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> Pick up that can. Funny you quote HL2. It's a quite subversive game. I only recently had the chance to play the HL1 expansion packs - yay being a mac gamer -
by venus 13y ago
> Pick up that can.
Funny you quote HL2. It's a quite subversive game. I only recently had the chance to play the HL1 expansion packs - yay being a mac gamer - and they struck me as having a quite anti-authority message, too.
It's only recently that it occurred to me that HL2 brainwashed a generation of gamers into believing that photography drones were naturally the enemy. Very interesting.
- noir_lord 13y agoNot sure I would agree with "brainwashed" as that is a little strong and dystopian authoritarianism is a common trope in games and sci-fi. I think where HL2 sets itself apart is that it thoroughly builds out the world and details in it so that you get a slight (very slight) feeling of what it would be like to exist in that world. On that level I regard its value as a work of art to be greater than its value as a game (though both are high).