half life = half a game.

[Shadowblind]

Sometimes it is, like this thread. Sometimes there are massive arguments, disrespectful users and drawn out battles with mods.

I don't really remember any of those except by spammers or users who get too full of themselves. Those kinds of users don't usually stay on the forums too long

[Cloudhunter]

Maybe the reason it's not all "wow, I can do really good graphics and I pwn" is the fact that "Half Life: Episode 2" isn't MEANT to be an entirely new game. It's just meant to be an extension to the story, rather than "BLAM, I'M A NEW GENERATION".

Comparing completely new games to extensions of oldish ones is like comparing apples to oranges.

Also, the other games in the Orange Box are good IMO - Portal was a blast, and I still play TF2 all the time

As for the Mouse and Keyboard vs Controller, I prefer a mouse and keyboard - I just find it gives me more accuracy. Moving your entire arm does have advantages.

Cloudy

[bah]

Companies release compilations of Megadrive games etc onto modern consoles and charge a pretty high price for really old content, I don't see anything wrong with releasing a compilation HL2 and its addons for consoles that hadn't seen the game yet.
It's not the latest and greatest game engine, but a lot of people really enjoyed the game/s.


Ive heard this a cpl times now: people move their whole arm with the mouse?
My palm rests on the desk and hardly ever moves, the rest of the arm is as still as when using a joypad.

[the_eternal_dark]

I would have to say Half-Life (Blue Shift and Opposing force included) and Half-Life 2 were decent enough for a once or twice through.

The mods are what interest me more than the original games (aside from CS and CS Source, possibly the blandest games of the FPS genre).

Halo.... The Halo series of games irk me. Halo 1 had a decent story and pretty good mechanics that overshot my expectations for a console FPS. Halo 2, not so much. It felt like Bungee/MS sat down and wrote the engine, then forgot to make a game. Halo 2 sucked in campaign, even more so online blew due to the mass amounts of cheating (that I experienced) and glitching (due to the buggy engine used), and no one made an effort to stop them or release a decent update to correct it, they just moved on to the next game (with huge fat wallets now). Now on to Halo 3. Overhype killed this for me. Got the game, popped it in and was greeted with Halo 2: High Res Pack: Redo Oops Edition. It felt like nothing changed, except for a few "out door" maps and cleverly reused textures and models from 2. The story still blew, but just not as bad. It still seems that Bungee/MS was pushing this game for online play only, just writing a half assed story for campaign mode and calling a "revolutionary single player/co-op experience".

I would have been happier to see Marathon IV....

Don't get me started on Crysis. That's another turd covered in baby powder.

[WhizzBang]

Halo.... The Halo series of games irk me. Halo 1 had a decent story and pretty good mechanics that overshot my expectations for a console FPS. Halo 2, not so much. It felt like Bungee/MS sat down and wrote the engine, then forgot to make a game. Halo 2 sucked in campaign, even more so online blew due to the mass amounts of cheating (that I experienced) and glitching (due to the buggy engine used), and no one made an effort to stop them or release a decent update to correct it, they just moved on to the next game (with huge fat wallets now). Now on to Halo 3. Overhype killed this for me. Got the game, popped it in and was greeted with Halo 2: High Res Pack: Redo Oops Edition. It felt like nothing changed, except for a few "out door" maps and cleverly reused textures and models from 2. The story still blew, but just not as bad. It still seems that Bungee/MS was pushing this game for online play only, just writing a half assed story for campaign mode and calling a "revolutionary single player/co-op experience".

I agree and this is sort of what I was saying on page one of this thread.

A lot of people talk about the story in Halo and say they like it or dislike it but I couldn't follow it all. The main problems for me were that there were no subtitles, and often when people were speaking they were talking through radio microphones while explosion and bullet sounds were also happening. I often found my self thinking "I have no idea what that was all about" and so would pause the game to find out what my objective was.

[Shadowblind]

I agree and this is sort of what I was saying on page one of this thread.

A lot of people talk about the story in Halo and say they like it or dislike it but I couldn't follow it all. The main problems for me were that there were no subtitles, and often when people were speaking they were talking through radio microphones while explosion and bullet sounds were also happening. I often found my self thinking "I have no idea what that was all about" and so would pause the game to find out what my objective was.

Halo 1 was a game that was so amazingly well rounded, had so much new ideas and innovation at the time, had an amazing multiplayer mode, that it was the greatest game ever at the time. But since Halo 1 so many many many FPS and 3PS have taken ideas from it that is may seem average now. but it was amazingly innovative at the time.

Halo 2...I never did like it. It was never really even matched in multiplayer.

[DarthPaul]

Shadow did you play Team Fortress 2? It's supposed to be the best one in the pack.

I got The Orange Box yesterday, for Christmas, and haven't opened it. I will, later. I just have too much presents to play Xbox now.

Hopefully I'll get very excited. And I know I will! I haven't ever played any Half-Life game before. This will be my first time. 5 new games for me.

[Shadowblind]

Shadow did you play Team Fortress 2? It's supposed to be the best one in the pack.

I got The Orange Box yesterday, for Christmas, and haven't opened it. I will, later. I just have too much presents to play Xbox now.

Hopefully I'll get very excited. And I know I will! I haven't ever played any Half-Life game before. This will be my first time. 5 new games for me.

I look forward to DESTROYING YOU ON TEAM FORTRESS 2! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!

*cough*, um, yeah....lol

TF2 is the ONLY game I ever play on the box of less then red. Half-life 2.....ugh. Portals pretty fun though.

[shadowprophet]

Well I have to be fair. even to a fault. If I wasn't fair about my hl2 review then some may take it too literally and not realize my review was a quickie that shouldn't be taken to heart by anyone.

In my review I dubbed hl2 ep 2 as garbage. "Which is still my opinion". But for the sake of orange box. And truth, I only played hl2 ep 2. Figiring that was the beefiest part of orange box and the most anticipated,and if I was let down by it. what hope would the rest of the content have against hl2 ep 2. So to be fair. and brutally so. Even at the cost of shattering this review entirely. I never played the other titles any. After hl2 ep 2. I just kind of packed the orange box up. threw it into my collection and never touched it gain. "Like so many other titles I've done in the past" *nods