>GREATEST GAME EVER >HOLY FUCK THEY ENDED IT ON THAT!?

You're too fucking young/late to have appreciated the game at the time of its release when most of the shit it did wasn't that prevalent in video games. Feel free to post examples of games that did the same thing but better around the time of its release or before.
Otherwise, you simply just didn't like the game like others. And that's fine, but there's no need to be such a pretentious, black sheep about it, like you have above average tastes.

>>383635624
>there's no need to be such a pretentious, black sheep about it, like you have above average tastes
Welcome to 4chan.

>>383635345
>Thinking his opinion matters
>13 years after the game came out
Yeah nah, you're retarded

>>383635894
Great argument. You're so cool aha.

Time for some legitimate historical perspective:

>2004
>HL2 has been teased at for years
>Valve Time in full effect, "when it's done"
>New engine that's going to make goldsrc look like the Atari 2600
>MOTHERFUCKING PHYSICS
>RISE AND SHINE MR. FREEMAN, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ASHES

Mostly it was hype for the new engine and a veritable shitton of mods that came with it. HL2 as an actual game was pretty shit and the thrill wore off pretty quickly (game was <$10 by 2007), but as a platform for modifications it was absolutely great.

>>383635624
>Feel free to post examples of games that did the same thing but better around the time of its release or before.
halo
halo 2
doom 3
ut2004
battlefield 2
swbf2
jedi outcast and jedi academy

>>383635939
You're about 13 years too late to argue with me young man.

>>383636028
>calls other people names and mocks their age
Wow you really are BTFOing me! I'm so rekt aha. Just derail this thread instead of talking about the topic aha.

>>383636006
>none of those have a physics engine even half as decent as HL2
>all have worse graphics and an action movie tier story except swbf2 which barely has a story at all

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>>383636208

>>383636208
Haha. Keep digging your own hole.

>>383636325
What the fuck does Battlefront 2 even have to compare itself with Half-Life for? Was he just strawgrasping or am I missing something?

>>383636325
>>383636686
did either of you even play the campaign?

>>383636208
#triggered

>>383635624
> Feel free to post examples of games that did the same thing but better around the time of its release or before.
Half Life 1

>>383635345
I wonder how Valve would have felt if you told them that their game would be held to the standards of 2017, and gotten a 7/10.

I imagine they'd be pretty flattered.

>>383636208
You haven't said anything that hasn't been discussed to death and really just come across as an edgelord contrarion.

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>>383636907
>you can only discuss things a certain amount of times

>>383635345
It's 2004's babbys first fps

>>383636794
Yes, but I just need it illustrated for me because I can't recall anything that would stand out and make me compare it to HL2, at all. I don't even remember them being released near the same time.

>>383636838
Cheeky

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>>383635624

It's the same year Far Cry came out. Nuff said.
Personally I always ignored Half Life 2 because of the cancerous DRM, which got only topped recently by always online shit like SimCity and Denuvo.

>finally play Portal 2 because it was like a buck fifty this sale
>the reddit memes and humor were dialed up to 11/10 while the portal puzzles weren't notably any harder (might've been easier, even)

why were people upset with the portal 2 writer quit again?

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>>383636902
Where did I mention that I was using 2017 standards? I don't even imply it.

>>383637219
Because you're playing the game for the first time, in 2017, and after you've gotten your expectations raised from people who played it years ago.

>>383635345
It's been 13 years since it was released.

>>383637121
On the basis that the campaign is a story driven fps with vehicles released around the same time period. Obviously there are a lot of differences but I think they're worth comparing.

>Portal games are where the good lore is at.
Opinion discarded.

>>383637196
Did you do the coop stuff? I always thought that was better in terms of content compared to the single player.

>>383637132
>people who like thing i don't like = shit eaters
truly the height of intelligent discussion

>>383637331
>and after you've gotten your expectations raised from people who played it years ago.
Most of the praise it got years ago was from hype buildup than the game itself. Completely ignoring all the bullshit surrounding it it's not as good as HL1 and most of the work went into the engine rather than trying to make a fun game.

>>383637132
>It's the same year Far Cry came out.
And Far Cry fucking sucks.

>>383637519
They're apples and oranges, anon. They behave way too differently and the story wasn't exactly something people weren't familiar with at the time BF2 was released.

>>383637331
I've played games from the 90's for the first time and loved them. I don't compare old games to modern day standards because that is retarded. I really enjoyed HL1 for example, HL2 was extremely boring though. You don't need to play a game when it releases to enjoy it. If that were the case, Crash would be a flop right now. Some games are good and some games aren't as good.

>solid 7/10
>hated most of it
which is it, OP?
Also why do these contrarian threads always go overboard with hyperbole? It's never, "hl2 was overrated, it turned out to be a decent game but not amazing," it's always "hl2 is fucking shit boring as fuck"

>>383635345
>my opinion on this game should be more important to the people whose opinion on the game I disagree with
The only objectively overrated thing in your post is your opinion itself.

A shitton of people liked it, who are you to say that they are wrong, and realistically, what are the chances that YOU are the one who will finally disprove them all?

>>383637768
>don't call the game shit once in my post
>Y-YOU ARE JUST CONTRARIAN!
You do realize 7/10 isn't the same as utter dogshit right? Did you not go to school or something? Games can be decent AND borgin. I know! Crazy right?

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>>383635345
>I could not find myself enjoying any of it at all.
>this game is a solid 7/10

>>383638081
see
>>383637964

>>383637765
>I don't compare old games to modern day standards because that is retarded
things like shitty controls and bad game design have nothing to do with age. there are still shitty games being released in 2017, the only difference is they're prettier.

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It died as PC gaming as we loved it died. It was the biggest ever video game treason ever.

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>>383635345
IT WUZ REVOLUTHNARY N SHIEET

>>383638205
IF you didn't enjoy it at all, why the FUCK would you rate it above average? Are you fucking kidding me?

>>383638279
>7/10 is ABOVE average
At what grade did you drop out?

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>>383638353
This has to be bait. Please be bait.

>>383635345
if you played only HL2 in 2017 your opinion is worthless by default.

>>383635345
Why do people hate the vehicle sections so much in HL2? I never had a problem with them.

Also, the game only has like 2 notable 'horde mode until objective is complete' sections. One more if you count the one in ravenholm when Father Grigori is sending the lift up to you.

>>383638353
If you didn't enjoy it at all then it's a 0/10 not a 7/10 above average.

The technology was more impressive when the game was released. It's older than dirt now, so of course it no longer has that appeal.

I'm not going to pretend I love the game, though. The gameplay is all right, I guess, but really it's just another shooter.

The reason that people want a sequel is obviously not the gameplay, because you don't need another Half-Life game to shoot more aliens in a generic fashion. Just buy any other shooter. The reason that everyone begs for Half-Life 3 -- and this is what makes no sense to me at all -- must be the story. Yes, the barely existent story that Valve didn't even care enough to finish. Their level of giving a shit was so low that they couldn't even release one more DLC-sized episode to finish the planned trilogy. And the reason they didn't give a fuck was that the story was barely there. The story of the original Half-Life was a thin excuse for action, and most of what supposedly makes the story deep was retconned by subsequent games. Half-Life 2 is a generic post-apocalyptic scenario and the protagonist is literally the chosen one. Meanwhile, people wet themselves over how cool and mysterious "the G-Man" is, but he's mysterious just for the sake of being mysterious and the writers just use him to announce the end of each game when they run out of material.

I'm also confused by Half-Life 2's attempts to be immersive. First of all, the game shits all over that immersiveness when you enter a vehicle and realize that you're steering with telekinesis instead of using your hands. Secondly, and more importantly, replacing skippable cut scenes with unskippable non-gameplay is not an improvement. Being able to walk around (or sometimes just look around) during a conversation does not make the game so much more interesting that I'm okay with losing the ability to skip these conversations on my second playthrough. People have actually praised the game for not having cut scenes, but no, fuck you, cut scenes are better.

>>383638519
>you have to play a game when it came out to enjoy it ir discuss
Sounds like damage control to me. I guess no one will ever get to truly classics like Mario 64. Man what a shame.
>>383638715
That is the stupidest post I have read in this thread thus far. Reply to me if you want, I won't reply to you anymore. You do realize the world isn't black and white, yes? You can recognize something is decent but not enjoy it you moron.

>>383638701
For the jeep specifically most of it is just driving with no combat or instantly killing things. The only breaks between driving are when you're forced to get out and solve a puzzle.

>>383635345
Yeah I stopped playing halfway through, was boring as hell

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>>383635345
I mean, i like HL2 a lot. 9.5/10 for me. But holy fuck valve fanboys in this thread are annoying.

Cant some people accept that videogames is a subjective form of entretainment?

>>383638930
>Reply to me if you want, I won't reply to you anymore
That was the first time I replied to you retard, I'm one of the people arguing that HL2 was bad. If you say a game wasn't enjoyable at all that doesn't mean you thought it was above average that means you thought it was bad. I have no idea what kind of argument you're trying to make here.

>everyone hates the airboat and buggy sections
>both are literally my favorite parts
What the fuck, am I just a retard or something?

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>>383639132
>all these posts
>only 3 are actually trying to discuss with OP
I don't think it's a Valve thing, it's just the
state of /v/

>>383635345
>HL1 has FAR better gameplay
>Portal games are where the good lore is at
OP confirmed retarded and most likely an underage edgelord.

>>383639331
/v/ is not one person. But in this board there are hipsters abound.

>fnaf was good until it became popular
>undertale was good until it became popular
>FF13 is underrated
>FF7 is overrated

This is one of the worst places to get an overall opinion in videogames unless a majority of the people agree on a point or there's factual evidence to support their claims.

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I played it about a year ago, straight after Half-Life 1, which was amazing. It was sluggish and boring as shit. People say " it was good for it's time" but I can't see that as a defense because it's predecessor was not only good for its time, but also pretty damn good today too. Episode 1 was OK, haven't played 2 yet. Still have Blue Shift and Opposing Force to go through.

>>383638936
That's not really true, though. The jeep section has a ton of combat. There are several stops you make to fight Combine soldiers and gunships. It's not combat that's specifically inside of the jeep, but it does have a gauss gun attached that you can wreck soldiers and antlions with.

>>383635345
>No this isn't being a contrarian or shitposting

Yes it is

>>383639615
charged gauss is an instant kill and so is running over people. there's a lot of long sections of road where you're just driving to get to the end of the level without any real obstacles or detours.

>>383639326
No, I'm with you there. I always loved the airboat part the most.

Facial animations, faggot. If you think it's irrelevant, go play Mass Effect Andromeda.

I enjoyed HL1 a lot more personally, the weapons in HL2 are atrocious and I hate half of the chapters yet my favorite is Highway 17

At the time it was groundbreaking. I remember I was late to the party (I got it when I got the orange box) and I was pretty blown away by everything in it. I remember watching my friend's brother play when I was younger and being in awe of the stuff you could do.

Yeah, these days it's unremarkable, but it set a standard and still being a solid 7/10 after all this time is very high praise.

>>383635624
Doom 3

>>383635624
Game's don't "age." If a game is mediocre now it was always mediocre.

>>383640597
IGN got that right when it gave God hand a 3.

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>>383640597
>Game's don't "age."

>>383639712
I guess I see what you're saying, but it's not like you're driving for 3 minutes straight with nothing happening. It's pretty well-paced in terms of driving time versus combat/obstacles.

And I don't think it would make sense for the roads to super short. They're trying to illustrate a journey along the coast, and driving is supposed to be fun when you're in a fast dune buggy with a turbo boost and no other traffic on the road.

>>383640445
A lot of people first played it in the Orange Box and still found it impressive, though it saw a few engine updates by that time.
What impressed me in 2005 is that my shitty prebuilt with a bad GPU even for the time ran the game better than any other game I played on the thing and also looked better.

Half-Life > Half-Life 2 > Episode 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Episode 1

>>383639663
>Opinion I disagree with is contrarian shitposting
ok

>>383636006

>

are you fucking serious, nigger?

>>383635624
I played it in 2014 and thought it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had, so there's no excuses.

Blue Shift was the best game in the series.

>>383635345
Yeah it's pretty much a tech demo. It was kinda hot stuff when it came out but it's pretty lame now.

>>383635345
>portal
>lore

stopped reading there. portal is a glorified tech demo.

>>383640878
It's true that episode 1 was not a very fun experience, but if you'd consider HL2 and its episodes to be one game (that's how I played them), then in that context episode 1 is a great segment! But I agree, if I had bought episode 1 by itself, I would've been let down big time.