@@novazephyrose6490 I'm right about that age right now and I just finished Alyx today. Played HL2 the day it was released too. The time goes faster than you think...
@@Crushenator500 Amazing, its like finishing school and saw kindergarteners on their way for the first day of school, and wonder how people see time differently...
If you ask me, It's a problem to this day. I have the first release of Half-Life 2, the 5CD version to play around on older (period correct) systems like late Pentium 3 and early Pentium 4 on Windows 98SE and XP and it's a pain to use it. The current version is DRM free on steam, but uses an updated engine and effects, also some bug fixes which killed some fun stuff.
@@zeekertronNo, Half Life 2 installed Steam from disc the only way to launch the game was through the steam client. This probably happened to many people back then as some houses didn't have internet. Gamers were used to playing offline and installing stuff via disc and launching it via the disc, Half Life 2 was a game that you had to run through Steam which meant having internet access and this probably pissed a lot of people off.
@@007spudmandamn I guess things haven’t changed much since then with companies always having you sign up for something with your email to even use the product
@@GmanGer The original HL Source included in the OG Collectors Edition is actually perfectly stable, enjoyable and it has almost perfectly accurate gameplay to the original. The updated version on Steam today is a mess tho.
Insanely good fake indeed! I really thought it was recorded back in 2004 too. The description says today, "Here is some footage I recovered from one of my old VHS tapes. This video was taken the day after Half-Life 2 was released." I have no idea of what it was saying 10 months ago, but apparently it has been edited since then. If the browser icon was a IE icon, I would be completely fooled by this masterpiece!
Believe folks back them I let my computer on by 4 days sleeping in my living room, updating steam and half-life game with a dial-up connection of 56kbs... When I first opened the game, I expend 4 minutes just looking to menu , I was impressed with that graphics I was looking at every detail, just amazed how my fx 6200 with 128mb had run that game... It was a pain, but I will never forget such great time . I wish I could back in time just to feel that emotions again ='(
Rafael Nogueira Beautiful words, sad I played this game the first time about year or two ago. I'm now 15.6(?) year old kid. Fantastic game, such a great masterpiece...
I was six years old when HL2 came out. I watched my father play with the retail CD, free Steam CD key with a graphics card upgrade for Episode 1, and full payment on classic Steam for Episode 2. Managed to get a hold of the entire series on my own and I'm glad I did. Utterly became my favorite shooters.
This was exactly how my experience was with HL2, got so hyped for it reading about it in Maximum PC and PC gamer magazines, got it right after it came out and installed it only to be thwarted by Steam! I didn't have internet at the time and had to wait about a week before I could lug my PC to my Grandma's house and let it update for I think was 6 hours or so. Once it was done, it was the best PC gaming experience I ever had!
Eh, I find the new one to be a bit more comfy then the original UI, the UI feels too crowded, plus I just don't like the color green that much in general.
Fake yes. But it does recapture what it was like at the time. Its been so long its honestly hard to remember what it was like, just something you had to be there to experience I guess.
I remember it taking something like 45 minutes to install HL2, then once I opened Steam it then pretty much downloaded the entire game as it had been updated so much since the release version on the disc. My internet connection wasn't very fast back then and Steam was really unreliable. In the end it must have been probably a couple of hours from when I first inserted that game disc into the computer to when I could actually get into the game. Painful, but worth it.
Flyboy it was encryption and a small amount of files it was downloading. It wasn't updates. Also I had good internet then 500kb and it took over an hour
@@vladimirchizhov3260 Almost everyone had internet in 2004 hell most people had it in late in 90s extremely unlikely such a tech savvy guy as in this vid would not have it by then.
Daniel S Funny how the footage wasn't recorded in 2004. I bet you he either used one of those VHS apps or an old camera from the early 2000s that still works.
Because they were REAL PC's, not a superpowered gaming machine that takes up space. And some people back then were still using a Pentium II or even a Celeron 300A and 128MB RAM (Including me) with Windows XP. Yes it was slow, but people were not complaining, because it got the job done, not because your game runs under 200 FPS.
Man I wish I had a PC that at least could run games like Half life 2 back in 2006, little me would've been mind-blown but I was stuck with a late 90s PC playing AoE 2.
"I just want to play Half Life 2" That's me in every modern game, Cannot sign up for EA play Unknown server error. Me: I JUST WANT TO FUCKING PLAY BATTLEFIELD!!
I was born in 2004 oof Still My brother showed me about half life games when i was 7 ._. A bit too early had some traumas with headcrabs and gargantuas
As someone who was around at the time: Someone who was a big enough half-life fan to make this video and have the 3 boxed copies and a replica crowbar proudly displayed on their desktop would of known what Steam was: It had been the default client for HL1 and it's mods for just over a year at that point.
I was 13 when the game came out. I remember seeing on the news that it got released after 6 years (!gasp!) of development and I thought this must be the shit if even the news report on its release, video games were supposedly only nerdy nerd stuff for fat, violent, nerdy kids back then. I had played a bit of HL1 before and had later seen some gameplay at my neighbours which blew me away . At 14, I happend to be at a retail store with my mum, who usually was very careful with what she would allow me to watch or play. I saw the game for 40€ at the cash register and asked my mum, completely without any expectations whatsoever if I could have it, I sold her the game the best I could "It's THE Game right now, It was developed for 6 years, It`s a new level of entertainement, the graphics are amazing" and bla bla, still I never expected her to buy it. For some reason that only the gods know she said okay and I was completely floored. I will never have the same feeling of joyful anticipation for a game ever again. That feeling as a 14 year old to unpack a DVD and wait for the installation, knowing you are going to be playing THE game in a few minutes. I was so happy. I still love telling this story, especially when my mums around ;P
@@AJ-po6up haha lol my son is also called AJ. Yes son, I did have an internet connection. You needed an internet connection to activate the game. Back then, this was unheard of as far as I know. I did have DSL 2000 which was a whopping 2000 kbit/s.
Even my mates shitty slow ass windows 7 tablet which comes with this olden keyboard attachment from like 2013 can run the entire game 40-50 FPS for the most part.
The fact that somebody in 2016 knew how to use the VHS/camera footage ✨️aesthetic✨️ right, but Analog horror creators now-a-days don't, makes me actually mad
“the hydra looks so cool” I’m sure it does, I wonder if they added it into the final game and they didn’t just blatantly false advertise all over the box
And now everyone has to get VR to play the new Half-Life. They always push the bleeding edge even if people aren't ready for it. Great recreation of the times though. Really felt like watching something from the early 2000s lol.
Why do people keep saying that this is fake? Read the description! He found this footage on his old VHS tapes! Just because it was published in 2016, doesn't mean the video is FROM 2016.
Really convincing recreation, one thing you missed though is that the audio quality would have been far lower and there would have been more compression. Also practically nobody did this back in 2004, but that's not the point. It's still well done and I like it.
What are you talking about? Even if it was recorded in 2004, the quality would still be the same as the tape he recorded in 2016. Heck, maybe one would've even digitized it in lossless codecs back in 2004, however unlikely.
Thomas It isn't about the tape quality. Where ever he uploaded this, of he did uploaded the video anywhere in 2004, the audio would have been compressed to shit.
5:24 Know how when you look at a model T Ford. Lol. He thought the 9800 XT was heavy. Come to 2024 bro. No drives these days. Hell, im recording gameplay footage via USB 3.2 - SSD today. This video is golden. GG's Mr Freeman.
i cant believe corporations were already pushing their apps and websites so hard back in 2004. its like how you have to create an ea account to play the sims 4
I have the same thing except it's an audio recording of me calling Gabe Newell at home and giving him a hard time for not being able to log into steam and play the game I just bought. He said Vivendi Universal is saying "nasty things" and won't allow Valve to enable the servers. My story is actually true because that's what happened the day Half-Life 2 was really released--we couldn't even play the thing.
@nirv really cool. I've been wanting to send him an email, telling him how impactful Half Life was to me, and thanking him for playing a part giving me such a memorable childhood. I'd like to mention to him that it would be really amazing if they had legacy support too.
Nope, early steam was a bad thing for me. Steam is really nice now, well as nice as any DRM can be. I actually like steam now, it is a pretty nice place to connect with others to play games. And it is very convenient.
XJR9000 Back in 04 I just spammed through the start up so I can play hl2. I didn't care what it needed or anything like that, excitement took over. I had a half-decent (get it!) internet connection so it just didn't matter to me. Although now I'm stuck with my username being bob123syouruncle, but it doesn't matter too much lol
Who would have guessed, almost two decades later we'd be in the same boat. I just upgraded my GPU to a 2070 Super 8GB in preparation for HL:Alyx. Oh...and I bought a Rift S. In another 15 years we'll be upgrading our brain implants to literally go to Xen.
![Half-Life 2 Mapping Scenario 2001-2050 [REMASTERED]](/img/n.gif)
"They put a lot of EFFORT and REMADE entire HL"
Hah, that moment he didn't know yet... well we all were there ;D
true
I remember how disappointed I was to see it was just the same old textures when I thought they were gonna have Half Life 2 graphics.
I bet you're happy about Black Mesa.
15 YEARS LATER:
Black Mesa is completed.
Well, at least we have a fan remake at least :V
I can imagine that someone in 2035 would make a similar video to this, "The Half-Life Alyx 2020 Experience"
Crazy! I'll be 32 or 33 by then.
Too fuckin real, im upgrading half my build up too date for Half Life Alyx SPECIFICALLY!
@@novazephyrose6490 I'm right about that age right now and I just finished Alyx today. Played HL2 the day it was released too. The time goes faster than you think...
Internet is basically littered with Alyx videos. But HL2 is a rarity of another level.
@@Crushenator500
Amazing, its like finishing school and saw kindergarteners on their way for the first day of school, and wonder how people see time differently...
It's actually sad that this really could have happened to people back in 2004. Today, almost everyone has internet.
If you ask me, It's a problem to this day. I have the first release of Half-Life 2, the 5CD version to play around on older (period correct) systems like late Pentium 3 and early Pentium 4 on Windows 98SE and XP and it's a pain to use it.
The current version is DRM free on steam, but uses an updated engine and effects, also some bug fixes which killed some fun stuff.
Couldn't you launch games back then without steam?
@@zeekertronNo, Half Life 2 installed Steam from disc the only way to launch the game was through the steam client. This probably happened to many people back then as some houses didn't have internet. Gamers were used to playing offline and installing stuff via disc and launching it via the disc, Half Life 2 was a game that you had to run through Steam which meant having internet access and this probably pissed a lot of people off.
@@007spudmandamn I guess things haven’t changed much since then with companies always having you sign up for something with your email to even use the product
@@Deesnuts1947 Luckily this issue was later fixed with Steam offline mode.
"they re-did the entire half-life in the source engine, they took their time and that's gonna be exciting" :'(
I had fun with Half-Life: Source, hell, that was the first time I actually beat the first Half-Life.
@@shaitet I'm so sorry
@@GmanGer The original HL Source included in the OG Collectors Edition is actually perfectly stable, enjoyable and it has almost perfectly accurate gameplay to the original. The updated version on Steam today is a mess tho.
MLG Dew you mean the fan made “Black Mesa”?
@@HighlyRegardted No, the actual Half Life Source.
"The hydra looks so cool" -Famous last words
This is an insanely good fake. I really thought it was from 2004.
why fake?
Pan kon keso derretido
In the description it says it was recorded recently.
the google chrome icon also gives it away
Insanely good fake indeed! I really thought it was recorded back in 2004 too. The description says today, "Here is some footage I recovered from one of my old VHS tapes. This video was taken the day after Half-Life 2 was released." I have no idea of what it was saying 10 months ago, but apparently it has been edited since then. If the browser icon was a IE icon, I would be completely fooled by this masterpiece!
Erik Edgren It says in the note that it was actually recorded on the 28th of October in 2016.
Believe folks back them I let my computer on by 4 days sleeping in my
living room, updating steam and half-life game with a dial-up connection
of 56kbs... When I first opened the game, I expend 4 minutes just
looking to menu , I was impressed with that graphics I was looking at
every detail, just amazed how my fx 6200 with 128mb had run that
game...
It was a pain, but I will never forget such great time . I wish I could
back in time just to feel that emotions again ='(
Rafael Nogueira Beautiful words, sad I played this game the first time about year or two ago. I'm now 15.6(?) year old kid. Fantastic game, such a great masterpiece...
Same here. Best moment in my life!
@@Seboy1Half Life 2 totally blew my mind. I played it when I was 20, back then in 2007!! How fast time goes...
Half life Alyx did this to me again :)
Still on dial up in 2004? Man, I'm sorry...
I remember the olive green steam windows
Hard to forget, i would say)
@@freeschoolmealstv1248 thank you, 2 years old comment!
yah never forget olive green steam GUI
Are still on TFC,Half life,ricochet,dod etc
theyre so good
3:10 "the hydra looks so cool" little did he know...
MrAircraft999 Or his comments about HLS.
This was recorded in 2016 it says bottom of Desc
Don't be an ass, you didn't read the entire description. Maybe you should learn to read my friend.
Man, I could seriously go for ROAST BEEF right now...
XJR9000 half life 1 2 oposing force blue shift orginal copy
That moment when you launch HL2 for the first time. Priceless
The Google Chrome 2004 Experience
Chrome was released in 2008. But it was not a pain
Chorme
@@law_violator oh sorry
@@Creeper_ofDoom watch the video to understand
I was six years old when HL2 came out. I watched my father play with the retail CD, free Steam CD key with a graphics card upgrade for Episode 1, and full payment on classic Steam for Episode 2. Managed to get a hold of the entire series on my own and I'm glad I did. Utterly became my favorite shooters.
It's probably one of the best games ever made
I know this is fake, but I really admire your choice of Nine Inch Nails' broken as your wallpaper.
Yeah NIИ Best stuff right there
This was exactly how my experience was with HL2, got so hyped for it reading about it in Maximum PC and PC gamer magazines, got it right after it came out and installed it only to be thwarted by Steam! I didn't have internet at the time and had to wait about a week before I could lug my PC to my Grandma's house and let it update for I think was 6 hours or so. Once it was done, it was the best PC gaming experience I ever had!
Me too. Got it on the release date just to realize that I couldn't play it without an internet connection which I didn't have at that time.
Must have been way more rewarding after all that waiting when you had already bought the game :)
I miss the old Steam UI....
M0lecular Ep1phany yeah me too it was very comfy
Eh, I find the new one to be a bit more comfy then the original UI, the UI feels too crowded, plus I just don't like the color green that much in general.
For me 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2009, 2010-2014 are best UIs!
I miss for Windows XP... wanna cry when I see this video
I just wish Win10 had the Win7 layout
Fake yes. But it does recapture what it was like at the time. Its been so long its honestly hard to remember what it was like, just something you had to be there to experience I guess.
guillotine it is,then
I remember it taking something like 45 minutes to install HL2, then once I opened Steam it then pretty much downloaded the entire game as it had been updated so much since the release version on the disc. My internet connection wasn't very fast back then and Steam was really unreliable. In the end it must have been probably a couple of hours from when I first inserted that game disc into the computer to when I could actually get into the game. Painful, but worth it.
Flyboy it was encryption and a small amount of files it was downloading. It wasn't updates. Also I had good internet then 500kb and it took over an hour
This must be how aliens feel like while monitoring Earth.
"they even took the time to remake the first half life, that's gonna be exciting!" Oh, my poor sweet summer child.
15:10 >google chrome logo
So close...
Wait... chrome was born in 2007🤔🤔
Fake or not it's awesome really good trip down in time best dayzz.
It is windows "Mediaplayer" logo dear
@@mosamaster You must be blind because that is clearly not the WMP logo. It's Chrome, there's a circle in the middle of the icon, not a triangle.
@@mosamaster It says "Internet Shortcut" and you can see the logo has slanted lines, something the Media Player icon doesn't have.
I cant imagine how disappointed he was that the hydras werent in the game
I miss when games came in boxes for pc =(
Me too man.
Yeah, but there's no reason to waste sources like that anymore
I don't
They still do, just very rarely and nobody buys them. I remember I got that piece of shit Borderlands: The PreSequel in a box a couple years back.
Steam ruined pc gaming
> I don't have internet
> has a yahoo mail account
Seems legit
Its 2004 after all
I had an email account and no internet at my house for like 6 years
@@vladimirchizhov3260 Almost everyone had internet in 2004 hell most people had it in late in 90s extremely unlikely such a tech savvy guy as in this vid would not have it by then.
@@anteaterzhell i said that about yahoo
@@anteaterzhell not really
This really does give me the 2004 vibes, good job for whatever you did!
Thank you, I appreciate it. I'm glad you liked the video.
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary
Wow! Good job, you really made it look so real though! the filters you put into it makes it so nostalgic.
"They remade the ENTIRE half life"
Wait til he finds out...
when he is juggling the graphics card saying This is a heavy card. The size of my 3070ti makes that card look like a USB stick
"Can't wait to see the hydra" lmao
15:10 that looks just like the google chrome logo
edit: ahh shit, the description
Starless Trooper ikr
Daniel S Funny how the footage wasn't recorded in 2004. I bet you he either used one of those VHS apps or an old camera from the early 2000s that still works.
Footage of fans upgrading for Half-life alyx (2020, colorised)
2004:in 2019 we have half life 3!
2019:*FLYING CARS*
its a little too late to comment this, considering Half Life Alyx is right around the corner
@@dapottis half life alyx its not half life 3 hl alyx its between events to half life 1 and 2 sorry for bad english
we haven't both :(
Valve in 2030: sooo Half life 3 is gonna require a Kat walk mini, a reallife HEV suit as well as an a index 5, oh and the new valve holodeck Xperience
2004: I don't know what this steam is
I played through Half-Life 2 on GeForce 2 MX with 32MB, multiple times, and it was amazing.
"I don't know what this... Steam thing is.."
I wonder how big his Steam library is...
"That's a heavy card! Wow!"
Back before GPUs had the weight and dimensions of literal bricks.
And now, they still do
It's so cool to see this old HL2 unboxing :)
If you can’t live in 2004, then you gotta *BE* 2004.
I wonder how he feels for having to wait so long for a new IP
So, the same will be happening in March 2020. I really hope Valve will bring another gaming revolution this time.
It was what you expected?
Funny how all PCs back then looked like they were made for an office environment...
Because they were REAL PC's, not a superpowered gaming machine that takes up space. And some people back then were still using a Pentium II or even a Celeron 300A and 128MB RAM (Including me) with Windows XP. Yes it was slow, but people were not complaining, because it got the job done, not because your game runs under 200 FPS.
The fact that you got a new 9800 XT in 2016 is damn impressive.
when youtubers don't used to exist... good times
Man I wish I had a PC that at least could run games like Half life 2 back in 2006, little me would've been mind-blown but I was stuck with a late 90s PC playing AoE 2.
"I just want to play Half Life 2"
That's me in every modern game, Cannot sign up for EA play Unknown server error.
Me: I JUST WANT TO FUCKING PLAY BATTLEFIELD!!
And now we do the same for Half-Life: Alyx
The 1998 Half Life experience
Yeah that would make more sense too, using a VHS camcorder is really cutting it close for 2004 lol
"Man this is a pretty beefy card..." now fast-forward to today....
Aww, i almost believed. Would have been nice to a real one though. I only have my expirience in memories
what gave it away?
@@Ubeogesh the google chrome icon, it was released in 2008
i actually fell for this before he started gassing up Half-Life: Source
I was 5 when this game came out and first played Hl1 when I was like 7, good old days and I still want HL3 just like the rest of us :(
This is the most 2004 i've ever seen, and i was 15 back then. Good Times!
It was recorded in 2016, check in the descriptions
@@armanleroux5725 I know. It is still more 2004 than 2004.
@@roflc0re your nickname speaks for itself. I will not bother you anymore
@@armanleroux5725 Thank you, kind sir!
I was born in 2004 oof
Still My brother showed me about half life games when i was 7 ._.
A bit too early had some traumas with headcrabs and gargantuas
What a gem! Thanks for this :)
No problem, I am really glad you liked it.
As someone who was around at the time:
Someone who was a big enough half-life fan to make this video and have the 3 boxed copies and a replica crowbar proudly displayed on their desktop would of known what Steam was: It had been the default client for HL1 and it's mods for just over a year at that point.
This VHS is gold.
@@LaynusST Why fake? :O
@@wawarushii see the description of the video
wow. This creator is just mean. Thank you for saying -.-
@@wawarushii Nah, I think this video is for entertainment purposes, and I did like it.
@@LaynusST Yes but he should write it at the top of the description
12:08
"Your Steam Account is important"
2024: How right they were
"I don't know what the hell the...steam..thing is" oh child
Feeling like a techno hacker scientist guy when installing gpu. Fuck yeah, cant beleive its been so long, 2020 is here!
Lore of The Half-Life 2 2004 Experience momentum 100
It's kind of ironic how he is suprised about Steam, meanwhile he earlier talks about 1.6 which was a Steam exclusive.
Still a good video tho!
I played CS1.6 in 2007 without knowing about Steam.
I would always pirate cs 1.6 and half life but did not know steam existed xD
In 2017 I made my first account on steam
@@halflife2893 My first account was in 2012
People also didn't start calling OG CS "1.6" until way later. He would of just called it "Counter-Strike"
I was 13 when the game came out. I remember seeing on the news that it got released after 6 years (!gasp!) of development and I thought this must be the shit if even the news report on its release, video games were supposedly only nerdy nerd stuff for fat, violent, nerdy kids back then. I had played a bit of HL1 before and had later seen some gameplay at my neighbours which blew me away .
At 14, I happend to be at a retail store with my mum, who usually was very careful with what she would allow me to watch or play. I saw the game for 40€ at the cash register and asked my mum, completely without any expectations whatsoever if I could have it, I sold her the game the best I could "It's THE Game right now, It was developed for 6 years, It`s a new level of entertainement, the graphics are amazing" and bla bla, still I never expected her to buy it. For some reason that only the gods know she said okay and I was completely floored. I will never have the same feeling of joyful anticipation for a game ever again. That feeling as a 14 year old to unpack a DVD and wait for the installation, knowing you are going to be playing THE game in a few minutes. I was so happy. I still love telling this story, especially when my mums around ;P
So.. uhh did you have an Internet connection back then or nah? that's the part I'm most interested in.
@@AJ-po6up haha lol my son is also called AJ. Yes son, I did have an internet connection. You needed an internet connection to activate the game. Back then, this was unheard of as far as I know. I did have DSL 2000 which was a whopping 2000 kbit/s.
Your mom made the best choice for her kid back then. Thanks for sharing :)
I can't believe a hardcore Half Life 2 fan following the game at the time didn't know about steam or had it installed prior to the release.
While it seemed harsh at the time, it was a genius move that has now been a godsend to the pc gaming world.
It was very harsh indeed. I had very slow and unstable internet back then...
Now you can play this game on laptops, such a time difference
Even netbooks nowadays can play it.
Even NVIDIA Shield tablets can play it. And with some fiddling around, even fucking PHONES.
Shutdown it isnt direct playing, it's streaming. I am suprprised that original Xbox version exists
It's not streaming. You can tell by the toned down graphics in the Shield port
Even my mates shitty slow ass windows 7 tablet which comes with this olden keyboard attachment from like 2013 can run the entire game 40-50 FPS for the most part.
The fact that somebody in 2016 knew how to use the VHS/camera footage ✨️aesthetic✨️ right, but Analog horror creators now-a-days don't, makes me actually mad
that's because he actually lived the era
now that's what I call real gamer struggle
*sip*
imagine a time traveller yoinking you right after beating ep2 and putting you in alyx
“the hydra looks so cool”
I’m sure it does, I wonder if they added it into the final game and they didn’t just blatantly false advertise all over the box
Windows XP, CRT monitor, older version of steam...
Man this triggers so many memories... good ones!
Dude... DVD player in 2004 was fancy for PC back then. I still own the box version of HL2 but it's a smaller box. It contains multiple CD's.
Pretty standart in 2004
@@nadirjofas3140 not really, there is a reason why a ton of PC games were released on CDs back then
And now everyone has to get VR to play the new Half-Life. They always push the bleeding edge even if people aren't ready for it. Great recreation of the times though. Really felt like watching something from the early 2000s lol.
9:57 "blah, blah, blah you own my soul" hahaha😂❤
Why do people keep saying that this is fake? Read the description! He found this footage on his old VHS tapes! Just because it was published in 2016, doesn't mean the video is FROM 2016.
Check his description and read fully. He probably got caught and changed it. Took this video in 2016. Heavy post processing but amazing job!
I couldn't play it back then because I didn't have internet. Because of this safety measure, I had to wait another 5 years! Thanks Valve
Really convincing recreation, one thing you missed though is that the audio quality would have been far lower and there would have been more compression. Also practically nobody did this back in 2004, but that's not the point. It's still well done and I like it.
you could always put the video quality to 144p you know
@@bananomet4052 True
What are you talking about? Even if it was recorded in 2004, the quality would still be the same as the tape he recorded in 2016. Heck, maybe one would've even digitized it in lossless codecs back in 2004, however unlikely.
Thomas It isn't about the tape quality. Where ever he uploaded this, of he did uploaded the video anywhere in 2004, the audio would have been compressed to shit.
@@EggEnjoyer the plot is that he got it off "an old vhs tape".
Windows XP nostalgia
Man, I was getting nostalgia and I didn't even play Half-Life 2 until a few days ago, even if it's fake.
"The Hydra looks so cool" OOh little did you know. 😉😉
Early 2000s desks and PC peripherals are a vibe. Very cosy too
"I dont know what's steam?" Oh boy ...we're to young to know it
I remember wanting to play Half Life 2 back in 2005, but my lil toaster with wins XP didn't cut it
Imagine somebody with no internet was really excited to play Half Life 2 then they had to sign into Steam or they can't play it
God this brought so much memory. I was saving up to pickup the 9800 Pro :D
this looks more convincing than when a hollywood movie is set in the 2000s
You could always get it on your original Xbox
in the next couple of years, this is gonna be 20 years old... Crazy right...?
5:24 Know how when you look at a model T Ford. Lol.
He thought the 9800 XT was heavy. Come to 2024 bro.
No drives these days. Hell, im recording gameplay footage via USB 3.2 - SSD today.
This video is golden.
GG's Mr Freeman.
i cant believe corporations were already pushing their apps and websites so hard back in 2004. its like how you have to create an ea account to play the sims 4
The sheer excitement of when my AGP HD sapphire 2600 Pro loaded this up. With a 2.0 ghz dual core and 2 gb ram.. I got about 30 fps.
2gb ram? When?
@@prpwnage9296 2007*
i like to imagine after the problems he had, a couple hours later, it started working and he could finally play
i was crying when i saw that vid dude, thanks!
dude the fox shirt i wouldve never known this was fake
15 years later valve does not give a damn about the game which made them famous - about company roots
4:50 _"That is a cool heatsink."_
For now it is...
I have the same thing except it's an audio recording of me calling Gabe Newell at home and giving him a hard time for not being able to log into steam and play the game I just bought. He said Vivendi Universal is saying "nasty things" and won't allow Valve to enable the servers.
My story is actually true because that's what happened the day Half-Life 2 was really released--we couldn't even play the thing.
Seriously? You had Lord Gabe's home number?
@@23027 yes.
@nirv really cool. I've been wanting to send him an email, telling him how impactful Half Life was to me, and thanking him for playing a part giving me such a memorable childhood. I'd like to mention to him that it would be really amazing if they had legacy support too.
@@23027 yeah but DRM.... Took it all away.
Was I the only guy that thought it was convenient to have all my valve games in 1 place?
Nope, early steam was a bad thing for me. Steam is really nice now, well as nice as any DRM can be. I actually like steam now, it is a pretty nice place to connect with others to play games. And it is very convenient.
XJR9000 Back in 04 I just spammed through the start up so I can play hl2. I didn't care what it needed or anything like that, excitement took over. I had a half-decent (get it!) internet connection so it just didn't matter to me. Although now I'm stuck with my username being bob123syouruncle, but it doesn't matter too much lol
XJR9000 also you can thank vnn for this sub :D
@@ArenaShootercfg haha, nice username. It looks like a pain to type out.
20 years of Steam..Holy guacamole
Bruh half life two came out in 2004?! I just bought it yeasterday lol
LukazGaming 151 how are you liking your first time play through?
Half life 1 is very scary especialy the “office complex part” but Half life two is less creepy and i love it
@@Lukas-hb5be For me, i got traumas as a kid when i saw Gargantuas.. Especially in half life uplink..
@@Lukas-hb5be Wait You havent seen anything yet
@@jajajajja3481 D O Y O U S U C K D I C K S
Damn shame about that Hydra never showing up :/
Who would have guessed, almost two decades later we'd be in the same boat. I just upgraded my GPU to a 2070 Super 8GB in preparation for HL:Alyx. Oh...and I bought a Rift S. In another 15 years we'll be upgrading our brain implants to literally go to Xen.