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 I'm gonna pin this up as being outdated.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.
Half-Life was the best FPS ever until Half-Life 2 came out.
Then it was the second best FPS ever.And it still is.Fuck you.Seriously I'm genuinely trying to think of a fundamentally better FPS than the Half-Life franchise. Halo? Nope, it merely showed console gamers what we already knew. CoD? Nope. Farcry? Crysis? Nopenope. Bioshock? Pretty good but nope. GoldenEye? Again it was a good console game but not comparable. Doom/Quake? Nope. Deus Ex? I must admit I haven't played it.Feel free to enlighten us. Tell us which FPS games you think are better. So we can laugh at you.Cyrus wins
Oh no, I am dead.
I have landed on the ground.BORINGStandards have changed, and the graphics are dated, but your comparison to Quake is where you make no sense (beyond the graphics, which aren't that similar either).
When Half-Life came out it was the most un-Quake FPS's. It's one of the first FPS's (apart from Unreal) to have a genuine story told inside the game itself, starting out in a "safe" environment and letting you experience first-hand what happens.Instead of every level being a big maze filled with monsters, Half-Life's levels are extremely varied and feature completely different challenges (yes, including some annoying platforming). Before Half Life, FPS "puzzles" were finding keys to unlock doors and shooting buttons on ceilings.And then there's the whole atmosphere Rez mentioned, completely unlike being a badass space marine with a plasma minigun launcher shooting hell mutants from Phobos. In Half-Life, dying generally means "you should do something differently", not "stack up on more ammo and save your invulnerable damage bonus of invisibility for this room".I actually played Half-Life a couple of years after it came out and replayed it for the second time a year or two ago and I still found it pretty cool.I played the original Half-Life after I bought the HL pack in last year's Steam Summer Sale.
I found the experience to be rather annoying over all, but it was very fun, immersive, and unique. It surprised me, because it actually is quite an original game in its genre, to this day. The only other game I've played that has been similar to its playstyle was Red Faction. As you say, I think "half-love" would be the best way to describe the game; its concept is excellent, but the flaws of the game seriously detract from the ability to stay involved in the experience.There's something about Valve games that really gets me. I played Portal 2 when it came out and was very captivated by the extremely unique atmosphere it had; it made you feel dwarfed by the massive expanse of laboritories, test facilities and machinery, yet you always knew that it was just You (Chell), Glados and Wheatley. You became attached to your existence at Aperature, as such that you felt like part of a tiny, dysfunctional family. I was very saddened by Portal 2's ending, because it felt like I was abandoning what seemed like a dire, but fated and significant battle. I played Half-Life after Portal 2, and immediately saw the resemblance between the two games. Half-Life made you feel alone, like the resurgent underdog. This was reinforced by unbroken, linear episodic nature of the level design. Everything had such flow; it was a journey that you look back on, surprised by how much distance you had made.But like I said, the game-breaking platforming glitches, very random and unfair situations, etc, ruined half of the experience. But don't begrudge Half-Life too much, play the second game, it's much more refined.-Has an opinion of a favorite FPS that isn't pre-2005 and doesn't include Half-Life-
Statement: I love HL, HL2, Portal, and Portal2 which makes me a valve fan :), I remember the days spent with my friends to see who could finnish HL first. Must have playd it trough 6 times in a month and a half :p.
Quake - Fun mindles shooterQuake2 - Infinately modable multiplayer fun :)Serious sam - Funny repetetive shooterCoD - Fun once of playthrough then endles multiplayer funFarcry - Mindless sometimes difficult shooterHL - Made a difference to me becuase the story just added that extra bit that was needed with the gameplay to create magic even if it was a bit bugy magic.NOTE: Think I should play Bioshock looks good just need to buy it first :pSo what you're saying, Toast, is that Half-Life is the foundation of the video game industry as we know it?
That's pretty badass.But kinda depressing since AAA games these days have been getting progressively shittier.