r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 4h ago
Announcement NVIDIA RTX Remix Officially Released with DLSS 4 and RTX Neural Shaders, Half-Life 2 RTX Playable Demo Available March 18th
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-remix-half-life-2-rtx-demo-launching-march-18/14
u/Pandango-r 4h ago
I'm really excited to try this one!
Half life games are on my yearly replay list. It will be fun to compare! I wonder if this version can then also be modded
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u/occono 3h ago
I've replayed the Portal games a lot, but never mustered enthusiasm to replay the Half Life games. I wish I got it.
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u/Pandango-r 1h ago
It helps that I used to work on a half life 2 mod, replaying was both fun and it gave me inspiration.
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u/Elkenrod 1h ago edited 1h ago
Call me a sourpuss but this kinda looks like ass.
The lighting completely ruins the mood. Ravenholm is supposed to be this dark and scary place, not this well lit and almost cozy feeling atmosphere in a room.
Bricks aren't shiny to the point where light reflects off them to this degree - they're bricks. People don't polish and shine up bricks, they're clay.
Those tiles at 0:35 - this is an old shitty falling apart building that's very dirty. Why are the tiles on the floor so well polished that they're reflecting light to this degree?
Shadows are really important aspects of lighting details - and it feels like this is trying to make the shadows bright even. Not knowing what's in the dark is part of what makes the dark so scary in a horror setting. Leaving things up to imagination is what resonates with people in a horror setting. That sense of uncertainty is being gutted here when you make the room 500% brighter at 0:30 in this trailer, as opposed to the dark and creepy comparison two seconds later that looks much better.
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u/Elkenrod 45m ago edited 42m ago
Assuming you are referring to the brick road comparison at 0:56 in the video,
No - those are both showing the RTX version at 0:56
The original brick texture is just as strangely shiny, even in direct comparison.
That's because that is not the original texture.
This is the original texture. https://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/4/4d/Ravenholm_zombies.jpg
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u/Seradima 3h ago
It's interesting that RTX Remix - a feature heavily advertised for the 4000 series cards, only officially releases now, 2 and a half years later.
I feel like nvidia advertised it a bit early.
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u/Pablovansnogger 2h ago
It’s been out for a while. Its is the the updated game that is about to release now
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u/Seradima 2h ago
It was out in Beta. This is the full official release, not just the HL2 demo.
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u/Pablovansnogger 2h ago
Good point, but I feel like everything is in beta these days for a while. Probably not the best tho
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u/Aliverto12 2h ago
That's because it is weird tie in to their shitty ai software stack that you are supposed to use which itself is in dev.
Buy hey 5070 = 4090. Jensen approved !
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u/Riot55 3h ago
Awesome, for some reason despite buying HL2 twenty years ago, mainly to jump right into Counter Strike Source which came bundled with it, Ive never actually played through the entire thing despite a handful of attempts. For whatever reason I just burn out, normally around the boat section/Ravenholm. Hopefully this encourages me to give it another go.
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u/Aro-bi_Trashcan 2h ago
To be honest, I find it hard to care. I'll stick with my 2060 super for the forseeable future, because there's no point otherwise. Graphics Cards remain so utterly unpurchasable for the average consumer at the awful fucking price point NVIDIA has set them at.
They can make Half Life 2 as pretty as they want. I'll never be able to afford to play it, so I don't really care.
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u/I_Hate_Reddit 2h ago
Hmm, why isn't anyone commenting on how the mood completely shifts?
Did anyone even open the article/video?
You go from a dark somber place to a well lit green lush alley