The Best Way to Play Half-Life 2

Be sure to watch until the end and let me know what you think of these mods! :)

(also I just noticed I fully forgot to add the 3 great mods intro to this one lol, sorry!)

i recently played all the Half-Life games for the first time (did Black Mesa instead of the original) and all of Half-Life 2 (i.e. both episodes in addition to the base game) still holds up damn good to this day.

i don't even think i had to change the resolution, it just set it to my monitor's by default.

i guess if you're really bothered by graphics it might be better to use one of these remasters, but i grew up with indie games so i'm used to "bad graphics".

I kinda wish most mods took the Fallout 3 and New Vegas approach to remasters for those kinds of mods. In other words, sound effect updates without altering icon ones if they don't sound too jarring next to the audio, upscaling textures and models by hand or using AI to help but correcting mistakes made by it, and providing unofficial patches. In addition, providing alternative options. That is the best mod remaster to me for a game. Forced ambient occlusion, exaggerated bloom, and GPU-intense detailed shadows and reflections should be 100% optional.

Lastly, performance optimizations are king to all more people to experience what you enjoy. Although, most modern laptops should be able to run Half-Life 2 (as well as Half-Life 2 Update, which is a light remaster and fixes some nasty glitches and bugs).

smod is like if you gave early 2023 me knowledge to hammer

Ok, smod is for an old perspective and I think overcharged is for a more like little modern one

smod looks like a content overload

i didnt expect an m1 garand in half life 2

show that cm mod guy some love, he doesn't deserve that much hate and the graphics don't look too bad tho

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Half life overcharged is ugly as f lol

I have indeed considered subscribing :). Love your work man!

“You can also eat people”

ain't no way in half life 2 smod redux you can eat gibs 🤯

I'd personally rather play Cinematic Mod over Overcharged because Cinematic Mod is can actually be completed without consistent crashes on almost half of the level transitions.
MMOD is definitely the best "vanilla-style" experience, imo.

Japanese dev? What

I always wanted to see metrocops change teams due to them not being fully modificated

U shud reviev lambda wars its basicly half life but an rts

It's Garand not Garant

I dont know if you do half life 1 mods but u should try the half life 2 classic. Its rly cool but theres only demos for it so i dont know if you would

Smod Redux feels like some teenager wanted to play Postal 2, but could only get as graphic as HL2 before his parents wouldn't buy them, so he learned to mod and went ham 🤣

Can you make a video on synergy? Or maybe how to use it for half life 2 mods?

Is it just me or do they all look pretty.. whelming? We got stuff like Black Mesa but those are the best remasters?

Overcharged is not that bad now as it use too but is still bad

just found you today. its fun watching your videos keep it up :D

These all look so lame. Wouldn't waste a second to play these

i love the old smods back in the days. i mostly played css sci fi, and smod tactical

unused texture of the barnacle❤

SMOD Redux is nostalgia as it was one of the first mods I played for Half-Life 2. Also, don't forget Half-Life 2 Substance. It adds classes from Tom Clancy and Splinter Cell to the game I think and delivers quite well as you can change your loadouts/class at any time during the campaign.

Im back at my hl2 era again because of you lmao

MMod is easily the best remaster mod, and pairing it with CMM (it automatically removes that content) Its a nice change of pace for those who've played half life 2 for days on end!!

MMod + Update and soon to release Remastered Collection will be the ultimate way to play. Overcharged is too over the top imo

..and here I was thinking you had a great voice

cool video, though!

edit: been catching up with older ones too!

"The Combine assassins have been added."
90% of all the males that are watching:
"GIVE ME THAT SHIT!"

fun fact or not so fun fact: in overcharged theres a gas grenade and flashbang which is useless because it only works for the player

Possibly spicy take, but I thought the overhauled maps of Half-Life 2: Cinematic, for all the flak that mod received, go really well with MMOD, if you can be bothered to work out the compatibility

I just want a mod that combines the Half-Life 2 day/night swap mod with the Half-Life 2 mirrored mod.

I can understand calling the MMod a remaster, but what SMod and Overcharged are doing here?

SMOD - is not a Remaster, but it is made by that JAPANESE HL2 dev, which now famous for MMOD.
And yes - MMOD - is a proper remaster, not a SMOD. SMOD - just his attempt in fun mod.

Anyway actually, proper real TOP 3 famous Remaster of HL2, is:
1)MMOD. (By creator of SMOD. He even wrote - "MMOD - is a remaster")
2)Overcharged. (Russian attempt into HL2 Remaster)
3)Fake Factory's Cinematic MOD. Yea, that one.

And also - Valve did kinda remaster too, which was a "HL2: Update" - which is somewhat a official HL2 Remaster.

Same goes for Original HL1:
1)HL1 MMOD (By same japanese dev)
2)HL1 HD Texture Pack (Somewhat a Remaster)
And some other - not properly know remaster.
There also a HL1 Source - which is indeed a remaster... but actually more of a port, badly placed into Valve Steam system (yes, HL Source - have many bugs and issues, bcs of porting original game, on new Valve Service and other stuff).

comically realistic gordon freeman will always terrify me

Smod Redux is overcharged done right

Personally, I played Half Life 2 Overcharge and I can honestly say that it is not balanced, but I had a lot of fun playing it more than once, I went through it even on the hardest difficulty level available in advanced options, it was an interesting experience.

no no no no, im sorry, but i like default/vanilla half-life games (steam versions and old).

You put HL2 overcharged lmaoo, could've put the unreleased hl2 remaster collection by Update's creator instead

i love it when people spread the word of smod

I might be wrong but isn't HL2 Update more out of date than base HL2? The only thing it has now is the developer commentary and mildly crisper lighting

Why does everyone always recommend 2 playthroughs of games? Just play MMOD first if it's the better way to play

subbed :)

Actually i am playing cinematic mod after your video and it's great - environments look great, models look great (i use updated vanilla style Alyx), installed Entropy Zero 2 animations too which makes this combination a perfect remaster (i already sense the hate tornado of cinematic mod heading this way)