Half Life was never respected.
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Half Life was never respected
Caleb Powell
Tyler Ross
"I found HL a bit overly scripted and hyped. The AI that everyone liked was dumb as a brick. I regualarly saw groups of marines yell, ''gernade, duck'' and crouch down next to the gernade for extermination. Also, the aimbot mentality of the AI underpinnings resulted in numerous ''monsters'' blowing themselves up while standing at a corner of a doorway. That coupled with scripted events just not working if you distrupt their path too much, made the game more comical and tedious than what it should have been. At most, the AI was clumsily executed in places.
All in all, only the marines had any decent AI of the group, with the rest of the AI being your classic death fest shooter AI which used the rush the player until you run out of warm bodies. The marines for the most part tried to execute logical maneuvers only to be ruined by impercise path finding and lack of proper threat analysis (see my reference to the ducking next to the gernade behavior).
The more commonly overlooked AI is the AI from Unreal which had much better execution and much better results from the path finding. I found myself regularly surprised when the AI would pin me down behind an embankment or wall while its buds would flank or encircle me. If HL had better pathfinding, I might have been more impressed with the AI that what I was with Unreal. Instead, I am left with a feeling that everything in HL was a scripted event with no AI to support it beyond some minimal efforts at maneuvering."
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Landon Carter
Brayden Rogers
bump.
Connor Mitchell
it is a classic
Austin Jones
no it's not.
Hudson Murphy
yes it is
Gabriel Cruz
how is using a thread from 8 years ago from a meme website some kind of proof that hl1 sucks?
Josiah Gray
It will be always labeled as a classic. Now and in ten years. Keep trying.
Josiah Martin
No one gives a shit, games a classic, always has been, always will be, hence why everyone talks about it all the time. What's that, you're a nolife neckbeard virgin faggot? Cool
Gabriel Butler
if hl is so good then why are people calling it overrated or shit in other game forums?
You don't see that happen with other fps games except Quake 2, Goldeneye, Halo and COD and most modern fps.
Everyone agrees that Quake 1, Doom, Unreal, Deus Ex, System Shock, Duke, Tribes, Blood, Thief are fairly rated.
Hudson Barnes
>i'll make baseless critics of this widely loved game so i can sound like an intelectual
Why are people like this?
Colton Myers
>an internet forum
wow great argument fagtron you sure convinced me with those hot opinions
Levi Perry
it's the HL Schizo
he's been doing this for 7years and bumping his own Shit threads so they don't die
7 YEARS
Mason Reyes
>I found HL a bit overly scripted and hyped. The AI that everyone liked was dumb as a brick. I regualarly saw groups of marines yell, ''gernade, duck'' and crouch down next to the gernade for extermination. Also, the aimbot mentality of the AI underpinnings resulted in numerous ''monsters'' blowing themselves up while standing at a corner of a doorway. That coupled with scripted events just not working if you distrupt their path too much, made the game more comical and tedious than what it should have been. At most, the AI was clumsily executed in places.
>All in all, only the marines had any decent AI of the group, with the rest of the AI being your classic death fest shooter AI which used the rush the player until you run out of warm bodies. The marines for the most part tried to execute logical maneuvers only to be ruined by impercise path finding and lack of proper threat analysis (see my reference to the ducking next to the gernade behavior).
>The more commonly overlooked AI is the AI from Unreal which had much better execution and much better results from the path finding. I found myself regularly surprised when the AI would pin me down behind an embankment or wall while its buds would flank or encircle me. If HL had better pathfinding, I might have been more impressed with the AI that what I was with Unreal. Instead, I am left with a feeling that everything in HL was a scripted event with no AI to support it beyond some minimal efforts at maneuvering.
Matthew Diaz
I like the tram ride, it sets up the atmosphere that is then twisted into lovecraftian horror
Brandon Clark
prove him wrong.
Evan Hill
but that’s Alf-Lif. OP a nigger yet again
Ian Morgan
if Unreal is fairly whelming then so is Half-Life since they are quite similar is scope and execution
Joshua Cox
the AI for the marines is quite good for '98
Ayden Jenkins
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OH NO NO NO NO HALF LIFE BROS???
Isaiah Brooks
William Campbell
Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good.
Anthony Robinson
imagine wasting your evenings trashing a game from 20 years ago
Nathaniel Ward
let me guess you think that OOT is good too?
Charles Butler
I'M WITH THE SCIENCE TEAM!
STAHP!
Jackson Collins
Take your pills, user.
Christopher Anderson
POPULAR GAME GOOD
THE BEST
Jackson Sullivan
if you cannot appreciate games for their time then you're stuck playing the newest games at all times
Daniel Bennett
>"Half Life 1 is an overly long game with repetitive levels/filler throughout and sub-par shooting (not HL2 levels of bad shooting mind but the gunplay is at best unsatisfying and on hard just spongey enemies). The supposedly amazing marine AI is 90% hardcoding grenade throws and the like + voice lines that have no bearing on what they're actually doing so they seem smarter. There are a lot of weird TECHNOLOGY features like alien-specific AI that, while neat, you'll rarely even see and won't have any effect on your actual experience playing the game. Xen was actually a good way to freshen up the end of the game after endless bland/grey corridors.
You could cut out at least 1/3rd of the entire game and improve the overall experience without losing anything but filler. Much of the game is just walking down grey corridors fighting the same group of 2-3 enemies to flip a switch and while that's true of many classic FPS games they at least had some difficulty, competently designed shooting mechanics and enemy variety to keep it interesting."
Leo Williams
>I thought this old fps was boring and I enjoyed this old jrpg more
Kevin Lee
He's not wrong.
Nicholas Gomez
>I think silent hill was innovative but I think half-life is overrated &&other people are sheep and lack the critical thinkings
Lucas Wright
>You could cut out at least 1/3rd of the entire game and improve the overall experience without losing anything but filler.
why stop there, cut out 100% of the game it is nothing but a waste of the time