Half Life Alyx was my first Half Life game

Half Life Alyx is probably the best VR game of all time. Virtual Reality games have a habit of either being cheap ports or just great tech demos, but Half Life Alyx was neither. Half Life Alyx was an amazing game and VR only served to make it better. It never leaned to heavily on it, but it certainty took advantage of it. I know it's unforgivable that I haven't played Half Life or Half Life 2. but I hope that I can be somewhat forgiven, and I hope you got a chortle out of this video. thank you for watching, thank you for reading this description.

[dontpokethebear]

"I'm excited for what comes next"

So this IS your first Valve game...

[Jacob-yglz]

"How did Valve make my apartment vibrate"

It just works

[cheddary]

"Why do they give me health?"
Health machine proceeds to juice the maggot buddy.
"My poor boy!"

[GetFox]

fun fact, the beer in the beer bottles is actually a shader illusion! It was a quarantine project of just ONE of the devs.

[diogo]

“He gives me health? That’s adorable” oh buddy, that’s just not how life works hahaha

[KRNGE]

The fact that you slowly reloaded your gun after falling over and killing an enemy is so in character for the tone of Half Life. It's like, "Yeah, just got done killing someone, give me a minute to reload while I'm face down on the ground." I love it.

[YungCringe]

fun fact: the bottles dont actually have anything inside of them. one of the developers just made (i think it was post launch) a super convincing shader for the bottles so it looks as if they had liquids inside of them

[blakemolthan]

I'm shocked that you didn't end up talking about the whole "Jeff" scene

[CRT_YT]

They didn't add a full body on purpose, the more realistic you make a game, the more the unrealistic stuff sticks out.

[Jarekthegamingdragon]

People generally don't want Alyx to be the first game just for MASSIVE spoiler reasons. Other than that, totally agree. Especially your point about boneworks. Alyx was intended to be people's introduction to VR. Valve succeeded splendidly with that. How ever, I wish they pushed it just a bit further. It makes me enjoy boneworks a lot more than alyx for the gameplay alone.
Also, I hope you have caught up on the other Half-Life games since this video LOL

[theantsaretakingover]

Good....










Now play the rest of the games.

[dervicus]

3:22 While this is true, I feel like in most of my time with Alyx, I just naturally moved around obstacles like one would expect anyways. I imagine Valve realized that, and also decided having full arm collision ended up hurting the experience more than helping it- imagine being in a shoot out but then not being able to throw a grenade because your virtual elbow that you cant control catches on a brick.

[giannicarbonara]

"oh he gives me health, why does he give me health?"

Maggot friend is turned into soup

Habie: just stares at it for a few seconds
"oh no"

[slvsoph]

I gotta say, a friend linked me the video and I didn't sit down planning to watch it all but your calm voice, chill music, and nice visuals was fantastic. I definitely got some good nose exhales in, and the ending was so holesome and just real :) thank you

[thedeadnightking]

When the maggot dies

Habie: *Look how they massacred my boy*

[clamvr]

and the fact that you have to cover your mouth IRL so Jeff doesnt hear you, and that wit hthe valve knuckle controllers it feels like the needles are going into you when you get health, this game was one of the best experiences i have ever had.

[shiba]

as a half life fan, you finally playing HL: A rights all your wrongs to me

[radshiba_]

the part where someone sees how the health dispensers work for the first time is my favorite part of a half life alyx playthrough

[Oliver-jzen]

Unless you have full body tracking, having a body outline when you look down is difficult. In Pavlov there's specific pouches you have to grab things from and when your body is further back from the outline in VR it's then difficult and breaks the immersion

[sirplunge]

When u realize that THE ALYX VANCE didn't eat her sustenance

Edit: How and why do i have so many likes