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Old 08-05-2018, 11:09 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Let's be real, if this game gets anything under a 4/5, you either have not played the game, or you're just willfully ignorant. It gets a 5/5 from me, easily.
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Old 08-05-2018, 03:22 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Nobody played half life 2?
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Old 08-05-2018, 03:43 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I hated Half-Life 1. I mean, that's the sort of thing that will get you lynched in some places, but that's the truth. It's the game that introduced that wretched "walk-and-talk" routine to action games that I hate so ****ing much. Half-Life is the model of so much that I hate about modern big budget action games. Didn't ever bother with HL2 because the first one is one of my least appreciated things on planet Earth.
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Old 08-05-2018, 03:49 PM   #5 (permalink)
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You know what I mean, right?

That whole routine where I can still control my guy, but I have to wait until some asshat NPC is done talking to me before I can go through the door and stuff like that. I'm the guy who bunnyhops around and hits things with the crowbar until I can finally go through the ****ing door.

Just give me a cut scene that I can skip ffs


There are other things I don't like about the game, but that's the thing that I blame HL for popularizing.
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I loved what I played of Half-Life 2 but only played about two hours or so. I loved the beginning to ****ing death where you have no weapon and are experiencing the world with total vulnerability and the exposition is optional so you can watch it or skip it at your leisure. It just felt so immersive. Then when the action starts it's very well paced so I'm running and feel totally powerless, so that when I get a pistol it feels so "Aha! Come get some, you ****ers!", and every subsequent weapon feels like mana from the gods.

I absolutely loved what I played and I just ordered The Orange Box for the 360 which has Half Life 2 so Imma be finishing that ****, believe that. I just haven't played enough to rate it.
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Fair enough. I thought it was pretty imaginative given the time the games came out. They're pretty well respected in the PC world since it was like the first real first person shooter game that was actually good. I enjoyed my time with it but others may vary evidently.
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I played it very briefly, as it was a rental at the time. It was one of the first shooters I got into that relied very heavily on dual-stick control to move around and do things. And by "got into," I mean basically just played the introductory part of the game. Didn't spend enough time with it to cast a legit vote, since the game had to be returned. That was rental life back then.
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Fair enough. I thought it was pretty imaginative given the time the games came out. They're pretty well respected in the PC world since it was like the first real first person shooter game that was actually good. I enjoyed my time with it but others may vary evidently.
Check my post above yours.
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Check my post above yours.
I read it after I posted mine. Just didn't k ow what to say. But glad to see you feel around the same.
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