it's actually one of the best fps games ever made and a sci fi classic and half life 2 made it worse

everyone: lol the world is so weird and dumb why is there green goop and huge crushing things everywhere

me, a genius: the world is a masterclass of unfriendly design, the game is a dark as hell comedy where nothing makes sense and every new challenge you see has a newer, baffling reality to it, the world is crumbling around you and you feel like the only sane person even as you go insane, and this is communicated mostly through level design

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@junebug i thought you were talking about the real world until i looked at the rest of the thread

@typhlosion @junebug It took a while for the first two messages of the thread to load (I was linked to the third one) and I was just sort of nodding along.

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