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    Half-Life 2

    Game » consists of 18 releases. Released Nov 16, 2004

    Several years after the Black Mesa disaster, Gordon Freeman awakens from stasis to aid a resistance movement against the Combine, a collective of trans-dimensional aliens that have conquered Earth.

    I recently finished 'remastering' all 3 of Mark Gillespie's (aka GooseGoose/GammyGoose) fantastic Half-Life 2 videos.

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    Edited By Kohlstream

    For those of you who don't know about these videos here's the video description:

    About 5 years ago a Half-Life fan named GooseGoose produced 3 critique videos of Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and Half-Life 2: Episode 2. These were well liked in the Half-Life community. GooseGoose has since disappeared from the internet, deleting his YouTube account that hosted the videos. They were still available on Google Videos for a time but has since gone with the service. Steam forum member Flamov kindly uploaded the videos to his YouTube account to keep them live on the net.

    I always enjoyed these videos but wished that the video quality was higher, especially when watching them on a nice flat screen TV. Having recently acquired a decent PC I decided to 'reshoot' the video in 1080p resolution, trying to match each shot as closely as possible. I then edited it together using the original video's audio track.

    I felt that these videos gave an interesting and unique take on the three Half-Life 2 games and thought a fun way to bring these videos to a new audience was to redo them into HD.

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    I expected these to be 10 minutes long. I have never heard of this but might give your remastered versions a watch. Thanks dude

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    @kohlstream: Oh god, these are LONG! It must have taken a lot of time to do this. I'll try to give it a look. Is it engaging to watch? Could you sell them a bit more?

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    I remember these, they're really cool. If you're a half-life fan and want some in depth views on the narrative and how the whole game compliments the story and the world, they're a good commentary. Doesn't play the whole game, but spends time talking about each section.

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    @winternet: Sure. Think of them as a 'sort of' play through of the game but edited down to a few hours. I found his perspective and own insights on the game fairly unique. As someone who had played through the games several times was surprised at how much I learnt and made me appreciate them even more. Watch the first 10 minutes or so to see if its your cup of tea.

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    @kohlstream: I'm a big fan of Half-Life games so I'm definitely interested, I was just trying to assess if it was worth to take 3 hours to watch them. Thanks anyway :)

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