I never got around to playing this when it was new and revolutionary. I gave it a try a few days ago and I just got bored. Is is possible to enjoy this game for the first time in 2023?
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I never got around to playing this when it was new and revolutionary.
yes.
>t. played it for the first time 2 months ago
No it's terrible.
It's a huge step down from the first.
1/10
Made me reply
it's possible to enjoy it but i think you'd be a bit confused and be missing the scale/importance of what is happening in the game if you didn't play the first one first.
not really. the combat is pretty boring compared to other shooter campaigns, and a lot of the puzzles are just gay physics gimmicks.
yeah it was like one of the first or maybe the first fps games to have actual physics so they tried to do a lot with it and show it off a lot. the ragdoll physics make it fun to play alone imo.
i like the combat because most of the combine enemies aren't bullet sponges, your shots feel powerful and placement matters.
true but the combine feel like much less of a threat than hl1 grunts
the combine sometimes will just stand in your line of sight strafing slowly to the left reloading. hl1 grunts will run to cover to reload while their squadmates cover them.
and outside of the combine, most of the enemies are just uninteresting or even annoying to fight. manhacks are like the big reveal first new enemy type in the game and it's just some tiny physics pest that only does melee damage. and of course at this stage of the game you don't even have a shotgun. so stupid
>Never played HL 1 or 2
>Play HL1 last year, love it
>Play HL2 after it, get bored
The USA desert context was MUCH better than random eastern european one.
Also didn't like all the unexplained shit in 2.
50% of the appeal was because of the tech and the other 50% was due to it being a direct sequel to HL1 that continued the story. The actual gameplay in HL2 is decent - good, at best. Episode 2 is probably the best playing Half Life game in existence.
Half-Life Lost Coast, which you get from buying HL2 is a fun playthrough. i think it's just one segment if i remember right.
Lost Coast is a short tech demo that has nothing to do with HL narrative-wise.
yep, but the combat and map was fun. i remember playing through it multiple times.
to be honest i didn't really like hl1 or 2. just got those for the cs'asses and whatever else mods.
whatever the frick that one game was. gunman or something. cost nothing and came with hl1, cs, tf and all the other shit
Literally half the people who played this game hated it the first time through. You have to play it again in a year or so and you’ll realize it’s greatness. Also play it on hard, it makes it much more enjoyable.
Hate to sound like "that guy" but I played it in 2004 and couldn't understand why people loved it so much.
It's not as if Havok was unknown, and it had nothing to do with the first game at all. It felt like a brand new IP, not Half-Life
Most people just feel it and get pulled into it, usually due to the atmosphere
I played it in 2009 and thought it was cool, but I didn't immediately fall in love with it. It's only a bit later when I read about the lore that I became a fan of the whole series. Something about half-life is just chillingly immersive. it's so nonchalant and subtle but when you experience it, you gradually get all these snippets of information about the world conveyed to you and your imagination runs wild trying to fill in the gaps.
>you gradually get all these snippets of information about the world conveyed to you and your imagination runs wild trying to fill in the gaps
Always cracks me up when people talk like this about Half-Life 2. Remember the leaks? That's why there's no coherent story. That's why you have to piece together background clips of information, it wasn't intentional.
People will forgive HL2 for anything, I swear.
What about the leaks? I hope you aren't one of those zoomers who think HL2 got remade when the outdated beta content got leaked. It didn't. What you got was exactly what they had planned, and it was well on its way to getting finished when the leak happened.
A substantial percentage of the game WAS re-done, so belt up.
>on accident
"By accident", you Fisher-Price American twat.
On accident and by accident are both perfectly acceptable you absolute clown lmao
>A substantial percentage of the game WAS re-done, so belt up.
it wasn't, the release storyline was finalized by that point, they couldn't afford to make any changes at the time
Re-done? What do you mean? It went through a regular game development cycle. What was released was the game they intended to make. There was no "redoing". The only reason you think that is because early test builds of the game were leaked. This is why studios don't want leaks, because people like you don't understand the game development process and cry about it when they realise content was cut at some point in development.
>I-it’s good on accident so that doesn’t count!!
Lol k
Whether it was intentional or not, the fact that there isn't constant exposition dumps that explains everything and instead it is shown to the player via the world and the environment makes the game 10x more effective in creating a intriguing atmosphere that the average singleplayer shooter fails to ever achieve.
There are constant exposition dumps. Breencasts, locked-room NPCs talking at you until they're done dumping, NPC chatter in general.
"By accident" is shorthand for "by way of accident."
"On accident" is American toddler talk.
>"By accident" is shorthand for "by way of accident."
>"On accident" is American toddler talk.
And “on accident” is the opposite of “on purpose”. Give a single valid reason why it’s incorrect besides you being utterly buttblasted.
No it isn't. "With purpose" or its variations such as "for the purpose of" are correct, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.
Thanks!
>No it isn't. "With purpose" or its variations such as "for the purpose of" are correct
And so is “on purpose” hahahahaha
I accept your concession. Byeee
>There are constant exposition dumps. Breencasts, locked-room NPCs talking at you until they're done dumping, NPC chatter in general.
Breencasts are done through the environment. It's a simple 1984 motif but the fact it's done via massive screens that blast audio throughout City 17 while his face towers over the matters more than actually listening to whatever he's actually saying. Again, a great example of environmental show don't tell storytelling which makes HL2 a great game.
The NPC chatter is great. You're most likely referencing all the citizen chatter you can listen to but the simple use of sterile medicalized terminology you pick up on through the Overwatch voice chatter as another example of great "exposition dumps" that are literally experienced via the gameworld itself which adds to the atmosphere.
>Is is possible to enjoy this game for the first time in 2023?
yes but only in VR. It has a dedicated mod which makes it almost native. The base game speed makes it just right for the slower motion controllers
the concept devised by hl2 have been repeated and done better since then so it is otherwise very dated. not helped by the base game campaign being a tech demo for the source engine first and foremost. With a structure that clearly demonstrates the different facets of the engines capacity in specific gameplay sections
It's still better than 95 percent of games.
No, Half-life 2 is a game that honestly wasn't that good even when it came out and now it's just dated as frick. Its main gimmicks are physics puzzles and vehicle sections that are both super unfun. And the story has no edning.
I always imagine how crazy the games had to be back when they released and somehow enjoy them that way. Only works for games that are 1999 and up tho
Imagine getting filtered by HL2 of all things LMAO