ITT: Sequels that were direct upgrades their predecessors

ITT: Sequels that were direct upgrades their predecessors.

You start, OP

>muh cinematic approach

Thanks to this piece of shit game now just about everything released wants to be a cinematic experience

MGS did this shit first, HL2 just added another layer on the bullshit by not being able to skip the cutscenes

hl2 is the most overrated piece of trash in existence.

>muh games can only have one approach

Kys

More like it started with this

t. takes exaggerated memes from Sup Forums and reddit at face value
hl2 is a 12 hours shooter with maybe 20 minutes of """"""cutscenes"""""""
hl1 is a 9 hour shooter with 10 minutes of """"""""""cutscenes"""""""""""

yet one is revered as a masterpiece and the other as cinematic trash. fuck you contrarian assholes

Half Life 1 is just the first game to use the Quake Engine. What it did wasn't revolutionary.

Goddamn, you're retarded.

Half Life 1 is like 14 hours long
Half Life 2 is like 11 hours long

In the context of gaming, HL2 didn't do very much

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you're retarded

3fags need not apply

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No, you're retarded, you retarded retard.

I legitimately hated HL2. Played through it twice to confirm this. Aside from the physics gimmicks, what did everyone like about it so much?

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I'll just get the obvious out of the way.

It's the equivalent of r/iamverysmart in a video game.

That's Zelda or Mario

This.

>took you 15 hours to beat a game it takes most people 12
embarrassing

>HL1: you can't ignore any plot shitting scientist or just kill them
>HL2: locks you in interactive cutscenes for gigantic chunks of time

>HL1: your hero is a bunnyhopping sanic
>HL2: your hero is a slowmoving cunt that gets tired after sprinting for 5 seconds

>HL1: every gun feels snappy and heavy
>HL2: every fun feels floaty and weak and sounds like ass

>HL1: set in gigantic science facility where every set piece makes sense
>HL2: DUDE WATER LEVEL DUDE ZOMBIETOWN DUDE KARTS

>you can't ignore
you can*
fuck

I guess that makes sense. To me, the level design is ugly and boring, the gunplay is fucking awful, and the characters and story are just... Lifeless, I guess.

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>every gun feels "floaty"

Wow, I've never seen anyone use buzz words this badly.

Sorry I can't hear you over & Knuckles.

Thats what they are though, quite literally. Your fucking wobbles by itself as you shoot
>muh realism

Wolf 2
Dark Souls 3
Halo 3

zelda maybe but mario 64/odyssey are legit contenders for best games ever made
>HL1: gives you unskippable cutscenes for about 10 minutes
masterpiece of narrative gameplay, 10/10
>HL2: gives you unskippable cutscenes for about 20 minutes
cinematic trash 0/10
>HL1: Gordon Freeman
10/10 good character silent protagonist is innovative
>HL2: Gordon Freeman
absolute shit, how dare valve poke fun at his silence while continuing to develop a character out of action
>HL1: Guns + a neat science project
10/10 fun
>HL2: literally exactly the same guns + a neat science project
terrible weapons and a gimmick, 0/10
>HL1: dense, methodical approach to a single location
10/10 amazing
>HL2: sprawling, methodical approach to a variety of locations utilizing expanded gameplay methods and different encounter design for every one of them while feeling like a cohesive whole
its shit, should have been in one small location again

0/10 you dumb faggot see me after class. this is how retarded you hl1 fanboys sound who trash hl2. they're the same fucking game

Affordable graphics. That's literally all it is.

>Mario 64
Lol

incredible art, sound, level, and encounter design from beginning to end.
that would be bioshock infinite. nothing pretentious about hl2 whatsoever

Infinite is nothing but a slightly worse HL2 clone.

ratchet & clank 2

Can we end this meme right now that Alyx Vance is a good character? Alyx Vance is like the worst character in fiction. Every line of dialogue is awkward, smug, pretentious, and has no rhythm whatsoever. She doesn't share the same urgency as the situation, And the only reason her hair is in a band is because Valve were too lazy to simulate hair. I've also never seen a girl get dimples from smiling.

>they're the same fucking game
You are this retarded

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Eh?

Everything starting from Ravenholm is pretty good and I think had there been more gameplay between chapters 2 and 5 people wouldn't have been as bothered by the "not cutscenes" cutscenes since they are both they are whole chapters cutscenes, and nowhere else in the game is it that bad.

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>HL2 weapons are floatier and have lower audio quality than HL1's
Did you accidentally flip those two around?

Imagine playing a game that you hate twice at approx 15hrs each

2nd playthrough is always 3/4 the time of the first

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Hl2s pistol is literaly "pap pap" and animated like a water gun

She's pretty much praised just because she isn't a 9/10 bimbo. She basically caters to the kind of guys who are so pathetic that they feel proud of interacting with a simulation of what they think of as a 'real woman', who happens to be placed in scenarios where she can be competent and useful.

Try replaying it, i dare you

I disagree. The better online modes and slightly better variety of environments really helped

What's worse is that the spread isn't even 'realistic', it's just a random cone of fire spray that you have no control over. What's worse is that the code is actually there for more controlled recoil, but its just deliberately not used. The revolver is the one thing that fires with pinpoint accuracy,

hl was the better game