/vr/ - Retro Games

Half-Life 2 is a good game but the fans that like it are actually retarded. Like if you give any slight criticism they get super offended and talk about how it's the greatest game ever made and while it is very ahead of it's time, it's not the greatest fucking game ever made. Half-Life 2 has a lot of flaws but barely anyone talks about it because of the retarded fanbase. I know this can be applied to any game community but still. It's more noticeable with the Half-Life 2 community. These people also fail to acknowledge that other advanced games came out around that time too.

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emphasis on needed since that ship has sailed

Abstained from playing pic related for over 15 years. I believed that it was overrated, judging by how rote the FPS genre became in its wake. I was very wrong. If only the genre was as inspired by HL2 as many claim it was. This is a foundational game that is entirely and effortlessly exactly what it sets out to be.

So is it still impossible to play this in a properly functional state without "pirating" the game?
The Mac update broke tons of things, and Steam doesn't even detect old retail installations anymore.

The best one can do is to just download some cracked copy from 2004, and everything just works.

Grenade someone in Half-Life 1 = They explode into huge meaty chunks and blood goes everywhere.
Grenade someone in Half-Life 2 = They ragdoll 3ft in the air pathetically. There's zero gibs in the game and you can't destroy bodies.

Seriously, who thought this was an improvement?

I'll start with this classic