Damn, that is a hot take.
Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Half Life 2. Wasn’t a big fan of the first one, but the second had tons of hype, so I gave it a shot. The physics stuff was cool, but the gameplay, story and characters were boring and flat. And the “revolutionary” storytelling method of locking you in a box to talk at you rather than making a proper cutscene still sucks.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
Honestly impressive for a 20+ year-old game to still inspire hot takes.HL2 remains undefeated.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Fuck yeah!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Because I can’t help myself from countering:
HL2 has better, more realistic and detailed and believable mouth and facial animations than many current AAA games, they just have higher res textures and fancier lighting.
That’s not to say no game has exceeded it, thats not what I mean, some clearly have.
But… the other side of this is that a lot of modern AAA games, with 20 years of improved/new tech… still can’t figure it out.
AAA games that market themselves as being very graphically detailed/realistic/immersive.
I’m not trying to say waaagh how can you not personally have thought HL2 was amazing!
I’m trying to say that the technical advancements its made which you do not find compelling, well, a good deal of game devs still haven’t even reached that level from 20+ years ago, when they say they are trying to.