Anyone who knows anything about me know I don't give 2 shakes about graphics. I enjoyed the physics based gameplay, cutscene-less story, and creative puzzles (for an FPS) of Half-life 2.
I wasn't expecting the best game ever. I was expecting a great game. I got a great game.
Also.. It was impossible for HL2 to live up to HL1... after all. Starcraft, HL1, and Zelda: Ocarina of time are candidates for "Best game of all time" and they all came out at about the same time.
You can't beat 1998.
That said. HL2 was still lightyears ahead of all the other shooters in it's same time-frame.. I can't believe you even lumped it in with Doom 3... Which sucked ass.
Also.
I didn't like Farcry.. it forced me to play it the way it wanted.. which means I died like every 2 min and had to save a billion times. I didn't get through the first section of the game before I stopped playing it.
I'm sure it went on to be great, but I couldn't be bothered to figure out how the game wanted me to do things... Seeing as it suggested itself as open ended and more free-form.
I wasn't expecting the best game ever. I was expecting a great game. I got a great game.
Also.. It was impossible for HL2 to live up to HL1... after all. Starcraft, HL1, and Zelda: Ocarina of time are candidates for "Best game of all time" and they all came out at about the same time.
You can't beat 1998.
That said. HL2 was still lightyears ahead of all the other shooters in it's same time-frame.. I can't believe you even lumped it in with Doom 3... Which sucked ass.
Also.
I didn't like Farcry.. it forced me to play it the way it wanted.. which means I died like every 2 min and had to save a billion times. I didn't get through the first section of the game before I stopped playing it.
I'm sure it went on to be great, but I couldn't be bothered to figure out how the game wanted me to do things... Seeing as it suggested itself as open ended and more free-form.