I Played Every Valve Game in a Week*

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I played every single valve game in a week.
Because valve has a really really incredible back catalogue of games, but chances are most of you haven't played the overwhelming majority of them.
So I thought I'd give them all a try...
0:00 Intro
1:13 Half-Life
5:49 Team Fortress Classic
10:40 Ricochet
14:10 Counter Strike
15:46 Counter Strike: Condition Zero
18:22 Condition Zero Deleted Scenes
21:09 Deathmatch Classic
23:14 Day of Defeat
25:09 Counter Strike: Source
27:35 Half-Life 2
34:05 Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
36:11 Day of Defeat: Source
38:11 Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
39:24 Half-Life 2: Episode 1
41:24 Half-Life 2: Episode 2
44:23 Portal
48:17 Team Fortress 2
51:06 Left 4 Dead/Left 4 Dead 2
55:24 Alien Swarm (lol)
56:52 Portal 2
58:49 Counter Strike: Global Offensive
1:00:16 Dota 2
1:02:17 Artifact
1:04:55 Dota Underlords
1:07:13 Conclusion

[@htwo1]

Guys, please stop commenting "you forgot Gmod". Valve didn't make Gmod, they licensed and published it.

[@NormDeguere]

you forgot gmod

[@WhiterunGuard50]

You forgor gmod

[@geeseguy1758]

you forgot Gmod

[@n0t4g4iN]

You could say the same thing about Counter-Strike condition zero. That was made by Turtle Rock Studios

[@xxbuttmanxx4383]

Even if you did have to play gmod for this, you probably would only have to open sandbox, spawn a prop and call it a day, the people complaining aren’t missing much content

[@sausumsfm]

Be honest, did you do this because the valve collection went on sale for 6 dollars?

[@htwo1]

I bought it literally 5 days before the sale 💀

[@sausumsfm]

@@htwo1 that sucks

[@hashvolting]

@@htwo1 nah you got rekt brother

[@TheElino]

@@htwo1 Lmao absolutely destroyed Sorry man

[@TheManOfJazz291]

@@htwo1SAME💀

[@possum0451]

Half Life 2 can legally drink

[@jiraffe9600]

Depending on the country.

[@Atlas_966]

And can have kids too

[@ethanbear360]

not where I live

[@pizzaisgoodidk7370]

Not I’m America sadly

[@howtomundane3109]

haha

[@cdfactory]

Half Life 2 proves that having strong art style will make your game’s visuals timeless. It’s 19 years old now and it still looks amazing.

[@pakoti96]

Yeah, there is a good reason Viktor Antonov's name is the first one that appears when you start the game.

[@ahmed4363]

and portal 2, 14 years later. still looks the best out of any non vr valve game

[@_dibbs]

@@ahmed4363you could've told me portal 2 came out recently and i would be fooled, game still holds up insanely well and i still cant believe it came out in 2011

[@Olterior]

Whilst I agree, it's important to recognize, HL2 in 2004 and HL2 in 2024 are 2 different games. Source Engine received a massive overhaul with The Orange Box, as well as number of other updates over the years that improved the graphics(as well as other areas). Yes it's Valves game design that allows them to do this (Source2 was designed with the idea that it will be the final game engine. It will improve overtime, and everything made on it will be portable to newer itterations easily).

[@janusbondi]

The sad part with Day of Defeat is that no one will ever be able to experience what the game even is again. It was an amazing original game, that played extemely well with 32 player lobbies, which was insane at the time. An absolute gem that can only be remembered by those who played it back then.

[@UberSpah]

Don't forget that there is Day of Defeat: Source.

[@germanmarine6582]

It still has some full servers

[@januszkurahenowski2860]

I was browsing those comments to see if anyone will mention it. Damn, it was such a good game at the time and it's sad that someone who wasn't there at the time will never have a chance of experiencing it. It was probably my favorite shooter as a kid, I still remember getting like 80 killstreak with a heavy machinegun at the map which was basically storming Normandy Beach, it was camping but it was historically accurate camping lol

[@perryorbit5304]

I wish i was there to experience it ngl.

[@TryHardCentral]

Was it like cod 2?

[@TwoBagels]

Fun fact: you can actually just play aperture desk job with a controller on pc, I did it the day it came out. Fun little 20 minute game.

[@JuliaJvn_6]

TOLIET GUN

[@dunny]

Yep did actually that and then replayed it on deck.

[@redisdead628-2.0]

i connected my xb360 controller and it didnt work

[@CosmicVR8]

@@redisdead628-2.0 dude its a 360 what did you think it would do???????

[@redisdead628-2.0]

@@CosmicVR8 i mean it worked with most games, i have a ps4 one too but cant figure out how to connect it

[@froddobaggins]

Its crazy how well HL2 has aged. It doesn't even look bad (aside some world textures) for an 18 year old game.

[@fojisan2398]

2004 was such a good year for video games

[@paper177]

*19

[@smailchali5102]

@@paper177 18

[@raseli4066]

@@smailchali5102 I was born in 2003 and I'm 20. So far the math checks out

[@smailchali5102]

@@raseli4066 and i was born in 2004 and im 18

[@xyouthe]

if you actually break down the AI of half life 2, the combine soldiers are very tactical in their behavior. canonically they were modified humans with all senses and emotions removed besides those that are required for combat, so a pure war machine. this is shown pretty well in how their AI moves in regards to eachother, cornering and surrounding you, sending in the shotgunner to go around angles and try to get in your face without you seeing it approaching. theres a nice video by Leadhead about just how evil the combine is, and its got a very good segment about combine soldiers' coordination. its a little before 12mins into the video, should check it out.

[@based980]

too bad leadhead is trans now

[@xyouthe]

@@based980 what does that have to do with anything bro lol

[@based980]

@@xyouthe im expressing hatred

[@xyouthe]

@@based980 cool dude, rock on i guess lol?

[@johnnyOWPEJF]

i think HL2s combine has a lot of potential, but the level design itself limits their strategies imo , the one part she sited is one the few times they actually strategize. most of the time they react extremely slowly and move down corridors in a straight line

[@akdreamer6497]

Just a correction, only about 5 or so devs from Turtle Rock actually worked on Back 4 Blood, yet they advertised it as if it were the whole damn studio. The rest of the devs for B4B were just random people hired on.

[@demomemo5973]

That and only 6 people from turtle rock actually worked on left 4 dead the rest of the people were valve employees.

[@stevebanning902]

Left4Dead is one of the most overrated games in history, and I love valve.

[@Vietnam_Gigachad]

@@stevebanning902 because they did so damn well while most of coop survival now aday try to catch what made l4d success but most of them fail so damn bad

[@akdreamer6497]

@@stevebanning902 Overrated? Idk about that. Haven't seen much praise for it around. I think people at most just casually accept that it's a good game.

[@stevebanning902]

@@akdreamer6497 You haven't seen much praise for l4d? Are you blind and deaf? Everyone loves that game.

[@casualtuff2327]

those bars in ricochet is for you to “ricochet” your disks to hit someone

[@anchorbubba]

yeah lol

[@whothei0]

Played a ton of ricochet back in the day. Super fun. Allowed us three siblings to play a game despite different skill levels.

[@urazoktay7940]

I played Half Life 2 again 4 months ago and the game still looks and feels amazing. Half Life 2 has unmatched atmosphere, incredibly varied level design and gameplay mechanics, still looking good, gorgeous graphics, amazing physics, amazing facial animations, amazing art style and art direction and amazing music and sound effects. I will play Half Life 2 again 15 days later because i miss the game already in 4 months. Half Life 2 is by far the best fps game ever made.

[@davitsk1]

I just finished my replay. I do it every few years in between. Think i have played them 5 times now.

[@Jjz0289]

There is a unexplainable type of comfort i feel when playing Classic valve Goldsource games that i really cant describe it brings me back too my childhood of sitting up all night in a dimly lit room playing HL:opposing force on my dads crappy little 2004 Acer laptop that could comfortably run the game in and around 25fps if even with massive dips at the outdoor sections, these are precious memories ill bring with me thought my whole life :)

[@baseballviolation]

Honestly surprised you've never heard of Ricochet before, probably one of the biggest Valve/Source community jokes out there.

[@LexRudera]

He did say that half life from 1998 is older than him, so it makes sense.

[@gabeznl3591]

@@LexRudera I don't think so. I'm born in 2003 and I knew Half-life and L4D since 2008, because I played those games on a Internet Cafe

[@DrCranberry]

I'm surprised that despite playing all GoldSrc games, he didn't come across a single human player. Considering theres STILL CS 1.6 and TFC servers that have full servers and communities

[@radicalcentrist4990]

@@DrCranberry CS 1.6 was always the most popular GoldSrc game by far, the others not so much.

[@paravostok]

@@radicalcentrist4990 in terms of multiplayer and active players yeah but in terms of overall players it's 100 percent half life 1

[@mcall9800]

26:00 the server issue you spoke of is an exploit some servers do to make multiple listings to try and trick people into joining.

[@htwo1]

Oh I see, so I was right in thinking it was done to keep player numbers up. That's a little scummy but I guess its not too big a deal if you only wanna pop in every now and then

[@jacobfreeland6881]

It’s an issue in Half-Life 2: Deathmatch as well, though not nearly as severe as this. Basically creates a bunch of fake server listings that all redirect to the true server when you connect.

[@nv7513]

@@htwo1 heads up, don't trust any server on a source game with 7 players on it, 90% chance its a dummy server

[@ProtoMan0451]

fastpath in particular (the server you were on) is notorious for this in most games they have servers in. stay away.

[@RobiePAX]

To add a small clarification. While it's true there are servers that trick and mislead about its population with fake listings. There is however also a bug in some Source games where you need to click "disconnect" before joining new server. If you don't do it, and just click on another server then the game may reconnect you back to the previous server. I've seen it happen constantly in TF2.

[@WeTheEast]

Heads up: theres a community made revamp of alien swarm called Alien swarm: reactive drop, which introduces bots, new weapons, and overall a much better experience! It also actually gets updates from the team and has workshop integration, not to mention more missions and 186 ACHIEVEMENTS IN TOTAL. Highly recommend giving it a shot, as ive had tons of fun on it!

[@quax6625]

I was about to say that, I love that game!

[@icata12345]

same, was a blast playing it!

[@culpritdesign]

It would be cool to have you play through the Half Life expansions (Opposing Force, Blueshift, and Decay). Those were really fun for me when I was a teenager.

[@TauGeneration]

the problem is that these were made by gear box, not valve

[@martinmatin6275]

​@@TauGeneration also one is by turtle rock

[@TauGeneration]

@@martinmatin6275 which one?

[@martinmatin6275]

@@TauGeneration oppoposing force if i remember correctly

[@TM__1566]

@@martinmatin6275 All the expansions were made by Gearbox TRS started working with Valve during Condition Zero, but all the HL1 expansions were Gearbox's

[@blindtreeman8052]

condition zero and condition zero's deleted scenes' development history is pretty interesting. if you were curious why a 2000-2001s looking game came out in 2004, thats probably cause it was a 2000-2001s game that came out in 2004.

[@AlphaYellow]

Yea the original release date was actually in 2002, but it was delayed many times due to complications in the development, but nothing changes the fact that it still uses the GoldSrc engine from 1998, so it was extremely dated by 2004

[@theengineergaming602]

You know you can play desk job with any controller?

[@CursedSFMS]

@BradynLee09 BraydnLee09 we meet again

[@theengineergaming602]

@BradynLee09 what?

[@skalocos9640]

@@CursedSFMS who

[@CursedSFMS]

@BradynLee09 ive seen you multiple times and have always said oh shit its Australium knife

[@CoolSs]

@@CursedSFMS we meet at last . my arch enemy . The greatest warrior that ever ....... ohhhh my bad i thought you were someone else .

[@demivideos8887]

Great video! 1.6 can seem like an outdated game, and you mentioned cs:source being an improvement, but source was a failure. The professional scene especially never moved from 1.6 to source because source is very gimmicky, whereas 1.6’s mechanics were robust. Million-dollar tournaments were being held in 1.6 even after source was released, thats why they quickly went to work on csgo. Its one of those games that the community essentially pushed to the limit. So while i see why you would think source was an improvement on the original, most didnt think so.

[@wtfnahmean]

Thought the same when he said source was an improved counter-strike in every single way, while every cs players i knew hated css so much lol. It was especially bad as valve and big tournaments were trying so hard to shove the shiny new game up our ass. But the video creator was born in the 2000s so I can't blame him, it was a very different time indeed

[@roronoazoro-136]

Just proves that the commentator never played counter strike or really cared about it before.

[@younoa8783]

creater just trashtalk cs

[@OfflineOffie]

Great video! I expected something a lot lower effort but you exceeded my expectations! I thought you were going to just cut together a few lazy livestream clips and call it a day, but you talked about each game in depth with your experiences and history which was enjoyable to watch! You actually knew each game and wasn't just stumbling around.

[@5MadMovieMakers]

Desk Job taught me that my Steam Controller had gyroscope controls

[@Crazy-qi1gw]

Oh my god lmao

[@MDCVTR44]

those have gyroscopes?

[@5MadMovieMakers]

@@MDCVTR44 apparently, if you hold one of the bumpers and trackpad and tilt it or something like that

[@MDCVTR44]

@@5MadMovieMakers weird

[@sinom]

Basically every controller has gyro except for xbox

[@mrmimeguy]

In defense of the chambers being "broken": I think leaving them with these "broken" solutions rewards players who can think outside of the box or realize these easy solutions to a complex chamber. While this could take away from the challenge or gameplay, I still think that it's a great way to unintentionally reward observant players

[@pknepps]

With the exception of portal bumping, the other mechanics were intentional and the devs put them in the game as intentional alternate solutions.

[@Polyeith]

that was actually the idea, portal's developer commentary goes into exactly this

[@infinite_sun_rays]

This is exactly the reason why I keep coming back to Portal, even recently I keep finding new ways to mess with chambers after messing around with random or unintended mechanics

[@wulf2121]

not to mention that you notice some of these solutions actually were intended when you try to beat the least portals challenge.

[@Undy1]

This is exactly why I prefer Portal over Portal 2. While it's true that Portal 2 has a great story, better graphics and overall visual style, I think the chamber design is way too restrictive. Portal 2 feels cramped, the chambers are huge and expansive but they all have only one very specific solution that you have to find. There's very little in terms of thinking outside the box. In Portal 1 the entire game feels like you're discovering your own way and your own solutions to every problem, in Portal 2 the game feels like you're trying to find a specific sequence of actions that the developers intended for you to follow.

[@matthewshy9785]

How bizarre. Watching footage of the different valve games while you talk about them reminded me of different periods of my life. Man I miss valve games.

[@mattyvsmithy]

Damn, the nostalgia. I'm actually slightly sad to hear that most of the classic HL stuff is now barren of players. I had a strange feeling they would still retain an old player base somewhere... Seeing some of the old effects on the CS 1.6 servers and the pop up's on "clan" servers almost makes me shed a tear when I think back to the innocent days of sitting in my room playing these games with my friends online. Man...

[@paveldaman1820]

A thing to keep in mind when playing HL1 is that valve hasn't patched it in ages so there are a lot of bugs that weren't in the original game

[@lukkkasz323]

Yeah, just the fact that he plays on 16:9 without changing FOV as the game doesn't scale it properly with widescreen. Game was made in 1998 so this wasn't an issue back then.

[@AlienTreeGuy]

This is actually not true. The last patch that I know of was october 2019. Those bugs are left in there for speedrunners and such. I think I watched an interview about it a while back where Valve said they'd be overstepping the historical aspect if they were to fix those bugs now, especially the infinite health one which is pretty much universally used in 100% speedruns.

[@lukkkasz323]

@@AlienTreeGuy He's talking about new bugs, not bugs that were in the game since release.

[@FidesYT]

@@lukkkasz323 most of those are only present In Half Life Source

[@XENON2028]

thats only in half-life source, hl1 is actually updated quite a lot

[@spore124]

Outside of shooting portals through walls, those skips you showed in Portal 1 are very much intentional. Portal has challenge modes where getting the best times requires you to use many of the techniques from your video.

[@MA78yt]

Fun fact: half life is just a series of tech demos. They were all demonstrations of VALVe’s engines.

[@marclago2594]

Thanks for the honesty when stating that you had not much to say about counter-strike, yet you do deliver a genuine personal view of the subject that adds to the experience.

[@CS_Uravity_PRO]

About condition zero, the game was supposed to be released 2001 maybe 2002, but changing devs and missing deadlines lead the game to what it is today. Rushed as fuck.. The original premise was similar to the final Condition Zero but there were many MANY more new mechanics and systems that would've set this game apart. Gearbox was handling it at the time but when they missed the deadline in 02 valve snatched the game from them and gave it to ritual who made Deleted Scenes, then to Turtle rock who made the final version (in a few months time). There are some videos about CZ's development history and it's an interesting one I highly recommend you watch them to get a bettter idea how this game went to shit during literal development hell

[@BMWe-ed2tn]

Also he says its justthe usual maps but i recall a decent storyline over new maps , never mind i was thikiong of deleted scenes

[@souporwormgaming]

As somebody with a Valve Index and Steam Deck, here's my thoughts on the missing games: Half Life Source: Not sure how you missed this, but it kinda sucks. It's just a buggier, more visually conflicting Half Life. On the bright side, it gives you assets for Gmod :) The Lab: It's a pretty fun VR tech demo. I generally hate using the term 'tech demo', because some people feel the need to call VR games with 23 hr long campaigns 'tech demo's, but The Lab deserves that title. Some of the game modes are fantastic, like the archery one, but hey the game is free so it's worth checking out if you have a headset. Half Life Alyx: Easily the most beautiful and polished VR game that I've played. The soundtrack and AI are also some highlights, but we all know that the glass physics is the best part. It's biggest con is how safe it plays it, when compared to games like Bonelab. Aperture Desk Job: Another free tech demo. It's polished and pretty fun, but has zero replay-ability, and it is basically just a Steam Deck features tour.

[@n9ne]

if you haven't noticed this guy clearly hates VR 'cause he doesn't want to spent $500 on a headset you can use for an entire generation. that's like 8 bucks a month over 5 years time. i honestly don't understand why people hate VR.. even the motion sickness stuff is easily solvable by just playing games.. after a week you get super used to it and never get sick again.

[@spoonermcgee]

I came to the comments to discuss this part and even then, I advocate even harder for both VR entries and also the forgotten 3rd VR entry "Moondust", which was a much smaller version of the Lab that was developed to show off the Valve knuckles/index controller. The Lab is honestly a top-tier VR title, the archery game in itself is enough to always bring me back. It's a HELL of a shoulder workout and trying to beat your high score is endlessly entertaining. The Robo-repair mission is a 10-minute masterclass in VR immersion, direction, and writing. Its not long, but it's merits ring true each time I've played it since getting VR back in 2017. Half Life: Alyx though...it's where Valve is now, after so damn long. This video is simply incomplete without it. VR is not worth it for every person, no argument there. It requires money yes, but also requires space to set up. Which can be just as challenging. Alyx is the culmination of a long-term development cycle and innovation dream that Valve has been working on in the space of VR since what? 2014? It's worth asking a friend with VR to borrow their headset. It's worth even buying a Quest 2 or used Reverb G2. Even an OG oculus Rift 1 would do the trick. It's a the definitive title for VR. I hope Htwo can try it out someday soon. I know eventually he will, but this video is very incomplete without it. If you were to take the amount of time and planning that goes into their games then Half Life Alyx would take the cake as the thing with the longest time to come to fruition so leaving it out of their discography of games is a miss!

[@400thekiller233]

Valve knows better than to make a janky game like bonelabs.

[@spoonermcgee]

@@400thekiller233 very true! Their commitment to actually updating The Lab physics with modern technology made it very clear that they want the Valve experiences to stay top-notch! Have you been able to play their VR games? Any thoughts?

[@jkeebla]

@@n9ne yeah but, i don't blame him. if i could, i'd wait 5 years to when more games and content and hardware get released to experience VR for the first time. cause right now, i barely use it. but using it for the first time was magical, something i can only partly experience after long breaks. so.. i'd wait for more titles and experiences.

[@n3wbury]

I enjoyed listening to you talk about Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch being good because those were the two I grew up enjoying while all my friends were into CSS and TF2. Shout out to all the grown men who ushered 9 year old me into online gaming by launching toilets at my head with grav guns and teaching me how to quick-scope with the .357 o7 o7 o7

[@infinitymod98]

if nobody told you: source/non-source public servers have the ability to alter your config so that when you are trying to join any server they redirect you to their server. Cheap promovation tactic praying on casual users employed by some community/admins. You can make the config file read-only after you adjusted your settings, and you will avoid this issue. Romanian and Russian Counter-Strike servers used this tactic quite often.

[@zeallust8542]

I liked Lost Coast for the dev commentary. I learned A LOT about game design as a kid by playing through valves dev commentary modes in all the games that had them.

[@Nikolai0169]

1:01:00 one thing i believe we can objectively agreee on here is that dota 2 has a wonderful custom game implementation with a very active modding scene, while league has barely any customisation with their custom games. As someone who has only ever really played league myself, i was blown away by all the things that dota 2 modders have done.

[@fazzbear0302]

im just suprised this man and the entire comment section completely forgot hl:source exists

[@lewisbiggs5977]

This is absolutely tremendous video, bravo. On a side note, after about half an hour I realised you talk and sound like Max Fosh, and then I couldn't unhear it.

[@oatmeal710]

cant wait to watch an hour of ricochet and eight minutes of other games

[@blipbloopblop]

half life alyx is absolutely INCREDIBLE!

[@Sponers1]

How he was talking about DotA underlords is how I felt when I played TFT it's just what you're used to looking at is what makes it easier

[@intelcorei0364]

Right

[@flakinatortree9143]

43:41 is that some Celeste ost I hear? Nice (Great video btw, I’ve always been able to find full servers for Day of Defeat and what you said about the bolt action definitely carried over from there, but it’s still beaten out by the lmg’s).

[@wusstunes]

I would say as a tiny nitpick that rocket jumping was definitely intentional in TFC. the mechanic has its roots in quake. Huge effort here, tho, thanks for sharing your experience.

[@charmyzard]

Fun clarification, 8-bit Amy Rose. VALVe lore is always appreciated.

[@coffin7904]

Absolutely, this one kinda bugged me. It was known long before the GoldSrc team fortress.

[@individualised]

Quake 2 even has easter eggs that you access via rocket jumping, and the game acknowledges

[@ducktwinblitz]

Aperture desk job doesn't need a steam deck just a controller

[@Sawrunner.]

Oh, I get it, "these movement mechanics were just *unforeseen consequences* of the crazy engine they had developed.".

[@ampstamp]

Dods is one of the most non toxic valve games I've ever played. Usually, I get shit talked and slurred by older players because I'm "not good" but in dods, everytime I've played, the players who were like 30-40 years old were allwelcoming. I once said "im getting off for tonight, but I'm gonna join again sometime soon" and the other long time players were saying "cool, we always love seeing new players" On top of that, they've always been helpful, teaching me new mechanics and stuff. Highly recommend it

[@wahlu9642]

You do realise you don’t need an index to play Alyx, you can link it with an oculus quest and even play wirelessly for less than half the price

[@TheThunderGhost]

THIS. I find this argument annoying, when people want to avoid playing VR. "It's too expensive." Not really anymore it isn't. If you don't want to play VR, just say that, instead of coming up with an excuse. XD

[@stormstudios1]

its probably ugly on the quest the rift s is better

[@MythicTF2]

​@@TheThunderGhost As someone who owns VR, it's not cheap. You need a PC that can run vr (Which these days is probably a mid-level PC) and a headset. That's easily $1000 for the hardware roughly (PC & HMD). If you already have the PC though, its much cheaper. The real problem is how much better the index is and how much praise the index gets for it. The index is without a doubt the BEST way to experience VR currently and if you're looking into getting VR, you'll probably find people saying that and be discouraged from buying a cheaper alternative like the quest 2 because "Well, it's a lesser experience" or "I might as well just save for an index then". There's also just the fact that playing VR is physically exhausting. VR gets uncomfortable after a while, especially for me personally since I have back issues, so it's also a lot harder for people with said issues to even justify getting into VR. It's such a great medium for games but its a shame how much it's held back by.

[@wahlu9642]

@@stormstudios1 "the rift s is better" 💀💀bruh what

[@stormstudios1]

@@wahlu9642 it connects to the pc and has great graphics

[@HarrisonDotNET]

There's no Half-Life: Source, but he played basically every other Source port.

[@audiovisualcringe]

counter strike and day of defeat weren’t simply ports like the half life one, they redid all the models, weapons and maps for the source engine

[@cubalerby]

Yeah also he missed the half-life deathmatch source

[@jkeebla]

guess it wasn't on the list. so technically he didn't miss it. the list did

[@bludix_elite]

I doubt you'll ever read this but if you do... During your Counter Strike Source experience you got this "Bug" where you were only connecting to one server. I'm pretty sure that's done by the server owners and they install a plugin in your files which basically connects you to the same server ("Connect 'ip of the server'"). To fix that you need to right click the game in steam click proprieties, click local files and click "Verify integrity". I am not 100% sure that this is the fix but it SHOULD fix the issue. Hope it was helpful!

[@thebigman7283]

Honestly Valve should make a Day of Defeat 2

[@Artemisc16]

For the VR games if you’re actually interested, you can use a lot of headsets besides the $1500 index for alyx and desk job. The quest 2 works perfectly wired and wirelessly with virtual desktop, granted if you’re doing it wirelessly you need a decent wifi connection. That is a much cheaper alternative to play any vr game if you want. It even allows for the few oculus exclusive games too since it was originally oculus.

[@ultbee]

I bought half life alyx and everytime I try to run it on my oculus quest 2 using PCVR it always crashes during loading screens and I looked up the issue and it's only happening with quest users, I wish I could play the game but I didn't refund because I support valve and the game looks really good, just seems like a hardware issue sadly :(

[@n9ne]

honestly i think he's just a hater and won't accept that technology is progressing in a direction he doesn't like. kinda pathetic if you ask me. a lot of older people act this way sadly.

[@jkeebla]

@@n9ne most traditional gamers wont dive into vr because of the "its too expensive." i mean, isnt the quest 2 like $350 right now? and it works just as good as a valve set would. just with less fancy controllers. $350 + an above average pc that most of them probably already have. it rubs me the wrong way.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@n9ne VR is still fairly limited in comparison to the amount of money you have to invest for the experience.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@jkeebla VR has to be cheaper than that and have less limited uses to be more popular.

[@ionalt]

There is a very underrated indie game called "Golden Light". It's my favorite game of all time and I think you should try it. There is a free prequel called "Golden Light of Rose" if the price seems a bit high to go into without knowing anything about it.

[@Polyeith]

46:00 These were actually intended, if you play through portal's developer commentary they mention that they purposefully didn't remove flings and skips like this because they still required some level of skill and outside-the-box thinking to do.

[@kristoffernagel124]

Interesting to see everything side by side. Thanks for your insights :)

[@wigglebot765]

Unrelated to the actual video content, which was great and informative, the background music you used made me so happy. From risk of rain to transistor to outer wilds, it adds a casual calmness to your game discussions.

[@ghst3116]

I loved this video so much because you shared a lot of experiences I do replaying these games, in my most recent playthough of half life I did the same skip and b-hopped the whole time. Honestly growing up on the source engine makes replaying these games more fun.

[@andremalerba5281]

"1998 older than me and most people watching the video" made me feel old as I was already 8yo on that year LOL

[@ravenlockewinds4374]

I recently found your channel, and you using "Dashing and Bashing" from Ori and the Will of the Wisps while describing b-hopping in half-life two cracked me up.

[@user-25352]

tbh if you say Half-Life was revolutionary for trying to tell a story, you may want to pay some attention to System Shock 1 and 2. Half-Life obviously is great and did bring this concept to people, but it wasn't alone

[@deadsled8111]

hearing that l4d3 existed but got scrapped broke my heart i love the l4d franchise damn you valve

[@joao34386]

It was a completely different game, so you didn’t actually miss out on a l4d type game. It was more like TF2 with zombies than l4d.

[@uhrguhrguhrg]

There was going to be a cartoon tv show set in TF2 universe with the mercs as the main characters, but valve botched the talks with AS. Expiration Date is essentially the pilot for it.

[@jkeebla]

@@uhrguhrguhrg so they cancelled a team fortress tv show, half life 3, left for dead 3 and probably like 18 other things all cause their company can't decide on shit?

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@jkeebla This is the primary problem with any company that uses flat level management. Valve would've been long gone if Steam didn't exist.

[@jkeebla]

​@@BrunodeSouzaLino well at least they don't rush their products like other companies

[@TehShiaT11einself]

I started with online gaming in 2000, at 10 years old. Playing TFC with a 56k modem 200 ping... the feels I felt...playing against other people online...incredible. I only knew multiplayer on the playstation. In 2001 came DSL 768 with fastpath and I played counter strike 1.3 - 1.6 religiously for 8 years or so? Almost nothing else, thousands of hours... best time of my life

[@juans.santos5529]

7:43 "this moves mechanics is a UNFORSSEN CONSEQUENCES" haha nice reference

[@DarkPortall]

0:53 you don't need a 1000$ index to play HL:A. that's like saying you need a 3090 to play modern flatscreen games. a 300$ quest 2 very much works and while 300$ isn't cheap it isn't that expensive either

[@TheThunderGhost]

Honestly though. I don't know why people always resort to "VR is too expensive." When the Quest 2 or even Pico 4 exist. It's not that expensive. Even a used Windows Mixed Reality headset can get the job done easily.

[@jkeebla]

@@TheThunderGhost yet the same people are willing to pay $1000 for a new gpu..

[@watcherofcontent806]

Thank you for this video. Love TF2/L4D2 but Valve and their other works does interest me. I enjoyed Half-Life and Portal earlier this year and I plan on revisiting them. Also I recognized that Crowbcat video during the L4D chapter lol. Incredible video by him.

[@SamPlaysTen]

Htwo: Making peopel pay for practically the same game just a year later didn't seem fair. Sports games: ...

[@Strontium-89]

0:44 Real shame though, Half Life Alyx is honestly one of Valve's best games..... Virtual Reality, Valve's ingenuity, and Source 2 came together to create an extremely fun yet often breathtaking and detail virtual reality experience.

[@Space_Pencil]

Before I played Half-Life, I just thought of it as yet another singleplayer shooter game that was just an older game. But last year, I tried it, and I realized it was just so, SO much more than that. Im so glad my friend told me to get it

[@zeallust8542]

Oh buddy you were missing out lol. Glad you tried it through.

[@MaxwellE985]

uhh..ok so am i really the only one who didn't play half-life ? only black mesa..

[@Lord_Moose]

Actually valve had more to do with the two original Left 4 Dead games than Turtle Rock did, if you look at the end credits of Left 4 Dead 2 do you know how many current Turtle Rock devs are on that list four. There's more than 30 valve employees in the Left 4 Dead 2 credits.

[@Klemen1x]

I played Alien Swarm around the same time you did and had no problems. Sure i waited about 10 minutes to get in a match, but my game never crashed or got or i got disconnected.

[@FriendlyMxdder]

Its pretty rare that I watch an hour long video, but I gotta say, This video was awesome even though ive played all these games. Great video!

[@rampageblizzard]

Nice video, I felt like I was the only one raging at the npc body block in half life 2. The Anti citizen one chapter made me go insane. Who thought it would be a good idea to give you 5+ npc followers and then lead you through tiny cramped apartments where you need to double back on yourself several times….?

[@jeremieh5009]

my biggest and only complaint with dods is the lack of the original dod hud, it had so much personality

[@januszkurahenowski2860]

Is that Day of Defeat Source? I played a lot of the original Day of Defeat as a kid, didn't even know there was a later version. Are there any servers with real people nowadays?

[@danlaugh1974]

Condition Zero was a amazing game for households like mine where the internet wasn't a thing...EVEN IN 2004! It was the tale end of the single player game era in which you still bought boxed games off the shelf and made sure "Internet connection required" wasn't a prerequisite to active/play the game. Until you posted this video, I completely forgot how hilariously BAD the bots where in that game! The hardest difficulty bots were insane!

[@hunterxgirl]

The video is surprise me in a good way. I was born in early 90s and play all this valve games but didn't put much thought in how this games are significant at the time, until recent years. It's nice to listen to the point of view of a late 90s fella : )

[@fivestarcrest]

What a timing, I just bought the valve game bundle

[@EnderFox227]

I just realized HL2 Came out 2 years before i was born

[@epicforger12345]

Thanks to this video I actually played half life deathmatch (I’ve had it in my library for years and I have never even opened it) and wow it is so much fun can’t believe I’d been missing out

[@curzthack]

According to an ex-hl2dm player my brother met on a server once, the game once had an incredibly vibrant competitive community until valve removed bunny hopping (which was still a thing in base release versions of hl2 before the orange box)

[@deepsnow4994]

26:38 - I remember having the same problem in CS 1.6 as well, basically what they did was using some stupid plugin that would rebind your keys to "connect " type of command, good thing I checked my config.cfg file and found that crap after playing (there was even a server that would rebind your movement "WASD" keys to connect to their shit server. I'm not kidding). I never expected that servers in CS:S would do the same crap, but thanks to your video, now I know that CS:S is not safe from this shitty practice either. These garbage servers don't deserve any traffic, but only 0/24 players at the bottom of the server browser.

[@Statboy625]

I think Ricochet has a ton of potential and really deserves an official or fan made reboot.

[@UberSpah]

Why not day of defeat, for example?

[@Statboy625]

@@UberSpah I actually played Day of Defeat Source recently and now I want an official or fan made reboot of that one too.

[@UberSpah]

@@Statboy625 Anyway, I still think that Ricochet is worthy at least something, like game mode for Garry's Mod or s&box(upcoming game from Garry's Mod developers on Source 2)

[@CharaGonzalez-lt7yw]

​@@UberSpahDay of Defeat: Global Offensive Carry on the tradition

[@billyboo2864]

ahhh thank you for the hl2dm segment i used to fucking love that game soooo much! one of my favourite gaming moments is that 107 killstreak on that prison map man the gunplay is too fun

[@aflyingtaco4058]

oh god hearing that im older than half life was for sure a wake up call, i remember putting hours into valve games and have a tradition of playing through the half life series every couple of years or so.

[@rockco-iv8es]

Ok but Aperture Desk Job isn't exclusive to Deck? I literally downloaded it on my PC.

[@TheEnclave_1]

who thinks valve made gmod? gman made gmod not valve

[@subzeeroCS]

facepunch made gmod

[@The_House_Always_Wins]

Garry made Garry’s mod shocker I know

[@Sidaik]

About Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes, that game was pretty fun for what it was back when it came out. Comparing it to today's standards isn't fair. I had a lot of fun playing it myself and thought the game had very clever scenes and mechanics back then.

[@urazoktay7940]

Amazing video, good job and thank you, i really enjoyed it.

[@orangoru4061]

I just bought the valve complete pack, and I played the first half-life and started the second one. They’re very fun :)

[@petarvasiljevic8764]

dont forget to play expansions of half life 1 (opposing force and blue shift)

[@audiovisualcringe]

6 dollar 54 cent rn on steam

[@Mister_Hyphen]

@@audiovisualcringe I just bought every single Half-Life game and counter strike source for 5$ 💀

[@jkeebla]

@@Mister_Hyphen i bought half life 2, hl2 episode 1 and 2, portal and portal 2 just now for like 5 1/2 dollars.. and these are some of the greatest games ever made. it's crazy

[@DesolateLavender]

This was a beautifully crafted, well said video. You expressed your thoughts clearly, and concisly. I applaud the amount of effort that went into this video in its entirety. Valve is a strange, unintuitive company. They really are...

[@lucaslee7567]

Alyx is 100% worth getting a VR headset just for the game

[@benjaminzarkhin1293]

This dumbass couldn't be bothered to look into VR gear and realize a Quest 2 is cheaper than an Xbox.

[@Charlouf_]

when a youtuber says he wasnt born when Half life released, and you already had a PC, a job, a car and a appartment. :(

[@Todeeemi]

my dad played the two half lifes,and my grandma says that he played every day,didn't leave the bedroom and didn't sleep,just like me today :D

[@pinkchoco1910]

surely this guy isnt lying right?

[@jkeebla]

@@pinkchoco1910 i don't think he is. most people think anyone over 30 can't play video games. that's one stereotype that is clearly going to be broken with the next gen quality and advancements technology is making right now. phones used to be outlawed, now people of all ages use them. virtual reality right now is very outlawed, but just wait in 10 years when people adjust to the nausea factor and game devs focus their attention on it. gaming is becoming even more relevant within youth, and i suspect that down the road it'll become second nature, like watching a film or a TV Series

[@ClickyCrisp]

I become more of a fan of you with each video, keep it up!

[@sovietsasquatch528]

Speaking of videos when will you make one? xd

[@kiss4luna]

hey bro, you're younger than hl, you underestimated the visuals of it at its own time.

[@Jamie_black]

Day of defeat source looks really cool. But personally I like cranking up all of the visual settings to max and turning of the hud in battlefield 1. It a experience like no other.

[@aanotherthem]

You didn't play the bonus levels included in Portal for the Xbox 360 available for a limited time which were taken from a flash game made before the game came out, smh unsubbing

[@htwo1]

That's a thing? No fucking way. I had portal for the xbox 360 as a kid and i'd never heard of this

[@ODEF.]

I still want to get this DLC on my Xbox 1 loll

[@coltforceplayer]

Half-life 2 is the greatest game of all time, come on, tell me otherwise

[@BAJASKROVA]

RDR2, RE4, GTA5...

[@coltforceplayer]

@@BAJASKROVA GTA 4 is better than GTA V

[@Bastunchence]

*Tells you otherwise*

[@Patolagos]

Something I usually do on Goldsource games is reducing the fps cap to 30, because the games usually behave pretty weird when using the default fps settings...

[@xMoldyMacaroni]

i love the format!

[@lazylizard455]

Man i have played most of these games almost all of them and to hear that im 6 days older then half life 2 one of my fav games ever and its still considered one of the best games is crazy to me. Edit: also learned from half life 2 to never leave home without a shot gun its great

[@MachStarry]

Hey now give CsCZ it's credit It taught 4-7 year old me to play counterstrike, no amount of tutorials from TF2 could ever do that for a new player, I mean it's the place where I got my love for shooters besides HL1. Those Bot Mechanics and little details for lil ol me were cool, then I learned how smoovement Also where is Opposing Force...

[@genuinesaucy]

When Half-Life 1 came out, basically every FPS on the market was an absurd over-the-top cartoon that didn't even live in the same solar system as the idea of realism; it was all silly, light-hearted fun that didn't take itself seriously at all. As primitive and goofy as Half-Life probably looks now to a younger audience, when that shit dropped in 1998, it was like if you'd only watched superhero movies your entire life, and then all of a sudden somebody put on No Country For Old Men. It was shocking how brutal, gritty, and _real_ Half-Life felt compared to everything else.

[@weskside8349]

Ok. This is a challenge? Every year, on the week of my birthday. I play through all the Half-Life games, Portal games, and Left 4 Dead games. I get that Day of Defeat, Counter Strike, and the all popular, beloved Ricochet exist, I just don't care about them. Also I just bought them a couple days ago.