I don't care about his comments. He's likely trolling, you're falling for it and lashing out at people who don't even agree with him.

Yeah, it is one of the best, they aren't 'revisionists', they're either people with ridiculous opinions or trolls.

This is indeed just super low tier trolling.

One could debate how well has HL2 aged, but to try and argue it was never good is just dumb.

Simply having an opinion you don't share, or the majority doesn't share doesn't equal trolling. What makes it trolling is the way the opinion is presented, and how the discussion is handled. Crevurre "argues" the greatness of Half-Life in equally as trollish a way as the OP argued against it.

You're naive. They have connections to game journalist sites and devs, or executives. They're testing out how much pc gamers are pushovers with these ops.
No it isn't trollish to say why the game is good. I dare you to directly compare the comments. Don't make insinuations to help trolls against opposition to polish editorial forum agendas..
You are the only person and first to say it's flat out dumb. Look at the rest of these self-hating PC gamers who will side with the agenda against them....

One of the oldest and lowest tier ways of internet trolling is to just throw out an obviously bad opinion and then keep defending it with really bad arguments to flame other users and get people rilled up.

And? That doesn't change the fact that OP is either troll or nuts.

Yes, the OP is obviously trolling. It's clear by the way he started the thread and even more so the way he responds to others. I'm just saying that it's silly to make a generalised statement to the effect that everyone who doesn't like Half-Life is "dumb", like samuraigaiden did.

I see that there are a few posts in this thread that are on the edge of violating our rules. We don't tolerate any personal arguments that may be insulting in any way to other people. Please keep that in mind and remain civil in the course of discussion.

If that's a reference to my statement about Crevurre, I can only say, look at his comments: he basically implies that I'm part of a conspiracy (an "op" pushed by a certain "tribe") against pc gamers. imo that's either trolling or, if he's serious, indicative of a disturbingly paranoid mindset.
However, I agree that personal attacks should be avoided, therefore I will in future refrain from engaging with Crevurre in any way.

Notice how there isn't any post explaining what makes this game so good.
Other places like rpgcodex came to the same conclusion as OP.
A real classic wouldn't this disputed.
It's not universally liked as Deus Ex, Duke 3D or Doom.
Sorry it's not that good. Time to move on.

Thinking it's possible to be universally liked is equally as juvenile and pathetic as your ear-plug approach to this thread.

HL saved fps genre from becoming a boring jump fest with rocket launchers
thx gabe !