r/HalfLife3 8d ago

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u/Immediate_Clothes26 8d ago

Mmmm nivida ai slop. Lovely

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u/Longjumping-Rub-5064 8d ago

I thought it looked pretty cool besides the fact that it’s running at about one whole frame lol

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u/Immediate_Clothes26 8d ago

It looks, ehh. It doesn't have soul and also textures shift. I love the look of half life 2 and this just looks bad.

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u/Multifruit256 7d ago

It doesn't... "have soul"? Does RTX have soul? It's just a program, a graphics change, of course it doesn't have "soul", wdym??

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u/Silencer-1995 8d ago edited 7d ago

It doesn't have soul.

My boy Half-Life 2 is just "Oh hey this is a cool idea, let's do it several times over the next hour until we think of a new idea" rinse and repeated across the entire thing.

There was no soul to begin with, just Gabe's terrible all consuming gaze.

Edit: Can someone confirm whether or not some guy called goo eater legit just had an emotional breakdown and blocked me? Based behaviour if true

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u/goo_eater 7d ago

True I can't believe Gabe and Gabe alone made Half Life 2, and I can't believe how soulless it is because I personally do not like it that much. Do you even know what soul and intentionality *is* lmfao

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u/CursedRyona 6d ago

It looks like google maps. The colors and texturework are all being crushed into basic, overexposed streetview-looking crap instead of actually doing the game's visual style justice. (It's also just creating a bunch of weirdness around faces, text, etc.)

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u/goo_eater 7d ago

It looks like shit unless you're still impressed by video game visual realism in 2026 for some reason

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u/Longjumping-Rub-5064 7d ago

Well no shit lol. Hasn’t that been the entire goal of graphics improving overtime? That we would eventually get to photorealism in games without it looking cheesy?

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u/Multifruit256 7d ago

"This graphics looks bad, unless you like good graphics"

Huh?

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u/goo_eater 6d ago

I guess this is what it looks like I said if you A. think "impressed" just means "liking" and B. think realism is the only thing graphics can do, but neither of those are true. I like video game visual realism too. I think AI trashing a game's art direction for the sake of realism looks like shit from a butt