Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game
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The bridge crossing level and using the crossbow to crucify combine soldiers were about the best parts of the game as I remember it.
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I have to agree with him, honestly. HL2 was novel for its time, but if you're playing it for the first time in 2026 then yeah, it really doesn't hold up to modern game experiences. I also dislike games that end ambiguously or on cliffhangers, and the lack of closure provided from sequel-bait endings like HL2's can be annoying to people who just want to play a complete story. I want to see it through to the end and get the feeling that my actions had any sort of consequence to the world, and HL2 really doesn't provide that.
And narratively, the fact that Gordon is a silent protagonist really doesn't make the player feel like they're a real part of that world, and rather they're just going along for an on-rails carnival ride. The player has no real agency to affect anything that isn't a part of the singular route offered by the game. This would be okay if it was a role-playing game, and the player is intended to use their imagination to fill in the blanks, but HL2 is a wholly linear game where characters just bark commands at you from start to finish.
Honestly, for being a negative review, I think he was very fair about it. It's an important part of gaming history, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a great experience for modern players.
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Idk, of all the ways you could criticize Ubisoft, dragging this random guy just because he didn't care too much for HL2 (and then took the time to write down his thoughts instead just going "game bad
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Reading the comments aged me more than anything
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Not only the author of the post frame the ineffably marvelous Ubisoft for their Assassin's Creed only, or the people in the organization who are not even related to the case, and for literally unknown reason, but also the author of the review feels like a disrespectful bigot who has likely a bad time yet enough to make a choice to inscribe their pure hatred into someone's effort, history, and indeed novelty. One might want to suggest them to try creating anything at least remotely marvelous to the subjects, they try speaking at, with their own hands...
Such a deep sorrow some people do not care about their actions, about anyone, including artists, developers, people in general... and ruin this world in hatred and utter, disgusting unfairness...
You do you, @Speedforce@multiverse.soulism.net and that reviewer, and let's hope no one will state something so awful about your work after decades, hatefully believing their word has any weight the world outside their mind of hatred.
A dear kindergarten is it...
Stanning for Ubisoft isn't the look you think it is.
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey Watch_Dogs 2 
// Image source: Personal backups of screenshots
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Yea. It's easy to make a pretty game these days. Pretty is not equal to good.
Note that I will fully admit Ubisoft owns some decent IPs. Owning decent IPs does not make them a good company.
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is the time shown on steam reviews accurate? cause i'd guess that it takes more than 12 minutes for a casual player to finish half-life 2
in fact i checked and the world record in speedrunning is around 36 minutes lol
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I never use LLM except for pentesting or experimental/medicine.
Meanwhile, I am sorry to know that you found it nonsense.experimental/medicine
You use AI for literally its most dangerous possible use case. And I assume you used a mediocre translator for everything else. Try DeepL, I found it has good results most of the time.
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Hey I have some pretty screenshots too!
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is the time shown on steam reviews accurate? cause i'd guess that it takes more than 12 minutes for a casual player to finish half-life 2
in fact i checked and the world record in speedrunning is around 36 minutes lol
I have some similar reviews with 0 hours because I usually play a cracked version of the game and then buy it if i like it just to support the dev. Maybe that's what was going on here.
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Yeah I played it for the first time last year and I couldn't really get into it. Gave up a few hours in.
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HL2 has a ton of story, but it isn't spelled out in cutscenes or written down in item descriptions. It's discussed by NPCs and inferred from the environment. You experience it all in a first person frame, without third person cutscenes or by asking someone to exposit at you. You don't even have to go out of your way with a guide on your second monitor to unlock that info, it's right there with you, you just have to pay attention.
You're a person in the world and nobody will be the explaining the concept of lightbulbs or the where the combine came from or how the city was built. But you can absolutely find out more about that in the game.
But yes, we all hate the cliffhanger.
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I have some similar reviews with 0 hours because I usually play a cracked version of the game and then buy it if i like it just to support the dev. Maybe that's what was going on here.
that makes sense. maybe the mod they installed causes steam to not count the hours.
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As someone who hates open-world ubisoft style games, I'm nevertheless not much of a fan of HL2 either. I tried it multiple times at different points in my life and each time found it to feel like a slog that I end up giving up on a few hours in.
I enjoyed the 1984 aspects of the world at first, but I ultimately can't get past how bullet spongy enemies are. Virtually every weapon feels extremely impotent except the revolver, which has very limited ammo. I began to dread every encounter with enemies because it rarely felt fun to fight them.
On my last playthrough I cheated and gave myself infinite revolver ammo, which helped me get farther than before, but even then I was struggling to push onward after a certain point, just because it felt like endless waves of enemies being thrown at me with some mildly enjoyable physics puzzles tossed in between them.
Never felt a connection with any of the characters, and without that the gameplay itself just becomes repetitive to me.
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truly dull sections - yes I'm looking at you the vehicle sections ... makes playing through HL2 a slog. Just a few hours in, I didn't want to play any more. I was done.
Totally agree with this. HL1 is one of my favorite games ever but HL2 was just boring. I tried it a few times and never finished. Opposing Force and Blue Shift are my Half Life 2 and Half Life 3.
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I fucking love Highway 17 - it’s an atmospheric and enjoyable road trip and I will die on this hill.
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is the time shown on steam reviews accurate? cause i'd guess that it takes more than 12 minutes for a casual player to finish half-life 2
in fact i checked and the world record in speedrunning is around 36 minutes lol
Lots of mods for older games circumvent steam, so steam does not know about the game running. Famous example was Skyrim and Skyrim script extender. If this is the case with mmod idk
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Sorry, no. And I am sorry you found LLM useful, and consider experimental/unverified data "dangerous", likely inadequately or for the sense of hateful trolling, and it's hard to live that way, I presume...
Related:
- https://lemmy.world/post/41419554/21487153
- https://mander.xyz/post/45102281/24408089
- https://lemmus.org/post/41151011/21366171 -
Thank you!
