The Faces of Half-Life 2

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  • Half-Life 2's characters are iconic, but they are also REAL. Let's talk about it.
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    Footage Credit:
    Gorgeous Freeman by Delak (Beautiful classic)
    IGN (Half-Life Alyx footage)
    The VOC Podcast (Cheers for the work y'all do)
    Harry101UK (Valve tour footage)
    Into the Pixel Interview with ArenaNet's Daniel Dociu
    Garry's Mod Steam Trailer
    This Is Martin Bonner! (Film Trailer)
    Land Ho! (Film Trailer)
    Music Credit:
    Various tracks from Half-Life + Half-Life 2
    Various tracks from Donkey Kong Country 2
    Various tracks from ISS 2000
    Super Mario Sunshine - Welcome to Isle Delfino
    Team Fortress 2 - MVM Shop Theme
    Resident Evil 4 - Save Theme
    Postal 2 - Map Muzak
    Pink Guy - Ronald McDonald Instrumental
    Shook - Within
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  • @carnum1159
    @carnum1159 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1815

    From skibidi toilet not half life 2

    • @kwabecikuwu9161
      @kwabecikuwu9161 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      rel

    • @aquiIa_chrysaetos
      @aquiIa_chrysaetos 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

      oh hell no

    • @WohaoG
      @WohaoG 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      oh hell *yes*

    • @recang360
      @recang360 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

      The day has come.

    • @insane.braindamage
      @insane.braindamage 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      half life stiole the gman toilet and give him suit ripoff!!!1

  • @elliotnutella8044
    @elliotnutella8044 ปีที่แล้ว +11570

    Imagine walking down the street, completely minding your own business, and bumping into G Man.

    • @rogerphone481
      @rogerphone481 ปีที่แล้ว +1274

      "I've been looking for you, Dr. Freeman."

    • @cheesemanthe2nd
      @cheesemanthe2nd ปีที่แล้ว +504

      They really modified his look in hl2, I probably wouldn't recognize him unless I was looking

    • @Reposterkkkk
      @Reposterkkkk ปีที่แล้ว +359

      i would shit myself

    • @elijahreeves4890
      @elijahreeves4890 ปีที่แล้ว

      totally mind fucked

    • @bitty_01
      @bitty_01 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      Then he sends you into the shadow realm and you wake up in an alien universe afterwards lmao

  • @Vvix0
    @Vvix0 ปีที่แล้ว +7662

    A random Janitor becoming an eldritch god-like G-man just for being at a right place and right time is the most G-man thing he could do.

    • @catpurrito5586
      @catpurrito5586 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      Sounds kinda like Ahti from Control 2019

    • @VinVonVoom
      @VinVonVoom ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Hello

    • @lynxovski
      @lynxovski ปีที่แล้ว +253

      "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world"

    • @randomg00b3r
      @randomg00b3r ปีที่แล้ว +56

      the gman: “the right man in the wrong place, can make aLL the dif-ference in the world.”

    • @thebasedspectre3048
      @thebasedspectre3048 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      "Dr freeman I'm going to make you my discord kitten"-gman

  • @warmongerous
    @warmongerous ปีที่แล้ว +851

    I don't know where I heard it, but Gmans face actor, when they asked him to come back for HL:A, turned up with a full suit and briefcase. He knows at least a little bit of the legacy he created

    • @Daveaintreal
      @Daveaintreal 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Absolute legend

    • @Kat-327
      @Kat-327 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I've been looking for you, dr freeman...

    • @Quaxo21
      @Quaxo21 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      The right man at the right place

  • @ForgillMaster51
    @ForgillMaster51 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +309

    Imagine being Michael Smith walking in the street and being attacked by some random ass kid screaming "THE SKIBIDI GUY! ITS THE SKIBI TOILET FACE MAN!"

    • @Cheerful__1
      @Cheerful__1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      💀

    • @BlyckMesa
      @BlyckMesa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Lmao there is no way this is original

    • @RedBadGaming
      @RedBadGaming 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rip

    • @thisnameisbad3609
      @thisnameisbad3609 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "I'm hurt!"

    • @jeffriesjohnsonjames6518
      @jeffriesjohnsonjames6518 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Me: Good bye little Timmy *sends to zen*

  • @Shea7TDM
    @Shea7TDM ปีที่แล้ว +4264

    imagine being an avid half life fan and buy half life 2 on release, just for one of the main characters to be your dad.

    • @creepersammyb2926
      @creepersammyb2926 ปีที่แล้ว +272

      and he has a pet headcrab
      (i deleted my original comment because I now know that Ted Cohrt has kids who were half life fans)

    • @iifireii9885
      @iifireii9885 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @Cleminite About that beer I owe ya

    • @sparkyboi4387
      @sparkyboi4387 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      I like to think that Kleiner's VA bought the game for them and watched them play until they got to the Kleiner part, as a surprise

    • @FalkyRocket2222
      @FalkyRocket2222 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@creepersammyb2926 he mentioned it in the video lol

    • @FalkyRocket2222
      @FalkyRocket2222 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Benny sure but this is not the place

  • @HLRaven
    @HLRaven ปีที่แล้ว +4446

    It's really sad that the face actor for Eli Vance goes unrecognized. IMO he is one of the most comforting characters in video games

    • @char7490
      @char7490 ปีที่แล้ว +213

      im glad they bought him back in half life alyx i would love him to be a companion when hl3 comes out soon

    • @GlamStacheessnostalgialounge
      @GlamStacheessnostalgialounge ปีที่แล้ว +151

      @@char7490 I don't know. In Alyx Eli just feels... somehow not right to me. Don't know what it is, but something is off about him, like they used a different person's face entirely.

    • @neevko267
      @neevko267 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      @@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge it's probably just that he looks younger

    • @minelayer26
      @minelayer26 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      @@GlamStacheessnostalgialoungeit could also be because of the voice actor, the voice just doesnt work

    • @minelayer26
      @minelayer26 ปีที่แล้ว +175

      @@goti4no820 hes protective of his daughter, that is something he would say

  • @anonymouse740
    @anonymouse740 ปีที่แล้ว +662

    Larry Heard is not just a house DJ, he almost single handily created the modern incarnation of House music. If you listen to "Can You Feel It" it's produced in 1984 and could be a house track you'd hear today in a nightclub. It was also in GTA5. Really cool guy, I'm amazed he's a HL2 character, I didn't know that!

    • @1chrisanderson
      @1chrisanderson ปีที่แล้ว +52

      TRUTH. I had no idea he was in HL2. As a deep house fanatic and DJ/producer myself, it's hard to overstate Larry's contributions to the genre. He is literally the progenitor of the darker, jazz-infused dance sounds of today (Fred P, Ron Trent, Chez Damier, Space Ghost, and countless others are clearly influenced by his work)

    • @streeatbeat
      @streeatbeat ปีที่แล้ว +26

      dude my fucking shock when i found out HE'S MR FINGERS!??!

    • @ar_xiv
      @ar_xiv ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It's a different larry heard, unfortunately. It was a homeless guy in Seattle named Larry "The Count" Heard. Had to fact check this one because it just seemed too unlikely as Larry Heard the DJ is from Chicago and lives in Nashville.

    • @1chrisanderson
      @1chrisanderson ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ar_xiv A letdown if it's true but would definitely make sense. I'm gonna rename my DJ act to The Other Larry Heard

    • @crylune
      @crylune ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I heard that in San Andreas. The song was stuck in my brain ever since.

  • @2diabolical
    @2diabolical 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Imagine booting up half-life 2 after you bought it excited to play, then you see your dad as one of the main characters

    • @ShyborgAnimates
      @ShyborgAnimates 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yea lmao

    • @BlyckMesa
      @BlyckMesa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Kinda wholesome ngl

  • @Josuemaneiros7
    @Josuemaneiros7 ปีที่แล้ว +2027

    I think the best 'actor to character" design Valve made was Nick from L4D2
    They did a fantastic job at making Nick look like a playable Taymour Ghazi without making him uncanny or clay-faced

    • @youbaouahdi4358
      @youbaouahdi4358 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      I will never forget seeing his face IRL, I thought the actor was a 3D render haha

    • @oldman4443
      @oldman4443 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Tbh man they did such a good job with nicks face I can’t look at Taymour Ghazi’s face without automatically recognizing him as nick from l4d2, I think I might have a problem

    • @unclesandvich
      @unclesandvich ปีที่แล้ว +49

      ​​​@@oldman4443 Its perfect. I don't know how they done it, but it feels like they took Tay Ghazi and literally put in the game. I can't describe it right now, but it's done perfect. It feels more like "Nick was so popular they made him an actual person" joke. But man, Taymour Ghazi is really handsome and charismatic, no wonder why they chose him for Nick.

    • @bigbad5067
      @bigbad5067 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      i was in one of a taymour's acting classes and he told us he was nick from left 4 dead and i honestly cant unsee it now, they did a brilliant job

    • @facilityguardryan8561
      @facilityguardryan8561 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nah, the best 'actor to character' valve made was the Holy Mackarel from Team Fortress 2

  • @gametram6139
    @gametram6139 ปีที่แล้ว +526

    Anyone who is curious about gordon's face, he is referenced by half life 2's sound designer, kelly bailey!

    • @notfreeman1776
      @notfreeman1776 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      Kailey Bailey also likely recorded gordon breathing from HL1, he is Freeman

    • @gsp1995
      @gsp1995 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Not entirely true as three other people's likeness were also used to compose Gordon's face.

    • @fredspreadem5638
      @fredspreadem5638 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Among others, including Eric Kirchner.

    • @CAPTAIN_CLOCK
      @CAPTAIN_CLOCK ปีที่แล้ว +33

      This might not hold true for HL2 and HLA Gordon, but as far as I know his face is an amalgamation of everyone that worked at Valve at the time of HL1.

    • @SentenceToDESU
      @SentenceToDESU ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Not just a sound designer, but a whole composer who made a banger of the OST for Half-Life and Portal

  • @warpare6138
    @warpare6138 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    I went to Warrens obituary page and started to cry. His parents would go and leave comment's wishing him happy birthdays and Christmases. Rest in Peace Warren.

  • @Devar
    @Devar ปีที่แล้ว +45

    So. my uncle is Paul Eenhoorn (yes, two O's but you nailed the pronunciation which barely no one does!). I had asked him about this, and he had no idea that the scan he did ended up in any thing until I told him about it. The scan was done quite a long time before the actual release of Ep2. Anyway. I had no idea either, until actually playing... now that was one hell of a surprise!
    Rest In Peace uncle Paul.

  • @zOOpygOOpert
    @zOOpygOOpert ปีที่แล้ว +1943

    I really hope Eli's face actor is okay.

    • @unoriginalperson72
      @unoriginalperson72 ปีที่แล้ว +244

      I highly doubt he's in any horrible situation because honestly I think he might be long dead now.

    • @BOBBY69
      @BOBBY69 ปีที่แล้ว +323

      We gotta face the truth, he's probably not alive anymore. If he is, I wish him all the best.

    • @Omega-jg4oq
      @Omega-jg4oq ปีที่แล้ว

      @@unoriginalperson72 Wow bro.. you REALLY made it sounds so Fcking Dark.. jeez

    • @flunkiebubs2002
      @flunkiebubs2002 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      He'd probably be in his 90s by now.

    • @natalie_v0.1
      @natalie_v0.1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@unoriginalperson72 people are really good at dying.. saddening

  • @bigcooltony437
    @bigcooltony437 ปีที่แล้ว +806

    Wow! Half Life 2 was so popular they made all the characters in real life!

    • @Freemelon07
      @Freemelon07 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It'd be cool to see all their models in Source 2 with 3D hair/facial hair.

    • @catboy6451
      @catboy6451 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@Benny what the fuck are you talking about

    • @The_Grecian_Empire
      @The_Grecian_Empire 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @Benny cultist

    • @sam.4768
      @sam.4768 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@benny7569 why are u spouting jesus shit on like every comment on a half life video like bro what are u doing with ur life, aint no one reading this and going "omg bro i need to be a Christian"

    • @Some_guy-on-the-internet
      @Some_guy-on-the-internet 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Freemelon07gman

  • @princegoatcheese9379
    @princegoatcheese9379 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    G-Man's quote in the beginning of HL2, "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world," sums up Frank Sheldon's opportunity perfectly. If Valve cast him as Dr. Breen then the world would not have gotten such an iconic face as G-Man.

    • @commandertoastcz6256
      @commandertoastcz6256 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A janitor's role is to be at the right place in the right time, and if he is in the wrong place at the right time, stuff may go around interestingly.

    • @commandertoastcz6256
      @commandertoastcz6256 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A janitor's role is to be at the right place in the right time, and if he is in the wrong place at the right time, stuff may go around interestingly.

  • @Joskilani
    @Joskilani ปีที่แล้ว +118

    It's always interesting how Valve bases their characters off of real people. The actress they modeled Chell from Portal after is Alesia Glidewell, who's also known for being the voice of Zero Suit Samus in Super Smash Brothers, and Carmelita Fox/Neyla in Sly 2: Band of Thieves

    • @thinkingboi9508
      @thinkingboi9508 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The Half Life universe sure does have a weird story with female actors who played furry characters huh?

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thinkingboi9508 How so?

    • @thinkingboi9508
      @thinkingboi9508 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LordVader1094 A voice actor who voiced a character in Star Fox, which has a cast composed of entirely of anthro animals, came out of retirement to voice a character that was modded into the game

    • @mattmedrala1947
      @mattmedrala1947 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Alesia was also the original face model for Zoey from Left 4 Dead, and provided the voice acting for Alma Wade in FEAR 2.

    • @Dowux
      @Dowux 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@mattmedrala1947damnit i now know why Zoey and Chell looked so similar

  • @ProfessorProfesorman
    @ProfessorProfesorman ปีที่แล้ว +474

    Finally, a video which shows all of the face in HL2. I've been looking for something like this for ages! Awesome job Richter!

    • @nnikitov57
      @nnikitov57 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      you didn't even watch the video when you commented this, how can you know whether if it's an "awesome job" or not?

    • @TimTam60
      @TimTam60 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nnikitov57 and who are you to assume this person doesn't just have an ability to hear important info from videos quickly?

    • @ProfessorProfesorman
      @ProfessorProfesorman ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nnikitov57 The title....

    • @doughboywhine
      @doughboywhine 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He didn't include gordons face...

    • @ProfessorProfesorman
      @ProfessorProfesorman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah fr@@doughboywhine

  •  ปีที่แล้ว +270

    Richter, this is a great video! We'd love to see you make one about the voices as well! About Donna Van Buren, we did manage to contact and talk to her - while she was not interested in coming on for an interview because as she says - she likes to stay behind the scenes. She did work as a make-up artist for Valve specifically on the face models for HL2, on Frank Sheldon for sure. She also added the following - "Truthfully, I was only a placeholder head for Dr. Judith Mossman that never got replaced."

    • @chiefhydropolis
      @chiefhydropolis ปีที่แล้ว +3

      so judith would have looked wayyy different had a dev not forgotten or didnt like the model now used ingame

  • @PennyroyallBlew
    @PennyroyallBlew ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Larry Heard (aka Mr. Fingers) is actually one of the Godfathers of House music and really important figure for electronic music history in general. It's kind of amusing to see him being somehow present in game series which soundtrack is really inspired by music that he paved way for.

  • @hangry3102
    @hangry3102 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    The fact we know absolutely nothing about the man behind one of the most loveable video game characters in existence bugs me. The guy literally had the "perfect face" for Eli, and he gets no credit? At this point we're doing a disservice not to find more information on him. He's likely already gone, but damn he deserves more recognition than just "that poor guy who needed money." He is literally an icon.

    • @hangry3102
      @hangry3102 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And by find more information, I'm not saying we should track him down or anything crazy like that. Just his name is more than enough credit wise. The guy deserved his privacy just like anyone else.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      They may have offered to credit him and he refused, given his situation.

    • @SpecterNeverSpectator
      @SpecterNeverSpectator 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      maybe this exactly why, some creep on the internet will want to find out where he lives to give him shit he didnt ask for, like you

  • @Trackman71
    @Trackman71 ปีที่แล้ว +554

    Wow I originally remember hearing some rumors about Eli’s Face actor was a homeless dude but this just confirmed it. The sad thing is he probably wasn’t paid a lot for how pivotal and recognizable he is in gaming. The horrible truth is that he is likely dead. That one hurt the most out of them all. 😢

    • @Timic83tc
      @Timic83tc ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Makes Ep2 even sadder.

    • @pigster8
      @pigster8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      it's not that sad bro. honestly

    • @gugibugi0
      @gugibugi0 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It's not like he did a lot of work to be paid a lot. You literally just get your face scanned and that's it

    • @cluckendip
      @cluckendip ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You just repeated verbatim the video

    • @Trackman71
      @Trackman71 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cluckendip Lmao true.

  • @dextergrif
    @dextergrif ปีที่แล้ว +1473

    I think it’s okay that they used a random guy’s face for Eli and compensated him for it, but they really should have credited him for it. That’s kind of messed up that they didn’t

    • @VinVonVoom
      @VinVonVoom ปีที่แล้ว +358

      It's possible they just never got his name or he didn't want to be credited.

    • @kennnnny
      @kennnnny ปีที่แล้ว +133

      @@VinVonVoom Even if either of those was the case, I wish they’d made it more clear in an interview or when the story of his face actor was actually brought up. Because it seems like whatever info Richter could get, it wasn’t conclusive

    • @samuraijackoff5354
      @samuraijackoff5354 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      Maybe he forgot his name, didn't have ID or a social security. It happens sadly being homeless.

    • @ZekeFreek
      @ZekeFreek ปีที่แล้ว +112

      @@kennnnny That would require Valve to communicate with the public and you know how much they hate doing that lol

    • @jackspedicy2711
      @jackspedicy2711 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      credits: Eli Vance - a random hobo on the street

  • @Detah_
    @Detah_ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Imagine seeing your face 20 years later pop out of a toilet

  • @joseantoniobatac6322
    @joseantoniobatac6322 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Imagine if the homeless man who provided Eli's face was both credited and well compensated with Half Life 2's success and actually had his life changed for the better.
    It would've been one heartwarming story.

  • @thememester1190
    @thememester1190 ปีที่แล้ว +264

    The use of scans of real people is just another reason why Half Life 2 was so ahead of its time. Using random people from the streets of Seattle for civilians really captures the feeling of being amongst the remnants of a downtrodden urban populace.

    • @olzhas1one755
      @olzhas1one755 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      By the time HL2 released this was already the common practice in the industry. As far as I know Goldeneye 64 in 1997 was the first game to use photography of real people on 3D meshes, and this method became only more common since then.

    • @naturesquad9174
      @naturesquad9174 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      and they based the metrocops personalities on the metropolice of seattle!

    • @omegatrion7139
      @omegatrion7139 ปีที่แล้ว

      come back to g10 please

    • @thememester1190
      @thememester1190 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@omegatrion7139 I don't wanna.

    • @jaidendeprez1842
      @jaidendeprez1842 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So did Postal 2, which came out in 2003

  • @loserghoul
    @loserghoul ปีที่แล้ว +180

    been a fan of Larry Heards music casually so learning he's been the face of male_03 this whole time is so weirdly specific thats its mindblowing to me.

    • @kinematosis
      @kinematosis ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Heh, same. I've been listening to Larry Heard for a while now, and I just played HL2 for the first time a couple of months ago. When I saw his name in the HL2 credits, I thought, "there's no way that's *the* Larry Heard." I looked it up and was shocked to learn that, in fact, it was *the* Larry Heard.

    • @Michelle_Wellbeck
      @Michelle_Wellbeck ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Would love to have heard how he got into the game as by hl2 wouldn't he have been quite a famous guy?

    • @russelledwards001
      @russelledwards001 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Some guys at valve probably loved his music. There’s quite a lot of techno beats and sounds in the half life series.

    • @3waystopcock
      @3waystopcock ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mr fingers

  • @averydissapointedparent6124
    @averydissapointedparent6124 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The eli vance one is such a sad case, unfortunate that someone won’t ever get to see their legacy in a way, he’s forever immortalized by this game yet nobody will ever know his name.

    • @cacaPoopTrain
      @cacaPoopTrain 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      #RescueEli

    • @TheBreakingBenny
      @TheBreakingBenny 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He won't be forgotten... no matter how unknown he is. That man is someone I'd want to fight alongside.

  • @knoxvolpe
    @knoxvolpe ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I tend to forget that the face of Father Grigori is a guy named Daniel Dociu that was born in Cluj, Romania. It's cool to think we have a romanian guy forever in our hearts :)

    • @mighi3963
      @mighi3963 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nu mă mira are fata de ardelean ngl 😂

  • @DrSeaDevil
    @DrSeaDevil ปีที่แล้ว +101

    7:13 He also appeared in the first Half-Life as the scientist who shouts at you for destroying his cassourole.

    • @VinVonVoom
      @VinVonVoom ปีที่แล้ว +27

      That was indeed his casserole but it's not Magnusson who's watching over it.

    • @DrSeaDevil
      @DrSeaDevil ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@VinVonVoom Oh I see

    • @agrastiOs
      @agrastiOs ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hebbocake he might not have been in the same room his casserole was in

    • @-Zakhiel-
      @-Zakhiel- ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's a retcon...
      Valve does this in every Half Life sequels, retcons everywhere.

    • @agrastiOs
      @agrastiOs ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@-Zakhiel- and they're very based for doing that and expanding the world and the games.
      Well aside from the Alyx retcon

  • @DeepWeeb
    @DeepWeeb ปีที่แล้ว +647

    Eli's face being based on a homeless man they picked from the streets for a only couple of bucks to run his face under some strange device without any further recognition kinda hits different when you remember *they made a joke about using hobos and bums as test subjects of almost-lethal experiments for $60 in Portal 2*

    • @Lips0fDeceit
      @Lips0fDeceit ปีที่แล้ว +86

      For as great value has been stuff like thise goes to remind you that they do some of the fucked up things that disney or Netflix or google do they are a company at the end of the day

    • @vakarianalenko
      @vakarianalenko ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Yeah it's fucking sad man

    • @soupcake3092
      @soupcake3092 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I really would like to hope they didn't use someone like that and payed him well.
      But I feel like that's far more likely...

    • @unoriginalperson72
      @unoriginalperson72 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Imagine if that line is actually based on how much money they gave him

    • @BeyondBaito
      @BeyondBaito ปีที่แล้ว +20

      They use astronauts, war heros, and Olympians

  • @wojtek4351
    @wojtek4351 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    making fun of a man on the phone call was uncalled for, he answered your question

  • @Luzum
    @Luzum ปีที่แล้ว +6

    this is such a good video for people who are fans of the series, the title alone intrigued me and the video definitely delivered, good job Richter keep doing what you're doing. Very few youtubers do what you do, and do it right.

  • @lambdaspecialist_source
    @lambdaspecialist_source ปีที่แล้ว +197

    Really smart from Valve to do this in the developement, because this makes the game more immersive and the faces are iconic another thing why hl2 was and is so great.

    • @horriblechronicdiseases
      @horriblechronicdiseases ปีที่แล้ว +19

      We need to bring back the face scan process for video game development.

    • @amspook
      @amspook ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@horriblechronicdiseases Capcom already did that

    • @friendofp.24
      @friendofp.24 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wait til you realize every triple A game does this...

    • @friendofp.24
      @friendofp.24 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@horriblechronicdiseases Literally every game does this...

    • @lambdaspecialist_source
      @lambdaspecialist_source ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@friendofp.24 not really and at the time HL2 was the first to do this

  • @uhhhhhyea
    @uhhhhhyea ปีที่แล้ว +139

    honestly i always found interesting to use as reference real people faces on like a game

    • @Steak818
      @Steak818 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I always thought that the faces of Alyx was too peculiar to have been created from nothing, sometimes uncanny valley-peculiar.

    • @Freemelon07
      @Freemelon07 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi G-man!

    • @uhhhhhyea
      @uhhhhhyea ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Freemelon07 hello mr...uh freemelon

  • @EMAHGERD
    @EMAHGERD ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Male03 being Larry Heard is absolutely insane! He is one of the most important figures of electronic music, maybe just short of the likes of Kraftwerk. Both were essential to my younger years.

  • @byyourstruly1599
    @byyourstruly1599 ปีที่แล้ว

    Woah, trippy. I was just looking up the face actors for Half-life 2 yesterday, and all of a sudden you made a video about it.

  • @Imirui
    @Imirui ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Most realistic characters in valve games are in fact, based on real people. In the Left 4 Dead series, every survivor has their face modeled after an actual person, and the face references are well known among people who know that they are modeled after people.

  • @BBPOFFICAL
    @BBPOFFICAL ปีที่แล้ว +28

    3:04 those kids are lucky like imagine seeing the faces of them seeing there father in half life 2 :)

  • @RedStar441
    @RedStar441 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Whoever Eli's look alike is, I hope he had passed through this world peacefully. His face lives on and will be remembered for time beyond now.

  • @Feasco
    @Feasco ปีที่แล้ว +11

    2:17 Imagine calling or having to visit Tanner Electric for some reason and trying to resist the urge to say, "Barney said to tell you this: FUCK YOU!"

  • @ManiacHatTF2
    @ManiacHatTF2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    0:36 You know you've made it when you're a brief mention in a Richter Overtime video.

  • @CenturyRev
    @CenturyRev ปีที่แล้ว +27

    3:31 Bro thinks he's Walter White.

  • @adrianwoods2752
    @adrianwoods2752 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A quote from the G-man himself is perfectly fitting for how his face actor got the role: “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”

  • @MrPerson9000
    @MrPerson9000 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    12:05 Maybe the guy didn’t want to be credited

    • @Profkol0rado
      @Profkol0rado ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He probably didn't want to be famous

  • @notfreeman1776
    @notfreeman1776 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    honestly im happy for Eli's model, hes going to live on for far longer than most of us people watching this video thanks to that chance encounter

  • @Big_Ghoul
    @Big_Ghoul ปีที่แล้ว +9

    7:27 "What are you waiting for freeman, a hug?"
    RIP

  • @Cheerful__1
    @Cheerful__1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Imagine giving your face to a new game and all long time later you see yourself in a toilet singing animation

  • @xFluing
    @xFluing ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love how half life's ties with eastern europe go beyond just city 17 looking like it (and its confirmed to actually be sofia, bulgaria) into father grigori as well, as daniel dociu is romanian
    The circle is complete

  • @mutantwalnut3390
    @mutantwalnut3390 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    12:52 “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”

  • @red-hot
    @red-hot ปีที่แล้ว +155

    No way they made half life real

    • @TwoNumbahNiens
      @TwoNumbahNiens ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Gabe Newell liked these people so much he hired and contracted them to make a game about them.

    • @protocetid
      @protocetid ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the amount of stuff taken from real life makes the game half real heh

    • @zerbutterftw
      @zerbutterftw 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      hlfaf lifbe twoo 😱😱

  • @floor.mp3
    @floor.mp3 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Incredibly well made video. You deserve more recognition :)

    • @RichterOvertime
      @RichterOvertime  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you :) I appreciate you saying that more than you know

  • @Someone_1994
    @Someone_1994 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for making the video because i always had this thought and i never bothered to check until this video

  • @Mr.Marbles
    @Mr.Marbles ปีที่แล้ว +8

    wow what the hell. i thought i didnt read it right when i saw larry heard was a character. big 80s / 90s house fan and this guy is a damn legend. his stuff as mister fingers is legendary in the scene.

  • @danbarnes4069
    @danbarnes4069 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I'd love to see a Half-Life 2 movie with all the people who were the characters for the game.

    • @JIBBTRON3000
      @JIBBTRON3000 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      except for the fact that most of them are dead...

  • @urazoktay7940
    @urazoktay7940 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing video, throughly enjoyed it. Thank you.

  • @crank1point3
    @crank1point3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    very informative video. awesome stuff man keep it up!

  • @raga.8950
    @raga.8950 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    9:30 Larry's music was on GTA: San Andreas!

    • @pnrxyz
      @pnrxyz ปีที่แล้ว +4

      San Fierro Underground Radio (SF-UR) :)

    • @haveyous
      @haveyous ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That game also used real people's faces

  • @wholefttheydogatcentralpoint
    @wholefttheydogatcentralpoint ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know it's not really the focus of the channel, but I'd love to see a video like this about the l4d characters!
    Just finished watching, and I gotta say, the situation with Eli's face actor really is quite an injustice... Even outside of in-game lore, half life has an... Interesting history.

  • @labenvenci1584
    @labenvenci1584 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Fun Fact : During development on a project intended as a potential Half-Life 3, Valve brought back in Frank Sheldon to re-scan his face for the Source 2 engine. The developers were very surprised when Sheldon, obviously familiar with the character his face had been used for, showed up to the photoshoot complete with a suit and tie. This project was ultimately cancelled due to the Source 2 engine's unfinished state, but the scans were re-used for Half-Life: Alyx.
    The original scans look more like Frank, until they morphed it to make it younger and look like his HL2 Counterpart.

  • @lemonbreadsf3828
    @lemonbreadsf3828 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    you should do a video on half life's voice actors. i think there's some pretty cool trivia to be found there (such as how barney's va also voiced mczee from microsoft 3d movie maker or how little amount of voice actors there are for hl1)

  • @jjforcebreaker
    @jjforcebreaker ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating. Great work!

  • @okeoi
    @okeoi ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is actually surprisingly wholesome. It's like you're just checking in on some old, estranged friends to see how they're doing.

  • @stuff31
    @stuff31 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It's kind of bittersweet to think about the guy who Eli was modelled after. He was probably just a down-on-his-luck, homeless guy, desperate for any work that came his way. After that day he might not have ever remembered taking that job. We don't even know his name. For all we know, he's long since died, from one way or another. But he's always going to be remembered. In taking that job, he became Eli Vance, one of the most iconic characters in videogame history. And in that way, he's immortal.

    • @gaberino1
      @gaberino1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Incredible that someone who’s face has been seen tens of millions of times could simply vanish into the pages of history so effortlessly

  • @baleycus
    @baleycus ปีที่แล้ว +10

    IT'S OVER

  • @caitentensoldtheworld1993
    @caitentensoldtheworld1993 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    and after all these years barney still owes gorden a beer

  • @jaski4022
    @jaski4022 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Use normal people that you can casually see on the street as the faces of some of the most popular and beloved characters in videogame history is genius.
    It just makes the game much more realistic and grounded than using big actors with hundreds of movies.

    • @-Zakhiel-
      @-Zakhiel- ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also, it costs almost nothing $

  • @facilityguardryan8561
    @facilityguardryan8561 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    1:07 you are wrong, the most iconic character is Male07

  • @creepersammyb2926
    @creepersammyb2926 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    oh god seeing the faces of the characters alongside the real faces feels so.... uncanny....
    but AWESOME AT THE SAME TIME.

    • @creepersammyb2926
      @creepersammyb2926 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      they're all just so..... *accurate.*

    • @creepersammyb2926
      @creepersammyb2926 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd immediately recognize the people whose faces were used for G-Man, Eli Vance, and Kleiner.
      It's insane!

  • @fnckit
    @fnckit ปีที่แล้ว

    Is nice to know all these icons origins and oh, it hurts so deep knowing Dr. Eli Vance story. Hope he received some sort of credit for the relevance on his role. Great video.

  • @ocktowi5317
    @ocktowi5317 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wait a minute! Larry Heard! That is extremely interesting. I was introduced to his music a few years ago during undergrad. I first heard one of his songs ("Crystal Fantasy") on a Stingray Music Channel. I really love his work, and never knew that he played a role in the Half-Life franchise. Nice!

  • @epicman1232
    @epicman1232 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    dude, imagine your dad being used as a facescan in one of your favorite games. that'd be crazy!

  • @memes.mp3102
    @memes.mp3102 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Imagine being the guy behind male_07 and you see your face being plastered on a toilet just to rot the brains of millions of children

  • @tob_mb3736
    @tob_mb3736 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BRO I am a HUGE house nerd and Larry Heard is one of my FAVORITE artists. TO HEAR HE WAS IN ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES???? Dude I love you, subscribed

  • @MedBrato
    @MedBrato ปีที่แล้ว

    Best video I've seen in some years. I will pray for you to be blessed by the TH-cam algorithm. Thank you sir.

  • @Stewie_eating_Heisenburger
    @Stewie_eating_Heisenburger ปีที่แล้ว +14

    11:05
    It starts with
    One thing
    I don't know why
    It doesn't even matter how hard you try
    Keep that in mind
    I designed this rhyme
    To explain in due time
    All I know
    Time is a valuable thing
    Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
    Watch it count down to the end of the day
    The clock ticks life away
    It's so unreal
    Didn't look out below
    Watch the time go right out the window
    Trying to hold on, didn't even know
    I wasted it all just to watch you go
    I kept everything inside
    And even though I tried, it all fell apart
    What it meant to me
    Will eventually be a memory of a time when
    I tried so hard
    And got so far
    But in the end
    It doesn't even matter
    I had to fall
    To lose it all
    But in the end
    It doesn't even matter
    One thing, I don't know why
    It doesn't even matter how hard you try
    Keep that in mind
    I designed this rhyme
    To remind myself how
    I tried so hard
    In spite of the way you were mocking me
    Acting like I was part of your property
    Remembering all the times you fought with me
    I'm surprised it got so
    Things aren't the way they were before
    You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
    Not that you knew me back then
    But it all comes back to me in the end
    You kept everything inside
    And even though I tried, it all fell apart
    What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
    I tried so hard
    And got so far
    But in the end
    It doesn't even matter
    I had to fall
    To lose it all
    But in the end
    It doesn't even matter
    I've put my trust in you
    Pushed as far as I can go
    For all this
    There's only one thing you should know
    I've put my trust in you
    Pushed as far as I can go
    For all this
    There's only one thing you should know
    I tried so hard
    And got so far
    But in the end
    It doesn't even matter
    I had to fall
    To lose it all
    But in the end
    It doesn't even matter.

  • @kts0717
    @kts0717 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Litterally i see the thumbnail and it Comes to my mind
    "its starts with"

  • @JONNYTUBSTER
    @JONNYTUBSTER ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Shoutout Mr Fingers! I never knew he was the face of that NPC, that’s bloody amazing! Mr Fingers is such a pivotal producer in electronic music especially acid house. Can’t beat the amnesia compilation, bit dated but damn it’s fuckin great at where the squelchy, chunky house sound originates from

  • @SteinGauslaaStrindhaug
    @SteinGauslaaStrindhaug หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:56 What? Considering the situation, Father Grigori seemed very well balanced and friendly; I trusted him immediately.

  • @wealthybone2990
    @wealthybone2990 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Wait the characters faces are based on real people? So do most valve games actually use real faces? But this is actually really cool to know and I probably wouldn't never known and it's nice to know who these people are and what they're probably doing these days. Getting so used to half life it's like kinda uncanny seeing this people irl and I'd probably would mistaken them for their character lol.

    • @toomerboomer2772
      @toomerboomer2772 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yeah, Chell in Portal 2 (not sure about the first game) is actually modeled after the same person who voices Samus in Smash Bros

    • @lol3342
      @lol3342 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey its you!

    • @jensen1646
      @jensen1646 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Most game characters' faces are based on real faces. More and more companies are starting to use the same person for the face, voice, and mocap captures.

    • @CAMSLAYER13
      @CAMSLAYER13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Even the burned corpse is a real person

    • @unoriginalperson72
      @unoriginalperson72 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@CAMSLAYER13 Old news bro, nobody cares anymore

  • @fathergrigori-halflife-2
    @fathergrigori-halflife-2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    6:33 someone said father grigori?

    • @Frostbite8469
      @Frostbite8469 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *HOLY CRAP HO- OMG ITS THE MAD MAN HIMSELF*

  • @RadioMan2023
    @RadioMan2023 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The janitor after the toilet gets clogged: "prepare for...unforeseen consequences"

  • @ArachnoPyro
    @ArachnoPyro ปีที่แล้ว

    I had many hours many valve games and yet this channel teaches me new things every video

  • @fiskburger
    @fiskburger ปีที่แล้ว +8

    9:57 low key thought that was Trent Reznor

    • @John-mp4qc
      @John-mp4qc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Male 07 is skibidi toilet

  • @purpleourple
    @purpleourple ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I hope Eli’s face actor gets to learn how famous half life 2 and his character became, or at least got to learn.

  • @NoNameTaken117
    @NoNameTaken117 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I still remember the time when I found out that the hl2 models were actual people, I was scared of that fact because I thought actual people were trapped in the game and I was killing them just for my enjoyment while they were being tortured...
    Anyways I had a good childhood!

  • @atotiten
    @atotiten ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Imagine your teacher being g-man. Time...to submit your assignments doctor freeman.

  • @DoomMate
    @DoomMate ปีที่แล้ว

    Making a video about characters voices would be also interesting! I feel that with voice copying ai could create new dialogue line to newer games or for anything else. For example there are multiple of meme and not meme videos with Breen's voice. There is a video called "My apology to you humanity" and it is really good written and sounds amazing

  • @radu19d
    @radu19d ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lately i have seen more and more videos related to the half-life franchise and they have a ton of views and activity, and I am so happy to see this in the current context of gaming. The idea of game as art is not dead.

  • @wolfcl0ck
    @wolfcl0ck ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Thank the heavens that you addressed the nasty misinformation about Eli's face actor being Larry Heard. I'm so sick of having to correct people on it so frequently. And you *know* damn well that the only reason people think Heard was Eli is because he was the only bearded black man in the "thanks for letting us use your face" section of the credits despite the obvious differences between the two.

    • @Freemelon07
      @Freemelon07 ปีที่แล้ว

      They don't even look the same!
      It takes 2 seconds to Google "hl2 faces" for a chart of the main character's faces and their references to show up.

    • @ar_xiv
      @ar_xiv ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unfortunately it's double misinformation because it's a totally different Larry Heard to begin with lol

    • @Freemelon07
      @Freemelon07 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ar_xiv As in male_03's face?

  • @AudioEsoterixxx
    @AudioEsoterixxx ปีที่แล้ว +3

    THE FACE OF THE MALE RESISTANCE FIGHTER IS LARRY FUCKING HEARD?? LEGENDARY DEEP HOUSE PRODUCER???

  • @flybyhunter
    @flybyhunter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After all these years I can finally see the complete material about this interesting piece of our gaming lives ! Thanks!

  • @Kden21
    @Kden21 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Eli fact always makes me so sad, I really hope his face actor got to see the impact his likeness set for an entire industry

  • @CraftyCopy
    @CraftyCopy ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great video! although a shame you never discussed the creation of Gordon Freeman's face for Half-Life 2.
    Considering how much effort they put in, only for you to rarely see it, its really something. Also the combined faces look so strange....

    • @SynX00X
      @SynX00X ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've seen you before...

  • @endi7097
    @endi7097 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    the guy who became the G-man was "the right man, in the right place" we could say

  • @phelidaifrost6019
    @phelidaifrost6019 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a resident of the Seattle area, it’s crazy to know that so many of the classic half-life 2 NPCs live and work right virtually down the street, and I could bump into them someday.

  • @ijm519
    @ijm519 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gordon doesn't need to here this! He's a highly trained professional!

  • @wailmutt
    @wailmutt ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:09 perfect wording for gorgeous freeman

  • @highmedic2351
    @highmedic2351 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:38, I know this dude, and he is a good friend of mine. He was absolutely blown away and amazed that he made it into a video. He was so proud, and felt a crazy joy. He couldn't believe it.

    • @GrasshopperStudios2016
      @GrasshopperStudios2016 ปีที่แล้ว

      You know Michael S. Smith?

    • @highmedic2351
      @highmedic2351 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GrasshopperStudios2016 No, I was referring to the channel that was given a shoutout. At exactly 38 seconds, if you pause the video, there is a video by a TH-camr called "Maniac Hat" which is being displayed. I'm a friend of his, and I'm in one of their videos actually. If you go to his channel, and you look at the 12th most recent video or something, you will find a video called "HES MAKING IT SO FAT!". You will be able to see me in there.

    • @GrasshopperStudios2016
      @GrasshopperStudios2016 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@highmedic2351 cool

  • @donniecatalano
    @donniecatalano 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now I know who's behind I've been zooming in to, for years. Cheers