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Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Copping out of an obligation?

Dude, not finishing the story and leaving us all on a cliffhanger for seventeen fucking years and then giving this as an excuse is the real cop out.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It might have been different back in the day

It was very different back in the day.

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TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Honestly, I have no problems with linear games.

Even Rockstar is fumbling with open-world games. God forbid if you try to do missions slightly differently than how Rockstar intended.

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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It doesn’t necessarily have to be open world as is currently used these days. The OG Doom isn’t exactly linear, but also isn’t open world in any sense. Remove the loading times between levels and it would be open world in the way that term was originally used.
  
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  - viking@infosec.pub ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    The OG Doom is fairly linear, unless you play on the lowest difficulty level where all doors are permanently open. Else you need to kill specific enemies that can only be found in certain rooms to get keys.
    
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