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by ListeningPie 451 days ago
The original aesthetic, including lighting, was made keeping the original limitations in minds. Kind of running old sprite games on LCDs instead of CRTs makes them look jagged.

So it's different and a tech demo, but I agree it's not necessarily better and could be one the reasons it is free.
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zeroCalories 451 days ago
Yeah when looking at games like Alyx it seems like the vision isn't too far off. Personally I don't mind the RTX version as I always found hl2 to be depressingly boring to look at.
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dowager_dan99 451 days ago
The boring aesthetic really matches so much of the game though; soviet-era architecture is awfully boring too.
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