I first played half life 2 seven years after release (2011).

It absolutely holds up compared to modern games, and is superior to many modern games in some aspects.

I really enjoy shooters which don’t rely on ADS, its like a fusion of arcade shooters and COD clones.

The storytelling is completely fine, it’s very standard for scripted scenes to play out as you have free movement.

I think whether you think the gameplay is good compared to modern games is what you value.

I think what half-life 2 gets right is the the uniqueness. Think of all the different types of enemies, the different guns, the different levels.

What does it lack? Not much honestly. What more could you want from it? Maybe improve the movement mechanics to make climbing a bit easier?

Apart from that, it’s just missing “features”. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want half-life 2 to feature weapon mods, crafting, open world exploration, bloat…

Look, I’m all for words evolving, but if someone points at a dog and says “cat”, its fine to say “actually its a dog”

Same thing with memes.

If someone posts a selfie and writes “feeling frisky, might buy a taco” and thinks that’s a meme, they are entitled to be wrong.

I’m entitled to continue shouting “that’s not a fucking meme” until I die, and if someone wants to tell me “that’s a weird hill to die on” I’ll tell them that they should shut the fuck up and post memes instead of lecturing me about language.

“Noooo a meme is any idea conveyed through social contagion”

I’m pretty sure the SSD issue was not Microsoft’s fault.

I’m with you on principle, and the airboat section sucks ass (sorry Valve).

However, the rest of the game is great, and still holds up.

Some of the complaint is “the game spends too much time jerking off its physics engine”. Yes. It does. That’s the core appeal my dude.

The way the physics interact with the level design is great, allow me to jog everyone’s memory.

Ravenholm is amazing, using the gravity gun and sawblades is great, as is the use of environmental traps. The ragdolls are hilarious.

Playing ‘the floor is lava’ with the antlions is great, and the moments where you realise you may need to touch sand for a second too long is thrilling.

Storming the prison with the pheromones is great, and having endless minions to throw at turrets satisfies my latent psychopathy.

Supercharging the gravity gun is great, and pulling those energy orbs out and richochetting them off the walls to disintegrate the combine is unique and fun.

And of course, the crème de la creme, playing basketball with Dog.

I feel like the X axis isn’t necessarily the IQ, age suits just fine.

I’m an achievement hunter, I have 115 perfect games on Steam. Many of the games I’ve completed 100% are extremely difficult;

I have two points to make:

First, the Achievement Hunting community is autistic as fuck. I don’t mean that as an insult (I believe I’m on the spectrum myself), but rather, I’m convinced there is a correlation.

Second, I believe achievement hunting is like the difference between playing sports for fun, or playing sports competitively/professionally. The challenge of 100% is occasionally so far beyond whatever ‘difficulty setting’ the game ships with.

I believe some blend of these two factors are the impetus for achievement hunting (in most cases).

In any case, I don’t disagree with you, achievements can feel hollow. In some ways, I think they have contributed to games losing their magic.

Gone are the days of some rare and obscure secrets a game has, because you’ll always know there is something you missed when you check your achievements.

“Discover the secret in the rotting wood graveyard” OK, cool, just fucking ruin the surprise I guess?

From a development standpoint it kinda makes sense, you do want your audience to experience everything the team worked on, but yeah, magic gone…

I’m inbescribable

I’m out of the loop.

Was there a popular app where you can abuse a cat?

So’s your mother

Fun fact: I’ve been to space

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OK listen here you little shit…

Also it’s Hitlers birthday if you’re a filthy degenerate who prefers MM/DD

Correct.

In fact, I could teach you how to run specific mental programs to identify patterns - at its core it is nothing more than information about how the puzzles are constructed, and would add an extra 10 IQ points to whatever your score is (assuming <120)

Look buddy, I don’t give a single fuck about your #EccoFascist bullshit.

#AdolfPhin #PhinLivesMatterToo #NotAllPhins #ReleaseTheEccosteinFiles

Care to elaborate over a coffee?

“I took a mad shit today, it smelt acidic bro, even after I flushed, it stuck to the side of the bowel. I used my kegel muscles to piss at Mach 10 speed, but all it really did it spray a bit of piss on the toilet seat. So anyway how you doing, are you free to catch up for a coffee?”

Now i feel gaslit :3

I don’t think they talk about anything. I think they strip naked, wear diapers, and play in a giant padded room with rainbows and nursery rhymes.