That makes sense to me. I think 1 vs 2 comes down to personal preference, they both excel in different ways. I prefer the focused gameplay loop of 1, but I can imagine how groundbreaking the NPCs and the physics of the boat and car sections were back in the day. My main gripe with BM’s weapon balancing is limiting machine gun grenades to three, but I understand that ten was overkill and fed into my “I’ll save five in case I really need them” hoarder mentality lol.
Wild that you got banned for saying that given TF2 pioneered the practice.
Yeah it feels like BM picked 3 because that’s what HL2 did, but to be fair there needed to be fewer than 10 because each individual grenade was way more powerful than in the original. At least HL2 didn’t go as far in reducing weapon variety as HLA!
Also I edited in some actual hot takes into my original post.
Yeah okbh was a meme comm and I guess its mods were equally unserious. Not like I got banned for making a non-meme post, mine was the only viewpoint in that thread that got deleted so I guess they just didn’t like what I was saying lol
People say Breen is sympathetic? That’s more of a hot take to me lol. He’s actively helping them destroy the human race (suppression field/other war crimes).
And I like the boat/car sections, I just love HL1 and how it mixes gunfights and platforming challenges. The only part of 2 that hit that high for me was the underside of the bridge, which is an inspired sequence in an already brilliant game. They both deserve the praise they get and will go down as some of the best games of all time.
I suppose my hottest take is that I refuse to believe in anything HL3, even if they announce it, until it’s actually released. I thought for sure that Alyx meant it was around the corner and it’s been five years… at this point I think it will never happen (I’d love to be wrong though).
Ohhmygoodness I must have argued about this on the old site at least 5 different times. People really like the idea he was doing the best he could to buy time in a world where he genuinely believed fighting the Combine was impossible. I guess they were really starving for a sympathetic villain? But yeah his actions don’t leave any room for sympathy, let alone his speeches and the dialogue between him and Vance. If anything the evidence points to him working with G-Man to cause the Black Mesa incident on purpose.
The only part of 2 that hit that high for me was the underside of the bridge
True, HL2 really deemphasized platforming as something necessary to win. I’ve always figured Valve tries to make games they want to play, and they fell out of love first with platformers, then with shooters. That’s why there’s been no HL3: they’re into MOBAs now. I put together an almost entirely new PC and I’m still out here playing TF2 when I get the itch to shoot stuff; Deadlock really isn’t my jam. Honestly at this point I figure even if we do get a HL3, it will have been taken in a direction I’m not really interested in.
That makes sense to me. I think 1 vs 2 comes down to personal preference, they both excel in different ways. I prefer the focused gameplay loop of 1, but I can imagine how groundbreaking the NPCs and the physics of the boat and car sections were back in the day. My main gripe with BM’s weapon balancing is limiting machine gun grenades to three, but I understand that ten was overkill and fed into my “I’ll save five in case I really need them” hoarder mentality lol.
Wild that you got banned for saying that given TF2 pioneered the practice.
Yeah it feels like BM picked 3 because that’s what HL2 did, but to be fair there needed to be fewer than 10 because each individual grenade was way more powerful than in the original. At least HL2 didn’t go as far in reducing weapon variety as HLA!
Also I edited in some actual hot takes into my original post.
Yeah okbh was a meme comm and I guess its mods were equally unserious. Not like I got banned for making a non-meme post, mine was the only viewpoint in that thread that got deleted so I guess they just didn’t like what I was saying lol
People say Breen is sympathetic? That’s more of a hot take to me lol. He’s actively helping them destroy the human race (suppression field/other war crimes).
And I like the boat/car sections, I just love HL1 and how it mixes gunfights and platforming challenges. The only part of 2 that hit that high for me was the underside of the bridge, which is an inspired sequence in an already brilliant game. They both deserve the praise they get and will go down as some of the best games of all time.
I suppose my hottest take is that I refuse to believe in anything HL3, even if they announce it, until it’s actually released. I thought for sure that Alyx meant it was around the corner and it’s been five years… at this point I think it will never happen (I’d love to be wrong though).
Ohhmygoodness I must have argued about this on the old site at least 5 different times. People really like the idea he was doing the best he could to buy time in a world where he genuinely believed fighting the Combine was impossible. I guess they were really starving for a sympathetic villain? But yeah his actions don’t leave any room for sympathy, let alone his speeches and the dialogue between him and Vance. If anything the evidence points to him working with G-Man to cause the Black Mesa incident on purpose.
True, HL2 really deemphasized platforming as something necessary to win. I’ve always figured Valve tries to make games they want to play, and they fell out of love first with platformers, then with shooters. That’s why there’s been no HL3: they’re into MOBAs now. I put together an almost entirely new PC and I’m still out here playing TF2 when I get the itch to shoot stuff; Deadlock really isn’t my jam. Honestly at this point I figure even if we do get a HL3, it will have been taken in a direction I’m not really interested in.