If valve sticked to the original storyline then the game without a doubt would be the most scariest and if not eeriest first person shooter
@automatonm99
6 жыл бұрын
Well half life is mainly inspired by quake 1 and doom.
@SharkWrestler
5 жыл бұрын
I find the beta scarier than fear in many ways, it's not so much what is attacking you as is what those things are doing to the world and people.
@genericwhitekidthesecond4330
4 жыл бұрын
To be fair, assuming that the citadel sections in the beta were gonna be like how it turned out in retail, I doubt it would have been as scary. Yes I'm absolutely terrified of the citadel and the combine as I run through hallways wiping out entire armies of the combine with the super gravity gun like there's no problem. Terrified.
@MemeReviewer
4 жыл бұрын
scarier than doom.
@rebel6301
4 жыл бұрын
We need a game that's the original storyline, but with the quality of what we got instead.
@PlusMeoww
5 жыл бұрын
It's like... Hearing people becoming stalkers,meanwhile others are working and falling
@sandszed
3 жыл бұрын
Too fucking scaring
@crylune
2 жыл бұрын
People become stalkers at Nova Prospekt, not in the Citadel
@PlusMeoww
2 жыл бұрын
@@crylune yeah my mistake
@foreignstranger3412
2 жыл бұрын
@@crylune in the beta citadel too.
@crylune
2 жыл бұрын
@@foreignstranger3412 Source?
@freezer0706
6 жыл бұрын
you can only imagine what was happening in the Citadel. *shivers*
@Rognvaldr
5 жыл бұрын
People being torn apart and made into the transhumans.
@hatti...
5 жыл бұрын
The organizing of troops and business. The scary stuff happens in Nova Prospekt. At least in retail...
@sirbirbton
4 жыл бұрын
**CBT, Doctor Freeman.**
@Player67543
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I’d hate to see their sewers.
@Royal_Stomper
2 жыл бұрын
Probably cool parties
@greyscaleb1537
7 жыл бұрын
Geez the Combine were so scary and eerie in the beta... Really makes you wonder what they were...
@MMMMMMMMM2
7 жыл бұрын
the retail combines we're less scary compared to the beta ones combine was some serious shit in the beta
@lefleiner3408
7 жыл бұрын
TheFieldyardOwner but nothing's changed really, combine remained always the same. This was disturbing, so they cut it.
@automatonm99
7 жыл бұрын
Makes you wonder what in God's name kinda universe did they come from and what's their intentions for Earth are, the mysterious nature of the combine is what scares me the most if you ask me.
@lefleiner3408
7 жыл бұрын
Some universes, *well in theory,* could be so different and unexplained, that a 3D human eye (2D projection of which view we do receive through our brain) wouldn't even be capable of capturing the view, and i am not even talking about their own laws of physics. This is why *Universal Union* and *Overwatch* are totally two different things. *More-than-3-coordinates-entities,* which pass through time and space into our 3D universe, must reconstruct themselves into their 3D version of themselves, and i can tell that Marc Laidlaw knows this stuff pretty well since he have put *Calabi-Yau equation* in "Psyche" scene (also in this scary raw Hazard Course level where Gordon was meant to go out of his current universe/realm). As far as we know, with every spark of once race's intellegent activity (at least we know that it's a cross-dimensional teleportation) UU probably "checks" this race. Later nation is (i assume) given an opportunity to be a part of the union, or be on their own. Once challange was accepted, UU gives everything they know to this race, and probably leave only an advisor or two as their representatives to only *report* sentient life's progress and *advise* this nation's representative. The goal is to turn everyone into *an adaptable being for another dimension,* and the only thing that can let you do this is a *synthetical transformation.* How does it works? It is unknown, but one thing for sure is that people whom passed it shouldn't be called cyborgs, which *Synths* are considered as by community's (and Valve's actually) mistake. You probably know what RTB is, right? And what Breengrub's twitter is made of. These two things gives you an explanation of what Synth exactly is, and it's definitely not a brainless violent soldier, like everyone stereotypically thinks about OTA soldiers, though lowest classes of Civil Protection are totally fucked up psychos. Everything we see in Half-Life: 2 was (almost) made by *Humans,* and Humanity... "humanity" is still in charge of their planet. They just enslaved themselves and actually they failed. From the retail version of the game we know that UU discarded humanity, for many things: they failed their programme, started a war with their own kind and at least one caterpillar was injured. This is what i call a real fuck up. Also, The Citadel, they managed to blow it up, okay srsly wtf. UU probably thought that death penalty wouldn't be enough for these fuckers.
@phyrmysasix7823
7 жыл бұрын
Lefleiner - but there is a misunderstanding in the Synth's description given by Laidlaw. He says that their kind can evolve, replicate, and repair themselves (regenerate probably), but we saw in the release how stalker was welding something into a gunship. A) Developers forgot their main idea B) Gunship is not a Synth *that's bullshit* C) It was don just to show the oppression of Stalker's life. Gunship probably repairs itself and regenerates, but who said that it can't be worshipped by some slender lunatic?
@theblackmesaresearchfacili1079
4 жыл бұрын
Some people said that the citadel was supposed to be a living tower What if these where the sounds that the citadel itself made
@flame_skull_studios6474
4 жыл бұрын
What if the material the citadel was made of was just tough flesh
@GodFatherGB
3 жыл бұрын
@Dark soda synth
@disfuncionexe
3 жыл бұрын
idk some of those see seem like the tower itself and some seem like the sounds of the tortured souls inside and the people being warped into monsters
@crowdarnoldsen2933
3 жыл бұрын
@MASLIN BRUNER in retail it's not But it beta it was alive
@DesertThing
3 жыл бұрын
That's an interesting point there
@spinningsquare1325
5 жыл бұрын
Rebels realy needed to be brave guys to fight this shit
@brainwashed7384
5 жыл бұрын
Well, rebel citizens might not know about the horrors, some high ranking conscripts or CPs might.
@Seek_Chan356
Жыл бұрын
Even Gordon Freeman cant KILL beta citadel
@memedude8303
3 жыл бұрын
you never realize how easily half life 2 could have been the scariest first person shooter to exist at the time until you look at it's beta
@Gravity_studioss
2 жыл бұрын
imagine beta Ravenholm
@SeanKula
2 жыл бұрын
We don't go there anymore
@ofspace1732
Жыл бұрын
@@Gravity_studioss bro we dont go to ravenholm dude 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
@cinfdef
Жыл бұрын
@@Gravity_studioss *WE MAKING IT OUT OF BETA RAVENHOLM WITH THIS ONE* 🗣🗣🗣 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Dumptrucksniffer
Жыл бұрын
@@Gravity_studiossbeta ravenholm was the same
@CaptainGiratina
7 жыл бұрын
This sounds more like something you'd hear from xen than you'd actually hear from the combine.
@freezerio1069
6 жыл бұрын
Combine Xen bases...?
@74djizzle
6 жыл бұрын
Nope, the combine seemed more, I dun no, harsh, in beta days. liked it much more.
@crimsonlanceman7882
6 жыл бұрын
They were less subtle in their creppy, alien, exploitative nature but that would not work with the fact that the earth combine in the final release was a human construct. They were inspired by combine human forces present on Earth. This is why they had to change their ambient soundscape, probably.
@kid_toucher
2 жыл бұрын
xen has a huge ecosystem, the creatures of xen are like our animals, they fight for their own survival while combine destroy for their greed
@Theplayerthatexists
Жыл бұрын
The whole idea of the citadel is that the combine is sort of bringing their world to ours to help produce their armies and control the people, so a comparison to xen is not too far off seeing that its so alien. The Half life 2 beta citadel though is sort of a middle ground, where its not anything too new, but just a combination of all the wrong things in our society coupled with the fear of insignificance.
@vaporatorthemoist5715
5 жыл бұрын
I heard that the Citadel was supposed to be alive DEAR GOD
@commo8087
5 жыл бұрын
What source?
@selfinsertedchudvz341
4 жыл бұрын
In Beta Ravenholm there was a dead child corpse inside a Apartment, that right, A CHILD CORPSE.
@mauzki-
4 жыл бұрын
@nigge r they weren't burning people who do crimes, they cleared headcrabs and infections. They where essentially really messed up janitors, they where planned for HL alyx but basically got reskinned into Jeff from half life alyx.
@mauzki-
4 жыл бұрын
@nigge r in HL2? thats retail so we don't even know if its actully him doing that, plus you have to consider he'd be burning bodies as well, once again thats retail so its hard to even say if it was a cremator that did that.
@mauzki-
4 жыл бұрын
@nigge r yeah there in the retail one, not confirmed if that was the cremator or not, its possible some dusty version of the cremeator is out there. Eg the head, but nothing to really confirm, closest we got is the Jeff creature.
@syncdi3221
5 жыл бұрын
1:43, let that beta stalker sink in.
@FlaxJackett
4 жыл бұрын
dude last year you gave me nightmares for 2 days from that comment
@TheBreakingBenny
4 жыл бұрын
Those Stalkers whom you were genuinely meant to fight and fear because they'd hide in the shadows and sneak up on you… whereas in the final, the Stalkers are foes you feel sorry for instead because they're people who resist becoming one with the Combine.
@StationaryGamingReal
9 ай бұрын
They look frail. It's ridiculous.
@Megajaybreaker4
7 ай бұрын
@@StationaryGamingRealwhen has a stalker NOT looked frail?
@clonewarrior1999
7 жыл бұрын
I actually really liked the look of concept citadel.
@clonewarrior1999
7 жыл бұрын
Yea generally HL2 beta was more sinister and more about a rule under an iron fist, which still shows in the full game but to a lesser extent. The beta was also a bit more communist like using forced labor and basically being slavery and more cold, unfeeling, and just emotionless, which ironically gave it more emotion. The full game had more of a theme that the combine were actually trying to protect humanity (though failing their job miserably)
@daedricwomack7843
6 жыл бұрын
Same.
@scudb5509
5 жыл бұрын
The new citadel looks proper. It looks like a serious space ship, which it is. This one looks like a Disney castle. I don’t know what would’ve been better to keep the dictator or doc. Tbh, I kinda feel like the docs world has no hope, the planet is destroyed. The final remaining urban centre is half ruined, and later also destroyed, the seas have retreated, maybe majority of resources drained. Fighting for freedom seems to be pointless. That was the first feeling I had when I came out of the train station. While, a dictator seems like a typical story. Overthrow him and you are free. Doc green even says, that they “might” let us reproduce, and he is right. The only hope that humanity has is its own destroyers mercy.
@BluestSoldier
4 жыл бұрын
If by protecting you mean progressively turning them into mindless transhuman soldiers for cannon fodder on their external wars, while totally annihilating all life on Earth by draining it from it's resources, yeah, it's a very good protection.
@GingeyBoi57
4 жыл бұрын
The inside honestly looks kinda boring
@manecronik
6 жыл бұрын
The stained blood on the walls though..
@dieselpower1133
5 жыл бұрын
some random guy on the internet in the retail version . There is a separater machine in a cutscene that is seen sending you to breens office instead of sending you to a dehumanizer for turning humans into combine. The stained blood would be everywhere around this machine .
@MrHds46
5 жыл бұрын
I saw these textures in half life 2 materials files
@hatti...
5 жыл бұрын
The same stained blood can be seen in Episode 1 coming from the Stalker pods, at least I think
@averageillegalmemesdealer
5 жыл бұрын
@@dieselpower1133 What's your source in that info? I find it really interesting.
@strangegaming3060
2 жыл бұрын
The HL2 Beta is so fascinating. As much as I love the released game, HL2 Beta has a tone closer to HL1. It feels more like a horror game.
@rlfpotatoking9253
Жыл бұрын
Indeed, the idea of the beta is so constrasting to the game we ended up getting. I'm glad that mods like Dark Interval or Raising the bar Redux are doing a fabulous job at recreating the beta but from my view I think Valve could have used the Beta ideas for a potential new IP or perhaps a DLC to half life 2 with another character and another city - like how HL1 got Opposing force and blue shift dlc's.
@SaltyFrenchFries
7 жыл бұрын
"jesus christ" is right
@hatti...
5 жыл бұрын
bruh
@what_have_you_done
5 жыл бұрын
@Shard The Fox nobody cares, buddy.
@johnrobles9416
5 жыл бұрын
Shard The Fox you don’t exist owo
@ervanegoimun615
4 жыл бұрын
JESUS is my consul, get rekt combine consul
@susgaming6965
3 жыл бұрын
@Shard FloofFox When will kids like you not be little shits?
@isomericgamer6644
6 жыл бұрын
The wind in the background was reused in portal during the escape levels.
@isomericgamer6644
6 жыл бұрын
Mikael Normi yep it is an ambience drone
@teadrinkingwarlock5101
4 жыл бұрын
@@isomericgamer6644 In retail Half-Life 2 these sound are still being used. For example: Drone2LP - tunnel between Black Mesa East and Ravenholm Drone4LP - the Nexus
@isomericgamer6644
4 жыл бұрын
@@teadrinkingwarlock5101 yep exactly.
@user-wl3zk6kj3q
3 жыл бұрын
The lab itself looks like a citadel. Maybe Combine are AU Aperture science?
@isomericgamer6644
3 жыл бұрын
@@user-wl3zk6kj3q I never thought of it that way. I think they're similar because of the same art director for both games.
@-boyanov4855
5 жыл бұрын
2:02 when you're trying to play the guitar
@maxcheeze1606
3 жыл бұрын
дай бог тебе здоровья
@porupiko
3 жыл бұрын
@@maxcheeze1606 И тебе не хворать, Макс
@daylineli
Жыл бұрын
i think that would be rather impressive to get a guitar to sound like that
@spimpsmacker6422
4 жыл бұрын
This citadel interior design gives me Quake 4 Strogg vibes.
@moosey7165
4 жыл бұрын
valve obviously is very big fans of quake, the original team fortress was actually just a quake mod
@TheDoomMaster
3 жыл бұрын
@@moosey7165 The GoldSrc engine was also a heavily modified Quake engine.
@svenyes4078
4 жыл бұрын
1:18 the fact that you can see legs sticking out of the pods makes it so much worse
@iamoncrap
4 жыл бұрын
Is the guy got crushed in this thing? Look at the blood stains behind it...
@JacksonsOOF
3 жыл бұрын
@@iamoncrap they are turning the people to stalkers and they start losing blood or something
@combineadvisorwithinternet6040
3 жыл бұрын
@@iamoncrap I think that's because they're reducing the muscles to the minimum and take out the internal organs (Judging by the big stitch on their chest, they probably have their organs taken away) when they turn someone into a Stalker.
@_Leo_-
5 жыл бұрын
I wish Half life 2 beta would be released too, as an expansion pack. As a script, it could be the story of Barney and how he did managed to join combine, all of this happening in another city probably in US. At the end of the game, barney gets deported in Europe in City 17 and so, Half Life 2 begins. #CrowbarCollective must see this
@rs-pg8mb
4 жыл бұрын
i mean the hl2 beta was not about barney joining the combine and crowbar collective is busy with black mesa
@cornflakes4535
4 жыл бұрын
America is gone in the hl2 universe btw
@idiotsimulator8055
4 жыл бұрын
@@cornflakes4535 Yeah, in Beta the game took place in America.
@KatarinaBohtana
4 жыл бұрын
@@idiotsimulator8055 In an early instance of the beta, like 2002. In lore, America got fucked the most by the portal storms and is most likely just a wasteland with much inferior cities compared to Europe.
@mememaninsertdeadmemehere6382
2 жыл бұрын
I’d like to see Crowbar Collective do a remake of Half-Life 2, using some cut content from the beta, such as the Cremator.
@Loopy1330
4 жыл бұрын
Looking at these concept art images like at 1:21 reminds me how Half-Life 2 had such a bigger scope originally. Half-Life 1 was about Black Mesa, a top secret scientific research facility in strife in it's own little corner of the world. Half-Life 2 was going to take all the themes of HL1 and amplify them to 11, jumping from the accident in your little corner of the world to how it's taken its toll on all of humanity as miserable gears in the Combine's machine. You're partially responsible for it all yet you're going to fix it. I think Valve kinda played it safe with HL2 which isn't bad, but if Valve had all these unused deep ideas they definitely come up with a rich HL3. They went back to some of their HL2 Beta stuff for Half-Life: Alyx, and they've got the tech and money to incorporate the ideas they couldn't do before.
@Kediloveliy
4 жыл бұрын
i wish maybe they can release a game or book about half life 2 beta and the all the ideas etc.That can be sooooo awesome
@brandonbaka1375
3 жыл бұрын
What from the beta was incorporated into Alyx?
@alexlokanin3312
3 жыл бұрын
@Ignan link please?
@TheFloodFourm
3 жыл бұрын
Honestly if Half Life 2 took place entirely in the citidel a la HL1 w/ Black Mesa it would have been awesome
@erroneous3493
3 жыл бұрын
If half life alyx is anything to go by. The next half life will be chipper marvel esq humor. Which is fine. I’ll take what I can get.
@yacsius5185
Жыл бұрын
Knowing how impressionable Alyx is and how she reacted to the stalkers on the train, I would really like to see her reaction to THIS citadel.
@ahumanbeing8371
Жыл бұрын
Throwing up
@birdlisa58
4 жыл бұрын
The beta citadel had tile floors and railings? That looked like nova prospekt. Old citadel looks like something outta silent hill or some psychological horror game like that, and that stalker concept art... the distorted child's music, the train horn, the voices....
@idiotsimulator8055
4 жыл бұрын
Weird shit.
@FemboyTrain
4 жыл бұрын
The beta combine apparently used more human technology for their constructions. Like the beta vehicles were just ordinary human helicopters and cars used by the combine
@birdlisa58
4 жыл бұрын
@@FemboyTrain wow
@moosey7165
4 жыл бұрын
@@FemboyTrain honestly, its such an interesting concept, a species using stolen tech from other species to enslave more species, we dont really even know what the original combine look like
@shaydensanders6448
3 жыл бұрын
@@moosey7165 it pretty much is, it adds far more to the hopeless depth of Half Life 2, since the Combine is so powerful in its influence that it doesn't need to commit effort to reverse engineer technology, humanity is good enough at killing itself, the sight of a Soviet helicopter or some antique APC makes it so fucked up because it feels like you wouldn't even be able to beat the Combine if this is the equivalent of a nuisance, they don't worry about you enough or humanity at all to commit their own technology, but later in the beta as Gordon proves to be successful in the campaign against the initial forces, the Combine start to acknowledge Gordon and the resistance more and the instability going on and you start to see more horrors out of a nightmare, the spider like giant, the strider marches through the war zone of City 17 crushing human resistance and what not other stuff sent in, but even before that their was some twisted assets of the Combine like the guard, assassin, stalkers, etc...
@MentalParadox
Жыл бұрын
00:30-01:17 I like how I get slaughterhouse vibes from this area of the citadel... the sterile white tiles, the blood smears, the pale light... what a truly horrific place devoid of any humanity.
@JackGriffin745
6 жыл бұрын
I wonder what the sounds at 0:42 are supposed to be. It sounds like a combination of human speech and machinery.
@MrThejoshmon
6 жыл бұрын
Apparently the sounds are the final transmission of a real life woman cosmonaut who died in the atmosphere.
@MrHds46
5 жыл бұрын
@@MrThejoshmon This is a fake. As for sound I at first thought it's beta vortigaunts talking.
@jonahsoldier9736
5 жыл бұрын
@@MrThejoshmon That's a different sound which I don't think's included I this video
@USMValor-jc5xu
4 жыл бұрын
I always thought that sound which is called “Trans6” was Alyx being tortured or something.
@ynog0978
4 жыл бұрын
Disorientated cosmonaut speaking to thier command centre
@Nikola7.62
6 жыл бұрын
There is not enough Jesus for this. The Combine in the Beta were the real deal.
@familyguyepisodesgaming9015
5 жыл бұрын
JESUS IS REAL AND CAN GET YOU THROUGH EVEN THE TOUGHEST SITUATIONS IF I LIVED IN HL2 BETA I WOULD STILL WORSHIP 👏👏 👏JESUS AND HE WULD SAVE ME FROM THE BAD ALIENS AND TAKE ME TO HEVEN THE BIBLE SAYS GOD WILL SAVE US FROM THE DEVIL SO I WOULD STILL GO TO CHURCH IF I LIVED IN HL2 BETA NEAR THE CITADEL
@Gogglesofkrome
5 жыл бұрын
@@familyguyepisodesgaming9015 cool cool
@hatti...
5 жыл бұрын
The Combine is an interdimensional race that have taken control of multiple alternative universes. I wouldn't be surprised if heaven and hell itself has been overtaken by the Combine.
@Gogglesofkrome
5 жыл бұрын
@@hatti... well, I don't know. the multiverse is truly infinite beyond the point of repetition, so the prospect of the combine controlling all of it is illogical
@hatti...
5 жыл бұрын
RedMatter Yes, but what I was trying to do was convey the power of the Combine. The only way I can see Gordon having even some semblance of a chance against the full Combine empire would be to go back in time and kill them in a weaker state. And the Borealis can travel through time.
@unoriginalperson72
4 жыл бұрын
"This is a certified hood classic" *combine dancing*
@Nova-vk5qb
4 жыл бұрын
Do I see gm_bigcity in the background of your pfp
@residentevil1.5nerd
2 жыл бұрын
DOOM: "We have the most scariest FPS out there." Quake: "NO we have the most scariest FPS out there" Half Life 2 Beta: *demonic screeching* "We have the most scariest FPS out there"
@williamwallcroft2559
2 жыл бұрын
Nonsense; they never claimed such, I firmly believe.
@residentevil1.5nerd
2 жыл бұрын
@@williamwallcroft2559 No that actually said this
@pootispiker2866
Жыл бұрын
"Most scariest"
@minimaggiit
Жыл бұрын
Well half life 2 beta isnt OUT there, so.. THE BATTLE GOES ON!
@daderowley4514
Жыл бұрын
Chief: The Flood is the worst… Doomguy: You should meet the real demons… Issac Clarke: cUt oFf tHIer LiMBs…. mAkE uS wHoLE…….
@xxm8dd0xx91
6 жыл бұрын
This is just beautiful... This... What could have been...
@rey4874
4 жыл бұрын
What shouldn't have been is your profile picture
@hisuianpitch
4 жыл бұрын
How is this beautiful the stalkers look terrifying
@rey4874
4 жыл бұрын
@@hisuianpitch lol
@rey4874
4 жыл бұрын
@@JacksonsOOF Yes
@bruhman2089
3 жыл бұрын
@@hisuianpitch In a different pov, its called horror beauty
@puppet4978
4 жыл бұрын
0:41 is far the scariest ambiance because they used a real life transmission from a lost cosmonaut
@TheHumanBallsack
4 жыл бұрын
It's like a transmission from the original space jockey in Alien.
@kirkhammer9612
4 жыл бұрын
it aint fake i mean this sound is an edit of the actual sound so practically this is semi fake but the og sound isnt someone died to make "trans6" an thing
@ianscheurer
4 жыл бұрын
kirkhammer 96 No the original transmission from the Italian brothers was fabricated by them
@moosey7165
4 жыл бұрын
wrong one, its trans9 (kzitem.info/news/bejne/o3etl52pqIhpnJg)
@combineadvisorwithinternet6040
3 жыл бұрын
The sound file is Trans6, in case you wonder. The cosmonaut thing is...fake, but it's still creepy.
@physical_insanity
5 жыл бұрын
I just wanna see Valve go back to the beta and finish Half Life 2 just so we can see what it would look like. Screw Half Life 3, this is the thing I've been waiting for all this time.
@mahuba2553
3 жыл бұрын
there is a little mod being in develoment called "dark interval" which plans to recreat in a more modern way what half life 2 beta could be, its pretty nice you should checkout their first releases!
@physical_insanity
3 жыл бұрын
@@mahuba2553 I will certainly investigate, because anything to do with the Beta is a goldmine. Thank you.
@mahuba2553
3 жыл бұрын
@@physical_insanity yeah two of my all time favorite mods are "g string" (yes thats the name of a really good hl2 mod) and dark interval
@physical_insanity
3 жыл бұрын
@ARTHUR GAMEPLAYS No thank you! I am perfectly happy with my handle as it currently is.
@lunathecrusader
2 жыл бұрын
🔥🔥 username
@Kernowparadise
3 жыл бұрын
I like to see the Beta as an alternate timeline that Gman had the option to make real, like he let Alyx do for her Father at the end of Half-Life Alyx. This alternate timeline of the Half-Life universe is insanely interesting, creepy, unsettling and outright awesome. The toxic air and the green dark sky that is caused by it makes the whole environment feel much more dystopian and it is a route that I believe a lot of people would have loved to see.
@mikhailgorbachevsovietunion
2 жыл бұрын
0:00 something is so eerie about the hl2 beta citadel, just being able to see the entire thing in one frame with the street below looking like a flat plain compared to it i feel like this is the alternate timeline where either 1) gordon doesn't awaken until 30-40 years later, where most of earths natural resources are gone and the citadel is decaying, or 2) half life 2 still happens as normal, but gordon isn't found again at the beginning of half life 2: episode 1, so the combine regain control
@Silly-g
5 жыл бұрын
For some reason the inside of the citadel looks like a abandoned hospital
@comicsans4278
5 жыл бұрын
Tall Mount Massive Asylun.
@lineriderrulz
4 жыл бұрын
From the Half-Life wikia, about HL2 Beta: "The Combine was utilizing and recycling existent human materials and buildings instead of adding their own technology to them. This is why the early Citadel, for instance, had its walls covered with tiles."
@hyperthetical
2 жыл бұрын
As much as I love the current Half-life 2, I would have loved to play this! It is so eerie and terrifying, and yet, the protagonist is so powerful at the same time.
@crylune
2 жыл бұрын
No you wouldn't have. The original journey of the Beta was extremely long to the point of feeling exhausting for the player. Why do you think it was cut?
@hyperthetical
2 жыл бұрын
@@crylune It was cut because the files got leaked. Everyone knew what was going to happen. So Valve decided to start again and create a new storyline. Plus, I didn't mean storywise anyway. I meant the gritty nature, the wide choice of weapons, the stuff I personally am in to.
@rlfpotatoking9253
Жыл бұрын
@@hyperthetical This is untrue, if you check the beta leaked files; you can see that Valve had already scrapped the old beta and were well into developing the current retail Half-Life 2. Half life 2 was leaked in 2003 and if you check one of the 2003 builds you can see that it is identical to the current retail game just with old assets and assets from the beta - this is why some people like to refer 2003 build as the middleground of the old hl2 beta vision and the current retail hl2 that valve chose to make
@hyperthetical
Жыл бұрын
@@rlfpotatoking9253 ah I see. Thanks for the correction :]
@jacqass
4 жыл бұрын
The beta citadel looks.... way scarier than the original
@nono-nt8je
Жыл бұрын
I don’t know why but the half life beta gives me real “turn left” vibes, like looking into another universe we’re something has gone seriously wrong
@TheOneAndOnlyDavidSmith
Жыл бұрын
What's turn left? For some reason i just immediately thought of Doctor Who..
@nono-nt8je
Жыл бұрын
@@TheOneAndOnlyDavidSmith yeah, im talking about that
@TheOneAndOnlyDavidSmith
Жыл бұрын
@@nono-nt8je Cool!
@booman727
3 жыл бұрын
I love how the description is just “jesus christ”
@snark567
7 жыл бұрын
Back when Half Life 2 had balls
@automatonm99
7 жыл бұрын
The whole saga still does!
@warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898
7 жыл бұрын
That's debatable
@automatonm99
7 жыл бұрын
warhammernerd52 True but how many other games have lasted as long as half life and theirs still so many fans left?
@averageillegalmemesdealer
7 жыл бұрын
Not any longer, Auto, not any longer.
@NinjaGodzilla
6 жыл бұрын
The doom community has been alive for over 20 years, the Mario community has been alive for almost 30 years
@Mitchisable
3 жыл бұрын
0:10 "Scooby-dooby-doo where are you?"
@xonxt7479
3 жыл бұрын
Just imagine waking up in one of those hanging pods and having to escape the citadel
@yacsius5185
Жыл бұрын
Geeeeeez
@Trintatronic
Жыл бұрын
There's something about those white tiles inside that just make it so creepy. It feels like the citadel is some kind of insane asylum to me. It just gives me that kind of feeling. There are no words to describe how this place makes me feel other than terrified. *And i frickin love it*
@Synorexia
6 жыл бұрын
...
@TheFlodyo
6 жыл бұрын
As a metrocop im sick listening to breen's speech everyday, too bad they didnt choose you as an administrator sir
@FlaminBurrito101
5 жыл бұрын
A true citizen breathes valuable oxygen.
@combineadvisorwithinternet6040
3 жыл бұрын
The true citizen appreciates the comfort of City 17.
@Iz4kiTiago
7 ай бұрын
🥸
@dawnrex5957
6 жыл бұрын
i wanted to play hl2 beta but now i quit
@lucasss1543
6 жыл бұрын
you can play the half life 2 beta, in the hl2-beta.ru
@kattybratt1353
5 ай бұрын
considering the combine using organic life for things, i wouldnt be shocked if the citadel itself were alive in some capacity, and some of these are the citadel itself crying out for help
@madgreek81
4 жыл бұрын
If little nightmares 2 ever comes out this is the ambience I would use for when you go inside the signal tower.
@XRelays
3 жыл бұрын
Well guess what happened
@theorcamafia
16 күн бұрын
Ooooooo boy
@FlaminBurrito101
5 жыл бұрын
Imagine the universe where we got to play this, and it would have been A rated. Damn.
@Wojti2000Zapasowe
4 ай бұрын
Retail Combine is creepy in a more cosmic and abstract way with how incomprehensibly powerful and both cold and emotionless they are, like a giant uncaring machine. Beta Combine is just plainly disturbing in a more straight-forward way, with their dark Orwellian aesthetic, poisoning the air and turning Earth's atmosphere into this green-tinted toxic mess, with how they seem to adapt and warp human technology and resources, and the whole dark bio-mechanical vibe they seem to have going on. The Retail Combine makes Earth look sick, but the Beta Combine made Earth look dead, almost warped and hellish in a way. I really wish we could play this version of Half-Life 2.
@Orin.
6 жыл бұрын
Creepy AF, awesome!
@crococatcreative
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else get an ASMR reaction from some of this? Its disturbing but some sounds just bring out the right frequencies to put a tingle down my spine and it feels so wrong.
@jyrese117
2 жыл бұрын
the hl2 beta was almost cosmic horror because the combine collective consciousness wasn’t actively controlling all of the combine, but the combine in general are definitely incomprehensibly large
@thegman424hl2
5 ай бұрын
I have the balls to listen to this at 2am
@g.w.k.y6869
6 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ is right
@dr.seytan4310
Жыл бұрын
Jesus christ -the description
@Billy_Wyatt
5 жыл бұрын
The beta stuff like combine and the citadel concepts were incredible rad, such a shame it never made it to the game thanks to the guy who leaked the game back in ~2002-2003. If there was a full game showing us on what HL2 was aiming into, I mean a real game by Valve, I know there are some mods which try to rebuild on how it was originally planned but an official release would answer many questionable things that are up in the air to this day.
@leeroynewman
5 жыл бұрын
If you look at the leaked stuff, the changes to the citadel where made before the game got leaked. It was a decision by valve themselves to change the tone of it.
@findikbabi
5 жыл бұрын
Actually no, Most of this stuff was sadly thrown out before the leak accrued
@threadschanged4252
3 жыл бұрын
Theres something almost traumatic about how every interior of the industrial areas has dirty wall tiles all an off color of white that it looks like a sanatorium from the 1920s
@ozone2629
4 жыл бұрын
Seriously, someone needs to remake the beta half life 2. It would be such a unique experience.
Is there a way to put back all those themes sources in the final game? Would be awesome, i feel lke this is the real Half Life. If you focuse deep in the concept of the game it's really horrify. all the sounds it all by itself the scary it is.
@SlowtownSloth
7 ай бұрын
Blasting this on a car radio system and slowly driving through your neighborhood at night
@TahaAddam
5 ай бұрын
1:43 The beta concept stalker design will forever haunt me.
@aestheticaliber566
4 жыл бұрын
Combines were so fucked up back then, i mean the citadel covered in ceramic tiles was some weird ass shit man
@chronosgod1
7 ай бұрын
half life 1: sci fi shooter with some comedy here and there half life 2 beta:
@Wishes_for_Fishes
7 жыл бұрын
Spooky as shit
@puzzlepuddles6712
4 жыл бұрын
Honestly i prefer the recent citadel. The beta citadel alone doesn't even look like a citadel, or atleast supposed to be a citadel. I think the leak was beneficial because it gave valve some years to rethink their mistakes, I mean look at how different both versions of hl2 are! The skyboxes in beta were so gloomy almost like a game out of the half life franchise. Even hl1 didn't give the same vibes as this beta. Not to mention the citadel looks very large yet it doesn't feel large. It's color and the "generator" sounds each sound like the game was taking place during the 1950's. One of it's sounds BEING from an "atmospheric re-entry accident" from the beginning of the cold war. The recent citadel is all about futuristic science-fiction and dark energy with all of it's tracks: Neutrino trap, Negative Pressure etc. all of them made to suit the dark-cyan citadel. The beta citadel is something... I'd say "out of this world". The game also includes the Borealis but I just think that all of the events are taking place a bit too fast and early. Ravenholm and the Coast are the only seemingly recognizable parts that made it into the final game. Valve probably included them as a sort of "reference" probably.
@rlfpotatoking9253
3 жыл бұрын
Yea, the beta citadel looks like a super creepy Disney Castle. The new Citadel feels more fitting for the combine and the game. The beta levels/concepts/ideas are interesting but it's understandable why Valve scrapped them.
@benrichardson5798
3 жыл бұрын
Valve scrapped them before the theft ('cause that's what it is, a theft)
@kabeam5643
2 жыл бұрын
nearly everything was already scrapped before the game was leaked
@erc3338
Жыл бұрын
Anyone newly discovering HL2B, check out Raising the Bar Redux and Dark Interval, 2 mods of Half Life 2/the Source Engine that both reintroduce beta elements, Redux closer to the retail game and Dark trying to be as close to the Beta as possible.
@VictorBossu15
4 жыл бұрын
the first photo in this video (with the citadel) is looking very scary. To me if i see that photo i feel uncomfortable
@joechristo2
4 жыл бұрын
some people say that tower is alive
@alpacaChillMusic
4 жыл бұрын
From these beta images, the citadel was supposed to look like a prison of sorts. Maybe these sounds would've been nice to hear in Nova Prospekt
@TravisaInc
4 жыл бұрын
agreed
@nexusomega1
4 жыл бұрын
Bioshock with a personality crisis
@weavorjjohanna5619
3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow the description written perfectly for what i am experiencing XD
@Celxorth
3 жыл бұрын
These sounds are cool. I like "HL2 beta" more than the retail game for some reason. I am more interested in these alpha/beta stuff idk why.
@crylune
2 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't have liked it were the game actually like this. People noted the original journey was very very long and exhausting, and not that engaging as it is now.
@thomasvleminckx
Жыл бұрын
@@crylune You were literally born in 2003. Why do you even care this much? What makes you Valve's official historian/"fact checker"? Let people have their own opinions and tastes.
@jigzyonline2
3 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a full version of this game with all of the original ideas fully fleshed out.
@Guest_5736
Жыл бұрын
This just feels like a vivid nightmare expect it never ends...
@SnowblastStudios
Жыл бұрын
Looks insanely cool tbh, kinda wish they made this too
@aivarsbell5317
3 жыл бұрын
This is how Combine should feel. Eternal fear and trembling in front of a powerful and incomprehensible alien crap!
@crylune
2 жыл бұрын
Retail does a pretty good job at that too.
@yacsius5185
Жыл бұрын
@@crylune not like this
@EthanB-pr8fn
Жыл бұрын
my dreams after i drink 36 benadryls
@ScoutTim66
2 ай бұрын
this shit should be the ambience for the deep dark in mc lol
@ruansilva8939
3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Watching this right before I sleep, I am up to an peaceful night of rest I see.
@datoneguyonyoutube
3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the screams you hear are stalker screams
@snelkku2261
4 жыл бұрын
Beta remake with source 2... Oh man
@isomericgamer6644
4 жыл бұрын
Oh damn.. OH DAMN THAT WOULD BE FREAKING AMAZING.
@RagingInsomniac
5 жыл бұрын
Was there an actual 2001 storyline?
@ynog0978
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah way different than retail version
@RagingInsomniac
4 жыл бұрын
Jake yvl but was there an actual digital copy of the storyline? I’m not talking about some remade version, I’m asking if there was an actual one made by valve.
@ynog0978
4 жыл бұрын
@@RagingInsomniac yeah but it's like playing a game made by a 15 years old with knowledge of making a flash game
@ynog0978
4 жыл бұрын
@@RagingInsomniac I don't have the download for it sorry
@captainszasz5836
3 жыл бұрын
There is a original story but it's unfinished. Like, really unfinished.
@danteisapunk
4 жыл бұрын
perfect for night viewing
@junktin1750
4 жыл бұрын
GOD I WANT THIS GAME SO BAD! Im glad they stuck to the original, there must have been a reason, and if they didnt perhaps the game wouldnt have been all that groundbreaking. But i really wish we could play this! Its so dark scary and fucking coool!
@andrix7777
3 жыл бұрын
HL2 Project Beta has what you wish for. It's not fully playable, though. There's another mod in development called Dark Interval.
@junktin1750
3 жыл бұрын
@@andrix7777 I actually played dark interval a few days ago, pretty cool mod! I hope it gets finished soon cause its quite short right now
@Larry-m5s
Жыл бұрын
@@junktin1750 Есть ещё Raising the Bar: Redux (правда он ещё в разработке)
@denno445
5 жыл бұрын
i want a beta remake
@jonnybriggs7531
3 жыл бұрын
The soundtrack to 2020.
@roscosthebalm
2 жыл бұрын
the old citadel looks more like a bootleg burj khalifa and the final release one looks like a new york skyscraper
@twsed-k8u
2 ай бұрын
Fact: That sound from this video used in Hl2 beta minimalist mod.
@JoeNuts42
4 жыл бұрын
1:08 you see a guy almost falling, looks so eerie
@xX_Pogromca_Burdeli_Xx
4 жыл бұрын
Spookeh
@adriantaner7950
3 жыл бұрын
i want a game 18+ where we just take a tour through the torture rooms of the citadel and see all the half robot half human harvesters and organ feeders all that
@RedHatGuyYT
Жыл бұрын
have you never even played half-life 2 before? you see that shit in the game. also it's already rated M
@krychur4956
2 жыл бұрын
the first iteration of The Citadel depicted it as a living creature. some of these sounds might be related to it, and there was (I think) some artwork showing the inside of the place. the screams and crying on the other hand could be victims and stalkers transported here by The Combine. part of me suspects that Gordon would have seen others on his way to confront The Consul in his office. either way, imagine if Valve stuck to their original formula, and produced Half-Life 2 the way they had originally envisioned, but with the current versions of Source, and with the level of detail and graphics Half-Life 2 has today.
@typeracer2096
3 жыл бұрын
Love the sky box at the beginning
@person9605
4 жыл бұрын
i kinda want to see what a completed version of the half life 2 beta would be like
@jimmyoakmeister
3 жыл бұрын
It's always interesting how these always sound far away. Like, I know some people have suggested the Citadel being alive, but if it was alive... don't you think it'd be loud and all around you?
@mr.johndoe8917
2 жыл бұрын
jesus christ
@TFB2022
Жыл бұрын
this first image reminds me alot of old flash games and idk why it feels very nostaglic to me
@Timasix
Жыл бұрын
Can you even count how many deaths the hl2's devs must have heard to make those ambiences
@Joey099
4 жыл бұрын
I saw alot of comments asking for a remake of the beta The only promising mod i found was dark interval Just download it and give it a try it is very short and a bit rough around the edges but very promising
@thesha7447
4 жыл бұрын
There's also Missing Information (WIP): www.moddb.com/mods/missing-information And raising the bar deluxe: www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-raising-the-bar-redux
@cinfdef
Жыл бұрын
*WE MAKING IT OUT OF BETA RAVENHOLM WITH THIS ONE* 🗣🗣🗣 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Void-r3b
6 ай бұрын
Cringe
@noctalfly
18 күн бұрын
🗣️🔥= brainrot
@GoldSrcAesthetic
9 ай бұрын
I'll listen to this before bed
@robertwozniak7263
5 жыл бұрын
I would not play this if half life 2 was that scary
@ManicXhustion
2 жыл бұрын
now i want to replay haft lift again!! this is f*&%ing CREEPY!!!!
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