The Game You Cannot Escape - Half Life & Black Mesa Retrospective & History

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"Gordon Freeman in the flesh. Or rather, in the Hazard Suit"

Today we are taking on a big one - the crazed story of Valve's first masterpiece - the shooter that changed a genre and an industry - HALF LIFE

We're not only going to unpick the crazy story of it's development, explore it's incredible legacy and discuss it's highly controversial ending - but also trace it's descendants - strange expansions, baffling mods, unlikely ports and one of the most enthralling remakes ever made.

It's part critique, part retrospective, part review and part history lesson - obviously full of spoilers and obviously full of my opinions

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Source and Bibliography - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DSin8t16dMqC01lheGs4ggJfWtSjzt4zFo-muvlxnZ8

=== Chapters ===

00:00:00 – Rutherford and Freeman 00:04:14 – Building Black Mesa 00:18:05 – That Legendary First Hour 00:27:19 – A Message from our Benefactors 00:28:24 – More Than Just A Shooter 00:38:52 – Half Life vs Repetition 00:49:00 – Quite A Nasty Piece of Work 01:00:08 – Under New Management 01:10:58 – The Absurd Expanded Universe 01:23:38 – How Half Life Broke Free (From Everyone) 01:33:43 – Welcome Back to Black Mesa 01:43:00 – Welcome Back to Xen 01:54:24 – The Game You Cannot Escape

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