>The Terminator 2 of video game sequels
Is it the best sequel of all time?

>>715252584 (OP)
V tards will say that 1 is better in every aspect despite never owning it because 99% of them are consoletards

It's worse than the original and the guy above me is a faggot

>>715252651
Fucking proved it in less than 30 seconds. God damn I'm good

ohnonononononono... pcsissies, we got too cocky....

>>715252584 (OP)
MGS2

uh-oh..you're gonna trigger the HL2 derangement fags with this one OP

>>715252691
Genuinely embarrassing post

>>715252651
Based

>>715252629
>because 99% of them are consoletards
Dumb newfag. Most /v/tards are PC fags, but not out of choice, out of necessity because they're underage turd worlders with a 720p laptop that's over a decade old

>>715252842
So about on par with the average console.

>>715252629
It's funny you can read a couple sentences and just know without a shadow of a doubt that the poster is just stupid as a rock

>>715252842
Mutts can't into pc gaming, this board is mainly composed of mutts. You're self reporting as a newfag, newfag

>>715252584 (OP)
Halo 2 was way better than this

>>715252956
lol

>>715252945
Only poor people get into pc gaming because every 3rd world household at least has a pc. Having a console is a luxury.

>>715253027
>>715252956
Point fucking proven again hahaha. Spend half an hour here and you can figure out who's posting on this board

>>715252881
consoles have always been much more powerful than the average steamie's PC, PC gaming has always been overwhelmingly poor brown people, with a minority of enthusiasts that actually have mid-high end rigs.

>>715252945
No, you stupid ESL turd world retard, "mutts" actually have money and choices. Consoles cost like a month's wages in your shithole country, which is why you game on ancient PC hardware and try to call yourself "PCMR" when you're not even white.

>>715252629
>random rent-free seething about consoles out of nowhere when Half-Life was literally on PS2
>calling /v/ a console board when it's mostly (poor) PC players
What an inane post

>>715253157
>consoles have always been much more powerful than
lmao

>>715253482
>hurr durr your statement is wrong if I conveniently cut off the qualifying part of the statement that makes it correct
Smoothbrain moment

>>715253482
>my 2011 lenovo thinkpad makes me PCMR r-right guiz???
Ugly, poor, brown, and living in a shithole. SHEESH

SH2

>>715252584 (OP)
>ehh it's le baaad cause the weapons are weak and the enemies are u-uhmmm...bullet sponges hehe yeahh
HL1 hipsters will unironically say this with zero self awareness. No i'm not kidding.

>>715253802

>>715252629
I played HL1 on PS2 for the first time althoughbeit.

there are some impressive things about it but the gunplay was dogwater, and it's supposed to be a shooter. That's like trying to defend a car that barely works just because it has good seats

>enemies just stand around waiting to be shot at
>it takes multiple shots to the head to kill enemies
>game wants to be part of the gun n run genre like classic doom, except every enemy uses hitscan so you WILL be shot as soon as they see you
>your best option is to run straight to the retarded enemies like a retard, stand right in their face and shoot them 50 times until they finally die because the game lets you tank it all somehow
>normal difficulty is bad, easy is even more boring, hard just increases variables, thus turning everything into a tedious mess instead of improving the AI and getting more challenging
>the devs gave you a million ammo which encourages the awful strategies just mentioned, which means they somehow decided it was a great idea to base the entire game around those same problems
>the pistol

>>715253863
wow, anon. That looks incredibly fun and nuanced. Those soldiers look dangerous and like they have a lot of strategy to them. I bet you can't rely on that shotgun for the rest of the game, that your ammo will be limited and that you will have to think on your feet and use different guns that will feel good to use...

>>715254665
>enemies just stand around waiting to be shot at
you didn't play the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPrwpQipEXk

>>715253863
this cannot possibly be worse than the bullet sponges in the above.

>>715256041
problem of squad tactics being designed around irl humans that go down in a single shot rather than a sci-fi powersuit.

>>715252584 (OP)
>Is it the best sequel of all time?

When it came out, hell yeah


Now looking back 20 years, Half-Life 1 was better

>>715256041
and it's like you didn't even watch the video. I mean what part of the game looks like this or even allows the enemies to use those behaviors? and besides that, the enemies in your video ARE standing there waiting to be shot, you have several long-range weapons and explosives for that

>>715257060
>and besides that, the enemies in your video ARE standing there waiting to be shot
Video literally shows the entire squad hidden out of sight other than one scout, and none of them being all visible at once at any given moment, with them constantly seeking cover when not advancing and rotating when they run our of ammo

>>715257060
>what part of the game looks like this or even allows the enemies to use those behaviors?
All the on foot sections of Water Hazard
All throughout Highway 17 from the opening fight in the car park outside Ravenholm tunnel, to each of the hamlets you stop at along the way
All of Nova Propekt
All of Anticitizen One
All of Follow Freeman outside of that one bit where you climb though the huge warehouse

i.e nearly all the combat sections in the game featuring non-metrocop combine soldiers other than the setpiecey levels like the Citadel

>>715257597
Forgot all of Entanglement as well

I'm one of the only people ITT who actually played HL when it was new, including uplink before the full game was even out

1 felt like a better game, it was more magical being the first half life game, 2 was almost as good, but lacked that magic due to being a sequel, but 2 made up for it with it's tech demo levels of physics and effects. The worst part about 2 was accepting the huge change in the story like it' a bit to swallow that you are a scientist at a complex in the badlands somewhere and now you're on a slavshit train carriage in a post apocalyptic alien occupation.

>>715253802
skill issue

>>715257302
anon, now you're just delusional. They're not only standing around, they're also crouching for no reason which limits their movement, walking slowly when out of cover instead of rushing to another spot and standing right next to each other as a group (while out of cover and fighting someone who has 20 grenades and a rocket launcher btw) sound like easy ways to get shot. And even though the player in the video isn't taking any damage, which is definitely not representative at all of the real game, that doesn't excuse the enemies being dumb.
And even then, I gotta somehow tolerate a lot of suspension of disbelief, in a pure gunplay video, because no map in the game is actually designed like this, and a lot of the time, the enemies won't have any proper cover at all

>>715252584 (OP)
>>The Terminator 2 of video game sequels
But Terminator 2 was complete shit compared to Terminator 1 and ruined the franchise. I would argue it did more damage than even Salvation because since Terminator 2 the franchise has been infested with obnoxious action girl crap and good guy Terminators. Would it kill them to make a Terminator film where it's just humans vs. robots again?

>>715258292
>th- they're standing around waiting to be shot
>omg they're CROUCHING FOR NO REASON
make your mind up bro

>>715258887
they are both similar states of not doing anything to prevent getting shot

>>715258975
what is presenting a smaller target?
the video even fucking highlights at one point that the AI crouches to reduce follow up headshots you hyper cretin

>>715259074
you're ignoring the fact that it happens once in the entire video, ignoring all the other combine that died, and ignoring the fact that you have several different guns that could instantly kill them for staying still

>>715259463
So you're complaining the AI keeps crouching for no reason, now you're claiming it only happens once in the entire video?

>>715259626
I'm claiming it doesn't make for good gunplay either way but I'm not planning to spend my entire weekend arguing over crouching combines

>>715260190
So you don't want them to stand still, you don't want them to crouch - what do you want them to do? Bunny hop around?

Outside of Xen which is irredeemable dogshit, I do prefer HL1 thanks to its setting. I liked HL2, though.

Half-Life 2 has awful level design.

>>715260782
Same. I’m a millennial who didn’t play these games until a few years ago. HL2 is a good game and what everyone always talks about but I simply like the first game more.

>>715252584 (OP)
Halo 2 is better.

>>715258578
Agree 100%

>>715252584 (OP)
No, Civilization II is.

>tfw 35 year old NEET

Half Life 2 is bad, sorry, I replayed it recently and it doesn't hold up in the slightest, also Alyx is just a self insert for fat beta males.

>>715252584 (OP)
It's mostly just a glorified physics test demo but I still thoroughly enjoy it