i don't remember half-life 2 looking like this
It was always like that, just that it wasn't as noticeable back then as screens on average were smaller
>>696233525Because you were playing on a superior CRT display
>>696233525What's the problem?Games are electronic gi-joes. You play them as a kid, and then when you have kids to play them with.
>>696233525It's from 2004.
>>696233525They made dev commentary for HL2 after 20 years. They said players got motion sickness so they put a hole in the car to see the ground.
>>696233681playing on a superior crt display doesnt magically blur the fucking 256x256 texture maps you fucking coombrain doltalso get better taste in pokemon women you secondary
>>696234193Just lower the rendering resolution then, you seething nigger.
this is all i need to see to instantly know what it is. i don't need a better texture or a more rounded model. spend the rest of your time on worldbuilding, gameplay and immersion
>>696233525quit lookin at that shit nigga, youll get motion sickness!!!
>used to need the zoom to see texture compression or pentagonal "round" things>they're all a foot tall nowi feel like I'd need to play the game from several yards away for it to look like it did.
>>696233525This image alone is higher res than the monitor I used when I first played the game anon
>>696235565>he didn't play everything at 1600x1200poorfag
>>696233525Always has done.HL2 graphics is peak gaming graphics.
>>696233525I love the old source aesthetic. how come everyone is making shitty build engine style games instead of dangerously soulful source engine style games
>>696235267That means you're a genius, 7 out of 10 gamers don't recognize thats a pressure gauge.
>>696233948>They said players got motion sickness so they put a hole in the car to see the ground.Why didn't players get motion sickness from playing gran tursimo or need for speed shift in first person view?
The issue is the inconsistency of the textures. The foot pedals and instruments look good, but then everything else is blurry/smeared/compressed. Artifacts are visible from across the map and most of the environments are corridors.
>>696236607No one ever played racing games in first person, as no one drives with a helmet that cuts off 70% of their visual field
>>696236779Nice bait negroe
>>696235267Yeah, except it probably took them more effort to do it like it.What you're looking at isn't simplicity, it's optimisation. Polygon and texture budgets and then compressing an original higher resolution graphic to fit.The number of sides doesn't matter for time spent making it, it's just an extruded shape, 5 or 20 sides, makes no difference to the ease of making it.But, they needed to calculate how many polygons were optimal.tl:dr, optimisation takes more time that not optimising.
turns out it was a bug that was preventing the highest textures/models from loading.
>>696233681enjoy your 3day, CRTfag
>>696235837It requires 5x the time of Build engine aesthetics, and in the modern gaming landscape (You) have a very limited attention span. If a game takes too long to release you immediately lose interest, or if the game doesn't interest you in one screenshot, you also lose interest. So devs need to work fast with low risk, to accommodate your low attention span.
>>696236917racing helmets are designed to not interfere with your visual field.
>>696237170>>696235267reminder: the "pressure gauge" is entirely cosmetic
>>696237170that's still fine, i want a gorillion frames, not a round gauge
>>696233681how the fucking hell can anyone sexualize children like this? fucking sickness.
>>696238751>see child>think of sexsounds like a (you) problem
>>696233525i was let down that the gauss gun wasn't a standard weapon in HL2, only something mounted to the buggyit was my favorite weapon in HL
>>696233681>obviously sexualized image of a child
I do, it ran perfectly fine on my geforce 2 mx 440 after all.
>>696233525At this point it's genuinely hard to tell what always looked like shit and what was broken in an update a decade ago. The gravity gun's glow comes to mind.
OP here, i only ever played games at highest visual settings unless the framerates dipped below 10 regularly. The settings were stuck at lowest. Had to delete everything and verify to get it fixed, which nuked my saves too. Thanks valve. The vortignauts still don't look like I remember though. This is a bipedal mass of snot.and I'm posting here because holy shit trying to find anything relevant to this on steam or google is absolutely pointless. thousands upon thousands of maymay guides.
>bipedal mass of snot
>>696239487the colt losing its reflectivity is another.
>>696239663Vorts are OK.I don't like the headcrab design. I think it's just lazy Alien homage
>>696239663>thumbnail: some semblance of detail>full image: all details smoothed into uniform snotso there's texture filtering that can't be disabled at work.
>>696233525good
>>696233525Okay. And?
>>696243979you used to need to zoom in on shit to see artifacing, now everything is artifaced
>>696233658I'm playing on a 21" 4K and it still looks like shit. So low-res.
