Pick up that can.

>>389263027
>picks up can
>throws at combine
>walks off
ayy lmao

I went to pick it up and he literally hit me

No can do

>>389263027
https://youtu.be/dbdo8VCAaV4?t=6m45s

>a beautifully executed moment of showing off new tech while maintaining the narrative
>later you just sit around for 10 minutes while Alyx explains how gravity gun werks

why is source engine so hilariously shit

>>389264442
It's got pretty good physics and it looks okay, while easily moddable and usable.

Whats this guy's story? Does it stand here all day, so bored that he forces random people to pick up the cans? And once they do, he rummages through garbage to fish it out and do it all over again?

>>389264442
The source engine was great when it came out. It's like 12 years old now.

>>389264334
Well shit, now I have to watch these, too

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>>389264442
>literally best feeling engine despite 15 years of competition
>runs well on anything
>easy to mod
>shit

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>>389264762

>>389264334
>Makes the fucking shot from downtown

How many takes Ross

>>389264639
He saw a soda can sitting on a trash can, and got a momentary urge to make someone pick things up, so he did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP42-rdd4nM

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>playing hl2 for the first time
>pick up the can
>throw it at him
>he beats me and walks away
>mfw

>>389264762
>two dyson spheres
>right next to each other
>five ships flying close by them, all of which are large and visible

Absolutely ruined the scale of the dyson sphere, and, in effect, the dyson sphere.
Nobody seems to grasp how big a fucking star is.

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I always try to aim the can so when you throw it at the combine, it then bounces into the trash.
The combine still gets angry though.

>>389265195
Yeah, that minute-long SFM video ruined everything.

>>389264762
I hate Valve so much. I used to be their number one cocksucker.

A BEATING!

>>389265195
It definitely would be way better with one actual size dyson sphere instead of two that don't even make sense.

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The first time I played through HL2 after they added achievements, I threw the can at the Metrocop, and it bounced off his head into the trash can and it unlocked both achievements at the same time.

The cop laughed at me as if I put the can in the trash, but he still chased me around.

>>389265507
Maybe they're like Puppeteers from Ringworld novels and move stars around like engines

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>>389264334
>that announcement in the newest monthly chat

Ross is getting married next month

>>389264442
Pray tell, O master of the technology what makes this a "shit" engine?

>>389263027
gupgupgan

>>389263027
ARE YOU DETAINING ME OR AM I FREE TO GO??????????????????????????

>>389263916
Metro cops are not combine

>>389266198
they are combine though, they're just not modified

>>389263027
>having to wear a bulky gasmask like that 8+ hours per day
Damn, that job must suck donkey balls

>>389263027
Someone shoop the can into being a generic video game box with Half-Life 3 written on it.

>>389264802
Plus:
>Garrysmod
I think if anyone went into every gamemode available for gmod, they'd find at least one that they would have to admit to liking

>>389266482
You can beat people, so there is some positive points.

>>389266783
That would be an amusing mod to sneak into the game.
Like just pack a new model and skin in with another mod without telling the prospective downloaders about it.

>>389263027
Bop him in the face with the can, lure him outta the doorway, and then run around him without getting hit

>>389264348
Yeah I don't care what anyone says, the scenes where they lock you in a room and other characters talk are cutscenes. The gameplay comes to a stop, and you can't even skip them on returning playthroughs

>>389267262
Every time

>>389266193
I DO NOT GIVE MY CONSENT TO BE DETAINED

>>389263027
I dont pick up low tier cans.
Im a top player (tier whore for the people who cant get out of pools).

>>389266425
you can fight for the japanese army but that doesnt make you japanese if your a nigger

>>389267902
japanese are an ethnic group
the combine is intelligent space cancer
if you serve the combine you are combine

>>389266961
If only the community was better. A lot of the gamemodes are ruined by the servers they're on.

>>389265803
Congrats to him, hopefully it doesn't end like most marriages in the US

>>389269198
I just hope it doesn't make him unable to make videos anymore.

>>389266961
Too bad a lot of the gamemodes that I used tor really like are dead or way past its prime. Specifically build servers.

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>>389266783
implying you can tell me what to do

>>389265195
>Nobody seems to grasp how big a fucking star is.
Really small stars exist

>>389265803
>fan of freemans mind from Poland reaches out to him
>doesn't have much of a reason to stay in the US, so he moves there with her
>ends up marrying her
in a way he got married because of Freeman's Mind

50 posts and no Jaakko? Maybe I've been here too long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiteNPECEME

>>389263916
>pick up can
>throw at combine
>combine chases me
>run away while spamming strafe keys to increase running speed
>can never catch me
>spend 2 minutes having this guy chase me around
immersive

>>389264762
>citadels just floating out in space

Is the citadel an immense lawn dart that they dropped in?

>>389272080
Yes it is, actually. "City 17" is how much hitting it was worth.

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pick up that fern

>>389272571
>not pick up that fully modeled cervix

>>389264802
>>literally best feeling engine despite 15 years of competition
Not really

>>389274182
Name one that feels better without needing devs to put a ton of work into it.

>>389264334
OK, I seem to really like this. Now go ahead, /v/, tell me why I should hate this.

>>389268645
>japanese are an ethnic group

>>389275469
There's no reason to hate it. It's great.

>>389276004
ok anon :*

>>389264334
>He actually started HL2 Freeman's mind
We were told this day would never come
How come I never heard about this

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>>389272571
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0750VBcHK9O

>>389276310
I wonder what he's going to do at the end of it.

>>389276580
Greasy-man

>>389265603
nicely done

>>389276004
it's time away from his movie

>>389276004
ok wtf is this how have I been sleeping on this?

>>389263027
>pick that up
Come on /fit/bros

>>389268998
I'd pay for this.
I won't pay for artifact.

>>389264334
>Kobe!

>>389265195
>what is a Neutron Star
Please stop pretending to be smart.

>>389276310
>>389276004
>>389275469
Ross must be one of the most well-liked guys on /v/

>>389272571
FULLY

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>>389276580
WATCH IT, GORDY!

>>389265803
This plus new Freeman's Mind and Game Dungeon this week.

Feels great.

>>389269198
As long as he isn't marrying a serial divorcer, he's fine

>>389280584
Based /tv/ poster.

>>389280584
LOL

>>389276580
Been a while since I laughed this hard.

>>389265803
>that announcement in the newest monthly chat
>Ross is getting married next month
Yeah, that's great, but that's not the announcement you should be excited about. He said if fans make a Black Mesa tier Episode 3 mod, he'll Freeman's Mind it as well.

I've never played a Half Life game, but always see people talking about it. What is the game about?

>>389280405
MODELED

>>389283063
An interdimensional rift opens up on Earth and aliens leak out. Gordon Freeman is a physicist present at ground zero who fights through the aliens, the military sent to cover it up and secret agent ninjas to try and fix this or at least survive while being aided by a mysterious dimension hopping figure in a suit. Then shit gets even worse.

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This Can Officer?

>>389279863
>building dyson spheres around 2 neutron stars
How retarded are the combine?

Does anyone into HL community know, have the fans started preparing actual HL2E3 project? I heard rumors, but nothing concrete.

>>389280325
He's funny, he has good taste in games, and he never really gets into any of the politics that piss people here off.

>>389285962
It'll probably end up being nothing unless the Black Mesa guys do it as the next thing.

>>389264442
Because you are a contrarian underage with terrible bait. kys

>>389264334
>I'M YELLING.png

100 man synergy /v/ server when, lets all speed run half life 2

>>389275469
The only thing there is to hate about Ross are the hiatuses between episodes of Freeman's Mind, and even then it's more annoying than hate-worthy.

>>389288105
To be fair, he has reasons to be freaking out.

>>389285962
Some reddit-tards are trying to culminate a team of people with knowledge in different areas of game dev but knowing reddit it will probably amount to nothing.

>>389289168
>they accidentally make the wrong game

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>>389288138
>speed run

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>>389263027

>>389264762
That video is crap, this is the true canon ending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Zwk6kiFDg

>>389265195
>Other universe
>MUH LAWS OF PHYSICS
Grow up

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>>389264762
I hadn't bothered reading the episode 3 leak until now. I expected more.
I remember years back Valve said HL2:e3 was cancelled, they were just going to make HL3. But this is far too short to be HL3. It's clearly just an episode and it sets the stage for HL3, which leads me to believe it was a lie all along and they knew there was never going to be a sequel a long, long time ago.
It all ends here, save for the possibility of some half-finished conversion mod or SFM with hacky writing. Maybe the Black Mesa guys if we want a new dev group that makes Valve Time look like a fast food slogan.
It's a shame this series had to end like this. It never looked like Valve bit off more than they could chew. They could have done this. They even managed a way to wipe out or age most of the cast so they could drop and exchange voice actors, although I figured they would seeing as Breen fucking died in like 2010.

Where did it all go wrong?

>>389289248
Nevermind anyways I apparently don't have the game on this steam account

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>>389290150
Steam and Gabe's greed, that's what went wrong.

>>389264334
YEEELLLLINNNNGGGG HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

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>>389280914
Wait, we're getting both in the same week? That's fucking awesome.
Armed & Delirious is going to be a tough act to follow, though.

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>>389280325
Yeah, he's a great guy.
Now let's all have some candy.

Reminder that Ross confirmed that "Freeman's Mind 2 Episode 3" will happen if a fanmade Episode 3 is made

>>389291895
>filename isn't human yin yang

fix this

>>389291184
>Armed & Delirious
Where does he even find these games? It's amazing that he can find so much weird crap as actual full games.

>Youtubers like Star_ Jerma that do nothing but make standard game videos
>bitch and moan about money and become glorified camwhores on Twitch
>Ross makes only high quality reviews, FM, and other things while working on THE MOVIE
>Doesn't ever complain about money

Why is Ross so based?

>>389290150
Laidlaw specifically said on Twitter that it was just a single draft that he wrote up a long time ago. He knew it wasn't perfect. In fact, he specifically called out that he didn't write anything for Barney or Dog.

>>389292559
Ross is a good man with humble dreams. He doesn't want to be a millionaire off of YouTube, he just wants to make the movie.

I
HAVE
TO
GET MARRIED

>>389292650
>he didn't write anything for Barney or Dog
Really, they don't fit much once they're at the Borealis. They'd have to be put in the fight to get to it.

>tfw no l4d but with hl characters level

>>389264334
>people actually find this blathering funny

I just had a thought, maybe the combine are accurring resources desperately in order to somehow reverse the "heat death" of the universe. Perhaps they need a tremendous amount of energy (harvested from every planet they can) to do whatever they need to do.

Probably not an original thought but thought id throw it out there

>>389268998
reminds me of BC racers

>>389293126
>people don't

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>Gordon Freeman took a nap on some concrete after watching an old coworker die
>What was left of Team Fortress 2 was murdered by matchmaking, and the corpse is rolled over once a year
>Corporal Adrian Shepard was employed by the Powers That Be and never heard from again
>Valve doesn't even bother trying to make Summer/Winter sales events fun anymore
I feel like Chell and the Survivors of the first Left 4 Dead are the only characters with a real ending. Everything else is still up in the air.

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>>389265195
this, it's definitely too small
this is what the dyson sphere would actually look like

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>>389293126
>>389290925
You wouldn't be yelling in his shoes?

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>>389265803
Good on Ross.

>>389293743
Whoops. Shepard was not employed, he was detained and is pending further evaluation.
My mistake. It's a shame Opposing Force 2 is dead in the water.

>>389284528
REEEEEEEE

>>389265803
KEK

>>389264442
Because you're an underaged faggot.

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>it's been 13 years
Why did Valve have to become so shit? It's so depressing.

Post them boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaIbWMJ9BEU

>>389295310

>Why did Valve have to become so shit? It's so depressing.

One could argue that Gabe's outward sincerity back then was all a ruse and that Half-Life 2 was created for the sole purpose of getting as many people to sign up to Steam. Before TF2, HL2 and CSS were the bread and butter of Valve. They didn't start releasing third party games on Steam until late 2007 either. After the success of TF2 and Portal through indirect advertisement via fan youtube videos of gmod and tf2 bonk remixes, it basically caused a flood of people to install Steam and Valve started to realize that it was a much more profitable venture to focus on those games (Portal, TF2, L4D) then anything else.

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>>389295797
Pretty much. They went where the money was. Gabe just realized he couldn't and doesn't need to please everyone. People were going to be left behind, IP's as well. Half Life was just the we'd want to keep going, for all it once was, what it meant for gaming, what it meant for us.
But we're not profitable. Not enough, anyways.

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>>389292675
Is Ross Scott the James Rolfe of this decade?

>>389265195
exactly how i felt, thank you

>>389271356
He stops chasing you when you leave the building.

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>>389296817
Are you implying that the movie is going to be bad?

>>389283119
FERNS

Anyone else miss Civil Protection?
Didn't last as long as Freeman's mind, but it's still great.
https://youtu.be/tCuXnjmBH_Y

does picking up the shotgun gregori gives you fuck up the gravity gun chevo?

>>389269765
Why would you build that close to a neutron star?

>>389263027
Oh hey, its the tech demo the game...people actually like this fucking game.

>>389297410
No. As long as you never actually fire other weapons, you're good.

>>389297786
i got jewed

>>389267902
>fighting in the pacific theatre
>see imperial japanese soldier charging at me with bayonet
>aim rifle
>oh wait it's a nigger nvm

>>389297565
I think Half Life is a good game and its sequel a fine 6/10.

It's not about the game. It's about the community, all the mods, Machinema, vids and fun we had following the story. Half-Life was the lifeblood of PC gamers for over a decade and we want it back. Partially because it was a great time and we knew we could count on competent games, a fun storylife with a lore we could piece together and Volvo pushing the gaming tech further. We also want it back for nostalgia - it was our childhood and teens, right next to Quake and Unreal and Doom. And we want it back because it was about games, not profit margins and corrupt modern practices.

Half-Life isn't about a single masterpiece game. It's much, much bigger than that. And if you don't understand that, you're showing your underage. Respect your elders, cunt.

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>>389290150
God abandoned us on this cold rock. There is nothing left.

>>389263027
I can't

>>389297203
>space cop
pot meet kettle, mike

>>389297203
I'm saying he just wants to make his stuff. James had fun making stuff and it's what he wanted to do.

>>389297959
Literally this

Half-Life is more than the sum of its parts

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>>389298065
You need to let this sink in. We live in a world where Half Life, of the best selling and critically acclaimed series ever with no panned entries and no flops got a quiet conclusion via pastebin. And Valve is making a DOTA 2 card game in its place.

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>>389298354
I want to die

>>389297959
Admittedly I'm not that old, only in my early 20's. But fuck man, I honestly thought the whole "half life 3" thing was a meme because when I recently played half life 2, I felt like i was left out of the biggest joke in the history of gaming. My mind couldn't comprehend how people could like half life 2 enough to want another one, yet people did.

I even tried playing it through Synergy, with friends, and still couldn't have fun. And yeah, it's probably because I'm too late in playing it, but fuck, there are still games older that I can enjoy.

But it is good to know that people don't want Half life 3 because of them simply liking 1 and 2, but because of something more.

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>>389293743
>That feel when Red

Maybe Valve and Steam should split.

>>389299862

>Maybe Valve and Steam should split.

Steam IS Valve. Why would they split from the multi billion dollar revenue stream?

>>389300330
They wouldn't be splitting the revenue stream, dumb dumb. They would be splitting the organizations. Valve would continuously make games and Steam would continuously... IDK, negotiate to get more titles and for cheaper?

>>389300620

Valve is already opening another office up. They already have various divisions in their company. There is no point on expanding and creating another split entity because that wouldn't benefit Valve at all. Why make games if money comes to them already? They don't give a fuck about making Half Life. They want to create products the cheapest way possible without having to size up.

>>389298498
HL1 is far superior

>>389301904
>why not keep cutting cooking and cutting steaks with pizza ovens and pizza cutters when they are making so much money selling steaks?
Because they have the system in place for developing games completely separate from Steam that they are losing sight of and not making proper use of. They need focus. That would benefit Valve.

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I'm trying to play HL: Residual Life but all the scientists textures are fucked up. Anyone else experience this, or know how to fix it?

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>>389264762

>>389302774

>That would benefit Valve.

Then email Gabe and tell him all the world renowned economists and what not he's hired over the years are wrong and that you're right. The guy already has over 4 billion dollars alone.

>>389302774

>Because they have the system in place for developing games

Why develop games that cost a lot of money when you can cheap it out by making a TCG that only needs 3 developers and will make large amounts of money?

>>389297959
>>389302215
>>389298498

I'm not going to argue against you guys about your opinion of HL2. You can like what you like. Heck I even admit that it took me 3 attempts at starting HL2 for me to enjoy it and complete it. I'm just tired of this meme of people thinking HL2 is bad because it's anything but.

I have found most of the people who don't like HL2 are the ones that didn't play it till much later after other shooters stared to do things that HL2 had innovated. It was a completely different game back then because other shooters hadn't done what it was doing yet. Things like the physics and the gravity gun, the first person cinematic experiences like shooting down the helicopter on the bridge, the way the story was not just told by spoon feeding you information but through the world itself, all of this played a role into why HL2 is just as great if not better than the first game.

IDK, enjoy what you like and play what you want, but HL2 was great.

>>389298354
Not even sure if altering the timeline was worth it anymore. The deep state and media Zeitgeist are more powerful than I imagined.

>>389303526
Autism.

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>>389264442

>>389303850
It's some guy giving his opinion

>>389263027

Half-Life 3 died. Get over it.

Valve killed it because it was becoming another Halo clone. The market wanted COD clones so they made the logical choice of killing the IP franchise on a high-note instead of being another DNF.

>>389303949
Autism is liking a shitty game and trying so hard to say that it innovated anything.

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>>389298354
funny how things work out

>>389304049
>trying
ah yes, the mortal sin of /v/

>>389291895
Ross you give those people their souls back right now!

>>389303850
>>389304049
Kys

>>389298354

Too bad.

The leak script of "Half-Life 3" make it clear that the game was going to be shit and become a bigger disappointment then DNF.

>>389293334
That's not how thermodynamics work.

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>>389304728
Sorry anon, aside from the horrible english I can discount your opinion from its shit taste alone

>>389303526
HL2 is infinitely inferior to Doom, which was released like 10 years earlier. Not a bad game perse, just a chore to play.

>>389293126
It's mostly underaged laughing at e-celeb shit. It's like the people that watched those Gmod/kitty0706 videos back in 2011

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>>389298354
I'm okay with that. I don't really care if they release another game at this point. I got what I really wanted, and that was closure. Besides, it could've been worse.
Much worse

>>389297959
I'm almost completely through with my playthrough of HL2, and I'd agree that the game falls between a 6 and 7 out of 10.

The game starts out super slow, but then you get to the airboat and I honestly really dig this segment. The airboat does drag on a bit and it repeats the whole missle dodging thing a few times, along with needing to dodge the chopper a few times, but the addition of the gun on the boat makes things better and mixes up the rest of the chapter.

Then Ravenholm is a nice, short segment that stresses the importance of the gravity gun and is followed by the highway, which has a lot of fun environments to get into firefights with. Also fighting the gunships is a ton of fun as they move around a lot and actually shoot your missiles out of the air. The game stays pretty solid up until Nova Prospekt, which starts out pretty nicely but drags on and repeats itself a lot. As soon as you get inside you spend a while knocking down turrets so your bugs can get deeper inside, then you spend 3 different segments setting up turrets so you can defend a position from the combine, with the last position being the teleporter out of there. It just feels lazy. You also fight two more antlion queens, but I actually like those parts.

The City fighting is were the game starts to pick back up, but slowly. Using the squad while moving through tight apartments is annoying, but retaking that old bank with Barny and fighting off all those striders is pretty damn fun. I really dug how the first set of striders forces you to constantly move to find more ammo.

I just got to the Citadel, but I remember it being pretty mediocre, but overall I'm kind of amazed that the game really isn't as good as I remember it being, not bad but still a fairly lacking experience when you consider the hype and praise the game gets. I mean I still like it, but it's definitly one of the weaker "classic" shooters out there.

>>389292559
Ross and LGR are the only vidya jewtubers that i enjoy watching

I wonder if there'll ever be another singleplayer experience from Valve ever again. Something about their engine and the games they made with it really breathed atmosphere, and it was fun exploring those games. And after you finished, there was always the community around it.

I miss the Orange Box days. And I miss playing endless rounds of TF2 with my high school friends. Those days are all gone now.

>>389293334
"So many stars, so many planets," sighed Jerrodine, busy with her own thoughts. "I suppose families will be going out to new planets forever, the way we are now."

"Not forever," said Jerrodd, with a smile. "It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase."

"What's entropy, daddy?" shrilled Jerrodette II.

"Entropy, little sweet, is just a word which means the amount of running-down of the universe. Everything runs down, you know, like your little walkie-talkie robot, remember?"

"Can't you just put in a new power-unit, like with my robot?"

The stars are the power-units, dear. Once they're gone, there are no more power-units."

Jerrodette I at once set up a howl. "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down."

"Now look what you've done, " whispered Jerrodine, exasperated.

"How was I to know it would frighten them?" Jerrodd whispered back.

"Ask the Microvac," wailed Jerrodette I. "Ask him how to turn the stars on again."

"Go ahead," said Jerrodine. "It will quiet them down." (Jerrodette II was beginning to cry, also.)

Jarrodd shrugged. "Now, now, honeys. I'll ask Microvac. Don't worry, he'll tell us."

He asked the Microvac, adding quickly, "Print the answer."

Jerrodd cupped the strip of thin cellufilm and said cheerfully, "See now, the Microvac says it will take care of everything when the time comes so don't worry."

Jerrodine said, "and now children, it's time for bed. We'll be in our new home soon."

Jerrodd read the words on the cellufilm again before destroying it: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

>>389305814
3 singleplayer games are on the way

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>>389275745
Well, they used to be
Chink genetics have almost entirely overtaken them

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>>389305406
It really isn't but I'm not going to argue opinions.
>>389305673
I don't understand why you're rating it now. Like I said, people have grown accustomed to things other shooters took from HL2 when it first came out. Of course it has aged a bit it came out 13 years ago. If you don't enjoy it as much as you did before that's fine, but that doesn't mean its a bad game because there are tons of other people including myself who have a blast every time we replay it.

>>389306037
I may be wrong but I thought it was 3 VR games?

>>389290150
>I remember years back Valve said HL2:e3 was cancelled
I don't remember that.

>>389306227
My point is that you keep saying people rate it low because they experienced modern shooters, and that's not true. It didn't hold up then, it doesn't hold up now.

>>389263027
Would you say this is an iconic vidya moment?

>>389306390
At least 1 isn't, but I swear Gabe said in an AMA that they are VR compatible

>>389306660
Ye

>>389306439
But thats completely wrong

>, but overall I'm kind of amazed that the game really isn't as good as I remember it being
You literally said this.

There's a reason it was critically acclaimed by fans and critics at the time. If you didn't like the game that's fine, because no one really cares. The game was a masterpiece for its time and holds up today.

>>389263027
I thought Half Life 2 sucked.
Fight me.

>>389306918
>You literally said this.
That wasn't me though, I'm >>389305406. If nobody cared you wouldn't be replying to me now, would you?

The gunplay was mediocre, the AI wasn't very bright, the vehicle sections are too long for their own good and the scripted sequences are tedious.

>>389264348
>heavily scripted event
>hailed as the greatest example of ? ever.

I'm far more impressed by the guys in Perfect Dark surrendering to me, and then occasionally pulling out a sidearm when you turned your back.

>>389306227
I played it when it was new, just giving my opinions on it now that I've replayed it recently. Just saying that it's good but overrated.

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>>389289168
>Half Life Episode Three is LITERALLY Redddit: The Game

>>389307483
well /v/'s not gonna do anything, they're too busy saying its shit, so I guess the real fans are doing something about it.

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>>389307163
fine that was my mistake. I'm still not going to argue opinions because everything you just said is an opinion that unfortunately for you most people disagree with.

> If nobody cared you wouldn't be replying to me now, would you?
I meant nobody who enjoys the game cares that you dislike it because the number of people who do enjoy it far outweighs everyone else.

>>389307434
And you don't think that has anything to do with how shooters have changed because of the influence HL2 had on the industry? If you deny that idk what to say man,

>>389297959
I disagree with you a bit there, I loved HL without participating in the community but since HL threads have been popping up in /v/ it's sure been fun participating in them

>>389302928
What problem are you facing?

>>389307704
Why do you keep bringing up popularity as if it had anything to do with the topic? I have no problem with you disagreeing with me but don't hide behind that weak shit.

>>389306423
He's probably exaggerating on purpose, it was implied by Gaben that they'd moved on from episodic models and are now committed to full games

>>389308068
>Full games
>games
In another timeline, there is a universe where we get nice things.

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>>389305673
HL2 is the Seinfeld of video games.
Its like watching Seinfeld, and going, "Wow that was really good." They you go watch How I Met Your Mother, and going "Haha, that was pretty good too". Then finally, you go back to Seinfeld and go "Meh".
What makes HL2 (and incidentally HL1) great is that it did what every other game is currently doing ,first and it did it back in 2004 (while half life did it back in 1998). Remember HL2:EP2 came out a month before CoD4:MW and is still regarded as the better game. Every game since it came out copied it so now when we go back from games like FEAR, CoD, Crysis, and so on, we find that HL2 was doing the same thing.
Its just like Seinfeld. Seinfeld did what every single sitcom is currently doing and it did it back in the late 80's and through out the 90's. Compared to modern Sitcoms its pretty meh. That is only because everybody copies the Seinfeld formula.

>>389308068
If they were working on a full game someone somewhere would have seen something by now. They were showing off HL2 as early as 2001 when barely anything was done and it was probably goldsrc.

>>389305580

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

>>389268645
>If you have cancer, you are the cancer

>>389290150
HL2 ep 3 does exist, anon, in the other universes. And in at least one of those episode 3s, there's a reference to how the events haven't occurred in the other universes (such as ours), because Valve is that brilliant it's meta on a multi universal level.

>That part in HL2 where you given the gravity gun in the citadel

Gaming equivalent of orgasm

>>389308218
HL1 beats the shit out of pretty much everything that came after it.

>>389308570
Multiverse is theoretical
Valve not making a game doesn't make them brilliant. For all we know, it's a constant in every universe. This might be the only universe where they didn't go bankrupt

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THIS ACTION DOES NOT HAVE MY CONSENT!

>>389308758
>Multiverse is only theoretical

Then how do you explain ep 3 existing?

>>389263027
AM I BEING DETAINED
AM I BEING DETAINED
AM I BEING DETAINED
AM I BEING DETAINED
AM I BEING DETAINED
AM I BEING DETAINED

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>>389307971
Why do you insist that popularity has nothing to do with it? And its not like HL2 is the most popular game either, it definitely hasn't hit the numbers CoD or Halo has, its just the general consensus of people who have played it have enjoyed it immensely. Whats so hard to realize about that? You can have your opinion but when you back it up with nothing but "x is > y because I said so" is pretty petty.

>>389309818
>Why do you insist that popularity has nothing to do with it?
Because it doesn't? I'm talking about the game, not about how much people liked the game.

>but when you back it up with nothing but "x is >y because I said so" is pretty petty
Criticizing the game is petty, gotcha. I'll suck its dick 24/7 from now on, please forgive me.

>>389309818
Road Warrior (or even Fury Road) didn't pull in the same numbers as Transformers but it is still a way better movie.

ffs gamers put hfl2 way too much on a pedal stool

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>>389264334
>I thought the CIA spook was gonna put me in Hawaii
>Freeman ends up on a beach in a tropical setting at the end of Epistle 3

>>389310193
>>389310292
Democracy isn't the best system, but it is the best we've got.

>Criticizing the game is petty, gotcha. I'll suck its dick 24/7 from now on, please forgive me.
All you said was DOOM was infinitely superior which is an opinion not a critique; in fact you haven't critiqued anything about the game.

I mean you can meme how much you think HL2 sucks with you're only argument being "I said so" but if that's the case but the fact is is that you're wrong.

>>389310709
Democracy as a system of government has nothing to do with whether it's accurate to gauge the quality of a work based simply on how many people fucking like it. Not even the anon you're arguing with, just wondering how you're making the argument you're making (unless you're trolling).

>>389310709
>Democracy isn't the best system, but it is the best we've got.
Democracy doesn't work in media.

>in fact you haven't critiqued anything about the game.
>
The gunplay was mediocre, the AI wasn't very bright, the vehicle sections are too long for their own good and the scripted sequences are tedious.
>inb4 "because I said so"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WqAmuSXEQ

>>389295797
I remember him talking to Geoff Keighley back in 2006 about how he had planned to make yearly installments for the HL2 saga. It was always about
finding what distribution system worked best for Valve, and the episodes were just a failed experiment. He has been greedy for a while.

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>>389310905
>being this retarded.
Anon I...

>>389298354
As long as Steam exists, Half-Life 3 will not.

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>>389265195
TWO DYSON SPHERES?!?

>>389270017
Jaakko is so comfy.

>>389310968
>The gunplay was mediocre,
>You can rip a space heater off a wall and shoot it into the head of an enemy.
>You can catch a grenade in mid air and punt it into the face of another enemy,
>Shoot one of those disintegration balls into a tight space and watch it ricochet around the entire room vaporizing everyone. The ball can even bounce back and hit you if you aren't careful.
>The laser on the rocket launcher allows you to fly the rocket around corners and around obstacles so you can hit the target from weird angles.

>>389311741
>Conveniently forgetting how the pistol sounds like a peashooter and might as well hit as hard as one
>Or how the shotgun needs two shots to resemble a shotgun
>Or how the SMG's only decent feature was its alternate fire mode
>Or how the actual satisfying guns had sparse ammo
>Or how the ball bouncing back on you did so little damage that it didn't even matter

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>>389264334
>Ross is getting married in October
>Promised new FM later today
>Promised new Game Dungeon on Thursday

>>389310968
>using an exploit most people would consider funny charm as a reason the game sucks.
I mean ok? You wanted perfect AI in a 2004 game?

>The gunplay was mediocre, the AI wasn't very bright, the vehicle sections are too long for their own good
The gunplay was great for its time. No other game had done anything similar like the gravity gun and it was a very fun way to play the game. The AI was bright but it did have exploits. The vehicle sections are long but I'd argue that thats what gave HL2 its charm. You experience the full narrative of the game this way and theres many story elements you get to see by exploring the world that you wouldnt of otherwise known. Besides vehicles are fun .
>and the scripted sequences are tedious.
How dare a game have scripted sequences, it's almost as if they want to tell you a story and let you experience "awe moments"

>Democracy doesn't work in media.
Yeah it does man, but in media people vote with their wallets. A lot of people bought HL2, enough so that they made 2 sequels.

I don't understand your personal vendetta for the game. Does the fact that tons of people enjoy something you don't mean that much to you?

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>>389265195

>what are binary stars

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>>389311984
>Conveniently forgetting how the pistol sounds like a peashooter and might as well hit as hard as one
shit opinion
>Or how the shotgun needs two shots to resemble a shotgun
Not true, shotguns killed in 1 shot at close range. Most games limit the shotguns range so that they're balanced.
>Or how the SMG's only decent feature was its alternate fire mode
Again not true.
>Or how the actual satisfying guns had sparse ammo
How dare they balance maps so you can't just spam the most powerful weapons and actually have to think before you use something.

>Or how the ball bouncing back on you did so little damage that it didn't even matter
Yeah I'm done. Your opinions are actually just shit dude.

>>389312210
>Claim the game has bad AI
>hurr durr "because I said so"
>Provide proof
>lol it's funny charm, why do you want perfect AI?
Okay.

>I don't understand your personal vendetta for the game.
What personal vendetta? Why do you keep projecting, post after post, and claim that I somehow hate the game even though I literally said in my first post that I don't think it's bad?

>Does the fact that tons of people enjoy something you don't mean that much to you?
God forbid I discuss Half Life in a Half Life thread. I'll leave you guys to your circlejerk then.

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>>389263027
Fuck valve.

>>389297203
I would unironically buy and enjoy a Ross's Game Dungeon game.

>>389308218
And just like how I'm drawn back to watch Seinfeld, I come back to HL2. Despite others copying what made it successful (which I saw/played first), they both have a charm that's hard to explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iu4GXUHfU0

>>389263027
FUCK THE COMBINE COMIN' STRAIGHT FROM THE DYSON'S SPHERE
A YOUNG HUMAN GOT IT BAD 'CAUSE I'M FREE
AND NOT ANOTHER SPECIES SO METRO COPS THINK
THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ENSLAVE EARTH'S MAJORITY

>>389290150
If you believe any of the rumors, it's apparently a right of passage to make HL3 and then have it scrapped. They've apparently done it internally at least three, possibly as many as seven times.

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>>389313843
Same, I just finished a play-through of Episode One. By God that game still holds up.
It's like the old Homeworld games. Its old as fuck but it has aged like a fine wine.

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>>389311391
How can you humans even compete?

>>389315071
We couldn't. There was a whole war about it.

>>389292559
Ross is part of the "old" YouTube style of thinking, where people were after exposure and not just money. 2007-2010 were great, aside from ray Williams starting the cancer

>>389305715
And now youtubes jewing lgr with demonitizing half his videos.

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>>389263027
I place the can in the garbage every time, like a good citizen.

All of you edgy neets would never stand up to a metrocop and you should accept your station.

>>389316742
shit, for real? he deserves better.

>>389316850
https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/898259929227710464

>>389303526
> I'm just tired of this meme of people thinking HL2 is bad because it's anything but.

What? It's the opposite dude. That's why I was so fucking confused when playing half life 2 for the first time because all I've ever heard was that it was an amazing game and that everyone who mentions it loves it. I've never once heard anything bad from it. The meme is that it's GOOD, not the other way around.

Is there a half life fan artwork site where I can find all the new art with Gordon and dyson shperes n stuff?

>Playing Synergy for the first time

Met some of the funniest people ever in my first hour but damn the mic spam in that game is ridiculous.

>>389317307
yeah, it's called tumblr

>>389317362
Mic spam in source games was amazing.

>>389265195
honestly the difficulty of showing scale like that is probably why the ending to episode 3 would have been slightly different than what was written. it's easy enough to say "you see a dyson sphere", it's a lot harder to effectively show it.

>>389317974
The Citadel looking big in HL2 was just skybox fuckery. The actual model was really small.

>>389317974
I really think they could pull it off. If anyone could, Valve circa 2011 could do it.

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>>389318265
?

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>>389318137
Well yeah. That's how they do it in movies too.

>>389318345
I don't think it would be that hard. I would just draw a skybox and then slowly zoom in on it while seamlessly swapping out the skybox so I could continue zooming. That way you could start really "far off" and end up "really close" while keeping the same level of detail.

Pic related is the skybox to a level in Homeworld 2. Its part of a Dyson Sphere.

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>>389318443

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>>389265803
yet these anons can't

HALF LIFE
FULL LIFE CONSEQUENCES

FREE...MAN

>>389269198
Ross doesn't live in the US. He lives with his Polish gf I think.

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>>389308526
>>389268645
>>389267902

>>389292880
You could easily include Dog in the plot, just have him tag along when they travel to Antarctica. Hell, they could even have him have a sad death moment when he sacrifices himself holding off the Combine so Gordon and Alyx can continue the mission or something.

>>389318137
An early draft of Episode 3 involved the player finding what was basically an assembly line for citadels. In a way that'd probably be a more effective way of showing the scale of the Combine, if you consider how huge the citadel was and how much effort it took to destroy, then realize the combine are producing those things like they're a cheap sweatshop gppds.

>>389297952
underrated

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>>389290640
>we won't get that beer barny owed us

>>389319817
>new vegas
>third game
I like the way you think.

>>389319817
>New Vegas
>3rd game
>actual 3rd game is literally Fallout 3
Why are redditors so retarded?

inb4 tactics

>>389319949
Brotherhood of steel :^)

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>>389295797

I think it was also because half-life 1 and 2 were messes of development schedules that went vastly over what they originally planned.

Remember how they bought up the company that was working on that new liquid method? Used them on portal 2 for a gimmick then dropped them. Gabe came from Microsoft, he knows that you don't make products, you make platforms. SFM is proof of this

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>>389320101
the resemblance really made me think

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>>389298197

Space cop was one of those in-jokes that got made that only the people who made it will enjoy

I'm glad that they are honest about being hack frauds

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>>389319057

that would be neat

>turns out nihilinth was right

Though if G-man was working for the combine, why did he set you up to fuck up everything for them?

>>389320628
you think a dyson sphere society doesn't have its own rebels and subfactions?

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>>389320628
>Casualties:
>Jackie Chan [disputed]

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>>389321047

The combine, at this point, are cogs in a vast machine with only a small, minuscule portion capable of free will. The G-man is some powerful entity, yet despite its tie to the combine, its relying on some random human?

I liked the idea of a G-man being a mysterious third party who was the wrench in the works for everyone. Sort of like Nyralhotep's interaction with just about everyone and anyone

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>>389265803
All these Polish Women are stealing good American Nerds away from their homes. Make them stop!

>>389263027
I didn't catch what he said the first time. Ended up pushing past him. Within the first 10 minutes of the game I was already getting my ass whooped. I never knew why he hit me until later.

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>>389321232
>her hand
I'm all for more sylvie's, but christ that's bad

>>389264442
I love the source engine. It encourages experimenting. It's why I like TF2 more than Overwarch.

You think the US, Western Europe, or even East Asia has nicer Citadels?
Because I was always wondering whether the Combine truly fucked up that much shit, or if you were just in an average Commieblock.

>>389321791
Doubt it. Breen wouldn't stay in the shittiest citadel. Almost nothing he does needs him to be in City 17, so if there was a nicer citadel out there, he could work remotely from it.

>>389321791
Probably not. City 17 was one of the better Citadels.
>"Welcome. Welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I've been proud to call City 17 my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown - welcome to City 17. It's safer here."

>>389321498
it's like the perspective is literally inverted on it

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>>389319949
>fallout 3
>not a spin off

>>389322809
Maybe they say that about EVERY Citadel
The administrator of City 5 claims they're the best, City 9 claims that all other Cities suck ass, City 2 has itself in the number one spot.

>>389316812
I did it in the hopes that that record of civilian compliance would work in my favor if the Combine arrested me and held me at trial.

>>389263027
Don't forget to tag dota 2 with "R.I.P Half-life 2"

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Tell me ONE thing that Wallace Breen did wrong.
Protip: He did nothing wrong