Yup, still a classic

[Anonymous No.10721715]

For me it's Highway 17, Water Hazard, the striders and the citadel.

[Anonymous No.10721720]

>>10721715
This game sucks
Stupid tech demo

[Anonymous No.10721724]

>>10721720
It's better than most shooters released after it.

[Anonymous No.10721730]

>>10721715
For me, it's Route Kanal, Water Hazard and Ravenholm

Still, the entirety of the game is a complete masterpiece. Any zoomer who didn't live in the era will not grasp the fucking monstruous, massive leap this represented in gaming. I played it 4 years late, in 2008, and it still fucking wrecked me. When I finished it, I simply couldn't believe what I had just beheld, and I knew that would forever be one of the best games I would ever play in my life

[Anonymous No.10721731]

While I understand the praise this game receives I could never get to replay it as much as I did with the first one for some reason, but both games are great I'm not doubting that

[Anonymous No.10721758]

>>10721724
But none before it

[Anonymous No.10721764]

>>10721715

[Anonymous No.10721767]

[Anonymous No.10721837]

>>10721764
>imagine lowering the PC version to below minimun settings, lowering its resolution below 800x600 (in plain 2004), adding a controller while having 20 fps average.
Jesus fucking christ! burn all copies of half life 2 on xbox already

[Anonymous No.10721847]

>entire chapters where nothing happens
>entire chapters where barely anything happens
>an entire chapter for first person jumping puzzles
>puzzle rooms halt the pacing because look at le hecking physics

[Anonymous No.10722076]

>>10721715
Is this the one with return to ravenholm? Fuck that shit. Actually broke a controller. I only play the superior console ports btw.

[Anonymous No.10722102]

>>10721715
I love all of it. HL1 has higher peaks, but HL2 is much more consistent.

[Anonymous No.10722163]

>>10722102
HL2 is like the least consistent game ever, it's constantly switching up gimmicks

[Anonymous No.10722338]

i like the vehicle levels
half life 2 is still a classic and lost coast is a neat little extra.
the episodes are stupid though

[Anonymous No.10722340]

>>10722076
>Is this the one with return to ravenholm? Fuck that shit

return to ravenholm doesn't exist. that was supposed to be "episode 4"

[Anonymous No.10722348]

>>10721720
What’s so bad about it?

[Anonymous No.10722414]

I tried to learn how to speed run Half-Life before having played the game normally. I gave up after learning the route for On a Rail. Still haven't finished the game. I've only played Half-Life 2 once. I finished it in a single sitting, but with Russian audio and subtitles - a language I cannot speak or read. According to Steam, I've spent about 30 hours playing Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. I have another 150 in HL2DM, which was spent exclusively on dm_overwatch with close friends.

[Anonymous No.10722482]

>>10722414
>I finished it in a single sitting, but with Russian audio and subtitles - a language I cannot speak or read.
for the love of christ why?

[Anonymous No.10722518]

>>10722414
Lost Coast is so comfy

[Anonymous No.10722523]

>>10721715
This game is shit, and your mother is a nigger for not aborting you. Half-Life 2 has worse weapons, worse levels, and a million gimmicks all wrapped in a lousy fucking story. You are a faaaaaaaggggggooooooot. The pistol feels like shit, manhacks are not a threat, Combine soldiers are boring and not menacing, the AI is unfinished, driving is a waste of time just like boating, and the beginning with the fucking fish is such a tease. Imagine if there was a threat in the water. Imagine if Half-Life 2 had enemy variety? Why not just make a good game instead of teasing the audience.

[Anonymous No.10722548]

>>10722482
I was twenty or so, in trade school studying to be an electrician. I became unbearably depressed upon realizing that I was thoughtlessly following in the footsteps of my abusive father. I decided that I would leave America and move to either Russia or Vietnam immediately upon graduating in an attempt to escape my family. I chose Russia because I didn't want people to assume I was a pedophile. I was also (and still am) a closeted homosexual, so I figured moving to an outwardly anti-gay country would help keep up appearances. Anyways, I went to my local Russian bookshop and bought some beginner textbooks, set my phone and computer to Russian, and started listening to this really neat radio station, which was run by the owner of the Russian bookshop, that covered Seattle's news in Russian every day on my way to school. I didn't understand any of it, but it felt like progress. Around that time, I decided to play Half-Life 2. Steam auto-downloaded the Russian dub because my computer was set to Russian. I didn't know the language well enough to switch it back to English, so I just decided to play it as it was. It was fine, I guess.

>>10722518
I must have played it several dozen times, and I honestly don't remember anything about it other than the fact that it had a lot of verticality in its level design.

[Anonymous No.10722587]

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>>10721715
Nigger

[Anonymous No.10722609]

>>10721724
Delusional

[Anonymous No.10722615]

>>10722548
>/vr/fag is a zigger-schizo
Checks out.

[Anonymous No.10722618]

>>10721730
Corridors with scripted sequences were done before.
Meme physics were done before.
Bad voice acting and writing were done before.
Play more games.

[Anonymous No.10722625]

>>10721715
Thank you for posting the PEGI 18+ version. I get infuriated when seeing the 16+ version. The visuals in Raveholm alone make this game deserve an 18.

[Anonymous No.10722626]

>>10722615
This was close to a decade before the war. I'm currently ambivalent as far as the outcome is concerned.

[Anonymous No.10722642]

>>10722548
Why are you still a closeted homosexual? Christian?

[Anonymous No.10722660]

>>10722626
If you mention Russia on this site a bot immediately materializes to spout vile shit about “ziggers” or “hohols”. Pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.10722717]

>>10722642
Just trying not to rock the boat until I get my inheritance. I'm pretty dysfunctional, so I kind of need the money to, y'know, survive. I run a small business doing web development and system administration for non-profits. I feel bad charging people to do essentially nothing, so I bill way below the industry standard. As a result, I don't make too much money. Certainly not enough to retire ever.

I also have pretty negative feelings about sex, and having people see me as a sexual being makes me uncomfortable. I'd rather people see me as an autistic, heterosexual virgin than as an autistic, sex repulsed faggot.

[Anonymous No.10722738]

>>10721715
as cool as the beta is i really do love the atmosphere of the final release. it's so cold and desolate and lonely i love it! there's so many little areas that are just empty that let you just take it in before getting back to the action. as fucking cringy as it sounds i understand why people call it a "liminal" game, is there any other games with similar atmosphere?

[Anonymous No.10722751]

>>10722660
Most russians are cannon fodder NPCs

[Anonymous No.10722797]

>>10722738
Portal and Gmod I guess

[Anonymous No.10722821]

>>10722348
NTA
Water Hazard (made me drop it)

[Anonymous No.10722875]

>>10722348
It throws out everything that made the first game good in favor of physics puzzles and what we now know as "reddit tier" writing
I know people shit on that "HL2 is a bad sequel" video, but it's true, it really has fuck all to do with Half-Life. They didn't stop making sequels because VR wasn't practical yet, they stopped because they wrote themselves into a corner. You're not defeating an enemy that 1984'd your planet in the space of five hours, even with bullshit main character plot armor

[Anonymous No.10723252]

>>10721837
Why would you need to burn a copy when you could just put it on your hard drive?

[Anonymous No.10723321]

>>10722738
Obvious answer but Halo CE

[Anonymous No.10724405]

>>10722738
Not retro but Mirror's Edge. You could also try all the custom campaigns that have been made over the years.
https://www.runthinkshootlive.com/

[Anonymous No.10724504]

>>10721715
aged extremely poorly

[Anonymous No.10724534]

i will never understand people who hate this game.
its not perfect, but some of you people must be constantly thinking about how this game fucked your wife or something.
ive seen some truly delusional shit from people saying that "hl1s grunts have better ai than combine in hl2" which is so comically incorrect that im shocked those people even know how to play half life in the first place.

[Anonymous No.10724537]

>>10724534
It does have worse weapons though

[Anonymous No.10724552]

>>10724534
Only codex fags and some doom 3 fanboys get triggered over it. Maybe some halo fags too.
Not surprised if the deleted schizo posts is one of them.

[Anonymous No.10724553]

>>10724534
The not-cutscenes in HL2 are longer and worse than the ones in HL1.
The vehicle sections are way too fucking long.
The physics puzzles are purely there to showcase the tech, they're not a fun gameplay addition.
The story in HL2 is significantly worse because it's entirely reliant on "remember this guy you've never even heard of before?"

[Anonymous No.10724559]

>>10722618
Eat nigger shit you tasteless faggot

[Anonymous No.10724567]

Seriously look at this faggot.
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/tnum/10721715/deleted/deleted/

[Anonymous No.10724582]

>>10724534
HL1 grunts have much more complimentary level design for their AI. HL1 is like FEAR where areas where you fight a bunch of enemies are usually designed like more like multiplayer arenas than traditional linear shooter corridors or wide open areas which gives the AI a chance to shine. Both games also have a fairly high time to kill for the basic grunts so they don't just get immediately gunned down the second they're spotted. HL1 also solves the hitscan enemy problem by disallowing HECU grunts from firing on the move so you get a time to react when they stop to fire. Most of the time in HL2 combine just kind of shuffle around and shoot at you until you kill them in like a quarter of a second

[Anonymous No.10724596]

>>10724534
You don't remember the amount of shilling and dick sucking HL2 got. Then we actually played the game and it is a boring, empty tech demo designed to impress people who don't play video games. No one would hate it if it hadn't been so shilled, we'd just have ignored it.

[Anonymous No.10724605]

>>10724596
You don't speak for everyone, faggot

[Anonymous No.10724609]

>>10724605
Halflife 2 was literally playtested by, and adjusted for, idiots. It is a movie game for video game journalists.

[Anonymous No.10724614]

>>10724609
Let me guess... you're thinking about the ONE example that was during the testing for Episode 2, not HL2, the game we're discussing? Wow, great argument.

[Anonymous No.10724629]

>>10724596
>we
Reddit

[Anonymous No.10724662]

>>10724605
NTA, but were you even old enough to use a computer in 2004? Tonnes of people shat on HL2 and pretty much everyone hated the fact it was locked behind Steam. I know Valve is basically a cult at this point, like Apple, but they were not always universally liked
Oh and to the janny who keeps deleting my posts, fuck off, no one cares about your gay Nintendo thread or whatever the fuck is about to get knocked off the last page

[Anonymous No.10724679]

>>10724662
Forums liked it
Old /v/ liked it
Codex cucks like you hated it

[Anonymous No.10724681]

>>10724534
Boomers who never moved on from Doom and Quake. Same people who seethe at Halo.

[Anonymous No.10724685]

>>10724681
This

[Anonymous No.10724687]

>>10724662
Some people complained because they had shitty internet. The few that disliked the DRM aspect didn't complain long because it was only locked behind steam for a month before it was cracked. An insignificant number of people shat on the game itself.

[Anonymous No.10724697]

>>10724679
Never been on codex, don't care if your forum friends liked it, either. It's a shitty sequel to Half-Life, remember the lag line? Run, think, shoot, live, not stop, do a puzzle, and then listen to Alyx suck the player off for twenty minutes. It was a gimmick game that would have been laughed at had any other company made it

[Anonymous No.10724721]

>>10724534
its a reaction to the universal praise it got for years and years. Its a good game but not the GOAT

[Anonymous No.10724729]

>>10722163
yea 1 is the better shooter. even when it decides to suddenly start being a platformer halfway through
2 is kind of all over the place

[Anonymous No.10724731]

>>10721715
>>10721730
>>10721724
>>10721730
>>10721731
>>10721764
>>10722102
>>10722338
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>>10724681
Based
>>10724721
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>>10721720
Cringe

[Anonymous No.10724739]

>>10724729
It's one the best games ever tho

[Anonymous No.10724742]

>>10724739
Meant to >>10724721

[Anonymous No.10724745]

>>10722414
>I tried to learn how to speed run Half-Life before having played the game normally
yikes dude thats fucking gross
do zoomers really?
no wonder you fags always get filtered
you literally filter yourselves

[Anonymous No.10724752]

>>10724742
it doesnt really matter tho since youre wrong

[Anonymous No.10724759]

>>10724752
How because a few retards said so?

[Anonymous No.10724773]

HL2>HL1>EP2>Op Force>Blue Shift>EP1>Decay

[Anonymous No.10724779]

>>10724759
no
HL2 is a better game to play the first time you play it
HL1 is the better one on repeat playthroughs
thus HL1 > HL2

2 just takes its sweet fucking time to do damn near anything, and theres massive chunks of the game that rely on dumb gimmicks that, similarly, go on for way too long. its cool the first time you see it, but upon replaying it, its just a constant stream of "ohhh fuuuccckkk i forgot about this stupid part"

[Anonymous No.10724793]

Only trannies hate HL2

[Anonymous No.10724794]

>>10724779
>>10724596
>>10724582
>>10724553
>>10724537
Keep coping.

[Anonymous No.10724867]

It mindbroke you
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/tnum/10721715/deleted/deleted/

[Anonymous No.10724942]

>>10724582
The marines blown themselves with grenades lmao

[Anonymous No.10724958]

>>10724553
>vehicles
Filtered
>muh cutscenes
ADHD
>physics puzzles and story
Retard complaints
Any more cope?

[Anonymous No.10724992]

Instead of deleting posts, you could delete the thread and btfo the anti hl schizo already

[Anonymous No.10725096]

>>10721720
>>10721758
>>10721767
>>10722163
>>10722609
>>10722618
>>10724537
>>10724553
>>10724582
>>10724596
>>10724729
>>10724779
How many times are you going to force this schizo?
You lost, people like hl.
Ger over it.

[Anonymous No.10725114]

Remember he's samefagging to make it seem the game is hated
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/tnum/10721715/deleted/deleted/

[Anonymous No.10725148]

>>10724534
No one hates it except the schizoid itt

[Anonymous No.10725236]

>>10721720
Fpwp
>>10721758
>>10721767
>>10722609
>>10722618
Not an argument
>>10722163
Variety is good
>>10724504
>aged
>>10724596
>no one liked it i-i-t was shilled
Terrible cope
>>10724779
>same shitty arguments using the word gimmick
Is this the best you can do my friend?

[Anonymous No.10725259]

>>10724537
just wrong, hl2 has genius weapon design. more doesnt mean better.
>>10724553
>The not-cutscenes in HL2 are longer and worse than the ones in HL1.
yeah.
>The vehicle sections are way too fucking long.
yeah.
>The physics puzzles are purely there to showcase the tech, they're not a fun gameplay addition.
nearly all the physics puzzles are unique and fun, you just dont like puzzles.
>The story in HL2 is significantly worse because it's entirely reliant on "remember this guy you've never even heard of before?"
not really, most characters are new and all you need to know is "this guy was at black mesa".
>>10724582
actually good point, i think the design couldve complimented ai alot more in hl2.
>>10724596
>You don't remember the amount of shilling and dick sucking HL2 got. Then we actually played the game and it is a boring, empty tech demo designed to impress people who don't play video games. No one would hate it if it hadn't been so shilled, we'd just have ignored it.
i dont remember it, and you being sick of hearing it doesnt make it bad.

(i am the guy you are replying to)

[Anonymous No.10725396]

>>10725259
>hl2 has genius weapon design
Of course, who can forget "rapid fire gun" and "rapid fire gun but stronger"; "high power single shot gun" and "high power single shot gun with a scope"; the gimmick physics tech demo that instantly becomes useless once the player gets their hands on ammo.

[Anonymous No.10725409]

>>10724534
It's just a bad game, the people that love it seem to be valve fanboys that don't have experience with other games

[Anonymous No.10725437]

>>10725396
yeah lol HL2 has the most boring weapons in any fps ive ever seen

[Anonymous No.10725447]

>>10725409
>>10725396
Seethe more schizoid.
You lost.

[Anonymous No.10725453]

>the anti hl2 cuck itt
>a turd worlder
Explains a lot
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10721715/#10722523

[Anonymous No.10725474]

Codex is not sending their best

[Anonymous No.10725515]

>>10725437
>>10725409
>>10725396
Nice non arguments there

[Anonymous No.10725528]

Honestly i got bored arguing with schizo so i will leave for now.
Pretty sad he has a vendetta against this series for many years.
I mean this is like 3rd or 4th HL bait thread (two were deleted) this month and now switching hl1 for hl2. Yeah guy has issues. All these deleted posts are hilarious.

[Anonymous No.10725658]

This whole thread is mostly one samefaggot seething over this game.

[Anonymous No.10725738]

>>10725396
oh but half-life 1 is perfect, with its incredible arsenal that has no flaws:
"rapid fire gun"
"powerful handgun"
"high power single shot gun with a scope"
"rocket launcher"
"homing projectile gun"
"grenade"
"manual detonate grenade"
"shotgun"
"pistol"
"laser beam gun"
and "railgun (but this time its slightly more complicated)"
i cant believe the sequel downgraded this incredible unique and untouched weapon selection so much.

[Anonymous No.10725830]

FPS isn't a very good genre. Both Half-Life games are good though

[Anonymous No.10725943]

>>10722518
I wish they had done more like that. like a little hidden coast town that managed to exist despite Combine, or learned to live with it. even with the camps and settlements you come across Highway 17 seems a bit barren.

[Anonymous No.10725995]

>>10724739
Because you are always told by media critics that it is one of the best games ever made or because it actually is

[Anonymous No.10726008]

>>10722414
>speed run HL2

What are your pronouns, Xir?

[Anonymous No.10726072]

HL1 is a lot better than 2.

[Anonymous No.10726234]

>>10722414
>>10722518
>>10725943
some of the mods give a similar vibe. played through minerva metastasis and year long alarm recently and both were decent

[Anonymous No.10726450]

>>10721767
>wake up and smell the asses

[Anonymous No.10726665]

>>10725995
No i played and enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.10726692]

>>10726072
*a lot worse than

[Anonymous No.10726696]

>>10721715
>Highway 17
Based. Some of the best post-apocalypse kino in all of vidya.

[Anonymous No.10727160]

>>10721720
Agreed, Half Life 1 is superior.

[Anonymous No.10727213]

>>10721720
Fpwp
>>10727160
*inferior

[Anonymous No.10727227]

>>10721724
Correct
>>10722609
>>10721758
Cry more

[Anonymous No.10727456]

>>10721837
>pchuds when they have a game ported to a console

[Anonymous No.10727565]

It's strange how immature HL2 fanboys sound, kinda odd they sound like 14 year olds and the game is really old now.

[Anonymous No.10727569]

>>10727565
The anti hl fags are worse https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/tnum/10721715/deleted/deleted/page/2/

[Anonymous No.10727584]

When will the schizo permabanned?
This is like 4th Half Life thread in a month were he was samefagging and seething

[Anonymous No.10727942]

Episode 2 is the best Half Life game.

[Anonymous No.10728469]

>>10721715
Half-Life 1 & 2 sucks donkey balls.

[Anonymous No.10728483]

>>10728469
Your mom sucks donkey balls

[Anonymous No.10728492]

If you don't like HL you don't belong in /vr/ simple as.

[Anonymous No.10728497]

>>10724534
They are just mentally ill people coping like the one itt

[Anonymous No.10728525]

HL2 fans are immature

[Anonymous No.10728534]

>>10728525
>calls others inmature when you post shit like this
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10721715/#10722523
Lol

[Anonymous No.10728536]

You can stop samefagging btw.
No one buys it.

[Anonymous No.10728689]

>>10728492
Only cucks like Half Life.

[Anonymous No.10729392]

>>10728689
Only faggots don't like Half Life
>>10728525
Says the one who had a melty when people like the game.

[Anonymous No.10729401]

Do you think HL schizo realize he will never convince the board to hate this series?

[Anonymous No.10729923]

>>10729392
Actually only Chads hate Half Life.

[Anonymous No.10729953]

>>10729923
>still butthurt and bumping it
Yep i won

[Anonymous No.10730046]

Literally the only reason Half-Life 2 is /vr/ is on a technicality because it was somehow ported to Xbox. It shouldn't count.

[Anonymous No.10730052]

>>10730046
Yeah but it triggers the schizo, so it's based

[Anonymous No.10730208]

>>10729953
You're the only one getting butt-hurt by the negative opinions of Half Life.

[Anonymous No.10730228]

>>10730208
You mean your samefagging

[Anonymous No.10730384]

>>10730228
Sounds like projection.

[Anonymous No.10730393]

>>10730384
Not really
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/tnum/10721715/deleted/deleted/page/2/