In case anyone's curious, the 1998 concept was basically a tech demo to demonstrate the innovative and highly advanced capabilities of the GoldSRC engine, such as particle systems, skeletal animations, and attaching entities to individual parts of an animated model. At the time, this was considered groundbreaking. Valve also made a robot model back in the day with a staggering number of animated bones (for the time). This was a stress test that was meant to crash the engine, but it didn't.
I really like those facts that such games were revolutionary. Even though I wasn't born in 90's, I still find it fascinating, even at 2023. After all, they were one of the people who made game industry from the scratch!
It was like 20 bones and 6000 polygons to show just how groundbreaking Half life was going to be. And if you know anything about the games reputation on launch, yeah it was truly ground breaking. It may be hard for you to believe but people used to use words like "photo realistic" when describing games like half life blowing the minds of people.
Same, infact the first time I encountered it (I believe it was in SFM) I noticed he looked slightly different than the 2007 version, so I took a closer look... nearly fell from my seat.
@@abutterynoodle9347 simply look closely,also,indeed it is very hard to notice,and yes him turning arouund seeing you staring at your soul in vr is extremely terrifying
Fun Fact: The guy with the valve in the back of the head is just a random person that was on the street that valve offered to do the logo. Nobody remembers his name.
I've always loved these since I was a kid playing Half-Life 1. Creepy, off-the-wall, weird, plus that amazing music. Always exciting to see a new one because on the rare occasion Valve actually make games they knock it out of the park.
I was absolutely *blown away* when I first launched up The Lab and was in this crazy sphere surrounded by copious amounts of valves. There's even one you can manipulate with your hands.
I love the one where the guy turns around, especially because it’s so subtle that you’re likely to miss it the first time you watch the intro. It’s really creepy it’s almost like he’s trying to turn around but something jolts him back against his will
@@flariz4824 did you play on console? As far as I know the guy turning was only in the PC version. I used to play on Xbox so I missed the dude turning at me
It is easy to scare me, but I never found this intro scary. Because this music and valve are from Half-Life which is not scary at all and one of my favorite games ever.
Video Games are actually produced differently to CGI effects. Video Games are designed to be rendered in real time, so games from the 90s (and possibly the 60s) had very primitive graphics that weren't very detailed. CGI, on the other hand, is designed to be rendered over a long period of time into a video file, so CGI films from the 90s can include more complex things without any detriment to performance. Visual effects back in the 60s were more practical, but even then I'd be hard to replicate the moon landing footage accurately with the materials and visual tricks they had at the time.
So basically, this guy and his friend were going to play a valve game called portal 2 and I kid you not, the valve guy turned around, scariest shit I've ever seen
The ''Open your Eyes'' and ''Open your Mind'' ones are simply iconic, but the one for Alyx is such a cool new stylized and modern take on the classic intro and ''mascot'' if you will. I'd love for a new wave of Valve masterpieces to come along for a new generation of players with a brand new intro, keeping the music of course, simply hearing that tune can make you travel all the way back in time to '98 back when HL1 was released, it's magical.
@@Myne1001 it isn't. I play HL:Alyx a lot and even if you stand perfectly still the head turns as it fades out. Super creepy because it's huge in VR! Feels like a meter in diameter.
@@jackarotva7072 I don't think there actually even any official documentation of who it was, all that is known is that they just pulled some random guy off the street and did the photo. Of course there probably is documentation and someone at Valve probably knows who it was but at the very least that info is not public.
@@stonedrei I consider half life to be quite obscure or "weird" in a good meaning of course, when it comes to its world building, and how little do we know about its universe and specific characters. Especialy the life of Gordon Freeman, one day he goes to job, ends up fighting entire combine in couple of hours/days. Of course i have somewhat simplified my answer for it be a accurate to what Nostradamus New said. Also i dont exactly understand what you mean by saying "non of their games are obscure". Either way have a nice day!
@@randomcivil but have you ever seen ending of it? (SPOILERS!!!) Gman gives powers to Alyx to change the future and makes that Eli lives and advisor not. Also in the post credit scene we see changed ending of HL2: EP2 from Gordon's perspective where Eli tells that Alyx is gone. This game is prequel only from the start, but it's just big fucking spoiler
Victor I am not really a Nintendo fan but if they made the orange box with all the games (HL2, EP1 and EP2, Portal, TF2) Updated and in source 2. I’d shit my pants.
0:22 that's Kelly Bailey - a composer and programmer for Valve who's now a soundtrack adviser for them. He created famous tracks like - "Tracking Device" in HL, "You're Not Supposed To Be Here" in HL2 and of course his greatest piece of all times in my opinion - "Self Esteem Fund" in Portal.
@@tydshiin5783 2012 scared me the most, like in portal it was just a still ish pic of that guy and then portal 2 be like "okay so now he's gonna glance at you"
I think the Alyx one easily takes the cake for most unsettling. Sure, the Portal 2 logo has him look back for a second, but he turns his head back around. But the Alyx logo? The head turn is almost impossible to notice at first due to it being incredibly slow and subtle, but the fact that it continues until the screen fades to black is _infinitely_ more terrifying to me.
Open Your Mind was always (in my mind) the Valve intro growing up, bc I played the Orange Box a lot on the 360. So, to see him start to turn around just Invokes my fight or flight lmao
remember that one time when valve made everyone shit their pants by him turning around (I expected this to be a shitpost to be honest not a serious comp)
Fun Fact: When The Valve Intro starts to fade to black in Half Life: Alyx, Valve Guy begins to turn his head to face you. Dont believe me? watch the valve on Valve Guys head on the HL:A intro and HOO lemme tell you, when i realized he started to turn, i nearly shat myself thinking that Valve threw in a Valve Guy Jumpscare for the first time boot-up of the game. Well Played Gaben, Well Played.
To be honest, my favourite/ most terrifying of all are the second and third from the start, seeing that thing in his eye is legitematly terrifying. Especialy the third one, its so bright, high contrast, that valve is literally staring into your soul
I remember booting up Portal 2, and when that guy started to turn around, I nearly threw my laptop. I was NOT expecting that. Edit: And that one with the Heavy isn't any better because his eye is illuminated for a few frames. Holy shit
His eye in portal 2 illuminate a bit as well, I can’t tell if they also do that in HL:A, I just close my eyes and scream till the intro is over because I’m not ready for 20ft tall valve guy’s gaze
Teacher: What's your biggest fear? Girls: I dreamed about a big cockroach along time ago Boys: Heavy... I meant Valve guy turned around and look at me with his glowing eyes
You can take the vid file, record/download it from here, and then convert it to a .bik file and shove it in the movie file in tf2, you technically can use it
@@popman-m7y in comparison to something like, actiblizz, yeah. i feel less guilty when most (not all. we will never forget the traumatizing event that is artifact.) of the games they create are pretty well made.
I've watched this video more times than i dare admit. Something(or everything) about the aesthetic and acoustics of it all is just so haunting and hypnotizing
I remember when I was 6 years old, in early 2012, my mom had bought me portal 2. I booted up the game, and saw the intro at 1:20 and I noped out of there and made my dad tell me when it was over every time.
wild, for me i never played these games when i was like 6 and shit but i do know the challenger approaching in smash bros brawl was scary as shit for me
I mean, people who are still barely alive, with alien parasites clinging to their heads and morphing them into horrible bloody zombies are pretty horrifying to me.
* sees portal 2 intro at first * '' oh it seems like with more detail and now i can see his bald more! '' * sees him turn his head slowly * '' THE POWER OF GOD COMPELS YOU, THE POWER OF GOD COMPEEEEEELS YOU ''
Isn’t me or I find the “Open your eyes” scarier than “Open your mind” I mean, when the first time I played half-life 2 (when I was 11), it scared the shit out of me know he was directly staring at me.
![TEEDEE TADA - DIAMOND NARAKORN X LEGO LYKN [Special Dance Performance]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QgtZedFeumA/mqdefault.jpg)
I fear no man
But that thing
**Valve guy turning around**
It scares me
a like to you for reading my mind
It's scare you?
You should've said heavy valve guy
@Salvanora Cabratre Heavy: Hey! It's me.
"It is scare me" WOW
Something interesting if anyone cares, blue handles are rated for water normally, whereas red valve handles are rated for STEAM
😂😂
DeadPlate that’s really interesting
HOLY SHIT, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!! FUCKING CLEVER BASTARDS!
Omfg you blew my mind!
Alsoooo we should stay away from the lab, that seams pretty dangerous then
DeadPlate HOLY S H I T
Everybody gangsta till Heavy becomes the VALVe guy
No he is Coach
@@FanMentalOmegaVietnamRTS 0:58
No
I wish if the intro was released :(
IS NICE
Valve might change their visuals from time to time, but this is another example of when music is just too iconic.
Fr so ominous
the full song is great too. look it up if you haven't, 'hazardous environments' on the hl2 soundtrack.
@@grayskies__ackshually it ish from half life 1 soundtrack ☝️🤓
Well ackshully, it’s in both of them ☝️🤓
@@tdoyr "from" usually refers to the first property a thing was used in
Everybody gangsta till the valve guy turns around
a im scares
Bruh, the fucker turns his head in alyx... Bloody wanker shouldn't be doing that in vr man fucking shook
You can see him turning around at the end
i think he does that in portal 2
How original
person: so what's your phobia?
me: *_valve guy turning around_*
Commentboy, I diagnose you with Valvophobia.
gonna be honest, when i booted portal 2 up and the flicker started and he began turning around, i got freaked out
Mine dosent turn
Valveguyturningaroundphobia
Mindophobia
Animator: _We need a new logo_
Director: _Turn the Valve_
Gaben: *TURN THE HEAD*
when i saw the guy turning he's head the first time i just got so freacking scared that i wanted to quit portal 2
/snap the head/
I mean it’s just an intro
What?
Turn the head
But it's a pictu-
MAKE IT A MODEL AND TURN THE HEAD
You know the turning head was made in 1996.
No matter how many times i open up Portal 2 to play the game, the logo of the guy turning around gives me chills every single time-
forealllll me too dude
I only like it cuz the music carries the feeling more well
the norm
Wait till you see it in Alyx.
@@monsieurmilous813 Bro that shit is anxiety inducing
That man must have a hard life having a valve stuck in his head for the past 13 years
Yup
It's right in the back of his neck like Marsellus Wallace, too
@country baller And you're late for the party
Indeed.
It doesn’t matter where I go, StickMaster500 haunts the comment section.
The valve guy turning around is scarier then any horror movie.
It was heavy
Silly that’s only for the Tf2 one xD
@@VøyzBlack yeah he turns in portal 2
@@VøyzBlack
1:00 - heavy
1:24 - Coach
I was so scared when I saw the Portal 2 logo for the first time. It was really scary.
For Half-Life 3, the guy is finally gonna turn and look at you
Bet
And he's going to have a valve in his eye too
Valve man is coming for you
@InVader bet
No,you will be the valve guy
In case anyone's curious, the 1998 concept was basically a tech demo to demonstrate the innovative and highly advanced capabilities of the GoldSRC engine, such as particle systems, skeletal animations, and attaching entities to individual parts of an animated model. At the time, this was considered groundbreaking.
Valve also made a robot model back in the day with a staggering number of animated bones (for the time). This was a stress test that was meant to crash the engine, but it didn't.
Quake World
That robot is called Polyrobo.
I really like those facts that such games were revolutionary.
Even though I wasn't born in 90's, I still find it fascinating, even at 2023. After all, they were one of the people who made game industry from the scratch!
It was like 20 bones and 6000 polygons to show just how groundbreaking Half life was going to be.
And if you know anything about the games reputation on launch, yeah it was truly ground breaking.
It may be hard for you to believe but people used to use words like "photo realistic" when describing games like half life blowing the minds of people.
Finally a useful fucking comment that’s informative for once 🐐
Edit: And comment thread as well
Scariest things on earth:
Clowns
Serial Killers
Sharks
Valve guy turning his head
Minecraft cave noises
The creepy music in the background
What about that number that comes after 2 before 4
No just the Valve guy
Just at all!
@@sewdyer98747 shut up kid
The Portal 2 one game me the heebie-jeebies when I first saw it.
It was like some SCP shit when he started turning to look at you.
@@tf2_only
Yeah exactly.
I thought I'd check out Dota 2 for once so I downloaded it and booted it up. That's when I saw the intro. Never touched it since.
Same, infact the first time I encountered it (I believe it was in SFM) I noticed he looked slightly different than the 2007 version, so I took a closer look... nearly fell from my seat.
Try that but in VR with HL Alyx. I was not okay.
@@tf2_only same lmao
i only played tf2 when i was younger
i went to play dota two
i thought, "oh the logo looks more clear"
then, he did *the turn*
I like the music but not when he turns head
K
@@OdeBox coward
@@MarkJavTheBloxxer oh a boomer
@@schlachtfilms7179 scary enough for the kids
The TF2 intro goes so hard, the way the Heavy is perfectly animated and the music is so well made. Its a TF2 style take on the classic intro.
Makes me wish they used that kind of arrangement for the game's intro, even if they don't use the Heavy version of the Valve guy.
It was also at peak TF2 years before the silver age 2011-4 and the bronze age 2014-17
This predates the free to play Change too
That intro is fanmade @@lmahu6627
Heavy in that moment: PuT, PuT, PUTIS, PuTiS SpEnCeR HeRe
Just so you know, it’s fan-made. I don’t know if you know that - I don’t think most people here do
I understand why they didn’t make him turn around for Alyx. Seeing that shit in VR would be terrifying
he did turn,but slightly when it fades into black
@@serv3534 does he? I didn’t notice it. It’s a lot less noticeable than the ones where he straight up turns around and stares directly into your soul
@@abutterynoodle9347 simply look closely,also,indeed it is very hard to notice,and yes him turning arouund seeing you staring at your soul in vr is extremely terrifying
@@serv3534 now I see it. God that gets me every time
Which is why they should
Fun Fact: The guy with the valve in the back of the head is just a random person that was on the street that valve offered to do the logo. Nobody remembers his name.
Creepypasta material
I think its father gregori or coach from left 4 dead 2
Idk why, but that bald guy always reminded me of the actor of Morpheus from Matrix.
i thought it was bald gabe newell
The g man
Imagine if the guy would turn around in half life VR
He did
@@JeSuisMrCraft when?
He does in Half Life Alyx and he’s gigantic.
What are you doing here mate
I would panic.
I've always loved these since I was a kid playing Half-Life 1. Creepy, off-the-wall, weird, plus that amazing music. Always exciting to see a new one because on the rare occasion Valve actually make games they knock it out of the park.
Valve man: oh hey guys didn't see you the-
Everybody: * screams *
Valve man: wat happen? Dude?
@@jaydenslaptop Valve man: hey, chill out!
*THE ONE THOUSANTH PERSON TO LIKE THIS COMMENT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ME*
WHITE EYE WTF DID ANYONE SEE THAT FOR THE TF2
@@xxjojoxx-35 WHO GIVES A SHIT
When I was 10, I wanted to try Dota 2 and never touched it ever again cause of the intro
You can skip it by pressing space bar m8
he was prob on xbox m8
@@majorfender6054 theres a chance he was m8
this is getting out of control m8
I dont give a fuck m8
The unused TF2 one is really cool. I like how the music is in TF2's soundfont.
I would love if they used that from now on
well bad news, its actually a mod, not an official intro
@@shitruns mod name?
Youtu.be/4oijqgtd3Gg
There
@@shitruns that's stolen from R1ckyM4n. original is from 2014 th-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/w-d-xo.html
I was absolutely *blown away* when I first launched up The Lab and was in this crazy sphere surrounded by copious amounts of valves. There's even one you can manipulate with your hands.
What does that do?
What does that do?
@@Oscar106Official I'm pretty sure it does absolutely nothing haha; just cosmetic!
I love the one where the guy turns around, especially because it’s so subtle that you’re likely to miss it the first time you watch the intro. It’s really creepy it’s almost like he’s trying to turn around but something jolts him back against his will
What? It’s not subtle at all....
the open your eyes guy is staring at him
I played Portal 2 and I don’t remember this :/
I may have skipped it.
@@flariz4824 did you play on console? As far as I know the guy turning was only in the PC version. I used to play on Xbox so I missed the dude turning at me
Hey! You're brazilian aren't you?
fun fact: the guy with the valve on the back of his head is just a random guy they pulled of the street. So even Valve don’t know who he is
You can't just pull a random guy off the streets
@@angelo.strand you could, but they probably agreed with papers
It's just coach duuuhh
they shoved a valve in his head and he turned
unstable now he gonna kill you
"Open your head "
"Open your eye"
"Open your mind"
"Open your surroundings"
"Open your wallet"
Open your bank savings
@@alwandminasyan3579 open your bank account
No
@BradynLee09 open ur heart ( donate to vavle XD)
"Open your search history"
Half life: Open your eyes
Portal: Open your mind
TF2: Open your wallet
High quality comment
Left 4 Dead: Open your Survival.
Half Life: Open Your Eyes
Portal: Open Your Mind
Team Fortress: Open Your Defense
Left 4 Dead: Open Your Survival
Counter Strike: Open Your Protection
VALVE has one of if not THE scariest intro ever made for gaming.
Team Salvato: I’m about to end this company’s whole career
I actually quite like it, not to mention the little jingle is just awsome
It is easy to scare me, but I never found this intro scary. Because this music and valve are from Half-Life which is not scary at all and one of my favorite games ever.
The valve intro scared me the first time I played team fortress 2
The song too, it’s so eerie.
Imagine if that guy finally shows his face as the ending of half life 3
He's actually heavy
@@roster8692 maybe, or that Russian guy in HL2
He did.
@@roster8692 bro he's coach
as if half life 3 will ever come out this decade
Valve -
"Open your eyes"
"Open your mind"
"Open your surroundings"
Also Valve -
*"Open your wallet"*
1000 dollars to play the next half life game
Gorilla Boy worth it
@@gorillaboy8091 worth it
Everybody: Oh, o-okay
Everybody: I regret nothing.
I think youre mistaking it with EA
POV: You enter the Valve HQ 1:32
True!
As a matter of fact, The Lab has an Easter egg where you can actually enter the Valve HQ
“alright guys we need to think of a logo”
“what if we put a faucet handle on someone’s head”
“great idea”
@@Halodium you made this even cringier with "this is not a woooosh"
Turn to "open" your eyes, or mind (you see what they did there, yes, it's valve's joke, not mine)
Just jam a pipe into someones eye its going to be great trust me
Clockwork you suck Cringe something, idk he deleted his reply before i came here
"And what if we made it look like something from a TOOL music video"
"Take my keys, go to my home, and fuck my wife"
is nice... deserves a sanvich..
Danke!
That Heavy is dead!
@@Nope-eb8ys no u *pow*
@@OrdinaryOrchid *Reverse Card* MY TURN
@@OrdinaryOrchid you are dead not big suprice
"They faked the moon landing in 1969!!!"
CGI in 1998:
Video Games are actually produced differently to CGI effects. Video Games are designed to be rendered in real time, so games from the 90s (and possibly the 60s) had very primitive graphics that weren't very detailed. CGI, on the other hand, is designed to be rendered over a long period of time into a video file, so CGI films from the 90s can include more complex things without any detriment to performance. Visual effects back in the 60s were more practical, but even then I'd be hard to replicate the moon landing footage accurately with the materials and visual tricks they had at the time.
@@duncanwade1026 he’s joking
@@duncanwade1026 they had to cut up tapes haha.
@@duncanwade1026 It's a joke Mr. Wikipedia
@@duncanwade1026 holy shit sherlock you solved the mystery
Every valve game always has an unsettling creepy vibe. It's completely unexplainable but it absolutely makes their games feel like no others.
Even Dota 2?
@@benjamingeorge8241 Well I guess that's an exception, TF2 as well. More their story driven games
Me seeing a horror movies: wow that was cool
Me seeing valve guy turn around: *screams*
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Portal 1: Dude is chill
Portal 2: Starts to turn
Portal 3: HELLO ME OL' CHUM
Oh fuck holy shit what the hell lol
@@Darkness90006 uhhhh
@@Darkness90006 are you ok bro?
@@aguywhocommentsonthings3362 I don't think so
@@pepperey1986 gusse not...
I remember when my friends first booted up portal 2 and the Valve guy turned around, scariest shit we had ever seen
i never got to see the valve guy turn around cause i was pressing every button trying to play the game, now i wish my copy of portal 2 worked
So basically, this guy and his friend were going to play a valve game called portal 2 and I kid you not, the valve guy turned around, scariest shit I've ever seen
same
I owned my copy of Portal 2 for about a year before they updated it to do that.
Yeah got P2 and holy cow
The ''Open your Eyes'' and ''Open your Mind'' ones are simply iconic, but the one for Alyx is such a cool new stylized and modern take on the classic intro and ''mascot'' if you will. I'd love for a new wave of Valve masterpieces to come along for a new generation of players with a brand new intro, keeping the music of course, simply hearing that tune can make you travel all the way back in time to '98 back when HL1 was released, it's magical.
The unreleased tf2 one would have actually been cool
It was never an official release, it is fan made. You can actually see it in game if you download it from gamebanana and use it on your game.
I know right?
@@griz8540 look at crabs comment...
No
I've seen others with kanna profile pic but none with exactly the same..
*Notice how in Half Life: Alyx he’s sloooowly turning his head towards you*
I think that's actually the player trying to look around at his face. You can move about slightly without mods.
Right when it starts to fade out, you can see the valve guy turn way quicker, and you'll also feel your heart skip a beat.
@@Myne1001 it isn't. I play HL:Alyx a lot and even if you stand perfectly still the head turns as it fades out. Super creepy because it's huge in VR! Feels like a meter in diameter.
@@jacobras interesting. I personally haven't played it (yet) so I'm just going off of what people who have played it told me
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Who else got scared of the valve intro as a kid?
I think everyone is scared of these intros
I still am
NubHam lol
I was a 10 years old when i played portal for first time i almost got heart attack
@@OdeBox same
i love that the valve intros have lore, i didn't realize there were so many variations
Half life 1: Valve in strangers eye
Left for dead: Valve in strangers head
Half life alyx: *YOU ARE THE STRANGER*
Actually the guy with the valve in his eye was a Valve Employee at the time the guy with it on his head was a stranger
@@jackarotva7072 I don't think there actually even any official documentation of who it was, all that is known is that they just pulled some random guy off the street and did the photo. Of course there probably is documentation and someone at Valve probably knows who it was but at the very least that info is not public.
henrey No really look it up the guy with the valve in his eye was a Valve employee
#blackouttuesday that’s what I meant
JackarotVA Ik I’m talking about the newer one with the valve on a guys back head
0:45 it’s 2020 and the TF2 startup screen is still that, so I’m lucky I don’t have to see the valve guy turning around every time I launch it.
Same it really did creep me out why the Vlave guys turns around and same thing when heavy does the same.
-novid
i still have the valve head guy...I WANT MY HEAVY ROBOT STARTUP :(
just found out its a mod...YAHOOOOOOO
@@Tiago_Alves Only few would know...
Man i love Valve intros so much, how simple yet so complex, how obscure yet so cool...
th-cam.com/video/T55VlLq6jSk/w-d-xo.html
@@chooxbulbol1985 A brick is more funny than you
The way you described valve intros is also a good way to describe their games.
@@IIWolFFinEII none of their games are obscure, half-life, portal, and tf2 have sold millions of copies and are all constantly talked about.
@@stonedrei I consider half life to be quite obscure or "weird" in a good meaning of course, when it comes to its world building, and how little do we know about its universe and specific characters. Especialy the life of Gordon Freeman, one day he goes to job, ends up fighting entire combine in couple of hours/days. Of course i have somewhat simplified my answer for it be a accurate to what Nostradamus New said. Also i dont exactly understand what you mean by saying "non of their games are obscure".
Either way have a nice day!
Going from TF2's logo IMMEDIATELY to Portal 2's logo almost within the span of a year was uh... definitely scary as a kid.
1:35 *Player wakes up in a room full of valves*
Gman: Where do you want your piercing?
I want where jarate can be made
@@S3NS_ oh no
@@S3NS_ but then you'll have to pay to fill your jar
@@computr166 don't worry,he just jar -ate
backroom level 20
Girls: **afraid of horror movies**
Boys: **getting scared of the VALVe guy turning around**
Men: watches valve guy turn around In vr
@@SigmaPhonkBabyGronk
Oh no
@@foquitajeej2399 Oh yes
you don't need to put -es in plural form
@@bandicam-ss8fn R/iamverysmart..
Everybody gangsta 'til they're surrounded by Valves
Yes, surprisingly the creepiest one for me is the lab's version
i put my aunt into the lab and she crapped herself on the intro
uh oh
Those openings in the valve logo scared me a lot when I was a kid, even more because of the music, that tone of mystery that all your games have....
Imagine an anti piracy intro where he actually turns around and looks at you
since some got confused the game would also crash after the screen
Why has nobody done this before? This would be brilliant.
@@Evoltal_ yeah!
Bro that would solve piracy
That too in Vr
And there is just text that says "You don't belong here." As the valve guy turns around fully.
Imagine going out of bounds in Half Life: Alyx and seeing the VALVe guy's face.
His model is actually in the files. You can see his face
@@UmbrellaGent have you seen it?
@@uselessguy1 There's the link. That's the one
@@18350a well that's off my bucket list now
Ok when I started the game I was hyped and then the dude head turned. This was a sign that old valve was back. And I only got more hyped
Kids: dad,what was the most scary thing you saw
Me: *Head turns flashbacks*
Valve Guy: Well are you gonna tell them?
wait why does a communist play valve games?
A_RandomUser because “we” all love Valve
@@malmoeldepresso4506 Oh okay, But don't communists hate video games? Because it's capitalism?
You had me at that TF2 logo. I was 100% sure it's something I missed during all these years
"Open your eyes"
"Open your mind"
"Open your wallet"
"Open your Ass"
@@youtube1.0alpha70 xD
ahahaha
Open your google history
EA
@@ieatkids5278 well this is Valve version.
Legend says that if you turn the valve around and open the guy's head you'll find a half life 3 copy there
K
Half Life 3 (Also known as HLA) already existed, so the HL3 game is already out.
@@cyberOIO Probably the most solid evidence out there: www.half-life.com/en/halflife3
@@randomcivil Have you seen my reply?
@@randomcivil but have you ever seen ending of it? (SPOILERS!!!)
Gman gives powers to Alyx to change the future and makes that Eli lives and advisor not. Also in the post credit scene we see changed ending of HL2: EP2 from Gordon's perspective where Eli tells that Alyx is gone. This game is prequel only from the start, but it's just big fucking spoiler
0:58 in an alternate universe where TF2 is a flagship game for valve and has a modern logo.
Just imagine seeing this intro suddenly play on E3, a Nintendo Direct or something like that. The hype would be real
Victor I am not really a Nintendo fan but if they made the orange box with all the games (HL2, EP1 and EP2, Portal, TF2) Updated and in source 2. I’d shit my pants.
catz64 what do you mean new games?
catz64 oh shit. But portal vr already exists. It’s called being a valve vr tech demo for a new product (vive and index)
catz64 it’s the most portal we got since either 2011 or 12
When this happened to me I genuinely thought my computer was hacked
1:21 this intro used to scare the shit out of me.
we all remember it from left for dead right? 😭
This intro still scares the shit out of me.
Me to
I used to see this everytime I went to play l4d2 on my Xbox 360 and as a little 5 to 6yr, that shit spooky. Still is
At least it doesn't fully turn it's head around.
@@wevefriends i want it to stare at me i want it to suck my breath in i want it to break its neck i want it to stare at me blank in the eyes
0:44 i used to think this guy looked like coach from left 4 dead 2 because that was my favourite valve game
Ahahahahah same
I have on my xbox 360
Same
It's actually him isn't it?
Coach was my favorite character as
2012: the year i started developing Valvephobia
Same
2016: *d e a d*
I am gonna say the N word
No don't do it @@mr_man-to7bv its racist!
@Taratoriy ツ I’m gonna say the N-word you can’t stop me now
0:22 that's Kelly Bailey - a composer and programmer for Valve who's now a soundtrack adviser for them. He created famous tracks like - "Tracking Device" in HL, "You're Not Supposed To Be Here" in HL2 and of course his greatest piece of all times in my opinion - "Self Esteem Fund" in Portal.
It’s not valve said it’s a random guy they asked to be the old valve guy same as the turning guy but they do look identical
It's not. Valve confirmed its just a random guy they found.
@@epoch151 They look similair, but they did confirm that he is just a random guy
0:58 When The Heavy Update Hits, this will be the Opening.
...One day.
Remilia Scuntlet well it’s fan made so you can download it in the description
Yeah
...
Got this comment to 100 likes!
Good that i have my alt acc!
Ken Walkens ok...
@@Zamn_daniel everything is ok with this.
Every valve intro: oh it’s just the iconic valve everyone knows
2016 intro: *welcome to hell*
2012 and 2016 scares ppl
Literally, tho 2007 did scare me since that was my first
Ikr those valves in VR is terrifying.
@@tydshiin5783 2012 scared me the most, like in portal it was just a still ish pic of that guy and then portal 2 be like "okay so now he's gonna glance at you"
the half life alyx one Is kinda creepy ngl
Portal 2 is from 2011 just so everyone is aware.
I think the Alyx one easily takes the cake for most unsettling. Sure, the Portal 2 logo has him look back for a second, but he turns his head back around. But the Alyx logo? The head turn is almost impossible to notice at first due to it being incredibly slow and subtle, but the fact that it continues until the screen fades to black is _infinitely_ more terrifying to me.
thats because u r gay
“Terrifying”
@@marbl3d45 soyboy scared of man turning head
(turns fully around) HELLO MY NAME IS BALDIPLIER TODY WE WILL PLAY HALF LIFE 3.
Also the fact that its in VR makes it so that you get depth perception, and the head turns out to be 15 feet tall.
Open Your Mind was always (in my mind) the Valve intro growing up, bc I played the Orange Box a lot on the 360. So, to see him start to turn around just
Invokes my fight or flight lmao
0:57 it's shame they didn't use this, it's so cool
It's because it's fan made, search up tf2 valve intro and you can download it and enable it on your tf2
@@laatma985 oh cool, shame I don't play tf2 anymore. Wish I found out sooner
@@laatma985 i can download it like huds?
Laat ma
How do I do that?
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remember that one time when valve made everyone shit their pants by him turning around
(I expected this to be a shitpost to be honest not a serious comp)
when was that
chicky lump Portal 2
Fun Fact: When The Valve Intro starts to fade to black in Half Life: Alyx, Valve Guy begins to turn his head to face you. Dont believe me? watch the valve on Valve Guys head on the HL:A intro and HOO lemme tell you, when i realized he started to turn, i nearly shat myself thinking that Valve threw in a Valve Guy Jumpscare for the first time boot-up of the game. Well Played Gaben, Well Played.
I see it! It's subtle but I see it.
i wanna see a full turn that’ll fully scare me
HOLY SHIT
Bruh
Bro that ain't a fun fact, it's a spooky fact.
Prepare to get s u e d for desinformation
(/s)
To be honest, my favourite/ most terrifying of all are the second and third from the start, seeing that thing in his eye is legitematly terrifying. Especialy the third one, its so bright, high contrast, that valve is literally staring into your soul
I remember booting up Portal 2, and when that guy started to turn around, I nearly threw my laptop. I was NOT expecting that.
Edit: And that one with the Heavy isn't any better because his eye is illuminated for a few frames. Holy shit
VanyaIvanovichBraginsky I think it was Übercharge.
His eye in portal 2 illuminate a bit as well, I can’t tell if they also do that in HL:A, I just close my eyes and scream till the intro is over because I’m not ready for 20ft tall valve guy’s gaze
if i bought a pc and installed portal 2 and see the guy turning around, i will throw the shit out my pc
same, but i just got scared of a valve in a persons head alt+f4'ed right away then i was prepared and closed my eyes
@@nfwrambo u can press esc button to skip it, if u spam esc while the game is booting it just doesnt appear
Gabe: We need logo!
Employee: How about man with valve in head?
Gabe: NiCe!
I think it is a pretty neat idea actually
Teacher: What's your biggest fear?
Girls: I dreamed about a big cockroach along time ago
Boys: Heavy... I meant Valve guy turned around and look at me with his glowing eyes
I read your comment but without the "roach"
Sans
@@Meatjar_streams No.
@@Shrek_Now_go_away "COCK"
Shrek •
*hold up-*
Fun fact: you can actually spin the valves in the Lab intro
0:43 this is what i grew up with
Same
Be glad. At least he doesn't turn around there.
Same xd
Same and playing left 4 dead :)
Same in l4d i dint look first cause you know
1:00 why Team Fortress 2 dint use this it perfect for the game
It's fan made
didn't*
@@ThroatSlitt yeah but i wish it real
You can take the vid file, record/download it from here, and then convert it to a .bik file and shove it in the movie file in tf2, you technically can use it
@@0ctalpus yeah, i was about to do that
The Half Life Alyx one started turning around at the end, didn't it?
He starter moving a bit so yeah
yep.
Yes he did
Yea. I like that one better than the portal one- a bit more subtle.
What no
Thinking about it Valve's intro is actually very unique when compared to other game companies.
So are their games. There's a reason they're the only game company I feel good giving money to.
@@Felaleyou feel good giving money to a company that promotes gambling to children? ok man
@@popman-m7y in comparison to something like, actiblizz, yeah. i feel less guilty when most (not all. we will never forget the traumatizing event that is artifact.) of the games they create are pretty well made.
@@najimi41 So you support valve ruining lives because they make good games? What is wrong with you? Autist
@@popman-m7yHow are they promoting gambling?
1:37 the facebook notification was even scarier than any of these intros
LMAO (ಠ_ಠ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ
It got scarier when I went to facebook and found that I wasn't logged.
Dude i got a notif when i read this im not even joking
there are rumors that you can feel the faucet on the back of your head when you play vr
@@katastroff6011 what
Is it just me or is the valve Guy with a valve in the back of his head still kinda creepy even even hes not turning around
oddly unsettling.
Yeah. The open your eyes one is also kinda scary.
Actually, ITS THE MUSIC THAT MAKES EVERY INTRO SCARY
The atmosphere, the sound, the imagery. All very scary shit. Especially as a kid. The sound though..so fuckin nostalgic. They nailed it.
@@SonicVGamer Yeah...
The music and the sounds of the intro are scary
@@SonicVGamer the music matches with my heart beat which makes it even more scary for me
I love how the newest intro still has him turn around but you barely see it because of the fade out.
Every intro is scary
Except:
Heavy
The Lab
Idk... imagine being in a dark, probably claustrophobic room with just valves, and there is no floor...
@@mjacknback8994 Well there is floor you're standing on
@@Cxdyy yes but its a platform, probably a unstable, platform
I need the heavy intro in Tf2
@@voshr99 Same
1:19 the way the music starts to kick in after he turns around boosts your anxiety though the roof
back in 2014 the intro made me quit portal 2 immediately since i thought the valve guy would get me
I've watched this video more times than i dare admit. Something(or everything) about the aesthetic and acoustics of it all is just so haunting and hypnotizing
Same
i TOTally AGRE.. HEK\\\SDFJ HBSDSDFHJ ERJHERFI
Imagine if one day you open the game just to play for fun and the valve guy is directly staring at you
I remember when I was 6 years old, in early 2012, my mom had bought me portal 2. I booted up the game, and saw the intro at 1:20 and I noped out of there and made my dad tell me when it was over every time.
wild, for me i never played these games when i was like 6 and shit but i do know the challenger approaching in smash bros brawl was scary as shit for me
fun fact: you can skip these intros by pressing enter.
@@pyrolol8226 but what if you were on controller?
@@CrownAngelHere hmmmmmm
same
If I didn't know better, I would've thought that this was the intro to a horror game.
I mean, people who are still barely alive, with alien parasites clinging to their heads and morphing them into horrible bloody zombies are pretty horrifying to me.
@Cloude non hey, Pyro is pretty terrifying.
Half-Life Alyx is a horror game
Fighting a war against yourselves where none of you ever die and are forced to go through a canonically painful and scary respawning process?
Spy main: *Misses the backstab*
Heavy main: 0:57
You will be detected in 00:02
this is actually funny
Spy probobly shitted his phants
I remember i use to be scared of the valve guy slowly turning his head. God its so iconic
Yeah the valve logo's are really weird
and thats what i like them
@Chaos Inc. why does it make me nostalgia
* sees portal 2 intro at first *
'' oh it seems like with more detail and now i can see his bald more! ''
* sees him turn his head slowly *
'' THE POWER OF GOD COMPELS YOU, THE POWER OF GOD COMPEEEEEELS YOU ''
satan: umm guys wth is this bald ass?
valve guy: *slightly turns around*
satan: *god please pick me up im scared*
@@oksomynameisjeff4212 even Satan is scared of his own creation
The power of super mecha death Christ compels you.
Isn’t me or I find the “Open your eyes” scarier than “Open your mind” I mean, when the first time I played half-life 2 (when I was 11), it scared the shit out of me know he was directly staring at me.
Its not just you
Theyre both equally terrifying
same
I find the open your eyes disturbing and the open your mind scary
I gotchu, i have that same feeling when i tried half life 1
Dude what the hell? They should've made that the official TF2 intro. The heavy joke one. That would be so awesome to see every time I play TF2.
Imagine testing on all those different people putting more valves in different places
Edit: why the hell does this have so many likes?
OMG, I just got the pun.
Imagine one where it pans down to someone's penis and it's just a Valve and no shaft or balls.
Sometimes I think we shouldn't be able to think for ourselves.
Valve's logo has Always had something so surreal about it
Ya just gotta... y'know?
open your wallet?
Steam
Maybe the surrealism comes from THE RANDOM GUY WITH A VALVE ATTACHED TO THE BACK OF HIS HEAD FOR LITERALLY NO REASON
Portal 2: cheery and funny
Also portal2: *Has the most scariest valve intro ever*
0:22 bro this guy gives off scary vibes
Your pfp does
@@whinedealer9814 agreed
They all do
@@whinedealer9814 he changed it lmao
@@Tuv14 good
seeing the valve guy turning his head in vr was the last thing i wanted to experience