By the time it came out, I was a student with nothing but an Apple iBook to my name, and PC gaming just wasn’t a possibility for me. Half-Life 2, though, I never really got on with. Just witness how Valve still isn’t able to make enough $1,000 headsets to meet demand for Half-Life: Alyx, which is coming out in a couple of weeks. But history has proven my hot take to be a pretty solid one - Half-Life’s blend of first-person shooting and narrative storytelling was incredibly influential, and it went on to spawn a series that stokes near-unparalleled hype and reverence to this day.
That wasn’t saying much, really, since we’d only just set up our first family computer, and I’d barely started playing video games.
Recent reviews, according to Steam, are still “mostly positive.” Dota 2 is still the most popular game on Steam, despite being temporarily dethroned by Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds this weekend in concurrent player count.įor our take, read Polygon’s review of Dota 2.Upon its release in 1998, Half-Life instantly became my favorite game of all time. Some longtime Dota 2 players have come to the game’s defense on Steam, posting the occasional positive review in defiance of the tide of negativity.ĭota 2 still maintains a “very positive” user review rating, however, thanks to more than 775,000 reviews. Many user reviews are just drive-by mentions of Half-Life 3 - with a few hoping for Left 4 Dead 3 - or snarky comments about Artifact. Players, some with thousands of hours logged in Dota 2, lament that the MOBA “murdered” the Half-Life series and that Valve seems more interested in profiting from Dota 2 than making single-player narrative games. There are a few common sentiments in recent negative user reviews of Dota 2.
The rush to trash Dota 2 in Steam user reviews appears to be related to two recent developments: Valve’s announcement of Artifact, the Dota card game, at this year’s International tournament, and Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw publishing what is widely interpreted to be the proposed plot to Half-Life 2 : Episode Three. As spotted by PCGamesN, Steam users are bombing the game with negative reviews, many of them laying blame on Valve’s popular MOBA for the lack of a new Half-Life game.
As Half-Life 2: Episode Two approaches its 10-year anniversary, fed up Half-Life fans are taking their long-simmering aggression out on one of Valve’s other games, Dota 2.
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