Let's Drown Out All Of Half-Life - Episode 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- So after finally freeing ourselves of Dark Souls 2, we resolve to follow it up with a sumptuous pudding of a game that's considerably shorter and that hopefully I know more about.
Oh boy, here comes Freeman again, late for work and bunnyhopping through the facility at 40mph, fucking with lights.
If only we had another guy qualified to push a trolley
+Harvey Chesterfield 4 years at MIT just to push a cart around
Its almost too real
+Detective「Jorge Joestar ||」"Good job flipping that switch, Gordon. That MIT education surely pays off."
+Ender Pony
Thank you, nobody seems to understand. The resonance cascade was caused by a highly trained _professional_ trolley pusher.
Do you have any idea how much worse it would have been if it were an amateur in the test chamber? Let me put it this way: There would have been no Half Life 2, that's for sure.
+Jam Starling I studied for years at MIT to push carts, but thanks to the cut-throat environment in professional pushing I eventually had to leave the industry and fall back on my less glamorous degrees in Particle Physics.
+'Murrican Oil
The muffin man? He who lives on Drury Lane?
"...but then I saw two black guys and my brain freaked out."
~Gabriel Morton (2016)
@Joe Average well I think it's safe to say the clever one isn't you
"Why do you put a ladder in an elevator shaft?"
"To fix the elevator."
"How do you get to the ladder?"
"You take the elevator that doesn't work!"
"Oh no! The science, it's escaping!" I now want to yell that out in the middle of my next lab session.
And the teacher gives you a a plus for half life reference lol 😝
Let's Drown Out Gabriel with Half-Life Facts
LAser! Caution. LASER! caution. LASER!
"Aaah, I'm not the only one who's late. Suckeeeeeeeeer! Ha-Haaa."
"Yeah whatever, I'll drink a 40 ounce here if I feel like it!"
+Dr.RubberFace
"To wipe your ass, first orient your hand behind yourself, then move it forward...
or backward."
Laser's an acronym, you know...
+Dr.RubberFace It's been a fantasy for a long time that Yahtzee and Ross get together.
Oh and, GET SOME DANCING GIRLS IN CAGES, WHY DON'T YOU? Programmers -- who KNOWS what they're doing?
The microwave casserole thing is actually kinda sad. That was probably the last good meal he'd have for... well, decades.
Ah fuck, I'm not a fan of the ragdolling in this source mod. You're supposed to be able to vent aggression by whacking the corpses until they explode in a mess of meat chunks and blood stains, instead of this sterile rubber chicken bullshit
+finowa Also the AI seems to be way worse in this than the original game. Enemies often don't react to the player's presence at all, and act fairly sluggish in general. Hmm
+Plasm Spasm Haha, that's a good way to think about it.
+finowa ^_^ I am laughing quite a bit at your comment. It's true though.
+finowa Well Half-Life Source is just shit compared to HL1.
Movement is crap and there are a lot of bugs.
But hey, we got hd water next to a pixel wall.
MegaKosan Yeah not to mention the shitshow the AI proved to be during the first encounter with the soldier, jesus
I consider this playlist and let's play to be UNESCO worthy
That robot @ 5:10 was MINDBLOWING shit back in the day! It was actually WALKING down an incline! Not just sliding it's feet.
I honestly think this game sorta looks worse on Source. You have models and textures from around 1998 mixed in with lighting, rag dolls, water, and particle effects from a more modern game engine. It just doesn't look right. The art style is all over the place.
Seeing vanilla half life at this point kinda weirds me out...
+A Jolly Wanker And the funny thing is, it's not even the vanilla version. It's HL Source, which included HD water effects, a lot of new bugs and absolutely no other graphical improvement.
+A Jolly Wanker funny seeing you here :P when is the next video? :D
***** Don't blame him, he really doesn't know how vanilla H-L looks like anymore :P
+'Murrican Oil "multiplayer is sold as a standalone DLC"
What? No it isn't. It's listed as a separate game in the Steam library, but it's included with Half-Life: Source.
***** WTF is "VCP 2013"? I'm talking about Half-Life: Source.
This should be called Let's Interrupt: Each other
Great ideas executed badly? One word:
Spore.
+Comical still love the first 2 stages though
For me it was Empire Earth, and later on this idea was executed greatly by Rise of Nations.
+Ben Noland "Elian"
wtf.
***** *enjoy
Comical wrong
No mans sky
I've probably listened to freeman's mind as many times as Yahtzee has played Half Life.
BlueMewGaming I TRACE ELECTRON ORBITS, YOU THINK I CAN'T FIND YOU?
+Rehtael Laudet SHIT! I didn't realise I was THAT late!
+Rehtael Laudet I don't wanna die. I want other people to die _for_ me.
+Rehtael Laudet "Coffee - not as strong as meth, but you get to keep your teeth." Still one of my favourite quotes.
Long Dong Never Die "It's Occam's Shuriken: When the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas."
Holy shit! In this moment I am ｅｕｐｈｏｒｉｃ.
The guard getting CPR actually survives? I've played through this game I don't know how many times, and I never knew that!
half-life, half-life 2 and the subsequent episodes are still games I like to come back to now and then. I figure I play them all over again every few years.
I've probably played all the half lifes like 25 times a piece.......seriously no exaggeration.......I love these games
54:30 that's one thing I hate. Everyone puts famous people on pedestals, and they're outraged when their perfect mask slips for just a moment and the very real human being is seen beneath. They themselves have been dicks to other people, have lost their tempers, have been too busy to talk to someone - but as soon as someone in the public eye does that, they're suddenly monsters. The crime of being human.
Is that a big thumping laser machine being presided over by a dude with skeletal animation? I think it bloody is!
I like your content :D
MitchCyanFilms didn't think anyone here watched zero punctuation he's quite good
Wait
The guy getting CPR actually gets up?!
I never thought I'd learn something new about half-life 20 years later.
That's why its such a great game.......you came peel away a new layer each time you play and learn something new about it, if you lay attention and look for it
I'm glad to hear Yahtzee say that Black Mesa had a balancing issue. I thought I was just being a bitch for thinking the soldiers were ridiculous.
How about Sven coop? It's free on steam, and you can play the whole Half-life 1 campaign!
Sven?
+Checkmate1138 A coop multiplayer mod for Half-life
***** Oh, awesome! I should check that out!
+rezaka116 co-op is a little clearer than coop.
+rezaka116 Why not just play Half-Life: Decay? You can get it for free now, and with some tweaks you can get it running over LAN on PC.
The lady with the nice voice who gives the opening narration also voices a DVD cleaning disc I've got. Thank you.
Good idea badly executed?
"Turning Point: Fall of Liberty"
I cry every time.
I forgot about that game!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN I feel like rewatching all of Freemans mind. Welp, I know how I'm going to spend all of my afternoon and evening.
I never knew the scientist performing cpr eventually succeeds. wtf
I don't think he always succeeds
I love it when Yathzee talks about games he loves and his passion for the subject comes across - hope they do Silent Hill 2 so that we can (partly) see it through his eyes ...
I would love to see an animation of Yahtz in a labcoat going "can't let me in, can you? We'll see about that" before charging face-first into the door
Loving all the trivia and analysis coming from Yahtzee. Looking forward to the rest of this!
I wonder if Douglas Uppity ever delivered bathmats to Black Mesa.
Lol "Oh, it's not going to work." "DENIED." "Oh, it is." "...IED."
The Source version is buggy as fuck though. The prettier lighting isn't worth it when the gameplay is completely messed up and some levels have broken skyboxes, among a shitload of other things.
+Owlet VII Yeah, scripted events especially seem to pose problems, as seen by the soldier/scientist encounter. Shame
+finowa What happens on that encounter, do they just stand still?
Atomic Robo Tesla
You can watch the video and see for yourself (it's at the end).
Owlet VII Okay, I checked and it seems to be the second thing I thought might happen (I didn't mention it so don't be confused if you can't find it). I just wonder why he targets you instead (and why he runs up the stairs).
The levels in doom 2 are well made. They are tight and atmospheric. No other fps has made me as emotionally invested as doom 2 when your on low hp, you are breathing heavy and your pic is bloodied. The desperation is real
Doom 2 has some real slogs, downtown, the chasm, the factory
I finally played through doom 1 and doom 2 (on ps4 so not proper I accept) but was very surprised how much better 1 is than 2. 2 is a real pain
Isn't Freeman's environment suit rendered useless by never wearing a helmet? It probably still works fine as armour, but that certainly won't keep the radiation or chemicals out.
+Fors Clavigera In the original, there was a helmet, and when you put the suit on the FOV changed to reflect that. They removed it because the change in FOV caused motion sickness.
+Cloak and Dagger Gaming I don't know why they didn't stick with it and just not change the FOV.
+Robert R There was never a helmet for Freeman's suit. Other scientists exploring Xen were shown to be wearing their helmets, and a multiplayer model was an HEV suit with a helmet (the FOV is the same as in single player), but Freeman never wore a helmet.
450AHX Yes I know, I'm saying they should have had one because it would have no gameplay effect at all.
+Fors Clavigera I like to think that it just pops up automatically whenever there's radiation or something flying at the user's head. If you look at the helmet texture, it looks like it has folds on it, like it's reinforced fabric, so popping up would make sense.
Question for Gabe:
Do you have Aspergers and if so were you adopted because I feel like you are my lost twin.
Sir Onion lmfao why doesn’t this make top comment
6:31 - actually, that's a different beer Barney owes Gordon at the start of HL2. Since according to Blue Shift, he was the guard you passed in the tram, the one banging on a door. This guy died during the resonance cascade, you can find his body if you backtrack later. So I guess there are some things Yahtzee doesn't know about Half-Life.
yeah dont barney and gordon never technically actually interact at black mesa? so all that "it's just like old times eh Gordon?" that Barney does in the HL 2 games kinda requires you to have some imagination and take some liberties with the story right?
Damn it! I knew I should have taken that job at Aperature instead!
I learned to do CPR to the beat of Stayin' Alive by The Beegees.
Source version, while prettier, has problems because it was quickly slapped together. AI issues, scripting issues, etc.
This doesn't feel right without hearing Ross Scott...
God damn, never will I say that Yahtzee doesn't work hard. Based on the schedule he described he is perpetually juggling 2 projects every week while release one on the same week year round, minus new years. And he's been doing this for almost a decade!!! Not to mention finding the time to write 2 novels and doing the drown outs/ let's plays for almost 2 and a half years now! The man doesn't know how to not be busy.
It flummoxes me how well he must be able to schedule himself. It's extremely hard being funny, even if you can technically fill a missing 90 seconds with 4 or 5 ramble-gags. And a lot of stuff he does is situational funny, which requires a lot of planning a foresight. And a lot of OTHER stuff he does is dramatic, and still OTHER stuff he does is technically. Truly a marvel of a man
did anyone else catch the name Yatsze in the opening credits?.. is that where Yahtzee got his name?
YESS!! This was the series I was waiting for! FUCK ME YAHTZEE
+Wicdz His supposed 'American girlfriend' wouldn't approve of that!
+Jack Reid Neither would Gabe.
+Chase H Dude, Gabe and the "American girlfriend" are the same person. Yahtzee may or may not be aware of this.
+OptimusSledge You'd be surprised how different a good wig and the right lighting can make you look during such vigorous passtimes.
"i'm trying to think but then I saw two black guys and my mind freaked out"
I remember when I was a little kid watching my dad play this. He told me and my sister that the aliens were chickens so we wouldn't get scared, but then I just thought they were alien chickens so it was kind of pointless. My dad was really bad at it too. Good times.
Anyone else love how Yahtzee says "Meeee" Like he's trying so hard to act like he hates his work and cringes at it and is aloof and sarcastic...but you can tell he's still proud of it
At 1:44 the credits show a Yatsze Mark. Yahtzee's first name is Ben. If you subtract the letters from Mark and Ben, you get 1. Add that to how many Yahtzee sounding names there are, you get 3. Need I say more? (Yes I ate glue as a child. It has nothing to do with this)
Oh man.. I need to play this again.
1:44 Yahtzee's in the credits!?
Compared to modern FPS games, the level design in doom is magnificent.
Sure they're maze'y and space stations would never be designed like that in real life, but at least they're not just a bunch of goddamn linear corridors with chest high walls.
+Orbus G Modern FPS games? Nothing but corridors?
Like ARMA? Fallout?
Sure is fun to generalise. Keep them glasses rose tinted friend.
+PressA2Die Glass 'Em !
The_Grand_Secgend
First off, my point was that he didn't specify what he meant, and if I was to wave a stick a the time frame that doom was made I'd find way worse stuff than COD around. There are way more better shooters around now than then.
And second... Battlefield? Really? Come on. Even the the steaming pile of crap that was hard-line had more than just corridors in it. At its current worse state, the battlefield series can still set a battle in a field at least, I gotta give it credit for that.
One of my favorite games of all time! Fuck yes this is gonna be great!
Now this is what I want to see. Hopefully a full playthrough of a game I've never played, with interesting trivia and such. Screw the viewer questions; more playing and chatting, please!
Oh hell yeah, It's a perfect game for you guys to do!
10:40 Brownian motion. I really wish Yahtzee played Black Mesa Source instead of the original HL
50:09 This is the third time I've watched this video, and right when he said this, a very loud crack of thunder burst right over my house.
Rewatching this the day the Black Mesa review is released on YT makes for a fun viewing experience.
I asked for the next "Let's Drown Out All Of..." game to be Bloodborne. This is a clear example of why you should probably not listen to what fans ask for and do what you think is best.
I can't wait to watch this dynamic duo tackle the full game. At which point I'll make another request and you'll promptly ignore it in lieu of a much better idea.
Big fan of you both. :)
So
Barney = Barney
Glasses = Kleiner
Einstein = Magnusson
Luther = Breen
Slick = Vance
Weird, CPR actually doesn't work that way. It's supposed to keep people from going legit dead when their heart only stopped recently. It basically stretches the time in which a defribillator might still revive somebody. So take that Half-Life! Your neat little touch was immersionbreaking for anyone who had a first-aid course halfway recently!
What if that guy's heart hadn't stopped (he just passed out) and the scientist just panicked and did CPR on someone who didn't need it?
@@rodrigotolosa590 he‘d break his ribs for nothing, I guess. If you‘re actually passed out, the pain probably won‘t wake you up like that.
40:31
That headcrab just jumping back and forth. Ayy.
I always felt the burst of techno music when you pick up the suit was
jarring and out of place.
Details I've never noticed before: the machine that teleports you to Xen looks remarkably like a much larger version of the machine that triggers the resonance cascade.
Some lore for people who didn't know,
The science team were exploring xen before the event, which is how they got the crystals. It's explained a bit more in Blue Shift and OP. The test was them trying to expand teleportation technology, which they already have, it's just unstable and the "resonant cascade" is a often talked about side effect that could possibly happen.
Autocorrect everywhere
I like how mommy and daddy aren't fighting anymore. As in, where Dark Souls was a jolly good romp, it's still as a game frustration galore. A welcome change of pace this relaxed and mellow atmosphere.
In Half Life 2, the reason the aliens are everywhere is because the combine opened additional portals.
this is the first time ive seen half life and im excited yatzee and gabe can be my guides
Never played Half Life, I'm really looking forward to this series since I don't plan to. Something about seeing someone enjoy a game they're so familiar with and really enjoy. Also that he knows so much about it.
I hope they do Shadow of the Colossus one of these days also.
Mental note: if I ever make a terrible game and don't want Yahtzee to rip it apart, send him an e-mail demanding that he review it.
Half Life is a spiffing game, I first played it last year and it remains one of my favourites.
Jesus, you guys pick brilliant games to play the whole way through!
I take yahtzee playing one of his favorite old games as a sign that let's drown out is ending.
And you were right.
I think that was an AMAZING touch in Deus Ex...I went into the women's bathroom to look for items or whatever, and at my briefing as one last note your boss goes "And PLEASE stay out of the women's bathroom"
Just a tiny little touch but it kinda blew my mind because it's a very small, but very realistic touch
Hey Yahtzee, since we are in the subject, can you make a Wheatley impression?
I remember my friend buying this game for the first time. It was in a box that was big and orange, with a huge cover flap that opened to reveal many treasures and accolades within. Baller.
Fantastic and insightful commentary.
"Then a friend of mine who was good at Quake, tried to get me to play Quake... that's not fun." - Gabe Morton
Reminds me of my experiences with Starcraft 2, when my ex-girlfriend tried to get me to play.
That bit about how :"I bought it from a shop! in a box!" cracked me up
You guys make my Sunday nights a little less droll.
This is gonna Be AWESOME!! I never got to play HF1 cause i never had a pc at the time... Now I'm getting a full tour from a maniac who follows it like a religion...
3:30 I think Gabriel was asking about Black Mesa.
Black Mesa is a thing of beauty though based on what he's said on ZP, Yahtzhee has mixed views on it.
Though his comments on the soldier AI have been rebalanced somewhat since then.
Oh man I'm REALLY enjoying this!
52:44 that must be the source engine freezer physics at work.
Actually, the crystal that fucks up everything is brought back from the world Xen. Black Mesa has a top secret sector (of which there are some unfinished maps in the game files) housing a teleportation device before all of this even goes down. Several research teams go to the Xen world using it, some of them even suffering heavy casualties (hence the "great lengths"), bringing back a bunch of wildlife and inhabitants for research. And the crystal as well. It's mentioned in HL2 (ep1 I think) that G-man was key in replacing the original intended crystal for the test with this one that caused the disaster, implying that he wanted for the disaster to happen and for the combine to eventually invade earth.
The more you know.
If the G-Man wanted the combine to invade why did he wake Gordon up to fight them?
+Gerex I think some behind the scenes stuff states that the sample is the same kind of crystal that you have to destroy in the final boss fight.
+Liam McMurrich
"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world..."
The G-Man's motives are alien and mysterious. Perhaps he intends the people of Earth to act as a distraction so that Gordon might destroy the Combine, a galaxy/dimension-spanning empire, altogether. When he tries to put Gordon back in stasis in between the base game of HL2 and Episode 1; he may be waiting for another opportunity to deal a heavy blow to the combine later, or he might have been moving him to another fight on yet another world.
nice Jarmusch reference Gabe. Dead Man is one of my favorite westerns.
I enjoy this so much more than Dark Souls. Thanks, Yahtzee and Gabe!
It's actually quite funny that Freeman has a PhD in very advanced theoretical physics topics. If you look up in-game screenshots of his documents, you would see the description of the most talanted post doc you could ever meet in real life. Yet all he does in the game is pushing buttons and fucking shit up with a crowbar.
Jurassic Park: Trespasser was a great idea poorly executed. Mostly due to time and budget problems, if I recall correctly.
I think the movie, *Jumper*, was a great idea terribly executed. It was really one of the worst movies I'd ever seen.
*****
I never knew it was a book. Now I sorta want to read it out of a morbid curiosity.
+Geahk Burchill I found the book and its first sequel (Reflex) to be pretty awesome. Unfortunately, the second and third sequels (Impulse and Exo), in which the focus shifts to the original protagonist's daughter, are absolutely terrible--I couldn't even bring myself to finish the third sequel.
Aliquis
Thanks for the recommend. That reminds me of the Dexter books. I loved the first two and then the third fell entirely off the rails. Suddenly the author wanted to absolve Dexter of his horrible deeds and that ruined the character.
As someone who didn't get into FPSes until my mid-teens with the Orange Box (and consequently played HL2 before HL1), it's interesting to hear the perspective of someone who played the game when it was new.
"Oh man, I'm running late again."
+Komnenos SHIT! I didn't think I was THAT late!
The tram thing Gabe was talking about was Fallout 3, specifically at the end of broken steal. Also, it was a glove, not a hat.
this is something I've always wanted to see but also something I would have never hoped to see
are they ever going to get rid of that audio ducking? Like when you least expect it the game volume suddenly increases 200%
Shas'O Swoll "Let's drown out"
The moment around 48:30 where Yahtzee throws the grenade around the corner and the bodies fly into view reminds me of their discussion (During the minecraft video, I think) where they were talking about scripted events and "Trying to control when the cool thing happens" and I have to say, I miss the organic feeling of gameplay being loose enough to allow for moments like that to happen by chance. When it`s scripted, it loses a lot for me since every playthrough, it`s going to happen over and over again and it`s just not as awesome.
Fallout 3 Broken Steel. The tram in that game is basically a hat on a character that runs back and forth.
22:28 UUUURrrrrr yeh that sound makes me so happy *ding ding* :)
Black Masa would have been easier on the eye, but oh well, why am I complaining? My two favorite bum fiddlers are here.
PS: Wish the damn thing had subtitles.
in opposing force you are an army man in a chopper with open doors that crashes in the intro. innovations are not always good.
In Half-Life 2 they lowered the shotgun ammo to around 30 or so, yes.
But then it didn't matter because they gave ammo to you in absolutely every place they could because it was the most consistently performing weapon outside of very specific combat situations and made every pick up worth 20 shells anyway.
I went out of my way not to use the shotgun when I didn't feel like it, which was often, but still ended up using it more than any other weapon for convenience sake, and in fact due to the ubiquity of the ammunition which they needn't have bothered to cap anyway.