Half-Life: Alyx - Freeing the Vortigaunt

While sabotaging the Vault, Alyx Vance comes across a Vortigaunt that was imprisoned by the Combine.

A brief excerpt from my playthrough. Loved this little exchange between Alyx and the Vort. Beautiful animation by Valve, top-notch voice acting for both characters, and a nice break from the claustrophobic corridors of the Headcrab hotel.

[Penultimate_Jive]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who pretends to talk, while playing the game.

[bjollnirbjordsen]

The vortigaunts have so much personality now, they really did an amazing job animating them and updating their models for source 2. They look as expressive as a human now.

[MrLocazo]

The vortigaunts are the most kind and lovely alien creatures i've been seen, E.T?
Nah!!!
VORTIGAUNTS!

[checkmate]

Vortigaunt -“We remember the Freeman. We are coterminous. There is no distance between us. No false veils of time or space may intervene. We see you still in Black Mesa. Clearly we see you in the Nihilanth's chamber.”

[northropi]

"Go inside and deactivate the power source"
Actually makes friend, like a boss
*Coterminous Time*

[e-mnngaming]

The movements are so realistic. The animators at valve definitely did a good job.

[IronPiedmont]

Interestingly enough, back in the Half Life 2 Beta, the Vortigaunts were to have been used as living batteries by the Combine. Nice to see VALVe reviving an old concept.

[Chuma]

Tony Todd R.I.P (1954-2024) thank you for playing the vortigaunts throughout the franchise, your support to defeat the combine through your character will not be forgotten, we raise the crowbar for you!

[rebel]

“We’re putting a lot of trust in the Vortigaunt to shut down those substations.”
Mate, I trust Vortigaunts better than I do humans!

[Xylobone-Man]

4:13
i love how he’s relaxing for a cool shot but when she says “Good luck!” He realizes he has to get moving and just becomes a ninja in athletic-ness

[blueshit]

I love it when he puts the tiny third hand on top of the other two, that looks so cute!

[royliber]

After Gordon freed the Vortigaunts from the Nihilanth's shackels, they owe humanity their lives quite literally. Gotta say the animations Valve did to every possible living entity there is in this game is absolutely ground-breaking. My favourite one gotta be the way the Strider moves when Alyx fights him.

[Oldaccountpoopoodwe]

I love how you got into character with the hand movements at 3:36

[captainscowllyface]

i love how in episode 2 you had to do things like, give power to an elevator because a vortigaunt couldn't use a ladder, but in this they're like leathery magic monkeys

[MrBerserker]

4:17 imagine Vortigaunts parkouring and climbing walls in Half Life 1

[plasmatic]

4:17 this proves that Vorts also can parkour

[FeniXMinerva]

I like to think that this is the same Vort that saved Alyx from Ep2.

[pizzazzindoofus]

"Our paths diverge, but remember:
there is no distance between us."

[Freplopi]

The vortagaunt says the same thing to alyx as he does to Gordon: “ we are coterminous, there is no distance between us ”

[rek]

I like the little gestures you made, It's as if you're experiencing it first-hand as Alyx Vance.