Which Half Life was better?

>>380057447
uno

>>380057447
Both were good in different ways. The first is my favourite.

>>380057447
right now, i want to give it to two.

there is alot of hype with hl2 being the best game ever, retarded pc gamer claims this.

ive played a good deal of shooters and I think the game has very solid mechanics and has extremely good level design. But there are games that do other things well (i.e. borderlands for co-op, ss2 for story etc).

half life one is not as crisp of a game but i thought it has better designed and intricate missions.

>>380057447

half life 1

both were amazing though
but HL1 was mindblowing.

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>>380057447
They're both good.

However I'm going to be controversial and say Half Life 2 is just about better. It has nothing as bad or as damaging to the game as Xen

>>380057447
the one that isnt fuckin hl2

>>380057447
1
But they're both great in different ways

>>380060010
>bad or as damaging
>xen
lol wut

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>>380057447
I wasn't a gamer when 1 came out, so I wasn't there to experience that hype. But 2 really did blow me away. It didn't help that the hype train was in full motion too. Either way, a great series that ended for no good fucking reason. And no, shitting on your fan base to move your business into microtransactions and online multiplayer cash grabs isn't a good reason.

hl2 wasn't that great, episodes were really good though

>>380060010
I don't get why people dislike Xen so much. Aside from the kinda boring platforming it's pretty much just another HL level, some enemies, some easy puzzles. And honestly i liked that they actually showed where the aliens came from. Are people just too stupid to preform the jumps? Were the level's boring to them? Would they rather go into another concrete hallway? It was a nice change pace if anything, people should just stop complaining. I played the game a year after release, and none of my friends or people i talked to about the game ever complained about it, it must have been the people from the post Halo era that started this trend of shitting on the Xen levels.

>>380057447
The first one without music.

It's also more canonical to play Half-Life without music anyways, since music can't be canonical to anything ever over at all.

>>380061815
Are you legitimately autistic?

>>380057447
>HL2
>A literal straight line.

Fucking disgusting.

>>380062059
>Are you legitimately autistic?

You have to deal with it

>>380057447
HL1 had god like spooky atmosphere
HL2 also had god like spooky atmosphere

Fucking can't decide between both but maybe HL2 for the graphics and physics at the time.

>>380061072
Episodes sucked, Alyx is a shitty character and makes the games way less enjoyable.

>>380061695
Xen was fucking epic. People just find the weakest part and bitch about it i.e. the textures were just crazy but fun cool.

>>380057447
you should probably put them in the same scale and notice that hl1 is ALSO a straight line throughout the entire game.

>>380061072
Episode 1 was a bore. They should have just made a part two with both episodes in it.

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>>380062261
>both games are linear
>HL2's journey stretches across multiple locations while HL1 takes place all within the same facility for the most part
>"wow I can't fucking believe it, it's LITERALLY a straight line what the fuck valve"
Of all the things you could complain about in HL2, this is what you go with?

>>380062261
They're both linear games dumbfuck, it's just that HL1 has more verticality because the game is set in a compound, while HL2 is about tarvelling on vehicles

>>380057447
Hl1 has not aged well. Hl2 on the other hand looks and plays fucking beutifully on a 144hz display

HL2 looks straighter because it is longer, you idiots.

Look at the maps scales, the HL2 map is significantly downsized compared to HL1, on the image.

Does Mesa count

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HL2 had the floatiest fucking guns ever. How did they fuck it up so badly? HL1 had snappy weapons that made your dick hard

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>>380061815
I absolutely love the OST of the games but for some reason the musics wouldn't play on my cd copy of Half-life 1.
I was 10 at that time and scared af.

>>380063940
Pretty much the reason I can't replay HL2 or the episodes.

It has the lamest fucking guns in FPS history.

>>380063073
Well for such a large variety of locations, it sure seemed like a large hallway, with unique decorum along the way. HL1 took place inside one facility, but you explored every nook and cranny of it, going trough plenty of different areas, labs, silos, outside parking lots, destroyed war zones, storage facilities. If you ever saw the same place twice in HL1, it was most likely a large area with a multitued of paths around it. HL2 just put you into a hallway with texture and skybox changes, the level design was uninspired and boring. Well aside from the city 17 bit's, i kinda enjoyed those.

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>>380057447
Third one.
Such a fucking joke.

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1 for sure.
>>380061072
Episode 2 impressed me, especially with the car/walker valley section and Eli talking about G-Man.
1 was a bore.

>>380063940
i loved using the pistol and i didnt give a fuck about the damage
i also loved the sound of it

>>380064314
My favourite HL2 chapters are Anticitizen One and Nova Prospekt for their heavy NPC vs NPC combat. And I also loved the Citadel. Everything else was fucking shit.

>>380064565
>implying it will ever come out

All Half-Life projects are cursed

>>380057447
That pic is actually neat.
There overhead stuff like this for episode 1, 2, and the HL1 remake Black Mesa game?

>>380059574
>Borderlands 2
Reddit is over there buddy.

Half-Life 1, no contest.
HL2 is boring shit. Episode 1 is even worse. But Episode 2 is better than HL2.

>HL2e3
>HL3
>TF3
>Portal3

NEVER

Adam Foster needs to come back.

He's the guy who designed Minerva: Metastasis and he's a genius of linear level design.

>>380057447
I lobe them both, but I have replayed 1 about 10 times. I have only played through 2 twice.

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HL1 is a better game by miles, it's so well paced and the Xen levels are an enormous curveball of the sort that few FPS, then or now, have the balls to pull out -- the only other one that springs to mind is Marathon 1 which isn't nearly as effective. You can tell they were sort of going for the same thing with the Citadel in HL2 but it doesn't fundamentally pull the rug out from under you the same way. Xen owns and the fact that people still claim today that it was terrible is a testament to how shook it makes the player. It rips you right out of your comfort zone and slams you down in alien purgatory. If Black Mesa is ever finished and does a good job with Xen, it'll be hands down the best game in the whole series.

HL2 has a lot of problems but they're not really what the OP's pic would lead you to think. HL2 isn't more linear than HL1 in any meaningful sense and while its levels are less economically arranged, I could not tell you the level design is its weakness. Some of the real problems are: its weapons fall into two camps: weak as fuck so you never want to use it, and ammo-hungry as fuck so you can never use it when you want to; Alyx is a god damn plague who never shuts up, wastes the players time, and might as well have a giant neon LOVE ME sign blinking on her forehead at all times for how subtle her "characterization" is; the clumsiness with which vehicles are integrated into the game (they fucking suck to drive and encourage the player NOT TO SHOOT THINGS WHICH IS THE PURPOSE OF THE GAME, it's straight up worse experience than Halo 1, which by that point had been out for 3 years); tedious rehashes of puzzle types from the first game that weren't great to begin with (oh look the water is electrified, better turn it off. oh look you can use barrels to float a platform up to make a bridge. oh look there are unreachable snipers in this zone, better lob a grenade in their windows. whoopdefuckindoo); light, O2, and sprint all drawing from the same slow battery.