Half Life: Blue Shift - The Last Barney | Trav Guy Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2021
- When I was younger, I felt like I was in the minority of people who preferred Half Life Blue Shift to Opposing Force, but before we get into the HECU Spinoff, let's take a look at Barney Calhoun's perspective of the Half Life Black Mesa incident!
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Half Life Original Soundtrack - Track 21 - Sirens in the Distance
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Blow your nose, idiot
Fine
Well, you didn’t need to be so rude about it
asshole hade me manually breathe
Ok fine lol
3:13 YES finely I have never heard anyone share that opinion with me
I like the idea that G-Man, a near godlike entity, just says "ah crap he left black mesa guess I can't hire him"
“Ah for fucks sake”
I like to think his “employers” assign tasks and jurisdictions, and this is out of his.
Well... well shjt
I think another reason why G-man couldn't get Barney is because he had to get Shepherd too along with Gordon, but another reason could just be G-man was like "ehhhh not worth it".
Maybe Sheppard and Barney were interchangeable
Blue Shift just fuels how underrated Barney is as a character. to go through (about half) of the Black mesa incident with a helmet and vest, no fancy power vest/armour, survive the 7 hour ware and 20 years of Combine occupation to meet Gordon again and lead the resistance. Chad of a Lad
barney is such a bad ass dude.
Sad he was only in two games so far, not even a fan game for him
The mbaqanga
Barney literally BLEW UP A TANK'S FREAKING TURRET, HOW CAN BARNEY NOT BE BADASS?
Barney’s the only guy to swear in half life 2
I like how Barney walks around with his sidearm unholstered through the whole prologue and nobody says anything
Maybe that's why nobody said anything?
@@zeroattentiongaming820 afraid to be shot that is
I'm playing through this for the first time right now and that's the first thing I thought lol
why would they?
"Looks a bit shit" A really annoying Black Mesa employee
"look gorden ropes we can use them to traverse big pits!" a stupid black mesa employee
Shut
BBBBBBBB
@@katrinagwyn3768 AAAAAAH HELP ME GORDON
Benry moment.
Man this Kleiner guy seems interesting, I hope he gets more fleshed out more on the sequal
yeah, i wonder who he is? i bet he has a lab in the sequel.
I hope he makes freinds with a headcrab
The hl2 came out in 2004
@@MetrixGoat what 2004?
@@MetrixGoat bro its 1999
I’m still waiting for Half-Life: Otis
Subject: Otis
Status: Physically unfit for employment
Subject deemed fat as hell
Otis will beat the combine
otis and gus take on the combine homeworld
jolly fan spotted
otis prob died in the incadent
I believe "Out of Range" refers to Calhoun being out of range of the nuclear blast, not being out of Gman's range
ooooooh so that means he didn't have to be extracted
I'm pretty sure the G-man was mostly focused on Shepard and Freeman as they showed more promise in stopping their respective threats, while Calhoun could still have promise on his skill despite his flee, but he left before his analysis could continue.
Agreed
I like having to see a different perspective in the incident, like finding out how some of the scientists escaped. But there wasn't much to make itself different from the original.
I just like that SPOILERS
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there was a happy ending here. ^-^
I feel like that might have been the point: more of the original, giving the people who enjoyed it more without changing it and potentially upsetting them (didn't necessarily work out and they did fuck up by changing some things for the worse but they tried).
well, blue shift was originally an exclusive part for the sega dreamcast port of half life. it wasn't supposed to be a huge expansion that added oodles of new content like opposing force. for what it is, i'd say it's pretty damn good
Half Life: Kliener
@@spurrit7156 you destroy everything in your path with Lamar in a pet cage
12:10 I've watched so much Civvie 11 that when I hear the word Civvie I think of him
Trav guy swerved on that one
Me too
Civvie is probably heavy as well
The HECU also sounds a bit like postal dude, strange.
@@gregalt3405 that's his voice
I was playing half life 2 the other day and i got to the part where Barney gives you the Crowbar and i remember that Barney has a crowbar in Blue shift and he ends up escaping with it.
Something i never even thought about before.
He actually ends with multiple crowbars apparently. He gives you one in episode 1 too.
At the ending of blue shift, a scientist has another crowbar.
"Too many Headcrab Jambalyas" lmao
- 8:30
That's actually a reference to CoreyLaddo's SFMs!
Oh shit it’s borgon fierman
(This line had me laughing)
The guy at 10:17 is actually supposed to have his arms come off, but for some reason when the models are supposed to be swapped/called in, they actually don’t exist, they either forgot to make the models, or put them in, I believe the non hd models do work in this scene however
Nope, non-HD models don't work either.
@@wta1518 Ah nvm then, i do know in classic HL his arms do come of, probably removed in the source version for some reason
@@BeeVee231 Blue Shift is GoldSrc.
@@wta1518 Im talking on the disc before it was 100% on steam version, remember my dad found it in his old box of games and we took turns playing each level / death
@@BeeVee231 Can confirm, I have Blue-Shift on CD and the sequences work there flawlessly, even with the HD-models.
11:25 - you can turn off the steam. There are two valves. The second one is down the ladder near the steam. There is also shotgun down there if I remeber correctly.
hehe valve
@@jenjenparibou3995 hehe steam
I work as s Security Guard, just like Barney. Except my job isn’t nearly as… Well… Violent. I just sit in a guard shack between 8 PM to 4 AM and inspect trucks. Only similarity is that some of the workers at the plant I work at treat the guards like shit too.
I swear to god, Trav is the perfect mixture of humor and reviewing. He easily rivals Scott the Woz.
Hey all Trav here
Yeah same
pc games scott the woz
True, all he needs to do is exaggerate his voice a bit
that scott woz and trav the guy, hell yeah
i have online school... or this.
yeah this is better.
i agree
got to school, kid
@@floorfungus4209 ok shitass
@FloorFungus420 ok shitass
Ross Scott voice: Gordon Freeman
Travguy voice: Barney
Favorite line: "Happy fuckin' new year."
You already know I don't like Blue Shift that much, but I do appreciate you sticking up for it. It doesn't get a lot of love in the Half-Life community, and while I vastly prefer OP4 to this, I can still see elements where BS shines. It's just that for me, BS trips over itself too much on weird design choices and puzzles that aren't intuitive (that wire puzzle especially sucks). But it's still Half-Life so it gets my seal of approval because I'm shallow like that
and who the fuck gives a shit about your opinion anyway?
@@David-bh7hs Who even are you?
Subbed
@@collodion1884 he's david can't you read
@@David-bh7hs you are so fucking dense you could create a black hole
I really like the way Marc Laidlaw treats canon. It’s something that each fan can come up with a satisfying conclusion on and Laidlaw just wants to write a cool contained story that may or may not have anything to do with other parts of the universe. That’s up to us and I like that.
Fun Fact: If you check the security surveillance camera that shows Gordon walking through the corridor past one of the other scientists enough times, there's actually a hidden Easter egg where you will see one of the two scientists standing and talking nearby each other in the hallway dancing very briefly.
Made by Gearbo...
Oh, HI RANDY!!!
Maybe your greasiness will seep into this show but not today
HLA references Blue Shift, so since Laidlaw retired, The Expansions are more so cannon now and there is a theory Colette may have appeared in HLA via a character we only briefly see and hear.
Ah I know the character you're referring to. I doubt that character is Colette personally, I'd bet she's the character we saw in HLA concept art who was supposed to play a bigger role in prior versions of the story, and maybe they're just saving her for later. Though I initially thought she was Mossman, though it's likely I was wrong.
@@ThatTravGuy like Gina died, i personally think collete died too
@@ELIXFUDIDO According to dev interviews with Pitchford and his team, their personal headcanon is that Collette got the Shepard treatment and got detained by G-Man.
I always thought Blue Shift was a good half-life experience even if it didn't really add much or improve the formula with anything interesting and not having the best puzzles. I do however feel that its story was a bit more consice and clear cut than OP4 because of characters like Rosenberg and the obvious goals of escaping black mesa that's communicated early on. Rosenberg was the first named scientist we saw aswell and probably half-lifes first real character that wasn't a player avatar so there's that.
OP4 added alot of stuff that was never iterated upon even if it was cool, like seeing the X-world aliens fighting Xen ones would have been cool but instead they just replaced them for the majority of the game. Even if it gave us a ton of cool new weapons and stuff OP4 story especially was all over the place after you get left behind. There's no real sense of direction like with Blue Shift or Half Life, even if the latter changes it's storygoals as you progress.
The reason why they couldn't have them fight each other is because they used recycled AI from other enemies.
3:55 If you count Blue Shift as "canon", then they are Imo the same person.
Because in Blue Shift Barney escapes with Bennett and Simmons in that SUV and Barney may picked up a crowbar, but it definitely wasn't one Gordon "lost" (ignoring the fact that G-Man took all of Gordon's weapons anyway). Either way Barney says in Half Life 2 that Gordon dropped the Crowbar back in Black Mesa.
It is canon that if that one ray didn’t target Shepard’s heli out of probably 30 helicopters opposing force would be a cleaning simulator (you throw bodies down pits while dangerous aliens constantly attack you.)
I think it fits the timeline that blue shift is smaller and less unique than the other games.
After all, Barney pretty much leaves the facility at a time where Gordon is just at the half way point.
The military is just arriving and the Aliens havn't yet sent their big guns in either.
Meanwhile Gordon leaves for Xen, before the "thid wave" of Aliens pops up, leaving only Shephard to deal with them.
Dr Kleiner only exists to introduce Lamar in HL2, change my mind
well, Lamar only exists to fuck up a teleporter
and the teleporter only fucks up so that you have to fight a helicopter
@@hardlyanydiggity3953 and deal with a shitty airboat course, gain new weapons, and get to black mesa east exactly around the time it gets raided by the combine and gain a shotgun in ravenholme, and try out the grav gun
@@vibes_4225 black mesa east only exists to give you a gravity gun and make you go to ravenholm
@@vibes_4225 also water hazard is my favorite one
:(
@@hardlyanydiggity3953 hey i'm not judging, it's okay to have opinions, it's just that in my experience water hazard was very frustrating and irritating to play through, i'm glad to hear that some people enjoyed it even though i wasn't able to
To this day...........we are still waiting for the opposing force review
Can't wait for the doom limited edition review
It's your lucky day! :D
Mark sums it up to “while some other employees may have escaped such as Barney he doesn’t have to escape as shown in the game” so pretty much the people are cannon the way they escape is up to us to decide
Hey guys I just thought you should know that there’s this scientist in the vents...
A friendly reminder that not only did Barney escape Black MEsa, but he also survived the 7 hour war, survived years of Combine rule and managed to infiltrate the Combine. The man is a legend.
Series should be called "Barney Life" 😤
I love Blue Shift. It's the best set off official HL1 maps. The deserted old labs are absolutely beautiful.
Too bad it's so short and none of the ending team characters return in the sequel (which always pissed me off).
That little Valve theme gag almost made me choke on my drink, hilarious
The way he escaped in a flurry of explosions was beautiful
*"I GOT DRESSED TODAY"* -That Trav Guy
thack yoh forh heeeearht *faints*
Please do Opposing Force, this content is so entertaining I must see more.
the idea of barney asking for gordon whenever he can is so funny to me i love it
the thumbnail is so good, ive been staring at it for 34 min straight.
for real tho this vid is really good!
This guy’s content is really good I’m surprised that a big creator hasn’t recognized him yet, tbh He needs to review cracklife next
I like how the OLD teleporter to Xen is a lot smaller than the newer one from HL1. Usually with technology, it's the other way around: new things are smaller :P
I figure that the new teleporter is bigger because of all the instruments used to stabilize the portal for longer, and to create less wear and tear on the device. The old one was set up in a little lab space area, the new one was in a specially designed chamber.
Blue Shift had a very wholesome ending.
a b o u t t h a t b e e r i o w e d y a
@@stonkscreditunion8913 Hey, it's me, Gordon! Barney from Black Mesa!
Technically Blue Shift takes place before Opposing force since it begins at the same time as the "Anomalous materials" chapter or rather, a few minutes before the resonance cascade.
Opposing Force begins a few hours before the "Surface Tension" chapter.
Personally, I love the HD Shotgun sound. So goddamn crunchy and satisfying, even moreso than the original one.
19:50 This game is so short I thought the teleporter would fail me and I'll continue on Black Mesa.
Or actually... maybe Duke 3D next? I would LOVE to see it!
"his name is also a reference to the Andy Griffith show like Barney"
OMG! WHY DID I NEVER REALIZE THIS? OF COURSE FATMAN OTIS IS A REFERENCE TO DRUNK FATMAN OTIS! AND OF COURSE GUN WEILDING SOUTHERN BARNEY IS A REFERENCE TO GUN WEILDING DEPUTY BARNEY!
Man TH-cam has been giving me small channels that I genuinely enjoy! Your videos so good!
Personal headcannon: Barney ONLY ever became a guard because he was such an alien conspiracy nut, and the Resonance Cascade was basically a dream come true for him
as always amazing videos! seeing your summation of this really makes me want to go try the game for my self. I never could get in to half life series. Maybe thats because i started with HL2...
hope you can keep the awesome vids comming!
I know I’m gonna get crucified for saying this, but I honestly like blue shift more than opposing force
I like playing a simple security guard more than a elite spec forces.
It's just as good just way shorter
Mister Fett, you should see how well your son is doing. He trained Tusken Raiders how to ride speeder bikes.
@@Adam-oh3vu Like a bantha
I've always preferred Blue Shift as well, I just wish it was longer. Opposing Force has too many enemies that feel way tankier than they should be, and its enemy placement seems very prone to cheapshots.
Pro half life blue shift when
"The expansion began production under the title of 'Guard Duty' " Did you put the voice of the Opfor engineer on purpose? "Guard duty, eh?"
Look at 10:24 , you're not supposed to see that zombie without widescreen. I got so scared as a kid when i had that HD zombie when i turned around that i uninstalled it and came back months later.
5:28 Hold on, he says "Blue Shift" ?! 1000% sure that I forgot he say it.
WIth knowing that Blue Shift missed a big opportunity to reuse some of Opfor's assets, but I still love it. I felt connected to the characters and one of them. seeing Rosengerg talking to me, working with a group of scientists to escape together, the kind of feeling of being lost in Black Mesa with no clear path, the pre-disaster maps, the story ...
Even though 1 week can be concidered a lot of time for a lot of channels for a review channel it’s very short in my opinion plus these are amazing reviews that go in a lot of detail i love this channel a lot and it’s very entertaining great job.
Awesome job. I'm looking forward to more videos.
God your channel is so good how did I not find this sooner.
just found your channel in my recommended. Pretty great content
good job on 10k!
i feel you about the order of playing the expansion packs! i did so the same way
You’re guns in thumbnails are getting better
Love your content,keep it up!
“You’ve got something in your eye!”
“I got dressed today!”
“They didn’t even rip you apart. Did you fall down on purpose?!”
Killing it!🤣
That Shepard guy sure sounds important hopefully he makes a more detailed appearance in the sequel of opposing force
It was fun to see someone actually enjoy Blue Shift since it usually doesn’t get much love. And I totally agree, seeing old Black Mesa was awesome. I love stuff like that. Great video!
Decent video, could've done with a bit more praise for Half Life Blue Shift
Right there with you on the hi-def pack graphical changes. First time I played this it was just like Half-Life but a patch/update later and honestly, I could never go back to the game afterwards.
Yet another banger from the future 500k subs youtuber!
This was the expansion where I learned all the funny strats. Like that grunts run from everything and smg grenades can clear an area. Also, I have never felt more powerful than headshotting grunts to death with the starter pistol.
I like the lore building of the old facility and the temporary stations set up on Xen, cuz the ones in Black Mesa are too fucking much.
Black Mesa and it’s team was constantly fighting for funding but in The updated game all their shit is state of the art and the facilities on Xen are way too elaborate
oh my god that intro sequence to title card was amazing. dude what do you edit your vids with? cuz seriously these are great!
20:52 this makes me wonder, maybe gman only gets permission for a specific area and time frame which is why he leaves Gordon alone for episode 1, cuz he doesn't have the paperwork to visit him, during episode 2 he managed to get the permit A38 from his employers which now allows him to visit Gordon briefly
That elevator puzzle had me stumped for 3 days. One of the hardest ones in gaming history
In order to turn off the steam in the canals, you have to climb down another ladder to a lower catwalk and turn the valve there. The valve on the higher catwalk is to turn off steam in a tunnel connected to the lower catwalk, where you find a dead scientist and can get the shotgun early.
The editing is what makes watching another blue shift review worth it.
I know BS doesn't do anything terribly new or exciting, but I like that it's just a nice condensed Half Life experience.
I have heard that when Barney wakes up at the beginning of the game Gordon is supposed to be in chapter Blast Pit
this channel needs way more subs
13:28 excuse me, are you telling me that There is a rocket launcher in Blue Shift and I completely missed it when I played it?
I wouldn't mind guarding some Dunkin Donuts with coffee right about now....
2:33 “damn bro, you got the whole squad laughing”
That 'not flamable box' make me laugh
This channel: small yet perfect
I like the chapter name of power struggle, it has a double meaning being a fight for control (Barney vs the HECU) as well as thr chapter being about Barney endeavouring to send a battery up to the teleporter (a mission to get battery power)
11:23 - Jump over to the catwalk seen at 11:20 and turn the first valve you see. To turn off the steam down there though (to get to some shotgun ammo), then turn off the valve up the ladder under the green light.
this is my new favorite youtuber
What's interesting about the Colt Anaconda in the HD pack is that despite it's shape looking fairly similar, the textures used for the model are "v_python_Refrence"
Dr.Kleiner deserves his own DLC. Some body needs to make Dr.Kleiner a DLC.
Half-Life: White shit
@5:02 -- that schedule is.... interesting... I've never seen it before?
For like the hole thing he told everybody about the dude in the vent
Considering how I and a lot of other people play the main game, I wouldn't be surprised if this Barney _was_ the last one.
the funny thing about stealing all the ammo at the start is that if you use all of it to shoot the box in your locker, it reveals a chumtoad, which is a cut xen npc
theres also one in opposing force if you shoot about 2-3 smg clips into the vent cover opposite and above the entrance to the lambda core teleportation room just before you see gordon make his jump to xen
Yeahh, I knew about the Chumtoad in the locker but didn't know it took so much ammo. I ended up just 'impulse 101'ing it
For Half-Life trains are the same as the jails in The Elder Scrolls series
Trav reviewing something other than doom? Poggers.
You know I was just thinking about it, like how Opposing Force added the Combat Knife as a reskinned crowbar, wouldn't it make more sense for Barney's crowbar to be a police baton? Be it either a regular one or the stereotypical tonfa styled one? Granted I know this was technically made BEFORE Opposing Force where they got the idea to try & make the campaign fit the setting and character you play as rather than just feel like a collection of levels for the base game, but I think it would be more fitting in a future version of Blue Shift (should it get a rework mod or maybe an official update) that someone at least make a cosmetic mod for it, granted that then brings the question up of "Why didn't any of the other security guards (be it a Barney or Otis) use them?" but it could maybe give another reason to go through and add a new angle to Half Life 1 in any future fan made or official remakes. It honestly would make even more sense considering you start the campaign proper out of the crashed elevator by getting a crowbar next to a dead Barney, the reskin would make it reasonable to assume the one you pick up was his, or maybe yours, like it fell out of the elevator after it crashed. Plus it just all generally makes more logical sense that a basic security force would have at least one melee weapon along with a ranged one.
Unless someone already thought of that and has made said mod and I'm just unaware of it.
Also as far as the "I owe you a beer" line for Barney's canonicity in Half Life 2, you could technically tie it into the thing he mentions before about racing Gordan through the vents, maybe it was a case of "the loser buys the winner one" to make an easy implication canon reason?
19:34 is my favorite moment of your video
this channel is hugely underrated
Great video! Blue Shift was always my favorite out of the two expansion packs. Really sucks how the soundtrack is the same as op4. But yeah, good game, good video
I think the HD models work with opposing force because the military have stronger weapons but not with. Blueshift because guards do not carry giant fucking shotguns
I personally disagree as Black Mesa is a government facility similar to Area 51, so it makes sense that the security personal would carry SPAS-12s
@@Vessick yes, but a stationary turret that cannot discern friend or foe is not a good replacement for guards with semi auto shotguns.