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"There was an arrogant assumption that players of shooters didn't want and wouldn't care about a story; we just didn't believe this": Go behind the scenes of Half-Life with legendary Valve designer Ma (www.gamesradar.com)
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[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Half-Life and Half-Life 2 together created an almost embarrassing number of indelible moments.

I've just finished playing one of the newer Wolfenstein games, and while it was enjoyable enough in the moment and very capably-done, it had occurred to me that none of it was memorable the way so much of Half-Life was memorable.

Half-Life 2 somehow cranked that "memorability quotient" up to 11. "Do NOT go through Rav--- "

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