The History of Goldsrc Games

ah yes gold source you know that one engine that's a primary source of gold for valve i get it made in 1998 when valve just liquefied the quake engine so hard that it could do skeletal animations in 1998. indeed it was an engine that was ahead of its time so advanced that to this day you still can't even load up two games that run on gold source because otherwise your computer will straight up explode for having to process the extreme amount of detail and complex environments that gold source can produce truly a masterpiece now i guarantee a couple of you will think that gold source was only used to make half-life 1 and counter-strike 1.6 well what if i tell you that you're wrong it was actually to make quite a few games what i'm gonna do is look back at all the games that run on gold source i'm specifically going to look at the games that have licensed the gold source engine i just used it because they're about a million mods that use gold source and this video would be 50 hours long if i looked at them as well i'm gonna look at the games listed on the wikipedia page for gold source because it literally lists them all and don't worry this list is pretty much the same as the one from the half-life fandom and combine overwiki page so hopefully i won't be offending some die hard fans that are ready to cancel with the press of a button so let's go from the oldest to the newest first half-life one made in 1998. okay i don't really have to explain this one at all but i'll give you the 20-second overview half-life the game where every guard and scientist looks the same and the game where one of the guards owes you a beer that you never get catch me later i'll buy you a beer you start at work and cause an alien invasion in the first 10 minutes so then you shoot your way through the smaller zombies of aliens then go to the aliens world and shoot the big boy alien that was bringing in the smaller ones you finish them off with a clean head shots and explodes in front of you as a reward there's a dude offers you a job that if you accept leaves you in the middle of literal nowhere and if you refuse lets you die even better and despite this game being made 24 years ago there's still an average of 400 people a day playing it nice then sven co-op which i also made a video on comparing it to half-life this started as a half-life mod that let you play the half-life story cooperatively hence the name it stayed as a mod for a long time but then was released on steam when the team got a license to gold source but despite it being a mod you don't need half-life to play it so if you have zero dollars you can experience half-life like this there's not much to say about it you can just play half-life with your boys only big difference is a slightly more updated engine because the team actually keeps updating it and the weapons look different it adds new ones as well that i said were made in 8k ultra hd they added other ones as well and some pay-to-win ones as well maps are combined giving you less loading screens and because co-op the enemies are slightly stronger so good luck if you're going solo next is team fortress classic yes the game that preceded team fortress 2 by about 8 years but unlike team fortress 2 the same cartoonish and filled with 10 million things that you have to buy and technically this is a mod for half-life 1 because the folder for it is in the half-life folder but you don't need half-life to play this so i don't know but because it's technically a mod it has the half-life look and feel like in the movement textures how old it is and how active it is some of the weapons are literally just half-life weapons there's the shotgun the pistol and even the crowbar it has the same class-based system that got transferred to tf2 same red and blue team and even the exact same classes except the classes this time look more realistic compared to this there's plenty of maps but the maps are a bit simple like 24b looking real boxy that's all right it's gold source after all tfc does work a bit differently as you can imagine you know the abilities that the classes have yeah there's no items for that like for example for the spy you have to right click to bring up a menu where you choose if you want to disguise as an enemy or a friendly you can even fake your own death to surprise someone which is a really cool mechanic this right-click menu also lets you change teams or classes message call for a medic or even discard ammo for some reason i don't know why you'd want to it's also kind of dead then half-life opposing force which i also heard in the video one so here's another 20-second overview this game was made by gearbox software in 1999. you play as adrian shepherd a soldier who failed his mission within 10 minutes so you try to escape which at first doesn't work because this is a video game but you're determined so you still continue to try to escape so just like ford and greenman you shoot your way through some smaller aliens before facing off against the bigger alien although it wasn't as big as the other one but oh well along the way you shoot some ninja looking people and you also catch a glimpse of the free man jumping into a portal if you feel rebellious or you really want to accomplish your original mission you can jump in after him and finally kill him even if it means creating a paradox who cares this game is basically just more half-life i mean how could you go wrong with that ricochet came out in 2000 but unfortunately is literally dead like i'm talking zero players total this is more or less like a fun party game that's a relatively easy to get them you're in an arena that's in i don't know where the [ __ ] the arena is comprised of these small platforms with arrows on them if you step on the arrows you fly to another platform but there's no jumping and don't fall off because otherwise and since this is a gold source game you can air strafe to a different platform if you want the zero people on the server to know that you're an expert at this you shoot these the discs that can knock people off but you can only shoot three and you have to wait until your discs disappear before you can shoot more you can also right click which uses all three of your shots to make a super shot i guess it plays this epic sound so you know it's good right there's also barriers where your blades can ricochet off see that's why this game is called that and there's also some power ups like free shots which raises people fast shots which lets you shoot more blades faster triple shot which makes you shoot three blades or power shots which he does more knockback as it does i don't know i can't really find out but that's literally it that's the whole game good luck playing it though now counter-strike like the original one it's very different from global offensive it started as another mod for half-life are you starting to see a trend you play as either terrorists or counter-terrorists and for some reason the counter-terrorists have to buy guns with their own money good job unnamed agency counter-strike plays very differently from half-life movement is really different guns now have spray patterns and movement and accuracy the bomb looks like a brick and huge crosshairs so you don't even know where your shots are going to go there's a big variety of weapons but you'll only be seeing the ak m4 deagle or the op because again this is counter strike you also have to buy ammo because otherwise just buying a weapon gives you only one clip which i always forget to do also this game has more players than counter-strike source which i guess is probably because of nostalgia and maybe it's because i'm more used to counter-strike on the source engine but i absolutely suck at this game like i can easily get 2 kills 50 deaths by trying to do the opposite that's no problem for me for some reason there is not many english servers there is lots of spanish and russian of course you can't forget that gunman chronicles is another half-life mod actually first it was a quake mod and then they switched it to quake 2 and then they switched it again to a half-life and then it got released as its own game but i've never played it so i don't know what it's about so give me a second okay i did a little bit of research so i think i might have an idea so in the game you play as this dude that's part of the gunman you go to this planet and a lot of people get stranded but you escape some years later you go back to the planet to investigate something but now you instead have to take out this dude who was one of the people that got stranded and he's a snowflake i guess because he wants to kill everyone that got him stranded making him villain number 420. as you can probably tell this game is set in the future like far future the level design is pretty nice custom weapons custom enemies really good mod remember made in ghost stores by the way deathmatch classic is just valve's recreation of quake there's five years more modern instead just like quake there's a jumping sound because you gotta have that the weapons are the exact same they almost even look of the same except instead of an axe like in quake you have the crowbar because this is a valve game i think they also ported some of the maps from quake so it truly is quake and gold source oh did i also mention that this game is just as dead as ricochet yep also zero players so enjoy running around the map looking at the wonderful geometry of 2001 sadly you can't jump into the world blue shift i already made a video it's half-life from the perspective of barney calhoun instead you try to escape black mesa by finding a scientist going to zen because you have guns of course and you actually escape unlike gordon and adrian who are stalked by g-man actually i don't think you see j-man at all during blue shift so sorry barney you're not important it doesn't have the same features as opposing force like clammable ropes which is fine because those ropes are weird sometimes and there's no final boss and it's not as long but it's still fun at least the game adds some contrast to the orange and green finally finishing the rgb color space decay is yet another expansion pack for half-life that kinda got forgotten most importantly this one was made for the playstation 2 but there is a pc port so i'd rather play that because um yeah no in decay you play as gina and colette oh yeah i forgot to mention that decay is co-op just like sven co-op except it's not at all like seven co-op and only two people can play not 30. however because dk is co-op uh yeah i can't really play it so i don't know what the heck it's about all i know is that a disaster happens of course except now it's from the perspective of gina and colette and this might be only on the pc port but i can't even load in other maps to see what it's about because if i try the game jabates you and tells you they have to complete them in order so the game is self-aware that ain't good now this next one is weird all gold source games have been half-life derivatives counter-strike and some other team fortress type games but in 2002 eurocom and a bunch of others apparently gearbox included made james bond 007 nightfire yes this is a gold source game surprisingly this is unlike any other valve type game so this probably got undershadowed by everything else i haven't played the entire game so i don't know what the story is but you can probably expect some sci-fi bs because this is a james bond game after all yep sure can and surprisingly this game still holds the gold source movement feeling and the look you can add a silencer to your pistol like that one gun in team fortress and it even has the same looking sniper scope like in counter-strike this also has multiplayer which i can reasonably guess is dead and this took me forever to figure out how to download from a non-secure website perfect day of defeat which i also made a video on it's another class-based game this time even more realistic than team fortress set in world war ii you play as the access and allies and you have to capture all the points to win just like in battlefield you can play something boring like a rifleman or something cooler like a stormtrooper which unintentionally gives you garbage aim because you have to play the part and not cause a paradox sprinting is pointless you can only sprint for two microseconds and don't give me any automatic weapon because i'll be at the bottom of the scoreboard as you can probably guess by most of these gold source games this one is also slightly dead but not completely sorry deathmatch classic you will not be remembered some servers do have bots so you have that going for you condition zero is that one counter-strike game that everyone ignored because it was released at the worst possible time right before counter-strike source you can think of it as a slightly updated counter-strike 1.6 it includes all the normal 1.6 maps but also new versions of some maps designed for condition zero the ones for condition zero look a bit cleaner in my opinion and sometimes very different like dust 2 looks very different the guns also look different they're a bit higher quality i think and the knife holding position is completely different which i don't like for some reason and remember when i said that it was kind of ignored yeah not many people are playing it which is sad because this game probably had some potential but that's no problem because condition 0 has single player yeah you heard me right although there's no story it's just normal counter-strike games with bots instead and you just have to complete challenges yes i know deleted scenes exists but that's different you can even choose what bots you want with points you earn and they help you in your tour of duty good stuff neo the arcade japanese counter-strike i don't know clearly someone wanted it i've heard it uses a slightly modified gold source but it's still just like counter-strike 1.6 in its mechanics clearly this is also sci-fi from the way some of the player models look and anime themed because this is japan we're talking about but even though the player models are from the year 4000 they still don't have any crazy energy weapons they instead still use generic counter-strike weapons that seem to have their models and animations ripped straight from counter-strike source so i don't know where their budget went to there's no terrorists and counter-terrorists instead the teams are the csf or cosmopolitan special forces and neo which is just neo i don't know if this is true but the fandom page says it had a matchmaking and elo system seven years before global offensive was made so i guess these guys were the real innovation counter strike online was made by valvin nexson and it's essentially just free-to-play counter-strike even their website says so there's a few versions there's a taiwan version china version and indonesian slash malaysian singapore version and a japanese version so this was probably the competitor to counter-strike neo i can't play it though because the chinese version asks for an id that i don't have the taiwan version sends you a bogus verification email the sign up page for the indonesian version doesn't exist i guess and the japanese version says they shut down in 2019 so yeah the download links for the different pages led to nowhere as well except for taiwan so i downloaded it and installed it not on my actual computer i did it in a vm because i don't want 30 million potential viruses and this is the launcher so it's immediately clear that there's no way i'm going to play this i wonder why these buttons are useless by the way they send you to either login pages or ads i guess remember this is counter strike we're talking about so since i can't show you i don't know how the game looked all there is are some pictures of what looks to be a buy menu yeah that's pretty much it cry of fear started as a half-life mod but just like selling co-op the team behind it got a license to the gold source engine and released it on steam as its own game when you first play this game it looks nothing like ghost source it looks like it was made in source instead but nope it wasn't this game looks amazing for a gold source game which could probably explain the four years it took to make now i'm not going to explain the whole story because that'll take an hour and i don't want to spoil it for the one person who still hasn't played it and that person just so happens to be me so i couldn't even tell you the story you play as simon henriksen who at the very start gets wrecked by a car i guess that driver had one too many drinks you then wake up in a dark alley you know like you normally do your whole objective through the game is to get home and that's all i know so you remember counter-strike online well nexon most likely shut that down so they made counter-strike nexon studio which is on steam now i faintly remember it being called counter-strike nexon zombies when i played this like four or five years ago but now it's this launching the game brings you to the start menu which is in this square resolution that you can't change only when you get into a game does it go to a normal resolution and surprisingly there are still some players the first game i joined was a gun game type mode and i don't know if it's just this lobby but the bots would talk nonstop what was even better was my amazing ping because i'm probably connecting to a server in north korea in general though this game is basically just counter-strike 1.6 but they threw in 200 extra things like player models maps and weapons it has the normal counter-strike weapons but also some crazy ones like what the what is this what is that i also checked out zombie mode which is apparently recommended and that was exactly what you'd expect based on what i just told you so that stops there that's also where new gold source games stop because after 2014 i doubt a normal studio would want to use an engine from what appears to be the storage and as a casual new player i wouldn't want to experience this and especially this even though i got this list from these websites i'm sure there's some gold source game that no one knows about that released five seconds before this video did like i said gold source is old so there's likely not going to be any new games on it but source however is newer and is still quite good to this day i just don't know if i want to do the history of that because oh no but anyways bye [Music] you

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Length: 17min 50sec (1070 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 29 2022