Half-Life Comparison (spoilers)

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A lot of people are talking about how they don't like Half-Life 2 or it isn't what the expected. Although a lot of this is because of comparison to the e3 videos, I believe some people are disappointed in Half-Life 2 because it is nothing like the first game. Seeing posts like where's the xen levels, what happened the weapons, ect. Imagine there was no Half-Life 1, more people would probably appreciate Half-Life 2 for what it is...

Now to the comparison...

What are your thoughts on this game in comparison to Half-Life 1. The release of Half-Life 2 felt odd, it was a good game. But it felt odd, for lack of words to describe it. I mean if you look back at Half-Life 1 the community became huge. I liked how when you bought Half-Life 1 it said it came with all these games, TFC + HL DM, later TFC + HLDM + RICOCHET + more. Speaking of which did anyone ever get the Half-Life release with the western game? I thought I remember there being an included western mod. Anyway it felt like the game could go on forever (6 years). But now that Half-Life 2 has been released there is only CS: Source. I thought it would have been cool, although most likely not possible, if there was a HL2 DM + TF2.

Plus when you play Half-Life 2 it just gives you a completely different feeling then Half-Life 1. What I liked about Half-Life 1 was that game took place inside one huge facility! Half-Life 2's levels were also good but for some reason I just felt like it was more fun playing in one place rather than connected areas.

On to the multiplayer aspect. For example Half-Life 1 it was easy to image playing levels multiplayer levels in black mesa, in fact I think there were similar made mp levels out there. However with Half-Life 2, I can't really imagine myself playing city 17, citidell, or h17 in mp. I don't think the textures are "multiplayer material". All of valves corresponding multiplayers felt like they all had a piece of hl in them, tfc... ect.

On to what made Half-Life 1 what it is today. The community was big when Half-Life came out TFC was awesome and HLDM rocked the big one... Counter-strike was introduced - that carried unique feeling of it's own, it no longer felt like you were playing half-life. The community was great it grew pretty large. It was made up of mostly 18+ year olds, but it did contain a few kids and teens at the time but it seemed like most of them tried to act mature... CS hits retail - 1 1/2 years later - everyone is playing is even kids scene consists of everyone.

Now to compare this to Half-Life 2 the question is whether or not Half-Life 2's multiplayer community will grow huge or not. I believe if they released TF2 in the next few months they could have a big community but I can't really answer that question... Counter-Strike was good since it was made by the community but now it is part of valve even the original creators...

When Valve released the "final" version of counter-strike: source, it was pretty horrible. In my opinion the makers of Counter-Strike do not belong in Valve... The release of Counter-Strike: Source would have been impressive if it was considered a community mod. But the game seems to lack the professionalism that Valve has.

That is were I would like to ask do you think Half-Life 2 is going to last as long as Half-Life 1, did?

I know the full SDK isn't out yet but in order have a community valve needs to support it too. From the looks of it there hasn't been any efforts to support the mp community. Although Half-Life 2 was just released I feel that they need to release a mp game like HL2DM within 1 month of the release or it makes the game seem pretty weak being made up of all homegrown mods, there should be a few official ones in there, I don't count CS:S.
 
I'm sure that HL2 will live on because of the mods. In fact, HL2 is a ready engine. Which means that skilled teams can reate whole new games without the need to write their own engine. We'll start seeing new maps soon, I am sure, and then, the mods, which will prolong the game really.

Besides, who knows, maybe there will be some mod that's going to gain amazing popularity, like CS did for HL1. Although it was a shame to see CS players who never even knew what HL was...
 
What I liked about Half-Life 1 was that game took place inside one huge facility!
Me too. It gave the game a completely different feel than HL2 where you have these enormous open spaces.
 
i liked hl1 for the posy xen world and how long it went for =D
yeah, i had hl1 and cs and cs came with western mod and all the others
 
liked how when you bought Half-Life 1 it said it came with all these games, TFC + HL DM, later TFC + HLDM + RICOCHET + more.

HL shipped with HLDM. Everything else came later.
 
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