Thread 720394187

>oh man, i want to replay half life 2 again!
>oh, but then there's the shitty early route canal chapter where you shoot metrocops with pistols and annoying manhacks
>oh, but then there's the boring airboat section where nothing happens
>oh, but then there's the annoying exposition dump that you've already seen a million times before that you can't skip
>oh, but then there's all the annoying physics puzzles in raveholm
>oh, but then there's the mostly boring highway 17 chapter with the shitty buggy
>oh, but then there's the shitty strider fight
Yeah... This game sucks BALLS. Can't believe I somehow got through it the first time around.

ravenholm and highway 17 are fantastic levels. somewhat agree with the other parts though

>>720394187 (OP)
hl2 vehicle sections are kino. nothin like the feeling of the open road.

>>720394187 (OP)
The airboat and especially highway sections are the funnest parts of the game. You're on a big road trip adventure, traveling across the land between set pieces, checking out little side quests along the way.

>>720394261
>only 2 chapters out of a 10 hour game are good
That's not a very good look for this game.

>>720394187 (OP)
While I'm definitely not playing FOR them, the vehicle section hate is overblown. Honestly, if the game was 100% Gordon climbing through some blown out East Europe concrete commieblock, the game would have been much, much worse.

People talk about movie games and Half Life is just that, a largely cinematic experience that you don't go through again

Anticitizen One and Follow Freeman are underrated imho

>>720394301
I always wanted to try the VR mod but I’ve heard the vehicle sections are a gut punch to even the most hardened VR users so I’ve been pushing it off, I like those sections too much to have their gameplay tainted by myself holding back vomit the entire time

>>720394187 (OP)
>oh man i want to replay half life again!
>oh but you have to follow some blasian girl boss around for 80% of the game
>oh but you have to listen to this black dei scientist who is also the father of the blasian
>oh but the white people in this game get treated like second class citizens
>oh but the main bad guy is another generic evil white guy as well

Install the mmod. It improves the game a lot.

>>720394187 (OP)
Route Canal is a kino level, OP. I'm sorry you're too gay to appreciate it

>>720394301
the buggy feels atrocious. as does the charger
the game literally locks the car in 1st and pretends to upshift but it doesnt get any faster

Doctor Freeeeeman

>>720394187 (OP)
half life ended at 1

>>720394845
>run around sewers smaller than the streets of Italy fighting off tiny hard to hit flying blades
Exquisitely fun gameplay right there.

>>720395017
wow so ur complaint is the video game car doesnt sound like real life

>>720394671
so just like real life?

>>720394643
i didn't have any issue with them because you aren't moving your hands as much and you can focus on driving. running and gunning was a lot more wooziness-inducing for me. and yeah, i typically DO NOT get any kind of illness from VR at all but got that little bit from HL2VR

still the best VR experience I've had though. Superb 20 hours playing through all parts of HL2 like that. i'm going to mod the hell out of it visually next time i play it

>oh man, i want to replay half life 2 again!
>oh, but Episode 1

>>720395089
That along with the "Three Lights" moment are among the most kino things ever put into a videogame.

>>720394187 (OP)
It's weird how so much of half life 2 is airboat and buggy, it's supposed to be like On a Rail where you ride a vehicle and periodically get out to stop an investigate. But that's the most hated chapter in half life next to xen. The removal of maze elements is good and the vehicles are fun enough, but they really should've cut one. It feels like the game has two vehicle chapters because they wanted to demo both boat and car physics. The buggy chapter is definitely the better of the two because some of the stops are fun sections. Airboat stops are shit and a pretense to annoy with the helicopter because it's the boss.

>>720395347
I think Episode 1 holds up really well, actually. The underground section was superb, and the rehashes of the citadel and city17 were generally better than they were in the base game.
When it first came out it was disappointing because it was too short and similar to HL2, but now I think it holds up better without any of the shitty levels like the canal.

>>720395537
>It feels like the game has two vehicle chapters because they wanted to demo both boat and car physics
spoiler: the entirety of hl2 is a physics demo

>>720394187 (OP)
>oh, but then there's the shitty early route canal chapter where you shoot metrocops with pistols and annoying manhacks
it takes like three bullets to kill a metrocop if you just shoot it's body. also manhacks aren't hard to kill either if you aim. git gud.
>oh, but then there's the boring airboat section where nothing happens
you mean the part where you are going through obstacles, avoiding gunfire and building ramps?
>oh, but then there's the annoying exposition dump that you've already seen a million times before that you can't skip
ill give you that, it is annoying not being able to skip them on repeat playthroughs.
>oh, but then there's all the annoying physics puzzles in raveholm
literally the highlight of the chapter. it is much more fun to lead zombies into traps or fling shit at them with the gravity gun than it is to shoot them.
>oh, but then there's the mostly boring highway 17 chapter with the shitty buggy
same thing as the airboat chapter
>oh, but then there's the shitty strider fight
git gud

>>720395347
Episode 1 is great, it's just the citizen escort thing near the end that sucks balls

>>720394187 (OP)
The only thing that sucks is the airboat part, the rest is great.

>>720395347
I like doing the one bullet thing every time I replay it. Makes for a fun challenge.

>>720395731
>ill give you that, it is annoying not being able to skip them on repeat playthroughs.
You can literally start the next chapter when you get to those parts and miss zero gameplay.

I replayed it 2 years ago and had a blast. I'm not a fag though, so maybe that was the difference.

H-he's coming back, right bros?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMHoTPPec0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtrpR-qFIRY

>>720395226
If only i had a cute blasian tomboy gf

>>720396509
>Video not available
...What the fuck? It's just music, right?

>>720394187 (OP)
>oh, but then there's the shitty early route canal chapter where you shoot metrocops with pistols and annoying manhacks
Filtered. Half-Life 2 and all of cinematic gaming peaks at Point Insertion when you're being processed through the train station. As soon as you get on the airboat the game turns to shit (Ravenholm is the last heartbeat).

>>720394187 (OP)
You probably kept playing because of the atmosphere. I know that's what kept me going

>>720397553
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVOlnCm2z-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3rNAXE3Scg

>>720394187 (OP)
HL2 is a cinematic game, but that's not a bad thing. If you allow yourself to absorb the world and self-insert as one badass going against all odds fighting an innumerable enemy, then you're going to have a good time.

>>720397675
Thanks.

>>720394187 (OP)
its a 5/10 game. its quite nice the first time because of the novelty, the game is designed like a rollercoaster ride, but really all the basic gameplay fundamentals suck ass. halo 2 aged well, hl2 aged like shit

>>720398334
Halo 2 aged like hot garbage, what are you on about?

>>720394187 (OP)
The vehicle sections are well paced and comfy.

>>720395187
Literally get good

>>720398453
cope

>>720398334
>halo 2 aged well, hl2 aged like shit
i'm too old for this site now. this is the most well crafted bait if you're not serious

>>720398334
Halo 2 is only good until you leave Earth, kind of like how HL2 is only good until around Ravenholm. It's actually a great comparison

I just dropped my replay at Nova Prospekt

>waaaah I dun wanna play this level or that level!
then don't, it's source, you can load and unload out of chapters as you please

Postan half life 1 mods that are fun
Half-Life: FIELD INTENSITY
Half-Life: THE INFECTED
Clean Half-Life
Half-Life: ZOMBIE EDITION
Half-Life: AZURE SHEEP
Half Life Sum
Half-Life: FOCAL POINT
Military Duty
Half-Life: RESIDUAL LIFE
Half-Life: SWEET
Half-Life: Life's End
Half-Life: VISITORS
Half-Life: HOPELESSNESS
Half-Life: HOPELESSNESS 2 - THE AFTER LIFE
Half-Life: BLACK GUARD
Half-Life: BLACK MESA SIDELINE
Half-Life: FIGHT FOR LIFE
Half-Life: HALF SECRET
Half Life: Sideline
Half-Life: RESIDUAL POINT
Half-Life: OPERATION NOVA
Half-Life: Induction
Half-Life: REPORT ONE OPERATION ALIVE
Half-Life: DELTA
Half-Life: HELP WANTED
Half-Life: URIEL
Half-Life: CATHARSIS
Half-Life: SHIFT-TWO
Half-Life: THE WORLD MACHINE
Half-Life: SENSES IN DECAY
Half-Life: ECHOES
Half-Life: POINT OF VIEW
Half-Life: BRAVE BRAIN
Half-Life: UPLINKED
Half-Life: CASE CLOSED
Half-Life: XEN WARRIOR
Half-Life: EVACUATION POINT
Half-Life: SIGNAL LOST
Half-Life: Opposing Force: UNDER THE BLACK MOON
Half-Life: Opposing Force: A SOLDIER’S TALE

>>720398659
nta but I agree with that take 100%. although people have been getting their memories of Halo 2 warped by 343's butchered re-releases where the AI reaction time is too fast and other shit. Halo 2 did age well if you play the original game on Xbox or Xbox 360. not sure if Xbone runs it in backwards compat. Halo 2 was and is a fantastic game.
Half Life 2 has too much tech demo and unskippable story shoved in your face, ruining the pacing. it's blatantly optimized to wow you on first play-through like a ride at an amusement park. fantastic aesthetics, ambience, creature design, music, I even like most of the characters so I'm not even saying the story is bad. but story and "set piece" games have little replay value. and replay value is rather important when talking about how a game "aged".

think of it this way: would you rather play through Halo 2 or Half-Life 2 several times back to back? imagine how annoying so many things about HL2 would get if you just played it recently and you already know everything that's going to happen down to little jump scares or monster spawns. Halo 2 doesn't have that problem past the first level and the only annoying parts will be snipers and the button mash prophet "boss", both of which take seconds to clear once you know how. besides rare weaknesses it's a pure GAME where you spend your time actually engaged in the mechanics and beating the challenge. HL2 is a sight seeing tour. if you've seen the sights (recently) it has nothing to offer and becomes grating. it disrespects your time. it jerks itself off while you wait around. constantly.

>>720399463
Understandable, that might very well be the worst chapter in the game

>>720400258
>would you rather play through Halo 2 or Half-Life 2 several times back to back?
As much as I don't care for HL2, I'd still probably pick it over Halo 2. Fuck everything with the arbiter and everything in the alien city toward the end. HL2 might bore me, but at least it doesn't frustrate and annoy me

>>720401745
filtered by keith david kino

>>720394187 (OP)
>I want to replay a game that is meant to be played once
>It's not good because I remember

>>720402190
actual movies usually don't have this problem

man the hl2 pistol has to be the weakest feeling piece of shit ever. the smg sounds really annoying and feels weak too. I don't know how they did it. at least the pulse rifle is fine. thankfully the shotgun is servicable

>>720398625
based and minimal effortpilled. sometimes the only response a post deserves is the digital equivalent of spitting on the sidewalk.

>oh, but then there's the mostly boring highway 17 chapter with the shitty buggy
I can understand shitting on airboat but highway 17 was peak

the airboat section is a really neat road trip adventure. don't get why people hate it so much. just play quake if an atmospheric journey is too passive for you.

>>720394187 (OP)
you surely can't be the same sperg that's made the same thread for the past 10 years can you? Perhaps you should be shot by a shitty metrocop, faggot, you're even more predictable than their 2005 AI

>>720399649
>Half-Life: AZURE SHEEP
top tier comfy goldsrc in the early sections before the escort parts

>>720394187 (OP)
I miss valve games, usually "game 2" "remake" are the signs of decay but come on man just make some fucking games.
no outsiders, just valve devs.

>>720394187 (OP)
FILTERED
>GHY XP

>>720394736
As someone who's played through HL2 at least half a dozen times, mmod is too conservative. It doesn't unshittify the tepid vanilla HL2 gameplay enough. It helps tho.