ok i recently got the orange box for christmas (portal is so awesome) and i wanted to start half life 2. problem is, i never played half life one. i dont particularly want the pc version cuz i dont have my own computer (have to share with my family =[ ). my cousin said he had a playstation version, but i dont have a playstation. he thinks there is probably an xbox version, but wikipedia says there isnt, which could be wrong but still... is there an xbox version of half life one? also, would i be able to play half life two without spoiling half life one?
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There is no version of Half-Life 1 on the Xbox. You can probably play Half-Life 2 without ruining it for you, but don't expect to completely comprehend the story.
Theres a PS2 version but thats it. Sorry. I think theres a dreamcast version, but that might be emulated. You should know better than to ask this anyway. Wikipedia is never wrong 
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the storyline fo r halflife 1 the gman makes you open a portal that sends out headcrabs and theres a sepcial suit you get and you save the day and you have 2 go in the portal or not if you go in the it leads 2 halflife 2 if you dont go through the portal you go to a planet named hell and probaly die
Yeh, I think it would be fairly safe to play HL2 without the fear of ruining Half-Life 1. To be honest, compared to the sequel (and the subsequent episodes) the "story" in the original Half-Life is a little on the thin side. Until HL2, there wasn't really much to HL besides the standard A to B repel to the invading aliens set up, albeit one very well put together.
Play it on the PC. You'll be hooked and rip through it quick. Anyway, don't play it on the PS2. everything was lost in the translation. It was a horrible, horrible port.forever saturday said:
Although, the true story in Half Life is the one you make for yourself as you play it.
That was sarcasm, right? Wikipedia is ALWAYS wrong... but I do think that it may have been on PS2... but is sounds awful... you should just get a torrent of it or get it as a gift off of steam...pigeon_of_doom said:Theres a PS2 version but thats it. Sorry. I think theres a dreamcast version, but that might be emulated. You should know better than to ask this anyway. Wikipedia is never wrong
I can't support this statement enough. I would argue that one shouldn't play HL2 on 360, either, but some people just can't have their minds changed on that subject. But definitely play HL 1 on the PC. Anything less is uncivilized!MrGFunk said:
That was sarcasm too, right? Wikipedia, like anything else man-made, is sometimes wrong, sometimes right. Actually, from a recent study, I would trust Wikipedia over Britannica.steve141761 said:That was sarcasm, right? Wikipedia is ALWAYS wrong...pigeon_of_doom said:Theres a PS2 version but thats it. Sorry. I think theres a dreamcast version, but that might be emulated. You should know better than to ask this anyway. Wikipedia is never wrong
I also read the Wikipedia plot, at the time of the Half-life 1 fad I was young and stupid and incapable of taking down all the enemies the game was throwing at me, so I never finished it. Good for me is that they're remaking HL 1 on the PC with the HL2 engine, but to be honest, all you need to know is that there's this dude with a moustache and a crowbar named Gordon Freeman who is a alien killing superman scientist who worked at a place which unleashed a load of aliens upon the world that come in many shapes and sizes until he stops them, the combine come in and screw the world over.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of that evre happening.Wouldukindly said:
That's because Half-Life 2 is actually a prequel to Half-Life, set in a parallel universe that was formed after the events in the original game. Hence, the countless scientists and security guards you run into in Black Mesa are actually clones of Barney, Isaac and Eli from City 17 that came through to our universe when theSacman said:
Citadel is destroyed
Well, that sounds totally nonsensical, but it's probably more plausible than the Gordon Freeman/Solid Snake/Master Chief theory we came up with one day...
Definately find a way. Half-Life 2 will only be enjoyed as intended I think if you've played through the first one...
I just figured that after the at black mesa the Dr.Breen used the portal technology to bring the combine into existence and take over the world. there's a whole game that has Barney Chalhoun as the main character and I just figured that the scientist he escapes with are Dr.Kleiner, Eli Vance and a couple other random scientists. Besides why do the characters talk about Black Mesa and how the Gman saved Alyx Vance from Black Mesa in HL2 EP2. and tell me the Gordon Freeman/Solid Snake/Master Chief u came up with.MarsProbe said:
Well, I played Half-Life on PS2 and loved it.steve141761 said:That was sarcasm, right? Wikipedia is ALWAYS wrong... but I do think that it may have been on PS2... but is sounds awful... you should just get a torrent of it or get it as a gift off of steam...pigeon_of_doom said:Theres a PS2 version but thats it. Sorry. I think theres a dreamcast version, but that might be emulated. You should know better than to ask this anyway. Wikipedia is never wrong
But then again I haven't played it on PC, does that mean that on PC its just plain awesome?
Edit: sorry, quoted wrong person, but by reading entire thread you should get the idea.
As people have said, the first Half-Life is only available for PC and PS2. I've never played the PS2 version, so I can't speak as to its quality. It's also true that you don't need to play Half-Life to enjoy or 'get' Half-Life 2; all you need to know story-wise is that you, Gordon Freeman, were a theoretical physicist at a secret research facility called Black Mesa that was experimenting with teleportation, that an experiment opened a portal to an alien world and started an alien invasion, and that you survived by going to the alien world (Xen) and destroying the Nhilanth, who had controlled and enslaved a species of aliens called the Vortigaunts. Then a shadowy guy who we refer to as the G-Man because we don't know his real name or really anything else about him brought you to some sort of purgatory-like place and 'hired' you, keeping you trapped in this space until the beginning of Half-Life 2. That's really about the sum of the assumed knowledge in Half-Life 2.