People make fun of Hunt Down the Freeman (and rightfully so) but it's unironically the best written and most honest Half Life game. You see what happens when you try and tell a real story in such a generic setting like the Half Life universe? It fucking sucks.

It's shocking how much better Deus Ex is in the way it tells its story, whether directly (cutscenes) or indirectly (emails), because they're not FUCKING SCARED OF TELLING A FUCKING STORY

>B-B-BUT THEY'RE DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF MY ARBITRARY GENRE TAGS!!1

Not an argument. I'll replay Deus Ex to the day I die and I haven't even unlocked the achievements in HL2 when they added them to Steam because I thought it was mid then and it's probably still mid now.

retarded post

hello

>>713489167
Coping

Contrarian post

>>713489809
Why did you make a contrarian post?

>>713489027 (OP)
This is why Shadow won.

One of my favorite parts about Deus Ex is the way the game thrusts you into the role of JC by establishing a family connection with Paul.

Valve is gay and cringe and would think your character having any life outside the game "wouldn't le heckin' work with the le a24 tone we're setting"

>>713490280
this nigga thinks valve's only game is half life 2 and never read the tf2 comic or played l4d2 btw

>>713490523
>or played l4d2

Bro the shitty writing on the walls is more unrealistic than the overly descriptive narrators in World War Z. Some graffiti, sure, but it gets to a point where people might as well be smearing blood on the wall writing "STAY OUT"

>>713490523
>and never read the tf2 comic

Literally not in the game, but I give TF2 a big pass (and credit) because you get a lot of characterization unlike most other Valve games and the game would often update and add new lines. (Except for a couple characters, sadly)

It's also not a game that demands a big plot or story because it's just a multiplayer FPS, unlike the slow burn cinematic storytelling of le heckin' wholesome Half Lifearino

>>713489027 (OP)
Perhaps but Deus Ex doesn't have Alyx Vance who gave me a massive boner when I was a kid so case closed.

>>713493504
FULLY

>>713489167
NIGGER