Why do I think Half Life 2 looks good?

Why do I think Half Life 2 looks good?

Art style?
Presentation?

It's from 2004, and when I watch videos of people playing the game I think "This game still visually looks great"

Why?

It's a visually clean and sharp game. Just models, textures and lighting without any retarded post processing effects and saturation

It's the art direction and engine working hand in hand. Look at Dishonored, same Art Director and it has the same feeling of quality without being a technical powerhouse.

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It's got a decent lighting engine and the textures are consistent and well-mapped, as well as a consistent art stylem It's the same reason why Bungie games always look so good.

Mods.

What?

What? Delete this!!! hahahahahahahaha i got pwned hard

FULLY

Bungie's Halo games had such a clean art style. 343 ruined it.

No, I mean, what are you talking about?

holy fuck

Damn, I knew there was something similar about those two games, but I just couldn't think of it

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lack of shaders probably

>modeled up to the cervix

For what purpose

Ignore the autism user.

Welcome to the FakeFactory Cinematic Mod.

This. Source engine games have a very clean look, even newer ones like CS:GO and DOTA2 aren't laden down with dozens of unnecessary shaders and effects.

HL2 looked better before the update to Orange Box Source, though- you could still enable lossless textures back then.

Subtle geometry and art direction

It's hard to, seeing as it's summer and the autism is everywhere.

Oh, okay, that makes more sense.

Great art direction and textures.

Forget vaginas, ferns are the most fuckable things ever.

Viktor Antonov is pretty dope.

It's thanks to based Viktor Antonov and the Source engine

Not him but I sorta dig the HD Metroid Prime art. Armor is terrible though.

it doesnt, it looks terrible.

but it feels like a believable, organic, natural world, so i ignore the looks.

The game has had a lot of updates since it first released that keep it from looking too dated. Just compare the engine updates in episode 2 to hl2 when it first released.

Do you guys think Half Life 3's graphics will age just was well?

Needs to come out first. It's actually not even funny when you think about how long it's been.
Why is Godzilla so sad?

At this point, it would feel like a joke if they actually announced it.
He's just patiently waiting for Half Life 3.

Honestly, it would probably flop critically due to the ridiculous hype culture behind it.
Boy can cheer the fuck. Mandem looks menacing in the film coming out this year.

I know. I'm hyped. Toho ftw.

Character animations are one thing. It's the faces man.

I'm curious as to the mind fuckery Anno will do with full on Kaiju as opposed to just Angels like in Eva.