• Breaking News

    Monday, September 21, 2020

    Home Unlabelled Half-Life This game came out 0 years ago, and still looks sexy af

    Half-Life This game came out 0 years ago, and still looks sexy af

    September 21, 2020

    Half-Life This game came out 0 years ago, and still looks sexy af

    This game came out 0 years ago, and still looks sexy af

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 07:43 AM PDT

    Barney Gang

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 10:53 AM PDT

    This game came out two years ago and already looks like shit.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 01:14 PM PDT

    A night on the town. Made in S2FM.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 06:53 AM PDT

    I can hear this image.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 10:44 AM PDT

    Bang

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 04:56 PM PDT

    Vortigaunt playing the keyboard made by my dear friend Whiteskull29

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 03:31 PM PDT

    After a long time I've decided I will play hl2 again and this happened

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 11:49 AM PDT

    Did some G-Man artwork inspired by Lou Romano's art style at college today! What do you guys think?

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 01:10 PM PDT

    For those who don’t know yet, there’s a mod for Half-Life 1 that’s been in development for a long time called “The Core” and it looks surprisingly good for a goldsrc game.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 03:44 PM PDT

    Still can't believe this game is 16 years old, some of the visuals are honestly breathtaking.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 12:08 AM PDT

    Probably the worst Half Life alpha video you seen.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 11:42 AM PDT

    HEV Minecraft armor

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 07:51 PM PDT

    Oh no Valve killed alpha Barney

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 03:53 AM PDT

    Here's a combine inking I did, enjoy!

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 12:06 PM PDT

    We calculated that Gordon Freeman’s body count across all games is 1,527 kills (with almost two-thirds being from Half-Life 2 alone).

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 05:45 AM PDT

    Last year multiple friends and I started to calculate Gordon Freeman's kill count across his entire modern-day Half-Life series. At the time we knew Freeman's body count was over 1,000 casualties, but we wanted to wait till Black Mesa (specifically Xen) was finished before finalising said count. That didn't happen till May, in the midst of corona, but we did find a way to remotely record, count and document everything.

    Now we finally have Freeman's final kill count. If you want the TL;DR, we found that Freeman personally gunned down or crowbarred 1,527 hostiles. Here's a breakdown if the community wants to verify our work...

    [Half-Life (1998): 526 kills, for comparison]

    Black Mesa (2012): 399 kills [178 being HECU]

    Black Mesa: Xen (2020): 178 kills [0 being HECU]

    Half-Life 2 (2004): 751 kills [637 being Combine]

    Half-Life 2 Episodes (2006 + 2007): 199 kills [178 being Combine]

    Each instalment's analysis is in this playlist, if that's alright with the mods. Nobody can deny that Freeman the Messiah is literally a mass murderer in Half-Life 2, including its episodes, and that was despite our attempts to limit Freeman's body count whenever possible. Heck, even if we'd wanted to kill everyone so we could inflate these numbers...

    We couldn't kill everything, due to limited ammo and infinite respawns.

    Where we encountered infinitely respawning enemies, we opted to run past them to save ammo and avoid needless damage. This likely aligns with how the developers intended to depict Freeman anyway: As an ammo-starved survivalist, rather than Rambo. In general, anytime we encountered enemies we could either avoid without taking damage or allow allies like Alyx or Grigori to murder for us, we took the opportunity.

    Freeman has (practically) identical body counts in Black Mesa and Half-Life.

    I work with youth, and whilst some have played Half-Life, far more of them are familiar with Black Mesa. Black Mesa isn't a 100 per cent accurate remake of Half-Life, but I personally reviewed both and found that Freeman's kill count in Half-Life is around 526, reasonably close to his kill count of 577 in Black Mesa and Black Mesa: Xen combined.

    I'm surprised this is the case, given differences between the remake and original. The earthbound chapters in Black Mesa are shorter than those in Half-Life, whereas the Xen chapters in Black Mesa: Xen are longer than those in Half-Life. So ultimately, the body counts of both balanced each other. Maybe the developers did this intentionally?

    If people insist, we can analyse the original Half-Life someday.

    I like Black Mesa, but I understand purists will prefer a kill count that analyses the original Half-Life instead. If we have time and the community insists, yes, we can analyse Half-Life, although I'm hesitant to do the same for spinoffs like Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Alyx (and forget about Hunt Down the Refund). Currently I want to focus on Gordon Freeman, so...

    If Project Borealis is released before Half-Life 3, we'll add it to Freeman's kill count.

    Leaked maps over the years seem to suggest Half-Life 3 isn't technically dead. Instead Valve has prototyped ideas for a third instalment over the years, though evidently none met Valve's standard. Unlike Valve's other franchises (cough), all Half-Life games seem designed to showcase new Valve tech and "solve interesting problems". Lost Coast showcased HDR, Episode One did AI, Episode Two did Cinematic Physics, and Alyx did VR. So, until Valve develops new tech it wants to showcase, we likely won't see Half-Life 3 soon.

    If Project Borealis is released first, we'll analyse it on the rationale that it's based on Marc Laidlaw's original vision. Interestingly, the ending of Alyx seems like an attempt by Valve to (spoiler!) contradict Laidlaw's "Epistle 3" and show that Valve has its own ideas for where its series should go.

    Alyx returns Half-Life to its survival roots, but will Half-Life 3 take that direction?

    The original Half-Life was a survival story about grappling with unknowable forces trying to kill you. It wasn't a power fantasy till Half-Life 2, with Freeman being Earth's saviour. Alyx returns the series to survival mode, bordering on survival horror, which makes sense because VR naturally complements horror. Unless Half-Life 3 is also VR, it likely won't continue this direction. Ultimately, it'll depend on what new tech Valve wants to explore, and what gameplay goes best with that tech. If Valve decides raytraced shadows are the future, maybe we'll get a stealth spinoff someday.

    submitted by /u/TK-576
    [link] [comments]

    Valve is the underdog of gaming history.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 03:35 PM PDT

    When they first made half life, no one had heard of them, so they had to compete with the much more established companies, but the games quality made it a favorite, and with the release of half life 2 valve got a lot more popular, even being the favorite game company of many, so when half life alyx was announced, even though it was 14 years after their last half life game, everyone applauded them. So if everyone likes them why are they the underdog? Well, because its dirt poor compared to what it has to compete with. Valve has 4 billion dollars, while sony is doing pretty good at 94 billion dollars and microsoft is laughing from their throne of 1.4 trillion dollars. If both sides had the same skill, microsoft and sony would destroy valve easily, but they don't, because valve embraces what progress should be. Made to be fun, made seamlessly and using new, inventive mechanics and challenging the player in new ways, with no microtransactions or game breaking bugs. This, combined with steam, has kept in in the ring with the heavyweights, because they don't understand the importance of making something not just for the money.

    submitted by /u/ded2electricbugaloo
    [link] [comments]

    car battery trick shot

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 04:46 AM PDT

    Half-Life 2 Episode 3: Final Battle with G-Man's Army *LEAKED!*

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 11:58 AM PDT

    ���� ����️��

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 03:01 AM PDT

    How long is Half-Life 2?

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 08:26 PM PDT

    The base game not the episodes. I just started playing and I'm on chapter 3 and I have only been playing for 45 mins, which seems short to me. Will the game become longer?

    submitted by /u/FalloutBoi123
    [link] [comments]

    My teacher isn’t cool

    Posted: 21 Sep 2020 01:25 PM PDT
    Read more
    at

    No comments:

    Post a Comment