Join the discord!!! :P discord.gg/zEszSzE4g8 Correction: As some of you have pointed out, Half-Life: Alyx released after this mod did, which made a point I made in the Half-Life: Alyx spoiler section irrelevant! Sorry for that mistake!

@54326dustinearls

8 ай бұрын

Hey, the only reason why all things electronic and failing before the resonance cascade was because the test parameters and pretest drawing so much power, one scientist even says when you get lower in the complex, "the system wasn't meant to handle this much"

@1lucia

8 ай бұрын

@@54326dustinearls interesting, though that dosen't explain the entire complex shaking sometimes I think?

@gloryowner1970

8 ай бұрын

Sorry for driving the conversation off-topic. But the born poster is actually just a poster not a graffiti. Even though the file name for it probably is Graffiti_03 or something.

@paulybird7598

6 ай бұрын

Then wouldn't it be a good idea to edit that part out if it isn't relevant and only causes misconception? (And while your at it, perhaps you could also cut the spongebob part out? You have no idea how greatly my ptsd has been triggered by it.)

You arent a security guard in this game, telling by the white seleves when holding a weapon in this game, we are a scientist.

@1lucia

8 ай бұрын

To be fair I am colorblind but aren’t they kinda tinted blue or gray a bit?

@ryzinprime3049

8 ай бұрын

Really, we don't get access to weapons nor the armor until AFTER the incident, it seems like we have no security guard credentials.@@1lucia

@ryzinprime3049

8 ай бұрын

forgot to mention the white hud but that should be obvious :skull:

@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118

8 ай бұрын

​@@1lucia the player model is a scientist if you use cheats for thirdperson.

@Wojtek_Ch

8 ай бұрын

The real question is Why do we all have to wear these RI DI CU LOUS ties?

Echoes really injected that sense of horror and fear that HL1 played around with. First time playing, it was genuinely kinda terrifying at times.

@LolCat361

8 ай бұрын

same with cry of fear

@user-le1zw5nk9w

8 ай бұрын

I took my headphones off at the Mr friendly part because of how scared I was 😭

@dauzlee2827

8 ай бұрын

I had to mute my audio during the vent chase part because I was too frightened by the creatures

@homegrown6845

3 ай бұрын

HL1 didn't 'play around' with it, it was insanely cool at the time. It's just you people needing constant sensorial input to feel horror and fear these days.

Fun fact: If you noclip to the scientist running at 2:33 you can see that its gordon freeman running to the trams since hes late to work

@AccountTesting101

Ай бұрын

Damn

It's worth pointing out this mod came out BEFORE Half-Life Alyx. As far as anyone knew, Epistle 3 was the end of the Half-Life story at that point.

@IlhagThePoor

8 ай бұрын

these were the dark times

@wolxthewolf3362

5 ай бұрын

I know the episode 3 blog isn't canon and this game came out before alyx but let's pretend that isn't the truth so I can share my own speculation for this. Episode 3 does happen and the reason alyx was taken away was because she got hired after her HLA self made the deal with the gman that took them both and the alyx from the end of episode 2 from their own time.

@csmadisun

5 ай бұрын

All this cross-timeline confusion is making my head hurt.

I love the backtracking part of the mod, seeing the same place getting torn apart after the incident is great

@laylaruan

8 ай бұрын

Yeah as great as all the odysseys being taken in the actual Half Life games and many other mods are, it's surprisingly interesting to get a sense of the disaster by watching one location steadily deterioriate

I think the fact that the protagonists' identity is up in the air has a charm in and of itself, since it helps immerse the player more into the role of a random scientist working during and surving the resonance cascade. One other thing that also helps the immersion is the HEV guard, since he serves as a sort of in-universe "protagonist" - saving lives, going on fun adventures, etc. while you are just trying to survive this whole ordeal. For all intents and purposes, the player character is just one of the many scientists Gordon or HEV guy finds during the game, only being used to open doors or heal the player.

@Michael_Hunt

8 ай бұрын

The HEV guard is my only gripe with the mod. It's not lore friendly at all and just goofy. Guards don't wear HEV suits, especially before the incident.

@Jell-o-cide

8 ай бұрын

​@@Michael_HuntIt might not even be a guard. His voice and face model might have been chosen on the account that they have more combat related voice clips.

@dylanzlol7293

7 ай бұрын

​@@Jell-o-cidemaybe the barney clone was chosen because the hev suit corpses didnt really have a face modeled

@Pacman009

2 ай бұрын

@@Michael_Huntwhy wouldn’t they? What if they need to guard a hazardous area or a base in xen

Thank you so much - I am astounded people are still enjoying my mod all these years later. It was such a journey to make, and praise like this makes me know it was worth it. I am happy you mentioned the "cartoonish size" of Black Mesa - I really went all in on creating an impossibly massive and impractical place. The idea of somewhere ridiculous like this being created then being absolutely underfunded and badly maintained always entertains me. I really enjoyed the video!

@1lucia

6 ай бұрын

It’s an honor to have you comment on my video! Hope to see more mods from you some day! :D

@BigDrummerMan

6 ай бұрын

James! I just completed your mod today, it was such a beautiful journey and it captured my heart in the way Valve have, which as you known is something very special. Thank you so much for your hard work and for bringing happiness to so many! Hope I can buy you a drink one day

@jamescoburn6398

6 ай бұрын

@@1lucia One day, definitely. Half-Life isn't going anywhere :)

@jamescoburn6398

6 ай бұрын

@@BigDrummerMan The Half-Life series has captured my imagination like nothing else ever has. I am sincerely grateful I could replicate part of that feeling for you. Cheers to you!

@doger944

6 ай бұрын

Is the player character in this mod supposed to be Eli? That's what I had assumed.

The use of green lights that show you where you need to proceed if you're lost or show you hidden ammo was also really clever.

@abramjessiah

8 ай бұрын

Didn't doom 2016 do this?

@Majima_Nowhere

8 ай бұрын

@@abramjessiah Games have been using lights to indicate the correct path ever since game engines could do lighting.

@KingThrillgore

6 ай бұрын

A lot of games have normalized green

for anyone wondering theres tons of other easter eggs and Details to be seen! If you follow a random worker right at the start of the game the Kingpin will take control of him and Talk to you!

@Pacman009

2 ай бұрын

Wait WHAT

guys, give this man some credit for his INSANE amount of work for doing hand-keyed subtitles for this ENTIRE video. one of the most under-appreciated details making these A+ video essays.

@Cockdonut

8 ай бұрын

I did this as an experiment for a funny 9 min video and almost went insane

@istvankovacs4154

6 ай бұрын

With such a thick accent and constant sputtering it is a nice addition, but almost a necessity.

@SpunkMayo

6 ай бұрын

@@istvankovacs4154 "sputtering"?

My personal canon for this mod is that Mr Friendly and Kingpin species, being visually similar with that skin-like coloration, have some connection or symbiotic relationship, and Kingpins in particular serve as either their own force or special forces or spies of Nihilanth. After encounter with Friendly, the Kingpin takes notices of you and somehow senses Gman's own connection on influence to you and attempts to use you to meddle with. Also, the protagonist is just a guy who works at Black Mesa but whose actual job is irrelevant. Don't think he's a guard since there's no Blue Shift dialogues where guards identify you as colleague are used. Hell could be an accountant or janitor for all I care.

@ahealthkit2745

8 ай бұрын

I'm almost positive that you play as either Eli or Eli's wife, considering all the stuff with Alyx, Eli's voiceover and stuff.

@ajxx9987

8 ай бұрын

​@@ahealthkit2745I don't think that's the case

@xxfalconarasxx5659

8 ай бұрын

@@ahealthkit2745 Given that the ending has the player being nuked, I really doubt you are Eli, since he is of course alive in Half Life 2, while the player is very dead at the end of Echoes. You're hands are also white, where as Eli is an African-American. Azian was a popular theory among some players, but I remember a while back, the dev stating that we aren't playing as her, and that a pile of gore can be found in Alyx's closet, which is apparently supposed to be Azian's remains. Honestly, kind of disappointing. Azian would have been the most fitting protagonist for this mod, given that the entire goal for the player is to find Alyx, her daughter. She and Eli would be the only characters with any investment in finding her. She also just hasn't been explored as a character in any Half Life game or mod so far. Reducing her to just some giblets in a closet and passing her torch to a rando is kind of disappointing and a missed opportunity.

@ahealthkit2745

8 ай бұрын

I guess we'll really never know.@@xxfalconarasxx5659

@ahealthkit2745

8 ай бұрын

In retrospect someone pointed out the white hands on the model, and yeah. Probably just a random unnamed scientist. Makes all the stuff with the other established characters feel very weird and incongreunt with what happens near the end tho.@@ajxx9987

I think we were playing as Eli's wife. The fact we were put in the area where they lived, the voice over saying he doesn't know what happened to her followed by our death at the explosion. That to me all points towards her

@nakfoor1846

8 ай бұрын

If I remember right there is blood in Eli's room in the closet. I believe its implied her body is in the closet.

@IlhagThePoor

8 ай бұрын

I’ve heard this theory and I kinda like it but it is disproven by the fact that ppl freak out if you go to the woman’s bathroom in the beginning of the mod

@tomisabum

8 ай бұрын

This was my take too, from context clues. I took people being freaked out from the woman's bathroom more due to THEM being in there and getting caught by you, one of the few female hires.

@callumkristofer7793

8 ай бұрын

I like to think you're playing as Egon, personally.

@thisnameisbad3609

4 ай бұрын

​@@tomisabumaren't they Gina and Collette?

You can't just cut the "Lore Discussion" bit , it adds a lot of charm to the discussion of lore.

@1lucia

8 ай бұрын

I kinda liked it but it was so rushed when I made it up. Perhaps I‘ll make some short intro for the next time I do it

I like the idea that some greater power is trying to prevent the Resonance Cascade by messing with Black Mesa in the past causing equipment malfunctions to outright death. I have my own personal theory that makes a little more sense with this in mind. Thanks.

@deepflare1028

8 ай бұрын

If you don't mind me asking, I'd like to hear your theory

@walnzell9328

8 ай бұрын

@@deepflare1028 Too keep it short, one key part is Gordon was never supposed to be in Black Mesa. He was grabbed from his time and place by the Gman and then placed in the Black Mesa Incident. I mean think about it, has he every actually done any science? Even Barney comments on how his apparent MIT graduate status is REAL helpful for flipping switches.

@victuz

5 ай бұрын

@@walnzell9328 Now that is a really wild conspiracy take, don't you think?

@walnzell9328

5 ай бұрын

@@victuz Yes I do

I dunno if anyone noticed but at the beginning of the mod when you walk into the Women's toilett you can see the boots of Gina's and Collette's HEV suits behind the toilett stalls And when you try to open the door they just shout at you to leave, and tbh it was nice to see Gina and Collette as eastereggs in a HL1 mod

I think we play as Eli's wife. His ending quote refers to her, and she would be the only other person who might go and look for Alyx and canonically was in Black Mesa, though she didn't make it out and we never learn whether she was a scientist. We also know for sure that we aren't a security guard, since we need to find a guard for opening the door.

The mod is really detailed, the HD model are consistent even including Otis model where in the original Blue Shift there are all HD version for every model except for Otis

Random trivia I think I know about this: The Kingpin seen in the mod is apparently a character referred to as "the Seer", which is probably how they're able to show Candidate #12 visions of the future. The Gargantua seen throughout the mod was intentionally designed to be a "Nemesis" type character, like in Resident Evil. Being this big monster that shows up throughout the story to antagonize you repeatedly (while not strictly being the main villainous force), sometimes inadvertently saving you, before finally having a big showdown at the end.

@dylanzlol7293

7 ай бұрын

But kingpin ended up preventing our character from being hired by gman

I love the fact youre not the main character youre just another scientist that manages to survive the hev guard rather fits the main character part as he is the one defeating the „scary monster“ that terrorizes the player and saving other people off screen. Until he dies himself of course. I love mods like echoes that expand on the bm incident and let you see through other peoples eyes on that day.

I really enjoyed the visual story telling of Half Life Echoes, The biggest example and my favorite is how the bridge area represents the current status of Black Mesa. At first we see the Military arriving into BM in a seemingly heroic manner. Second time we pass they have control of the situation and third time they start to evacuate BM and the fourth and last time we can see BM completely overrun by Alien mantarays and the HECU long gone. Also I like the little detail of the crashed Osprey with the dead HECU marines laying around. Next time we revisit the area we can see the marines placed the bodies in stretchers and body bags. I also Guz was killed by the HECU and for the trap they set up to kill "freeman" (HEV Barney). Overall my favorite HL mod

My headcanon for this mod is that you're actually playing as Azian, Eli Vance's wife and Alyx's mother. It would make sense given the ending cutscene

@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118

8 ай бұрын

No, you aren't Azian cause if you look in the closet of the bedroom after Gman goes after the Kingpin you can see a mangled corpse model. Also the scientist you play as has a male character model. So no, you are definitely not Azian at all. Just a random scientist that Gman had taken interest in.

@ahealthkit2745

8 ай бұрын

Actually makes the most sense given the dialogue and stuff that happens.

@ahealthkit2745

8 ай бұрын

This is so weird though, why would a random scientist be around to see Gman abduct Alyx and why would Eli's voiceover play?@@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118

@bitterman7258

8 ай бұрын

def not, other people refer to you as a male

@giantrat4456

8 ай бұрын

@@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118🤓 you enraged by KZread comment lol

Half-Life: Echoes is a mod I have dug into a lot, and using some context clues we can deduce that the protagonist, Candidate 12, who has no confirmed name or backstory, works at Black Mesa as a scientist. Hence the view model hands seeming to wear a labcoat. We can guess there gender when walking into the women's bathroom in Sector H's lobby and hearing a scientist resting on the rail in the lobby notice and say, "You are completely wrong." We can interpret this as him getting angered at us not getting into the correct bathrooms. Extra details and secrets in the mod are found a lot, from crates you can break, secret areas, and even more I don't know about. The journey Candidate 12 takes isn't 100% perfect with the other games. The HECU arrive at Sector H, the Transit Hub, and the nuclear device explodes not long after when Candidate 12 is being teleported to the dormitories by The Seer, (The Kingpin). Which doesn't make sense as they pulled out a lot earlier. I guess we can assume the period The Seer warns Candidate 12 took place over a long period. The Kingpin, dubbed The Seer on the moddb page, can see the future and tries to foil his plans by stopping his hiring of Candidate 12 and saving Alyx. His attempts to achieve his goals can be seen even in the intro to the game, pre incident, where if you follow the construction worker back to the set of red doors where the protagonists vehicle is, takes control of the construction worker and briefly warns Candidate 12 by saying, "For you he waits, for you...", trying to tell him about the G-Man, before the construction worker dissapears in some odd mist. When going back, the construction worker is in his former position and asks us why we look terrible, like we had seen a ghost. Another secret is the scene where the military pulls in, and one soldier is wandering around the other side of the bridge, before noticing the G-Man on the other, before the G-Man moves his right hand and the soldier is enveloped in a greenish gas before walking off like nothing happened, as if he had wiped his memory. Trivia: Half-Life Echoes uses a custom revamped Construction Worker and Engineer model, reminiscent of the PS2 models used in the mod aswell. This has been used in other mods as a choice by people like FreeSlave, which is neat. ( I might be wrong, though.) There is a series named "Ryan's Mind", which uses Half-Life: Echoes to tell the story of Ryan, taking the place of Candidate 12, similar to Freeman's mind. The mod has HECU trucks everywhere pre-incident, which is probably a stand in for other vehicles. You can find the revolver in a bathroom when looking up and spotting a vent grate, it sitting on the grate. Shooting the vent grate you can take the revolver after it falls down. I went on a tangent here making this comment, and I have tons more to say still, but honestly please play it yourself, you won't regret it.

@1lucia

8 ай бұрын

Damn, you got some great deep lore here!

@Lambda_Symbol

8 ай бұрын

Comment was very rough, but I tried to write my thoughts comprehensively, thanks for bearing with it.

@joeytraxler4436

8 ай бұрын

Is it possible to find a Tau Cannon hidden somewhere? I used impulse_101 one time and it gives you a tau cannon, which has unique new visuals when firing, like the Gluon Gun. Seems like a waste of time to update the visuals for a weapon that won't be used so I speculate that there could be one hidden somewhere. But then again the deliberate placement of the Gluon Gun right at the end would seem to go against that theory, as if the player had a Tau Cannon they could theoretically kill the Garg without running away back to the arena, thus sequence breaking.

@Lambda_Symbol

8 ай бұрын

@@joeytraxler4436 I don't think you can find a tau cannon, but this mod IS full of surprises, and the updated visuals definitly are odd to add without using normally.

Echoes is a masterclass in level design. It's amazing that one guy was able to so strongly grasp how to make good levels. My favorite thing he does is he always introduces an area before you fight in it. Very effective for player engagement. It's also got great humor, interesting set pieces, and looks great. I hope he does another project.

babe wake up, an underrated half life mod that’s another masterpiece dropped

@Banharanga9000

8 ай бұрын

"underrated" is the last thing that anyone would use to describe the mod

@hazzmati

8 ай бұрын

This is one of the most popular if not the most popular hl1 ever. Certainly not underrated lol

you having only 25k subs is a crime YOU NEED MORE

4:35 Point of View had security guards in blue HEV suits as enemies before Echoes, just to correct that nitpick also regarding the ability to follow that scientist for the easter egg, if you follow the first construction worker you see in the basement parking lot until the very end, you get another hint at the lore of the game same with 11:00 if you follow the marine officer when he goes back to the entrance

@Nevermore2790

6 ай бұрын

Azure Sheep did it first. Hell, you even get to BE one (a guard on an HEV suit).

@matthewsteele99

6 ай бұрын

@@Nevermore2790 thats because both were made by the same team

I always figured that Candidate 12 was a black mesa scientist who was thrust into a loop (since he never leaves the area he's on, and thus sees the progress of the Black Mesa Incident) so one can see how he could adapt and survive in a closed enviroment by G-Man's employers. the only reason 12 seems to fail is because of how he follows the Xen crystal and comes into contact with the kingpin, resulting in G-Man's employers deciding that while he is capable of surviving unforseen and dangerous situations he's too suceptible to external influences to be trusted and thus was left to die in the blast that destroys black mesa.

wait a minute , it's been 25 years since HL1 was release already ? Man I'm feelin' old asf 💀

@1lucia

8 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s shocking lol

literally JUST replayed this mod yesterday, can't believe it's been five years since it's release. I remember being hyped for it when it was first announced and being so excited those five years later when it released.

Halfway through the video and seeing all the added detail and models and I thought how amazing it'd look if it was remade in Black Mesa. Then I got to the end of the video, great to hear it's being worked on.

woah! haha that was some really cute editing at 0:10 having the title card cast shadows on the roof of the building!

@1lucia

8 ай бұрын

I'm glad someone noticed lol

5:08 this is the best moment of the entire mod

Considering you can see a lab coat on your view model and the HUD color being white indicates, yes you are a scientist

The way gman spins around with no animation stiffly at 4:10 really cements his character as an eldrich horror

Just want to say I truly enjoy your content . There is a lot of the modding community that get overshadowed by all the funny or basic graphic overhauls mod far easier to produce ? It is nice having channels doing entertaining deep dive on them .

the security guard baby blue scene was hilarious! keep up the good work

Thank you so much for your in-depth explanation of what parallax is, bro

Ey man, ive watched a few of your videos and this is some well made shit, thank you for your work

I would love to see a video on either cut enemies or Beta content is general it’s a really interesting concept!

4:34 Half-Life: Azure Sheep

2:43 god damn it

11:31 this part is stuck in my head, its just so good and memorable

I can't believe it was 5 years ago since this mod came out. It felt like yesterday

I like to think that Candidate 12 was terrified throughout the whole game

@SixtyFourJr

8 ай бұрын

I can just imagine him just doing the scientist scream throughout the entire game

@victuz

5 ай бұрын

I mean tell me which protagonist wasn't terrified after the crystal was put under the anti-mass spectrometer ray.

Yes! please do a video on cut half life enemies. Sure there are many videos on them, but your voice is just perfect. Also please keep saying "LORE DISCUSSION" its funny, it could be your thing LUL

Just played it. It was amazing ! This is a must play

13:03 He put up one hell of a fight in that elevator...

i'm currently working on a half life 1 story mod of a scientist escape with a deeper look into the facility, the mod is currently based on source 1 (half life 2's engine) and the main reason why i did not anonc it yet, is because i'm currently cleaning the code from half life 2 structures and remaking some well known modern games combat mechanics into source

@user-yk3hc7tc8z

8 ай бұрын

the main reason why i'm doing this is because some half life 1 modders want to move to source 1 but it's not easy since u need to code alot of stuff, some uses black mesa source and some really wants to add new npcs or feature that require source, this mod looks perfect to remake

I love how the “monster in the vents” uses the stalker scream from L4D2

@Pacman009

2 ай бұрын

It’s actually the beta stalker scream from hl2

that shadow masking of the text at the beginning is awesome lol

There are some scenes in this mod that I misremembered as being from actually from HL1. Specifically that military bridge scene

half life echoes did come out before the announcement of alyx itself so that's why the ending includes the epistle 3 version :)

Good video. I'll put this on my list.

Thanks for flashing that wiki on parallax… I can feel my brain pan expanding

Its a so fun seeing Jolly playin this mod and enjoying it

6:57 actually made me lmao cuz this sound effect is used so much in memes

hell yeah id love a video with the cut enemies of half life

Jolly's video on Echos is the funniest Half-Life thing I've ever seen.

By the sleeves when holding a weapon, it's safe to say we're a scientist, which makes echoes the long awaited half life:white shift

So glad to see im not the only one who likes having friendly npcs around, especially in horror games. Im so used to seeing other gamers shoot npcs just becuase they can.

i've read the wiki page for a few cut enemies, but it would be cool to see you make one and have a little theory section for each after going over it.

11:27 “we then get introduced to a very interesting cutscene…” “WELCOME TO OUR WORLD… 🚥🏎️🏍️🚤🚁🚜🚦🎆 THE WORLD OF NŌS!”

Love how the mod scene is still alive

Before my retroid pocket started having button issues, this was one of the last things I played through fully. It was excellent. A bit short. But if being short means that the quality doesn’t get compromised then so be it. Very fun.

i like half life alot and you showed me some mods and some parts of half life i never seen, since i never played a half life game but watched lot of playthroughs

@deepflare1028

8 ай бұрын

Well then what are you waiting for?

I still remember when this mod first came out, and when i saw it the first thing i did was downloading it. The topic of Chaos was very well made in it.

7:39 and everyone still loving it!

i dont know if anyone had already said this but i think the candidate 1 was barney since he escaped black mesa without g-man

17:43 Candidate 13 drove off with 3 buddies to a bar

Great video!

Kingpins are definitely the precursor creature to advisors.

It's been a while since I heard about Lego Island extreme stunts lol

I do not if someone has already mentioned it, but in 4:35, you are actually wrong. You can see security guards wearing H.E.V. suits (and even embody one) in one of the greatest half life mod, "Azure sheep" :) good video nonetheless 😁

Security guards with HEV suits has been done before. I think Azure Sheep did it first.

I remember that Echoes was release before HL Alyx so that's why the mod do not use anything from that game. Also if you didnt know, at the intro of the game you can follow a Gus at the parking and a scientists when you are at that open area with the big black mesa logo, those two are good Easter eggs that you must see!

2.45 oh that's why I remember that mod somehow. I saw jollys video

I would like to see a video about cut Half Life enemies given that I know very little about it

8:24 bro thinks he's Walter white

I'd say Echoes, Field Intensity, and Black Guard are the trifecta for expanded HL content on goldsrc. They mirror the OG HL games in that you play a scientist, a soldier, and a security guard respectively and are very high quality.

11:23 "you look lonley. I can fix that"

Absolutely clears mods like Azure Sheep and PoV

And now, Echoes is remake into Black Mesa for future release.

i still remember when Jolly just named gus as "Hard Hat H-tl-r"

You're videos is a Little Masterpiece, and remember... ...prepare of Unforseen Consequences.

The pistol sound is just straight up from Max Payne 1.

"turning a valve to make a steam" great refrence

10:40 I’m pretty sure this part with alyx is a real time camera I think. I’m pretty sure one time I was exploring the map I noclip I found her in a room.

Easily the greatest HL1 mod to date

@unknownman428

8 ай бұрын

What about cry of fear and afraid of monsters?

@justacomedian

8 ай бұрын

@@unknownman428 Those ones are good too but i feel like they don't have the same amount of replayability as Echoes.

@unknownman428

8 ай бұрын

@@justacomedian echoes is one of the best HL mods that take place in the HL universe. For afraid of monsters and cry of fear they are total conversion mods and don't take place in the HL universe. Cry of fear is on steam and it's free but echoes isn't Cry of fear has more replayability since it has custom campaigns and you can download more maps too. And it's probably the best horror game to do depression too. Afraid of monsters is also great and it can be played on Sven coop like echoes. I like echoes too but it feels boring to me because there is no new weapons, enemies and no LD models too because I don't really like the HD models they look ugly when it comes to the scientist models, Barney's face and the pistol but I do like the m16(or m4 idk) and the shotgun. I'll give echoes a 8/10 it is pretty well made. I do like the addition of Mr friendly too.

Maybe Candidate 12 is a lore stand-in for the player themselves

I love this mod so much 😊

"Mollywhopped"... ...That's a new one, lmao, i like it

So glad you mention Lego Island, I remember thinking this was the most massive, and open world game ever. It wasn't. But it was so magical to me as a kid lmao.

Everything going wrong in the beginning is specific to that day. Remember when Gordon signs into BM, the systems are all down. Similar stuff here but you see more of it.

13:12 is that the slaughter club soundtrack from Hitman 1?

My headcanon is that the kingpin was responsible for the visions, and that he wanted to give all the gman's targets these visions and tell them or warn them. However the other candidates were more important so the Gman shielded them from the kingpin and made sure he doesn't get to their heads or whatever. So instead of you being so important you see these visions and meet the kingpin and whatnot, it's rather that you're not important enough.

Massive thank you for adding spoiler warning at the end.

i like to think the player is themselves alyx's mom

I would love a cut enemy video from you

Another cool detail is that at 13:25 where your companions are killed by a sniper in the dumpster, if you get close to this dumpster right before you go back inside where Gus the factory worker was killed, you can hear a HECU radio sound bit play along with reload sounds, where he is loading his sniper rifle.