by helmet party » Sun Jun 09, 2024 6:12 pm
this is gonna sound crazy from me... but i dont like half life. like, the original one. story wise i feel like there definitely is something compelling, and hell half life 2 is amazing. but it is such a slock to get through. the game puts you in these large maps, and most of the time gives you zero direction. this is fine, a lot of old games do this, but it is not clear where you need to navigate AT ALL. i often spent hours just on one level trying to figure out where the hell to go because there was nothing. no buttons to push, no passages to go through, no nothing. literally its like playing a point and click adventure game the way it's absolute nonsense sometimes. i also didn't find the combat that interesting or fun either, and there is a surprising lack of it for it being a shooter. i didnt even end up finishing it because it was such a sluggish mess to go through, which really sucks, because i REALLY wanted to like it. i even wanted to try out blue shift and opposing force, but knowing they're just like the original half life totally turned me off from it.
half life 2? absolute masterpiece. half life 1... has really bad first game syndrome. its like the fps equivalent to playing pokemon r/b/y to be honest. it's not offensively terrible, but not something you'd want to play in the modern day for too long unless you have some nastolgia for it.
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