Wow... Very nice find yourhydra.. I don't think you'll have that P on your name long!

I certainly hope not! Yeah as a HUGE Half Life fan I love the direction this is going in. Beautiful, especially for a guerrilla film. Looking forward to part two.

HOLY SHIT...this is insane.

Amazing work indeed. I predict this going to #1, because with the work they've done and the attention to detail these guys definitely deserve it.

Fun fact - panorama footage of "City17" at approx. 0:40 is that of Riga, Latvia, which is, incidentally, my home town. Hadn't noticed the Citadel as of yet, though.

^ ^ When they start dumping off trainloads of nondescript people speaking american-accented english, start worrying.

Extremely early find. 190 views here, 205 on YT

Very nice - obviously resourceful people

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

hmmmm ... (taps fingers on desk wondering about the scent of this post) a slight whiff of ... subterfuge.

WOW

my girlfriend actually knows these guys, and knowing that I play half life she'd been telling me about this project for a while. So as soon as they put it up she made sure to send me a link and i made sure to share the wealth

Give these guys a full budget and let them produce a full length series of Half-Life based films.

Edit: and go watch it in HD on YouTube.

This is just fantastic, kudos to them

Wow...first rate for an indie film. It wouldn't surprise me if Valve snatched these guys up and used them to create FMV cutscenes for HL3, hearkening back to the early days of PC gaming.

*promote - let's see if we can get this to #1, shall we?

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AWESOME. It's about damn time. I don't know how HL hasn't had a movie yet but Gears of War is already lined up for one.

Great video! Literally gave me goosebumps.

But seriously, like $200 for the video camera and $300 for the video editing software.

MOAR! NAOH!!

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>> ^southblvd:
AWESOME. It's about damn time. I don't know how HL hasn't had a movie yet but Gears of War is already lined up for one.

I'd think Valve don't want to f*ck up/sell out the franchise. Didn't you see Max Payne?

>> ^EDD:
Didn't you see Max Payne?


Nope, not yet.

I understand, though. Valve really has something great going for them, so maybe a video like this would work best.

Yeah crowbar!

How kickass would be a full on Half-life 2 movie?

great little film, look forward to seeing the rest. looks very nice

there is a reason HL hasn't been made into a film. Valve, like the rest of know that there are NO good films based on games, not one. Therefore it's entirely likely that a HL film will suck donkey balls, it shouldn't, HL is brilliantly told story, but a film.. well the odds are definately against it being good!

I think HL has one of the most natural fits for a movie. It should definitely tell the story of Gordon Freeman, but make him a total cypher to start out, and have his character be truly blank and laconic. The biggest mistake they could make would be trying to round out his character by use of flashbacks or exposition. Even worse would be if they tried to tie Freeman's involvement with the Black Mesa incident to Freeman's own past before the incident. Like if they pulled a George Lucas and made it so that the G-Man knew Gordon Freeman's father, and Gordon had been subtly manipulated into a post-apocalyptic messiah since conception. That would be stupid, typical Hollywood not-getting-it.

This is *awesome*, even more so given the independence of the film.

Good luck to these guys as I'd pay to see this.

passing this one around the office for sure. wewt!

I would think the best HL/HL2 movie would not be centered on Freeman at all. Much like Opposing Force and Blue Shift centered on background characters, having the movie tell a different story of the same world would work. JJ Abrahms or Joss Whedon please.

Technically impressive, and not to take away from that, but am I the only one who thought it was really damned boring? I like my stories to have some story in them.

http://www.purchasebrothers.com/Purchase-Brothers-v2-hl1.html

$500 dollars to make plus $8600 in cracked software. So, not exactly what I'd call the "purchase" brothers.

xax i think the story will be brought out in the next ones. this one seemed to be all about exposition. *stares at pretty citadel*

So *dark, it's made by guys from Toronto, *Canada. Valve is so impressed it's one of the updates when you launch Steam this weekend.

>> ^netean:
great little film, look forward to seeing the rest. looks very nice
there is a reason HL hasn't been made into a film. Valve, like the rest of know that there are NO good films based on games, not one. Therefore it's entirely likely that a HL film will suck donkey balls, it shouldn't, HL is brilliantly told story, but a film.. well the odds are definately against it being good!


That's why they should get THESE guys to make it!

>> ^ant:
http://www.purchasebrothers.com/Purchase-Brothers-v2-hl1.html


Way to go ant, you killed them.

"This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. "

But seriously, looks like their hosting service shut them off for the mega-traffic spike they must be enjoying. Silly hosting company should've cut a deal for advertising on their hosting service in exchange for a cap amnesty. <shrug>

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Great movie, although I'm a bit suspicious about the $500 expenditure they put on it.. Nevertheless, I will definitely be watching the next one. I love the half life series =)

Fantastic! But where's my episode 3?!

Huh, I checked out the hosting company - it's sketchy. www,hostmds,com/?id=vistapages

I munged up the URL there b/c I don't want to send you to it - it's a pain to back out of that window - 'a "live operator" wants to offer you a deal' before you leave. Ugh. I want out, I WANT OUT.

Plus, the site claims unlimited transfers, and yet Purchase Bros failed. Did they not pay the $4.95?

>> ^budzos:


Have you played HL2: Episode 2? I'm not sure that would be inconsistent with the logic of the HL2 universe. It would have to be done subtly and carefully, but that's not beyond the G-Man's ken.

That said, they won't do it. Besides the problem of converting any video game to Hollywood, Valve has made it explicit that any (male) player is supposed to be able to project himself on Gordon with minimal difficulties. Valve has explicitly said that this is why you can't see your feet and why there are no mirrors in City 17. For similar reasons, you only see the heroine of Portal briefly and in profile.

Way to go ant, you killed them.
"This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. "
But seriously, looks like their hosting service shut them off for the mega-traffic spike they must be enjoying. Silly hosting company should've cut a deal for advertising on their hosting service in exchange for a cap amnesty. <shrug>
It was already dead when I posted the link. Digg killed it!

>> ^therealblankman:
Fantastic! But where's my episode 3?!


Where's episode 2? I don't see it. Or are you referring to the game?

And now the video is being advertised by valve in their own steam service!

Do yourself a favor and click through to YouTube and then click WATCH IN HD link, good stuff.

Does anyone else have issues actually watching these really HD videos on Youtube (or here) smoothly?

I'm trying this on my work PC, which is no slouch (AMD Athlon64X2 Dual core 2GHz) and a pretty new ATI PCI card... but the videos are pretty darn choppy... and yet I can watch all Quicktime HD videos with no slowdown.

Strange.

Oh, and while the look and feel of this was really nice, it demonstrates why hollywood actors are paid the big bucks... acting in any sort of way that people actually want to watch is really hard... and these guys, well, they don't have 'it'.

But technically good, just let down by the things that are needed in a 'good' film, better acting and script.

>> ^LordJimmy:
How kickass would be a full on Half-life 2 movie?


Starring Adam Savage as Gordan Freeman!!!!

Yeah, I was talking about the game. Half Life 2: Episode 3 should have been out months ago, Episode 2 came out in October, 2007!

>> ^ant:
>> ^therealblankman:
Fantastic! But where's my episode 3?!

Where's episode 2? I don't see it. Or are you referring to the game?

I yike...

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Working code.

yes jesus i replaced it 3 times now cuz they keep fixing it or something. GAWD

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Fucking amazing. Love it!

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