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Half-Life Beats Half-Life 2 Over Time?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the running-articles-i-disagree-with-is-good-for-me dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Tom's Hardware has an editorial up entitled 'Half-Life vs Half-Life 2: No comparison?' It explores the two games, and how they're holding up over time. He states that while the score of HL1 may have depreciated from 'a spectacular 95% to around about an average 70%' over the past couple of years, the score of HL2 'I'd now rate it in the low to mid 80's, or a full five to ten percent drop in a fraction of the time that the original has been around. Why is this?' The reason, he goes on to elaborate, is a lack of characterization. Half-Life was a blank slate modders could use to fill in their own worlds. HL2, on the other hand, has a definite story that ages less gracefully."

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  1. huh? by trigonalmayhem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is he even aware of how many more modding features HL2 has? Maybe he's just pissed that most of the mods are coming out via steam and being charged for, but I say good for the small independent developers who are actually making money off all their hard work.

    1. Re:huh? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Insightful
      but I say good for the small independent developers who are actually making money off all their hard work.

      As opposed to the large, non-independent developers who are trying to make money off their hard work, right?

      I know I'll be marked down but I don't care. I'm questioning why the double-standard. Why is it ok for the small guy to make money off their hard work but not for the big guy to make money off what is arguably even more hard work? In both cases someone is producing a product which they want to be paid for yet many on here feel it is acceptable to use pirated versions which they don't have to pay for and which costs the producing company money.

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      We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  2. Don't bother with TFA. by beavis88 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You'll just wish you had your two minutes back, like me.

  3. Subjectiveness by Kennego · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The second half of the article talks about why the author thinks that the fun factor of HL2 isn't nearly as high as in HL1, but as you'd expect this whole "rating" and "depreciation" score thing is completely subjective and made up. I really have no idea why this thing made Slashdot...