The story is comedy

[envLight]

Like... Are you serious? Major spoilers

The Colonel wakes you up. He says everything is bad, GDF is compromised, and you should go.... where? Do what?

You spend most of the campain, doin gods-know-what for gods-know-why reason

Why we suddenly decided to move to our grandpa cabin? Why we are figthing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of GDF soldiers if Colonel is want the demon core? Why he need US of all reasons for that? Why we need to abtain demon core in a first place? Why we need suit for it, the suit the game told u almost nothing before, and nothing after? Why Colonel want to build a big bomb lol and blow up chicago???? lol.

There's no clear motivation to go anywhere in a game, outside of the final rush for revenge sequnce, and even after that, the lab lady obviosly betrayed u as well because, uhhhhh something something, new race??? The same goes for colonel?

Like the whole sequnnce where shelly in a hospital bed, colonel be like "She is our best asset, do everything to save her!" And then, lit second later, SHELLY U KILLED UR TEAM AND BOMB (why team couldn't evacuate and how shelly survided despite being the closest one to the bomb lol who writed that wtf) YOU ARE TERRIBLE PERSON

There's NO WAY someone gonna perceive that seriously, it's literally stiched together like a comedy piece.

The is no clear motivation for player to do anything, the world building is in fact does not exist, the story is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with 2! 2 characters outside of shelly, (think about it!) and make them against u for no reason cuz u was not able to came up with an big evil guy? How the story can be actually heavily worse then build engine game? why are you positioning it like "HALF-LIKE" if you can't do what the game from 98' did?

And like
Who unironicly writed this and thought it was a good plot?

[envLight]

Like, the whole drama flashback it's such a joke, for god sake, if you can't write a decent story, just write a really SIMPLE and FUNCTIONAL one.

The big bold evil guy, is screaming that he is wanna kill all people in the world, he is corporate. The colonel Is wakes us up and tellin u to save everyone. Recolour blue GDF soldiers into, idk, red BAD EVIL ORGANISATION or smth, tell by colonel, "Oh shelly, we gotta abtain demon core fast, or he gonna get it!" And then he snitched it from u in almost the same sequnce, jail us and build the bomb. We coming back from underground prison, the colonel is crying with joy from knowing that we are alive. U see gdf soldiers and BEO soldiers shooting on the street (just like cops vs GDF), and then u kill the bold guy and save the day. Is that THAT hard?

[MrBananaGrabber]

Is it even worse than the 'story' from Graven?

[Marcus Butthurticus]

You people seemingly expect Cyberpunk 2077 or Planescape Torment plotline story from a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ throwback FPS? Do you watch Arnie and Stallone movies and complain about it also?

[envLight]

Originally posted by Marcus Butthurticus:

You people seemingly expect Cyberpunk 2077 or Planescape Torment plotline story from a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ throwback FPS? Do you watch Arnie and Stallone movies and complain about it also?

No i don't, read my second message, i want just a functional story, even the most possible simple one. The current one is just god awful.

[envLight]

Originally posted by MrBananaGrabber:

Is it even worse than the 'story' from Graven?

I didn't play graven, but from the thing i heard, it's suffers from same problems, yet Phantom Fury got scenes and diaoluges that makin it story even worse.

[Zombine3D]

Originally posted by Marcus Butthurticus:

You people seemingly expect Cyberpunk 2077 or Planescape Torment plotline story from a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ throwback FPS? Do you watch Arnie and Stallone movies and complain about it also?

HDTF had better writing.
Writing here is some of the worst I have ever layd my eyes and ears upon.
There is absolutely no excuse for this level of horrid writing.

[Kyorisu]

There was a story?

[Zombine3D]

Originally posted by Kyorisu:

There was a story?

One written by Chat GPT

[Король Бабар]

There's a few things that are absolutely jarring:
- The very first scene: there's a mole in the GDF so you start killing GDF employees at random... Why? That's not how a mole work, a mole is supposed to by a covert agent. How murdering low level members of the GDF will accomplish anything?
- When you get the demon core: OK, the narration is very adamant that you need the suit to handle the demon core. Fine, that's a good plot device... but as soon as you get the demon core a random goon just handle it without issue... what?
- when the girl betrays you: I didn't understand what she tried to say.
- why does the GDF has fanatics of the Heskel cult in full cult getup in its ranks?
- where's Heskel

What the should have done:
- They should have made the colonel a bad guy from the start. the twist makes no sense.
- The story with grandpa bombshell is amazing 90's action camp. Make it the reason Shelly is invested in retrieving the demon core from the evil colonel
- Shelly's guilt about her past failure with that bomb is a good idea. The colonel taunting her with that memory would have worked well if he was set up as a bad guy from the start. Shelly having to face the same bomb she had when she lost everything is a great action movie plot climax (it should have been the end, not the fake end followed by a lame boss battle against a random character).
- the ending should have been set in a space station

[MrBananaGrabber]

Originally posted by Zombine3D:

Originally posted by Kyorisu:

There was a story?

One written by Chat GPT

That would explain a lot

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Game definitely lacks of proper villian.
It need some screaming Heskel fanatic leader.
We should actually fight Fanatics army together with GDF. Maybe have GDF vs GDF, until General betrayal and then go agains traitor GDF army, and mutants mixed here and there.
Also story must have bein more in the center of happening, instead it always feels like s**t already happened and we just arrived. That specially fellt at city, we don't see explotion, we don't see civilians runnin in panic, its all already happened before our arrival and thats dissapointment, i was surprised to see policeman fight GDF, atleast some world building.

[[TW]Sergeant Beanbag]

"Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but its not that important" - John Carmack, creator of DOOM.

[ඞDJWolfඞ]

this whole game is absolute TRASH, id refund it if i could, Slipgate Ironworks should never be allowed to make another game

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by TWSergeant Beanbag:

"Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but its not that important" - John Carmack, creator of DOOM.

Last I checked this was labeled as a half-like so yeah some narrative is part of that.

[error_profilename]

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

Originally posted by TWSergeant Beanbag:

"Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but its not that important" - John Carmack, creator of DOOM.

Last I checked this was labeled as a half-like so yeah some narrative is part of that.

Hot take: the story in Half Life isn't that good. It's very cinematic, which people confuse for story, but the story isn't particularly good. It also has good lore but that's also not story. I love Half Life to death but not because of its story. Things do admittedly get better in the sequel though.

Half Life was important because it revolutionized how we told stories in games. But it did not have a good story. It was just marginally better than you'd find in other games at the time.