Yes, and I still liked it the 100th time I played it

Loved it.

i fucking loved it

it was amazing

it ran on my shitty pc without a problem AND THAT FUCKING GRAVITY GUN AND SOURCE ENGINE HNGGGGGGGGG

Yes.

My first time playing it is now. All I'll say is that I liked the first better, this has little to do with it.

It was great.

And then I got the gravity gun.

And then things were super great.

dropped at ravenholdt

what did I miss?

No. I did not enjoy it. I am not going to play it again either.

What really made me get into it besides the story line which was fucking great from the begining, was the scene with the guard who knocked over tha can and told you to pick it up. Balanced that shit on his head.

Can we all agree this was a good game?

I would be quite surprise dif /v/ had a nice concensus on this

lol graphics shit, xbox gears of war looks way better and came out before.

yes it was and still is my favorite game, if I ever want to play a good FPS that's fun I play HL2

I tried to play HL1 and it was cool, but I couldn't get into it

>>81452450
urban warfare

I was disappointed when I first beat the game (back when it came out) and thought it was a disappointment.

I played it again years later on my 360 with the Orange Box and ended up loving it. Go figure. I think the controller vibrations helped the weapons not feel like the pewpewpeashooters that they are on the PC.

Played it the first time not even two years ago.

Not gonna lie, was the best game I ever experienced, better than Mass Effect 2 even.

nope, played it late and did not live up to the hype.
did not play rest of eps.

>>81452450
Squad based objectives through the city you explored at the start, only destroyed by rebels, and sporadic rebel combine fighting everywhere.

Half-life was amazing when it was first released. First game with a proper phsyics system not to mention the ragdolls, although much of this technology has been improved now it was still amazing back then. The graphics were incredible aswell.

I remember my PC wasn't good enough to play it so I had to play it on my sisters computer, although she would watch while I was playing it.

I feel like ever since half-life two was out, no game has been nearly so revolutionary in term of game mechanics, which makes me sad.

Nope. Got to the first long hallway with nothing to do and said fuck this shit.

Loved it

Fighting the combine gunships was kewl

Loldriving section sucked though, what;s the point of a vehicle that you have to get over obstacles and not the other way around?

Never played it.

>>81452539
>Buy Novint Falcon
>Play HL2
>HOLY FUCK THIS IS AWESOME
>I CAN'T EVEN AIM THE DAMN COMBINE RIFLE IT RECOILS SO MUCH

>>81452285
It was boring as shit, I'm not one who plays for story, I play for fun and action, this had neither, just story...

Oh man I remember waiting for HL2 to come out. I wasn't all that much into gaming, but by god Half Life and it's brothers were my favorite games ever. Every time a new screenshot or video or rumor (I remember looking up exactly what submachine gun was going to be in the game and bookmarked websites detailing it) I would just keep watching them over and over again.


Then I got the game. I must have played through HL2 about 10 times. What's funny is that I haven't even beaten HL2:E2. The magic... just feels kind of gone. ;_;

I still love this game. Occasionally do runthroughs you can do it in only about 8-10 hours depending how much you dick around.

Hated it. It was boring as shit.

I'm still waiting for an FPS game as good as Rainbow Six 1 and 2. I don't know if Rainbow Six 3 was good or not.

was meh until FUCKING BOAT LEVEL HOLY SHIT KILL THAT HELICOPTER WHAT THE FUCK COMBINE EVERYWHERE SHIT GO OVER THAT BURNING WRECKAGE OH SHITTTTTTT THAT WAS CLOSE FUCK KEEP ON GOING WATCH OUT FOR THOSE MINES

yep. and I've finished it like 10 times, still enjoy it.

>>81452285

I loved it, I remember when ATI 9800 Pro was like a god for steam games back then. It pretty much ran everything great and looked decent too. I remember playing the crap out of the Ravenholm demo when it came out.. gravity gun and saw blades to decapitate zombies never got boring.

Waterboat level was fun as shit, i crapped out of my eyes when those cigar towers came crashing down together.

the little things made it great too, like unique weight on each thing you'd pick up, the little scenes of combine slapping the rebels' shit up in the apartments. all good fun.

Yes. Very much so. The only part I disliked was the airboat bit. It was fun for a while, but shit went on for WAAAAAY too long.

Still has the best facial animations of any game ever. All other engines be jelly of Source, in that regard.

haven't played, have it installed though. I turned into a weeaboo shortly after purchasing the orange box.

I loved it.

I hated the part where you have some people following you tho, I got stuck at some point there for like 1 week.

Not really.

Yep.
Was a really fun game.

>>81452285

Yes. I never saw a fps like that before. It felt like physics were perfect.

>Buy it
>Start it up
>My face when the first level
>My face when pick up that can.

Magnificent

Honestly, if the bar for graphics was HL2, I'd be just fine with that.

Just fucking loved it. Loved it even more when I did a second playthrough.
Good game. Didn't play it when it came out but it has incredible graphics, physics engine and mechanics for a 2004 game. Hell, the graphics are still good for today's standards.

inb4 waifu hate

I loved it except for the endless cutscenes where Alyx would bark at you for half an hour. I wanted to punch her stupid face in so hard by the end of it.

The only good things about that overrated game are the puzzles and the gravity gun. Everything about it other than these things seemed bland and boring. I played it expecting it to change my view on videogames but it didn't even come close to doing that. It tries to immerse you in the game, but that failed miserably and all you're left with is a mute, nerdy main protagonist mixed with some boring secondary characters in a plot that's too big for it's britches. even the intro is boring as fuck.

I loved it. Still replay it every once in a while. Not the best FPS, but still one of my favorites.

However that "squad A.I." almost killed it for me in a couple spots. Almost.

>>81452922
>Pick up that can
>I pick up that can
>"HOLY FUCK I CAN PICK UP THIS CAN"
>Spend an hour throwing chinese food at guards then running away through cattle herders while giggling
>Never actually play the game

Nope. It was your average FPS.

>>81452687

>It was boring as shit, I'm not one who plays for story, I play for fun and action, this had neither, just story...

>HL2
>No Action

What? Did you even play the whole game?

>play half life 2
>hit the wall with the crowbaw
>there are bullet holes
>uninstall.exe

Fuck yeah. Totally worth it.

Still waiting on the third episode though. Goddamnit Valve.

Oh boy here come the haters and trolls. Everyone who's discussing HL2 just leave the thread and start a new one. Seriously, nothing good will come out of this.

To this day, HL2 is one of two games that have given me that coveted NOPE moment...

>searching abandoned building in Ravenholm for ammo/medkits
>cleared the building out first, checked everywhere before relaxing
>find some pickups
>hear noise
>turn around
>three black headcrabs
>NOPE

The other one was the good ol' Controller in the Agroprom Underground the first time I played STALKER, but that fucking gets everybody.

I liked the graphics and had fun with the physics (and Ravenholm), but it's still far, far away from being my favorite game. I wouldn't even put it in my Top 50, to be honest. I think the main problem was that I played it way too late, almost four years after its original release. By that time, it simply wasn't such a unique experience anymore. Well, this, and the fact that I absolutely loathe games with lengthy, unskippable "cinematic sequences", which HL2 had plenty.

>>81453034
Only because ever FPS tries to be it nowadays.

HL2 was a pretty big departure from the norm in its day.

>>81452937
>Hell, the graphics are still good for today's standards.
You're now aware that the only reason this is the case is because of consoles.

>>81453168
THAT FUCKING CONTROLLER

GOD DAMN

Ravenholm was the best. Don't know why, but there's something about horror that repels and attracts you.

I always saw the poison headcrabs to be like giant spiders, and I have arachnophobia.

>>81453211
This.

Even a good computer running TF2 on high settings makes HL2 look like trash. Graphics (and gameplay) should be so much farther ahead than it is.

>>81453157
>Everyone who's discussing HL2
What kind of discussion are you hoping for exactly, when you keep crying "Troll" whenever someone says something negative?

First time I played it - yes. But after some time I realized how shitty it is.

>>81453211

Well yeah partially but still HL2 is way more detailed than a lot of modern games.

loved it

>>81452687
>HL2
>story

Ahh, the days back when Valve actually cared.

Good times, good times.

Nope, wasn't ZOMG AMAZING BEST FPS EVAR like my friend claimed it was. Crysis was a lot more fun.

No, I played it a short while after the release but despite the presentation and general physics there wasn't much to the game.

Few enemies, shitty-ass AI, horrible narrative, casual difficulty and the lack of puzzles using the physics engines.

Also it's inconclusive as shit. Half Life one pulled this shit but it was fine, actually interesting considering it was a "open-ending" that actually "ended" and had countless expansions. Half Life 2 ends out of no-where. Fuck Valve couldn't even make up for it with the DLC and they didn't even conclude that.

>>81453211
Actually, the reason is because Valve keeps updating the engine.

If you think HL2 today looks like the HL2 that was released, you're a moron.

I just was playing around with the Weapons on Garry's Mod an hour ago and I'm still impressed with it. I love the sound of the guns, especially the Revolver.

It's not a complex game but it just feels right you know what I mean?

>>81452285

Liked the game but was disappointed by the lack of variety in the world. When they were showing HL2 at E3 it had a freight ship level, arctic levels, and cave levels.

>>81453397
>Ends out of nowhere
>You've saved everyone, defeated the BBEG, and the day is won

>Casual difficulty
>I played it on easy

>play half life 2 in libary
>guy comes up and asks "yo is dat sum black ops"
>i say "no it's half life 2"
>he says "oh that's lame black ops is pretty cool"

>>81453169

Why would you want to skip HL2 "cinematics" anyway? It's not like you have long-ass boring cutscenes.

First game I got on Steam in... 2007! I'd heard a lot about it and it was always mentioned in PC Gamer, decided to give it a try, loved it.

There were times when I did hate it, probably Nova Prospekt (I got lost now and then but I managed). The ending was mind blowing, going into the Citadel that had watched you from the beginning.

I think the time since and all the hate it gets from /v/ has stagnated my view on it, but at the time I was amazed.

I liked it even more when i played it as solid snake.
http://ludus1942.ngi.it/

>>81452468
>>81452516
>>81452616
>>81452687
>>81452731
>>81452809
>>81452983
>>81453116


ITT: Console Faggots try and bash an actually GOOD game that they'll never get

>>81453211
THIS
>>81453350
NO! Because Graphics in that game are NOT equal, protagonist have full hands, secondary characters got shitty 3 fingers, textures are not defined, and hell, you might think "O gawd left 4 dead use updated graphic" NO!! Just look at Crysis and it was years ago, but also other games too that got some kind of Graphic balance, like Far Cry 2 there was not a single object that wasnt perfect

>>81453258

YOU CAN REGENERATE YOU ARMOUR? HOW FUCKING CASUAL CAN YOU GET?

It was the most beautiful graphics I had ever seen at the time running on my computer

It was mesmerizing

physics was pretty neat but those textures were fucking sweet

nowadays it looks like shit tho, I hope EP3 moves into a new source engine

>>81453409

Of course not but it still looked incredible at the time.

Yes, very much so.

>>81453350


You want to know the reason? Do you REALLY want to know why HL2 feels and looks that way?


[/spoiler]It's because valve loved making it and tried their hardest making a good game that they loved. They didn't make it just to cash in on a summer blockbuster like so many video games nowadays.[/spoiler]

>>81453553
>It's impossible to dislike Half-Life 2! Anyone who dislikes this game is a troll!

>Mfw driving in boat all alone for eternity
>finally arrive at that base thing
>YAY HUMAN CONTACT
>Play catch with robot
>Get attacked
>Forced to head down creepy tunnel
>oh god this doesn't look good
>Arrive in Ravenholm
>Wtf, lol dudes legs hanging from a tree
>Walk up to them and hit with crowbar
>"SNARLGARRBLG"
>turn around, zombie snuck up on me
>legitimacy frightened
>fire off like all my ammo in a panic

>realize I have only a few pistol rounds left
>realize I can use saw-blades to cut zombies in half

God, this game really like effected my emotions in a way that is hard to describe.

>>81453688
>implying any of those posts had a criticism more detailed than "hurr it sux"

>>81453409
they updated it for consoles but the original PC version has not been updated at all. Only Episode Two got the engine facelift.

>>81453587

>Comparing fucking Crysis that came out in 2007 with HL2

>>81453518


Is that the mod where it makes HL2 about 6 times harder? I tried playing it way back when and it was AWESOME... But it somehow fried my hard drive. I've been afraid of mods since.

when did great graphics play a role with regards to
good game.
minecraft must be shit then.

>You are now aware that Dayhard was the best HL2 mod eva

Played it six years ago and loved it, was 14 at the time. Now I can't get my 24 year-old old brother to finish it. He's halfway through Ravenholm and says it's "boring".

I just don't know what to do with him.

>>81453682
also brush based engines always end up with super detailed worlds and little copy-pasting since its usually easier to just make anew thing than copy paste

At first it was okay.
But then I got the gravity gun and shit got cool.

>>81453741
I said in my post that it was boring.

I then proceeded to say that Rainbow Six 1 and 2 were far better.

You sound buttmad, bro.

>>81453837

Well nobody said that. HL2 doesn't have super demanding graphics but they're fucking gorgeous.

I actually just finished it for the first time a week ago. The visuals were great, and it had some good elements to it, but eventually it got pretty samey until the last strider battle.

>>81453900
>No argument

>>81453491

I played it on the maximum difficulty setting, there was only two if I recall correctly. The AI was so fucking poor that most of the time I just ran up and melee’d them to death with the crow-bar. Although it seems a waste because the abundance of weapons rarely run out of ammo’ and even meagre exploration on the typically linear levels presents hordes of health-packs.

>Ends out of nowhere

Well, if you’ve played the game you’d know that’s god fucking damn wrong. Why do you think they released the continuing episodes? Because they’re “such a good company”? No, they probably expected everyone to respond negative and rushed some additional content.

Well the ending is that you don’t defeat the antagonist, who leaves safely, and the antagonist race of aliens still dominates society. Fuck the game didn’t even have a final boss battle. Then, considering the episodes, the ending is that Gordon leaves for the Borealis – a cliff-hanger.

Didn’t end out of nowhere? Fuck up, Gabe.

No. Shit sucks. The first one was alright but way overrated.

Fuck all y'all.

I loved it because PHYSICS

It was the first proper shooter I played that had anything resembling actual physics, and they were GREAT at the time.

Now they seem dated, but that's years later.

>>81453587

haha oh wow. Only /v/ is autistic enough to get upset by irrelevant shit you can barely notice.

>>81453745
>>81453745
>>81453745

Didn't they update HL2 when Steam started releasing games on the Mac?

No.. afterwards i LOVED it

I just hate the long intro where you constantly have to stand around and do nothing.. most boring part of the game, luckily

>>81453977
What?

Did you even play the game?

>It didn't have a boss fight therefore none of the climax counts
Hurrrrrrrr

Also
>Episode 3

Nope. It just didn't feel right. The aiming, the NPCs... Hunting health kits has never been my cup of tea, too.

The main problem with this game, which is also its charm, its soul, is that it's just one LONG "mission;" no cutscenes, no "you're here one second and there the next."

You are a simple man, the man, and you have to do it yourself.

>>81453939
The toddler-level see-saw puzzles weren't interesting, the hours I spent in the sewers and in the buggy were tedious, and the world wasn't really interesting to look at.

The gravity gun was an interesting toy but beyond that I wasn't impressed.

loved it

>>81452731
So....You're 13 and love the shit activision puts out?

I see.

>>81453553
>game that they'll never get
>was released on xbox, and released as part of the Orange Box on 360 and PS3

hurrrrrrrrrrrrr

>>81454026
That one apartment area was fucking amazing though, with the civil protection bashing down doors looking for you and stuff.

>>81453512
>It's not like you have long-ass boring cutscenes.
Yeah, I've heard this before, but personally, I simply don't agree with it. To me, there's little to no difference between a pre-rendered cutscene with a fixed camera that I can't skip and a scripted, but realtime-rendered sequence with a controllable camera that I can't skip. In both cases I'm meant to just sit there and wait for what is basically just a fragmented b-movie to play out, and that's just not what I'm playing a game for. This might be tolerable *once*, but when they force me to sit through this stuff *every single time* I either reload, or restart the game/chapter, then it's just bad design and absolutely inexcusable, in my opinion.

>>81454104

>omg why isn't shit exploding all the time? Why can't I use energy swords? WHY CAN'T I SHOOT EVERYONE BAAAAWWW

>>81454026
That's my favorite part.

Go play your SUER AWSOEM GUN FIGHTAN SHOOTAN GAME ACTION PEW PEW EEXPLOSIONS AND LASERS game. Fag.

>>81454161

Man, you better be trolling. Not the guy you replied to, and Half-Life 2 is among my favourite games ever, but Rainbow Six 1, 2, and 3 were fucking tactical FPS's to the bone. Too bad the series went downhill after that and just became casual.

> Hit wall with crowbar
> Makes a bullet hole in the wall

Uninstall.exe

>>81454224
>>81454224

Your ADHD is showing.

>>81454161
>>81454229
Fuck it, I'm out.

If you guys aren't going to even bother pretending to carry on an intelligent discussion about the game, I'm not going to bother reading this thread.

>>81454299
Sorry troll, You are late.
See:
>>81453116


>mfw this is all you can come up with

>>81454428
>baselessly insult the game constantly
>no actual argument
>Claim people calling you out aren't "discussing"

>>81454404
Your buttsore fanboy is showing.

If you have an actual argument against my position, let me hear it.

Liked HL2
Hated Ep 1
Loved Ep 2

>>81454236

>Fag
>Someone who enjoys game-play within a GAME

What the fuck is wrong with you? The segment wasn’t nearly as atmospheric as it should be, the chasing sequence was even poor for its time and any “durr so sads, look ats all da browns n greys su much betas dan modern shootas!” shit is thrown out the window with the typical comedic relief. No it doesn’t present an effective contrast because that shit is all that’s present in the game following.

For one, I’d prefer playing another game. Perhaps one that has co-op, more genuine game-play, atmosphere and a more adequate use of the physics engine than the same jig-saw puzzle seven times.

Fucking loved it, it was amazing.

>>81454224
>GRRR THE CUTSCENE SUCKS
>I SHOULD RESTART THE CHAPTER SO I CAN WATCH IT ALL OVER AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING
>cartooncharacterlookingsnide.jpg

It was a good game but there was some stupid shit in there that ruined it.
Those poison headcrabs culd leave you with more hp than what you had beforehand because of lol antidote, that also completely took the scare factor away for me, and just made them a huge pain in the ass.
The AI of everything, the enemy AI if fairly well covered, but when you get "teammates" and they're all goddamn retards, it's annoying.
The forced relationship with Alyx, she was off all the goddamn time so I didn't feel anything for her, and she was a blatent plot device for the main character rather than being a character in herself. I liked all the doctors better really.

Played first half and semi enjoyed it. Cool physics, cool atmosphere, mediocre shooting, story did not catch my interest.

Got gravity gun, solved a see-saw puzzle for the 40th time, antlions, no ammo, boring everything

VERDICT: Fuck Half Life. Fuck Gordon Freeman. Fuck Terry Alexander.

Power off.

Not really. Thought it was fairly boring and I couldn't believe how overrated it was.

This was only a couple years ago.

>>81453745
they actually did update it

No I didn't.

I actually did not like this game, mainly due to the source engine fucking taking hours to load every god damn scene, and alt tabbing out of it.

>>81454575
>genuine game-play
>Says Hl2 doesn't have enough

Confirmed for troll. Have fun with your fixed camera pre-rendered brown and gray over-hyped casual cock munching Blops-ish "games."

>>81454641
see
>>81454564

i thought it was pretty good
too much people sitting around and talking and not dying unlike in halflife
>hey gorden watch out up ahead are GUUAAAAAGHGHHHH

The physics were cool to play around with.

It was mainly a fairly boring corridor shootan, though it did have it's moment.

I'm not a great fan of FPS though, I almost have to force myself to keep playing.

Preferred Half Life.

>>81454026
>intro, stand around and do nothing
>you're almost constantly on the move/running from Metrocops

Yes. I remember beating it late on a school night, and I was all fuck yeah. But then I was forced to buy TOB on PS3 because the episodes didn't run very well on my PC.

>>81454746
Also, to much BOATAN

>>81454763
Diff anon here, But I would rather have control over the character, instead of a forced movement pile of shit scene that is found in many AAA titles now a days. At least when i can walk around and look at shit I want to look at, It doesn't ruin the immersion as much.

So, Yes, there is a difference.

No, I hate call of duty.

>>81452450
>He couldn't even finish because Ravenholdt was too scary for him

>>81454299
How many times are you going to say this?

drawing on walls with bulletholes is fun

>>81454763
So you think it's logical to, when not enjoying something, start it over from the beginning and do it all over again? This movie sucks, maybe if I start it over it will become more enjoyable. This torture is boring, try breaking my fingers again, maybe it'll feel good a second time around.

You sir, are a troll.

>>81454746
Time to upgrade, bro.

that fucking sound made me brainorgasm

No, but here was something about it that made me play it again. I didn't like it the second time either, but when I played through it in preperation for the episodes I loved it.

Is anyone interested in playing this again?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZXebEVAsR0

Yes. Puttering down the Russian coast in the buggy still is one of the most engaging experiences I've encountered in a shooter.

>>81455195
Source Forts is an AWESOME concept.

Unfortunately the actual act of building falls a little flat in my opinion.

I wish they had a more GMod-like method of building the forts, it's annoying to try to place anything correctly with the vanilla gravity gun.

>>81452285
Did you like fapping the first time you did it?

get your head out of your ass OP

>>81452450
>>81454942
>Ravenholdt
hurrrr

>>81453587
>>81453746
>Crysis
>Comparing it to any games.
Crysis is an unoptimized piece of shit that is so ahead of it's time, they could make all games like crysis but no one would have the power to run it, custom build gaming rigs from 2010 can't even run it correctly.

Absolutely. I still do. I'm about to play SMOD

Amazing game is clearly amazing.

I think I know why it was amazing too. Just shit loads of play-testing. They made every single part of the game was done right, was entertaining, didn't drag.

Makes you optimistic for Ep3.

>>81455468
Not really.

Valve is shit-tier for testing and actually caring about their games as of late.

>>81455360
>"Correctly"
My computer runs everything on high, so I suppose superhighsettingsmoddedtobeevenbetter is what you mean by correctly

>>81454914
>Diff anon here, But I would rather have control over the character, instead of a forced movement pile of shit scene that is found in many AAA titles now a days.
If I had to pick only between those two option, I'd go with the HL2 implementation as well, but my point is that they're both bad design to me, if they prevent you to skip over them and proceed with the actual game.

And just to make this clear, my problem isn't some ADHD-induced lack of patience, but an extremely low tolerance for movie cliches, bad dialog, bad voice acting, bad character animation and bad everything else you usually find in video game cinematics. I simply don't want to be forced to sit through an unenjoyable, non-interactive part of a game, and I have honest difficulties understanding why so many goddamn people take such huge offense to this position. It seems like common sense to me, actually.

>Internet hypes HL2 as the best game ever
>Idiots on /v/ go into it thinking it'll change their lives
>It turns out to just be an amazing game, but since it didn't live up to the extreme fantasy hype that they created they hate it
>They post about how the game is bad

Works every time

>>81455650
*options

>>81455525
The new half-life episodes were just as play-tested.

And length aside, just as good, IMO.

Still do playthroughs every couple of months.

>>81455060
>So you think it's logical to, when not enjoying something, start it over from the beginning and do it all over again?
No, that's not what I said either.

I'm not going to lie..

I could not get into HL2.

>>81455654
They're nothing amazing about unskippable cutscenes, repetitive combat, dull weaponry, and horrible, tedious forced physics puzzles. Pull your head out of your ass.

>>81453018

>>"HOLY FUCK I CAN PICK UP THIS CAN"

Kids these days

>>81455650
>movie cliches, bad dialog, bad voice acting, bad character animation and bad everything else you usually find in video game cinematics
Where is ANY of that in HL2?

>>81455774
>I either reload, or restart the game/chapter
Apparently you just believe that restarting at a previous checkpoint actually jumps you forward in the game.

>>81455195
>playing sourceforts
>6 of us on offense making a push, one dimsantling their fort, one putting up ramps into it. and 4 of us defend.
>guy breaks through
>we all storm in
>entire enemy defense is focused on us
>bullets, rockets, blood everywhere
MOTHERFUCKING D-DAY
sourceforts was amazing

>>81455865

Oh half life, truly the halo of pc fps games

>>81453553

>''These people disagree with me! How dare they! They are just jealous that they cannot experience such an amazing game, yeah! That's it ... ''

>>81456314
>implying arguments with no basis, founding or reason are valid

>>81455650
>how dare games have story! I just want to shoot stuff now!
Go play Call of Duty kiddy.

>>81452542
>better than mass effect 2
of course it is, mass effect 2 blows chunks

Any love for the ant lion section in Nova Prospect? I fucking loved having my personal mutant bug army that I can tell to go and fuck up someone's day with the throw of a squishy ball. And I think they acted smarter than my human freedom fighters later in the game.

Also, much fond memories of Episode 2. One of the few times I didn't loath having a companion stuck with me. Alyw was kinda endearing after a while and the Vortigaunt was great. Wish I could have taken him with me instead.

>>81456077
Are you saying Half-Life is bad?

I thought it was alright. Haven't finished it yet. Got bored. I started into it immediately after I finished playing portal though, so, I was getting tired of the same controls. The games felt to similar.

one of the best games ever and when HL3 comes out it will blow our minds and hopefully our dick too.

>>81455874
What would be the point in answering this question? You already know that I didn't like HL2's cinematics, and I already know that you did like them. There's nothing I could possibly say that would make you go "Yeah, I guess you're right".

It's a matter of taste, and according to my taste, the dialog in HL2 was nothing but your average action movie and techno thriller babble, and the characters were all personality-free plot devices. Just like in *every* fucking action game, which is why I like my b-movie cinematics in games to be either short, or skippable. I'm willing to give you the voice acting, though. HL2 really did have pretty competent VAs.

>>81456408

You do know it is possible to tell a story without "cutscenes" right? Or whatever you want to call what half life does. And even if you do use them, it's rather annoying if you reload and have to listen to one again. Or you have already beaten the game and you want to play through on a harder mode.

I never did finish it. I got to the last part and just gave up.

Nope. First time I played it I felt it was way too slow and the maps were all dull. Still don't like it.

I played this game long after it was released and I had alot of fun with it because the design was refreshing compared to the derivative games that I'm used to playing.

I wasn't really jizzing all over myself for Gravity Gun, but I did really appreciate it's usefulness.

>>81456510

I'm saying it's famous never the less being mediocre and having everything it is famous for "inventing" taken from something else.

>>81456408
Believe it or not, but I have the exact same complaints about that series, too.

>>81456372

>''ITT: Console Faggots try and bash an actually GOOD game that they'll never get''

>Game was released on consoles.

>Youjustwentfullretard.jpg

>>81455819

Here's a guy who hyped Half Life 2 beyond what it actually was

Yeah, I generally enjoyed it. Wasn't as good as HL1 story wise, but it was a fun playthrough.

I got bored after the first hour of water skiing

>mfw I squished every bug in Episode 2 and sent the gnome to space.

>>81454564

>>81456572
Sounds to me like you went, "Argh, a cutscene! I hate cutscenes! At least I can sk-- What the fuck!? I can't skip!? Fuck this! Video game cutscenes always suck so I'm not even going to watch. LALALALALALALALALALALALA"

Yeah, I liked it. It was an ok game. I wouldnt play it again, but it was definitely fun.

>>81456574
You've been trolled no one could possibly be that retarded. No one. But if he was ANY good at all he would accuse me of sucking off Gabe for this post.

>>81457451

You do realize I was arguing AGAINST the person who mentioned call of duty right?

>>81457059

Yes, because valve are such masters of writing that no one on earth could possibly go without falling in love with the story. Stop being a /v/, and assuming that the only way someone can not like something is because they didn't participate.

>>81457059
No, that's not what it sounds like. That's just a convenient straw man distortion, which makes it easy for you to dismiss my opinion.

That's fine, though. It's not like I expected much agreement in this thread anyway. There's still little need for you to try so damn hard to make me look like an unreasonable asshole for merely insisting on a feature as basic as a Skip option. See, I'm not even asking for better written/more entertaining cutscenes, or anything like that, because I know this would be both, illusory and way too subjective.

>>81455650
So really you don't like games that go out of their way at all to present information to you and just want to be ACTION ACTION ACTION ACTION SHOOTING EXPLOSIONS all the time.

Your ADHD is still showing.

no, actually i found it quite boring at first. it took me some time to get used to the gameplay and have some sort of "fun" with it

i can see why people love it, the little details and stuff but as a whole it didn't blew my mind. i consider it more like a showcase of the engine capabilities

I love how everyone is ignoring the arguments that the anon is making.

>>81457988
Sorry your favorite "story" isn't as engaging for other people as it is for you.

>>81457791
>skip option
if you can't see why that is a bad idea, you're a fucking retard.
If you give people the option to skip a "cutscene" (in your eyes, any situation where you're not actively shooting something, because you're a ritalin-ridden child) you have to make the game such that nothing worthwhile is ever presented because you have to account for the possibility that faggots like you will skip it.
It also makes the building up of an atmosphere, and tension, completely irrelevant if you can elect not to ever see it at all.
Here's an idea: Next time your impatient little ass can't bear the thought of not shooting something for 60 seconds, why don't you get up and take a piss. Ritalin makes you have to whiz pretty often, doesn't it?

>>81458154
thank you for your completely irrelevant comment.

If HL2 came out when it was originally aimed for it would have been much more groundbreaking. By the time it did come out, most of the features that had been hyped had ended up in other games already.

I played through to Black Mesa East and didn't bother beyond that. I found the game to be pretty linear and I'm really not sure why people think the story was so great. I must admit its been over a decade since I played the first one, but I thought it was a significantly better game.

picking up the TVs people were watching, throwing them out the window, playing around with stuff on the playground... god IM REALLY HAVING AN EFFECT ON THIS WORLD!

Also great graphics and perfect gameplay, you just thought you got enough of something and BAM you are guiding giant alien-insects through a prison complex or some shit. Its the perfect FPS.

>>81458307
Seemed pretty relevant to me.

I quit in the first hour.

Worst FPS imaginable and a rehash of an endless mediocre one.

Nope, couldn't enjoy it at all.
Only once I played it on the 360 and stormed the fuck through it did I love it.
I dislike the conveniently placed combat areas though, it's one of those games I'd rather be a movie than a game.

>>81457791

But all of those scenes you're bitching about are actually entertaining. Especially compared to what was around at the time. If this thread was made around the time HL2 came out people would still be freaking out.

Name a game with cutscenes that is up to your insanely high standards.

>>81452285
Yup,

>>81458246

Hey, respond to these

>>81456574
>>81457762

There are plenty of reasons to keep the action moving.

It was the greatest game i played that year, but i played san andreas in 2005 and it was superior.

Anyway, HL2 was just amazing.

Nope.

It was mediocre at best.

>>81458435

>Especially compared to what was around at the time. If this thread was made around the time HL2 came out people would still be freaking out.


And here we...go

If it isn't good now, it was never good to begin with. It just means you were entertained by the novelty of it, not any actual quality.

>>81457791
You're still overlooking the fact that HL2's cutscenes are that in name only. They're a completely seamless transition from gameplay to narrative segments. It's not shoved down your throat like other games, there's no load screen, no pre-rendered CGI nonsense that looks nothing like the game and yes, no skip button. However, you can completely ignore everything these assholes are trying to tell you. Just wander off and play with the teleporter, stacks books or throw computer monitors around until it's time to go play with D0G. There's no response you have to give, no queue to hit, you can just fuck around until you get to shoot things again. You complain about how you just want to get back to the gameplay, but the gameplay hasn't ended.

i played it, but stopped after the second level or so. then i went back to playing halo 2 multiplayer

>>81458722

Throwing shit around has only a novel appeal. And that seamless transition thing? Just because you can move your character doesn't mean that it's seamless. You are still forced to wait while the game does it's thing. Go play unreal if you want a real seamless transition, it's a better game anyway

And seriously? Has there ever been a moment in video games where you actually had to load cutscenes?

>>81458246
>if you can't see why that is a bad idea, you're a fucking retard.
The issue you raise is completely contrived and not a real problem at all. If you want to give players the ability to skip the unenjoyable, non-interactive parts of a game, while keeping the risk of them skipping crucial elements by accident at a minimum, you could easily implement little pop-up messages with tick boxes for them to confirm that they indeed want to skip over the unenjoyable, non-interactive part. Alternatively, you could also do what many other games already have done and simply have the game check if a cutscene has been played before or not. If it's the first time, then make your hammy storytelling vehicle unskippable, for fuck's sake, but after that, there's really no excuse for you not to let the player skip it.


There. The retard just solved your great objection.

It was amazing. This game made me feel emotions no other game has ever managed to achieve - you feel so alone in some places that actually seeing a person and speaking to them feels so real and genuine.

>>81452363
not even my pc can play it so i must have a completely shitty computer.


and it is since it's a netbook.

>>81458616

Man that's horse shit. Get someone to play something like doom today and they'll call it a shittie game. "urrrr i cant look up and down, why're the graphics so bad, no story to speak of etc.etc.etc." (sounds like green sustainability's favorite game actually)

in reality it changed many things and deserves credit for that. The kinda credit that goes to making a good game. The credit a game like HL2 deserves. Thats not novelty.

HL2 came out and immediately games were trying to copy it. for instance the first doom 3 expansion had a weapon called the 'grabber' which picks up objects in the environment and lets you throw them at your enemies to kill them. Sound familiar? Games are STILL taking inspiration for things half life 2 introduced into the gaming world. Name one game that has come out since then that has been as influential.

First was better. hl2 was just SHOOT COMBIEN AND ZOMBEH ENEMIES WITH THE SAME 4 WEPANS

>>81459199

>Games are STILL taking inspiration for things half life 2

The gravity gun was stolen from the arm in trespasser. I'm just saiyan.

And no, doom is still good to this day. Because it didn't rely on gimmicks, after all it was basically wolfenstein with stairs, imps and more than 3 weapons. What made it great was its design. And good design isn't novel

>>81459199

>Name one game that has come out since then that has been as influential.

The chipmunks influenced people to make annoying high pitched youtube videos

>>81458616
>If it isn't good now, it was never good to begin with
So, Deus Ex, System Shock etc aren't good because they aren't good by today standards?

>>81459081

Those scenes were SO interactive. I'm thinking you're a troll now.

If you knock over something by accident while one of the NPC's is talking they'll say "Do be careful/watch out"etc.

If you approach something in the scene you're interested in perhaps an NPC will come over and explain a few things about it

These are just a few examples of how interactive these "cut-scenes" as you so negatively put it can be. There are tons of other little interactive tidbits even avid HL2 players probably haven't even discovered.

>>81459478

"today's standards" Means diddly, that's not what I'm talking about. They are still fun rpg's

>>81459216
>>81459216
>>81459216
>>81459216

This game is such an overrated pile of shit. Story is underdeveloped and controls are shitty.
General combat is mediocre, with the gravity gun being the game's main claim to fame.

Seriously, get off Valve's dick everyone. All they do is introduce a new mechanic or two, and suddenly they've made the best game ever. Yes I'm talking about you, Portal.

tl;dr
Play a game with a real story, like Mass Effect or Halo.

>>81459504

That's like saying a game is the paragon of design because it has a few easter eggs. Those bouts of interactivity don't add up to anything other than perhaps a laugh or two

>>81459655

trololo

I can't actually take this game seriously, what with all of the gmod parodies on youtube.

>>81458722
>You're still overlooking the fact that HL2's cutscenes are that in name only.
Not really. If I call them "cutscenes" in my posts, then it's purely out of convenience, not out of ignorance. I'm fully aware of what Valve attempted to do, and I'm not even denying that they mostly succeeded. The end result, however, is simply not my cup of tea. Not in HL2, nor in any other game since.

>You complain about how you just want to get back to the gameplay, but the gameplay hasn't ended.
That's a very good point, actually, and you're absolutely right. During some sequences, like the first time you enter Dr. Kleiner's lab for instance, there's so much stuff for you to explore and experiment with on your own that the scripted babble in the background becomes a total non-issue (not to mention that the very first time, one might actually *want* to listen to their dialog), but then there are those *other* sequences, like the one where you're supposed to follow Dr. Mossman, where the gameplay is reduced to moving the camera around, and those are the ones I'd love to skip.

>>81459812

They added up, I gave a few tiny (out of a myriad of unique) examples to further my point. My point is the 'cut-scenes' are interactive.

Truth be told the game is incredible in other ways as well. The mods alone are worth buying half life 2. Portal wouldn't exist without half life 2, left 4 dead wouldn't exist without half life 2 etc.

Games today would be totally different if not for this game.

>>81460176

>They added up

Such as?

>>81460070

>The end result, however, is simply not my cup of tea. Not in HL2, nor in any other game since.

Oh good, so you're saying its not HL2 you dislike, its just cut scenes in any video game. Why didn't you just say so?

It's okay everyone he actually LIKED HL2 contrary to what the hole in his face is blithering.

Yes.
Why is it that this is the only fps that allows me to fuck with objects in various ways? I fucking loved the "use" key!
After a while I got bored with it.
Then I downloaded SMOD; and Life was good again.

Thought it was okay, that's it. Played it a couple of years after release though, so eh.

>>81460265
You're not getting my point, I listed a few specific examples and then said that because so much of this is in the game the cut-scenes feel interactive.

What you just asked is for me to go through the game and give you every single example of interactivity in the cut-scenes of half life 2. Really?

>>81459655

Son, go back to your gay ass /b/ and suck more cocks you don't know shit

>>81460070
>like the one where you're supposed to follow Dr. Mossman
You mean you weren't staring at her ass the whole time?

>>81460520

>What you just asked is for me to go through the game and give you every single example of interactivity in the cut-scenes of half life 2. Really?

No I want you to give me an example of this interactivity that makes actual substance. Because what you have described is basically the same thing as the way metal gear solid games let you play with the zoom while they talk.

>>81460792

Right, how about running from the guards in the beginning of the game? Meeting barney with his first quote being a reference to half life 1? Shooting the deactivated electric ball thing out of DOG's reach and having alyx laugh at him? etc. etc. etc....

Your turn, a real example of interactivity in a cut-scene from another game.

>>81460962

>Your turn, a real example of interactivity in a cut-scene from another game.

Well first of all that barney part didn't have anything to do with interactivity.

Second of all you should easily be able to infer that I am talking about the exposition sequences. When all you are doing is standing around while people talk.

Of course the moments where you actually have to do shit are fine. Something should be said about that individually though, as far as "interactivity" is concerned. It's not much different from just watching all that stuff happen. As it is completely railroaded.

After playing Half Life 2, was anyone disappointed that practically every object in current fps is just part of the background and is unmovable?
Because that's one of the biggest things I missed.

>>81459927
But that's GMod.
Not HL2.
And GMod is among the best mods ever created.

>>81458389

>sequel comes out 7 years after the first game
>rehash

Didn't I said a a while ago that everyone who's actually discussing the game to leave this thread and start a new one? It's over. All these autistic haters won't shut the fuck up and let us enjoy our thread.

>>81461590

Yes.

>>81462359

You don't want discussion, you want a circle jerk