The Half-Life Ports on Consoles
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Camobot describes his self-imposed suffering playing Half-Life games on console. But maybe he's into it? Happy 25 years Half-Life, hopefully we get another new game in the next 25.
I actually sell Half-Life merch on my Redbubble!
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0:00 - Intro
1:55 - Half-Life PS2
3:01 - Half-Life 2 Xbox
4:27 - Orange Box PS3/360
6:34 - Outro - Hry
dreamcast
❤
Never released
@@FatherMcKenzie66cancelled just before shipping out, pretty much complete, so it counts
I played the version of Half Life for the dreamcast. I had the exact reaction Mr. Camobot had to the PS2 version. It really was wonderfully and completely put together, besides the loading times; That killed it. I mean, you would be loading for at least two minutes. Besides that, it looked great, it played great, surprisingly enough with the dreamcast controller, which one would never think any PC game would translate to. It's a shame it did not get the official release; Almost as if, if they could warn people about the load times with a sticker or something, it would have done very well.
Don't forget the orange box is 4k on series x
Only part that sucks is the fact that the frame rate is bad
@@Abecdefghijk1lmnopqrst89 i can deal, we used to play Goldeneye on 25 sub 30 frames on a CRT
@@nickm5419 bro the goldeneye "remaster" on xbone is such a joke.
THE 360 PROTOTYPE HAD IT ALL PERFECTED BEFORE IT WAS POPULAR ;(
Doesn't let you buy it 😢
How can I play the orange box bundled games on series X? (It's unavailable on Microsoft Store)
I grew up with Xbox and didn't have a PC until recently, so of course I played hl2 through the orange box on my 360. Definitely one of my favorite game series, and I just recently replayed the games on my series x!
I was pleasantly surprised to hear it worked on Series X when I picked mine up
@@thecamobot Yes, The Orange Box 360 version is backward compatible
I'm flabbergasted they didn't re-release HL1 or HL2 on current gen consoles. There's an entire audience Valve is missing out on... We've got Duke Nukem, Quake 1 & 2, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3D, Shadow Man, Forsaken, etc etc etc and yet the only way to play HL is PC.
I was so surprised when portal ended up on switch, hopefully they'll get around to half life too
Half-Life 2 and its expansions are playable on the newest Xbox’s.
@@TheJayson8899 Yes, through backwards compatibility - but it's still an Xbox 360 game. Why not upscale it, with 60 fps, graphics that fit nicely in 4K, modern controls, an FOV slider, etc? Why not release the definitive edition with all the bells and whistles the PC had? My opinion.
@@hmv1405 It's really because Valve has no reason to update those old console games since they've always been primarily PC developers. The reason quake 2 and Duke Nukem and all those even older games have been ported to PC is because of ties with Microsoft, and licensing. Valve probably doesn't even have the licensee to go back and update their games. Maybe on the Xbox, but definitely not the Playstation.
@@OBSCURE_DECKER Ah, I think you hit the nail on the head! Yes that makes sense to me, thank you. I haven't considered that before.
im surprised you dont have more subscribers, the production quality is insane for a channel of your size
He's so underrated, hope he remembers me when he gets big
Great video!
Didnt mention the Dreamcast and I know some people here have already said something about it. There were straight up strategy guides and interviews of Randy Pitchford promoting and showing off the port to gaming outlets. It was THAT ready to being shipped out the door.
Another port that was cancelled you dont hear many people talk about was HL1 being ported to the Gamecube. It was being developed by an ex-Captivation Digital Laboratories dev and it never came out due to it not being profitable.
I think I might try to get HL working on original dreamcast hardware and cover it but I hadn't heard of the gamecube port, that's pretty cool
@@thecamobotWhile you're at it, there's a great homebrew port / hack of Blue Shift to the PS2. I really love the controls in PS2 Half-Life so it was nice to play Blue Shift that way. Give it a shot when possible.
@@NickGoblin Cool I'll have to check it out sometime
@@thecamobotit's super easy, there's no mods needed! You can just burn it to a disc and pop it into an original Dreamcast.
@@NottJoeyOfficialexactly how I did. It's weird to play it with the dreamcast controller because of lack of 2nd thumbstick but it worked I guess
The PS2 port is surprisingly good. I like that you can temporarily "save" your game without having to write it to the memory card every time, given how slow that is (though obviously you'll want to use the memory card before turning the console off). The co-op and vortigaunt modes are also great additions. I wish they were officially on the PC version. It's also worth noting you can play the co-op solo. It's harder and you have to switch between characters but it's entirely doable.
It kind of reminds me to the memo system in the Final Fantasy games. I wonder what other games save in the ram. Ram is precious in old consoles.
Speaking of Coop, i like to put the companion as an strategic turret and wait for enemies to come. It has incredible good aim in PS2 and it can shoot targets even from far away. Sometimes it can waste too much ammo, but if you shoot alongside the AI enemies fall down quickly.
My first ever playthrough of half life was on the PS2. Then I wanted to play 2, so In 2009 I went online and downloaded this "steam" software and... the rest is history
Awesome video, I feel the same, once I played a favourite game so many times, it's refreshing to experience it in different ways
I believe Half Life 2 on Xbox has some cut content, mainly the shotgun troopers with darker armor and red glowing eyes. They also cut the telescope you can look through on the highway that shows the rebel base where you first fight the gunship. I believe the telescope was also cut on the ps3 version of the orange box for some reason
Wow, they cut the telecope on PS3? That was so lazy.
It's funny that I played the shit out of Half-Life 2 on the original xbox and I didn't notice the bad performance.
You know what during my playthrough I really adjusted to it, I think people just didnt notice these things back in the day
Great and high quality video editing man! Very enjoyable video.
Excellent video Camobot! I'd love to see more Half Life videos
You definitely earned a subscriber! I hope you continue making stuff since you have something good going on here.
I love this vid!! I'd love to hear you talk about other valve ports, like the unofficial mobile, psp and 3ds ports
I love that original 2004 Source echo that Breen has from his monitors which seems to be different from modern versions. I'm not sure when that may have been updated, but anytime I look up original XBox Half-Life 2 gameplay, I'm taken aback by how good that train station sounds. It's so uncanny and creepy, despite being a bit more difficult to understand.
My first experience with Half-Life was on the Xbox 360. I remember buying The Orange Box because I wanted to play portal. Once I completed portal I played Half-Life 2 and it's my favorite game now.
Me finding the Orange Box for $5 at a flea market recently is a memorable steal for me, I thought I would have to to pay $20+ as 7th gen games have slowly been going up, though I of course will finish HL2 on Steam.
Half-Life for Dreamcast is a console port of Half-Life for the Sega Dreamcast developed by Gearbox Software and Captivation Digital Laboratories with the assistance of Sierra Entertainment and Valve Software. It was cancelled only a few weeks away from its projected release date. What's so funny is that they did released a Half-Life Dreamcast guide book but never the game yet there is a way to play it if you can fine the ISO and burn it on a CDrom disc and play it on a real Dreamcast console.
yeah in 2009 had to play the PS2 and Xbox original ports of HL1 and 2 respectively because at the time I had a Mac with no steam support, so I sought out what I could. Eventually I figured out things like Wine+Crossover Games (apps that let you run Windows software on OS X), and then Steam got official Mac support in 2011ish :)
I actually still own all of these. I didn’t have a good enough PC growing up so I had to play HL2 on Xbox and The Orange Box on 360. I picked up the PS3 version and HL for PS2 later on just because I’m a such a fan of the series. Definitely my favorite series of all time.
I play and finish half Life 1 with the PS2 versión in an emulator in Xbox series s 😊
The PS2 Port of Hal-Life was how I first played the game as well as one of my First FPS games. I never beat that version, but it led me to getting all of the expansions on steam and playing all the Half-Life games later.
Don’t forget the homebrew port of HL1 on 3ds
my first experience with the series was through the orange box on the 360.Over the years, as the disc got scratched and my shoddy original 360 started breaking down, textures would go missing and load times became (more) atrocious and it unfortunately got to the point to where it was just unplayable. It wouldn't be long until I'd get them on steam but I still miss that version
you totally made me remember i bought the ps2 version of half life ages ago
gonna try and run this now! thank you
the incredible part about half life 2 on the og xbox is the fact that the console only has 64mb of ram shared between cpu and gpu
The ps2 port is how I first played half life 1 I loved it and played it like crazy and even now on PC I prefer using the hd models because I'm so used to seeing them from the ps2 version. Then went on and played the orange box on the 360 and it was my go to game for years. Ended up getting a pc way later and then went back to play all the expansions and tons of mods for both games.
Half life 2 on my Xbox was how I was introduced to the series. I initially bought the Orange box just for Tf2, being unware at the time how unsupported that version was (this was in 2014). I ended up really enjoying Half Life 2 and it's episodes after trying them, as well as Portal. The Orange box ended up being the spark for my love for Valve titles
I wish you mentioned Half Life on the Dreamcast as it was technically completed but never released
La Boite Orange? Ah wow, are you from Canada? Another cool way to experience Half-Life again is also in VR, if you have a VR headset of course. The HL2 VR mod is really really good, and Episodes 1 and 2 are fully playable. But there is also a great Quest port of Half-Life 1 in VR. It's not as immersive as the HL2VR but it's still great! And opposing Force and Blue Shift also are playable
I finished HL2 and its expansions on Xbox 360 Orange Box back in the day and it was a blast! Perfectly playable versions.
the orange box is definitely one of the best ways to play it.
I found my copy of half life 2 for the xbox original at a pawn shop recently and got so excited because i wanted to play the game for the first time and wanted to do it with the jankiness that came from its time
well that was one of the more.. intimate videos I've seen about half-life
I recently bought a Series X and one of the first things I did was install my ancient copy of Orange Box and replay HL2. Had a blast even if it was capped at 30 fps. What I would give to have FPS Boost added to the Orange Box...
For a long time the only way I could play these games was on my xbox 360, I decided to finish playing half life 2 on it recently after playing the episodes on laptop. The Xbox controller would turn off every time a gun was fired, so I found that holding a turret would could act like a gun and not turn of my controller. So when it came to the levels where you where stuck I a room with turrets and combine, I’d hide in the corner spraying them. Fun
The first time I played HL2 and the episodes was on PS3 with a friend beside me. We both had become valve fans through tf2 on pc but wanted to experience the other games together. It was a blast. Of course, since we were kids we weren't bothered by the FPS until EP2. I remember vividly becoming so frustrated at the parking garage when you could not turn quickly enough to face the enemies because of the stuttering. Way before this I had an X360 and remember playing the L4D demo over and over again because I wasn't allowed to play 18+ games. I bought the PS2 version of Half-Life a few years ago pretty cheaply but found out my ps2 controllers were broken :(
Orange box for Xbox 360 was how I played half life 2, portal, and tf2 for the first time since I didn’t have a compatible pc at the time
Discovered half life through orange box at my friend's house. Been one of my fav game series ever since, Can't wait to see half-life 2 RTX that was announced, wonder if it will be released in time for the 20 year anniversary
Half-Life is my favorite game series. The first time I played through the game was on the unreleased Sega Dreamcast version. It was canceled just before release. I actually have my Prima Dreamcast Half-Life Strategy Guide that they forgot to pull before some copies shipped. Definitely check it out if you haven’t.
Loved playing ps2 half life with the slow mo cheat
is funny how out of all the versions in their time, PS2 ran and looked better back then, it had vastly improved models over PC, even to this day, Half-Life on PC still uses the old models instead of using the better PS2 ones
1:55 It also distinguish itself from PC version because of vibration!!
I read that the PS3 version of The Orange Box has some bad audio issues. I have Half-life on the PS2 and The Orange Box on the 360.
A lot of people are likely unaware there is an Android port of Half-life 2. Unfortunately it's exclusive to nvidia shield devices.
3:44 Barney's talking about Blinx
I just started my first ever playthrough of Half Life on the PS2 port. Best thing is its on my phone running through emulation. Other than frame dips it plays great
wow your channel is criminally unknown. keep this up, you'll absolutely make it at this thing
Thanks for the kind comment!
I always remember half life 1 on ps2 because of the co-op story half life decay
I played Half-Life on Dreamcast. The load times were unbearable by today's standards but I loved every minute.
Underrated
Love the video - hate to ask.
What game is that at 4:58?
Motorstorm on PS3!
@@thecamobot Thank you kindly.
The xbox 360 version of The Orange Box was my first entry into the half life games,
Think that game was a present from my Stepbrother at the time.
I have a sealed version of hl2 for the original xbox and i haven’t even opened the seal
i still remember being 8 years old playing through the orange box half life 2 episode 2 demo over and over again before my parents finally bought me a copy of it. the best era
You forget the dream cast port
Of half life 1
5:34 has got to be one of the GREATEST comedic timings
I really think the original xbox verson of half life 2 is so interesting. There are more loading screens to help with performance, and even some level changes so there are less things to render in the background. Not to mention Dr. Breen's dialog sounds more echoy in the speakers.
The first proper time i played half life 2 was on my Xbox 360 in 2016 paying the orange box 30 damn euros (don’t buy from GameStop guys) since my cheap ass couldn’t afford a proper gaming pc, but i’ve got to say that it was the best gaming experience ever, playing on a old almost dying Xbox with overheating issues that sounded like a c130 engine and on a tv with destroyed speakers from 15 years earlier, best fun I’ve ever had.
Great video man, you reminded me of the good days (if you put the financial struggle apart)
Ps3 version tanked in performance on ep2 because of the new shadow effects, direct shadows opposed to baked and soft ones.
I might find the info in the changelog for ep2
I loved the console releases because it’s how I experienced them growing up. Fast forward to the release of Alyx, and I was completely blown away by it - living in the future and experiencing in a virtual world!
I, of course, had to rebuy The Orange Box for the Series S and loved seeing the higher res textures in HL2 - but probably my favorite play through of HL2 was on the Steam Deck! Only seemed fitting for Valve’s first handheld it would be the first game I complete on there - and my first time ever trying gyro based aim controls; an absolute game changer in first person shooters.
Subbed for more content 😎
Thanks for the comment and sub! I'd love to get my hands on a Steam Deck at some point
After playing the series enough times i also bought the console versions and im willing to say that each version of these games (yes even original xbox hl2 to an extent) have charm and are fun ways to play these games
Good video
I totally agree!
I think portal still alive on 360 is also rather interesting. It contains a few levels not in the pc version by default. Also the port of portal 2 on ps3 has full ps move support for the main campaign, co-op, and the in motion dlc. It is also very interesting.
Hmmm maybe I'll take a look at those! Thanks for the comment!
First time playing Half-Life 2 was on the PS3 when I was waaaay younger! I actually got the Orange Box for Portal 1, but ended up loving Half-Life as well! Probably one of the best things I asked my parents for. Glad they had gotten me Portal 2 for me that one year
Wow so no mention of DECAY on ps2 which exclusive at release , playin a vort for a stage was killer.
Fun fact: You can actually play most of the campaign with a cheat code.
Yoo 😂 i played through half life on ps2 a couple times and have never seen that enemy target aim thing😅 (aim assist looking red box) i think you had a setting on for that?
great video! i would kill for alyx to get a ps5 port. probably unlikely, but still possible
Are you from canada? Because you had 2 copies of the orangebox with french on it. Yes im canadian myself
Yeah theyre Canadian copies
@@thecamobot no my question is are you from canada
@@frogtheneonsaber Yeah lol
Where is the dreamcast version of og half life?
Im like this with Portal and Portal 2. I have 100 hours in Portal 2 and I've played basically every version of the original Portal. The only original Portal port I haven't played is the Orange Box 360 version, but I have played the stand alone Still Alive 360 version. That one is the strangest port because of how it has challenge levels based off the Portal 2D flash game. I plan on getting a PS3 PS Move setup just so I can play the official PS Move Portal 2 DLC that was released for a super obscure PC accessory and on PS3.
Very good video!
DID NOT MENTION THE UNRELEASED DREAMCAST PORT OF HALF LIFE 1...WHICH HAD DIFFERENT/UPGRADED TEXTURES THEN THE PC/PS2 VERSION AND HAD KEYBOARD/MOUSE SUPPORT 😭
If you ever get a Dreamcast (or try an emulator) give the canceled HL1 port a try.
I was one of those gamers who bought Half Life 2 for Xbox in 2005. I didn't have a beefy enough PC at the time (which sounds hilarious now) so I was just stoked to play it. The main issue with it besides the framerate was how often it would need to load, but unless you had played it on PC you wouldn't notice.
First ever experience with HL2 was the orange box on Xbox 360, best thing to ever happen in my life as a kid and played it for hours and days
Never had consoles since Sega Mega Drive days. Because I just jumped right on to PC platform and played the rest there. So yeah, I completed all Half-Life games on PC, starting with Half-Life 1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force and ending up with Half-Life 2, Half-Life Episode One and Half-Life Episode 2. And then some on top of that, like Black Mesa for example or Entropy Zero. Exclude Half-Life Decay, because it is not on PC and Half-Life Alyx, because I don't have VR because it is too damn expensive.
5:32, makes me laugh every time
half-life 25
Whats up with the skibidi toilet characters on the 2nd game you were talking about???
Cringe
Was just kidding lmao@@RapidPhantom293
There's an unreleased Dreamcast version of Half-Life that's really good. It got leaked many years ago. I recommend it
The orange box on ps3 had a issue: the sound! Dont't know if it was just me but sometimes the game (mostly half-life 2 series) would get a bug (i guess) of the sound, and everything would sound like it was under water.
Oh that's weird, I played through part of HL2 and the Episodes on PS3 and never noticed much of that. Good to know and thanks for the comment!
Yeah, that's the incredibly annoying crackling sound glitch. Comes and goes seemingly at random and can last anywhere from 20-30 seconds to 5-10 minutes. Easily worse than the frame rate issues for me, and unfortunately affects all games in the Orange Box on PS3. I don't know if this is true or not but it may have been caused by a PS3 firmware update.
I originally played half life 2 on xbox as a little kid and i loved it
What did you think of Half Life Decay? The 2 player campaign on the PS2 port
I actually haven't had the chance to finish decay but the concept is cool. I think theres a pc port these days so maybe Ill go back to it there and finish it.
I originally got orange box for my 360 to play portal but half life 2 was pretty great, I usually don’t like fps game but half life 2 is an exception.
Full send in the differences on each port. I'm autistic for the PS2 half life, since it was my first exposure to the series.
Me too! My uncle grew up with half life and he got a PS2 when it was new and got HL and showed me and my sister. Good times and have been obsessed since. That menu theme is always on loop in my brain lol
There are a lot of mini changes in the PS2 port that i may not remember:
-The main menu is different, with a new theme composed that wasnt on PC.
-HL Decay (fun fact, Kleiner is mentioned here)
-Split Screen deathmatch
-Plenty of bugs were fixed, especially in the PAL version, making it even to this day the most polished version of the game.
-For some reason the PAL version of the game reuses the shotgun sound from the original PC release (but multiplayer still uses the regular HD sound).
-AI was improved, in particular marines, which now can return grenades.
-New easter eggs added to the game. In particular, cheat codes are unlockable, by searching in different areas in the map. There is one hidden in Decay as well.
-Long jump now can be executed by doing a double jump. It also uses the Opposing Force MP sound effect.
-In the load/save screen you can see that every chapter has a dedicated picture to it, something it wouldnt appear until HL2.
-New optional lock on system
--Brackets on interactive objects such as buttons.
-HUD has a new icon
-HD pack looks WAY more detailed (i wouldnt tell all of the differences except that the health station now shows how much you can be healed, similar to HL2). Some maps are also slighty bigger, others were slighty changed and some of the textures were changed to look more realistic.
-The HD revolver now has a proper reload sound. In PC there wasnt any sound at all.
-A little change from Blue Shift returns in the Training, apart from the new exclusive intro: You lose all of your weapons when meeting the first security guard
-Some few differences from the original launch version return, included view bobbing, the multiplayer score, the unused green 9mm ammo item (though is only used in multiplayer and Decay), and the weapons available to pick up in the deathmatch maps.
-Half Life Uplink can be played through the extras menu if you had the disc of the playstation magazine number i dont know.
-In the multiplayer mode there are a couple of differences as well: Deathmatches are 2 player only, weapons are invisible except the crowbar, there is a bar that shows when the weapon ends to reload and there are six characters to choose from.
-The deatmatch maps are a selection of some of the PC version (not all of them) and a couple of new maps exclusively to this version.
-There is no autosave, so remember to save manually (or quick save which saves in the ram temporaly).
-When the credits finish, the game doesnt softlock in the credits screen but it returns to the main menu.
-There is an alternate ending, if you finish the game as a vortigaunt (with the cheat code).
Sorry if i forgot something, lol.
Half life 2 in pc with a controller also used xbox aim asist(bigger hitbox), or maybe only on easy
I'm currently thinking about giving the PS2 version a go. I've oviously played the original pc version hundreds of hours back in the day, but if I remember correctly the last one I played was the Dreamcast version many years ago. After that I've only played the H-L2 (and the Episodes) on PS3 and X360. I'm definitely starting to feel a need to return to the lovely gray corridors of Black Mesa.
I hope you have fun with it! The Ps2 version can be a lot of fun if you keep an open mind
The orange box got me into pc gaming :)
I didn’t know the performance was bad on Xbox back in 2005 😂 without a PC to compare it to. I also remember HL2 dropped on the original Xbox a week before Xbox360. So it was overshadowed in the console space a bit, before the Orange Box in 2007.
The Orange Box 😏
Just beat half life 2 on the orange box. Very good
The Xbox version is how I got to play Half Life 2 until 2012.
I like how the console versions feels more arcady.. the loading screens are less and the complex crosshair makes them look less technical! Even the fact that you can't acess console commands make them feel more "video gamy" with a "y" in the end. The first time I played half life was on consoles, so there is also that! The Orange Box on the console has this cool menu with music and the background showing some content of the game, made it feel more alive than the pc versions with those simple menus. Also, the Half Life 1 on PS2 has these small things that makes it feel so different, like animated healing stations and everything else mentioned here. Also, the menu here is way more interesting than the Pc version as well. The music, the colors.. if only they ported Opposing Force as well, the pack would be complete! I wish HL1 came to Xbox as well, would love to play it on my series x. Another thing that I like is the shooting, It feels better to me to shoot with the controller trigger! Specially the shotgun and the gravity gun, grabing stuff and throwing feels more powerful, specially with the vibration. Also, you can make gordon spin forever with the right stick.
It's honestly wild that HL2 got an XBOX port instead of being a 360 launch title. Just a weird decision. Also there are a few little trims to the levels in the XBOX version, but I'm not sure how major or how many. You should also check out the Dreamcast port of HL1.
Lots of folks have been asking for Dreamcast Half Life so that's coming next!
I can play HL2 on my laptop with RTX 3050Ti in full HD. If there is full controller support, I would play it on my 50" OLED via HDMI.
Alternatively, I can play it in 30fps and 4k on the Series X. I still have the Orange Box. Auto-aim sounds pretty interesting on Xbox.
How would you play it? Never played a Half Life game before.
Honestly best would always be PC since that's the intended input method, but you would have a perfectly good experience on Xbox. Steam also has controller support too!
@@thecamobot Thanks. I'll try the Orange box on series x first because I already own a copy of that game.
@@snowboarding1987 have fun!
I played a demo for Half-Life 2 back in the day and eventually borrowed the PC discs from a friend but I actually beat HL2 on OG Xbox renting it from Gamefly and it was amazing. I will always remember how the ending literally took my breath away. I was not ready for what was going to happen. I played it with some headphones blaring from my amp that I still use today and it was so visceral I gasped when it happened. I'll never spoil it for anyone. Just play Half-Life. Any gamer should. And if you love Half-Life, play Half-Life: Alyx.
0:39 yeah but you played ricochet?
I have the PS2 port of HL1 and I have the Xbox 360 version of the orange box
The ps3 version is how I originally played half life 2 I loved it but now that I have it on pc it so hard to go back to ps3
we dont talk about 360 TF2