is it just me or does half life (apart from being gr8!) actually make no sense?

Does any1 out der actually know wat de storylines 2 hl and hl2 r all about?

I think sumth1ng hpnd 2 GORDON $0.00-man + he 1/2 2 kill aliens + all da udder tings

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Basically what happened in half-life is that you apparently 'cause' a residence cascade. This how all the monsters came to earth. Your basically trying to escape the Black Mesa Facility alive, running away from the monsters and the government forces (hgrunt.....)

Its a very basic, singular story.

edit: your a new face. Welcome to snarkpit :biggrin: .

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<DIV class=quotetext>Basically what happened in half-life is that you apparently 'cause' a residence cascade. This how all the monsters came to earth. Your basically trying to escape the Black Mesa Facility alive, running away from the monsters and the government forces (hgrunt.....)

Its a very basic, singular story.

edit: your a new face. Welcome to snarkpit :biggrin: .

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to clarify you

thats a funny picture. but if you are trying to say that half life is better than master cheif your wrong

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i like drinking coke with my pizza

no your rong mastre cheif suxors

master cheif is much cooler. that picture is just something some nerd made. everybody who plays halo are busy and have more important things to do then make dumb pictures.

here is my picture

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i like drinking coke with my pizza

lol

edit: here's a more age appropriate picture for you

white said:
master cheif is much cooler. that picture is just something some nerd made. everybody who plays halo are busy and have more important things to do then make dumb pictures.

OMG, dont say I didn't warn you.

But lol at the sponge bob picture. Did you do that yourself?

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i wish, cause its genius

If my chair weren't so damn comfortable when I sit in it, I would've literally ROFLed.

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This is actually a pretty good explanation of stuff within Half-Life 2, and if you keep reading and link to the other pages listed on that one, you'll find out some really cool stuff about the Combine presence in the original Half-Life, and why there not so new to the scene after all.

Did I intrigue anyone?

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That sponge bob Gordon is pure gold, gold I say!

I have never played Halo, I have no intention of playing it any time soon, and I can quite confidently say that Half-Life is superior in every direction.

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everybody who plays halo are busy and have more important things to do then make dumb pictures.

Ohhh god, ohh god this is just too easy....someone stop me!

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riven said:
Did I intrigue anyone?

Yeah me, I love this sorta stuff.

B.Ballblue said:
I have never played Halo, I have no intention of playing it any time soon, and I can quite confidently say that Half-Life is superior in every direction.

Lets just say this. Halo and Half-life are both extremely popular games, both have sold millions of copies, both are very good games, halo and halo 2 both received 10/10 and half-life and half-life 2 got 96%, which is a 10/10 , and both have extremely large fan bases, it up to you weather you like both of them or only one.

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Ain't nothing wrong with Halo, infact I greatly enjoyed Halo1 singleplayer on legendary. It's right up there with Goldeneye as the best console fps.

The problem is when people claim it's the best fps ever, or a better game than any of the fps classics on the pc, or that it's revolutionary. Cause it just isn't. It would maybe crack the top 10 in the list of best fps ever, but it is not qualitatively better than Half-Life1, Quake1, Jedi Knight1, Doom2, or Unreal Tournament 99 at least :dorky: (and I'm not even mentioning games I personally don't care about but could probably be argued for like Deus Ex, System Shock, Tribes1, Rainbow Six, Duke Nukem...)

And this isn't a dig at you aaron, it's just that it's pretty easy to find 'Halo is the best most revolutionary FPS ever' all over the internet, which annoys fps fans who have played the aforementioned games, cause it sure as s**t isn't. Which is why many times long time pc fps players will be pretty negative towards Halo (and its fans) :shocked:

Thanks for that Yak_fighter :smile: . It has all become clear now.

It really all comes down to ones generation.

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I knew it! Why would they hold our national grammar rodeo in another nation?

Other excellent quotes from that episode:

You are as we say in Latin a "dorkus malorkus"

and also

Well, you sure don't look 18, but your unlaminated, out of state drivers licence is good enough for me!

master cheif is much cooler. that picture is just something some nerd made. everybody who plays halo are busy and have more important things to do then make dumb pictures.

Bloody halo zealots...

Seriously, halo isn't THE best game ever made, there is no need for you (and others) to try and force it down our throats, you act as if we were inferior beings because we don't worship master chief like some sort of divine god.

http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=57998

Eat your heart out you two.

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Halo + Jet Li + Dragon Ball Z + incredibly bland environment = meh.

See I used math.

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I really liked the character development of Quake and HL1.

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The best First Person Shooter ever made for any system is Descent. Not even Half-Life can touch the old-school bad ass that is Descent. Before you call this fanboyism, remember, fanboys only like new games. :rolleyes:

@omegaslayer
Wow, it's like a super awesome Master Chief went up against a regular Samus Aran. Then other stuff happens. When "The End" shows up on the screen, watch where Samus's hand goes. :dodgy:
Not that I don't think you all could've figured it out on your own. :rolleyes:

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six degrees of freedom = not my fps

lets burn the heathen!

Hey now, I enjoyed Descent. It's a pitty that the original game had such horrible difficulty -- the chaingunner robot can destroy a fully armed ship with 200% shields in a about 2-3 seconds or so :/

And yes, Level 7 had the most rediculous boss fight of all time.

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The only thing I remember when thinking of Decent is that I felt motion sick when playing it... and ugly graphics.

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OtZman said:
The only thing I remember when thinking of Decent is that I felt motion sick when playing it... and ugly graphics.

Descent is the only game I've ever played that gave me motion sickness.

And G.ballblue I was making a joke you doofus.

gwil said:
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I knew it! Why would they hold our national grammar rodeo in another nation?

Other excellent quotes from that episode:

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quote:</DIV>
<div class="quotetext">You are as we say in Latin a "dorkus malorkus"
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and also

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quote:</DIV>
<div class="quotetext">Well, you sure don't look 18, but your unlaminated, out of state drivers licence is good enough for me!
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</div></div>

, I know that episode now.

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OtZman said:
The only thing I remember when thinking of Decent is that I felt motion sick when playing it... and ugly graphics.

Descent is the only game I've ever played that gave me motion sickness.

Ok, it's not a game so much as a TV show, but MTV Cribs.

Any game that gives someone motion sickness gets a gold star in my book.

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I wouldnt call Descent an FPS, its closer to a sim or something.

In any case, it is total win. I remember playing it for hours and collapsing as soon as I finished it.

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It's in the first person, and it's a shooter.

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so is X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Freelancer, every combat flight sim ever made, and all the Mechwarriors + crappy knockoffs

:cool:

I think of mechwarrior as a First Person Shooter, why wouldn't it be? You're restricted to limited movement along the Z axis (unless you get a very light mech with nothing but jump jets).

I draw the line at where the player is allowed to fly (Descent 3 was pushing it). In Descents 1&2, you were restricted mostly to small rooms, as well as most of Descent 3. TIE fighter let you go pretty much whereever you wanted.
The ceiling constitutes a limit on Z movement as far as I'm concerned.

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Mechwarrior has much more in common with a tank sim than a fps, at least in my eyes. You have objective-based missions, you never pick up any weapon or ammo during those missions, you have to worry about damage to specific sections of your chassis, you have to customize your loadout before the mission, combat is slow paced and maneuverability and positioning is as important as anything else. Obviously all those spaceship games I mentioned were space sims. I'd classify Descent as an action 'sim' myself.

sigh, almost all of my favorite games of my youth are in the dead simulation genre. No wonder I hate almost every game released these days and can't stand any of the current console generation, they have zero depth . What I wouldn't give for a new Mechwarrior!

What I wouldn't give for Mechwarriors 2 and 3 with 4's graphics!
Great, now I want to play them all, I guess I'll have to dig up MW3.

By the way, which game or expansion did you think was the best out of all the Mechwarriors?

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You guys are seriously making me want to track down the original MW games and play them :/ I actualy have a copy of MW1, but our old Win95 computer didn't have powerful enough hardware to run it. And well, I couldn't get the thing to run on WinXP.

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I thought Mechwarrior 2 Mercs was the best. Sadly I can't get my copy running on my computer

Maybe this will help I can't seem to find anything for the first Mechwarrior ... not even people talking about it, everything starts at Mechwarrior 2. Does the first one suck unbelievable amounts of ass?

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

This might make it a tad too easy for most.

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You want the whole HL Saga?

It makes perfect sense if you know the WHOLE story.

Go here...

http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/index.htm

Whole time line is there. Including all the stuff you probably don't know about.