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One of my favorite parts of HL2 was the roadside houses of Highway 17. I remember checking one of them out and being creeped out by the total quiet, felt really ominous. I went upstairs and looked in every room (or so I thought), and after looking in the last one I finally relaxed only to turn around and A loving BLACK HEADCRAB ZOMBIE RIGHT BEHIND ME HOLY gently caress. He was hiding around a corner in one of the rooms I thought was safe. Easily my scariest video game moment.
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Great Joe posted:Half-Life Opposing Force is great and I think it is the best Half-Life game ever. They'll never make another game like Opposing Force to go with a popular shooter ever again.
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Nov 28, 2014 06:26
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I replayed HL2 and the episodes about a year ago and was blown away by how much it lived up to my memories. Storming the beach and into the prison Normandy style with an antlion army is insanely legit. Ravenholm is sick, so was the whole uprising part of the game. The only thing that doesn't really work is the endless hoverboat sequence near the beginning. And Ep 2? Completely win all the way through. e: Also FEAR 1 was a really good game with the best shotgun ever (yes better than Doom 2's own super shotgun imho) Fuligin fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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Nov 28, 2014 06:34
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Top Bunk Wanker posted:They'll never make another game like Opposing Force to go with a popular shooter ever again.
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Nov 28, 2014 14:28
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Top Bunk Wanker posted:They'll never make another game like Opposing Force to go with a popular shooter ever again.
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Nov 28, 2014 15:04
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Proposition Joe posted:Portal 2 came out in 2011, where is Portal 3? Where is Half-Life 3? Where is Left4Dead 3? Where is Team Fortress 3? Where is DOTA3????? I mean come on, they just released Big Picture Mode only, what, 2 years ago? Give them some time to decompress.
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Nov 28, 2014 15:15
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darealkooky posted:half life 2 is pretty good, and it created the source engine and steam which are super good It's really hard to pin the failure of the genre on a single game from that period. Halo and COD4 are also responsible.
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Nov 28, 2014 15:33
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Human Grand Prix posted:It's really hard to pin the failure of the genre on a single game from that period. Halo and COD4 are also responsible. half life 2 is actually the only game responsible because valve made it so good and leagues above any other game that could be created, which rose the bar so high no other company could even compete with it
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Nov 28, 2014 15:37
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I'd place the blame more on Counter Strike than Half-Life 2 for ruining FPS games. Sure, nowadays it's all surf maps and bunnyhopping but to most people who played it close to release, it was the COD of its day.
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Nov 28, 2014 16:14
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I blame halo with its gay rear end floaty slow physics and its arsenal of 2 loving weapons for being the biggest ruiner. you may say half life 2's weapon selection is bad (and youre wrong) but at least there was always something different to choose from. where the heck are my massive pockets game developers?!
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Nov 28, 2014 16:21
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It takes quite a bit of effort to look at the nice radial menu every Ratchet & Clank had and think console gamers can't handle more than 2 weapons ever.
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Nov 28, 2014 17:05
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The sound design on the handgun was super cool when HL2 was released, too bad you never shoot anything that reacts like bullets are hitting it.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:23
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the movement in that game looks really lovely
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Nov 28, 2014 19:32
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VideoGames posted:I blame halo with its gay rear end floaty slow physics and its arsenal of 2 loving weapons for being the biggest ruiner. you may say half life 2's weapon selection is bad (and youre wrong) but at least there was always something different to choose from. Yeah the run speed in Halo is slow as balls and I didn't like what they did with the jump in 2; it's awful.
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Fargield posted:the movement in that game looks really lovely
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I entered into this world on the day that Half Life 2 passed through our solar system and I will leave it on the day of Half Life 2's return.
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Remember Kick Boat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_EKaFvM1NM&t=703s
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literally watched the entire thing just to see what parts they were able to completely bypass by glitching the physics
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Wolfsheim posted:literally watched the entire thing just to see what parts they were able to completely bypass by glitching the physics it's a very good speedrun. the highway bits are especially loving crazy. thread related: i loving love hl2 and i want hl3/episode 3 very badly but gently caress gaben
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Nov 30, 2014 09:30
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I am pretty impressed how good HL2 still looks in these videos.
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ultimateforce posted:I am pretty impressed how good HL2 still looks in these videos.
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It's one of the few games to realize that maybe if they make the art style favor lovely blocky terrain, they can have lovely block maps and still look good.
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Nov 30, 2014 16:40
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Larry Parrish posted:It's one of the few games to realize that maybe if they make the art style favor lovely blocky terrain, they can have lovely block maps and still look good. durr, environments with buildings are lovely and blocky hl2 utilizes blocks in order to optimize their maps, but they aren't noticeably blokcy because they put all that detail into it to make it look hella sweet. and they jam pack a lot of stuff into a small space and let you see where you're going and then see where you've been. valve owns at making maps
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Grim posted:i played a bit of original half-life but didn't really care for it, steam and half-life 2 became a thing that my friends were raving about but it didn't sway me, but then i saw the original Portal trailer and was like yea okay maybe i'll give their other games a go I think its really cool of them to make the game as long as that trailer.
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Borsche69 posted:I think its really cool of them to make the game as long as that trailer. originally they were going to end the game at the fire spot. but they had enough time to make more, so they added the behind the scenes part. the behind the scenes part was an afterthought. oh my loving god that is crazy portal kinda owns, valve owns
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If you've ever mapped for the source engine, you'll realize that it really does lend itself to making sorta blocky environments, so good mapping either comes from working around that to make an environment that isn't blocky despite your limitations, like the canals or Ravenholm, or a blocky environment that looks great and works well despite that, like Nova Prospekt. In summary,obstipator posted:valve owns at making maps also I liked half life 1 more than 2, but mostly because I feel it had more memorable areas
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i wish someone would make a portal/hl2 combo mod that was actually good. it seems like it would be really hard to make a map that was well-designed for both soldiers and platform puzzling though. mostly i just want to portal grenades into groups of combine and fly around the map at light speed with the shotgun.
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ultimateforce posted:I am pretty impressed how good HL2 still looks in these videos.
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Bobnumerotres posted:it's a very good speedrun. the highway bits are especially loving crazy. yeah, that and ravenholm being almost entirely bypassed were kind of amazing. i also quite enjoyed it when, because he couldn't cheat past the nova prospekt turret defense bits, he just jumped up to an inaccessible floor and spent the whole time shooting a dick into the wall, then slowly turning that dick into a cartoon gordon freeman 
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Wolfsheim posted:yeah, that and ravenholm being almost entirely bypassed were kind of amazing. i also quite enjoyed it when, because he couldn't cheat past the nova prospekt turret defense bits, he just jumped up to an inaccessible floor and spent the whole time shooting a dick into the wall, then slowly turning that dick into a cartoon gordon freeman it's cool when TASers have time to gently caress around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2LrhpQWdQw (17 mins in for the fuckery)
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Wolfsheim posted:yeah, that and ravenholm being almost entirely bypassed were kind of amazing. i also quite enjoyed it when, because he couldn't cheat past the nova prospekt turret defense bits, he just jumped up to an inaccessible floor and spent the whole time shooting a dick into the wall, then slowly turning that dick into a cartoon gordon freeman
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HL2 sucks rear end. I'd replay Xen a hundred times before replaying the best part of HL2.
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DNS posted:HL2 sucks rear end. I'd replay Xen a hundred times before replaying the best part of HL2. Fly away, troll. 
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Scalding Coffee posted:It did get a very welcome graphical upgrade, so the character models no longer look horrible. hl2's problem isn't its character models. even today they look and behave pretty realistically because they used such a smart art style for them texture resolution is poo poo though, everything looks blurry/pixelated. there are high-res texture packs but then that just makes everything look wrinkly where is episode 3 gaben
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I've been playing it again and holy poo poo the squad sections are infuriating. these assholes don't do anything but get in the way, especially when i'm trying to strafe in and out of doorways to snipe some combine or something. sending them to where you're pointing doesn't always work. I also don't remember the scenes with alyx being so pandering it's still all a lot of fun
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anyone play synergy? that was cool, especially breaking character scripts and getting levels stuck. taking over the electromagnet crane first on route 17 and just being an rear end in a top hat smacking players with shipping containers and throwing their vehicles into the sea
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mr sad posted:I also don't remember the scenes with alyx being so pandering tbh most of the game is pretty pandering. i didn't notice or remember it until watching that speedrun and being forced to pay attention by virtue of not being the one loving around while whoever yammers on
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