Play HL

Play HL
>Long af
>Enemies are either fodder, annoying hitscanners, or bullet sponges >Constant chip damage from hitscanners >Unending storyshit even though its a shooter and I don't care
>Puzzles out of a Leapfrog game ...What am I missing? Is peoples' hype for HL3 just tongue-in-cheek?

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The enemy encounters are fairly sparse, with the games playtime being stretched out mostly by shitty on rails and platforming sections which act as nothing more but major speedbumps in case you were actually enjoying whatever little in terms of varied combat encounters the game is throwing at you. It's great when you're growing up on it and later coming back to it and getting washed over by the warm feeling of familiarity sure, but if you're someone coming into it completely fresh in this year it's absolutely mind-numbingly boring. It doesn't offer anything of substance outside of its historical significane in terms of narrative integration with gameplay and quaint setpieces.

Doom was influential and inovative. Its gameplay is still fun to this day because at its core it's a good game. Both the HL games are an absolute chore to play because they were centered around a novel idea without any actual substance to their core gameplay and as such wore out like the cheap novelties that they were.

Lol, great april fools thread.

Downtime is fine when it's done whenever the player chooses and for however long he chooses, while also engaging and rewarding the player for it. Which is the purpose secrets in oldschool shooters served. You clear an area, dick around looking for secrets for however long you can be bothered, then continue on with the carnage. It's part of a rewarding and engaging gameplay system and therefore aged well. In contrast HL1 and 2 downtime is all linear, scripted bullshit you are forced through whenever the game feels like it, and it's completely unrewarding because all it is is shitty platforming and setpieces that have simply lost their technical wow factor, without which there's nothing else. No exploration, no reward, nothing. Just jump around on suspended containers, jump around on floating pieces of debree, jump around on floating islands, and your only reward for all this shit is the next segment of actual gameplay which is all you wanted in the first place.

not going to lie, it was too scary for me, I don't like scary games, especially water sections. I can't play most boomer shooters cause they all have underwater levels.

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Who still has hype for HL3?

any year now, cuz

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Half-Life 1 was first really good fps besides Dark Forces 2.

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