Thread 718702595

>released 21 years ago
>already forgotten
>*laughing anime whore*

this is about 60-80% of /v/ threads yeah

When are they putting Gordon Chief in Fortnite?

Still the best single player FPS ever made

>>718702595 (OP)
>>released 21 years ago
fuck

>>718702595 (OP)
Probably the best video game ever made. It's timeless. Still has thousands of active players and many game mods in gmod.

>>718702750
>varied maps
>varied objectives
>dense urban combat
>wide open combat
>varied enemy mix
>political commentary on police states
>graphics still look better than most new games (due to art design)
>zombie level

>>718702750
I have a hard time saying it's as great an FPS because the shooting is so mediocre in it, but as an adventure it was definitely magic at the time and still a great play

>>718702595 (OP)
I played it this month

>>718702750
How can you say that when Overwatch 2 is a thing?

>>718702750
I wouldn't even call it good as an fps, 90% of the fun is from the grav gun dicking around.

best singleplayer fps is unquestionably perfect dark

>>718702595 (OP)
Okay so bait thread aside, let's start a proper conversation: Opposing Force is the WORST entry in the Half-Life series and is extremely overrated. To note:
>Bloated weapon set which make HL1's already bloated set look perfectly reasonable, you'll end up relying on two weapons by the end game
>Bloated, EXTREMELY SHIT enemy roster made of bulletsponges that can kill you on three or four shots on hard, uses minibosses like the Assassins as standard enemies and has no alternate ways of dealing with them besides using the optimal, obvious weapon choices
>Xenians replaced with boring "Race X" aliens which are just shittier, dumber Xenians. Also Gonomes are insanely stupid
>Map design is complete shit, confusing as fuck and arenas are often designed to give you little cover and allow enemies to get the jump on you instead of giving the player a fair chance
>HECU "allies" have as much health as base HL1 HECU soldiers and most of the time carry the standard MP5s or SPAS-12s meaning they die extremely fast to the new bulletsponge enemies, making them useless. Engineers don't have bonuses to keeping them alive, they just open doors in set locations and serve for escort missions. Medics are just mobile health chargers with no regenerating health or anything making them practically useless once you've gotten the 25HP from them or whatever.
>Lore is completely retarded, from Race X and the Black Ops which fit about as well as the shit Return to Ravenholm tried to pull, to the nuking of Black Mesa which even Laidlaw regrets
>There is little effort put into environment and horror apart from a few destroyed buildings and whatnot, as opposed to something like Blue Shift which spends its time building up the world and ambiance perfectly
>Random shit happens constantly like that one scientist in the underwater chapter dying for no fucking reason
>No new, memorable characters
>Colette is fucking dead for some reason
>Adrian is a boring Gary Stu

What a joke of a game

I was born the same day half life 2 released

>>718702595 (OP)
Yknow I replayed it a year ago and I don’t care for it. Half-Life was great, the tech demo parts were put to good use and the story evolved from simple alien invasion scenario to blowing people’s minds at the time.
HL2 had a lot of tech demo feeling. The vehicle sections were downright bad and just in there to show what they could do. The story was much less original and unfinished to boot.

It’s not a bad game by any stretch but I think it was overrated including by myself.

>>718710658
Also, the game makes no attempt to actually deliver on its promise. You play as the Opposing Force, the bad guys, the HECU, but conveniently your Osprey was shot down before you got your orders to silence the staff, and even more conveniently you get rescued by some scientists that miraculously never got the memo that the HECU is evil because of how secluded they are (even though seeing one play with a Headcrab doesn't bode well for their intelligence). OK, fine, have it be a case of Adrian realizing the evilness of his pals' handiwork. Except nope, at no point do HECU and scientists meet as NPCs, Adrian only gets a bit of reprimand from one or two staff in the entire game who don't even bother to attack him, and you only see ONE case of an HECU scientist interaction as a cutscene where the scientist isn't even attacked, he's just pushed by the soldier into a closet until he tells him where Freeman is. Not once is there a showcase of the HECU's moral issues, it's glossed over as it becomes an innocent faction in Black Mesa stuck having to survive the NEW evil soldiers, the Black Ops. It's lame as fuck and goes against the basic premise of Half-Life as a story

>>718702595 (OP)
the buggy made me motion sick

>>718705489
Well yeah, like I said, bait thread. No point arguing against anti-HL2 shills who just repeat the same points over and over trying to be special and acting like their personal favorite is ACTUALLY the best FPS ever

It's like trying to argue against anti-Doom retards, you'll lose braincells

>>718702750
Not even better than the first game

For me, it's Female 01.

>>718712479
I think it's the same jeet shills that moderate the board. Anything good, made by white men = bad

>>718713035
That and newfags who probably haven't even played Half-Life 2 honestly. If they did you'd expect the complaints to be more personal (though there wouldn't be complaints in the first place because the game is pretty fucking good), but they're all the same.
>Muh vehicle sections bad
>Muh tech demo
>Muh beta better
>Muh gunplay bad
>Muh story boring
There isn't even an attempt to go in depth into these "issues", because there isn't a way to justify them. It's just either shilling or retarded children who can't stand a good fucking game

>>718702750
It's genuinly a 6/10 game

>>718702595 (OP)
>forgotten
>the game thats always put on top 10 games of all time lists

>>718713469
Lmao as if those things really matter. The car goes 10mph faster? You can aim donw sights? THE GAME IS FIXED!.... not

Personally I think the mix of open and small areas adds great variety.

>>718712642
lol

>>718714515
HL2 is great precisely because it's varied. If it lacked all the cool, supposedly "tech demo" sections (not really tech demo, tech demo is Lost Coast, more like varied sections), it'd just be a repetitive fucking shooter where you spend eight hours doing the exact same thing over and over and over again

>>718714683
>>718714790
these are the same video?
desu I thought HL2 was just a shitty rehash with an incoherent plot and didn't finish it because there was no point

>>718714790
Kek talk about cope
>Muh HL1 gunplay is so good because enemies are tanky! (Please ignore that they can't move while shooting and you can beat most sections by hiding on the corner of the room and sniping their heads with the pistol)
>Muh HL2 gunplay is bad because Combine are dumb and easy to kill and don't shoot you instantly (please ignore that I am playing in a purposefully cramped area with few of them, with allies distracting them, where their squad AI doesn't work at all)
You are fucking pathetic. HL1 is easy as fuck to beat when you know that you can beat most encounters by taking your time instead of just rushing in. Meanwhile, HL2 forces you in many encounters to go right in and survive waves of enemies which are far smarter than the frankly retarded HL1 ones (though for the time, the HL1 enemies were fucking great)

>>718702595 (OP)
Until HL3 comes out and then we have another 20 years of stuff to talk about.

>>718714790
I don't get it. Are you upset that the shotgun pellets don't magically disappear after 5 feet into a wide cone of nothing like every shit game?

>>718717081
Lol