Half-Life

that wasn't a gauntlet. And they made an egg clock game that they only released a half of, you know, half of one unit only made its market. There's a lot of arcade game slash popcorn dispensers and things that we could get into. Yeah. So let me why don't you tell us what you nominated and what we'll be talking about in this episode. Well, I propose that we discuss Half Life 2 Survivor. That's what Jeff Probst in it, right? No, no, no. Unfortunately, this is an outlast, outwits or outsurvivor or what is still…

... I just stole this one completely off the internet, but it sounds about right. Half-Life 3 will release alongside the Steam Machine to show that it is capable of playing the latest and greatest games. ...

it's uh putting so much emotion when you crack out the secret weapon you keep boasting about uh no I'll save that save that for later um I think I will go with uh for first uh person shooter level single player I'm gonna go with Half-Life 2 and I'm gonna go with Raven Home um or the um we don't go to Raven Home chapter I mean this guy's like you know all PC gamers here like this is this is iconic this is one of the most genre defining levels in in all of first person shooters you just get the gravity gun just…

... Portal was oddly enough my introduction to the Half-Life universe, the Source Engine universe, the Valve universe, and ended up obviously being quite a rabbit hole for me. ...

remaster at some point because that was a really tasty looking thing um i will finish at least one of my silent hill f playthroughs as well um that just it seems like a work because the combat in that game but yeah nonetheless i will get to that um yeah podcast wise i sort of like had some ambitions to do a half-life episode this year i finished half-life one and two for the first time and i got most of the way through half-life uh posing force and i did blue shift and um i've got the episodes to do still for…

... The continuity in the levels is impressive. It's not quite half life in which the world just feels contiguous. Even though there are loading screens separating different levels, you do feel like you're making your way through one well developed space that is just a hole that exists somewhere here. ...

of it it would be great if it was included in it so oh an addendum from hunter Grant for playing DS games off the TV use the game share tech for people with multiple switches in their house mmm yeah I feel like that's how what the switch was initially designed for oh handsome Ralph question we half-life three ha but no but seriously I fully expect something half-life related and I would to be a launch title for the steam frame the steam box the steam machine so either something the main of half-life Alex or…

So I'd probably just pick someone who was just a regular human because I think if it's like too weird a shape, people be like, "Well, that's obviously a Goron from the cinema. So there's probably not someone in there. Let's go and rob it." But if it was, so I picked, I was trying to get the most just regular human I could think of and for some reason I thought of the G-Man from Half-Life. He does have big IT guy energy, the G-Man. ...

... They can do what they, Valve is, if you ever hear him in interviews, he talks about how many versions of Half-Life 3 and Ricochet 2, they've thrown away. ...

... There's either, what are they gonna do? Make another Half-Life game welcome tour for the Steam Machine? ...

... I do think, I mean, rumors are floating that like, Hey, if, if valve was going to be really aggressive about putting out hardware in a real way for the first time in forever. Half-life three. That's what everyone's saying. ...

... I mean, so whatever. It's just one of those things that like, it's a half-life three, right? Is it ever going to happen? ...