>uncslop
sybau and kys

>>726011584
>gamey vague plot
>deus ex machina slop
>proto-marvel dialogues
and nothing of value was lost

TWO MORE DAYS

The most overrated game of ALL TIME

>>726011584
i turned 3 years old the same day this came out

at that point I had a 266MHz celeron, so I couldn't play it
but at least I had internet connection

>>726012313
if you were born on the same day 3 years after this came out, you could legally post here

Ah, my wife's son is up and dressed I see...

>>726011584
>mediocre pretentious tunnel load times hitscan aimslop
Not every game deserves to be remembered

>>726011584
>a blight on humanity was released

>>726011694
>>726011984
>>726012192
>>726012464
nu-/v/ would never

overrated franchise

>>726011584
The most overrated game of all time. I know calling things a "glorified tech demo" is a meme at this point but it truly does apply to this "game". The only other game I would call just a tech demo would be GTA 4.

>>726012609
>>726012684
shit taste as usual, never change /v/

>>726011584
1 was always way better and I feel like people usually agree with that sentiment nowadays. When was the last time you ever heard someone outside of this board bring up HL2? It's always the original people bring up.

>>726012884
This and more and more people boot up half life 2 after not playing it since it came out and get bored and quit before finishing it. The same can't be said about the original which anyone with an ounce of taste can boot up and play through any day of the weak for the 100th time.

>>726012884
the original was even worse, broken, unfinished mess

>>726011584
>oh my god! gravity gun! gravity gun! gravity gun! have you tried the gravity gun yet! OMG! it's SOOOOOOOO amazing! OMG - i just killed an enemy with the gravity gun! hey - i just launched that radiator into the air... with the gravity gun!
that was literally all of the half-life 2 stans could ever talk about when that stupid game was released.

>>726013157
god forbid people talk about the fun aspects of a game

>>726013157
PHYSICS ENGINE
TECH
DEMO

implying it wont be announced at the geoff awards

>>726012990
The only bad parts about the original were like 2 levels from Xen. Half Life 2 has entire sections of the game filled with annoying gimmicks and lackluster level design.

>>726013414
>entire sections of the game filled with annoying gimmicks and lackluster level design
Name one.

>>726013685
Fan boat
Buggy

>>726013414
it's quakeslop with janky platforming segments, gets old after maybe 5 minutes

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>>726011584
2+1=3

>>726013201
>fun aspects of a game
simple minds, simple pleasures.

>>726011584
purple

>>726013685
Boat sections, buggy sections, laser guides rockets, gravity gun, antlion bait sections, turrets, and the god awful rally system at the end, and those are just off the top of my head.

>>726014042
And your complex mind finds complex pleasure in what game, anon?

>nu-/v/ pretends to hate the greatest FPS of all times because they think you have to hate good games to fit in
Can summer end already?

>>726014150
Exactly right. Sometimes I revisit games that I remember fondly and come up to "that part" of the game. The tedious, boring part that I forgot about. Well "that part" is the whole game of Half Life 2.

>>726014280
>pretends
>greatest FPS of all times
>good games
Lol, Lmao even.

>>726014150
all of those are fun except for the npc squads where you bump into eachother 500 times. the rest of the game is a masterpiece

>>726012684
>>726013157
>>726013271
Yeah man, I also HATE how old games were genuinely introducing cool new technologies and features in gaming while showing them off proudly. They should instead make REAL GAMES like devs create today, where every object is nailed to the ground and you lose 80% of your frames when walking through an empty field because an intern placed a mossy boulder asset there that has 6 gorillion polygons!

>>726014024
the only reasonable reference in that pic is lambda calculus and CSAIL, you could have thrown in cryptic references to the infamous project MAC for good measure

>>726011584
It was twenty one years ago today
Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play
They've been going in and out of style
But they're guaranteed to raise a smile

>>726014567
It's great that they introduced them, but then they should actually make video games with them instead of just showcasing them in pretend "games".

>>726014885
And they did. Care to explain why half-life 2 is not a video game?
Next you will cope that the entire RTS genre doesn't have a single actual videogame in it because these were always supposed to be "tech demos" showing off how the devs can make a game with a lot of units pathfinding around, fighting and blowing shit up.

>unskippable "cutscenes"
>can't even tab out or do something else during them because you are forced to follow npcs and periodically interact with things to progress
>the few weps that are actually fun to use you get almost no ammo for
>18 fucking revolver rounds is the max you can carry??????
what were they thinking?

>>726015654
do you just run around blasting the revolver like a retard

>>726015751
yes because it's the only gun with some oomph to it. if i can carry hundreds of rounds of ammunition to the other guns i should be at least be able to carry the 36+6 magnum rounds like in the first game.

>>726011584
Dogshit

>>726015654
The magnum is the specialized anti elite/zombine/hunter gun, why are you wasting valuable ammo on trash enemies?

>le gee man
>tear jerking cinematics
>heckin doggo the pupper
cringe: the game

>>726011584
>21 years ago, today
dang son, 21 years ago I skipped school day only to go to the store and buy this game
thanks gaben!

>>726016384
>cringe: the game
That would be Portal 2.

>>726016592
at least portal had a self-standing intelligible plot

>>726011584
Was the HL2 20th anniversary documentary really a whole fucking year ago?
Holy shit it was, what

they just don't give a shit