This is the WORST Fan Game... (sort of)
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- I'm sure this is the popular opinion, nothing new here. Just adding on that it got a bit better. (It still sucks)
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Hunt Down the Freeman is a fan-game released in 2016. It was however, extremely disliked, gaining a pretty bad reputation. So much so, that they've embraced it. It's been getting some small improvements, but I don't think that it can ever become "good". Regardless, it's still fun to look back at things like these for comedy.
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - The Development
1:21 - Just the beginning
3:24 - Gameplay Quirks
5:31 - Awful Level Design
8:40 - The Voice Acting
9:23 - The Release Build
12:03 - Other Builds
12:56 - Why this is "sort of" the worst
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Downloads:
Hunt Down the Freeman: store.steampowered.com/app/72...
OBS (what I record with): obsproject.com/
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Music:
(In order of appearance)
.Kevin MacLeod - Sneaky Adventure
.Opposing Force - Planet (Soundtrack)
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The cutscenes were made in SFM, which is probably why it takes 40GB of space.
cutscenes takes more space than the actual game bruh
does sfm have sloppy compression? in that case devs could've recoded the videos in h265
@@dabmasterars i once made a 20 second animation and the video file size was 1gb
@dabmaster4472 nobody was paid to do it.
So they let it like this.
40 GB of SFM footage.
There's also the 4K resolution textures, I bet.
The fact that this game was $25 at launch, costing more than Black Mesa, an actually outstanding fan project made with passion is ludicrous
Meanwhile we have entropy zero 2 which is FREE
Because he has to pay for all the Source engine and IP. And since the game did not make back the investment, he's still in debt and the people involved won't be seeing any payment. I think this is important to point out because as far as I've seen, everyone just blindly portrays Berkan as a con-artist that just threw everyone under the bus and escaped to Blizzard with the money.
Most of the people refused the payment at the beginning, (big names like VA: Pyrocynical and ColossalIsCrazy for example) but once the reception came in, it became a joke and as an act of defiance, they turned on Berkan refused to pay them when they know full well he couldn't afford it even if he wanted to. And as IHateEVerything said in his video, Berkan never pulled the rug on anyone for the game's failure.
@@theotv5522 That's understandable and he's definitely receiving unnecessary hate, but we all know people love to ignore the full story as a bid to gain internet brownie points by acting holier than thou.
Regardless, payment should have been upfront as I've read many developers remain unpaid or not paid the wage they agreed upon in the first place. He doesn't deserve to be shit on like he has been, but I don't feel sorry because relying on a game to make back its money and profit too and _then_ you pay your employees is incredibly foolish and is not done in most other industries. You should never take a risk like that, and if you do and it doesn't work out as planned, then you should be held accountable or at least apologise while working out some kind of contract to ensure they're eventually paid.
Just want to clear up a few things:
1:16 The reason they didn't fix up the game after release was because none of the developers were getting paid the money they were owed, causing all of them to leave and stop working on it. All the work done on the game after 2018 has been from volunteers doing it in their spare time.
3:02 The instructor does tell you what to do, when you fall down they tell you to "patch yourself up". To unlock the grenades part of the tutorial you needed you heal yourself using the pills that were highlighted, the owf build does a better job to prevent confusion since it forces you to hold the pills until you use them.
8:06 The train station level has an issue when you run through it too quickly. Cue is supposed to go up to a hatch on the train and instruct one of the soldiers to cut it open, but Cue can sometimes get stuck behind the metal gate that closes to stop the player from going back into the lobby area, causing a softlock.
12:06 The april fools update was the first default build update to happen to hdtf in over 4 years, at this point it's basically just an older version of the current default build and is only there for archival purposes.
12:32 Freeman does appear in the game, you see him in the ravenholm map with father grigori.
12:52 Technically you're right, exept the m3sa build wasn't discontinued, it was renamed to the owf build. The reason those changes are in the default build is because whenever the owf build is stable enough, then it's pushed to the default build.
13:28 You don't need to cheat to progress, cheats haven't been needed since the day 1 patch.
13:36 The studio won't make the same mistakes because hdtf bankrupted them.
noice
Does berkan still have access to the money from new sales? If he does, I really don't get why people try to fix it for free while that scumbag gets the money
You sure know a lot about this, wow
@@SlowpokeVG Berkan does. The reason people are working to fix it for free is because they like the game and want more people to have fun / enjoy playing it. Plus it's a good way to get experience since other team members have worked on other projects and are willing to help out with any issues. Also Berkan is still very much in debt, the game didn't even make enough money to play off the source engine and ip licenses, so they aren't going to see any of the money from the game until all their debts have been paid off.
@@terrors4940 thank you for clarifying!
2 Billion polygons!!?? Wow can't believe a half life 2 mods could do such a thing.
Reminds me of Yandere Sim and its stolen 5K polygon toothbrush lmao. I'd suggest that Berkan might actually be Yanderedev in disguise, but if that was true, HDTF would've never fucking released at all
Probably another reason of why the game takes up 40 GB of space for some fking reason
@@generalrubbish9513 it's not stolen and it's not even ingame
could you explain that? i don't know much about it
Dude, that's like, real life quality!
_cutscenes are good because they are the only time you're not playing the game_
Cutscenes shouldn't exist in games. I'm there to play, not watch.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 try telling that to Kojima
@@donbeneverdevera966 i mean if you boot up metal gear you know what youre getting ypureself into unlike half life
@@donbeneverdevera966 what the fuck is kojima
@@SonOfTheDawn515 thats why theres USUALLY an option to skip (sometimes there isnt for some reason)
hunt down the freeman is one of the games of all time. change my mind
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its a program
Better than any game
Lol
Thanks to this game, we now got Half Life Alyx from Valve
The best underrated game for sure!
#hdtfmsweep
The reason why the game itself was bad, in terms of gameplay and story itself, was because the director himself (whose name was mentioned in 5:49) have no experience in directing the developers to make the game, yet wanted to try something so big that it ultimately failed. The story was blatantly similar to Metal Gear Solid 5 too. It was too similar that anyone who was a fan of the Metal Gear series pointed this out, including the voice actors. I remember watching a video of HDTF's developers talking about how bad the state of the game was before the game was released and how it should not be shipped out to the store yet.
There's even some controversy behind the development of the game too, which is the director came up with the idea of making this game to land his job opportunity at Blizzard Entertainment.
The funny thing about the whole thing is how the director responded. The director can't accept the fact that his game is utter trash, gets upset when people make fun of the game, going as far to ban anyone who criticized the game from their forum. After the whole mess he have caused and left behind the director was never heard again.
As for why it's still a broken mess was due to the fact the developers themselves were not paid by the director of the game so they refuse the fix the game and instead making fun of it.
Pyrocynical and ColossalIsCrazy, who are the voice actors in the game, have said in the TBH podcast that despite Berkan, the director, seemed to have no clue about how to direct everyone, did not throw people under the bus once the reviews came out. The direction for the VA seemed...directionless because he feared the plot would be leaked and so he did not give clear cut context so the VA had to do guess work most of the time. I can imagine the same with the game development.
Colossal did not received any payment, despite at the beginning was promised a 5%(?) cut of the game's revenue, while Pyrocynical just refuses the money, thinking it's gonna be a shit show and knew he's gonna make a review of it, so taking money then talking smack about the game felt like a backstab. I don't know the story of anyone else involved, but blaming everything on Berkan felt like a scapegoat.
@@theotv5522well, he was the director. Blaming the director is the way it goes because the director is the leader and the one in charge.
@@kingalastor936 that’s like saying your school principal should also be responsible if one of his students committed crime. Berkan got too ambitious and failed. But from what I’ve seen people just make stuff up to blame Berkan.
I know I'm being "that guy" but the OWF build actually features freeman a couple of times. Fixing the one major issue of never actually hunting freeman in the original release.
I spoke to Minerkey (one of the OWF Build devs) and he stated that Berkan deleted a Google Drive link containing all of the HDTF Assets which forcing them to work on the game from scratch. So from what I can tell these guys have to rely on the game files from the 2018 Build. Also the OG Voice Actors including Mitchell's don't want to come back to reprise their roles again. That's f******* up alright but I hope they can fix it
Well with eleven voice labs it's possible :)
@@jeanmichel8919 Oh my god.. Thanks for reminding me
@@mr.cheese2928 your welcome, and for good measure : fuck berkan forever and ever !
You can tell the developer really cared for detail when somebody left the room and you needed to wait a REAL minute for him to get back, not to mention the accurately displayed chandelier, being resistant to explosive ordinance. Move aside RDR2, this is the most detailed game of the decade.
I thought it was gta 4
Honestly that part where you have to wait for real sounds kinda fair.
The other stuff? Well, I say they are completely magnificent!
@@dunf decade= 10 yrs
Gta 4 = 2008
Rdr2 = 2018
Two completely different decades
@@oblivioustoaster345 gta 4 is better than rdr2 tho
we need a hunt down the freeman randomizer so it has infinite replay value
To be fair Freeman appears 3 times in the game:
1 - you can hear him shooting his way out of Ravenholm
2 - you see him driving the buggy above you
3 - if you die in the last battle of the game you trigger the secret ending that you appear in a Black Mesa tram with multiples Freemans lol
HDTF is like asking Kojima to make a linear fps game without cutscenes . it won't work no matter how hard you try .
He made one, but you don't shoot you just run away from a ghost
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That wasn't exactly the full game though.
You get an achievement for beating the game under 2 hours so you can still get a refund.
The game is quite literally asking for you to refund it.
HDTF is such a game that it has a story that begins and ends. For a first person shooter, you definitely shoot in first person. More importantly, you can install, uninstall, and possibly get a refund. If I have to give it a score between 1 through 10, it would definitely get a score between 1 through 10
There are lone developers who make their games and mods 100 times better than HDTF, despite some being only 1 or 2 hours long.
I really think Berkan is the sole reason why HDTF failed. His obsession with hype and not allowing many in the dev team to view the entirety of the project because he doesn't want leaks (which creates a lack of trust on your devs) backfired on the game.
indeed, in fact this horrible "mod" has inspired me to think in my own mod!!
0:12 They're not only mocking their own games but making Portal references in the process too.
In entropy zero 2
Fun Fact: Cinematic Mod takes MORE than this game at around 90 Gigs.
2:42 It's like that in Opposing Force as well. Really says all you need to know when they rip something off and don't bother fixing a glaring issue they inherited from doing so all while adding new ones in only 5 minutes of gameplay
They do move their mouths though. (In Opposing Force)
"the parkour animations are good" proceeds to show the model's fingers getting deformed while holding onto the edge
I wonder what sort of nuclear powered workstation they had to produce models with 2 billion polygons
Can you playthrough more of OWF please? There are some great improvements to parts of the game and the finally is handled differently too. PS, the reason why the smg grenades are missing textures in the owf version is because M3SA accidentally released the work in progress model of the SMG into the current version of the game.
"Hopefully the studio learned from this, and wont make the same mistakes."
The guy directing the project, who was more or less to blame for 99% of the problems with the game, literally got hired by EA shortly after and works in a management role currently.
Really??
These are the kind of people who should be in prison and not working in companies.
Can't say I'm surprised...
Honestly, an inventory in a Source game sounds like a pretty interesting idea. It just needs to be more interesting than a slightly more annoying version of Half Life 2's weapon selection. Like for example, maybe the inventory can be used to store stuff like suppressors which can be attached to weapons, or perhaps allow you to store healthkits if you can't use them at the point you find them.
So... just make it like from Minecraft's inventory system?
@@ArjunTheRageGuy minecraft's system is more indepth than this lol
@@spookson5679 oh... didn't know that
or maybe a system where you can only have 1 weapon of each type?
@@southernbrain691 Honestly, I don't think implementing something like that would be a good idea, a lot of people would probably not like it.
Might be able to work with some good balancing between later game and earlier game weaponry tho...
excellent video, i'm glad the HDTF Wiki proved to be useful in terms of finding out about the extra builds despite it being WIP; not to mention disclosing that there are multiple different builds, especially the OWF Build considering that is one that is currently being worked on and making decent strides in updating and upgrading the game
One question: do you think HDTF will have a SEX update?
@@Nahobussyino imagine if Mitchell gets a FULLY MODELED attachment, lol
@@HDTFCentral YESSS
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HDTF’s development was basically one guy (Berkan Denizyran) commissioning a bunch of mappers, coders, SFM animators and then not paying them and they had to entertain Berkan’s shitty vision the whole time which explains the WHERES THE MONEY tag. the developers are now left with a shit pile abandoned by its original creator when he pissed off to Activision which explains the elements that show they hate it tbh
One person told us something important, UNINSTALLING
thanks random youtuber that has 66.8k subscribers and likes half life!
HDTF has been out for five years? Fuck I feel old
As someone I can't remember the name right now once said: "you really have to work very hard to break the Source Engine"
Im binging your channel. Your monotone tone is so funny, I love it HAHA
2:45 Im sorry but this is a normal thing in the army drill insturctors like shouting at recruits
LamWarp quality content! The amount of memes in every video is just perfect! I'm looking forward to the next video.
Hi, LamWarp! Good to see you again!
As the Multiplayer Lead and Senior Technical Artist for HDTF, I honestly appreciate your feedback and it gave me a few critiques to improve on moving forward
the game actually looks like it has a good storyline, but if the devs started working on it again to patch it up it would be actuall a great game.
>0:58 To put in perspective, Monsterverse Godzilla has just 400000 polygons.
>6:32 The Virgin Interactive Movie GOW:R Vs Hunt Down The Chadman
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>13:40 This sounds like a challenge.
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I like how there is a Kar 98k rifle in this game for some reason. It just seems so out of place with the other weapons.
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Skill Issue 3: u'r a scrub
Skill Issue 4: uninstall
Skill Issue 5: Copium inhaled
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2:26 but i think there's a reason for it and thats because if you know the intro screen of the game at 3:28. Well futher into last level if you died there you will seen a cutscene where Adrian Sepherd (the one as main protagonist in Opposing Force) appeared there.
I heard that Berkaan (or what is his name) said that the member supposed to upload the game to steam mistakenly uploaded a poor experimental version and that it is completely different from what their final product. something like this, and they didn't realize it until they watched streams in twitch and saw something completely different from what their final product. that's what the leader of the project said so idk, also a lot of people accused and wanted them to be pursued for stealing assets but turned out it was false accusation. and don't forget those (like I hate everything) who blamed and put all hate on the developer after they actually appeared in the game credits.
If hunt down the Freeman does improve,I'll think it will be given a mixed rating.
What the hell, this was a good video, CZcams didn't recommend it to me when you put it up.. shame on them
Hunt down the freeman? More like hunt down the refund
Btw lamwarp what is the song that plays at 6:34
I don’t expect you to respond but if you do then that would be cool
If you're talking about the funny sounding one, it's called 216.mp4
@@LamWarp thanks!
I really enjoy this channel whenever it post a vid, keep up the great work!
Gotta correct you: Freeman does actually appear in the current build, at the end of Ravenholm part.
I don't see anyone mention one of the two endings. Not only does Freeman appear, but SEVERAL FREEMEN appear in the "bad" ending. Unless they removed that ending from the latest build.
I remember you having like 2k followers. Never spoke. Now here you are, speaking and doing more than HL1 mods lmao
Do you know any good half life 2 fan mades with Adrian Shepherd?
Freeman does appears in the game twice his firts apperance is in where u are in a tunnel and after a a few minutes of walk U come accros a hole above u and then freeman drives torught the hole with a buggy the second one is when U die at the last stand you meet with freeman
7:56 Stand on what the floor. Peak level editing.
12:00 I just laughed so hard I accidentally woke the neighbor 😂
1:45 Half Life Alyx is a Valve game with 67.3GB size.
12:32 Freeman does appears at the end of ravenholm map lmao, but that's the only time you see him.
13:29 I played the game on hard difficulty and I had to switch to god mode in order finish the factory level in Act 2.
Well made video btw.
At least Half-Life Alyx doesn't have 40+ GB of SFM footage.
All the cons aside , props to the developer for making the game despite consist of large cons , they can improve over time in the future
Everyone on CZcams needs to have at least one HDTF video. You certainly delivered.
I mean, The Community knows that this is the worst Half-Life game along side with HL: Source
I disagree with all the HL:S hate. It a direct port from GoldSource with no real checks, but I’ve a lot of fun with how wonky the whole thing is. Disappointing from the perspective from what was expected? Yes. But it’s nowhere near the level of be that HDTF is.
@@Memoquin I can Respect that Dude.
If you have fun with the game, That's all it ever at the end of the day.
I can watch this all day. My first video i ve seen from you is half life source is a bad remaster. When i watched, i changed my favourite youruber. Keep up the good work. (Sry for bad english. I m from romania)😊
"But anyways... bye!"
I love how this always sudden and unpredictable
2:30 I see what you mean. It feels like one of those liminal spaces photos
I hope HDTF Are Fixed amd no frikn much cutscene like the other games do and if you (devs)wanna fixed the game you should start cutting long map and put enemies on it so its get the adventure like hl 2 ,Make the instruction just like EZ2 like when you spotted new obstacles random text with instruction appear
6:32 is actually funny
You fucked up my face. I literally shat and cried at that moment. 100/10, would recommend and buy 2 times.
0:34 que grande Ibai, hasta LamWarp lo utiliza
thank god waited for an vid of u 🔥🔥🔥 keep it up 💪
2 billion polygons for the same game where it takes a year to climb pipes
If they ever manage to fix HDTF I'm pretty sure it will be humanity greatest achievement since the moon landing in 1969
"I haven't heard a valve game that takes up 40+Gb space"
It's strange that you haven't heard of Alyx
Made me mad that this game was built on Half Life 2 and tried to rip off Metal Gear Solid, without learning any of the good qualities of those two games, not the intuitiveness, subtle worldbuilding of HL, not the writing and quirks of MGS.
Ah yes, HDTF,
“You f**cked up my face!”
(I feel like HDTF is a fanfic)
The way you talk just fits perfectly with some of your sarcastic comments, I'm not gonna lie.
yo new vid, i love videos from this channel
I think hunt down the Freeman is a seven hour war game
I always click so fast on HDTF videos. I've never even played the game I just love hearing people dunk on it.
They could’ve had an introductory cutscene but I think after that the game should’ve had all cutscenes in game.
If they really wanted to include cutscenes, they should have done something like HL2 where you still have limited control over your character.
You can understand it's MESA Build because map names includes "_mesa" in the name. Edited ones of the maps.
i still love the fact that Keemstar is the VA of the US president
Instead of actually fixing the mod, they just got extremely meta about it.
They did make improvements
President KeemStar’s speech should’ve been the infamous “Alex is a silly person” rant.
4:26 I swear, the misspelling of "Mechanics" as "Mekanix" sounds like some company name lol
Now that I said it, I bet there will be some company that will use that name that I mentioned
the achievement of this game when you started it should just be called "fucked up my face"
@@LamWarp.. NAH THERE'S NOW LAMWARP SCAM COMMENTS
buddy you're playing the owf version of hdtf there's a 2018 version in the betas section and you'll see THE TRUE EXPIRIENCE WITH HDTF
Did you watch the whole video...
@@LamWarp no of course and will never watch the whole video so leave me alone
@@science_dude_hl2 In the second half I literally pointed out the other builds...
@@LamWarp ok
1:28 Bro guys stop complaining about our bugs, look at Black Mesa. Their Vending machines are filled of those dam critters
10:45 That face thing will forever haunt me. I wish I didn't see it.
it's kinda so bad that it's good
......in my opinion
just because it's kinda a meme
especially the cutscenes
also......idk why they used sfm to make cutscenes, i mean i get it, it's made in the source engine, we need cutscenes to match up with gameplay but it fills up to much unnecessary space cause if the sfm file conversion, literally a 1 sec animation takes up at least 3GB
I don't agree. I have more than 120 hours in game. I love characters, cutscenes, and animations. I like Mitchell much more than Gordon freeman.
Ive been waiting for this for so long. I love these kinda videos from you, like the half life, OF & BS & decay, black mesa, source etc
The fact that this video came out an hour ago and it still has tons of comments
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Sorry I paused the video, what were you sayin ?
New video is here almost checked every videos and non of them disappoint me
30 seconds after I bought this game, I refunded it because it was 40 gb. Ik I should have read the description to see how much space it has, but I've not seen any source engine game with this amount of space required
You need to try Zhalflife which is a mod for gta 5 that imports half life movement into gta 5
5:44 is an unintentionally creepy liminal space, because it is so without purpouse
Don't save while on a vehicle , If you load a Save file (With Vehicle) It crashes your game
Another banger bruv!
*You scar up my face* sounds so familiar, I wonder that came from.
great video like always, thank you ❤
Nah man, the cutscenes was literally an mobile add vs the game 💀
5 years later and people are still making videos on it?
That's how you know a game is g̶o̶o̶d̶ memorable.
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It's just so memorable and deserves it's hate
2:42 that applies to the og hl of too