Re: Half-Life Turns 10
Posted by **Dedi** on Fri Dec 5th at 12:42pm 2008
I was actually going to start a thread about this thing a few days before Half-Life's birthday. However, I had some really bad problems with my account and was out for about a month before the wonderful Gwil fixed my problem.
I've read a lot about Half-Life and played it over and over and over.. and over again, and by far, the Half-Life saga is the best game series ever created in my opinion. Every time a new Half-Life game has come out, it's set a new level of standard in the game industry. I wasn't very old when Half-Life came out but I remember that it was the best damn game I ever played. When Half-Life 2 came out... god the graphics, physics, AI... everything just made my jaw drop. The satisfaction of rolling a barrel down the stairs and it behaving like real life objects and the atmosphere created by the characters in the game is what makes it so unique. It was so much more than I expected, as no other game had done such a good job prior to then. From Wikipedia: "The game has been critically praised for its advances in computer animation, sound, narration, computer graphics, artificial intelligence (AI), and physics."
I still think that Half-Life 2.. and in particular Episode Two has the most beautiful water detail by far. Also Episode Two has to be applauded for the advancement in trees and the natural world in general.
But I have taken a detour from Half-Life 1, whose succes we are celebrating in these weeks.
I sincerely hope Valve is lying about Episode Three being the final game of the saga.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALF LIFE!
ps. This should also be noted. From Wikipedia: "According to GameSpy, Half-Life 2 is the second most played online computer game (excluding MMOGs), surpassed only by Half-Life."
-It's wonderful isn't it, how Half-Life is the most played game, and it's very decendant is the second most played.
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Re: Half-Life Turns 10
Posted by Le Chief on Fri Dec 5th at 1:19pm 2008
I must agree with you **Dedi**. I think Valve could have done better with Half-Life 2 Episode 1 but I really enjoyed the original environments in Half-Life 2 Episode 2, it gets a little dull fighting in City 17 after two games and many mods.
I wonder when Valve are going to announce Episode 3, I mean now that Left 4 Dead is released I think an announcement for Half-Life 2 Episode 3 is imminent.
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Re: Half-Life Turns 10
Posted by haymaker on Mon Dec 8th at 3:12pm 2008
no
no
no
no movies pleeeeez EVER gagh
MAYBE a TV show. The games are far more entertaining than most movies I've seen anyway, by dint of their pro-level design. Some of my most memorable gaming moments are of hanging by a 10-point health thread somewhere in Black Mesa with my agitated friend beside me yelling at me to "do this ! No ! do that!"
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Re: Half-Life Turns 10
Posted by Flynn on Tue Dec 9th at 5:29pm 2008
I came to Half-Life from Tomb Raider. I loved the Half-Life graphics. I loved the attention to detail in their environments. I loved the way there were scenes were entire concrete roofs were blown down by heavy fire (bare in mind this is from someone who came from Tomb Raider, right?) 
I loved how Gordon actually pulled the old magazine out of the guns out slotted a new one in. Half-Life 2 was a big disappointment in that respect.
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Re: Half-Life Turns 10
Posted by **Dedi** on Wed Dec 10th at 12:24pm 2008
On the contrary, I think Half-Life 2 impressed just as much as Half-Life did in it's time. Go now and play through Half-Life 2, you'll find attention to detail is amazing... Another thing I find is, no matter how many times I play a Half-Life game over and over, EVERY time I'll find a secret location or a detail I missed the previous time. Right now I'm playing Half-Life 2 again, and just a few days ago I came across a hidden cave at the Dam prior to Black Mesa East, where a Vortigaunt was isolated and to access him you have to walk across toxic waste. When I got there, he was cooking a headcrab and when I approached him, he talked about the Nihilanth.. something I didn't find the previous 3-4 times I played Half-Life 2. Something new I come across amazes me every time I play a Half-Life game.. That's one of the aspects that makes them so unique and re-playable. There is not much deepnes to games nowdays, and Half-Life has retained that over the years.
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