By Half-Life 2 level, Do you mean Short(5hr+1+1 for each Episode), Bland(Gray everywhere), Un-inspiring(Oh great Another Alien Invasion), Gimmicky(Use Gravity Gun to Win!), Over Rated(10/10 OMG BEST GAME EVER!), with a Huge over zealous 'apple-like' fanbase to defend the Developer and it's games to the very death from any negative comments?
OMG I've met my long lost brother on the anandtech forums. I agree completely man! HL2 is the most overrated game of ALL freaking time. It's been out how many years and I have yet to be able to force myself through that incredibly boring and stale game.
I'd take Quake II over HL2 any day of the week.
Seriously it's horrible. Oh look I get to stand here for 20 minutes in a fps watching some stupid in game cut scene and not being able to play. OH yes I can finaly shoot stuff for about 3 minutes before "OH NO" another stupid "oh look at us and our incredible physics based puzzles where you get to play see saw for 10 minutes".
Seriously Valve? I've been playing with see saws since I was in pre school on the playground. Contrary to popular belief most people stop having fun with them around I dunno, age 8?!
Half Life is the SOLE reason modern FPS can't touch the classics back in the day like Quake and Unreal. Now everyone has to have a crapy story that couldn't pass in a B rated movie all the while the actual gameplay suffers and is boring as all get out.
Half Life did to video games what the Beatles did to rock music. Yes I'm completely aware of the fact that based on your own opinion that could be the greatest thing or the worst thing ever lol.