racofer
Thread Incliner
Besides the evil copy protection scheme that steals private identifiable data, deletes porn and shoves unwanted patches down your throat, all for the sake of making the aforementioned big brother system look useful, what else bothers you immensely with this game?
Despite good visuals, the game is very mediocre in my opinion. Gun play is highly underdeveloped. In comparison to CoD, a game released prior to this one that uses an engine from 1999 with all limitations that came with it, and features no advanced physics at all, I seriously cannot imagine how valve screwed up so much with the weaponry. All weapons feel completely weightless, there's no "punch" when you fire them nor the sounds they make are any convincing. When you shoot at combines or whatever, it's like the bullets simply pierce through them, there's no "physical response" from the enemies. At most you see their heads jiggling back, slightly. When you compare this to CoD, when enemies would fall on the ground, groaning in pain... it feels like HL2 took ten steps backwards. Even headshots aren't real headshots in HL2, because it takes like half a 9mm clip to the head before they die, while in CoD, even on the highest difficulty, a headshot means death. There's also the aiming system in CoD, where you could aim down the sight for precision shots. Pistols also didn't have an unlimited reach, not to mention that HL2 completely lacks recoil.
When it comes to AI, HL2 is a disaster. Taking cover (on the rare occasions they actually take cover) behind exploding barrels rewarded me with many lulz, and also tears of rage at how, how could someone make such a disgraceful AI for such a "high rated" game (that's not to say overhyped piece of shit). The original HL had AI then mega fucking times better than this one. The marines would try to outsmart you very often, and would succeed most of the time. If zerg rushing is what valve considers state of the art AI, I would rather play Doom, because at least with Doom the shooting aspect of it blows HL2 away in every possible aspect, specially when you take into consideration the boring boat and car levels.
Now what really pisses me off is how every HL2 fanboy will jump into any HL2 discussion going on, and yell: OMGZ U NOOB HL2 HAZ TEH MOST AWESUM HISTORIE IN ANY FPS GAEM EV4R!!. I mean, what the fuck? You begin the game knowing nothing about what happened in the past game, no one bothers to tell you, or the game never mentions anything to the player, other than showing a few newspapers in a specific level, that don't tell too much. This game features one of the most lackluster stories I've ever seen. It's so full of shit, I can't even comment much about it, because there's nothing worthy to comment. It's shit. *Blarfh*
Discuss.
Despite good visuals, the game is very mediocre in my opinion. Gun play is highly underdeveloped. In comparison to CoD, a game released prior to this one that uses an engine from 1999 with all limitations that came with it, and features no advanced physics at all, I seriously cannot imagine how valve screwed up so much with the weaponry. All weapons feel completely weightless, there's no "punch" when you fire them nor the sounds they make are any convincing. When you shoot at combines or whatever, it's like the bullets simply pierce through them, there's no "physical response" from the enemies. At most you see their heads jiggling back, slightly. When you compare this to CoD, when enemies would fall on the ground, groaning in pain... it feels like HL2 took ten steps backwards. Even headshots aren't real headshots in HL2, because it takes like half a 9mm clip to the head before they die, while in CoD, even on the highest difficulty, a headshot means death. There's also the aiming system in CoD, where you could aim down the sight for precision shots. Pistols also didn't have an unlimited reach, not to mention that HL2 completely lacks recoil.
When it comes to AI, HL2 is a disaster. Taking cover (on the rare occasions they actually take cover) behind exploding barrels rewarded me with many lulz, and also tears of rage at how, how could someone make such a disgraceful AI for such a "high rated" game (that's not to say overhyped piece of shit). The original HL had AI then mega fucking times better than this one. The marines would try to outsmart you very often, and would succeed most of the time. If zerg rushing is what valve considers state of the art AI, I would rather play Doom, because at least with Doom the shooting aspect of it blows HL2 away in every possible aspect, specially when you take into consideration the boring boat and car levels.
Now what really pisses me off is how every HL2 fanboy will jump into any HL2 discussion going on, and yell: OMGZ U NOOB HL2 HAZ TEH MOST AWESUM HISTORIE IN ANY FPS GAEM EV4R!!. I mean, what the fuck? You begin the game knowing nothing about what happened in the past game, no one bothers to tell you, or the game never mentions anything to the player, other than showing a few newspapers in a specific level, that don't tell too much. This game features one of the most lackluster stories I've ever seen. It's so full of shit, I can't even comment much about it, because there's nothing worthy to comment. It's shit. *Blarfh*
Discuss.