Best FPS to this day! The tech, graphics and attention to detail were 20 years ahead of their time and to this day no game comes even close to what this game had. I just wish if I can experience playing this masterpiece again for the first time like I did in 2004.
dobber72
The best game there ever was.
dirtyMETHOD
🌓-life 2️⃣
ostrieto17
Crysis still holds up and the sequels even more but like yeah HF2 is something else
NeonArchon
Good ol’ Half Life 2. The game that turned into a true gamer. Just re-played it, and is as good as ever.>!.. And I’ll never see the conclusion to the story 😭!<
MatDiac
the sheer scale of the half life circlejerk
CypherHound
Yeah and you can tell when you play it
HunterCZ122_
smh not using Alien Swarm branch and running it at 4K /s
Source Engine still can be modded to use CSM, SSAO and other cool stuff, so this Lost Coast screenshot can look much better.
Not gonna lie, this game aged very well.
GrapefruitCold55
Still waiting for Half Life 3
Athlon64X2_d00d
They don’t make ’em like they used to.
12ozMouse-
i mean yea? it’s age definitely shows. As someone who loves half-life and played since the first one came out if you click this image it looks blurry and pixelated as hell. lol
Held up much better than the later murky bloomy brown “realistic shooter” trend
AtvnSBisnotHT
We have peaked awhile ago if you ask me, no one takes chances anymore and it shows with the catalog of games available to us.
Drake0074
The tesselation is crap but the lighting and reflections look pretty good.
elite-data
It’s from HL2: Lost Coast tech demo, which was released in 2005 to demonstrate new pseudo-HDR tone mapping engine feature. So technically it’s 19 years old.
Regeditmyaxe
It definitely looks 20 years old
Mexetudo
I replayed the entire series last month. Valve not ending this story is a war crime.
Melodic-Resident-245
Looked so great for it’s time.
Loved the whole Orange Box.
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Best FPS to this day! The tech, graphics and attention to detail were 20 years ahead of their time and to this day no game comes even close to what this game had. I just wish if I can experience playing this masterpiece again for the first time like I did in 2004.
The best game there ever was.
🌓-life 2️⃣
Crysis still holds up and the sequels even more but like yeah HF2 is something else
Good ol’ Half Life 2. The game that turned into a true gamer. Just re-played it, and is as good as ever.>!.. And I’ll never see the conclusion to the story 😭!<
the sheer scale of the half life circlejerk
Yeah and you can tell when you play it
smh not using Alien Swarm branch and running it at 4K /s
Source Engine still can be modded to use CSM, SSAO and other cool stuff, so this Lost Coast screenshot can look much better.
Not gonna lie, this game aged very well.
Still waiting for Half Life 3
They don’t make ’em like they used to.
i mean yea? it’s age definitely shows. As someone who loves half-life and played since the first one came out if you click this image it looks blurry and pixelated as hell. lol
Man, [2004](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_in_video_games) was a hell of a year for video games.
Held up much better than the later murky bloomy brown “realistic shooter” trend
We have peaked awhile ago if you ask me, no one takes chances anymore and it shows with the catalog of games available to us.
The tesselation is crap but the lighting and reflections look pretty good.
It’s from HL2: Lost Coast tech demo, which was released in 2005 to demonstrate new pseudo-HDR tone mapping engine feature. So technically it’s 19 years old.
It definitely looks 20 years old
I replayed the entire series last month. Valve not ending this story is a war crime.
Looked so great for it’s time.
Loved the whole Orange Box.
Obviously not.
/s
Looks like it.