Half Life 2 back to being the best looking game?

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#1 cobrax75
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its pretty hard to argue with cinimatic mod 10,

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#2 MJPK
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Crysis still looks better plus they made Alyx look like a hooker which ruins it a bit.

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#3 BioShockOwnz
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Yup, most realistic...

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That's a nice plastic labcoat

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#5 Gamerz1569
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Looks pretty sweet, makes me want to install HL 2 again.

Yup, most realistic...

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#6 Wii_Gamer_277
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Wtf did they do to alyx vance :? :cry:
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#7 bigblunt537
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Wehre can I find this mod? Quick search on moddb and it's not there.

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#8 MJPK
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Wehre can I find this mod? Quick search on moddb and it's not there.

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The mods is over 10gb.

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#9 bigblunt537
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[QUOTE="bigblunt537"]

Wehre can I find this mod? Quick search on moddb and it's not there.

MJPK

The mods is over 10gb.

Well I have crazy download speeds and a 1TB hd. I can leave it on over night and I want to start HL all over, but have no reason to. This graphical update may be what I need.

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#10 Silenthps
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my pc can't run it since you need like 4 gigs of ram :'( but man the adriana lima vance is sexy :P
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#11 funked_up
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Wow, that Alyx Vance is horrible, great, let's make a unique and believable character a generic hot hooker. But those textures are really sexy.
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That mod is cheating. They use real-life textures which means it only looks realistic if you look at it head on. Once you look at it from an angle you realize everything is flat and there are no details whatsoever. This excludes characters, but most walls and objects are just textured with detail.

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#13 Shafftehr
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HL2 wasn't the best looking game when it came out, Doom 3 was... And it isn't the best looking now. And seriously, what's with changing Alex's face from a rather distinctive, narrow, freckley one to pretty much a generic female model type face?

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Half-Life 2 looks a lot better than Doom 3, especially in the animations. God, that game was so cinematic. The detail put into Alyx and her expressions. Wow!

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#15 Indigga
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Wtf did they do to alyx vance :? :cry:Wii_Gamer_277

ik rite look at the one in my icon, shes so pretty. they better not change her face in half life 3

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#16 Shafftehr
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Half-Life 2 looks a lot better than Doom 3, especially in the animations. God, that game was so cinematic. The detail put into Alyx and her expressions. Wow!

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Having played both... No. Like, clearly and distinctly, no. Some details, maybe, but the game as a whole? HL's settings were flat and antiseptic in comparison - Doom 3 was alive with shadows and atmosphere. HL2 looked good, but Doom 3 looked better - notably better. I get the feeling that Half-Life fanboyism has become so strong now that people won't even admit what was the commonly admitted graphics king at the time of its release... Oh well. Not much different than people that claimed Halo 2 was the best looking console game.
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#17 JigglyWiggly_
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I like what he did to the environments, except he turned everyone into an emo... literally. Well I am judging by cinematic mod 9, not 10... but I doubt it makes a difference :) Oh and there is a nude alyx model if that floats your boat :?
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#18 Dystopian-X
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Inb4 bawww the character models su...Too late. Srsly I really like the Cinemtic Mod. If Valve is gonna keep using the Source engine for the next HL game they should beef the graphics up a bit like this.
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#19 BioShockOwnz
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[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

Half-Life 2 looks a lot better than Doom 3, especially in the animations. God, that game was so cinematic. The detail put into Alyx and her expressions. Wow!

Shafftehr

Having played both... No. Like, clearly and distinctly, no. Some details, maybe, but the game as a whole? HL's settings were flat and antiseptic in comparison - Doom 3 was alive with shadows and atmosphere. HL2 looked good, but Doom 3 looked better - notably better. I get the feeling that Half-Life fanboyism has become so strong now that people won't even admit what was the commonly admitted graphics king at the time of its release... Oh well. Not much different than people that claimed Halo 2 was the best looking console game.

Having played both... yes. As a whole, Doom 3 is just freaking ugly. Everything about it.

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#20 cobrax75
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That mod is cheating. They use real-life textures which means it only looks realistic if you look at it head on. Once you look at it from an angle you realize everything is flat and there are no details whatsoever. This excludes characters, but most walls and objects are just textured with detail.

PS2_ROCKS

not only is that not true and completly illogical....but the vast majority of realistic looking games out there use real-life textures. Nothing is changed by looking at it head on or not. Its still a flat 2d texture anyway.

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#21 Vaasman
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[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

Half-Life 2 looks a lot better than Doom 3, especially in the animations. God, that game was so cinematic. The detail put into Alyx and her expressions. Wow!

Shafftehr

Having played both... No. Like, clearly and distinctly, no. Some details, maybe, but the game as a whole? HL's settings were flat and antiseptic in comparison - Doom 3 was alive with shadows and atmosphere. HL2 looked good, but Doom 3 looked better - notably better. I get the feeling that Half-Life fanboyism has become so strong now that people won't even admit what was the commonly admitted graphics king at the time of its release... Oh well. Not much different than people that claimed Halo 2 was the best looking console game.

doom 3 also has some terrible character models and animations, especially compared to HL2. And considering it's a corridor crawler compared to HL2's wide open expanses and epic battles, I'd hardly say it's better looking, even if it's lighting was somewhat better. Not to mention half-life 2 was pushing a fully realized havok physics engine.

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#22 gago-gago
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It looks pretty good, best on PC > 360 >>>> PS3

http://kotaku.com/5307410/valve-ps3-orange-box-players-got-the-stepchild-version

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#23 Seiki_sands
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IpreferredHL2 to Doom 3, not by miles, but still. Yes, some of Half-Life 2 looked anti-septic, but it visualized certain landscapes and characters wonderfully. A game that had a believable dystopian urbanenvironment, a rare dystopian ruralenvironmentwith a distinctly Pacific Northwest kind of feel,futuristic (but actually believable) mesh of alien and dystopian human military installation/processing center. Not just industrial wasteland, warehouse, factory, or dare I say space colony/station. Rust and Ooze were not the only focus of HL2, thank god. Walking outside onto Mars for the first time in Doom 3 was a trip though, have to admit that.

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#24 Stevo_the_gamer  Moderator
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This thread needs some Crysis screenshots. :)

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#25 mayforcebeyou
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no there are some severely flawed things in the outdated engine that super nice textures cant make it the best.
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#26 biggest_loser
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One word when talking about and comparing to Crysis: scale.
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#27 deactivated-58b6232955e4a
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Just make sure you keep the original character models and only change the environment.
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#28 masterdante
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[QUOTE="Shafftehr"][QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

Half-Life 2 looks a lot better than Doom 3, especially in the animations. God, that game was so cinematic. The detail put into Alyx and her expressions. Wow!

BioShockOwnz

Having played both... No. Like, clearly and distinctly, no. Some details, maybe, but the game as a whole? HL's settings were flat and antiseptic in comparison - Doom 3 was alive with shadows and atmosphere. HL2 looked good, but Doom 3 looked better - notably better. I get the feeling that Half-Life fanboyism has become so strong now that people won't even admit what was the commonly admitted graphics king at the time of its release... Oh well. Not much different than people that claimed Halo 2 was the best looking console game.

Having played both... yes. As a whole, Doom 3 is just freaking ugly. Everything about it.

yeah i never understood why people said it looked so good, i think that the engine id is using is one of the worst ever, it makes everything look like brown crap, its horrible

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#29 II_Seraphim_II
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They ruined Alyx. I liked the original one because her charm didn't come from her physical appearance, but from her character. She was a believable character (I mean how many geniuses do you know of that look like super models?) Now Alyx looks like some stripper at the local club. When companies get concept artists to design characters and environments, its a well thought out process, requiring many hours of thought and input. Characters in games look the way they do for a reason so people shouldnt just jump in and make amendments at will, because it can destroy the whole feel. I cant imagine the above Alyx speaking her dialog :?
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#30 stereointegrity
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This thread needs some Crysis screenshots. :)

Stevo_the_gamer

i can never get crysis to run that good on my computer and i have 4 gigs of ddr2 at 1066 a 4890 and a amd 5600+....wtf help meee

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#31 Lonelynight
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This thread needs some Crysis screenshots. :)

Stevo_the_gamer

Are those mods, or screens of the game before it was release?

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#32 rzepak
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I am creeped out by how attatche people are to Alyx. The model shown in the picture is Adrianna Lima a model. The maker of the mod has also made an original Alyx model (big breasts and all) as well as in CM 10 he created an HD version of the Alyx seen in HL2. I just wish I had enough ram to play this...4gb...that Ill have when Windows 7 is released=(

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#33 treedoor
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What's the best place to get the mod from?

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#34 rzepak
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You could try gameupdates. If they dont have you can ask them to upload it and it usually only takes a day or so for someone to respond.

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#35 Dystopian-X
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[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]

This thread needs some Crysis screenshots. :)

stereointegrity

i can never get crysis to run that good on my computer and i have 4 gigs of ddr2 at 1066 a 4890 and a amd 5600+....wtf help meee

Don't worry, look how these screens never show fps.

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#36 REA24409
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Wow..that actually looked amazing, I knew PC graphics were good, but I didn't know that they were THAT good.

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#37 Dystopian-X
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They ruined Alyx. I liked the original one because her charm didn't come from her physical appearance, but from her character. She was a believable character (I mean how many geniuses do you know of that look like super models?) Now Alyx looks like some stripper at the local club. When companies get concept artists to design characters and environments, its a well thought out process, requiring many hours of thought and input. Characters in games look the way they do for a reason so people shouldnt just jump in and make amendments at will, because it can destroy the whole feel. I cant imagine the above Alyx speaking her dialog :?II_Seraphim_II
You sound as if this is Valve making Ep. 3. Like somebody said they have normal Alyx model and you can always play the rgeular game if you want to see her. And I'm ot sure what's so bad about some eye candy in it.
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#38 kingfire11
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What's the best place to get the mod from?

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I got mine from The Pirate Bay. Oh, I used this piracy site for something legal! Anyways, if anybody want to try the new characters models, you really NEED 4GB+ of RAM + Windows x64 (XP, Vista or 7). Even without the new models, sometimes the game will crash and lag on x86
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[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]

This thread needs some Crysis screenshots. :)

Lonelynight

Are those mods, or screens of the game before it was release?

Yeah, it's a mod. A damn well good looking one at that as well.
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#40 treedoor
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[QUOTE="treedoor"]

What's the best place to get the mod from?

kingfire11

I got mine from The Pirate Bay. Oh, I used this piracy site for something legal! Anyways, if anybody want to try the new characters models, you really NEED 4GB+ of RAM + Windows x64 (XP, Vista or 7). Even without the new models, sometimes the game will crash and lag on x86

Now I'm just stuck at not understanding at all how to put this mod into HL2. Never done it :(

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#41 skrat_01
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Look great. Alyx looks HORRIBLE. Ugh.
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#42 NBSRDan
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Hold on - let me check my ratings page... Games that still look better than Half-Life 2:
  • Super Mario World
  • Donkey Kong Country
  • StarCraft
  • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
  • Golden Sun
  • Super Smash ros.
  • Halo
  • Ratchet & Clank
  • God of War
  • Jak and Daxter
  • Cel Damage
  • Banjo-Kazooie
  • Super Mario Kart
  • Castle Crashers
  • Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku
  • Dragonball Z: Supersonic Warriors
  • Geometry Wars
  • Metal Slug
  • Bioshock
  • Guilty Gear
  • Far Cry
  • Team Fortress 2
  • Braid
  • Kameo
  • Alien Hominid
  • SoulCalibur
  • Mass Effect
  • Viva Pinata
  • MapleStory
  • Shaq-Fu
  • World of Warcraft
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
Though I'm about 60% sure it's a better overall game than MapleStory.
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#43 Rza_rectah
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Hold on - let me check my ratings page... Games that still look better than Half-Life 2:

  • Super Mario World
  • Donkey Kong Country
  • StarCraft
  • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
  • Golden Sun
  • Super Smash ros.
  • Halo
  • Ratchet & Clank
  • God of War
  • Jak and Daxter
  • Cel Damage
  • Banjo-Kazooie
  • Super Mario Kart
  • Castle Crashers
  • Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku
  • Dragonball Z: Supersonic Warriors
  • Geometry Wars
  • Metal Slug
  • Bioshock
  • Guilty Gear
  • Far Cry
  • Team Fortress 2
  • Braid
  • Kameo
  • Alien Hominid
  • SoulCalibur
  • Mass Effect
  • Viva Pinata
  • MapleStory
  • Shaq-Fu
  • World of Warcraft
  • Sonic the Hedgehog

Though I'm about 60% sure it's a better overall game than MapleStory.NBSRDan

Donkey kong country was years ahead of its time no doubt.

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#44 Lonelynight
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[QUOTE="Lonelynight"]

[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"]

This thread needs some Crysis screenshots. :)

Stevo_the_gamer

Are those mods, or screens of the game before it was release?

Yeah, it's a mod. A damn well good looking one at that as well.

Which one? The lighting looks great.
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#45 rogerjak
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hooooooot!! Look very good!

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That mod is cheating. They use real-life textures which means it only looks realistic if you look at it head on. Once you look at it from an angle you realize everything is flat and there are no details whatsoever. This excludes characters, but most walls and objects are just textured with detail.

PS2_ROCKS
*sigh* this increases view distance by 3 times, makes all textures better, removes blurring, etc..
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#47 BoloTheGreat
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The real problem with the mod is that it uses VERY limited teniques, the source engine it is using only has the most rudementary bump mapping and is mianly comprised of just beefing up the traditial textures to an INSANE degree (even makes my 4GB or RAM weep occasioanlly) Waht valve REALLY need is at least a full DX9 feature set circa STALKER; SoC (ie, occlusion mapping, full bump mapping, fully dynamic lighting ie evenything casitng the correct shadow at the corrent angle. [capable in source just not implemeted!], a day and night cylce would be welcome (hell even a scripted one would be nice). This is the best you can do with such a limited enigine, it could easily look so much better with more modern features.
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#48 rzepak
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Person above is right. The creator of the mod himself has said that this is the last version becouse Source is at its limit, this is the best it will get and the modder cant push anymore out of the aging engine.

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#49 deactivated-59d151f079814
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Crysis still looks better plus they made Alyx look like a hooker which ruins it a bit.

MJPK
.. How in the hell does Alyx look like a hooker?
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#50 funked_up
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QUOTE="stereointegrity"]

This thread needs some Crysis screenshots. :)

Stevo_the_gamer

i can never get crysis to run that good on my computer and i have 4 gigs of ddr2 at 1066 a 4890 and a amd 5600+....wtf help meee

Right click shortcut->run as DX9