what are your thoughts on half-life?

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Half-Life is keyed in every way shape and form, the original game is actually my #1 favorite of all time and I can literally play it forever and ever, the expansions are really fun as well that expand the Black Mesa incident to a greater scale. The second game and its episodes are lesser IMO but are still 9/10s.

Valve's theme that you hear in the start of all of their games is actually just the theme from midway through Surface Tension, the longest chapter of HL1. Man the game's cinematics are still incredible today for a 20 year old game, like the tentacle in Blast Pit, the jets in Surface Tension. It's just incredible really I implore you play it; the game really set the bar for what a good singleplayer FPS is while still feeling...
Did anyone else literally never realize that you could charge up the tau cannon on half-life 2s car
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Did anyone else literally never realize that you could charge up the tau cannon on half-life 2s car
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I like how on the schlog I can just hold my finger on an image and I can save it to my photos app
On the sharty I could have to open the image as another link first
 
Did anyone else literally never realize that you could charge up the tau cannon on half-life 2s car
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No, i knew about it, good weapon but you also have the infinite SMG ammo crate which makes it somewhat redundant.
 
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I agree, that guy getting sniped was funny too.
Winston being hit was no laughing matter bro, he was gonna be the next Gordon Freeman bro, they were gonna do this whole expansion pack of him saving the world bro
(source: trust me bro)
 
For the dull-minded: (chvd)
Half-Life is a gem, a gem that will NEVER be achieved by chvddy game studios (Ubisoft, Bethesda, Activision, etc).

For the sharp-minded (chad):
The fact that it still holds up to this day (both the original and its DLCs, and the sequel, including the episodes) should mean something to the games industry, especially the industry where gambling seems to be the only way that "developers" know about.

I'd say my least favorite part about Half-Life would be some of the puzzles there, like the teleport puzzle (in the Lambda Core chapter) in HL1, but, other than that, it still holds up pretty well.

My favourite part about Half-Life will always be the soundtracks; kudos to Kelly Bailey, Mike Morasky, and many other composers of Half-Life. The soundtracks (to me at least) give you a sharp boost in your survival skills in this game; it also sounds really cool and unique as it utilizes many samples and instruments from Zero-G to Sony (yes, Sony actually did sell some of the samples; some of them were used for the Half-Life series and Portal 1, to my knowledge).

My favourite soundtracks would be: Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar (HL1), LG Orbifold (HL2), What Kind of Hospital is This? (HL2: EP 1), Vortal Combat (HL2: EP 2), and Scanning Hostile Biodats (HL: Alyx).

The Half-Life series also helped shape the game industry as we know it, inspiring game studios like Activision, Irrational Games, and Ion Storm to create other belvoes game franchises like Deus Ex.

Overall, I think Half-Life is the Superman of the game industry and game development in general, with its cultural impact upon the release of the original Half-Life and so on.

God bless you, Gabe Newell, and please count to three already.
 
Don't even bother with hl2 at all because it looks poorly aged for me ngl.
While I do agree with him recommending Monolith's shooters (DO play NOLF 1 and 2 and DO play FEAR and its Extraction Point expansion (don't play Perseus Mandate or 2 or 3 they suck dicks)) this take is retarded, HL2 is perfectly fine to play in current year
It's not like HL2 is super difficult or anything, the game gives you a shit ton of health and armor boosters, the only parts I'd consider somewhat difficult are the final fights with the Striders in Follow Freeman but that level is also the last one with any real gameplay in it so it makes sense
 
In my opinion, Black Mesa and HL1 are two entirely different games that can't be compared.
What do u think @Steve?
 
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