Switching weapon-hand in Half-Life 2?

[Antiphon]

Now ive already fought through both Half-Lifes and though theyre kick-ass games, one thing always puzzled me: Why the f**k is there no weapon-hand switch? Ok, Gordon is right-handed. But it still irritates me when i get back to half-life 2 and find my weapon on the right side. Quake 2, Unreal 2003 and 2004, in all those (nearly nowhere as good games) you could put the weapon to the left, even in Counter-Strike and Source-CS you can switch weapon-hand to left, why why why not in Half-Life 2???
PS. If anyone knows how to switch Weapon hands in Halfe Life 1, would be nice telling me.

 

[haggis-cream]

Yeah, I see your point. With most FPS's being kinda formulaic nowadays, you'd think you'd see more lefty main characters. The Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon series for example, all these different characters, but they're all right handed...As to The Freeman being right handed in HL2, I guess its the whole continuity thing... But yeah, its not like it would be THAT complicated a feature to put into a game.

 

[Drackard]

I suppose it's because the majority of people are genuinly right-handed, i've tried playing in left-handed view and me being right-handed it does my head in completely. In fact it hurts to play it in that view

 

[Beerdude26]

I suppose it's because the majority of people are genuinly right-handed, i've tried playing in left-handed view and me being right-handed it does my head in completely. In fact it hurts to play it in that view

I absolutely completely SUCK in CS 1.6 when playing left-handed :|

Anyway, you can try asking in general editing, maybe they know how to change the stance of the weapon (I know how to bring the weapon closer or further away from you, but not moving it about the screen)

 

[Antiphon]

I suppose it's because the majority of people are genuinly right-handed, i've tried playing in left-handed view and me being right-handed it does my head in completely. In fact it hurts to play it in that view

Ok, so you know how i felt playing Half-Life :stare:

Ill recreate that topic in editing screen.