Holy crap half-wife 3 is real

@bigtony
Half life 2 is overrated and mid tbh

@yomiel @bigtony i mean it's a bit underwhelming compared to the first game

@yomiel video essay brain take. The first game is better but half life is still really good

@bigtony
Nigga you will never find a LESS video essay brained take

@nyanide @bigtony
It's not "bad", I'm not gonna be contrarian but it's definitely like 7/10 whereas HL1 is like a straight 9-9.5/10

@nyanide @yomiel the only thing i think has ageed poorly is the cut scenes ive played through the game several times i dont wanna sit through the fuckin teleporter scene ever again. If it wasnt for the story sections i think the pacing of the campaign would be perfect

@yomiel @bigtony @nyanide but the orange reddit man is out to save the day from the vague 3 lines of dialogue villain

@dagda @bigtony @yomiel what did you just say about redditors?

@yomiel @bigtony I like how the first person model moves, modern games don't do that anymore so my enjoyment is quite subjective (apparently this gave lots of people motion sickness)
Also same reason why Doom and Quake got popular:
Moddability and accessible source code, as well as vague, abstract worldbuilding and story, allowing for fanslop to fill imaginations gaps

@bigtony @nyanide
There's quite a lot wrong, here's how I'd fix it to at least make it an eight or so:

1st & 2nd chapters become skippable, skip straight to chapter 3 route canal, make water hazard shorter and make black mesa east shorter too (and skippable) ravenholm is fine, so is highway 17, sandtraps should be a bit shorter, honestly I'd remove it and just make highway 17 a little longer and go into nova prospekt, remove the ant lion bugbait crap. Nova prospekt is fine besides the antlion crap and with that removed it'd be a better chapter, make the teleport back to city 17 what it used to be, a helicopter ride, more fun and less lame. then the rest of the chapters are mostly fine though i'd remove the human revolutionary NPC's following you. Oh, and remove the "final boss", just have you walk into the top of the tower with breen and it explodes.

Beyond that, there should be general level design improvements (no enemies coming out of one way corridors anymore) and make the guns feel better (sound design + slightly higher damage)

I think all these improvements would make the game closer to an 8.5~/10 for me.

@dagda @bigtony
The Half life story is what really gets me. Valve are total hacks and should stick to writing one-game stories. They haven't got anymore clue than we do about G-Man's real intentions.

@yomiel @dagda before half life 2 every one thought the gman was the administrator

@bigtony @dagda
Well yeah because Breen along with the rest of the black mesa science team in HL2 are retcons created by Valve.

@yomiel @bigtony
I mean HL2 story is pretty standalone if you don't waste your time on wikis. The black mesa incident is just why theres monsters everywhere, other than that you just fight some occupying force cucking your oil and punishing you with south korean birth rates
>woah, there's a guy with a suit walking around
nobody cares

@dagda @bigtony
Yeah but it masquerades as being connected to HL1 by calling itself HL2 and using character designs from HL1 and trying to trick you into thinking you've met these characters before when in reality it's all retcon shit drawn from the sick, twisted mind of Gabe Newell

@yomiel @bigtony @nyanide
>"yes I'm a Zoomer how could you tell?"

@dagda @bigtony @nyanide
TBF it's not zoomer to not wanna sit through multiple 10 minute unskippable cutscenes.

@yomiel @bigtony @nyanide I should have emphasized I mean the gameplay changes.
Yeah you could just skip the cutscenes entirely without the Gaben dick riding goggles tbh

@yomiel @dagda i know the half life 2 beta is kind of a meme at this point and I do think that they made the right decision making the game a little less dark but moving it from newyork to eastern Europe was a really weird change it makes the game feel even more disconnected from the original.

@bigtony @dagda
Dark and griddy

@yomiel @bigtony "FOLKS DID YOU KNOW HALF LIFE 2 BETA WAS SO HECCIN DIFFERENT? LIKE THE ONE TEXTURE IS 20% DARKER AND YOU WALK FROM THE OTHER SIDE IN THAT GABENHOLM WALKWAY. WATCH MY 80 HOUR VIDEO ESSAY ON IT AND TIP THE PATREON"
Reddit soyjak

@dagda @yomiel @bigtony this is lit erally me