Half-Life 2 Developer Commentary

[@RunninglVlan]

For some reason in my playthrough dev commentaries after sniper ones were missing, so thanks for recording this!

[@clamdove3292]

omg i wasnt the only one!?

[@Daniel-be6cj]

I had the same thing happen! I just thought they suddenly didn't have anything to say about that part of the game. It came back in Citadel though

[@Armm8991]

Oh i had the same thing happen lol

[@sarahkatherine8458]

Same here, my last dev comment was the street sniper one, and it didn't come back. Starting new game in the citadel showed one comment box at the start, and no more.

[@tenorwoody85]

Yup, mine to. I tried to create a new game starting at some of the later chapters but commentary wasn't there. I remarked to my wife that the commentary was great, but was missing near the end, glad to hear it!

[@BassBanj0]

Love how he plugs his email again

[@user-gh9hz9yf3e]

And he makes sure to emphasize "Gabe... N!!" To avoid another gayben rapture 😂

[@Myname-l3h]

@@user-gh9hz9yf3e bro, you had to mention this🤣

[@somedesertdude1308]

@@user-gh9hz9yf3e this lol

[@JohnnyAppleFiend]

Thank you for recording this and taking the time to specifically focus on some of the things that they are speaking about. Great editing too without any real pauses.

[@F00dstamp96]

9:40 - Great mouse acting 👏👏🎬🎬

[@moonmoon4537]

2:57:10 took me years to figure this out. I always assumed that the first gunship you beat flies into the wall or something. It wasn’t until I tried to beeline inside that I realized. iirc this is only tied to the second gunship, so if you can keep track (yeah right) you could skip one.

[@clamdove3292]

i had always assumed there was some kind of gas explosion as a result of the antlions getting into the prison. like maybe they had dug through a pipe, then the leaky pipe caused a gas buildup. idk

[@moonmoon4537]

@ that’s the most likely explanation, especially because many parts of Nova Prospekt are in disrepair even before Gordon arrives

[@DmanDice]

How annoying was the play tester that kept quick loading right before the Alyx intro. lol

[@Jonardius]

I never knew I needed this

[@LordOwenTheThird]

thanks for posting this! was doing another playthrough with this on but for whatever reason the commentary disabled itself halfway through follow freeman. Not sure if it was anything I did or just a bug.

[@spicyspaghetti8512]

same thing happened to me. after i entered the Nexus, they all disappeared for the rest of the game. just a bug i suppose.

[@Quaternality]

Happened to me too! Using "commentary 1" in the console turned it back on but I had to do it a couple times

[@BobTheMartin]

One thing that kinda bugs me, is that if you enable the captions you loose the counter of how many notes are left on your map Hope someone makes a mod for that

[@JoeyMerryfield]

Also the counter is a bit confusing. It doesn't really count anything, rather its just the order of the nodes.

[@arthurconanthebarbarian1288]

Sorry kliksphilip you're too slow

[@natedoggrevolution]

Just the fact that this is probably the only game that has in game developer commentary, and nothing like this has been seen since is spitting on progress!

[@NoHands46]

I think almost every Valve game has developer commentary. I honestly think Valve normalized this practice, at least for some companies. Half-life 2 only recently got dev com for its 20th anniversary!

[@user-gh9hz9yf3e]

Half life two didn't have dev commentary for twenty years, crazy that they got so much of the original team to come back and record them in

[@DietmarEugen]

Deus Ex : Human Revolution Director's Cut also has developer comments.

[@MindAtItsFinest]

The first audio from GabeN seems AI for some reason

[@yeezez]

Gabe is dead, GabeN's mind is inside a concrete head super-computer!

[@MindAtItsFinest]

@yeezez _Cogito ergo sum_ -GabeN said _I THINK therefore I AM, I AM AM_

[@a-ug9yk]

@@yeezez gaben after being eaten by that shark

[@lenship2]

1:19:18 i bet that was marc laidlaw, given that he was the one who tested adhesion gel for motion sickness

[@Myname-l3h]

9:40 bro be terrified 🤣🤣🤣

[@warnegoodman]

I never knew that coast was supposed to be before black mesa east, but now it makes sense why it's night time for ravenholm, then day time for coast, then night time again for nova prospekt. That always bothered me. Odd that they didn't mention that in the commentary.

[@somedesertdude1308]

prob forgot

[@mrmotarium]

Wow, so there's no commentary nodes from the sniper alley all the way to the top of the House of the National Assembly in Belgrade (yeah, that's actually the building, look it up)! That's a MASSIVE chunk of gameplay without any comments on it, no wonder I didn't notice the rest of the commentary mode got broken due to the bug :/

[@warnegoodman]

funny too because I think that's one of the weakest parts of the game, it feels like you're just randomly wandering around a video game level to get to the end, not moving between real places to accomplish some real goal, which is something the rest of the game is quite good at. Maybe they just didn't want to talk about it.

[@nickd1978]

Thanks for this.

[@m8rs558]

3:29:04 This part confuses me, because the player shot energy balls before

[@jakubzemek1973]

I assume the play tests were to specific map, so the testers may not had the chance to shot it before. Also there was mention somewhere that the balls were used first in the development of this map and then added as second fire to the pulse rifle later on.

[@BlueCadet3_]

Thanks dude I legit thought this video was from valve lol

[@SilentOne2021]

gotta say i like gaben for always keeping the back of gamers and pushing innovation, mans a gamer himself and even if hl3 would never come out the stuff his company has made/inspired into being is cool as hell, personally gmod is one of the biggest teachers of math and physics for myself and without source products none of that wouldve never probably come to be... thanks gabe and all sorse engine devs.

[@bartat404]

Can you normalize the volume? Hard to hear sometimes

[@bigfatcarp93]

"Video the volume?"

[@bartat404]

@bigfatcarp93 uhhhh.. normalize. I don't know what the hell I was doing

[@bigfatcarp93]

@@bartat404 Lol

[@treetoon_]

0:57 Gabe... N. 😂

[@Callistospiralz]

Hes spacing it out he does NOT want it to happen again 🙏

[@treetoon_]

@@Callistospiralz I know, that's what makes it funny :]

[@bloodbeats]

WTF is with YT notifying me 2-4 days late on your videos?

[@miiklaa]

Why do i hear TKs-Mantis, when Charlie speaks ? 😂😂😂

[@bloodborne410]

no subtitles :(

[@colororb4105]

2:56:56 I got stuck at this wall for ages! I had mislearned how the RPG worked, so I wasn't able to kill gunships, so I always just ran away from gunship fights whenever even remotely possible. This wall requires me to defeat the gunships but doesn't communicate that it even can open at all (and is way more video-gamey than I expected from the game), so I slowly snuck in and out of cover back and forth around the entire map countless times looking for the way forward. It took HOURS until I eventually looked up a walkthrough. It wasn't fun at all and really soured my whole opinion of the game. I still unfortunately think og HL2 is my least favorite HL game/episode

[@Kyyle_exists]

It sucks when unfortunate events like that happen when playing a game. You overlook something, mislearn something, or don't pay attention at the right time and you get stuck and have to look up a walkthrough. I got a bit of that in HL1 but not at all really in HL2 or the episodes, but I still enjoyed playing HL1. I'm sorry that your first playthrough of HL2 didn't go that great.

[@lrobin-is8dg]

The video is 3 hours long…. Half life 3 confirmed?!

[@javelinchyk]

Ravenholm I remember I was 14 and my brother 23 He was scared to play this level and asked me to finish it 😂😂

[@moonmoon4537]

3:19:40 it’s funny how poorly this works - my counter to snipers is to simply step away from the bullet when it’s fired

[@leftblank]

Did they just give up adding audio every level? I did all of follow freeman and nothing. Felt like the game kept breaking so I've kinda given up. Shame. it was fun

[@user-gh9hz9yf3e]

They probably didn't have alot to add during the later few chapters, since both they and the player are just powering through at that point since most of the gameplay has already been established, the AI completed, and the striders being the important part of the levels

[@bennettwatson6350]

You need to go to the console and enter commentary 1, it’s a glitch in follow freeman that disables them.

[@icsx]

1:05:00 they messed up his name with extra s.. casalis.

[@000adrianelpiola000]

2:56:52

[@swource]

yes

[@treesapien5762]

@2kliksphilip imagine taking over a week to make this

[@baldsquirrel]

🔥A W E S O M E🔥

[@Nullnon_]

I love listening to the commentary but i hate that it makes you invincible. I just want to play the game and hear the commentary!

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

There’s probably a console command that disables the invincibility

[@aaronbennett3966]

​@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss some commentary takes control away from the player to show the player what they are talking about, so they gave the player invincibility as to not get them kill in those instances It's much easier to give the player invincibility for all the commentaries than to program it into specific commentary nodes.

[@yeezez]

Immortality in HL2... BONEWORKS reference?????

[@sarahkatherine8458]

Not everyone can multitask. How are you suppose to listen to (the details in) the commentary while getting blasted into the face by 2 striders? In a lot of FPS I played it was frustrating when there is a scripted sequence or a NPC is saying important things but I missed them completely because I was busying dodging enemy fire

[@Blockie]

hi

[@thebloxxer22]

*obligatory magical bullshit comment*

[@litheiron6338]

Hola

[@Nemxkolopx]

Why they sound like AI voice tho?

[@ChocoRainbowCorn]

They do? I thought they gathered actual actors back to record that stuff. Although to be fair, I _can_ kinda hear it.

[@flaminginferno6641]

Half life developer commentary has always been pretty monotone, if this developer commentary came out a few years ago you'd be none the wiser, but now that AI is a thing everything that sounds monotone is under scrutiny of being AI

[@ChocoRainbowCorn]

@@flaminginferno6641 To be fair, it was only some pronunciation of some words that was a bit off. For the most part, it did sound like actual people talking, well, maybe also apart from them just talking weirdly in general here and there.

[@henrycgs]

they just recorded it with phones likely

[@THEGOOD360]

The old commentaries sound just like this. They're coders not voice actors.

[@ruinfox4108]

too late 3kliksphillip posted this wayyyy before anyone else

[@SkoinksX]

This is the full one.

[@احمدمحمود-ح3ر2ذ]

So?

[@volu9913]

Nah, Philip is only now at Route Kanal

[@gachigasm3210]

He only posted up until Route Kanal so far lol

[@ruinfox4108]

@@gachigasm3210 aw i didnt realise lol my bad then.

[@shedijon]

I like how they claim the NPC diversity is a product of their early 2000's woke virtue rather than the fact that local rando models only cost a couple hundred dollars one time payment.

[@EricMalette]

Jesus christ some people can never be happy about anything

[@NeverSaySandwich1]

Blessed be the name of Jesus Christ 🙏 ​@@EricMalette

[@EricMalette]

@@NeverSaySandwich1 Amen 🤣

[@user-gh9hz9yf3e]

There goes another crazy politically obsessed gamer, injecting they politics so that they can be miserable instead of just having fun playing the game.

[@asdfoifhvjbkaos]

they're from seattle