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Author: Suskie
Posted: September 15, 2012 (10:17 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Whoa, this is out?! Okay, so those things I had lined up to do tomorrow? I am no longer going to do those things.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: September 16, 2012 (02:38 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hey, it's done, huh? Or is it just done up to a point? I heard about this years ago and then nothing for ages. Last I'd heard was that they were releasing it in batches, chapter by chapter, but that news was already three years old. I certainly hadn't heard about the re-voice acted!
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Author: Suskie
Posted: September 16, 2012 (06:29 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Actually, the redone voice work is one of the things that's been worrying me and plenty of other fans. This clip was released a while back, and... well, listen to it. It's awful. The team released a statement later saying that the dialog was made intentionally cheesy to dehumanize the enemies. Wow, you know a better way to do that? By making them faceless goons that don't have goofy-sounding conversations. Y'know, like Valve originally did.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: September 16, 2012 (07:36 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I remember there being cheesy dialog in the original, too, actually, though I will agree: Valve does Valve best. I do like the music redesign; the music was one thing that was seriously lacking in the original. Except for a couple pumped up rushes, of course. You all know what I'm talking about.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: September 16, 2012 (08:42 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
So, in other words, they finished all of the good parts.
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Author: Putty
Posted: September 16, 2012 (09:36 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I imagine they didn't want to get in trouble by ripping the audio from the game. Then it gets tricky and in to piracy land.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: September 16, 2012 (10:36 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
First I would say that Half Life 2, despite its age and the numerous times I've played, is still a game I can plug and it feels like a game that came out this year. And I still enjoy myself. Actually, all week I've been thinking about starting it up again.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: September 16, 2012 (11:03 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
By the way, I totally agree, Suskie. Even as a kid, when there truly wasn't anything else like Half Life, I remember feeling that Xen was a piece of shit way to end the game. All the mood and ambience just dissipated. It was also glitchy as hell. I had to use no-clip just to make it past several unresponsive scripts.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: September 16, 2012 (11:24 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Putty, Half-Life 2 is dated in a lot of ways that any eight-year-old game will be, but it's still a masterclass of pacing, constantly defying genre expectations, introducing new mechanics that don't feel like new mechanics, raising the stakes without going over the top, etc. The reason HL2 is so much longer than most shooters is because it never runs out of ways to keep you interested.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: September 17, 2012 (10:03 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It's true; to demonstrate that, Half-Life 2 has a much better end game than the first one.
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Author: Putty
Posted: September 17, 2012 (04:18 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
So if I was going to play the game and played this, would I be missing out on anything?
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: September 17, 2012 (09:20 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Wait, are you asking whether you would be missing out by playing Black Mesa or Half Life 2? In either case, the answer is no. You do not need to play Half Life 1 to play either Black Mesa or Half Life 2. That said, Black Mesa will be particularly awesome for fans of the first game, while Half Life 2 will always stand on its own.
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