The line "That's not Gordon" is such an ominous thing that nearly everyone says when they get to that point in the game

@thesafehouse2863

4 жыл бұрын

Uncle Can confirm. Streamed it to a few friends on Discord while playing for those who don’t have VR. Granted we figured immediately it wouldn’t be Gordon when the one lady was talking to the advisor. But it’s somehow shocking nonetheless

@Victor-um9ce

4 жыл бұрын

That was also said verbatim in chat.

@Nathan-kk6lb

4 жыл бұрын

It's also handled so perfectly, too. In-universe, Alyx has no idea what Gordon looks like (he got pulled into stasis when she was an infant) nor what the G-Man looks like (she was an infant when he teleported her out of Black Mesa and he probably wiped her memories of him too for good measure). But on the flip side, out-of-universe *everyone* knows as soon as they see that silhouette that the guy in the box is clearly the G-Man. Remember when everybody memed about how much time Valve spent giving every TF2 character an extremely distinctive silhouette? Yeah, setting up this kind of interaction in the future is exactly why. It's honestly why I hope Valve makes all of their future protagonists voiced; while the silent protagonist is a good trope that helps avoid calling attention to weak writing where the protagonist is acting completely differently in cutscenes than they are during gameplay, when you're as talented as Valve's writing team is, having the protagonist voiced just adds so much storytelling potential that was put on full display with Alyx in HLA. Pretty much every reaction Alyx has (except for the aforementioned scene, obviously) is exactly what the player is thinking at the time because of how masterfully the environments are designed, which then lets you hear Alyx and Russel have a discussion that's similar to what you would probably say in that scenario. Valve games are a fricking master class in writing, art design, gameplay mechanics, sound, and basically everything else. Which makes sense, when Gaben founded the company, he said it was because Doom had convinced him games were the future of entertainment and Super Mario 64 had convinced him video games were art. And that philosophy shows.

@dr_birb

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nathan-kk6lb i always thought that most of the silent protagonists sucks, such as recent Metro, a storyline game without in game interaction between characters....

@main135s

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nathan-kk6lb I think, for all intents and purposes, it might be best if Gordon were to stay voiceless. I cannot see any way they can give Gordon a voice without taking away some of the charm of who Gordon is. In my, and many people's, eyes; Gordon is THE silent protagonist. He's the guy that doesn't voice his complaints, he just goes out and does what he needs to to either survive (HL:1) or try and fix the mess he accidentally helped create (The rest of the Half Lifes). Gordon's silence is iconic. Almost as iconic as the lambda symbol is, or the crowbar, or the H.E.V. suit. If they take that away, then the character that results would hardly be "Gordon" in many people's eyes. This wouldn't be like giving an all-new character a voice (Like Fallout 4), it would be gouging one of the most iconic things about an already established character. It would be like taking the crowbar, and saying "this was always meant to be a shovel" or the H.E.V. suit and saying "This was always meant to be blue, and only blue." I think that they would do well to give new protagonists voices, but not a character whose entire icon is THE silent badass. I understand that I may be taking your comment out of context (since there are multiple ways "all their future protagonists" can be read), but I just wanted to offer my two cents.

Screen: "FOR JAKE" JustJake24 in chat: FOR ME

@Poly_0000

4 жыл бұрын

lmao what a legend

@NoisyBones

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like that would be a cool thing to stick in the end of a game, like they do the “For ___” But they fill it in with the payers tag

@valordelink

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoisyBones like in earthbound and mother 3, that was a good thing to do

@DeltaSpark8

4 жыл бұрын

For England, Jake?

@reisu_3708

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoisyBones Spec Ops: The Line did a "starring/special thanks: [player's gamertag]" and.... i'd rather not remember that

You know what's wild to me. We get a new half-life game but it still ends on the same cliff hanger we ended off on last time.

@mr.cup6yearsago211

3 жыл бұрын

@Digi god, could you imagine, though, if Half Life 3 actually ended in that same place, just with different context? It’d be funny, at the very least.

@TheTriangle444

3 жыл бұрын

@Digi that would be such a goddamn cop out

@wabachi

3 жыл бұрын

@Digi the only thing they make with the number 3 would be the death hangar

@evildude2135

2 жыл бұрын

@Digi Yeah it's gonna be half life alyx 2 then we're gonna wait 15 years and get half life: gman

@alexb0nd

Жыл бұрын

@@evildude2135 half-life:calhoun would be great, there's a lot of stuff they can cover such as the 7-hour war or the timeframe of Ep2

I love when G-Man says "...Unless." and the chat spams 😳's. Never change, chat.

@ansonx10

4 жыл бұрын

Any chat that _doesn't_ spam 😳 at that part is dead to me.

@heehoo3685

3 жыл бұрын

😳👉👈

@h.l4650

3 жыл бұрын

Normie ass chat

@pyrogaming4779

3 жыл бұрын

@@h.l4650all of this normies smh right??? i cant look at my danke meme streamers without people being normies /s

@h.l4650

3 жыл бұрын

@@pyrogaming4779 sorry

“P-Please... I... I want more...” Has Vin EVER channeled the collective feeling of an entire fanbase this precisely in both desire and emotional state before?

@j.r.huffnstuff3549

4 жыл бұрын

Banjo in Smash maybe.

@justanaveragetreeg1554

4 жыл бұрын

J.R. Huffnstuff “oh my god... OH MY GOD”

@Ribbons0121R121

4 жыл бұрын

that line ive seen enough hentai to know where this is going

@matguimond92

3 жыл бұрын

@@j.r.huffnstuff3549 I played Banjo Kazooie when I was 6 years old and I didn't give 2 f**ks when they announced him in Smash.

@sagevoyage

3 жыл бұрын

@@matguimond92 good for you

Shoutout to the people saying "HE'S HOT" in chat during the g-man scene

@WeldonWen

4 жыл бұрын

Gman best husbando 2020

@rade-blunner7824

4 жыл бұрын

Over time they've been slowly turning him into Ronald Reagan.

@TheVeryAngryShrimp

4 жыл бұрын

No homo I'd let Gman hit it though

@lambda653

3 жыл бұрын

And "LARGE" when he said large nudge

@cavejohnson4054

3 жыл бұрын

@@dopey473 "Patrick, what's he doing?" "He's just standing there, menacingly!"

side note: G-man's eyes look really weird in Alyx, with the right eye looking to the side This is because we're seeing the capture from Vin's right eye, and rather than looking at the bridge of your nose like most VR NPCs, G-man is making eye contact... with both eyes. At the same time. Seperately. So he's looking right in your pupils no matter where you look. Fuckin creepy.

@The1337guy1

4 жыл бұрын

That explains the dread I felt when I looked at him in game, you can't escape him looking right into you.

@ennui_u9352

4 жыл бұрын

Holy fuck that's super smart

@langam7017

4 жыл бұрын

It actually looks exactly the same when playing in VR. G-Man genuinely has a slight lazy eye since his HL2 model.

@steinbeck1949

4 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine the reason for the eye is that whatever he is, he can't perfectly replicate the human form, leaving him just SLIGHTLY off in subtle ways, just enough for us to feel uncomfortable whenever he's around, our instinctive brain recognizing that he is NOT human.

@spinyjustspiny3289

4 жыл бұрын

That good old Pennywise lazy eye; One eye on who he's addressing, one eye on who's listening. But with G-Man, you can never be entirely sure which one is which.

I'm sad no one acknowledged the chat member that said "Finally, someone let me out of my cage".

@OtakuUnitedStudio

4 жыл бұрын

@rеtаrd Now I couldn't be there, now you shouldn't be scared

@dopey473

4 жыл бұрын

@@OtakuUnitedStudio i'm good at repairs and i'm under each snare

@SpeedStrike

4 жыл бұрын

Intangible, bet you didnt think cause i command you to

@infamoushacker4chan883

4 жыл бұрын

Panoramic view, look I'll make it all manageable.

@glennglog22

4 жыл бұрын

Pick and choose, sit and lose, all you different crews

"You wouldn't need all that to imprison Gordon Freeman" ... ...the most ominous line in gaming history right there.

@SimpleMechanic931

Жыл бұрын

It also puts to bed all the theories about Gordon being the Gman, and confirms that he really is just a regular guy trapped in dimensional politics

@balanceherosmt7170

11 ай бұрын

Knowing how capable the G Man is, it shows that even the Combine, for all their superior numbers and technology who managed to defeat all of Earth's militaries, outright feared him and could only seal him away.

I find it interesting that people can instantly recognize it's the G-man the moment they see the silhouette of his hair while he was still inside the Vault. Just shows how iconic he is I guess.

@Lua0x07

4 жыл бұрын

DEADLY ANOMALIES

@DaGamingCore

4 жыл бұрын

G-Man's been the biggest mystery in gaming since before I was born.

@Catnippy

3 жыл бұрын

his posture too

@DuVious1

3 жыл бұрын

VALVe is REALLY good with silhouettes. Those silhouettes that you made fun of for the dev team spent so long making in Team Fortress 2? They paid off here. Every single image in every single VALVe game can be turned to black and white and everyone would still be recognizable, Gordon with his glasses, face, and crowbar, and the GMAN because of his hair, posture, and more.

@HoppingSkipper

3 жыл бұрын

From 3000 polygons to 300 million polygons, GMan's signature silhouette is timeless

Extremely thought provoking ending, Vinny's first thought after hearing it: "Charlie Brown worked on this game?"

@El__Wiwi

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Game Grump's playthrough of Breath of the Wild where one of the developer's names in the credits was "Go Fukyama"

@Freelancer837

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets surprised every time and goes "Charlie Brown?" whenever I finish a Half-Life game

@catgirl33333

2 жыл бұрын

The first time I noticed that was one of the times I played through episode 2 and it completely ruined the moment lmao

Of course chat explodes the second "Greg Coomer" pops up.

@maximgun3833

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow that guy is still in the dev team?

@FreezepondMapping

4 жыл бұрын

Look Gordon, ropes! We can use these to traverse- help me, Gordon!

@tenacityxl

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Gordon!

@mferdyaldi7220

4 жыл бұрын

@DYLAN DRISCOLL Another day another dollar!

@Anna-tk7ui

4 жыл бұрын

@@FreezepondMapping I can help you for *five* PlayCoins!

Time to wait for the next technological innovation in gaming for the next installment of Half-Life to come out. Gonna jack the game directly into our brain stems for this one bois.

@The_Endless_Now

4 жыл бұрын

Valve is gonna release HL3 to create their own army of mentally controllable Combine Soldiers.

@Sammie1053

4 жыл бұрын

I've been telling people, each iteration in the franchise has had one main line game and three spinoffs. Hopefully we can expect the same for this generation. The real question is, is Alyx this generation's main title, or a spinoff?

@Stad122

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sammie1053 It might actually be a tech demo, similar to what lost coast was to half life 2.

@seifelshenawi6211

4 жыл бұрын

Sammie1053 its a main title, no amount of effort has been put into a spinoff this much before, they have been working on this since 2016

@BierBart12

4 жыл бұрын

@@Stad122 This. Alyx seems like it's merely a tech demo for something even bigger. Like an appetizer.

A separate entity, known only as the Gearbox-man, holds Adrian Shephard in stasis.

@DaGamingCore

4 жыл бұрын

It makes sense now

@derain95

3 жыл бұрын

That's a interesting way of spelling Randy Pitchford

I kinda get what Gabe was saying about not continuing the franchise until technical limitations were surpassed, having the G-Man start his whole monologue in 2008 wouldn't quite be the same as with these graphics with the VR tech

@wabachi

3 жыл бұрын

@Qimodis technically hl3 was always and never in development due to how valve works, they are free to join or leave any project at any time so, now n then a dev might try to re-start hl3 development to end up leaving again then another one to do the same and so on you know what im saying

@writershard5065

3 жыл бұрын

@@wabachi That's not how this works. Actual work was put into it. That is literally called development. It was in development at one point, and then presumably put on hold indefinitely until recently.

@larniieplayz6285

3 жыл бұрын

@@wabachi what?

@freakysquirrel7218

3 жыл бұрын

@Qimodis Worse is that Left for Dead 3 was very far in development in the late 2000s, but arguments about which engine to use (until then it was made on the original source engine) led to the game being scrapped while in the final stage of development. If the argument never occurred, we probably would have LFD3

@aymuhspunj

2 жыл бұрын

God Gaben was just waiting for 46th Dimensional HyperBrain Being John Carmack to advance human technology enough for half-life to reign supreme again.

"I need some time to collect myself..." *runs to go vomit*

@littlesnowflakepunk855

4 жыл бұрын

I actually did that bc i played for like 6 hours straight just to get to the ending lmao

Notice two things; 1. How Gman is *very* specific about the Advisor being dead. 2. How he doesn't actually answer Alyx about Eli living.

@andrejh.6335

4 жыл бұрын

“This entity will continue whereas this one will not” in reference to the advisor’s death being exchanged with Eli’s death.

@andrejh.6335

4 жыл бұрын

Kyle Cooper I don’t know about that... While it would make sense from a storytelling perspective, entities are usually living/undead/whatever beings, not inanimate timelines.

@Galaxxi

4 жыл бұрын

close, but no for number two - alyx asks if her father lives, gman dodges the question. he only said he would continue, but not for how long ;0

@bugjams

4 жыл бұрын

Y'all are looking too deep into it. He says "entity" because he's the G-Man and he doesn't ever talk in a way that's comforting or human. The whole point was that it was an equal exchange, one life taken so another may live. A trade, really. And Alyx was taken because G-Man never makes fair deals. She's not dead, no, but she was still put in stasis. So it's kind of like 2 lives were taken for the cost of Eli's. The reason he doesn't answer Alyx's question is because there's no point in him answering. He sees time non-linearly, so when Alyx asks if her father lives, he can't give a straight answer. To G-Man, it's yes... or no, depending on where he looks.

@Baxten123

4 жыл бұрын

When she asks who he is, he responds, " WHAT I am isn't as important as what i can offer you."

G-Man stops staring into timeless infinity and just turns around like, "S'up."

@DaGamingCore

4 жыл бұрын

Thats G-Man for you.

"Where's Adrian Shepard?" Owned by Gearbox

@encoder4d801

3 жыл бұрын

@@P3ndejosG4ng hl2: ep 4 had Shepard as the main character so they own him

@Deadsphere

3 жыл бұрын

@@encoder4d801 Episode 4? That's some hard bullshit.

@majinya6199

3 жыл бұрын

@@Deadsphere It's true, Valve out sourced Episode 4 as a standalone episode to another studio while they worked on Episode 3, both were sadly cancelled. but Episode 4 was leaked

@AlexZebol

3 жыл бұрын

It is actually still owned by VALVe. Gearbox was only an outsourced developer for HL1 expansions.

@mypdshp9309

2 жыл бұрын

@@Deadsphere Late reply but Return to Ravenholm was indeed a spin-off sequel starring Adrian Shepard. It was under development by Arkane studios until it was canceled.

can't believe we can actually say hl3 confirmed seriously now

@shodan2002

4 жыл бұрын

and it better not be a vr game but a real fps

@tinman8362

4 жыл бұрын

@@shodan2002 Do you realize how much of a downgrade that would be? The only reason that HLVR is fun is because it's in VR. Flat screen has been done before. VR is the future.

@LevenLappi

4 жыл бұрын

@@tinman8362 It would be harder, but they could definitely make a VR/nonVR version. Everyone would be able to play the game. But VR would look way better.

@starlite.lol.

4 жыл бұрын

@@LevenLappi HL3 Is already being worked on by the project borealis team

@tinman8362

4 жыл бұрын

Guilherme Santos When did they confirm that? Half Life: Alyx was a major success financially. The valve index sold out because of this singular game. I agree that flatscreen is different than VR, but in what ways can we make flatscreen gaming fun? Everything has been repeated to a point where it’s very repetitive.

That entire ending sequence will always give me chills. Valve knows EXACTLY how to offer fanservice. Letting the player grab the crowbar. Holy shit man.

This entire final sequence still makes me tear up quite a bit. It's just so much.

@Viper-ft3tk

4 жыл бұрын

I'm just happy to say "Half-Life 3 confirmed" and it's not a joke.

@gracecalis5421

4 жыл бұрын

@@sirrealism7300 Tough talk from someone who uploads clips of Smash Bros.

@AverageDoctor345

4 жыл бұрын

@@sirrealism7300 loser

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4 жыл бұрын

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@zacpier

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I thought it would've work off, but it's like my 15th time seeing the ending and I still tear up a little lmao it's so fucking good

I've just noticed something watching this video, the advisor sees us. They noticed us. Before it kills Eli, it looks at us.

@CF-fu7ct

2 жыл бұрын

Ive always thought about this. I wonder what we show up as from gordons pov. Alex? A vortiguant?

@Hichkuche11

2 жыл бұрын

After your comment, I watched that scene again, and holy shit, you're right Never noticed that before. Thanks dude

@bizijr

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hichkuche11 Right!?

@Hichkuche11

2 жыл бұрын

@@bizijr yeah, that's something you can't ignore

*considerably hard nudging intensifies*

@The_Endless_Now

4 жыл бұрын

*n u d g e*

Can't believe Valve waited 13 years to hit us with the same cliffhanger they broke us with in 2007.

@ItsChevnotJeff

9 ай бұрын

They managed to advance the canon lore by 30 seconds, or however long a fan finished convulsing in joy before taking the crowbar from Eli

Vinyl: That dosent seem like gordon freeman Chat: *MORGAN FREEMAN*

@Zi96

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao this crack me the fuck up bro

Oh sheet, at 7:35 , G-Man is just standing on the walkway on the left of the screen.

@jimjamjerry

4 жыл бұрын

Holy sheet!!

@marsil602the2nd

4 жыл бұрын

tbh it feels eli is yelling right at him, he looks right over there even. like everyone actually see him this time

@definitlyblack7600

4 жыл бұрын

Holy shit dude, i didn't notice him.

@littlesnowflakepunk855

3 жыл бұрын

im p sure he was there in ep2 also

@karhu7581

3 жыл бұрын

@@marsil602the2nd i mean, everyone *can* see him, but a man in a business suit often looks pretty incognito, so they don't even pay attention, really.

“God damn right we do Eli.” What a wonderful follow up to that. Honestly would not sound out of please coming out of Gordon’s mouth at that point.

Gordon: lost his job Alyx: kidnapped by Gman Shepherd: bored in void

@LesbianJumpscare

Жыл бұрын

Barney: still owes a beer

@mementocity

Жыл бұрын

gina & colette: dead and who knows what happened to the other

@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786

8 ай бұрын

@@mementocity I like the theory that Colette is the shadow scientist that talks to the advisor partway through this game. She didn't have a lot of characterization in Decay but from her voice lines she seemed to take sociopathic glee in the events of the resonance cascade, which translates to casually ordering advisors around like they're beneath her.

@user-golos

7 ай бұрын

Shephard has spent more time in stasis than his actual age

New Game, Same Old Cliffhanger Location

@ammagon4519

4 жыл бұрын

Now wait for another 15 years. Also please give me The Axe Plantera-chan, I've been farming you for 5 years and I barely even got it :(

@alexgearhart6294

4 жыл бұрын

@@ammagon4519 I appreciate this reference to an unhealthy degree

@UNSCPILOT

2 жыл бұрын

New cliffhanger though, and we got to see a few seconds past the previous point, so bonus!

lol that one guy in chat "its reagan"

"A previous employee has been unable- or unwilling- to perform the tasks laid before him. We have struggled to find a suitable replacement, until now..." This is actually the basic story of the development of HL3. There's been many stories of how the Devs tried to implement new ideas, only for them to either get shot down or, later, the developers being afraid to approach each other with their ideas. That was one of the reasons behind HLA; to explore some of those new ideas and see how they might work in Half-Life's setting.

I love how Vinny decides to sit down (again) during the end credits, but then jumps to his feet when he awakens as Gordon.

chat went ballistic over Greg Coomer but they all ignored Tony Cox

@etharchildres3976

4 жыл бұрын

Hehe Tony

@SpaceSanctum

3 жыл бұрын

Sam fuchs as well

@ThouShaltSuffer1

3 жыл бұрын

Derek Ho

@ThouShaltSuffer1

3 жыл бұрын

Tobin Buttram

Something I only just now put together: G-Man's "teleports" (or just Alyx's perspective of him) actually gradually gets more elaborate. The first one where he un-answers the question of who he is, it just seems like he walks around Alyx. But after he "splits" at the planet scene, it gets more and more impossible. He walks to your right, but then when he's behind you, he walks in from the left. And then after that, he walks towards you, only to show back up on your right! It's a clear sign of just how much the "facade" of even being human doesn't hold up, and also demonstrates how he is implied to perceive events: non-linearly.

"this entity will continue and this entity will not" damn straight

So this implies that G man is a tangible entity that can be captured and not a mass hallucination. I don't know if that makes things less terrifying or more. Thinking that he can occupy a physical space is somehow news to us and it is very concerning.

@changesforthebetter7172

3 жыл бұрын

Or he let himself be put in that place as a way to lure a new... Employee

@changesforthebetter7172

3 жыл бұрын

It's like anyone that's worthy enough to get to him can work for him

@cyber_dragon_123

2 жыл бұрын

He can be captured by vortigaunts because they’re also reality benders. The green energy around the vault is from vortigaunts.

@jamestomato1744

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, he looked very calm and collected inside that prison. Almost as though he wanted to be captured and was simply biding his time (perhaps his employers have more sway than we initially thought).

@ItsChevnotJeff

9 ай бұрын

I think G man was never captured, or his physical influence was locked in that point in time and space, but he can still somehow influence events from before he was locked up It's like leaving a bookmark of your own presence for someone else to pick up

Saw someone in chat go IT'S MARIO!

@spaalonebabuguuscooties

4 жыл бұрын

Wait its not mario?

@superplayerex2431

4 жыл бұрын

b-but... super mario... :'(

@diegomedina9637

4 жыл бұрын

It was probably Joel.

@ItsTheVioletQueen

3 жыл бұрын

“LUIGI :MonkaS:”

3:27 That one Chad in the chat saying "Use the mod gun and spawn another one" tho

In case you haven't noticed, when the "Half Life: Alyx" is displayed at the end of the credit scenes, you can hear how the music turns with the same alarm sound as it sounded back in HL1 when the laboratory was destroyed at the beginning of the chapter "Unforseen consequences". I really appreciated the fanservice. Simply a masterpiece of a game.

@Afterburner215

5 ай бұрын

Is there a video showing a comparison?

@germ4Nn

5 ай бұрын

@@Afterburner215 nope, just an observation after experience.

"Please? I want more" man 😭

I can't beleieve its already been 2 years since alyx, almost 3 actually, and more than a decade later since episode 2 and we finally had a level of confirmation for episode 3

the fact that i never knew gman was in the after credits and eli looks straight at him too

G-Man: "I can make a small nudge. What would you want 'nudged'?" Vinny: "pp" G-Man: "That's large. Way too large."

@Matt-ot9nx

3 жыл бұрын

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

@Squishito

2 жыл бұрын

@@Matt-ot9nx The right man in the wrong hole can make all the difference in the world...

@CHADCONTEXT

2 жыл бұрын

@@Squishito LMAO

“ can’t find replacement “ Adrian Shepard: …….. *Sigh * ……..

G-Man: **says Consquences** The chat: _oh shit_

5:09 GOOD GRIEF

Having watched this live, just having finished actually playing the game and experiencing all of this first hand and then returning here, I struggle to say how amazing this ending is. The animation, pacing, delivery, audio design, VR only scaling and mind fuckery. I can't express how well Valve really flexed VR over the entire length of the game but, this ending was an entire experience in itself and I'm still processing "Living" it two days later. It's absolutely surreal and something that can't be explained without doing it yourself. Half-life aside this game lends validity to the existence of VR as a medium and not just a collection of experiences and glorified arcade games. I seriously haven't been left with a feeling like this from a game since probably MGS2 or even HL2:EP2 Fuck you Valve for raising the bar so damned high and ruining it for everyone else lol. Also side note: Valve messing with all expectations by making you walk through a noneuclidean environment after grounding you in the "reality" of the games world and establishing rules to the world that are both logical and completely mundane is brilliant. It's not just suddenly "Oh neat a crazy looking end level" in VR. After playing by the games very established world rules within VR for 12 hours then going through that is like actually having reality flip inside out on you IRL. Notice even the music is nothing like has ever been in a HL game before, further messing with the players head and expectations of the rules set forth by previous HL games and their soundtracks. Again, Fuck you Valve

Wait this jape, I won't fall for it. What happened to the Ronaldinho 64

I love how the dancing emotes in the chat sync up perfectly with the credits music

Oh my god the G-Man was Kyubey all along.

@ashura9699

4 жыл бұрын

Alyx must become meguca, go back and fix it

@DarkLordFluffee

4 жыл бұрын

@@ashura9699 my city 17 now

@clockworkcat8576

4 жыл бұрын

Being black masa worker is suffering

Nice fake video, where's Ronaldinho?

@Mantis47

4 жыл бұрын

Subject: Ronaldinho 64 Status: Soccer

@lolrus5555

4 жыл бұрын

I... I must know. What is your profile pic from?

@sunfl0wer_988

3 жыл бұрын

@@lolrus5555 It seems like it could be from one of the Kingdom Hearts games with an Animal Crossing style text box combined.

"...P-please...? I want more..." He sounded hella cute here, not gonna lie.

@NickJerrison

4 жыл бұрын

I find it fascinating that so many people had this exact reaction during the ending, even though most of them had been playing for hours in one session already just to get to the ending and were extremely tired physically (myself included). Just goes to show how incredible of an impression the game left on everyone.

@BierBart12

4 жыл бұрын

Just goes to show how wrong we all were about thinking Valve had lost it years ago. They have only just begun. Makes me wonder if those weird slip ups with Artifact and such were intentional, to lure us into a strange sense of low expectations.

@melanch0lycat5393

4 жыл бұрын

@@BierBart12 I think they just half-assed those games, just a little thing to pass the time while they work on the real titles.

@eddyspaghetti6211

3 жыл бұрын

wtf is this comment section

i unironically almost fainted the first time i heard the hev suit after the credits

I love watching reactions to this, but it legitimately doesn't do justice to experiencing the actual ending. The G-man is incredibly intimidating in this scene in VR, in a way that other NPC interactions arent't. It feels completely alien and helpless, like the only thing protecting you is the fact that he's glad you saved him and he doesn't have a need to hurt you. His eyes are always tracked on your pupils, and he gets intimately close at times, plus the surround sound really makes his voice travel, like he's walking right behind you out of sight and appearing where you least expect him. Valve ought to look into using some of what they did in the game for a VR horror game in the future.

7:30 always liked how perfect it was for Vinny to sit down, because it looks like Gordon is recovering from consciousness and got himself up.

Gman: walks out Random dude in chat: REAGAN

I'm guessing that we go this now instead of yesterday's stream because Vinny inadvertently killed the VOD with the Crickets chirping and John Fullsauce has to edit it out as best they can

@aturchomicz821

4 жыл бұрын

Ohh Vinny....

@MrBlueDesigns

4 жыл бұрын

What was yesterday's stream?

@aturchomicz821

4 жыл бұрын

​@Fesh Pince He played Copyrighted Crickets Noises for an amazing Gag just to remember that they are copyrighted resulting in more laughter from the audience

gman was the dm this whole time

rly love when chat started spamming Kermit dancing cuz that's literally how I felt, an amazing credits song, fit the vibe of the game ever so perfectly. intense but still mysterious

Chat all screaming not to skip credits even though you'll get the post-credits scene anyway even if you don't skip them.

Adrien Shephard is busy beating up Rattman with a clan of vortigaunts for info at the moment; call back later, please

@BoomDYadda

3 жыл бұрын

Btw, Pixar, hit me up cause I have a million dollar thesis for the next Adrian Sheppard title! Love you millions!!!

The legends were true. Ronaldinho Soccer 64 2 was in the G-Man’s briefcase the whole time!

So... Schrödinger's Eli Vance?

@JJungleJapeson

4 жыл бұрын

I still have nightmares about that cat.

@MashieMutt

4 жыл бұрын

@@JJungleJapeson What cat?

@peanut-1735

4 жыл бұрын

WHAT cat?

@DaGamingCore

4 жыл бұрын

God i needed this. Thank you comment section

@lasarousi

3 жыл бұрын

Eli was saved in one of the timelines, not in the one alyx is in the game. It was a trick.

Shout-out to that one guy in chat who said "Homestuck Retcon"

@belisarius6949

4 жыл бұрын

screw that guy, you, and all 24 prople who liked your comment

@the10ofdiamondscard

4 жыл бұрын

gross

@den-lavender

4 жыл бұрын

gman is my favorite troll

@superzario1000

4 жыл бұрын

disgusting

@tadpolegaming4510

4 жыл бұрын

Homestuck 🤮

The way Vinny sprung up at the after-credits scene was some E3 level good shit.

I Can’t believe they had Ronaldinho in there

So here's my theory (obviously spoilers, but at this point you clicked on the video so...) : Gman's employer is Valve. Since Valve didn't know how to continue EP2 for years, they felt they had to give a lore-friendly way to revert the events in order to "remove their writer's block," so to say.

@LiamS2005

4 жыл бұрын

*Speculation* They knew how to continue the story, HL3 was in some sort of development for a while, but Episode 3 turned into something bigger, and as it got bigger, it was hard to live up to the expectations, from the community and themselves.

@TemmiePlays

4 жыл бұрын

Are you implying they were sleeping on the job?

@donotscantheqrcode8700

4 жыл бұрын

@@TemmiePlays well, all the effort in the game would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say their hour has come again...

@governor_explosion

4 жыл бұрын

In a meta-way, yes. I think they also retconned some stuff to give Alyx more agency and her own time in the spotlight.

@dagelask

4 жыл бұрын

S U B T E X T

So, Half Life 3 kinda sorta confirmed?

@masonsykes2240

4 жыл бұрын

Yes In all seriousness HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED

@lasarousi

3 жыл бұрын

More like half life fan fiction enabled with time travel and multiple universes.

@julianreviews8102

3 жыл бұрын

@@lasarousi Half Life has always had time travel and multiple universes. The G-Man has been able to time travel since the beginning, and both Xen and wherever the Combine come from are alternate dimensions

@rockstargamer97

2 жыл бұрын

@@lasarousi bruh you literally time travel at the start of act 3 of hl2 before the rebellion starts

Watching the ending for the first time on stream made me cry as a huge half life fan, one of the most memorable vinny streams ever!!

“Charlie Brown worked on this game? The fuck?” caught me way off gaurd.

They waited 13 years to uno reverse the cliffhanger into another cliffhanger

Valve always just casually dropping by with an innovative masterpiece once a decade.

alyx got shepard'ed

This was the scene that confirmed Half life 3

@KristinaIsUpset

6 ай бұрын

3 and a half years later... holding out hope ig but im getting worried

Whats scary is that the Advisor actually looks directly at Alyx the moment time freezes.

“GSPOT MAN” - Someone in Chat

Even that intro just matches my initial reaction so perfectly. I slowly walk into the room and look at the the sillouette and before I walk in i think to myself "hey wait a sec we didnt see gman yet.. also gordon is with gman and not the combine, are they working together??" and then i continue walking and look into the cage and I slowly go "that's..not...gordon.. that's not gordon! i dont want to do this! get me out of here! PLEASE!" and those glowing eyes that appeared before himself were the scariest shit

“Charlie Brown worked on this game?” Got me good

0:38 The laugh of someone realizing they've fucked up

I'm going to be honest when I say I would not be angry if half life became a vr series just by how good half life Alyx was

I was on the verge of tears with how beautiful the ending and them game itself was. I'm so happy I preordered the game 3 months before release and spent like 6 hours playing at a time. Loved every second.

Vinny was so in the moment at the end scene.

"unless...." 😳😳😳😳

"where's adrian shepherd" vinny speaking trufax

Gordon Freeman: So Eli about that talk we were going to have....

5:25 i love how everyone in the chat start to dancing when the credits theme starts to beat

Bro, i freaking cried when i saw the reveal.. All this time, its felt like they just abandoned everything, gave up trying to make games when in reality.. waited for the right technology so we could experience this Half-life ourselves in our real-life. Gordon and "the player" are 2 Halves that make a whole half-life. haha but for real, its like a story put on pause that we've been waiting to hear the ending to forever.

UNLESS WHAT? KINDA WHAT

@vrabo3026

4 жыл бұрын

Unless we confirm HL3, Miss Vance.

@shantaeisbae

4 жыл бұрын

KINDA WHAT MARLENE

“Time, Miss Vance, is it really that time again?”

Good thing you came up with this I made sure I had chat closed during that final segment to avoid spoilers.

"Ellen McClain was in this game? That's cool." Me, who recognized her doing the announcements immediately: Really, Vin?

@Christian-gr3gu

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't she the person who voiced glados?

@24DracoAmericanus

4 жыл бұрын

@@Christian-gr3gu Yeah, and she voices the tf2 announcer... she was doing more of that kind of voice in this one

@elu9780

4 жыл бұрын

Shame the voice is no longer quite the same. Sounds different compared to what we heard in Half-Life 2, so I don't blame Vin for missing that.

@tragedyplustime8271

3 жыл бұрын

@@Christian-gr3gu She does all the announcing women in every Valve game: GLaDOS in Portal, the Announcer in TF2 and the Overwatch Voice in HL.

The madlad flipped off the advisor after killing it. Badass.

Can't believe it was 3 years ago

What is Sephiroth doing at the end of this game?

G Man: Yo, get me out of this whack ass crystal prison!

I really hope they bring back Adrian in someway, maybe even help Gordon fight Gman

How they made a game thats got peak visual fidelity even if it wasnt vr, to be running well in vr will forever be an astonishing accomplishment.

Half-Life: Fire Walk With Me

If you listen to the distorted trumpets music backwards you can hear alyx say Gordon can you hear me as she is trapped in the weird black void trying to talk to freeman