The HL2 Beta was better than Release

[Takyon]

I can post all of the artwork used in this thread if requested.

 

[Ond]

bad take

 

[Lewis!]

beta had cool concepts but it's aesthetics are pretty much universally terrible
[doublepost=1625602073][/doublepost]Also Beta is responsible for I17 and therefore an inherent evil.

 

[Postal]

it was too futuristic

 

[Takyon]

You all have shit taste. The atmosphere of the beta was palpable.

 

[Philo]

HL2 beta was a bit too edgy and Orwellian, and the atmosphere didn't feel too 'half life'.

While the OG half life strived for realism, it still had a bit of goofiness with MP5s with grenade launchers, scientists with cheesy dialogue, and the fact the main character was a theoretical physicist in loud orange power armor that bested both an alien invasion and an army of heavily trained marines mostly without aid.

 

[Deleted member 374]

the beta has been abused frequently throughout the history of hl2rp. it has often been watered down into "the air is green and the cops kill you for having aluminum cans" when the beta itself contains a small fortune of worldbuilding potential.

 

[Postal]

HL2 beta was a bit too edgy and Orwellian, and the atmosphere didn't feel too 'half life'.

While the OG half life strived for realism, it still had a bit of goofiness with MP5s with grenade launchers, scientists with cheesy dialogue, and the fact the main character was a theoretical physicist in loud orange power armor that bested both an alien invasion and an army of heavily trained marines mostly without aid.

and a shotgun that blasted double the bullets and not being automatic as it is in real life

 

[Philo]

and a shotgun that blasted double the bullets and not being automatic as it is in real life

yes, apparently the devs decided to make the shell tube a second barrel and turn a spas into a pump action

 

[Deleted member 5162]

The HL2 Beta world looks fucking ugly, everything is too grim and dark

HL2 Retail world on the other hand looks stunningly beautiful even to this day. The coast, White Forest, C17 landscape, canals, etc etc.

 

[Ricsow]

 

[Deleted member 3129]

I can post all of the artwork used in this thread if requested.

Dangerously based

 

['77 East]

The HL2 Beta world looks fucking ugly, everything is too grim and dark

you do realize that there were multiple iterations of the 'beta', right?

1999 - 2001 looks grimdark as fuck

2002 looks better than retail

2003 is practically retail

 

[cns - he/him/his]

the beta had one cool aspect and it was stolen from a cooler movie
its unredeemable and offers nothing

 

[Rabid]

The beta had a lot of cool ideas over its various design stages but the era people most often association with 'the beta' (the gas masks, the Air Ex, etc) was mostly chucked out by about mid 2001 when they moved the setting to Europe.

 

[Microsoft Powerpoint]

why don't people understand that its the hl2 betas there isn't a single hl2 beta...

whenever people try to do a hl2 beta roleplay they just merge loads of disparate concepts into one big mess!!!

 

[Deleted member 28]

lol tyler mcvicker replied to this youtube video. if only he knew who made it