Half-Life 2 Anniversary Documentary MOMENTS YOU NEED TO SEE

[@xande5345]

> be Gabe Newell > almost get bit by shark > almost go bankrupt > doesn't express a single ounce of anxiety or fear > release one of the best games of all time > leave

[@MogoMojo-50]

He never left us

[@user-wr6dj4ib9o]

>refuses to elaborate further

[@Randarrradara]

He left the spotlight, maybe, but he never stopped responding to emails

[@xS1D3SW1P3x]

"Gets stumped forever" would be more accurate

[@ArtyShat]

Not really left, more like focused on creating one of the Big Four digital gaming stores (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Steam) that will just print infinite money for Valve.

[@blackhand9581]

"Can I run this on my 486?" The joke is so loaded. Because it really seemed like you'd need this gigabeast of a PC to run Half Life 2. That was how mind blowing it was back then.

[@Del-Canada]

HL couldn't even be ran on a 486. Maybe if you ran it in software mode.

[@Ghostel3591]

​@@Del-Canadainterestingly enough it ran with no issues on Pentium III 533mhz - loading times were legendary... But game itself worked just fine. It was actually ridiculously well optimised especially compared to DOOM3 that was extremely demanding for a time.

[@fen4554]

Only about 10% of youtubers are even going to know what a 486 is.. or an 8088 for that matter. We are getting old, chum.

[@notjustforme]

@@fen4554 Almost all of them will know the 420

[@solid_abdi7148]

i would recommend to watch the whole thing. When you have the time for it

[@IDHLEB]

Time, doctor Freeman?

[@andy-gamer]

Is it really that time again?

[@kzco-iq5cw]

if you arent on your deathbed, you do have the time for it, especially when reading comments like everyone seeing this one

[@CheeseDoodle]

I watched the whole thing along VNN doing a hyper analysis of it. I can't emphasize this comment enough, if you're a half life fan you should definitely watch the whole thing. It's an amazing part of Valve history

[@Dennzyl]

can you feel it?! when they talk about it?! PASSION!

[@DashMatin]

respect

[@ALSPEHEIR]

The Blob this is incredible even by today standards.

[@MusicByDamienA]

that's what I was thinking! It's minecraft slimes before minecraft lol but with way more detail of course

[@tekgeekster]

​@@MusicByDamienANah, Minecraft slimes are kinda static. These would have interacted with the environment like living liquid.

[@ArtyShat]

The biggest flex is that after ALL this years, Gabe never went public with Valve. That's half of the reason why Valve is still one of the most respected gaming companies in the world, not having shareholders to suck up to is HUGE! The other half is of course making infinite money from Steam, that also helps massivily avoiding to go public.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Even better. Now Messing up Steam and ruining it. 😊

[@Снайпер_Хренов]

It feels so weird to see them talking so openly about the HL2 Beta after years of having to do research on it via leaks and lost media

[@TheAnhedonicOne]

We already know half life 3 is coming. Half Life Alyx was just one big announcement for it coming eventually.

[@lepaul_Official]

they planted the corn. now they need to grow the s*** out of it !

[@melonytoni9016]

would have been the perfect timing to announce it with a trailer. Considering they didnt do it, it might be years away.

[@paulaccuardi9071]

We also knew it was coming in 2007

[@PMoney-sk7kb]

Well Gabens comment at the end of the documentary gives half life 3 coming out more credibility too, he says valve releasing a half life is basically a promise to gaming fans that they will get an experience they have never got in gaming thanks to valve using new tech and innovations and using the vehicle of half life to express that, and he mentions how he sees many opportunities in the gaming scene today to give fans those new experiences

[@Suds_Mc_Duff]

@@PMoney-sk7kb most likely hl3 isnt a highly active/big project right now.. as they say in the doco, making the game backwards is how you figure out what the game is. unless they have a new idea to toy with and blow everyone away, nobody is gonna be able to commit to the majority of the game i think in the case of half life specifically, making the game has to inspire the team enough, to go make an entire OTHER game; counterstrike, portal etc. they get good at the mechanics in that game, and eventually it all culminates in the next version of HL

[@IbizanHound2]

19:25 Woah! The blob enemy is a seriously cool enemy and seems really advanced tech for its time!

[@lepaul_Official]

that shark story of gabe made me roll on the ground and the waiting for hl3 less painful

[@Sklumbis]

6:52 He just wanted half-life 3

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

if he really wanted, he would have made the game ages ago

[@ever611]

​@@NicolasSilvaVasaulta Shark making Half Life 3 would be badass

[@FR4M3Sharma]

Half Life Three derserves to be on Sauce Engine 2 not Unreal.

[@morphious86.]

are you implying valve would ever switch to unreal?

[@FR4M3Sharma]

​@@morphious86.Not Valve but Boreal Alyph.

[@averageartist10]

​​​​@@FR4M3Sharma wdym boreal alyph? that game's been dead for years now

[@FireFighter1984]

Maybe in Source 3

[@Azeronir]

@@averageartist10 few days ago "Project Borealis: Prologue" released

[@Peckham963]

I love that Gaben is doing his parts from his(?) yacht. It's like sitting on the money pile while talking about how you got it (ik HL2 didn't only make him a billionare, but it's part of that journey)

[@breadnacom9897]

just like elon?

[@doctorflynn5124]

like walter white in breaking bad

[@beaf3887]

he has a whole fleet of yachts so its definitely his.

[@wysiwyg2006]

Never seen Gabe talk so openly about HL3. Before . He looks well too 👍 I hate Steam though

[@Wierie_]

@@wysiwyg2006what else are we supposed to use on pc? XD

[@GHOST-qe6fs]

22:16 Gabe say the number

[@DayLateGamerWill]

Aaaaaaaaa!

[@stefanflashdeck]

legendary moment

[@rm64_studios19]

The forebidden number.

[@ajirizawa5743]

he's not saying it..they replicate his voice with Ai because Gabe can't pronounce it well, and after the 22nd time, they just gave up and edited his mouth movement with source engine 2 with Ai Gabe voice pack from Google

[@scorpio7687]

​@@ajirizawa5743i guess he went through harsh training to be able to say the forbidden number it took him 20 years to reach the strength necessary to say such number that's commendable i may say

[@AlgaeEater09]

Gabe: "Half life games are only made, when there's a new technology nobody has ever seen before."

[@lepaul_Official]

imagine a rly dark modern tehnologie half life game

[@draken5379]

Every single game dev needs to watch this documentary before they attempt to do anymore game dev, its simple. If you dont, you dont care about making games.

[@powerhcm8]

You are aiming the wrong people, anything that you is wrong with the game industry right now, it's because of shareholders. Devs are just employees, they can't do whatever they want, they would just get fired.

[@draken5379]

@@powerhcm8 I dont disagree. Bad Publishers, like EA, are a massive issue for sure. My point is more that the information/experience that is is in this docu, will only make any game dev better, and thus, they should watch it.

[@TheRealOffnem]

i cant believe we got 9/11 in half life lore before gta 6

[@void_official404]

Naaah😭💀💀🙏

[@hakou_9029]

I thought I was doomed after watching all those shorts and ended up with short span attention, but this 2h documentary seemed to have healed me. Sit through the whole thing, it was PEAK documentary like the one we got for HL1 last year. Also, that slime mob and the new cryo gun is cool af. But instead of just a gun that shoots ice, why not make it shoots heat too? Not like a flamethrower, but like heat wave/laser, sort of portal gun parallel where instead of shooting blue and orang portals, it shoot ice (blue) and heat/laser (orange). I don't know how the logic works, a gun that shoots two elements that oppose(?) each other, but it sounds cool to me.

[@unearth1640]

There is info in leaked source code that denotes a temperature system; they may be implementing exactly this.

[@billkillernic]

1:56 as a non American I just now feel real hatred towards the Taliban or CIA or whoever demolished the towers

[@thenewculture.]

Mossad

[@SinedWOLF]

Это говорит эгоизм в тебе.

[@uuffzz]

Selenskblyat

[@SneedFeedAndSeed]

me, I did it

[@Wierie_]

@@hyperrealah so they caused the perfect demolition to make the building freefall pretty much perfectly vertically. Please get another cup of fluoride water.

[@TheDeathmatchKlan]

Half-Life 2 Deathmatch Linux Servers broken as of right now. Switch to prerelease beta for hl2dm to enable you to join most servers.

[@jimmypeeps8471]

Gabe might be boardeline sociopath. A functional one. Crazy.

[@Mithrevan]

I was thinking he may be a functional psychopath too, combining his statement in the previous documentary saying he basically doesn't have nostalgia for things. Definitely a functional human being though, he does show he has empathy or have the notion for it when he talked about the risk neigborhood affecting other people around him when he takes on more risk than sane people. If he is a psychopath, then he's the kindest, most humane psychopath there is.

[@giampietromanentimapiworld]

@@Mithrevani'm psycopath too when i fart there's not smell , justblank perfumw

[@HB-jd9mj]

​@@giampietromanentimapiworldI think that means you're an empath though

[@visceratorar]

funny how when gabe is talking about the shark tryna bite him theres a shark statue in the background

[@filatzaika3915]

4:50 I want all this dark games back its looks so realisitc and nice and have insane atmosphere

[@SapphiR3_]

Oooh a combine city set in jerusalem... interesting

[@chezburger57]

Yeah we need a mod for that

[@user-hy3bk1ct5h]

Ah yes, my favorite game developer: "velve" "vulve" "volve"

[@LenYiFanboy]

We are so BACK!

[@FR4M3Sharma]

We're so bbback.

[@John-tc9gp]

Why ru ghaey?

[@CursedSFMS]

@@John-tc9gpbecause i am ghaey

[@XVegeraX]

Where were you?

[@AFFRA]

"The only problem is, its two hours long" If you're a real HL fan you'd watch the whole thing

[@TheVoltDenatsu]

I remember when i had my e3 demo cd, i was going nuts over the physics demo alone.

[@st.paddymad7085]

One of the workshop add-ons I see on the front page for Half-Life 2’s workshop on Steam is Research and Development. If the workshop allows me to install full-on mods from ModDB, without the extra hassle, then I’m all set to go.

[@Virtual_Maid_Miyu]

Pretty much, it's so great being able to play modded campaigns now

[@st.paddymad7085]

@ I really hope Valve also does this for Half-Life 1 as well, it’d be really cool to play full-on Half-Life 1 mods as Steam workshop add-ons, even for Opposing Force, Blue Shift and even Decay. They cooked well with this update.

[@chargerboi4982]

Still till this day they had the best physics. Truly ahead of the time by far

[@insane7718]

I watched the whole thing and its absolute cinema

[@reflectxiii]

0:46 that what i expected

[@kelet-studios]

7:03 shark moment

[@ZachAttackO0]

22:16 never thought I’d be around to hear Gabe even say the word “Episode-3” I always pictured him running or jumping out a window when asked that question from any media source 😂

[@neimenovani7256]

3 Alien races thing sounds pretty cool Glad we got 2 though

[@DoctorEviloply]

You could technically say we got 3. The Combine, the Antlions, and the Xen Aliens.

[@neimenovani7256]

@DoctorEviloply yeah....nahh, i dont think xen aliens count,

[@UrosStankovic-xf9uq]

@@DoctorEviloply Antlions are from xen I think

[@chpsilva]

Combine, Xen and... G-man.

[@neimenovani7256]

@@chpsilva OH SHIT

[@Anticitizen666]

Thanks for just repossting part of the video that Valve posted. Really useful...

[@theolimpiaking4896]

I think the leak most have been the most terrifying stuff the devs at valve may had faced ever in their lives, it brought insecurity of what they were doing for the multiple games at the time, it brought fear that any of their ideas may be getting stolen for others to use without authorization in other stuff or even criticize before it became even a thing, and it brought a mist of uncertainty to see if the game wouldn't had been published before being ended up and if the final product once released wouldn't have a bad image

[@KevinDC5]

I just turned 40 this year and seeing this brings me way way back! I still play CS to this day. but Ive never understood the flak that Gabe gets, but I think I got it.......we were kids too back then trying to figure this stuff out, and its just easier to come along and shit on someone or their work than taking the time to understand what constraints they were under at the time. also, it took me a minute to realize why the background in the window was shifting during his interview, but thats a ballin' ass yacht boy! Cheers from Texas!

[@greenth-mac2550]

I did notice it in Gabe's last words when I watched the full 2 hours documentary video, all we can do is wait and see what tey are cooking in-doors.

[@kingspeedy2438]

thank you for putting it

[@VeeHausen]

Really good job here Water, you've come a long way mate!

[@Freelancer837]

Here's hoping Alyx looks better than she did in HL3 than she did in HLA, and they bring back her original voice actress since they screwed her over on HLA

[@giampietromanentimapiworld]

wasnt the original one dead?

[@JoysGameRoom]

​@@giampietromanentimapiworld She's fine, but they thought she sounded too old for the game since it's 5 years prior to HL2

[@hazzmati]

You weren't even supposed to Alyx's face in HLA. That's why her model looks rough because it was used in just one cutscene from a distance with her face not being visible. Same counts for Gordon.

[@DavidMcKee-wh8yh]

Watching this on my phone while playing on my Steam deck. Just now came to that realization halfway through the video.

[@thestrangah9690]

I remember my first experience with source and receiving the gravity gun for the first time and ravenholm

[@orangutank626]

Honestly Ive truly never played a game so fleshed out like Half Life 1. Black Mesa mod made it so much polished it truly made me want to know more. I honestly love Half life 1 more than Half life 2 and Half life Alyx being the middle child of what Half life 2 could have been

[@lilmoris1]

If they do announce HL3 if will probably be the biggest event in gaming history

[@BleskMichalek]

Imagine HALF LIFE in Prague. That be Amazing. And i like to see.

[@baglayan]

Consider playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided!

[@BogdanZelinschi]

​@@baglayancheap hl2 copy😂

[@Mala_Praxis]

@@BogdanZelinschi Deus Ex has nothing to do with Half-Life, it is an Immersive Sim, it could be compared to Thief, System Shock. WTF are you talking? haha

[@EvanDSuper]

⁠@@BogdanZelinschiDeus Ex isnt a half life copy

[@giampietromanentimapiworld]

@@BogdanZelinschitrust me i love both (with hl being my fav saga), but it's like comparing farts with coffee

[@wwld9823]

there hasn't been a single shooter that innovated after half life 2, that's why we need valve

[@lukashuening]

Still won't fully give up on HL3. Valve is working heavily on Source 2 or even Source 3 I don't this it's just for CS or Deadlock.

[@defecticon9000]

Nah they won't switch to a new engine when they're still developing the current one After all the reason for building source 2 was for HL3

[@TheBanatter]

​@@defecticon9000 I hope they return to L4D3 one day since they have source 2. I think I remember reading somewhere about there being an argument over which engine to use. I think it was because source 2 wasn't out yet

[@defecticon9000]

@@TheBanatter yeah, a lot of things weren't possible due to engine limitations With the source 2 engine, I think everything from L4D3, portal 3, of course HL3, and more have a greater chance of being developed again

[@TheBanatter]

@@defecticon9000 Here's hoping :)

[@crristox]

It took them more than a decade to upgrade the engine, they are not going to make the next one any time soon hah

[@Dynamonic]

Just finished watching the documentary! Wow! What a story! Never again will I take Half-Life 2 for granted! My respect and appreciation for the game, it's development story, and the team at Valve, past and present has blown through the roof!

[@painreliever1417]

1:25 CZECH MENTIONED!!!!!

[@adnej6888]

LETS GOUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@ghast901]

Let's goooooo 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿

[@TypeTuber]

I have yet to feel as immersed in VR as I did in HLA. It's a litmus test game 5 years later for testing the quality of different VR headsets.

[@wysiwyg2006]

Never seen Gabe talk so openly about HL3. Before . He looks well too 👍 I hate Steam though

[@hacktor_92]

6:24 I find it ironic that he has a plastic shark in the background, now knowing that a shark almost ate him in South Africa

[@Feark]

10:28: Mind blowing then, and I believe it's still amazing to see that today, haven't played a game close to what you could do in HL2 with objects.

[@clamum9648]

7:05 I know exactly what he's talking about because I'm the same way. It's just not being very emotional. Not that you don't have emotions, just that you don't let fear take over and you're fairly stoic. You don't think about feelings you just deal with whatever situation it is. I dunno I can't speak for Gabe but when he was talking in that segment I identified with what he was saying immediately. Just give us HL3 Gabe ❤️❤️❤️

[@happybuggy1582]

Valve make a small update to test the water: *50,000 concurrent players for HL2, a two decade old game*

[@RonnyCoalman]

It's such a shame we didn't get to see more places on the world, like the 4 different cities.

[@88Somi]

In this two hours long documentary there were parts with interview with actors of G man Barney and Dr Clainer but not All. There is bad blood between Valve and Merle Dandridge ?

[@Resutas]

Gabe becomin character from Matrix by the looks

[@ms-dosman7722]

Half-Life Fan: Been waiting for 17 years for Half-Life 3. Water CS2: The HL2 documentary is 2 hours long, so let me break it down for you. Get a feel for your audience, man.

[@HEKTIKx]

the original Ott dystopian surveillance state setting of half life 2 is just the U.k in 2004

[@gingerfication3375]

11:12 Watching this with a 4080, kinda trippy.

[@greengarnish1711]

Gaben again showing why he's the GOAT

[@nonrepeating_nonterminating]

Bruh, Kelvin's hero design dated all the way back from development of episode 3??

[@Alyx_Vance]

To answer your final question: Yes. Yes he is.

[@Derpy1969]

Gabe didn’t hint at HL3. He did not such thing. He said there was no technical reason to do it. No tech improvement to justify telling the story.

[@Kojirremer]

That time when a shark almost ate Gaben and he didn't give 2 fvcks.

[@WhiteLavender425]

I mean, I watched the entire doc and they never teased HL2 pt3. They showed that they started development of environments and new weapon capabilities, but thats it. They said they were leaving it in the past. I believe they may release an entire Remake of HALFLIFE 2 and then the subsequent DLCs up to pt 3 in the future. But Def not just a pt 3 drop.

[@matthewkingsmill7372]

Man I remember waiting years for this. I had a computer but no internet access. I bought the game with money i had saved for ages as a kid.. only to get it installed and be denied access as didint have the internet. I dont think I ever really got over that.. I HATE not having disks/physical copies of games now. Great game but I dont like the way its all gone unfortunately

[@TheGamesZilla492]

Killing The headcrab Lamarr would of had me in tears...

[@Zucth]

to think that the episode of Half-life from community is the main reason they move on Half-life 3 is kinda insane.

[@Alexander-ix2jp]

And to think that Jurassic Park Trespasser inspired part of what made it into HL2.

[@MarcussJay]

I am eternally grateful for what they did with Hl 1 & 2… I just wish we could have gotten 3. Something to truly end the story. Either way, Half Life will forever be one of my favorite game series.

[@snorseburger7381]

Hoping Gabe will be alive to see this come to a conclusion.

[@jonwayne70]

6:21 I think Gabe may actually be a Sociopath.

[@Sparkizinho]

Wow, the fisics on the blob are amazing

[@chezburger57]

No way they actually talk about the beta. Everyone is going to explode

[@SeaNBlack]

we really need an episode 3

[@Blank55600]

Half life 3 will be a VR game I'm calling it now.

[@the_actual_alex]

"we had a plane that was gonna crash into a highrise" can we say that half life predicted 9/11 now?

[@filatzaika3915]

21:34 cave johnson in another universe?

[@flashn00b]

In response to the thumbnail, Valve are too human to make a game fit for a duke

[@masterzombie161]

20 god damn years it better come out

[@lepaul_Official]

want that White Orange half life pc, insane 14:07

[@Thinkofsomethingnew]

Gabe is cool as F, love all the team too

[@tallpainter]

“Dark and mysterious hl2 beta 🐺🐺😈😈🔥🔥🔥” 4:51

[@Dogy7764]

The Half-Life 2 Beta was Dark and Gritty

[@M00SHTY]

18:16 is this why i keep seeing headlines of valve teasing half life 3? because of this old footage of an episode 3? The game journalist industury is nuts, it means nothing

[@ricky_pigeon]

The real bit you need to see, "FREE TV".

[@randomike__]

21:34 Cave Johnson, is it you?

[@walterhartwellwhite3811]

0:44 "And they're just gonna... come (😩) and take it."

[@BONNIEE1983]

The hl2 beta is still the king

[@Jakfan200]

The blob is so cool

[@jesusrivera2970]

Hate to say it fellas. We’re going to see HL3 in our 40’s

[@Lactosecow]

16:48 is when hl3 is mentioned

[@adenansu]

Playing the leak in the way-back-when made sure I wanted to play the full game the second it was released 😂

[@Ellesiumss]

Gabe just SQUEEZED us with this information.

[@marryn237]

2 hours for 20 years is absolutely worth it

[@npc_citizen9276]

+ 3.5 hours of dev commentary in hl2

[@Spladoinkal]

I see what they're saying but (and mybe I'm alone in this thought) but I was more expecting HL episode 3 than a brand new HL3 game. Sure maybe add a little bit of new stuff but the point was more about finishing the story than creating a brand new game.