Half-Life: Alyx – Cane and Rinse no.657

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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"We just gotta get to the vault, get the weapon, kick the Combine off Earth — super easy — and they're — and there's sandwiches, there's gonna be sandwiches…" The oft-cited standard bearer of VR gaming. Half-Life: Alyx offered gamers near total immersion in the Half-Life universe when many were experiencing the first Covid-19 lockdown. The game carried the weight of being the first Half-Life game in 13 years and the reason to purchase a Valve Index headset. Did it bear up under that weight? http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_657.mp3 Music featured in this issue: 1. Exposing Hostile (Trailer Music) by Mike Morasky2. HIRE by Mike Morasky edited by Jay TaylorYou can support Cane and Rinse and in return receive an often extended version of the podcast four weeks early, along with exclusive podcasts, if you subscribe to our Patreon for the minimum of $2 per month (+VAT). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	The Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Rince podcast, Volume 13, Issue 657.
0:39.6	Today, Don, your head craps, head craps, head craps, what am I saying, head crabs?
0:46.4	Traffic cones, whatever it takes, it's Half-Life Alex.
0:51.2	And joining me, Chris Worthington in issue 657 are the Darren Gargette.
0:57.4	Hello. Hello.
0:59.4	The James Carter.
1:01.2	Hi.
1:02.7	And the Ryan Zhao.
1:04.6	The last free man over here.
1:07.3	Nicely done.
1:08.7	Right. Before we say anything else, I'm going to sound the claxon this is your
1:13.4	one and only spoiler warning we are going to be talking about the plot in some detail later but
1:19.4	i've just got a sneaky feeling that some of the very spoilable aspects of this game are
1:24.8	going to come out early in the conversation. So be warned,
1:28.4	if you've not played Half-Life Alex and you just think it's some side story which has no bearing
1:34.5	on the Half-Life franchise, think again. This game is very spoilable and if you, if you proceed,
1:41.2	proceed at your own risk. If you do want to play it, and you can now play it without a VR headset,
1:46.8	go off and do so and then come back to us.
1:49.9	But if you do want to proceed or you have already played it,
1:52.4	then here we go.
1:54.5	We're about to get into it.
1:57.0	So this from the official Half-Life website,
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