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 I'm gonna pin this up as being outdated.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 need to play through Half Life 1 sometime.
Half-Life 2 and all those episodes all day.. now if only I could experience EP1 and 2, and finally beat HL2.
I'm kinda sad that we're getting opinions from people that haven't even played the games.
I mean. It's freaking Half-Life.(Dammit, now I sound like Cesque.):Shootshimselfinthehead:Bought the Half-Life package even though I already had/played Half-Life 2 - tried the first Half-Life the other day. Know what you mean about the bugginess, I got stuck in the tutorial because a guard wouldn't open a door (then I got really stuck after I provoked the guard and wound up shooting everything in sight, but still). Game's still fun though, and some of the bugs are interesting in that they allow for shenanigans. :D
You should find HL2 more to your liking I think though, there's still some platforming-ish stuff but it's more reasonable than HL at least.
…yeah, things got a little messy^ Used to do that on purpose kinda often. XD
Personally I never had much of any issue with the game. It's somewhat of a classic to me, and if the gameplay is too flawed at any point, just switch over to HL: Source O_oLast time I played it was about two years ago and I had a pretty fun timeEven though you haven't played it yet, I think you'll see that Half Life 2 has aged incredibly well.