U N C - L I F E 2

>>12287191
The only game where I thought "this looks and feels like real life". It actually felt like that. Amazing graphics and physics.

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>>12287208
Did you not play Unreal before it?

>>12287191
It's deez
>>12287208
>muh half life
this fucking guy
if you weren't raised in a barn then i'm a monkey's uncle
die hard is your favorite Christmas movie. you stand in the middle of the aisle at the grocery store too
pick that can up

>>12287191
my reaction was "woah you can pick things up with liquid in and the liquid moves!"
5 minutes later I'd forgotten it existed

>>12287191
a couple friends had an xbox, i had a gameboy and a ps1 but i really didnt give 2 shits about video games until halo 2. i eventually heard of half life but my computer wouldnt play it. Halo 3 doubled down with forge maps, by the time i got to play half life 2 on the 360 it was meh, i like the vibe but other games do it better like stalker and metro 2033

>>12287237
The answer to all those "fact or fiction" questions is YES!

>>12287191

It's hazy but I picked up the orange box for the xbox 360 (my last serious console) around the same time i got into pc gaming (08-10). I got it used or bargain price of like 20 bucks so it had been out for a while at that point. Anyway, even after running Crysis on max for a couple years, HL2 blew my mind. Still a top 10 game. No game has topped the "wow factor" since. Like "Oh shit, you can really do that", etc. Mario Odyssey came close for me - due to me being an unc.

But it feels like the industry has barely progressed since 2014. I mean we got dynamic sliding and climbing and slightly better lighting, and every single player action adventure game is now basically some form of open world Skyrim with Mario Odyssey style movement, but I can't think of anything which actually implemented so many new technologies at once and combined it in new ways to create an immersive experience while creating a feeling of player choice like Half Life 2 did compared to its predecessors.

PICK UP THAT CAN

"will this run on my 486?"

i don't know about back then but it's causing neverending seething now

>>12287191
it was a big deal, people were freaking out over the G-man's animation in the intro alone.

>>12288195
I did, in fact, pick up the can.

>>12287237
there was never an unreal game for the 64 though, right? would be interesting to see

>>12288456
N64 had turok which was better than unreal

>>12287191
People had nostalgia goggles on when it came out the amount of journalist glazing it got was totally artificial yet fueled the nostalgia at release
Yeah journos were paid off back then too to overglaze games

How many concurrent HL2 threads are there?

>back in the day

They obv fucking hated it. You know how this game appears on 'greatest game of all time' lists everywhere? Well that did not happen until about 2 weeks ago.

>>12287191
I remember getting Doom 3, it was running slow on my machine, had plastic shiny surfaces and played like shit
Meanwhile HL2 had superior graphics, insane physics and could run effortlessly on my pc
It was the biggest gaming mog ever

>>12289217
Half Life 2 has to be the best optimized PC game I've ever played.

>HL2 had superior graphics
Yes and no. HL2 mogs in models and texture work while Doom 3 mogs in lighting and shadows.

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>>12287191
>The level of detail in the world feels like a full generation ahead of the tech in 2004. It's nuts.
Loaded question. There was no out of the ordinary "level of detail" and the "world" was a drab Soviet city.
All the game had was boring grey shit for levels,
LOADING
uninspired hitscan sloppa for gameplay,
LOADING
annoying NPCs that dicksuck you for no reason,
LOADING
and an extremely pretentious and unlikable presentation and story and unskippable talking scenes where you hop around like a deranged monkey. Yeah and stupid gimmicks like the 3D main menu sure were worth all the
LOADING

Doom 3 was much more impressive and fun, despite its many flaws, while I never played more than maybe three levels of sóy-life before getting bored and quitting.

>>12289251
>HL2 mogs in models and texture work while Doom 3 mogs in lighting and shadows.
HL2 also has better art direction. It just feels better if you aren’t into technical stuff
Doom 3 and HL2 coming almost simultaneously basically killed ID software, they could never recover

>>12289262
>>12289268
If you have ever used Hammer to make a map you appreciate half life 2 a little bit more.

>>12289258
This anon actually played Half-Life 2, rather than repeating the words of his favourite influencer.

>>12287191
I didnt get to play it until the 360 era but I remember when it came out and it looked really amazing

As a 40 year old I found the game disappointing compared to HL1 but the physics was fun to play with until Havok became common after which HL2's physics puzzles become boring.

Doom 3 ended up being the better game if you're into horror. I still think it's a sin the latest version gets rid of the flashlight dynamic 'cuz shitty gamers couldn't cope with scary scenes.

RIDDICK > fag cry > doom cubed > half squared

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>>12289390
>This anon repeats the word of some contrarian, rather than actually playing Half-Life 2
Fixed

>>12289257
nice 2001 effects

>>12289486
now, watch the water in a From Software game.

>>12289258
Not this anon but half life always looked super boring to me in screenshot or magazines of clips I saw online. it just never looked like a world or a universe that would be fun to play in over other games and it didn’t look like it had interesting enough secrets or story telling over other games at the time. It just looked boring.


doom 3 by comparison (which I never finished) really stood out even from a screenshot and the game itself was so different compared to most FPS it felt more like an experience at the time than a game. It felt (when it came out) like being inside of a blockbuster film. I never finished the game because I got so busy with other titles and found doom 3 not only scary but difficult (I was a teenager) and moved on to other games, but I can still remember being in awe at navigating the impressive environments (for the era) with the flashlight feeling like I was really there, trying to survive. incredible memory.

>doom 3 trannies apologists
Lol, you lost so bad

>>12287191
>wow this game I got for free with my 9800 Pro is actually kick-ass

you just had to be there.
I was there.
I can remember....
my computer couldn't run it.

>>12289734
HL2 "ran" on pretty low end PC. Playable is a different story

>>12287193
Bro you're fucking 30 something and everyone can tell. You're embittered and pathetic and weak.

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>>12289741
OH-SHI....

>>12287191
Half Life 2 felt like shit and I'm still traumatrized by that 15 min long walking and talking simulator. Valve was far too proud of that scripted introduction and forced the player to "experience" all the "level of detail" created just to disguise the fact that 90% of the game is a shallow and repetitive technical demo. Shameful

Spent most of my time on my PS2 playing fun FPS games (not glorified tech demos), like Darkwatch, TS3, Medal of Honor European Assault, Call of Duty 2 Big Red One, Killzone (splitscreen with the bros), Area 51, Rainbow Six Lockdown

>>12289771
>bring up game feeling like shit
>positively talk about a bunch of ps2 fps in the next breath
uh huh

>>12289771
>not a single good fps
Must suck being mogged by Xbox and PC

>>12289736
yeah, but for the time i still had a pretty low end pc. i think it was still using motherboard graphics

>>12289801
IGPs weren't really a thing in the 2000s

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>>12289803
well i know for certain it didn't have a graphics card.

>>12289807
can't see jack shit in that photo

>>12289794
They weren't perfect, but they were indeed a gaming experience, with a sense of progression, variety, drama, story telling and plot progression, rpg elements, likeable characters, unlockables stuff, extra modes... you know, elements that make up a complete video game experience and that are absense in tech demos.
Forgot to mention Brother In arms. Fun, challenging and unique at the time, unlike your beloved tech demo

>>12289771
Damn, a shame I was stuck with Half life 2 when I could be playing Area 51!

>>12289850
Lmao, ps2fags are delusional.
Sorry your console has no fps.

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>>12289850
>a sense of progression, variety, rpg elements, unlockables stuff, extra modes... you know, elements that make up a complete video game experience and that are absense in tech demos.

>>12287191
mind blowing at the time. especially the physics which today get taken for granted.
that being said, i never did manage to finish it. always lost interest around ravenholm

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>>12289861
Nice try, zoomie.

A simple image speak wonders
But just in case you are a retard:
>left image:
your typical Tech Demo not for fun
>right image:
a full fledged game for fun

>>12289894
i can enjoy video games without progression ratmazes and artificial carrots on a stick like "unlocking character skins"

>>12289894
>console fps
>fun
Ps2 zoomie is getting embarrassing.

>>12289903
without those, it'd be obvious that all of your consoleshit is fps creator-tier

>>12289894
>A simple image speak wonders
A simple minded esp taps blunders

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>>12287191
>movie slop
>hype slop
>bait slop
>marketing stunt slop (the "leak")
>online only drm slop
I can't think of any other words to describe this Trojan Horse.
GabeN played his cards very well, a brilliant marketing and internet hype move to funnel and force a bunch of retards to install their storefront software alongside the game.
The marketing bait of the century in my opinion, and the cattle took it with pride.
Gaben is a genius and owns a yacht collection worth $1b.

>>12290447
>he's so upset that he refuses to quote
Fanboys are just like kids who get angry when you say their favorite cartoon is silly and stupid.

>>12289258
Finally, someone with brains. Half-Life has always been an uncslop franchise with garbage gameplay.

Timesplitters schizo got triggered lol

>>12287191
Played after playing OOT

Wasn't that impressed by the world as everyone hypes it up.

>>12288456
Unreal would never have fit on a 64MB cart. It was relatively early in development in early 1997 and the devs didnt know yet how big the game would become. There are tons of leaked alpha and beta versions of Unreal which show their development pretty well.

HL2 was visually impressive as fuck but good lord was it boring to play. I remember being blown away by the detail and how dreary the world looked, and then having to actually play a game set in said world put me to sleep. None of the weapons were particularly fun to use with unimpressive feedback and sound effects, the engine felt very limited gameplaywise despite the impressive physics that they constantly shoved in your face, etc.

Ravenholm was one of the only parts of the game anyone ever mentioned for a reason and even that honestly isn't much to write home about.

At least CSS was fun and looked great itself. Lot better than the game it was built off of.

>>12287191
It was kino unlike Trannysplitters and Doom 3

>>12289803
i had the infamous igp 345m, brand new it was a 4(?) year old graphics card that couldnt play hl2, doom, or anything. and i was pretty salty having bought a thousand dollars sony vaio with this horse shit. the fucker couldnt even do dvd playback correctly

>>12291591
isn't that just a mobile GPU?

>>12290875
>my fitting in power level is over 6 7

>>12291597
its a radeon ve, but we also had the intel 810, extreme 1 and 2, 950, xpress 200, and if you didnt have a big vendor chipset, you probably had another ancient display adapter like a s3 virge or something from sis from the 90s that made its way well past its usefulness

I remember playing Pong at my aunt's house in 1977. HL2 was good. I've played every game mentioned itt so I don't say that lightly

>>12292032
>I don't say that lightly
You do say it larply

>>12287191
2004 was "NEXT GEN!!!" as fuck, with Doom 3, Far Cry and HL2 all releasing the same year.

HL2 outright felt photorealistic, and the implementation of physics made the world feel even more "alive". In many ways, it's still a far more dynamic game than majority of other AAA titles we get these days.

>>12291597
a gpu in a laptop was pretty rare, most chipsets had a display adapter which wasnt designed for any 3d rendering. nvidia pioneered making mobile versions but those were still pretty rare until 2005 or so

>>12287191
>world feels like a full generation ahead of the tech
No, stop rewriting history. HL2 had been delayed after its source code leaked and it wasn't bleeding edge even when it leaked. Doom 3 was WAY, WAY ahead technically for example. The physics engine was something never seen though.

>>12292061
>HL2 outright felt photorealistic
fucking no

>>12292880
fucking yes

I remember seeing pictures of this game and reviews and thinking it looked super boring am I the only one? I feel like that would be a very common opinion. visually the game looked boring, the enemies looked boring, the environments looked boring, The lighting and graphics didnt really help with the stale art design it just didn’t look like it was worth trying over so many other games at the time. Main character also looked like a dork.

>>12292896
half-life 2 ripped off killzone stay woke

>mute protag
>gives orders to squad mates

>>12292905
he's not one-handed

>>12287191
It btfo the competition.

>>12289404
Yup. I totally agree with you.
Half-life 2 was a half baked game. The graphics were unappealing and the gameplay was ass. Far cry was miles better.

>>12292951
Far Cry was terrible
Even Doom 3 was better than that slop.

>>12292056
I'm 54. Not larping. Castle Smurfenstein. I got it from a BBS that I do believe was based in Murray KY. Kiss both sides of my ass

>>12287191
Thank god I got to experience SWAT 4 back then and not this overrated junk.

>>12287191
I was more into Doom 3 at the time but did later play HL2 and its not bad. Episode 1 and 2 are better.

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>>12293028
>I'm 54. Not larping.
>My proof is a youtube maymay

>>12287237
KEK

>>12294881
Oh bullshit. I was born in 1971 and if that's so hard for you to imagine, you might want to get off the Internet. Forever. I have no reason to lie on 4chan. For what, Internet Brownie points from a bunch of incel virgins? Lmao you have no relevancy or importance to this world

>>12295478
lol. You already outed yourself as an underage larper with your last tryhard copepost. Why do you even bother with such pathetic damage control.

>>12295582
Lmao what are Shogun Warriors. What is the isis/Shazam powe hour. What are 13 channels in tv with two of them getting mostly useless. I can do this all day.
>What's a monchichi
>What's an Apple IIc
>What's a ROTARY PHONE
All this crying that you are doing in 4chan is unseemly, anon. You can do better than that! I have faith in you

>>12288882
It did get a lot of artificial press but it was legitimately good. Before HL2, the best FPS was CoD1 or Tron 2.0 and nobody played either of those.

>>12287191
Physics ingames weren't really a big then let alone using them to make interconnected puzzles to showcase it in a smart way, the world wasnt real but we now felt the things in it were tangle which is one step closer. I remember the grav gun being a huge deal to showcase the engine, just being able to shot objects you can pick off the map was the coolest shit ever.However, halflife 2 wasnt really popular being a pc title in a year of console bangers so it kind of fell to the wayside overshadowed by other games at the time.

>>12295663
>halo 1
>cs 1.6
>quake 3
>ut99
>doom 3

not to mention halo 2 released within a week of hl2 and stole all of the press for being the multiplayer shooter for the next 3 years

>>12296720
Multiplayer is for literal cattle. For subhumans. Only patricians can appreciate campaigns.

>>12287191
Haven't played before because my computer couldn't run it.
Downloaded it not too long ago and it's pretty cool, i haven't felt anything for a while playing single player games, it was refreshing.

>>12296720
Counter Strike is literally an HL mod, dude.

>>12287191
I remember articles about "asshole physics" because you could throw cans at people. Honestly though the focus on physics was pretty cool and something you didn't see a lot in later games since it kind of just became taken for granted.

>>12296868
>just became taken for granted.
Very few games embraced HL2's level of physics after. It sadly really didn't have much of a legacy.

i didnt really give a shit about source engine stuff until gmod

>>12296868
Because HL2 beat you over the head with them to the point of it taking you out of the experience. Why would anyone want to replicate that? My path is blocked, I wonder how I proceed. Oh joyous day, there's a fucking seesaw to place cinderblocks on. And now I release some cans of air underwater because my god, they float. Hooray.

Hm, the weapons in this game kind of suck and they don't seem to want to give you too much ammo for anything other than the dinky pistol with the worst feedback in all of video games, I wonder why. Oh it's because they want me to do nothing but use the gravity gun to kill all of the enemies in the same way, picking up one of the 50 objects around me and shooting it at them. Very funny the first few times, not by the end of an entire full length game.

>>12287193
>U N C - L I F E 2

Go play Legend of Zelda for the 100th time, fag

HL2 won
Doom 3, Halo, Far Cry, Timesplitters lost
Console fags lost
Schizo lost

>>12297025
HL2 is the console babbies first PC FPS
and you'll never be a real pc gamer

>>12297032
Im sorry your favorite shitty fps is not remembered

>>12297037
Thank God.
I'd be horrified if tons of gay youtubers make videos about my favorite fps and have a fuck ton of dumb zoomers going on about how they always loved it.

Timesplitters is shitty game, get over it

Is me or schizo lost pretty hard?
He can't convince this board to hate this game. He's been spamming these threads since the Steam Machine announcement and no cares.

>>12287191
Great game.

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>>12296998
Stop being a retard
HL2 uses Havok. Only a naive idiot would praise this game for its physics.
Even Destroy All Humans (PS2/Xbox) does what HL2 does thanks to this third party physics engine.
FEAR, Oblivion, AoE3... also uses Havok.

Crysis is in fact the only game out there that is still unrivaled in terms of physics simulation, not thanks to the generic havok capabilities, ofc. It uses proprietary technology, developed internally.

>>12297079
Poor's man Far Cry and Far Cry was already shit.

>>12297083
it was the rich man's Far Cry tho

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>>12297083
Cope more, Brown Life 2 stinky.

>>12297095
What a soulless game, no wonder Crytek flopped

Im brown and i love Crysis

>lost the argument and has to spam webms
Sad

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>>12297124
>he is desperate for attention
Here's a gif for you, buddy.

>>12297018
Still better than Crysis

>>12296845
counter strike is a gold source mod predating hl2 by almost 5 years dumbass

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>>12287191
>How did people react to this back in the day?
Simple.

>Order CD of HL1 from the classics collection
>It is dog shit and after the military shows up quit the game
>Never finish

>Buy HL2 on release
>It requires a login and internet connection to a retarded launcher named steam
>Be angry
>Play game to the finish
>It is OK however at the end it gets annoying.
>>Oh whats this the enemy throws a grenade? Let me block you Mr. Free Man because I am a brain dead NPC!
Did anyone like this? Like ever?
>The physics blow your mind however they are a gimmick and forgotten years later since no game uses them.
>Play the multi it is fun
>Ge CSS as a bonus game
>Play that to death.
>The physics in CSS are very fun and add things to the game
This is it HL was never that good.
The story is literally toddler cringe. Where every character loves you for no reason whatsoever.

No idea why anyone liked this game. There are better ones.

>>12297454
CS nigger opinions don't matter.
Worst multiplayer fps

>>12287191
Everyone that wasn't brown or a console cuck loved it.

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>>12288195
>a feeling of player choice
??? HUH????
Player choice?
How?

It is linear with no choices literally.
Contrast to Bioshock, OR KOTOR before that.
Or Jedi Academy before all of that.

WTF do you mean player choice?
> an immersive experience
What are these buzzwords?

> new technologies
Like?

The thing that got me excited where the physics behaviors and I was
>WOW in a handful of years we will have real simulations with water and buildings who actually collapse and deform based on damage
This never happened if you ignore minecraft etc. Who are not the same thing.

>>12289257
Yes water was impressive however the game was interrupted by the non stop loading zones after a handful of steps.

>>12297474
>>12297480
Nice melty, keep samefagging and bumping.
You will convince anyone

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>>12289258
>Doom 3 was much more impressive and fun
No DOOM 3 was and always will be shit.

>LOADING
>LOADING
>LOADING
I agree however zoomers will not understand playing on modern computers.

>annoying NPCs that dicksuck you for no reason,
I think it is the only toddler level le mature video game in existence. The lore makes no sense whatsoever. And everyone loves freeman for no reason whatsoever.

Like they actively cream their pants. And the dialogue gets boring since Freeman can not say a word.
In contrast Halo 1 for the PC was way better. Better story and the marines do not suck off the MC all the time despite you understanding that he is superior to them since .... [never explained in game] veteran or super armor or something.

Also what made Halo 1 so great was no loading or loading that interrupted once 1 level did load in (despite it repeating LOL) you did have non stop action. Better lore and everything then Half Life.

>>12297489
Gaylo was never good, zoomie
The laughing stock back then
Old 4chan and forums hated it

>>12289554
>doom 3 by comparison (which I never finished) really stood out even from a screenshot and the game itself was so different compared to most FPS it felt more like an experience at the time than a game. It felt (when it came out) like being inside of a blockbuster film. I never finished the game because I got so busy with other titles and found doom 3 not only scary but difficult (I was a teenager) and moved on to other games, but I can still remember being in awe at navigating the impressive environments (for the era) with the flashlight feeling like I was really there, trying to survive. incredible memory.
Jesus fuck the DOOM 3 dick sucking!

1) DOOM 3 was universally hated (jurnos lie ignore them)
2) It looked like shit made out of some badly rendered CGI plastic
3)DOOM 3 literally looked worse then games who did come before it!
4) NO one liked DOOM3.

>Not this anon but half life always looked super boring to me in screenshot or magazines of clips I saw online
This has to be trolling.
HL2 is a meh however DOOM3 is literally ass. It literally looks worse then games before it! Like look at Jedi Academy and tell me the cancer puppets in DOOM3 look better.

>>12297492
>Gaylo was never good, zoomie
Explain the sails numbers then?

>Gaylo was never good
The multiplayer is retarded garbage however the single player is good.

>Gaylo was never good
Lets see HL2 combat interrupted by non stop loading screens
Halo no interruption in combat.

Also regenerating HP (awchually it was the armor not HP) prevented retarded kids from rushing into battles and then wondering why they are almost dead and literally can not enter the next room or they will die.
The fact that you picked up full loaded weapons from enemies also did mean that no ADHD kid will rage since he blew all of his bullets in the previous room and can not enter the next room or die.
And the strategically placed auto save spots practically every step (you only notice this as an adult)made the deaths not annoying for ADHD kids.

The multi is hot garbage, there is no point in picking up any weapons since the pistol is some mini sniper.

>>12289894
a fucking menu comparison

>>12297480
Yeah, me too I only played back then games without any loading screens. Even right now, with modern games!

God please bring back the IP counter

>>12297495
>>12297503
Holy console fag cope

I find funny how gaylo fags can't stop seething over chad life all these years.
It's like they know real gamers don't like them.

>>12292880
>photorealistic
>>12292061
Agree this is because the models literally have real peoples faces plastered on them.
Decades later and we get artists trying to sculpt faces who still look like they are made out of cancer clay.

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>>12292878
>Doom 3 was WAY, WAY ahead technically for example
LOL.
WTF is with the DOOM 3 trolls?
DOOM 3 is literal dog shit who looks more ugly then games before it.
DOOM 3 is literally the definition of a tech demo!
>So lets make this dynamic lighting thing
>OK lets plaster the DOOM name on it
>Umm because we need to build a tech demo to show the le dynamic lighting lets make it le horror and dark.... unlike DOOM 1 and 2!
And the DOOM 3 tech is a joke! The lighting looks fake as fuck and all characters look like they are made out of cancer clay and are ugly as sin.
The game has tiny rooms and nothing to show, it is not even frightening only annoying!

More console fag tears lol

Im trans and halo is my favorite fps.

>>12297481
>Nice melty, keep samefagging and bumping.
>You will convince anyone
>I will not answer any questions!

LOL. These are real questions you cuckold!
I swear HL fanboys are all trolls!

>>12297518
>I find funny how gaylo fags can't stop seething over
Lets see
>Be me
>PC gamer
>Played lots of PC games
>Try Halo 1 it is great
>Try HL2 it is OK
>Replay Halo 1!
I mean this happened!

>chad life
Tell me what was good in HL.
The story sucks ass.
The characters are cringe in how they like Gordon.
VS
Standard military SF story with good combat.

>>12297542
>>12297552
More gaylofag tears kek

>>12297563
So I will post more how it was back in the day despite the HL fagot having meltdowns.

What blew my mind in Halo 1 was the map silent cartographer.
It is the best map in the game this is because it shows you the freedom and choices you can make, you can drive around from various ways to your target and having no loading screens here makes the map feel alive.

I did never really experience something like that before.
This made the combat interesting.
Also the 2 weapon limitation made me want to replay the game by trying different weapons and experimenting.
I remember telling my friend how great it was since every weapon did feel like it has its place unlike lets say Quake 2 where most of the early weapons are trash to replace.

What did HL2 have?
Graphics... Loading screen interruptions.... physics puzzles....
Yes the physics did impress me however I never wanted to play HL2 again.

Tldr im butthurt half life is rightfully more beloved
Good thing you stopped larping as atimesplitters and crysis fan

>>12297584
>Good thing you stopped larping as atimesplitters and crysis fan
That was not me!

> is rightfully more beloved
????
By who?
The franchise is basically dead since valve is incompetent and the games story is nonsense.
The youtube shills who say this right next to shilling raid shadow legends and magic spoon?

>>12297591
It was you. You even made the timesplitters thread as cope.
Real fps fans and oldfags agree halo was never good.
>>12297581
>defending 2 weapon limit
You are cancer

>>12297095
Damn, is this with modern hardware?

Halo was the worst fps i ever played

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>smart female girl is leading the plot against evil
>*we must save the world from the evil white dude and his ideology*
>black guy (her father) is portrayed like a martyr
>like a cuck, you follow the smart girl orders and positive thinking
>male characters are all childish and silly
>silent protagonist because how dare you to question the scientists and the woman authority

Halo is the most cucked fps series.

>>12297605
>>defending 2 weapon limit
NO that was something I did think as a child, not any longer. If you do not like it time travel and debate my child self!

>You are cancer
Depends.
The game sure be far less ridiculous since the only sane reason is to grab a super weapon like a rocket launcher and walk with it all the way while fighting with 1 gun all the time and keeping the super weapon for important fights.

On the other hand the limit made the game far more repayable since you can not simply try out every weapon in 1h and decide what weapon is the best.

Today I prefer the limit did not exist however these are thoughts of my child self.

>>defending 2 weapon limit
I remind you zoomer that games also introduced the need to reload.

DOOM and Quake did not have any reloading in them, yet reloading was forced on all games.

>>12289486
Why can't we have water as good as 2001 effects in 202X games?

>>12297663
>as good as 2001 effects in 202X games?
This is a interesting question to be hones.

Games did deteriorate before 2004 they improved and then with DOOM3 they turned into brown shit while the jurnos told us how great the graphics are.
This was true for many years then they started improving visually however they still are not fully there.

Why can't halo be as fun as half life?
I tried to like it but it's so boring and repetitive
Feels like i was fooled by the marketing

>>12289803
IGps have been a thing since the 1980s, they were just dogs hit for 3d, which is what anon is saying his problem was.this all checks out

>>12297691
It's just not for you and that's okay. Never try to force yourself to play a game you don't enjoy just because others like it.

It's to admit to samefagging and spamming will not stop people liking this game.
You are being as obvious as the REmake schizo.

>>12297691
Because it's has actual level design

>>12297605
how often did you use the pistol, smg, or gravity gun after ravenholm, in combat? never

>>12297552
halo ce modding was pretty good, but once i had a pc that could play gmod, that was all over, and halo modding is now dead because of the infighting faggotry there

>>12297695
i dont know why this is contentious, wait until anon gets told about pagers

>>12297749
>gravity gun
Oh lol forgot about that.

>gravity gun after ravenholm
I basically ignored this gun when I played HL2 as a kid.
Actually try using it after ravenholm
>try to grab garbage
>Get killed by machine guns
Like LOL.

>>12297749
>modding
I was talking about the base game.

>>12287191
HL2 kino
Doom 3 bad
Halo baby first fps
That was the consensus

>>12297759
well yeah the base game is better than hl2, but mods = replayabillity, and i hl2 won in that aspect

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>>12289257
I always found the water in hl2 to look nice but not be very impressive. Even HL1 had simulated physical surfaces when played in opengl mode with variable wave heights. Console games were already doing more on more limited hardware. HL1's ultra flat water sheets never seemed right in any source game.

>>12297768
>halo
>campaign
>better than anything
Kek, also replying to yourself is pretty sad

>>12297772
>HL1's ultra flat water sheets never seemed right in any source game.
HL2's*

>>12287191
They loved it and made fun of halo 2 and doom 3 campaigns.

>>12297773
what is it thats happening in hl2 again? you shoot some (bad) human(oids) and sit in a few 20 minute long first person cutscenes and then the good humans win (in off screen events)?

Console fag here, hl2 was much better than halo.

>so butthurt about the timesplitters thread backfiring he has to spam this one

>>12297827
theres some idiot that spams /o/ about his shitty ford truck that doesnt run in the exact same way, he'll start making threads about ford shit and they're the only threads that arent generals or typical repeat threads. why does this site attract this mentality?

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>counter strike, half life and dota are my favorites games
>how could you tell?

>>12297845
Anonymity means you can say whatever stupid shit you want without it following you around and embarrassing you later, that's why.

Keep doing it anon, someday people will be convinced about halo good hl2 bad and you will die happy.

>>12297849
Nice halo fan pic

>>12297638
Damn you must've had no friends

>>12297920
No buyeded a xbox here in russia
we play stalker and half life

Why are halo trannies so mentally ill?

>>12298017
>hl schizo is non white
Explains a lot

>>12297980
My friends were playing hldm

>>12298017
>>12297849
That’s clearly a brit

>>12298030
>brits prefer Chad Life
>mutts love Gaylo

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>>12298024
>halo
>white
come on, yo

>>12298034
Halo is the most amerimutt core game ever

It was great in '05 on my first playthrough but it's not enjoyable on replays and is kind of a slog. Some segments like the prison with waves of enemies can be fun to redo on harder difficulty but most of the game - not so much.
The gritty high-res textures, sound, and atmosphere did a lot of lifting.

>>12287191
It's one of the best games ever and it makes halo mutts seethe.

>>12297525
>it is not even frightening only annoying!
I can smell the estrogen from your post. You really should transition. You're not a man if you don't find Doom 3 scary.

>>12298546
He's a halo fan.
He already is a pussy.

>>12297489
you have not played the halo games if you don't think that they suck your cock to an annoying degree in those
>LOOK A MARK V!!!!

also this is an alf thread obviously but halo still sucks

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>>12298746
>you have not played the halo games if you don't think that they suck your cock to an annoying degree in those
NO they do not. Either way I wish 4chan let me upload audio MP4s so I can post all the cringe dick sucking the NPCs do there.

>GORDON FREEMAN!
Why are you excited again?
>IT IS GORDON FREEMAN!
Seriously what makes him magical?

This is literally never explained. It is the only game I know where every NPC sucks your dick for no reason whatsoever. The story based on this alone is cringe and extremely stupid.
>How can we get over there
>Great thinking GORDON!
For you triggering a scripted NPC dialogue and scene by walking or pressing something.
It is like every fucken trivial thing is some act of genius to be praised.

What makes HL fags so angry is the fact that there is nothing special about HL. Halo did the realistic FPS story before HL2 this makes you fucks absolutely lose your mind. Since your YT talking point is invalid. And Halo is popular and far less cringe.

>GAYLO BAD !
>GAYLO BAD!
>GAYLO BAD!
There are other games like Unreal 2 who are the same serious military FPS however they are far less popular (for unknown reasons). HL fagots like to pretend that HL2 was le revolutionary because all games before it where literally DOOM II and Mario nonsense for a story.
>Demons killed your bunny go kill demons
>All the quotes about story in DOOM being unimportant

1/2

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>>12298746
>>12298923

>LOOK A MARK V!!!!
Is this all you fagots got? Some random NPC having a voice line that he shouts because he sees some presumably advanced or top secret military equipment? A voice line that I have forgotten even existed?
A voice line that is supposed to present some deep lore of the franchise?

A voice line that is basically on the same level as some military guy shouting
>Look a AR-15!
?
In contrast to every NPC creaming themselves and being super excited that Gordon managed to bring some trivial object to them? Fully voiced impossible to forget agonizingly long NPC dialog vomit that is basically on the level of a preschool teacher congratulating the toddler for doing basic tasks?

>Congratulations Gordon you found the star block that fits in the star hole!
>Great job Gordon!
>You are so smart Gordon!

At some point you start to think that either the NPCs are retarded or they are making fun of you.
Worst offender is the HL waifu Alex or something.

>LOOK A MARK V!!!!
OK what makes Gordon so magical? Serious question.
In contrast.

>LOOK A MARK V!!!!
So the MC is in what essentially is a super advanced tank suit and has entered the battle. Same as for them getting excited that some reinforcements arrived with a tank.
At the minimum they are excited because some random guy who is controlling advanced military equipment will help them in battle.

Why is Gordon magic again?
They are not excited because the HEV suit or whatever is deadly in battle or something. They actually did keep the HEV suit in storage despite being the le resistance for the magic messiah Gordon to return to have it. Once again what makes Gordon magical?

Gordon is a physicist not some war veteran or military. In contrast at the minimum the military is excited to get some veteran to help them fight in this moment.

>>12298746
>you have not played the halo games if
The absolute seething of HL fags at this point.

jesus halofags are sensitive. anyway they suck your dick all throughout CE and it gets really bad in the MIC propaganda sequel.

people in hl2 love you because of what you pulled off in hl1. halo has no build up at all.

>>12297772
The water in the clip you posted is straight out of wave race 64
>>12287191
There are a bunch of retards in this thread because of course there are
The immediate reaction from gamers and reviewers was, pretty much, in the discussion for greatest video game ever on the day of its release

>>12287193
Fuck you

Gordon looks like he would report you to HR over some trivial matter why did they design him like that?

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>>12298943
>suck your dick all throughout CE
COPE and lies.

>people in hl2 love you because of what you pulled off in hl1
Literally NEVER voiced in HL2!
It is always the empty
>GORDON FREEMAN!
Without any explanation or justification.

>people in hl2 love you because of what you pulled off in hl1
And this explains them celebrating your return like you are jesus how?
And this explains them keeping Gorgons HEV suit like some relic and never use it in their fucken war/revolution/rebellion HOW?

Look HL fag you can not deflect from this others noticed the same shit before.

Other people noticed the same bullshit for years.
See:
https://files.catbox.moe/25nnq5.mp4

>>12298928
but its a glowing orange jumpsuit that has no purpose but to imply the second game is somehow related to the first, how would you know this if we didnt include the tacky, out of place, impractical, glowing orange jumpsuit

>>12299280
the gman gave them the hev suit and instructions to prepare for gordon's arrival. hl1 was all about government conspiracies and hl2 still has an undercurrent of conspiracy running through it if you pay attention.

>>12287191
I liked it but now I like Half Life more.

Halo fag tears are delucious

>>12298958
>The water in the clip you posted is straight out of wave race 64
Right? It looks really good especially since it's not constrained in a 5 feet radius around the player like in waverace 64. It also obviously shows off gameplay possibilities with how exaggerated it is.

>>12299337
>the gman gave them the hev suit
No idea if trolling or on HL copium and fan theories.

Going back to Halo and why it breaks HL fags so bad is that in Halo 2 the MC is celebrated as a hero since he literally saved all of humanity and all life in the galaxy since he stopped the activation of halo and blew that shit up.
Even if you downplay this he is a veteran who performed a good job during a military encounter worthy of what literally is equivalent to what IRL soldiers get when getting important medals like the purple hart.
This is literally standard military procedure IRL.

Since Halo is basically IRL military on different planets with clown weapons(Humans + alien) where you fight colorful clown aliens.
In contrast the behavior of the NPCs in HL2 is absurd. They literally act like Gordon is some religious figure for no reason whatsoever. On top of the toddler like praising for the most trivial task imaginable the writing and acting in that game is absurd belonging more in DOOM II then any game after 1998!

However HL 2 fags can not admit that their franchise is absurd and has dialog that is a regression from what was the norm. Halo breaks them so hard because it did come before HL2 and the story telling in it and logic is light years above HL2.
Why the fuck is it like this?

You do not see Mario fans pretending like their games are peak cinematic dialogue or writing?
Why the fuck is it like this?

>an undercurrent of conspiracy running
The fuck? IN HL2 there is no government and therefore no conspiracies.

>>12287191
It was more hype about the cool physics simulation and physics puzzles.

>>12300017
>there can't be a conspiracy without a government
halofags lmao

>>12297772
this kind of water is ok for a cartoony game. But imagine this in HL2 and it would look completly out of place.

>>12287191
It would've been impressive if it didn't miss it's original release date (2003)
more than a full year later it already felt dated next to it's competitors

HL2 won
Halo lost
Schizo lost

>>12302027
>it already felt dated next to it's competitors
Literally how? HL2 felt like the future upon release, even years later.

>>12302372
by the time it finally released we already had:
>Unreal tournament 2003
>Splinter Cell
>Devastation
>Silent Hill 3
>Max Payne 2
>Deus Ex Invisible War
>Far Cry
>Doom3
>Medal of Honor Pacific Assault

if you were a PC gamer and FPS/TPS enthusiast living in the first/second world back then HL2 was sort of just "meh" for you

>>12302451
PC gamer here, those games sucked especially Doom 3

>>12302457
I'm trans btw, dunno if it matters^^

>>12302461
Yep Doom 3 fans are trannies

>>12302372
This is only the case for people who were too young or weren't alive back in the day

>>12302468
Like you

>>12302451
HL2 had a shockingly photorealistic look that none of the games you mentioned had. Yes Splinter Cell and Doom 3 had amazing lighting but they didn't look as realistic as HL2.

>>12302476
It didn't look any better than MP2
and it's physics and ragdoll weren't any better too

>>12302480
Delusional

>>12302484
speak for yourself

>>12302485
Seethe more, schizo

>>12302489
huff in those gayben's farts more, valvedrone

>>12302492
Let me guess you are the gaylo faggot above.

>>12302480
I'm not arguing it looked better (that's too subjective) but it definitely look a lot more lifelike than MP2.

>>12302507
how so?
explain please

>>12302472
No u

Half Life 2 on release was totally tits, especially as it came free with my graphics card

>>12302583
Man I fucking love tits.

>>12297773
What's wrong with Halo's campaign?

I swear this thread is just 2 brown underage ESLs arguing with each other

The Source engine was "the future" when it came out, the thing was that "gamers" and "gamer culture" wasn't really a mainstream thing yet and the only people who had a machine that could actually handle Half Life 2 in 2004 - 2005 were the sweatiest of nerds. It was like a really impressive tech demonstration, but few people had the rig to play it on maxed out settings. I specifically remember the first time my brother showed me Counter Strike Source on his gaming PC (having a dedicated PC just for playing games was seen as very futuristic and exotic at the time, it was nowhere near a mainstream phenomena yet in the mid 2000's) and I was mightily impressed with the particle physics of the Source engine, and how objects such as barrels would move convincingly realistically when shot at or bumped into.

Around the same time, Doom 3 was being massively hyped in magazines. Back then we were overall a bit more interested in Doom 3, because it was seen as the more mature gaming experience compared to Half Life 2, which was perceived as a bit gray and dull with its dystopic sci-fi setting. Slaughtering monsters on Mars was generally seen as more badass, both in the press and with our group of friends.

>>12303978
two betrayals is complete shit and the library is monotonous, but otherwise nothing. fantastic driving and multiplayer, both things hl2 failed to deliver.

>>12305538
Halo failed to deliver being fun

>>12287191
The gaming press hyped it up but casuals didn't really care that much. They were more interested in Metal Gear Solid, Zelda, Final Fantasy, all the usual suspects.

>>12305459
Pretty much how I remember those days too

>the thing was that "gamers" and "gamer culture" wasn't really a mainstream thing yet
Those were the days.

>>12307328
>t. console babby
this shit was a BIG deal on PC when it came out
the game itself is fun the first time, and pretty bothersome the following times due to its pacing issues. but that didnt matter because the engine was GOAT. its one of those games youd get just so you could play mods. CS:S, TF2, surfmaps, etc. thats where the real value was at

>>12287191
I sided with Doom 3 and Half Life 2 was clearly better when it released. In fact it was so good it launched a whole new platform and destroyed PC games being sold at retail stores and their second hand market.

My cousin built his own PC and showed HL2 to me one day. He started a cutscene and it went on, with some NPC yapping at him for minutes. I asked if he could skip these parts, and he said he couldn't. I hadn't thought about this game for a few years, until I discovered 4chan, where, for some reason, almost everyone had a boner for Valve moviegames.

>>12307381
Sure, but console babby's vastly outnumbered pc gamers.

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It was the proto-reddit game; all pretense and no substance. Once you get over the characters talking at you and le physics gun, the shit arsenal, bad pacing, and boring enemies make for a very mediocre game. The replayability is ruined because the game shoves narrative shit at you when you just want to play. It's up there with Doom 2 and Unreal 1, it's engine is its only selling point.

>>12302451
>Deus Ex Invisible War
Nigger no one was running that piece of shit on PC at max settings in 200 fucking 3, if it could run at all.

>>12287191
It's an objectively bad game. Crappy storyline that needed 2 more episodes to be complete. Long-winded airboat and buggy sections that felt boring and gameplay overall wasn't that engaging. All this game did was just demonstrate the capabilities of the source engine.... and that's about it, really overrated game.

Not much criticism about the combat itself

>>halo tranny still bumping it
You lost

>>12308386
>It's an objectively bad game.
Dumb thing to say. The only bad parts are the vehicle sections and interactive cutscenes. The rest of the game is incredible.

>>12309820
In what way is it incredible? It's worse than HL1. Less weapons, rebel NPCs that throw you pickups (because fuck rewarding the player for positioning and proper item usage, let's just hand them stuff on a silver platter), mediocre story where it's just saving the city from le ebil bad guy that talks to you through a screen, gunplay was bland because gibbing was removed and it just felt like you were shooting a bb gun at bullet sponges. It was just a source engine demo, showing all the different capabilities of it so other games could be built upon it. Half-Life: Alyx was the same shtick, demonstrating the source 2 engine and vr technology to the masses.

>good game is le bad
>samefags for days
Outstanding argument

>>12308386
>>12309876
>>12308354
>le hecking tech demo
Get new material, faggot.

>>12287191
It destroyed Gaylo

>>12287191
Everyone that wasn't brown or a console baby loved it.

>>12309924
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CANT BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE CRITICIZING SOMETHING
What schizo of the week are we right now?

>>12310268
You are too obvious, cuck

>>12309936
Nu uh

>>12310268
Pathetic samefag

>>12287191
we didn't have emotions back then

>>12311434
Uh huh

>>12287191
Not an FPS, but comparing Half Life 2 to a game like Resident Evil 4 shows how unimpressive and boring PC games were at the time, RTS and simulation games aside.
I blame piracy for the fact that most developers didn't take PC games seriously.

cinderblock seesaw goes hard in current year Fuck Yeah this shit RAPES !

Half-Life 2 WAS a good game. Key word is WAS. Never again will it be heralded as, "The Game of the Year".

>>12312391
Yeah, RE4 is pretty bad compared to it.
Console games were dire.
>>12312396
Still is

>>12312439
>reading comprehension
I think that's what it takes to be a half life cultist: a retard.

>>12312523
Not much as retarded as a halo fag or a console fag.
Surely you must this assblasted to keep bumping this thread .
>cultist
Ironic

There isn't a single FPS with better pacing than HL2.

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In case anyone still doubts how deranged a valve fanboy can be
>>12312450
>>12311459
>>12302367
>>12311949
>>12305603
>>12298513
>>12308139

>frogposter
>calling others deranged
>so butthurt over this game he keeps replying to the thread
Ok

>>12312740
>I must ruin and archive several worthwhile threads because I'm a butthurt and deranged half life 2 fan and everyone must agree with me
I'd rather be a frog than the retarded behind those threads

>>12287191
My friend told me you needed an internet connection to install it and it sounded like the most retarded thing I had ever heard up until that point in the world of gaming. How unprepared I was for the horrors that would follow.

>>12289741
All those things are true, but i can still kick your ass.

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>>12312873
This requirement was to force the installation of a digital storefront called Steam.
As stated here >>12290440

Mental illness

>>12312724
most of these seem to be ALF, who seems to have been released from the mental asylum, falseflagging as an obnoxious HL2 fan so people get pissed at him and he can quote the posts months later while constantly doing his whole "it ruined fps" and "refute it" schtick