So uhhhh, whats your point? That because its a fps its the same as all fps games? Point, you have none.
you know the S in FPS stands for SHOOTER, right? its a shooter game if you win by shooting. you could shoot in flashback but you win by jumping on platforms and thats why that was a platformer. you get to pick your parts in gran turismo but that doesnt make it a managerial game or an rpg - its a racing game. same as wipeout, you can shoot, but you win by the core mechanic of goin'reel'fast.
I really didn't like it, but then I never finished the first one either. I have never been a fan of HL generally, I think its a pretty generic FPS.
Exact same view as you. I am trying to force myself to complete it but I am still at the motorboat part. Very long and boring in my opinion.
You fail to acknowledge and assimilate the splendid atmosphere of the game within your mind. If you are incapable of perceiving and experiencing the environment of the game, then I can understand how it could be boring to you since you simply don't understand it. To understand the game, a lot of work is required on part of the experiencer to put himself or herself in the shoes of the character of the game. This requires your utmost attention while also opening oneself emotively to the world of the game.
Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are the greatest games ever made for those with the eyes to see, with the ears to hear, with the mind to understand and the heart to feel. If you lack any of these, then a wholesome experience of the game falls apart.
I feel the same way about fire, what were cavemen so impressed about it for? you pull out your bic and with the flick of your thumb there it is. Geez get over yourselves cavemen!yes, but then i played it years after release. there was nothing special about it.
What an utter load of pretentious shite.
The dystopian atmosphere was only prevalent at the beginning of the game and your "won't be able to understand" part is going down the same nonsense route that Vanth was.
HL2 was a commercial bit of entertainment released by Westerners, marketed at Westerners. If I have to have experienced a former authoritarian regime to get the best out of it, then it isn't genius at all it's poor story telling.
The dystopian atmosphere was only prevalent at the beginning of the game and your "won't be able to understand" part is going down the same nonsense route that Vanth was.
HL2 was a commercial bit of entertainment released by Westerners, marketed at Westerners. If I have to have experienced a former authoritarian regime to get the best out of it, then it isn't genius at all it's poor story telling.
You misunderstood. I merely pointed out that Valve did a brilliant job there, and again I am blatantly stating that for, say, someone from the US it is likely not easy to see WHY and WHERE this brilliance is. I had the "fortune" living in Europe and was living for a bit in Eastern Berlin after the wall was down, and of course also know what it meant before when there was still an Eastern and Western Germany, or Soviet Union for that matter... Later on I also met many people who lived in this "Eastern Zone" and got an idea about where and how they lived, how limited their lives were, how "odd" an experience for example Eastern Berlin was...shortly after the wall came down and there wasn't too many changes yet. It is very difficult to describe this atmosphere.
You are right it's a game made by Westerners "for Westerners" but I am 100% convinced that Valve had help by people who had such first-hand experience developing the setting of the game. There is no way that they managed to convey the setting/atmosphere of the game otherwise.
What I am saying, it's no big deal to develop a game with a "dystopian atmosphere" since every other game does this, and there are books, movies etc. and they are not even scarce.
But doing it RIGHT and creating a genuine "eeriness" is a different story. A Westerner would (IMHO) not have an idea about how a person would live in a socialistic society, say, somewhere in some former Russian/Eastern European town, squeezed into some socialist apartment building and then facing realities of every day like how their authoritarian gvt spied on them, limits imposed on thinking, literature etc. because it goes against the authority's ideology. Stuff like that.
You misunderstood. I merely pointed out that Valve did a brilliant job there, and again I am blatantly stating that for, say, someone from the US it is likely not easy to see WHY and WHERE this brilliance is. I had the "fortune" living in Europe and was living for a bit in Eastern Berlin after the wall was down, and of course also know what it meant before when there was still an Eastern and Western Germany, or Soviet Union for that matter... Later on I also met many people who lived in this "Eastern Zone" and got an idea about where and how they lived, how limited their lives were, how "odd" an experience for example Eastern Berlin was...shortly after the wall came down and there wasn't too many changes yet. It is very difficult to describe this atmosphere.
You are right it's a game made by Westerners "for Westerners" but I am 100% convinced that Valve had help by people who had such first-hand experience developing the setting of the game. There is no way that they managed to convey the setting/atmosphere of the game otherwise.
What I am saying, it's no big deal to develop a game with a "dystopian atmosphere" since every other game does this, and there are books, movies etc. and they are not even scarce.
But doing it RIGHT and creating a genuine "eeriness" is a different story. A Westerner would (IMHO) not have an idea about how a person would live in a socialistic society, say, somewhere in some former Russian/Eastern European town, squeezed into some socialist apartment building and then facing realities of every day like how their authoritarian gvt spied on them, limits imposed on thinking, literature etc. because it goes against the authority's ideology. Stuff like that.
So what do you like? sandbox games where it's 95% fetch quests?It's the bloody linear nature of the game that kills the atmosphere. The whole game feels like you're crammed inside a long tunnel, going from A to B to C.
The surrounding environment is little more than background wallpaper, for I have to repeat, you are traveling inside a tunnel.
There is no interaction with the world besides running forward and shooting, and the primitive puzzles that are roadbumps. This makes it impossible to appreciate any form of atmosphere.
So what do you like? sandbox games where it's 95% fetch quests?
Yep those are amazing...
No. I like sandbox games where there's hundreds of different things to do, and interacting with near-sentient NPCs, and making decisions and getting different reactions, as well as engaging narratives and witty non-childish writing.
If we want to talk overrated from 2004 lets talk world of warcraft. Now that is an overrated game.
Does such a thing exist? I would love to play it...
There's 3 of them. I posted it in a previous thread.
Deus Ex.
Fallout 3.
Skyrim.
None of those fit the bill. They don't even get close.
No. I like sandbox games where there's hundreds of different things to do, and interacting with near-sentient NPCs, and making decisions and getting different reactions, as well as engaging narratives and witty non-childish writing.