THEY HUNGER: Half-Life's Spookiest Mod
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- In this video I dig deep into the Half-Life horror mod They Hunger, its history, and more.
Special thanks to MarphitimusBlackimus and Figardo for helping out with this video's research, they're both legends.
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I wouldnt be suprised if Andreas Rönnberg was inspired by this while making afraid of monsters, or even cry of fear for that matter. Ill have to check this mod out, it looks pretty cool.
How when the hunger was released in 1999?
@@afdhateryeah lmao Cry Of Fear came out in like 2012 (I'm not sure if Afraid Of Monsters came out before They Hunger though)
Afraid of monsters uses reskinned they hunger zombies
Tshermanz maek zhee best horror ja
Push zhee batten. Zee vhat happenz. 🙃🔘
I mean.. you don't have to be a detective to figure out that Afraid of Monsters and Cry of Fear take major inspiration from Silent Hill more than anything.
Good memories of not winning while playing this on sven coop. The train part lol so many people tried to get you killed on purpose there
Some of my favorite gaming memories would be tell everybody when we got to the train "Alright bois let's rush in!!!", everybody would rush inside the cave, i'd go in the train and run em all over lmao. Watchin the realization was always funny.
*_MEDIC!!!!!_*
@@Pat4ever.I NEED A MEDIC BAG
The magnum coops in sven coop are absolutely brutal with their aim and damage.
sven coop is awesome we played they hunger whit friends and it was amazimg
That one little spider creature is 100% taken from john carpenters the thing from 1982. Love little details like that
@@johncalder2378do you want to organize it, successfully? If so yes
That scene fucking scared the shit out of 5 year old me, good memories.
I remember accidentalyl stumbling upon this when i was trying to play Half life expansions in SVEN Co-op. I had used the server before, but this time instead of sending me to a place where i could select an expansion, it just started me in the beginning of the crypt with no information or instruction. Legit?
It was actually creepy as hell! I was on edge the whole time! So impressive.
That zombie which pops out of the cask and attacks the Jesus painting is what told me that this would be some spooky stuff.
Yeah, I thought it was just a quick zombie map someone made for Sven but I never realized how in depth it actually was. Crazy
same here
Are we all experiencing this? Cuz I found this map too when I was trying out Sven’s mod for fear of monsters
It was just hard to find, way back then. Most mods were..it's not like they paid for promotion it all had to come organically
Lmao same, i was searching for fun stuff to play with friends in sven
In my opinion the half-life 1 graphics add a ton to the the atmosphere it has that creapy ps1/n64 vibe. I only played the game for the first time a few months ago but leaving the tunnels to see the signs of the early morning and zombies across the river will always stay with me.
Yeah, that is something early 3D graphics can do really well. It's detailed enough that you know what things are supposed to be, but also low detail enough that your mind has to fill in the gaps. And when your mind is set to things being spooky and scary, it can conjure up things far worse.
@@HappyBeezerStudios exactly they leave so much room for you to wonder
I loved They Hunger so much. Got it in the discs that came with the magazines. I was a little too young to not just freak out though. I remember I spent a lot of time looking through the models with Model Viewer, and listening to the sound effects. There's a lot of cool detail in the characters! One zombie has a dismembered arm punched through its chest holding a gun pointed up to under their head, and their head is blown apart. Implying someone punched a gun through them, shot them in the head, and still didn't mnage to kill them. And then the zombie is just walking around with that arm and gun still in it.
lol I always interpreted that model as: the zombie ate someone whole and then in an unsuccessful attempt to escape, the person tried shooting the zombie in the head thru its chest. I always assumed it was supposed to be a comedic model, though I suppose even with your interpretation, it still is.
@@SeaalCox I believe the stump of the arm is sticking out of its back
"I was not alive in the 1990s" sir I felt myself shrivel up like a raisin. Bless you.
The sound of distress I made was not unlike a zombie.
This mod isn’t nearly as spooky as what I’m going to do to you when I find you, richter.
That’s not ominous at all 😆
Don't fore him to read the fanfics that people make, that would truly be hell on earth
Is this threatening or kinky? I genuinely can't tell.
Should I laugh or cry
Cute.
I remember the first time I played They Hunger during a cold autumn night back in 2009 when I was 11. I downloaded and installed the game all by myself after seeing the screenshots, and binging tons of zombie movies. I remember the ambiance of the game being rather dark (the first one at least), I did not understand a word of english back then so the humourus aspect of the game did not appear to me. I remember replaying this game so many times, and now it feels like it was such a long time ago...
all by yourself?!?! WHAT A BIG BOY
grow up
@@jaronnut5425ok
@@jaronnut5425 He was 11 at the time, idiot.
@@jaronnut5425they… did grow up
this was in 2009
they hunger is pretty god-damn fun frankly
Damn it I was planning on making this exact video! It's great to see it get some coverage though! :P
:D
It's the CZcams's guy
make it
Balls
its a bit of a yearly tradition now to play through they hunger in sven with the half life discord, and every time we get to the reveal of the big monster guy the whole server right clicks with the shotgun at the exact same time and he dies immediately
I can’t wait to see 0:31 to be the most replayed part
am i the only one who wants to know what mod that is, for you know, a friend
@@jintabix3758you don't
@@jintabix3758sven coop skin
@@unoriginalperson72then we shall wait for answers
@@jintabix3758this video is about the mod at 0:31, it's quite amazing more people don't know what it is. czcams.com/video/oHg5SJYRHA0/video.htmlsi=5C4AWjTmaI4l2NuG
Fun fact: there’s actually a mod in Gmod that adds in all the npcs from They Hunger, so that’s cool
Now i kinda wish there was a way to play They Hunger in GMOD, it is available in Sven CO-OP for people who wanna play it in multiplayer, but imagine the possibilities of having a lot of random stuff to do in the maps XD.
I love hearing about obscure, old games and mods, especially ones that were once well-known back in their day. Something like seeing digital playgrounds that are now abandoned.
Perfect video you made just in time for the Halloween season. Great job!
They Hunger is one of those cooler mods out of them all, building a genuinely solid foundation for itself & standing out pretty well from Half-Life. If the original studio that made it compiled & connected all three campaigns together & released it separately as it's own game on Steam or some other site (with permission from Valve of course), it could've been one of the very few Gold Source titles ever made & released, & probably one of the best. The entire scenario it takes place in is unique to a zombie game, usually they take place in the present, during one of the two World Wars (for some reason) or in the future at some point. It's very creative for what it is & it's very creative for the limited tools they had at their disposal. Overall it could be claimed as the pioneer of videogame mods, there was a very slim amount beforehand, nothing really impressive, & after They Hunger the modding community became much larger & much more involved creating great experiences like Team Fortress & Counter Strike. Technically DOOM & Quake had strong modding scenes before Half-Life, but I don't count them because those mods weren't as expansive nor are they as cared for today.
Now, just to fill my daily quota: Having They Hunger on Dreamcast & PS2 is so cool, I like PC gaming but I will always love Console gaming more & my favourite console is the Dreamcast, so knowing I can play They Hunger on my favourite console is so awesome & very impressive from the modding community. Another thing I wanted to mention is that at 20:55 you turn to look at the player next to you & his name is Soldier of Fortune, which is actually a classic FPS game from 1999 made by Activision, the same folks who now publish Call of Duty, & Soldier of Fortune is also on Dreamcast & I believe PS2, so I've fulfilled two Dreamcast references from one video, nice.
this is really a richter overtime moment
Sven co-op's adaptation of they hunger is amazing
This mod sounds interesting. Awesome video as always!
This was soooooo good back in the day. Still is today. Cool to see someone cover this.
Oddly enough I knew about They Hunger due to Spike and Barley playing it. They never really finished it but it was the entry point for me.
I feel most horror media always fall into the need to overly explain the "why" on monsters existence, but I get that at one point they kind of have to (either interest by the viewers or by the characters themselves). With that said I'm glad They hunger holds from doing it too early and lets you wander around amidst the chaos.
And honestly it's kind of hard to chose between never explaining and upsetting the viewers or explain it and fall into a not-so-spooky cliché. Either way one thing is certain, the last helicopter battle is straight up BS. No ammo reload or health packs, could've at least give us a silly turret segment and be done with it.
Hopefully someone decides to pick up the leaked files and do something with it. Can't be legally worse than the TF2 projects honestly.
And yeah, the lead dev DOES look like the Unabomber.
One of my absolute favorite mods, I remember playing this back in the early years of the 2000s... And then following the development blog for the sequel, checking the website every day. It's sad what happened, though I doubt anyone would blame him for almost freaking dying....
This was just a nostalgic blast for me!
in half life 2, i quickly fell in love with the ravenholm levels as they were as rustic as the name itself. i was always upset at how short that chapter was, and this mod for me is like if ravenholm got an extension pack
Having a PhD in theoretical physics and surviving an alien invasion is one thing, but this protagonist just writes books.
I remember playing this as a kid (I was about 9 years old and far too young) and it terrified me. I managed to get through it, but when I was coming to the end of the first episode, I could hear screaming down the street. At first, I thought it was in the game, but then when I realised it was real, I thought a zombie apocalypse was actually happening. My parents went outside to see what was going on, and I went with them, only to see that a small block of flats at the end of our street was on fire and people were evacuating.
As far as I know, no one was hurt, but it was still scary and a weird coincidence. Apparently it was started by someone throwing a lit cigarette into the trash chute.
They Hunger manages to legitimately unnerve and creep me out sometimes even today. I guess playing the game alone in my basement with headphones on did it.
Thank you Richter. Very cool.
*proceeds to make Richter Overtime make R63 of his OC-*
Oh man, more nostalgia here then I expected! I recognize those DM maps and I forgot that I used to play the deathmatch a lot with my LAN group. It was my dad, his friend, and my friends, and even though it wasn't that great it was just more HL which we were desperate for.
I was 8 years old when this came out and it was too scary for me! I think I managed to beat the first campaign though. I always loved the music at the start.
Gotta say i did not expect you to cover this. Very nice to see.
This is my favorite game/mod. I really love the atmosphere and while not perfect it's something that I love to go back every once in a while.
I am not fully disclosing for privacy sake, but Neil is alive he is not very active in social media but I've seen him post a few stuff here and there around 2021 from at least what I gather he seems fine and I can confirm it is him because one of the displayed posts is a meme that is corny as this mod.
First spooky thing I've watched in October 🧡🎃
0:00) The video barely even started and I'm in love with it already!
Throughout the whole video, when the picture of Neile came up I could only think of the unibomber. Then when you made the comparison at the end it cracked me up, thank god I was not the only person who thought that.
This mod was such a classic! My first Half Life mod I ever played, and I thought it did a really good job with the atmosphere and scares.
I remember playing this back in 2004 and thought it didn't exist and I dreamed it up until I saw VargSkelethor Joel play it. Good video. Wouldn't have thought about it ever again had youtube not recommended this video
Good afternoon, guy named "Richter Overtime" who I assume works overtime. Thank you for the video.
I watched the first five seconds of this video and knew I needed to play this mod. absolutely love campy 90's horror. This mod reminded me of my favorite game, Blood(1997), i'm almost certain there was some inspiration there. I loved the atmosphere of the campane and thought it was really fun to play. the third chapter was unfortunate, but I think it was a good addition to the story and I also love the ending song its really a great way to wrap everything up.
Oh my god the intro of “zombies, gay skeletons, women, are you scared yet?” is killing me
I've gone back and played They Hunger every few years since I was a kid. A classic.
I played this mod during covid. Each episode becomes increasingly more terrifying. The episodes are really well made, especially for the time.
this game was so amazing, I remember my brother and I being so enthralled by this project
Hey man just discovered ur channel via the raven wood video and i gotta say these half life video's are super entertaining and i really enjoy You're editing. keep killing it while ill check out the rest of youre video's
Hey thanks man, comments like these have more of an effect than people realize 🙏 more vids soon!
Cant wait :D
@@RichterOvertime
I have so much nostalgia for this game. Sitting in my attic bedroom in the late 90’s with a big grey CRT monitor and some default pc speakers. Loved it. Tried it recently on Sven (another mod I have massive nostalgia for) and the difficulty was way higher! Especially playing it solo on coop with little to no health pickups
It's crazy how the headless zombie still knows exactly where you are .
I think the marines should've been on the player's side unlike the original hl don't you think ?
My headcanon is that the soldiers weren't outright hostile for any malicious or nefarious purposes, just panicked and couldn't discern friend or foe properly. A fair number of zombies wield weapons by that point and can speak fairly clearly, as well as some having deceptively little damage or decay to their bodies. They likely barely managed to keep from shooting eachother by that point.
To be fair the military deciding everyone within the infected area is to be shot on sight is a very common trope.
Though probably a more modern one as evidenced by me having to use "infected"
The military being hostile was explained in an audio log.
czcams.com/video/Ad0KqF9Dcjw/video.html
@@BenersantheBread The initial encounter with the first soldiers actually has them gesturing as though they're friendly, and only a bit later after they're properly engaged with the enemy do they become hostile, which is the grounds I based the "panic and inability to discern friend or foe" on.
@@uncanny-hector-1906 thanks for the info dude !
I was gonna play it and this video reminded me to do that, also nice video as always keep it up mister richter
One of the best mods released for Half-Life, I still remember downloading it when it released, it was pretty scary for it's time. I looked forward to They Hunger 2 for Half-Life 2 for so long before they shut it down. I still hope we will see it someday.
Nice bit of nostalgia. They Hunger was easily my favourite single-player mod for HL1, as a teen with too much free time in the early 2000s.
And TBH, the main thing I remember from this was the first Zork sequence.
Never thought I would hear metal gear solid 2 music in a video about a half-life spooky mod. A great combination sir
I remember playing through the They Hunger trilogy after stumbling on it on ModDB somewhere around the early-mid 2010s. Was old news by then, but even as someone with no knowledge of it up until then I really enjoyed the experience overall, mostly because it has a really neat sort of Halloween-like atmosphere, where it's just the right combination of creepy, campy and 'retro' to make it feel very endearing and all-around fun.
3:03 cant hear this without also hearing the sven co op sound effects in my head
One of my favorite mods back in the day. Made that Halloween fun that year :)
God, this is without a doubt one of my favorite HL1 mods. Such iconic voicelines from each undead, and not to mention the setpieces. Also
"Death to Humans!"
I cant think of may things that have genuinely unsettled me more than the scene of the nurse opening the curtain in the newborn room while a baby cries and turns around to reveal she was a zombie, the shock that ran through me was an experience i havent felt since
According to Alfred and the various tape recorders in the asylum, Doctor Franklin wasn't insane and doing cruel experiments but was studying the zombies before becoming infected/zombified. The last tape recorder you find in the asylum before you climb up an elevator into a garage has a recording of him made after he got infected and went insane.
The final boss fight isn't that bad if you are good at saving ammo (you can just melee most zombies if you're careful) and/or modify the skill.cfg file (I do that to make some things less unbalanced, like the zombie bull health for example) to make the difficulty less absurd. Going for headshots and meleeing zombies in the face saves you an absurd amount of ammo. I found it a lot easier to beat the helicopter boss fight by saving any grenade launcher ammo I found, quicksaving, and then using the MP5/G3's grenade launcher when the helicopter got close enough.
In the Sven Co-op version of They Hunger, the "ranch gun" and "battle rifle" are an M14 battle rifle and M16/AR-15 assault rifle respectively. Also, the Tec-9 or AP-9 that appeared in the original mod was replaced by an M3 submachine gun (sadly it has only 20 rounds instead of 30 rounds and is often overlooked for the 50-round Tommy gun by most players).
I remember playing the first one when it came out. I had no idea they made 2 more! It was a great mod
"I was not alive in the 1990s" hit me for 10 psychic damage
They Hunger is genuinely one of my favorite games.
Early Half life modding was my whole inspiration in becoming a game dev. I didn't have much access to technology or internet but I did get to play things like Halflife and Unreal Tournament and that early age of ingenuity was such a beautiful moment. They hunger was one of those few things I did get to enjoy.
This mod is one of the best mods out there and one of the reasons why i love and played Half live back in the day i play this mod even today after 4 years of me first staring it
That’s bizarre. I was just thinking yesterday that you or Ratlobber should cover these mods.
I had to look it up but the Tec-9 wasn't developed until the 80's, the IMI UZI was developed in 56' though so they could have used that, but I'm not complaining, TEC-9 is cool
oh I'm glad you brought the out of era weapons up
An absolute classic! Gotta love it.
Came here from Zesty Jesus's stream. Absolutely loving the content you put out!
LOL thanks bro
i recently played they hunger and it was k00l, but heart of evil will always be my favourite. there's a lot of nostalgia involved but i just find the setting, aesthetic and '00s teenage modding humour that much better.
Seroyga King Ring is not something i would not expect in is richter overtime video.
I remember playing this mod when I was a teenager. It was super fun playing the mod, although the final boss was insanely tough.
Truly the best intro of all time
They Hunger was one of those mods I never fully completed it but yeah, it's a very iconic one as it inspired many horror mods for Half-Life like Cry Of Fear, Afraid Of Monsters, Resident Evil Cold Blood, Grey and obviously Nightmare House 2.
Excellent as always rictor Richter
Similar to someone else I also learned about They Hunger through SVEN while playing with my cousin. Was really impressed plus we got really far and it surprisingly works well with multiple people.
im glad i saw a gman review on this mod that i never heard of and doesnt knew this thing even exist before, then i played it myself and it became one of my all times favorites
They Hunger, my beloved ❤
I have many fond memories of stumbling through this game on my own, and many more of the Sven Co-op adaptation with friends.
They Hunger was my first taste of Half-life mods, it was very cool.
They Hunger exist inside the game Sven coop and it's regularly played in servers where you can pick and choose a campaign through vote where people walk to what campaign they want.
I remember finding it on the cover cd for PC Gamer magazine. Considering the limitations of the engine it was very atmospheric and I'd love a remaster.
I remember playing this damn mod back when I was around 7. It scared the hell out of my but it was so well done !!
First playthrough of TH was the most memorable. Found it through Sven Coop, and it felt much grander before you learn the maps. Though I did start not liking the 3rd episode cause it loses the spooky vibe of ep1 and ep2. It was more like generic shooter with zombies, but it can still be fun.
I remember hopping onto a random server late at night, we did like an episode or two, I hopped off, and the next night by pure chance the whole server was back to where I left off.
I still like joining servers that run it, or rocking the vote to play TH on Sven.
All the times I played this back in the day and I never knew about that massive Bullsquid underwater.
i remember it, it was one of the first half life mods i played, i can still 'hear' the lines "mommy's hungry" "flesh creature" good times
thank you for the content, Richter.
I remember playing this and then it came out on Sven Coop and that was when it was absolutely amazing.
I heard "I was not alive in the 1990s" and felt myself die a little more inside.
I remember the first one, played it back then. But I didn't know two more were made!
I'd seen They Hunger all the way back in the primordial 2010-2015 CZcams era (Spike n Barley) and played it in recent years on Sven Coop, but otherwise was unaware of the third chapter and the devs behind it
sweet, i absolutely loved this back in the day
i'd assume Stonehenge was chosen because its true purpose has always been pretty mysterious, and as such a lot of fiction has used it as the setting for random cult behaviour (like The Mystery of the Druids, for example).
I totally remember that mod, still have that disc with the magazine, and the original HL games.
so cool..
Ironic, I was just thinking about this game and how cool it was back in the day...
I was trying to remember the name of this mod to replay it, I think about it every other October ty
Dang, imagine being commissioned by a magazine to create a whole video game as an advert
They hunger is still pretty popular in sven coop
They Hunger is such a fun, cheesy little classic! Such a damn shame it never got an official Source Engine game!
Also, the PC Gamer advertising gives me nostalgia.
You’re a chad for making captions 👍
0:28 and now everyone will ask what sauce for this.
nice video dude 👍
The first Half-Life mod I ever played and one I routinely go back to almost every Halloween! Just recently discovered the secret magnum hidden under the floorboards in Chapter 1's auto shop despite playing this over a dozen times, guess there's no shortage of surprises when playing They Hunger! Hell, I just watched Let Sleeping Corpses lie and a ton of the movies setting, aesthetics and even some of the clothing/wounds of the zombies bare an uncanny resemblance to They Hunger so I wonder if that movie served as inspiration as well as the traditional Night of the Living Dead themes!
I'm also responsible for uploading two of the dev builds of They Hunger: Lost Souls onto MODDB several years ago after they were cast into a few discord servers so if you ever feel the desire to give those a look, there's an astonishing amount of content to delve into with them despite their unfinished state!
The only thing I know for sure about "They Hunger" is that it inspired the mod "BrainBread" that I played a lot back in the day. It's narrative was a bit looser as it's meant as a teamwork based multiplayer game, with a lot of the maps being small nearly stand-alone campaigns, but I had a lot of fun playing it on a local network server with my brothers.
I'd played it a couple of times back in 2000s. I also played the USS Darkstar. It's a shame that Manke never finished the Source version. Good times, good times indeed
A legitimate classic. One of the first mods that made me aware that the HL modding scene was even a thing, back in the day (yes, I'm fucking old.)
So full of atmosphere. So fun to play. Still so many memorable voice lines. "WHY DO WE HUNGER?"
ALSO played USS Darkstar and it was fucking amazing for the time. Just like They Hunger. Neil and his team really were talented.
i love that thumbnail scientist