![]() ![]() Then, like something akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Half Life arrives on the scene and exemplifies what an FPS can be like. That was the state of the FPS genre at the time. You received a basic gun at the beginning of the game, and kept shooting everything that moved until the game was finished. There was no story, no dialog, no NPCs, and no real AI to speak of. And when I say entirely, I mean entirely. However, the game was entirely based on combat. A great game in its own right, and the engine was what Half Life 1 iterated upon ( GoldSrc). Understanding the success of HL1 and HL2 requires an understanding of what gaming was like when they arrived.Ĭonsider that, at the time HL1 was released, the pinnacle of the genre was Quake 2. The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games List ![]() Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community? We expect you to know these rules before making a post. Please click here to see our current rules. We no longer maintain our posting rules in Old Reddit. Join our Discord Join our Steam Group Follow us on Twitter Posting Rules Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases. 2 and 3 are basically interchangeable for me.A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Half-Life: Alyx probably holds more novelty for me right now than HL, but I think when that fades away (still hasn’t after 4.5 playthroughs of Alyx so far) HL will keep the crown, though Alyx comes very close. To me it makes much more sense placed at the beginning of the game as it was in Episode 1 from a gameplay perspective. Also I never liked the blue gravity gun climax sequence – it feels dull and uninteresting after the first playthrough. I think it’s pretty controversial to put HL2 at the bottom but I always felt it lacked some cohesion, the bugbait only sees use in one chapter and it’s useless afterwards and the vehicle segments (apart from Highway 17) almost felt like they belonged in a seperate game. Never played the others, and personally I wouldn’t be inclined to include either Opposing Force or Blue Shift. Maybe call it, I don’t know, Half-Life 3. That never happened, and while 2020’s Alyx is great, I still hold out hope that a new game, set after Episode 2, will still be released. More frustrating is the actual ending, which is a big cliffhanger. It does end with a somewhat annoying combat and driving section, but that’s just a common trope in Half-Life games: bad final levels. Episode 2 also ups the stakes narratively and includes new enemies to fight, like the scary and deadly Hunter. And while the dune buggy in Half-Life 2 was annoying, the new muscle car in Episode 2 is a beast and a blast to drive. You can easily spend many hours just exploring the areas you encounter on your journey to a human resistance base. It’s essentially a giant road trip and you, as Gordon Freeman, are free to go as fast or slow as you want. (And no spoilers in this list.)Įpisode 2 took the core gameplay and engine of Half-Life 2 and moved it to a bigger, more open world. With all that out of the way, here’s our list ranking Half-Life games, from worst to best. But considering its fan-made roots and the fact that it is mostly a remake of Half-Life 1, we decided it was worth mentioning but didn’t need to be ranked. It’s a wonderful remake and if you want to play Half-Life 1, but are put off by the old visuals and design choices, I’d recommended giving Black Mesa a go. We debated including it, but decided to keep it off the list. Not games that are set in the Half-Life universe but aren’t actually Half-Life games. Half-Life Deathmatch Source is also not on here, because it’s just a rerelease of Half-Life’s original online mode, which wasn’t a separate game originally. First, this list omits Deathmatch Classic, because that’s more of a Half-Life multiplayer mod developed by Valve that just happens to contain some Half-Life assets. Let’s rank ‘em!īefore this list starts, a bit of housekeeping. ![]() While the vast majority of the series is very good, they can’t all be equally great. The Half-Life franchise contains some of the best and most beloved video games ever made. ![]()
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