Zero Punctuation: Half-Life
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Maybe Valve will take notice and at long last release its next installment of Half-life. You know the one, the one we've all be crying and craving and begging for since 2008. That's right; Half-life: Citrus Bazooka. Come on, Valve! Hurry the eff up!
Two years ago I decided to replay Half-Life once more to see if it stood the test of time. It totally did. Visually it's ugly, with it coming out right at the time of the awkward transition between 2D and 3D (the high-res models helped a bit here), but it's still an incredible game. It starts slow, but once the accident happens and you have to escape the game gets you and never lets you go.
Its nice to see that Yatzee didn't bash the shit outta the game to annoy all that the valve fans here.
I still hate Half-Life 2 and this sounds to be very similar if a little better. But after hearing his comment about Half-Life 1 coming out when he was 15, I had to check the release date. This game was definitely ahead of its time, but I feel that the source Engine was the real accomplishment, not the game.
I still hate Half-Life 2 and this sounds to be very similar if a little better. But after hearing his comment about Half-Life 1 coming out when he was 15, I had to check the release date. This game was definitely ahead of its time, but I feel that the source Engine was the real accomplishment, not the game.
What would that make Barney, Kleiner, and Vance? I find Vance the most amazing, as everything that went on in the first game was like a horror movie, and he was the only black guy. I think that's quite an accomplishment to survive that as a black man. Though I can understand Gordan getting the Jesus status as he did survive it, take out most military and alien forces and destroyed the controlled leader of the aliens. And he only became big in Half-Life 2 after he had taken out a few hundred soldiers, he was just well known among his friends because he was a genius and he kicked some ass. And the beard, that is his claim to fame.jmarquiso said:
I've tried to play this game many times but always lose interest the second the soldiers show up.
If your scrounging for games to review right now, maybe you should do a couple downloadable titles. There's an interesting one I'm playing for the PS3 called Closure. I guess it'd fit in the big headed black and white artsy type game but it's a puzzle based game revolving around controlling light; what is lit exists and anything in shadow does not.
If it sounds like something that may interest you, I'd suggest trying the short version they released on newgrounds a few years back. The story of that one was actually pretty powerful.
If it sounds like something that may interest you, I'd suggest trying the short version they released on newgrounds a few years back. The story of that one was actually pretty powerful.
I never made it past the jumping section after the Scrotum Crab boss. Didn't really understand what I was suppose to do, and the jump pack wasn't the easiest thing to use with a laptop.
You know, the only thing that ever bothers me doing replays of old games is your ladder complaint. That really annoys me.
But other than that, the jumping bits really don't bother me at all. I've always been very good at them and I'm one of the very few freaks who actually enjoyed Xen. And the older graphics don't bother me in the slightest. I notice the difference, obviously, but they don't bother me or make me constantly think about them.
But other than that, the jumping bits really don't bother me at all. I've always been very good at them and I'm one of the very few freaks who actually enjoyed Xen. And the older graphics don't bother me in the slightest. I notice the difference, obviously, but they don't bother me or make me constantly think about them.
Great review, I always love how pertinent your analysis is on retro games.
I thought half-life's controls were very clunky. I finished HL1 for the first time and got halfway 'cross HL2 a few weeks ago and it always felt like Gordon was moving along on some pretty cheap roller-skates.
Love the interactive story though, mostly because it never really interrupts the actual game unlike in games such as Mass Effect or the Witcher where you get caught in pseudo-interactive cutscenes. Although waiting for people to be done talking in Half-Life can be pretty tedious, it never lasts too long but sometimes long enough to be irritating.
Come to think of it, one of the complaints adressed at MW3 was the fact that you couldn't advance until someone had come to open the door for you, maybe that's something they picked up from HL?
captcha: do you mean that one Motörhead song?
I thought half-life's controls were very clunky. I finished HL1 for the first time and got halfway 'cross HL2 a few weeks ago and it always felt like Gordon was moving along on some pretty cheap roller-skates.
Love the interactive story though, mostly because it never really interrupts the actual game unlike in games such as Mass Effect or the Witcher where you get caught in pseudo-interactive cutscenes. Although waiting for people to be done talking in Half-Life can be pretty tedious, it never lasts too long but sometimes long enough to be irritating.
Come to think of it, one of the complaints adressed at MW3 was the fact that you couldn't advance until someone had come to open the door for you, maybe that's something they picked up from HL?
captcha: do you mean that one Motörhead song?
I played Half Life for about half an hour or so. I rode the long boring train ride in, I messed about with the broken machine then I started doing jumping puzzles and just thought fuck it, I'm bored with this now.
Well at least I got a few laughs out of Yahtzee's review.
Well at least I got a few laughs out of Yahtzee's review.