Not that Half Life 2 needs remaking in the same way as the original as, even for a 2004 game it’s graphics aren’t terrible, but they have definitely aged. But was wondering what the opinion would be to a remake of HL2.
Bad idea, there’s plenty of mods out there to increase the graphics of HL2. Re-making such an incredibly large game will take years not to mention you need a large team comprised of skilled and motivated modders. You’d be much better off just making higher resolution textures and more detailed models (which has been done already).
The new source haven’t come far enough, I think it will be made after the ep3/hl3 sdk comes out.
Yeah, like the cinematic mod and… err… and the… no, that’s not for HL2.
So yeah, there’s just that god awful fakefactory’s mod.
Anyway, apart from the lighting I think HL2 looks beautiful. I’m not a fan of that foggy blurry brown out of focus fad.
Actually, there’s only one other mod out there for HL2 that updates stuff, mostly lighting actually. The guy basically upped Half Life 2’s graphics just up to what Episode 2 was. Then Episode 3 will come out and they’ll do it again. 
Here’s the link to the comparison video. But when I downloaded it with the patch, it didn’t look as bright. (with good reason) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R5Z8Vfv32s
I agree though, the FakeFactory mod totally blew.
Well I didn’t mention that one since it only adds HDR (and too much of it, IMO) which Valve has now also implemented, if not in all maps.
Fakefactory isn’t bad as long as you don’t install the character models, version 9 something stays pretty true to the original:
[EDIT] In your defense, that was CM10 IIRC.
Yea… never had that problem.
That looks like a comparison of half life without and with cubemaps.
Anyway, the only thing that annoys the crap out of me graphically is the fact that instead of carving out holes in the barrel of the .357, Valve just put textures over it.
I play my HL2 with that update mod/carefully selected early fakefactory texture packs/hd weapon pack
looks gorgeous. I dun’ need no remake
this is the best thing around afaik:
https://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1093025
the stuff that cinematic mod dos with whatsername is fuckin awful
You mean gave her implants and took her clothes off? Yeah. America, fuck yeah.
I still want someone to demake HL2 on GoldSrc engine.
Everyone knows that HL2 needs to be remade using Id Tech 2.
https://www.moddb.com/forum/thread/half-life-2-goldsrc-recruiting
This isn’t an official mod but it’s a recruitment thread (there’s a lot of these apparently) showing that a lot of other people have had the same idea.
Making hl2 for goldsrc? What has science done!?
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I want Red Faction on Frostbyte 2 but that’s not going to happen.
I don’t see the point in remaking HL2 it still is a very good game with good graphics and physics. Now ten years later when it is out of date then you can start talking about it.