alyx modded to the point of Gmod.
It’s mad really 16 years ago we were shooting combine on a screen now we’re killing em ourselves lol
We weren’t ourselves when killing them before?
...on 2 little screens strapped to our face!
@@unluckyfriedkitten4808 Creating stereoscopic 3d and hi jacking your vision exactly the way your brain sees the world with 2 little stupid eye balls strapped to your skull
And mosto f us can not play it bceause we dont have vr headsets and will never get one! vr destroys our brain and health i will never touch vr and most people will not!
Guys ps5 reveal!!!
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This is Valve at their best. The gameplay, level design, sound design, game mechanics, voice acting, and graphics all top notch.
Especially the part where the door explodes in the wrong direction. Absolutely fantastic. Or maybe it's an imploding grenade, and the door did explode in the right direction. What do I know.
@@TheHarcipoter I also found it odd that the door landed there and then I wondered, if it was also possible to no throw the "grenade" through the gap but to have it explode on Alyx's side.
@@Nico-fl3tq I'm really hoping it's an imploding grenade and it "sucked in" the door. Otherwise, I'm going to be very disappointed that, if they chose that evident mistake as something to show in the trailer, what amount of herp-derp are we going to see in the game?
@Andycoulloun 1 That would be very untypical for Valve, who usually care about such details.
Xen grenades from another planet don't behave the same way as your military grenades!!
Honestly, I don’t care if it’s not “Half-Life 3” at this point, I’m just happy Valve is at least making games again.
This is basically Valve testing the waters, whilst also training themselves in what makes a good VR game and how to make them. Provided Alyx is successfully received and VR continues to grow, you can bet anything they'll quadruple the budget and go all out on HL3 afterwards. They want HL3 to be the best it can possibly be, and to release into a good environment where topics like "Why VR? Should be desktop" no longer have any traction. HL:Alyx is them shaking off the dust and doing their warm up stretches.
And mosto f us can not play it bceause we dont have vr headsets and will never get one! vr destroys our brain and health i will never touch vr and most people will not!
@@shredderorokusaki3013 man, this is the same shit people used to say about PC (and still saying to some extend) and even TVs back in the days...
@@gavial1448 Next thing they're going to say is that carrots are good for eyesight and that GTA turns gamers into criminals.
Philociraptor 13 this is better than half life 3 because its innovative as fuck and is way more interactive
Fuuuck, seeing all the Xen-Lights, and other Xen """plants"'" make a return is so satisfying, coming from someone who used to be almost obsessive about Xen wildlife.
You should watch Black Mesa Xen too
Oh yea Xen in Black Mesa is like a game for itselft!
As beautiful as Black Mesa's Xen areas are, this game really does a far better job of bringinv the *Half-life* Xen look and feel to a modern generation
@@viliussmproductions The fleshy moss and weird fungi shown on this video are still present in Black Mesa's Xen, they just live along many other lifeforms, which makes Xen so much more interesting. We can assume that all the weird alien goo is invasive, thus it infested many places on Earth after teleported creatures carried the spores on them. The fancy glowing plants however are not as aggressive, so they stayed in Xen
@@msfritz9158 I honestly don't get the same vibe in Black Mesa's Xen that I got in Half-life's. Still, great job on that, but it just doesn't feel right.
In this game you play Alyx because Gordon's voice actor sadly died
SILENCE IS NEVER DEAD
Gorden bless
Ironic since they switched up Alyx's voice for really no reason
Gordon didn't speak at all lol
Pepehands
That siren sound effect is being used by the Valve Index Availability Checker, so hearing it gave me a minor heart attack. I thought the Valve Index had just come back in stock.
That's a thing? Interesting
@Eric Miret : Sure. It's at 3:45
@@jamesbryan287 : Yeah, the VIAC can be found at this website, which also links to their Discord server.
valveindex.ua.ms/
Along with communication, the Discord server also acts as an "In Stock" alarm. And for redundancy, you can also follow @BotValve on Twitter.
@@Pikminiman I don't really get the point of that site. Anyone and everyone who has entered the email waiting list will get their Index before the store page itself will ever list as being "in stock" for immediate orders. Anyone waiting for some website to sound an alarm tone, is only wilfully letting everyone else get theirs first. For everyone who has placed an email reservation, it's meaningless. '-'
@@UnknownSquid : Obviously, I signed up for the official email notification from Valve as well. Can't be too redundant, though, when there's this little supply and this much demand.
I came, I saw, I came.
2:56
The time has come and so have I.
And break the law
Not the only one
I lost
It’s really interesting to see this section was reworked to be shown with 0 spoilers just for this video. The actual level has an entire extra section to play through before reaching the elevator.
For the first time in Half-Life, the protagonist speak.
Eric Miret Alyx was not the protagonist in the other games, you played as Gordon Freeman
@@GogosUTube but never before there was a sequel/prequel or somerhing which took the role of a speaking character from HL universe. So thats what he wanted to say i guess and it makes sense
Barney spoke to npcs in blue shift, but only the player couldn't hear him
@@thatoneguy2023 bruh every character "spoke" to npcs by using "E" but you would never hear it. So you can say characters never spoke when you cant hear it
@@Dirk1337 That is true now that I think about it. Except, what if Gordon would just intensely stare down the npcs when you press e? And they only try to make small talk as an attempt to break the awkwardness?
Welp, looks like I'm going to buy a VR headset.
So do i essentially.
do it, best money you'll ever spend on gaming
I did back in 2015 man, regrets thus far are at zero percent.
Same but i only want the valve index, so im waiting for them to restock
@@bobbybaeX If you haven't already, go to the store page and enter the email waiting list. Everyone on that list is shipped their Index in the order they entered the list. The store pages themselves will not be back in stock until those lists are empty. If you're waiting for a "back in stock" notice, then you're simply waiting to be last in line.
This looks like what I remember Half life 2 was like when I first played it.
Tabbarn half life 1 for me gave me the wow factor when I played it for the first time as well
SquatDeadPress lol
I love how nonchalant these uploads are.
Honestly though
Valve does what valve does.
Talk about revolutionising the game industry, you have managed to make me buy a vr headset for the sole reason to play half-life alyx! A comedic and terrorising game franchise with the same old fashion of getting the best graphics in their times!
I think they made soo many people buy a VR
I literally just finished building a new pc almost entirely for this game. Now I just have to muster up the cash to get the headset if it’ll ever be available again 😂
Hopefully I’ll actually be able to get an index within the next few months
You should try boneworks it's really a ground breaking game
I wont pay £500 to play 1 game and watch VR porn. Or will I?
Hearing that Overwatch voice was like hearing an old friend
LOCK, CAUTERIZE, STABILIZE
Still looks and sounds lame. Like a lost HL2 expansion from 2010.
@@pistool1 What? This has got to be some kind of trolling for attention. The game looks and sounds incredibly good.
@@pistool1 Sounds like you're stating a hard opinion as fact :)
@@gammainc1666 it's already implied as an opinion...
Its going to be so weird to play as a talking character in a single-player Valve game.
Well, characters talked in BS and OF... You just did not hear them.
You ever played L4D?
@@elhamimusliu9441 that's mainly multiplayer
@@elhamimusliu9441 L4D is multiplayer you dimwit.
@@Flopo it's single player aswell.
When Ellen McLain came up I audibly cheered. I LOVE the overwatch voice it always gives me the heebie jeebies. Feels so 1984
When I heard it it was the moment I went "holy shit... this is half life"
RIGHT?!
I'm so glad Valve brought her back to do more lines for this game! I can't wait to hear them.
I've been using HL2 audio files and music for my ringtones, message alerts, and voicemail alert for like 10 YEARS. Can't wait to get some new ones. lol
She sounds just like she did in 2004!
I'm pretty sure it's the exact same audio from Half-Life 2.
And not care they bring New va for Alyx? Awful voice.
@@etheth3134 I think this Alyx is younger than previous Alyx.
Valve: 3
Everyone: Impossible.
more like:
valve: 3n't
And...
*WHERE'S OUR HEAVY UPDATE?*
This is a 2.7 Game a prequel
how valve count:
1
2
ep.1
ep.2
Alyx
@Darth Jar Jar "Close your eyes honey!" in the trailer.
Hmm....
I love how the panel she interfaces with as soon as the video starts has its own boot-up logo and jingle. Its the little details that make the combine seem even more real this time around.
Definitely. Adds a bit more 'life' to Half-Life.
UniversalUniOS
Hearing the overwatch voice again gave me chills
Overwatch is garbage
Jay Jo bro u dumb u ever played hl2 the overwatch voice is the woman who says alert and stuff
@@VeryDAWD XD OK sorry then XD thought its just because of the overwatch game ;) never got into overwatch because to me its *€&"'.... But i do know this voice from hl2 so i was kinda confused but now i See what overwatch means... Im german XD
@@VeryDAWD and thanks for the cool reaction :)
@@jayjo0685 You never played it because it's shit? Then how do you know it's shit if you never played it? Some people, man...
2:18 "i'm really starting to think I shouldn't be breathing this stuff"
this quote reminds me of freeman's mind
walking around crowded areas nowadays
Alyx's Mind
The nostalgia, it’s breathing into me...
"Maybe breathe less.."
@@clone751 You are a comedic genius, take this like.
2:30 The weird ball things on 4 legs are back from half life 1! as well as some other plants!
Great spot!! Haven't seen anyone else mention it! This trailer is my favourite - so much worldbuilding / stuff going on :D
Loool true
I think they are elder headcrabs
Its Xen Fungus
Like Eza Nora says, its XEN fungus, so really what you should focus on is that XEN is back.
god bless lord gaben
lmao no likes
Hello Gabriel
God dang, hearing the Overwatch voice and sirens just now hit me with a wave of nostalgia. These three weeks until the release suddenly seem worse than the long wait for a new hl game.
that overwatch voice and siren reminds me of the first little bits in half life 2, making your way through city 17 to Kleiner's lab
Ahh yess
I’m not even that obsessed with HL as some are and I am still realizing how important and exciting this game is. Super excited.
I like how we were led to believe that the Gravity Gun was an impressive piece of technology when they already miniaturized it and turned it into futuristic space gloves.
Justin Bailey but you can’t punt though
The main gravity gun feature was it's ability to lift, move and accelerate very heavy objects. The gloves might have been the low power prototype. The gameplay I've seen so far, the gloves are only able to accelerate light weight objects. Remember that the overcharged gravity gun was strong enough to rip consoles out of the citadelle walls.
GermanTopGameTV ...to RIP consoles...
@@GermanTopGameTV The overcharged gravity gun could do more than rip consoles out of walls, lol. Remember the elevator in Episode 1?
In before they use the tech of the grabbity gloves to make the gravity gun, because G-Man tells Eli that will be needed later.
Guys it's been soo long, we're actually getting a NEW Half-Life game THIS MONTH!!!
It's insane but I'm still waiting on a new game from valve which isn't VR. This is amazing don't get me wrong but I really don't care about vr.
@@wm1573 me too, but unfortunately, I think valve will be releasing games only when those games mean a technological innovation :/ which makes a sequel to EP2 as we've played before kinda unlikely imho
Actually the thoughts of so many of us. Unreal.
@@wm1573 valve are only interested in shifting their index units, so good chance any future Half Life games will be in VR too.
@@Masta200 sadly yea
Hearing those classic sound effects (the grenade activation, the siren and the barnacle) is just so nostalgia inducing ;). Also thank you Valve for bringing this franchise back, it needed a return for ages.
The nostalgia of the Combine alarm.
Me: "It's all coming together"
They kept the classic feel with new gameplay and graphics.
This is a wholesome company.
It's fascinating to see Xen flora has established itself on earth, you never saw any hint of it in Half-Life 2 aside from the barnacles, the only time something similar was seen in game was in opposing force, where the fungus and light stalks are seen growing in zombie infested patches within Black Mesa.
It's safe to assume that by the time of HL2 the Combine managed to 'sterilize' the environment, leaving just barnacles and headcrabs behind, but of course they manage to learn how to weaponize headcrabs from the quarantining and spread the infestation to Ravenholm. City 17 is safe until the uprising takes place, then it becomes taken over by Xen once more.
I’ve just started half life 2 and omg I’m so glad I’ve gotten into half life in time for this!!!
Make sure to finish Half life 2 and its episodes before this game comes out
How was ur first time i absolutely loved it i first played it in 2017/18 still haven't played episode one
@@0range180 The HL games are free, go try them before Alyx releases!
@@0range180 Hurry up!!
@Mathias Cmiel wow you really really got me oh boy it's not like it was set up since the beginning. Also I read the ending so sorry but that failed
2:16 the door blasted the wrong way unless the grenade pulls stuff towards it!
implosion nade
probably an implosion, that was an alien thingy a moment ago, so it could've very well just imploded
The animation still looks like an explosion, and I think I saw debris and stuff heading towards the player, it looks like the door just teleports there, maybe it assumes you don’t throw it over? Either that or it is an implosion and it doesn’t look like it.
It could be an implosion, given that it is diferent from a normal granade, they need something special or they are just an skin for the granades
Hopwire grenade, possibly has become an implosion grenade, or the area is so small/the nearby headcrab sets it off right away that we dont see the wires.
Just imagine.... Alyx:deathmatch ^^
What i really like is how they recycled the old sounds. This feels really as you go BACK to that universe. After over 10 years...
I like how the map looks while it is getting infected, it kinda reminds me to the world of XEN.
germ4Nn it is Xen biomass. Note the glowy tentacle things
@@MatthiasClock that's exactly why I said it. Man I'm so hyped, sadly a vr headset is very expensive here.
If you find yourself in Oklahoma City for some reason you can play on mine!
Interesting how City 17 is infested with Xen flora and fauna in HLA, while in HL2 the urban environment is "safer" and seemingly contained, i'm guessing it's because the Citadel is still being constructed and the defenses against the creatures are not yet put in place, hence it's basically under quarantine, the Combine have to deal with the Resistance AND Xen threat, interesting background detail!
@@damonnugent1993 The Citadel wasn't _"constructed"_ . It just dropped out of the sky and then they put stuff in it.
Absolutely beautiful...
I guess my only complaint would be the lack of Alyx's original voice-actor!
Yeah. It doesnt give me an Alyx vibe. She doesnt really sound like Alyx. Nor has any of the funny lines that Alyx gave in the HL games shes been in.
Apparently her old voice actor is here for "future sections"...
So this voice actor is just for her younger self I guess...
Same, no fault of her own obviously but it kinda zaps the thunder away from all this in my opinion.
The old actor made some voice lines if i remember
Gary Oak well she IS younger in this game...
I'm actually looking forward for the new Valve intro. I hope it's even more dramatic than the previous ones.
probably going to be the same one you see in The Lab.
I can't belive a VR Game looks this good. I'm seriously impressed
Boneworks, asgard's wrath, stormland, lone echo 2, vertigo 2, lots of VR games look amazing
@@sqlevolicious None are as detailed as this though, Boneworks is a great game but it felt pretty bare bones when it came to level details
MrPingeee I played Boneworks too and watched gameplay of the other games mentioned but HL A just feels like a new level
@@MysticcMarcel You should try playing Alien Isolation in vr. It's the only other game I could think of with this level of detail, if not more, in vr.
I wish TotalBiscuit lived long enough to see this. :(
UPDATE: The people in this thread made me remember how utterly toxic spergamers are.
No
@@neonflash1364 shut up
@@neonflash1364 shut up
@@neonflash1364 shut up
@@neonflash1364 Shut up
THEY DID IT AGAIN!
The graphics, the dialogue, the smoothness of the gameplay even though it's VR makes me so damm nervous to see this
the smoothness of the gameplay is due to an virtual camera gimble that is getting footage from the player. It's gameplay footage.
Graphics are awesome. RELEASE THE COMPLETE MOD KIT PLEASE... Make Alyx what Half Life 1 did for the PC modding community!!
They will, don’t worry. Got my ass hairs up too when they said they’ll release the new sdk base and update hammer for this
hammer does come with HLA, and SDK is planned to come
They will release a SDK for HL:Alyx, but no general purpose one yet (that will likely come with HL3, that comes after this) so you will be able to mod HL:Alyx into something, but cant make new standalone game with it just yet.
I want Portal in VR (puke)
Smooth motion definitely looks more immersive when you see gameplay footage. I guess actually *playing* the game yourself will be a different experience altogether though
Depends on your ability to stand it. Personally I hate teleporting in vr, it's very disconcerting. Smooth motion is more immersive, and makes tracking things easier.
1:09 something incredibly unsettling about the headcrab zombies but more specifically the zombine creatures was the fact that they would say lines that normal humans would and cry out as if they are in extreme pain. zombines would say lines like "necrotics in bound" "sector is not secure" "biotic overrun" as if their microphone was still on recording their speech. it made you realise that the host is infact still alive and barely functioning and that specifically the combine soldier zombies are desperately trying to warn their friends that they are under the headcrab's influence. I surely hope they add this unnerving feature into the game. Im already excited already anyway
march is 03 of the year... its 3 march... gameplay footage is made out of 3 parts... dude i promised that i wont do it anymore but HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED
no one outpizzas the hut. trust me. I've tried. I've tried so hard to outpizza the hut and it cost me everything. no matter how much cheese, how many cheap toppings i put on my pizza i always got outpizza'd by the hut. No matter how much my pizzas tasted like plastic, pizza hut pizzas always tasted even more synthetic. for months I've been seveely depressed trying to figure it out. it all started as a little hobby, a bit of a goof - "can i outpizza the hut?" but it soon became my obsession and eventually my downfall. the fateful moment i had that thought was the moment I doomed myself. They must have some sort of secret ingredient i thought. after trying literally everything from the supermarket and not coming close to the plasticy taste of the hut i actually went insane. i started clawing at my skin, scratching my face for hours with my long sharp fingernails. at first it was almost unnoticeable but i knew i could not hide the scars forever, soon enough karen would find out. I needed to put an end to this but the only way to do that would be to outpizza the hut, as i knew. so i tried one last ingredient. i cut off a piece of my own arm and put it on the pizza. i added the shittiest sauce i had and cheese made from 50 percent plastic and 50 percent wood chips and baked it real good. the taste was almost exactly like pizza hut but the meat wasn't tender enough. i knew it had to be younger meat. from someone much younger than me. i knew what had to be done. there was a moment of doubt as i grabbed the knife and went into holly's room, up to her little crib while karen was at work. but i knew what had to be done.
I'd finally done it. I've created a pizza even shittier than pizza hut or so I thought. but it still wasn't horrible enough.
when karen came home and saw what i had done she freaked out. i truly loved karen just like i loved holly but she was going to call the cops on me and I couldn't let my pizza hut mission be compromised by her.
they were only my first two victims. i went on to sacrifice many more in the name of pizza perfection before i got caught. Now i am sitting here on death row, my execution is only hours away. Do you want to guess what I'll choose as my last meal?
@@hachikiina dude...
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED FTW!
Just watch the geoff keighley interview, then you dont have to meme anymore, because yea, HL3 is actually next.
hachi 😂😂😂😂lmfaoooo
Omg the overwatch voice and the siren in the distance, I almost started crying when I heard them, sooo much nostalgia!
Fuck it. Who needs a car when you can get VR set and play this Masterpiece.
Make rice your favourite food, and you might just be able to afford both. xD
OMG this is gunna be sweet.
Guys seriously save up some dosh, get a VR headset and get ready. VR is the future of gaming.
True. Just look at this. Headcrabs are going to be real nightmare fuel now lol
I love how Xen is showing up around City 17 since this is before the Combine fully cleaned up the city! AMAZING!
Calling it now, this game ends with Alyx meeting Gordon.
They say it ends where the last half life episode ended too
... Jesus Christ you people work fucking fast
Well not exactly, but kind of. Care about getting spoiled?
spoil alert you ARE Gordon at the end
You're wrong
This is the beginning of a new gaming era, I tell ya!
2:27 There's the 4-legged Xen potato from Half Life 1
I love how the zombies sound similar to the ones in hl2, brings back memories of reversing the voices/
Fact: Alyx's voice actor is also Gordon's voice actor
Spoiler alert damn it.
Didn't know Alyx is voiced by Ross Scott
But... Alyx actually has a voice actor... even in this game.
@@V2Blast You're not the brightest one in the box are you?
I mean, the joke would work if Alyx was unvoiced, as Gordon normally is... But she talks, even in this game. So the joke doesn't work.
SMOOTH LOCOMOTION
This is amazing guys! So happy to see the stylizations of the old games art brought to modern standards so faithfully! Spot on. Game mechanics and physics both look solid. Thank you for reminding everyone that linear story-driven games are still strong and here to stay!
1:52
It's the little things you have to love.
Jees, i need a cup of tea to relax after seeing this, my bodyhair still up and it not going down.
This game is amazing. All the detail is beautiful and I love when games have areas that can't be seen that are ruined and destroyed and also the broken aesthetic of everything is so beautiful.
“Yabba my icing!” Intensifies
Lightning Cayo
Nostalgia
*cant wait for crawling through vents getting jumpscared by headcrabs. fun times.*
Half Life is the most surreal and fascinating experience I've ever had with gaming, it was the first full length Video game I played, it came bundled with my PC , I got my hands on it in 2003 which is pretty late after release because I lived in a small town in India,
it took me a while to finish it, gave up on it multiple times, but once I got out of the Office Complex it was a thrilling ride
Go try Black Mesa, it's a phenomenal experience! Especially if you played the original HL.
@@sqlevolicious thanks man, I went through the trailer and it looked amazing, I'll definitely check it out!
This VR game looks better, than some of AAA-games. Great job, Volvo!
It's valve my dude, the "indie devs did something great" doesn't apply when they shower in money
@@voro8298 Right? LOL this comment doesn't make sense. Valve is a triple AAA company who makes triple A games.
@@voro8298 Yeah, "good job multi-billion dollar corporation :D"
OP is a joke.
@@UberPanzerhund it's a team of like 80 people you idiot
@@UberPanzerhund bro stop being everywhere i go LOL
I just realized how long it really has been since Episode 2 holy shit
Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived. You've done a great deal in a small time span.
this is the future of gaming right here. hopefully this inspires big devs to publish triple a vr games because this looks insanely good, cannot wait to pick it up.
More Half life games coming in the future
Source: www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-03-04-valve-we-absolutely-see-half-life-alyx-as-our-return-to-this-world-not-the-end-of-it
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In the near Future, this will not happen
This already looks awesome in flat version, what will it be in VR ?!!
I can't imagine the reaction of the people playing VR for the first time with this game :o
flat version is hardly ever representative to how tit looks in the HMD, so yea, nobody but testers only know what HLA actually looks like.
Check your city there is probably a VR arcade
Smooth moving looks great!
The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.
This reminds me a lot of Portal 2.
I am not complaining.
It does, doesn't it? it's got a similar synthy flair to it. And it looks just gorgeous, there's a real contrast between this and HL2 for sure. Like Portal 1 and Portal 2. The music is seemingly a mix between Kelly Bailey and Mike Morasky, that alien-y horror aspect and more dynamic fluidity to the composition. I'm very impressed! This is a huge success! I am making a note here!
The portal 2 writers wrote the story for this game
@@dotalegendery3998 Portal and HL2 episode writers i think.
This is looking pretty epic. Can't wait to finally play it.
0:05-0:30 That is some nice techno music the Combine have for something as simple as door unlocking :)
13 years of waiting and finally it's here! HALF-LIFE!
The Overwatch voice and all the OG sounds effects man the chills.
As soons as i heard the administrator i started to cry
The lighting looks sooooo fuckin good and the gameplay seems so smooth and interesting. Incredible
There are so many small quality details that make things so much smoother.
I love how they actually show real gameplay and not CGI like other game companies do
Damn you Valve! Your devious plan of making a really good game to entice me to get VR seems to be working.
jesus christ the hype is real
I want to believe... And i do it
@@evil_chuck It's about high time to believe again.
These videos look like those cool early demo trailers that you would see to show off a new game, but this is actually just straight gameplay!! I'm so excited to play in a few weeks!
Puzzles in physical space will be crazy in VR.
They already are, go try Boneworks.