Which is your favourite of the Half-life series?

I think my favourite has got to be the original in the way of the story line. If you feel like it, pick to favourites!

OP4 was quite good although it was a 'sequel' you could say, but it had that zing factor.

opfor all the way!!

Option 4 will get the most votes.

Why would you ever NOT include HL2 in that poll?

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting ReNo</DIV>
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Thats what I thought, maybe he just wanted ones from the original HL.

because he's so silly he FORGOT about HL2.

Technically, you could count Blue Shift and Opposing Force as a single game. If you pay attention to the games, blue shift ends around the point were opposing force begins. It's quit intelligent really; makeing the two games in such a way makes it seem reasonable that the two main charecters never see each other.

Opposing Force was good, but Blue Shift would have been better. Better if the game was longer with more better weapons. Blue shift made me feel sad, sad from the lack of plot and length.

Strangely, i like Uplink's atmosphere and gameplay more than i liked the original's. The eerie sounds, airstrikes, falling debris and the overall tension...

Technically, you could count Blue Shift and Opposing Force as a
single game. If you pay attention to the games, blue shift ends around
the point were opposing force begins. It's quit intelligent really;
makeing the two games in such a way makes it seem reasonable that the
two main charecters never see each other.

Opposing Force was good, but Blue Shift would have been better.
Better if the game was longer with more better weapons. Blue shift made
me feel sad, sad from the lack of plot and length.

Yeah, I want my hour and a half of beating it back.

Opposing Force.

You forgot Decay on the list.

The best for me is OP4. I like work in team (marines with siencists vs aliens).

Blue Shift was originally a small 'bonus' episode for the Dreamcast version of HL which unfortunately never saw the light of day. It was never intended as a stand-alone retail product, but I guess Gearbox didn't want to just stick it on a shelf to gather dust.

I liked Blueshift. I really think there went good thought in that small
add-on. Although OpFor was longer and perhaps more intense and all,
Blueshift had that... more detail to it. Not just the level design but
also the story, the gameplay. It surely could've been more and better,
longer, but as it is now I think it really is a small gem... :smile:

I liked Blue Shift the most. The puzzles seemed to be a bit more
creative, and the "old labs" section was excellent. Oh, and the
trainyard battle... Wow. OpFor was okay, but I really didn't like those
2 giant worm-things you had to fight.

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That was for the PS2 version of Half-Life only. And so you all know, the Ps2 Half-Life is a slightly tweaked version of the orginal HL -- slightly better map structure, and slightly better monster placement.
But yes, if Decay was on the list, Decay would have been my choise :smile:

The end monster in OPFOR was dissapointing. I expected an exciting fight to put my skills to the challenge. Instead, i found myself running from one laser to the other for 30 minutes. :sad: And the chapter before "Foxtrot Uniform", the one with the long one-eyed worm, is a copy of "Blast Pit" from the original .

Blue Shift was short and all, fewer enemies than the original, less weapons, much shorter. However, I liked the ending.

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<DIV class=quotetext>Blue Shift was short and all, fewer enemies than the original, less weapons, much shorter. However, I liked the ending.
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I felt the ending of the original HL should have been like that. When I beat HL for the first time, I felt like I was going to break the TV set, I hated the ending so much! :O

I think endings in games are something you are never going to please more than 50% of people with.

You forgot Decay on the list.

They (gearbox) are actually making Decay for the computer now, I think it will be on HL1 source

I reckon the original was the best in terms of storyline and gameplay. Op4 had the gameplay but the storyline was just plain vanilla (You're a soldier fighting aliens. Now that's original!). Blue Shift was just c__p. Less weapons, less monsters, less action, less storyline, not to mention it had no multiplayer (!)

Really, stop self-censoring your posts, the boards do it themselves :smile:

Not until my new RDI ray traced avatar shows up!!! I uploaded it half an hour ago, and it's still displaying my old one!!!!!

Blue Shift had less of everything, true, but the little it did, it did
well. The puzzles, set-pieces, and Xen were all well done. Level design
also seemed better in general. To me, it was also the closest to
humanizing the NPC's. The various scientists and Dr. Rosenburg seemed a
bit more real than NPC's in OpFor, where you would meet nameless
soldiers who would be left behind for a jumping puzzle. Contrast this
to Blue Shift, where Rosenburg accompanies you for several maps and
then maintains contact for the rest of the map-pack. I just feel like I
"got to know" Rosenburg better.

Plus, I'll never forget the Blue Shift disaster sequence. It's great.

My new avatar finally came up. What do you think?

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Foxpup</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>My new avatar finally came up. What do you think? </DIV></DIV>
I think it has nothing to do with this thread :razz: But looks good.

I can't vote because:

A: My HL1 disk is so scratched it can't be validated

B: I don't have any add ons

Only the Blue Shift doesn't end with the boss. That was something new in HL. I think also that HL: BS have got more detailed maps that other parts haven't.