Post games /v/ would shit on if they released today

Why exactly would /v/ shit on Half Life if it was released today

Impossible
Half-Life was the originator of the modern FPS
Without it, all of the things that did it better that came out since would not exist, so it would still be as novel now as it was in 1998

>>712709863 (OP)
>why the fuck does this look like Fallout 3? It's 2025.

>>712709940
>20 minutes of cutscenes and walking before the actual game starts
/v/oomers wouldn't make it to the real game

>>712709989
Use your imagination and pretend like every game after HL1 receives the credit for innovating in the ways that HL1 did in our timeline.

>>712710073
Okay and Half Life would still get praise if it came out after those games because it's still an amazing game

>>712710073
Even Half-Life 2, which was just about as influential?

>>712709863 (OP)
/v/ would melt down because it isn't on switch

>>712710142
and everyone now shits on it on /v/ and says it sucks compared to 1

>>712710236
No one shits on it but it's true it isn't as good as Half Life 1

>>712709863 (OP)
>disabled black Scottish man
>le heckin smart and powerful women secretly running the show
>"HAHA GET IT?! THE AUSTRALIAN GUY HAS AUSTRALIA SHAPED CHEST HAIR!! SO QUIRKY!!! XD"
>Wow okay, the white male American characters are both idiots, huh?
>trans implications
0/10 DEI shit

>>712709863 (OP)
we already know the /v/ermin would hate this game based on the fact that the demake was well received on this board

>>712710320
putting it into a wojak dont make it untrue

>>712709863 (OP)
I'm not sure how modern /v/ would react. on the one hand people are so starved for meat and potatoes action adventure presentation that I could see it get a following based on that, on the other hand any kind of nerdy science thing gets hit with relentless onions facing without old school cred even if it stars a white guy in a goatee.

>>712710206
WOKE

>putting it into a wojak dont make it untrue

any old game with sexy women would get called low effort gooner slop

>>712710206
>>712710260
>>712710412
>Erm, you'd call this woke if it came out today!
This argument doesn't work anymore. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is a game with gay sex and missions where you rescue the local synagogue and the consensus on /v/ declared it wasn't woke.
The fact of the matter is most people don't care about politics if the game is good or above mediocre for most cases.

>>712710320
definitely true, not hard to imagine /v/ calling this one woke

>>712710645
alyx is cute so this wouldnt happen desu

>/v/ is one person the thread

>>712710775
/v/ is a hivemind yes

>>712710642
>the consensus on /v/ declared it wasn't woke.
Were we on the same /v/? There were constant threads about KCD2 being woke, for fucking months it felt like.

Either way isn't that what this thread is about? Old games being seen through modern (ie retarded) lenses (eg black must equal woke).

>>712710206
This game was shitted on upon release tho

>>712710867
>There were constant threads about KCD2 being woke
And most of the replies in those threads were people disagreeing with this claim. The majority opinion was that KCD2 wasn't woke.

If KCD2, a game that's objectively gay, gets a pass, then it's hard to imagine people bitching about Half Life 2 or Left 4 Dead 2.

>>712710260
When the game came out there was no Faggot Hale and we did not know anything about Administrator. The game didnt even have any lore apart from "Blue guy hit Red Guy and steal Red suitcase"

>>712710645
Especially since woke has devolved here to mean anything that might upset the lowest IQ white supremacist with a smartphone.

If a game character isn't white or an anime girl expect some retard to comment about woke, DEI, or Jews.

They don't even really need to add text to their post just like a generic jpg with the words imposed: "Imagine the reaction the dumbest Klansman would have to this post." and you know exactly what would have been typed.

>>712709863 (OP)
all of them except call of duty and halo
funny how that worked out

>>712710260
>the white male American characters are both idiots
Scout isn't a moron and you also forgot abou Engineer who has several PHDs

Oh look, another tourist falseflag thread.
>>712710642
>>712711124
The only people insisting that kingdom coom 2 isn't woke were tourists and raiders like you, the same ones who say shit like "coach from left 4 dead 2 is the sake thing as zesty gay niggers from modern games".

>>712710206
>the 2 white guys are a criminal and a stupid hick
Wow, what is this shit?

>>712713764
>the 2 white guys are a handsome, charismatic bad boy and a nice, endearing redneck (both of them make women soak their panties)
So woke

>>712713959
Not sure what you're trying to accomplish here considering a lot of people didn't like this game especially back then. Especially the part where they reduced Alex Mercer from a complex, morally gray character to a marvel villain and replaced him with a generic, boring family man.

>>712713258
>Scout isn't a moron
Nigga he literally cannot read

But yes I forgot about Engie

Mass Effect, Dragon's Age, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry 3, Gears of War, Halo 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

>>712715102
Scout is smart enough to realize that he should stop simping over Miss Pauling, right after that he gets tons of pussy and when he gets bitches pregnant he takes responsibility & becomes a chad single dad while disregarding the deadbeat moms of his kids
Also he achieved a comfortable life by suing the city for money
He is also canonically God's gift to earth
>>712710260
>the only black character is a walking punchline
>the two american characters are one of the most beloved in the fanbase
Try again

>>712709863 (OP)
>just remove all the historical context and revolutionary firsts it did, bro!
Of course if a game from 1998 was released today, it wouldn't be held in as high regard. Indie games made today have better tools and better graphics than the bleeding edge of 27 FUCKING YEARS AGO

>>712710260
>Wow okay, the white male American characters are both idiots, huh?
Aren't you forgetting someone?
Engineer is Texan, and he's the smartest person in the whole series (give or take Medic, maybe). Even the boss bitch is deferring to his know-how.

>>712715785
Dell has Mexican ancestry.

>>712715832
What? Based on fucking what?

>>712715832
Dell's family is teased to be the TFC engineer, and he's white as whipped cream. You're just trying to save face because you forgot about him and wanted to seem like your "woke" theory held water.

>>712716170
He's looking mighty brown...

>theory
You took a shitpost at face value?

>>712716451
I'm not a fuckin mindreader anon, a claim and a shitpost are identical in a vacuum

>>712716451
>an engineer, someone who will work a lot outside... has tan skin
Wowza!

>>712716523
He's not even actually tan, it's the sepia tones to look like an old weather worn photo.
The TFC cast are all white as the driven snow. Because nobody gave character origins even a singular thought back then.

>>712716170
stop the "Updated Models" revisionism