>classic FPS game
>with dog shit shooting
>linear corridor maps
>abhorrent driving sections
>but muh story bro XD
the only reason why people overlooked the shit gameplay is because it had groundbreaking physics engine and good graphics at the time fucking tech demo sack of shit
nice bait
Okay. Now play Half-Life 1.
go fuck urself
how bow dat
Fuck off.
While you're going too far with that try hard stuff. I don't know, hl2 wasn't that good.
>Having this much shit-taste
I bet your first FPS was Halo.
go back to counter strike then. why play games you know you're not going to like?
Half Life 3 this year bros
It certainly didn't age too well and made me appreciate Half Life 1 more. The first Half Life began story driven FPS. HL2 had the story that was so far up its own ass that I simply didn't give a shit.
hl2 wasn't a techdemo, it was something they slapped together in one or two years out of the corpse of the real hl2 which they canceled for no reason. they had no time to do anything with the new game because they had already delayed it several times and they couldn't get away with doing it again.
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>it had groundbreaking physics engine
Not even that. It was just the Havok physics engine and Valve weren't even close to being the first to license it. Maybe they were the first to apply it to seesaw puzzles but I'm not sure about even that.
>good graphics at the time
Nah. It's contemporaries were shit like Unreal 2 and Far Cry. It wasn't like it was noticeably impressive.
There is only one thing about HL2 that is technically impressive and that's the facial animation system. Everything else was average or below average.
How that supposed leak required them to rewrite entire engine parts and alter the game will remain a mystery for me.
This entire story stinks.
>Far Cry wasn't impressive at the time
I'm not going to disagree with you until I hear your logic. I remember every journalist publication making a huge fucking deal out the foliage.
Nigga it ran on source. The internal physics engine just had a lot of Havok's code, which was highly modified and improved.
And no VR, no mtx shit either. Just plain ole Half life experience with the grav gun but on source 2.
We gonna make it bros
I didn't say Far Cry wasn't impressive. I said HL2 wasn't particularly impressive because of games like Far Cry.
HL2 MIGHT have been impressive if they delivered on some of the shit that was in their promotional material, like HDR rendering which turned out to not be in the released game.
>>classic FPS game
Yep
>>with dog shit shooting
The bullet weapons are weak so you use the gravity gun more
>>linear corridor maps
there are many secrets, combat arenas and it is never obvious where to go
>>abhorrent driving sections
you can get in and out of your vehicle whenever you want adding more to the gameplay
>>but muh story bro XD
sorry it takes the piss out of your commie ass
Honestly half life 1 has aged better.
>abhorrent driving sections
If you didn't enjoy Canals or HWY 17, the problem is you. those were some of the most fun sections of the whole game.
The leak didn't force them to do shit, they had already scrapped the version of the game described in RTB and moved on to the retail version, all the playable maps in the leak are just WIP versions of retail maps.
>with dog shit shooting
>abhorrent driving sections
so you admit you suck at the game
>which was highly modified and improved
They modified it a bit so they could send physics data over networks. That's all. They did not build some wondrous physics engine in house or something, they licensed Havok and bashed it into doing a little bit more.
I'm really enjoying my latest playthrough. It's been a while. But the writing was godawful. Every single character interaction is cringey as fuck and Alyx just won't shut the fuck up in Episode 1.