I have such a soft spot for those old skyboxes in games. They stick out so much from the playable area, but theres something appealing about the artwork that aesthetically works for me. Its almost liminal I guess because you know that no matter where you go, you're really not going anywhere. Hard to explain, but they're great, just like how I have such a soft spot for the old pre-rendered backgrounds in survival horror and point-and-click games.

@enricofermi3471

10 ай бұрын

I think that's because at the time it would be either fairly bad 3D in terms of texture and geometry due to performane limitations, or a rather detailed 2D where you can get your artstyle roam free. That's why modern games (well, not all of them but quite a bunch) have great 3D detailed backgrounds - there's enough processing power to allow rhat. Back then it was either compromise 3D or whatever-you-draw 2D.

@modernmobster

10 ай бұрын

@enricofermi3471 I know, but I'm just saying that even today there's something visually appealing to me about these old 2D skyboxes that I appreciate just as much as the best 3D skyboxes we see today. It could just be the fact that I know someone had to draw those separately, so I appreciate the artistry more than or as much as developers placing assets in the background.

@enricofermi3471

10 ай бұрын

@@modernmobster Yeah, me too. That's part of what is usually called the "soul" of the game.

@ImDannn

10 ай бұрын

It's my favourite part of PS2 games. Sky boxes in games like Yakuza, NFSUG2, they just have a feel to them.

@modernmobster

10 ай бұрын

@ImDannn definitely Yakuza when you're at the docks or on the rooftop of the Millennium Tower, and you're looking over Tokyo.

I thought they finished half life 2: classic for a second there.

@TheOnlyZober

10 ай бұрын

I dont even know if its cancelled or not...

@protocetid

10 ай бұрын

@@TheOnlyZoberone of the last posts on X (or whatever it is called) said it’s not cancelled

@LemLam8362

10 ай бұрын

Samw

@SirYodaJedi

10 ай бұрын

@@protocetidI call it Xitter. The "x" is pronounced like in mandarin.

@protocetid

10 ай бұрын

@@SirYodaJedi Lol fitting, specially after Tesla pledged to promote the CCP's "socialist" values.

I find it super weird to see combine soldiers inside of the gold src engine

@BONNIEE1983

10 ай бұрын

For some reason i love it

@im-alwaaayzwatching

10 ай бұрын

​@@BONNIEE1983yeah same 😂😂

@ronanpadhye8540

6 ай бұрын

looks kind of like dishonored for some reason

@andromeda32916

4 ай бұрын

fsr the metrocops look buff af too

WE MAKING IT TO CITY 17 ON THE HYPERBOREA WITH THIS ONE 🚢🥶🚢🥶🚢🥶🚢🥶🚢🥶🚢🥶🚢🥶

@cac_deadlyrang

10 ай бұрын

**loud **_polar_**-class icebreaker noises**

The flat skyboxes really are nice when used well. They add a different atmosphere than the 3D skyboxes have.

@NoVIcE_Source

10 ай бұрын

You're absolutely right!

@die_lokki287

10 ай бұрын

Yeah! I can't describe how, but they give off some cozy feeling

It really gives off a unique vibe

@onion599

10 ай бұрын

dark and griddy vibe

omg the 3d skyboxes turned into 2d skyboxes add so much atmosphere This honestly feels so much more immersive to me than the source engine maps

@M084MM3D

10 ай бұрын

Hello give beta now

Pick up that 5 polygon trashcan.

half life 2 beta has always made me fascinated for some reason

"Gordon, wake up it's time to Half-Lives in 1999"

Hi! I'm the one that made the traptown map way back in 2003. So I'm stunned you showed it, that really caught me off guard. I still think the HL2 beta is really cool. Love your videos, I watch them regularly!

@RadiationHazardYT

10 ай бұрын

Hey Chuck! Thanks for commenting. Surprised to see you here! Thanks so much!

so youtube apparently didnt notify me of this video even when i have notifications on

Gives me the vibes of games like Deus Ex and Timesplitters. Half-Life 2 on GoldSrc (or HL2 Gold as i'd like to call it) would have been a certified boomer classic.

The new intro is not bad, but smirking Gordon was legendary.

I will stand by this... And you can sue me. HL2 beta maps are, unique. Depressing. But undercooked. And for the best, i'm glad Valve went "ok, let's restart Hl2 lore". While I personally would've liked to see OICW, and sniper rifle out of guns. And few of the older models in retail. I would be lying if I didn't say that retail just did hl2 beta feeling of, vacant, depressing and... "dark n gritty" Sh00t me on that last one.

As a typical RADHAZ subscriber, I say... loving HL is like honoring your grandparents. You seem to know who they are and what their heritage is, but you also seem to learn something new about them. RADHAZ, thanks for the video, there is nothing like this on Russian KZread.

1999 man those were the times! (I didn’t exist back then)

@rebel6301

5 ай бұрын

lmao same here

Love the new video opening, by the way! It may interest you to know that a lot of early HL2 textures are *in* a certain Goldsrc game, Condition Zero. They're all scaled down to about half-size but they're the same textures and they're mostly all ordered in the same order as well, going off of their names. Now this doesn't mean that's how the textures were, they were simple ports from HL2, but it's still interesting to note all the same.

I think this would have made a fantastic remake (or demake, since it's going back in terms of engine and technical visuals) of Beta, since the engine is much "lighter", there's no requirements/expectations to be met in terms of technical graphics, only atmosphere and visual coherence, and any modern-ish PC would be enough to both play it or make it. Of course, I've no idea if working in goldsrc may be more difficult than modern source engine due to instrumental evolution in model import, logic and mapping. But if a reliable and trustworthy mod team put their effort, I feel we may have got a great actual game, not just a set of maps.

Ooh, a new radhaz video! I'm going as gordon freeman for halloween this year, i ordered the lab coat and the tie last night And I'm getting Gordon glasses in my prescription!

@Real_Gordon_Freeman

10 ай бұрын

You forgo about the hev suit.

@notoriousectotherm

10 ай бұрын

@@Real_Gordon_Freeman sorry, Gordon. That's gonna have to wait. And I think you need it more.

This reminds me of thief: gold if you know the game

The city streets with the civil protection officers walking around combined with the music gave me Deus Ex vibes

I love GoldSrc so much, it has an unmatched charmingly eerie vibe to it. Also, I love the new intro

Wow I love your video man

Half-Life 2 Beta on the GoldSource Engine is kinda weird but still works.

Very cool, I didn't know about most of these. Also on the topic of HL2 inside of GoldSource I'd recommend checking out "Borea" by UbOh from the TWHL: Bridge The Gap map competition, it's basically a fully playable mini chapter taking place in Borealis and borrowing concepts from epistle 3. The only downside is that it uses the HL1 enemies by default (no combine skins or anything) but the mapping is very high quality.

Mans fr just uploaded when everyone's busy ☠️so gritty.

That pathfinding map DOES look extremely similar to that area in HL1 where you fight the HECU on the catwalks shortly after you meet them for the first time. It's like two different rooms from that map mashed together.

@jess648

6 ай бұрын

it was that original map from We’ve Got Hostiles ported into Source and then again backported to goldsrc. C1A3A to be precise

Goldsrc lighting makes it look more dark and gritty

It's amazing how quick your channel has grown congrats been enjoying your vids I wonder how do you make a script for a new video?

honestly these maps give me Condition Zero Deleted Scenes vibes with how detailed they are.

The real half life 2 beta

Cool to see after playing Raising The Bar Redux. Comfy vid. Thanks, Rad.

Thanks! It's AMAZING and atmospheric❤

Babe, wake up a new radhaz video dropped.

THOSE 2d SKYBOXES CAPTURE THE VIBE SO WELL! also love the intro!

goddamn this new intro is beatiful

This feels odd.

Borealis is a boat to hyperborea

2:39 - Well, I think if I saw all of Half-Life in this style, I'd be very happy. PS: I immediately had the urge to recompile this in BetaSource and see it for myself. PSS: Happy to know most the assets used in this redesign of the map still exist in the final game's files.

This might be Half Life 2

Fun Fact: that structure at 7:05 is a guard tower modelled after concept art made by Viktor Antonov, who also worked on the game Dishonored, which also featured guard towers very similar to these

Wow this is amazing, totally got HROT vibes at 6:17

Perfect video for my birthday

This was awesome!

Half Life 2 Beta maps in source engine already had an atmosphere and eerie vibe but seeing them and walking around them in Goldsource feels even creepier

those skyboxes are awesome

Amazing :D

the baked lighting lowkey looks great

The Manhack arcade and outdoor city maps are my favourites out of all of them

This is incredible.

Thanks you so much

Amazing intro

Alternative reality where Laidlaw stuck with the Air Exchange. Late 2001, Half Life 2 releases. After it's success, it's followed by 2 expansions, one in 2002 by Arkane called Half Life 2 : Resistance, about a Conscript rebel named Mitchell hunting a elite combine unit under a transformed Xenian Overlord, and Half Life Aftermath, a official expansion following Gordon after the destruction of the Citadel and trying to track down Elena Mossman, attempting to escape City 17. Half Life 3 then released using the new Source engine in 2004, following Gordon, Alex and the Resistance in the wasteland hunting Mossman who has become the new Combine overlord, and plans on opening a new portal to the Combine overworld.

Very interesting video! Shows how similar some of the oldest brushwork looks to the goldsrc. Still beta is beta. ❤ Not going to lie though, I was kind of hoping you would go insane in Vertigo maps. The OGs will know.😅

HL2 Beta Metrocops in GoldSrc is a look I love.

i like the way these beta maps look in the beta i really like this style

Fascinating

There's a fun little gameplay map in the style of Half-Life 2 for the first game, it's called Invasion 105. You can beat it in mere minutes if you know what you're doing, but the map itself is quite well made. It also came out around 2006 when there were no efforts to port HL2 to goldsrc

You could say this is quite the demake, but still fairly impressive. However, I believe the fact that HL2 started on GoldSrc is actually a misconception. I can't remember where I've read about it, but there you have it. Could have been misinformation, but never seen proof of the contrary so far.

@RadiationHazardYT

10 ай бұрын

I can't find it right now (it's either on VCC or Combine Overwiki), but there's a "liblist.gam" file in the leaked stuff that implies it started off on GoldSrc.

@proletarianrise10

10 ай бұрын

@@RadiationHazardYT I see. Perhaps it was indeed the case, since Source started somewhere after all. I think it might have been some email conversations with ex-developers which said otherwise, but I really can't remember anymore lol.

@auroradotrocks

10 ай бұрын

Source was forked off of goldsrc in the beginning. Yes, they did start with goldsrc. They just worked more on it over time.

@proletarianrise10

10 ай бұрын

@@auroradotrocks Yeah. But I think when most people say "started on GoldSrc" also think that that engine was a suitable alternative for the final product, which is what makes this confusing, as I don't recall GoldSrc ever being seriously considered and later just ported over to Source once it was nearly finalized. They were both developed in parallel to my knowledge, just like they did with the Episodes.

Not gonna lie, i would pay for a standalone mod that would recreate a whole campaign of Half Life 2 (Retail or beta) in GoldSrc. This is a thing of beauty!

Gordon Freeman

Nice 👌

honestly, i kind of enjoy seeing half-life 2 beta stuff in gold source, it has a certain charm to it

Last year I tried to make a wasteland deathmatch map on GoldSource with an atmosphere similar to these maps, unfortunately I lost the files and i couldn't post it.

10:40-10:56 Well, Source is exactly upgraded version of GoldSource.

A very dark and gritty game.

The half-life 2 goldsrc from 1999 is surely upgraded version of goldsrc and it almost look like source engine

half life 2 beta beta?

Literally just opened youtube

Imagine a city made out of all the goldsrc and source maps stiched together

These map looks like an amalgamation of Deus Ex & Dishonored for some reason, probably because of the lighting & skyboxes.

Deam looks pretty nice

Pretty good

Lets make opposing the bar but for fistful of frags, fistful of players

this is probably how the maps looked when they were first built in 2000-2001

I love it

honestly, if HL2 came out like this, it would have been still way ahead of its time.

We was that old

i guess you could call this... a radiation hazard

da betaaaaaa!!!!

Who needs GoldSrc? Nah, I just need GoldSauce

If it was to be a 1999, it'd prolly have some changes to the engine. I asume they had kind of a higher poly and higher texture support back then and prolly some in dev programming stuff as well.

If this was Half-Life 2, This would mean that our Half-Life 2 would have been Half-Life 3, and we would have been waiting for half-life 4 for the last 20 years.

I've always thought what if Valve made HL2 in 2000. The Beta would've been in GoldSrce, game woukd be much shorter or same length and possibly could've been a whole different experience. This is very cool and we still have HL2 Classic to look forward to. Also we would've gotten HL3 already and be waiting on Half-Life 4.

That already existed for a while, actually. It's called Requiem Avenging Angels.

adorably and successfully made when its coming out?

what a mad algorythm lmao

DARK AND GRIDDY

these give me heavy deus ex vibes for some reason

5:55 A better example of working vehicles in goldsrc are the tanks in Gunman Chronicles, as these were real model entities that worked very well. The vehicles in CS are "func_vehicle" and these are brush entities with really bad collision and such.

10:07 goofy ahh running

After playing the Beta Minimalist mod, I really just wanted a more serious GoldSRC version of HL2 Beta. This might end up being it

Just in time for my lunch

Now if elements of these GoldSrc maps would be useful for the actual HL2 beta maps.

The Half-Life 2 Beta on the Goldsrc engine is even darker and griddier

If half life 2 used goldsource

I want a half life 1 version of Hunt Down the Freeman lul

Hl2 beta minimalist but serious version

I feel like this wouldnt have broken new ground, and wouldve had a hard time around 2000 next to games like No One Lives Forever