Haha came here to comment the same thing!

And now, we have a restoration project.

From what I can see it updates in real time as well. Which is unusual in most games today, unless you have ray tracing on but yeah, crazy impressive stuff.

Agreed. The water looks great!

@@stonedassnecoarc it used planar reflections, one of the very first real-time implementation of it on any platform, basically render the scene twice, extremely costly, even now..

@@niks660097 I was actually thinking about it the other say while playing gmod and thought it must do that, glad they chose to do it though, I love well implemented water reflections.

Heard of Super Bunnyhop?

Also, Ahoy, and MrBTongue

idk, sometimes i think they dont know what theyre talking about specially about 3d stuff. They seem to confuse a lot of the terms, like in this video "self shadowing bump maps". That means absolutely nothing and it does not make sense. Sure, you can use a bump to lead the occlusion, but theres no "self shadowing bump maps".

+Sergio Lugo That specific line? Those are Valve's words, not mine.

+Sergio Lugo wiki.polycount.com/w/images/8/8b/SelfShadowedBumpMapping_example.jpg This is even a Valve produced image. That's how they refer to the technique in the Source documentation.

Maybe you won't even be alive when it's coming out XD

little did you know

Not a great show...

SetnaroX lol, yeah, that game will come out when pigs fly.

They could do a DF Retro analysis of all of Gabe Newell’s comments on HL3 over the past decade and a half

That Dude Name Son Goku I have played xbox version yesterday and game looks very good considering it's running on much slower hardware compared to PC / x360. XBOX had only 64MB in totall, while in order to run this game on PC you had to have 384 MB system RAM and 64 MB VRAM. Textures and image quality may look blurry here on YT but on SD CRT (or especially on small HDTV in 480p) everything looks sharp.

Each map was split in Half where possible.

@@AmBush2048 Is that true?

@@Thebossstage1 Well, yes, there're more loading screens, like right after you've spoken to G-man, there's one, but I'm not sure that each map was split in half. I noticed small changes, like there isn't a can on the ground were it supposed to be, and paintings or posters are missing, but the most interesting thing that i discovered that there's a Dr. Breen poster that can be seen underwater, but can't be seen above water. I don't know if it is intentional, or a bug, but I find it interesting and a little bit creepy.

@@PabloB888 Honestly the performance looks about as comparable to what I experienced when I first played the game on my fairly low end PC back in the mid-2000's.

I know right, Kelly Bailey had full controll over the entire sound design, and it shows how great he is

It was time when you would be very surprised with graphics leaps. Now it's so detailed in all games no-one is surprised any more. I felt the same about MGS2, the graphics improvements were unbelievable. I also saw it only in a magazine with low-res screenshots.

jippalippa samey

I had still have that disc that came with all those video demonstrations on it.

@@MIchaelSybi It would be amazing if they used the power of today's systems to improve gameplay instead, which is how I excitedly imagined the future of games. But nope...games today are instead worse than ever and all focus is on graphics... These are dark times.

Same! I remember keeping the TGM e3 2004 magazine - with Doom3 on the cover - like a relic. And going back visiting D3 and HL2 pages from time to times waiting for the games to be released. Glorious days

the tipping point for me was unreal tournament 2003. it was the game that changed what we expect from blocky to smooth complex forms. doom3 was another tipping point, it was the first game to really make use of bump and specular maps. it had them on every surface, and it looked fucking awesome for that. also real time shadows from basically every light source. trend setter. half life 2 was kind of a mix between the two. a few bump mapped surfaces, unlike ut2003 which was dx7 and only had primitive shaders, and more polygons tossed around than doom3 (less than ut2003 though)

I'd still say there is a massive gulf in visual prowess between Half-Life 2 and something like Quantum Break, Gears 4, Uncharted 4 or Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Carrandas Honestly Half-Life 2 is so incredibly beautiful, even now. If I knew nothing about Half-Life, and someone told me that the game came out last year, I’d probably believe them. While some of the character models are starting to look aged, they still look so realistic and could easily be used for a new game.

I don't know. I find there is a tremendous visual difference between Half-Life 2 to Uncharted 2 (2009) or Crysis (2007), then another tremendous jump to Doom Enternal (2020) or Last of Us Part 2 or Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart.

The leap in visuals since 2004 is massive. It's just that it nailing the overall look has been pretty easy for a while, so we're now adding details to enhance it further. We also start to judge the imperfections more as we near photorealism. Real time AO and GI, Tessellation, real volumetric lighting, Physically Based Rendering, massive improvements to geometry and textures, various screen space effects, and now even Real time Ray Tracing. All of these are very important for the visuals of a high end modern game, but they're not required to make a game look pleasant to the eye. The Original Crysis is outdated by today's standards, it doesn't support the majority of modern tech used in games, but the overall look, the consistency of the visuals, and the interactivity keep people coming back to it as one of the best looking games of the time. And i usually don't point out the fact that older games are technologically outdated unless someone directly claims that visuals haven't evolved from that point.

Amaroqdricaldari I would kill to have the full Orange Box on the Switch.

@@oscarmccormack1611 4 years later, we at least got portal collection

@@riston7264 and the portal collection can run half-life 2 maps almost perfectly

Actually, "retro" is being used incorrectly.

Retro is loosely defined, but I think HL2 does count as retro now.

idk if I'd consider it Retro. Most classic games are around the 30/40 year age area, and Half-Life 2 is only 12 years old. No, not 13, it's not November yet, it's 12 years old.

@Russell White I don't remember posting the comment you're responding to.

In John's definition, Crysis 3 and the Last of Us on PS3 will be retro next year

I've never thought of it like that

*mind blown*

Fuck....... THAT MAKES SO MUCH DAMN SENSE.

woah you just dropped some serious knowledge!

Actually there could be a HL3 The name Half Life can means 2 things 1.The half of a life 2.A term used in nuclear physics that describes the amount of time that a particle or an unstable atom needs to reduce their radioactivity or in other words for how long this atoms can survive the radioactive decay and this term can be used as an exponent so there can be a Half Life1,Half Life 2,Half Life 3, Half Life4,5,6,7,8,9,......... And an interesting fact about Half Life (videogame) is that the name of Half Life was chosed because the game HL1 have a lot of science related things (this is the briefly explanation) PD: Also the logo of HL is Lambda because the equation of Half Life(nuclear physics) contains a Lambda

Still it's a crime he didn't mention mmod but mentioned cinematic mod LOL, I know it was around back then when this came out.. cuz it was around the last time I played Half-Life 2 which is in 2007 The day The Orange box came out and auto updated my game and killed on my mods and broke my heart.. LOL so, just saying.

And there's still nothing like it out there.

Best physics of any game till this day

Half-Life 2 has aged incredibly given it's coming up on 20 years old. Just look at something like DOOM 3 which released only months prior and you can see just how much better HL2 looks compared to other games of the time.

No more half life 3.

HL3 cancelled

wait give me link !

it means that gabe newell is eating himself to a heart attack and will die before he gets the initiative to make half life 3.

Frank ocean drops his new album?

I played HL2 on my grandmas PC and thought it was the future, it was amazing

It just feels right in every aspect: movement, physics, visuals, loading times, the UI, everything. Sadly, not all modern systems run it the way it's supposed to.

Don't worry, it will happen :P

You have insider info? WHEN?!

_it won't happen_ Fix'd

It's not ten years, we had Episode 1 and 2

+mango40000. episode 2 was released in 2007 so soon 10 years

Bring Half-Life 3 to life please.

He did.

*Anticlimactically responds "I respect your opinion"*

I get where you're coming from(I mean, there wouldn't be a HL2 if HL1 wasn't such a masterpiece), but i think they don't differ that much in terms of quality.

+Immense Data I really like HL2, but it has flaws. Lots of pace-breakers (waiting for NPC's to finish their speech, while you fuck around with the environment before the game let's you advance), wimpy weapons compared to HL1, confusing story (mainly in the beginning), not to mention the fact that somehow Gordon Freeman was regarded as the second Jesus Christ, even though nobody knew about what he did in the first game. HL1 was better paced, felt better to play and was much more believable as a story than HL2, despite the aged presentation (discounting Black Mesa). Again, I like both games, but HL1 is just more fun for me to play than HL2.

Marius Urucu HL1 definitely had better gunplay. HL2 probably has one of the worst pistols I've ever seen in a game.

+ZG It was a metaphor. But, thanks for clearing that up for me. Wish I'd knew this earlier.

That game was amazing!

@@mrpetebojangles21 It's still thoroughly enjoyable!

Comparing doom 3 and rtcw to half life 2 is an insult to half life 2

@@Helperbot-2000 Not really? While I do believe DOOM 3 is inferior here, it is still a very good game and TOP TIER tech-wise. RTCW was also top tier for 2001 and it had an amazing MP too. While I would slightly lean for HL2 there still ,its close.

@@CharcharoExplorer gotta say first im impressed you replied within minutes as you commented 5 years ago. Doom 3 definitely had quite good tech, but especially as a followup to the legendary doom and doom 2 it isnt exactly the best. Rtcw is probably missing alot of the praise it deserves, but i also wouldnt call it too close to the impact, ground breaking or bar raising of half life 2

I played This game so many times, and now I'm playing once again this time on Xbox one, and i must to say this is best game I'm playing this year, It Gave me more fun than RDR2, spiderman, GOW or even Moster Hunter World

They sure don't make games with that kinda vibe anymore, everything is battle royal now or remasters

It's a super cool mod, though for me, it breaks the game's gentle look a little.

@@greatmeatball2978 Yeah the bloom gets obnoxious and I don't like some of the weapon animations and how they shoot

Never tried the MMod (that modifies the gameplay a bit), but I'd say HL2: Update + the A.I. upscale texture mod is the way to play HL2 today

All that port added was echo and more loading.

Yeah, me too. I also thought it had a PS2 port.

Xbox Original (2001) half-life 2 runs at 30 frames per second. Ps2 (2000) half-life 2 runs at 0 frames per second.

+Yoidze that's kind of accurate, but still i'm sure the ps2 could at least run the game at 10 fps average

Half-Life 1 had a PS2 port, not Half-Life 2.

Same

Doom 3 aswell.

Crysis... The game that Bring PC Gaming to his Knees!!

farcry 1 is the most beautiful game ever created

nope bioshock is the by far the best example of how a game ages well

bioshock on PC is a horrible experience. the game is great, but controls, UI and playability are crap

Cs 1.6 aged better in terms of gameplay

agree. That and Crysis 1.

How about Pacman, pong, tetris, or super mario bros? Those games are all over 30 years old and are still great today.

Pentium 3 1GHz NVIDIA Geforce 2 64 MB 512 MB RAM and it run... they very well knew that a lot of people would still have outdated hardware so they optimized it for low-end PCs

Damn, I had the same rig hahaha

Pentium 4 2.8 GHz ATI 9800 Pro 128MB 1 GB RAM

P4 2.8Ghz ATI 9550 256Mb 1.5Gb RAM I poured every last cent from the money I saved for this PC. To this day never regretted it!

Michael Bennett we're not worthy

"Chromatic Abomination" LMAO .....The only effect I like is DOF

It is funny when people buy expensive monitors with low latency and then activate motion blur in game. My shitty LCD monitor does motion blur without taxing my GPU ;)

i like how blur is handled in the frostbyte engine for the battlefield games. it is just barely there and able to be tweaked to your preference. i usually don't like how overdone the blur is on most games, but those games are where i turn that feature on.

I dont get the point of DoF at all. It looks compleetly unrealistic unless your character is supposed to be near-sighted.

GreyGuardian I still think it looks unrealistic since the focus is where you are aiming at but not where you are actually looking at, so if you are not directly looking at the focused point, it doesn't look realistic anymore. I just want my screen to be sharp and clean.

You are the reason why valve wouldnt want to realease hl3 because its too much hyped. Expectations for hl3 its too high.

TheLen Well not me specifically, as i very rarely express my hype for it, need to play the first 2 games first. But yes, the hype is so much its 89% going to not live up to the hype. Im just sad valve is now too busy sinking in money made from CSGO, Dota, and TF2 items rather than develop a new half life game. Personally i just want to see a new half life game with great graphics.

ARL Well I just want to see the ending of half life story... There was podcast, dont know how it`s called, but valve said they will only work on the game if valve workers want to work on it, now all valve workers want to work on vr. And they said that they know that people really want to see new half life, portal, left for dead (of course gabe said it with hints)

TheLen I'd just want Valve to do some game developing again, instead of creating skins and updates for CSGO, dota, and TF2. I just want them to do more singleplayer games like Half Life, Portal, and Left 4 dead again. And even then their current multiplayer games all came from mods from other games lol.

ARL Like 90% of valve community wants that

Second this, PC often gets ports from consoles but it'd be interesting to see how consoles perform on PC ports

That would be console port then or port from PC. Why can't people use that term properly?

+Z1RO You guys knew what I meant haha, ported from pc

TF2 and Portal on PS3 were playable, but like with HL2, there were many frame drops (especially in Portal if I remember right). In addition, there were many audio problems in the PS3 ports (i.e. sound crackling). Portal 2 however, is a slightly different story. From my experience, it had a steady 30fps on both console ports, as both of them were done in-house this time instead of just one. Honestly I think these ports were even better than the Orange Box ports because I haven't noticed any drops or unresponsiveness in both ports at all, but I'm only working off of my memory here, don't take my word for it.

expcake Yeah, Portal 2 on PS3 is pretty smooth.

What do you play for games?You have to play U4. xD

With pleasure

+Jamie Robert 😅😅

+Premio lool😁

We still haven't got a major kick in the balls graphics like we did from 2004 Doom 3 and Half Life 2 and 2007's Crysis. There have been amazing games don't misunderstand me but see the change in graphics has not been significant like you see Half Life 1 vs 2. It's getting really hard to do this because we have so many amazing game engines like cryengine 3, frostbite 3, RED engine, UE4, and so many more.

Yes, and you can play it on pretty much ANY modern PC since even integrated graphics are fast enough for it, provided you don't push 4xMSAA or other shit :D

Cossack-HD thanks but i only got an old laptop with no hdmi port, i'd only play it on a desktop if i had one.

It's decent on 360. I wouldn't suggest spending more than $10 on The Orange Box though.

I played it a few years ago on 360 but never finished it. I'm sure it was amazing for its time but i found it nothing special years later

Another Gills thanks 4 the advice

Feel any better now?

@@fallenmango8420 *single player, not-VR experiences

@@arootube what's wrong with vr

@@fallenmango8420 nothing, he's probably one of those crybabies who complain that the game is vr only

People are allowed to criticise the included content, even if it's optional. The graffiti especially, is the kind of thing that really should have an option to easily remove, rather than requiring the player to do it themselves. I do think that the community was too harsh, yeah, but still, the pornographic models are an entirely valid thing to complain about.

Yeah, it just goes to show how grand that mod is. There are some really shitty mods out there and no one is talking about those. Yet people are criticizing Cinematic Mod like it's some AAA game or something. It really deserves all the attention it's getting.

pretty sure it's a parody thing. like what if hl2 was done by michael bay or something. no one would ever think that looks better.

@gameguy301 Well said, couldn‘t agree more 👍

gameguy301 You have never heard Hunt Down the Freeman.

@@malizbabelz2310 This comment was made 2 years ago..

FULLY MODELED

i loved half life 1, i merely liked half life 2.

GraveUypo "merely"

yes, merely in the sense it gets 75~80% score in my opinion, while the first one i loved enough for 90%+

Guilty Bystander Half life 1 was amazing, Half Life 2 bred GMod, which is fucking fantastic.

Hey, I've noticed so many users have an alphabet with a different colored background as their avatar. Is it a feature KZfaq offers or...?

I thought it was Direct 3D.

It was DX9, I remember buying a 9800 Pro 128MB card just for HL2 (and also Far Cry, which I bought first, and was astonished to see that it could not run on my 7500. I mean, it WOULD start up, but the water was a psychedelic mess of colours and lines.

Half Life never really worked good in DX 8.1 mode. The real problem was that nVidia GeForce FX 5xxx series were DX9 cards, but couldnt work with HL2 in DX9, but I see that you dont remember it, youre just a nVidiot.

***** I was stating a well known facts, its not a secret. forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=104265 forums.anandtech.com/threads/whats-the-issue-fix-with-geforce-fx-and-dx9.1175743/