Why are Half Life’s SFX SO Funny?

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About 3 years ago “Half-Life SFX” videos started really popping off. People would take the sound effects from 1998’s Half-Life and dub them over movies, TV shows, cartoons and cat videos. There is a reason these videos are so funny and in this video I break down the sound effects to try and find out why.

OTHER LINKS:
My cover of Hazardous Environments (The Valve Theme) by Kelly Bailey - soundcloud.com/simon-zinzovski/hazardous-environments-cover

Some original, Half-Life inspired, music I made for this video - soundcloud.com/simon-zinzovski/half-life-type-beat

Kelly Bailey's interview with The Gaming Library - web.archive.org/web/20111229022934/http://thegamingliberty.com/index.php/2011/08/26/creating-a-mute-icon-ex-valves-kelly-bailey-talks-gordon-freeman/

A more in depth video explaining digital audio by David MacDonald (well worth watching if you are interested in nerdy audio things) -
   • Sample Rate, Bit Depth, Bit Rate, and...  

‪@Hellmord‬ 's channel (which has more Half-Life SFX videos on it) -    / @hellmord  

Get tf out (the Test Chamber) by ‪@googleygareth‬   • Get tf out (the Test Chamber)  

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:29 Sample Rate
01:53 Bit Depth
02:49 Why LoFi audio is cool
03:48 Artistic Intention
05:25 Example 1 - Black Mesa Transit System
05:57 Example 2 - Rocket Launch
06:42 Example 3 - XEN
07:28 World Building
08:10 Conclusion

#halflife #sfx