Medieval weapons nerd on HALF-LIFE CROWBAR
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- How effective is the crowbar, as seen in HALF-LIFE, as a functional weapon
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To be fair, Gordon is wearing a Mark IV HEV suit that lets him survive a rocket propelled grenade strike so it’s not like he’s worried about tendinitis.
This comment needs more up-votes
“Wait.. did the suit just say: munitions level monitoring? Does the left arm turn into a chain gun? Pfft, I wish.” - Freemans mind
"Morphine administered"
yes, this :]
@@DonkeyWork420 Y'know you raise an interesting point: did Gordon Freeman come out of Half-Life with an opioid addiction? Obviously the HEV is effective armor based on what Freeman survives in-game, but how much of that is just the suit doping him up past his pain threshold?
Maybe he GOT tendonitis and just didn't notice. I probably wouldn't notice wrist pain if I was high on morphine, just sayin.
I think Gordon hits so fast because he is wearing a powered suit.
H.E.V.
@@Smile4theKillCam456 The best power suit in gaming, partially because it has a voice and partially because it's got arguably the most bangin' first time set up music ever.
@@funnyman10912 also it pumps it full of morphine every 30 minutes
The crowbar is highly regarded as a tool and weapon in Max Brooks's zombie survival guide. 😀😀😀.
Barney can also hit fast with it, and he doesn't wear any strength enhancing power armor.
With a weapon like a crowbar, I'd think you'd be less focused on worrying about followups, and more on making the first hit the only one you need.
that is a solid argumant to be honest, just hit once and no need to cover it.
I have a feeling that Gordon killing things with his crowbar is more akin to a Doom Eternal glory kill involving the crowbar rather than actually going *wackwackwackwack*
Hitting as hard as you can with it would definitely make someone blocking it with a shield stumble back significantly.
@@Necroscat Yep, and even if you need more hits, at least the other person is focusing on not being knocked over. While a shield is good for preventing harm, it's not so good for negating momentum.
Depends on what you're up against. Unarmed? Absolutely whack them. A sword or axe or something? I'd go for them pretty powerful 2 handed hits shad was going for. But I know nothing, just enjoying the discussion.
Not addressed here:
Gordon is literally just punching back and forth and the crowbar is swinging around wildly because he can barely control it. The suit is doing most of the work xD
also he is holding it on the middle
Yes, everyone forgets the suit boosts strength and is heavy
@@thepacific2933 not in HL1 but L4D2 they hold it in the middle for some reason, which makes it not so satisfying to weild imo
@@schorschmcgillbecause they didn't use hev suit
The suit is not a power armour, dude.
Gordon is just a gigachad that defies physics
Hey fancy seeing you here!
Same as he ever was
virgin Adrian Shepherd vs the one free man
He studied physics so he could defy its laws more accuratly...
Catch me later and I’ll buy you a beer
The most important reason Gordon Freeman keeps the crowbar: breaking down obstacles and crates. Being a useful backup weapon is a bonus.
Just because someone in the Black Mesa shipping department's administration decided that every corridor needs at least 12 shipping containers.
@@rohanhalle580 villains normally are not good in logistic or storage.
@@danilima6970 Right?! How many B movie fights take place in a cardboard box warehouse
@@Dr.Spatula yeah but I think more about games, in Zelda for exemple you allways have the ítens you need to Win, conveniently in chests around and keys that open any doors
@@danilima6970 But Link, bafflingly, uses a sword to smash crockery instead of something more convenient like a hammer or a crowbar.
"Well but can you hide a crowbar?"
Slap on a construction helmet and you're good to go, no need
Great weapon to kill a Robin though...
ouch- also I think it was a test dummy in the rewritten version
i thought the sparrow confessed ? was it a conspiracy ?
Thats quite the killer joke vincent.
Would splatter red in the hood
Reminds me of the trailer park boys... Throw on a vest, hard hat, and a lanyard and you can go wherever.
Dark.... very dark 💀
“You would see something like a mace”
SHAD! It is LITERALLY a Warpick! I am fairly positive there are warpicks that are almost identical to crowbars with the only significant differences being that the tips have points rather than a wedge. Plus there are also the Shaolin Hookblades, and tons of pole arms like em.
Plus what?
@@ezachleewright2309 thanks, apparently a bit cut out
A warpick was likely only used by mounted units. You can not swing it efficiently. That is why it is more commonly referred to as "Horseman's pick". They'd just hold it and make their horse run towards others.
@@jort93z and in that context, suddenly a crow bar seems to be an excellent shape. You can disarm and disarmor enemies when you fail to deal a significant blow, and when you do you easily destroy their armor
@@AngelNearDestruction It would be great to see a followup with a comparison between the two.
"Crowbar is extremly deadly."
"Why?"
"Its a metal stick.Nothing more to say."
Stick is good. We like stick.
With pointy tips.
>Refuses to elaborate further
Shad rests his case.
It's not all that different than a bar mace, which is my go-to melee weapon in the zombie apocalypse.
"Honey, the neighbor is shouting outside again... Oh he's swinging a crowbar this time outside his castle"
"He just took a swing at his assistant. It's ok though, he's DEFINITELY NOT HURT. I repeat, DEFINITELY NOT HURT."
He also has a camera.
I would tease this chooch everyday if he was my neighbor
With the amount of jokes I see involving Shad's neighbors I'm starting to think he's a real life member of the Adam's Family.
@@meganparrish807 and Jazza is uncle Fester. 🤣
That Half-Life sound effects when hitting things with Crowbar, perfect!
I love your pedantic analysis of the "headcrab remover". It is an imperfect weapon, wielded by an imperfect warrior. Sure, Gordon could've replaced the iconic metal stick with something a bit more practical and less cumbersome, but the crowbar is just so iconic and representative of Half Life's vibe. Gordon is the sweaty nerd hero we all strive to be.
A blunt object and a degree in theorirical physics is all you need to save the universe.
I mean I can come up with plenty of justifications. Mainly we have an unbroken POV of Gordon because of the stasis between 1 and 2 and know for a fact that he never encountered a more reliable melee weapon. It's likely the combine regulated what kind of weapons people could own during the 20 year gap, so there likely weren't many swords around for the resistance to pass along to Gordon. Moreover given the combine armor and the HEV suit a heavier club like weapon might be more useful for dealing damage against them than a lighter sword like weapon.
Iconic only for the fanboys.
"Their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor"
@sbcontt YT Yes he does. If you enable third person view, he even has a rat tail they axed(crowbarred?) for HL2.
@@angrymokyuu1951 why a rat tail?
@callMeKenpai ok then
@sbcontt YT
"Gordon Freeman does not have feet so it is easier to look at corpses. That means extra points in the violence rating." - Gamestar anniversary joke issue
Shad: the crowbar is basically a metal STICK
Me: this video's gonna be WILD
Crowchucks!
Shad's Longsword agrees that it was wild
Bec-de-STICK?
@@death13a Nanbar! (like the Japanese word "Nanban")
t'is a metal shillelagh
those one-eyed leprechauns don't stand a chance.
I would like to point out that he seems to have a longer, and slightly more weight optimized version, you got like the backyard crowbar, I think he has a belly height industrial one, we got a four and a half foot one we call encouragement at my house. Because some things just need a little bit more encouragement to move.
that is a good one, I called a shovel persistence since if it isn't working, you're not using enough of it.
At your house. Meaning any house you want to be at.
If you really need something to move, a 60 inch tanker bar is hard to beat. As the name implies, they’re designed for doing maintenance on tanks and are built like tanks; on average they weigh 16-18 pounds.
"It's a stick! A METAL stick!"
Someone getting rather excited there.
“Local Australian assaults foreign prince with crowbar. Claims it was for science.”
Boromir is hardly foreign. He's from New Zealand. They are basically the same country. You know, like the U.S. and Cuba.
@@jordansorenson698 I mean I get it, but like you couldn’t choose a better comparison, like Canada or the Caribbean?
@@ComfortsSpecter I really have no idea how different New Zeland is from Australia, except for it is an island off of it's coast, so I went with the closest comparison to the US I knew.
For that matter, aside from governments, I really have no idea how different Cuba is either...
Itsnall just messing around untill you write it down.... then its science.
@@jordansorenson698 New Zealand and Australia aren’t too too different overall but Cuba is extremely different from America
If you're wondering, the reason Gordon can swing the crowbar as fast as he does is because the HEV suit allows him to lift heavier loads with less effort
What about Barney with it in Blue Shift?
@@weiwei-uplink That’s true though.
He swings it kinda weirdly too, not full on strikes but sort of jabs with it when he's making repeated attacks, but when he swings and doesn't hit anything it's a much slower swing
Edit: at least in half-life 2, it's been quite a bit longer since I've played one
Explains why there's no recoil in Half-Life.
@@weiwei-uplink Barney is fucking ripped
Yeah, Gordon is wearing what seems to be powered armor. Even if it's not strength-enhancing like normal powered armor, it still probably helps mitigate forces against his own body (given that it DOES include a number of life support functions and can effectively monitor the wearer's body condition in real time, as well as mitigating damage from bullets and even explosives and major falls).
The gravity gun is shown to have a kick back in episode 2 when Alex uses the launch feature, and comments on how the suit compensates for that. Granted that is the mark 5 and not the mark 4 used in the original, but sense the original was used to lug around a backpack mounted nuclear gun and jetpack system, its safe to assume that some form of assist is at play here.
He has power legs in half life 2
Shad: *complains how fast Gordon swings the crowbar*
i dont think he ever hit a corpse with a crowbar in Half Life 1 before
*darude sandstorm and runnnin' in the 90's starts playing at the same time*
In HL1 the entire body explodes too from all the speed
“A weapon that probably doesn’t get as much credit as it deserves”
Jason Todd would like to have a word
OOOF!!!
Too soon man, too soon. XD
@@Mailed-Knight Been 33 years, more than a decade past 22.3 years so, I say go right ahead.
@@MAXIMILLIONtheGREAT Jason Todd is/was Barman's second Robin. The fans voted to kill him off, so the writers had Joker beat him half to death with a crowbar before leaving him in a building that he had rigged to blow.
@@andrewgause6971 Oohhh. Yeah I shoulda known that. Brainfart moment.
Thanks 😊
This just proves that freeman is canonically a gigachad who ran the hazard course 3 times a day.
Gordon looked forward to the big jump at the end. Nothing like Black Mesa's quality morphine to help you get through the slog of Black Mesa employment.
He also has power armor.
Donning a futuristic orange exosuit that pumps you with morphine might also have something to do with that...
When messing around, I found that holding it upside down made it far easier to wield. The hook made for a good pommel, and lessened the risk of it flinging out of my hand. Great video 👍
Same conclusion here. It turns it into a much more wieldable metal billy club with a devestating warpick secondary function to finish off downed opponents.
@@tehfinnegan agreed
You know, after watching this video, I realize truly how perfect of a weapon the crowbar is for Gordon, how perfectly it suits the overall story of Half-Life. I suddenly have another level of appreciation for the series. :D
W pfp
1-great name
2- the crowbar kinda of remiends a lambda
When pulled out, the biggest wound a crowbar causes is the realization you aren't worth wasting ammo on.
It's the other way round. Ammo is for canon fodder. The crowbar comes out only when you get serious.
Psych damage ftw
Crowbar: A useful tool that doubles as a dense, heavy stick
Wait till someone decides to ruin it by making a crowbar nunchuck
Don't forget the hook on the end. That hook is nice.
Hooked Wedge-Ended Metal Stick Gang Gang
Gordon has already responded to this. Quote: "................"
shad had a lot of fun in this video you can just feel the joy he had making this
Gordon has so much *morphine* in his body that he doesn’t even notice his dislocated wrist
You had one job.
Nah Gordon walks around in a powered suit so that probably helps.
@@Manie230 yeaaaa but still... " *Morphine Administered* "
I see my comments had its desired effect.
@@akale2620 i was just waking up and was too tired to check what I typed :v
"You only need them to be lethal enough."
This brought to mind a quote from a sci-fi story I listened to on youtube.
"Most species stop making bigger guns, when they start ripping holes in space time, every time they fire."
WE CALL THOSE SPECIES "QUITTERS"
@@ffwast and that's for the good of the species as they quit forming black holes everytime they shoot which would rather annihilate them instead of others. They QUIT self annihilation
@@arnabbiswasalsodeep DID HE STUTTER?!
What story?
would like to know which story
"You need to do more than swing it like a brute."
Guts would like to know your location
Shows concern for his inanimate object swords that he accidentally strikes, but not for his employee whom he purposefully struck... (for those taking me seriously I am making a joke here.)
or for borimir, brave borimir, tower of gondor
He is probably dead. Like Borimir.
it's and evolution from the "normal" stick, a METAL stick!
With a pointy hook
Also the downsides are mitigated by his power suit, no way he swings that fast otherwise
It evolved from living in the woodlands of southern Canada to migrating upwards towards the north, with more competition from axes and swords, so it developed two points from splinters, and got a tougher hide of metal.
Don't tell him about rebars.
WHAT is the next evolution of the stick?
The real reason medieval swordsmen didn't wear swords on their backs. It's not that they didn't have shabbards, it's that they kept hitting the pommel with their crowbars
What shad forgot about the crowbar, is its BREACHING POWER! Imagine one or two of every ten soldiers had a crowbar. They could break through doors or walls in no time!
“A weapon with similar properties to the crow bar would be a mace”
Uh.... not gonna mention the Crow’s Beak?
Before the invention of the crowbar, most crows just drank at home by themselves.
Damn it
Damn it
Damn it
Damn it
Bless
"oz, [combine: pick up that can]" glorious, love the editing
A can was used for that example with a specific objective in mind.
That made me smile. Like truly smile. I instantly loved it.
I would love to see him analize the trhee section staff, is like a nunchuck in steroids
Lmao, that would be fun
One of the ways I optimize the crowbar is actually holding it more like a cane. Grabbing it on the hooked end give it more mobility.
Wtf Shad didn’t put on an HEV suit to accurately test it. Literally unwatchable.
Fortunately the HEV suit in Half-Life is basically powered armor, which is why you're able to swing it so fast there.
I’ve never understood why Black Mesa hadn’t sold the HEV suit tech off to the military yet. PCV wasn’t originally a thing until Opposing Force (the marines clearly don’t seem to have power armour), so just imagine what the military would have been like in that world if every soldier had a modified HEV suit? O_O
Don't forget, Gordon able to b-hopping across the country while wielding a rocket launcher and carrying other armaments.
@@purpleemerald5299 they did. It was a prototype in test during half-life, that's why it had a ammo and weapon system built in it and a lot of combat related capabilities.
@@purpleemerald5299 keep in mind that the HEV site was heavily experimental as it was meant for highly hazardous environments so think less power armor and more environmental suit
@@pqdbr Yeah, I know, but what I mean is they only had three models designed to work _primarily_ as hazard suits. I’m just saying it’s surprising that they didn’t go ALL IN on their development first and foremost, especially with how well the Mark IV functioned. They could have made billions designing those suits for military use.
It's definitely an improvised/last resort weapon at best, but picking up that crowbar in the post-credits scene of Half-Life: Alyx felt like picking up Mjolnir.
THE TRUE EMINENCE IN SHADOW WEAPON!
"The crowbar is a tool".
_combine members are wide-eyed with disbelief and thinking "jeepers, we don't even want to imagine their WEAPONS"_
Ya, wait until they see the Gluon Gun... also known as the Quantum Destabilizer.
Or ambassador pineapple!
Or the fact that the most advanced portal technology is from a former human shower curtain company.
Mike.. Yeah Dave? I’m scared.
@@timbackman5915 perfect for combustible lemon.
"You can't just swing it around like a brute, you have to defend yourself."
Not if I have an HEV suit
Which is also why Gordon can swing it so fast.
Still no helmet though.
@@kyltredragmire4939 he does have a helmet thought,remember the zoom
Moxxie?
@@lechugaenlabiblioteca3298 what
2:23 Well, that already took a "Detriment" of the Crowbar XD!!!
The dedication to your editing of crowbar hit-sounds is as lethal as the crowbar itself!
Gordon doesn't need to hear any of this! He's a trained professional!
Ah but he isn't though. He's a trained professional in theoretical physics, not combat. That's just survival instincts kicking in.
@@smward87 r/woosh
@@smward87 i guess he can theoretically fight, then
@@smward87 Actually, he is; it's canon to the original game. I mean... they specifically trained him to use a powersuit and deal w/ chemical, biological, radioactive, and physical dangers (like fire and steam), and how to use a jet-pack like module. The training went so far as to make him break his legs and auto-administer morphine (way beyond any normal military training), as well as physical training somewhat similar to military basic training, and a full combat firearms course complete with full auto machine guns and grenade launchers (this coming from the training "hazard course" in the original Half-Life).
@@smward87 r/whooosh
Shad Fact: This is not Shad's final form. When he unleashes his true power he grows so big the Kuiper belt fits as an actual belt for him
So he gets fat?
Cool
Shad Fact: Twitter often attacks Shad for his ability to incredibly offend a large area around him
@@diegotonnicchiovlrd2742 okay that was funny but don't do that
Gurren Lashadd
Love the audio editing.
I'm loving the sound effects this video!
What really tickled me is that Shad litters this video with Half Life sound effects wherever he possibly can. I love it. He's a true Half Life fan.
Now if the video was just five seconds longer...
I legitimately thought the sounds of him hitting the dummy was real at first
The Crowbar - a theoretical physicists club.
Is that a club for physicists theoretically or a club only for theoretical physicists?
A bar for humbled physicists. Cause they are having crow.
"They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard."
- Fantastic, Fallout New Vegas
@@Irishcrossing it's a club for physicists who may not actually exist but for existence of whom there is a strong mathematical proof.
This comment section is full of intellectuals!
"Pick up that can" got me good. Thank you.
The editing in this video is fire!
Ah, the crowbar: for destroying aliens with facts and logic
specifically, MA = F
@@arefrigerator211 dont forget this too :
"p = mv"
Still feel like every adventuring party would still carry a crowbar, regardless of its use as a weapon. It'd be used for prying open doors, chests, etc.
You don’t need an ancient key to a dungeon if you have a crowbar
No idea why tools are so rare in games in general. Why to look for key if character can carry crowbars, boltcutters etc. Im sure crowbar was properly modeled in Jagged Alliance 2: heavy tool for opening doors that are immune to lockpicks and kicking. It was exceptionally deadly, but suicidaly slow to use in combat.
In DnD it's a seldom used tool since the spells necessary to warp wood and shrink metal or stone are picked to replace it.
No sane Artificer would ever leave home without it. Or rope. But every adventurer needs rope, it’s very important. That’s why it’s one of the six essential tools of a ninja, it’s _rope_ ! Right up there with the one-by-three-foot piece of cloth! Absolutely crucial!
@@Reddotzebra Still not a bad idea to have one along - just in case. Especially if your party has a Bag of Holding.
Crowbar scoffs at Anti-Magic Field...
The sound editing at 6:51 is glorious! Brilliant bit of fun, there
Loved the editing in this lmao
They’re solid, I worked in demolition for years. I’ve snapped the hook end off once and seen others do it twice. Takes a hell of a lot of force to do it but they are definitely solid.
They are actually called pinch bars. A crowbar is near 6 feet long.
are there hollow versions to be home tools or for different uses? that would make it a better weapon + easier to carry
@@thepacific2933 not that I’m aware of.
@@thepacific2933 Burke bars have a hollow core shaft with a solid steel pry end. But they're about 5.5 feet long (168cm), have an extremely thick gauge of steel on the shaft, weigh much more than a crowbar, and their center of gravity is even closer to the prying end. That's pretty much it, anything else that's used as a wrecking bar is solid.
@@gabrielcontreras3691 nah, just very fit at 80kg. I was basically hanging/swinging off the thing 8 meteters up in a scissor lift, we we’re removing steel roof perlings at a shopping centre. When the hook end of the bar snapped my elbow smacked the controls of the machine, hurt like a bitch but I felt like a boss lol
Shad doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional!
I love you for this
Ah haha, thank you for that. 😄👌
Time for another Shad video! Time mr Shad? Is it really that time again?
"we've assured the administrator that NOTHING WILL GO WRONG."
Why no, I don't know what tempting fate means, why do you ask?
3:20, I was thinking about this in connection with guts’s dragonslayer, and realized he actually needs a giant hunk of metal to survive his daily apocalypse.
God I love your energy Shad!
Shad: drops can
Combine: *and I took that personally*
@@patrickglaser1560
To be fair, if you do bin the can as ordered, the CP gives you credit when reporting to the Overwatch.
After reading A Death in the Family, everytime I pick up a crowbar, I feel like I'm holding Death itself.
A? *crunch*
Or B? *THWACK*
"I killed Jason Todd and all I get is this stupid t-shirt"
@@The0Stroy That's not true. You also get to get revenge beat in the face with a crowbar.
You a forehand or backhand kinda guy?
This video is first Shadiversity to show in my TH-cams recommend this year; good thing I am subscribed with bell on
I feel like it would be a more effective weapon holding it backwards.
Yes, for redirects and weapon balance. For hooking or penetration hook out would be better. Or so I think without testing or evidence other than having used them as tools.
I'd fear the hook would get in the way with your wrist at some point. I mean, it's round (unlike a sword grip, which is oval-shaped so you can hold it all nicely lined up) so it might get rotated in the heat of combat...
@@robertnett9793 he means backwards, not upside down
@@james3876 ehm. Now I am confused. It's a stick with a hook on one end. Holding it backwards would mean to hold the end with the hook - doesn't it?
Or do you think it would be better to hold it - hook on the far end, but rotated, so the hook itself looks backwards, towards you?
And how would this improve things?
Every single weapon is a variation of the stick.
The Crowbar: Iron stick with a hook.
One thing not mentioned in the video is that a crowbar is durable. Improvised weapons like baseball bats and shovel handles can break.
@@krikeydial3430 If you break a baseball bat on someone you probably won.
@@n111254789 Yes but you might get stuck in a situation where there is more than one "protester."
@@krikeydial3430 stab em with the broken bits, or chuck it at em.
@@krikeydial3430 Oh that's no thing partner I'm from East St Louis Illinois I got an h&k vp40 on me at all times. Check the annual homicide rate there it's a pretty universal problem solver in terms of a weapon good for up to 18 individual issues.
A ball bat is for a good ass beating what do the police say less than lethal or some shit. I was just saying if you beat on someone until the bat breaks that person is probably is no longer an issue.
If a stick is the only thing you got to defend yourself with and you're facing multiple people you're gonna lose. Best option is to throw that shit at one who looks like he/she has the most friends that will help him/her and not chase you then run like you're trying to cross the North Korean border odds are you done goofed beyond repair getting into that situation in the first place.
"I remember when they cared not for miss... vance, when their only experience of humanity was a Crow... Bar coming at them down a steel corridor..."
I think it might've been Metal corridor
Steel corridor
Great use of sound effects in this video
Nice to see Gordon's famous sword like weapon getting a proper review
The Half-Life soundeffects makes this ten times better XD
*pick up that can*
So, in other words, science labs should be equipped with swords.
iez.
Capac, no lab where you work should have swords...you'd probably kill Splitsie with it by accident.
@@robertellis6853 I don't think it will be by accident
oh hey, now I've had the experience of recognizing a small youtuber in a random comment section
@@blueninja012 you are not alone.
Do a rake next Shad! I wanna see a breakdown of the efficiency of every household tool that I could possibly get my hands on!
Whoever put in all the sound effects gets a A+
The addition of the HL sound effects really put this over the top.
The "pick up the can" line
@@seraph1690 for me, it was the meaty impact sounds on the dummy that got me 🤣
Them - " who watches weird medieval interpretations of modern tools at 8am?"
Me -" OH BOY 8AM!"
my, how quirky
it’s 11 pm for me
cup o' coffee and some thing to watch
@@absolutedumbass5337 10:28 here (AM)
I'm at the opposite side, it was 8 pm here
This was even more entertaining than I expected
Just subbed today and I already love this channel.
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Worth noting that Gordon only ever uses the crowbar as a weapon when wearing the HEV suit. It's not quite power armor, but it can absorb impacts. Should help with the wrist strain, especially on an impact. It may be why Gordon swings slower when he hasn't hit anything - the impact mitigation doesn't really kick in unless you actually impact.
No surprise if that suit's a product of military R&D.
Keep in mind in blue shift Barney also uses a crowbar with ease without a hev suit or anything.
Thats actually super cool attetion to detail
@@attilafekete7892 barney is built different
@@attilafekete7892 Except Blue Shift was trash. The Gearbox expansions are hardly what I'd call canon.
Also, I have never played Half-Life but I recognized that you inserted sound effects when you were hitting with the crowbar and when you dropped it. I loved it.
Fun thing about the way Mr Freeman uses the crowbar is that he makes a full swing only when he knows he's not about to hit anything. In the games it seems like he's holding the crowbar from the middle and more like pushes it to his enemies' faces.
Imagine being a trained military soldier who's one of the best but then a guy in a suit of orange that is a literal moving target kills you with a crowbar with no experience prior in combat.
Gordon is highly trained proffesional! He doesnt need to hear all of this!...
But the "suit of orange" is pretty powerful
Orange makes you go fast.
The weight of the weapon would presumably be less of an issue for Gorden Freeman as his HEV suit is probably a form of power armour and so could support the strikes. Might be why he can hit so fast.
Then I'd like to know what his crowbar is made of, because high carbon tempered steel or not, it would bend and break quite fast with these strikes. We tend to break our crowbars' beaks quite often at the workshop, granted they suffer over a long period of time, but still, pretty sure the alloy isn't made to endure repeated hits with a power armor.
@@bobbybologna3029 Do you have a source for that?
What about Barney than?
@@attilafekete7892
It's Barney.
*HE'S JUST THAT TOUGH.*
What the mia Malkova doing
I remember a friend getting a crowbar for xmas and how the person behind the counter joked about "making your xmas" when it was being bought.
love the sounds
Considering Gordon is wearing an HEV suit that increases the person's speed and strength supposedly it would make sense that he can use the crowbar with a much more effective way then any human with out the suit would.
And actually at that point it could be more effective than a sword, since that would feel like a toothpick to him
me: hes gonna compare it to a stick isnt he?
shad: "its basically a metal stick"
god damn it
Lemme guess, you're the stolen sweet roll.
I laughed at your comment, it is just so accurate
I had this in recommended. I already watched it, but I don’t remember it, so I’ll watch it again.
In Portuguese, Crowbar is "pé de cabra", wich means "Goat's foot"
In Germany it is called "Kuhfuß" Cow`s foot
"It was on this fateful day that Shad begin his horrifying breaking-and-entry spree."
You made me chortle, thanks!
I like the statement that "a weapon only needs to be lethal enough"
It's not like humans have a healthbar that decreases as we get hit or that someone can stand frozen in place eating hundreds of wheels of cheese to mitigate damage already received.
"don't run, it's only HAM"
Mmmm cheese wheels
Jason Todd: I think it’s pretty effective.
The thuds are super satisfying in this video.
Most people: A Crowbar is an excellent tool with many uses.
Shad: It's a metal STICC!!!!
(I approve that description.)
To be fair, a stick has many uses; They practically got us where we are today (along with fire)
It is basically a tool created to be a reinforced stick with all the handy attachments necessary to apply leverage to various things.
It's not really made to hit things, it's made to pry things apart.
Ahh, A FELLOW SCIENTIST!
What the dog doing
I can't believe im getting recommendations for old videos again
I just love the use of the HL2 crowbar sounds added up to when you actually hit it