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Welcome to City 17 – The Mindblowing Beginning to Half-Life 2 | Blind Playthrough
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I love how blown away you are by a game that came out eighteen years ago. It's the best.
"You did all this?"
Meet Alyx. She's a hardass. 🙂
I love your playthroughs man, but I have to say it drives me nuts when people doing blind playthroughs "fuck around". Sure, at the start of a new game we all have to take some time to explore, and figure out the gameplay and the controls, but stuff like trying to put a plant pot on a character's head, or trying to stick a tic-tac-toe piece back on the frame? Nobody wants to see that, man. It might be wildly amusing to you, but it's dull as hell for those of us who have already played the game, and know what you can and can't do. We watch blind playthroughs because we want to see your reaction to, and ability with, the *game*.
My suggestion is that if you feel inclined to fuck around trying silly shit in a game, you do it offline, by yourself, after you've recorded the bit where you actually play through a section of the game. Because honestly dude, most of us find it tedious and annoying to watch. We want to see your reaction to the game, not how much you get off on messing around.
Okay. Sorry. Had to get that off my chest. Let me add that I loved your playthrough of "Alyx", and I am sure I will love this playthrough too… just as soon as you stop pissing around and concentrate on the game. 😄
it's so nice to see people being amazed by how good hl2 is i wish i could replay it and feel those emotions once again
love watching people discover half life 2, it's one of my favorite series and i play it everyday just cuz i got into speedruning
Im so Glad that I played all the half lifes and portal games in my childhood. These are God tier!!!
(I loved destruction as a child so I loved them even more lol)
This game broke everyones mind on what was possible in gaming, a benchmark
Im 31 and been playing half-life since day one. It molded my life and set standards for todays games. seeing your reaction to it bring me nostalgic joy that people are still experiencing it.
If he soon plays half life 2 episode 1 or 2 cool.
The best part is when Civil Protection raids and FORCES him to stop fucking around.
For me as someone who grew up on Doom and Half-Life and others is mindboggling that someone never played it before
36:30 free TVs flashback
HL2 takes place in 2023, just gonna say they went all out with accuracy for 2004
This game is insanely good
This is like “the dark knight” of video games
Keep in mind this game came out in 2004 The same year as Spider-Man 2 the movie game watch videos on that game and youll see how insane this looks compared
father gregori plays half life
dude fucks around with source engine for 1 hour straight and i love it
I bet every single person who has played this has tried bashing the lock in the start with a brick 😝
keemstar
I love seeing people play HL2 for the first time, it's so magical.
You're soo impressed by its graphics physics and all this game runs on my phone smoothly bruh idk how they did it but they made this game soo smooth that it even runs on a phone like that's incredible
I like how you turn away in real life instead of in the game when they flash you xd
This game is great. Just keep in mind that its more of a shooter than a puzzle like the original game.
You seemed annoyed by some puzzles in the first game so maybe thats a good thing for you? xd
You should play black mesa which is the remake of half life 1 it's honestly amazing
Best game of all time.
You forgot Half-Life: Decay?
I love how much fun you are having just goofing around with the physics engine.
It feels really good to see someone else enjoying one of my all time favorite games! I've played everything except Alyx, so all of the expansions for both games (Including Decay) as well as Portal 1 and 2. The Half-Life/Portal universe is just fucking amazing.
34:14 Only Mapocolops can make a game MORE horrifying by making the baby doll cry over and over while he puts it on the swing.
Its not that hard…imagine Freeman showing up in his suit? He would be shot in first second by combine…ofcourse he has normal clothing, to not be too much on eyes…until he meets some friendly guys which suits him up and send on proper mission to do some stuff.
I watched your Portal & Portal 2 playthroughs, and now HL2. Your excitement and energy is so great and nice to follow, almost like I can experience these games again for the first time. And we all still love these games!
IIRC, the console version of Half Life had a co-op campaign where you were two other scientists at Black Mesa and you meet the administrator. But that was a long time ago, and not sure if I am remembering it correctly.
13:42 Aw man. See this? This beautiful reaction to seeing a past character return? I've hardly (if ever) seen this in a Valve game playthrough, and I'm all for it
…Or maybe I'm just not searching enough
Have a look at Black Mesa by the Crowbar Collective if you haven't already. Completely remade the original games with Valves blessing. Amazing work.
51:42 us older people won't get it out of our head that it's Benson talking to us, not Eli.
Quite simply, the best game I ever played when i first got my pc in 1999. Its still remains in my top 5 to this day, a timeless masterpiece
Oh man, it was great seeing you pog at Barney’s name lol
Man it's so satisfying seeing someone play this and paying attention to the lore and dialogue, and even more so when you also paid attention and got to know the lore of the past games.
So many people miss the plot and fail to understand the HL universe just because they leave it to the player to figure out instead of forcing exposition.
This game blown my mind too, when I played it for the first time in 2007. Absolutely brilliant game
Why do you keep wasting time
pls, play some of the GTA games if you haven't, it would be hilarious
Do you plan on playing Half Life Alyx?
7:35
The world and every character mean soo much more if you played the previous games before this one, which i didnt… Rofl
I cant tell you how irritated I am with Valve for not finishing this story. For fucks sake at least admit that you dont care to finish it up, and give us closure. Dammit Gabe!
Makes me happy seeing someone so excited with Half Life 2 as I was! Thank you lol