[QUOTE="chesterocks7"][QUOTE="dakan45"]
Does Valve do that? all i see is hl2 rehashes, i guess there are diffirent definitions of "quality" Atleast kojima takes its time to make an epic game every time that is far superior form the previous and not a rehash:)
dakan45
If you know anything about the half-life series you would know that the episodes are not rehashes. Every single half-life game has focused on story and character development. Gameplay and game style has not changed since the original half-life. They've added a new engine with enhanced physics but the core game is exactly the same and everyone still loves it. Definitely no need to fix something that isn't broken.
Half life had expansions with major improvements and many new weapons and enemies, hl2 episodes...are just "episodes" pulling the story further like a TV series that doesnt wanna freaking end!!! So how is it not a rehash? As for character development...sorry bud, half life had none of all those things the "HL2 series" are so known about. See what i did there? HL2 series, in other world rehashes because a sequel cant have its own series ;) My agrument is not if they added a new engine with enhaced physics from half life, the argument is if they have done any significant improvement to the HL series since 2004? Answer is no, they have not done neither a technological improvement or a gameplay features improvement or added many new weapons and enemies like they did with opposing force and blue shift. Ohh and i dissagree, the core gameplay is not the same as it was in half life. Half life is hands down my most favoirte fps, with plenty of action and combat. HL2 on the other hand is by far the most overatted fps i ever played and not a worthy sequel to half life, more physics and gravity gun puzzles and less action and combat like the original half life. So pretty much the closest thing to half life in the hl2 and episodes is Episode 2. Just balance the story/characters/puzzles/combat the way they did with episode 2 and i will have no complains on episode 3.The HL expansions did not have major improvements. They were continuations of the storyline of the first game. In fact, they didn't continue the storyline but rather explained the original storyline in more detail. The HL2 episodes added more new story to the game than the HL expansions ever did.
They added better graphics and an enhanced storyline with more character development. As well as adding awesome vehicle segments which were never part of the original. Other than that the 2004 game was as close to a perfect FPS that has ever been made. Obviously there was nothing significant that needed improvement other than the graphics.
The original HL did focus on characters as well. In case you don't recall most of the main characters in HL2 were from the original and remenisce about it throughout HL2. And all the HL expansions did was further the character development from the original.
In OP and BS they didn't add any new features aside from calling in reinforcements and having somewhat of a squadlike aspect. Those features don't really fit into the HL story anyway.
And the core gameplay is exactly the same. The added phsyics puzzles are just a new feature which you refuse to acknowledge as such. The core FPS gameplay is identical to the original, they changed nothing in that regard. And you spend a lot more time blowing the **** out of bad guys than you do solving physics related puzzles.
If you liked the balance of the story/characters/puzzles/combat in HL2 I don't see what your complaint was in the episodes, they are all just as equally balanced, albeit shorter.
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