Half-Life's Creepiest Level

Ravenholm is the scariest and most interesting part of Half-Life 2, but why? Watch the video to find out.
Return to Ravenholm footage from @NoclipDocs Documentary: • This is "Ravenholm" - ...
Original Ravenholm remix in the intro by @Vandoorea (thank you so much for that!)
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[@d4cto]

Alyx getting shot after an awkward joke had me chuckle.

[@pc14thenumber9]

Eli Vance : "Gordon can handle everything.. except you" *point at Alyx "...eeehh..." Gordon : *smile awkward while loading shotgun ammo.

[@tudodenovo544]

Do you not know HOW TO WALK? it’s obviously written as Alys

[@jajoothecoolman]

eehh zombine

[@jajoothecoolman]

@@tudodenovo544 good sir, what

[@salad_tasty]

bro it had me outright dying

[@scout9593]

Honestly, when you take into consideration the MASSIVE AMOUNT OF PTSD Gordon must have by now, him hallucinating someone isn’t that hard to believe.

[@pyrotection]

Don’t forget the morphine addiction

[@Nemzal]

That's how Freeman's Mind plays it - he's not slept in days and has spent that time constantly surrounded by danger and mind-defying insanity, so he's got a few screws loose now.

[@usedtissue2328]

I doubt the ptsd and trauma even starts to set in until white forest. Gordon’s always in danger and hasn’t had time to calm down.

[@GrammerPancreas]

I mean to be fair, by the time of half life 2 I imagine the entire human race has PTSD in spades

[@johnynoway9127]

​@@Nemzali think HL 1 is a single day. He literally beat Nihilinth within a day. HL2 is a few days at best. We dont count the time jump 2 weeks because to him it was seconds. Morphine can be addicting and halucinations might occur. So...hes basically high as a kite if he does take a lot of damage. Also... since HL1 ends and he is frozen in time im not sure if he did rest or not but im assuming his body healed up in stasis and then he awoke on the train kinda like if he just teleported instantly from HL1's train to HL2's train in the blink of an eye. A few seconds of G-man "Rise and shinr" thing and he's off.

[@twta_]

Ravenholm was always scary to me. The fact that the refugees there expected freedom, instead became tortured souls possessed by headcrabs.

[@Bruka1.]

lajkić

[@vickylee3144]

Exactly, it was a thriving area that just turned into horror, hope that would never come as black mesa east sealed its tunnels and the remaining people left to their fate.

[@AnalGravey]

I was in either grade 3 or 4 can't remember but my first play through of ravenholm scared the heck outta me

[@minecraftalphagameplay]

true

[@Daniel_Lancelin]

Add to that the fact that Father Grigori _recognizes the zombies_ and remembers who they were, honestly makes his character that much more tragic. Imagine seeing the people who relied on you for aid and leadership reduced to shambling husks, and then having to live with their agonized screams echoing through the streets you once called home, every day.

[@CobbleTrash]

Father grigori has a sound file for his death but it’s inconsistently played because it’s only triggered by fire. You can consistently trigger it by igniting him in gmod

[@systemreb00ted]

Maybe it's related to when he charges into the fire or whatever when you last see him in the Ravenholm chapter?

[@awesomesource12]

You can actually go down the tunnel to ravenholme after Alyx mentions it and she follows you, giving you some more explanation about what happened.

[@Scribeoflife]

I'll have to try that 👍🏻

[@energeticyellow1637]

I've been playing this game for 10 years and I never knew that was a thing. Amazing

[@fourlion_everywhere]

That was the thing I tried in my second ever playthrough of this game. Memories 😊

[@mjaypierce9549]

true no on realizes that

[@jasonx1174]

I was blown away when I heard that dialouge the first time. I just went down the tunnel to see if there was anything interesting and boom there was the dialouge.

[@blunderingfool]

Even if Grigori survives the graveyard assault no one went back for him, as far as we know, after the citadel went critical. He probably thought it was the rapture though so we can at least say he died happy and fulfilled.

[@pc14thenumber9]

He choose to keep on living despite the most depressing situation all by himself up to that point and still able to save someone at the end. That's a hero in my book.

[@Arelated]

Tbh i always felt bad leaving him behind after ravenholm

[@JRexRegis]

I think the outlying parts of City 17 survive (you get a good view in Episode II), so he might have as well. But the subsequent portal storm would definitely impact him, as would the hordes of Combine soldiers, advisors and synths fleeing the city.

[@tf2keller398]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@JRexRegisI feel like the last place any combine forces fleeing City 17 would go through is Ravenholm. It’d just waste material and manpower at a time when they couldn’t receive any supplies from their homeworld. So, their retreat would barely affect Father Grigori, if at all.

[@blüübermanUTTP]

he definitely doesn't look protestant so he doesn't believe rapture

[@g0rdonfreeman1]

how have i never noticed the crucifix on grigori’s hand and that you can see ravenholm in the skybox, that’s so cool! great video

[@matturner6890]

Dorf fort + Half Life. You have good taste!

[@Cartograph176]

Ravenholm was inspired by the level "The Haunted Cathedral" from the game Thief: The Dark Project (which is also one of Marc Laidlaw's favorite videogames).

[@littlehorn0063]

Ohh, you know, there ARE a lot of similarities! Brother Murus and Grigory both guide the player, both levels end with running the fuck out thru the gates, the areas and filled with undead and there are cathedrals. Thanks ya!

[@littlehorn0063]

And there are also a bunch of small puzzles in there. Or quests in case of Thief

[@romaliop]

Both are outstanding levels. Somehow horror just feels to work much better in games that aren't horror games otherwise. Same with the Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines haunted mansion level. I never really found any pure horror games any good, because you have agency and the game is purposefully built as something the player is supposed to be able to handle. There are only so many cards the game can play and only so many times it can kill the player before it runs out of the fear of the unknown. After which it's no longer horror in its core, just survival or action. A dedicated horror level in an action game can do basically all of the same, except the impact is felt much more because it's all unknown and unfamiliar to the player.

[@rodrigorojas9565]

Two great examples of games that are not 100% horror but have a lot of horror elements

[@mikehawk8984]

​@@romaliopI can totally agree. The first two Thief games, VTM:B, and the classic Tomb Raider games have given me some of the most profound terror I've ever experienced in games. Particularly in Thief you're so focused on being quiet and not being seen that even the goofy ass guards yelling "TAFFER!" at you would scare the shit out of me 😂

[@Voodoo_Chara]

The town; *Gets shelled to hell as all your friends and family becomes zombies.* Father Grigori; "Whelp, time to make a car smasher, check this shit--"

[@pmchad]

well, unlike people, zombies can't object to a giant contraption built solely to smash shit with a car, grigori was probably praising the lord as his opportunity to build shit like this came about

[@Bamboozlenoodle]

It's been about 15 years since I played it but I kind of forgot the sprinting zombies. Absolutely terrifying the first time I played this masterpiece.

[@Nikstanski]

Father Grigori could NOT be a hallucination, cause that would be weird that a hallucination used a trolley and threw a shotgun in air

[@Bandit1379.]

The crucifix scars on Grigori's hands are something I've never heard anyone else mention, fantastic catch! I never would have noticed that myself.

[@kennysalty6019]

At first, on my initial playthrough, first seeing Grigori made me immediately think he wasn't going to be great company. And then he gave me a Shotgun. Friendship ended with the Resistance, Father Grigori is now my bro

[@whatsfordinner62]

The characters that I connected with most were Eli and Grigori. Eli always reminded me of that uncle in your family that everyone loves because hes just so chill, intelligent, and kindhearted Grigori reminds me of the kind of outcast you might shoot a cursory glance at but nothing more. Someone who probably needed a companion the most in the series. Hes completely alone surrounded by friends and family that are all being enslaved by the headcrabs, barely alive knowing their current situation but helpless to stop it. His lines grieving you when you die show how much he valued you even only having just met you. Spoiler alert but when grigori receded into the fire at the end of the chapter i stayed there trying to take out all the zombies coming after him. Id like to imagine that its entirely possible he survives despite the burn injuries. He and Eli are the two characters I deeply felt their loss.

[@TheEpicplushgod]

i have always believed that grigori survives the fire, because if you stay around for long enough after he ignites the ground, you can see him run inside the small building there which does not get set on fire

[@minecraftalphagameplay]

he probably still died due to the citadel exploding

[@riseoftheepicscout454]

​@@minecraftalphagameplayfuck why did you have to make a good point and ruin my hopes of him surviving

[@minecraftalphagameplay]

@@riseoftheepicscout454 :trollface,:

[@eliminmax]

Disclaimer: while I am currently playing through HL2 for the first time, and am only partway through Ravenholm, I've seen people point out that the outskirts of City 17 were not destroyed by the Citadel explosion, so if Father Grigori was still alive all the way out in Ravenholm, he would probably still be alive afterwards.

[@TheEpicplushgod]

@@eliminmax true

[@45hr52]

I love the thought that one of the biggest plot points in half life is just A Time traveling boat

[@VictorFNV]

Time traveling and dimensional traveling boat.

[@sebastiaanreinders6032]

That is why I still believe G man is a different oldee version of Gordon Freeman

[@Sombreropancake-cakemix]

​@@sebastiaanreinders6032 You know combine advisors right? They are actually telepathic grubs, that are so powerful, that they can become anything they imagine. Although the ones seen in the games are nothing more than storage space for a useful mind, made by the combine. Gman is a hatched grub, and his idea was to become a businessman making "deals" for his employers behalf, that are those same grubs, that somehow have managed to stay hidden from the combine and are after revenge. Gordon is a chess piece. And so is Alyx too. Look for breengrub.

[@Furozonedotjpeg]

@@VictorFNV isnt Half Life and Portal in the same universe?

[@VictorFNV]

@@Furozonedotjpeg yes

[@ElsuperGTA]

Father Grigori is in the animal section in Gmod cuz he’s a beast

[@Sergantnoob]

yeah, i find it weird.

[@megabutters9144]

I honestly would've loved to play Return To Ravenholm.

[@mrwow1667]

looked so cool

[@MikeTrytek1]

Agreed. Did you watch the NoClip documentary on it?

[@paragonrobbie9270]

Learning about Return to Ravenholm just makes me feel like Valve intentionally kneecaps themselves any time they can make a new game...or at least one that doesn't require VR.

[@itsgeegra]

Tbf Return To Ravenholm was introducing a buncha wild continuity stuff that wouldn't have squared particularly well with what Valve had built

[@pc14thenumber9]

Imo... Gabe not impressed I think.

[@borico62]

That one definitely felt more Left 4 Dead than Half-Life. Valve has cancelled many things that I miss, but Return to Ravenholm isn't one of them (at least, not within the Half-Life franchise).

[@Sleepy_Cabbage]

This is probably around a time where valve had much more quality control over their offical work, it be nice to have this new content yes, but think about how this game wouldve been scene in the history of the franchise other then a weird experiment that didnt really fit with the rest of the series

[@caisearle]

The no weapons in Ravenholm achievement still has to be the most fun ive had in any game in a long time. Honestly a game thats built around physics would be perfect for me

[@christhefirst]

my gravity gun playthrough actually showed me some secrets like in the final part where you wait for the carriage, you can go back into the room with the roof hatch and the fast zombies wont spawn.

[@theskiff]

6:39 is fucking perfection 😂

[@EugenijusKrenis]

That Junction Point styleguide map having playable content with scripted scenes and enemies makes it sound like it was a styleguide they then reworked into a vertical slice as a demonstration of their ideas and plans.

[@arsonexc]

I've got no experience with half-life but with how you described the difference between Ravenholm and the cities under the control of the combine, it would put into perspective to how different this area is from the rest of the game, and why it became such a beloved chapter even for someone who hasn't even played the game.

[@deIuxe]

watching richter and knowing nothing about hl is crazy

[@ADcommenter]

How did you... even find this?

[@fightingtable]

Are you 2 years old or something

[@aiden_table]

if you don't have half life, the anniversary sale's going on right now. hl2 is 0.99 USD, hl is free. highly recommend making use of that, as there's a reason the half life series is still talked about to this day.

[@ursfan]

​@@fightingtable I'm 20 and I didn't play half life until 2019, i went in completely blind. Sometimes things just slip past people's radars lmao.

[@retrobro5299]

I remember the first time I got to Ravenholm, I was a few minutes in before I felt nauseous and ended up aggressively vomiting in my bathroom. It was weird because I was perfectly fine while I was playing before and there wasn’t anything in Ravenholm that grossed me out (I have seen far worse), and I was completely fine with playing the rest of the game. I think it’s a just coincidence, but I still find it really odd

[@santa_with_a_gun]

the infection

[@karmdeez911]

bro's turning into zombie

[@wm1573]

Ok

[@WhiteKneeOnBlackNeck1]

lol Ok, bro.

[@HowlV1]

Ravenholm to me, kinda ended up as a case study for what happens when the Combine don't care about the ground rebels walk on but still want them gone

[@RegalRoyalWasTaken]

The sheer balls on Valve to put the scary level right after you get the gravity gun, which just OOZES with hilarious physics shenanigan potential

[@wyguysecondary]

what i like the most about ravenholm is the speedrun skips potential it has. because it takes place mostly all in a straight line, you can easily prop climb over tons of locations and even a whole map, at one point

[@SuperBoyboys]

7:47 Something else to notice here is that the song Triage at Dawn is being played over the rebels *literally* performing triage AT dawn.

[@dwarfdigger135]

I just noticed this. Wow

[@sitkinator]

1:39 I made that Ravenholm Origins mod page and a trailer when I was like 14, and I had NO idea how to write a story or how to sync it with the rest of the Half-Life lore, and knowing me from back then, and some of the ideas I remember having, it probably would've SUCKED if I somehow finished it, I barely even did one test level and that's it

[@5aiv.]

there's just something about documentaries that revolve around anything half life/source related that are just so good and interesting. maybe it's because everything like half life and garry's mod is just so nostalgic to me

[@scientidead]

The level of quality of these videos are incredible! and Ravenholm never dies >:D

[@jadentetzlaff1108]

but did it die in citadel explosion?!

[@Bsc8]

2:40 After Alyx said that famous line, if you walk down to the locked sliding gate you get another line from her explaining what Ravenholm was 😎

[@PsychoRavager]

That shotgun-to-Alyx's-face part of the intro cracked me up more than I think it should have. Man, I'm sick in the head!

[@meine.eier.tun.weh11]

relax liberals..... its called dark humour 👿👿👿😈😈🤘🤘🤘🤘🔌🔌⁉⁉🧓🧓♥♥🐺🐺🐺🐺❓❓🗣🗣

[@Unkle_Genny]

1:15 The music playing here with Father Grigori speaking over it honestly has big MF DOOM vibes - like an intro to one of his songs, I can practically hear DOOM start rapping after Grigori finishes speaking

[@zerbutterftw]

I LOVE MF DOOM

[@wasylhnatiw8576]

Ravenholm, because of its creepiness, made me stop playing the game. So many years later I still fear this level! And I’m 71.

[@aaronrowell6943]

The idea that you go here before black mesa east is interesting, but I like the idea that you have a quiet, light hearted moment after all the running from the combine, and then go into the darkest chapter in the game.

[@DualBackdrop]

for me the weirdest thing about the cancelled expansion was that how tf did that town got repopulated I mean the virus would need a healthy person to infect it shouldn't be able to infect people who are already zombies

[@KaiseroftheBlade]

Bro dropped the hardest Ravenholm edit and thought we wouldn’t notice

[@Cxltyy]

"I do not suffer from insanity, i enjoy every second of it." -Father Grigori

[@nice3333333333]

I liked how in Half Life Alyx, it seemed like the Combine was still doing a genuine effort in cleaning up hazardous environments that had succumb to the parasite aliens, but then at the time of Half Life 2, they just quit completely on areas such as Ravenholm, and instead have confined with just putting up massive mobile wall structures.

[@ZmaniacSuperRealOmg]

The “Triage At Dawn” theme has always been different for me, I always thought it would be represented as Gordon’s sadness when leaving Father Gregori, possibly thinking he is dead.

[@doctajuice]

Doing it with just a gravity gun on hard difficulty is one of the craziest experiences I've ever had in a video game. Zombie chopper is a wild one on hard. Definitely recommend giving it a shot

[@carsonthenorthcaroliniante7635]

I really liked this chapter, it was a relief from the canals and lore based areas. Killing zombies was fun as hell.

[@taylorledet3993]

Just played ravenholm in half life 2 VR and wow what an experience that was.

[@feeli3422]

Thank you Richter, this is probably the only channel I’ve watched recently that has captured that nostalgia for valve games and their surrounding media that I had as a kid. It really brings me back to a happier time and even things I never knew of as a kid feel comfortable and nostalgic. Keep killing it man, every video you’ve posted is incredible

[@RichterOvertime]

Heartwarming comment. Glad I could help

[@Notwilliam757]

6:37 "Oh my brother, I have gone crazy! Now i have to fucking build a big-ass car thing to drop on these zombies, Check it out!"

[@420Pizza2]

I literally just started playing thru hl2 for the first time recently and played the ravenholm level a few days ago. Its really a great level (it took me quite awhile to find where to go but thats kind of a thing with all of half life lol). Another awesome video richter! (And since its almost here, happy thanksgiving :)

[@RichterOvertime]

happy thanksgiving to you as well brother

[@clouddz]

I think the level design is intentionally a bit confusing so it feels like there is no/little escape from the town

[@dd-qz2rh]

I remember playing this level as a kid and it gave me chills. The worst part is that Grigori was bugged and didn't initiate some of the interaction that was needed to continue. So I replayed it over and over again trying all possible ways but always just getting stuck at the same place until I gave up. I had no internet at the time to fix the bug or to even find out it was a bug and not me being dumb kid...

[@borico62]

12:01 Yeah, because a buggy disaster of a vehicle that constantly freaks out and gets stuck on stuff, it's something that NEVER would get to the retail game. 16:39 No, this part is actually spot on. All of that just wouldn't have fit into the Half-Life universe. It feels much more Left 4 Dead than Half-Life (I guess Valve agreed, and salvaged some parts to add them there).

[@10upstudios]

6:38 this fuckin bit is the truest shit ever, i love that so much

[@JmKirbyiou]

Good video as usual! I love your Half-Life related videos!

[@mrspo7012]

I love the way you learn using gravity gun right before that chapter, nice way to put it into the test

[@systemreb00ted]

For me, the scariest part of Half-Life 2 was not Ravenholm, instead it was the physics puzzles... They still haunt me to this day. Especially that one with the two rooms where you had to mess with the plumbing and flood it to get through. That one took me hours.

[@AimlessSavant]

No joke, i sat there on the other side of the gate and saluted as Grigori ran into the flames.

[@megabutters9144]

Father Grigori for president 2024.

[@lorddrayvon1426]

To anyone wondering why the Ravenholm game by Junction Point Studios was canned, game development takes years to develop out (Half Life 2 for instance took 5 years) and so they were considering at the earlier a 2009/2010 release. However, in July 2007, Disney bought Junction Point to make the Epic Mickey games so the agreement between them and Valve imploded and the game fell apart.

[@AJSCATMAN]

1:05 The Ravenholm beat go fucking hard

[@TheRundas95]

Anyone know if you can find it on KZbin?

[@NO-poleon]

Fire edit

[@SharArt10sa]

We Dont Go TO Raveneholm is the singel most iconic video game line dont @ me

[@uncleskelethor2900]

Thank you Richter very cool.

[@ChelOvek-cp2me]

Me:best location in this game , because : gravity gun , shotgun , brutal zombies killing , and nice old man priest with cool replicas . Other : OH MY GOD MY PANTS ARE WET , WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT CREEP IN THIS GAME .

[@JoshL117]

6:38 That was actually a pretty decent Grigori imitation :P

[@BlakeTheGamblingHero]

if i am being honest, i do like the ideas that were presented in Arkanes scrapped project. While i do agree that some things felt out of place from waht was seen wiht this new zombie virus and a unessecary usage of Adrian Shephard, i honestly like the idea of Grigori having a similar ark to what he has in this mod which could work, if tweaked in the right direction. Maybe hes trying to desperately find some way to make humans immune to the Headcrab's Mind control ability, but as a result, changes Grigori and degrades his mental state, mutating him in a way not too different from what happens to anyone turned into a zombie by the headcrabs, perhaps a Headcrab zombie thats able to keep Grigori's intellect and doesnt decay like all other Headcrab zombies.

[@esplice4285]

Im sorry OkBuddyHalfLife forced you to change the title

[@RichterOvertime]

It was a bad title overall and was hurting the vid

[@BacenticFlam]

@@RichterOvertimeyou reap what you sow

[@IOSALive]

Richter Overtime, I subscribed because your videos are super cool!

[@gamingmoth4542]

2:21 the fact that you can see the town that early on is quite a chilling thought.

[@alexanderdent7816]

"Oh,my brother, I have gone crazy, now I have to build a fuggin' bigass car thing to drop on these zombies,check it out."

[@epictrollmanmoment]

r/okbuddyhalflife won

[@Butter_united]

my man dropped the hardest ravenholm edit and thought we wouldnt notice

[@fantastikboom1094]

Also the Ravenholm map design is both weird and cool. The whole game is like this tho.

[@trey0001069760]

0:38 This clip with alyx cracking the joke before getting got me dying over here😂

[@toxicisgaming]

yo. dude, that community post that u deleted was very concerning... i hope ur still around

[@serioussponge6416]

I was a little kid when I played Half-Life 2 for the first time. The moment I got to We Don't Go To Ravenholm and walked out to that first scene with the yard that has the sign on the ground and the chopped off legs swinging from the tree I shat my pants and turned the game off and I didn't come back to finish Half-Life 2 until I was in my late teens.

[@MiguelHernandez-lo5lg]

Ngl the headcrab that falls from the really tall ladder is just incredibly amusing to me. Its this weird moment of levity right before the horror of Ravenholm.

[@archdiangelo7930]

"I remember your true face..." is such a haunting line. Father Grigori is trapped in the hell that his former home has become, forced to endlessly fend off the tortured parasitized corpses of his friends and neighbors, his faith being the only thing keeping him going. And yet he still helps you, he still does all he can to keep people safe who wander into this nightmare of his, and he still stands firm in the face of adversity. I feel so bad for the guy, but he's one of the most badass characters I've ever seen. It's a shame that we only get as much of him as we do.

[@denifnaf5874]

0:40 wait theres people who don't laugh at alyx's zombine joke?

[@erikpng]

Apparently no one likes her joke. :(

[@Robospy1]

I leik joke :(

[@cheesethekid5975]

that ravenholm intro was FIRE, both the editing AND music

[@Gojiro7]

it feels good to watch a fun not taking itself too serious RichterOvertime video where he doesn't over wax poetic about games from his childhood like he's 50 years old telling us how "they dont make em like they used too anymore when things were better" ....that's a weird vibe to come for a guy who is barely out of his 20's XD

[@OxTheHerdzz]

I do not fear the darkness of Ravenholm, for light of Father Grigori will always be a beacon to guide my soul home.

[@seifoswaglel5823]

Another richter overtime classic!! couldn’t even edge to this one, I exploded immediately!!! Clean up on aisle MY PANTS 😂😂😂😂

[@LACCrypt]

bro go outside

[@DrHeinzy]

​@@LACCryptShut up, his comment was cool and fun.

[@LACCrypt]

@@DrHeinzy no he sounds like a coomer who hasnt had human contact in 2 decades. nobody speaks like this

[@StuckInAWashingMachine]

i love the disrupt reference as the thumbnail. very cool.

[@adirblazkowics7717]

I'm gonna be honest, I've seen lots of videos that just are about... "Why X is Y" stuff like this. But I don't understand it. Why do we need a video explaining to us why a spooky chapter of half-life 2 is in fact spooky? Isn't it as obvious as the sun making light? Anybody who's played the game can get the generally dark tones of Ravenholm. notice the fact it's infested by headcrabs, feel the spooky atmosphere and all that. So, why are videos like this made? What are they for?

[@stopidhoodleum3232]

Ong ths made me mad asf

[@stopidhoodleum3232]

I just came for the comments

[@maozedong69420]

​@@stopidhoodleum3232bro came 💀💀💀

[@RichterOvertime]

It’s just a catchy title and an excuse for me to talk about something I’m interested in. The video itself really barely has anything to do with why it’s scary, it’s just an analysis of the chapters lore, popularity, development history, and qualities. Why does it need to be made? Well, because I like ravenholm. Simple as.

[@adirblazkowics7717]

@@RichterOvertime alrighty, seems fair enough. Ofc I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do or anything, people can do whatever with their channels. I was just curious

[@joeydebra763]

Trying the challenge by only using the gravity gun in Ravenholm was quite challenging at the waiting for the lift part when fast zombies are jumping at you.

[@slash8297]

>video starts with words that Half-Life has never been a horror >"game was filled to the brim with dark slapstick HUMOR, featuring scientists DYING in all sorts of FUNNY ways" Man, just because this game is old and nowadays it looks a bit silly (after around 20+ playthroughs) doesn't mean it was intentionally comedic. PEOPLE DYING BY BEING EXECUTED, FALLING WHILE BEING STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR or FALLING INTO A FUCKING ABYSS, GETTING CRUSHED UNDER PRESSES AND EATEN ALIVE BY ALIEN HOSTILE CREATURES IS SO MUCH FUN, I SWEAAAR. It is way too grotesque at times, but it's not supposed to be fun. It's just showing how much the things got out of control in BM. Oh, and don't get me started on "BOOOO RAVENHOLM IS SO SCARY, BOO". People have been playing this game for almost 20 years now, everyone knows about its history, and there are already many videos explaining what happened in Ravenholm. Get a new material. What's next, another (absolutely original, unfiltered and honest thoughts of the author btw) 15 minute video about "BOO SOURCE ENGINE IS S-S-SCARY BECAUSE LE LIMINAL SOMETHING-SOMETHING YADA YADA"? Maybe I'm being too "mean", but I'm honestly sick of people chewing on the same thing over and over again.

[@RichterOvertime]

You should try watching the video! You might find it more insightful than you’re expecting.

[@slash8297]

@@RichterOvertime okay, I will.

[@blupee718]

the fast zombies high pitched voices and when they missed me and fell off the building just ruined the mood by making it funny

[@TheKirBoi]

20:52 "Judith Mossman gets hotter as you get older"... something you wanna tell us about yourself Richter?

[@testiclegaming1250]

20:53 I didnt expect to get hit by some honest to god facts right there

[@marbles4442]

Don't think I did not see that Skibidi toilet image at 17:13 Richter!

[@MostlyPennyCat]

I remember watching my wife play through hl2, specifically ravenholme. She was terrified of the poison crabs and their mount. To the point that, one dark evening walking home from work, she convinced herself some hulking dude in a white jacket was one and was following her.

[@Connorscosmos]

Dropping the hardest ravenholm edit ever is crazy

[@NysnekTrains]

To my knowledge that canceled Ravenholm episode you were supposed to play as Adrian Shepherd

[@thomas_walker]

ravenholm terrified me as a child and i think for that reason it's one of my favorite chapters in the game

[@someone-yk7cw]

One thing i love about ravenholm is how it is 1 of 2 chapters to be in the demo on steam to show it off the source engine and gravity gun

[@Dinnerboneearthmover]

The entire valve office exploding after I went to ravenholm

[@brickthecreator777]

in ravenholm resieance or whatever its called, when the zombies get stunned, its reusing stun, and the stun animations from half life 2 beta, pretty neat! :D

[@parknich081]

There are actually soem voices you can hear like sobbing woman, implying there are more survivors, hiding away, begging to not become one of those "things"

[@superdave54811]

I've seen Gregori standing in fire, laughing and still shooting zombies. He can't die.

[@MVKHXV]

TLDR; Because it was designed that way

[@TheGlenn8]

Ravenholm into Highway 17 into Sandtraps is easily my favorite part of Half Life 2.

[@pyrotection]

And this can be said for every single chapter sequence in all half life games. It’s just that good!

[@kidbendy]

i cant believe throughout this entire video, you didnt mention the interloper arg.

[@StealthRat1]

Ravenholme was definitely my favourite part in the whole series