I can see why people didn't like some parts (boat, car) but they're so iconic to me.

Except episode 2 (1?) car shit with the buckeyballs. Fuck that.

The physics puzzles, whole still functioning fine, feel extremely goofy today. It's easy to forget how revolutionary they were. I'm not saying the game shouldn't have them or anything, but some are just so silly lol.

On enemy variety, I see the critique of games like Zelda: BOTW and even realistic games like Hitman. Something those games have in common is very well-made enemy AI that presents you many ways to defeat them.

You just changed my life.

Most, if not all Valve games

You're not biased. You're completely correct.

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Is there formatting on this post? It seems to have broken voyager slightly

Played Half Life 2 for the first time in my life at 25, 10/10 perfect game.

Avoid nostalgia?

The full list is on steam, the main thing is it's bundled all hl2 games in one package, integrated workshop for mod installation, and added new developer commentary for hl2. Also a bunch of misc fixes etc.

If you're into the nuts and bolts of game development at all, the commentary is fantastic.

I was totally fine playing HL1, and HL2, and HL2 episode 1.... but I never finished episode 2 because of motion sickness. The problem isn't really with episode 2 though. The problem is just that I got old, and now I get motion sickness from FPS games that didn't affect me before.

But I do know that not every FPS makes me sick. I think mouse-look smoothing helps. I'm not certain what else, but I'd try messing with the field-of-view angle and stuff like that.

Have you tried increasing FOV?

I don't think these two games can be reasonably compared. HL2 is currently free, while concord was a paid game.

Man , it's dead just let it go. Digging on Concord was funny the first week it was shelved

As a genre? I would say no. Cyberpunk is usually described as a capitalist dystopia in which a handful of companies supersede government powers and wage wars against each other beyond the concepts of national borders. In addition, cybernetic enhancements become commonplace, as a way for companies to extract more value from their workers. Cyberpunk stories usually are about groups rebelling against the system through organized crime, who ultimately fail to escape the underlying system of capitalism, doomed to repeat history time and time again.

HL2 falls in none of the genre stereotypes. While it is dystopian, it's not capitalist, so it's not "punk" and it isn't "cyber" either because of a lack of commonplace cybernetics.