Made My Girlfriend Play Half-Life

The right girlfriend in the wrong game can make all the difference in the world
This week I decided to introduce my girlfriend to the Half-Life series. When Half-Life first released in 1998 it was a groundbreaking game that made a strong impression for its time. Today's question is how it will hold up when introduced to a modern player like my girlfriend. She's proven herself in the past that she can hold her own in FPS games, but there's more to Half-Life than just shooting guns.
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[@makarymetzger2627]

Cant wait until this becomes "made my wife play".

[@Rwzfs]

For sure! Then we'd be playing half life 3

[@balancedbeast7952]

I just hope it becomes my wife plays games.

[@greilthelegendaryhero252]

I'm pretty sure they're already married. At the very least engaged. Though girlfriend reviews sounds better than wife reviews. I could be from a q&a vid

[@ERMZIESS]

​@@greilthelegendaryhero252 Where'd you get that from?

[@gregoryhause00]

​@@greilthelegendaryhero252 you mixed up channels bro

[@wof8317]

"Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?"

[@nybergsgarage]

how else would they know if you're a highly trained professional?

[@Salithin]

“Have you seen my coffee cup?”

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

You wanna know why? It's a symbol. They want you to know that you're their dog and that's why you're wearing their LEASH.

[@GRN-u1e]

*_hits with crowbar_* *_STAHP!?_*

[@Cmdr_Sam]

00:14 Dude you are never going to get married, she is a keeper. Don't you dare mess this up!

[@adisillusioneddork618]

Not to mention they've been together for 10+ years

[@CStone-xn4oy]

10+ years!?! Dude propose already!

[@streamyspy4673]

marry that girl she is a gem :3

[@CrazeeAdam]

Eh. While marriage is 100% great, if they're happy, that's what matters. They love each other, and while marriage would make it more official, they basically are married at this point.

[@CStone-xn4oy]

@@CrazeeAdam Not the same. If they make each other happy then why not get married?

[@AllisterVinris]

Marry her, bro, just do it.

[@Code_Machine]

Fr

[@jdarokhajiit9153]

Lol if I wasn't married already I would shoot my shot lol (Just playing, but seriously ring her up bro)

[@sahilrahman5066]

Yeah man he won't get a second chance

[@Mr.QuantumC0re]

@@sahilrahman5066 especially on bread

[@hundvd_7]

The way she's so excited to play the game, if he won't, then _I_ will marry her, I swear

[@jaderabbit898]

Now that she's played Half-Life, why not have her try Black mesa to see the major difference in 20+ years?

[@shinyhappyrem8728]

Getting the alien bee cannon would be... interesting

[@SnesySnas]

Only after she's played through all of Half Life first Black Mesa RIGHT after playing Half Life 1 isn't enough time to let everything sink in

[@sinom]

Problem is she'd basically be playing the same game twice in a short time. And that's gonna not be much fun for most people

[@elpsykoongro5379]

​@@sinomunless she ends up becoming a speed runner

[@EricMichaelLP]

@@sinom somewhat, but Black Mesa has quite a lot of evolved areas, and remade maps not to mention extra ones!

[@OscarHazeGaming]

I choose to believe that everything coming out of Girlfriend's mouth is the canonical Freeman inner monologue.

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

I can move. :O

[@shiethegal]

Freeman's mind.

[@codyraugh6599]

​@@shiethegalfreegirlfriend's mind

[@ashleydaniels12]

As soon as i read your comment, she said "How did i get this?" after picking up the crowbar, and that killed me 😭😭

[@OtakuJuanma2]

Wait wait... THERE ARE HEALING STATIONS IN XEN?!?! Bro I've finished Half Life like 7 times in my life and I'm only learning this now

[@teguhlg]

Bro, i have the same logic as her. I just enter it and waiting something happen and quickly realize im healing. How you miss it 7 times? Thats actually mind blowing.

[@OtakuJuanma2]

@@teguhlg I thiught they were decorations, alien lamps or something. Points of reference in the otherwise samey Xen.

[@zhufortheimpaler4041]

@@OtakuJuanma2 there are alot of things people tend to miss on xen. the vortigaunts in interloper are for example non agressive and regularly use the healing stations

[@resiseven7407]

the pools of liquid heal you too

[@teresar6348]

To be fair to us all, in more modern games the flat textures indicate wall things with the 'important' stuff having a far more distinct texture. A lot of people fail on that.

[@SirFooplesTheThird]

I knew she was locked in at 9:16 because that could be a quote straight out of Freeman's Mind

[@TheSeaBaer]

I love how she has the freeman’s mind kinda response to all the events

[@reizak8966]

Watched this with my husband and both our cats. My husband is installing half-life now. lol You hit him right in the nostalgia. The cats were less impressed.

[@angelromanflores2709]

Man screw em cats 😂😤

[@michail-xg4zz]

pancackes

[@HeyIts_Blocky]

she doesn't need to hear all this, she's a highly trained professional

[@uncannycato]

now if you follow standard insertions everything will be fine

[@dementedbison5086]

I love the evolution this channel has gone trough, first it was play dates, then your gf who previously didn’t play all that much finally played games like dark souls, doom or even Elden ring, and now she’s playing a game as amazing as half life!

[@extrathicctwix]

My wife and I love watching and are hoping to one day here the intro be "i made my fiance play."

[@michail-xg4zz]

pancackes

[@PedricCuf]

I enjoyed how most of the commentary was illustrating her difficulty with level design and 90's gaming concepts, yet the footage showed her being pretty adept! I'm glad she enjoyed the hip firing weapons of older FPSes. I very much find that style to be the superior one for actually having fun. Looking forward to Gravity Gun shenanigans!

[@Schmidddyyy]

12:40 - That's not a sniper, that's the assassins hitting the guard with a silenced pistol.

[@Bulbman123]

Crazy that your girlfriend got the name "assassins" spot on while you were calling them "snipers" XD Fun fact: The assassins have cloaking devices on hard mode... and "jiggle physics" ;p Also as a side note, having her play the hazard course first may have been a good idea. Huge props for doing OG instead of just going with Black Mesa, and with the SD models to boot. [Chefs kiss]

[@gghhoosstt1233]

I am so glad that you didn't change the game into HD texture and let her experience the OG textures in her 1st playthrough.

[@챙랴노]

Cannot wait to see 2, 2 Episode1, 2 Episode 2, Black Mesa and Alyx reaction! Also, the rain formerly known as purple was a good touch

[@jjkrayenhagen]

Don't forget Opposing Forces and Blue Shift.

[@Nacil_54]

And Entropy Zero 1 and 2, and Stories Mel for Portal.

[@LO0IC]

And every half life mod

[@gtamike_TSGK]

Half Life Alyx was worth the wait for another Half Life game. VR is an amazing experience. The best way to explain VR is look around now in real life yes it will feel very close to that when you're in a VR game it's unreal.

[@toasega]

"stop telling me what you WANTED to happen and tell me what IS happening" Good life lesson, honestly.

[@willot4237]

Remeber the line from the first Portal Song? ".....Maybe you'll find someone else To help you. Maybe Black Mesa... THAT WAS A JOKE, HA HA, FAT CHANCE. " Now ya know 😁

[@atoth62]

"Even though this cake is great, its so delicious and moist." Sorry, couldn't resist.

[@ceshmate1953]

She shouldbplay the other half life 1 versions as well.

[@Mr.QuantumC0re]

Yep!!!!

[@evildrkirby]

I think it's a good sign that "Get your heads out of your asses and tell me what's going on" is a line that wouldn't be out of place in Freeman's Mind.

[@yuugael4010]

Mom wake up dad, boy meet girl just upload

[@EinManU]

JUST MARRY HER ALREADY

[@MyHeartIsOpen2You]

Marriage is an exercise in futility. If anything it only serves as a financial burden with the cost of a ring and a wedding and all the other marriage traditions. If a divorce happens (which is like 90% of the time instigated by a woman, I'm making that statistic up) you lose almost all of your posessions and money. They still bleed you dry afterwards with alimony payments. The famous statistic that's always repeated is that 50% of marriages end in divorce (though it's likely closer to 70) so if Mr. Boy Meets Girl here gets hitched, he'll likely be bereft of all his money. Marriage as it exists in the modern world is the ultimate form of cuckoldry. Love is a fickle thing, DON'T MAKE IT LEGALLY BINDING.

[@mrmeh9853]

​@@MyHeartIsOpen2You Marriage is an exercise in the sacrifice and modesty of both parties, your doomerisms will not nullify the benefits of marriage when two actual adults make it work. The issue is morality or lack there of it. Both men and women have become increasingly poor equipped psychologically, leading each to ignorantly and selfishly deprive each other of each's needs and ignore each other's way of thinking. Divorce only started becoming the quote on quote issue in the 20th century, it's been around much longer than your entire country (assuming you're American). TL;DR - Make yourself work marrying, choose someone worth marrying and ensure both are willing to concede to each other occasionally.

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

@@MyHeartIsOpen2You To be fair. If you don't want to lose all of your shit in a divorce. You get a prenuptial agreement. It's shocking how so many people don't know the first thing about marriage.

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

​@@mrmeh9853 The main thing to remember about Marriage is that an increasing number of people are marrying without even really knowing the other person. You should only really marry someone after you know damn near everything about them. If you're already married to someone and you can't tell them about all of your fetishes, taboos, desires, aspirations etc. The marriage is on shaky ground. I got married after learning everything I could about my wife. Been together for more than a decade. We're just as happy now as we were when we were putting the rings on. People treat marriage like an achievement.

[@artemefimov8215]

​@@mrmeh9853you don't need marriage to live a happy life with someone. You can't marry the same sex in some countries also.

[@dhruvsinha8781]

its not gordon's first day...

[@redpractition]

Yeah, he was working there for maybe like 6-8 months or so at minimum, judging by the vent stories Alyx recalls Barney telling her and the overall nature of him BEING someone deemed competent enough to be given clearance to use one of their new Mark IV HEV suits.

[@furret_walk8130]

He's employee of the month I think Also all the scientists and guards are familiar with him

[@shinyagumon7015]

Can't wait to see her reaction to a certain ship from a certain company in Half Life 2.

[@theninjamaster67]

She definitely wont pick up on that I didn't even pick up on it when I found the easter egg in Portal 2 I had to learn about the connection through a "are Portal and Half Life connected" theory video then I was like ohhhhhhh.

[@nathancollins1715]

​@@theninjamaster67But they literally namedrop Aperture Science in HL2 E2.

[@theninjamaster67]

@@nathancollins1715 Yah and she's as oblivious as I am her boyfriend basically says as much in every video.

[@ceshmate1953]

​@@nathancollins1715they name drop black mesa at the ending credit of portal 1

[@LO0IC]

@@ceshmate1953 They also name drop black mesa on a whiteboard sort of thing

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

It's not Gordon's first day, he's just late, and they're having technical issues haha.

[@Yora21]

Back in 1999, it also didn't occur to me to touch the mouse during the intro ride.

[@jdavidwebb]

Ahhhhh this is huge! This is my all-time favorite game and arguably one of the most important games of all time. Can't wait to watch her wake up and... smell the ashes.

[@JustABigDud]

I related hard to "It never occurs that she's doing something wrong, because it's her immediate assumption that it's her fault for not being good at it, so she brute forces it until she succeeds" This video somehow perfectly encapsulated how I play games

[@kyuthefox]

so you aren't planning on marring her? because half life 3 is comfimed by valve to not come. as gabe put it "we aren't a greedy company milking franchises"

[@1saidou]

That's the joke.

[@Bludiamond_Titanium]

Half-life 3 is the DEADLINE, not when they are gonna get married, but they will get before it comes out.

[@Mroziukz]

Milking franchises, lol as if the last game didn't end on a cliffhanger.

[@Owlboi]

it's hardly "milking franchises" when the last part ended on a massive cliffhanger

[@Eoccdb]

Yeah that's just wrong, he said they will get married when it releases, it's never going to release so they never will get married. ​@@Bludiamond_Titanium

[@LifesNeverHumDrum]

I love the way Taryn plays. It’s about the journey, not the destination. She smells the roses, she really appreciates the game while she plays it instead of just blasting through

[@Thanathos66]

I already know this is gonna be a banger. Rise and shine Miss Tarny and lets get going.

[@ct3000]

Your big brained GF instantly named them assassins but you called them snipers like 5 times and I died a little inside each time ;_;

[@kastlemanofficial8355]

Speeking of Glooguns You should totally have her play ‘Prey’ (the one from 2017). It’s one of those rare games where there isn’t a wrong way to play the game. I think she’d love it! And besides, the game is a freaking masterpiece.

[@Gnomable]

I definitely got motion sickness from these games too. It's always fun to find a mechanic that could have been helping you the whole time.

[@JLN93]

I’ve been playing this game for at least 15 years, and I never realized the crystal you insert in Anomalous Materials is the same type you destroy in the end! That makes so much sense!

[@Ursea_Erika]

The textures thing just reminded me of old cartoons where something the characters were supposed to interact with was obviously different from the painted backgrounds

[@connordarvall8482]

Gotta say, her playstyle is quite similar to mine, but my crutch weapon is the shotgun and my crutch strategy is to jump out from behind cover and run down my opponent using my weapon as a melee attack with a huge hitbox.

[@zachanikwano]

Your vidoes together are so cute, and it really eye opening to see someone who learns stuff in their own way and time (where for some it's intuition). It's comforting. It reminded me that I can play however I want, regarldess of dev intentions lol >:)

[@Twistybanana]

Would love to see a chill Girlfriend Made Me Play "Little Kitty, Big City"

[@XandiG]

If you’re doing retro games, I’d love to see her play Deus Ex. It’s a very open-ended game in terms of player options.

[@Corle0ne]

Your gf is such a lovely goof and livens up this video so much, regardless of how frustrating the gameplay is to watch. Really enjoyed it @ both of ya!

[@SNOUPS4]

In my first playthrough in the 90s, I learnt the same way she did, about the armour charging devices on the wall for example, took all the time exploring everything and to this day, I always have fun talking to everyone in the game, and opening every single crate

[@farmboyjad]

"She didn't realize the crystals she used in the first experiment were the ones she was breaking in the final boss fight" ...I'm gonna be honest, I never made that connection either.

[@Reinkjaky]

😊 I'm surprised you went for original half life over black mesa remake. Can't wait for half-life 2 video.

[@lolmao500]

The way she plays Half Life clearly shows she "learned" to play video games with Dark Souls lol.. if you die, thats because you suck, not because you dont get it. Next up : Half life 2/Alyx, Doom 3/Doom 2016 or Dishonored or Bioshock or FEAR. Factorio music near the end of the video nice touch lol

[@Redemption643]

She's already played Doom

[@ceshmate1953]

Or , other versions of half life 1 for more loreeeee

[@riveraluciano]

It's not that she's "dumb", but rather, if we put ourselves back in 1998 when HL first came out, with little to no experience in gaming in general, suddenly her behaviour is pretty damn accurate to what we were used to with shooters back then. No predetermined cover spots, all story being spoonfed to us, shooting mechanics that expected us to just run and gun..... It was a nice look back at history. Also, ring her.

[@Frogface91]

The commentary seemed a smidge too critical to me.

[@riveraluciano]

@@Frogface91 On her or the game?

[@Frogface91]

@@riveraluciano The girlfriend.

[@riveraluciano]

@@Frogface91 I agree.

[@NailsByAdanja]

This is how I felt too! But you seem to be the only one mentioning it.

[@inexorableveracity]

I have several friends who all approach video games with some mentality akin to "I'm bad at video games". It effects how they play and feel about a game more than anything else. Some of these people have played video games a lot and some have played them a little and it universally makes them less able to learn by trial and error. Thinking you're bad at the game makes you more risk averse (so less trial) and also unable to understand why things are happening (less error). You can see the former in Girlfriend sticking with the gun she knows well. Boyfriend explained the latter very succinctly when talking about Girlfriend brute forcing through sections. I see this with my own friends as well. Feeling like you are unable to engage with the game, like it's a foreign language, I think is rooted in thinking you're bad at games. Young Boyfriend at some point in his life played a game the same way as Girlfriend played halflife. Young Boyfriend probably only ever externalized the difficulty. This GAME is hard. Not that BOYFRIEND isn't good enough. Love these videos, it's such an interesting thing to see and hear. Mr Boyfriend, please don't say Girlfriend is bad at video games or that she has her 'girlfriend way' of doing things. You did them that way at some point as well.

[@Willywimper]

1:14 I almost checked steam notifications XD

[@TheBedrockCreeper]

I didn't make it through Half-Life 1 until Black-Mesa because I wasn't picking up on where I was supposed to go next or what I could interact with. I believe I had played portal 1/2 and maybe Half-Life 2 at that point. Modern games do so much more with subtle lighting queues and other tricks to help guide the player through the levels. Congrats on making it through the game! Thanks for the entertainment!

[@juanfisi]

Is not Gordon's first day tho, was it? This was an amazing game, it aged like good wine.

[@matthew-005]

Wow she is lovely and I her voice too, it's so satisfying to hear her happy at her success. And I love how she interacts with the characters and world like she is really there.

[@arsarma1808]

Very important with Abiotic Factor being playable. It gives very familiar vibes.

[@essmene]

10:00+ Failure is part of gameplay. We all have been there and older games were far less forgiving in the matter. You try until you make it and for Half-Life it means staying alive. If you do that just by using the crowbar, the pistol, ... does not matter. The game does not dictate you the solution, you are free to try until you make it . If you do it wrong the game tells you with a death screen. You may be more familar with game patterns to understand the meaning of destrutables, ammo, weapons - e.g. that a weapon pickup maybe important and the weapon more powerful or helpful for the next challenge. Instead of wondering about her hardships - I would praise her resilience and the games resilience to allow so many even sup par tactics to last her that long.

[@SoloLegends]

The number of times I played half-life over the years.. I was this many years old finid out those "broken teleporters" on XEN were healing pods.. :facepalm:

[@raph2550]

You have to do Half Life 2 next ♥ I can relate with her immersion. I once played thought Half-Life 2 in almost one session, while "roleplaying" a credible Gordon Freeman. It was one of the best gaming experience of my life.

[@shmuelyes1757]

It seems your girlfriend is a "neo gamer", used to be spoon fed instructions ('press f to open') by developers to avoid the slightest frustration but also a sense of challenge. It's like the difference between a sword fight and fencing.

[@Freshmoi]

just played ROR2 before watching this and I was soo confused yet appreciated of the music choice

[@Nacil_54]

I hope that she'll play the expansions after that ! Especially Decay, will be interesting to see how you both handle the games. edit: 22:53 well, that's actually the case, she didn't need to exactly line up her shots, because auto-aim was on.

[@risticcc8486]

I just played through Half Life 1 with all expansion packs for the first time and now i see you doing it aswell. Great timing and i love you both 😭

[@homankh7759]

For the next classic game have her play Fallout 3, please... I just finished it after 13 years and it still rocks.

[@aren6]

21:35 "I think I drew the shortest straw" just marry her dude trust me, that was the funniest joke

[@grdavis123]

I've been wanting to replay Half-Life for a long time now, thanks for putting this video out so I can relive the glory days without sinking 20 hours into it

[@shinyhappyrem8728]

wdym 20 hours, it can be done in half an hour if you're (very) good :)

[@theninjamaster67]

Just play Black Mesa it's not worth going back to the original Half Life when you have a remake that's better in nearly every way.

[@nybergsgarage]

@@theninjamaster67 nah black mesa is only better in some ways. and no, I'm not blinded by nostalgia, I played half life for the first time a couple years back and just played black mesa recently. black mesa is far too overcomplicated and confusing to be a viable replacement for the original.

[@theninjamaster67]

@@nybergsgarage For me I can't be fucked to play the original Xen and Black Mesa improves it by leaps and bounds (literally cause you get a cool jump on that level lol). Maybe it's just me but I dislike the original Xen enough to where it makes me not want to play Half Life 1 cause it's the entire last section of the game.

[@BOXPL_]

​@@theninjamaster67 I agree the people that choose to replay hl1 over blackmesa are straight masochists. Xen is the WORST part of the OG half life when i play it I just want to end my suffering. It may be longer than in the original but atleast i get to look at the beautiful scenery

[@CobetcknnKolowski]

25:05 YO WHAT, EXCUSE ME?! THOSE ARE HEALING PODS?! All these years, so many playthroughs and I never picked up on that.

[@DeranRoute-vu5jy]

Wot?

[@AUchop]

0:07 katana zero ost slaps

[@shardinhand1243]

bro just had a great idea, have her play the stanly parable new edition, she'll enjoy the narroraters mean snark.

[@The_Azure_]

I always think of Freeman's mind when I see someone play this game.

[@soylentgreenb]

Half-life 1 was lightning in a bottle. It followed up quake (same engine) and it managed to pull off the pure magic trick of playing well across many playstyles and configurations. Back in 1998, most of us played this on a K6-2 something or other, or a faster pentium MMX with maybe a voodoo 1 or 2 card and a few were lucky enough to have a pentium II which meant they bought a new PC in the very same year as Half-life released and spent probably 2 000 - 3 000 dollars on it. You could just be bad at the game and explore, finding all the stashes of med kits and secrets and somehow bumble your way through eventually. Dying and restarting was quite painless so it just sort of worked. You could be great at quake and have a good enough PC just to blast your way through the game. You can bunnyhop around like a lunatic at great speed. The game is harder if you do this since you miss most of the health kits and weapons and expose yourself to enemies more. It sort of magically balances itself out and if you play more aggressively you have to play a lot better. You can play it kind of like a stealth game. Creeping around and planting satchels and throwing snarks around corners and sneaking up on enemies and giving them both barrels. On low spec machines you kind of had to play it that way. On a pentium MMX or K6-2 without a voodoo you would have gotten somewhere around 10-20 FPS in software (especially when it counts and there are lots of enemies). You had to play it that way and it worked fine. RPGs that try to accomodate different playstyles and skill levels simply have multiple classes and a difficulty slider and tips you can turn on and off, multiple branching areas where you can choose what to do, multiple ingame professions and skill trees. Half-life did it with a single class, in a linear experience, with no skill trees and a difficulty selector that you didn't have to bother with. That's magic. You can't design it that way intentionally.

[@Sollidottingen]

"Gordon Freemans first day Black Mesa". Dude what? Where are you getting this information?

[@DrMateen36]

The reason for almost all the gameplay hiccups is just that she didn’t go through the hazard course before starting the game.

[@Th3Espr3ss0]

It might be a nit pick, but it wasn't Gordon's first day at black mesa, as implied in HL2 and the fact that he had to have been there for at least one previous day for the training mission.

[@Hwyadylaw]

It's worth remembering the average player back in 1998 didn't have much experience with this kind of game, so it would've been similar to this, except the technology would've felt more impressive.

[@Vynirian]

CERTIFIED BANGER! LET'S GOOOOOOOO!

[@ChaoscelusApollyon]

With these kinds of gameplays, the more experienced player usually always backseats. I'm glad you didn't seem to do that and actually let a new player play naturally :)

[@wizardwolf1020]

So you’re never gonna marry her? That’s cruel

[@joshuaholland5279]

Either that or imagine if he just jinxed himself and half life 3 got announced out of the blue

[@wizardwolf1020]

@@joshuaholland5279 we can thank him for it if that’s the case. Sounds like a win win in my eyes. He finally puts a ring on that finger AND we get a game we’ve been wanting for years

[@joshuaholland5279]

@@wizardwolf1020 😂

[@UniChavez_]

Another Tarny Plays and Noicky Narrates video lets gooo. More smiles c: ❤️ hope u guys are doing amazing!!!

[@bandersnatchbeauty9692]

Don't be a dick, bro. If you're gonna marry her, don't tease her. If you're not going to marry her, absolutely crazy, I love girlfriend. She's hilarious, and a badass gamer. 🤘 Love the girlfriend videos.

[@bandersnatchbeauty9692]

All this for tossing in a harmless joke. We all just love girlfriend.

[@connortg5]

crazy idea, but i think the "we'll marry when half life 3 releases" might, just maybe, be a joke the 2 of them make, if it's something they actually say in real life at all

[@lolrus5555]

Nice stuff. Very much hope you make her play Entropy Zero 1 and 2 down the line.

[@cobusvanderlinde6871]

Why could you not marry her upon the release of BG3? Explain yourself man!

[@aizenmd5705]

He was busy, playing BG3!!!

[@bodyartatlarge]

You might show her the 007 and perfect dark N64 games. They’re two of my favorites, and I don’t mind the graphics today. A good game is a good game; and what matters is having fun 😁

[@HerHollyness]

I genuinely hope for Taryn’s sake that the joke at the beginning was just that - a joke. If she actually wants to get married, and you used to tell her you’d propose when Baldur’s Gate 3 came out because you didn’t think it would happen, then moved the goalposts to an even less likely-to-happen game when it did, in fact, come out, then you’re just stringing her along at this point and she should find someone who’s more serious about her. Which is why I say I hope it’s just a joke. 😕

[@UltraXan]

Oh well NOW she's gotta try Black Mesa! Giving me a craving to do the same, especially given how goated the Gluon gun is in that game.

[@Shezestriakis]

You better marry her bro. If you won't, I volunteer!

[@clg190]

Bro you are a fool for not marrying her, don’t wait too long!

[@Hallinwar]

"Slover than average player" bro it's her first time in hl1 Remember yourself when you played it the first time

[@adeveloper6653]

I am impressed your girl friend had the patience to finish this. I gave up midway in 1998 when I was a kid because i got bored

[@crimsondemon1382]

Deep Rock Galactic music, Risk of Rain 2 music, and Terraria music, all in one Half-Life Boy Meets Girl video? Count me in!

[@pixelotix]

It bummed me out when she was saying, “I’m so dumb”, nah she’s not, HL is great but there is also some really awful design mixed in with the brilliance that has only been exacerbated with age. The game will environmentally train you on some aspects and then completely ignore others.

[@griffinlaw9367]

9:00 You should have her check out TeamClown's "You Can Rescue Every Scientist" mod.

[@KhannUr7]

Another classic that might be fun for her to play is Fable The Lost Chapters (or Fable Anniversary). Similar classic style. but I think the silly, absurd humor would be funny for her to experience

[@skrybbleyboop]

Man, now you've got me waiting for the video where you make her play the sequels

[@gabrielchcosta]

Definitely wanna see her reaction to HL2, subscribed.

[@LotusVette84]

I grew up with 90s FPS games. When Half-Life came out, it was like an atom bomb went off. I was so immersed with the intro, that when the accident happened and the screen went black, I was actually breathing the same as Gordon. It actually freaked me out more. The jump scares worked so well, and the sound design was amazing. I think to truly appreciate the game, you almost need to start with older games like Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, Duke Nukem 3d, and Quake.

[@spectrecular9721]

With the addition of Half-Life: Alyx , HL2 is now technically HL3... 💍🎩👰

[@lullebulle2]

this is peak content, watching her advance and have fun was calming somehow.

[@chestbuster1987]

Great game. Absolute classic and genre-defining. Much respect to your girlfriend for getting through it. It's definitely not easy to get into, especially considering modern standards of gaming, but hopefully, this will open the fascinating world of Half-Life up to her.

[@williamwebb580]

16:23 "This isn't really making sense..." She just described the entirety of Residue Processing in 1 sentence.

[@Einsig]

Something very funny about the first few minutes of the video is how she simply didn't think about how she could have been moving around during the tram ride. This is an exact 1 to 1 of Valve's experience demoing the game to people during development in 1998, which they talk about in the 25th Anniversary documentary. Several reporters seeing the game demo for the first time stared at the screen, thinking it was a recorded cutscene, only to accidentally bump the mouse and freak out when Gordon moved.

[@disguisedcyclops4593]

As a relatively modern gamer, playing half-life was quite the tedious experience. That being said, I wasn't exactly playing it the most optimal way, just running and shooting, completely forgetting the thinking aspect of the game. Half-life 2, however, was amazing. I don't have a VR headset, so I haven't played Half-Life Alyx yet, but eventually. So I'm just constantly thinking of what could happen next while resisting the urge to watch any playthroughs.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

Cant wait for you to have her play the rest of the series so we can watch her heart break at the end of episode 2 when you tell her theres no more games.