half life 2 faces are basically hand-animated. Outer Worlds 2 is using a more procedural method of animating based on the dialog because there is way more. This is a weird comparison
2025-10-25 23:43:55
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E :
Dumb comparison
2025-10-26 09:30:01
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NiptonNuts :
Half life 2 is one of the most over glazed games for a reason, valve truly cooked with everything, game looks and plays like it’s from the future considering it’s from 2004. Source lighting still looks great tbh
2025-10-26 19:39:39
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J :
once again showing how ahead of time valve is in technology
2025-10-26 00:34:48
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Gordon Freeman :
mate we all know that hl2 looks better
2025-10-26 13:26:30
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vividatlas :
people in these comments have no idea wtf they are talking about.. half life having “less dialogue” than outerworlds doesnt change the difference in the quality of the rigs or facial poses they have. Valve typically uses a pretty large mixture of predetermined facial poses baked into their models that can create any facial pose or spoken vowel or otherwise. If outerworlds doesnt have that in a game that has supposedly “way more dialogue and hundreds of characters” then that is their fault.
2025-10-28 08:27:56
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Brapmaster :
but arent all of half lifes facial animations hand animated? isnt that a bit unfair?
2025-10-25 21:20:21
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Sam :
This is like comparing a modern day VW Golf to a Supra. They are designed so differently for such different purposes that they cant really be compared
2025-10-26 01:37:21
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George 3 :
And outer worlds 2 has 100x more character faces to animate what's the point of this
2025-10-25 23:38:28
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Walter Acevedo :
2004: Human VA
2025: Ai VA
2025-10-26 03:23:14
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Isaac :
My guy is comparing apples and oranges
2025-10-26 10:23:01
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SHECK :
are we seeing things? the hl2 animation looks pretty terrible too
2025-10-27 00:55:52
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I'mVeryStrongKabanchik! :
Как они реализовали это в 2004? Даже мимика проработана лучше, чем в современных играх
2025-10-30 14:23:41
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Ralsei :
Half-Life 2 wins
2025-10-26 14:36:39
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wazab96 :
Who every actually cares about this need to get a job the games amazing
2025-10-25 23:00:05
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Gold_Crusher :
yes, let's compare the RPG to the character driven FPS with hand animated facial animations that seems fair
2025-10-26 01:18:34
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loomeh :
you're comparing a random NPC in a game with hundreds of NPCs with a deuteragonist.
2025-10-26 14:55:11
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Johann_Barry :
Half-Life 2 shouldn’t even be compared. Valve built it to be a generational shift in gaming, not just another release. Most games today still can’t touch what it did for animation, physics, and storytelling. That’s also why Half-Life 3 never came out, because even Valve knows how hard it would be to top what they already created.
2025-10-26 19:31:42
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MrSparks :
Game that has to animate 10 characters faces to voice lines, vs a game that have hundreds of characters to animate voice lines to.
2025-10-26 14:04:07
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Montirovka :
чозаигра
2025-10-30 08:41:23
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Olivia Valentina Sul :
I love how the only one with a bad take here is the video poster. Dude everyone can tell when a game has like a hand tailored dialogue scene. And everyone can tell that’s something reasonable only in linear 8 hr length games with directed dialogue scenes. An RPG at the scale of Outer Worlds DEMANDS some procedural animations via lip syncing and whatnot. Some gamers out there are beyond entitled dude. They expect games tailored to perfection and it makes them miss out on games made from a place of excitement and craftsmanship
2025-10-29 00:03:43
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