I just beat half-life for the first time and honestly it would

i hate first game's movement. gordon literally ice skating.

>>379789427
I never noticed anything like that. Some parts of the game involved slippery floor as a hazard, but not the whole game.

>>379789225

I really liked the platforming / puzzle stuff as far as pacing goes. Long stretches of non-combat make you feel really isolated and alone. The first person platforming is janky as fuck though and the puzzles were generally as straight forward as a puzzle can get, so mechanically both aspects could have been stronger

>>379789427
I noticed it too. Press a direction button once very fast and gordon takes a thousand steps at the speed of light.

>neo /v/ plays half life for the first time and thinks his opinion is worth shit

Is Half-Life even relevant anymore? Didn't Gaben go full-Jew years ago with Steam and decide he was too good to be a game studio?

>>379789610
It was still a good game, but the repeated use of scripted events to keep the game going just gets annoying after a while. It always makes me feel like they want to stretch out the game length rather than I'm surviving against all odds against military and alien to get to the lambda complex.

>>379790006

Isn't it all the same? You're never getting Episode III anyway...

>>379789543
i'm not talking about natural slippery floors, like when you jump, gordon doesn't stop and moves like skating.
>>379789906
right, and it makes platforming and movement puzzles nightmare

>>379790006
neo /v/ can't even beat the game without the hazard suit.

>>379790053

Most games of the time were still long as fuck because pacing and narrative weren't as important, at least not in action based games. Half-Life was one of the first shooters to demonstrate how pacing and story could be integrated into the gameplay. It's aged better than a lot of games, but still it's hard to appreciate when most of the strengths of Half-Life have been replicated and improved upon by almost every western developer for 2 decades.

>>379789427
the movement in goldsource is great you fag
the only problem is lack of buffered jumps unlike quake