Dario Casali just dropped some videos about his time developing Half-Life.

Dario Casali just dropped some videos about his time developing Half-Life.

  1. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I was interested until I saw he was talking about Training Course. No thank you fucking snooze city. I'll check in if he keeps doing them.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Emphasis on videos.

      He also has a play through of him going through Plutonia 26 years after the fact.

  2. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    cool

  3. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >I'll check in if he keeps doing them.
    The first gameplay clip of him playing is from much further in the game. Safe to assume he has recorded much more than just this you dunce.

  4. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Love dev commentaries, simple as

  5. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder Half Life 1 is insanely overrated

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I just enjoy developer commentaries. Even for games I've never played. There's a good one from two guys that worked on Escape From Monster Manor.

      He was the main coder for it. In other videos he goes over the differences between the 3DO and the Playstation and how they handled 3D since there were some games that were on both consoles.

  6. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >Casali combat encounter design
    >the room is filled with trash mobs
    >there's a boss or two who act as the main threat as they try to plow through the mobs trying to get to you, but it's bait because if you focus mobs too much you'll have a harder time dealing with bosses, and the reason for that is...
    >there's always an annoying sniping enemy sitting somewhere in a spot overlooking the entire place who are the actual threat #1, but you can't get to them easily
    >as a result it forces you to juggle and come up with solutions on the spot, crisis management and emergent gameplay is the name of the game
    Their levels are always a highlight in any game.

  7. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >In another timeline Half-life could've been called Fallout or Crysis

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Athromorphic Extermination goes hard.
      Also:
      >Dirt
      >Trash
      >Death
      >Edge
      >Bent
      >Lead
      I am so glad none of these got picked. Imagine playing Bent 2: Episode 1.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        I can't wait for Trash 2: Episode 3

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Pipe 2: Alyx

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      C.I.A sounds like a big game.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I like Unstable Element

  8. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Any other good developer commentaries?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      The conker's bad fur day one is alright.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        I was actually trying to remember a good one to go along with my post, turns out it was the CBFD one. Not a big Halo fan but this one seems pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhzeV57bNtQ

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know of any play by play commentary tracks along with the game but Ars Technica has a host of "behind the scenes" videos focused on games that are pretty interesting. The Crash Bandicoot one was real neato.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I remember their being a good one for ratchet and clank going commando, they talk about how shitty grelbin and the YETI are

  9. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not super familiar with the names of old devs so I looked him up, which then ended up sending me down a hell of a rabbit hole
    >dario and milo are the sons of the lady who made those stupid "Love is..." comics
    >milo is the first(?) baby to be born from posthumous artificial insemination (his father died of cancer but stored some sperm beforehand in case he couldn't get the mother pregnant before he died)
    >the newspaper for the vatican called it "against evangelical morality."
    >milo has gone on to do level design for operation raccoon city and watch dogs legion
    what the fuck

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I know the casalis because of the plutonia experiment. fuck them and fuck their fetish for chaingunners

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Wait until you read about American McGee's life story

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        I ought to check that out.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        that one I do know. he never found his sister, right?

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          I haven't heard of a sister. If he had one it's not mentioned on his wikipedia page.

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous
            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              Damn, McGee just has no luck when it comes to family matters.

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                yeah and I like his latest happening was he funded a full pitch bible for an alice sequel and submitted it to ea as a last attempt. not even asking ea for funding, but just to let him license the title. and they hit him with the "our IPs are very important to us, so no we will not license it". so now alice is dead dead

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                *I think his
                it's hard to type with one hand while also dealing with an angry kitten

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, finding that out right after I played American McGee's Alice for the first time was not a good experience.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      The Casalis are behind the DOOM expansion and fucking Revenants everywhere.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        The Vatican tried to save us from revenant spam

  10. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Did he talk shit about it or something?

  11. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >that pic of the two dev teams
    I've seen game jams with more devs wow

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >game jams with more devs
      Let me guess. To give each individual NPCs in the game special flags and pronouns?

  12. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Friendly reminder Dario Casali babyrages in TF2:

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      At the start of the video he has a compilation of him raging about playing poorly.

  13. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    How do you get this kind of chad genetics?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      look at that schnozz

  14. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

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