Half-Life or Half-Life 2?

[BTGBullseye]

Wow, HL1 has 8 while HL2 has 16.

 

Meaning HL2 has double the amount of votes.

I guess most people just like it because it is well, newer.

It's all about the people who don't really know better. Just look at the professional reviews of MW2 compared to the reviews from everyone else... The pros all rated it as barely making the mediocre level, and everyone else made it look like the best game ever released. It's all in how many noobs vote.

[Raicuparta]

BGT, it has nothing to do with how much of a "noob" you are. There are many valid points in this topic in why they preferred HL2.

I admit, though, that if I were to judge the games based on comparison with what was out at the time, I'd say HL1 gets the prize, because it inspired many future games. But in this topic we discuss the game that WE liked the most, and I felt better playing HL2 than HL1.

[BTGBullseye]

BGT, it has nothing to do with how much of a "noob" you are. There are many valid points in this topic in why they preferred HL2.

I admit, though, that if I were to judge the games based on comparison with what was out at the time, I'd say HL1 gets the prize, because it inspired many future games. But in this topic we discuss the game that WE liked the most, and I felt better playing HL2 than HL1.

And that's your opinion, and I never said you were a noob, just that polls on opinions are always going to be completely inaccurate when you expect the people voting to know anything about what the topic is about.

[bespectacled]

I like the fact that HL2 has a more in-depth story and more characters, but the original is just awesome. It was amazing when it first came out; I remember being five or six and playing it while sitting on my dad's lap.

 

I'd have to go with the second, though, even if I hate to choose one over the other. Simply because I'd rather play the second currently.

[The Scoutman]

I was also going to make fun of her for pointing that out, but I was afraid she would give me -rep too.

Its just the internets dont be afraid,and i was just quoting "the social network",and you still worried about reputation? You have -84

[Raicuparta]

I was half joking and half worried. No I don't really care, has some people decided to completely ruin my rep... It actually makes me feel special. In the not retarded way.

[BTGBullseye]

I was half joking and half worried. No I don't really care, has some people decided to completely ruin my rep... It actually makes me feel special. In the not retarded way.

So you really do like your -85 rep then... lol

[Alyxx Thorne]

For those who want to vote which episode is the best: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=746

[Jek Jek Roo]

For those who want to vote which episode is the best: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=746

 

That's good I was thinking about it.

[longliveprose]

Half-Life 1 because I hate that messianic position put on Gordon Freeman and I think the HECU are more challenging. Plus, I like that aliens are the most common enemies. One grows so tired of UU soldiers.

[Punished Obesity]

I like HL2 for it's art style and environment. But for gameplay and story, HL1 takes the trophy. 

 

The combat and puzzles in HL2 were very underwhelming compared to 1, and the only thing that really helps it stand out compared to other games is "Wow, we have cool physics!" HL1 on the other hand is more balanced and fairly challenging, not being extremely easy for most of the game and then having random difficulty spikes across the chapters. 

 

The story was more nuanced as well, being one of the first games to feature environmental story telling and allowing the player to interpret the situation for themselves. The ending was also perfect, making way for something completely mysterious and ambiguous that leaves you fascinated, when they could have just ended it off with "Congratulations, you saved the world!" HL2 however completely throws the environmental story telling out of the window by forcing in more dialogue sections and having you to drag along a fan-service character for 90% of the levels. 

[Im_CIA]

On 4/5/2023 at 2:35 PM, Punished Obesity said:

I like HL2 for it's art style and environment. But for gameplay and story, HL1 takes the trophy. 

 

The combat and puzzles in HL2 were very underwhelming compared to 1, and the only thing that really helps it stand out compared to other games is "Wow, we have cool physics!" HL1 on the other hand is more balanced and fairly challenging, not being extremely easy for most of the game and then having random difficulty spikes across the chapters. 

 

The story was more nuanced as well, being one of the first games to feature environmental story telling and allowing the player to interpret the situation for themselves. The ending was also perfect, making way for something completely mysterious and ambiguous that leaves you fascinated, when they could have just ended it off with "Congratulations, you saved the world!" HL2 however completely throws the environmental story telling out of the window by forcing in more dialogue sections and having you to drag along a fan-service character for 90% of the levels. 

One thing that carried over well is more organic parts of the level design. There are no big "go here" indicators, it's all so subtle but still implicit. Any other game would make ornate routes and destinations- here it's just shimmy along a catwalk that looks like a mundane piece of environment.

Also Punished is a rather infamous surname around these here parts.

[GordonBleu]

Half-Life, the original. It's focused, intense, and has just the right amount of environmental storytelling to let your imagination fill in the rest without taking away from the running and gunning experience. HL2 is fine, but I never cared for the human resistance aspect of the game. To me Half-Life is at its best when it's about the one man's war against all the odds. I liked the new puzzle aspect of HL2 and all the interesting ways the player is let to use environment against the enemy, but I did not like driving/boating sections with constant obstructions that felt like busywork.