>see half life 2 endlessly being praised as a masterpiece >Play it, it's shit>/v/ then tells me the game is reddit and hl1 is the real kino>Play half life 1 and it's even worseNever ever listing to boomers on this site>Inb4 it's better than modern slopIt's still shit>Inb4 it's good for the timeIt's still shit>Inb4 you are a contrarianFuck off, I'm not going to pretend a game is good just because it's popular, go play fortnite then you nigger.
>>1505838>>>/v/
dude what kinda crack are you smoking i love half life and have distant memories playing the miltiplayergauss gun multiplayer ftw
Pearls before swine. Stay filtered.
>>1505838Substantiate your claims. If you think it's shit, say why.
>>1505838>>1506201OP thinks it's shit because he just sees a solo FPS game like all others, and fails to realise that all other FPSes look like that because of Half-life.It's the Seinfeld effect. The innovative things Valve did were so trend-setting that they all look common and unremarkable now.OP's failure to recognise stellar pacing and environmental storytelling is his own goddamn fault though
>>1505838>Inb4 it's good for the timei think this is one of the main reasons why people still give hl1 so much praise. you just had to be there.
>>1505838>>>/v/Fuck off and stay filtered, faggot.
reddit life 1reddit life 2
>>1505838Yeah, it is kinda shit. It's still fun in its own way, as while you can bunnyhop around, the maps are generally more structured on being grounded while aesthetically they can be in some pretty surreal locations. Creates a unique pacing that really evokes the whole "real people in an interdimensional accident" theme of the game. It just suffers from the fact that the guns are generally just kinda range from bad to mediocre, most just lacking enough of a punch to feel like you're properly shooting through something. When you're a shooter, it's a pretty big cardinal sin.The real payoff is in mods like The Specialists and its Source sequel, Double Action Boogaloo. There you got the same thing, high flying action in "real" maps with characters that otherwise run around at a "real" pace, but the weapons actually don't suck ass.>>15062801) This is /vm/, it's discussing the multiplayer2) The ground Half-Life's singleplayer broke wasn't in design, it was in its usage of skeletal animations.
>>1507443>The ground Half-Life's singleplayer broke wasn't in design, it was in its usage of skeletal animationsIt's a Valve game. It was groundbreaking in half a dozen different ways, including skeletal and various other tech, gameplay design, narrative pacing, multi-layered storytelling, and probably some other stuff I forgot.
>>1505838>Play half life 1 and it's even worseIt was released in 1998. That's insane dude. You just have no idea what going from Doom on a Playstation was to a game like this. I didn't play it until at least 2001 after I'd played Return to Castle Wolfenstein.When you're fighting against the marines in Half Life ... I found it completely shocking, unlike any game I'd played before. Then getting addicted to Team fortress classic and then counterstrike. There's a reason these games are held in such a high regard.
>>1507690>You just have no idea what going from Doom on a Playstation was to a game like thisThat basically sums it up:Oldheads that had very limited access to games at the time, so they lacked context, thought it was amazing, and are steeped in nostalgiavsNew bloods that have had easy access to every video game ever made, so as retro shooter fans, they have full breadth of how releases in the genre were progressing, where exactly Half-Life stands as shooter released in Late 1998, and appreciates it accordingly: meaning, not much
>>1507729>New bloods that have had easy access to every video game ever made, so as retro shooter fans, they have full breadth of how releases in the genre were progressingThat makes no fucking sense at all. You really think a modern zoomer has a better sense of Half-life's historical context than somebody who actually lived through it?
>>1507762Easily. Someone who actually lived through it would ironically have a very limited perspective on the full historical context. You're constrained within what you could afford, run, and consume at the time, and it's tainted your opinion since. Modern zoomers? They're unbiased and have been able to capture the full breadth of the situation. Modern tech has allowed zoomer hobbyists to crush every game, tear through every magazine, pour over every interview, indulge in forums long past, and fully consume everything from the era as a simple pastime.You're wowed because you're not aware of the full context of what released in the 90s, as you only have your perspective. They're not wowed because they do.
>>1507777>Modern tech has allowed zoomer hobbyists to crush every game, tear through every magazine, pour over every interview, indulge in forums long past, and fully consume everything from the era as a simple pastime.Are these zoomers with us right now?Oh, I get it, it's bait. 7/10, made me reply.
half life 1 > half life 2
