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Was watching this great video of an amazing Half-Life jump map competition, when suddenly, at the very end, my mood had to be soured:
No media is safe from these faggots.
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Was watching this great video of an amazing Half-Life jump map competition, when suddenly, at the very end, my mood had to be soured:
No media is safe from these faggots.
ArthuriusMartyrius
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Operation Black Mesa was being worked on by a team of about 15 people (Black Mesa had 20+ IIRC) and they weren't just working on one game but two (they were also developing a Blue Shift remake called Guard Duty alongside OBM). Anyway it turns out there's been some major drama behind the scenes where one of the core developers (and apparently one of the people who basically carried the project) turned out to be too based for the rest of the faggots on his team and the lead developer's refusal to permanently remove him but instead just suspend him for a couple of months led to like 11 people quitting. So now there's like 4 people left on the team which probably isn't gonna help things move along any faster.
(Come to think of it, should probably make a thread about it.)
A shame because I vastly preferred what I saw of Tripmine Studios' work over that of Crowbar Collective. Unlike the latter, they actually seemed to be trying to be as faithful as possible to the original GoldSrc games.
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Pretty understandable tbh.
Seems like they were intending on adapting the original look of Half-Life into a more realistic setting instead of just making the HECU generic special forces guys and taking models from HL2 for some of the Xenians.
RSU 1741
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Guy sounds like an annoying, patronizing arsehole full of himself.
Entropy Zero 1&2 are .... well, typical mods. EZ1 has the complete feeling and jank of a single person work. EZ2 is deeply "typical modder" territory with a lot of stuff that can be criticized freely (hey, Wilson is completely corny but I still like him). Janky models and voice work? Fanfiction-tier story? Welcome to modding.
That video is a guy very, very angry that the wrong people are having fun and nitpicking endlessly something that is incredibly easy to nitpick. Congrats, here we have your participation award. Also, Valve will never do another traditional Half Life game so saying "we're going to influence negatively Valve!" is beyond retarded. Maybe his points would be better served by not being an asshat and starting with decent criticism instead of haphazard nitpicking.
I just personally agree with the point of the fact that pyrocynical sucks lol, hes not exempt from criticism himself considering the only popularity he has ever amassed is from laziness himself, even self admitting in the video that he didnt want to release it and the video was from over 6 months ago. If he just stuck to making cool fact files like marphy black and not getting in niche internet drama his channel/legacy would have aged better.
I only really enjoy the videos he makes about source facts, because Im too lazy to be a supreme autist to pour over c code like he does, along with a handful of other people as well.
GratsTheat783
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Agree. A lot of the criticisms were on stuff people playing a mod wouldn't care that much about. Most people playing a mod expect some general jank like weird texturing, awkward use of models, etc. A lot of his points are stuff the creators should improve on (the repeated pointing out of badly placed hand-rails was pretty funny), but they are soured by how full of himself he sounds.
Gregg Turkington
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I liked this guys videos where he covers weird and obscure bugs in HL2, but wow he comes off as a bitter arsehole here. Making Cinema Sins-tier criticisms about a mod. His idea that Valve might put less effort into a future Half Life 3 just because some retards have gone a bit overboard by describing the mod as equivalent to Valve's quality is also stupid. Valve, despite their problems, has a pretty good track record of delivering quality over just giving into what some lazy and brief market research might determine is in demand.
Battlefield42
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Only thing i didn't like in EZ2 was the vehicle section. EP2 wasn't as bad as that was.
RSU 1741
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The fucker got so salty from the comments and reaction to his "expert critique" that he privated the video? Amazing. For sure he wasn't angry at EZ1&2.
valve is getting ready for the Half Life 2 anniversary, I know steamdb isnt exactly reliable but on steam itself it says half life 2 got an update november last year, I do check steamdb on HL2 and its been updated regularly since september.
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EZ2 was really disappointing, the strong suit of the first game by far was massacring the quippy/cutesy rebels as a sarcastic a-hole metrocop and they completely lost that. Gameplay is also extremely dense with contrived gimmicks you have to decode which is constantly causing the pacing to crash to a halt.
I remember in dev they claimed to be working on a system to dynamically stack up on doors and raid buildings like the scripted sequence at the very beginning of EZ1 but as a regular game mechanic and was pretty excited at the time, then that was seemingly nowhere to be found
I remember in dev they claimed to be working on a system to dynamically stack up on doors and raid buildings like the scripted sequence at the very beginning of EZ1 but as a regular game mechanic and was pretty excited at the time, then that was seemingly nowhere to be found
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Eh, there is nothing wrong with pointing flaws with mods but at the same time, one needs to recognize that these are made for free and on someone's spare time so they shouldnt really go in expecting official quality off of it. Anyone one that does is a turbo autist.
I play a lot of mods and I guess I tend to be more chill about its imperfections while also recognizing them. Its all a labour of love, ya know?
I play a lot of mods and I guess I tend to be more chill about its imperfections while also recognizing them. Its all a labour of love, ya know?
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Don't remind me how there is still a debate on which is the worst mod, Hunt Down the Freeman or Prospekt.
Gregg Turkington
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Have the datamining autists found anything concrete yet on what the anniversary might bring? Or is it purely down to speculation at this point? I can't imagine there will be an update similar to what HL1 got for it's anniversary since HL2 has aged much better technically.
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Word is that Filip Victor of the HL2: Update fame was working on a new project, Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection (SteamDB), Valve picked up the project and that's what they're preparing for the anniversary. Or at the very least that's what I got from the rumor mill so don't quote me on that.
TheDarknessGrows
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I finished off Black Mesa again last night. That final boss fight is a lot of fun. I enjoy it every time. Big improvement over the original.
This is most likely the case, if you check steamdb on regular more half life 2 legacy requirements have been removed it seems.
These changes would come naturally as the page you referenced uses 64 instead of 32 bit, I'm just making assumptions though because I don't really know a shitton about computers.
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