[TheMissing]

n00b here.

I have questions because I've never played Half Life 1 before, but i've heard plenty about it, and read a lot too. But I have a few questions to help me better understand the game. (btw, did anyone else notice that the head crabs make a few noises that are DIRECT rips from super metroid? I thought it was awesome!)

I get why the zombies/aliens are there (elaborate Quake 1 rip off ). And I know the government wanted to kill everyone, including Freeman and he's basically a fugitive.

So what's exactly going on? Who are the resistance made out of? What exactly are they resisting? And does it seem like Dr. Breen is just killing everone who isn't his soldiers?

Another thing I noticed that was bothering me, is the city seems to have tall black walls that occasionally "step" inwards and swallow up anything in it's path, as if it's "Eating" the city alive, you have to actually escape being crushed at some point. What the fuck is that all about?

I'll eventually get around to playing the original game, but for now, I don't have time for another game.

Just give me a general idea of what's happening, i'll flesh out the details when I play the game myself, I just want to know wtf is going on

[Chris]

Honestly, go play HL1 first before you dive into HL2. You're almost 100% wrong on every assumption that you make man, and HL1 is fucking awesome, better than HL2 in my opinion.

[Naren]

In the original game, you play a theoretical physicist named Gordan Freeman who works at the government sponsored experimental lab, Black Mesa, somewhere in the desert in Nevada or Arizona. A portal experiment goes wrong (was actually sabotaged) and connects the portal with a planet on the far side of the universe which ends up sending a ton of aliens into the Black Mesa lab where tons of the scientists are killed. Gordon takes it upon himself to fix the problems, ends up going into the portal to the other planet and defeats the alien leader. Etc. etc. At the end, the government guy kind of infers that the whole thing had been set up by "someone." Gordon gets put into a trance in like space and ends there.

At the beginning of 2, he wakes up to find out it's been like 15 years since he was knocked out and aliens had used the portal to come to Earth and take it over.

I would explain more and in more detail, but my girlfriend is waiting and I gotta go!!

[djpharoah]

Def play HL1 before HL2. I also felt the game play and story in HL1 was better however the graphics and physics engine in HL2 are

[Naren]

Originally Posted by djpharoah

Def play HL1 before HL2. I also felt the game play and story in HL1 was better however the graphics and physics engine in HL2 are

I preferred Half Life 2, but they are both great games. I would rank them in this order: Half Life 2, Half Life 1, Half Life 2: Episode One, Half Life 2: Episode Two. I know there are some people who would put episode 2 first. I thought it was an amazing game and I would rank it above episode one, depending on what parts we're comparing. I thought the parts in the citadel in episode one were really really cool, but I didn't like the parts under the city too much. Episode two had a lot of really cool parts and the episodes in the forest and the underground hive were really cool.

Anyway, everyone has their opinions and mine is that Half Life 2 is better than Half Life 1, but Half Life 1 is really an awesome game.

[Korbain]

i found the half life games very overrated. They're solid games don't get me wrong, but i don't think they're all that groundbreaking. Especially half life 2. I compare it to the halo series, fun, solid gameplay, but nothing new. Half life 1 was slightly different when it first came out, but still.

Anyways, wait a bit, theres a bunch of guys remaking the original half life on the source engine, and it looks really awsome. Its an exact remake, and valve (the makers of half life 1 and 2) are right behind the mod team of it and are saying its going to be good, and i trust em on that :p I am seriously excited for this!





Black Mesa: A Half-Life 2 modification

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Korbain

i found the half life games very overrated. They're solid games don't get me wrong, but i don't think they're all that groundbreaking.

You can't really compare Halo to Half Life, considering Half Life came out in 1998.

[Pauly]

Read about it on Wiki, that's the most comprehensive way to understand the universe of Half Life.

Half-Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Half-Life 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Half-Life 2: Episode One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Half-Life 2: Episode Two - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portal (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also there is an actual Half Life Wiki here:
Main Page - Combine OverWiki, a Half-Life wiki - a Wikia Gaming wiki

[sakeido]

Wow someone actually does not think Half Life was groundbreaking? What are you comparing it to, games that came out five years later?

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Korbain

i found the half life games very overrated. They're solid games don't get me wrong, but i don't think they're all that groundbreaking.

Were you playing video games in 1998?