I don’t think any other game nailed dystopia quite like Half-Life 2
>>730914930It's funny that most of the games that approach its aesthetic are contemporary slavic settings.
>>730914930A close second. But it's multiplayer Dark RP sort of game.
>>730914930Shame we didn't get to see more of the dystopian part of the game. You got two chapters and that's it.
>>730914930What a dumb image. As if the combine is going to build around homes like that.
replaying portal made me realize how much i like dystopian puzzle games with mega-structures
>>730914930>>730915007It's funny that every major US metro nowadays looks like Half-Life 2.
>>730916430Yeah if you're so so fucking retarded you're utterly living in a delusional fantasy world
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>>730915108I loved how PC games around 2004 all emulated what Half Life 1 did where it's about 30 minutes to 1 hour of "Just anormal day on the job... except..." because it created suspense. Doom 3 also has a really cool opening where you just walk around on the Mars station at first and know something is wrong, but can't put a finger on it before hell breaks loose.
>>730916256What?That's official concept art and also there are areas near the end of the game that have walls crushing buildings just like that
>>730916976Post your license to publish that image.Now.
>>730915007>artistic direction>viktor antonovsame with dishonored 1, rip not so old man, you can tell how much sovl dishonored 2 lost by him not working on it
>>730916976Literally who
>>730918457Uk's legacy population representative
>>730916256I dont think it was built there. it wae built in their dimension and teleprted there
>>730918457britbongs top pedophile
>>730918457That's doctor breen. In the event of a foreign takeover of his kind, he chose to enrich himself and speak propaganda as if nothing bad is happening.
>>730914930how did I not notice until just now that those walls were built right on top of old human buildings?
>>730914930https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0d9sqm5LX0This game kind of has a similar aethestic but seems to be more like judge dredd
>>730918759Combine are literally ZOG, does that make gman hitler
>>730914930Try this one, though admittedly it's a HL2 reskin/mod.Nastiest environment work i've ever seen, it's really great.
>>730914930this was pretty fun, starts off as a VERY blatant half-life clone, but turns into a slav-jank shooter with a little bit of horror.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1316680/VLADiK_BRUTAL/But either pirate it or buy it on a very steep discount, as it's a bit buggy and unfinished.
>>730919210No thanks. I hate sewer levels.
>>730914930 >I don’t think any other game nailed tech demo* quite like Half-Life 2ftfy
>>730920145Nah, Doom 3 was the best tech demo of all time.
>>730920685>>730920145>Aeon of Strife>CS 1.0hate it or love it, without these, League and competitive FPS' would've never existed as we know it, meaning no e-sports as we know it and no monetization of video games, as we know it.
>>730916430Not every city but some of them. I went to Kansas City recently. Very City 17 esque
>>730914930Dogshit game with baby puzzles, unskippable scripts and cutscenes. Painkiller, far cry, postal 2 and even doom 3 mogged fag-life 2 in reality.
>>730921801haha epic
>>730914930This is just like living in the United States under Trump!
>>730921881Yeah that new nvidia back in the day had better use running real games, rather than your quirky exposition dumping r*eddit/d*g movie game. ut99 and return to castle would be booted once your alt+f4'd fag-life 2.
The beta version of city 17 was betterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iIgzWP4-8Q
>>730922049>walk in a straight line, but green hueSo based.
Can any fag-life 2 homo explain why fag-life 2 on the latest build still requires restarting chapters after the fragile scripting breaks? I thought it was supposed to be fixed after all these years?
>>730922078Looks more Orwell 1984 with the telescreens. But yeah the polluted atmosphere also really sells it.
>>730922049The only thing I liked from the beta was the Conscripts. They bridge the gap between metrocops and overwatch soldiers.
>>730918457goyim please, pay attention
>>730916430I ride this shit every day and there's always some zonked out black guy who shit and piss himslef sleeping and taking up the entire car and you sjust see all of the white, hispanic, and asian people move into the next car in silent panic
>>730914930Yeah, I like the subtleness of Half-Life 2's dystopia. I still remember when I first played it. I had no clue what it was about. I just thought "wow, what a sterile, but realistically depicted city with weird and ugly alien tech everywhere". I subconsciously hated how stuff like the Combine computers looked so damn weird. The game ended up being fun and graphically amazing, so I just played through it without thinking much.What I like about it is the subtlety of the dystopian aspects. It's not all grimdark, tryhard bullshit. It's cold and inhuman in an uncaring way. The problem with a lot of video game dystopias is that the bad guys seem emotional, hateful and passionate about hating everything and causing misery. The Combine on the other hand are genuinely soulless and uncaring. I know they employ cops who beat people up with stun batons, but that's just a part of them assimilating human society.
>>730923918Your politics bore me
>>730916256>>730918679Those houses got telefragged.
>>730916256Those walls are machines which move and "eat" whatever is in their way. It was probably hundreds of meters away from those buildings when it first arrived and has been slowly spreading outwards until it's devoured the back half, leaving just the facades. The walls aren't built, they are the demolition devices.
>>730914930>a glorified engine showcase game with emphasis on physics >nailing something other than the physics that it's supposed to demonstrateSteamies and valvefags a truly an interesting retarded specimen
