HL2 Makes Penny-Arcades Top 5 of 2004

[WhiteZero]

4. Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2, like the original, makes an important choice - the kind of choice that is so high level that many other decisions are automatic. It is a first person shooter that takes the term seriously, never pulling the camera from your own perspective even when doing so would be expedient or aid exposition. The end result is that the things that are happening in the game are happening to you, you personally. It's the difference between being an action hero and playing an action hero on television - in the second of these two scenarios, you are heroic only by proxy. Half-Life 2, as good as it was, is only part of the reason the game claims the number four slot. I have extremely high hopes for Source and Steam as forces for good. The community produced games I liked best from the last year - Alien Swarm, Clone Bandits, and AirBuccaneers - are all based on Unreal technology. I'll be curious to see what engine attracts the best talent next year.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/
(Feel free to steal this for the News... but I better get credit. lol)
Please spare us the "OMFG! It should be #1!!!!!!" posts.
Thanks.

 

[Death.Trap]

Half Life 2 lost to Burnout 3? Holy shit the sky is falling. *runs*

Please spare us the "OMFG! It should be #1!!!!!!" posts.

Well..it should have.




EDIT-BTW, what was #1? It only went up to 2.

 

[CriYam]

Ya, suprised it made it to #4 for them. Gabe and Tycho are bigtime into console games.

 

[ktimekiller]

console games huh. i can already see it, halo 2 on #1

 

[^Ben]

I'll give you an idea what will be number 1.

It's plastered all over the site in advertising.

 

[CriYam]

I'll give you an idea what will be number 1.

It's plastered all over the site in advertising.

Puzzle pirates?

 

[^Ben]

Halo 2

 

[Sid Burn]

I think HL2 should be number one for having an almost real enviroment.

 

[Jackathan]

I think puzzle pirates has got #1 down.

 

[Prince of China]

Ninja Gaiden should've been somewhere in that list.

 

[ktimekiller]

dear lord, that avatar is disturbing

 

[duckmoose]

OMFG! It should be #1!!!!!!!



























But seriously, Puzzle Pirates pwns Half-Life 2. Sorry Gabe, you got your ass BEAT.

 

[WhiteZero]

Ninja Gaiden should've been somewhere in that list.

It is, you just have to back-track in the news...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-12-27

 

[bbyybb]

I am thinking World of Warcraft for No. 1.


Cheers,
bbyybb.