Does it still hold up today?
No.
Yes.
Dunno.
>>12246026mm yes yes
>>12246026It's no quake 4 but I like it just fine
The right game in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world
>>12246026Stop spamming this fucking question. This is the 5th fucking "DOES IT STILL HOLD UP?" low effort shitposting specifically for Half Life 2 that I've seen the last 2 weeks. No one cares what your shitty retarded little zoomer faggot youtuber said, no one cares what you personally think of the game, nothing is going to erase the impact or influence that it had, nothing is going to change the people's opinions of it who were there when it released, you can fuck off now, GOOD BYE.
>>12246026it wasnt good when it came out.
wokeslop
>>12246147Something really should be done about these finger pointing schizos.
>>12246170you lost, eric.
>>12246026It's really interesting how the 1st game aged gracefully while this one aged like milk
>>12246147Your games SUCKED boomer
>>12246182Boomer games are the only good games there ever was.
>>12246026Far Cry is worse
>>12246190Boomers are also the very audience who put up and enabled the decline we're living with right now. So don't you come blaming US for the industry YOU shaped by your shitty taste.
>>12246151
>>12246201Zoomers are the ones who dumped all their attention into Fortnite, Minecraft, and Overwatch, so don't pretend for one second that zoomers are "le heckin based gamers". They're retarded mongoloids that use their parents credit cards to rack up virtual debt for useless worthless skins. At least boomers spent their money on playable content, IE expansion packs. You little shits will shell out 50 dollars for a gun with a rollercoaster track on it.
>>12246204NTA but this image that you took time to make actually hurt you more than helped prove your point
>>12246207Mmm, I'm sure it did, so much so that you felt the need to tell me.
>>12246206LMFAO! All of this would've never happened if you retarded didn't drool over heckin Call Of Duty skins and Horse cock armor DLC. I'd expect you to at least own up to that fact but that requires responsibility which is clearly absent in you manchilds.
>>12246151I wonder if Stonetoss is smart enough to realize that Alyx Vance's voice actress is also Blasian. Probably not.
>>12246214Horse Armor was widely criticized at the time and joked about relentlessly, so much so that it eventually caused them to focus on high-value DLC like Knights of the Nine. On top of this, that was only 2.50. Zoom-Zooms will readily drop 15 dollars on a fucking Thanos skin in Fortnite, and that doesn't even have gameplay effects.
>>12246220God talking to your senile ass is boringly tedious. This isn't a matter of opinion or debate, this current industry we have is your generations direct legacy.
>>12246151monster tab
>>12246026>The right game in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world
>>12246026Half-Sóy never "held up" to begin with. The first one got mogged by Quake 2 and the second one by Doom 3.
Nice /v/ thread, fucking retards.
>>12246226>God talking to your senile ass is boringly tediousLikewise, talking to your unformed babby brain is monotonous. All you know how to do is exaggerate and then shit your diaper.>This isn't a matter of opinion or debate, this current industry we have is your generations direct legacy.Not right now it isn't. Zoomers the core gaming audience right now. And you're shitting it up with your taste.
>>12246026I replay it once in a blue moon, but HL1 is a yearly playthrough
>>12246026yeah but i wish it had more enemy variety
>>12246581Sir this is a video game board
>>12246147Based
>>12246226You got btfo and then pretended you were bored instead of wrong
>>12246207kek, rekt
>>12246182This is the retro gaming board. We actually play games here. If you want to talk about not playing games and/or current year slop, you can zoomzoom back to >>>/v/
>>12246226NTA but look where you are. Most of the anons on this board congregate here instead of /v/ because they grew disillusioned with modern games at or before all the shit you are whining about came to be. Millennials aren't a monolith as much as you like to pretend they are. I don't think Zoomers are either however your lot seem far more likely to blindly consume AAA/ esports slop and pay silly amounts of money for purely cosmetic shit.
>>12246026Yeah I just finished a playthough and it was great fun. It does need model and sound replacements for the weapons but that's done through workshop these days. Some mods change things so much for the better like the better processed combine overwatch voice or the soundscapes mod.
>>12246151>The play is to now overuse the word "woke" until it loses all meaningIt won't work you dumb faggots all you have to do is declare yourself something new and it'll turn into an insult in a month. It's not the word, its YOU.
>>12246151>blackedNow I understand why americans love this game so much
>>12246995>AMERICANS>OH MY GOD AMERICANS>DO AMERICANS REALLY?>HAH, SUCH AMERICANSSeek help. By the way, bongs and russians fucking love Half-Life 2 as well, coping retard.
>>12247002Do Americans really get b8'd this easily?
>>12246204You and SJWs are two sides of the same coin lol
>>12247025Oh, I am? Why? Because some faggot retard on a retarded faggot thread on retard faggot central said so? Well golly gee, that just crumbs my muffin. Eat glass you useless dipshit.
>>12246204it's just a joke you sperg
>>12246974>implying it ever had any meaningif you actually want to convince normalfags of your position, maybe use accurate terms like 'progressivist' instead of literal boomer normiecon slang
>>12246026This doesn't.
It's still goodNot a big fan of the "driving" sections but it's still cool
>>12246151where do I sign up for a blasian gf?
>>12246147Yeah, HL2 and DOOM 3 bait threads are so fucking unoriginal and unfunny at this point. This board is truly dead.
>>12246026the dialogue fucking sucks and there is very little enemy and gun variety but it is still a good game when they finally shut up and let you keep playing
i replayed it in late november and honestly? yeah it does. it still looks fantastic and imo, better than most games coming out today and listening to all the dev commentaries was fascinating. the weapon arsenal remains a bit of a weak point although the gravity gun is still very fun to use. people make fun of the physics puzzles but i honestly liked how they're used as breaks between fighting
>>12246026yes I like Garry's Mod and playing wood wars where you construct ghetto wooden tanks and fling fire at each other
>>12247020Only the ones who unironically play valve's faglife.
>>12246151Reminder that pebblefling performed circumcision on himself and botched it so hard his dick doesn't work anymoreKWAB
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no. it felt like a different game that they added Half-Life enemies into at the last minute.case in point, that G-Man fella was obviously the administrator of Black Mesa. suddenly you're out in some...Russian dystopia world, and there's a retcon that it was Newcharacter McGee? guys it's YOUR story, it's the second full game, why do this?i know it's a sequel, i know sequels can and should be different rather than more of the same. but it's like saying "Counter-Strike? yeah, that's a Half-Life prequel actually: it's just about terrorist insurgencies before the Black Mesa incident."
>>12249721Amazing... every word of what you just said... was wrong.
>>12246026as someone who played half life 2 first then played half life 1, I'd say half life 1 is the better game over all save for xen, maybe on a rail but personally I don't think it's that bad.I do like 2, but the airboat and car chapters kinda suck ass especially on replays, the game could of done with just a little more enemy variety, raven holme is the best chapter by far.
The gameplay is crap and it does feel like a tech demo but the art direction/setting are good.
>>12249721>that G-Man fella was obviously the administrator of Black Mesa. Even without HL2 to give you context, it's actually more obvious that he's some kind of alien that may be working for the US government based on his weird speech patterns and lines of dialogue.
>>12246026The gunplay is fucking horrible, so no.
>>12246151Wrong, colonizing is based.
>>12250850>not exclusively using the gravity gun You played it wrong.
>>12250819Yeah you can see him do shady stuff even before the disaster occurs, like the train ride he takes then he shows up in the same place as gordon despite the train going off somewhere else.
WAKE UP MR FREEBERGWAKE UP AND SMELL THE ASSES
I will not be filtered by a fucking captcha, but at this rate the shitskin spammers are gonna crack it before I do. I give it one week, tops.
>>12246026over rated retarded game. Never understood why people like it.
>>12246026No, and the episodes are way better
