Unforeseen Consequences: A Half-Life Documentary
Unforeseen Consequences: A Half-Life Documentary
What happens when one of the most revolutionary series in video games suddenly goes dark? To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Noclip hits the road to investigate the legacy of Half-Life and the incredible community working to keep the dream alive.
Featuring Geoff Keighley (The Game Awards), Cory Barlog (God of War), Vince Zampella (Titanfall / Call of Duty), Randy Pitchford (Borderlands), Laura Michet, Scott Smith, Robert Yang and more.
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Half-Life Tracks Used:
HL2 CP Violation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlQRyuKSsFc
HL1: Electric Guitar Ambience – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDpuwqn1hvY
HL1: Cavern Ambiance – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIeX7ebzNPo
HL1: Drums & Riffs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqLH-raNvw
HL2: Nova Prospekt – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvypOazP54U
HL1: Vague Voices – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVu3qlU22qc
HL2: Escape Array – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3TCuXdMpAo
HL2: Particle Ghost – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qstnizb2Y0o
HL2 – Ep2: Nectarium – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vl3jDYLBP4
HL2: Highway 17 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcnsAFDSDD8
HL2: Shadows Fore And Aft – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU5dQsIJcYk
HL2: Lab Practicum – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg8lJMWBbdI
HL2: Triage at Dawn – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-GU4jvSvz4
Licensed Music Used:
Symbiosis- https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/symbiosis_90929
Under Earth 3 – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/under-earth-3_113315
What Once Was – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/what-was-once_67628
Mirrored Image 3 – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/mirrored-image-3_71008
Nocturnal 2 – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/nocturnal_158622
Human Breakdown – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/human-breakdown_165115
Metallised – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/metallised_145784
Free At Last – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/free-at-last_121903
Serendipity – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/serendipity_69011
Like Butterflies – https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/like-butterflies_79777
59:57 shoot shit half-life Alyx was already in production at this time?? No wonder it was so polished they don’t have some parent company pushing faster release dates and trend chasing. They ARE the parent company
wonder what 33:33 1frame of cd keys ment
Inspiring fact:
The "creepy" Intro with the man with a Valve for an eye means/symbolizes "Open your eyes"
While the other one, with a man with a Valve behind his head means/symbolizes "Open your mind"
1:42:22 seth rogen’s brief stint at valve
Some of the most overrated games of all time.
15:38 "Their AI wasn’t that revolutionary but it was"
Makes me think of the meme "I’m not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens"
I love u girl
at @33:33 you gave away some half life keys i guess.
so, HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED??
Fantastic, thanks.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out what Randy’s shirt is about.
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59:57 half life alyx here yo
Before this video released I didn’t finish half life 2 yet, when I heard the intro track just now again I checked, and to see that it’s actually from the same game just proves more half life is timeless and you can actually play it for an entire life.
nicely done man! saving black mesa as my next game to run through, cant wait to see just how different it is from the original!!
GameCrook is working, all others are scams
Remember playing Half-Life as a kid when it first came out being on that train looking at the map saying wow got me hooked I wanted to explore lol
when ai in 20+ year old game works better than t posing in star citizen
"Half life must have been the game that spawned the most mods."
Minecraft: Am I a joke to you?
What if all the brilliant programmers knew the current platform couldn’t handle all the chaos. I remember DM servers crashing and rebooting on too much. I still have a server sitting in my garage I havent powered up since 2012 to wich HL2 was already old news. I want to believe HL2 paved the way for what we play now.
Thanks for watching our documentary on the legacy of Half-Life! Before you ask, yes we have a number of break-out videos coming from this. We’ll have a longer chat with Scott Smith about the history of Counter-Strike, a chat with Geoff about The Game Awards, Cory about God of War and a few more. Look out for those over the coming weeks. We also have a 40-minute behind-the-scenes feature available for Patrons and Channel Subscribers so if you want to watch that and help fund more docs like these, check out our Patreon: https://patreon.com/noclip – Thanks again for watching. Make sure to hit that like button, subscribe, spam your friends and tell your gran! (Caption inbound. We ordered them a week ago, still waiting. I guess this video was long.)
Team Fortress 2 should be discussed. I still play 2fort capture the flag, and it seems to have a strong internet presence still, as I never have any issues playing with people from around the world. GREAT GAME, and should be discussed or documented.
Wow, I hate almost everything about this ‘docu’. It’s like you can’t be creative without that one IP, lLike you just can’t create something new. Maybe that’s why we have this endless stream of subpar sequels, this fucking constipation. ‘This is why we can’t have nice things.’
All this talent and all this creativity put down the drain.
After seeing this I’m all for Valve distancing themselves from HL3. I undestand now.
Fans truly are the worst
With Half Life and Portal, Valve could have created or started a universe like the MCU…
Even Gordon Freeman looks like Tony Stark.
And that VR project was Half-Life: Alyx
Would be interesting to see a follow-up to this based on some of the comments made by some of the interviewees regarding Half-Life 3 or Episode 3. Now that Alyx is out–it again, like previous Half-Life iterations, changed the way the gaming industry viewed yet another digital medium – VR.
Oblivion was the game that changed my expectations of games
Half-Life rocked my world. I sunk hundreds of hours into the Uplink demo. On a 486. It was like nothing I’d ever seen or even thought possible. I must have modded the skill.cfg file in every possible way to change up the experience. I even started making up my own backstory in my head as to who I was and what was happening around me.
Also; frig off Randy. Anything you were ever involved in that was any good was good in spite of you, not because of you. You hack.
this would be the one game i would send money to, to continue
From the bottom of my heart, this is my favorite documentary ever made. What a ride. Thank you.
I never even heard of Half Life until very recently.
I can hear Chris Hansen when dude at 4:55 starts talking…
Will all the half life games run under windows 98? Or to better phrase the question is… What is the oldest Windows os that would run all the half life games?
Half Life 1: Best multiplayer game ever.
Double shot shotgun, jumping across levels while gauss killing, pressing the airstrike button in crossfire, laser guided rocket launcher, acid trapdoor, mp5 noobtube, crossbow, laser tripmine
i loved it
amazing
Cool to watch this now, and both black Mesa and HLA have been released. Both were worth the wait
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So basically Valve is the parent that got everybody to care more about them by never coming back with the milk.
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It’s funny that one of the epistle 3 gamejam games had the whole "friendship ended with gordon, alyx is now my best friend" when that’s literally what happens at the end of HL:alyx years later lmao
I wonder what are the cd keys on a frame at 33:33
So happy I found this. I used to sketch drawings of the blast in my 4th grade class. The other kids were so confused haha
56:15 2020 Covid world.
what if that’s why there will never be a HL3, to fuel the fire that makes the modders want to create mods to fill that gap?
we want half life 3
I once found a stuffed head-crab toy at a game store with my nephew. He had no idea what the hell it was. I showed him Half Life just as my dad showed me as a kid when it first came out. Good times
u made a road trip out of it lol haha grat
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GMan talks like he doesn’t know how to use lungs.