Topic: Half-Life Sucks (Read 26665 times)

SCD · « **Reply #300 on:** March 10, 2009, 09:00:44 PM »

Quote from: Yyler on December 31, 2008, 08:00:56 PM

I stopped playing this series in the beginning of EP2, because the games did this: /¯¯¯\. It gets better and better until you have the badass gravity gun, and then you get past the first twenty minutes of EP2 and it's gone. So I stopped playing forever. I'm not going to play a game that so obviously gets worse.

That's episode 1 I believe. Episode two there is no uberweapons except for the scene with the Vorts and the rock band.

For me, I just played Episode 2 again, and realized that it was better than I thought beforehands.

Yes, there is only one new enemy. That's alright as it did fit in with the rural aspect of the game.

And despite the see-saw repeat, I did enjoy the end where it really kicks in that they have a physics engine. Why waste ammo on hunters when you can just opt for vehicular manslaughter? All of a sudden, the stress of trying to get those buggers off of my back was replaced with carefree moments vehicular man_laughter.

Brentai · « **Reply #301 on:** March 10, 2009, 09:05:09 PM »

Turning the game into GTA was the only viable way I found to do that part.

JDigital · « **Reply #302 on:** March 11, 2009, 06:00:28 AM »

I think that's how you're meant to do it. The other way is to hold up a log, catch the hunter's flechettes with it, and throw it back at him.

There's an achievement for each.

Bal · « **Reply #303 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:41:49 AM »

Some kind of badass Half-Life viral video, or just inspired by?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4

Arc · « **Reply #304 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:09:37 PM »

http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/

http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/anti.jpg

Virals =

Brentai · « **Reply #305 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:13:10 PM »

Hmm. Some sort of Anti-Something Equa.... OH SHIT.

Bal · « **Reply #306 on:** March 19, 2009, 03:24:01 AM »

Definitely suggest watching in high quality. There's a lot of detail. I've heard from a few sources that this is a student film, and unrelated to Half-Life except in inspiration.

Defenestration · « **Reply #307 on:** March 19, 2009, 04:31:56 AM »

I came rushing to post what Bal already did.

And it is directly related to it. Pay attention to the ticker while he's walking through the dark hallway, it will mention the "Largest collapse since Black Mesa." I'll bet it's a fan work, unfortunately. Valve doesn't seem to be the type to buy into the viral marketing bit, especially when we haven't heard a peep about Ep3 at all.

Norondor · « **Reply #308 on:** March 19, 2009, 05:02:00 AM »

yes, that line, along with every other bit of sound in the whole video, is in HL2.

Bal · « **Reply #309 on:** March 19, 2009, 05:04:21 AM »

By "unrelated" I meant "unofficial". Clearly it's heavily inspired by the Half-Life universe. It seems like this is a viral teaser for whatever their real project is, and I'm quite excited to see where it goes.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #310 on:** March 19, 2009, 08:41:11 AM »

Word on the nets is it also has audio from Lost. All in all in justs a fun little fan-made video with higher than normal production values. Whether the viral ARG part pans out to anything of value is a different matter, though.

That said, it's been almost a year and a half since Ep2 and still nothing to go on. A few concept art pieces have been released, but as evidenced by previous games anything this early in production is likely to be thrown out entirely by the time the retail version hits. Doug Lombardi did say that it would take longer to get Ep3 than it did to get either Ep1 or 2, so we're in for a wait. Not as nice as the Ep2 trailer at the end of Ep1 though.

The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji · « **Reply #311 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:51:25 PM »

So, still no word on whether or not I'll see Half Life 2 finished before I die?

I guess it's still not as bad as DNF, but still.

Brentai · « **Reply #312 on:** March 20, 2009, 05:32:25 PM »

God forbid Valve ever take their time to do something right.

That never happens outside of Blizzard. Ever.

Classic · « **Reply #313 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:13:27 PM »

Why take the time to do something right? Miyamoto's Maxim ("A late game is only late until it's released; a bad game is bad forever.") doesn't apply when you can release patches and content after-the-fact.

I'm parroting Mr.Young here, but that Bethesda managed to make a "great after installing 10 gigs of mods" product so successfully demonstrates our transition to this new, silly era.

EDIT:
Fuck you Brentai, you know that I know an extendable framework does take some worthwhile design. It doesn't dramatically abridge the criticism.

Doom · « **Reply #314 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:15:13 PM »

HELLGATE LONDON

Brentai · « **Reply #315 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:16:02 PM »

OR you can make a great game that is easily modded to an even better game.

STEP 3: Profit. Lots and lots of profit.

Classic · « **Reply #316 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:20:18 PM »

They don't have enough character points to do that and don't have any hex editors that work on Real Life.

Brentai · « **Reply #317 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:58:48 PM »

And yet people keep trying to set God mode on Gabe Newell.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #318 on:** March 22, 2009, 12:22:03 AM »

Why does valve still pretend hl2 episodes matter

I mean does anyone actually remember anything about episodes one and two

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #319 on:** March 22, 2009, 12:24:23 AM »

Mmmmmyep.

I remember that they were pretty damn fun.

Also Alex needs to back off just a wee bit. We only just met!

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