I Judge a Half Life 2 Custom Map Competition
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- With Half Life 2 now half my life ago, I've been craving some more Half Life 2 content and luckily 3kliksphilip got the chance to judge the 9 entries of a custom map competition, called Nostalgiaville. In case you didn't know, the goal is to relive the glory of Half Life 2 again. See and download them for yourself from the link below:
www.runthinkshootlive.com/pos...
ALSO: There have been updates to some of the maps since, which fix some of the problems I was having. However, I had to judge the earlier version, since that was the one that made the deadline.
In order of rating:
#8 - 3:11 - Here Again
#7 - 9:04 - Power Up
#6 -12:23 - Grigori
#5 - 7:03 - Lone
#4 - 2:04 - Metro
#3 - 5:19 - Badwater
#2 - 10:43 - Canal Escape
#1 - 13:40 - Cosmonaut
AND the bonus entry, which isn't part of the main competition:
0:17 - Freeman and Bob
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...And the results are out. Seems my review were in-line with the other judges, although the other judges typically gave Badwater a better score than Canal Escape.
Here are the official judge scores: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Here's a breakdown of mine: i.imgur.com/xUr1GcP.png
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Hey, creator of metro here, thanks for judging the challenge, I think your ratings are fair and this video has some good advice. Next time I'll try to make something more original rather than just remaking hl2 again.
Sockman great way to take criticism!
Knuckle Nine Agreed!
Cody Wilkie calm down there
@Cody Wilkie Go make a map and then come back , we'll wait for you ;)
@Cody Wilkie ahem go fuck yourself
0:47 "This was only good for setting off tripmines" That's cold...
And genius!
But it's true tho
but true
@Eric Miret I would also be like you. I've called it operation mother bird and I tried to keep all the rebels alive
Eric Miret I mean, I liked protecting them because they said funny things and felt like people.
To be honest, I thought you would of sugar coat every map knowing how gentle and nice you are but when it comes to judging, you're an excellent one. Agreed with every score.
Damn right. Making maps is a great activity to do for fun, and shouldn't be judged a lot per se, but if you're participating in a contest be ready for criticism.
I am not shocked of this because he made a csgo map and it was a very well-made. Only people who can do such great maps can judge how good/bad a map is, rating the gameplay feeling is a plus
I'm your one thousandth two-hundredth like!!
Agreed, and "would have" not "would of"
you agreed with every score? so you have played all the maps yourself?
It would have been better if your brother 3kliks was judging instead of you. He's better at those things than you 2kliks
Zool Smith exactly
best moderator
Cs classic ayeee, nice to see you here.
Yep dude now make doom in csgo
Who is 3kliks?
Is the premise of Cosmonaut that you're a cosmonaut who missed the alien invasion because you were in space the whole time, and just came back? Because that's pretty awesome
Yes. I am going to turn it into a full mod and it will expand the story of the Cosmonaut. Stay tuned!
DolmoTheDouglas thanks babe
Thats hot as fuck Dolmo
Sounds cool, I will definitely stay tuned
just finished Cosmonaut and it was awesome! Really looking forward to updates. Is there any way to get oneself updated when a new release is done other than just remembering the title and looking it up? :)
In Here Again you're supposed to wait for a female citizen to come and lead you through the door, the fight only breaks out after you have entered to room...i guess you broke everything buy crossing that lazer field....
@@2kliksphilip Its a bit late but if you have played the later version would you say its worth playing?
@@roxydeinum75 it's been a year, did you ever get your Awnser?
@puppylover It's been a week, did you ever get your answer?
@@maruquiturus7652 It's been a day, did you ever get your answer?
@@vulduv It's been 12 hours, did you ever get your answer?
I love the way you balance praise and criticism
This! I love this so much!
Is this a joke?
blucrusader me when I look at you
I think it's because Philip is a game dev/map maker. So he is knows the pain of terrible critism
Who needs Half Life Alyx, I’ll take Half Life Bob any day of the week.
Ayyyyyyyyýyy, its ya boi, created-the-lone-map. My map lone (alone?) Was quite deserving of a 5/10. I even feel that may have been a bit generous being that the end bit was so bad and nonsensical. The first bit was quite nice however I think. I made good use of puzzles and they were obvious enough but not to condescending to the player. The combine bit was where everything started to fall apart however, which was unfortunate. I also ran into a lot of bugs during development including the lighting bug and not being able to add any decals to levels 2 and 3 without a shitty decal error (Still pisses me off). All in all, a solid entry with a couple significant flaws and some poor gunplay. Thanks for rating it! Happy you enjoyed it.
Just letting you know - I really enjoyed Lone and the lighting bug didn't appear at any point during my playthrough. With the exception of the mines, I thought the gameplay was solid and the puzzles were creative. Too bad philip couldn't experience it as it was meant to be.
Your map actually looked pretty decent. I'd give it a 6.5
Two year old comment, but I just thought I'd say that Lone was actually quite a bit of fun, even the Combine bit. The mines were the only thing I found annoying, but other than that I actually had fun fighting the Combine, and trying to outsmart the Strider, although I feel like I didn't have enough room to move around without getting impaled by it. Other than that, I was actually more engaged in the combat of Lone than Cosmonaut, since in Cosmonaut it's long range and you don't really have to maneuver as much.
This is the kind of Philip video I like; in-depth, long, gentle enough to not be obnoxious but critical enough for decent analysis.
For everyone wondering about why your experience may have been different (IE: Lighting actually working in Lone) the judges got earlier versions of the maps and some features that were unfinished in the 0.9 betas were added to the final map
Bob and Freeman seems like the most fun of them all
Yeah Klems is really good at mapping
Yeah.... not to proud of my map [Grigori]. I was way to busy during the time of the challenge and probably shouldn't have even tried to enter. Either way, Great video!
oh yeah, I put those behind there because I wanted to give the player more to shoot at if they so desired. In retrospect, there was *plenty* to shoot at in my map, and I probably should've removed it.
EDIT: also really glad to see that you liked the storytelling aspect of the map. That's what I spent the most time on :)
Just try make sure you add autosaves next time! Really demotivating when you get halfway through a map, die and appear right back at the start :p
Wish I could accept crit like this
Annabelle is already in HL2, it's just the weapon Grigori has that the player can't get. There didn't need to be a viewmodel because, well, you weren't meant to have it, but you can still give it to yourself.
What a great video! You were to the point, like i remember some of my old school teachers. Proper analytical like. Love this guys videos. And NakeyJakey :D
Nakey Jakey is the best
Thank you for the video and feedback. Much appreciated!
Another great video from our favourite youtuber
3kliksphilip is way better!
Triage at dawn music at the end. Now I can leave this world peacefully
It's soo good
thank you
Poor Lazlo ;(
A Sailor fuck Lazlo
The finest mind of his generation, come to such and end...
twice...
I'm gonna stay here, there's something I need to do. I hope you have better luck than we did.
i cant wait for half life 3 i bet it will be at next years E3!!!
I said that 10 years ago
gangsterfatguy sad
gangsterfatguy project borealis exists
Skinny buggo tf is project borealis
google it
you lazy green eyes boi
not sad anymore!
I just found out that this video was uploaded just around now with 50 viewers, This is the first ever kliksphilip video I'm early on. I know he won't read this comment but who else agree that even though he doesn't upload much in a week his videos are still quality production to the point we don't need another video this week. I'd like to thank phillip for putting his effort and time into his great videos and in keeping us entertained.
you'd be surprised, he actually spends quite a lot of time reading comments.
if this is your first video of his you've seen, and this has only just been uploaded, why do you know about his upload schedule?
its not the first he's seen, its the first one he's early to watch, as in he watched it shortly after it got published
Flying To Learn "First ever kliksphilip video I'm early on"
He said early on, not first video he has ever seen.
+Rohan Iyer Ah alright man, misread it. cheers!
That was a quality video, and your judging final scores didn't feel like they were biased or forced, you make for a great judge and content creator, thank you philip!!
If anything good came from the lack of a HL3 release it's been the really awesome custom HL1/HL2 maps and stories that have been created by fans.
Very cool video.
The Half-Life 2 Alpha leak had MUCH better squad control, complete with radio voices of the sqaud as well as a cool effect on the ground while aiming. I don't know why Valve would make it worse...
11:37 This actually happens in the real game Half-Life. At the end of Blast Pit, you are walking through a pipe and it breaks and you fall down and take damage (but you land on some medkits).
(Of course, there *is* actually a way to avoid taking damage here, but only by doing something that clearly wasn't intended to be done.)
This video was a great throwback! I've followed your content since the early Hammer map tutorials & I'm glad you've come far since then!
Please do another one of these, it definently was a blast in the past for me, and for you to see all these maps. Hope to see another competition again!
This video is really good. I love it when you talk about the design of games and you mix a bit of mapping into the mix as well. Good job
What a great video, i loved every bit, and that makes me wanna start mapping HL2 maps even i've never mapped anything before. That's just an awesome work, thank you very much.
I really like this video and would love to see more like it. Watching you play and judge these maps was really interesting to listen to and to watch. I know that it's a lot to ask for you to constantly be hosting or be a judge of competitions, but if you could in the future do another one of these videos I would be really glad.
i really enjoyed how you judge people's work, I hope you can be a map judge more offten and make more of these kinds of videos
Very interesting! I hope you'll have a chance to do more of these in the future.
1:52 - Who needs Alyx
How the turntables
"The squad function was never really used" *memories of luring rebels into bombs in anticitizen one*
seems like you and philip has something in common then
memories of trying to get them into a safe place while I deal with the combine problem, and constantly pressing e on a medic to heal me.
and also doing that gravity gun jump to skip the hoppers part, and seeing all my rebels kill themselves by jumping down the hole into the hoppers, while I facepalm.
This is one of my favorite videos you have made recently :D
You've been uploading a lot more phillip, and I'm lovin it
For some reason I find myself coming back to this vid ever so often
nice vid
I can't believe it's been 2 years since this map competition.
three years now
@@aquelecientista4491 Four
@@Randarrradara Five, almost six
I love this video! It's entertaining and it gives off great examples of what you should do (and not do) for beginner map makers. You should make more map judging videos
I'll definitely try out those maps, they look interesting and fun to play.
And I agree with you Philip, HL2 is my favourite game as well.
Props to the map creators and the host for making something enjoyable about Half-Life in 2018.
This was great! I wish you would judge more maps like this :D
don't you just love it when the Video pauses while the audio keeps going?
I found great entertainment in this video. Thanks! I want to play some of these sometime lol
Love your videos on your channels and I really enjoy the new things you introduce to me and you have inspired me to map with this video thank you
“And the award for the most abrupt ending goes to-“
*Arby’s ad*
Perfectly timed ad.
I was literally just starting another playthrough for hl2, this is perfect timing
thanks clicky phil for this video i love hl2 and its customs maps i hope you make more half life mapping related videos in the future it would be great if you judged in another contest
Always enjoyable to see videos about Half-Life 2 from you. You should do a video about the graphical improvements to the Source Engine over time. See how far we have come since Half-Life 2.
Cinder block OP. Pls nerf
Henry Ambrose valve pls fix
11:31 it could be an alternative if you destryed the boxes accidentaly
RTSL is a great page filled with talented community creators that I only look when I'm bored and can't decide what to play, but it deserves more. I'll bookmark it right now, so I don't miss out on the awesome solutions to the challenges imposed
I just played Lone, and I was disappointed that the lighting didn't work for you considering the visual presentation was one of the best aspects of these maps.
Nothing rushed, quality vid. Keep it up Philip.
Heres an idea for a chopper fight. It would have 3 stages. Stage 1, You are in a very similar chase scene as in the airboat section but instead, you are in a taucannon buggy, going in the tunnels to avoid bursts. Eventually, the road is blockaded, and the chopper fires an APC rocket, flipping your buggy over.
Now exposed, you run to the nearest cover: A two-story house with an MG in a 2 story window. Upon going in, you see that the combine and rebels are fighting inside, clear it out with an SMG. Shoot the chopper and combine reinforcements with the two-story MG.
The chopper at a certain health, rockets the window, taking a piece out of the house and brakes your mg. The fight ends with the rebel that gave you a rocket launcher in the original campaign gives you it again and you take down the now flaming chopper.
How bad of an idea is it? Undoable? Boring? Too long? Tell me.
I think you should remove the rebel bit in stage 2. Instead have a dead rebel who dropped his gun. Then maybe have a basement? And you have to go to the base ment to get a rpg? I think that's better.
I'm glad you played the actual best song at the end of the video.
Have you played some of the other Villes?
My favourite ones are the two Verticalvilles and Chasmville, theres some bad but also some fantastic maps in there.
I really like the idea of you joining the judge team for these challenges. Will you make it for all or some future challenges too?
“It was really only good for setting if trip mines” YOU MONSTER
TH-cam recommended this to me. It was a very interesting video. I love Half Life and I think one day I may even be interested in playing some fan maps. Especially after this.
this one of my favorite videos, please do more !!! ( in general hl2 hammer )
I think you judged the maps fairly. This was a great video, ending with Triage at Dawn was a neat choice, and very nostalgic ^^
Hi,
Do you plan to return to judging community made CS:GO maps again?
Thanks!
That's true. Would still love to see you back!
This video style kinda reminds me of MaGMML's judging; it's always enjoyable to see the judges' opinions in mapping competitions.
10:05
that made me laugh harder than it should have
11:30pm: I should go to bed
*3kliksphilip uploaded a video*
...
australian time is the worst
MysteryPancake yeah, really... i just got the notification as i placed my head on the pillow
Lol i just cracked my first beer at 3:58pm
LucAU but this is 2Kliksphilip.
I genuinely just looked at this comment exactly at 11:30. O_o
I would have loved to make such maps and get it reviewed! You should definitly announce these things Philip!
2kliksphilip
How about giving us the opportunity to rate the maps. Then you would pick the top 10 highest rated maps and give your feedback about them?
Just a suggestion.
The TV through the window really made me smile. Nice bit of humour there, mapitecht.
In Lone you were probably supposed to use the hopper mines against the Strider.
This has inspired me to make a new map - Negatively Charged. This should be out by next year, thanks 2klilsphilip!
Is it done yet?
Wow! Philip! Great moves, keep it up.
What a lovely video!
Damn, you were born to judge half-life maps. Great video!
The first map, Bob and Freeman, really felt like superb, and felt like something designed by original developer of HL levels. It had all the right pieces and good polish. I would call it 9.5/10 probably.
A very enjoyable video keep it up.
Great vid,i would love to see you review modded a hat in time maps,there are some fantastic ones.
Everytime you talk about anything mapping related I really want to see you make another CSGO map. Sparity was such an interesting look into the process of making maps!
3:52 OH MY GOD ITS NO ROOM IN HELL
Well done,, grab some of the many other maps out there and give us your thinking.
And now for something completely different.
People made these within 2 months?? I just felt my heart sank. I barely got a 2 minute 2-room section of my map working within a week, roughly 20+ hours of work. How the hell do people build and script levels so fast?
Years of practice
Perfect ratings, couldnt agree more.
idk why but Philip's voice is amazing.
It was cool how you actually gave a wide variety of scores
2kliksphilip thanks for making this more clear but you should have definitely explained that an external factor had influenced your decision in the video for transparency and integrity's sake in same way you would if you received a game for free and made a video on it.
bob is the coolest character in half life 2 history
With the first one, Freeman and Bob, I think that him shouting at you for help made it more clear than the overhead cable lol.
Unless your deaf or dont have speakers of any type.
Great video!!!
Don't know if this was intentional but the first and last map being rated the highest made this video have a good feel to it.
Cosmonaut is definitely different now. After you crash, you walk for a bit before the Combine find you and try to take you prisoner. Also a LOT of different stuff too.
Boss fight is extremely different too, you gotta back to space with a hard helicopter fight.
Edit: You should try it again, it’s much different now.
I don’t know why but lone feals really good the lack of lighting makes it feel like you are truely alone and works amazing
You gotta make more of this
Mines are there to give some aditional way to fight the strider (as you can use them against them)
A 16-minute 2kliksphilip video? This is a treat!
You're amazing, dude.
Canal Escape is actually at 10:43, Power Up is actually at 9:04, Grigori is actually at 12:23, Lone is actually at 7:03, and Cosmonaut is actually at 13:40
You're welcome
I wish you would announce that these were coming on your account so more people could participate in the contest
i feel like people get action movies in their head when they think about making a map but then they actually sit down and have to make it and theyre like "yeeeah dont need to make THIS part of the map uhh guess we can leave THIS out"
Philip,while showing new maps, you're just making people more hungry for HL3 man!
Hey Philip, would you mind updating this video’s description to fit with the new TH-cam chapter system? It makes sense, since this video has clear chapters to it.
That undercover combine loves his personal space. He must not like all that skin in his personal space too.