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Anyone Not Played Half Life (the original)?
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Isn't she a classical singer or something? She's great at voice acting anyway.
Actually that's the Steam version that runs on XP. I could not get the original HL disk to install and run in XP. When I used my original serial number to register the game on Steam, it downloaded a complete fresh Steamizied copy.
Well the Black Mesa Source mod was supposed to come out this month, but it's been delayed a bit. Not that I'm surprised, but I'm holding off playing HL1 and I want to play it!
Oh, it's a mod? What game do you need to run it, HL2?
I run mine on Xp too - I am mid way thought it too at the moment about my 5th time playing it. am just about to be teleported to Xen.
Good thing i have next week of work to play opposing force and blueshift
Good thing i have next week of work to play opposing force and blueshift
I picked up HL1 for $1 awhile back during a sale after having played through HL2 a couple times. I've got a saved game midway through but was never into it enough to finish it -- probably a combination of the old graphics and lack of epic HL2 style scripted sequences.
So in your folks opinions is HL2 episode 2 better than episode 1? Either way I must find the time to play Episode 2 as I really did enjoy the first one.
Episode 1 had really great characterizations but relatively crappy gameplay, especially the second half (which was basically a big giant yawn before petering out on a lame-o final fight). Episode 2 didn't have the same kind of character interactions that made me go 'wow' but had much better gameplay and variety and probably the best wide-open combat arenas in the series (thinking of the White Forest Inn and the finale mostly).
You must have a different Half-Life than me, then. I've played Half-Life on Windows NT 4, Win 98, Win 2000, XP and Vista. Just stay up-to-date with the patches and make sure you have a compatible video driver - which is what you have to do for any PC game.
Anyway. I think the original Half-Life is the best computer game ever made.
As a continuation of the story, I liked them both equally.
I'm pretty sure when I installed HL on my PC running XP I patched it up but could not get it to run. (It's been a while) If I could I'd much rather play the game outside of Steam. I agree it's the best solo shooter adventure game I've ever played.