Is Half life 2 any good?
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I seem to remember it looking quite a bit better than the original. Granted, it won't be up to Metro 2033 standards.
Not really, all it does is add improved water effects, lighting and physics, and maybe more advanced AA. The actual content is unchanged. The higher res textures are available for the original game, you get them with the expansions if I remember correctly.
I seem to remember it looking quite a bit better than the original. Granted, it won't be up to Metro 2033 standards.
Check this out if you want to see a real Half-Life Source project.
Edit: Actually looks like there are some newer textures in the source version, like the sky in the pic below. Still pretty much the same though.
Half-Life
Half-Life: Source
I still wouldn't call that up to date
Just for a bit of fun, here's one from Black Mesa (couldn't find a shot from the top of the dam).
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Haha cool!
Another linked funny. At work we have an internal selling forum and there is a wanted section.
A chap from I.T posted up a couple of weeks ago that his coffeee cup has gone missing from the kitchen and if anybody see's it can they please return it. It is black and say's Aperture Laboratories on the side.
I feeel his pain.
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lol at callin HL2s graphics dated. I've still yet to find a game with better looking character models and movement (especially facial features)
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i couldn't play it, gave me motion sickness
Me too.
Still I tried to play it but didn't really like it and by the time I got to the first hovercraft bit I was bored with the game and the motion sickness.
It was around this time that I found I was bored with FPS games, not sure if that occurred before or after playing HL2 though. Sold HL2 to a friend (along with Steam account).
Then a little while ago it was the anniversary of HL1 and Steam were selling it for $0.99 I think (back before they switched to local currency I guess).
So I bought it. Didn't like that one either.
Mind you, I still don't really enjoy FPS games like I once did.
I did buy The Orange Box though, mostly for Portal. Portal was OK, but not as good as my friends had led me to believe. Really did enjoy TF2 though, so I think The Orange Box was good enough value.
I did re-install HL2 from The Orange Box, but to this day I haven't played it (again, since re-buying it).
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HL2 is really vastly over rated, though its been so long maybe I'm mixing up various games. I seem to remember HL1 being almost like "old" FPS's, where you might have to go through one area to find away to get through another one, backtrack to go to the next place, etc, etc. I seem to remember HL2 being far more linear, point A to point B, no finding keycards to get into a different area, etc, etc.
The story of HL1, the pacing, the everything was fantastic for its time, HL2 was no where near as good, its a decent game, better than most FPS's but more linear and boring than many many games before it.
Its ok, it gets FAR to much praise for being a pretty standard game, people got incredibly excited over a large portion of the end game being repetitive and boring with one "weapon" that everyone thought was the best thing since sliced bread, when realistically it just made the last area of the game boring, slow and completely uninteresting.
Am I wrong in thinking back and remembering FPS's used to be more complex, more like area's in say Mass Effect where you'd need to go to one place to turn on a generator, back track, then go through a door that can now be opened. Things like HL2 have become far far more linear than they used to be. FPS's used to have that pretty frequently, while it seems almost exclusive to RPG's/open world type games now. Some games suit the one direction to go gun and run FPS style, Cod for instance, HL2 needed to be FAR less linear, and with a better story.
Hl2 ep 1/2 are even worse, incredibly linear, awful story, rehashing stuff over and over, painfully short compared to the cost/time between releases.
The story of HL1, the pacing, the everything was fantastic for its time, HL2 was no where near as good, its a decent game, better than most FPS's but more linear and boring than many many games before it.
Its ok, it gets FAR to much praise for being a pretty standard game, people got incredibly excited over a large portion of the end game being repetitive and boring with one "weapon" that everyone thought was the best thing since sliced bread, when realistically it just made the last area of the game boring, slow and completely uninteresting.
Am I wrong in thinking back and remembering FPS's used to be more complex, more like area's in say Mass Effect where you'd need to go to one place to turn on a generator, back track, then go through a door that can now be opened. Things like HL2 have become far far more linear than they used to be. FPS's used to have that pretty frequently, while it seems almost exclusive to RPG's/open world type games now. Some games suit the one direction to go gun and run FPS style, Cod for instance, HL2 needed to be FAR less linear, and with a better story.
Hl2 ep 1/2 are even worse, incredibly linear, awful story, rehashing stuff over and over, painfully short compared to the cost/time between releases.
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HL2 is good but not as good as most people make it sound. In fact with the ridiculous comments in this thread I wont be surprised if you end up being disappointed. I think I played it from the begining about 3 times before actually managing to play it all the way through. The hover craft sequence was so dull I kept getting bored and not going back to it.
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The hovercraft parts are some of my favourites in HL2. Is that weird?
No but some found them to be boring... TBH I really liked the game, but then some won't. It think as there is a demo try it first before buying but the game is cheap as chips nowadays...
i liked the hovercraft etc parts... Broke the game up.
everyone's just got a very dry sense of humour, it's really quite a poor game that was old when it was released....
-- but seriously its great, always has been always will, i occasionaly go back to play... and as said above, playing ravenholm for the first time is awesome, sprinting your ass off and not turning round.. this is up there in my top 5 games of all time, probably top 3
-- but seriously its great, always has been always will, i occasionaly go back to play... and as said above, playing ravenholm for the first time is awesome, sprinting your ass off and not turning round.. this is up there in my top 5 games of all time, probably top 3
It is a fantastic game. Not everything has to be freeform where you do what the hell you like. It is very on rails, story and action driven. For me its more realistic in what would happen, If the world is in danger you dont go adventuring in some random persons house or in crypts, its still has a lot of puzzle elements like using physics to open gates, blowing stuff up to get through areas.
It is very A-B etc which is no bad thing for me, better than a lot of old fps where its A-B-A-C-B-A-B-A where you wander down the same empty corridor for the7th time looking for a blue card instead of the green one you have....
Graphics that have aged well, good range of weapons (sniper crossbow being my fave), good characters, good variety of areas. For me its better than 99% of the 'new age' - 'wander around an open area looking at trees' games that ive played (stalker, far cry 2 etc).
It is very A-B etc which is no bad thing for me, better than a lot of old fps where its A-B-A-C-B-A-B-A where you wander down the same empty corridor for the7th time looking for a blue card instead of the green one you have....
Graphics that have aged well, good range of weapons (sniper crossbow being my fave), good characters, good variety of areas. For me its better than 99% of the 'new age' - 'wander around an open area looking at trees' games that ive played (stalker, far cry 2 etc).