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Right, before you guys start flooding the post protesting in an annoying high pitched voice
“WTF Do you mean the gravity gun was pant wettingly awesome!”
I KNOW! Best thing since slice bread!
That has got to be the only exception, to me that was one of the key factors that what made half-life 2, HALF-LIFE 2! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...AAA!
I was so amazed and impressed with the power of the sauce engine and the environments it quite literally brought to life, I was equally (maybe even more so) depressed with the weapons lack of personality, other then the crowbar and the gravity gun who had so much personality, they could host their own chat shows! But the other weapons, OMFG the other weapons! It was like having to wait six years for the world best peanut butter sandwich to be made, and then you finally get to eat it, and damn, it’s the greatest most orgasmic looking stroke tasting peanut butter sandwich you have ever eaten, but only to find out seconds later, when you have finished eating and frantically gasping for air, you find out you are violently allergic to nuts…Bummer!
These weapons are so AHHHH, not likeable! The gravity-gun and crowbar are like your best friends, but the other weapons, pistol MP7, and pulse rifle and like those friends you secretly hate! You don’t know why you hate them, all you know is that you secretly hate them and you cant wait until thing cooler comes along! But why? Maybe its something in their eyes, maybe they have shifty eyes, yeah, that’s it…these weapons all have shifty eyes!
What I think happened is that valve thought that it was more important to put all their effort perfecting the quality of the environment you play in City Seventeen that they made the mistake of rating the weapons as less important and allocating them with less time and effort. It almost feels like the only reason half-life 2 got delayed was because they forgot to make the weapons, so they done a rushed job at the last minute!
( a joke, so don’t whine, “but I saw weapons on the video trailers!”)
Brainstorming? (re-enactment played by actors)
VALVE 1: We need some weapons for half-life 2!
VALVE 2: cool Where is it set?
VALVE 1: Well, its set some years after the black mesa incident!
VALVE 2: Some years after? You mean in the future?
VALVE 1: Yeah, you could say that.
VALVE 2: ok, I’ll work on some futuristic sci-fi weapons!
VALVE 1: Yeah, sure, what ever! Just get it done!
How about NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You crazy weapon modelling b****rd!
what I truly, truly loved (as a friend) about the original half-life, well half-life with the blue-shift high definition model update (after the boob job) was the closeness to realism to the setting of black mesa and the weapons and equipment you used! This made the half-life experience truly great! Finally a sci-fi story where you blow aliens away with realist looking weapons instead of having steroid hungry monster of guns like in perfect dark (loved that game-as a friend of course) and red-faction one and two (eh, ok I suppose) and countless of other games that I cant remember the names of. The close realism of half-life gave the illusion that the events of half-life was happening right this minute, right now! sort of gave the impression of, wow, this predicament could actually happen for real and I could save the world…one day anyway.
So it looks like they made the decision to adopt the common sci-fi stereotype and make the weapons “futuristic” looking which in my mind was a big mistake! Doing this killed a big part of the personality of Half-life I loved, the realism, yes they perfected the realism of a futuristic battle ravaged city, but the weapons do not do them justice!
If we look at the M16 and the SA80, in the past ten, fifteen years, the frame of the weapon has virtually stayed the same, the only major changes are to the weapons ammunition, accessories and the material that they are made of. I would have been quite happy, even more happy if they just ported weapons from counter-strike and just made mild modification that they think would be made in “their” version of the future.
The modifications I would of liked to of seen?
For the pistol, I would of liked to of seen a more smooth frame. A modified laser sight (found in opposing force) would have been cool. And secondary three bullet burst mode (like the glock in CS, but a bit faster.)
The MP7 should of just been the M16 frame and just added some modifications, like the ammunition could have been more powerful, changed the colour of the muzzle flash. A secondary fire could still be the nade and a night vision scope with a heads up display identifying the enemy from friend.
The pulse rifle could have been a scaled down version of the cannon found on jet fighters. Cant think of a good secondary fire.
Oh yeah, I liked the rocket launcher too. So no changes other then maybe a night vision scope.
For the shot gun could have had different types of ammunitions, and not change it to look “futuristic”!
The crossbow, the point of the orange bit????
I also think that the resistance and the combine should have had complete different weapons, the combine would have access to research and factories, so they would have the upgraded weapons but the resistance do not have these privileges so would have to make do my scavenging weapons from the from the past (M16/AK47/MP5 etc.). weapons that they stole from the combine would make up a very small percentage of their arms.
don’t get me wrong, Half-life 2 is a great game, surely the best game ever made and to be me made for years to come, well until Half-life 3 anyway. But it could have been much better, much, much better, and that depresses me.
So who aggress with me? Or just hates with for pointing out a flay in perfection as we know it? Come on let your feelings known, and please give reasons, back your views, don’t just say, yes, yes I do, or call me a n00b or lamour? Or what ever it is!
“WTF Do you mean the gravity gun was pant wettingly awesome!”
I KNOW! Best thing since slice bread!
That has got to be the only exception, to me that was one of the key factors that what made half-life 2, HALF-LIFE 2! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...AAA!
I was so amazed and impressed with the power of the sauce engine and the environments it quite literally brought to life, I was equally (maybe even more so) depressed with the weapons lack of personality, other then the crowbar and the gravity gun who had so much personality, they could host their own chat shows! But the other weapons, OMFG the other weapons! It was like having to wait six years for the world best peanut butter sandwich to be made, and then you finally get to eat it, and damn, it’s the greatest most orgasmic looking stroke tasting peanut butter sandwich you have ever eaten, but only to find out seconds later, when you have finished eating and frantically gasping for air, you find out you are violently allergic to nuts…Bummer!
These weapons are so AHHHH, not likeable! The gravity-gun and crowbar are like your best friends, but the other weapons, pistol MP7, and pulse rifle and like those friends you secretly hate! You don’t know why you hate them, all you know is that you secretly hate them and you cant wait until thing cooler comes along! But why? Maybe its something in their eyes, maybe they have shifty eyes, yeah, that’s it…these weapons all have shifty eyes!
What I think happened is that valve thought that it was more important to put all their effort perfecting the quality of the environment you play in City Seventeen that they made the mistake of rating the weapons as less important and allocating them with less time and effort. It almost feels like the only reason half-life 2 got delayed was because they forgot to make the weapons, so they done a rushed job at the last minute!
( a joke, so don’t whine, “but I saw weapons on the video trailers!”)
Brainstorming? (re-enactment played by actors)
VALVE 1: We need some weapons for half-life 2!
VALVE 2: cool Where is it set?
VALVE 1: Well, its set some years after the black mesa incident!
VALVE 2: Some years after? You mean in the future?
VALVE 1: Yeah, you could say that.
VALVE 2: ok, I’ll work on some futuristic sci-fi weapons!
VALVE 1: Yeah, sure, what ever! Just get it done!
How about NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You crazy weapon modelling b****rd!
what I truly, truly loved (as a friend) about the original half-life, well half-life with the blue-shift high definition model update (after the boob job) was the closeness to realism to the setting of black mesa and the weapons and equipment you used! This made the half-life experience truly great! Finally a sci-fi story where you blow aliens away with realist looking weapons instead of having steroid hungry monster of guns like in perfect dark (loved that game-as a friend of course) and red-faction one and two (eh, ok I suppose) and countless of other games that I cant remember the names of. The close realism of half-life gave the illusion that the events of half-life was happening right this minute, right now! sort of gave the impression of, wow, this predicament could actually happen for real and I could save the world…one day anyway.
So it looks like they made the decision to adopt the common sci-fi stereotype and make the weapons “futuristic” looking which in my mind was a big mistake! Doing this killed a big part of the personality of Half-life I loved, the realism, yes they perfected the realism of a futuristic battle ravaged city, but the weapons do not do them justice!
If we look at the M16 and the SA80, in the past ten, fifteen years, the frame of the weapon has virtually stayed the same, the only major changes are to the weapons ammunition, accessories and the material that they are made of. I would have been quite happy, even more happy if they just ported weapons from counter-strike and just made mild modification that they think would be made in “their” version of the future.
The modifications I would of liked to of seen?
For the pistol, I would of liked to of seen a more smooth frame. A modified laser sight (found in opposing force) would have been cool. And secondary three bullet burst mode (like the glock in CS, but a bit faster.)
The MP7 should of just been the M16 frame and just added some modifications, like the ammunition could have been more powerful, changed the colour of the muzzle flash. A secondary fire could still be the nade and a night vision scope with a heads up display identifying the enemy from friend.
The pulse rifle could have been a scaled down version of the cannon found on jet fighters. Cant think of a good secondary fire.
Oh yeah, I liked the rocket launcher too. So no changes other then maybe a night vision scope.
For the shot gun could have had different types of ammunitions, and not change it to look “futuristic”!
The crossbow, the point of the orange bit????
I also think that the resistance and the combine should have had complete different weapons, the combine would have access to research and factories, so they would have the upgraded weapons but the resistance do not have these privileges so would have to make do my scavenging weapons from the from the past (M16/AK47/MP5 etc.). weapons that they stole from the combine would make up a very small percentage of their arms.
don’t get me wrong, Half-life 2 is a great game, surely the best game ever made and to be me made for years to come, well until Half-life 3 anyway. But it could have been much better, much, much better, and that depresses me.
So who aggress with me? Or just hates with for pointing out a flay in perfection as we know it? Come on let your feelings known, and please give reasons, back your views, don’t just say, yes, yes I do, or call me a n00b or lamour? Or what ever it is!
