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[hououinkyouma00]

I spent the last two days playing through Half Life 2 again and I just want to say that despite being nearly 20 years old this game still blows me away to this day. Personally I don't think there is a single bad part in this entire game and Ravenholm is GOATd for a reason.

I was curious about Valve's controller implementation so I connected my DualSense and used their own DualSense with gyro bindings and it was great. I played through probably half of the game with controller and half with mouse and keyboard and while I still think the game plays better with keyboard it plays surprisingly well with controller. My Steam Deck should get here soon so I think I'm gonna wait to start another play through of Episode 1 and 2 until it gets here.

It's just crazy to me how great of a run Valve had and it's sad to see them not make games anymore. I know we got Alyx and Alyx is quite possibly the best VR game ever made and there are tons of rumors of HL3 (I'll believe it when I see it) but the run of Half Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal, Portal 2, and Team Fortress 2 was absolutely nuts.

 

[Skifi28]

I haven't replayed it in a few years, I wish they'd give me an excuse like an official source 2 version with major improvements or something.

 

[grvg]

I'm doing the same thing. It is a wonderful game.

 

[Nephryte]

Same here ! I re-completed the game last week. For the second time. The first walk through was back in 2004. Felt great playing it again …

 

[hououinkyouma00]

I haven't replayed it in a few years, I wish they'd give me an excuse like an official source 2 version with major improvements or something.

There's the RTX Remix version coming. You can currently play Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

I actually thought it was a let down. Especially compared to HL1
hL1 gave the illusion of large explorable areas and not a quite obvious path.

hL2 is just a corridor. Combine were boring as well.

 

[poppabk]

Half-Life 2 VR mod is pretty much as good as Alyx.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Prefer Half Life 1 way more along with their custom campaigns.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I spent the last two days playing through Half Life 2 again and I just want to say that despite being nearly 20 years old this game still blows me away to this day. Personally I don't think there is a single bad part in this entire game and Ravenholm is GOATd for a reason.

I was curious about Valve's controller implementation so I connected my DualSense and used their own DualSense with gyro bindings and it was great. I played through probably half of the game with controller and half with mouse and keyboard and while I still think the game plays better with keyboard it plays surprisingly well with controller. My Steam Deck should get here soon so I think I'm gonna wait to start another play through of Episode 1 and 2 until it gets here.

It's just crazy to me how great of a run Valve had and it's sad to see them not make games anymore. I know we got Alyx and Alyx is quite possibly the best VR game ever made and there are tons of rumors of HL3 (I'll believe it when I see it) but the run of Half Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal, Portal 2, and Team Fortress 2 was absolutely nuts.

If you haven't played it in VR, I highly recommend it. It made me feel close to what it was like to play it for the first time in 2004 all over again.

 

[HYDE]

This not being on current console platforms is just stubborn. Not everyone wants a pc

 

[MagusMajul]

I thought Farcry was 10 times better than both this and Halo 2. Half life 2 and Halo 2 were far too linear

 

[simpatico]

When the beat drops in Route Canal. Not many moments in gaming hit like this for me. It's my number 1 FPS and for me it holds up 100%. It actually kicks off the "holds up" era. FEAR is another senior resident.

I played Half-Life, HL2, Black-Mesa and a couple BM full game mods to get ready for impending Half Life 3. Sits with 2D Castlevania and Dark Souls as my all-time gaming trifecta.