https://youtu.be/FxQVP3LHciQ?si=enJOgSvaCCtyiTEb&t=45People who played in 2004 know it was not "revolutionary" like you can read now, the AI of the Combine was inferior to HL1 soldiers
>IGN
hl2 came out same time as world of warcraft when ign and trannies were sucking it off big time
>Game Journalists
It must be hard for you to talk about a game that came out before you were born. The physics engine was innovative at the time, and the game made frequent efforts to show off it's physics. The playable dialogue sections were also innovative.
Game Journo kino thread?
>ign
>>735029184So totally wrong. The first time I played HL2 on launch I couldn't believe the physics and materials engine. The fact that just picking up a metal object and throwing it could create sparks , fucking mindblowing. People who weren't around just don't understand, there will never be as big of a tech jump as HL2 in 2004
>We cannot give the game a score because we are too lazy to play
HL2 is an intelligent game for intelligent people
>>735029372ah yes the innovative seesaw puzzles. what a time to be alive. almost like going back in time playing incredible machine as a kid.
>>735029424If you actually play an unpatched gothic on original hardware with no mods then you'll realize this is an appropriate score.
You have to understand that during the early 2000s there was a huge hate boner for PC games and Japanese games. Xplay was even trashing on stuff.
>People who played in 2004game journos are not people
>>735029834>their review of Beatmania (PS2) called it a "guitar hero ripoff"
>>735030372They trashed Shadow the Hedgehog super hard. I know it wasn't a great game but a 1/5 is harsh. It's the same score as Sonic 06 and that game was broken and meme as fuck.
>>735029184PCfags only like it because it was their first movie game, they were used to multiplayer games for over a decade
>735030989>"HL2 was the first PC movie game"imagine being this retarded and brown
why do self proclaimed gamers complain about journos all the time?do your own reviews if you think you can do better
>>735030989try again with some more accurate vernacular zoom-zoom
>>735031357because most of the time they are:>fucking shit at videogames>paid by the devs for a positive review>make up absolutely retarded negative claims to rate a game down>niggersamong other things
>>735029673Why do you think it has a gravity gun?
>>735029452Hell I played Half-Life 2 years late and I was still blown away by the physics engine. I only got back into PC gaming at that point because of Oblivion, and I remember being super hyped up for the physics in that game, which were mind-blowing, but then going back to the Half-Life 2 demo made Oblivion feel super primitive.
>>735029341This is the one time it's reasonableIt's one of the first games to use the modern day console fps control scheme. Everything else before was fucked and to see something not fucked would indeed be terrifying.Imagine you learnt to use a controller upside down and a decade later someone shows you how to flip it right side up
>>735029834>during the early 2000s there was a huge hate boner for PC games and Japanese games.the most delicious part about that is that their own sector of the industry collapsed entirely while the PC and japanese side became better than ever
>>735031357Games journalists have an inherent trust to them, because if you make anything your profession there's an expectation you are at least above average at the thing you do for work. It turns out the only thing they're professionals in is writing and even that's arguable If you were trying to convince a normal, random person you pulled off the street of a game and its quality, who would they trust more:>Professional Games Journalist who's been writing articles for IGN for a decade>jobless /v/fag with questionable opinions on politics and crippling virginityDespite the latter having the objectively more correct opinion all the time every time, of course they'd go with the professional
>steamies having another meltdown>still no new game in 20 yearsBuy some more lootboxes so your fat lord can buy another yacht.
I got a PC in 2004 to play HL2 and Doom 3 coming from pretty much just playing on the PS2, it really wasn't anything THAT crazy.
>>735032432yeah adam is a coked up cali hobo now
>>735033036The last game was in 2020
>>735031357they dont put my quotes on the front of the box
>>735030801Did they mention what is basically the single glaring issue that you have to play westopolis 21 times to play all the stages?
I gotta admit I never cared for half life 2. When I got the orange box I beat portal, played tf2, I tried each half life episode and never finished any of them.I really don't see what the appeal is, it really is just mediocre.
>>735033347https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ro9XHXl0nU>“What’s worse, this game could be construed as RACIST"
>>735033586So I'm guessing no then you fucking hexagon
>>735033702They played the game like a toddler and had to make stuff up for outrage
Oh, so now we reached a poiny where /v/erming are willing to say Imagine Babyz is better than God Hand?
This company gives every fucking Call of Duty game a 10/10 no matter how dogshit it is. The same company that shits on EA for its yearly sports game releases.
what happened to all the retards that claimed valve was 100% announcing something last year
>>735029184IGN is right for the first time ever, it was a tech demo for a physics engine and started one of the worst fucking trends in videogames ever (in-engine cutscenes where you still have full/some control so you're just forced to sit around/fuck around with the environment until the exposition dumps are over)also the physics genuinely weren't that impressive
>>735034351You're going to have to narrow it down because there's a myriad of people who do that, including people who make up things they're planning on announcing so they can cry that they failed to announce the thing that was entirely fabricated.
for all intents and purposes you can simplify hl2's physics to the bare minimum, have virtually the same exact game and people would still line up to polish gaben's balls on his 78th yacht (for free)
>>735034931Maybe if you're a complete moron and/or 16 year old who's ignoring or entirely unaware of the entire source scene surrounding the game and literally how much videogame you got if you bought HL2
>>735035014source games all feel like absolute dogshit with maybe, just maybe dark messiah and titanfall 2 (but it might as well be a completely new engine in that case) being the sole exceptionssorry you had to find out this way>omg hl2 has so much content!and all of it is worse than hl1, a game i'm not that fond of either
They are right. What does it innovate? Go from point A to B like any other game? Be an overpowered MC killing the bad guys and the bossman at the end like many other games before? Have lighting and physics like other games before it? Have characters that are not 2D cartoon villains and heroes that many games did before?Yeah, it's a run of the mill video game. I guarantee you if any other company made HL2, and I mean exactly like Valve did down to the engine, lightning, maps, textures, etc, you would call it mediocre.
>>735035442>source games all feel like absolute dogshitGuess we played different games then.
>>735029184IGN gave Half-Life 2 a 9.7/10, however.
>>735036747>what does it innovateshitty physics """puzzles"""
>>735029184The only purpose of the HL2 game was to get players to install Steam, an online digital store application.All the hype, orchestrated leak and marketing was to distract people from the mandatory online drm already in 2004. Again, to force Steam installation.
>>735037480it's pretty much this. not a single White soul on earth doesn't own at least a game or two on this de facto monopoly. inb4 ">but monopolies are good when companies are good! brb need to polish gabe's cock some more"
>>735032960You named the one demographic I trust less than gaming journalists.
>>735037480>an online digital store applicationIt was barely a store on launch, mostly it was just a glorified launcher and updater.
>>735037613It's not "monopolies are good when companies are good"It's no company is doing anything to prevent a monopoly from happening, and Steam can't do shit to prevent that besides ruining their platform on purpose to make people move to other storefrontsIf people don't want to move because there are no viable alternatives, they won't move; can't force that
>>735037480Dumbass forgot in 2004 people bought games at the store
>>735037029IGN gave Half Life 2 (Xbox version) 9.4/10. A barely functional ugly version averaging 23 fps. While Black, the precursor of CoD4 and BF BC, received 8.4/10.There is no other explanation besides paid reviews.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr-8CxM963s
Counter Strike Source is Valve's magnum opus
>>735037951Yes, and couln't be played without internet connection and Steam>>735037806>barely a storeA fully working store, buddy
>>735038651I said barely not didn't
>>735038651and people thought deluxe edition jewery was a "modern" trend LMAO
>>735029452I remember watching the 2003 E3 tech demo footage back in the day and being completely blown away by what I saw, I could barely believe it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ddJ1OKV63QI have a really vague memory of downloading this exact video as an executable file (.exe) back in the day, which seems really strange and unbelievable to me now. It wasn't a self-extracting archive, just an executable that would play the video when launched. Anyone else remember something like this?
Half life is almost as overrated as zelda.
>>735038882It's been around for quite awhile but was much rarer back in the day
>>735029834Microsoft paid a lot to do that, you think people just started shitting on these games they used to play with no issue out of thin hair?>>735038882Except those are all games you stupid fuck.Base price gives you 2 games for the price of 1.Fuck you're stupid
>>735039072half life is the fps equivalent of breath of the wildr*dditors love it, sold like hotcakes, ruined the genre and other genres/games just because investors want devs to copy it beat for beat
>>735029184all criticism can be ignoredmake the game exactly as you intenda game is only bad if it fails to meet the developer's expectationsnobody else's>but negative reviews will prevent people from buying your gamethis is not true
>>735039117>Base price gives you 2 games for the price of 1.so what you're saying is hl2 on its own wasn't worth the asking price and they had to throw in garbage that only appeals to slavs with only enough money for pentium 4s.got it.
