Current Events > Half Life 2 feels more next gen than a lot of next gen games.

(+) Yeah! (+)

the world is so interactable. it's crazy!

It was ahead of its time. Too bad they left it on a cliffhanger and never made 3 ( -_-)

Sometimes devs just have cool ideas that others never run with for some reason. The physics in HL2, the audio in Hunt Showdown, the movement in RE6 and Vanquish, all of these games are older but they all have stuff that should have immediately become industry standard.

BlueKat posted...

It was ahead of its time. Too bad they left it on a cliffhanger and never made 3 ( -_-)

It's weird how they just abandoned everything. That game was just so amazing. It somehow came out when I was in high school and yeah it still feels more advanced than a lot of shit we get now.

I played it last year for the first time in my life and couldn't believe how good it was. Especially while considering that it's 20 years old! Definitely one of the greatest games!

At one point, next gen meant doing cool things with physics and destructible stuff. Then it snapped back to just being higher pixel counts and monetization schemes.

They created their own engine and devs were allowed to fool around until they organically came up with concepts for the game (gravity gun). At a company which back then had a very flat hierarchy. These days games just arent made in that environment.

They owe us so much

Half life episode 3 and half life 3
Portal 3
team fortress 3
left for dead 3

They're more scared of 3 than Capcom.

CADE_FOSTER posted...

They owe us so much

Half life episode 3 and half life 3
Portal 3
team fortress 3
left for dead 3

I always dreamed that Half Life 3 and Portal 3 would be this large crossover game, since they are both in the same universe. Like its the same grand story that served as a finale to both series, with each game being played in the viewpoint of either Chell or Gordon.

Dont think well ever get either of those games regardless of the concept though

There is no more panic crossing the bridge to get the rockets then a Hunter Helio shows up. Don't look down, Don't look down. /Looks down dead. I'll just run. Oh crap he's shooting at me. How does the launcher work? I can't get it to hit him. Crap out of missles. I'll just shoot it. Dead. Nothing has ever beat that in any game ever

Yeah it's a shame how nailed down everything is in many modern games. It's like they're so afraid of risking jank or something unintended to happen.

I was going to say that CPU's being weak on consoles are a factor but then I remembered how absolutely phenomenal the physics and interactivity were in Tears of the Kingdom which was on the Switch.

Game companies found out they could make more money while spending less.

I hate what people did to gaming.

"hey we're gonna pay you MORE money if you give us less and we will actually be happy about it!"

Publishers...shit really? Ok.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Yeah it's a shame how nailed down everything is in many modern games. It's like they're so afraid of risking jank or something unintended to happen.

Or you get situations like in Elden Ring or FF7: Rebirth where things fly around at the gentlest nudging from your characters.