who cares about half life in general or this game
this was just a cashgrab to sell headsets
Half-Life Thread
Jacob Roberts
Elijah Johnson
>Trailer with 8M views
>lol who cares
Parker Perez
Yeah, Hard just turned all the three enemies appearing at the time into huge bullet sponges. Just made me chuck grenades at everything.
Camden Jackson
Everything is a cashgrab, user.
Asher Watson
>this was just a cashgrab to sell headsets
You need to learn the definition of a cashgrab
Brody Adams
Rewrite? They just resolved the cliffhanger using time travel. Nothing was undone, hell it seems Eli even remembers having died a moment ago.
You could say it was a lame way to move the plot forward and I wouldn't argue otherwise - it's pretty much an elaborate form of deus ex machina - but that's not what a retcon is.
A retcon would be saying that Eli never died and none of that happened, let's just forget about it, without even trying to explain it by in-universe means.
Parker Howard
And living in denial is living in denial.
I'm not the one clinging onto a dead franchise, I've accepted it's death and so should you.
Lucas Rogers
The cliff hanger is the main plot, whats inside the Borealis.
Everyone had accepted Eli's death except consoomers.
It's a retcon because they're changing and rewriting what happened, the fact that use used some contrived and ham fisted way to tell is irrelevant.
Mason Collins
They would have a made a massive amount of more money had they not released as a VR exclusive. They probably would have gotten the best of both worlds in terms of money generation by making it VR optional, making insane amount of bucks by a selling a new HL game while also boosting the sales of VR.
But I don't think money was first in their mind when they made this game, I mean why would it, they'd never need to make another game again since they already have Steam.
If anything it felt refreshing to me, to play a game that is only interested in telling a story, instead of selling you loot boxes or season passes or artificially stretching out the experience with pointless grinding and open world bullshit. One of the least cynical AAA games I've played in recent memory.
Luis James
No, you're not, you are the one saying cringy shit like "clinging onto a dead franchise"as if liking a video game and knowing the definition of a word is akin to being an alcoholic or something.