>start out arriving in run-down terminal like some refugee...weren't you supposed to be working for the deep deep state? now you're not? who knows? you're not told anything>incompetent combine loses track of you right away despite knowing you're on board because??>why are you running? who knows>btw who the fuck are the combine? who knows you're never shown/told>where does black mesa east get all its funding from? who knows>why are they hiding from the combine? who knows>how do they pivot from teleportation tech to launching a fucking rocket in ep 2? who knows>why are the lightning alien guys from 1 suddenly friendly? who knows>gameplay massive step down from the first game, tons of repetitive corridors, impossible to get lost, dumbed down as much as it could be>vehicle sections while starting off fun go on for way too long>weapon ammo limits greatly reduced because...??>game lavishes you in health/ammo, never actually feel in danger even on hard difficulty>ravenholm/grigori only genuinely good part of the game...don't ask what exactly ravenholm is though, you won't get an answer>city sections with squad are awful, constantly gets in your way>base game ends with even more questions about wtf is going on>ep 1 largely a snoozefest of the same levels in base game>ep 2 kind of ups the difficulty but still largely a snoozefest, even MORE story related bullshit happens and nothing is explainedfor all the purported focus that valve puts on wanting the player to experience the story, they sure do a lousy job of actually expanding on it and why you should give a shit about any of it. the whole game just feels like an amusement park ride. hl1's premise was simple: shit blew up at work, you need to get the fuck out of there (game has problems but not as many). in 2 you're just running from location to location because...uh, these other people want you to and you're really valuable for some reason. i now understand why so many say it ruined gaming.
There's an explanation for all of these. Hold on I think someone's at my door, I'll be back to explain it.
>>750271502You hated it so much in fact you spent over 34 hours of your life on it, curois
>>750271643yeah god forbid people see things through to the end instead of playing it for 5 minutes like a zoom zoom then running to /v/ proclaiming "uncs played this? lmaooo"
>>750271502I'm sorry, I do not care for a zoomer's opinions on the Michaelangelos of my generation
>>750271502Just watch lore videos on YouTube like the rest of us and shut the fuck up lol
>>750272625This game is way shorter than that unless it filtered you bigly for some reason.
>>750273597didn't play it on easy with a youtube guide running on the other monitor like you did zoom zoom
>>750273794you didn't play it at all if you think it could ever need a guide, it's a linear gameI bet you just left it open, or the screenshot isn't even yours
>>750273794? pretending or just actually this slow?
>>750271502Read the back of the box the next time maybe if you care so much about the lore
>>750271502Holy autism
>>750273896keep kvetching little zoom zoom
>>750271502Anon it was literally just praised for the physics engineEverything else about it was pretty shitLike literally the magazines (remember those, kids?) would only focus on the physics engine since that was all it hadIt was just a tech demo and for its time it was fun but not worth the 60 dollars to rent it (this was the reason steam was invented, to bypass the ability to resell it/loan it/actually rent it for like 3 dollars) which Gabe openly braged about back thenI pirated it and had fun back in 2004
>>750273597>hl2 is shortThat singular game contain all of Ep1, Ep2, and Lost Coast in the newest update, doesn't it?
>>750274301i remember playing a [nosteam] hack of it. man that descriptor was everywhere. and then it disappeared just as fast a couple years later. actually quite wild how much uproar there was about steam initially but then it went away fairly fast.
>>750275389nosteam was really great since steam itself is utter shit for drmGabe killed gaming but made piracy so much easier
>>750277523He helped kill piracy TbhPiracy still isn't even close to mid/late 2000s numbers
>>750277779Piracy is far, far more rampant today on PC than the 90s/2000s, anonDue to steam being the 'default' shop for games now, thanks to him killing physical PC gaming, it means you can pirate pretty much anythingWhen we had physical media you had to make copies of shit like cd-keys, word tables etc unless you were smartt enough to work out a cdkey gen. Now it's just 'basic black bitch nosteam' and done
>>750278030>Piracy is far, far more rampant today on PC than the 90s/2000s, anonUnless you have numbers, I don't believe it. The masses will always take convenience into consideration first and Gabe pretty much solved that for video games. It's why streaming/digital platforms of all kind have exploded in the past 15 years. I'm sure in some localized areas piracy is increasing but worldwide? Nah
>>750278679It's why piracy is even easier, anonImagine this: I have to find a torrent then I have to make sure the torrent isn't malware or buy the game and return it and hope my nocd crack isn't malwareNow you just literally grab whatever shit from sites like cs rin
>>750278787Grabbing "whatever shit" from random sites that disappear next month is where malware largely comes from. Torrents largely weeded out malware because people weren't going to seed malware-laden software.
>>750274265God damn you are bad at games. You honestly think you need a guide for a linear path?
