Do I take the job? This weird guy keeps asking me to choose!

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You might hate me for this, but I never finished the original Half-Life.

    I have finished Black Mesa, original game’s expansions, Half-Life 2 and it’s episodes, but never Half-Life 1.

    I always quit somewhere after the middle of the game, and only once I got to Xen.

  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I absolutely love this game but unfortunately I just couldn’t bring myself to compete Zen in this and Black Mesa so I can’t say I’ve beaten either.

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I beat it for the first time a couple years ago. Not too shabby. I think I had to look up how to do the platforming in xen.

    Blue shift and Opposing force are neat add-ons to hl1.

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    I’ve bothered to finish Xen maybe 3-4 times in my life but everything before that point I’ve played through probably 80 times, I love it so much

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      6 months ago

      Same here, the journey is over when you reach Xen it’s just some mopping up that’s left.

      And when I reach the Citadel in HL2 it’s also a tossup if I continue.

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    6 months ago

    I’ve played through Half Life twice. Once on original release and secondly when it received that big remaster fairly recently. I’m my opinion, it’s a fantastic game until you get to Xen and it becomes a bit of a annoying platform fest.

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      6 months ago

      Those same criticisms were there when it was released. I remember reading it on Digitiser.

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      6 months ago

      Xen when you have to jump on those space manta rays to get to the floating island is mega annoying

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 months ago

      I actually like the platforming in the game but the low gravity in Xen does make it annoying. Missed so many jumps, definitely abused quick save

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    6 months ago

    Dang, and I thought I was late to the party when I did my first play through in 2004.