Is this still worth playing?

No, its a stupid meme game with physics wankery and a shitty waifu

Sure thing if it's your first time, but it doesn't quite hold up so well on replays due to the forced cutscenes.

Bioshock Infinite of 2004

In all honesty, no. It's aged horribly and is primitive compared to other FPSs (even those from the same era).

You'd regret playing it.

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>>386339613
wrong

everyone saying no should be shot in the head

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>>386339613
Kill yourself my dude
>>386339883
this

Its not a good game. I forced myself to play through it back in 2009 when the orange box was released and it was outdated even then. You need to go back to an era when people didn't expect much out of FPS games to understand why people think its good.

Every once in a while you'll see people like
>>386339883
who genuinely believe its a good game. They were little kids who loved the Ep 3 when?? meme. Pay them no attention.

>>386339105
>>386339150
>>386339581
>>386339613
>>386339701
same faggot

>>386340523
>it was outdated even then

No shit? The game came out 2004. You played it five years later.

>>386339105
You're just going to pine for HL3 (permavaporware) like everyone else that finishes it. Otherwise, it's a good game but the combat is god awful.

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>>386340539
fuck how did you know

Yes, best gunplay after the old COD's

>>386341029
""""""no""""""

I started playing this for the first time a few days ago and I'm enjoying every second

>>386341029
Half Life 1 had much better gunplay in the sheer variety of its weapons and enemy design.
I did however enjoy the level design and gimmicks.

What the fuck is it with this "HL2 aged horribly meme"? I just played through it again and it holds up incredibly well for a 13-year oldgame.

>>386341629

You whores.

>>386341629
You were just deluding yourself you were having fun. You had fake fun.

>>386341629
But it is a meme game. It was super cool when it came out, because it had stuff that hasn't been seen before, like physics puzzles. But it's all gimmick shit, nobody cares anymore

>>386339105
Yeah. Play it with SMOD if you want to have fun.

>>386341629
A lot of the technology that made the game so impressive is cut and dry these days, and the other elements it had were generally weaker than HL1.

>>386341629

Contrarianism and the Seinfeld effect

>>386340523
Orange box was not released in 2009 underage retard.

>>386341629

Even in it's time the shooting and movement was a little dated because most of it was still the Quake engine from 1996.

>playing all those SMODs
holy shit HL2 a GOTY, how do i enable the bulletproof armour and shields???

>>386342197
Awful post.

>>386342197
Apply yourself. If movement was like Quake it would've been better.

>>386339105
>DUDE PHYSICS LMAO

"no"

>>386339613
accurate Tbh, just like TF2 is the Overwatch of 2007.

>>386340523
>You need to go back to an era when people didn't expect much out of FPS games to understand why people think its good.
But Half Life 2 came out AFTER the era of good FPS, I don't expect much out of an FPS game TODAY (hence I found nu-DOOM to be a pleasant surprise)

jesus christ, /v/ really wouldn't recognize a good game without mario cap on it

it's literally 10/10 goty with great storyline and characters, fun puzzles and touching atmosphere, go play it op, don't listen to retards who weren't even alive back then

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>>386341029
>Yes, best gunplay after the old COD's
>old CoD
>id Tech 3
>>386341515
>Half Life 1
>GoldSrc AKA Quake engine
hmmm... wonder why these games were good? Hmmm... who could be behind this?
>>386342197
It would have been a good game if it was like Quake though

>>386342491
>I'm a colossal fucking faggot

"yes"

>>386342990
>GoldSrc AKA Quake engine
Goldsrc is heavily modified and by the time Source came around I doubt there was any Quake code left.

>>386342990
>goldsrc
>aka quake engine

talk about being a simpleton

When people say HL2 is shit and dated I have to wonder what single player FPS games they consider to be top of the line these days and what makes them so much more modern than HL2

>>386343065
>>386343114
GoldSrc is literally a modified Quake II engine. How dumb can you be?

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>>386343065
>>386343114
Coping valvebabbies detected

>>386343202
>>386343307
carmackfag damage control

>>386343065

No, it wasn't heavily modified. You know how we all know? Because all the same bugs and flaws that existed in the original Quake were still there for Goldsrc and even still there for Source. It was years after the release of Source before Valve actually bothered to try and make it their own engine and, funnily enough, a lot of that entailed rewriting what little modifications they had made because they were so poorly implemented. Even the "heavily modified Havok" stuff is mostly bullshit, they just wrote some netcode for it so it would work better in multiplayer.

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>>386339105
No, don't play one of the best games ever.

It's always worth playing.
In fact, it's probably one of the most replay-worthy FPS games of all time, this side of the original DooM.

>>386339105
It's aged quite a bit (as all games do), but it's still worth replaying.

But, whether you'll like it or not is highly dependent on whether or not you were around & played it during release.
This is because the game suffers from "The Seinfeld Effect", every game that came after learned, copied, or was inspired by it, leading to you thinking "This isn't all that great, what's with all the praise?".
Worse yet, there are many examples where games took something HL2 did, and did it even better. So you really need to take the context of its release into account when playing.


While there are plenty of games that did X-thing from HL2 better, none of them have done it all in a single package like HL2 did.

>>386343481
>But bugs
How does this negate modification of the engine?

>>386341629
Seinfeld Effect, it was such an influential trendsetter that everybody who came after learnt from it, and some did it better.

>>386341629
You sound like a Kotor fag

>>386343580
>there are many examples where games took something HL2 did, and did it even better.
Name one.

>>386343684
>>386341629
HL2 is literally the original redditfag normie game and was the one to inject the poison that killed FPS

>>386343803
Timeshift

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>I don't like game because someone else likes game: The Thread

Your leddit insecurities are embarrassing

>>386343587

How can the bug still exist if the code that causes it isn't there anymore? The same bugs still exist because it's the exact same damn code, they just poorly built their crap on top of a flawed base. It was well after the release of Half Life 2 before they actually started doing any meaningful rewrite of the base engine and they were forced to because they were so far behind their contemporaries.

I'd play it and make up your mind about the quality. Some say its shit, some say it's amazing, but for you OP? I recommend you play it. That's it. It's worth at least 1 playthrough.

>>386344028
because it's not "IMPROVED" engine it's "MODIFIED" meaning, adding new shit to it not fixing old shit.

>>386339613
>>386342603
Only if your mindset is that the earlier a game is made the better; so it'd be like making dinner in 2004 and if you leave it sitting out until 2013 it turns into Bioshock infinite

>>386343803
Dead Space
STALKER
Call of Duty 2 & 4
Metro 2033

I have a hard time remembering the others.
Probably because 2005-2009 was a drunken haze for me.

>>386339105
I think so. I replayed it and both episodes a few weeks ago back to back. Say what you will but they're all good and the pacing is great, only really broken by Strider segments. Replaying it I didn't even dislike the vehicle sections, they were all fairly brief, easy and so frequently interrupted by stops I can't even see why people had a problem with them.

Do immediately switch to normal/hard difficulty though, I'd forgotten it even had different modes and played the first two hours on easy by mistake (easy literally has aim assist on).

>>386344589
Name literally one (1) element STALKER owes to HL2.

>>386344773
amazing AI :^)

>>386339105
Absolutely.

It's still an extremely engaging experience.

>>386339105
It was never worth playing.

I have the CE here (which is absolute shit) and the game sucks ass.

>>386344773
>Travelling through a vast, hostile environment filled with strange creatures

Although STALKER ditched the vehicles and made the areas smaller, for better or worse.

>>386344279
>it's "MODIFIED"

No, the claim is HEAVILY modified and this claim is based on seemingly nothing.

>>386345014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7bTo5xLyQ

>>386345014
It has completely new rendering rendering engine,
skeleton implementation. just to name something that I remember.

if you would follow alphabuilds of HL2 you would see that only thing they did for a year is improve engine.

Not worth replaying because of that retarded car part. The most boring shit. Why does it exist?

>>386343202
It's Quakeworld with some Quake II bits added.

>>386343065
>by the time Source came around I doubt there was any Quake code left.
There is absolutely Quake code left. Aside from the obvious ones relating to the entire console and cvar system, along with the config files and the engine's file hierarchy, Valve's own Hammer editor is a rename of an old Quake 1 map editor called Worldcraft and the brush-based BSP map system is identical down to the three primary compiling tools (q/vbsp, light, vis).

>>386345275
Get some taste.

>>386339105

aged like milk, shit guns, shit levels, shit AI.They put more focus on the physics gimmicks than the shit that makes a good FPS, guns, levels and enemies

I'm 100% convinced that most people that hate on or dismiss HL2 are either young (primarily played post-2007 videogames), or clinically retarded.

The game just felt boring for me, the guns really didnt feel satisfying.

>tfw there'll never be an open-world game set in a Combine-occupied wasteland.

>>386345495
Most of the people ITT hate it for not being Quake 2 or Half Life 1.

>>386345495
HL2 is a game for young plebs though, if you've played literally any good FPS you won't like HL2

>>386345495

Or possibly just genuinely not that impressed with the game.

It's not terrible but it's not even close to being the greatest game ever made like some retards make out. I don't even know how someone could have the balls to claim a story driven game that doesn't have a beginning or an end could possibly be the greatest game of all time.

>>386345495

Or some of them are old enough to remember that the first game was better.

The guns fucking suck in 2, the first game had Laser Tripwires, Snarks, Alpha Tau Cannon, Gluon Gun, Satchel Charges, Hive Hand and a Satisfying shotgun.

The second game just had shitty generic rifles and the gravity gun. Just play Deathmatch for a few hours and you would see that it's a shitfest of Colt and Gravity Gun fuckery depending if the map is wide open or tight.

>>386345906
Half Life 1's multiplayer was fun as fuck, especially OpFor.

fuck all these guys. yes its worth it. Some parts have obviously aged, but for a 13 year old game its nothing unbearable. The meme "forced cutscenes" are brief, and there are genuinely tense and scary moments. Its important to put this in perspective and realize that this hugely influenced every FPS for the next decade.

EP1 is meh but EP2 is wonderful.

>>386345985
>and there are genuinely tense and scary moments.
Episode 1 was better at this, the underground tunnels were great. Especially the section where you have to wait for the elevator, that was terrifying.

>>386339105
Is this thread worth replying?