After almost a decade of radio silence, Valve surprised the world with the announcement and subsequent release of a new game. Not only that, but it was a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life game. Was it the fabled, memed-aboꦉut Half-Life 3?
Alas, no. What fans did get was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life: Alyx, an a𝄹mazing game in and of itself, but not without its flaws and questionable gameplay. And what better way to cope with the bad while appreciating the good than a few select memes?
10 🍃 How Are You Still Alive?
VR has been around since, surprisingly, the 1960s, though it didn't take off in gaming until the 2010s. And despite its relative longevity, it's been slow to catch on in many facets of life, gaming included – so much so, that many considered 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:VR gaming essentially a dead enterprise.
However, then came Valve and Half-Life: Alyx to prove the medium was far from deceased. The wittiness of the meme is only exacerbated by the fact that it's presented through Team Fortress characters, an olꦿder game by Valve that's main🀅tained quite a bit of popularity despite its age. A bold prediction, that VR and/or Alyx will also maintain such longevity. Here's to hoping that'll be seen.
9 Simple🌄r Times
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life: Alyx was only released back in March 2020, which feels like it was 200 years ago. Considering all that has happened since then, March 2020 might as well be when diౠnosaurs 🅰roamed the earth.
The irony? The game – set in a post-apocalyptic future – dares to hint at the past that was, but doesn't encapsulate the present that is. Where are the decaying facemasks? Where are the rusting VR headsets? Alyx does not have enough 2020 mentioned. On second thought, that's probably fไor the best.
8 ꦍ Context, Peoplꦅe, Context
Ah🉐, out-of-context spoilers. They were great when it came to Marvel, and they're just as great here, too. They reveal everything and yet nothing about plots and characters and all the twists and turns of entertainment and media. Really, they're sort of an in-joke to those who've finished that respective media piece.
But what, exactly, do all these spoilers mean, to the inexperienced eye? Well, considering the game still hasn't been out for a year yet (somehow), we'll pass up on contextualizing spoilers for now. After all, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life is best experienced first-hand!
7 ♔ Why You Gotta Be So Rude?
Perhaps this is a slight spoiler? Or perhaps not, as this little scene depict🍒ed is from an earlier portion of the game. This meme can be perfect when dropped in certain conversations, especially when encountering unwanted advice, opinions, or any unpleasant experience. Those outside the know will be like "who the heck is Alyx?" while those who've played will be pleased (or insulted if the meme is 🐻aimed at them).
But in the context of the game, it shows a rather big flaw in the writing; the person with the gun gives the orders, not the person at gunpoint. One🌳 would think Alyx would be smart enough – or at least, have enough self-preservation – to not run her mouth when she's the one at gunpoint.
6 💙 Perfectly Awesome Yet Oddly Insulting
A backhanded compliment if there ever was one. On one hand,🐼 it's calling the receptor of the meme epic. On the other hand, the reward for that epicness is an offering of a parasitic alien 🧸that turns people into zombies. And it has a grammatically incorrect your.
Of course, there's the fact that Gordon Freeman, of all characters, is the one offering said headcrab, presumably to Alyx. Upstaging Alyx and steal♛ing the spotlight at the very end of her own game is not cool. It's still a pretty badass image and scene, even if🏅 this meme is not subtle.
5 If They Haven't Learneꦦd By Now ♊
A lot of games𓃲 are pretty merciful with their combat and resources, or at the very least balanced. If ammo and weapons are scarce to come by and limited by carrying capacities, games will usually avoid wasting bullets in the midst of combat. If ammo and weapons are abundant, the inverse will be true. But not Half-Life, oh no, not even for Alyx Vance.
Reloading a weapon down one bullet will waste every other loaded. As ammo is scarce enough as it is, this hilarious little quote sums up the foolishness of that decision qui🌊te nicely. But since when, exactly, could plain old zombies speak in this un🌳iverse?
4 I See You've Been Working Out 🐷
Back to the Headcrabs, players of Half-Life: Alyx will notice a certain newfound ferocity to these tiny little vermin. Indeed, it appears that in the span between Half-Life 1 and 2, these zombie-making parasites got a major strength boost, one that turns them from low-level nuisances to actually 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:terrifying enemies.
Part of this can be attributed to the heavier focus on horror in Alyx, while the rest can be credited to better, more modern AI. But given the timeframe of the story, it does raise some 👍questions on how and why these nasty little vermin went back from deadly encounters to pathetic parasites between Alyx and Half-Life 2. Oh well, maybe a Half-Life 3 will remedy this.
3 💯 You've Been Working Out Too
Speaking of stronger enemies, let's talk abou🉐t Combine! For an evil, multi-dimensional/universal empire, it sure didn't seem that way in the first Half-Life. Half-Life 2 slightly improved upon this, givin🌟g some backbone to their antagonistic forces.
But the Combine of Half-Life: Alyx? Well, Spongebob in this meme speaks for them pretty well. But again, Alyx is a midquel, taking place between 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life 1 and 2. Chronologically, Combine went from pansies to ba🌳dasses then ba♎ck down to mid-tier threats. What happened to you guys, man?
2 Real Intellectuals Know the Truth 🐼
But speaking of midquels, let's take a moment to discuss that ever-looming fact about Half-Life: Alyx. Do not misunderstand, it was a breath of fresh air to finally receive 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:new content from Valve, and the game expanded nicely upon a beloved character of the franchise, Alyx 𝔉Vance.
That said, was Alyx truly necessary over continuing the plot of the original games or Valve's other properties? Did the world really need Half-Life: Alyx over, say, a certain long-awaited 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life 3, or perhaps even another🐭 Portal game? Let's acknowledge Half-Life: Alyx for what it truly iꦫs: Half-Life 1.5.
1 🅘 Worst Half-Life⛄ Ever
One of the most iconic parts of the Half-Life franchise, for better or worse, is its peculiar 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:arsenal of weapons. Namely, its main melee weapon, the crowbar. Used from dealing damage to prying open secret tunnels and escape ro🎃utes, this rusty piece of twisted metal wriggled its way into ma🌃ny players' hearts.
Ho𝐆w does Half-Life: Alyx repay them? Naturally, by removing this iconic weapo🐓n. Again, being more focused on horror over action, it only made sense to take away some of the overpowered arsenal available in other titles. But why the crowbar, Valve? Why?