Do you think Half-Life 2 is kinda overrated?

Unfortunately I never got to play HL2 when it was first released, but I did pick up the Orange box last year for my 360.

All I have to say is it's by far one of the best fps I have ever played. I can't even imagine what it must have been like back in 2004.

Nope.

Unfortunately I never got to play HL2 when it was first released, but I did pick up the Orange box last year for my 360.

All I have to say is it's by far one of the best fps I have ever played. I can't even imagine what it must have been like back in 2004.

Franky-the-bat

I'd go so far as to say that it's the most overrated game of all time, and would give it a 7/10 at best. Before playing it, all I heard was how great it was. Shame they left out that it hasterrible enemy AI, mediocre level design, ABYSMAL vehicle sections and lacked so much of what made the original Half Life so great. (Trip to Xen + Nihilanth? Awesome) I acknowledge the gravity gun is brilliant, but it doesn't make up for the rest of the game's flaws.

Deus Ex > System Shock 2 > Half Life > Half Life 2

IMO of course.

I'd go so far as to say that it's the most overrated game of all time, and would give it a 7/10 at best. Before playing it, all I heard was how great it was. Shame they left out that it hasterrible enemy AI, mediocre level design, ABYSMAL vehicle sections and lacked so much of what made the original Half Life so great. (Trip to Xen + Nihilanth? Awesome) I acknowledge the gravity gun is brilliant, but it doesn't make up for the rest of the game's flaws.

Deus Ex > System Shock 2 > Half Life > Half Life 2

IMO of course.

TheLordHimself

Are you like the first Half-Life basher ever to like Xen? :P

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I'd go so far as to say that it's the most overrated game of all time, and would give it a 7/10 at best. Before playing it, all I heard was how great it was. Shame they left out that it hasterrible enemy AI, mediocre level design, ABYSMAL vehicle sections and lacked so much of what made the original Half Life so great. (Trip to Xen + Nihilanth? Awesome) I acknowledge the gravity gun is brilliant, but it doesn't make up for the rest of the game's flaws.

Deus Ex > System Shock 2 > Half Life > Half Life 2

IMO of course.

longtonguecat

Are you like the first Half-Life basher ever to like Xen? :P

Nope its awsome i just cant wait for Epissode 3

P.S. Valve WHERES EPISSODE 3, ME WANTY

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I'd go so far as to say that it's the most overrated game of all time, and would give it a 7/10 at best. Before playing it, all I heard was how great it was. Shame they left out that it hasterrible enemy AI, mediocre level design, ABYSMAL vehicle sections and lacked so much of what made the original Half Life so great. (Trip to Xen + Nihilanth? Awesome) I acknowledge the gravity gun is brilliant, but it doesn't make up for the rest of the game's flaws.

Deus Ex > System Shock 2 > Half Life > Half Life 2

IMO of course.

TheLordHimself

Are you like the first Half-Life basher ever to like Xen? :P

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A lot of people have been claiming Half-Life 2 as the one of the greatest FPS of all time if not the best FPS of all time and many people claim it asa groundbreaking/revolutionary game, while the idea of it beingone of the best ortheFPS of all time is subjective {I consider ONE of the best} but the game wasn't very revolutionary in the slightest especially compared to it's predessccor.

Half-Life was revolutionary for it's scripted first-person view storytelling, impeccable A.I., seamlessly implemented puzzles, and realistic immersion. Half-Life 2 was an excellent game for having a more in depth story with interesting characters told in a first-person perspective, cinematic set pieces, seamlessly implemented puzzles, realistic immersion, and added an amazing physics engime seamlessly implemented into it's puzzles and gameplay. The gravity was especially awesome where you can use your surrounding objects as projectile weapons to kill enemies.

However, Half-Life 2 wasn't revolutionary as physics based gameplay was already been before in Trespasser which practicly inspired Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 did it well where Trespasser did it poorly. Not to mention the A.I. in Half-Life 2 is severly dissapointing as enemies are stupid where you can carry a barrel and they will not fire at you, your squad are worse as they're are ineffective in combat and always get in your way in the most annoying fashion. The gunplay wasn't particurly special either as the most of the weapons are standard, the ant-lion pheromone pod was one of the only few unique weapons.

Half-Life 2 is undoubtly an excellent game but don't you guys think it's a bit overpraised compared to the original Half-Life?

malikmmm

Half-Life 1 > Half-Life 2 :P

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A lot of people have been claiming Half-Life 2 as the one of the greatest FPS of all time if not the best FPS of all time and many people claim it asa groundbreaking/revolutionary game, while the idea of it beingone of the best ortheFPS of all time is subjective {I consider ONE of the best} but the game wasn't very revolutionary in the slightest especially compared to it's predessccor.

Half-Life was revolutionary for it's scripted first-person view storytelling, impeccable A.I., seamlessly implemented puzzles, and realistic immersion. Half-Life 2 was an excellent game for having a more in depth story with interesting characters told in a first-person perspective, cinematic set pieces, seamlessly implemented puzzles, realistic immersion, and added an amazing physics engime seamlessly implemented into it's puzzles and gameplay. The gravity was especially awesome where you can use your surrounding objects as projectile weapons to kill enemies.

However, Half-Life 2 wasn't revolutionary as physics based gameplay was already been before in Trespasser which practicly inspired Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 did it well where Trespasser did it poorly. Not to mention the A.I. in Half-Life 2 is severly dissapointing as enemies are stupid where you can carry a barrel and they will not fire at you, your squad are worse as they're are ineffective in combat and always get in your way in the most annoying fashion. The gunplay wasn't particurly special either as the most of the weapons are standard, the ant-lion pheromone pod was one of the only few unique weapons.

Half-Life 2 is undoubtly an excellent game but don't you guys think it's a bit overpraised compared to the original Half-Life?

RawDeal_basic

Yes

Fix

Xen was one of my favourite things about HL1. Do most people hate it then? lol Maybe I just got overhyped for HL2 but HL1 still feels superior to me, even by today's standards. Feel free and hate me if you will, but that's how it is. :P

TheLordHimself

I thought that Halo had the best story in a FPS until I bought the Orange Box. The story in Half-Life is waaaaaaaaay better than the one you would find in Halo. Halo's story was immediately dethroned. If you have not played Half-Life 2 go out and buy it NOW.

I still have to play the first Half-Life though. Not sure if my PC can run it lol. (Really)

If anything Half LIfe 2 is underrated.

How anyone can say its overrated is just beyond me.

Episode2 is a masterpeice to imo.

It was pretty good when I played it in late 2007-2008 (Orange Box ps3). It was long, it had lots of cool puzzles and set piece moments. To me the story was overrated and AI pretty bad along with dated graphics but the gameplay is still topnotch.