Do I take the job? This weird guy keeps asking me to choose!
If you haven’t played them, Blue Shift and Opposing Force are amazing as well (better than HL itself, IMHO).
Heresy
I get the sentiment, but I’ll stick to my guns on this one (as I have for two decades). I honestly believe that Blue Shift might be the best game Valve has ever made.
But Valve didn’t develop or publish Blue Shift?
FML, I knew that and still said it. Best Half Life related game, ever.
You might hate me for this, but I never finished the original Half-Life.
I have finished Black Mesa, original game’s expansions, Half-Life 2 and it’s episodes, but never Half-Life 1.
I always quit somewhere after the middle of the game, and only once I got to Xen.
It’s a hard game.
When they go all order 66 on your ass it’s a huge surprise.
“Forget about Freeman” the last thing you hear before shit gets real
The helicopter chase was the first time I heard a game really use sterio sound to ots full effect. It’s up there with Dday in Medal of honor.
The Orange Box is one of the last gaming purchases that I actually got my moneys worth out of.
Orange box was amazing value for money
What’s the saying?
The best time to beat Half-Life was twenty years ago. The second best time is today?
What’s the best time to best Half-Life 3?
Now you’re thinking with portals.
I think the saying was about planting a Half Life Tree, but I doubt it’s ever going to happen.
There’s no way HL is over 20 years old, right?!?!
You already missed the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2.
Dang, and I thought I was late to the party when I did my first play through in 2004.
Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine.
I got stuck at a bad save point where Gonarch wouldn’t come down to the boss area and gave up forever.
I never finished it; I kept running out of ammo against the final boss and just gave up. That was many, many years ago though, so I probably just missed its weak point and didn’t think to look up how to beat it.
I probably just missed its weak point and didn’t think to look up how to beat it
Hint: you have to aim down from above it.
you need to shoot the cristals on the wall, then he opens his head, you then have to launch above him with the alien jumppads and shoot down on him
Young me did not work this out!
I recently played HL1 and Black Mesa back to back. It was really fun :)
Congratulations!
I beat it for the first time a couple years ago. Not too shabby. I think I had to look up how to do the platforming in xen.
Blue shift and Opposing force are neat add-ons to hl1.
I am still a little upset that if I don’t take his offer, I don’t even get to try and fight all those aliens he teleports me into the center of. 😠
Status: Hired
You should also play black mesa, portal, and alyx
Black Mesa is just ““chef’s kiss””
Yeah xen in hl1 is pretty meh but in black Mesa it’s incredible. So well done
