A Love Letter to The Source Engine
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The Source Engine has led me to so many fantastic experiences, memories, and times, that I just had to make a video about it!
The music in this video is from the Mother 2 OST, and the Half-Life 1 OST - เกม
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I support you having sponsors per se, but... TH-cam has got way too many VPN ads and none of them really keep what they promise, the companies behind them... Let's hope you get better sponsors soon! I do mean that, positively!
Internet works perfectly fine, there is no need to use VPN.
I use avast VPN
Should play spore its great
Gmod is a kindergarten that doubles as a mental asylum for when the kindergarteners grow up
^
Yeah sounds about right
I can confirm
lmfao
Yup
Hearing "Among Us with guns" really just hits different.
Its true
it hurts. it really hurts.
It's an insult
Amogus has guns
In kill animations
Ahhhh Gmod. What a game
When are we going to have a Gmod or L4D stream? ROBIN
yep, wasted almost 7k hours on it
HEYYY
ah yes gmod the game that bought with my first steam cash
I was there
I remember as a kid firing up my pirated copy of GMod and just going solo into Construct to spawn a lot of enemies and see how they fight. How many headcrabs do you need to kill an Antlion Guard? The only answer I ever got was "more than my computer can handle".
I can remember something very similar. Good old days
The amount of times I crashed my game by spawning in too many zombies 💀
dude I just load in sometimes in city with a ton of rebels and striders, combine soldiers in the steeets and I have them battle and I’ll join in with a lightsaber and just use npc cameras to get different angles
did you ever get the unable to shade polygon normals error?
Top 10 anime betrayals:
"Say Hello to the Cheese"
Cheesus!
Honestly it sounds like the most badass scene breaking into the enemy gang and assassinating the leader to have them say “It’s the Cheeses!!! Get em!!!”
I'm surprised he didn't say RDM.
papa cheese sends his regards
Say Cheese
i love how one of the main arguments is that “it’s broken which means it’s good”
Literally every bethesda game
I mean… he’s not wrong.
Source spaghetti, baby.
All software is soft man.
@@MadToxin2876 OHHHH YEEEEESSS, GIMME THAT SPAGHETTI BABY !!!
Before watching the video, my first thought was "without Source, I wouldn't be a gamedev right now".
And that's what you talk about. Spot on !
You're a game dev? I thought you were busy trying to figure out who you are.
@@spiceforspice3461 yeah i thought he was too busy with fighting some old man stand
Dude this is beautiful. I was immediately brought back to my childhood of noclipping through the entirety of Half Life 2, learning all these input commands, playing Portal, being part of clans back when people cared about that stuff in CS: Source and DoD. I also remember playing a LOT of Sven Co Op. When Gmod came out, bro that was literally the first game I've recorded having over 1000 hours in - I loved it! You mentioning the RP stuff was also bitter sweet, especially knowing that 10 years from now we'll be seeing videos just like yours, but about GTA 5 RPing. Good times.
if u like sven co op try zombie panic source it's like co op survival horror
Wow this aged like fine wine there are whole servers dedicated to roleplaying on gta 5 honestly I wish I was born earlier to be a part of the source engine craze. At least I got left 4 dead
@@aslanaskar4575 "I wish I was born earlier to be a part of the source engine craze." omg I feel so old, the only time I felt this old is when I found a physical copy of TF2 when looking through my childhood stuff
@@jchtroe NO UR NOT OLD UR JUST COOL
Goose is a sven co op fan? And I though u couldn't get more based
Fun fact: Titanfall 2 runs on the Source engine.
I didn't believe you. But I googled it and now I know why we'll never play Titanfall 3.
@@subpar5360 I wouldn't say that, anything can can happen.
@@subpar5360 Huh. I give this joke a 5/10. it is funny and well executed, but Titanfall is not made by Valve, therefore the joke lacks polished sense.
A SUBPAR joke, get it!? 🥁🤣
@@subpar5360 Well, source 2 is out
tbh its basically its own engine internally, its like saying the cod engine is still based on quake 3
source never gets enough recognition for what it did for gaming, nice to see someone actually appreciates it
edit: i made this at 3 am high as shit btw, i have no idea what im talking about
exactly man, such a beautiful tale of what happens to gaming communities when they're creativity is set free
I think it has always gotten way more than enough recognition
@@SuperWiiBros08 yeah
Fun Fact: Titanfall 2 is made on a heavily modified version of the source engine
@@notsans7998 no wonder those fucking MGS4 looking mecha-frogs a-pose when they are in a corner
I haven’t launched Gmod in 4 years. It is still my most played game on Steam, gapping my 2nd most played game by atleast 200 hours. Nothing can ever recreate the lightning in a bottle that was Gmod in its prime and it makes me sad.
Wait for s&box bro
@@SaladeDeFruitt it’s never gonna release lol
And why not?
@@hanseldsilva2393 Even if they release Gmod 2, what could it possibly offer that the original couldn’t?
@@jonesjones6279 New players
Hearing about the man say "It's the cheeses" is one of the funniest things I have heard.
I like how in the VPN ad, Leadhead is condoning tax evasion
Based
Good.
I am worried it could get the channel in trouble and that part might need to be cut out. I am pretty sure youtube allows cutting out bits of video even after they are uploaded...
@@smithwillnot I am probably just dumb, but why would it get the channel in trouble?
@@cathacker13 tax evasion is illegal
"It's the cheeses!!"
Omg that was hilarious hahah i wish i had played gmod back then! I only watched it when i was younger
GMod was so important to me when I was in middle school. We moved around a lot so the main way I kept in touch with my friends was playing games like Gmod for hours and hours on end. My brother and I moderated TTT and Deathrun servers too. So much nostalgia there, and so many nights packed with fun :) I hope this generation has an equivalent
S&box maybe. Check it out its gmod but source 2 engine
It's so sad thinking about all of the great moments from every community that will just be forgotten, the internet is way too chaotic to be documented, in the future we will probably remember it as a separate timeline that just lives in our head, and everything that happens outside will be remembered as real history
I swear the next merch drop better have a shirt with "say hello to the cheese" written on it
and it has a shotgun and a smg pointing at you with 2 pair of eyes looking at you with the anime shades
I T 'S T H E C H E E S E S !
"Mr. Cheese sends his regards."
Best Game All Times ! ^^ Source Engines 1 ^^ +1
I wish I was around during the golden age of Gmod. The stories you are talking about make me wish I had those types of experiences. I almost wish I can relive my earlier childhood so I can do more, so I can get those experiences. I wish I was around for the golden age of so many other games. The only golden age I truly experienced was Minecraft and even then I was not even on multiplayer that much.
True, true. Also sorry for being depressing, I just needed to get that out of my system.
Used to watch gmod when I was like 4 or 5 and now I get it in 2020 and I feel like I missed out too
@@Yaya-dk7ov I got it around 2014 but as my internet was non-existent save for emergencies back then I didn’t play any multiplayer
Nowadays my internet’s still atrocious. I get 900+ ping on a good day, so I only play Gmod multiplayer every once in a while
@@GenericUserBMR You're in the golden age of Technology
i was fuking around w/ flash games and my PS2 during gmod golden era
wat were u doin
That Cheese story brought me back to so many Garry's Mod, Team Fortress 2, and Left 4 Dead multiplayer moments that I'll never be able to capture again. Thanks for the memories, Source.
Nothing feels as smooth as the source engine I feel like I have so much control in movement and my actions
Garry's Mod in particular, as a programmer, is so nice. You have a good, thin Lua API over a lot of Source SDK functionality
For all games, though, Source's console and config system, while imperfect, is powerful enough to make client configuration interesting even for Source multiplayer titles.
Can definitely agree with this. Gmod's allowed to me make so much cool stuff that would've taken ages if I had to start from the ground up. For example, I do development on that Clockwork roleplay framework he talks about, and it alone gives me the ability to build some really cool stuff off of it and make a wider spread of features than if I had to start fresh. I've made a full on botany sytem, energy management, specialized crafting devices and crafting research, sample analysis, ore surveying, collecting, and refining, and a ton more stuff in less than a month's time because of the tools available, all of which is being employed on a sci-fi exploration roleplay server. Great stuff Gmod is!
I like your pfp!
@smelly paws rude, well I hate enbyphobes
@smelly paws actually i much prefer to work with source code than a compiled binary :)
@@-elliott-averagedragonenjo1812 i think it's a well-intentioned but poorly-phrased binary-means-base-2 joke
edit: lol nvm
how many times have you dreamt about that valve logo guy turning his head around before he actually did in portal 2, and when i first saw it it was in the corner of my eye cause i was looking somewhere else, it scared me so hard
im sorry but you are cute
Wait. WAIT
HE TURNS AROUND?!?!!?!?!?
Ahah, same thing happened to me. I had just gotten a new PC this year after not having one good enough to run games for 4 years and booted up Portal 2 and that scared the absolute crap out of me. I kept thinking "I don't remember that happening".
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iirc it happens during / around Halloween
I can’t remember hearing the Valve intro for the first time, it’s one of those things that you just always know. Crazy how much impact this engine has had on an entire generation. I loved the point that kids would black box test the engine, I definitely missed that wave but I can only imagine how much fun that would have been. Great video, lead!
If I had a dollar for every time someone said "asynchronous multiplayer" when they meant "asymmetrical multiplayer"...
got me thinking "fucking desync can't shoot this guy..."
That Dark RP story really highlights my absolute favorite part of Source Engine communites: Being able to just fuck around with people you haven't met and probably won't see again. Same feeling as going to a public park as a kid, but with a different sense of humor and more moving parts to mess around with.
I love the foggy “liminal” look of the source games it feels like a place I could walk around in a dream, I’d love to see a game replicate it.
EDIT: I get a similar feeling from Neobabel in Dusk
I thought I was the only one who felt that. I don't know how to explain the feeling
@@terabyte8229 the reason its like that is because of how linear, blocky, and fade everything looks. You can blame those first two reasons on the hammer editor.
@Sapling Station heard of it, seen gameplay, never played it, it looks cool though
It’s like a horror game in a non horror game!
gm_trippin is a neat map, not adventure or anythin. jus yea
I remember the first time I played multiplayer in GMod, I went on a sandbox server with the only other player being named "MrTickleDicks". I was like 11. After a short session, I promptly, innocuously told my mom about the fun time I had with MrTickleDicks. I was banned from ever playing multiplayer after that.
#FindMrTickleDicks
WE MUST FIND HIM!
Oof
Roleplay sadly has died in gmod, as a 7 year role-playing veteran it kills me to watch
I prefer space station 13 over gmod rp servers in gmod you kill a guy and god comes down plucks you and then removes you from the realm in ss13 I can create a pipe bomb after hacking into the science bay as a clown kill 7 people and the in game police send me to the gulag because this is also a hidden traitor game and even though rounds can last for a long time do have an end goal
@@Xenomorthian you are thinking of darkrp. Serious rp is much different
This hurts to see as someone who's been playing garry's mod since 2012 days. yt really killed so many original gamemodes on Garry's Mod. I'm relieved to see S&box devs and contributors making new gamemodes and ideas.
@@scarf4140 alot of roleplayers are praying for a revival on S&Box. Comm85 plans to fun a Helix/nutscript conversion once it comes out
Who hasn't dreamed about gm_construct honestly
Me. I always dream about flatgrass idk why
I once dreamed about having a conversation with kanye west in the tunnel of flat grass
I haven’t played gmod but when I do I’m pretty sure it’ll only be a matter of time
@@YeetZmeN you better get on it, it's probably on its last few years of life before S&Box releases, pretty much gmod for source 2
i once had a dream taking place in gm_construct where i followed a pitch-black figure into the dark room only for lights to appear, where i proceeded to have an almost philosophical conversation with a stock heavy about soda over a cup of tea. im still not sure what exactly led that dream to occur.
Leadhead: "TTT is Among Us with guns"
Correction: "Among Us is TTT without gameplay"
my nigga
He was obviously talking to people uncultured abiut TTT, cant fault him for it. And If we re playing it like that, TTT is just Werewolves w/out wolves.
everything is some variation of throw rock with grug from the neolithic era anyways
@@FantasmaNaranja Yeah, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't criticize things that suck and don't have any replay value at all.
@@lunaticlizzie4525 i mean if you play with a group of friends among us has plenty of replay value,
especially since you can just get it for free on an app store,
and if you're tricky you can use one of those phone emulators to play it on your pc anyways
Man, GMod and the whole Orange Box era back then was so awesome. I think I'd say it was the peak of gaming culture. I remember having a rough year followed by a shitty Christmas time but then I found that sledding server on Gmod. People would use different props to glue together a sled and zoom down an icy track trying to get a good lap time. Was super wholesome, people would just goof around with their silly bathtub/traffic sign sleds and have a fun time
I'm glad you brought up Garry's Mod roleplay. It's near and dear to my heart and was an absolutely massive part of my life for the longest part. Sadly, as you said, the community is nearly gone nowadays. But back in its heyday it was a goldmine of experiences. And I do not mean the lite side of RP, or DarkRP which is so in name only. I mean the serious roleplay.
I've wandered the irradiated wastes of Fallout. I have been the subject of an FEV test. I have been crippled by super mutants and had robotic limbs grafted on, betrayed by a boyfriend gone insane from radiation and mutations, had my bar mortared by raiders, been forcibly recruited into the Brotherhood. I've run away as a prospective rebel in Half-Life, only to be spared and then recruited into the Civil Protection and then ascend through the ranks to become a squad leader and then an assassin. I've been forced to chance down friends and execute them for being anti-citizens.
I have been a lost, lonely girl with a cursed past, taught and neglected by a benevolent necromancer and then taken in by a far more malicious witch. I've been inculcated into the dark arts and later became a lich. I have been a kindly gnoll shaman confronted by an overzealous hunter but rescued by friends, and later saved those friends with a well-placed lightning strike that brought down a cave's ceiling on top of a skeletal giant.
I have been a spare pirate, a Brotherhood Paladin, a lone ranger trying to safeguard a small town. I've been a food vendor in neon-soaked streets of a cyberpunk future and been a confused cyborg in a space western. I've been a quarian on colonies and a ship, as well as a turian C-Sec agent on the Citadel. I've crawled through maintenance shafts in the underground tunnels of Metro and fought against the Red Line, helped in infirmaries and served warm, freshly made soup to the hungry. I've wandered through anomalies and lethal gunfights in the Zone as a stalker, made friendships with and offered solace to people.
So many memories I've made over the years. I hope that one day there'll be a game and a community as rich as Garry's Mod roleplay scene once was.
The source engine is pure nostalgia
Back when I saw Half-Life 2 in 2004 I knew it was the future of gaming. The way that objects worked and how everything was wired up - it felt great.
Yes, indeed it was the beginning of a new era. And the Portal, L4D, CS... It's an amazing ride.
I love the fun and chaos source-engine can do, especially with friends.
It's just good memories
2:25 and here is your friendly reminder that buying games from a different region with vpn is aganist steam's AULA. since the prices are region dependent
Don't care
@@Geeler be my guest than :) That was just a heads up.
Yes. And it's pretty selfish. Some distributors stopped adapting prices to regions because so many people where taking advantage of that through vpn. If that happens here in Argentina I won't be able to afford games anymore.
Thank you for this information, now im gonna try it ;)
@@germantarnoski7130
Well, I have got bad news for you. This articles is of about two days ago.
www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SimonCarless/20210616/383624/Dont_buy_Steam_games_for_me_Argentina.php
Nice!! I really appreciate you making this video, the Source engine doesn't get nearly the cultural recognition it deserves imo
my first sandbox was the portal because i found out that it was on the same engine as hl2 so i looked up how to spawn weapons, and the rest was history
Holy shit dude I didn't think anyone else remembered GMOD Flood, it was my favorite game mode and I'm really sad that the servers all seemed to die.
What’s that?
@@evagineer9165 gmod is like a sandbox version of half life 2 where you can download workshop stuff and you can do EVERYTHING.
@@drsnakhenry653 no I mean Gmod flood, never heard of it, never even seen a iceberg or any veteran players talk or known of it
@@evagineer9165 oh i didn't know.
@@evagineer9165 It's a gamemode where you have to make an improvised boat using props before water floods the level. You then have to shoot the opponents' boats in order to survive.
I suppose Flood used to be much more popular. The Flood videos that do have views are from 6-8 years ago or so.
Source engine is what I hoped the future would be. Open and exciting and random and unexpected, but always a good time. Garry's mod as an example (hah I just got to your mention of it) was a random joy I would never have expected
I can't think of an engine since source that's made PC gaming so exciting and dynamic. I was able to base my entire gamining world around source back in the day, can't think of any engine I could do that with.
@@Robster881 Agree, can not really think of an engine that comes close. Even when it comes to games I can't really think of one that offers the amount of freedom games made in source comes with, except maybe Minecraft? People do some crazy stuff with that game.
im currently binging your vids rn and it's addicting. Love how you narrate passionately.
One of my earliest PC gaming memories is sitting down and writing down all the console commands for L4D2 in a notepad with a pencil with the copy of the game my Grandma got me from Blockbuster, watching all the commands be used by some dude who used Windows Movie Maker to put it together. Damn I feel old now.
the source engine has the right amount of chaos to make me love it to death,
strafing and rocket jumping all those things just makes it so much fun
gmod is the most chaotic fun ive ever had in my life, countless hours of messing around in sandbox with friends, trying to be cool and sneaking on ttt and so many other scenarios. im so glad that gmod still has a solid player base to relive those old memories with.
So many great memories. I still sometimes think about Kitty0706's (rip) videos and the like
Thankyou for making this. I was 13-14 when I got a pc to run css. Source engine has given me tones of fond memories playing some of the most creative game modes I've ever played to date.
It's a great engine that'll be remembered for years. My favorite game would be Team Fortress 2 or Left 4 Dead 2. Me and my friends hop on TF2 almost daily and I play L4D2 almost as much as TF2.
Hope or hop? Ha ha
@@MartinPurathur lol
Tf2 was what GOT me into installing Steam in the first place....sad to see It get overrun by bots that automatically Crash servers and the ruined economy :(
@@Basuko_Smoker play tf2 classic, it’s better in every way
@@justiceofbook arethere bots and people playing that?
Hey quick note about 2:07 in the video, the source code leak had no affect on the bot problem currently plaguing tf2, the bots cannot do anything harmful other then spinbot and be annoying and saying otherwise is a little misleading. The bot problem existed way before the code leak, it's just picked up a lot since then.
Yeah that kinda feels like trying to scam People to buy the vpn
@@Chrono-bo4zc That and using a vpn to buy games without tax is legit tax evasion
@@toastdtech3597 and will also get you banned from steam
the code leak was just basic code knowledge of the games CSGO and TF2, it did not affect these games.
@teebles Tyler was apart of the team who were using the code for a project, someone on that team then leaked it because they were angry and had some mental problems. It wasn't entirely tyler's fault but it was kinda tyler's fault.
Your RP charecter was a girl named Penelope... foreshadowing 🥺❤
hehe i know right
I'm glad your really back, like really back this time it feels the old days again.
I hate this word but, this is very "relatable".
Why
@@TrailerTrollers many idiotic """memes""" on tiktok / instagram / what the fuck ever use it. It's called relatable humor or something, it's like "that face when you [x] 😂😂😂 [insert reaction image here]"
id tech, half life and quake engine games really feel like their own thing but source engine games all feel like hl2 mods to me.
Source has a unique feel to it
I mean source engine is still an offshoot of ID Tech 2. As it builds on the goldsrc engine which was just a modified quake engine.
@@Robster881 but do you really mean that?
@@Artersa ...yes? From the Source wiki page: "Source distantly originates from the GoldSrc engine, itself a heavily modified version of John Carmack's Quake engine with some code from the Quake II engine. Carmack commented on his blog in 2004 that "there are still bits of early Quake code in Half-Life 2".[1] Valve employee Erik Johnson explained the engine's nomenclature on the Valve Developer Community:[2]"
I love your half life video. Your videos add a lot to the discussion (which is difficult when there is loads of other 1 hour plus Half-life analysis videos)
I have been listening to your videos at work.... Love your content! Thank you!
It makes me sad to know that I missed out on the golden days of the Source Engine, at least I have Half-Life :D
tbh there's been a massive resurgence in the source fandom recently, including me. I only just got into gmod recently and i've still had one of the best gaming experiences with it ever, despite the tiny playerbase in my country and the massive mod dumping on servers making multiplayer virtually unusable. You can still have fun with old games whether their time is 'up' or not
It's still there lol you can do it now
You'll experience a golden age of something don't worry
Happy pride!
I got goosebumps when You started reminiscing the good ol' g mod after school shenanigans. This video summs up the whole phenomenon and history of the community with such accuracy it really hit me deep and hard recalling those memories. You couldn't have chosen a better fitting title than "Love letter". Keep the great work up - great work is done with passion, not haste, or on a schedule. If you don't lose the passion, people will stay and watch with pleasure like i did today :D
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. Been a source fan since 2005. When I got my own PC in 2008 the Valve collection was the first games on it.
It's a nice tower of ductape afterall.
Leadhead officially endorses tax evasion
this is genuinely amazing
I have a hope that S&box can revive serious RP. I spent 10 years of my life playing HL2RP, and I just recently retired from it. 2013-2015 will always be the best years imo. I made a lot of friends, lost a lot of friends, and have memories of characters that’ll last me a life time, but it’s definitely not the same and it’s definitely dying. No longer will there be an 80-100 pop server, which is honestly sad to see.
I love how you ended on the Freeman's Mind opening song, just to give us all that hit of nostalgia
This was a fantastic video Ms Leadhead. Illuminated just how much this damn *game engine* means to me
I used to play darkRP with my best friend who passed away in 2016. I didn't think he would like the game but we got so lucky cause the first server we were in was this little Mexican kid who was roleplaying in our gang really getting into it and my friend instantly fell in love cause the kid was just so funny. I used to just have fun roleplaying a hobo on my own before I got my friends into it. Some of my best gaming memories on there. Even building cool things on construct was awesome.
DarkRp was great, I've never been so immersed in a virtual city, it was mainly the fact that the servers would have 100+ people with basically not a single NPC. Even the hobos in DarkRp cities were real players, typically noobs begging for money.
Source Engine, A.K.A. Childhood Engine
Glad to have you back, I’ve missed your videos
I still to this day have so many great memories from Gmod. Amazing heists and escapes, VDM-ing as the bus driver and making it look like it was an accident, sniping the mayor after he was a d-bag to me (and convincing the admin I was justified in doing it). Good times.
Amazing video! It's so satifying to see the sheer number of people who feel such a connection to this engine and the scores of games built around it.
0:08 Me: probably 3million times if I just remind myself that I'm working with the source engine that I somehow manage to crash every 5 mins
0:22 *takes a big sip of his german beer then looks at the play time in Gmod that alone displays well over 1 year of playtime*
Me: This can't be good for me but I feel great
fwiw, i'm perfectly happy waiting a bit longer for content you feel happy with.
I can already tell this is gonna be a banger of a video
Oh, man! Thanks for the nostalgia trip. I loved GMod and was totally immersed in the Zombie Survival community here in Australia/New Zealand. Over 1500hrs playtime in 18 months in 2013/14, moderating, administration, programming, and having an all round ball. ZS is dead now, and I miss that community so hard! I guess it’s all part of growing up, or is that sideways 🤨
Respect for your vids Leadhead.
I want to buy the "Say Hello to the CHEESE" sticker. Please put that on your merch shop
I love me a good Leadhead upload to brighten the mood.
Back between 2015-2017 I put in like 300 hours into Gmod playing nothing but Star Wars RP. Some of my favorite memories I’ve ever had. The source engine really is something special.
I can't agree with this more. Source first came to me in the form of Garrysmod, and ignited a passion for creation. 12 years later, that passion has helped me get various jobs and work towards a real career in animation. I still use source (and source 2) to this day to pursue creative endeavors and grow myself as a creator. I will forever be in debt to hl2.exe
You've perfectly put into words a feeling that I didn't even know I had. It was so exciting coming backing from school as a 12 yo shy boy and having TONS of fun playing TTT, laughing, getting mad, getting to know a lot of people. Hell, it probably even shaped the professional and outgoing person that I am nowadays, considering I was someone with a lot of speech problems, but, thanks to GMOD community I was able to start improving it to the point I turned my voice into a work tool.
The source engine is by far the one thing i grew through my teen years with and I can promise you i’ll be playing old source games when i’m 30 and when i’m 80 years old. There’s just something so beautiful about it even though it’s not the most good-looking and sometimes it doesn’t run very well even on high-end PC’s. It’s just home to me and my dreams take place in Source engine all the time it’s such a big part of my life. As you can see by my profile picture I love Half-Life 2, I play GMOD and the HL series all the time.
One of the small, sad things I had in my life was not experiencing all of these when I was younger. I was so invested in Gmod culture way back with no means of playing the actual game. This video made me realize that maybe I did not tried enough as a young boy to get what he really wanted. I grew up on those Idiots of Garry's Mods video series and almost all of those pioneers that coexisted on this website. I love that I still had fond memories with key source games especially Left 4 Dead 2 where it was prevalent in LAN cafes in my country, playing with my friends during that time countless hours where our money had enabled us. I would be ecstatic if I had a way to play Gmod back then but it's sad that we are indeed on the tailend of that generation of source games. Technically, Dota 2 is a source game, but it did not had the charm and legacy of say, Team Fortress 2 before it became free-to-play and of course, Garrys Mod. I'd love to go back in time and experience these in its glory, but it is what it is. They'll be relics that will be remembered and you done fulfilled your part in expressing how much these games were loved.
I honestly can't imagine life without the Source engine, Garry's Mod, Half-Life 2, and Counter Strike could just be on any other game engine but it just wouldn't be the same. There's nothing like the engines physics simulations, decent lighting, and easy to use command console that just works so well with their games, even the hot new online shooter Apex Legends runs on the old girl. Source just might be the best game engine ever made when it comes to it's fame and giving players several great memories.
i really related to what you said about the devcoms in the half life games - a lot of my interest in game design spawned from the devcom for portal 1, which i played over and over again on the 360 back in the day. keep doing what you're doing lead :)
I really hope they give Source 2 the same SDK treatment as the original Source, with almost all of their development tools and software being available for anyone, for free. I hope, in however many years from now, someone will make "A Love Letter to the Source 2 Engine"
The Freeman's Mind theme at the end really struck!
FYI: I have a TF2 server! You can join it at 160.202.165.26:27500, or look for "Leadhead's Castle" in the server list. Hope to see you guys there!
And yeah, I'm gonna switch to a video every other week, at least for a bit. Not for the reasons I thought I was going to though. Some sudden real-life stuff is going to be eating away at a lot of my time for the next couple of weeks. Thanks for bearing with me!
Thank you for making this. Very nostalgic and honestly inspirational to get back into and finally finish my gmod gamemode. I have over 20'000 hours in gmod from running tons of servers and making hundreds of gameplay systems and I've been working on this last gamemode for what feels like forever. I have some small videos of it on my channel, but I'm honestly really bad at showcasing it. My honest to god hope is that people don't just remember gmod not for the annoying admin situations or the loud squeekers or even the cash cow dime-a-dozen DarkRP servers, but also the place where people could really make their dreams come true in a time where video games were still in their early stages of mass adoption when the creation of sophisticated games was finally being understood by people growing up with them. I appreciate that you want to convey that with this video in your own way so again, Thank you.
I had so many magical moments in left 4 dead 2. I still remember to this day how my first interaction with source games was through some German TH-camrs playing left 4 dead 2 and 8 year old me being totally amazed by how fun a point a to b campaign based game could be (with friends of course)
Thanks for the nostalgia trip for garrys mod, I forgot how much of a fever dream gm_construct could be and laughed myself to tears at your last montage. I miss that game.
this should be featuring kliksphillip
It's leadhead. You know we are in for a treat
i met one of my best friend 4-5 years ago in a gmod cinema server, we watched some weird videos and what not and started talking on steam then discord when it became a thing, i met him in the netherlands not too long ago and it was a really nice day, its absolutely crazy how it happened and against all the odds but thanks to gmod i made a good friend, every source game is incredibly important to a bunch of people
14:56 How every TH-camr sounds when listing off their patrons.
love leadhead. simple as.
"sure it could have happened in any old engine" not a chance my dude every single line in source was written for the fans
Played over 1.2k hours of gmod back in high school. That shit was my life. I'm glad people think back on it as fondly as I do.
I played gmod for a bit when I was a kid, but usually only by myself since I was always really nervous to join servers. I wish I did though, I feel like I missed out on a lot of fun stuff and could have made some good friends :)
15:30 shit, of I'm not mistaken, is that the video from WayneradioTB where Scorpyy (Benrey's VA) was messing around with that one Gmod avatar mod thing? Leadhead you're a legend and I really appreciate this video. And I liked that you mentioned 3kliksphilip, he's another TH-camr I really enjoy.
As a younger lad, I came on to the source scene relatively late. I played Portal 2 when I was 11 and that was my first exposure to source. I finally got around to playing more source around 2016-2017, when I was 15, and damn source is good. And you're right about GMod, I got that back in 2014 and damn that was just a great game to have as a kid. I love this video. Thank you for making it.
Mutahar video featured in leadhead video?
I think I just regained one of the many parts of my soul that has left my body over the years