>Here, Gordon. It's that incidental tool you randomly picked up during the Black Mesa incident as a quick happenstance means of defense near the start of the game, no doubt old and well worn at this point. Guess it's your iconic weapon now! Nevermind that a stun baton (which I acquired via my undercover Civil Protection duties) would probably be twice as useful! Take the fucking crowbar, Gordon!This shit was retarded
what if he has to open a wooden boxa crowbar would be much better for that job
>>738364376Valve writing, please understand.
Why the fuck would a stun baton be better? It has even shorter range and isn't lethal. Are you retarded?
>>738364376Crowbar is better for breaking shit in the environment than the stun baton.The point of the stun baton is to incapacitate not kill.The crowbar is better for killing.Also the HEV Suit gives a considerable strength boost meaning a Crowbar is probably hitting like a truck.Its why you can literally kill armored opponents using a crowbar in the game.
>>738364376You know, I still like HL2 but I feel like it was the beginning of the thing where they "Chuck Norrissify" characters like they did with Doomguy with the Doom reboot
>>738364376I'll take the GEP gun
the texture reuse of those windows was lazy.
You can't really open crates with a stun baton.
>>738364587Yeah Gordon Freeman was just some unlucky stem sperg with a gay ponytail in a power suit. Later games make him out to be a chad action badass
Keep in mind that Barney was not anticipating the insane level of crackdown Civil Protection was going to perform on the Underground Railway, he figured Gordon would have a relatively quick and easy jaunt to Black Mesa East. In retrospect a stun baton would've been better, but hindsight is a bitch.
>>738364587the bit in half life alyx where they think the subject in the massive futuristic containment apparatus is gordon, random guy in a power suit, made me chuckle
>>738364674You can with an armored foot. HL2 should have had an F to kick function. Name a single game that was made worse with the ability to kick.
>>738364376Why did Barney say that he owed Gordon a beer even though it was his Barney clones that owed Gordon a beer?
It's tech demo bullshit, wow look how much better the crowbar looks and functions.My biggest gripe is the game has 5 enemies and 3 boss monsters that you fight 9 times.
>>738364885>>738364376stop whining and play smod
>>738364653Everything in the slightest bit of distance is just flat sheet metal or cinderblocks with one repeating texture, they try to trick you with shit like the citadel to draw focus away from the awful background art.
>>738364653You never see that camera angle in-game
>>738364871that was pretty cool. Honestly didn't expect it to be who it was.
>>738364376How did Barney have Gordon's crowbar from HL1 though? I thought it was lost or confiscated by gman.
>>738364885dark souls kick is shit and you're more likely to use it by accident than actually use it on purpose.
>>738365416He was just saying it was a crowbar from Black Mesa. Or not even, just saying it's a familiar element from Black Mesa. Gordon's first crowbar was confiscated by the HECU anyway.
>>738365416I think Barney went to xen to get it, he knew how important that crowbar was.
>>738364885>Name a single game that was made worse with the ability to kickany FIFA game
>>7383652042/3 of the orange box games are glorified tech demoshow did valve get away with it?
>>738365416I think it's supposed to just be a different crowbar.Even in-universe, the crowbar is Gordon's iconic weapon, largely thanks to the vortigaunts telling stories of him.
>>738365708what tech do they demo
>>738365825hl2: shiny new source physicsportal: portals
>>738365885>hl2: shiny new source physicsphysics have been a thing since billions of years ago>portal: portalsyou just thinking with portals
>>738365503>Gordon's first crowbar was confiscated by the HECU anywayYeah thats what I meant by "lost", with his second one being taken by the Gman, so theres seemingly no way Barney would have either of them.
>>738364981Multiple Barneys owe Gordon beer.
What I really hate about HL2 is ammoWhy did gordon carry only 12 bullets of revolver?He could carry 36 bullets in black mesaI know because of gravity gun, but c'mon
>>738365708>first game I bought when I finally got a passable computer was the orange box>had pirated and played hl2, wanted to "support the dev">portal, great game, 2 hours long though>tf2, dogshit from day 1 played maybe 50 hours and got sick of it, was so shit they made it free a year later>episode 1, it's just more hl2.... linear corridors in buildings and hospitals>episode 2 at least had some new enemies and mechanics, too much of the same, prebaked physics shit is boring and retarded but they push it so fucking hard, story becomes awful>paid $60 for just portal honestly, and I have to download drm to play itI fucking hate valve so much.I would argue the best half-life 2 was lost coast, 30 minutes long, free, covers all the mechanics, dumb tech demo shit included.
>>738365957>>738365825Episode 2 had the baked physics stuff like the bridge collapse or the buildings at the end blowing up. I'd hardly consider it a tech demo though.
>>738366063>forgetting hl2's stupid cinderblock platform raise and water barrel puzzlesgame was peak 'look at our shiny new TECHNOLOGY'
>>738365416The Gman gave it to Barney
>>738366063bridges have existed for centuries
>>738366118That wasn't new though. Orange Box was 2007.
>>738366135Nobody wants to watch 4 bridges collapse in a game.Nobody.It's just cutscenes; the worst part of any shooter.
>>738366118>water barrel puzzles7.8/10 too much water
>>738364376God, the graphics look so dated and vomit inducing now. The rail textures and copy paste windows lmao.Genuine sand paper to the eyes.
>>738366259>graphicsgo watch a movie, nigger
>>738366259I disagreeStill holds up
>>738364607STICK WITH THE PROD
It's been a while since I last played. How did everyone come to know Gordon as the savior of humanity? By that I mean how did his escapades in Zen and everything become public knowledge?
>>738364376>would probably be twice as useful!a stun baton would shatter to pieces bashing open crates, manhacks, headcrab zombies, combine grunts, scanners, etc.
>>738366489Those who got out in time talked about him and couple that with surviving vortigaunt you have a legend that made himself
>>738366305I do. In fact, I do both.>>738366316>copy paste still holds upLol no. Games that went for the realistic graphics back then look atrocious now. HL2 is no exception.I'll be honest and say it might also play worse than the original Half Life now, but I haven't played a Valve game in like 15 years now so...
>>738366618So you’re basing your opinion on nothing?Worthless poster
>>738366737No, the difference is I don't waste my life playing 20 year old games in a vein attempt to recapture my youth and delude myself with such nostalgia-poisoning, that I could consider HL2's graphics to still hold up.Sorry that nostalgia has completely eroded your mind anon.
>>738366861Worthless poster
>>738366489i always assumed it was the vortigaunts. there's that one hidden one you can find in hl2 that talks about "bearing witness to the nihilanth's demine" seeing gordon" flashing beyond the barriers"
>>738366007The man's getting tired anonThat's why he doesn't run as fast as he did in 1 eitherNow he could probably do with dumping the worthless MP7 and pistol to carry more AR2 ammo though
>loved hl1>loved xen>loved all the dlc, opfor especially>hl2 comes around>barely any aliens, xenos are allies? fuck that>no xenWhy did they get rid of the cool shit? 95% of the game is industrial zones and slavic housing
>>738366956>The man's getting tired anonlazy nigger took a 20 year nap and still cant get off his ass?
>>738364376Why didn't bro just give him a gun
>>738366967>xenos are allies?vorts are a slave race you freed in the first game and hence like you now, the combine still doesn't like you.
>>738364674>>738364437Forget crates, there's literally a boarded-up gateway right next to that scene within sight of Barney's platform, he's giving you the tool he knows you need to progress further than another several metres
>>738367025Technically he didn’t sleep, from his perspective he’s just been in stasis for a few hours and the g man put him on the train He has not slept since he was late for work
>>738367060Guns too loud and combine will swarm if they think a citizen has a gunA light bludgeoning weapon that can be used a tool is betterThough a hatchet would be preferable
>>738364376He gives you the crowbar because the path to the train tracks is barricaded you tard
>>738367238>implying anyone would hear that cute lil plap gun from more than 10 feet away
>>738367290In a place as quite as city 17 yeah
>>738364885all of them
>>738367290kek
>>738367060>>738367238The real answer is that it's easier to "accidentally" misplace a crowbar than a gun that's likely registered and signed for
>>738367109Still makes for shitty enemy variety, they include all this hooplah about the combine but they have what exactly?>strider>helicopter thingBoth of which are units they started making on earth, where the fuck this superior alien military force that dominated earth in 10 hours?
>>738367652Headcrabs and zombies are theirs by way of turning them into bioweapons
>>738367705That seems like a dogshit strategy that can spiral completely out of control when your goal is to use the local populace for slave labour.
>>738367858Yeah its scifi nonsense, if you're dropping a big-ass bomb on enemies anyway why not make it one that just blows up
This is the most reddit game series>you get to play as a HECKIN SCIENCE man>I'm going to tap that q t blasian girlfriend, just look at her butt!>IS THAT A GENERIC CROWBARRR?>PHYSICS!>developer commentary??? This parasocial relationship makes me feel like I have friends and that I too made this game>I get to play as the q t blasian girlfriend? Just as I transitioned? Gaben you're my god!Just look at the reviews still being made today.This is a glorified corridor shooter series and the most popular instalment was broken on release.I mean really, just read any review on the store page from the cult posted in the past week>Posted: Today>one of the best story games to exist>Posted: Today>Great game that Valve used to showcase new technology.>Posted: Yesterday>Half-Life 2 is the most important shooter game ever made, next to the original Half-Life. It changed the industry forever, and still holds up as an incredible game.>Posted: 5 May>One of the greatest games in history, truly, the best there ever is>This game CHANGED everything, can't wait for Half-life 3Sound familiar? 22 years of this reddit cult. 22 years.You know how boomers go "Back in my day...", this is their one and it'll be 2080 before they shut up due to their metaphorical lack of life turning literal.
>>738366967>>barely any aliens, xenos are allies? fuck thatSorry anon, it's problematic to not like ugly brown aliens speaking weird languages and refusing to wear clothes.Your ally is now a black scientist and your enemy is an old white man. Shoot the police. Take down the government. Don't try to notice too hard else I'll call you a water drinker.
>>738367956Another thing I don't understand is why they have 2 completely distinct branches of technologyStyle 1: dark sharp sheet metalStyle 2: bright smooth bug carapace shitPick a fucking tech tree
>>738366967>>loved xenretard alert
>>738368225It's a RED letter day comrade
>>738366063There was something new about the Striders they promised was a demo for some feature they were gonna use in the future, but I honestly can't remember what it was anymore.
>>738368138I think you spend too much time here
>>738364582counterpoints to consider: the stun baton is not a normal cattle prod, it is a piece of alien technology that can be set to killa crowbar's actual purpose is to provide leverage, but it is never used as anything other than a metal beatstickthe HEV suit does not provide any measurable strength boost the stun baton is an unrivaled rape stick in HL2 DM
Am I a pleb for preferring Black Mesa to OG Half-Life?
>>738368138People actually gas the plot of a game with no start and no end.Boggles my fucking mind.
>>738368261They steal tech from other races
>>738368558Maybe, but Black Mesa is legitimately a masterpiece and the best Source game
>>738368261I never noticed that beforeI'm not sure valve ever had a consistent artistic direction in any of their first party gamesEven that rat man thing in Portal was a weird tonal whiplash
>>738364376Crowbar does more damage to those nazi fucks >:)
>>738366967>>738367652I do agree that the enemies, the setting (and even the weapons IMO) are worse in HL2.Yeah you have some more variety of headcrabs and zombies that are cool, but I'd like to see more alien enemies like the grunts, the bullsquid, the big headed alien dudes... not to mention better bosses. The 'bosses' in HL2 were kinda uninspired. Also, the combine soldier/metro cop varieties are all basically the same.In general, HL2 is good overall, but I much prefer HL1 over 2.Better setting, better atmosphere, better enemies, more difficulty.
>>738368794I think the rat man thing fits in Portal. Portal could be genuinely creepy at times despite it's overall humorous tone. Special shout out to GLaDOS' weird ass boss themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umSJ--aGeYoIt was Portal 2 that turned into quippy bullshit where sneaking in shit like that sappy The National song was out of place
>>738368350Everything I said is literally osmosis from the internet communes that suck off the series and valve.I bought the game because of them, played through, and didn't fall down the rabbithole obsessives do.Ironically it's the cult that's the reason why there are many video documentaries about things like TF2 being downgraded over the years to fit more hats.
>>738368834I think these stupid things are the closest thing you get to a boss fight, and you have to fight them like 6 times including the final god damn boss fight.It's a shame, there's like 15 cut synth units, and they actually almost look cool, definitely better than the endless slew of dude with gun, at least in hl1 there were variations of dude with gun like the sexy ninja girls
>>738366861>I don't waste my life playing 20 year old games in a vein attemptnah you're just "vein" enough to waste your time making threads about a 20 year old game thoughbeit
>>738368478>the HEV suit does not provide any measurable strength boostIt lets you swing a crowbar about twice a second with enough force to shatter pieces of wood and kill giant alien bugs and shit.
>>738368138>i specifically went out of my way to read reddit reviews of a 20 year old game and now i hate the gameanon, if you want i can go on reddit and start a cult glazing your favorite thing just so you can be tormented the next 20 years if you want. I could even spin up a botnet to do it, just for you.
>>738368478>it is a piece of alien technologyit isn't
>>738368261bug shit is just alien races subjigated and modified with style 1 technology. that's like negative levels of media literacy, get a clue retard.
>>738369657Yet the advanced space aliens use and manufacture cars.
>>738369657NTA but I agree with him >>738369773. Yeah they may be subjugated aliens, but there's no design consistency between the two.In the end, maybe it's more of a meta thing for us the players, but it is quite a notable difference in design.
>>738366861Just FYI you're meant for 'vain', not 'vein'Back to the topic though, do you not ever replay games you enjoyed previously? Over the years I'll forget parts of some of my favorite games and going back and seeing them again makes me happy. Like Mike Toreno (or whatever the CIA guy's name is in SA) sneaking up behind CJ in the airfield, and his paranoid dialogue. I replayed SA last year, and totally forgot about those missions.Would you consider that nostalgia?Last question: does modding a game with new content count as nostalgia to you? I haven't done a vanilla morrowind run in... Idk several years. But when TR completes a couple new regions I'll play through for the new content in familiar systems.Sorry if you're just trolling for (you)s in a HL thread. I just think "nostalgia" is a fascinating concept and has a really wide definition in the zeitgeist
>>738369989>rewrite part of the first sentence half way through posting>didn't reread it and now I'm permanently an ESLFuck
>>738365464I've never once regretted accidentally kicking in DS1 because it causes my target to flinch so it's more an "oops" moment than a genuine fuckup.
>>738364546>isn't lethalwould you like to test this theory in a situation where the attacker isn't required by law to use restraint?
>>738370042
Why is everyone who Gordon knew at Black Mesa in Eastern Europe
>>738364376>Nevermind that a stun baton would probably be twice as useful!did you even play the game
>>738370563>why did a bunch of people who are super smart and knew each other find ways to meet up to try to solve a problem
>>738370563Because City 17 is the largest remaining urban center and thus would have the most resources for continuing research that began at Black Mesa twenty years ago. Naturally everyone of importance would congregate there.
>>738370836They were all coordinating with the Resistance. It's not something that needs to be explained. Barney, Kleiner, Eli all knew each other personally.
>>738370836>Because City 17 is the largest remaining urban centerno proof of that, in the terminal at the beginning of HL2 you can see that there are a lot of other numbered cities, 17 is just the one that gordon and everyone from black mesa ended up going to for whatever reason. in fact city 17 seems like a backwater, as construction was only just finishing at the time of HL:A and huge swaths of the city are uninhabitable quarantine zones. the only real reason I can think of is breen being there
>>738364587The thing is in HL2 it at least makes sense from the lens that the Vortigaunts hyped you up after you liberated them helped Gordon's image, that plus the fact that the resistance's leadership is 50% Black Mesa personnel that saw you tearing people in half back there.
>>738366015orange box was kino, EP1 is very fun and nice, TF2 was good from the startkys faggot
Why is Gordon considered a leader of the resistance when he just silently does whatever he's told
>>738371538>only reason I can think is Breen was thereLolThe Citadel was in City 17 and that's where the Earth based Combine established their seat of power. That's where the Combine chose to establish their world connection to Earth. That's how their portal tech works. They have one lynchpin spot because they cannot teleport in universe. Only into a universe. So yes City 17 was extremely important, why do you think the G-Man put Gordon there of all places.
>>738364607What a shame....
>>738371730Because he caused and then stopped the Resonance Cascade and the Vortigaunt in particular (now allied with humans( revered him as a Christ like figure for freeing them from the Nihilanth. Breen would know that since he'd be briefed on the whole thing and knew why it happened and the scientists knew him and the Vortigaunt were being all weirdly religious with the Resistance so anyone who spoke to one sort of knew who Gordon was.
>>738365957by this logic every video game featuring some popular game mechanic/core engine feature is a tech demo.
>>738370563Because City 17 is the only city on earth much like how Tatooine is the only small town in Star Wars.
>>738371730Hero of a movement =/= leader of it
>>738364376>heavy, solid piece of metal>a stick that only really works if the target isn't wearing armorThere's a reason the metrocops stop using sticks very early on.
>>738364376This!He should get Amy's hammer.
>>738373147yea it's because it's a shooter and it would be retarded to shoot melee ennemies 24/7
>>738373234Also because the one guy who hit you with a stick when your HEV suit is on does very little against you.And there's no reason to believe this wouldn't be the same if you were to use the stick against combines.The stunstick is a tool meant to terrorize the civilian population.
>>738364885>>>/wsg/6142824
On the Alyx vinyl record>Side Three>1+5=6>6+7=13>1+7+11+7=266/13/26Also the record focuses on pigeons specifically>National Pigeon Day: June 13thAre you ready to finally see Half Life 3 in just a little more than a month from now?
Wait, is it supposed to be the same crowbar from Black Mesa?I always thought it was more a joke about how Gordon was seen using a crowbar and now he's giving him another one. I never thought it was literally the same one. Which means Barney has been hanging on to a crowbar for 20 years, dragging it with him through an apocalypse.
>>738373683In Episode 1 Barney outright makes a joke he's running out of them, so yeah it's implied it's not the same one.
>>738364376ThisNobody made big deal about DA CROUBAW until HL2 told you to. Yes, people noted that it was novel that your melee weapon in HL1 was a mundane tool instead of a weapon made for killing, but nobody put it on a pedestal like it came out of God's dickhole. And for all intents and purposes it was just as bad as any other FPS backup melee weapon at the time.You're all victims of Valve's marketing psyop.
>>738373640>Half-Life: PigeonThe sequel nobody expected. Or wanted.
>>738364376I'm more of a pipe-wrench guy myself.
I just really hope HL3 actually adds some cool weapons this time around, having nothing but the bog standard + gimmick gun was so boring in 2.I'm still upset that, for Alyx, when deciding between whether the shotgun should have a>Grenade launcher>Tau Cannon attachment>Snark launcherThey chose the most lame option
>>738374871The wind-up on that shit was brutal.>Hit a fully-armed and armored soldier in the head with a wrench>He fucking splatters into meat giblets that slide 20ft across the floor
>>738374631Are you the same guy spazzing out in the Steam Controller threads?I have a hunch that you're ethnically Jewish, based mostly on the way that you type. Are you?
>>738366235IGN are visionaries. 7.8 is a fitting score for HL2.People who gave them shit for rightful criticism of Mouse PI should apologise, they never will though.
>>738364871I haven't played Alyx in a hot minute, but isn't it just Alyx who speculates that it's Gordon? She's retarded and also a literal child so it checks out
>>738374951I really hope Half Life 3 never comes out
>>738364376I bet he bought one from harbour freight.
>>738374951I'm still upset that pic related wasn't in the game.>entire gimmick involve loading a bolt and pulling a string to reload, perfect for VR>literally a makeshift weapon so something that could have been upgraded>give an origin to the resistance weapon, similar to the combine AR2
>>738368138>only talks about HL2At least apply yourself if you say 'series'.
>>738366015>bought orange box>tf2 shit from day one, went f2p a year laterAt first I assumed you bought orange box in 2011 somehow but this makes it sound like you got it on release date? Which doesn't make any sense, tf2 didn't go f2p a year after release.
>uhh... is that shit??
>>738376428>HUHUH, IT'S MY SHIT, ALL THE BOYS SHAKE THEIR BUTT LIKE THIS!
>>738364587Yeah they did treat him like a legendary figure when he was just a scientist in power armorHowever he wasn't the only one, there are numerous other scientist, at least 2 others in power armor, that tried to shut down the portals and stop NihilithGordon was just the one that succeededI would say his legendary reputation is earned
>>738368261Metal is for construction or low tier tech. Bionic is for advanced tech. Why? Maybe it's cheaper. Maybe they don't want to risk bionics falling into rebel hands to get studied. Maybe they're doing a test run with basic human tech before creating synth apcs. PS: it looks cool and alien.
>>738364376Assuming the suit gives you super human abilities, a crowbar would genuinely be a better weapon than say a bat. Crowbars are designed to withstand great strain and bending, so if you swing one with the strength of three men, it could bash an armored man's helmet in without bending.
>>738370563They moved to the same place for the resistance and gman plopped gordon there
>>738368261>why don't armed forces just used titanium for everything?
>>738376931fuck off votvnigger
>>738370195You're a zoomer, you've never held a baton or crowbar your entire life.
When the citadel goes on full alert and all the scanner drones are flying out of it I thought it was nest birds flying out of it because it started moving until basically this year
>>738376907Gordon does swing the crowbar with one handI may have tried to do it a few times myself, a lot harder than Gordon makes it seem, the suit's definitely helping
>>738377023.....what would that have to do with age? in what scenario would anyone have experience holding stun batons?
>>738377093Don't feel bad, I was REALLY confused about where Half Life 2 was taking place and assumed it was the same area as HL1, just under Combine control.When it said "Black Mesa East" I thought it was "the east part of Black Mesa". Also I thought Ravenholm was underground and was some kind of secret underground Black Mesa city.But hey it's excusable right? I was just a kid not really, I played it when I was like 19
>>738369773they dontcombine human soldiers do
They went overboard with quirky references in HL2 and episodes. I kinda hated it.
>>738377881such as?
>>738378193The casserole, the beer, the crowbar, Gordon being silent.
>>738378402i think you have autism
>>738364376>Nevermind that a stun baton would probably be twice as useful!Considering the amount of crates/door/plank you have to break in the game, fuck no.
>>738378450OK.
>>738370195>would you like to test this theory in a situation where the attacker isn't required by law to use restraint?Sure.Then you test the same but he has the crowbar.And we let the crowd decide which one of us got it worse.
>>738364376Okay but have you considered that the crowbar can open crates and remove obstructing panels of wood? Checkmate
Helloo Gordon!
>>738378595the original comment was that a stun baton supposedly wouldn't be lethal, it isn't an argument about whether or not a crowbar is lethal or more lethal
>>738369152I can kind of forgive all the shit they cut out from HL2 even if that leaves the enemy variety weak.What I can't forgive is how lazy Episode 1 was.They even tease the synth crabs and mortars in the citadel at the end of 2, but nothing comes of it.Instead we get another zombie, another antlion and another strider (small).what the fuckthey were lazy even before steam started printing infinite money
>>738364376How would a crowbar get worn?
>>738364376people really do underestimate crowbars
>>738381962when you use a tool, it wears out.metal fatigues when it flexes.paint chips, the surface scratches, microscopic cracks spread.have you never used a hand tool before?
>>738364376It was kino.I don't know a single person who was upset about it. You are a new low for /v/
>>738366015Orange Box only cost $50 :)
>>738382052Sure, and every time I use a tool and some paint gets scratched off, I have to run to the store and buy a new one, since it now entirely unusable
>>738364376Crowbar has more utility than a sun baton.
>>738364587Gordon did prove himself to be of extraordinary value.
>>738364376hl2 is an overglazed tech demo
I think it makes enough sense that gordon became a legend. after all, black mesa was the biggest event other than the seven hour war, which was just humans getting raped. and remember, black mesa is massive. there would be thousands of staff up in that bitch, and a ton of them went on to be prominent in the resistance. gordon went to the fuckin alien homeworld, was there when the event was caused, saved a ton of lives, and slaughtered a bunch of spec ops marines and giant monsters.
>>738382243now imagine if instead of using the tool as intended, you were beating literally hundreds of alien creatures to death with it.shit man, i've cracked axe heads using them as intended to split logs, and that was only pine firewood, not alien apex predators full of mechanical implants.
>>738382460and in addition, he's obviously just a figurehead, he never claims he's a big hero, he never claims anything. people need symbolism. the crowbar makes sense too.
>>738364376the stun baton is issued to hima crow bar can be found anywhereretard
>>738364376>people aren't old enough to know that the crowbar was featured prominently in post-release advertising and identity of the first game
>>738382556exactly "why didn't the cop just give his drug dealer friend his police issued firearm? the guns way better for killing his business partners"
Half life, 2, and alyx are pretty self aware. they don't get near deadpool levels but they don't pretend to be completely serious either. Literally since 1998 its been like that.
>Now, about that handjob I owed you...
>>738365416It's Barney's crowbar from Blue Shift.
>>738368309I think they were talking about the supposedly new animation system they came up with at the time.
>>738382752Huh, I just realized that Barney joke in Episode 1 about him running out of crowbars is also an allusion to Blue Shift and the way it gives you a crowbar (to make sure you don't miss it, the room is actually filled with invisible crowbars)
I haven't played since the anniversary, I assume MMod and other big boy mods have been updated to keep working?
>>738374951They can always bring back those Episode 3 weapon ideas like that ice gun thing. I have a feeling the game will have gun modification options for variety. Alyx already starts the precedent after all.
>>738374951uh? Most guns were innovative as fuck. Especially compared to most fps.
>>738365581Alright i'll bite what alternative do you propose
>>738382887There's a patch for it.https://www.moddb.com/downloads/half-life-2-mmod-version-13-20th-anniversary-fix
>>738364587Did you play half life 1?It's fairly warranted based on the shit (You) do as Gordon Freeman
>>738370563Kinda wish the games mentioned other cities. The story felt too closed up because of it.
>>738383169based
>>738366015Tf2 near and post launch was pure kino. The free to play update (2011) ruined it though or at least marked the beginning of the endBut near vanilla tf2 when you had to pay to play was a god tier time in gaming, sorry your taste is shit man
>>738383641I picked up tf2 in the year 2018 and I've loved it ever since, I have 3k hours. Sorry you're gay.
>>738364376They tried to make the story too epic and destined imo>the crowbar thing>THE FREE MANAnd then they didn't even finish the fucking thing
>>738368478>a crowbar's actual purpose is to provide leverage, but it is never used as anything other than a metal beatstickHe also uses it in a way that would have barely any power behind it
>>738383641Launch TF2 was good, yes. Which is why it is so sad to see how it ended up.
>>738383860the only mutliplayer fps from that generation that is still alive?
>>738378996One of the reasons I'm so salty Episode 3 was never made is because it seems like it would've been the installment in the Source engine HL games where Valve was finally going to add more stuff than the base features they were already comfortable with from HL2 to Episode 2. New weapons, new enemies, new places, the whole shebang. What a goddamn shame.Also I'm sure the modding community would've been even more varied because at least modders can add enemies in their maps more than the same zombies, Antlions and Striders. There's only so much they can do with HL2 enemy rosters I'm afraid.
>>738364587They didn't. The only characters in HL2 who even know who Gordan is Gman and a few scientist and barney who worked with him. None of the civilians even know who Gordon is until midway through the game. By that point you've blown up Nova Prospekt and your reputation is completely earned.
>>738371580>liberatedweird I remember shotgun blasting them but I'm glad they hold no ill will
>>738383960If you consider what TF2 is doing in 2026 as being "alive" then you were never coming into this discussion honestly in the first place.
HL2 is still, to this day, one of the top 10 best games ever made.
>>738384228Guys like you who don't even play the game, and haven't touched it since fucking 2010 or whatever, simply don't get an opinion. You've been whinging for a decade and a half, just kill yourself already.
>>738384228ok... Let's compare it with OG COD4, Blops, battlefield 4, etc.
I am fully and completely in love with alyx vance and have been since the release day of episode 2.
>psychic celestial body lightyears away possesses scientist and invents remote-apace travel on earth, allowing his malevolent alien syndicate to invade for the purposes of planetary extraction and biological assimilation >the aliens siphon the psychic and biological energy of planets, destroys the planet, then takes the warped and mutated survivors and places them on the next target planet. Their most recent victims were the planets of the Crab Nebula, and they have recently added alien crabs to their arsenal, which are infesting and making crab-men on earth>one syndicate member is husking out and amputating humans to make an army of remote control ventriloquist dummies> Mutant biologically and mechanically altered chittering monster brain bug controllers >human collaborators >one of these non-physical entities becomes stuck on earth in the physical body he had possessed, due to his newfound drug dependency on local earth radiation, and decides to defect against the syndicate>so he enlists a non-speaking human as his agent and begin sending him telepathic messages of resistance while also teleporting him around time and space to achieve missions against the aliens and destroy the control towerThe novel Nova Express is kino and reminds me a lot of Half Life 2
>>738368138So this is what irony poisoning does to a nigger, grim
Valve is making Half Life 2: Episode 3It's going to be in the Half Life 2 engine, same one as episode 2. Same enemies (maybe one or two new ones) and weapons.
>>738364376Couldn't he drop a fucking pistol too at least? Cheap ass bastard
>>738383998You can really feel it in some mods.Divine Cybermancy feels limited by proxy because base HL2 had such meeger enemy variety
>>738384970Ngl I kinda want to see how Valve tackles the Source engine HL game now. They made a few new maps for HL1 deathmatch in Goldsrc for the anniversary event and it looks fucking mint.
Freeman most lethal weapon
>>738385809Why did he do it? Why did he fuck up his face?
>>738364376Half-Life sisters, he got us there...
>>738383641I would mark the year before with introduction of microtransactions and loot boxes as the thing that spelled doom. There were signs of it before but that's the moment Valve shifted gears completely, there was simply too much easy money for them and it shows in their subsequent attitude to game development
>>738384929I'd reckon Marc Laidlaw was heavily inspired by it due to his sci-fi writing background
>>738364729Eh, In half life Alyx the G-man calls him a failure and forces Alyx to work for him instead.
>>738387026His reasoning for that is a bit of a cop out really. Dude's been following orders since the beginning. Them Vorts kidnapped him one time, and suddenly he's out?
>it had to be a crowbar because of crates!More like the crates were put there because of the crowbar
>>738366015Calling the Orange Box a rip off is possibly the most retarded comment i have ever seen on 4chan
IT'S FREEMANWHACK 'IM
>>738386943Probably, i like to read it as an ending to Half Life 2, because it does get into it and have a great finale. The part where they arrest and sentence a binary star for crimes against biology is pure kino.
I’m not able to take crow BAR due to a prior accusation of attempted murder *caw*
