6:29 Yes that is Gordon. Remember from the main game in the beginning, Gordon is riding the same tram system, and you see a Security guard pounding at a door? That's Barry Calhoun.
I never realize Barney in HL2 is Calhoun untill I looked it up in wiki today. When the first time we met in HL2, "Hey, I'm Barney we met in Black Messa", I was like who the hell are you, I never met you in Half-life 1.
@@fllthdcrb Barney is only ever addressed by first name in HL2 and Episode 1. Blue Shift uses his last name exclusively. There was never any character in HL1 or its expansions that was referred to in-game as Barney, so it's reasonable to expect that someone might not pick up on the connection.
Also, it's not the right Barney. HL2 Barney makes a reference to owing Gordon a beer. That conversation happened when you got to the Sector C labs and get off the train.
Blue Shift is actually generally recommended to play with the HD models on, since the models and the whole expansion were originally meant for a Sega Dreamcast port, but when that got cancelled they got ported over to the original version. It's hard to notice now, but a lot of the environments are more complex in terms of detail to show off the Dreamcast hardware. Also, it's okay to skip the tutorial for Blue Shift, but you should do the tutorial in Opposing Force, since it adds a lot of new mechanics that might seem confusing when encountered normally in the game.
The name is "Barney." This name doesn't show up often. Part of the reason is that in the original HL, all security guards had the model name "monster_barney" so by the time of Blue Shift, everyone was already calling the guards "Barney". So the game primarily uses the surname "Calhoun" to refer to the player character.
18:14 This scene is clever in a way, because the dialogue is composed ENTIRELY out of the lines that scientists and security guards randomly say, and reactions (like yelps of surprise) to certain things, in _HL._ I can only assume they did it as a sort of challenge.
34:15 It felt unnatural because you were supposed to shoot the barrels from above, as the door you were shooting doesn't let the bullets pass. I didn't know you could even do it this way, I am impresssssed.
Just realized that Barney must have been unconscious for quite some time after the elevator crash, considering the military is already here at the end of the video.
If I remember correctly, one of the features of Blue Shift was the HD models, so it would be okay to enable them. Also, the B stands for Barney. :) Edit: If you think back to the Half-Life intro, there was a security guard banging on the door you just entered. That was you right now and yes, that was Gordon going past you. :)
13:55 This is so cool.... It's mind blowing they could do this back in the day with the game. 3 perspective happening at the same time. Half-Life was sure ahead of its time.
25:50 I've been playing through the expansions in preparation for your videos and this is such a mood. The quicksave into casually murdering a "friendly" npc that's getting on my nerves has become a staple of my playthroughs and I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this haha
Keys getting stuck in games is pretty common in my experience... Usually resolved by just tapping the key yourself so the game gets a new key-up message.
wow. we all thought you gonna start hl2, but this. just the fact, that you are playing this little masterpiece as well, impressed me. and i mean it really.
@@wta1518 its not only my opinion, most people also think blue shift is pretty mediocre, think about the fact that it was an expansion that released for 5 bucks which compared to opposing force, which had new enemies and weapons and lasted abour 5 hours, blue shift lasts like an hour and takes away that new stuff that opposing force introduced
@@bitterman7258 What do you mean "takes away"? Also Opposing Force is 30 minutes of engaging gameplay and 4 and a half hours of boring filler. Almost none of the new weapons or enemies are fun to deal with, and the few that are are only fun because they're reskins of original weapons/enemies (male Black Ops are just HECU grunts, Deagle is just a worse revolver, etc.) At least Blue Shift has only one bad section (Xen maze).
The Training Room in _Blue Shift_ is pretty boring after the original (especially compared to that in _OpFor_ ), as it's just the same course, but with a Barney* hologram instead of the one of Gina Cross, and some slight changes to the course and instructions. Well, knowing that you can't use the HEV charging stations and that picking up helmets and vests is the only way to replenish your armor value _is_ pretty important, though. *Reminder: "Barney" was the name of the original security guard model. I'm using it to distinguish the model from the Otis model found in _Blue Shift._
Damn, I would really like to see him play through Half Life:Echoes. The best HL mod imo besides Cry of Fear (I am not really counting BM as a mod anymore). These are really showing how much you can do with GoldSource^^
i cant wait for you to get to half life 2 and portal 1 + 2 😭 you are gonna have such a blast with those games and i cant contain my excitement to see your reactions and on the spot analysis of them
23:47 I just noticed this in my second watch. Unless you're using those old mice with a ball underneath to move the cursor, you can disable mouse filtering. It might even make it harder for you to aim properly with current mice. If I'm not mistaken, mouse filtering was for fixing the less precise movement of those old mice.
That scientist who says he can't access his "mail"... I wonder if that was meant to be e-mail, or regular mail. Because this game came 1997, and that is on the brink of the birth of e-mail.
Could've been e-mail or regular mail, at that point. 1997 is about when the general public started using e-mail more. But major universities have been using e-mail servers since the 1980s. And the first ever e-mail was actually sent in 1971! The World Wide Web came along later, in 1989.
After watching your Half-Life playthrogh I heard you're going to do Blue Shift and Opposing Force... And i felt shame of myself cause i did not, but pretended to be Half-Life fan. So for now... I'm prepared) Cause i downloaded and finished them yesterday)
I don't know what version of Half-Life you are playing but you somehow keep encountering bugs I have never seen before, and I have played these games dozens if not hundreds of times and somehow you keep encountering bugs I haven't seen in either my own playthroughs or anyone else's playthroughs I have watched... And on top of it somehow your Blast Pit Tentacle grabbing the scientist was synchronized despite that only recently getting fixed in the most recent 25th anniversary patch. What kind of bootleg version of Half-Life are you playing? This has been the most perplexing playthrough of Half-Life I have ever seen.
I wonder if the "Screen Shake" effect is the term you were looking for. Like Depth of Field and Motion Blur, it's something I immediately disable in any game.
Play Decay so you play as the Training Room lady (Gina). You also play as Colette. The game can be either played with a friend or just solo. Yes, that's canon.
Blue Shift is the only one of the 3 expansions that I played. I never played Opposing Force and Decay. Can't wait to see Opposing Force, and I'd like to see Decay on your channel also, and I hope you find a solution to Decay being Co-Op only. Maybe play with a subscriber who will only help you with the combat.
Decay isn't co-op only on the PC port, you can play it singleplayer, you just have to switch between characters by pressing a key. Played it solo many times. 🙂
Remember that the character's name is Barney as people said in the comments. His name is quite important actually. ALSO, do turn on the HD models now. They came with this version of the game, it is made with them in mind.
When the game was forcing you to move left, did you try pressing left? This actually still happens in Valve games, and I've always just pressed the direction I'm being forced in and it fixes it
If you wonder _why_ that works, it's because every keystroke has a "down" event for when you start pressing it, and an "up" event for when you release it. If the game sees a "down" for that key but never gets the "up" for whatever reason, it has to assume the key is still being held. Pressing the key again usually fixes that because the game gets the "up" that time.
Since you're going through the Half-Life series, I'm quite excited for you to try the third party games, particularly the Black Mesa remake and the Minerva series. I feel like you'd especially like them because of how much richer they make the world of Half Life.
The scientist in the elevator was right in stating that you have been "moseying around" for most of the previous half hour, although I wonder how he knew. He did not actually say "piss about", which would also have been correct, so I think shooting him was an avoidable overreaction. 🙄
You should definitely play Half Life: Echoes when you're finished with the series along with Black Mesa (if you're interested in community made additions to the half life series). I strongly recommend it. Anyways, loving the half life series so far!
Technically Opposing Force comes before Blue Shift, it was made first, but it's honestly pretty minor and it'll make sense when you play Opposing Force. Though playing them in this order could be more interesting in a way, and Blue Shift feels more like an expansion, whereas Opposing Force feels more like it's own thing, with new weapons, enemies, and mechanics, if that makes sense. That was Gordon, you're the security guard who was banging on the door in the beginning of HL, as for Gordon wearing a lab coat, well he DOES have a PhD ;p
Why is Gordon just walking to work on the security camera footage? Every time I see a playthrough of HL1 Gordon is running through the halls, pressing every button and switch he can find, teabagging the scientists, etc. They should have showed him doing that stuff, for continuity's sake.
Blue Shift's areas are the most detailed from all four Goldsource Half-life games, rivaled only by the PS2 redesigns of areas from Half-life 1. Blue Shift is honestly my favourite of them because of that, as it's the easiest to get immersed in, and shows what the engine is actually capable of graphically.
![Find Dr. Rosenberg! Half-Life: Blue Shift | Blind Playthrough [Part 2]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wYwQckJ-4Gc/mqdefault.jpg)
![Find Dr. Rosenberg! Half-Life: Blue Shift | Blind Playthrough [Part 2]](/img/tr.png)
![A New Perspective of Black Mesa - Half-Life: Opposing Force | Blind Playthrough [Part 1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/W4CKXNV_w_s/mqdefault.jpg)
I'd like to mention that the training course of Opposing Force is definitely worth playing, since it introduces quite a few new mechanics
Not to mention, it's really entertaining, unlike that of _Blue Shift,_ which is just HL's training course with minor changes.
And of course he skipped it.
6:29 Yes that is Gordon. Remember from the main game in the beginning, Gordon is riding the same tram system, and you see a Security guard pounding at a door? That's Barry Calhoun.
Barney, but yeah that's him
I never realize Barney in HL2 is Calhoun untill I looked it up in wiki today. When the first time we met in HL2, "Hey, I'm Barney we met in Black Messa", I was like who the hell are you, I never met you in Half-life 1.
@@哈哈哈哈-n7y So, did you not think the voice was familiar? Or did you just associate it with a generic security guard?
@@fllthdcrb Barney is only ever addressed by first name in HL2 and Episode 1. Blue Shift uses his last name exclusively. There was never any character in HL1 or its expansions that was referred to in-game as Barney, so it's reasonable to expect that someone might not pick up on the connection.
Also, it's not the right Barney. HL2 Barney makes a reference to owing Gordon a beer. That conversation happened when you got to the Sector C labs and get off the train.
Blue Shift is actually generally recommended to play with the HD models on, since the models and the whole expansion were originally meant for a Sega Dreamcast port, but when that got cancelled they got ported over to the original version. It's hard to notice now, but a lot of the environments are more complex in terms of detail to show off the Dreamcast hardware.
Also, it's okay to skip the tutorial for Blue Shift, but you should do the tutorial in Opposing Force, since it adds a lot of new mechanics that might seem confusing when encountered normally in the game.
Ugh, the Dreamcast was so ahead of its time. RIP lol. You can actually download roms of it and play it on a real Dreamcast.
The name is "Barney." This name doesn't show up often. Part of the reason is that in the original HL, all security guards had the model name "monster_barney" so by the time of Blue Shift, everyone was already calling the guards "Barney". So the game primarily uses the surname "Calhoun" to refer to the player character.
I’ve never heard so much disrespect to Barney in one video but I was dying at the names he was coming up with 😂😂
18:14 This scene is clever in a way, because the dialogue is composed ENTIRELY out of the lines that scientists and security guards randomly say, and reactions (like yelps of surprise) to certain things, in _HL._ I can only assume they did it as a sort of challenge.
34:15 It felt unnatural because you were supposed to shoot the barrels from above, as the door you were shooting doesn't let the bullets pass. I didn't know you could even do it this way, I am impresssssed.
I assume the bullets not passing it's a hard thing to think if you weren't a gamer back then
Limitlessssss potential
Just realized that Barney must have been unconscious for quite some time after the elevator crash, considering the military is already here at the end of the video.
If I remember correctly, one of the features of Blue Shift was the HD models, so it would be okay to enable them. Also, the B stands for Barney. :)
Edit: If you think back to the Half-Life intro, there was a security guard banging on the door you just entered. That was you right now and yes, that was Gordon going past you. :)
6:29 Yes, that is Gordon, you also see Calhoun knocking on the door when you played as Gordon at beginning of Half-Life.
You should edit out the top line of your comment, since that is definitely a spoiler.
I like how your takeaway from seeing Gordon Freeman was "He's going to the room to get the HEV Suit Music" lol
13:55 This is so cool.... It's mind blowing they could do this back in the day with the game. 3 perspective happening at the same time. Half-Life was sure ahead of its time.
40:23 ‘Little shakes’ 😂 the word you were looking for was aftershocks lol! ♥️
or tremors, perhaps
25:50 I've been playing through the expansions in preparation for your videos and this is such a mood. The quicksave into casually murdering a "friendly" npc that's getting on my nerves has become a staple of my playthroughs and I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this haha
Keys getting stuck in games is pretty common in my experience... Usually resolved by just tapping the key yourself so the game gets a new key-up message.
Why would Doctor Freeman, phD in theoretical physics, not be wearing a lab coat when working at a science lab? xD
I guess he's used to the hev suit maybe
34:13
“That felt unnatural.”
You could actually shoot those barrels from that position and blown the metal fence open.
"It's probably going to be checking people's passes and going 'yep you can come in'"
Well there is this game called Papers Please...
Try switching to OpenGL in video settings and restart the game, could help with the "almost like stuck key" bug.
upvote for relevance, I think there's also an issue with direct input from the mouse if I remember correctly, but that might be opposing force
@@freeallfaded Both BS and OF dhave the issue.
Was the word "tremors"? :D
If you like the postmodern conspiracy-thriller mindbender aspects of MGS then I recommend Deus Ex.
wow. we all thought you gonna start hl2, but this.
just the fact, that you are playing this little masterpiece as well, impressed me.
and i mean it really.
blue shift isnt that good imo
@@bitterman7258 You are entitled to your wrong opinion.
@@wta1518 its not only my opinion, most people also think blue shift is pretty mediocre, think about the fact that it was an expansion that released for 5 bucks which compared to opposing force, which had new enemies and weapons and lasted abour 5 hours, blue shift lasts like an hour and takes away that new stuff that opposing force introduced
@@bitterman7258 What do you mean "takes away"? Also Opposing Force is 30 minutes of engaging gameplay and 4 and a half hours of boring filler. Almost none of the new weapons or enemies are fun to deal with, and the few that are are only fun because they're reskins of original weapons/enemies (male Black Ops are just HECU grunts, Deagle is just a worse revolver, etc.) At least Blue Shift has only one bad section (Xen maze).
@@wta1518 this is probably one of the worst comments ive ever read, you must be trolling lol
I remember Blue Shift was the one I enjoyed the most out of the three stories. Needless to say it’s been a long time so let’s see how it holds up.
Blue Shift is quick and fun.
That’s why I love it.
Gearbox really flexed their mastery of GoldSrc with this of Opposing Force.
Idk about blue shift but I suggest doing the training room in opposing force, there's new mechanics in that game.
The Training Room in _Blue Shift_ is pretty boring after the original (especially compared to that in _OpFor_ ), as it's just the same course, but with a Barney* hologram instead of the one of Gina Cross, and some slight changes to the course and instructions. Well, knowing that you can't use the HEV charging stations and that picking up helmets and vests is the only way to replenish your armor value _is_ pretty important, though.
*Reminder: "Barney" was the name of the original security guard model. I'm using it to distinguish the model from the Otis model found in _Blue Shift._
Finally, he witnesses the glory of Otis
Damn, I would really like to see him play through Half Life:Echoes. The best HL mod imo besides Cry of Fear (I am not really counting BM as a mod anymore).
These are really showing how much you can do with GoldSource^^
Regardless of whether you consider Black Mesa to be a mod, it still wouldn't be a Half-Life mod, it's a Half-Life 2 mod.
Didn't expect you to play these, awesome
ahh yes, the protagonist of Blue Shift: Bob Calzone.
Remember that security guard banging on the door in the beginning train ride of Half Life? that's you.
I cant wait to watch you playing HL2 as there is way more lore exposition
half life solid gear
Gordon wears a lab coat because he is a scientist.
"I will smash your box if you want"
*smiles*
"Blue is a colour."
-Bilbo Baggins
49:22 Save with crowbar equipped as a precaution. I think Opposing Force has the same bug
I got "blue" but I never realized "shift" was also a pun. Nice work, Valve naming team.
I was stuck in the mom's piss zone for longer than most people did.
i cant wait for you to get to half life 2 and portal 1 + 2 😭 you are gonna have such a blast with those games and i cant contain my excitement to see your reactions and on the spot analysis of them
Ah the good old days. Back before the bullshit that is "DLC" and "season passes" we had expansion packs. Things that were worth buying.
I don't know, $40 was a bit steep for this.
23:47 I just noticed this in my second watch. Unless you're using those old mice with a ball underneath to move the cursor, you can disable mouse filtering. It might even make it harder for you to aim properly with current mice. If I'm not mistaken, mouse filtering was for fixing the less precise movement of those old mice.
That scientist who says he can't access his "mail"... I wonder if that was meant to be e-mail, or regular mail. Because this game came 1997, and that is on the brink of the birth of e-mail.
Uh, this came out in 2001. Even when talking about the original Half-Life that was still November 1998
Could've been e-mail or regular mail, at that point. 1997 is about when the general public started using e-mail more. But major universities have been using e-mail servers since the 1980s. And the first ever e-mail was actually sent in 1971! The World Wide Web came along later, in 1989.
6:27 that's all I wanted to see from this video
Yes that was Gordon Freeman. In the tram ride on the original game you see Barney Calhoun trying to get in a door as you pass.
This Half-Life playthrough is nostalgia fuel.
After watching your Half-Life playthrogh I heard you're going to do Blue Shift and Opposing Force... And i felt shame of myself cause i did not, but pretended to be Half-Life fan.
So for now...
I'm prepared) Cause i downloaded and finished them yesterday)
Oh heeeeck yea. Blue Shift and Opposing force are like the only main Half Live games I haven’t played so this will be sick
Tremors is the word you're looking for. its a funny word
I don't know what version of Half-Life you are playing but you somehow keep encountering bugs I have never seen before, and I have played these games dozens if not hundreds of times and somehow you keep encountering bugs I haven't seen in either my own playthroughs or anyone else's playthroughs I have watched... And on top of it somehow your Blast Pit Tentacle grabbing the scientist was synchronized despite that only recently getting fixed in the most recent 25th anniversary patch. What kind of bootleg version of Half-Life are you playing? This has been the most perplexing playthrough of Half-Life I have ever seen.
1:02:19 - military talking about Shepard
Shepard is a main character of other HL sequel "Opposite Force"
His name's Barney
35:20 Nice accidental quote from Portal 2 :)
I didn't play Blue Shift until recently and I was so excited to return to Half Life with a new, official adventure in the GoldSrc engine.
I wonder if the "Screen Shake" effect is the term you were looking for. Like Depth of Field and Motion Blur, it's something I immediately disable in any game.
I think he was searching for the word "tremor"
16:04 Local man spontaneously becomes American
I thought he was going straight to hl2 bro, what a nice little surprise
Hohoho, I hope Opposing Force is next !
ngl i think its clever that your the security guy banging on the door in the first game and now you play his story
Play Decay so you play as the Training Room lady (Gina). You also play as Colette. The game can be either played with a friend or just solo.
Yes, that's canon.
mapo you can press Q to switch to the last weapon you were holding more quickly
Hello Gordon
Buggy Shit featuring Butthole Callahan and his autofiring pistol. Gotta love it, never played this one myself, really liked Opposing Force, though.
Blue Shift is the only one of the 3 expansions that I played. I never played Opposing Force and Decay. Can't wait to see Opposing Force, and I'd like to see Decay on your channel also, and I hope you find a solution to Decay being Co-Op only. Maybe play with a subscriber who will only help you with the combat.
Decay isn't co-op only on the PC port, you can play it singleplayer, you just have to switch between characters by pressing a key. Played it solo many times. 🙂
yes, Freeman
32:38 Well, guards do have ID badges clipped to their vests.
Man, I see you everywhere. We must have similar tastes.
every time he changes up his name is killing me 🤣🤣
21:30 There was a light switch behind the door, if I remember correctly.
Whichever developer made the lights turn off when you bash the fusebox is a genius
The word you're looking for is tremors.
Remember that the character's name is Barney as people said in the comments. His name is quite important actually.
ALSO, do turn on the HD models now. They came with this version of the game, it is made with them in mind.
22:46 sometimes you can fix it by pressing the key in the direction you move in.
It works for me in this game and minecraft
When the game was forcing you to move left, did you try pressing left? This actually still happens in Valve games, and I've always just pressed the direction I'm being forced in and it fixes it
If you wonder _why_ that works, it's because every keystroke has a "down" event for when you start pressing it, and an "up" event for when you release it. If the game sees a "down" for that key but never gets the "up" for whatever reason, it has to assume the key is still being held. Pressing the key again usually fixes that because the game gets the "up" that time.
Nothing works and everything is falling apart...Yup, sounds like a government facility to me.
Since you're going through the Half-Life series, I'm quite excited for you to try the third party games, particularly the Black Mesa remake and the Minerva series. I feel like you'd especially like them because of how much richer they make the world of Half Life.
29:43 - 30:17 instant crossbar karma
In the half life intro you pass by a guard banging on the door
you should play the new version of blue shift. Its a black mesa workshop item but its literally the game!
New life goal: Walk up to a random girl and say "I'll smash your box if you want."
The scientist in the elevator was right in stating that you have been "moseying around" for most of the previous half hour, although I wonder how he knew. He did not actually say "piss about", which would also have been correct, so I think shooting him was an avoidable overreaction. 🙄
You should definitely play Half Life: Echoes when you're finished with the series along with Black Mesa (if you're interested in community made additions to the half life series). I strongly recommend it. Anyways, loving the half life series so far!
I’ll check that out I’ve never played it
@@Greenday5494 It's great!
never thought that you would start playing *dlc's*, waiting for opposing force!
Now you owe everyone a beer
"good morning gordon"
🤓: ...
Unexpected percussive maintenance :D @30:11
Technically Opposing Force comes before Blue Shift, it was made first, but it's honestly pretty minor and it'll make sense when you play Opposing Force. Though playing them in this order could be more interesting in a way, and Blue Shift feels more like an expansion, whereas Opposing Force feels more like it's own thing, with new weapons, enemies, and mechanics, if that makes sense.
That was Gordon, you're the security guard who was banging on the door in the beginning of HL, as for Gordon wearing a lab coat, well he DOES have a PhD ;p
Yep, that was Freeman xD
Remember the name Shepard Mapocolops :) 1:02:15
Why is Gordon just walking to work on the security camera footage? Every time I see a playthrough of HL1 Gordon is running through the halls, pressing every button and switch he can find, teabagging the scientists, etc. They should have showed him doing that stuff, for continuity's sake.
would be too hard,would take away the seriousness.
The word play of Blue Shift and Opposing Force is just so delightful.
About speedruns. Id recomend watching some of Half Life ;)
25:38 finally took you long enough, what would happen if I just shot someone, just for the hell of it!
6:27 I knew this scene was familiar lmao,
Calhoun was knocking on the door panicked or something
B. Poonhound
Blue Shift my first game
…Gordon Freeman is a scientist, the scientists wear lab coats - It’s nothing to do with reusing character models🤦🏻♂️
blue shift is really damn short, probably like 2-3 hours long
40:42 , tremors?
should probably try half life decay
After playing Opposing Force, you should play Black Mesa HL1 remake.
(i) Tremors
(ii) It's not Valve
(iii) Opposing Force is better
Blue Shift's areas are the most detailed from all four Goldsource Half-life games, rivaled only by the PS2 redesigns of areas from Half-life 1. Blue Shift is honestly my favourite of them because of that, as it's the easiest to get immersed in, and shows what the engine is actually capable of graphically.
Put your weapon away
I never heard about this game, thats weird.
Oh, and Gordon is something of a scientist 🥼
most games just disable friendly fire
Not Half-Life!