What's with the latest circle jerk over this game? A game

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>>388383787
>I am somehow clever for just posting "ok"

>>388384060
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>>388383760
I don't anon have you checked the catalog in the past few days or are you just retarded?

>>388383760
Why do hipster contrarians actually think anybody cares about their opinion on genre defining games? Its like a kid spitting to the air.

>>388384060
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>>388384643
>not caring for half life makes you a contrarian
>genre defining
Ok

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>>388384841
if you didn't care why did you make this thread

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>>388384060
okay

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>>388383760
It's because people have always liked this game and the only people who shit on it are the assholes on /v/.

Its not cancelled you dumb fuck .

>>388384927
It's ridiculous how much it's all blown out of proportion, and it's been annoying having 5+ half life threads open at the same time.

thing becomes popular

then theres those that make these threads just to fuck with people

>>388383760
>Latest circle jerk.
HL games have always been respected on this site newfag.

>>388385075
Which is why I put supposedly you even dumber fuck.

>>388385024
I remember the posts on /v/ in 1998 when the original Half Life was released, everybody here fucking hated it.

>>388385075
Yes it is, it's confirmed.

>>388385147
well that's why it's been moved to /vg/

>>388385268
>I remember the posts on /v/ in 1998
Kys if b8 9/10

>>388384991
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>>388385024
>everyone on /v/ likes this game and everyone who doesn't is just an asshole or a troll
>>388385161
>gets popular
The game is fucking older than a decade you moron.

>>388385296
Source

>>388385467
I'm talking about the topic of half life you negroid. Fuck off

>>388385560
Yes, Half Life 2 was on the source engine. This is common knowledge.

>>388385171
Yet no one talked about it at all for years.

And not everyone adored it, old fag LARPer. To say everyone always loved it here is the most retarded thing I've heard. No one has ever agreed on anything

>>388385268
>/v/
>1998
Solid bait, 10/10. Unique and creative.

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>>388385268
> 1998
Newfag. You probably don't even remember all the great shit posting about the Atari 2600 1980 when everyone was spamming 'IT'S OVER ATARI IS FINISHED" threads one right after the other

>>388385872
>Yeah I remember posting on 4chan back in the day in 1998. Those were the times, I am a true oldfag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCv12q6fFI&t=974s

>op calls you out for being a bunch of idiots jerking the game off
>let's prove him wrong by acting exactly how fanboys act
Have you people no introspection?

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>>388385872
Fucking newfags don't even remember the anti-woodgain tastelss fags who shat up every Magnavox Odyssey thread.

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-Slow movement rate, even while sprinting
-Ridiculously stupid AI which awkwardly strafes and never employs any strategy
-Half of the weapons feel awful to use such as the PAF PAF PAF pistol. There are no alien weapons so the bulk of the enjoyment has to be covered by a physics toy
-The puzzles are insulting
-Frequently locked in a room until NPCs finish talking and you can have fun again
-Constant and annoying loads
-Ridiculous vehicle segments. The hover boat tried to be a movie sequence on rails and failed
-Three sequential turret segments where you can just sit back and let them do the work
-Alyx is an annoying Mary Sue
-Battling striders is the opposite of fun. Who knows what they were thinking in that final battle at the heart of the City
-Recycled many tracks from the first game
-10 hour experience you're unlikely to play again

Yeah it was pretty bad.

>>388386050
Hi OP

>>388386032
Stop shilling your videos here you autistic faggot.

>>388383760
I agree it wasn't that great but convincing people here is pointless

>>388386278
He's not OP retard, there isn't (OP) next to the post number in your post.

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>>388385872
>Not remembering when everyone said that computers would have to take up at least two rooms in space
How wrong are you fuckers now.

>>388383760
t. Underage b&

>>388386393
tasty bait

>>388383760
>Unofficial
Yeah the lead writer's """"fanfic"""", who would ever pay attention to that? Got a (You) out of me though.

>>388386559
Unfortunately if it's not official, it doesn't count.

>>388386348

*Autistic screeching*

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>>388383760
The best part of Half Life 2 isn't the story or how it plays, it's the engine. Source brought about so many good fucking mods/games and the physics were fantastic compared to other games at the time.

>>388386559
He ain't working there anymore though. And I doubt like hell he owns the IP instead of valve, so anything he writes for it as of termination of employment is unofficial. And therefore fanfiction.
You might not like that, but that's not OP's fault. That's yours for being a blathering sycophantic tool.

Loved the first game, still do. HL2 was the worst case of over-hype I've ever witnessed, but it was an okay game. Unfocused and wobbly but okay.
Both were tech demos, but I still love the first game to death. HL2 has never had the same effect on me, mainly because it pretended to have a story and tried to implant personalities into fodder NPCs from the first game.
HL > Opposing Force >>> the rest

>>388384060
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>beloved game series stops getting made after latest entry ends on a cliffhanger
>game dev makes a lot of other games but doesn't even mention beloved series
>this goes on for TEN FUCKING YEARS
>we finally at least get some closure about the story knowing that the game is never ever getting made
>TEN YEARS

Gee I wonder why we're talking about it again

>>388386559
His writing was disappointing as hell anyway, I'd rather half life 3 never happen than it end like that.

>>388386790
You can tell me what is and isn't official when Valve decides to do anything besides milk steam

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>>388384208
>ha ha now we're saying it too because he said he didn't like it hah ahah ha do you get the joke :)

Reply ok to this post if you're a cum guzzling gaylord.

>>388387063
THERE'S HOMER

>>388387159
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>>388387063
I wouldn't be so mad if Valve at least made games

>>388387127
Literally anyone and everyone can tell you what is and isn't official - anything someone puts out with valve's official sanction and permission as part of the half-life canon and not speculative what-ifs, is. Anything else by definition isn't. And this is/isn't holds true even in valve's silence.
If this is hard for you to understand, I'd tell you to consider the fact that you might be retarded, but you're probably too retarded to even do that.

>>388387159
This. It's a plebbit thing to do tbqhf

>>388383760
The only games /v/ likes are fap games.

>>388387332
true statement

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>>388383760
why must you be so rude?
why can't people just enjoy their game?

>>388386182
Don't forget:
>Horrendously boring rinse and repeat gameplay
>Episodes sucked(xd epic cliffhanger!)
(Which the 3rd we never intend to fulfill.)
>uninspired environments
>annoying characters
>shit enemies
Worst thing for me was the physics puzzles. The game felt like a tech demo during those parts.
But yeah, don't get me wrong; when hl2 it came out the game was impressive graphically. I liked it the first time up until some point. I remember realizing it wasn't good at the point where you get the sniper rifle and can shoot the combine on the billboard. It aged so badly but people desperately hang on with nostalgia because they think the next episode is gonna release when gabe rolls on stage during the next E3 like they did for the past 10 years.

Here's a hint: the episodes were released in small windows all done on the hl2 engine. When they updated the engine all the games got updates. They didn't release 3 because they realized they can make money with their DRM platform and they didn't have to release another game to make income and instead turned tf2 into a hat collecting simulator, which would net much more income with minimal work. Let go everyone, realize valve is utter trash.

>>388387312
lol k, an ex-lead writer's speculation is probably the most we're ever gonna get for an official continuation of Half Life for the rest of eternity

>>388387665
>Uninspired environments.
I find the urban slavic setting to be a nice change

>>388385307
>as of writing this there are 6 other half life threads excluding this one
Yet you fags act like the level headed people are the ones who are crazy/retarded

>>388387762
Maybe I should reword that, they kept that theme throughout the entire game mostly and eventually it got stale. Hl1 started in a lab then went all over the facility, out to the desert, then to another planet.

>>388387718
Ex being the key word. When he quit working there, he lost any say over the IP whatsoever unless and until he works something else out with valve.
If the most you're going to get of half-life for the rest of eternity is fanfiction, then the only difference between that and the last ten years is your slavering, pathetic desperation to make something official that isn't.

>>388387659
Fine, enjoy it. But don't act like I'm retarded or wrong for not enjoying it or seeing nothing that amazing in it. And don't act like it's ok to have 7 half life threads at one time. The night the damn script popped up literally half the threads on /v/ were half life.

>>388387665
>Worst thing for me was the physics puzzles. The game felt like a tech demo during those parts.
Well, they are. Gabe has gone out and stated that all IPs are treated less as games and more like tech demos.

>>388388054
well /v/ does have a lot of older games or people who enjoy some of the classics. I agree opinions are subjective but criticizing a game in a majority audience won't net you good results. It's like going into an all black neighborhood and screaming nigger, you will get beat up.

>>388387962
Until Valve decides to do literally anything at all it's official

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>>388383760
>the game is popular on /v/ so we have to hate it now

If they had actually released Half-Life 3 and it lived up to the hype you faggots would've made literally hundreds of threads calling it the worst game ever.

In just the past week we've had threads shitting on Half-Life 2, Ocarina of Time, Super Mario World, Breath of the Wild, Skyrim and Chrono Trigger. And not even like these games are just OK, straight up bad games that deserve no praise.

What exactly constitutes as a good game to autists?

>>388384060
okie doke

>>388388183
Ok. So according to you, before the events of 3, Gordon officially became a transwoman and started going by Gertie. Good to know that's official.

>>388388272
>game is popular on /v/ so we have to hate it now
But I never said that.

What do you guys think of the story reveal?

Please vote here
http://www.strawpoll.me/13792045

>>388388424
>no using the decoded one

>>388383760
Shit bait thread aside, I don't think HL2 aged all that well.

Shit was great for 2004, though, there's a reason a lot of games took from it different aspects. Some the plot and mood, like TimeShift, other the physics-based gameplay like Psi-Ops. It pushed shooters forward, regardless of how much you want your precious troll thread with typical buzzwords on how it was a piece of garbage.

>>388388572
My only problem with it is that it doesn't explain shit. Who is the g-man? What was he planning? What are the combine? And then they just end it without saying what the fuck happens to humanity or anything else. It's like ending a book a chapter early.

>>388384060
ok

>>388388572
Where's "fuck valve those lazy pieces of shit"?

>>388388572
Where's the option for "It's only a potential Episode 3 story, the episodic format of which was dismissed many years ago, so who the fuck cares any more?"
You fucking hack fraud faggot

>>388384060
*being clever*
*posts*

>>388388618
The nameswapping was by other people on the internet. What the """"ex-lead writer"""" wrote is that she's Gertie now. And what the """"ex-lead writer"""" writes is obviously official through and through.
You can't have it both ways, feeb, so enjoy your Gertie.

>>388387159
only if it makes you more buttmad

>>388388897
He probably didn't want Valve getting on his asshole about giving people a bit of continuity to the story

>>388389048
>worried what valve would say/do
>official
Nawp.

>>388386182
>-Slow movement rate, even while sprinting
>-Ridiculously stupid AI which awkwardly strafes and never employs any strategy
Agreed, that's annoying
>-Frequently locked in a room until NPCs finish talking and you can have fun again
If you don't care for story, this just isn't your game. that's not the game's fault.
>-Ridiculous vehicle segments. The hover boat tried to be a movie sequence on rails and failed
Fuck you, the boat vs helicopter bit was good
>-Three sequential turret segments where you can just sit back and let them do the work
Not sure what you're referring to
>-Alyx is an annoying Mary Sue
And the definition of "Mary Sue" is stretched even further!
And since she has very little to do in the battles, it's funny you should even care about that, since you don't even care about story
>-Battling striders is the opposite of fun. Who knows what they were thinking in that final battle at the heart of the City
so you don't like variation in what sort of battle you have to fight?
>-Recycled many tracks from the first game
So what?
>-10 hour experience you're unlikely to play again
Well, if you're a nitpicky cunt like you, i'm sure you won't

>>388383760
>It was always overrated and generic, and anyone with even just half a brain can see it.

so youre 12?

does their really need to be six fucking threads to discuss something that's never going to exist.

how many times can you cry over the same thing.

>>388388698
The combine are an intergalactic empire. not sure if i need a bigger explanation than that.
Unless you meant "who runs the Combine". I like that it's never fully stated, but probably the Advisors
As for Gman, yeah, i really wish we'd gotten more info on him

I know i'm being very naive now, but i'm hoping they'll continue the story with Adrian Shephard.
From a different point, with different characters, of course

>>388388729
Well, you've had nearly ten years to say that, this is supposed to be about just this release

>>388388775
Closest would be "I don't think this is the end", i guess. isn't that good enough?

>>388389950
"I don't think this is the end" is not the same as what I just fucking told you, is it?

>>388385147
>stop talking about things I don't want you to talk about
Seriously how pathetic do you have to be that seeing a few threads in the catalog can have any actual impact on you?

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>>388386182
the only complaint I think is legitimate is that the weapon selection sucked, especially compared to hl1

>>388390576
It's mostly the same weapons selection, FOR SOME REASON
They can plonk Freeman in an eastern European city (full of Americans) but they can't do different weapons?

>>388384060
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>>388390086
Well it's the closest option you have, and there's always possible to come up with yet another option

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>>388386182
>he's bad at arguably the best sequence of the game prior to dark energy that takes place immediately after lg orbifold kicks in as the culmination of the base body of the title in enemy types encountered, weapons to be used, and the sheer volume of combine to be fought

you are shit at games and game designs and opinions and i pity your bitch ass, the horse pillar strider fight is killer as hell

>>388389189
Such a nigger response anyway.

>>388383760
Watching the E3 tech demo for half life 2 is very cool, as they unveil a lot of concepts that are basic TODAY, but you can tell from the audience reactions that this is the first time they have seen anything like it. They are in awe, it may not be great compared to recent games, but half life 2 defined a genre for years to come, it does everything other FPS titles try and fail to do. It managed to do cover based shooting the right way. It removed ironsights, making each gun feel more unique and situational, making each gun have a true effective range. It made you make use of your environment more often than your guns to kill enemies. The vehicle sequences were an abomination under God. It knew how to hype you up with music, often keeping areas bereft of it to make the existing music more impactful. The enemy variety was staggering for an fps.

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This guy walks up and slaps your ass, what do you do?

are people finally realizing that HL2 wasnt a very good game except for when it came out?

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>People turn Gabe into a Dwarven King hoarding his gold thanks to Steam
>Surprised when he decides not to make games anymore

>>388392426
Administer neurotoxin

>>388386182
Pretty much. HL2 was a tech demo meant to show off the source engine's physics (in the form of tedious seesaw puzzles), facial expressions as the characters always awkwardly turned to stare at you even if they were talking to someone else, and sound which admittedly was pretty cool (mainly areas like the bridge valley where you could hear the echoes of the gunshots). I have fond memories of the game but to call it the best shooter of that era means you probably never touched Halo 2/3 or the first few Battlefield games.

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>>388386790
>the man who headed the writing for the game isn't qualified to write a continuation of the story
>the company that happens to control the copyright because of the nature of a multi-person product and the judaism of publishing is
Whatever you say, bud.

>>388393268
Fuck you

>Neo /v/ contrarians have already started hating HL

>>388386182
You're probably right. It was my first shooter, and I loved it. I remember the hype in the pc magazines during 2003. I loved everything about the game when it was released. Looking back, I think Prey, though release later, was more interesting than HL2.

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>>388383760
The older story ideas had an objectively better atmosphere. Then they trashed it and went with a boring-ass average daytime thing

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>>388394439
>average daytime
How are you doing today, fellow slav?

>>388383760

There was always opposition to this game series or at the very least criticism prevalent on the board. Apologies about your goldfish brain and shitpost nature. Please walk into traffic

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>>388394604
>average daytime

>>388384060
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>>388393752

I've seen Dreamcast hate threads. People that never touched the console quickly abandon ship when facts are thrown out, sooner if you actually lived during its heyday.

We're too old dude.

>>388386182
>I hate fun

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>>388394604
wait, so all of those first-worlders think hl2 city 17 is some kind of a shithole?

city17 blocks of flats were rather nice inside

>>388396225
Well, yeah, why do you think so many people praise it for the atmosphere of City 17?

>>388389579
Good post

>>388387159
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>>388394524
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fight game round 2 START

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What is it with /v/edditors supporting this game so vehemently here? Shouldn't they be posting Lord Gaben and Scout memes on their own site?

>>388392183
You'd probably be the only person in the entire world who thinks firing 5 rockets into one strider and then repeating the process 4 times is fun.

It's an easy as sin and brainless fight and you're part of the reason games are so fucking shit these days.

>>388395787
What fun? Where is it in Half-Life 2? Can you point to it?

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>>388397959
here, low-poly 3d depiction of fun

>>388398648
>not blue
Wrong.

>>388386387
Most of /v/ hates HL2. Laidlawgate just brought out the silent minority.

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Gotta love how HL2 haters have actual arguments while HL2 defenders don't.

>>388399116
>most of /v/ hates one of the most lauded video games ever made.

This place really is for people who hate video games.

>>388386182
>puzzles
they're just to show off the physics engine

>>388397959
How about running through a trainyard blowing up combines standing next to barrels? How about feeling the oomph whenever you shoot something with the Python? How about running up ladders at a jillion miles an hour? How about buzzsawing your way through raven holm? How about outrunning a helicoptor with a hovercraft? How about summoning your own ant lion army to do your bidding? How about leading rockets around with a laser like they were cats to blow up helidrones? How about supercharging your gravity gun to just mow the fuck over everything? What the hell do you mean "where is the fun", how about you tell us what you consider fun if not any of that?

>>388399604
artificial fun

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>>388398914
you know what's up

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>>388399828
how could you guys possibly take dumb running and instakilling with op weapon in hands over going through ravenholm with a brick and occassional saw, jumping around q3a style and just murdering everything

>>388383760
Nah Half life was the shit OP, but I played it in 1999 so mileage may vary.

>>388386065
>meming everyone into buying a Magnavox color TV to play it despite the system not needing it and outputting in B&W and using overlays

good times

>>388394439

I don't know. There's something to be said to the quiet and subtle end result. It's not as overbearing, but it feels eerie in its' own right.

>>388399807
What, as opposed to fun that grows out of video game trees?

>>388396680
I hate Valve. Half-life is from a time when Valve still made single player games.

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>>388399337
>>most of /v/ hates one of the most lauded video games ever made.
No fucking shit. Pic related.
>This place really is for people who hate video games.
Pic related is for people who hate video games. /v/'s preference for ACTUAL video games is part of why they detest pic related so much.

>>388400292
And were we talking about the Last of Us, anon?

>>388384060
ok

>>388400348
Half-Life 2 and The Last of Us have alot in common, both in terms of their design and their relation to the industry. You cannot deny this.

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i'm going to re-play ep2 right now. i'll fight hunters and then throw those magnusson thingies on tripods and shit, i'll have loads of fun and there is nothing you haters can do to stop me

>>388393752
>everyone on this specific board has to like the same thing and if they don't they're a contrarian
Yeah not really, retard.

>>388400487
I can absoluetly deny this, one has cutscenes out the ass and the other never took player control away from you. One takes itself deadly seriously while the other has a blast throwing everything and the kitchen sink at you. One is "emotional", the other is pure high octane gaming bliss.

>>388383760

>What's with the latest circle jerk over this game?

I believe the conversation has degenerated to the point that it could be compared to a game of soggy biscuit.

>>388383760
>games faggots will never understands

>>388400525
stop having fun now

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>HL dead
>Portal ded
>L4ded
>Valve will forever milk microtransactions instead of making games

>oh a card game

>>388399604
>How about running through a trainyard blowing up combines standing next to barrels?

That kind of thing reeks of treating the player as less than intelligent. Oh boy a conveniently placed red barrel right next to my stationery enemy. What shall I do here?

>How about feeling the oomph whenever you shoot something with the Python?
You only get that particular feeling in multiplayer when you see the enemy go flying.

>How about running up ladders at a jillion miles an hour?
This is Half-Life 2 we're talking about here, right? You don't move up ladders as fast as Half-Life and the game actually glues you to them to create a safe and boring space.

>How about buzzsawing your way through raven holm?
Once again I just have access to all of these convenient tools to dispatch specifically undead enemies. While this was good use of the gravity gun it detracted from shooting for quite a while which is poor considering this is a shooter.

> How about outrunning a helicoptor with a hovercraft?
That was very cheesy and heavily scripted. It's what I'd expect out of Uncharted.

>How about summoning your own ant lion army to do your bidding?
They were limitless in number so that kind of killed that fun off. It's like playing Pikmin but you have unlimited Pikmin so it doesn't matter if you fuck up.

> How about leading rockets around with a laser like they were cats to blow up helidrones?
Got boring after the second time. The drones don't really pose a threat like the helicoptors in Half-Life 1. If you fucked up there they'd launch a barrage of missiles into your face. This thing just keeps using the same machinegun burst. I'd prefer using a tau cannon for variety.

>How about supercharging your gravity gun to just mow the fuck over everything?
Quite fun but again damaged the game to degree as you were using physics to beat the game once and for all rather than guns. The final 10 minutes of the game should not have used it.

One more comment to make in my next pos

>>388400627
I was comparing The Last of Us to Half-Life 2, not Half-Life 1.

>Silent protag saves everyone from the aliens by shooting them.

WOW GABEN 10/10

>>388400784
>2030
>my god, valve is so lazy, now they just wrote stand-alone case opener
>good old times when they were still making card games

>>388400872
The fun in the game is too driven by clearly defined and heavily scripted action sequences. Oh there's a red barrel there so shoot it. Hey, the enemies are standing on top of a damaged bridge so smash into it. Wait, the ant lions can't move forward due to the thumper so disable it. Look Gordon there's some turrets here so set them up at the very obvious chokepoints and let them handle those soldiers.

It's a bit stale. Something which Uncharted frequently employs. Doesn't help that you're stopped every ten to twenty minutes and forced to wait for an NPC to open a door which lets you go forward.

These set sequences every so often but not for the entire game. In a shooter you should let the player actually go off the hook for a while and just engage in regular combat against a squad of enemies working together. FEAR could do it. Half-Life could do it. Even Halo did it.

The number of purely unmolested segments where Gordon engages in some legitimate and fun firefights throughout Half-Life 2 can be counted on one hand.

>>388400292
Been playing games since 1998 and I liked the last of us. I also liked Half-life.

>>388384060
kk

>>388400959
>Silent anon saves family by killing himself.
WOW 10/10 FAGGOT.

>>388383760
This game is pretty shit honestly I don't see why people get so over hyped about it

>>388401807
Because they wanna pretend they like certain games that they haven't even touched in a decade so that they can feel like they are superior to people who play and like modern video games.

I remember talking with this dude in class who was a major nerd, he kept playing half life during class and pretending he liked it, it's pathetic.

>>388401807
>>388402002
samefag harder

>>388402096
>I'm many but you're one
everytime.

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>driving along the road in a mad max esque buggy on a comfy journey to a enemy foothold
>later fighting on the bottom of a tall bridge, both dodging enemy fire and attempting to not fall
>the whole level of entanglement
>storming into a combine prison with alien ants at your command
>making your way through an abandoned town with only your trusty tool turned weapon to fight off the hordes of zombies
>fighting into a large tower where the main enemy is with a weapon capable of throwing cars around


Half life 2 was pretty memorable and fun if you ask me. Gravity gun is still my favorite weapon of all time

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>>388402002
it seems like you feel inferiority because you haven't played old classics. don't worry anon, it's fine to enjoy whatever you enjoy

>>388384060
ok

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You forgot the greentext anon, apply yourself

>>388385974
The joke --------------->
your head.

>>388402187
What about a great shooter triggers somebody this much?

>>388402187
I remember this shit

>>388400292
HL2 was a cinematic experience?

end yourself my dude

I'm too classy to post my own video, but luckily someone already did.

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>tfw the age of countless mods spilling out like They Hunger, Sven Co-op, Age of Chivalry, Zombie Panic and the like is over, never to return
>twitchbait retardation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of screaming favela monkeys is all that there is anymore

>>388384060
ok

>>388383760
Fuck off underage pleb, go back to whatever multiplat shit of your choice

>>388384060
Settle down, okay?

>>388387296
These are my feelings as well. Half Life is cool, but if Valve worked on any game worth a shit, I wouldn't care that much. The fact they haven't made anything good since 2011 is what really sours it.

>>388384060
ok

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>>388394054
>>dyson SPHERE
>>dozens of tiny rings
Educate yourself uncultured USA swine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

>>388407059
and so it begins

can't wait for hundred different finished-polished mods with different stories and valve saying it was all according to keikaku because ending is open

>>388384060
O.K.

Everyone already knew Episode 3 was never coming. They're just happy to finally get some sort of closure about what probably would've happened if it did, from the hand of one of the only writers still willing to acknowledge Half-Life fucking exists.

>>388387159
k

>>388387159
ok

>>388383760
>that was never that good to begin with?

Found the late 90's kid.

>>388384060
ok.

>>388388272
if hl3 had come out you'd see
>"why was hl2 so comfy?"
threads

>>388384060

oh kay

>>388384060

wew

ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok

>>388384060
ok

>>388409013
But only shit games get those threads, like DaS2

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>>388383760
>supposedly cancelled without any proof

Valve fired writers and other devs more suited towards AAA game development (like for a game like HL) long ago.

If you think they had any plans on making HL3 you're delusional at this point. Valve is 100% a business now.

>>388410067
They weren't fired, they quit voluntarily. They realized where the wind was blowing.

>>388408949
Early 90s actually, but nice try. Age has nothing to do with seeing the overall quality of a game. If the games only merit is that it did things first but not the best, it's not GOAT.

>>388410118
>They weren't fired, they quit voluntarily.

Uh huh. Just like how people like Don Mattrick "resigned"?
Have you never worked at any big companies before?

>>388403119
Good thing no one watched it then.

>>388384060
>I am somehow clever for posting a smug face and bitching
ok

>>388403256
>we'll never get a new generation of mods based on hl3 and source 2

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I loved Half-Life 1, it's one of the best true first person shooting games. Run, shoot, think, live, just like the box says. No being locked in a room and forced to hear the plot (after the introduction and the pre-shooting levels, of course), just pure skill and wit based action.

I recently replayed all Half-Life games, and goddamn is HL2 a chore to play through. It's not a bad game, I just think all the fancy stuff it represented during its release (like the ragdoll physics etc.) are so mundane in modern gaming that HL2 is just not sticking out like it used to. I really loved the action parts where Gordon is on foot and has to battle against all the different zombie types, using environment against the enemy etc. that's the good stuff, that's the "first person shooting" we know. But that's only like the 40% of the game, rest of the game is just driving around and being locked in room while everybody babbles until it's time to move to another room.

If HL2 was released today as non-Half-Life game, I would think it's a pretty mediocre game. No bad, but not mindblowing good either. Would probably pick it from steam sale for 2 buckaroos, play it for 3 hours, and then forget I even bought it. Most of my good feelings for Half-Life 2 comes from nostalgia, it reminds me of those simple times before current decade. It reminds me of junior high, gmod and all those retarded gmod videos, ps2-xbox-gamecube console wars, early 00s internet etc. and whenever I want to relive those feels, I play some HL2.

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>tfw you will never again experience those times when you played Half-Life 2 for the first time on your shitty family computer that could barely even run the game

Sure, I can run HL2 on a modern toaster these days, but it's just not the same.

>>388410319
They kept Laidlaw on for 9 years after he was last lead writer, so I dunno anon.

>>388411273
Good post, anon.

>>388385336
>>388385845
>>388385872
it wasn't even supposed to be fucking bait you newfags. get out.

>>388386182
This anon is entirely correct
HL2 is wholly mediocre and it being so reverred reveals the shit tastes most people have

>Go on board that is for discussing videogames
>See people discussing videogames
>Get angry

hmmm

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>>388411418
>mfw played it on ATI Radeon 9600SE

>>388385075
Rude, Gabe, rude.

>>388412559

9700 Pro here. That card was a fucking beast in it's day.

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>>388412754
>mfw reaching the first water part with boxes floating in it

>>388387159
Well anon is pretty gay.

>>388412559
Had a blast on my 2.6GHZ Pentium 4 and a 9600 Pro.

ok

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>>388412559
>played it on P3-866 and GeForce 4 MX440

>>388411418
>Geforce 6200

>>388411418
>Sure, I can run HL2 on a modern toaster these days, but it's just not the same.
I don't even remember what PC I had at this time and I did not expect it to work at all.
It was mindblowing how smooth it worked and it was professionally dubbed too. Truly amazing.

>>388386790
Only according to US law, and what the fuck does those faggots know about half-life? I'll trust the main writer thank you very much.

>>388386182
>Slow movement rate, even while sprinting

Slow compared to what? Quake?

It's faster than basically every shooter until nu Doom

>>388383760
The story was always cool with a cool setting and atmosphere, but I never knew people were so obsessed with the characters and finding out what happens to them. I always thought they were pretty generic and didn't care too much.

The game was mostly a tech demo to show off physics, the gravity gun, face animations, lighting, etc. I think it's just nostalgia making people get upset, like a part of their childhood was just destroyed by the people who made it.

>>388403256
Zombie Panic Source is still being worked on and updated with a big update to come out sometime this year. It's still better than most newer games desu.

>>388411273
>if this game from 2004 was released today, 13 years later, it would be mediocre

Yes well done

>>388387426

hey, settle down

>>388384060
KO

>>388414740
There are plenty of older games that would be considered decent or even good if released today. That's not the reason why. Like he said, it was mostly a tech demo and when that tech becomes commonplace and no longer mind-blowing it just becomes a generic shooter with nothing too interesting.

You need to be 18+ to post on this site.

>>388383760
>that Sierra logo

how involved were they in HL2? Just purely a publisher or did they help fund it and stuff?

Kinda wonder how the series would've turned out if they owned the IP instead of Valve

>>388414519
>I never knew people were so obsessed with the characters and finding out what happens to them. I always thought they were pretty generic and didn't care too much.

This is pretty much every major franchise for me. I didn't really care about what happened to Master Chief next after beating Halo. I didn't really care about what happened to Nathan Drake next after beating Uncharted. I didn't really care about what happened to any RE character next after beating any RE game. Does every character have to be a mascot and every game a franchise? The one that actually burns me is Mankind Divided. I didn't really care about what happened to Jensen next anyway but Deus Ex has a precedence of new game = new character. Why do people get so attached?

>>388384060
Sure

>>388415445
Perhaps you're autistic?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCv12q6fFI&t=1435s

>completely shits over the HLfanbase in one video and is 100% accurate
>3 years later they still haven't recovered
>mfw
Dare I say it, is The Examined Life (of Gaming) //ourguy// /v/?

>>388415640
>youtube
Kk

>>388384060
ok

it was a game that came out during the formative years of many people, impacted them a lot
don't be a dick about it if you're either too young or too old to have played it at that time
your opinion on it doesnt matter
i'd rather have these threads than console war shit/graphix threads

>>388415640
No he's just another contrarian milking those contrarian bait views.

>>388415640
I respect this guy for having balls and backing up his opinion quite well. Most of the video is still just 'it's bad because it did things differently to Half Life 1'

>>388414786
what's that?

>>388415147
Sierra published both Half-Life 1, and all it's expansions and what not, and Half-Life 2.

Valve started publishing with Episode One.

>>388415537

Because I don't have a fanboy obsession with mediocre characters and actually like to see something apart from relentless fan pandering? I saw their stories. How about we move on to someone new now? Why would I want to see the same people doing the same shit game after game?

>>388416064
Yep, autism

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I am so happy the Half Life series is back on the community's debate, because Half Life 2 is an extremely mediocre game that has been praised too much and circlejerked about for too long by drones and retards

Now that people are talking about it again, maybe the consensus will change and people will start to see how mediocre HL2 is, even though there will always be a legion of drones too invested in their nostalgia and commitment to pull a reverse on their view

You just have to look at this thread, or HL2 threads, people pointing out the flaws are either ignored or muffled under a barrage of ad hominems with no argument

>>388416113

I believe being adverse to change is the indicator of autism, not the desire for it.

>>388414950
>plenty
>doesn't name one

If you say Crysis or any jrpg i will fuck your mom

>>388384060
ok

>>388416064
OF course you don't care what happens to the characters AFTER the storyline is resolved, nobody does. Because the conflict is over.
All of those games you listed had something off a story resolution.
Half Life doesn't have a resolved conflict that's why every one is so hard for a third episode...

>>388416262
>no real argument

Your whole post was you blathering with no objective arguments against the game

>>388416368
Sucks you came into a thread for something you don't like sorry dude...

>>388416805
And I'm not here to post them, I am pointing out the paradigm shift. I have already done my part arguing with drones in past threads, and if you want objective arguments, just scroll up this thread and read the posts made by other anons.

>>388412948
Literally no difference

>>388416402
Deus Ex
Morrowind
Vampire Bloodlines
Jedi Academy
Startopia

Just to name a few games off the top of my head from the same era that would hold perfectly fine if they were released today

>>388414950
But see no other shooter has done physics as well as half life

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>>388408307
>>388408307

Yo gotta love how most of HL2 haters are weebos, it is quite consistent and even logical that this are the same people that hate western games in general, the same people that hate Fallout for being "dull" compared to their fantasy JRPGs full of colors.

Then this again is a chinese cartoon board, what do you expect? We are in their territory.

>>388416262
>or HL2 threads, people pointing out the flaws are either ignored or muffled under a barrage of ad hominems with no argument

Because Half Life 2 is actually a good game.

99% of criticism is just taking the 15 minutes of 'I'm locked in this room while people talk' in a 12 hour game, then blowing it up and exaggerating it so that you're basically pretending that it's half the game. This is why criticisms are not taken seriously

>What's with the latest circle jerk over this game?

People are starting to realize that Half-Life 3 isn't happening and are throwing a bitch fit.

>>388418152
>Yo gotta love how most of HL2 haters are weebos
[citation needed]

>>388418165
>strawmanning this hard

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>>388387063
>some closure

This is nowhere near closure.

>>388418278
What citation do you want? I'm not saying all of them are, but is is a trend.

Your proof is in this very same board, read the HL threads, read the Fallout threads, read the posts about people hating on western games in general and their arguments, and you will see a pattern.

>>388383760
tryhard

>>388418427
I don't remember any blatant weebtards posting in this thread.

>you will see a pattern
The pig will always find the dirt.

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>>388418345
Anti Half Life 2 shitters already got BTFO years ago

>>388384060
ok

>>388418579
I'm not going to continue arguing with you.

If you don't want to see, you will not see, bye.

>>388418781
Of course you won't because this very thread does not agree with you.

>>388392653
>tech demo

Stop with this fucking meme. It's a full fledged game

>>388418648
So it's mostly tech and half of the points are arguable.

>AI
>>388386182

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>>388418648
fucking perfect

>>388414740
Douk 3D, classic Doom, Deus Ex, classic X-COM, etc. there's plenty of ancient games that are considered best games even by modern standards.

>>388418921
>'half the points are arguable'
>proceeds to link to: >>388386182

lmao

>'I didn't like this character'
>'I didn't like this gun'
>'the boat sequence is bad because I didn't like it'

>>388419537
Actually it was just about AI, pay attention.

>>388386182
>Slow movement rate

lol no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLyJP_nH5Cs

>mfw still hurts

>>388418648
The companion AI was nice when the NPCs were invincible only though. Alyx and Dog worked nicely because of that, but the rest of the resistance was not useful and the "follow/go" thing was kinda useless.
Just making this one point, HL2 is a fantastic game.

>>388386065
.....
are those real thing?

I thought FEAR was better imo.

>>388418648
>good NPC AI
>your squad gets obliterated instantly
>ravenholm and the bridge are different so they must be good
>they're the only meaningfully different levels in the entire game though, everything else is the same shit

HL2 is a great tech demo with a lot of cool features and new concepts but as a game I can't remember a single memorable moment except "crazy guy in Ravenholm".

>>388386182
>All these contrarian fags desperately crawling out of the woodwork as their wrong opinions are absolutely drowned in overwhelming praise

>>388420476
Haha ikr bud.
Gone Home and Undertale are great experiences too!

>>388388272
welcome to the board

this place is fucking cancer and these kids are underaged

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>>388420261
Um sorry sweetie but Sandtraps is kino

>>388387159
Ok

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>>388420261
>I can't remember

Who gives a shit about what you can't remember?

>>388386182
Mire on the mightiness of Half-Life 2 AI in all its glory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WqAmuSXEQ

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>>388420548
>haha yes Half Life 2 is mediocre!
>this other barely remembered game from 2004 is the superior one!
>it has a tonne of faults but nobody even cares about it enough to autistically nitpick it so they don't exist you see!

Can somone posts the images where Gordon observes the Sphere and Alyx killing Mossman?

Can't find anywhere.

>>388420868
>>this other barely remembered game from 2004 is the superior one!
What?

>>388385075
Ok

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>>388384643
Metallica can't even play their own instruments properly and forget how to play their own songs half the time, yet people still think they're fucking awesome.
It's a similar case with HL fans.

>>388421149
Kill em all is a great album contrarianfag

>>388383760
because it was a good game

>>388421359
Nah they're a cheap rip off of actual bands like Iron Maiden and Megadeth.

>>388387159
ok

>>388421567
Metallica sounds nothing like Iron Maiden and megadeth was literally not a band when Kill em All was released.

>>388420928
That's what always happens when people are asked to place their criticisms of Half Life 2 in any kind of context of other games at the time.

Generally someone will bring up something like the better AI in FEAR then totally ignore things like that only being possible because the whole game is basically one environment etc

>>388421359
It really wasn't.

>>388397959
What are you even doing here on /v/? Go back to /sci/ and humble-brag about your facebook IQ test score.

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>>388384060

>>388388272
>Skyrim

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>>388421567

>>388383760
How is it generic? People are talking about it because we have a clearer idea of how the story comes together and it makes the quality of the story line shine more. Why do you give a shit? Go outside

>>388384060
alrighty

>>388384060
KO

>>388384060
Holy shit is this the most replied to post on 4chan?

>>388401241

>The fun in the game is too driven by clearly defined and heavily scripted action sequences. Oh there's a red barrel there so shoot it. Hey, the enemies are standing on top of a damaged bridge so smash into it. Wait, the ant lions can't move forward due to the thumper so disable it. Look Gordon there's some turrets here so set them up at the very obvious chokepoints and let them handle those soldiers.

you can still finish all of the segments you described by not doing any of those things, if you choose not to. the game doesnt stop you from progressing if you dont have antlions with you. plus you can turn the thumper back on if you want.

you don't have to create an elaborate moving floor out of broken doors and pallets to get across sandtraps, you can just sprint and shoot.

you don't have to use the physics puzzles to kill zombies in ravenholm, you can just beat them all with a crowbar or shoot them with the SMG.

my favourite thing about half life 2 was that you actually have segments which separate firefights, like travel or puzzle areas where you actually have to think a little bit about how to progress. like the car segment where there's a gate you need to raise after an assault. two batteries are in the shed, easy to find, and the last one is under an overturned bathtub. no map markers, no instructions for how to progress, no hints and no compulsion to even bother with any of it, you can just dump the car and go the rest of the way on foot if you really want.

>>388422550
Rolling stickies and gets get many more replies.

>>388422772
>you can just dump the car and go the rest of the way on foot if you really want.
Don’t you have to jump that big gap with the car or was that before you have to find the batteries to open that gate?

>>388422995
>he does not ABH
...and those people dislike HL2...

>>388384060
дa

>>388423187
ABH?

>>388422995

nope, the next segment is where you park up in the garage, get assaulted and then sandtraps starts

>>388423484

accelerated backwards hopping, like bunny hopping on the quake engine, but source engine doesnt support it

>>388423484
Accelerated back hopping, advanced movement tech for going incredibly fast at high speeds. I don't think it's used now though.

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>>388387665
>Episodes sucked(xd epic cliffhanger!)

You have bad taste. Episode 2 starts out slow but after a short while it becomes stupidly fun, that ending sequence is still some of the most fun I've had in any FPS game.

Half Life 2 overall does take some steps backwards (unskipable dialog scenes, lengthy vehicle segments, mediocre gunplay with the automatics and weak pistol, bad teammate AI, fairly boring ending segment) but it's still a fairly good game. Faggots on here just like to have a knee jerk reaction about it because the game gets way too much praise solely because it has the name Half Life attached to it.

It's not a shit game, but it is not the flawless masterpiece the fans think it is and not nearly the revolutionary game the marketing tried to make it out to be.

There's a lot of overrated games, there's no reason to get all pissy about them Like Halo CE and Ocarina of Time. Just take a breath and try not to completely formulate your opinion around the game's hype.

>>388423742
>I don't think it's used now though.
How incredibly wrong I was.

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>>388422550
Not even close.

>>388423957
This is a blue board, anon.

>>388423994
Were you not here for the "Splatoon is a meme now" get?

>>388424129
I wasn't, enlighten me.

Agreed

Single player games are shit and take no skill

I applaud Valve for the new multiplayer fun direction

People need to relize that the supposed ending is for the trilogy of HL2 episodes, not the series as a whole. To me is likely that they were planning on continuing the riddles of GMan and the combines in Half Life 3, but Gordon's story would've ended in HL2 Episode 3 (which a lot of people are assuming it's Half Life 3 when it's not)

>>388424290
I know you're baiting but there's people how there that believe this. At which I ask them to go play Ninja Gaiden Black on Master Ninja or fight a UT 99 bot on godlike difficulty

>>388423957
sauce on may pic

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>>388384060
>>388383760

Just want to know what the fuck happened. Did the whole group involved with Half-Life (i.e, the whole company up to that point) simultaneously loose as interest in continuing the story. I mean, Valve famously lets their developers do whatever the fuck they want. Did NO ONE want to make HL3?

>>388412506
So is your favorite game

>>388424434
https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1647818

>>388424576
No, they just fired everyone involved in 2013.

>>388384060
oak kay

>>388384060
ok

>>388424576
There are insider accounts here and there. We know for a fact other episodes, outsourced to Arkane etc. were in development. One issue I recall reading about a few years ago was that because staff are supposedly allowed to move to whatever project they feel like working on, combined with the bonus policy, everyone just wanted to work on the most profitable projects.

>>388384060
ok

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>>388384060
>>388387159
>ywn be this assblasted about an "ok"
feels/v/erminman

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>>388422550
Not even close newfriend

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>>388424857
You're alright