I've been playing Half Life for awhile now (maybe on my 12th playthrough) and I have played through Half Life 2 too (on my 8th playthrough). And I adore the story of Half Life 2 better than Half Life 1, but the gameplay? Half Life 1 takes the cake for me. Just a great experience/action shooter all round (minusing On A Rail and Xen for me). Idk, its just fighting the marines feel like an action packed firefight compared to the cannon fodder combine. Again though, combine is so cool to me story and look-wise, but the marines have so much going for them AI-wise (I mean the game came out 1998 and the marines AI is still so impressive to me). What are your thoughts on this?

Unfortunately, due to the constant movement and "combat encounters" at the festival, my armor plates lost some of their paint. The zombie headcrab cosplayer also suffered from some very careless cosplayers, who broke two of its front legs of the crab-helmet on the first day.

But we still had a good time!

I decided it would be a good idea to do an achievement run on my very first time experiencing episode 2 because god knows why.

This ugly, malformed chunk of ceramic plagued my entire time with this game and I want nothing more than to throw this insignificant piece of painted garbage into satan’s dumpster because even he wouldn’t want it around.

If this thing ever comes in contact with me ever again I swear I will smash it into an uncountable amount of pieces, and then smash those pieces into even more uncountable pieces.

Not one day passes where I do not hold this overwhelming hatred in my soul for that bearded pile of wasted clay. I wonder how it feels, knowing that its own flesh could have been used as a florist’s new garden.

I wonder how it feels, knowing that it could have had a purpose other than enraging anyone attempting to complete its attached achievement.

What a useless, ugly, likely stinky piece of junk.

I can’t wait to do the same in Half Life: Alyx.

I feel like a lot of people have some misunderstanding with Portal Storms and 7 Hour War so I’m just gonna write these down

1. The portal storm did not happen during Black Mesa Incident, rather shortly after, likely after The Nihilanth was killed. So the Xen Fauna/Flora were likely only locally to Black Mesa and it’s surrounding area

2. The Seven Hour War and Portal Storms were not the same event, I feel like this should’ve been obvious but a few had mistaken this

3. The Portal Storms were already raging on Earth for a while (days? Weeks? Months? Unsure) and the 7 hour war happened a while after Portal Storms happened

4. While a Portal storm did happen in Ep2, the beam into the swirling sky is not apart of the Portal Storm

For me it has to be, We Got Hostiles for HL1. And Highway 17 for HL2. As for the expansions... honestly I don't remember the chapter names.

I will kiss you G-Man style

One of my Half-Life fanarts. Really the only good one I made tbh.

What's the name of this version of Half-Life? Was it sold in a box or like this as jewel case?

Been waiting all week to do this

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I wish I could Gordon Freeman Maxx

I was just watching Lucia's last video (guy who talks about hl mods and related stuff) and suddenly I had a flashback of the first security guard that you encounter after the resonance cascade, the one that the cientist is reviving.

It came to me this perfect image of not only the Guard sitting down and giving you instructions of going to the surface for help but also giving you his pistol, saying something like he can't use it anymore because of his injuries.

Of course this seems like alot of interaction for hl 1 and more akin to something like Black Mesa but I always wonderder... where the fuck this perfect memory comes from? Like, everytime I replay hl1 I try this, every single time since... idk, 2006? I first played HL 1 in 2005 but idk what I was doing at that time, I was 4 years old in a ciber caffee with my older cousin lol but anyway, do any of you know where this (I think) perfect false memory comes from? Like it may come from some weird sven cop map or something?

Oh, and something else that might be interesting to add, I have friends from that time that have THE SAME MEMORY like... I was in a weird experiment or something like, wtf is going on haha

So I was spoiled the main game of Half-Life 2 when I first played it. But I didn't know that the episodes were seperate things. So when I saw the G-Man in episode 2 my jaw dropped.

At my second playthrough now, how this game makes the G-Man feel so omniscient in a way is fascinating.

That is all, I just wanted to share this.