Cinematic Mod 2013 - Half-Life 2's Worst Mod...?

[@1lucia]

SUBSCRIBE! 95% of you haven't :P Join the discord as well! discord.gg/zEszSzE4g8 Also, as I mentioned in the video, please don't go and witch hunt the creator of this mod. Just leave the poor dude alone, he has received enough hate over the years lol

[@notgaben]

"Lucia how could you possibly dare do anything but throw pure hate at the cinematic mod? The mere thought of positivity in my head in a time span of about 30 minutes before and after hearing the words "cinematic mod" spewed out of anyone daring enough's mouth makes me want to puke. are you kidding me right now? you actually have the audacity to talk positively about that abomination known as the "Cinematic Mod 2013"? I mean, seriously, what kind of twisted, delusional world are you living in? This mod is an absolute travesty, a complete affront to everything that is good and pure in the world of gaming. Let me tell you, my friend, if you think the Cinematic Mod 2013 is a masterpiece, then I have some prime real estate on the moon to sell you. This mod is like a fever dream gone horribly wrong. It takes the beloved Half-Life 2 and turns it into some sort of bizarre, twisted monstrosity that would make Salvador Dali scratch his head in confusing.I mean, come on! Have you seen what they did to the character models? They're like plastic dolls on steroids, with overinflated lips and absurdly proportioned assets. It's like someone took a bad fanfiction and turned it into a video game mod. I can't even begin to comprehend how anyone could find this appealing. And let's not even get started on the so-called "cinematic" changes. Oh, sure, let's just slap some overly saturated colors and unnecessary lens flares on everything and call it an improvement. It's like watching a Michael Bay film on acid. The whole thing is an assault on the senses, a visual cacophony that would make even the most hardened gamer weep in despair. But you know what's even worse? The fact that people actually praise this abomination. It's like they've lost all sense of reality and decided to embrace the madness. I've seen people claim that the Cinematic Mod 2013 is the pinnacle of artistic expression, that it elevates Half-Life 2 to a whole new level. I mean, seriously? Have these people lost their minds? It's like saying that painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa improves the original. It's like claiming that covering Beethoven's symphonies with dubstep beats makes them better. It's madness, pure and simple. So, excuse me if I can't share your enthusiasm for this abomination. While you may be lost in a delusional world where the Cinematic Mod 2013 is some sort of gaming masterpiece, I'll be over here, enjoying the original Half-Life 2 in all its unadulterated glory. It's like you've lost touch with reality and fallen into a pit of delusion. Let me tell you, my friend, the Cinematic Mod 2013 is a disaster wrapped in a train wreck. It takes the beloved Half-Life 2 and twists it into something unrecognizable. The character models alone are a nightmare. They look like someone took a bad Photoshop job and plastered it onto the game. It's as if they were trying to create a parody of the original game, but failed miserably. And let's not even get started on the so-called "cinematic" changes. They're like cheap Hollywood knockoffs of actual cinematic experiences. The over-saturated colors and unnecessary lens flares are like a bad Instagram filter gone wrong. It's like someone tried to make the game look like a bad B-movie, and succeeded. But you know what's even worse? The fact some people actually try to defend this mess. They claim that the Cinematic Mod 2013 adds depth and immersion to the game. Depth and immersion? Are they kidding? It's like saying slapping a clown nose on the Mona Lisa makes it more expressive. It's absurd! So sorry if I can't share your enthusiasm for this travesty. While you may think the Cinematic Mod 2013 has some redeeming qualities, I'll be over here, shaking my head in disbelief and sticking to the original Half-Life 2, where the characters look like actual humans and the cinematic experience isn't a cringe-inducing mess. Oh, no, no, NO! How dare you utter a single word of mild praise for that despicable abomination known as the "Cinematic Mod 2013"! It's as if you've stumbled into the deepest depths of insanity, where reason and logic have abandoned you completely. Listen to me, you misguided soul! The Cinematic Mod 2013 is a curse upon the gaming world, a festering wound that refuses to heal. It's like a mutated beast that devours your sanity, leaving only delusion and madness in its wake. I've spent countless sleepless nights, haunted by the horrors of this mod, its twisted existence etched into my very soul. Let me paint you a picture, a deranged portrait of the nightmares this mod conjures. Imagine taking the timeless beauty of the Sistine Chapel and replacing Michelangelo's masterpieces with garish, neon graffiti. Picture Beethoven's symphonies transformed into a cacophony of screeching cats and blaring car horns. That's the level of sacrilege we're talking about here. The character models in the Cinematic Mod 2013 are an affront to the gods of aesthetics. They're like grotesque caricatures, as if a deranged child tried to sculpt faces out of melting Play-Doh. I swear, looking at them for too long feels like staring into the abyss, where the abyss stares back and whispers mad secrets into your ear. And let's not even delve into the so-called "cinematic" changes. Oh, no, my friend, they're more like a cruel parody of what true cinematic experiences should be. It's like taking a Shakespearean play and replacing the poetic language with a nonsensical jumble of alphabet soup. The modders behind this abomination must have made a pact with the devil himself, for only demonic forces could inspire such depravity. But here's the real insanity, my friend. Some misguided souls actually defend this madness. They claim that the Cinematic Mod 2013 is a stroke of genius, a work of art that transcends the very boundaries of reality. They shower praise upon it like a deranged cult, as if they've been brainwashed by some eldritch force from another dimension. It's like a Lovecraftian nightmare come to life, where the sane are driven to madness and the mad revel in their delusions. So, pardon me if I cannot contain my outrage at your feeble attempt to slightly praise this grotesque travesty. While you may have been momentarily bewitched by its seductive lies, I have dedicated my life to unraveling the truth, to exposing the malevolence that lurks beneath the surface. I shall forever stand as a guardian of sanity, resolute in my rejection of the Cinematic Mod 2013, as I bask in the pure brilliance of the unaltered Half-Life 2, where the characters retain the humanity and the cinematic experience is a testament to true artistic vision. Pray, permit me to regale you with the tortured musings that have consumed my very being for these long, arduous years. The Cinematic Mod 2013, good sir, is akin to a deranged carnival of grotesqueries, where the clowns wear the faces of angels and the trapeze artists perform their acrobatics with all the grace of lumbering elephants. It is a cacophony of misshapen proportions, a dance of distortion that would make the great Salvador Dali quiver with perplexity. Imagine, if you will, the delicate strokes of the master artist Van Gogh, his vibrant hue and intricate brushwork transforming a mere canvas into a mesmerizing portal into the realm of the sublime. Now envision someone, in a fit of lunacy, taking a thick brush dipped in garish neon pigments and defiling Van Gogh's masterpieces with chaotic splatters, reducing them to grotesque parodies of their former glory. Such is the sacrilege inflicted upon Half-Life 2 by this heinous mod. And let us not neglect the so-called "cinematic" alterations, for they are naught but a ghastly menagerie of visual debauchery. The modders, it seems, have taken inspiration from the great filmmakers of our age and twisted their noble art into a mockery of itself. It is as if Alfred Hitchhock's suspenseful symphonies have been infiltrated by a cacophony of clattering pots and pans, while Stanley Kubrick's meticulous compositions have been replaced with a dizzying frenzy of disarray. My dear sir, it is with great trepidation that I reveal to you with distressing truth: there exists a sect of misguided souls who, despite possessing faculties supposedly tethered to reason, sing praises to this abomination. They heap adulation upon the Cinematic Mod 2013 as if it were a transcendental revelation, a masterpiece to rival the works of the great playright Shakespeare or the poet Wordsworth. It is a bewildering spectacle, reminiscent of a carnival sideshow where the feeble-minded flock to witness absurdities that defy compprehension. Thus, I beseech you, good sir, to pardon my passionate outburst at your feeble attempt to express even the slightest admiration for this execrable creation. While you may have been momentarily beguiled by its deceitful charms, I have devoted my existence to unmasking its malevolence, to championing the purity and unadulterated brilliance of the unaltered Half-Life 2. I shall remain steadfast in my resistance against the seductive allure of the Cinematic Mod 2013, cherishing the game in its original form, wherein the characters retain their humanity and the cinematic experience remains a testament to" This is as far as I could get until it was unreadable due to the subtitles, sorry!

[@someguy1894]

i aint watchin allat just to connent

[@1lucia]

@@notgaben lmao good effort

[@Mentelgen-1337]

are you german? that one "cool" sounded like it.

[@anticorn6635]

My friend has modded the fuck out cinematic mod, she removed most of the nsfw stuff in it. Overall revamped it, and is now working on new maps for it. Honestly I'm surprised more devs aren't modifying cinematic mod as my friend did. Because it's just impressive what my friend has done. Though she will never release it due to it's high file size and it being a personal project of hers.

[@warnegoodman]

"It was meant to make HL2 to be more like a modern game" "the download is 52 gigabytes" well they got that part right

[@BuddinGHP]

*Stares at Call of Duty with 100 gb update*

[@alyasVictorio]

Both all indie/AA games (across most platforms) and some AAA-looking games (mostly mobile) only had 5~10+ GB just for optimization be like: Where's OPTIMIZATION? 🗿

[@angrypumpkin3822]

unless you want to compress games then yeah.@@alyasVictorio

[@TylerTMG]

​@alyasVictorio mobile games look really good sometimes. like torque drift (which is on pc to)

[@TylerTMG]

​@alyasVictorio and (weather you like it or not) genshin is pretty good looking

[@tdoyr]

Calling it a “Hollywood-retelling” is actually incredibly accurate. Actors that look almost nothing like the people they represent, overly-sexual themes, and obscene filters and effects.

[@ЯрославБерезовский-ъ1в]

Yeah, after watching the video fully I kind of tought "What if its all just intentional"

[@Asas_TV]

literally what i was thinking the entire time. it's clearly intended to be an over the top "hollywood-retelling" of the game so demanding it not to be that is kinda backwards.

[@PresidentNUT]

All of the designs were intentional, I've found myself looking through the files, eventually finding voice clips, music, sound effects... including extremely explicit sounds, suggesting you could play through a mechanical reproduction simulation. But the nicest part about it is you can add your own stuff to the mod. I used HLA sounds and models in conjunction with other mods to make it my own personal version, fixed the iron sights (they're not aligned, so I fixed it) switched the weapons, and made it quite satisfying to play. Its by no means the intended way, but putting a bunch of stuff together is very refreshing.

[@dokuchamp]

Even the understandably poor reaction hl2 fans had to this mod and its tone also feels on theme with the whole 'hollywood adapting beloved properties but failing to understand their charm' thing

[@TheArtkaw]

Michael Bay’s Half-Life

[@markdavis180]

Honestly, I think if he'd put the NSFW parts into an optional download file this mod would've gotten a whole lot less hate.

[@d4cto]

But it is optional though. Before you launch the game, menu pops up that lets you choose the models and you can just choose default models. That's what I did and Cinematic Mod felt pretty damn good to me.

[@Kacpa2]

@@d4cto Not really, it is shown as his vision and by this implied heavily to "the way" to play.

[@d4cto]

@@Kacpa2 you realise that you have to go out of your way to enable something that you don't find appealing, right? It's not on by default.

[@d4cto]

@@smeggiamagarwine overly sexual graffities are something that does exist in a real world and they kind of fit seeing how characters are located somewhere in poor part of eastern europe. I agree that just like with models there has to be an option to keep them off but when I played I didn't really notice them at all.

[@arikowski]

@@d4cto oh yeah and half life 2 should have overly gory deaths that make you extremely uncomfortable because "that does exist in a real world"

[@DQBlizzard_]

3:29 "Thick Goth Mossman" Well that was unexpected

[@derpboxstudios]

Gamebanana is like that, trust me

[@bocktordaytona5656]

The obscene graffity where actually one of the most realistic things of the mod to me. There are no human cities without them. And there is always a friend that signals you every single one of those things when you just take a walk and talk about things.

[@fighter1375]

Four months late, but I also have to add that if I wanted to draw lewd graffiti, why not a place that is very open but also not enforced, like the areas we see with the airboat chapter

[@abysswalker2594]

Hell the first image that popped up for rdr2 was someone who drew a dick in the snow

[@abysswalker2594]

And I remember hearing of a Lego game or something where they had a program that stopped people from building dicks yet people still did just made them very weird so the program would break

[@fasulimac92]

i've personally never seen a clown with a massive and pretty detailed cock graffiti on my city

[@LordDaret]

Heck if you go to Pompeii, there is plenty of obscene graffiti left by Romans, from bars to bathrooms to frequently traveled roads. It’s literally just human (or Roman) nature lmao.

[@aprofondir]

I'm glad Cinematic Mod exists to show everyone how important art direction is to a game

[@flaetsbnort]

I was thinking the exact same thing all throughout the video. The modmaker clearly wanted the game to look 'better' but had very little idea of what it meant other than other, more recently released games. So he just unknowingly copied the art direction of games that had little to no to do with Half-Life.

[@sonicloverlol]

​@@flaetsbnortyea but the game is looks like shit

[@cheesymonday8162]

I feel like deviating from the original art style was the point though. I think the intention was specifically to be really over the top. I mean the description says it’s trying to more “Hollywood” and in that regard I think it does alright. Minus the overly sexual parts of course.

[@FlavioSantos-uw1mr]

Clearly the folks at Overcharged didn't get that note.

[@critlv972]

I don't know about that, the mod seems to follow it's own theme pretty accurately, kind of a Battlefield 3-like blueish urban look. Half-Life 2 levels seem pretty nice actually. Although, yeah, it doesn't line up with the original game that much, but that's what mods are for, aren't they?

[@the-interloper]

You don't know what a torrent is? This guy is too pure.

[@thelegendaryck]

Good old first world problems 😂

[@ivancar555]

What a landlubber!

[@theteardrop615]

i thought you said etude op 10 no 4

[@fredricksivits5517]

Whats a torrent though

[@TheTimoprimo]

@@fredricksivits5517 It's used to jack sparrow video games.

[@marcowulliampopirers2216]

pretty amazing how the developer made this mod with only one hand

[@Bellax06]

Because he was holding the bible in the other right? 😂

[@Campbloxxer]

@@Bellax06 Wrong, He Was Holding The Computer Mouse In The Other, While The Left Was Typing Code.

[@daltondraws3087]

Wrong wrong wrong

[@fredrikcarlen3212]

@@Bellax06 He was jerking off with a bible? This really is a weird guy....

[@faultXDWasTaken]

gawuk@@daltondraws3087

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

Ah yes 2013, when it was controversial for a dev to make a game unnessecarily take up half your hard drive with hundreds of gigs of poorly optimised hd textures. Imagine how messed up it would be if that became the standard practice for almost all AAA games right guys?

[@lisaanimi]

2013 Had no idea what future would be like...

[@_MaZTeR_]

"Perhaps I treated you too harshly..."

[@ludvig3242]

Uninstall a game or two dipshit. How are you guys running out of space, do you people just keep half your game library installed at all times? fuckin weirdos

[@Dorfuto]

This looks like those obscure 360/PS3 launch title games that would be forgotten after it came out.

[@anoobindisguise9974]

Cinematic Mod: I have the most NSFW content in a mod ever! Skyrim Modders: You have not seen my power. btw, i made this comment 4 months ago and people are still replying and talking about how cinematic mod isnt promoted as NSFW. Please stop, its a joke, (im not complaining about how popular it is, its my most popular comment so im happy)

[@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и]

It was not been a problem - if that mod was be a NSFW. But officially CM mod was marketed - as SFW mod. THAT'S WAS A PROBLEM.

[@szeretemahansant226]

@@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и tf you shouting FOR?

[@anoobindisguise9974]

@@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и I know, just making a joke.

[@Slimpicken]

its really fucking weird the design choices with the full models and graffiti but i don't see it the end of the world to imply that alyx has some quality alone time out of our eyes. she's a human too and infact sexual related topics or relationship related topics to half life have been made by valve but maybe not as heavily.

[@Scatmanseth]

@@Slimpicken true but it doesn't require a modder to create a fully modelled cervix to do so.

[@mort_brain]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POINTING OUT THAT THE GAME TIME IS 15% SLOWER and how to fix it! I've never seen anyone discuss it anywhere, but I have always felt that it's slower, than normal!

[@M1X41I]

They really sending a death threats to a guy for being horny in 2013 💀💀

[@alexferrana3979]

It's kinda weird how games gets angry at the guy who just made a mod for fun (even though it's not perfect) but also was sending death threats to Aneeta Sarkeesian for... well, criticizing a sexualizing of female character in games.

[@Protectorofgod]

@@alexferrana3979ig it’s because like s*x is scarred or whatever? Or it’s just because they find it gross but it’s like you could just mind your own business to me the whole mod is really funny to make fun of, sending death threats is super unhinged though.

[@olivercharles2930]

@@alexferrana3979 Both suck. And let's not pretend "games" are a monolithic group that all hate the very existence of aneeta sarkeesian.

[@yellowcard8100]

@@alexferrana3979 Yeah but Anita sucks still.

[@grom4818]

@@alexferrana3979 because theyre not defending sexualizing of female characters, anita capitalized on things that weren't actually the case and exaggerated other things, making functional brains question why people are allowed to simply lie and get success/attention, but people will spin that any other way. basically you were lied to by the other side of the coin if you think like this

[@Shinyworldwide]

as a complete outsider of half-life, i look at this mod and i think, alright, odd choices, but it looks pretty cool. so now i've been radicalized and i want to start a first playthrough with this mod installed just to spite the entire half-life community.

[@Falllowman]

Dew it!

[@oz_jones]

Imagine sending literal death threaths to some dude who made tiddies jiggle 10 years ago.

[@adonayshot]

The wost part is the amount of people here defending this sort of action. There are people here that even say that the creator is a 14 yo, when he created the mod like 10 years Ago. Come on people...

[@RandomnessCreates]

@@adonayshot To be fair, Half-Life is the most toxic austism rage type of community to get into as a kid. Alongside the other Valve communities but as Michael Jordan would say, "Fuck them Ki-".

[@adonayshot]

@@RandomnessCreates That's true, there is a lack of quality in the valve's communities, not sure why this sort of thing happens, especially when you compare it towards other fandoms that are winning in the qualitative aspect, such as capcom's fanboys and DRG fandom.

[@me67galaxylife]

@RandomnessCreates You don’t live in the same world as i do then.

[@me67galaxylife]

Twitter moment

[@flaetsbnort]

Tired: Being angry at this mod for being weirdly sexualized Wired: Having a nuanced opinion taking the entire mod into consideration Fired: Being angry at this mod because a dildo goes against the canon

[@mrfanpl]

I love how Half-Life 2 is like the only game where sexual themes are ACTUALLY against the canon because of the suppression field.

[@identity__thief]

@@mrfanpl I thought the suppression field disabled a particular protein or similar necessary for conception, not that it simply stopped people being horny?

[@LordVader1094]

@@identity__thief Because of disabling that, it does pretty much stop libido entirely judging from how people talk in the game. Doesn't stop love, though.

[@absolutemattlad2701]

@@LordVader1094 How people talk? Like what?

[@Rey-eq4vq]

Goes against Canon?

[@fanta_manxd7851]

Actually the Graffiti kinda makes sense. I know that the game is not supposed to include NSFW, but such graffiti is seen all across eastern europe. If you go to any abandoned/left over building you are guaranteed to see atleast some kind of pornography. And yes I live in the balkans so I do have experience with such Graffiti. The other part's of the mod such as the dildo could have been placed in a drawer for a funny easter egg but the pylogons thing cannot be defended. So he did not deserve that much hate, since he depicted Eastern Europe like it truly is in some way.

[@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и]

Why he then not explained that, but start to backpedaling and screaming on everyone? Too late now.

[@fanta_manxd7851]

​@@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и sorry for replying late. I don't think at that time people had the thinking capacity to defend themselves. At the time the only thing that was "cool" to do so would be to insult someone and make everyone else hate that person aswell

[@ManLikeEddy]

to be honest he didn't deserve hate for all of that the internet tries too hard to be a do gooder and a "justice warrior" personally I do not agree with the fully modelled stuff it's very weird and kind of disturbing but that doesn't mean you should go out of your way to harass this man but yeah the conclusion is that the internet is way too hypocritical at times

[@mrgrinderman8861]

True that

[@snark567]

@@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и Too late for what? Some socially awkward dude made a weird HL mod, why does it matter? It seems like people get a false sense of moral superiority when they gather to shit on something, no matter how mundane it is.

[@nicktyrin4401]

So weird, this mod does look good, and somehow looks cohesive Minus the raunchy graffitis and female models, this is a very interesting and certainly valid graphical reimagining

[@JustSomeRandomIdiot]

0:04 I do 3d modelling for a living. And like characters in the matrix who can look at matrix code and see what's there, I too can look at wireframes and instantly read what I'm looking at. I knew exactly what that was.

[@luk4323]

What was it?

[@luk4323]

What was it?

[@Skibidigokyllyourself]

naaaaaah way dude this was 6 months ago leave it maaaan pleeeease​@@luk4323

[@exetri3]

What was it?

[@despair239]

What was it?

[@soadfan1022]

Took 10 seconds to find the person in the lambda generation discord and they're either banned or left of their own volition. Funnily enough someone asked why they hated cinematic mod and their immediate response was, and this is a direct quote "F U L L Y M O D E L E D "

[@1lucia]

You're right, they have in fact since been banned, I just checked. Though his ban was about a year later, seemingly for unrelated reasons. Good for them though. (also please do not go witch hunting for this person, as I mentioned in the video, it's probably just a kid that was influenced by the community / wants to troll. Don't harass them or anyone mentioned in this video.)

[@tarekcat1]

I can regonize him,and i remember him being banned some time ago from another server for saying the "fa" slur

[@rc5249]

​@@tarekcat1 Average 14 year old

[@tonypeppermint5329]

God damm.

[@amentco8445]

@@tarekcat1 fake?

[@Cysco8575]

I always had the feeling that Cinematic Mod was a "What if Michael Bay was the art director of Half Life 2" and i'm glad i wasn't wrong.

[@skinwalker69420]

It's why I recommend setting your game resolution to 720x480 and setting the max framerate to 24, to make it look like you're playing Half-Life 2 on DVD.

[@melc311]

5:10 There is no time skip. When you get out of the miners it's supposed to morning again and the start of day 2. All of the coast levels take place during day 2. It gets dark once you reach nova prospekt because a whole day passed. HL2 maps are prefixed with d1 d2 and d3.

[@gabrielcastilho4168]

It's a time skip because the time length of that night is WAY LESS than the time you've just spend during the first day

[@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и]

Yes, i got that right, but it's still strange to see - how original sections of HL2 - in nights - are shorter, then a Day sections. So here atleast - still(!) FF - got that right.

[@tomclanys]

@@gabrielcastilho4168 well, let me tell you a thing - in summer nights are way shorter than days, especially in some parts of Europe. Gets dark at around 22:00, becomes bright again after 3:00.

[@mrfanpl]

and Gordon Freeman doesn't even need to sleep

[@gabrielcastilho4168]

@@tomclanys Not impossible, but looks more like a "filling the gap with plausible explanation" than something they really thought through

[@koopdawhoop.]

hating on a hl2 mod for its sexualization to the point of sending death threats to the dev is really funny because anyone who is familiar with any multiplayer source game would know what abhorrent shit people spray on walls

[@delusion5867]

the nightmares I have from sprays and conscientious objector decals in tf2

[@ThickmoidYeast]

10:06 did you legit type all of that out just for this bit? That's dedication right there!

[@bliss1390]

It’s actually a really well made mod, and it deserves credit where it is due. FakeFactory is just a really horny dude. Someone made a patch to get rid of all the NSFW.

[@richardavelino7383]

Not an excuse. I don't want a dude's fucking cervix in my game. Guess we're not at the Fallout the Frontier part of history yet

[@bliss1390]

@@richardavelino7383 Once again, you don’t have to use those models

[@richardavelino7383]

@@bliss1390 It comes from the same tree. At that point I'm just not going to play the mod.😂

[@theepicshifter1251]

@@richardavelino7383then just don’t play the mod.

[@richardavelino7383]

@@theepicshifter1251 that's the consensus buddy. Keep that virgin caca away

[@cmdrufeindschiff3947]

There's some minor misrepresentation in this video regarding the character models: Fakefactory didn't create THAT alternative Alyx model (most likely he didn't create many of the Alyx models and the mossman models either), he just bought that character model. These models were sold with NSFW animations in mind and therefore have certain private parts fully modeled with the particle attachment points. Fakefactory just didn't go out of this way to remove these and unless you select that particular character model and noclip into Alyx, you'd never even know. Also, I never understood the hate for the grafitti. I live in a large city and there are many grafittis smeared on walls portraying NSFW things in a crude way just like the Cinematic mod does. Why would City 17 as the administrative center of the world (and therefore most likely the largest city) be any different?

[@videogamerNattie98]

You have to balance realism with functionality and personal preference just because it is realistic to what you experience or just realistic in general does not mean it should be added. If a thing is not marked as NSFW for instance while having that content then it will get crapped on for it because your failing to separate the content into its correct categories because not everyone wants to have that in there game and even if he didn't make the models its still a failure in due diligence on his part to let it be and not do something about it. What I am saying is it can be realistic but it shouldn't come at the expense of forcing people to deal with things they never wanted or in this case did not know since it was not noted or marked down with that in it. Especially considering its there game and there allowed to play it how they see fit. Think about it your driving a car in a video game and it runs out of gas do you want to A have a means to refill the car then and there even if it makes no sense or B walk miles down the road buy gas in the game and Walk it back to fill the car. My point is you don't want realistic elements if it detracts from the experience or detriments the player playing the game to a very bad degree even if it comes at the expense of some of that realism your players will appreciate convenience more then unreasonably applied limitations due to realism. Unless your goal in mind is to make a incredibly realistic game out of the get go but you should also tell or convey to your players that is what your game is.

[@marcar9marcar972]

@@videogamerNattie98 sure, realism isn’t always great and I don’t like the graffiti. I’m a Christian and a prude. I hate NSFW but it’s also just some game on the internet including graffiti you’d actually find. I don’t see a major issue.

[@videogamerNattie98]

@@marcar9marcar972 Nah man even if on the internet if your doing a animation or a mod you NEED to correctly label what your putting out.

[@gazzy9136]

Not everyone watches pedo anime and wants nude girls or perverted graffiti in their games

[@foolishknight5209]

@@gazzy9136 ...The fuck are you talking about, buddy? That came out of nowhere, he just gave a justification for the guy and you come in screeching about pedo anime, who the fuck was talking about anything remotely like that?

[@franzk.himmler1196]

Man, I legitimately feel bad for FakeFactory. Death threats? It just goes to show that pouring your heart out in front of people really can sting if it backfires. Definitely some strange choices were made for this mod, and I'm not a fan of most of the models. But still, death threats?!

[@gamertrask9153]

Welcome to the internet! Where it’s a mix of people getting what they deserve or not getting what they deserve (bad or good) and then people move on the next thing to hate. Because what drives people more then money Then rage! Or PS5’s.

[@dededede9257]

People forget that he is just a video game need touch some grass

[@dhkdeoen]

'wrong justice is worse than evil, since it has no shame' they say. and the entire community played it along.

[@Bonibello]

I think he poured... more than just his heart into it.

[@chxrripop]

@@dededede9257fake factory is a video game?

[@dhgmrz17]

Half-Life 2 players: "These nsfw models are absolutely disgusting, this mod needs to be canceled!" Skyrim players: "Yeah baby, that's what I've been waiting for! That's what it's all about!"

[@RM-xr8lq]

oblivion mods is where it was at back in those days

[@IsolationStreams]

I actually like the way the Cinematic Mod reworked City 17, if nothing else. It makes the city feel more alive. Additionally, the color palette is actually quite similar to Half Life Alyx.

[@buryatianspy5594]

But devs tried to show despair and more controlled and dying city with it's depressing and oppressing atmosphere because of Alliance's attacks. And this cinematic mod just deleted this atmosphere by adding more freshly built skyscrapers and building cranes in the distance.

[@tezlatower2362]

At one point, this mod could probably have been considered the worst. But now, there's one mod that makes this one look like a masterpiece...

[@didyfinkise9033]

Which one are you talking about?

[@tezlatower2362]

@@didyfinkise9033 Hunt down the refund as it is well known

[@bigbad5067]

hunt down the refund isnt even a mod, its a full game which makes it even worse

[@tezlatower2362]

@@bigbad5067 I guess you could say it evolved. Just… backwards.

[@linkfreeman1998]

Ah yes, Overcharged.

[@Full_Throttle_Axolotl]

This mod accomplishes it's goals really well, the problem is that it's goals can be boiled down to "Half-Life 2 as directed by Michael Bay"

[@blastergamer626]

Lol

[@kls1836]

I am sorry thats a problem?

[@Moonknife]

Hence the "CINEMATIC" mod

[@wiperout1244]

@@kls1836yes

[@JohnRDVSMarston]

Which was more or less what was said to be >.>

[@emirhanbudak6824]

I played it with default models and MMOD weapons but it felt great

[@melnik_edits]

Yes. Exactly... CM topic is super overcooked bc of these Character models... apart from that its really fun...

[@emirhanbudak6824]

@@melnik_edits also weapon models are not very good but playing with MMOD closes that gap

[@pixelqiwi]

@@melnik_edits also the graffiti and the sex toy models but othewise yeah

[@px8]

@@pixelqiwi Don't cry unless you've played it bro

[@JohnBart86]

I also completed a playthrough with CM and MMod, and I agree with you that it's probably the best combination for enjoying this mod. Even if somewhat cluttered at places, I think that the overall mapping work in CM is pretty great, and it especially shines when paired with the lore-friendly gameplay enhancements of MMod. I'm not sure if the MMod folks continued working on the CM compatibility since I've last played the game, though - I remember there were about 2-3 occasions where the game crashed to the desktop when playing with the two mods together, but other than that, it was a stable experience.

[@doominator-117]

A lot of the terrain in this mod, or the maps, the environmental storytelling is awesome. One of the strong points for sure.

[@provideowatcher]

i like how you gave it an actual honest review rather than just saying what people wanna hear

[@Sinnaj63]

Hot Take, but I actually get the thought process behind the obscene graffitis, and I think they actually make a lot of sense. I think if you think about what kinda stuff people would paint on the walls as an act of resistance in the context of the Combine suppressive field preventing all reproduction. Probably stuff like that.

[@dhgmrz17]

I mean, it's not unusual to come across obscene graffiti in real life. Go to any underpass and you will most likely find some.

[@dustojnikhummer]

Especially in Eastern Europe. HL2 takes place in Bulgaria@@dhgmrz17

[@swaggadash9017]

​@@dhgmrz17Literally people graffiti penises all over the place. Go into most back streets in the UK and a shlong will be somewhere 😂

[@prototypeoswald1140]

@@dhgmrz17 not just underpasses. Went to sit down at a skate park couple years ago and the entire place was practically filled with obscenities.

[@abysswalker2594]

Makes sense

[@BoyBlunder66]

Honestly, I'm kinda with the mod author on this one. If you dislike some of his admittedly weird choices then that's fine, but like, it's a mod... just don't use it. Attacking the guy online just because you don't like it is just a real internet moment.

[@phloxie]

those people are the reason why we can't have nice things anymore, imagine all the mod projects which got canceled because the Dev's don't want to handle tons of 13 year old justice warriors... its no longer a way to experiment and just have fun, damn i miss the early 2000....

[@kitosjek9541]

​@@phloxiejust say you like animated tiddies you deathclaw humper

[@n646n]

The mod isn't the issue, the guy is an obvious raging misogynist and objectifier, and sending people porn without their consent (fully modelled)

[@phloxie]

@@n646n sounds pretty based to me

[@EggwardEgghands]

@@n646n It's a mod, not reddit. You're completely lost.

[@ultgamercw6759]

Is it bad I actually like how this mod looks in some of the footage? Yes the models don't look very half life but the amount of detail included along with the way it try's to push new features into source is very impressive for a solo dev.

[@scaniadan2968]

no its not bad

[@Nombrenooriginal]

The mod gives you tons of blur that can make you go blind, idk if you can modify that tho

[@arikowski]

this is fantastic for a solo dev. the only issue is that a 45 year old added obnoxious nsfw into the already good mod

[@CaptNeyo]

Do it man play it

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Yeah.

[@windowsvista3193]

The fake factory remaster is VERY good with MMod:edit: it dials back everything, just better graphics and the maps are slightly updated

[@scpWyatt]

Dude, this is such a blast from the past. In 2012, I got my first pc and was still so new to modding and pc gaming by the time the FF mod came out (I was also a teenager). I had loved the mod and didn’t understand the hate it was getting back then. Coming from consoles, it was so cool to see a single person be able to remake so much of a game on so many different levels. Looking back now, I still have nostalgia for it, and FF did get more hate than he deserved, but it WAS hilariously odd in some places for sure lol.

[@zerro3172]

sheesh real wyatt here

[@lowercase_E]

Was not expecting you here

[@comagreeny7194]

6:36 I think having more trees and grass makes it look worse, not because it looks uglier, but because in half life the combine is basically slowly killing earth and well the plants suffer from this attack as well.

[@BlazejBoc]

i personally liked playing this mod. I just used the default models for the characters other textures for the weapons and combined it with mmod

[@KingPBJames]

Same, this mod did a lot right. Playing with the alternate models and soundtracks were interesting but it can be played without either.

[@infini667]

Criticism is fine, but there's absolutely no need to hate. The guy just added some personality to the thing; people can simply choose not to use the mod if they don't like it.

[@madbanana22]

"I did my part" you are 12 your part is "washing dishes" and "doing homework"

[@drowsy_spectre]

You’re absolutely right on the perspective and intent going into the mod. I loved this mod as a younger teen because of how much the game was overhauled. The sexualized models and graffiti had flustered me quite a bit but it was overshadowed by experiencing the new content: environments, lighting, weapons, etc. It was only in hindsight that I learned about ‘fully modeled’ and the Alyx room, since I just came into the mod just expecting a good time and I found one. Had FF known restraint and not included anything overly sexual, the reception would be immensely different, because it irks me that everyone knows this as the cervix mod when everything else about it was so cool.

[@cillianwatters5619]

I think the hate is largely undeserved. The graphical and environment enhancements are very impressive, especially for 1 dude. Though I definitely agree that the whole fully modelled and graffiti parts, among a few others, are weird to put it lightly.

[@aqua-sama7298]

that's what I thought after seeing that video. I've never heard of this mod until watching it.

[@AirLancer]

The hate is also weird because people could just...not use the mod.

[@DaddyMaster76]

What i really liked about HL2 is that the faces looked like (and were) real people. With these cinematic mods it feels like they're removing a part of the charm.

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Oh yeah.

[@Chinothebad]

Yeah, when you look at the faces Valve used, they would be scans from people that worked at Valve or were people the employees knew or had hired. Meanwhile in the cinematic mod, one would just take character models from DAZ3D or Second Life and just call it a day.

[@heroinboblivesagain5478]

So pick the default models.. Seriously. Half life fans get so pissy over optional things they have to go out of their way to enable, just to whinge about it.

[@DaddyMaster76]

@@heroinboblivesagain5478 as you can clearly tell from the comment, I was not at all mad. Its just about preference. I'm just pointing out a good feature

[@Artoooooor]

They look quite like actors. Especially women from our team in the later levels, with perfect make-up, despite lack of basic utilities and being in the middle of literal war zone :)

[@KelpTheGreat]

I'm a huge Half-Life fan, but for whatever reason I've never gotten into the modding scene for the series, so I've never heard of this before. I think your video here is an extremely fair and reasonable take on everything. Kudos.

[@vishaansingh1019]

If "NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN" was a distilled essence

[@RichterOvertime]

great vid

[@1lucia]

Thank you! :)

[@sitkinator]

Oh shit! it's the dude with the VHS for a head!!

[@WilliumBobCole]

I just remember really liking the parallax occlusion mapped materials, giving details to the ground that were almost like witchcraft to me at the time. I don't remember if this was an included feature before or after the release of Crysis, but it was certainly before I was able to *play* crysis for myself

[@tacticaljunk1608]

It's definitely over-hated. It actually looks really good in some places, and the attention to detail is staggering for a one man team. (In one particular case that you mentioned, this level of detail is to the games detriment at times...) I prefer mMod for sure, and vanilla still looks totally fine even today. But cinematic mod isn't a bad way to revisit HL2.

[@Teddingtin]

I’m downloading the mod just to spite the idiots making hating it their whole personality.

[@Petronia911]

Offtopic, but I was revisiting a video just now. Saw your comment that I replied to 3 years ago. What a random ass coincidence to see you again. I hope you enjoyed the Rance OVA with the sauce I gave ya, brother. Enjoy the Half Life mod.

[@Teddingtin]

@@Petronia911 Wow, that is a crazy coincidence! I like moments like this, it makes the internet not feel so big. See you next time, my friend.

[@shydun]

it's weird because with asset overhauls the maps actually look really great. there's also a ton of duplicate files. works amazing with mmod and hla assets tho

[@CaptainFoxer]

What's often not really talked about are the early versions of Cinematic Mod where it started off more as a texture pack for HL2 (and it still had the cinematic music and other balance changes iirc), giving higher res textures for both the model and the world textures. You would be hard pressed to find a download of the original 1-2 versions before custom models were added in, as the Moddb page doesn't have it (and a significant portion of the older versions), and your google search results will more than likely give you results for the new versions of the mod that you see everyone talk about when the mod is mentioned, it's not impossible to find those old versions wayback machine is helpful, but it is annoying. Also if you've watched any significant amount of HL2/Gmod Machinima back in it's heyday or now, you might be familiar with the early Cinematic Mod textures as a decent amount of people used it for their machinima.

[@dinobanan3211]

In the mod description, it said it was made to resemble something made in Hollywood and I think (looking at your video) that it's pretty much accurate. The mod delivered what it said it would.

[@DropsOfMars]

I appreciate the measured and reasonable perspective in this video, I had never heard anyone talking positively whatsoever about this mod and so it's nice to hear a more positive look even if there are things rightfully criticized.

[@back5bludbann960]

Anyone crying over sensitive graffiti hasn’t been outside… that’s legit a stupid criticism.

[@l0rd0f5k33p]

The problem is that it wasn’t disclosed. If you’re gonna add lewd images to a game that didn’t have them originally, you should disclose that.

[@back5bludbann960]

@@l0rd0f5k33p lewd images? It’s graffiti, you see dicks drawn on the walls daily if you go outside, why would it matter in a game?

[@ok-mx1mi]

Exactly, do these people not go outside? Or do they think its just flowers or what ​@@back5bludbann960

[@nihuyevo_zhmihnulo]

I will be honest with yall, after spending a year and a half remastering half-life 2 and its parts myself - i hate the people who hate the guy that did this remaster. And for context - i remastered it using g-mod addons simply by porting them, and yet it took me 1,5 years! Not to mention the ruined optimization and the amount of times I've had to reinstall HL2 just to start over and reinstall all the mods... And i remade it with my own quirks, including controversial graffities and other stuff. And yes, some of the models from the steam workshop were "fully modeled". Dont hate on someone else's work without thinking about what it took this person to actually do this, and without thinking what it'd take YOU.

[@minorchoker]

think the one obscene thing i can excuse is the graffiti, because thats the type ofshit you would see EVERYWHERE realistically

[@Damian-cilr2]

Also because its supposed to imitate the hollywood style.

[@SaladaSla]

An the fully modeled models, since he bought the models, and didn't make them himself.

[@Colddirector]

It kind of reminds me of HBO's Rome, where they (accurately) had sexual graffiti all over the walls of the city.

[@vasto5952]

The eye widening moment all bethesda modders had in the first 3 seconds.

[@Mark_OneXD]

bruh i might be the only guy out there who LOVES this mod. seriously when i first saw that mod was amazed by how cool the game looked (about the nsfw sprays and posters yeah that sucks a lot, that was even worse when i showed to my father lmao).

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Oh no.

[@aqua-sama7298]

There isn't anything wrong about enjoying the mod. I looked pretty cool for what a 1 man modder could create on his own. Not saying that I'm much of a fan of the NSFW route the mod took. Also hopefully your father was kind to you after getting the mod shown

[@Mark_OneXD]

@@aqua-sama7298 he think it's awesome to see a new way to play hl2 he is a valve nerd and passed that to me lmao

[@aqua-sama7298]

@@Mark_OneXD That sounds like the best ending you could've got out of there. Good for you two!

[@madmonty4761]

​@@Mark_OneXDanybody can like anything no matter how bad it is

[@keiyakins]

"Fixing a time lapse in the original game" what? You get to BME as the sun sets, make it through Ravenholm overnight, miss the sunrise while you're in the mines and emerge in the morning. You spend the day heading for Nova Prospekt. Then the sun is going down when you get to the rebel camp at the end of sandtraps, where you spend a while waiting for the bugbait and training with it, and it's night when you exit to go the rest of the way. That changes the entire timeline.

[@lasarousi]

Pretending to not know what a torrent is, is probably the hardest I've laughed today.

[@btfo420]

What you said is totally true. All that was needed was to remove some NSFW and questionable graffitis choices. For a Source mod, the graphics are really well done. But damn people and their pitchfork and the fact that people can just straight up sending death threats and expect no repercussions just because “everyone hates the mod” is unreal.

[@ManLikeEddy]

that's just leftist culture

[@WhiteGryphus]

@@ManLikeEddy its any culture really. not just left. you see dumbasses hating because "other people" hate it in almost anywhere, like they've tossed their brains (which is a requirement to have a rational thought) somewhere down the drain and fed it to the ants.

[@naturesquad9174]

@@ManLikeEddy naw thats literally conservative culture my guy

[@lop90ful1]

@@naturesquad9174 Nah its just that mod fandom is very entitles little shits that never respect the mod authors and thinks its they holy right to destroy any mod that remorlty bothers them

[@georgehannaford8014]

@@ManLikeEddy Maybe it has nothing to do with strawman political groups and is the result of people being shitty???

[@andyw386]

Sir, this is the internet, having sensible views are not allowed. You must either viciously hate or unconditionally adore and worship things, there is no in-between.

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

OMG THAT'S SO LIKE, OFFENSIVE!! 💅💅💅

[@cozz124]

can we dox this guy

[@zaikolebolsh5724]

Somebody: *spends time modding an entirely optional mod, out of his own free time with weird art direction but clearly acomplishing what he wanted* Everyone: "SEND DEATH THREATS, I DIDNT EVEN TRY THE MOD BUT BURN HIS DOG!" jokes aside it was a meme but youtubers getting on a bandwagon of hate for an easy video converted something that we joked about into a literal hate spree. There is no joke in sending death threats or wishing bad deeds to somebody who just made a mod. I will never go near that mod but the amount of dissapointment and even digust i feel about this community is inmesurable

[@phloxie]

imagine all the mod projects which got canceled because the Dev's don't want to handle tons of 13 year old justice warriors... its no longer a way to experiment and just have fun, damn i miss the early 2000....

[@Bravo1c]

Good take, I remember when this came out and found everyone's reaction a bit much. You dont have to use it and there are mostly toggles for most things. At the end of the day if its something you want to use then do, if not just dont. Its not for me and that's fine.

[@ObjectivelyCorrectOpinion]

8:17 I KNEW IT!

[@rotateamflint2977]

People : Hate an actual good mod because it can have boobs and has weird graffiti Me : A Skyrim mod veteran 0_0

Actually i am that kind of people 😂 but if they instead focus on the bright side of this mod they just don't need to give a shit about sending killthreat to the dev. Literally out there people enjoy weird fetish tweaks for their game but why we should stick our nose in. Ridiculous.

[@mmnd8158]

No I’m pretty sure they hate it with the MANY unnecessary features in this mod that just feels put in because “reasons”, for example the kick.

[@colt-_-jonson1743]

Dirty old man

[@amaruqlonewolf3350]

People hate the Overcharged mod for the same reasons, and it doesn't have NSFW. Point being, the mod has more problems than there were showcased here.

[@rotateamflint2977]

@@amaruqlonewolf3350 Bro it's been 7 months lmao

[@v-cold1190]

This mod is getting hate for what it's supposed to be. You read it in the intro "a Hollywood producer got his hands on the game". Have you seen the R-rated Hollywood movies (even sometimes not even R-rated)? A bunch of them have completly uneccesary sexy/violent scenes, or people who really don't fit with what they're working with. Take for example Transformers by Michael Bay (or almost any movie by Michael bay). How many of the booty shots of Megan Fox where neccesary? How many of the akward sexual jokes (like the dogs banging or what not, or the main character saying he was jaking it) where neccesary? None really. This mod is that. You might not like it, but it does what is says it is going to do. The modder clearly was not aiming for some high art, but for what most Hollywood movies do.

[@esejake130]

i think is very a poorly argument to defend the fully modeled, 52 skins for alyx and incels graffitis

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Yeah, Hollywood is filled to the brim with scumbags. And it's not happening in a virtual setting of a video game, it's happening in real life.

[@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и]

@@esejake130 And a DILDO in Alyx room, btw.

[@shrekrab]

@@esejake130 Jesus christ can you read?

[@adonysmunoz4786]

@@esejake130 literally how is this a poor argument?

[@XanderNiles]

I remember when that mod got released back in 2013 and the backlash it got. I know that FakeFactory may had issues but the hatred is kind of overkill. It's a 2013 mod that still holds up but it's old news these days.

[@Razumen]

To be fair, the sexual parts of the mod are an extremely small percentage of it. If you look at all the work that went into this mod, they're just a drop in the bucket. Sure, they could've been separate addon, but they are still mostly optional, and you have to go out of your way to enable the sexy female models. Plus saying he should go to therapy for making a game "sexier" is ridiculous. Everyone loves sex, even the weirdos sending him death threats (THEY should be the ones going to therapy TBH)

[@tallymanz6756]

I generally like sexy things from time to time, but don't like sexual pandering since it feels like someone's jingling keys at me to try and get my attention, and I think generally speaking it makes this version of the game "trashier" artistically, but yeah sending death threats and saying he should be committed is absurd, if anything he succeeded in providing a "hollywood" version so it's truth in advertising. (Also there are people who don't like sex just FYI, I'm not one of them but they do exist)

[@readyforlol]

My guy. No one is complaining about the mod being just sexy, or saying they don't enjoy sex (even if some don't btw). The problem is making only female characters sexy, clearly obsessing over these details (you can make a character "sexy" without adding ridiculous jiggle physics, nipples visible through clothes, a dildo lying about in the middle of their open room and a modeled p*ssy rigged to drip. All of these at once). Also it WOULD be a drop in the bucket if it was just ONE alternate model, not like 50+ individual outfits. Just so you know, outfits also need rigging and skinning. It's not just models and textures. Outfits are a TON of work, much more than similarly sized static assets. Just Alyx's outfits alone probably took like 10-20% of the dev time in that mod. That's one hell of a drop. Also I'll assume you commented this before the video mentioned the graffiti, because implying the "all women are whores" graffiti is "just making the game sexier" would be straight up a bad faith argument imho. All that context pushes this mod clear over the "sexy" line, most of the way through "creepy" territory to land right next to "deranged" land. The people sending death threats definitely should go to therapy, but he probably does too.

[@Razumen]

@@readyforlol Yeah they are.

[@jamessmith4172]

@@readyforlolAs another commenter pointed out, the graffiti is realistic- especially in Eastern Europe a lot of abandoned buildings have a lot of pornographic graff. Also one thing I’ve never understood is claiming that making specifically women models sexy is “problematic” or implies “all women are whores.” And it’s certainly not sexist. No, it’s just marketing- men enjoy attractive and visually sexualised women more than women do men. It’s just biology, think about how much more men watch p0rn. And the guy who made the mod is clearly a bit more horny than average lmao. It’s weird, but it’s not a problem. Objectively speaking, it’s not even creepy and it’s kinda crappy to call him creepy- which carries the implication that he’s somehow a threat or dangerous to women- when he’s just making art, albeit very strange art. You can make the argument that pornographic materials are just morally wrong in general, and that I can agree with. But claiming this is bad simply because it prioritises sexualising women is just blaming people for their innate biological preferences, and is itself a mean thing to do.

[@ariabritton9669]

in vanilla, the sun sets fully while in BMeast, which you can see in the courtyard with dog. you basically spend the whole night in ravenholm and the mines, and then you are greeted with sunriserise when you emerge onto the train tracks. you spend the whole day along the coast, and when you reach NP the sun starts to set again.

[@Matt-zu2lu]

Half Life fans: This mod is so disgusting! Skyrim fans: Yeah! Why doesn’t this mod have a nude option for the character?!?!

[@captaincookie72]

It seems like a very interesting mod, its obviously very odd the creator included those very crude textures and models but some of the environments are very cool and look like an interesting change to the normal game, and some of environments just look beautiful based of the clips you showed. If the mod removed the crude parts it'd be a pretty cool mod to try out.

[@lop90ful1]

How is it odd? the mod page litterly states to give a " “Hollywood-retelling”

[@Alice-Cullen-Fan]

Considering how degenerate mods can be, I don't understand why people had a meltdown over lewd Alyx and some graffiti. I bet many of the people complaining back then got off to way more disturbed stuff. I guess sexualizing women is worse than furries and lollis.

[@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и]

There a frickin dildo in ALYX ROOM, you dumbf_ck!!! It is like imagine that movie with aliens - with Travolta (i forgot name of that movie), and add there - some sex toys and NSFW stuff. Or imagine a "Equilibrium" (yes, that Gun-Fu dystopian movie), but also adding there a DILDO or Vagina sextoy for Main Character of that movie. You getting - how stupid it working?

[@melnik_edits]

The thing is everyone is going after CM bc of the character models... which are deactivated by default, you have to manually activate them... so i dont get why this is even a issue. I installed CM multiple times over the last decade, and they were never switched on... if you ask me CM2013 + MMOD + Original character models is a really fun experience.

[@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и]

Not only problem in Skins. Problem is also - with NSFW graffiti on the walls, which you can easily to remove (you need to find in internet - another mod for the mod, to remove them). And also DILDO in Alyx's Room, and some Gravure/Erotic posters of girls... in the world, where everybody under Alien's oppression field which turned off their desire to lust... So basically - it's really show anyway, how this german 45-old guy - are horny incel asf, even with or without NSFW skins from Character Pimper.

[@compmanio36]

Death threats over a mod nobody forced you to download. Yep, that's the Internet alright.

[@NOTDeezy.]

I don't hate cinematic mod because of the sexual themes on their own. Like people say some of it was very much optional. I hate cinematic mod because the porn models which were definitely made for High Quality Animation, not videogames, are ripped and stolen from artists without credit and because they're ripped animation models, also end up extremely unoptimized for the game and would only cause unnecessary lag. The entire mod is very poorly optimized and I think no singular mod should ever have the file size of **55 gigabytes** You're better off playing different Half-Life mods at that point

[@flarium9133]

your channel deserves more subs, it is a really good one

[@MajorSilvaa]

I think it’s coming in time. Really quality content

[@Equites279]

The second he said that they added Alyx's room, I was literally expecting this lmao 4:48. The mod creator is such a coomer lmao

[@ashumon23]

I dunno. I feel grand-standing the "purity" of half-life by dick-riding the hate train of this mod is a bit dated now. Especially considering how popular Bethesda game mods are now.

[@TheRabbitPoet]

ngl, I don't like the fact that everything looks more like the US, but I guess it does fit the premise of "hollywood adaptation"

[@Baloo106]

"Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!" -Skyrim nexus main page

[@BazanOffMates]

chad skyrim modding community vs virgin half life modding community

[@snark567]

This mod is ok. People rage over nothing, the way I see it, some dude just messed around with how HL2 looked and decided to share it online. The rest is people just having no life and searching for something to be angry about.

[@m1xov]

The Alliance defeated the land in 7 hours. They destroyed half of the planet and exterminate the remnants in the cities. And in this mod, they fucking build new buildings.

[@snark567]

@@m1xov Yes

[@Lyaagato]

ikr..people like to b!tch about everything, typical snowflake apes

[@m1xov]

@@snark567 So do they have Breen in power? Or did Mikhail Gorbachev started perestroika on planet?

[@mastermind4499]

I definitely have to agree just because it feels so hypocritical.

[@JustAnyone]

oh man i remember when i was like 13 years old i managed to track down a version of this mod which had nudity options in character pimper. oh boy

[@goxy287]

3:24 Eyyy, thats me :D. CM isn't a bad mod, just different. Also ironic what kind of mods I went on to make and post on GameBanana later (I was supposed to destroy the sith, not join them).

[@slash4660]

The guy who made this mod definitely has a real life mini action figure of Alyx coated in multiple layers of come.

[@psell8628]

I really like some of these environments, very cool. The creator is obviously very skilled. If he was just the environment artist and someone else was the mod director, I think it would've been much better.

[@ThisIsABadIdeaSrsly]

Are people still hating on this? That's just sad.

[@DelfosseFoo]

"It has a hidden vagina topology - worst mod ever". SJW logic. As for the graffiti's that you call unnecessary, you don't show them, so it's impossible to tell.

[@ShellShocked78-g3x]

As a guy who has over 2000 hours on blender, The image at the start installed a fear in my I didn’t know i could experience

[@SeaalCox]

funny thing is, 55 gbs doesn't sound that bad anymore compared to current modern games

[@Simi69]

The early versions of this mod were actually quite good... until the guy went completely insane 😂

[@MarkedOneIL]

What was different and what versions?

[@UnbyHoundredTwenty]

Never played the mod, but gotta say something has a person that knows a bit of modeling, the models used for Alex had those extra polygons because those models were created for nsfw purposes, and if the model has Alyx's head its because the creator used a cropping technique, cutting the original (nsfw) models head and put Alyx's, in a certain point the creator probably didn't notice those or just ignored them, he just wanted that body model to reskin Alyx I'm not supporting anybody here, I'm just giving some explanations that people need to first know and then criticize something, not criticize without knowing...

[@synsten]

The whole recreation of all the levels and general art style for this mod looks amazing it’s just tainted by the amount of nsfw content in the mod lol

[@aparker54]

Still don't understand the hate for this mod (watching this for the first time now), someone worked their ass off on it, the game looks incredibly gorgeous, and the models, while nsfw, are fine. The reason for the graffiti could be you know...the suppression field? How nobody can "do it" on earth anymore? I digress. I love this mod and still play it to this day

[@trashcompactorYT]

he shared our fully modeled secret joke 😔