I guarantee you that Half-Life 3 will just show up on Steam one day without any announcement or marketing whatsoever.

@@wta1518that would break the fucking internet Edit: why did my comment get zero likes lol

@@wta1518ffs i hope so. my grandkids will still be waiting for that game.

Its okay, Im sure Valve will come out with a VR only Half Life 3 so Gabe can do another interview with no shoes in new zealand like he did last launch xD

@@wta1518 i mean does it need marketing at this point? "here it is" in a hour it probably gonna shut down the internet

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classic valve move tbf

Just like everything

Oh yeah they also made Half Life free for a limited time

​@@StevieOk-hr8yhI've heard it was a visual bug and no one could get it.

Too vague of a statement sadly.

@@jasonvoorhees8899yes that’s the joke

this doc is the kind of think you would commission if you were looking to build preliminary hype for hl3 though...

If you are narcissistic control freak who does not listen to other people and who doesn’t care about fans then sure, your cult leader is a fucking genius, whatever weirdo!!!

What makes this even more significant is that this has been paraphrased before, by Sean Murray. He was in the crossroads on whether he should move on to a next project or stay and fix No Man's Sky and he said someone from Valve quoted that line and told him to finish the game. Gabe Newell may be the person who got Hello Games to make NMS the success it is now.

@@StrikeWarlock That's so awesome! Gaben really was years ahead of his time...

isn't this basically the shigeru miyamoto quote

Yeah but… he made me pay 7$ for a hat i don’t use

that's actually copied from Nintendo's CEO

Vine my man!!

Half life rly was built different. judging from this documentary they knew that the whole time

Thank you for providing many great live streams of this game.

damn right

hi vinesas

don't forget about the absolute banger soundtrack also

Rockstar fans:....

I think its because it's a good past unlike so many other software companies.

Why? Out of all the big companies today, Valve has a lot more reason to look back and be proud of how far they've come.

​@@asagudaBecause they haven't published an original IP in over 11 years.

Every time they release something Half-Life related my heart sinks a little

And he never wrote a soundtrack before Halflife Like wot?

@@self-proclaimedanimator I suppose it helps he had played music before but its really such a unique instance where someone truly is really good at making something.

And he knew 0 music making knowledge pre HalfLife, this guy is legendary at music making and didn't know anything.

Exactly what I thought, makes sense why all the sound is perfect. It's because it was made only by one guy, one mind, one vision. And he f******g nailed it!

@@Vektor.666 A lot of it was sound fx and beats from CD compilations but sampled and edited in fitting manner for HL. Just to be clear it wasn't all from scratch

The remake Black Mesa is also amazing. Definitely did the original half life justice. And the remastered blue shift and soon to come opposing forces as well. So awesome

three did you say three? half life 3 confirmed

And 12000 comments. Even the number of comments is an impressive stat, it's disproportionately high considering view count.

I've never played it and still never will.

@@neyaneya5554 really sorry for you 🤷

Hopefully for its 20th anniversary next year!

It would cool if we could see a Half-Life 3 documentary.

Don’t count on it

Half Life 2 E3 demo from 2003 is still crazy. People were watching the future.

Just gotta wait another 6 years

Steam deck and cs2 needed more time in the oven when they launched. The frequent uodates got the deck into a good place at least

@@phoenixvance6642 They felt it was ready to release. You can't find all the problems with a smaller team of people. Sometimes you have to put something through its paces before you know what you need to improve upon or fix

Look at CS2, valve changed their philisophy

Similarly "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad" (attributed to Miyamoto at Nintendo)

@@Nitro2030ce true, has anyone here seen the meme "software tester walks into a bar"? it's a pretty good summary of what software testing is like you put in a bunch of weird inputs, make sure they all work then a normal user says one thing you didn't think of, and, as the meme says at the end, "the bar goes up in flames"

god damn RIGHT

So is they planning to release 3.0?

Most games are designed to be fun

@@Oscaragiousnot anymore yakhi

@@JesusChrist_Denton That's a slight to most indie devs.

It was well worth the weight.

I'll have to add that that was true for games, until Steam hit the market - nowadays bad games can bounce back from the suck, assuming the studio will double down in their effort on improving the game. See Terraria (which wasn't bad, but kinda basic when 1.0 released), No Man's Sky, or Cyberpunk 2077. Before Steam, that 'formula' was _definitely_ true.

​@@NostraDavid2 But you can't be a fresh brand studio consisting of a bunch of people who never worked on a single released game, release an unfinished game and expect people to just buy the game when it's ready. Also even for huge studios releasing a broken game will take away the trust from your fans, it's a stain you can't remove with an update patch as much as you try.

Explains why we don’t have HL3 yet

what if late IS forever... *cough* hl3 *cough*

Except they haven't shown up in mire then 5 years. But you can have a steam deck!!. So theres that. They need to finish half life. Im not giving them praise for shifting to a money making machine. They have enough resources to try amd fail. They just seem to lack the ambition or maybe talent at this point to craft a good story to finish free-mans story.

@@-redacted_by_youtube Yeah, we can't argue that

@@MarcoAntonioColioGallardo lol Right?

@@-redacted_by_youtube No, they just stopped making games. "Gamers" tend to focus on the games themselves, but very few people acknowledge the decade Valve spent building up steam and generally improving the PC Gaming space in the time that they didn't produce any video games. The modern Indie community only exists because of Valve and steam as the biggest example of this. Now they seem to be getting back into making games directly, but simultaneously Valve seems to be trying to further improve on the broader gaming industry by breaking the Windows monopoly(making tools for Linux to run most games). Basically, Valve stopped making games so they could become a benevolent monopoly, improving all of our experiences as gamers(I hate the way that sounds) in ways that we don't even know to acknowledge.

@@doctordoggo8604 ok cool. Where is half life 3!!!!?!?!?

It’s the lightining most of us dream to ride.

"Late is just for a little awhile. Suck is forever." -Lord GabeN

half life 3 might be coming just very late then?

I mean, it does show when you play through these games. Even today.

I feel like all of the original writers quitting is a sign that it's getting too late.

they'll find a way

dude's a genius that's for sure!

a good chunk of it is outright pulled from commercial sound libraries. what ended up in the game is heavily modified, but still...

yeah especially the scientist sound

there are still game released today, 25 years later where the guns sound weak / like shit. Satisfying gun sounds is essential to a FPS.

I was crapping my pants as a teenager when I heard that Houndeye sound effect for the first time.

That is INSANE! Even though they admit it themselves that xen was a bit undercooked, all the other parts are brilliant and the game itself is nothing short of a work of art

However, could you make a game like half life any other way?

Survivorship bias. 95% of new businesses fail. The ones that don't are, by definition, extraordinary. You have to work hard and be lucky. Good on Valve for nailing both.

It's all passion and hardwork, something no gaming company today understands

@frostden especially lucky. there are many many hard workers out there with good ideas even, but they still don't make it.

they probably won't

3 is all I have to say.

"recent past" xD

Y'all really are some heavy dickriders, it's just a fucking video

TF2 community: Are you sure about that?

Do you know the NoClip or Gvmers channels?

Gaming is starting to get old enough to lose the first generation of game designers

@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 first games were made in the 70s, it already happened

There's def a major in,terest in these making of stories as well. Twisted Metal has a great one that came with the stellar Head On Extra Twisted edition on PS2. There's been quite a lot of Street Fighter stuff put out there as well. Wish more stuff of this ilk was made.

I hope they come back to Team Fortress 2 again in 2027 for the game’s 20th anniversary.

Bro if you want heavy update you can just say it lol, kinda preaching to the choir

@TheFace89 I don’t want a heavy update because unlike everyone else, I’m aware that we already had it in august 2008. All I REALLY want is for valve to combat the bot crisis.

@@heavenandhello6629 Honestly we need another Heavy update simply because they said it was going to happen sometime after the Jungle Inferno and it never did. Heavy's also hugely lacking in options that change his playstyle compared to the other classes. Most people say Heavy is boring-- that needs to change!

@@DropsOfMars Well the only reason I think he’s boring is because his old stock minigun viewmodel from 2007-2014 is gone. We also need back every old detail that was shown in youtuber Crowbcat’s “tf2 2007 and now” video. And plus, we shouldn’t have any more major updates before the bot problem is solved. Because for example, even if we had a 2nd heavy update, people would just get turned off from it by the bots.

Yea crazy, huge talents.

well it makes sence tbh for that stuff to be done by 1 person props to them

The music in Half Life is amazing, especially 'Nuclear Mission Jam' and the main theme.

​@@DashMatinlike notch or markus persson who make Minecraft by himself and later create a huge Community also not sence its sense (not a police grammar)

i make music a bit of textures and sounds for my game, it gives me life literally

Update?

What update M?

Update?

The fact that The fact that The fact that The fact that The fact that The fact that The fact that The fact that The fact that

Check your HL copies guys

They want to innovate videogames on every half life game launch and try to make all fans happy, you can see why half life 3 may take a life time 😅

still no third game tho, i sad@@scaydsods2844

cs2 cough cough

Came out BEFORE HL3@@ChopTactician

You have been fooled. They do not care.

He is a master, he make a masterpiece of sound in HL, i listen almost every day to the OST of HL and the ambience. is amazing i love it.

sound design in games fell off hard, but half life was definitely peak

also Morpho is a very funny app, it's a shame it's not on appstore anymore, I used to have a blast making weird faces in it

A big thank you to the sample CDs of that era too

Полностью с Вами согласен, это половина моей любви к ХЛ

But they can't count to No.3 or update The Heavy

@@mariobros68they are making half life barney vr game

@@player70477 and the heavy update for tf2 what?

@@mariobros68 they are making team fortress engineer vr game too

Hold up! What update?!

just look at hollow knight community to see where that leads

They already did. They said they episodes were in lieu of HL3 a long time ago. Who cares though? The company supports child rape and murder. Why would you play their games?

​@@Flat_Earth_Addythe fuck are you talking about?

@@Jasonwithadot What?

​@Jasonwithadot They're a Flerf, just ignore them.

@@mechadeka Are you all on drugs?

Gabes precognitive vision was so on point.

mmhmm.. just like episode 3 has been for a little while, and probably will be forever 😭

This is quote is largely attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto. "A Delayed Game Is Eventually Good, a Bad Game Is Bad Forever"

It is true for that era. Sadly, now the patches and updates have become a crutch for developers. It is noticeable, so many developers rely on future patches nowadays. Back in the day it was like the World Cup in Football, one chance every 4 years. Now, it is like the Super Bowl, comes around every year. easy.

@@alittlecreepywhenyou Why don't you give us your viewpoint on precognition? I'm serious!

Yeeeaahhh sell the immortality potion there bud. But yesone of the greats

AI will create every variation of half life 3 possible, for us, in about 30 years, so no need to wait thousands of years my guy.

Walking legends in the flesh.

Would have been great of they came together to finish the GODDAMN STORY!!!

we getting gta 6 trailer before half life 3

Waiting for Half Life 3 ofcourse

​@@victorn1291 HLA post credits scene

What are you doing now?

@@MacenW Went on to be employee 11 or something at Gearbox, executive produced the original Borderlands ->Quit and started my own studio and ran that for 10 years (working on tons of games) ->Sold the studio to Zenimax and then rolled the studio into Bethesda Game Studios becoming a Studio Director there -> Got acquired by Xbox and shipped Starfield -> Just quit Bethesda and am starting a new studio to make an original game. It's been a hell of a 25-years.

Swallowed up when the G-man took us all as time hostages.

So glad other people feel the same way. No game for me has EVER recreated that feeling that half-life gave me. Half-life 2 intro was similar.

AMEN 🙏

Well said!

amazing guy

Right? As a father myself I really felt for him after he opened up about that. What a guy!

Next year will be Counter-Strike's 25th anniversary. Something big will happen.

​@@OriginalPuromaybe... but I want Alyx!

Would be pretty dope to see docs on left 4 dead and portal, what they used as inspirations n stuff.

I'm fairly certain those games already have a dev commentary and while that doesn't replace this type of thing it would certainly be a reason for valve not to do it@@AlexashaG

I wanna hear the one how they stopped making games because it was easier and way faster to make money selling other peoples games, getting kids addicted to gambling, and loli games. Lots and lots of loli games

gay

Absolutely agree.

gold comment

Same. But for me, I bought Half Life on day one. And to this day, it's still my favorite game of all time.

@@chrishayes7771 yeah we gay, keep scrollin

yes

engineers and creative people vs bragging entrepreneurs.

yeah thats because they have some busy years in front of them. with cs2. potientialy a portal 3 or left 4 dead 3 ? they HAVE to be there for their fans.

They dropped the ball on Counter Strike 2's launch.

indeed@@saricubra2867

which was a huge mistake on their part. they should have released the game with a new operation and all the maps.... not with missing trains and cache and cobblestone lol@@saricubra2867

Haha don't get your hopes up

I still hope for Half-Life 3 please...

Just Gaben casually raising 3 fingers, I can't imagine the shitstorm it would cause lmao.

It's called Alyx@@vurhn2009

Maybe they are building towards Half Life 3 with the documentary

@@genie4539 That's what I was hoping for too, actually I have been hoping this at least a few times a year for 19 years lol. I think if Alyx had been more successful it would be a more likely release but I'm not sure VR is there yet. The headsets still cost way too much for the average consumer and are too bulky and encumbering imo

Not unheard of. Westwood, Blizzard and several others have redefined or created genres.

@@CoreusSymphonia They weren't upstart studios founded out of the dark, though. That's why they said it was almost unheard of.

they havent touched a relevant pc title since l4d2 theyre busy running their new hentai platform

They are the master of not screwing first sequels. They have yet to make a second sequel

​@@susperdis You can't just exclude everything non-pc and say they haven't been doing anything. Specially now that they've just released a steam deck OLED.

Facts the first Half Life holds up vary well

its actually not, skyrims better

@@Uncle_Pavelic Nah dude the only reason why Skyrim has aged well is because of mods

hes a troll ...@@The_Blue_Otaku

@@Uncle_Pavelic skyrim is not even the best elder scrolls game.

I'd say she influenced the final aesthetic of the game more than anyone, everything avoids being drab like quake or garish like doom. Visual aesthetics of HL1 massively hold up because of this.

inb4 "women ruin everything" banter

​​@@kuklama0706 seems like i wasn't able to get inb4 someone had to make this comment relate to politics in some way. we get it. women deserve rights. women are humans too. and it's a horrible thing that some people don't agree. but it doesn't mean you should keep saying that on completely non-political comments.

WAMEN ruin good comment threads.@@romancatholicgameing

The red rock texture always stood out to me as one of my favourites once you made it outside.

I remember when I was 13 playing a copy of CS 1.6, when I was bored I decided to check inside the folders, found this game which nobody around me (even other cs players) ever heard about, after I was done I was telling dudes about it and getting them to play it for years on end.

I to remember this vibe of the game feeling way ahead of it's time, at the time of release. I can't recall any games in 1998 that pushed graphics so far except maybe Unreal 1 but HL still looked better with the level design and enemy interactivity. It was ahead of it's time in many ways, the first "modern" FPS. I remember things coming a year or two after which started to compete, like Undying, Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament, Sin. Really top tier graphics and/or gameplay for their years. But HL1 did it first and a year before.

listen to the abomination of the ada wong phone-in voice work on the resident evil 4 remake.... and making the ashley character look like an old granny? authenticity>technology and `messaging`

​@journeytosilius1 both Unreal and Half Life looked beautiful for me

Hard to fond fault in that. Well put.

deus ex? doom 3?

@@Spartanhero613 doom 3 was after half life.

@@Spartanhero613 by a lot of years lol

Doom and Quake began the era of true 3d games and half-life created the new industry standard for today.

I could tell it was NoClip without even looking at the credits, it just felt right. They do fantastic work.

How about that Gameplay Director, Frank Howley? SOMEBODY SHOULD GIVE THAT GUY A RAISE.

Remember when during the 20th Anniversary of _Half-Life,_ Danny O'Dwyer couldn't get a single interview or even an email reply back from Valve for his NoClip documentary? Times have changed.

it's a really unique game franchise. the first game is kinda jank but it's fun. there's a lot of fan games and mods too

Kids back then are now adults and possibly married and got family 😂😂😂 yeah that’s how long, half of our lives

damn we are old af rn

Man this game is older than me

We're getting old, my friend.

😂😂😂

maybe, but definitely not visually lol

That's what Black Mesa is for. Old game, fully updated into the new engine. @@zombl337og

@@zombl337og nah even visually it still holds up not with the current graphical standards but as a stylistic visual.

@@zombl337og If you want the updated visuals just play Black Mesa.

Истина ,👍

That's what I felt as well. The games industry is completely different today, the way Half Life came together is totally unique. I don't think theres less heart in it these days. I think there are a lot more passionate and talented people in the industry now than there ever was, and actually making a game is much more accessible for those people today than it was in the past. The big AAA studios are going to pump out soulless games, but there are also a lot of small indie teams out there producing some incredible games that are full of heart. Outer Wilds, Hades, Hollow Knight to name a few.

​@@Blazik3n99 I think there is less heart as a fraction of the whole, although the whole has indeed grown. And companies that made great things in the past are always at risk of being infected with the Moneyball virus and focus-group, HR-ified blandness. Watching Blizzard's evolution over the years has really hurt. I recently played Outer Wilds and I agree with you. That game really made me feel something. Not quite as much as Half Life did though.

The mega budgets in triple A games can be the thing that can cripple them as much as help them I guess. So much capital is at stake and games have got sooo comlpex that they sometimes have to play it safe as so much is at stake. Throw in some box ticking, a few loot boxes to squeeze your wallet even more, varying degrees of quality control on launch day, mandatory subscription services etc etc. Back when games were pressed on discs (or cartridges, floppys, tape etc), they had to be essentially water tight, *finished* code - none of this patch it later with multiple GB's worth of data. The thing I also miss is the whole, 'Here's the world, go explore and figure it out..' No dumb highlighted prompts, or arrows just literally telling you where to go. Half Life 1/2 was just a beautiful experience of quiet isolated exploration mixed with full on loud gun fights that was so contrasting but blended perfectly, and all while respecting your intelligence. If you got lost, then you just kept searching. Indie is where it's at for me - crazy ideas, fun, risks taken etc. That's not to say big budget games don't do this either or with less passion as they are all just creative people doing what they love, but I find the idea of Indie devs being the bedroom coder revival of the past. I love this and seeing the explosion of these is heart warming. I played through HL2 recently and It still holds up brilliantly. Yeah, it's a bit clunky here and there but the atmosphere and characters still hit you. I'd forgotten what a good voice performace that the Alyx artist gave - so much warmth in that voice and the ending got me all over again 😂

it s cause modern video game companies are laser focused on marketing. And subtelty does not advertise video games. It is grandiose pursuit. The bombastic orchestral music or intense ecstatic synth. This is like when Tchaikovsky hated the cannons in his music. Because in the end it shouldnt be about being grand and pointless, but human.

It must've been a no-brainer for Valve to hire them after the last Half-Life documentary.

The dude is a psycho

Have the largest smile in my face seeing he finally got it to happen!

fuck

Wym he's a psycho?@@bretttheillustrator

kelly bailey is the voice actor for gordon freeman

True. When I heard he left Valve it broke my heart. The audio team with alyx done a phenomenal, if not just as good of a job as Kelly even without him being present, but would love to see him come back.

Triage at Dawn still brings me to tears

hon the deise!

NoClip Crew? Whats that?

​@@yeetbro3659I'm interested as well

@@yeetbro3659NoClip is a UKposts channel that makes very good documentaries about video games and the industry

​@@yeetbro3659youtube.com/@NoclipDocs?si=MS7rK8SGfaQ_-eNW

Seriously. Incredibly immersive soundscape. And I still listen to HL1 and 2 OSTs today.

Not to mention the sfx meme legacy

If Half Life 3 ever happens I really hope he will come back. Music and sound design are very important and he nailed them perfectly.

Sound guys never fail to amaze me. I don't know any game that has shitty sounds. Frank Klepacki is another legend.