Why are Half Life’s SFX SO Funny?

MY LINKS My Patreon -   / simonzinzovski   My Website - https://www.simonzinzovski.com My Soundcloud - soundcloud.com/simon-zinzovski 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 You(...   ‪@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