Half Life thread - Discussions about Valve's FPS magnum opus(es) and any related content (spin offs, expansions and etc)

[Nameless One]

Freeman's Mind is elevated with foreknowledge of having played these games yourself. The Pirate part in HL1 is way more enjoyable knowing what Ross was doing to even come up with such a fun in-between episode. I think you're robbing yourself from that experience but it's probably interesting enough to not touch the episodes. Freeman's Mind won't even be finished by the time we really get HL3. It'd be funnier if there's still one more episode till it ends but HL3 is suddenly released/gets announced so Ross hurries the fuck up or slows down more.

 

[thhrang]

Freeman's Mind won't even be finished by the time we really get HL3. It'd be funnier if there's still one more episode till it ends but HL3 is suddenly released/gets announced so Ross hurries the fuck up or slows down more.

>the year is 2070
>Half-Life 3: Episode 2 has finally came out
>Ross is still on Half-Life 2: Episode 1

 

[JesusChristDenton]

On the topic of HL1, I've recently picked it up while on sale so that I could play Crack Life's anniversary campaign. I've already played through OPFOR and Blue Shift along with some Sven Coop a couple years ago, so should I finally play through the original campaign or try out a few more mods beforehand?

Only ones I've thought of trying out so far are Field Intensity, Azure Sheep and Half Life Extended.

 

[They were once men]

On the topic of HL1, I've recently picked it up while on sale so that I could play Crack Life's anniversary campaign. I've already played through OPFOR and Blue Shift along with some Sven Coop a couple years ago, so should I finally play through the original campaign or try out a few more mods beforehand?

Only ones I've thought of trying out so far are Field Intensity, Azure Sheep and Half Life Extended.

Play half-life echoes, It's probably one of the most impressive mods mad for half-life its not that long as well. You could finish it in an afternoon.

 

[RunningWindInbound]

I want to correct you and remind you that without Half Life 2 you wouldn't have many modern games as we know them today

I'm not saying it isn't influential lmao.

 

[StacticShock]

do CS players even like CS?

no, they like the skin box gambling and hope they can make big bucks out of it.

 

[Pumpkin_Spice_Bastard]

On the topic of HL1, I've recently picked it up while on sale so that I could play Crack Life's anniversary campaign. I've already played through OPFOR and Blue Shift along with some Sven Coop a couple years ago, so should I finally play through the original campaign or try out a few more mods beforehand?

Only ones I've thought of trying out so far are Field Intensity, Azure Sheep and Half Life Extended.

Halfquake trilogy

 

[thhrang]

Gabe Follower and McVicker uploaded these videos within an hour of eachother.

 

[Pumpkin_Spice_Bastard]

Gabe Follower and McVicker uploaded these videos within an hour of eachother.

Yea, it is happening.

 

[thhrang]

Yea, it is happening.

Both have reached the conclusion that the game is in the final-final stages of development, I unironically expect an announcement before year's end, like Mike Shapiro hyped at the start of the year.

 

[Coolio55]

I decided to take my own advice from a few posts back and am now playing Halo which I've recently felt bears a strange resemblance to Half-Life 2.
I've barely scratched the surface but I am definitely interested.
The first level is the epitome of bad mid-2000's level design with boxy cramped corridors but then you crash land and it starts getting interesting.
I don't like having a woman constantly backseat driving all the time though. How the hell did dudebros in the early 2000's put up with this crap? I've also noticed the objective marker of doom but it's rarely appeared so far so fingers crossed that it doesn't interject too much.
Haven't warmed up to the shield system yet. Feel like I have to retreat to cover too much but I'll begrudgingly admit that it's occasionally been useful. The radar is cool.
Haven't got used to the weapons yet. Need to experiment more. Pistol is fucking good so you really want to keep it but I know that there's more fun synergies to be had. I like the homing shots of the needler in theory but they usually don't go where you want or plink off of those round shield bastards. Sniper is nice. I really need to use that charged alien pistol more because I know you can vapourize the regenerating shields of the higher tier covenant and fuck them up.
I hate the 2 weapon system but I know that the game is balanced around it.
If I'd played this in 2001, I probably would've gone bananas. There's an impressive amount of things going on. Nice and open maps with plenty of options. Cool vehicle mechanics. Hard mode is actually hard, too.
Story is just sci-fi gibberish so far but I think I'll live.

 

[Blackstar]

I played HL2 up to the end of Water Hazard today and proceeded to stop. Man does Black Mesa East kill the momentum. Very fun level followed by 10+ minutes of cutscenes as you can't do anything and a tutorial on the gravity gun.

 

[thhrang]

I played HL2 up to the end of Water Hazard today and proceeded to stop. Man does Black Mesa East kill the momentum. Very fun level followed followed by 10+ minutes of cutscenes as you can't do anything and a tutorial on the gravity gun.

I usually just use the console to skip directly to Ravenholm.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

I played HL2 up to the end of Water Hazard today and proceeded to stop. Man does Black Mesa East kill the momentum. Very fun level followed by 10+ minutes of cutscenes as you can't do anything and a tutorial on the gravity gun.

you didn't like eli trying to stop alyx from letting you out of the HIV suit?

 

[Star Classic]

I played HL2 up to the end of Water Hazard today and proceeded to stop. Man does Black Mesa East kill the momentum. Very fun level followed by 10+ minutes of cutscenes as you can't do anything and a tutorial on the gravity gun.

I'm one of the 5 people on planet earth who must actually like BME, if anything I thought it should've been longer, at least canonically. Would it be insane to say I kind of wish there was a time jump there, or maybe have Eli not be so retarded as to think that Freeman was just gonna like, escape, from the combine who are less than a mile away?

 

[dcss]

I'm one of the 5 people on planet earth who must actually like BME, if anything I thought it should've been longer, at least canonically. Would it be insane to say I kind of wish there was a time jump there, or maybe have Eli not be so retarded as to think that Freeman was just gonna like, escape, from the combine who are less than a mile away?

agree, it cuts up the action a little bit to give you time to breathe before dropping you in ravenholm

 

[thhrang]

I'm one of the 5 people on planet earth who must actually like BME, if anything I thought it should've been longer, at least canonically. Would it be insane to say I kind of wish there was a time jump there, or maybe have Eli not be so retarded as to think that Freeman was just gonna like, escape, from the combine who are less than a mile away?

agree, it cuts up the action a little bit to give you time to breathe before dropping you in ravenholm

It's amazing in first-time playthroughs and the lorebits are great, but for someone on their 100th replay just wanting to shoot things it is a bit of a momentumkiller. Sometimes I do play through it again for the atmosphere, other times I just want to get to using the sawblades on zombies as fast as possible.

 

[Dead Lion]

So glad its not COD slop animations. So sick of those. These look very clean and every comment it trashing them, do CS players even like CS?

CS players go ballistics when a ledge is moved half a hammer unit because it broke a smoke they’ve been throwing on that same exact ledge since middle school.

 

[thhrang]

Another sloptuber repackaging of info.

 

[capitalBBustard]

OpFor is fucking trash lmao, race X or whatever it's called is a bunch of garbage that copypasted AI of existing HL enemies because Gearbox couldn't be assed to make new ones. I am not exaggarating btw, they straight up just use the same AI code. One of the aliens reuse the HECU marine AI so they attack gargantuas and does callouts while fighting the same way (only in gibberish) while another alien reuses the bullsquid AI so it attacks headcrabs. It's so comically cheap.

Everything Gearbox added to HL was shit. OpFor, BS (appropriate), HD pack, PS2 port w/Decay.

G-Man's interest in Alyx wasn't an HL:A retcon though, it was the seemingly natural continuation of plot firmly established in Ep2.

That has nothing to do with anything I said lilbro. I said it was the Eli retcon that sucked ass, what are you talking about Alyx for?

And no, "you're worth more than the initial appraisal" does not naturally grow into "ZOMG YOU ARE SO HECKIN KOOL YOU COULD REPLACE GORDAN". That's HLA being shit and glazing Alyx in that exact mid-10s NuSW Rey way that lead to Last Jedi.

Didn't they only do this because Laidlaw published Epistle 3 in 2017, which spoiled story broad strokes and they wanted something fresh?

No.

I still think that it's going to be good but you gave me a vision of horror beyond words for a bit there.
If Half-Life 3 is crap, I'll just have to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Pathalogic and Brigand: Oaxaca like everyone else and pretend that they're leaked PS2 spinoffs.

Do you think that it would be like Star Wars Episode 1 where there's pure cope for a year until everyone finally admits that it's shit? I can't even fathom what would happen. Star Wars at least had the EU.

People haven't even admitted the Eli retcon was abysmal dogshit half a decade later. Everyone's still stuck on how stunning+brave it is while also saying that it doesn't matter because EP2 was a long time ago.

Unless it's a trashfire on the level of Duke Nukem Forever (it won't be), it will receive accolades just for existing.