10 reason half life 2 is one of the best games ever

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IllegalPaladin said:

vlad321 said:

Reasonable said:
Best FPS ever - in fact through the power of Steam I'm replaying it on my laptop while travelling around Europe, and it still looks good even downscaled a little so the laptop can handle it.

Playing it again has slightly depressed me though, as suddenly Gears, Killzone, etc. seem rather pale by comparison to the SP campaign in Half Life 2. Why can't developers get such great SP campaigns out the door anymore? Is it the additional cost of needing a killer MP side to the game as well? I wish I knew, and I wish someone would try and top Half Life 2 - apart from Valve that is as they're busy trying that in installments and doing an pretty good job so far.

 

I've been saying that for YEARS now (actually 9 months, which is when istarted posting).

It's probably because Valve knows what kind of game they want to make. Singleplayer games are for singleplayer and multiplayer games are for multiplayer. I don't think they muck around trying to include the both worlds in a single game (not counting adding bots to games like Counter-Strike or Left4Dead).

 

 

Which is why I never enjoyed the multiplayer aspect of this game, it just wasn't very good.  I can understand focusing on the single player, but since I do not care about single player modes in FPSs, Half Life 2 just isn't one of my favorite FPS games.