Why does HL2 suck so bad compared to HL1?

Why does HL2 suck so bad compared to HL1?

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rushed

Boring story. Unskippable cutscenes. Waifufaggotry. Six years of development and it's still the same dated Quake engine, just updated with only half the graphics improvements they promised. It doesn't have a fucking ending. Overly long vehicle sections. Not fucking funny despite their repeated attempts to be so.

can't kill npcs

why does this thing i used to like suck because people I don't like enjoy it?

>food analogy

Both games are good and both sandwiches look tasty.

It doesn't suck.

>food analogy

>Grilled cheese
>good
Kill yourself.

You know why food analogies are so popular? Because they're goddamn best. Food is relatable and can represent nearly anything - life, taste, aesthetic, health, desire etc.

Lacks the verticality and openness of HL1. HL2 is one long corridor with a few small arenas that they open the skybox up for to give you the illusion of being large.

Everybody remembers the bridge in HL2 but nobody remembers that it was a jumping puzzle in HL1 first.

Half-Life 1 was a game and Half-Life 2 was a physics demo. This is exactly why the episodes are better as a game than the base HL2

>episode 1
>better than anything

HL1 is a tech demo isn’t it

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Half-Life 1 is the best game ever. Half-Life 2 sucks.

They were both pretty shitty.

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There's something fundamentally unsatisfying about HL2 weapons. The sound is wrong, guns feel floaty and imprecise, recoil is all wonky as fuck. Compared to that, HL1 guns are tight as fuck and just feel good to use. Even moment, slick, strafejumping HL1 Freeman, vs "press X to sprint and pant after 5 seconds" HL2 Freeman

>hl1
>move at the speed of a thousand suns
>small cramped levels
>hard to aim
>hl2
>move at the speed of 1 snail
>large open levels
>too easy to aim

>The Examined Life of Reddit
At lease his MechWarrior vids were pretty spot on

>moment
movement**, fuck

I never really liked it. I only played it because my pc can't run better games well. I'm sure there's others in the same boat.

Yeah but thanks to valve obtaining massive meme status through gayben, summer sales and reddit and the fact that HL2 ends on a cliffhanger it managed to become one of the most hyped series of all time. Im fucking glad they finally confirmed HL3 to be dead so people would finally stop making that stupid "HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED ILLUMINATI XDDD" joke

I always loved the way hl2's pistol sounds, even if it's "inaccurate".

I like to put bits of chopped meat on my grilled cheeses. I've also started using more types of cheese like Parmesan cheese on the outside near the bread. I wish I could make you guys some.

>Im fucking glad they finally confirmed HL3 to be dead
Source?

That video is completely accurate.

I don't eat dairy. :(

Were you living under a rock the past few months? Not only has the lead writer for the series not been employed by valve for over a year now but he also leaked what would have been the story for the game.

maybe he got bored

>completely different names

Not really.

Never played HL , only HL2 . The only thing i liked about HL2 was the setting and when you get ambushed by hunters. The rest was a showcase of the physics and sections of no fun combine shooting gallery. Portal was okay, TF2 was good until mannconomy.

>hl3 cancelled

But that's not true user, do you really think they will pass on their best chance for more money? They could and most likely will release HL3 with heavy multiplayer components, and you know what that means? Customization, do you want the orange crowbar? Pay up.

>I dont know how to avoid a lawsuit

Wasn't that why he waited so long to post it? Also, if valve really didn't care then it shouldn't matter.

I'll find something else for you if you like, what would you like?

I'm lactose intolerant, so in a way you're pretty much leaving me no choice but to pick hl2

>thinking GabeN didn't orchestrate that

user, they are not stupid, they know they are sitting on a gold mine.

love to watch you contrarians scramble to find the shittiest reason to hate a game to uphold the illusion that you dislike it for any reason other than the fact that the majority of people agree that it is the greatest PC game ever.

How about a nice big glass of soymilk?

Dont be gay user. Eat like a man.

Steam is their gold mine. Half Life is poison to them at this point. If they release anything, it will never be as good as their rabid fanbase has hyped things up to be over the years and would destroy the company.

THE BEAST
IS COMMING
DON'T HARASS HIM
HE WILL COUNTER ALL YOUR ARGUMENTS
AND TELL YOU TO KYS
IT'S THE A N T I P O N Y F A G

Unless you strangled the animal with your barehands you're not really a man.

>You know why food analogies are so popular? Because they're goddamn best. Food is relatable and can represent nearly anything - life, taste, aesthetic, health, desire etc.
t. american

They should let Naughty Dog make it then, like they wanted to.
Just think, we could have a wisecracking Gordon.

You're not a man if you have to kill the animal, just eat the fucker alive

I bet you’re soy tolerant

I don't want to be a man. Men get a bad rap in life.

I just didn't like it. I played it because everyone said how amazing it was. Honestly I thought it was pretty mediocre.

Once I found out about the guy who puts his semen in the soy milk at the soy milk factory I switched to geico

ND could really do the series justice. They've always been great at writing strong empowered women, and they'd handle Alyx and the other female characters well.

>fanbase

People that actually like half life just want to see it ending, the others are just memers, and if they don't do a Battlefront 2 or an Andromeda they will be fine.

It doesn't, and this meme of yours has gone on for long enough. Just because a couple of mouthbreathers here agree with you, it doesn't mean it's true. They agree with anything they read.

alyx is the only woman in hl2, retard

Jesus christ Favreau, it's just a video game.

>Because they're goddamn best.
You're an idiot who thinks analogies work like that. Try to re-assess your life.

hl2 had escort missions. it's automatically shit.

>openness of HL1
The game was completely linear, it was a damn corridor from beginning to end. This is why you shouldn't parrot every contrarian opinion you read, Sup Forums. They're usually spouted by absolute retards.

It didn't have any escort missions, stop discussing games you can't even remember. Alyx was pretty much invincible and the game didn't give a shit if any rebels died.

Hl1 had a big dam and you could swim in the water

t. played the game for 15 minutes

I never found the Combine to be anywhere near as fun to fight as most of HL1's enemies

Name a single non-linear section of HL1. I'll give you between now and the release of HL3 to answer.

If my post ends in 3, HL3 confirmed XD

Half Life 1 invented what we now know as the linear FPS
Half life 2 experimented with some more open levels like vehicle sections

How does the dam make the game non-linear? You're an idiot, son.
Right back at you, the game is completely linear. Stop discussing imaginary games you concocted in that empty space between your ears.

on a rail was the least linear section
it was also the worst

There are tons of open areas in the game, especially the ones with environmental puzzles on them, many other areas involve backtracking. Ofcourse you won't disregard it all because HURRR BUT YOU END UP IN THE SAME POINT SO ITS CORRIDOR.
Never talk to me or my son ever again bitchoi

On A Rail was linear with only one correct exit. Just because your had side corridors that looped back on themselves doesn't make it open or non-linear, it makes it a maze.

>There are tons of open areas in the game
Name all of them.

>Just because your had side corridors that looped back on themselves doesn't make it open or non-linear, it makes it a maze.
Oh no
It's retarded

This kinda saddens me. I played HL for the first time ever in August, it was just to "see what everyone's so hype about" and jesus mio, I fucking fell in love with it. The gameplay is just so much fun and engaging, I binged the whole game and when I was done I went straight for HL2 wanting more and eh.. Well, it's not that I was disappointed, just that it wasn't what I expected, it dropped things that made me love HL1 and overall it felt so repetitive and lifeless. It felt like playing a game from another franchise altogether. I don't know how to describe it, but even though it's fun in its own merit, it just doesn't hold up, feels more like a tech showoff.

>There are tons of open areas in the game
0, this isn't the fanfiction board. Even residue processing had only one correct path. Everyone here has played the game, I don't know what it is that you think you get from lying about it.

Now I want a grilled cheese sandwich.

>grilled cheese
Why do americans enjoy eating concentrated cancer?

>You know why food analogies are so popular?
Because uncultured plebs don't know anything else to make comparisons with.

Nth for SMOD.

>t. thin european

>food analogy

It was only known as good because my XD cinematic experience or the physics gimmick. It didn't feel like other shooters at the time but nowadays it would be seen as bland. The reason they don't make a half life 3 is because they know it would simply be yet another shooter. It would need another gimmick to set it apart from the others again.

no direction. it tries to much stuff and it isn't focused.

Let’s see your game then with all that direction if you’re such an expert

Where can I download/find a guide to get this to work

Also where can I find that meme mod

BASED

Smod is the Brutal Doom of HL2. Called the 'best way to play' but actually worse in every way.

Source?

>based
The last recourse of the retard with nothing to say.

>hurrr you gotta make a game to critique one hurr
that's a shitty argument deepthroat a shotgun

I've been posting about SMOD and the webms since early September. You're the first post I've seen describing it this way.
Have HL2 and Source SDK 2006 installed. Download this:
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And you're done.

>soyboy voice
Not watching your shitty video, finish highschool and puberty first

I found the lore in HL2 much more interesting, but yeah HL1 as a game is better.

It will be a VR game.

>a literal child
A very valid opinion.

>Claims Xen is good
Whelp I can discard his opinion as trash.

>I've been posting about SMOD and the webms since early September.
Holy shit user, you should get a medal for posting about a mod that's over 10 years old. What a hero.

No medals for me, ma'am. I do it for free.

>half the graphics improvements they promised

It was still the best looking and most advanced game at it's time. Remember everything else that came around at that time? Most games had that rubbery end of shader model 2 look like Doom 3.

>hard to aim
that's only because the HUD doesn't scale properly at higher resolutions

Doom 3 looks better than most games today.

Are you surprised the most successful country in the universe has a chokehold on business and industry involving farming, processing, shipping, and receiving the full benefits of having a free market of restaurants, bakeries, delis, markets, and fast food to choose from? Hell, some of you are about to get a KFC next year, be grateful.