The Best Half-Life Game you should NOT play
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- The story of the failed Opposing Force continuation, Prospekt
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Thank you to:
agrastiOs' "Half-Life: Opposing Force | Trailer REMAKE『HD』" • Half-Life: Opposing Fo...
mikelat's "Let's Play Half Life: Decay - Part 1 [CO-OP]" • Let's Play Half Life: ...
Sexy Nutella's "Half-Life 2: Episode Two - Hunting Party [Hard]" • Half-Life 2: Episode T...
Bolloxed's "Black Mesa: XEN - Full Walkthrough" • Black Mesa: XEN - Ful...
And of course Richard Seabrook for creating Prospekt!
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I uploaded a Part 2 to this video that adresses some mistakes in this video (like the G-Man thing). It also features some new info and a new Opposing Force Sequel mod, check it out here: ruclips.net/video/AwJaO_aiyAs/видео.html :)
Just about to call you out! lol I actually love the fact the origins if his name, there’s an almost mythical status to FBI and high other ranking American officers “suits” “men in black” “g-men” it’s very fun!
You're wrong. It's totally fitting. The reason his name is Gman or The Man in Black is because his design and obscured way of speaking are meant to directly evoke 50s Gmen in black suits covering up UFOs. You're just wrong Lucia. The devs intended for him to be called Gman, they made him look and talk like a government agent so people would in universe of course call him G man. EDIT they probably wanted to call him Spook but that one has two potential meanings and only one of them means Government man.
If you notice the G is emphasised by the V.O., compared to the flat delivery he is usually named as.
"somewhat commonly used word back in the day " You mean commonly used word across the western world? Just concede you made a minor mistake, not need to try and shape the narrative like it only makes " a bit unfitting and sounding out of place " No dawg the idea of the G Man, is central to the whole half life theme of coporate industry/shadowy government officials. It's the perfect name to use not "sounding out of place". A Gman is a common word in the american cultural zietgiest (apologies if its just a cultural disconnect here but trust it is a very fitting name used even in universe
@@spyczech english is not my first language so "back in the day" just meant not today for me, I'll update it to be a bit more clear though. I am conceeding I'm in the wrong. I'm also not critizising the NPC itself being named G-Man incase you're thinking so
The term G-man means "Government Man" - it was born from grunts seeing dudes in suits and going "wow, look at that weird civvie, must be an employee of the government - a government man - a G-Man." That's the origin of the term. It only tests credulity because it's in a Half-Life context. EDIT: Saw your correction, it's not out of place at all, only seems so to you because you're familiar with the Half-Life context and not the xfiles-influenced 1990's in which the concept of Half-Life was born, but whatever, think what you will.
I thought it meant Garry-Man💀
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@@Kreppey_ It’s both
@@declanedmison5442 oh alr
yes but the thing is here it’s too on the nose to be taken seriously.
Fun little fact, 'G-man' is just a designation/shortening of "government man"
So it's reasonable for the HECU to be calling him that
Yes, just learned that from the comments, added a correction to my pinned comment! My point mostly still stands, just changed it from being lore breaking to just a little out of place (by out of place I don't mean lore or story wise at all, I mean that it simply sounds weird to hear G-Man's name in a Half-Life game. Check my follow up video, every thought or correction you might have is answered in that video)
@@1lucia It's not out of place at all.
Nah It's goodman
No way it's not the Garry Man, creator of the Mod
It's only out of place since it's a pretty dated term. It was mainly used around like the 20s-50s during the gangster days.
Xen in the Source engine is a monstrous task. Nearly every single surface is a displacement and it is extremely time consuming to make natural curves in Source.
Even the devs admitted that they used 3d modelling programs like 3dsMax to make the levels rather than in Hammer instead, and it took 6 HOURS to compile some maps.
Xen and the Black Mesa facility in terms of level design approach is night and day.
Agreed, displacements can be evil.
shut up nerd
Compilation should be much faster on modern hardware
@@ryanphillips4123 Perhaps.
Resistance Element and Arctic Adventure's Xen looks lacking just like Prospekt's. It's really challenging to recreate it without a doubt.
For the flashback soldier dialog, im pretty sure it was taken from the manual of the original opposing force game where it included a diary written by corporal Shepard and they refer to gman as the g-man (meaning government man)
goated pfp
Prospekt
So... I originally was actually recruited to help re-write some parts of the project back then. Me and another friend on the project had a whole bunch of unfinished maps & story changes. I too had my own feedback I wanted to impliment and improve the story.
The intro would've started with Shephard on a train to Propekt where he's stripped from his vest n uniform. Midway, he's ready to be locked up until suddenly Antlions go lose and sirens start blaring. From all the chaos Shephard was meant to run the chaotic halls and crawl a few vents to find his gear. This way Shephard experiences the fall of Prospekt real-time instead of waking up in the moment.
Rich seemed alright having me onboard but eventually came radio silence.
Unfortunately, it just seems the project lead grown focus on other things, so all the ideas we pitched in have just been collecting dust. I'd honestly enjoy fixing Prospekt but its unlikely it's getting an update anytime soon.
Thank you for commenting! That does sound like a better intro. Would have loved to have seen that.
Adrian Shepard non-believers seeing the giant crater on Black Mesa be like: "Must have been the wind"
1:06 that's a perfectly cut moments right there
The reason they call him gman without knowing his name is because in the military, G-Man means Government Man
Entropy: Zero and Entropy: Zero 2 are some great mods which have you playing as a combine soldier. while they aren't focused on Shepard, they try to do for hl2 what opfor was for hl1, and i think they succeed quite handily
When Half Life 2 came out, I was convinced they were gonna do a Op4 2 game where you'd play as Civil Protection.
Ibjust wish Entropy Zero wan has better design choices.
@@mrscruffles801 What exactly was bad, or if not just weird, or what you didn't like?
The end bosses could have been done better@@fantastikboom1094
EZ1 was honsetly pretty meh, EZ2 is dope though
5:21
There is of course a small chance of this, since G-Man is reduction from "Government Man", perhaps one of the soldiers saw him, thought that this was a man from the government, and gave him such a nickname
Are you sure you couldn't use HEV charging stations in OF? I distinctly remember the tutorial yelling at me that a PCV is compatible with HEV chargers.
Yeah you can use it. This video is full of mistakes
AND civilian charging ports (...which when you realize the HEV is already on a Mk.IV design by the fall of Black Mesa, and that the PCV shares DNA with the HEV suit, does at least somewhat imply there's probably enough that made their way to market to justify charging stations that work on literal power armor).
You can tell the dude really tried to pour his heart out. I hope he's still making stuff cause while this is bad, if he kept at it I can see him making an absolute masterpiece
I agree. I think he got hired at activision
His next game was Gunsmith, a weapons manufacturing and trading management game. It's honestly pretty good
First off, I just want to say that this is the first video I've seen from you, and you've earned a subscriber.
Now, two things I want to point out:
1. I think the soldiers in that one flashback scene call him the G-Man because it's an abbreviation that means "government man," a mistake that anyone seeing the G-Man in a military training facility would make. A mysterious man with a briefcase would be assumed to be from the government at a passing glance.
2. You make it sound like there was no thought put into the PCV/HEV charging in Prospekt. As you probably know, in Op4 the PCV is stated to charge not only from its own power stations, but also consumer and HEV stations. It wouldn't be out of the question to assume that Adrian's PCV has be modified to accept power from Combine stations, but I do agree that directly introducing it would have been better.
I agree on both points. I only found out about the actual term „gman“ after about 30 people commented it lol. I added it to the pinned comment already. Also, thank you for subscribing! :)
This is a masterpiece if you compare it to HDTF, a single person made it.
But absolutely shit if you compare it to Entropy : Zero 2
@@vreikezen8268 good joke
Anything is a masterpiece compared to trash
You fucked up my face
Not really
It's such a shame this project. Was suppose to get a pretty fucking hefty content update, but that's never seeing the light of day, think the ambition that update had would've absolutely boosted the experience and reputation in a good way.
I do occassionly find myself replaying bits of the game, mainly the earlier levels, cause I do find some enjoyment out of them. I just wish this project went further, it's harsh, but I really don't think it deserves the price tag, considering how little it gives (it's really just a mappack, but a decent one).
Oh well... project is old now (2016 💀) and not getting more updates from the sounds of it, there's plenty more HL content to look forward to nowadays, we do eat well! 😄
>2016
Almost as old as the last TF2 major update 💀💀
THERE WERE CREMATORS :(((((
Appreciate your work on EZ2, love that mod.
Who?@@mrscruffles801
Damn, that long huh?@@mercce6750
I had my own story for Opposing Force 2 amd shared to my friends either on online and local. They liked it and encouraged me to keep working on the project but I halted it due to real life problems. I think we will see Shephard again but no soon :(
You still had it?
@@plaguedoctor3516 yes I do
@@Oscar-us6sv I hope it's not a bother, but what is it like, you know, a short synopsis or summary?
@@Oscar-us6svbro wrote a novel 😂
5:24 legit made me laugh gj man
To be fair, in opposing force, your pcv could charged using the hev terminals, and pcv charging stations where only like two times if I can remember.
That’s true. However we never get HEV charging stations in HL2 or this game, only combine chargers, for which Kleiner specifically modified the HEV suit to be able to get energy from those.
@@1lucia with some small upgrades it would easliy allow the user to use the charging stations but if we are going with no upgrades it still works since the vest iself could support different plugs systems and such, while it use hev technology the pcv has some more unique parts that allow the user to use charging stations differently
@@1lucia uhm aktshually there is an hev charging station in hl2 you blubbering, bafoon bastard. i hope your firstborn fulfills a prophecy you seek to end by casting him away, causing your own dramatically ironic downfall
@@nickybee6878 Wtf are you even talking. No it's not going to work. Those are completely different systems, one made by humans, one by aliens. HEV was specifically modified for Combine charging stations, the same should be done for PCV. It doesn't matter how "unique" the parts are (wtf does it even mean, how it is related to anything in that topic). You wrote nonsense.
2:29 - that seems about right, Black Mesa is actually placed among the rest of Half-Life series every time there is a huge Steam sale
5:16 G-man is a term used for an FBI agent they could have thought that the G-man was just an agent
All the redditors really crawled out of the woodwork to correct him on the gman part
Seems like a lot of effort went into this vid, I'll need to be sure to check out more of your stuff.
honestly giving the nova Prospekt soldiers a new voice is good, they felt like they were more or at least modified differently by the combine
IIRC, Harry Callaghan (aka Harry101UK) did the voice acting for the PCV and all the Combine soldiers, which is pretty cool.
i like your subtitles. i often watch videos without sound and not many people bother to use them. thanks
Valve did my man Richard Seabrook so dirty by ignoring his application. He's clearly very passionate about what he does. A strike against them in my book tbh.
I'm still proud of the dev for even making a game that valve loved so much they published it.
no matter how i feel about prospekt is kinda ironic is the most forgot half life mod/game out there after the huge storm that was hdtf which made proskept look like a masterpice is shocks me how not many people heard about prospsket now days, i feel bad for the devs behind this project they had huges plans for a big update but the lead dev rich left to live his normal life which i understand but man leaving a whole team behind and not let anyone else as the new lead dev sucks. but oh well we have half-life 2 through the city and oh boy when that mod comes around is gonna be the wild half life mod for next year or two standing next to entropy zero 2.
from one guy and with what's essentially a mod (because he did most of the development while not getting paid for the work) I consider this a minimum 7/10
An Arkane-Valve collab seem like a match mad in heaven.
8:17 that might be the borealis
From the thumbnail I thought this video was about telling people not to play Opposing Force. I was about to lampoon you.
A thing about the PCV's power justification via flashbacks. It's also stated in the training mission of Opposing Force that the PCV can be charged by dedicated PCV charging stations, as well as civilian and HEV charging stations and batteries. And throughout OpFor, you're using HEV stations/batteries to charge the PCV rather than the PCV station in the training mission, plus, the civilian one is never seen outside of that mission.
Another thing about the teleporters, while the intra-dimensional one is lore breaking, the portal to xen isn't. It's stated that while the Combine are reliant on local transportation, they can travel BETWEEN dimensions just fine, so a portal to Xen is perfectly within their abilities, as Xen is the Border world between dimensions, and where they had chased the Nihlianth and the Vortigaunts to previously before the Resonance Cascade.
That doesn't answer why it can charge from Combine charging stations. Kleiner stated he modified HEV suit to make it able to charge from those. That means PCV should not be able to.
@@HylianKnight02 You literally contradict yourself. Yeah, that's exactly what they can do - travel BETWEEN, and not dimensions but universes. Not somewhere IN between them. Also, If Combine were able to travel to Xen, they would've captured/killed Nihilanth before all that started on Earth. The fact they didn't is because they can't.
I feel like "That weird gman" is them using his name but more so just slang at the Army base for a guy from the government
Yes I corrected this in my pinned comment! :)
In half life aylx Eli Vance actually does call him the g-man by name during the after credits scene
@@jockdouglass3824 No he doesn't.
16:21 I haven't really played the mod to judge, and if I'm wrong I'd be happy to be corrected, but I'm pretty sure this line of Dr kliener can be heard in the original opposing force game, right after Adrian wakes up.
I‘m unsure, perhaps it is. However it has been redone by the voice actor of kleiner, and there are a few more voice lines done by the voice actor of kleiner in the mod which definitely haven’t been heard before.
Through the city is also going to have voice acting from one of the original two protags from Decay!
The soldiers call the g man g man because the name is a shorthand for government man. They probably think he's a CIA spook or something.
In the Opposing Force game manual that you get with the physical copy, the G-Man is referred to as such in some scribbled notes
DERP, I completely forgot the title of the video and as soon as you reminded me that prospekt exists I paused the video and purchased it lol I have become the consumer monkey I once mocked.
i understand that the Drill instructor on Opposing force clearly says that the PCV can recharge on military and commercial power stations but c'mon, does the Combine empire still uses the same Duracell AAA+ battery from the 90's? lol
G-man is a military term that is shorthand for Government Man, and is why G-man is called G-man as far as I know, because he looks like a government official. Makes alot of sense for G-man to be called that by an HCEU marine.
Besides that, good video man!
This mod has pretty much nothing in common with Opposing Force, and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything by not playing it.
Imo feels exactly like hdtf
Heard they're making a proper Opposing Force sequel, called Through the City, although the nightvision is kinda just a recolor of the flashlight, but weapons from Opfor comes back
You should watch this video until the end :)
5:07 g-man is short for any government agent so the hecu probably assumed that he was associated with the government and called him that.
I found out afterwards. I pinned a comment to correct myself already, but thank you :)
@@1lucia oh, i didnt notice that. sorry!
um.. g-man means government man. look it up
I know, it still dosen’t make sense why the random soldiers would think to call him so lol
@@1lucia It's a common word, it can make sense a lot of people used it between the 40's and 60's not a lot now
@@potatolord4214 interesting. You are right. While still perhaps sounding a bit out of place, I must admit that I'm in the wrong here. Probably dosen't help that english isn't my first language, thank you for correcting me, will add that info to the pinned comment! :)
In this case it's obviously GANGSTA man, let's face it
@@1lucia Check out the Opposing Force manual, the March 7 entry has even Shephard himself use the term G-man.
The Opposing Force manual also included the personal diary of A Shephard where he wrote his thoughts about the training at boot camp, and it included the appearances of that blue suit guy whom he referred to as "a G-man".
good job bro, i'm really huge fan of opposing force and i liked your video very much.
I really want to play Decay in Sven Coop, but my friends don't want to play it 💀
I'm trying to learn to mod HL and HL2, but it's harder than you would think, especially for one person. I can't seem to find any info on how to make custom weapons for HL1, so I'm guessing it's the same with HL2, and level design is hard to make look right even in goldsrc, I will admit, selling it for $5 is kind of a scam for what it is, but I can still appreciate the hustle.
There's a lot of wasted potential with this mod, but the circumstances of this becoming a paid mod is perplexing to say the least. It's the exact opposite of the Opposing Force. It's a decent mod, but the continuation of OF it is not, nor something that should have been sold on the market, imho. And I think that did him more harm than good as people critiqued him harshly because of it.
In the new Half life 25th aniversary documentary, we saw that the expansion packs are actually canon
random lore about the G-Man name, Valve confirmed that when they gave him the Gman name they thought of the meaning of gman, as in it's slang for government man, and in that context, it makes sense that he's being called a G-Man or that G-man, and not "The gman", as he seems like any other Government Man (other than the fact that he's the only person who'd fit the description of a Government Man at the Military base, and he is even described as a Government looking man in the opposing force manual "Rumor is he’s from some government branch looking to recruit;" direct quote from page 2 of the Half-Life Opposing Force manual)
Hmm, the 1st seconds of the video, game footage looks familiar 🤔.
Great video though, amazing job.
Lucia Refusing to Comprehend where The Name G-Man come’s from:
An Interesting Game
Very Vibey Design at Times
Following Freeman again for G-Man again
Weirdo Lighting Changes at Times
Overall Amazing Achievement for a Fan Mod
This guy forgetting Black Mesa exists lol
iirc, G-Man stands for Government man. I think I've heard people use it in a similar way the word "Spooks" is used. So, them using the word G-man isn't all that surprising.
2:31 Let's not forget the masterpiece that is Black Mesa
0:25 Wow thanks for that one
I understand writing captions for the video, but I don’t understand forcing me to have them on rather than letting me decide to turn them on.
I'd have said it 'Hey have you seen that weird guy in the suit walking around? Kinda ghostly looking with grey skin? I can him G-Man for short.'
5:20 Some miliary guys WOULD think to call a suit 'g-man'. Because it means Government Man. Like a men in black.
At somewhere around 5:25 "Have you seen that weird G-man?" It's believable because G-man means Government man, someone who looks like they work for the government
16:59 Obama
It's a unfair comparison to black mesa because those guys had access to the source code so they had really no limitations on their creativity and optimization
Heeey, someone talking about Prospekt! I am tired of explaining it, but now I get to link your fancy video to people who ask me what I am talking about lol
I remember before this, there was a massive mod being worked on about Shepard in the 7 Hour War around 2012 or 2013, on the scale of Entropy. It fell apart due to misdirection and drama. The HL modding community was saddened by it and was hoping this would fill that void. Man, they were wrong.
01:07 U can't hide this from me!
G-Man at 9:41.
There is nothing that matched the absolute BANGER soundtracks that play while playing Opposing Force.
Until through the city comes out in God knows when, this will have to do it.
I kind of hope Shephard never comes back. I liked the *Warning: spoiler* ending of Opposing Force, where he's just left in a state of limbo, with the implication that may be there forever... such a depressing conclusion.
What I found funny, is that at 12:05 you are shown the earth from the space station with all its oceans still intact, even though it's stated that a major thing the combine did (apart from enslaving the population) was draining the oceans. I know it's a major nitpick, but it shows that the developer really didn't pay much attention to the lore of the series (and more specifically HL2).
good point
In HL2 they never did and it wasn't stated. In HL2 Beta - yeah. Also, not that much water have gone to notice anu difference. Sea level have reduced by only ~4,6 meters. That's not very much, knowing that in HL2 Beta oceans were dry to bottom.
that cutoff 💀 1:06
I like how he cuts right after he enter a room with trip mine
Wait the beginning of prospekt wasn't bugged and just a annoying unskippable cutscene? What the hell
The Protagonist is also more know to be the Older Brother of Mitchelle Shepard ! The protagonist of the best half-life game , hunt down the freeman !
1:05 perfect cut
g-man jumpscare at 10:02 is pretty interesting
woo through the city comes out this year!
Through the City seems promising, I might play it when it comes out
:)
imagine making a game as a job application and instead of getting a job its released on steam and everyone hates it
i feel bad
I always thought the G-man never had a canonical name and it was just a nickname to address him in some shape or form.
Prospekt was HDTF before HDTF. It even is a continuation of OP4 in a way.
8:19 That is the location where Dr. Judith Mossman found the Borealis (maybe)
5:30 “Hello, I am G-Man.”
Mentioning misconceptions about G-man's name.
As a dum dum little pissbaby i genuinely thought that G-mod, and G-man had a direct connection. Like the G-man is some kinda god-being and everything was part of his sandbox/playground
Honestly. Steam Greenlight should have been reduced and not simply deleted. It had a lot of bad practices and this resulted in extremely few games getting past that stage. But now steam is full of garbage shovelware instead.
Lets go more Prospekt content :D (Oh my god I hate prospekt and also, "first" so no random kid says it. Why do y'all say that so much)
13:30.
Great Backhop btw
i hope some day adrian shephard come back to the main story of half life
I'm pretty sure there are only one or two PCV chargers in opposing force, the rest of the time Adrian just uses the HEV chargers like Gordon Freeman...
HEV chargers are not the same thing as Combine Energy Chargers, which Kleiner specifically told the player he modified the HEV suit so that it can take the combine energy chargers.
@@1lucia good point
Opposing Force has got to be one of the best expansions ever
08:18 I'm pretty sure this was meant as a nod to the Borealis ship
I kinda remember buying this game thinking that there will be cut hl2 enemies and crap, but the only thing i got there was the disappointment
And then we got trough the city demo
In Shephards journal, he refers to g-man as g-man.
Decay is not only limited to people how have friends, but also to playstation.
There is probably a port to PC
The level visuals don't look fine, in my opinion. The brushwork on the nova prosopekt exterior is awfully blocky and I couldn't find identify many fitting custom models.
And the lighting is awful. The textures on the later combine base are just cringe.
G-man is a term that literally just means "government man" and was a slang term used by soldiers for mysterious government men on military bases so it is not at all out of place for HECU marines to refer to him as G-man. In fact, I'm pretty sure in the opposing force tutorial they refer to him as Gman and that's where the name comes from