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Half Life 2 begins!

🕑 Added 2025-01-22 22:12:54 +0000 UTC

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Dave P.

Thanks Amber! I was missing your videos and here they all are. I had time to play through this myself last month, so it's worked out well. 😇

Ben

Hard agree on this, I think the Portal games would be perfect for Amber. Not too long, good humoured, and really fun to play and watch.

Marcel Génetay

This is starting off SO GOOD. Can't wait for more episodes! Oh, have you played the Portal games by the way? If not they are excellent for a blind Let's Play, have a nice community and follows a HL2 playthrough very well.

Azalea Jane

I laughed out loud. The Source engine is so much fun.

Ben

Gotta be a Top 5 game of all time, at least for me personally. Love this game so much!

Azalea Jane

SO PUMPED. This game is incredible. I'm still playing it 20 years later. ETA: Watched it! I don't mind the slow pace at all. In fact, I'm here for it. Milk this thing as long as you can; there is _so much_ to this story. I've played the game so much I just breeze through the beginning. Seeing it at a pace closer to what the devs intended, noticing details I hadn't before (like the distant echoes of children playing in the playground), is priceless. You simultaneously have a beautiful, innocent wide-eyed wonder about every new game world, but you're also incredibly clever, amazingly skilled, and pick up on hints and lore I would never find on my own.

Rogue Variable

This was my first Half Life game, fawned memories. I actually stripped all the music files out of the game and burned them on to a CD to listen to.

Grant Gringle

This was a fun first episode, with a healthy amount of panicked throwing and bashing of objects, whilst taking care to appreciate the cool environment design and piecing together the story. This is gonna be another wild playthrough, and I'm excited to see what happens! The way the last game literally went sideways at the end was glorious. Thank you and happy new year! Also: Shout out to yuzu flavored beverages and famous asses!

Flukemarm

I'm glad you're playing like an easily distracted weirdo that stands on tables during conversations, the proper way of playing Gordon Freeman.

Dirk

I love how much fun you have. I can't wait for the next part. And btw. nice bowtie in your hair <3

Morty

That was epic!..and you are hilarious.

Huib Gelling

You’re playing it perfectly, taking it all in! It’s what you’re supposed to do with Half Life haha

yournick

Picking up the TV then accidently chucking it out the window then the alarm playing was pure comedy gold. I lol'd.

yournick

Amber = playing through and paying attention so I can speed run everything and ignore it all. Thanks, appreciated! I was thinking about replaying HL2 due to the potential HL3 talk! But I wont now, this play thru is better

Enguerrand Leclerc

What a joy to (re)discover the game with you, love your attention to details. it's like watching 2 friends clicked together in a way... (the game and you are the 2 friends... I don't really know how to convey the feeling -__-`i'm sure you get it :) ) Happy 2025 Amber !

Jack Mingle

Don't worry about taking it slow, I'm here for it

Trolez

Ooh, just now seeing this. I can't wait to watch this later!

l.h. riley

Also, visually I think you are playing the 20th anniversary update that released in 2024. They "remastered" it a bit, I think mostly to make sure it was playable on modern hardware, and NVIDIA has been helping add RTX to old games (like Quake RTX). The water and physics were super impressive in 2004, but not quite as nice as they look in the 2024 version on modern hardware. Here's a video, which is unfortunately the best comparison I could find: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aqzyvWjLzRg

l.h. riley

No, no. Cyberpunk coming up in 2077. She needs time to play it. 🤭

l.h. riley

Amber, since you were confused about the use of the word "combine" (COMB-ine, not com-BINE as in combination) without context, I wanted to help clarify. I believe that the name is intended to make the player think about the commercial farming equipment known as Combine Harvesters (eg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combine_harvester). You can make your own conclusions about what a force named Combine is doing meddling in the "breeding" process of humans under their "protection."

rogbrte

Hell yeah, been waiting for this one! Taking it slow and taking it all in is the best part of this whole thing. Happy new year! #FearTheManhat

Juan

Chaos is back 😁 (also Cyberpunk 2077 this year? 👀)

Chris DePrisco

Hurray, more Half-Life!

TheCrazyPriest

I'm just here for those sweet Gordon pics

Nina

Trying to turn off the tv and instead accidentally throwing it out of the window and triggering the alarm was so funny, absolute sitcom moment.

W. W. Wiklund

Aaah! Exciting!

Chris Cooper

You didn't miss anything major from the spinoffs, and you're basically dead on about the storytelling method. Glad to see you're enjoying this so far, and appreciating the visuals as well - this game was mind blowing as far as graphics went when it was released (especially the facial animations) and still holds up really well twenty years later.

Capt Doug

Happy New Year! I was creased watching “I’m not weak I promise” hahaha looking forward to this I’ve never played Half Life, 1 was real fun and I’m sure 2 will be a blast also, glad I’m getting to experience it through you! Hope everyone is doing well!

K_Ichigo-15

Happy new year! Great game to start the year off with.

InarteS

So nice see you Amber, may this year be good and kind to all of us! 🧡 btw, that drink looked cool, what flavour was it?

DVHalen

Hooray! Been looking forward to this

Munshai

Hope you enjoy that one as much as I did almost 20 years ago. It's the one that really got me into Half Life and I've got so many fond memories of it, thank you for playing it! Also, Happy New Year! Hope yours had a great start 😁

Jeremy Montoya

I know zero things of Half Life 2, except that it’s massively loved. Happy new year and here’s to 2025 being the beginning of incredible things to come! 😤