time for personal life context lol.
i didnt grow up with a decent pc and have mostly been a console gamer up until more recently. so half-life was a game i missed on its first time out. thus i didnt think it was the greatest game ever when it released, i simply didn't know. however i did get half life 2 on the original xbox around the time it released and it really was the greatest game or one of the greatest games i'd ever played. despite being very innovative, which everyone already knows, it left a huge impression on me, enough to want to go to the original half-life which i eventually picked up on ps2... and i wasn't really into it. half-life 2 had spoiled me and other games, like possibly deus ex, had as well.
fast forward to this officially sanctioned fan-made remake and now i can actually get some of the context of why this game was so important, now that it's just as enjoyable as any of the games it influenced.
first off, i can skip the intro! i don't know how many times i started half life through the past two decades where i just kinda lost interest somewhere after the intro. either i got stuck or i was just kinda bored. i really don't know what's so different about this version, but i haven't been bored yet and puzzles just seem more obvious most of the time.
i may have also decided to quickly finish this game instead of others because it was 25 gig i wanted to delete off my hard drive... but still, it wasn't ever a chore to play.
this is definitely for the people that missed out on what made the original so special.
i didnt grow up with a decent pc and have mostly been a console gamer up until more recently. so half-life was a game i missed on its first time out. thus i didnt think it was the greatest game ever when it released, i simply didn't know. however i did get half life 2 on the original xbox around the time it released and it really was the greatest game or one of the greatest games i'd ever played. despite being very innovative, which everyone already knows, it left a huge impression on me, enough to want to go to the original half-life which i eventually picked up on ps2... and i wasn't really into it. half-life 2 had spoiled me and other games, like possibly deus ex, had as well.
fast forward to this officially sanctioned fan-made remake and now i can actually get some of the context of why this game was so important, now that it's just as enjoyable as any of the games it influenced.
first off, i can skip the intro! i don't know how many times i started half life through the past two decades where i just kinda lost interest somewhere after the intro. either i got stuck or i was just kinda bored. i really don't know what's so different about this version, but i haven't been bored yet and puzzles just seem more obvious most of the time.
i may have also decided to quickly finish this game instead of others because it was 25 gig i wanted to delete off my hard drive... but still, it wasn't ever a chore to play.
this is definitely for the people that missed out on what made the original so special.