>half-life becomes free
and? who the frick doesn't already have half-life?
why are so many people getting excited?
>half-life becomes free
>half-life becomes free
and? who the frick doesn't already have half-life?
why are so many people getting excited?
It's an arena FPS with thousands of players. Stop b***hing and start fragging.
i don't think he realizes it's not the cost, the item, the cashier, the reason, the experience...
This
I don't even know what half life means in gaming, I just know that I was here when it happened
And it was hype
it was the start of "narrative driven" linear corridor "games", which is what Half-Life is.
Just a bit of time before that there were actual games like Doom or Doom 2, with complicated level design.
Not so in Half-Life. It's corridors.
It's literally Final Fantasy XIII corridors.
>doom
>not just corridors
Ganker being moronic as usual
not nu-doom, actual doom, moron.
the doom engine can literally only do corridors you colossal moron
>this is a "corridor level"
Nice one, pretending to be moronic.
corridor level design means you put one corridor after another, so there is no confusion about where to go, aka Final Fantasy XIII, aka Half-Life.
That's not the case in Doom. Anyone saying otherwise is a liar.
half life levels feel like real places rather than abstract hallways and arenas stitched together
also doom was fricking ancient by the time half life came out, you should be comparing it to stuff like unreal and quake 2
>real places
lmao
you played it as a dumb child.
it's linear hallways, you can't get lost anywhere. One way in and one way out.
t. never actually played half life
you are the one who played it as a child and thought it was super complex, it's one way in and one way out, no mazes no way to get lost, it's made for moronic children and morons.
nah, it's a great game
>half life levels feel like real places rather than abstract hallways and arenas stitched together
The above poster is right about Valve being a cult lmao
To be fair, shit like this tickles my immersion bone like you wouldn't believe.
>with complicated level design.
You mean rooms and corridors?
right turns
Yeah, just like here
>turns left
>oh it's a dead end
Repeat until you run out of dead ends and go the way devs wanted you to.
that wouldn't actually work out in doom.
because its also getting a new update. people just love it when companies do that
I didn't because why the frick would I buy a game I played for free in 98?
Braindead underage morons.
and yeah they are keeping it in the fridge because if they made the game, it wouldn't just be a success story
post your bbs experience in the friendly community
>Uplink
>Menu looks just like at CD release
It's just the little things.
something something omething they mdae an update that corrects a lot of the decay and loss of features that the original hl experience over the last 2 decades. the game was actually inferior to play
So how badly does this update frick up existing mods?
I'm still using the WON version as mod base since I don't like these random updates.
Half Life is for people who aren't smart enough to understand Deus Ex.
>*waits 10 seconds for reticle to center*
>*shoots*
>*misses*
DAMN THIS SHOOTING IS FIRE
>not smart enough to figure out the shooting
Kinda making the anon's point.
No that's how the shooting works actually. You have to wait until the reticle centers to have "accurate" shots, maybe try playing the game you're commenting on instead of looking like a moron.
you can bypass the limitations of low skill shooting by just shooting in close quarters. the game doesn't apply a hit chance like a CRPG, its just reticle bloom like Rainbow Six. combine this with stupid AI that likes to charge blindly at your position and its a non-issue.
you dont need to be particularly smart to play deus ex. the AI is too stupid to take cover or lay down suppressing fire so combat can be cheesed by funneling enemies near a hallway and stealth is inconsequential because they likely won't cause damage.
Yeah the intellect needed to select one of 3 shitty endings.
deus ex is for morons anyways
elon musk is living proof
System Shock*
Most laughing its adding demo content that was already in the internet free just add the wacky alpha content besides ivan skin
finished it more than 10 times in the last 20 years
why does it make you angry?
With the free game i can play half payne mod right?
it's ChatGPT Steam shills.
Half-Life was never a good game. It's gimmick was the gimmick of walking simulators, which is tons of scripting, which is anti-game.
underage pls go
>it's a great game, see these explosions?
>and scientists falling over and dying
>such a great game
Where's da game play?
>you see, it's a first person platformer
Why does no one do these again?
Oh yeah, because they control like shit
>and a shooter, so I can shoot things after the script sequences are done playing
lol
>I also stand around while characters are talking, BUT DONT CALL THESE CUTSCENES, IT'S GAMEPLAY
>STANDING AROUND IS GAME PLAY
mentally ill
The only good argument against anonymity is morons like you being able to speak without ridicule
>You can't just say bad things about Valve-game
>We need to remove anonymity, so that we can kill you
mentally ill
Half-Life has sub part shooting mechanics, and terrible platforming controls and design
That makes it objectively a bad game.
Cope
Take those mechanics out of Half-Life and put it into an experience like Resident Evil 4 Mercenaries, and they would suck.
Meanwhile RE4 mechanics are properly designed and that's why mercenaries rules.
>terrible platforming controls
god it's fine. they're perfectly serviceable for the shit the game has you do.
people need to get over first person platforming. develop a sense of spacial awareness
>perfectly serviceable
lmao
no one does first person platforming, because it's garbage and a bad idea.
you are one of those people, who pretend that Last of Us game play is great, right?
>People being happy about free game makes me angry enough to make a thread
How much you loosing on the deal?
Why did they update the original instead of the definitive Source port?
Source cucks have been btfo
>continue to support going forward
what do they mean by this?
>definitive Source port
Because it fricking sucks
I personally don't give a frick, but I'm happy for all three of the vidya boomers who are having the time of their lives replaying their old favorite.
I hope they give TF2 the same courtesy one day...
30k people apparently
Half-Life's good and all, but much like Super Mario 64 or Doom II, I think people should really try to branch out into the modding scene, what with all of the fanmade campaigns and TCs.
Yeah, I thought so too
>it's good it's free but who DOESN'T have HL1 in 2023
>check store page
>barely half of friendlist have that game
>not on game pass
filtered
i dont buy games, im not a cuck
>Mommy and Daddy bought me all my games now I refuse to pay for them everything should be free
>literally bought half life 1 a couple months ago
>Gave my original steam account away like 15 years ago
>New one didn't have Half Life 1
>Get it
Now the base game is dogshit but maybe with some modding it can be a worthwhile pickup
most of Ganker wasn't even alive when hl1 came out
*sigh*
Should I?
install Echoes and play it instead
>free game on Epic
>:|
>free game on steam
>:O
I can't go back to vanilla HL after having played with bhl. Dual wield, kick and more detailed gore are just too kino.
>shotgun doesn't have semi auto alt fire
>kick is blatantly OP
>not compatible with other mods
Mod discarded
>shotgun doesn't have semi auto alt fire
But it does.
>kick is blatantly OP
You are confusing this with HL2 SMOD, the kick does about as much as the crowbar, but is slower.
>But it does.
It's still the stupid double shot with single pump that never made sense.
>the kick does about as much as the crowbar
It's not about the damage, it's that it knocks any monster on their ass and it takes them forever to get up.
>brutal-
If only it was properly finished and didn't crash evry other level.No Xash3d doesn't solve all crashes
>No Xash3d doesn't solve all crashes
Almost all of them, I don't remember having many if any at all in my last playthrough
There are certain explosive barrels/boxes that always trigger a crash on some levels. It generally likes to crash with explosions and/or when a lot of decals are drawn when you gib a lot of monsters with one explosion. I just had to learn to not touch some of those and for the most part it was fine, still frustrating tho.
Because Valve is a cult, just like Apple. The followers of the cult go crazy about "muh first Valve giveaway for a 1998 game nearly everyone has already played and finished ten times" like it's some kind of mega event. Meanwhile, these same followers go dead silent when Epic gives away hundreds of AAA titles.
valve cult VS anti-valve cult
>it's a cult when you call a shitty corporation out for the shit they made, and for the loot boxes and gambling and season passes
lol
Its a cult when you make daily threads seething about a 25 year old game
Its a cult when you spam every thread no matter how tangentially related to Valve about how they cancelled Artifact
It's a cult when you assume anyone who says anything bad about anything related to Valve is one singular guy on an autistic crusade.
>when you make threads
>you
>when you spam threads, like artifact
>you
>everyone saying anything bad about Valve is one person
mentally ill cultist
the autist who seethes about half life every day is really melting down over the anniversary
turns out his years long campaign to prove nobody ever like half life was all for nothing
>there is no way that multiple people call Half-Life shit
>it has to be one guy only!!!
The is one guy here who has been making anti half life threads for years everyday
his calling card is linking to old posts from forums as proof nobody ever liked half life and a big sign you're arguing with him is when he goes on about how much more advanced doom is than half life, and if it werent for valve shooters would just be new maps for doom 2 even to this day
>it's all one guy
>no, I'm not mentally ill
>it's one guy, everyone else loves Valve for sure
>there is no way that it's multiple posters
how would you describe this behavior
and this is just one of the repeat threads he has been making for years
Your screenshot shows a guy talking about HL2
He's obsessed with something called "Dvach".
He spams underage buzzwords like cope and seethe. Meanwhile the OP of this thread types in all lower case, uses greentext, and is talking about a completely different game. He also isn't stating an opinion regarding HL1's quality.
You seem like the schizo this time buddy
>its all in your head
>there has never been a dedicated mental case spamming Ganker for years
>half life was always hated
Did you even read my post? ESL subhuman have a nice day
The spammer's nickname is Alf by the way. Because he accidentally called the game Alf Life in one of his OPs before. Which means he types this shit by hand every time instead of just copy pasting.
that could have been you, false flagging legit critique.
You do realize Trespasser, Tribes, and Quake all came out the same year as Half Life, right?
>Quake
Meant to write Unreal haha
>nobody ever liked half life
show us the posts where "that person" says that in this thread.
I myself see that there are morons that keep on pretending that it's a great game, although it's objectively not. There are also people that call Last of Us the best game every made, although that's also not the case, that one also has shit game play. It's all narrative experiences, they try to be a movie, although they should be games.
And Half-Life started with this shit, and that's why it needs to be called out for setting a trend.
>And Half-Life started with this shit, and that's why it needs to be called out for setting a trend.
nah. it didnt set the trend, it was part of it. the march towards linearity and scripted sequences started with Duke Nukem 3D, and other shooters that came out in 1998 like Shogo and SiN had mostly linear levels with tons of scripted sequences BEFORE half-life.
why? turns out running around in arbitrary mazes searching for arbitrary switches and keys isnt as fun as just giving players shit to shoot and explosions to look at. simple as. want first-person exploration? play something that actually does it well, like a Looking Glass game.
No, it was THE narrative telling story game
Before Half-Life, there were only actual games with actual game play, like Quake, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, etc.
>but but adventure games
not first person shooter shit
and plenty of adventure games do story telling well. Half-Life doesn't.
Do you people really think if it wasnt for Half Life shooters would still be nothing but Quake maps 25 years later?
Without Steam PC gaming may still be alive too.
Anyway the point is that Half-Life is a bad game and started with walking simulators, that are spectacle, but no game play.
Also see the cutscenes, where developers pretend that it's not cutscenes. But you are locked into a room and have to wait for shitty dialogue to play out, wasting your time. It's not skippable either.
In good games, all of that trash would be at least skippable, or at least it would be entertaining.
Listening to 2 homosexuals talking to another is not entertaining, it's boring and shit. And just because you can still move the camera doesn't make it not a cutscene.
next time play the game for more than 20 minutes
Is having to stop for 30 seconds once every few hours in a 10 hour game really worth crying over for the last 25 years?
>Half-Life is a bad game and started with walking simulators, that are spectacle, but no gameplay
Did we play the same game? You can't go more than a couple of minutes without shooting something. Who am I kidding, you're probably just looking for (You)s like every other miserable bastard on this site. Here's another for good measure: (You).
i think the reason why Half-Life gets the blame is because parroting the narrative that it created linearity is a lot easier. looking at the big picture
requires you to play most of the classics and analyze how theyre designed.
>Also see the cutscenes, where developers pretend that it's not cutscenes. But you are locked into a room and have to wait for shitty dialogue to play out, wasting your time. It's not skippable either.
if thats your only reason why you dislike half-life, i have good news. that only happens 3 times in the entire game.
>Listening to 2 homosexuals talking to another is not entertaining, it's boring and shit. And just because you can still move the camera doesn't make it not a cutscene.
thats the second. the third happens in Lambda Core. if you have the patience to play the rest of the game then you might have a good time. :^)
Rape victim opinion. Doom is reddit and spawned a ton of reddit hipsters who love their hecking groomer shooters.
>good level design isn't fun
>it should be all linear corridors/tunnels that I walk through and watch scripted spectacle
lol
I bet you love GTA5
>Duke Nukem 3D
Actually had fantastic gameplay and also complicated levels, you fricking liar.
Duke had levels like Doom. They weren't corridors.
this whole anniversary thing really got the seething zoomers coming out of the woodwork lmao
what causes this level of derangement for years on end
>buy HL1 for $50 on release
>25 years later
>money stolen
for me it's pressing the detonation button on crossfire
I bought Half-life source because I thought it was the better version since it was newer. Nice to finally play the intended experience.
What is it about this game that so consistently makes zoomers froth at the mouth in anger?
Does Half Life qualify as an RPG?
I have a friend who's adamant he can't get into it because of the old graphics. Says that he can't roleplay as gordon if the graffix sux
because it means the online will be alive for a few weeks?
I just pirated it instead. I hate steam.
That's fine but you're missing the classic view bobbing and lighting
Heres your complex level design that was forever ruined by Half Life
>first level
nice try there zoomer gay
it's all the new stuff with the update that people are excited about
It's almost 25th anniversary. Only really aged Steam veterans own HL1 these days. Blue Shift? Kids only know Gearbox from Anthony Burch's Memelands or Tiny Tina-not from Half-Life: Blue Shift.
FEELING OLD YET?