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[Chuck Berry]

Didn’t see a thread for it and it deserves one. Over two hours of nut busting glory about one of the greatest and most impactful of all time.

Happy 20th Mr. Freeman



Also goes well with the awesome NoClip doc

 

[violence]

I see this game and a pepperoni pizza in my future.

 

[Bry0]

I like what Gabe is saying in the end. Gimme that crowbar.

 

[DAHGAMING]

I like what Gabe is saying in the end. Gimme that crowbar.

Whats he saying ? Hiting at HL3 ?

 

[Bry0]

Whats he saying ? Hiting at HL3 ?

Essentially that half life is a “tool” to present new innovations and gameplay to players and there is “no shortage of those opportunities facing us an industry right now”.

 

[DAHGAMING]

Essentially that half life is a “tool” to present new innovations and gameplay to players and there is “no shortage of those opportunities facing us an industry right now”.

Thanks mate , HL3 confirmed then .

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I watched this last night. I appreciated the bit about the facial animation, where they referenced some guy's technical cataloging of how people's faces move and emote, then they implemented his findings in their rigging. And after they "cracked" it, the animator was like, "Alyx just looked at me!" Neat.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I just watched this and it was an amazing 2 hours

- An intern who spoke Korean was asked to look through some legal documents and accidentally found the "smoking gun" email which allowed them to win a lawsuit against their then-publisher (Vivendi) which saved the company

- Gabe Newell reached the point where he had run out of his own personal funds to continue funding Valve and sold his house just to raise enough money to keep going and try to ship Half-Life 2

- Gabe was almost bitten by a shark while scuba diving off South Africa lmao

- HL2 was developed "back to front", the opening train ride into City 17 was almost the last thing made before the game shipped, only the game's ending Citadel sequence was made after it

- Episode 3 was quite literally "Left 4 Dead", they made and shipped L4D and that took them so long that no one wanted to go back to Episode 3 afterwards

- It was originally Gabe who had the vision that you really could distribute software over the Internet, and it was ultimately his decision to forcibly bundle HL2 with Steam and launch the distribution service with the game and tie them together, thus changing the entire course of PC gaming forever

- Gabe feels guilty that he never fulfilled his promise to the players to complete the HL2 Episodes Trilogy as it was originally planned

 

[Ponderling]

Finished it last night, great watch but I can't believe there was nothing in there about the game's incredible music.
Kelly Bailey's soundtrack truly elevates HL2 from perfect to god status.