Half Life - Broken yet Perfect | Trav Guy Reviews

With Half Life seeing a bit of a ressurgence thanks to the upcoming Half Life Alyx, I thought it'd be fun to take a look at the game that taught me that Video Games can be more than just Plumbers and Robots, Valve's Half Life.
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[@ThatTravGuy]

Hey did you know you could shoot the mines? I only learned the other day that it's Nuclear Mission Jam, not Nuclear Emissions Jam. My life is a lie Special Thanks to CloudConnections for providing footage of Half Life Uplink. Check out his Channel + Half LIfe Retrospective! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqqyZX2mrMx0q7s Half Life 1 OST Used: - Drums and Riffs - Adrenaline Horror - Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar - Electric Guitar Ambiance - Klaxon Beat - Nuclear Mission Jam - Valve Theme - Credits Theme SFX Used: - Blood - Doom - Duke Nukem 3D - Half Life - Mega Man X1 - Super Mario 64 - Team Fortress 2 - Half Life 2 Videos Used: - Half-Life - Uplink (1999 short film) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKiahYl7adKIjMk Caesar Zeppeli's Death- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Battle Tendency Meet the Medic kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWfPhK2Lgqd9pMU Rorschach's Death Scene - Watchmen 2009 The Death of Gamora - Avengers: Infinity War E3 2011 John Carmack interview kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKmplaZ7qddgirs GO TO THE BATHROOM kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2fOq6GMjc2Warc Half-Life - Alyx Announcement Trailer kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWO6YYFpqrCLo9E Half-Life Alpha v 0.52 (9/4/97) - Tech Demo Gameplay kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJmak4elat1_r7M Mega64: The Beatles Rock Band kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6qtZWtjd76VbdU Half Life bird kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4ebnICFjbWikKc Half-Life - ALPHA 0.52 - Complete Gameplay 【High Quality】kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6fTZIuGg7CLqKc Team Fabulous 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mquwomiVqc2eatE

[@guziman1963]

Yes, you can also throw grenades and blow up the mines too. It really makes those sections easier. They also make them in a grid pattern I think, so think of a series of equidistant points based off of mines you have blown up, almost like a big version of minesweeper.

[@dingbing1539]

You could also use the snarks!

[@thenexus8384]

I used the smg's grenade launcher with the minds

[@jesserodriguez7588]

Thank you for guiding me to the gem that is “GO. TO. THE. BATHROOM. AND. *SHIT* “Also, fucken love your content, my dude. Keep it up!

[@luckygreentiger]

I just now noticed the zentraedi battle pod in the goldsrc alpha footage

[@Sabuuchi]

There is something very cursed about calling HL2 and it's episodes a "Trilogy."

[@nmpltleopardi]

100%. The only hl trilogy I know of is hl1 + hl:opfor + hl:bs.

[@mr.budderpie3538]

Sabuuchi you are the last person I expected here xd

[@michaciejka2839]

Half life trilogy: half life, half life 2 and half life 3. Oh wait......

[@mushedups]

@@michaciejka2839 I guess you could say Alyx is is half life...1.5

[@themechbuilder6171]

@@michaciejka2839 half life 2 half life 2 episode 1 half life 2 episode 2 lol yes

[@wesleybcrowen]

Half-Life was made because Gabe Newell wanted to play Quake as part of his job and not working on something boring like the Windows.

[@EvKindaGoofy15]

amen brother

[@itsjustyash2750]

he did?!!?

[@notfreeman1776]

i dont care how valid that is thats what i belive now this is how legends are made

[@HemmTBM]

@@itsjustyash2750 He really enjoyed working on Doom for windows

[@itsjustyash2750]

@@HemmTBM lol

[@FoxDie978]

a half-life is the measurement of constant decay of an isotope over time

[@ThatTravGuy]

I had a bit originally where I explained that, but I cut it 'cause I was basically just reading a Google Definition and it was booooring

[@FoxDie978]

@@ThatTravGuy smgdh not even properly quoting your source in Chicago Manual as well? for shame

[@Its-pronounced-ay-zaer-e]

@@ThatTravGuy I understand that because it’s literally just reading the dictionary

[@sporkionsuz-beero4744]

@@ThatTravGuy Add it backkkkk

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

Oh so that's why they called it half life decay

[@MaxArceus]

4:25 the fact that you brought up failing chemistry, for a physics related subject, really says it all.

[@dprototype6431]

"Valve isn't gonna make another Half Life game, Freeman. You're just being paranoid."

[@connorgolsong290]

Valve isn't going to make a standalone prequel starring your girlfriend Freeman, you're just being paranoid!

[@Full_Throttle_Axolotl]

Laidlaw isn't leaving Valve, Freeman. You're just being paranoid.

[@Jdwzl]

19:33 You can get the magnum earlier, just swim up in the area after blast pit, there is a dead Barney holding a magnum near some barrels with toxic stuff

[@nikinikipikipiki8547]

Yea that part of the video really annoyed me

[@NonEmployee]

You can also get the SMG early at the very start of "We've Got Hostiles" from the first turret room. There's a dead HECU that has it next to his body. I feel like rarely anybody notices this.

[@Architector_4]

26:30 The game's promotional motto is "Run. Think. Shoot. Live.", and in this part you are supposed to do the second thing. You have snarks which you don't even use often, just let them defuse the mines!

[@daniels-mo9ol]

@Tarbosaurus why did I never think of this lol

[@hotpocketsat2am]

i always used the explosive rounds on my smg

[@unfa00]

Oh man. I should've tried that.

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

good lord, i forgot to take the snarks, i did that in my first playthrough tho

[@AlexPinna531]

what i always do is just save up a couple of the smg grenades snd fire them at certain spots to clear the mines

[@gae_wead_dad_6914]

15:35 actually, the grunt takes that many shots because you shot him in the helmet, which is capable of deflecting pistol rounds and shotgun pellets same as a security guard. You can clearly see the particle effects being different, with blood where you hit him and a flash where it deflects.

[@SuperSocks7]

4:23 talks about chemistry while showing physics equation

[@wta1518]

Both are basically the same thing, they both involve energy and make my brain hurt.

[@connorgolsong290]

Case in point

[@ark_4281]

@@wta1518 underrated comment

[@rjhicks9353]

weird i've played this game tons of times and haven't seen most of these bugs and scripting errors

[@SeekerLancer]

Yeah it's kind of bizarre. Half-Life is janky but I've never managed any of these soft locks. Half-Life Source on the other hand I've experienced tons of broken triggers.

[@dhwwiiexpert]

@@SeekerLancer I haven't encountered any serious glitches for both classic and source versions. All I got from Source is the security guard that can't be tentacled to death in Blast Pit.

[@IndieLambda]

I played it a lot and watched many friends discover it, playing in specific ways can concistently create... interesting results.

[@estebanmejia9949]

very true, his walktrough was very buggy

[@mr.mysteriousyt6118]

@Luke Leary sven coop?

[@silverus3617]

"one wrong move and the facility turns into a massive crater" well, at least the g-man made sure that'd happen anyway

[@Draughster]

You get the revolver right after you jump down into the *tentacle pit* after turning on the rocket engine, next to a dead barney, not in power up, during landmine sections the game gives you a bunch of grenades so you can explode the mines BEFORE stepping into the minefield

[@connorgolsong290]

25:00 Actually, here's an interesting fact! Humans, when pulled up by barnacles, can in fact be saved, so long as the barnacle is killed before it Gibs them. This also explains why it isn't an instant kill for the player, despite the only unarmored part of their body being digested. However, your statement is accurate to HL2, where NPC's do actually die on contact (most likely due to Valve needing them to ragdoll. Thank you, Marphy Black!). So there you go.

[@sporkionsuz-beero4744]

"In an industry full of Doomguys, Rangers, Duke Nukems and Blood guys; one theoretical physicist stood out and truly made his mark on Industry" literally showing that context of an action matters more to the people instead of action itself

[@evdestroy5304]

Correction: You said in the video they used the Quake 2 engine. That is incorrect, Goldsrc is actually a heavily modified version of the original Quake engine

[@enclave_here]

No, it’s the heavily modified quake 2 engine.

[@soursugar4867]

@@enclave_here Actually, it’s just Original Quake. iirc they chose Quake 1 because they didn’t wanna wait for Quake 2 to start development

[@lz0453]

@@soursugar4867 its heavily modified quake 1. Quake 2 was probably in developement when valve asked for the quake engine

[@soursugar4867]

@@lz0453 thanks for clearing that up mate :)

[@sebastiankulche]

Quite curious, being that graphically Quake 2 is much closer to Half Life 1 than Quake 1 :)

[@TheGoldenBolt]

Adam Sandler must play Gordon in the Half-Live Cinematic Universe

[@galaxyplays9462]

life*

[@chrispy3369]

This man waited 10 Months for a reply, and it's a typo check.

[@galaxyplays9462]

@@chrispy3369 yes

[@therat3006]

A movie where he can finally shut up

[@galaxyplays9462]

@@therat3006 yes

[@CricetoFunni]

God your comedic timing is perfect “They can’t be killed with conventional weapons- oh but look there’s a fucking space rocket”

[@brigittestembergar2594]

18:35 They will ALWAYS hear you while you walk, but not if you crouch. That's why it seems inconsistent.

[@El_cuckman]

The reason i think some things in half life broke is beacause of the timming, that is based on the frame rate (which is terrible in a programing standpoint btw) meaning that in frame rates higher than 100 the compatibility fucks itself and breaks code. Thankfully valve repared that shit on hl2 and other source engine games by making the timming based on tickrate

[@centercannothold]

Yeah , this problem only happen on modern computer because it so powerful therefore too much fps

[@SableDrakon]

That might be a id Tech 1 artifact, some Quake 1 sourceports have wonky damage from Fiends if your framerate is too high.

[@IAm-zo1bo]

can't you just keep framerate to 100, also it helps with bhopping and servers are better

[@uglybad4]

so if I went back to HL1 with my new 144hz screen i'd constantly encounter issues like in this video?

[@IAm-zo1bo]

@@uglybad4 you need to do fps_max 100, if you go above 100 you will have issues. I know that sucks but hey a game in 1998 still working now is amazing

[@GiselleGauthier]

Re: the crowbar's "chainsaw qualities", this was not present in the pre-Steam versions of the game. (Which also, among other things, featured view tilting/bobbing and slightly different colours for the energy weapon effects.) The reason for this is supposedly to quickly clear corpses that would get caught in doorways.

[@EpicRavenclaw42]

Never played a Half Life game in my life and know nothing about it, and still this was really entertaining. Super engaging and funny, gonna be waiting for the Half Life 2 vid

[@anomalocarislover7254]

I had only heard about the series until very recently. I finished it only last month and this video says pretty much every thing I love about this game.

[@wta1518]

I learned about it from Portal, and it quickly became one of my favorite series'.

[@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985]

You should play ut

[@yigityllmz]

If you have a pc, hell even a calculator would work, you must go and play it. Every gamer in this world must play half life.

[@anomalocarislover7254]

@@o0r69 yeah, I was pretty late to the party.

[@spacecadetkaito]

I really like the credits theme. After all the dark ambient tracks or intense action tracks i thought having a funky techno beat was fitting for the credits after you've defeated everything in your way and are safe for the time being. Like you just went through hell and back and you can look back and go "WOW wtf just happened"

[@minimme]

IT HERE

[@mantis3069]

IT ME

[@harrypootis9519]

IT YOU

[@soursugar4867]

IT THEM

[@harrypootis9519]

IT WE

[@soursugar4867]

IT US

[@coenisgreat]

Were you not aware that the first revolver spawn is actually in the pit after defeating the tentacle? When you drop into the water, surfacing immediately out of that same point you entered, you'll find a couple bodies, a tipped-over-biohazard barrel, and the revolver along with some ammo.

[@verylostdoommarauder]

26:35 You know that you can use explosives, snarks, bullets, etc., right?

[@hatandhoodie_]

31:41 Fun Fact: You do not need explosives for this, you can just hit it with a crowbar for a while until it breaks.

[@HemmTBM]

Fun fact: You can get the SMG earlier - in the first section iwth the turret there is a soldier corpse with a MP5 near him Also you get the revolver just after killing the Tentace in the water pit near a dead Securit Guard

[@uppishcub1617]

great video, but I think you missed a few things. The mines in the minefield can be detonated from a safe distance by shooting them or hitting them with explosives, the smg is a great tool for clearing minefields. Jump pads will always work if you jump before moving into them.

[@mr.mysteriousyt6118]

The Jump pad on is true but i never knew that about the mine field

[@slyboiofficial]

A small issue I wanted to clear up. You said that you get the Revolver in power up and you get the MP5/SMG when you encounter the first soldier in We got hostiles. But actually, the revolver is first found in Blast pit and the MP5/SMG is next to the dead soldier when you first play We got hostiles.

[@NuclearNecro]

can't wait until this spirals into a tf2 review

[@gordonneverdies]

Everyone hates on “On a Rail". Some of the best fights against the Marines are in that chapter. I can understand the first playthrough being confusing but come on!!

[@gordonneverdies]

@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook You have the popular opinion apparently. I respect that. I appreciate the level, however. The section with the explosives is nerve wracking, the fight before the launch is good and I love some of the in fighting with the vorts and Marines. People say the same thing about Interloper. “Even Gabe said it was... " Bleh bleh bleh. I think Xen was fucking awesome. Interloper was hard as hell and it should be. It's the last stand before the big guy. So what if it was rushed? At least it wasn't Game of thrones season 8! Lol

[@soursugar4867]

Honestly I really like the world building of On A Rail. All of it being basically underground really gives you a feel for how large Black Mesa is, and that rail system isn’t even used anymore!

[@MarksBigOlHam]

Can I say something that'll surprise you? I never did mind On A Rail. I like it when games offer some sort of exploration in the story.

[@sdamsda348]

guys it's good when you just ditch the tram at the first itch of another option.

[@sound-wave00]

I actually like On A Rail

[@TotallySearch]

Half Life is like Doom but instead of gameplay they focused on story.

[@ReddCrystal]

Yeah it was a perfect evolution. Hell, modern doom has taken tips from it when it comes to storytelling. A perfect cycle, a brilliant symbiosis.

[@doomguy6296]

and Puzzles

[@doomguy6296]

Why the game so buggy for you? 🤦‍♂️

[@kylemason2836]

No How do you even come to that? Linear maps= key card hunting? I don’t see the similarities other they have guns and shoot monsters

[@ernestsmihailovs493]

So its nothing like doom

[@IndieLambda]

Crouch jumping, feels awkward, unnatural and video gamey, can be turned into an amazing tool of traversal and become very fun, despite how unreal it feels and how unique it is compared to the more common way of handling it, Valve's crouch jumping is actually more realistic, check out standing still high jumping, or something like that, basically, dudes crouch jumping in real life.

[@NerdyDumbProductions]

I love the "crowbar wielding savior" term for Gordon, really fitting to be honest, I also found myself surprised at the broken triggers mentioned in the original game, I never encountered them in the +10 years I replayed it since being a brat (PC of course).

[@HQ_Default]

I always found the encounters with the assassins really interesting because they are such a tactical opposite to Gordon Freeman. Like you have these extra stealthy black ops hiding away and shooting people at opportune moments. And then you have Gordon Freeman angrily running around with a shotgun while in bright orange power armor.

[@CloudConnection]

Well you already know how much I adore Half-Life, and even though I just played this game a couple of months ago (twice, I might add), this video made me want to play it again. You definitely did this game justice, dude. I even learned some stuff that I wish I could've mentioned in my retrospective! Awesome job.

[@scottyhinds2283]

26:21 Bullets and explosives set off the landmines. It took me forever to figure out, but it works.

[@MatthewCobalt]

I suggest you watch Leadhead's "Run, Think, Shoot, Live." video. He practically showcases what the game intended to teach you to play, as quick save scumming was basically only a result of modern intuition conflicting with the game design.

[@AstralPhnx]

*she. Just correcting you on that! She's a trans woman! But agreed, great video

[@AstralPhnx]

she. Take your transphobia elsewhere Bucko

[@ryzowypierog6256]

@@AstralPhnx he*

[@AstralPhnx]

@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord Stop being such a loser

[@jackcarvel7391]

@@AstralPhnx you first

[@drzero1131]

You can actually get a revolver slightly earlier in the game, although it practically makes no difference to when you pick it up in power up Once you've ignited the rocket and killed the tentacles, when you drop into the water, if you swim back out of that hole you dropped into, theres a barney corpse with a revolver right next to it

[@ThatTravGuy]

Oh that's right! That's how I remember getting it in my earliest playthrough yet completely forgot about

[@drzero1131]

@@ThatTravGuy to be fair, it's easy to miss if you drop straight down into the water and decide to push on, instead of coming back up for air

[@non-shockingtopics7563]

Damn Black Mesa Xen really was a huge improvement wasn't it

[@HemmTBM]

Am i the only one who kinda liked it- well exept the factory and Ninthilath but i just love the esthetic

[@lz0453]

Sure is, its quite long but its good. The end boss in black mesa xen is fantastic. I was never a huge fan of original xen

[@thespacemanfil]

Actually, you get the revolver from blast pit, when you go down the tentacle hole and land in the water, on the surface is a rim with a dead security guard with the revolver. Also, the solution to mines is to shoot them to remotely detonate them.

[@CodenameBolts]

Fun fact: In the PS2 Remaster of the game, the room you fall into at the end of Blast Pit is flooded with water, so you can't get soft-locked with fall damage.

[@TheFlowersOfNaivety]

I actually really liked the lines the scientist gives about the tranq bow. I thought he sounded really tired, and really sketched out but kinda numb. For the time, and for it being an FPS, the acting I felt was way above MOST games at it's release.

[@martso9288]

Honestly, when i hear the end credits theme for half-life, its very beffiting of the game, and of the time period. Just like a sigh of relief, just after what had happened. I cant really put it to words, but a lot of 90's action films had this sort of track at the end of them, that felt like a sigh of relief, but in a good way, giving some sort of a feeling of closure.

[@danielbhattacharjie6192]

the most memorable thing about Half Life was the revelation in the Questionable Ethics chapter and the biomes in the expansion pack - Opposing Force. Black Mesa isn't as much 'all innocent scientists caught up in an accident' as it portrays itself to be :D

[@kroneyt1493]

I've been playing source games for almost twelve years now. The thought of crouch jumping being a hard concept to get behind for new players was totally alien to me. Just goes to show how practice makes perfect I guess?

[@TheoTTG_]

Weird. I've played HL1 many times and haven't seen a single one of these major issues you've encountered. You sure it's not on your side?

[@ReddCrystal]

God damn this channel needs more subscribers. Tis brilliant.

[@emcmend9960]

20:47 so...I have a funny story involving 1-Up Commentaries (a $10 patron) they have a KZbin channel which is mostly LP based and Tom (one of the three members) decided his first game for the channel would be Half-Life on the PS2, Tom got to this boss and kept dying over and over until Keiran (who runs 1-Up Commentaries) who had never played a second of Half-Life took the controller from Tom & did the Boss in one go...to this day I still cannot believe that

[@SeekerLancer]

Half-Life is a weird one because if you weren't there when it came out it can be hard to see just what's so special about it. But if you were there, it was life changing. It was an immersive experience like no other. It changed the way people thought about video games. Every once in a while I play a game that makes all other games feel inferior for a while when I'm finished with it and Half-Life was one of those games.

[@Dr._Gas]

At 19:08 you can see another revolver on the left by the dead guard, which you can pick up to get it about 3 or so minutes early if you want, it has some extra ammo so its not a bad idea to grab it for later

[@hatandhoodie_]

19:34 You get the revolver right after Blast Pit, what are you talking about?

[@suckturdslmao]

You're not supposed to get the magnum from that guard, your supposed to get it from the sort of base of the dead tentacle with the open barrel of toxic waste.

[@gladyspenaloza7722]

indeed

[@yourhumbledissenter]

A fun thing I found out playing this game recently is that the hive hands projectiles can be used to distract turrets.

[@tailongnguyen1393]

Not sure if anybody pointed this out yet but there are two things about the grunts and the minefields that Trav forgot in the video: At 15:32 the grunt isn't scripted. There are different types of grunts in the game, and this one in particular wears a helmet which shields him from all bullets. Usually when I see these guys I just shoot at the body instead. At 26:29 you can actually clear the minefields with either grenades, C4s or just shoot into the ground to detonate the mines and clear a path.

[@franciscoserenoalvarez1582]

I loved your video, let me add the perfect, minimalistic and most ahead of its time game UI. It is so perfect. The fact that doesn't even need a compass thanks to the well crafted lineal design that tricks you into thinking that you're playing an open world type of game. Just **chef kiss**

[@duckfilms3662]

If you throw a grenade into the hole the tentacles are coming out of, they disappear for a bit.

[@barbariangamer6209]

22:13 that thing scared the shit out of me first time i played this game

[@barney8862]

Lol same

[@barbariangamer6209]

@@barney8862 just it attacks it's Scary and they also force you to fight him in muddy water

[@barney8862]

Yeah also in surface tension in the dam part you have to jump in or the plane will kill you

[@barbariangamer6209]

@@barney8862 nah that part is easy you have to approache it Strategicly just watch bigmacdavis walkthrough of that chapter and you'll do fine

[@barney8862]

@@barbariangamer6209 well I like doing games without walkthroughs and I just jumped in and beat the thing with my crowbar until it died lol

[@azzyiseternal4745]

i just love the reoccurring joke of him adding to the counter every time he dies from fall damage

[@notfreeman1776]

"you get the 357 from a wounded barney" thats fucking cursed

[@HemmTBM]

You get it earlier

[@notfreeman1776]

@@HemmTBM he said to the man who had almost 400 hours in half-life

[@PebsBeans]

@@HemmTBM you don't

[@enclave_here]

@@PebsBeans you do, it’s next to a DEAD Barney, right at the end of blast pit, when you go into the hole after killing the tentacle.

[@PebsBeans]

@@enclave_here that's even worse my man

[@blockyround2160]

11:42 All i can think of is that one line read from the dark age ending of deus ex, "JC, The nets going. The nets going black, JC.

[@archimedestool]

i love the way that gordon freeman never sleeps unless he's knocked out

[@AGrayPhantom]

16:40 I recently discovered it's possible to save this scientist! Press "e" on him just before the tentacle crashes through the window. He'll stop and look at you, saving his life!

[@marissa6909]

The hitscanning soldiers were the best part of the game. This was before Call of Duty, and military action shooters didn't exist before this. There was no other game where you could jump and run around realistic environments fighting grenade-chucking soldiers with an MP5. Hell, the fact that you were fighting US Marines was kinda groundbreaking and controversal, this was long before Spec Ops the Line.

[@nmpltleopardi]

Well maybe not jumping and running but you could play the og Rainbow Six in 1998. I know I did. It had mp5's alright! 😉☺

[@quill5579]

Dude on the mines sections you could just use a nade or spray with your smg to detonate the mines; there is nothing in half life that forces you to play by sheer savescum brute force.

[@0searchresults757]

You can also get the revolver in that drop down area after Blast Pit

[@corman20]

When I was a kid around 1999, they used to play the end credit song on a local raido's weekly countdown show. That also felt a bit wrong lol

[@Wolfkaosaun]

I've been looking forward to this video for SO LONG

[@Reman1975]

On that section with the "Ninja assassins" (Just before you get ambushed and dropped in the waste disposal), I've found that the easiest way to deal with the hyperactive little A holes is to go in the room on the left, put trip bombs on both doors, and hide behind a crate. Every time an assassin trips a mine, pop back up and replace it. I think there are either 4 or 5 of them running about in there, but you can easily get them all if you've got the full quota of the mines.

[@TylertheCC1010fan]

In hard mode they can turn invisible when standing or shooting.

[@Reman1975]

@@TylertheCC1010fan I didn't know that. The short moments when they're stood still to shoot at me is about the only time I can get a few shots off at them. That's why I usually just mine the entrances to that little store room and let them blow themselves up. I tried HL on the hardest level a few times, but didn't even get close to that section before realising I lacked the quick aiming accuracy needed not to run every gun out of ammo before I'd managed to kill groups of moving enemy's. :(

[@TylertheCC1010fan]

@@Reman1975 the enemies also have increased health, I believe the Marines have an additional 20 health.

[@Kai-1138]

I love how a scientist screams when he says you know the p o word

[@SleepyOwlFilmsVT]

Hey! So I played HL1 when it first came out - it was a hell of an experience back in the day. One of the biggest draws was that it did NOT require a 3D accelerator card like a Voodoo to run - and even my slow HP Pavilion with an AMD 333 MHz PC could play it decently, albeit at low resolutions.

[@mrderp1217]

You get the revolver right after killing the tentacles in blast out tho?? You can also shoot or use grenades to clear the mines

[@soursugar4867]

20:16 so fun fact: sometimes when the trigger breaks like that, it’s not that the gate doesn’t open, it’s that for some reason the door was open when you first got there and actually shut when you unblocked the generator

[@JoneBone-zv1kr]

Surprised you didn’t mention how nihilanth talks to you throughout the xen chapters

[@HL1_EP1]

26:39 Snarks and the shotgun

[@jlewwis1995]

18:13 in a map I'm working on I have a similar situation where the player breaks open a wall with the crowbar and jumps down into a vent, to prevent the player taking damage I put a push trigger right on top of the vent that pushes the player up softening their fall so they dont take any damage, I wish valve had done the same here 🙄

[@dmas7749]

"i don't really like to [kill friendly NPCs] cause i often get immersed in the world and realistically i wouldn't wanna kill someone for being in my way" 12:53 17:35 24:50 uh...huh... 38:50 love this sound

[@applesaurusrex8075]

Yo I didn’t know the rocket launcher’s targeting was toggleable

[@plasticballs]

26:30 -Snarks -Thrown explosives (grenades, satchel charges) -A gun -Parkour on the rocks

[@RecklessFPSGuy]

The Vorts don't attack you at the Interloper??? What game have I been playing? :D Also, the Gonarch battle can be broken in all 3 of its stage-changing-triggers, it's sad. Really nice video overall!! Enjoyed it.

[@hebonky]

btw you get the revolver at the end of blast pit when you jump into the water swim straight out and the revolver is just next to some radioactive goop

[@Fondoofus5542]

1:42 I absolutely love that video! Lol

[@term-827]

I have a couple of corrections. The Source engine began development in 1999 during Half-Life 2's preproduction and is an evolution of Goldsrc. The Half-Life anthology is the steam version, just an older build from around 2005. The Half-Life Day One demo was distributed to 3DFX Voodoo 2 vendors as a tech demo to show off Goldsrc's new Glide enhanced OpenGL graphic details. The Uplink demo was released for the public about a few weeks before the game released. The Steam version of hl1 along with all half life 2 related content pre portal 2 is to this day broken due to the Steam pipe update of 2013, which breaks compatibility with the physical discs. Half-Life Source is often used to demonstrate the consequence of this update due to how broken it remains to this day.

[@daemonspudguy]

From what I've seen of the WON version of Half-Life, it's always been jank, but became more jank in 2013.

[@term-827]

@@daemonspudguy true, but nowadays the game is stable and working fine for the most part.

[@toxic_shr00m]

Trav, you don't first get the revolver in Power Up, you get it in Blast Pit. Directly about that water section in the tentacle pit, there's a dead Barney with a revolver and an ammo box for it. Also, it's not that the bounce pads don't work, it's that you have to jump over them to get the boost properly. The game isn't being bad, you are.

[@MariusiDZ]

If you throw grenades down the hole from which the tentacle boss comes out of, the three limbs go back into the hole for a few seconds so you have time to walk around freely until it comes back up.

[@BugsyFoga]

Anyone else think Bryan Cranston would make for a good Gordan Freeman ?

[@applesaurusrex8075]

Yeah although Brian Cranston is a bit too old

[@TimSlee1]

That Trav Guy: "I feel bad for killing the cute aliens." Also That Trav Guy: *Brutally murders the security guard who saved his ass throughout the game*

[@goncaza1272]

38:55 Shizaaaa

[@mochathought]

19:59 he says wail having 181 ammo

[@CiccioImberlicchio]

Very strange i just finished beating Half life and its expansion for the first time ever and i loved the game but i didn't encounter a single crash or softlock, not even a single problem. i have no idea the game could break this bad

[@ShinyGaara65]

"Someone just put me out of my misery" *ambush noises* "...thank you." That was funnier than it needed to be. XD

[@hunterketch989]

37:00 Ah, the video is ending Wait, why is there 7 more minutes?

[@THE-CRT]

Did you know that? The crushers are trains so you can actually stop them (thanks DeSinc)

[@fierymagpie527]

9:31 I keep hearing people talking about the hd thing like that and I never understood why

[@Marc_Araujo]

Same here. I always play with it on...base Barney' model always gave me the creeps.

[@sebastiankulche]

Because they are nostalgic purists.

[@erikmitk1944]

When doing the rail chapter I lost my Rail cart somehow and needet to jump around on the small left and right parts of the rails to not get any damage, I hated every second of it

[@nmpltleopardi]

Quake... Doom... Quake2... Doom64... and now HL?!? (sigh) subbed 🙊

[@gadgetgoat]

I had a simular experience with finding half life too,this story starts around mid 2019,after finding out my dad had a laptop(keep in mind I was like 9 maybe 10)I got Gmod with my pocket money after I had been watching youtube videos about it for years and then later on I eventually found out it was a modded version of a game called half life 2 and as I began to look into it I became a massive fan learning all about it and by the time half life alyx released I was at my peek of being in love with the series and that just made everything a lot better

[@zaviergoesboom9759]

When I first beat the original Half-Life, I got up and just started dancing because of the music and how good the game was

[@CocoTheMii]

"It's great for camping behind cover from grunts who are giving you a hard time..." *dies to a grenade*