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halsin looks like he wants to breed me 5/5 game of the year

it's ok

HL2 is a masterpiece of a game. It is also undoubtedly not the hardest game. This mod suffers a lot from attempting to increase the difficulty of its base game with extremely non-sensical level design (from a visual and aesthetic standpoint the levels are superb, however). There is too -way- much platforming and scavenging for random objects. Physics based puzzles where you have to find a barrel or box in order to progress have been a thing since pretty much HL1, and this mod is obsessed with making you do exactly this for the first few levels.

The levels being difficult to navigate, alongside with the increased difficulty of combat, make this an incredibly frustrating experience. I'm a big fan of the idea of playing as a rebel citizen without access to an HEV suit, but this mod does not alter enemy encounters to account for the lack of HEV suit or the level of aiming/movement that Gordon has. Within minutes of picking up the first weapon, dozens of metro cops are thrown at you without any thought toward letting the player adjust to the new aiming system and noticeably weaker pistol in comparison to the HL2 pistol. After a few fights, you are given an SMG that is much stronger than the pistol, but the encounters now are at even longer ranges with more enemies. This wouldn't be as big of an issue if there were more options; you could have more weapon variety or even try to avoid fighting altogether, but it really does not feel like any testing was done for these encounters. This combat system feels like it's missing a lean function, as you're constantly peaking in and out of cover to take pot shots as you cant stay out in the open for too long. Again, cool idea for more deadly combat, but the execution is way off.

This isn't enough to completely kill the experience, but what made me instantly quit the game after 1.5 hours was atrocious. There is an encounter with a turret, you HAVE to make a precise throw into a box with a single grenade that you are given. There is no running past the turret as there is a LITERAL INVISIBLE WALL that pushes you away if you attempt to run past it. In my first attempt of this encounter, I didn't even find the grenade so needless to say I was extremely confused. This was in addition to some extremely annoying and precise platforming segments some levels prior to this encounter. At this point, it felt like the mod was doubling down on restricting your options and throwing annoying obstacles in your way rather than trying to make an actual challenging experience.

Valve are known for their obsession with testing their games. Accessibility is a key component of HL2 and its episodes. This mod has the exact OPPOSITE philosophy. It is a shame, as there is great potential here, the atmosphere along with the soundtrack are fantastic and the voice acting (though a bit cheesy and awkward) is well done for a free mod. But there is no getting past the fact that these levels did not seem to have any testing done with people outside of the dev team. I hope this mod gets an update to address these problems, otherwise I won't be coming back to it.

auto chess

I had absolutely zero hope for this game and i was still disappointed, everything that was bad about fallout 3 is now 10x worse (god, even the story somehow). only good thing is the customization (towns, weapons). played for a good 10-12 hours and just dropped it, probably not even gonna finish first playthrough
play NV (preferably with mods) instead, superior by far

best music of all time, every moment is "holy ♥♥♥♥ I just came" 12/10 game of the millenia

loudgun/10

Awesome. Seriously, the best game ever made.

im soying