It revolutionized video games.
But how?
>>12271156This was the first game that actually looked like real life. The textures were just incredible.
Raising the Bar reprint when?
>>12271165This. When I first played half life 2 I thought it was real. I thought they had a real camera and took pictures for every possible combination of actions I could do. The tetris effect was so real. I held a stick like a crowbar and tried to run around hunting combine. I one picked up a radio like Gordon and threw it and I watched it fall and break and I thought about the game I thought the tech in the game was real. I wanted to study physics so I could do that stuff.
>>12271156Kind of sad games still have not meaningfully evolved past this game. That’s why we play retro: more variety.
>>12271156No but this did. For better or worse
>>12271156the thing that stands out about it to me is being a linear cinematic game designed entirely around pc with consoles as a distant after thought. it has a freeform elegance to it you didn't see in most of its imitators.
>>12271165art style > realismthis game would have been completely forgettable if it wasnt for the extremely mod friendly community that valve had already established with goldsrc
>>12271647>this game would have been completely forgettable if it wasnt for the extremely mod friendly community that valve had already established with goldsrcAbsolutely ridiculous. HL2 was mind blowing on release and still stands the rest of time.
Far Cry came out in spring of 2004. HL2 in November was not that revolutionary.
>>12271654xbox port was unplayable when consoles were at their peak, if you didnt have an expensive computer when this game launched it was irrelevant. i myself did not get to play half life 2 until the orange box released on 360 and the episodes put the halfassed campaign of 2 to shame.
>>12271663of the big 3 FPS games that came out in 2004: HL2 was the best one. Good but not great
>>12271667I played HL2 in 2005 on a mid ass PC and it looked amazing and ran great. It's an insanely well optimized game.>the episodes put the halfassed campaign of 2 to shame.I hear this often but I can't agree. Episode 2 in particular focuses on the worst weaknesses of HL2's campaign. Tight spaces work great, big open areas don't.
>>12271654My mind was very much not blown on release
>>12271156Please tell me exactly what it "revolutionized". I'll wait>inb4 muh physicsPhysics aren't gameplay, the fixation with physics in 2000s games aged like milk
>>12271724it is really well optimized, but xbox is a broken port and a computer to play it in 2004 would have cost a thousand dollars easily. i bought a og xbox in 2005 for like $50 and then a 360 to play halo (HD mind you) for about $350, when my $700 laptop i bought in 2007 still couldnt play hl2. mods saved this game. >big open areas donti agree and i usually skip the strider battle, but the episodes actually turn the mess of hl2 into a cohesive story that people gave a shit about. if you just slapped the cd in your drive for the first time after playing half life and didnt have a menu telling you what the game was, you'd have a hard time figuring out this was a sequel, and gabe confirmed that development was a directionless mess and they slapped the half life franchise name on it haphazardly for marketing, it really shows. releasing source sdk after supporting all the goldsrc mods saved this game from being obscure indie cult shit. there are more quality source mods released every year than triple a tittles
>>12271156Go back to rddit>>12271745>>inb4 muh physicsIt uses Havok, but the retarded fanboys credit Valve instead. You know... the typical brainless fanboy behaviorSome notable games using the same physics engine: Age of Empires 3, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, Destroy All Humans, FEAR, Painkiller, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 50 Cent: Bulletproof (lol)Meanwhile Black, a 2006 by Criterion >has enviromental destruction that inspired Battlefield Bad Company>has the kino + gunporn gameplay that inspired Call of Duty 4 Modern WarfareFanboys retardation aside, HL2 is a 5/10 game.
>>12271156it revolutionized video games
>doood it was so revolutionary!!>how so?>...uhh... graffix!! pc retards are truly the most shallow and tasteless cattle on earth
>>12271647what do you mean by "art style"?
>>12271156october revolution of gaming
>>12272339>october revolution of gamingExplain pls
>>12272616hl2 is commie trash and ruined gayming
