sammyCYBORG
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Nope miles better than the original and still one of the greatest games ever made.
Along with Ep 2.
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Along with Ep 2.
I find HL2 to be a huge disappointment compared to HL1 outside of the engine
2004 Valve was much closer to the requirements of a competent 2004 studio than current Valve is to a 2016 studio.
Modern campaign-based games just can't be created as 'casually' as they once could. The amount of heads-down, discipled work required had risen exponentially, and that doesn't fit Valve's current MO (as confirmed by numerous reports and rumours about what goes on there).
Piston Hyundai
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Half-Life 2 isn't a bad game or anything, but the original game is practically genre defining (and also just a better put-together game).
Human Trashcan
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HL1 has Xen. I think HL2 is a substantially better game.
Portal > Portal 2 forever though. It was lean, mean, had amazing world-building, zero fat, it was perfect. Portal 2 was just puzzles for the sake of puzzles with funny dialogue. I got bored halfway through.
sammyCYBORG
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This man knows his right opinions.
sammy is drunk
Piston Hyundai
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And HL2 has like two different mediocre vehicle segments that greatly overstay their welcome.
HL2 has the Titanfall 2 "loosely throw a bunch of cool ideas together" mentality, which is neat on its own, but doing that in a follow-up to one of the more cohesive campaigns out there is a bummer.
They're all fine with it while they sleep in their mattress made of money.
The robots will run steam indefinitely, the players will make 90% of the content updates for their games and Valve will keep innovating until they somehow manage to get Half Life 3 made by the robots and the players without them knowing they made it themselves.
Jimiquisition did one. Pretty short tho.
Human Trashcan
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I never felt that way about them. I'm walking back my "substantially better" comment though, Xen sucks but HL1 is an all-time classic with a lot of great stuff in it. Maybe some parts of it are a little dated but I can't throw it under the bus. As a whole I'd probably still say HL2 is slightly better.
Ventilaator
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A few years ago I played Half-Life 1 & 2 one right after the other, for the first time.
Thought Half-Life 1 was great. Aged in spots, but I found it easy to look past all that. Half-Life 2 on the other hand was just annoying.
Thought Half-Life 1 was great. Aged in spots, but I found it easy to look past all that. Half-Life 2 on the other hand was just annoying.
Piston Hyundai
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I can tell you exactly why it's annoying, but first let me dump five minutes of exposition on you while you just stand there.
which, to be fair, is done in HL1 but not nearly as much
Human Trashcan
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But you could play with the little hawaiian aloha doll!
Ventilaator
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Always found it hilarious when people praised Half-Life 2 for having more natural storytelling and not having cutscenes.
There are no cutscenes about as much as Metal Gear doesn't have any cutscenes - both allow you to fiddle with the "camera" while a cutscene is happening.
Gozer the Gozerian
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Finally picked up XCOM 2, like the first game half my enjoyment comes from treating it like Oregon Trail, naming all my characters after friends and seeing who makes it out alive.
Hey I specified that it was work related, thank you very much
http://jeff.zone/post/154488205291/i-should-note-that-the-dolphin-penis-handling-was
Hey I specified that it was work related, thank you very much
http://jeff.zone/post/154488205291/i-should-note-that-the-dolphin-penis-handling-was
avengers23
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Waypoint put its first GOTY cast up on Monday.
AuthenticM
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Who's making the thread for the GotY stuff?
funkystudent
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While we are on the Half Life talk train...
.. HL2 Episode 1 suuuucks
.. HL2 Episode 1 suuuucks
Piston Hyundai
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I played through it doing the One Free Bullet thing and I thought it was okay. Episode 2 was so easy it was boring, though.
These are way way shorter on replays and not nearly as grueling. I actually think they are just about the right length. Still, Surface Tension from HL1 is probably one of the best sections in the franchise. I like HL2 and the follow-up episodes a bit more overall because I'm a sucker for story, though the ending of HL2 kind of pissed me off at the time.
I liked it well enough, but Episode 2 was a bit better. That strider battle at the end was pretty great.
Twin Tails
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shiftplusone
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theres a part in HL2 where you have already done a bunch of shit and then you walk into a tunnel and there is literally a high wall on your right, a see saw on the ground, and 1 brick.
It's like they thought "ITS A PHYSICS PUZZLE ITS SO GOOD WE'RE SO SMART" and at that point I felt valve was so far up their own ass about their physics engine that I couldn't care
the airboat and buggy sucked
ravenholm was kind of annoying more than "the most tense i've ever felt playing a game" but whatever.
HL2 is fine, I don't think it was in my top 5 that year. HL1 was when it came out though
It's like they thought "ITS A PHYSICS PUZZLE ITS SO GOOD WE'RE SO SMART" and at that point I felt valve was so far up their own ass about their physics engine that I couldn't care
the airboat and buggy sucked
ravenholm was kind of annoying more than "the most tense i've ever felt playing a game" but whatever.
HL2 is fine, I don't think it was in my top 5 that year. HL1 was when it came out though
I played TF2 again yesterday because I was bored. Still awesome. Wish it would have much less weapon bullshit tough (like this is news to anyone)
Simplistic puzzles like that were made prominent because that level of physics in games was a super new thing in the mid 00s. It's part of why I want to replay HL2 sometime soon. I feel like it might have aged worse than the first.
Physics puzzled just to show off the physics modelling of the game really do help to date HL2 and reminds me of a completely forgotten section of Episode 2 in that ruined building. The physics engine is pretty damn great, but it's not the highlight like it once was.
As for forgotten areas, people tend to forget about the second worst section of HL, On a Rail. Glad the remake did the same.
As for forgotten areas, people tend to forget about the second worst section of HL, On a Rail. Glad the remake did the same.
Did you play HL2 at release or come to it later? I remember that physics puzzle being new and interesting.
if you buy that wheel, you're just one step away from a DXRacer.
is that who you want to be?
The answer will always be yes.
Maiden Voyage
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I think that is my next purchase. Not for Truck Simulator, more for racing games.
Twin Tails
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Seeing Alex smile makes me weirdly uncomfortable.
Also whoever said that the NieR: Automata Demo is hot:
Fuck yes it is. This feels like the Platinum that made Bayo 2 and MGR.
And y'know, the music is NieR-tier which makes it amazing.
Also whoever said that the NieR: Automata Demo is hot:
Fuck yes it is. This feels like the Platinum that made Bayo 2 and MGR.
And y'know, the music is NieR-tier which makes it amazing.
Too bad the game will end in absolute tragedy because Yoko Taro
ratcliffja
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Neither game comes close to the greatness of Portal 2, so I think Valve must have done something right there. I still love Valve, but it breaks my heart that they seem to have abandoned all game content outside DOTA. I just want the MOBA bubble to burst.
CheDominik
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Had that a couple of weeks ago. Got a week off from work and felt better just one day later. Great trade off.
Twin Tails
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12/26-12/30
BreezyLimbo
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Hmm death metalist hasnt gotten back to me. Daydream? Maybe?
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