Your Top 50 Games: 2011 Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

Machina said:

#18 - Half-Life 2 (360/PC/PS3)


Now I'm having serious trouble choosing which is my least favourite from the remaining titles on my list. The top 6 are locked, but everything else I keep changing like crazy.

Guess I'm going with Half-Life 2 (the entire game/series/whatever you wanna call it) for #18. The first of two Orange Box titles (Smeags won't let us pick The Orange Box, so I'll just list 'em separately *hrmph*). No prizes for guessing what the other one is - will give you a cookie if you can guess what rank it is though. Anywho, I digress. Half-Life 2. It's good... after the first 20 minutes, which sucked.

I loved the first 20 minutes. The atmosphere, the realistic oppressive setting, all the little graphical effects like dust floating in the air, Dr Breens speech on the monitors, the amazing facial animations, playing with the physics in the little playground. All things that I had never seen before. I guess HL2 suffers the curse that it has been copied so much that it's opening now feels standard fare.

It's coming up soon on my list, amazing glimpse into the future back in 2004. Resistance 3's campaign is practically a carbon copy of HL2's campaign structure.