It's 13 years when HL2 released. How does it make you feel?

Time for a replay

Indifferent, it does feel like a 13 yo game so there's no feely feels to be had.

It makes me feel a great sense of dread because I am getting much older than I am comfortable with and my life will be reaching its conclusion in a few more of these.

How has no game done the road trip better than HL2? I love that Highway 17 chapter. From the Ravenholm Mine to entering Nova Prospekt is 10/10 material. I want a whole game like that.

>>386619308
Every open world game with driving becomes a road trip when you drive from end of the map to the other.

13 years later and it's still overrated and not as good as the first one or op4.

>>386619516
scale back the edge a bit if you could

>>386617779
HL and HL2 are not great games. HL just ran on a good engine and spawned a lot of good mods and HL2 tried to do the same but failed

>>386619460
Er, yes, that's why I said "better than".
All the little pit-stops where you can find an interesting little combat encounter. The somewhat plain-looking vistas. That beach atmosphere. The great ambience. Hitting the nitro and doing jumps. The bridge! God, the bridge.

>>386619730
God damn that bridge is one of the best things in video games. How did they do it?

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>>386618271
Worry not, anon, for I too am past the prime years of my life. Together we shall embrace the cold touch of death and be free of this fucking shithole!

>>386619564
>saying a game is overrated is edgy
I never said it was bad I said it wasn't as good as HL1. It really doesn't deserve all the GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME awards it still gets to this day.

>>386620262
If I ask why, will you just post that one video of the kid screaming and nitpicking?

>>386620868
No I'll give you a list of specific things I didn't like and thought HL1 did better.
Again I never said HL2 was bad.

It's the game that made me get a Steam account. Now, I have so many games I bought on sale, that I will never have the time to play. Life and shit. I'm fucking old.

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>>386617779
>yfw Half Life trading card game announced

>>386617779
I started masturbating 13 years ago. Time to bake my penis a birthday cake

>>386621096
>they call it half life 3
The buttmad would be real

>>386621906
half-life 3d experience the brand new vr trading card game.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-GU4jvSvz4

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>>386622072
>tfw I literally still dream about this song occasionally

>>386618271
Who cares lad we will all reach this point inevitably and when you're dead you'll truly be free. Just enjoy the time you do have.

>>386617779
Indifferent since the game is pretty mediocre and a disgrace to the first game.

>>386621780
your penis is old enough to masturbate

Time for another replay but with shitty mods

i want to go back in time and tell myself not to make some of the life-ruining mistakes that i made in my late teen years

>>386617779
Desinterested. Game has been generating hype for way too long, people should finally let it rest.

>>386619730
Your post reeks of pure autism, yet I agree 100%.

>>386627013
>grr, liking things is gay and autistic, I gotta fit in, everything sucks

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>>386617779

feel the need to watch this again

https://youtu.be/3ZhnGQXWi1U

Most of /v/ wasn't even born back then.

>>386628925
Not the same poster but the best way to describe it is your pseudo-theatrical flair (the bridge! god the bridge.) and your use of "er, yes". I find a lot of aspy type do both of these things except they usually use "erm" instead.

>>386629578


Sorry

indifferent, I never replayed it due to the abhorrent driving mechanics. Actual FPS bits are great though

>>386617779
Feels good. No overhyped shit with GPU bundle with release code.

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>>386617779
really its been 13 years?

>>386629441
>Most of le reddit wasn't even born back then.

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>can never go back to a pre youtube, twitch, social media and no normies era

>>386631036
Kept you waiting huh ?
Feeling old yet ?

>>386619995
Aye :D Valar Morghulis to you, my brethren. *unzips sword and raises it up*

This is our moment, men! Let us live like men and let us die like men.

>>386617779
HL3 never ever

>>386617779
old

i was 13 and got it for my bday

still have to finish the first one cause when that thing was a thing,the intro part bored me to death,and since I was on the leazy side and had to rebind the buttons to fucking swim I accidentally uninstalled it.Years later someone gifted me the Orange Box,still have to touch it and probably I never will

The only thing wrong with 2 is that it forced steam. It still holds up as one of the best games/engines in gaming.

>>386617779
It makes me feel like when we do get one it'll be just for the cash money and suck hard or just be ok. Not good, not bad. Just ok. Like how old movies have been getting sequels lately. Really good example is Zoolander 2

>>386632248
hl1 is better in every way but muh grafix and hl2 mods never reached the heights of hl1 mods. the episodic release thing is way worse than proper expansion packs too.

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>>386617779
I rented HL2 it from a video store for the original xbox.

I had never seen anything like it in my entire life, had no idea video games could be this amazing, it got me into PC gaming, at the greatest time too.

All I will ever have of this era are memories, video games are dead.

>>386632370
ugh this edgy underage newfag autism needs to go.

HL1 is fucking amazing, and so is the sequel. Source engine is a better engine than goldsrc in every way.

>>386630487
Hey dude, you be you, I'm just trying to explain the POV, you are who you are you're a superstar

>>386632521
every aspect of the gameplay except vehicles is a huge downgrade.

>>386632709
Not at all, but you keep telling yourself that.

Half-life > Portal

Half-Life is what original fags play/played
Portal is what newfags/weaboos play

>>386632370
Episodic really did seem the way forward then though

I think we could get back around to it one day, if we get back to taking risks and not just putting out sequels and reboots and uninspired franchise shit

>13 years and its unskippable cutscenes are still widely copied
HL2 was a mistake

>>386633090
Not exactly cutscenes since they rarely took away control from the player.

>>386632749
>combine are the bulk of the game and aren't even close to as strong as grunts
>story heavy instead of story light
>gimped movement speed and no bunnyhopping
>tons of weapons cut leaving a pathetic selection
>no equivalent to most of the cut hl1 enemies like bullsquids, houndeye, agrunts, vortigaunts, snarks, gargs, gonarchs
>new enemies are either variants of existing ones or on-rails "bosses" which can only be killed with rockets which you always have an unlimited supply of
>didn't improve on the formula at all unlike op4 which just took hl1 and added more content
>the entire game had about twice as much content but was scrapped for no reason and the final product was cobbled together from its corpse very quickly to meet the deadline
>forced always online drm for a single player game and is easily the game that popularized that shit and made it acceptable

>>386633154
Yeah, they're unskippable cutscenes which are the worst kinds of cutscenes. They don't take away control but they're not interactive either, your presence is ignored and there's nothing to do but jump around like a retard I guess.

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>>386617779
It's kind of sad. Few games can capture the same kind of immersive atmosphere of this game, even if the gameplay is kind of weak compared to its predecessor. I fear VALVe have lost the knack.

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>>386636472
>VALVe
Boy that takes me back.
Why did so many people write their name like that? So dumb. And some people still do it with Doom.

>>386638617
They style it similarly.

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>>386638617

>>386617779
it makes me feel like Gaben quit caring about video games

>>386632370
I don't think any SP HL1 mod surpasses Research and Development.
Or Titanfall 2.

>>386618271
>because I am getting much older than I am comfortable with

What?

>>386638841
It says VALVE as in Valve not VALVe.
I think it's all kids who would be naive enough to do that.

>>386639060
Actually it says VALVe.

From the interview w Marc Laidlaw

>Do you have any idea whether Half-Life 3 will ever be released and would you be willing to work on this title?

>No idea. And I have no interest in going back. I had ideas for Episode 3. They were all supposed to take the series to a point where I could step away from it and leave it to the next generation. I had hoped for a reset between HL2 and HL3 that was as dramatic as the shift between HL1 and HL2. I honestly don’t know if anyone else shared this goal, but it seemed important to me to give ultimate freedom to whoever inherited the series, with my own personal set of loose ends tied up to my satisfaction. Unfortunately, I was not able to do that. But I never thought as far ahead as HL3, unless you were to say that HL3 and Episode 3 were the same thing. I will say that I expected every installment would end without resolution, forever and ever…there was some rumor going around that Ep3 or HL3 would end Gordon Freeman’s story, and I don’t think that was accurate. My intention was that Ep3 would simply tie up the plot threads that were particular to HL2. But it would still end like HL1 and HL2, with Gordon in an indeterminate space, on hold, waiting for the next game to begin. So one cliffhanger after another.

>>386639172
lmao U+1D07 gets converted to regular lowercase e

Surely, SURELY Valve has something else in development that isn't a fucking card game.

I liked HL1 better anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCv12q6fFI
get this dickheads video out of the way


I really liked HL2, even if just for the sake that the combat/shooting beats the everloving fuck out of HL1.

Biggest problem with HL2 for me was the shitty weapon roster with the only new weapons being and SMG 1.5 and gravity gun

>>386617779
Replayed it recently, it aged better than I thought.
Going full gravity gun in Ravenholm is my favourite part.

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And 13 years later I still like Half-Life 1 a lot more.

>>386640418
the ai might be shit but at least they move out the way when you walk towards them. That seems like too much to ask for a lot of games nowadays

>>386639857
>even if just for the sake that the combat/shooting beats the everloving fuck out of HL1.

Jesus Christ. I feel sorry for you if you believe this. The soldiers in Half-Life 1 at least try to do something more than strafe awkwardly.

>>386617779
I loved it, and still replay it every now and agian. Ep1 and 2 are a bit meh, but theyre more slices of the same cake. Although more stale.

>spooky times and sawblade fun in ravenholm
>roadtrip and rivertrip with distractions every 100m
>laser guided fucking rockets
>antlions become bro's and will kamikazerush anything for you
>playing fetch with d0g and discovering the grav gun
>the first tike you take down a strider

>>386640846
Episode 2 surpasses HL2 in all respects.

>>386640627
I was referring to the stodgy shooting in HL1. Fighting soldiers with anything but the magnum, crossbow, Tau cannon or Gauss gun is a pain. The weapons are much more enjoyable to use in HL2.

But HL1 definitely did have more in terms of the combat scenarios you were placed in and the weapons you had at your disposal. HL2's environments are all kinda samey

>>386641069
Fighting combines with anything but shotgun, magnum and crossbow is a pain in HL2.

Satchel charges are pretty good in HL1 occasionally, and hive hand is actually secretly OP.

>>386640952
It has the best setpiece, but I don't think it's the best overall.

>>386641218
The best setpieces. Not just one setpiece. Any fight involving strider hunters beats pretty much any vanilla HL2 combat encounter.

>>386641212
>Satchel charges are pretty good in HL1 occasionally, and hive hand is actually secretly OP.
this

also the smg is decent compared to HL1 (except for the 3 grenade limit what the fuck were they thinking) and the overwatch rifle is cool. I wish I could say more but I cant because of the puny weapon lineup

>>386641340
Opposing Force's weaponry felt a lot stronger.

>>386641280
Oh shit, yeah the setpiece when the shields come up and the hunters pin you in that house was excellent. That's two great moments in HL2:E2

Still, I think the road trip in HL2 was better. The bridge was good, so was the zombie-infested tunnel, and the lighthouse.

>>386641435
Especially in the multiplayer.

>>386617779
Never played it so I don't give a shit.

>>386640952
Yes, kinda. But at that point I had already played hl2 and ep1, the amount of new shit introduced is smaller, its just more finetuning.
>combat is a bit stale
How about these hunters
>bit linear
How abiut this awesome open ended siege defence
>story is in risk of going nowhere
Here we'll explain half of all mysteries and have big things finally happen
>etc

It's really good at improving the formula, so maybe objectively a better game.

but as an dxperience and in my opinion, I liked hl2 way more

>>386641484
I was dissapiinted the brigde wasnt ACTUALLY a seesaw, just a calculation that shifts the bridge to a different state

>>386641484
The first encounter with hunters is great. The antlion tunnels are overrated. The advisor battle is great. The autogun section is pretty cool. The waste section is pretty okay. The missile silo battle is one of my favorite moments.

There's only a couple of combat encounters in vanilla HL2 I genuinely liked. Revolver battle, a couple of battles on the beach when you're storming the bunkers, the turret battle. The first battle in Lost Coast is brilliant but it's not really HL2.

>>386641598
>It's really good at improving the formula
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, it feels less "WOW CHECK IT OUT WE HAVE PHYSICS" and more "okay let's actually try making a fun combat encounter".

And the physics puzzles were pretty zany. Grenade trampoline made me laugh.

>>386639576
I get the feeling Valve produces like a dozen prototypes every year

>>386640418
On second thought, don't follow Freeman.

>>386619723
>t. contrarian

>>386617779
I get it that they don't develop HL3, but why they don't just release a graphic novel or something else to continue the story? Until this point, Fans don't care if HL3 will ever exist, but they would be interested how it will end.

Makes me feel like playing a card game :^)

>>386617779
I hope it never gets released because every fucking idiot is going to be talking about, every game journalist, even people who haven't played the games will be talking about it.

Then they're all going to give it 10/10s left and right even though it probably wouldn't even be that good

>>386631245
>you will never relive that moment where you watch stupid gmod videos starring G-Man

>>386632370
hand granade is better in 2

>>386639209
http://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/marc-laidlaw/ #savedyouagoogle

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>>386617779
I don't mind. First played this game in 2007 with Orange Box. Would like to play again.

>>386647245
when the idiots of garrys mod was the best thing in youtube

>>386639857
>ywn bear this boy's child

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>>386617779
https://youtu.be/-3GekYR0kbw
half life fags rn

>years since valve last made a game
>10 years since hl2:ep 2
>announcement of a new game
>is this it? on the 10th anniversary? is he back?
>a fucking card game

i'm going to assasinate gabe newell

>>386652986
aim for the head or the bullet will never reach his organs

>>386617779
>It's 13 years when HL2 released
wat

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I feel happy because my subjective perception of time is in line with reality.

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>>386617779
>tfw you are ready for the shitstorm to come this October 10th when Episode 2 has its 10 year anniversary and Valve does
>FUCKING NOTHING
This board better be filled to the fucking brim with threads shitting on Valve while the mods blast Triage at Dawn over the entire catalog, or at least in a sticky.

>>386617779

IT MAKES ME FEEL FUCKING ANGRY THAT GAMES DONT HAVE BETTER AI YET REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>Inb4goodaimakesgameslessfunsotheydumbitdownonpurpose

Fuck it, Wait for source 2 to come out.
Then let modders make HL3. Easy.

>>386655727
>goodaimakesgameslessfunsotheydumbitdownonpurpose
that'd be oxymoronic since the only metric of how 'good' a single player ai is is how fun it is to play against

>>386655928

shut up nerd

>>386656075
no u

>>386656295
>no u

NO

>>386655928

>only metric

NO

Fun is super relative, so id find it fun to fight against a challenging AI in an FPS that takes cover, calls for backup, flanks, cooks a grenade, throws something to distract, runs away to preserve its life, blindfires without exposing half his body, and doesnt peek constantly to expose his head every 3 seconds, etc.

While others would cry and say its not fun and frustrating cause they are babies that think the Battlefield singleplayer campaigns are fun.

>>386656724
>Fun is super relative
and?

>>386656965

no u

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I was in highschool when it was released, after playing hl2 I did not think fps games could get any better I was correct. Half Life 2 is the standard by which all other modern fps games should be judged by. After Crysis 1 the pc lost it's crown as the front runner for fps games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbdo8VCAaV4

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I bought this during the summer sale but haven't fired it up yet, should I even bother?

>>386658356
Buying steam games without playing them is a sin.

>>386658529
I had a lot of shit to get through alright?

>13 years
Has it really been that long? I remember getting motion sickness for majority of the game but still enjoyed it and all the mods that HL2 ushered in the later years. I think thanks to Garry's Mod and other source games, I now find the atmosphere from HL2 kinda calming if not outright comfy at times.

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>>386622072
>Kelly Bailey no longer is at Valve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBZjNuSGn18

>>386617779
I was 16 when this game came out, i'm 30 soon.

Feels like 14 years, so yeah. Sadly i don't think i'll ever see a sequel and now i'm fine with that.

>>386638617
I remember typing DooM

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>>386659287
I'd be pissed too if the only piece of work I did in years in a small music kit for cs go.

Episode 2 turns 10 years old in 62 days.

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It reminds me of why I stopped supporting Valve and lost faith in the gaming industry. Now I just live in pre-2011 days wishing I could go back.

>>386658642
storytime?

>>386661935
outhouse fell over

Indifferent at this point.

>>386617779
Couldn't care less about this gay game

>>386632370
hl1 is worse in a number of ways than hl2
>normal is far too easy but hard is retarded in that it makes every single enemy a bullet sponge. Headcrabs take 3 crowbars for example
>weapons feel worse for the most part
>puzzles are even more simplistic than hl2

>>386617779
Old

>>386658356
you can probably beat the entire series in about 30 hours
definitely worth it

There are people who died today, waiting for
HL3. Last news they got was Valve releasing card game

>>386662267
>weapons feel worse for the most part
wrong.

>>386617779
makes me remember playing it for an hour at a friend's house and wondering what the hype was about

>>386662781
>shotgun that has melee weapon tier range >squirtgun smg that fires exploding pillows
>floaty handgrenades
>RL with no very little aoe that you need to reload each time you fire
only good thing that hl does better with the weapons is that there are more of them (even taking away the gimmicky weapons that you use like 5 times the entire game like the tripmines and snarks) and the satchel

Played it for the first time a couple weeks ago, was pretty solid.

>he doesn't just import the M4A1 to the game and use that instead.

>>386617779
i don't feel anything