Half-Life 1 appreciation thread. Let's remind ourselves

They're waiting for you, Gordon.
In the TEST chamberrrrrrrrrrrr

HL 1 is overrated, it aged terribly

Is Black Mesa something I should be throwing my money at?

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Do you guys have the whole game in your head? I thought I did but not as well as pic related kek.

>>388332587
i fucking love opposing force

>>388332587
I was stuck in one of early chapters. HL1 difficulty is very poorly designed compared to genius works such as Dark Souls.

>>388332938
Wrong. It's still far more competent than most games in every single aspect.

>>388333106
Just started it. The textures are really muddy, even more than in the base game. Is there any way to change them?

>>388332953
im not autistic enough to have any game map like that memorized
jesus fucking christ thats impressive

http://www.svencoop.com/

Do it now.

>>388332938
nah it aged fine

it's got that nice quake style movement that most modern games don't have
it was responsive and nice
modern games are so sluggish, there's this weird slow acceleration that just feels terrible

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>>388332587
The Specialists
Jaykin Bacon Source
Firearms Mod
Natural Selection
Zombie Panic
Brainbread
Action Half-Life
Counter Strike
Sven Co-op

Half Life had the second best multiplayer mod scene. Q2 being the first.

>>388333219

Goldscr is based on the Quake engine so the same cvar that is used to get rid of texture blurriness should work in HL1 too

>>388332938
wrong, I played it for the first time 2-3 years ago and loved every minute of it

>>388333118
I find the exploration of the inner motivations and humanity of Gordon's crowbar to be poorly developed and does not make the player feel anything unlike genius works such as Nier Automata.

>>388332941
I second this question. I was just looking at it on steam. I'm a huge fan of the original.

>>388333448
>The Specialists
>Brainbread
>Sven Co-op

mah nigga

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>>388333476
>>388333219
its impossible to fix the textures unless you're in software mode because all non power of 2 textures are resized in the openGL renderer

>>388333481
always one of you.

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>>388333621

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is there anything like goldsrc night aesthetics

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>>388333881

what's that echoey sound effect that a lot of sounds use
like footsteps and stuff

>>388333881
Tsh-nnn-nnn-nnn-nnn-nnn-boop

>>388332938
>HL 1 is overrated, it aged terribly

That's pretty fucking hilarious when you look at Black Mesa.

Half Life was so ahead of it's time that people can take this 20 year old game, update the graphics a bit and it works as a functional modern game

Which of you faggots did this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRSF4T9mhhs

>>388333563
>>388332941
I've played through it, and it's pretty good. No xen yet still

>>388334149
>>388333917
very nice

>>388334409

its crappy and very comfy at same time. Something about those skyboxes...

>>388335470
probably because they were made for 640x480/800x600 resolution

Launching the rocket in On a Rail.

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Nova Prospect was the best level right?

>>388335907
One of the best. Game really picks up after Nova Prospect.

>>388335907
i may be a nostalgiafag, but every half life levels are amazing, maybe C17 levels did not really feel like a city to me but meh

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Valve to fix the Steam version of HL1, utterly regressed from the 98 release

>No Shadows
>Textures filtered twice, when they were no designed with no filtering in mind
>No surround sound
>Worse lighting, missing Overbright
>No Headbobing, or at least an option for it
>Gimped Strafe jumping, because gotta go slow
>Steampipe breaks most mods

It's sad people buying it on Steam don't experience the real thing

>>388336535
First level in 2 was kind of mediocre because all you have is a crowbar and a pistol but it starts to pick up from there real quick. Game becomes a 10/10 at ravenholm

>>388336619
just downloaded this to hopefully play the old versions of the game
https://forums.sourceruns.org/index.php?topic=2702

>>388336619
>Valve to fix the Steam version of HL1, utterly regressed from the 98 release
what?

>>388336690
also half-life had bunny hopping not strafe jumping

>>388336770
*need to

But they won't
Since 2013 Half Life 2 characters don't even blink outside of scripted events, still haven't fixed it

>>388336685
Honestly, HL2 is one that really hasn't aged. I find all of lat game city 17 a slodge, there's just something so dull and annoying about fighting the combine soldiers. There are a lot of great moments, but the whole thing has lost it's luster to me now and I'm someone who replays through hl1 at least once a year as that game really does have it.

>>388333356
This, goldscript got crazy polished through the years, since 2013 we have raw mouse input and no fps cap, still play vanilla hlDM till this day, not much worse than q3a/live really.

>>388336956
I'm the opposite. I find Half life 1 hard to playthrough because of how boring it is visually. And 2 to me is amazing to replay. It's one of the few games I make sure to replay every winter. I also am extremely fond of the amount of level variety in 2. One level you're racing through the swampy canals and another you are fighting off zombies and headcrabs in an abandoned town.

I don't think either HL1 or HL2 have aged. Kind of a pointless conversation, they're both pretty much the same game if you want to look at it abstractly.

is there a mod that skips the first half hour of HL1?

>>388337318
a bullet to the head ought to mod up your brain in just the way you need to make that first 3 0 MIN bearable.

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>>388332587
You fags will argue about anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrACoP5Rehg
comfiest engine

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>>388332587
GoldSrc best Source

>>388337492
I like the left better but I think it might just be nostalgia. The right looks okay too.

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>>388337554
>all this nostalgia

>>388332953
I can somewhat recall Dark Souls' map from memory, but only in terms of retracing it by walking through it in my head, but I guess that's how it would be for most. I'm pretty sure I got it decently accurate for the major areas, but the small tunnels in some parts like valley of drakes->darkroot is a bit iffy in terms of height differences. It sort of helps that I've speedrunned the game a bunch so it's pretty etched in my head as it is, just a matter of retracing steps to actually build up a coherent map mentally. Could probably not recreate that on paper nearly as well as that though, breddy gud.

>>388337318
you mean first 5 minutes there's a command you can skip the intro.

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>>388332953
Not even close, but the amount of times my friends died in Sven coop helped me memorize Anomalous materials through On a Rail.

>>388332953
I think I only have poor memory of Residue Processing. I hate that chapter.

>>388338542

Half-Life made me want to go to New Mexico.

>>388336619
>No Shadows
There are shadows, both NPC and buildings
>Textures filtered twice, when they were no designed with no filtering in mind
Don't understand the problem with this
>No surround sound
False, there is definitely surround sound
>Worse lighting, missing Overbright
Might be true, I remember that lighting was better on my old computer than a modern system
>No Headbobbing, or at least an option for it
I hate headbobbing, but you can use the console to customize headbobbing if you didn't know
>Gimped Strafe jumping, because gotta go slow
False, I can bunnyhop just fine on the campaign
>Steampipe breaks most mods
Definitely true, couldn't finish hazard course because of this

Half Life on Steam is fine except for modding since Steampipe

>>388336956

yeah that was biggest letdown for me in hl2, especially because 2003 E3 show had those couple smooth videos with streetfighting going on at city17 and strider attack on rebels.

What we got instead wasn't an open city square with striders crawling out of streetcorners, but a forced maze going through the messy and unaesthetic ruins. Striders just stumbled around in distance, feeling more like moving turrets than menacing alien war machine.

The another video with streetfights going on and barney fighting along your side turned into boring zombie fighting through an apartment complex.

I admit the hl2 beta videos were scripted as hell but I wouldn't have minded those scripted sequences as long as they would've transferred into solid gameplay after

>>388338586
It's a cool chapter because of all the water and conveyor belts. It's a nice change of pace from shooting shit in my opinion because you don't have many weapons at that part.

>>388338630
what mod

>>388337307
Wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCv12q6fFI

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>>388338861
Condition zero, I repost some from here twitter com/dot_bsp

>>388339074
Do you really have to shill your shit every chance you get? You sound like a smug asshole who loves the smell of his own farts. Fuck off kiddo.

>>388339074
>Quod erat demonstrandum, motherfuckers! I know, the truth hurts.
too reddit for me
no fun allowed

>>388339074
>if a sequel is not 100% the same as it's predecessor it's not good

>>388332938
But that's straight up not true. I played it for the first time a few years ago, and replaying it always feels fine. It's a really smooth game, the only thing that's aged poorly are the graphics.

>>388339160
thanks, anon.

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>>388339160

>>388339074

this helium voiced guy is right on some things but he keeps whining about same shit through the video "boo hoo there are awkward pauses and dialogue you can't participate" "boo hoo you start on the train that is pandering to fans boo hoo"

Those kind of things may feel annoying or unfunny but they are no way defining the game

>>388338849
The conveyor belts are terrible. Especially when you finally notice how to get out after going 5 rounds and then find out last moment the tiny hole you go out through has been strapped with tripwires and you have no way to pop them without taking damage

>>388332938
Just replayed it today


Nope

Get taste. Your meme is dead.

>>388333356
>play HL last year for the first time (actually played it earlier but didnt get that far).
>move around
>cum buckets from the nice speed they give you
I was so used to COD slowass movement with sprinting having always sprint, no iron sights to slow you down, and jsut insane movement speed was a breath of fresh air.

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>>388339701

>>388332953
I have it in my head well enough to notice that this image has the Interloper maps in the wrong order.
It's still a very nice image though, I don't think I could draw a map like that from my memory in such detail.

>>388332938
Played it up to 'Apprehension' last night for the first time in years. Better than most everything else out there now.

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>>388340009

>>388332587
Should I finish my 4th HL2 playthrough or start the series over?

Just got to Ravenholme earlier this year with the former.

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>>388340207

>>388333448
Earth's Special Forces
Gunman Chronicles (not a mod but based on HL)
They Hunger
Cry of Fear
Afraid of Monsters
HL had probably the healthiest modding scene ever

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>>388332587
>yfw you realize the scale of Black Mesa incident

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iu4GXUHfU0

>>388340207
holy crap this looks almost exactly like a map from no more room in hell

>>388332941
you can still download the orginal free version from their website... probably

team fortress classic, science and industry those days will never come back. I remember being in my mid to late teens just playing away the days on custom maps, nothing will recapture that feel of such digital worlds. Wish i had tried more mods after seeing >>388333448

counter strike was ok too for what it was

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Where is that Sven co-op server?

HL 1 is still a fun thrilling experience. Can't really say this about HL 2. In some places it doesn't feel like a game but like an ad for Valve's SOURCE engine. Look at all the cool stuff it can do, please licence our engine! The guns were nerfed for some reason, the maps don't feel as interesting. The driving sequences feel forced and the maps you drive in are mostly barren. Forced meme jokes from the start to create a more "cohesive" narrative that falls flat on its face. Lame physics showcase puzzles. Don't feel like going through everything.

I never liked HL1 that much, 2 was great though.

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>>388340339

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>>388340981

>>388333621
>>388333881
>>388333965

How the fuck do I get my steam copy looking like this?

Or at the very least my CD copy?

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>>388340703
there are weekly quakeworld team fortress games every friday night
worth checking out if you liked TFC

>>388341134
Software mode in Steam version, but there's limited resolution and no anti aliasing.

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>>388341038

>>388341134
software mode or xash3d

anyone know where i can get a detailed guide to getting xash3d working on nvidia shield
or even just getting xash3d setup up at all?

>>388332941
If you're a big fan of Half-life, it has a lot of neat details that you'll appreciate. It has its flaws too, but overall I find it worth playing.

>>388340546
Yeah, their website still links to ModDB and some other sites that have their free release. The paid release will have Xen, but since that's still not finished, I'm not sure if there's currently a big difference between the free version and the paid version.

>>388341295
>>388341393
cheers boys

Gonna play sven coop

add me on steam
paypaytr

guys play half payne

>>388335907
Not a single part of this game was enjoyable.

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>>388341296

>>388342054
Ravenholm.

>>388341153

I love action quake & action half-life. Hard to explain why but they simply feel pure shooters and its pseudo-realism hits right in the nerve.

I also love how their original goal was to "bring you action movie experience without cost of the ticket!" Thats something from the old world

>>388342054
I liked vehicle sections

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>>388342236
most quake 2 mods feel like that

>>388342054
all of it was fun

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>>388342134

There are people who love Half-Life and can't stand Half-Life 2... but what do these boring losers think about Portal?

Let's hear your best and most futile iconoclast arguments. I want to hear your reasoning for being the way you are.

>>388342054
Contrarianism never ends on this site.
Ravenholm, Nova Prospect, Entanglement Anti Citizen One and The Citadel are fucking amazing

>>388339074
This kid really gets it, the vastness and mystery of black mesa is what makes hl1 cool (portal steals this), the dystopian 1984 wannabe city17 of hl2 really fails to capture the magic. He's also right about the intro, its like reddit top comments.

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>>388342054
you're mad cause it didn't have cutscenes anon ?

This game isn't fun on hard. Once you reach the part where you are fighting marines it becomes a Lazer battle.

half-life source is unironically my favorite version of half-life

>>388332587
It was fucking awful, the black mesa remake was at least

>>388343032
how can you unironically enjoy such a lazy port

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>>388342554

>>388342601
Portal 1 was a fantastic short experiment. It is original but also not very long.
Portal 2 is a good game, which may be a little too wacky on many occasions. The idea that Portal 2 and HL1 are in the same universe is bizarre and jarring.

>>388343127
>The idea that Portal 2 and HL1 are in the same universe is bizarre and jarring.
why do you think this?

>>388343101
I like the flashlight.

>>388343198

He is likely referring to the tonal differences between the two games. Portal is goofy to the point where the few characters the games do have are very eccentric to comedic effect. Half-Life is not completely devoid of humor but it's hard to imagine those characters in the same universe.

>>388333138
>>388333481
>>388339417
>bullet sponge enemies
See, right off the bat, you're wrong
Or is it fine when HL1 does it?

>>388343198
Why do I think a game about silly robots playing around is bizarre in contrast to a serious genocide/invasion plot?

>>388343467
fair enough but there are so many other issues with the port i can't agree
and then they started charging for it

halo 1 is better

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>>388343715

The only redeeming quality to that horrible franchise is the multiplayer.

Are there any movies with the same feel as Half-Life 1? Hard science fiction, being set in an enclosed location, same New Mexico setting etc

>>388343494
>>388343602
because the entire portal games take place inside the aperture science laboratory, which is completely isolated from the entire world? also all of the dialogue in the games is made from people from before the invasion. from before people even knew what was going on.

>>388343813
Halo Combat Evolved has better:

Weapon design and balance
A.I.
Action/fire fights
Vehicles {This isn't saying much because Half-Life doesn't have vehicles}
Combat/gunplay
Mechanics
Storyline
Music

>>388343494
>>388343602
That's a pretty stupid complaint, if you want to call it that. Both games have oppressive, alien forces subjugating humans. One is just humorous, the other is bleak; it's a parity that ties into how Black Mesa and Aperture are characteristically different, but working for the same goal.

Too pleb to understand. It only is weird if you think it is also weird that a writer couldn't individually write a story with these two tones. Half-Life 2-hating losers strike out once again

>>388343924
nah

>>388343867
Not exactly what you describe, but The Mist is basically what inspired Half-Life. The film version of it is good. Not excellent, but good.

>>388343924

Maybe, but I doubt it. I couldn't get past the first hour of the game, it was so boring. Played multiplayer instead.

>>388343867
Michael Chrichton books are pretty similar. Sphere namely.

>>388343867
Andromeda strain maybe

>>388344076
The Sphere is a great book.

>>388343895

The devs still insist that people like Cave Johnson exist in the HL universe. A character that feels more appropriate in a TF2 comic.

>>388336619
You can turn off filtering with the console iirc it's the same command as quake.

HL2 and it's sequels are like really fun Sci-fi blockbusters, but HL1 is like a finely crafted short film. Not because of length but because of subtly (even though it's not that subtle?) and the close setting. I duno. Just good.

>>388344179
There's cartoon-level crazy people running companies in the real world, it's not that hard to believe.

>>388344167
Idk the atmosphere is great but the story is kind of ridiculous

>>388332938
It literally aged like fine wine, it's legitimately one of the best aged games ever.

>>388344076
Crichton is good. The Jurassic Park book is much better than the movie, which pisses me off when I realise not many people know it originates from him and instead praise Spielberg as if he made the idea.

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Is this a nostalgia thread because I'm feeling it and it hurts. All those mods, all those games, all those people you'll never talk to again, all those hours spent just having fun. I still remember playing Firearms for the first time and having my mind blown that you could use a bipod and suppress your MP5 in real time (not sure how realistic that was but cool as fuck anyway). I'm still butthurt over Steam even more than a decade later even though, admittedly, it has improved a lot.

Just a reminder that black mesa source is fully releasing with xen on december, this is their "do or die" date

>>388344179
really stupid reasoning

>>388344483
Excited! I loved what I've played so far.

>>388344261
I dunno man. I felt like Half life 2 had some weaker points being the first two missions but everything from there is either equal than 1 or just outright better.

>>388344490

No, you're stupid.

>>388343937

I don't hate hl2 but the story is nonsense when examined at a global scale. You have to suspend far too much disbelief

>>388344653
You really don't.

>>388344605
Well that's what I'm saying - both blockbusters and intimate smaller stories can both be great, but they're very different. That's why the series works, I think.

The time is
Eight
Forty-seven
A.M

>>388344653
>I don't hate hl2 but the story is nonsense when examined at a global scale.
What? How?

>>388340356
Why was the military your enemy in op force?

Also, excellent video!

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>>388332587
Sven coop is fun.
Counter-Life is also fun.

>>388343587
I don't really remember the enemies being bullet sponges. Non-humans were just begging to get shotgunned, most of the soldiers you could just grenade or contact grenade and clean up with the weapons, and the late game had so much powerful shit that enemies just got melted. I guess if you use the SMG all the way through it's a bit dull, but that's why there are so many weapons.

>>388344820
Not the military. But Black Ops. When military failed and some were even helping the employees of Black Mesa, they sent in the secret special forces. Their mission: kill everything that moves.

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>>388343106
>>388342554
>>388342403
>>388342134
>>388341296
>>388341153
>>388341038
>>388340981
>>388340339
>>388340207
>>388340009
>>388339701
>>388339160
>tfw porting maps from GoldSrc to Source is so fucking painful it's not even worth it
fucking kill me anon

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I finished playing Half-Life for the first time today, I had such a good time that I binged it from start to finish. I haven't had that happen with a game for a long time now.

>mfw the Nihilanth appears after you go into the portal

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>there are people in this thread who didn't see this

>>388341542
>I'm not sure if there's currently a big difference between the free version and the paid version.
There's a bunch of visual differences, since free version is the mod from like 2011 and they kept adding new assets to it. The guns in paid look more like original ones, so instead of pretty much SPAS-12 in free you get that weird and really mangled SPAS-12 in paid which looks more faithful to the original. This is a plus to some and a minus to others. There are also balance changes, some guns were way to good in free, like the aforementioned shotgun and Glock (no, really). Most people also though HECU Marines were too much of a pain in free (loved them, personally), so their AI in paid is completely different.

IMO try free now and buy paid if you like it for eventual Xen. That's what I did, free completely blew me away with the level of detail they added to the game to make it look fresh and new while still being Half-Life that I loved.

>>388332938
(((You)))

>>388344480
I want the old steam skin back...

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>>388345282
I did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGJzMp7b-MY

>>388345457
you and me both, i was pissed when they changed it

>>388343587
Are you sure you're hitting them?

>>388334094
You aren't being fair to Black Mesa. They redid a lot of balance, they added lots and lots of stuff.

>>388335907
Entanglement was better, antlions are just too OP. Though double gunship fight is legitimately tough on Hard, probably the hardest part of the game. But that's just before Nova Prospekt chapter.

>>388345457
The new skin doesn't feel right but the vomit green had to go.

>>388343587
nah, they die pretty quick.
The only thing I don't like is that there's not really any kind of hit stun to speak of.

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>>388345282
>mfw i still hear the sound effect when you click the buttons

>>388342054
whatever you say

GoldSrc was the comfiest engine ever. Something about the movements and lighting just made it feel right. It was fluid

>>388342054
Nah it was okay.
Could've been better though. If you listen to the developer commentary, they actually discuss how the play testers were idiots and couldn't handle the smarter AI and the more open ended segments, so they had to dumb both down.

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who /zombie panic/ here?

>>388343924
I disagree about storyline and while Halo music is undoubtedly good I think I prefer HL OST, if only for nostalgia.

You're right about a lot of stuff there, though.

>>388344653
elaborate

>>388343924
You're wrong about everything except A.I.
The A.I. is pretty good.
Actually, the whole problem with Halo is the Combat and mechanics are awful cancer.

I'm a retard and want to play HL1 in HD, which mod/mods should I get?

>>388344483
Black mess is nice and all but a lot of the polish and cool ai features from the original aren't in the mod and it just doesn't feel right in that regard. I wish retards on the steam forums would stop recommending newcomers to play it over the original.

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Poke 646 is a literal kamige that's better than Vanilla HL1 and is one of the greatst shooters of all time.

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>>388345980
never played the goldsrc version but building barricades in zombie panic source and css zombies was fucking amazing.

Can someone recommend me the best singleplayer goldsource mods? Never really got into the modding scene beyond installing skins for CS 1.6, but I always found the more detailed maps maximum comfy.

>>388343587
Bullet sponge enemies are literally fine in a lot of situations. The only time they're bad is when every single enemy is a bullet sponge (not the case in HL) and when you can't get power weapons that blow them away (not the case in HL).

Don't shoot HECUs with MP5, pistol, shotgun when you have revolver, crossbow, tau cannon, underbarrel grenades, demolition packs.

>>388346176
Mesa*
Fucking phone posting
Sorry

>>388346206
They Hunger 1/2/3.

Cthulhu

>>388346163
You are a retard, that's true.

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Replaying the episodes. Can't believe how tedious and boring ep1 was in retrospect.

Ep 2 though
>this fucking ladder

>>388346386
>tedious and boring ep1 was in retrospect
Episode 1 is my favorite. Both are better than base game.

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>>388346206
poke646 and the sequel
they hunger
afraid of monsters
paranoia
arctic incident
peaces like us
sweet half-life
uss darkstar
absolute redemption
hazardous course
twhl tower
various smaller twhl mods that are bundled in packs on moddb
decay
gunman chronicles
heart of evil
edge of darkness

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>>388332587

>>388346494

The zombie elevator fight was quite intense but the rest was pretty bad.

>Go get a new group of rebels gordon
>again
>again
>again
>again
>again

>>388346768
Zombie hospital is one of the best combat setpieces in the game, the entirety of it really.
>>Go get a new group of rebels gordon
That lasts like 20 minutes total...

>>388346768
Ep1 was noticeably scarier and more desperate feeling, I thought. Felt like HL2's Blueshift, quick and concise. You're not wrong though.

>>388345282
Is this Goldsrc engine version?

>>388346494
>Episode 1 is my favorite. Both are better than base game.
You seriously implying anything from Episode one or two are better than Nova Prospect or Entanglement?

>>388347110
EP1 and EP2 are both better if only for having slightly more enemy variety.

>>388346893
20 minutes of your life you will never get back

>>388347110
Yes, sure. Those two aren't even that great.
>Nova Prospect starts pretty cool and desolate, but all the combat encounters are trivialized by antlions
>Entanglement is probably my favorite HL2 chapter, but it doesn't hold handle to either elevator fight or hotel fight or advisor fight or silo fight or final fight of Ep. 2

>>388347096
no it's the WON edition version

i have never completed ravenholm. it is simply too fucking scary for me to handle

>>388347237
It's fun, though. You get RPG ammo crate so you can blast those combines who rappel down the building and enjoy their ragdolls. It's not my favorite combat encounter, but it beats most encounters in HL2.

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>>388346578
Thanks anon, will probably add CS:CZ and CZ Deleted Scenes to this list just so I could have more comfy goldsrc maps to play through.

For some reason the half-life 1 modding scene reminds of the Max Payne 1 modding scene, probably due to being similiar looking games and people trying to do interesting things with the engine

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So how do you rate there series?
>Half life 1
8.5/10
>Half life 2
8/10
>Episode One
6/10
>Episode Two
7/10

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>>388346206
Decay
Halfquake Amen
Halfquake Sunrise
Mike & Pete's Fun Half-Life Sound Pak
Sweet Half-life
Peaces like us
Poke 646
Heart of Evil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtoZ9GGkyUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvyswm1UMko

>>388346206
Top 3:
They Hunger (1,2,3)
Heart of Evil
Poke 646 (1,2)
---
Decay PC - Cannon
---
Point of View
Azure Sheep
Focal Point

>>388335907
Don't know about best level, but I found the bridge the peak because cold foggy shore atmosphere is my fetish.

>>388347473
Something like:
Black Mesa = Half-Life >= Episode 2 > Episode 1 >= Lost Coast > Opposing Force > Half-Life 2

>>388347473
HL1: 9/10
HL2: 7/10
E1: 6/10
E2: 8/10

>>388347326
Cool, this was the CD version, good memories.

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>>388347710
>Black Mesa = Half-Life

>>388347785
pathetic

>>388347983
They're actually pretty different games, I just love them both.

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>>388339074

>>388347983
it's the same

I'm replaying the game right now, does anyone else have weird problems with the audio/game stuttering randomly every few minutes?

>>388348087
are you using an AMD card or integrated laptop GPU?

>>388335907
Ravenholm was always my favorite. The Ending of the level where the sun starts to rise and you start to fight combine again was always really cool to me.

>>388348181
Are we doing Sven or what?

>>388348181
I have it set to use the dedicated graphics card in my laptop

>>388348067
except for the shitty hl2 movement, nerfed human grunts, and no xen.

>>388332587
Best part was you could mix and match parts of the game with other mods to create something greater than the original. Heres a result I was quite surprised worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Jy31DqMpk

>>388348318
yeah the openGL renderer after the steampipe update shits itself with AMD or intel GPUs
you can try using an older version or software mode
https://forums.sourceruns.org/index.php?topic=2702

>>388345282
i didn't...
i just had a pic of gordon staring at me with killer eyes

call me crazy but i always thought the marines sounded cool as fuck back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fhu72Ygghg

>>388348465
Awesome, thanks! I got all the way to blast pit before I had to take a break from all the stuttering

>>388348465
Honestly I don't even care that much about HL3 never coming out anymore but it will never dumbfound me how they completely fucked up HL1 on Steam.

>>388347110
Episode One was great during the Portion of the Game you get the Super Gravity Gun again. After Shutting down the Core it becomes shit.

>>388332938
Fuck right off. Half Life 1 still holds up today.

Is Sven Co-op the greatest co-op mod of all time? I've never had as much fun with any other, as well as many co-op games.

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>>388348017
Fuck you too, pal.

>>388339074
>i am more intelligent than others, that's why hl2 sucks

>>388348998
SC3.0 was the peak

>>388347785
seems about right

>>388332587
I love swoocing right in every single window I can break, hopping over as many fences as possible, and moving in general. Speed in HL1 is just perfect, it allows for very satisfactory movement.

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I played through HL1 for the first time about 5 years ago and enjoyed it, how well do Blue Shift and Opposing Force stack up?

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>>388332938
>the aging meme

>>388349952
blue shift is more of the same but less of it
opposing force adds new weapons and enemies
decay is an official expansion and it has a weird character swapping gimmick if you don't play coop

>>388350001
Both Half life 1 and 2 have aged like complete dogshit. Both are some of the most boring shooters out there

>>388350134
(you)

>>388339074
>Every Comment is a positive response with upboats
>He deleted any comments that disagreed with him and left only a few that he personally attacked.

Contrarianism is a cancer.

>>388349952
Still have to play through Blue Shift properly, but Opposing Force is fucking great imo.

>>388349952
I like Opposing Force less because the beefed up aliens and arsenal are just as bullet-spongey as the marines, maybe worse. Blue Shift is a more interesting side-story and takes you to some cool places in Black Mesa, plus it's not trying so hard to be the ACTION-PACKED expansion that OpFor was obviously attempting to be.

>>388350197
FUCK (You) TAKE MY BAIT

>>388350489
>marines
>bullet spongey
Do you not know how to play the game or something?

>>388348329
HL2 used to have amazing movement. It got removed however, and that's why HL2DM died I believe.

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>play Black Mesa
>dread the tram rail puzzle
>it's gone

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>>388351187
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIS7m7YYEXI

>>388350993
Obviously I do, if I have completed all the games multiple times. The marines take more bullets than they should, this is well known.

>>388351392
By people who don't know how to use weapons efficiently. Shotgun, revolver, crossbow, and all explosives can one shot grunts if used correctly.

>>388351369
Rondo Duo sequel when?

>>388347473
Half-Life 1: 10/10
Opposing Force and Blue Shift combined: 10/10

Half-Life 2: 7-8/10 first half, 5-6/10 second half
Half-Life 2: Episode 1: Varies between 5-7.5/10
Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Varies between 6.5-8/10

>>388339074
seems legit. good points throughout

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>>388347710
>Lost Coast > Opposing Force > Half-Life 2

Literally what the fuck? The unfinished 5 minute long map test of HL2 is superior to the base game and the best expansion?

>>388342870
This is the shittiest argument for why Half Life is good. It has unskippable cutscenes which plebs thing aren't actually cutscenes because they're first person and sometimes you keep some character control during them. The reason HL2 is bad is exactly because it's a linear, "cinematic" game with a shitload of unskippable lore fluff.

>>388351489
Not that guy (marines are not hard in the slightest), but Race X soldiers are really bit too sturdy. Just today I had one take rocket in his face, and he still needed more bullets after this.

Blue Shift: Superior level design, less variety, less weapons, HD
Opposing Force: More enemies, more weapons, better multi

>>388352058
This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, sure, but the cliff battle blew me away when I first played Lost Coast (which was like a year ago), it's superior to any HL2 encounter.

OpFor is good but very bad final boss sours the whole experience.

I'd consider putting OpFor above Lost coast, but not HL2.

>>388351369
I'm not quite that bad, but I felt really stupid when I finally solved it.

>>388345282
I still have my CDs laying around somewhere

>>388346386
>tedious and boring ep1 was in retrospect.
Episode 1 is the point at which the "story" began to creep in and in particular Vance had to be escorted everywhere.

If you simply had to climb down the citadel and reach the train on your own the game would have been far more interesting.

You know what?
FUCK MOPING.
This is the TIME, this is the PLACE, this is the OPPORTUNITY.
Some no-name cunts made Black Mesa and sure, it took a while, it wasn't perfect, but it was made.
I'm sure a /v/ team of highly talented autists with nothing better to do can make a mod that resembles the scripture. All you have to do is believe!

>>388332587
Half-Life 1 is a far better game than Half-Life 2.

Why do people only talk about 2 these days? It shoehorned too many physics gimmicks in at the cost of being a tight, focused experience like the first game.

>>388346578
They Hunger
Azusheep (A tie in to point of view)
Subhumanity is interesting if you want to fight armies of Gonarches just make sure it's on a mod you don't use much

There's also a handful of fun Opposing forces maps too

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZy3cd9KFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZy3cd9KFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZy3cd9KFY

>>388353831
Don't care about some fan-fiction script, the thing about Half-Life is it's gameplay and then secondarily it's fiction. Valve will make Half-Life if they ever find a reason to make Half-Life, and then we can celebrate but not until. Because nothing will be Half-Life unless it pushes boundaries and comes from Valve. Anything else is not enough.

>>388332587
I seriously must have played more HL mods than anything else, at least 20 GBs worth of HL maps in all.

>>388353831
>Some no-name cunts made Black Mesa and sure, it took a while, it wasn't perfect, but it was made.
It took like ten years and it's still not finished. They also bumped it from a free mod to a paid game.

>>388354896
You contributed nothing to his point, nor did you detract from it. Nice forum-noise.

>>388355126
>nor did you detract from it
Simply being released is not impressive, especially with the state it was released in and how long it took.

>>388354084
http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/sb/vg/hl/vox/1

>>388355232
You look like a loser trying to reason that Black Mesa is somehow not a feat, or at least not noteworthy. No one cares if it didn't impress YOU or not, it seemed to impress plenty.

>>388355429
I followed it since it was announced and the entire way it was plagued by development problems and sat for months at a time without any progress being made. Then it was "released" unfinished and inferior to the original in every way except grafix but retards ate it up and had the gall to say it was as good or better than the original and anyone who prefers the original is just nostalgic.

>>388356059
Didn't read your post. No one asked for your opinion, or what you thought about Black Mesa. go start a blog

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>>388356151

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>>388339074
What makes a man turn Contrarian Kiff?

>>388356151
>But you know what? None of that stuff really matters. Because Half-Life, like its sequel, is great not for its bullet-point features, but for the way it pioneered the experience of really being in the first-person perspective, and not just using it as a disembodied floating gun platform. And Black Mesa doesn't just maintain that feeling, it's where the bulk of the really worthwhile improvements have been made.
this is the mindset of the average black mesa fan

>>388332587
Half-Life 2 is the reason Steam exists

Steam is the reason Half-Life 3 doesn't

>>388356682
huh?

>>388356778
really makes u think

>>388356778
Steam was a thing before HL2 was even announced

>>388356520
>Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of contrarianism?

>>388347785
agreed

>>388357132
It was introduced for CS 1.6 which nobody really had a problem with since the original game was already online only.

So why was the Nihilanth aggresive towards Freeman

Half-life Visitors was okay
Residual Point was a weird remake of the story style HL1 with some HL2 like notes

>>388345193
It's totally worth it

>>388332938

Without Half-Life most of the games you play today wouldn't exist.

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>>388332953
that's pretty impressive

>>388359034
You sound like someone who would recommend Half-Life Source to people

>>388352076
>linear
oh my god no, they actually had to put thought into the design instead of copy pasting everything

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>>388356778
>Half-Life 2 is the reason Steam exists
Based on this alone I find it very hard to believe you were even alive in 1998.

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>>388359051
Why and how is HL influential ? What games did it influence?

>>388336685
While gameplay-wise that's nothing to shake a stick at. I honestly found the first level to be extremely comfy. The world-building and cop chase were pretty good.

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>>388332587
>Timeline Trilogy
>Black Ops
>Sven Coop
>Redemption
>They Hunger
>Poke646 & P646: Vendetta
>Wanted
>Heart of Evil
>HL: Invasion
>Escape From the Darkness
>HL: Visitors
>Life's End
>Sweet Half-Life
>Azure Sheep
>Point of View
and some more I can't remember

so...what happened to adrian shepard guys? i need some closure on that

Why does /v/ hate Half life 2 now? Sure it's a bit worse than 1 but it's still fantastic. Is it because of that tldr video of the underage kid?

>>388360564
>Sure it's a bit worse than 1
No its not

Also,
>/v/ is one person

>>388359748
like every game from 2000 onwards
a little niche series known as call of duty

>>388360705
Same can be said for the original Wolfenstien... cod is a 3D worlfenstien? No?

>Anon has a PhD in Video game history

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>>388347473
>1
8/10
>2
9/10
Episode One
5/10
>Episode Two
6/10

>>388348543
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Wcv8weqws

it works everywhere

>>388345282
I didn't, went to go play HL1 after playing through 2 and all of the episodes. Really glad I did though I love Black Mesa as a setting.

>>388361437
that's awesome, now if only i had the game

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>>388345282
Damn that takes me back.

Hey i played HL1 as a kid and i just remembed something

What was the satelite for that we launched up??

>>388362169
I think it was something to stop the portal storms.

>>388345282
>there are people who played Half-Life Retail but had no music

>>388345282
>People younger than you exist in the world

No, i didn't see this. Was I even born?

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>>388345282
>this was nearly 20 years ago

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>>388347096
>>388347326
>>388347935
Are am I getting trolled? They're all Goldsource. It's the Half-Life 1 engine. There is a retail version powered by WON network and when Sierra collapsed, Valve needed to support their own games and created Steam for their own master server and automated the patch delivery.

Alright lads, what are the best half life mods? Off the top of my head I can think of afraid of monsters but that's it, I haven't played many.

>>388332938
>aged terribly
>just finished a full playthrough
the game is still glorious, i almost forgot how much i missed games not telling you what the fuck you need to do and having to figure something out thats harder than DRRRR gordon place 2 boxes there to jump

>>388345828
>launch any steam game
>take screenshot with F12 (or whatever you bound it to)
>masturbate

Under whose authority was it to send in the Black Ops?

>>388362819
are you fucking stupid
steam edition and WON edition are commonly used to differentiate between different versions of HL1 with WON edition being older

>>388363596
Reread the post idiot, they're calling it the Goldsource version which makes no sense

>>388332587
It's a shit game compared to HL2 which is also a shit game

>>388363670
they being one person
congrats on your illiteracy

>>388351721
>lower scores for hl2 on the second half
bad taste detected, the only level that was meh was the last one with the 1hko gg

>>388360564
>Why does /v/ hate Half life 2 now?

Because it's something you can push very effectively as bait and get lots of (you)s.
Shitting on Half Life 1 is a bit too obvious

>>388363723
That's not illiteracy. He is right.
Go take a nap, angry dude.

>>388363469
the Jews

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Reminder that OpenGL also breaks the lighting.

How can I play Half-Life splitscreen co-op?

I want to play it with my gf (female).

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>>388345282
kill me, pete

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What do you think about Half Life Decay?

>>388335907

The last part in City 17 is good too

>>388348543
the amount of distortion was too high.

>>388332938
wrong. you wish your favorite game was as tightly designed as half life.

>>388365150
Half Life Decay has a co-op gimmick

>>388365150
maybe two instances of sven?

>>388339074
why is this kid so angry

holy fuck hahaha

>>388360960
half life's approach to gameplay and story was never done before, every scripted cinematic experience owes its existence to half life

and those words make /v/'s butt hurt but most of you are fucking idiots

>sven coop
Uboa

>>388345457
>>388345531
>>388345656
What are some good steam skins? Using metro right now.

>>388360097
>HL Invasion
I can't believe other people actually played that Mod, remember the drivable Mammoth Tank?

>>388367054

Pixelvision 2

>>388367054
>>388367291
this, it's the only good skin to use. everything else looks like shit

>>388367339
>>388367291
thanks

The ambient sounds in Half-Life are so soothing.
11KHz bliss.

>>388362169
yes a satalite to take out the portal. Later you go to Xen because the baby creature keeps the portal open.

Fucking overrated series