do you prefer Half Life 2: Dark & Gritty or regular hl2?

[cheese]

the leaked version of half life 2 basically had a DARKER and GRITTER tone, it mixed the industrial and new-york style architecture. They have the weirdest looking citadel, (dark interval and other recreations made it cooler imo) and they cut a bunch of really cool npcs, or npc concepts. (Cremator) (Crab Synth) (Synths etc.) Its story was kinda meh, but the AIREX Lore, and the gasmask citizens were the coolest concepts ive seen.

If you play Raising the Bar: Redux, Dark Interval, looked at a bunch of concept art of the game, and seen the mod screenshots, imo I think they feel like they succeeded in trying to bring the cut game itself...

so, do you prefer the regular, european style look of hl2, or the dark and griddy hl2?

Also, theres quite a few upcoming mods in development like RTB:R and Dark Interval that I already mentioned, and and another one: Project City 17 and I think they all focus on trying develop a game that we'll never play in this universe. I basically hope to see their releases in the future, cuz I'm obsessed with this type of hl2.

[gronkus bonkus]

I think it is quite interesting to see what half life could have been however and there are some fascinating concepts however i feel like it is rather on the nose and feels like it is trying almost too hard to be dark and gritty. i see why they didn't stick with this tone and made it more subtle but i also understand why people like the concepts that were produced from it.

[ManFr0Mars]

I like aspects of Both, but I think I like Dark and Gritty Better