/vr/ - Retro Games

Comfy half life thread
Post pictures from half life, it's mods and games.

Do you believe Half-Life was a bad influence on FPS? Yes it did have solid gameplay and good story-telling through the interactions in the game itself without much intervention even though there were bullet-sponge enemies. At the same time, it did pave the way for more story-telling in FPS and TPS that were seen as mandatory instead of log-clips or the game actually stopping you from what you were doing..

Any good graphics mods for Half Life?

>>3218983
Depends on what type of PC you are talking about.

Sharp X6800 was released in 1987 and had better looking games than the SNES and Genesis. The Neo-Geo could probably beat it.

More mainstream games, maybe around 1997 or 1998 when 3d add-in cards become very popular with PC gamers and you had games like Quake II and Half-Life out that looked distinctly better (in terms of polygons and lighting) than the console games.

However IMO a lot of PC games still looked shitty up into the 2000s. Too brown and dirty looking.

>>2428167
I get really bad motion sickness when playing the original Half Life (if that counts as retro here)

What makes the old games graphics so much better?
I mean, I can't be the only one who thinks it's much more "readable" to have low-poly stuff like pic related, than what you have in modern games.

For instance in old games like Tomb Raider / HL, you have a clear idea of what surfaces are walkable, which are in a slope, which are too far etc. Now with modern games (well for 10 years already), I feel like the levels are a mess where you can't even tell what area are off-limits and which ones are related to gameplay.

Am I the only one here thinking this?