"this isn't an intended way to play the game!!!"
you have completely destroyed my argument

everything appears twice?
finally,
full life

I think the worst way to play Half Life is while blind and deaf.

At times this feels like a haunted creepypasta copy of Half-Life, and at other times, it feels like a comedy mod

Because of the nature of the ported GoldSrc maps, the training does not rely on completing specific actions to advance. You can complete the entire hazard course without ever gaining the HEV suit, because it's not connected to the door, the trigger around it is. The delay is so the HEV plays its introductory voice lines.

"worst" my ass, this is peak half life.

2:20 The game was in such a sad state that even Gina Cross' hologram attempts to hang herself just to escape the torture.

6:23 I half expected "Node graph out of date. Rebuilding".

I like the idea that Gordon was so late to the experiment the train left without him so he needed to grab an HEV suit from somewhere first and then just walk on monorails all the way to the testing lab

10:47
This is why Black Mesa posed such a threat to Aperture, they had break dancing parties for their staff so wild even the soldiers had to stop and join in.

The entity duplication thing with HL:DM Source is actually the worst thing, like I used to play it with my brother, and our matches on Stalkyard would devolve into me hiding getting stuck inside a crate because the "door"(?) would duplicate and prevent me from leaving, then immediately being obliterated with SMG grenades.

Needless to say, when I convinced him to use the original Half-Life for deathmatch, the experience became a lot more enjoyable.

5:00 literally backshots

My god the tutorial levels are a work of art. Fascinating to see it struggle to load all of this; it’s like the game equivalent of moving all your furniture slightly to the left

The utterly deadpan “can YOUR game engine do that” killed me

Everything that happens is always the last thing I expect to happen.

8:14 casually enters simbiosis with a fellow scientist

10:49 someone needs to put this to music immediately.

10:44 "Let me break it down for you Mr. Freeman"

4:16 Even the door is begging for this ordeal to be over with…

no wonder why gordon was so late to work.