Am i seriously the only one who thinks Half-Life is an extremely over-rated game? I bought the game, thinking "gamers can't be this wrong, it's almost got perfect scores all around, it's the 2nd highest rated game on Steam!" and after playing through almost all of it in a short amount of time, i am incredibly disappointed by this Quake rip-off.
this game has no quality what so ever. it is incredibly buggy. I've had to restart whole levels due to glitches with doors and dialogue, I wasn't able to continue during some of these glitches. no choice but to restart a level? how does this shit get over looked?The movement just isn't right here either. If it's anything i hate, it's First Person Platforming. You walk too fast to be jumping off of narrow/thin platforms and it always feels like your slipping on ice when you land. Timing and landing a jump is difficult as well. These sections feel so random, as if they've been thrown together for no real reason at all. It's a ton of shooting, than outta nowhere, it's jumping on pipes and ducking under electrical wires. The combat is flawed as well. There isn't a lot of ammo but there are a ton of soldiers. Man that was random. at first it was a scary horror themed game where you're killing monster/aliens and than it's a shootemup with Tanks and shit. I'm gonna pin this up as being outdated. Standards have changed. Half Life came out in 1998 and was made on the Quake engine. Valve was still young and they have defiantly improved over the years. Maybe people back in 1998 thought this game had great graphics or presentation, it was also back when FPS games were still blooming. Nowadays we've got way too many of them and so people get a little picky about their shooters.Do keep in mind, i'm talking about Half Life only, not Half Life 2, or any of the episodic games or spin offs. Since i bought the whole collection (it was on sale so no big loss) I still have to play the other HL games. HOPEFULLY Half Life 2 is better... but i have been fooled before…p.s. Bioshock sucks too. [/ranting]Holy shit 10 days left! I'm ……………………… not sure if i can finish in time [-_-]EDIT: also i feel i should say, i'm not completely bashing the game, i'm just stating that it's not a masterpiece at all. it's not even what i would consider great (imo) but it's also not the worst game ever. I can play it but i'm not enjoying it much.
I just played Half-Life a few days ago.
Not as bad as you say, but not as worth the high praise it gets from the gaming masses.I like Half Life more than a lot of FPSs out there. The level design is brilliant. It has that weird kind of dead-empty feeling older games tend to have now though, but I kind of love that about it.
I've never played half life 1, i've played the 2nd one though and all of the episodes and loved it. I do think they are slightly overrated though, but only by a little.
I never played the original Half-Life, to be honest. I never actually got around to playing it.
All I can comment on is the second one (and episodes); I think it's one of the best games ever made, Bioshock as well. Mainly I was blown away by the story/atmosphere.That being said, there's no way to say, objectively, that a game is good or bad. It's all subject to differing opinions and tastes. I know that's something that should, logically, be common sense, but it doesn't hurt to bring it up since sometimes people forget. I really didn't enjoy the driving segments of HL2, but I'm sure there's a lot of people that really dig that shit. Basically what this rambling comment is supposed to mean, is I respect your opinion even though I disagree. It's neat to hear someone's opinion differ from the usual. You should play Half-Life 2 and let us know if it redeems the series for you or not.Half Life 1 is really showing its age these days, its nothing compared to Half Life 2. It was probably amazing when it came out =p But I had a much better time with Half Life 1 than you have had.