>>724548720
Pretty much, Half-Life 2 was a novelty game. You can especially see it when you compare the mods of HL1 vs HL2. I joined when HL1's mod were in their gold age around 2001, just when CS 1.3 came out. You had so many unbelieveably cool multiplayer mods and communities. What did you get with fucking HL2? A bunch of shitty single player mods where you fight more Combine, because the setting has no flexibility, a bunch of shitty horror and sci fi themed mods that never peaked past their news announcement, some highly experimental mods where you could bases, and fly in space that everyone forgot, because they ran and played like ass and shit like "Plan of Attack", one of the first mods I played for HL2 that was so ass nobody remembers it anymore. The only reason anyone even thinks of HL2 modding is GMOD and the YouTube video craze it caused and some Zombie mods that were all thrown in the trash four years later when Left 4 Dead came out. HL2 was the most disappointing modding scene I've ever had the misfortune of living through. For years I had hoped to have the same fun I had from 2001 to 2006, but it never came, the entire fucking modding scene for that game was a joke.