Do I take the job? This weird guy keeps asking me to choose!

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk
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    21 days ago

    I’ve played through Half Life twice. Once on original release and secondly when it received that big remaster fairly recently. I’m my opinion, it’s a fantastic game until you get to Xen and it becomes a bit of a annoying platform fest.

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      21 days ago

      I actually like the platforming in the game but the low gravity in Xen does make it annoying. Missed so many jumps, definitely abused quick save

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    21 days ago

    You should have played Black Mesa instead of Half-Life 1 these days. It’s not a 1:1 remake but quite close and of course much more modern, and just awesome. Xen in particular is much better in BM than it is in the original, so it even fixes HL1’s weakest part. The rest is kind of similarly awesome. Maybe you should play it right now to see the difference.

    (Black Mesa is a successful fan project remake of the whole Half-Life 1, and they even expanded on some things (especially Xen). It’s based on an updated Source engine and has at least the graphical fidelity of recent Half-Life 2 builds, if not more).

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      21 days ago

      I didn’t like Black Mesa as much as most. I thought a lot of the charm was lost with the “modernizing” decisions. It just doesn’t look like half life and the enemies don’t behave like half life enemies to me. It looks and plays like a really, really good fan remake. Cuz it is. I still think the original has loads of merit though and would never suggest black mesa before playing the original.

  • Toes♀@ani.social
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    21 days ago

    It’s a hard game.

    When they go all order 66 on your ass it’s a huge surprise.