>be playing this game>having fun>"Chapter 9a: Entanglement">get to the turret defense section>this isn't fun anymore>"Chapter 10: Anticitizen One">this really isn't fun anymore>"Chapter 11: Follow Freeman">this is anti-funWtf happened? Why is everything after Nova Prospect so fucking ass?
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>>738900189>Wtf happened? Why is everything after Nova Prospect so fucking ass?Maybe the developer ran out of time, then rushed the last part of Half-Life 2? Almost the entirety of HL2 is a tech demo for the Source engine, so I think by the time Nova Prospekt comes along, all the Source engine gimmicks had already been done and the player is left with just the shooting parts(which suck).
>>738900189>>get to the turret defense section>>this isn't fun anymoreretard>"Chapter 10: Anticitizen One">this really isn't fun anymoreretard>"Chapter 11: Follow Freeman">this is anti-funreatrd..
true actually, getting to nova prospect is the peak
>>738900189Wait until you get to White Forest
>>738900189Fun on my machine
>>738900189maybe if you took a break instead of playing through the whole game in one sitting this wouldnt happen
>>738900816r u ok?
define """"""fun""""""
>>738900189>cool ass slowburn intro to City 17kino>dicking around in the sewersun-fun, forced to use the worst weapons in the game against the most boring of enemies>airboat boring and takes too long to get the payoff of killing the heli (of which there are three)>BM Eastboring as sin yapathon>Ravenholm>HIghway 17>Sandtraps>Nova Prospektbiggest kino of the decade, boring on replays though>Everything afterwardsboring, tedious and capped off with the lamest power fantasy sequence imaginable, only tolerable due to Breen
>>738900189>Chapter 9a: Entanglement>brings so many turrets with me Combine soldiers don't even spawnGet fucked, virgins.
Why exactly did they just abandon making a sequel? Did the entire team collectively lose interest? HL2 was on top of the world and Valve just said... nah.
>>738903851They ran out of ideas. How many times can you fight a helicopter, gunship, and strider before it gets old?
>>738905718but they had ideashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qo1bD5Oxw4
I'd go as far to say the bridge is the peak of HL2 gameplay wise and everything that comes after never manages to hit this high.
Half Life 2 are a bunch of "that part" strung together since the shitty weapons make the combat miserable and the puzzles are boring as fuckEpisode 2 is when they finally got their shit together
>half life games>taking a fucking nosedive in fun factor near the end of the gamename a more iconic duo
>>738900189Half Life 2 was always one of the most overrated games ever. Even on release
it's a bit of a difficulty spikemuch of the rest of the game makes you fight enemies in gimmicky contexts, around nova prospekt is where you start fighting enemies that you have to take somewhat seriously and minimizing damage taken and junk
>>738906054i honestly think people would be much nicer to xen if there were a big glowing sign pointing you towards the lower level of the launcher section. the rest of it is just running and gunning but everyone seems to get confused on getting to the floating platform.I'm honestly not sure why they put the launchers in the map in the first place, they launch you up high towards the moving platforms so everyone thinks you're supposed to do that when they just kill you and you're supposed to go to the caves below
>>738900189You can take the turrets with you.I liked bringing every single turret to the portal chamber and just watching the slaughter. They usually could kill the elite troops that show up as you portal out, too.
>>738900189Not sure if serious
>>738900189I actually like the streetwar chapters.
>>738900189Yeah the last quarter of the game becomes a slog, except for the super gravity gun that part is funIt doesn't help that hl2 has probably the most boring shooting in a shooty game. Most of the guns feel pathetic and the early game weapons like the pistol, smg, and crowbar basically become useless later in the game
We know, valve knows, the whole first episode afterwards is them saying>sorry about the city 17 resistance levels, let us try that againAnd it is moderately better
>>738906494They would be fun if they weren't at the end of the game.
>>738906494Same. Back in 2004 I liked chucking things with the gravity gun and improvising weapons to beat Combine to death with, but replaying it again I just enjoyed shooting things more. I wish the AR2 was more accurate, it's got a good kick and great damage and the Combine soldiers have decent AI for squad tactics, which makes things fun, and it's kind of a treat when you actually get ammo for it. Anticitizen One and Follow Freeman just being even more shoot was great.
>>738903224I recognize that painting
the game really needs like 3 or 4 new endgame weapons to not be dull for the return to city 17 stuffthat's one of the biggest flaws in hl2
>>738900514>Maybe the developer ran out of timeIt sucks because the uprising concept has been around in development since the very beginning. Like there are maps in the beta with the player going through a big river (which is why there's a huge river seen at the Citadel skybox) and another map of fighting through a park. Yet in comparison the version we got was very basic.
>>738906698the gravity gun is cool and all but imo a power weapon with limited resource management is almost always more fun to use in a shooter and half-life 2 is really lacking in that compared to HL1 with stuff like the tau cannonsmg grenades, crossbow, and pulse ball i guess. it's not really a crime for a shooter to give you your full arsenal before the final stretch of the game so they can really play with the whole toolset but HL2 doesn't really have the effect of "finally I can play with that really fun weapon that I didn't get to use that much," the closest thing is the blue gravity gun
>>738906494The only part of them which is actually dogshit is the hoppers. They made them take forever to pull up, and you can't chain-detonate them because that might actually be fun. Nope! You just get to enjoy all the fun of pulling weeds from your garden, one by one
>>738906663>Combine soldiers have decent AI for squad tactics,Charging the player and sometimes lobbing a nade is not decent
>>738900189Imagine if HL2 was the first game you'd ever played with movable turrets, squad mechanics, driveable first-person vehicles, or physics puzzles. It'd be pretty impressive, right?And that's really what Half-Life 2 is. It's a bunch of cool tech demos smacked together that lost their luster within a year of it coming out once a dozen other games pulled off the exact same tricks.Which is a shame. I like the core gameplay of HL2, I just hate everything else about it.
>>738907057Most FPS don't have any of that.
>>738900189The only way to have fun in both half-soibois is to cheat yourself weapons in the first level and kill the NPCs
>>738900189nova prospekt is definitely the high point of the game
>>738906698>>738906801Really sad how Episode 3 never came to be. It's the one game in the HL2 saga that tried to add more stuff to the base HL2 gameplay. You got weapons like the ice gun, the so-called weaponizer and even Valve wanted to bring back gluon gun from HL1.
>>738900189Yeah, the game seriously dips in quality after Nova Prospeckt. Before that it's 10/10.
>>738900189Anticitizen One and Follow Freeman should've felt like picrel or those future war scenes in Terminator.
>he doesn't enjoy keeping every single rebel soldier alive and eventually gather a full squad of cute rocket launcher medic girls who don't attack anythingngmi
Am I really the only one who liked the turret sections? I always love to bring all the turret till the end of the chapter...
>>738900189Half-Life is easily in my top 10 and is by far my most replayed game, but HL2 is really boring to replay. Also making the deathmatch an entirely different game was a retarded move. At least its not completely dead yet but itd have way more players if it was in base HL2
>>738903851Half-Life 2 was a huge leap in physics and storytelling when it was released, it seems like after episode 2, they wanted episode 3 to be a similar leap but with the success of steam where they get a lot of money by just hosting other games and the equal structure inside Valve where employees could do what they want, there was no push to make HL3, TF3 or Portal 3 because they had other revenue streams. Now HL3 is so overhyped that it couldnt possibly match fan expectation so why bother trying?
>>738906054Filtered. Xen is fun, unlike the citadel
>>738900189Best part of the half life series is the atmosphere and feel to it, (thats why "the source engine" has a fanbase) they really nailed it on that part, obviously the physics too which is a core element of the gameplay which as far as Im aware no other game excelled at it like half life did. But the overall gameplay does get boring pretty fast, especially when half the game in an introduction to the physics. the story is pretty gay and shallow and the only reason people care about the story is because of le mysterious reddit theories involving gman.>>738916723>storytelling when it was releasedCare to elaborate? There were a shit ton of good storytelling games in the early 2000s, I dont see how HL2 was unique in that aspect>>738916789Agreed. i think HL1 peaked in Xen
>>738916975seamless loading and no prerendered cutscenesthat was absolutely an innovation compared to the games released at the time or before hl2
>>738917187You are right.
>>738916789These things are the only good part of Xen.
>>738916723hl alyx was basically the leap they wanted / needed and it was legit the only good vr game ever made.
>>738907057Maybe im just stupid and or a low iq retard....Played it the day it came out and it blew me away...i will never forget the first time in ravenholm, the fear..the fun with the saw blades....The whole atmosphere of the game, the level design (soviet style)...i think its a masterpiece. Every 3 years i do a quick full run and i still can refeel some parts and the ones i cant refeel are still totally fine compared to shooters nowadays. Ye its a tech demo...but its a tech demo with an unique atmosphere.
>>738916723>they wanted episode 3 to be a similar leapThe thing is people weren't expecting too much out of Episode 3. Previous Episodes were fine, people liked them enough and they didn't expect the current HL3 hype level out of Episode 3 back then. Only after years of silent wait did the hype build up considerably, and it became insurmountable. Valve should've finished it right then and there and maybe they wouldn't have to shoulder this huge burden of expectations.
