Half Life appreciation thread.

Wow makes me really want to play the original Half-life, not played it in literally years too! :p

Might download it over the weekend, is there any worthy mods to use that only change the visuals and or the game play or shall I just play it stock.
 
Played through half life, blue shift and opposing force again last year. Still amazing games even with the dated graphics :) Didn't use any mods myself, bought them all off the steam sale last xmas.
 
Absolutely excellent game. Still a great play even today, and I don't remember most of it so it's not nostalgia doing it :)

People who haven't played it, don't let the graphics put you off. It's just brilliant.
 
As the OP said, I too remember that tram ride into Black Mesa, I thought it was epic at the time. Watching the facility unfold as that womens voice narrated over the tram intercom. Then walking around the labs before starting the experiment. It did create a real sense of walking into a massive governement lab. Then travelling back through it after all hell breaks lose when the experiment goes wrong.
 
Yay my kind of thread. HL1 was the game that got me into fps.

Wang Computer said:
I always REALLY loved Half Life's multi-player. It was quirky, idiosyncratic and required a huge amount of skill to be really adept at. I fear we shall never see its like again (HL2's MP was a huge let down for me).

Unfortunately I'm probably in the minority here.
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I really liked it too, hardly anyone on these days.
 
Half Life to me is like a first wife.

It is my first love.

Sure, you may look at others and go "pretty" but deep down, you know nothing will replace it.

I remember going to Game on release day and picking it up although am certain there was another game released on the same day which I also liked the look of.

The tutorial level alone was mind blowing.

Half Life was my initiation into the FPS genre other than the obligatory Quake/Doom and I love it.
 
The Half Life series has to be the biggest thing I ever talked about (next to HD audio/video way back when)
Up until this bizarre fetish with its macro economy Valve could do no wrong in my eyes.

Even the latest seasonal achievement promos were thinly veiled sales pitches.
Back in the day it'd be "Hey, it's christmas, let's give our customers some free stuff", now it's "Hey, it's sales season, let's give our customers the chance to win mediocre money off vouchers if they buy some games."

C'mon guys, why give us a barrel if we can't blow it up?
 
Classic game no doubt there, still got the big box version and in perfect nick too.

Great single and multiplayer and i will never forget the whining and crying when we all had 56k modems and someone picked up the hive-hand weapon and started causing lag :D

Loved the sequel too so roll on number three.
 
I built an entire new PC for Halflife.... PII-350, 128Mb of 100MHz RAM, 6GB HDD and an 8MB AGP ATI Xpert 98 gfx card - it ran like a dream!

I played many a night in the dark and nearly crapping myself when a head crab jumped out.

I went onto Team Fortress Classic and then CS beta. Jump forward a few years I was looking after a whole group of CS servers as I couldn't play so well on my crappy dial up when everyone else had ISDN or the new fangled ADSL! I carried on play CS until CS:S came out. Was too much for my once shiny and new PC.
 
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