Security

Since this is not particularly relevant to the Pippathread I'm going to necro this dead chain of conversation from weeks ago here:

Security said:

Half-Life 2 was a disappointment, failing to live up to its expectations. It also fundamentally misunderstood key aspects of the first game; and its faults, incorrectly ascribed to Half-Life 1, were replicated throughout not only the FPS genre, but the entire video game landscape.

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Realticule said:

I uh-gree.
I think the biggest issue is that it took the story into the "epic" direction instead of staying with the more mysterious closed setting of the first and by expanding the world the way that it did really took away from what the original one built.

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Security said:

Most games would follow Half-Life 2's example in this regard. It lacked much of the environmental storytelling the first game had; Demon's Souls would rekindle this to great effect.

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I am curious as to what you both think about what this guy says in this video:


translation: write essays about videogames for my amusement pls.

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