Half-Life 1 or 2?
both
HL2 sux
they are both good, but 1 has held up much better2 i would argue is much harder to stomach without any mods, you kind of need mmod for its gunplay to not feel like complete dogshit by modern standards
>>721375950Half Life: Uplink
>>721375950I replay both yearly
>>7213759501 moggs the shit out of 2. 1 feels like playing the main character in an action movie. 2 gets momentum but it gets broken up by those pseudo cutscenes that are boring
Black Mesa >>>>>> City 17
>>721375950Both are shit and represent everything that's wrong in modern gaming.
>>721380205back to your doom wads the under 50s are talking
>>721375950HL1/Black Mesa are perfect and stand the test of time, HL2 was more like a glorified tech demo that gets worse the further in you go, but it was fun and definitely very good for the time it released on.Storywise HL1 has the best premise and HL2 feels like a completely different game in comparison.
>>721380205>27 and 21 years old>modern gaming
>>7213759502 obviouslyIt was the point where the physics, graphics and sound design really started to approach photorealismSource engine is a genuine miracle considering the shit hardware it runs on
1 is far better. The worse thing about HL3 ever becoming a thing, is that it'll probably just be a sequel to 2 rather than its own thing.
>>721375950hl1 is much better and plays/aged way better. i thought hl2 was bad even when it came out 20 years ago
>>721380437HL1 revolutionized storytelling in games but I still like HL2's pseudo Star Wars plot moreso because I just like all the characters a lot. They're all like very comfy friends. But it does get a bit too comfy because sometimes it feels like no one is in dnager until ep 2's ending. I liked HL2's road sections because exploring and the different rooms and situations for gunplay to play out was fun and yes, Darkholme is the best with the gravity gun. That achievement was really fun.But HL1 as a whole experience except Xen is kino. HL2 inspires in me the 2000's atmosphere found within games where you're in a sparse town filled with sunset lighting, cloudy rainy day lighting like on the road or in Halo levels, or lighting that is out of Japanese games with bright beaches. Even though it isn't GMod, it still feels like a sandbox that you can fuck around in and feel powerful in. Ep 2 really felt like Valve to me during that 2007 to Source 2 era but original HL2 with the sea and very dismal atmosphere is also very nice and foreboding with how the world is falling apart. I think that tone should be carried over for HL3.
>>721382025>HL2 inspires in me the 2000's atmosphere found within games where you're in a sparse town filled with sunset lighting, cloudy rainy day lighting like on the road or in Halo levels, or lighting that is out of Japanese games with bright beaches.I dunno what was in the water in the 2000's, but atmosphere in games from that era was on another level. It felt like they didn't even have to try to have a strong sense of place. Even fucking Paper Mario was atmospheric as fuck.
>>721381290he didnt ask which one looked better
>>721375950
>>721375950they both gud
>>721375950I want to say 2 because I played it more. Ravenholm is still the best
>>721383261That's why I mentioned the physics first, you fäg.
>>721380205This is like a bot account trying to fit in.
>>721375950I've tried playing HL1 3 separate times now and always drop it. I've beaten 2 twice. So 2.
HL1 has the better setting. When you compare HL2 and Black Mesa, Black Mesa mogs HL2.
>>721382025HL2 definitely had a darker, more dismal feel to it than the episodes that came after. Probably the tone of the beta leaking through. I honestly think it's one of the best dystopia/post-apocalypse settings ever put into a video game. Everything is abandoned and falling apart and the world is clearly on the brink of total collapse. However the atmosphere is still very comfy and doesn't go overboard on the grimdark, there's still brightness and color like on the coast.
>>721375950the weapons in both of these games have peashooter syndrome
>>721384752HL2 has the worst pistol in a game ever
>>721375950I guess 2 is the better game but they're both good.
>we are at the mid-point in our trilogy of episodes which will conclude in Episode 3very funny gaben.Also HL>Hl2I liked the pacing more in HL1 than 2, even if I feel that the gunplay and some set pieces where better in 2.
Half-Life 1's biggest sin was not giving you a Black Ops latex bodysuit waifu.
>>721385650Idgaf about """""HL3"""""All I wanted was Episode 3 and a closure to the grandiose fucking saga that was Episode 2.GABEN YOU ABSOLUTE NIGGER!!!
>>7213759502 is the superior cultural artifact, but I enjoy the gameplay of 1 more
>>721386634
I just like setting up the Slam
>>7213759501 aged like milk
>>7213759501 all the way
>>721387010kek
>>721387336>long distance firing the double shot
>>721387597>5 feet>"long distance.."
>>721387745when it's meant to be used point blank yeah that's long distance, it works well if you actually use it properly
>>721387336Skill issue
>>721375950Half-Life has a much better finale than 1
I just replayed them all earlier this year. 1 has its charm but 2 is better. Source and its physics are too good.
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>>721388260Then play Black Mesa, it changes some things but retains most of the level design and atmosphere of the original while having the benefit of Source, it's the true HL1 Source.
>>721384779I'd argue the SMG is even more pathetic, somehow.
>>721387336Half-Life fans are the same people that complain about Halo having damage sponge enemies.
>>721385650>HL2:Ep2 has like 5 commentary nodes from Merle Dandridge about voicing Alyx and the on-going development of the character and how proud Valve was of her, etc>they completely dropped Dandridge from HL:Alyxcrazy
>>7213759501 > 2But I can't play 2 vanilla anymore because of how much I've modded it/played levels in Garry's Mod and absolutely broke it to hell and back.
>>721389340Black Mesa is a straight up masterpiece
its easier to bhop in hl1 than it is in hl2quake has a higher speed though
>>721390372it's a piece of shit and you're a faggot.die cumeater
>>721390505I'm glad impotently sperging on the internet makes you feel better
>>721389694I really hope they'll bring her back for this HLX thing.
>>721375950I have em both i do not have to pick. Not everything has to be tribal you faggot.>but if-Stfu.
>>721375950I think both have pretty forgettable progression. I can recount what happens at the beginning, a couple of scenes in the middle and how it concludes, but usually the middle part of these games is a near blank for me.
>>721389694did the girl even sound the same after nearly 20 years since HL2 passed?
Played both recently half life 1 was One of the best games I've played in a long time and I understand why it receives the praise it does Half life 2 wasn't a bad game but I kept waiting for it to become the best game of all time and it never happened I expected a 9-10/10 but I got at best a 7/10
>>721375950There's no game called Half-Life 1.
>>721384779Halo 2's is borderline unusable, at least with HL2's you can actually kill shit
>>721391208She did actually. There's some footage around of her voicing Alyx in HLA before she was cut.
>>721389439that's not a damage sponge, that's using the inaccurate alt fire at a distance and most of your shot missing. they go down rather quickly if you use it up close, or even somewhat at a distance with the regular firing mode.
>>721391687all of the dual wield weapons in Halo 2 were garbage
Neither.Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
>>721392423No one wanted artifact
>>721391703Her voice is so cute. They better bring her back. That's my realistic desire and expectation. My unrealistic desire and expectation? A whole exchange (one way because of Gordon's muteness, so not really an exchange) where Gordon is going down a hill behind Alyx and she begins to wonder if Gordon saw her panties sticking out from her jeans. The player is forced into an unskippable railroading of their walking so that the panties are front and center of Gordon's view/eyes.
>>721375950HL2 VR>HL1>HL2>HLANow someone just needs to make a good HL1 VR port
>>721391989Definitely but the pistol was easily the worst of them. At least with dual SMGs you had a CHANCE to kill your opponent before they killed you. You didn't usually succeed, but you at least had a fighting shot. :p
>>721388261Xen sucks
I like the snarks and the tau cannon in half life 1.
>>721393696Objectively correct but you're going to include HLA then you're missing the episodes and spinoffs.
>>721378171this post pretty much sums it upi like both but half life 1 is WAYYYY betterhalf life 2 also has the weird thing where it barely even feels connected to the first one
>>721386634Gmod pretty much propels HL2 into a memorable game. Wonder if S&Box can do the same for HL3.
>>721397795>Wonder if S&Box can do the same for HL3.No way, S&box is a directionless mess.
>>721375950Half-Life (1) on the left, Half-Life 2 on the right. Hope this helps, OP.
>>721382025>Darkholme
>>7213759501 >> 2
>>721391659Half-life X
>>7213759501
>>721375950HL1 is absolute perfection for 90% of its gameplay. Only Xen stumbles, the rest is perfectly paced and the gunplay, enemy variety, and atmosphere are fantastic. The engine is also better and created a slew of mods which influenced the industry - TFC being a mod of QWTF, and led to TF2. counter strike, The Specialists, Sven Co-Op, Science and industry, Natural Selection, and all of the god tier single player mods like They Live and Poke646.HL2 is mediocre dogshit that holds the player up with constant cutscenes, pauses to perform physics puzzles, and combat arenas. The story is a shitty Orwell knockoff, you're treated as the second coming of Christ despite it not making any sense, and the gunplay is limp wristed. The only notable mod that came out was Gmod.
>>7213759501 is pure, unfiltered, concentrated shooter kino2 is an unfinished glorified tech demo for the source engine
>>721375950HL1 is a better game, but HL2 does retain some of the magic and to this day I think it has the best-crafted environments of any video game. Despite the random bits of combine technology scattered everywhere, something about City 17 and the landscapes surrounding it feels so real and explorable. For all the game design jerk off videos out there, I've never seen anyone explain why adequately.
