smokeythebear
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I played it a while ago. Never finished. What happens?
What happens in half life 1?
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Hercules331
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Dude smokey I suggest you go pick up hl1 for 10 bucks or whatever it is these days and play through all of it. Its better than hl2 I think. It such a good game, hl2 is a lot more fun when you know exactly how hl1 went.
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Jesus, I've lost count of the amount of times I've typed out a full synopsis in respones to threads like this. So here's one I made earlier:
Gordon Freeman came to work at Black Mesa Research Facility. One morning he was late for work and hurried down to the labs for an important experiment. But this experiment went horribly wrong. Everything blew up, people died, and creatures from another dimension appeared. This bit you know. Gordon tries to escape to the surface through first a cooling facility and then offices. While making his way skywards he hears the military are coming to rescue everybody.
When he gets to the topside warehouse complexes he find the military have actually been sent to 'silence' the scientists. He finally reaches the surface but it's crawling with marines and he is forced back underground. A scientist tells him the only way to fix everything will be to get to the Lambda labs, so Gordon makes his way there through the old rail system. Along the way he launches a satellite in order for the Lambda team to try and close the dimensional breach and finds the military have been tracking him as have the scientists (who I think had a kind of 'resistance' going - they were all in contact). He survives an attempted assassination by stealth-suited ninja women but is captured by marines who then throw him in a trash compactor.
Stripped of weapons, he escapes out into the desert. After crawling through the processing plant and collecting a few weapons he emerges into the main BMRF labs via floor duct. But what's this? They're researching aliens? It turns out the scientists have a whole lab for studying the aliens, meaning they've known about them for ages. He needs to get outside so fights through the labs and rescues some scientists who let him out. Once he gets outside he realises that a full-scale invasion is underway, massive squads of aliens facing off against marines. He dodges tanks, helicopters, humans and aliens as he races through the desert to the other end of the complex and his ultimate goal: Lambda labs.
As he enters the underground road the marines begin to pull out and commence airstrikes. Gordon eventually reaches Lambda, which is overun with aliens. The scientists have sealed off all but one way into the complex to contain the invasion and are holed up in the lab core. One scientist remained behind to meet Gordon (he drew the short straw). He tells Gordon that the scientists are waiting for him further on and that he must flood the reactor to continue. Gordon eventually gets to the Lambda core by making use of experimental teleports.
The last scientists tell him the situation. Black Mesa had known about the aliens for a long time, and had been sending through survey teams who colected specimens "until the teams started being collected themselves." The scientists urge Gordon to go through a portal to the alien world and destroy some huge being that is keeping the rift open and controlling the invasion. Reluctantly Gordon tools up with experimental weaponry and goes through the giant Lambda Teleport into Xen.
Once there, he fights his way through floating islands and factories where aliens are cloned before finally meeting and defeating Nihilanth (the baby-face alien ruler). With that Gordon looses consiousness and wakes up in a lift with the mysterious G-man who has been following him (you may have seen him watching you). The g-man has seized Xen and thanks Gordon for destroying the aliens before offering him a choice. Gordon can choose to work for the G-man, or die by the hands of an army of carboard cut-out aliens (no really - Valve couldn't be bothered to put more than a few real aliens at that bit). It seems the alien armies are under the G-man's control. Gordon accepts the job (or dies, but that doesn't count) hence, Half-Life 2.
You get all that?
Gordon Freeman came to work at Black Mesa Research Facility. One morning he was late for work and hurried down to the labs for an important experiment. But this experiment went horribly wrong. Everything blew up, people died, and creatures from another dimension appeared. This bit you know. Gordon tries to escape to the surface through first a cooling facility and then offices. While making his way skywards he hears the military are coming to rescue everybody.
When he gets to the topside warehouse complexes he find the military have actually been sent to 'silence' the scientists. He finally reaches the surface but it's crawling with marines and he is forced back underground. A scientist tells him the only way to fix everything will be to get to the Lambda labs, so Gordon makes his way there through the old rail system. Along the way he launches a satellite in order for the Lambda team to try and close the dimensional breach and finds the military have been tracking him as have the scientists (who I think had a kind of 'resistance' going - they were all in contact). He survives an attempted assassination by stealth-suited ninja women but is captured by marines who then throw him in a trash compactor.
Stripped of weapons, he escapes out into the desert. After crawling through the processing plant and collecting a few weapons he emerges into the main BMRF labs via floor duct. But what's this? They're researching aliens? It turns out the scientists have a whole lab for studying the aliens, meaning they've known about them for ages. He needs to get outside so fights through the labs and rescues some scientists who let him out. Once he gets outside he realises that a full-scale invasion is underway, massive squads of aliens facing off against marines. He dodges tanks, helicopters, humans and aliens as he races through the desert to the other end of the complex and his ultimate goal: Lambda labs.
As he enters the underground road the marines begin to pull out and commence airstrikes. Gordon eventually reaches Lambda, which is overun with aliens. The scientists have sealed off all but one way into the complex to contain the invasion and are holed up in the lab core. One scientist remained behind to meet Gordon (he drew the short straw). He tells Gordon that the scientists are waiting for him further on and that he must flood the reactor to continue. Gordon eventually gets to the Lambda core by making use of experimental teleports.
The last scientists tell him the situation. Black Mesa had known about the aliens for a long time, and had been sending through survey teams who colected specimens "until the teams started being collected themselves." The scientists urge Gordon to go through a portal to the alien world and destroy some huge being that is keeping the rift open and controlling the invasion. Reluctantly Gordon tools up with experimental weaponry and goes through the giant Lambda Teleport into Xen.
Once there, he fights his way through floating islands and factories where aliens are cloned before finally meeting and defeating Nihilanth (the baby-face alien ruler). With that Gordon looses consiousness and wakes up in a lift with the mysterious G-man who has been following him (you may have seen him watching you). The g-man has seized Xen and thanks Gordon for destroying the aliens before offering him a choice. Gordon can choose to work for the G-man, or die by the hands of an army of carboard cut-out aliens (no really - Valve couldn't be bothered to put more than a few real aliens at that bit). It seems the alien armies are under the G-man's control. Gordon accepts the job (or dies, but that doesn't count) hence, Half-Life 2.
You get all that?
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Sulkdodds said:
No, Could you run that by me one more time?
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Shit hits the fan, Gordon cleans it up
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Wow, Moggy. I never knew you could last one post without flaming :naughty:
But anyway... finish HL1 and if you want more of HL1 (After finishing it) go get it's 2 expansions; Opposing Force and Blueshift I got mine from Ebay for like 20 or 30 bucks I forgot (It was HL1, OP4, BS and CS. Note that I had 3 copies of OP4 now thanks to steam :|)
But anyway... finish HL1 and if you want more of HL1 (After finishing it) go get it's 2 expansions; Opposing Force and Blueshift I got mine from Ebay for like 20 or 30 bucks I forgot (It was HL1, OP4, BS and CS. Note that I had 3 copies of OP4 now thanks to steam :|)
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denko
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Half-Life definately was better, and Half-Life 2 was doomed from the beginning... How could any game possibly live up to the greatness that was Half-Life? Although, that said, they've done a very good job of trying, and produced one damn fine game. Now go play the original Half-Life, you can even get a copy that runs on the source engine so that it has pretty water effects and lovely physics.
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VanDiezel
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What year did HL 1 come out and is it worth buying?
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VanDiezel
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I guess the answer is yes, I just finish HL2, I loved the ending, I cant wait for HL3 if there ever will be one. So before I start the game on Hard again (I skip medium) I will buy HL1 .
I just saw that in the HL2 silver edition it has = Half-Life 1: Source. Whats source? Is it the complete HL1 game? If yes I buy the Silver edition and I give the HL2 bronze game to my budddy.
I just saw that in the HL2 silver edition it has = Half-Life 1: Source. Whats source? Is it the complete HL1 game? If yes I buy the Silver edition and I give the HL2 bronze game to my budddy.
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Witt
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denko said:
I both agree and disagree... You're right when you say that it is hard to live up to the name Half-Life 2... And in some ways I did like the story in Half-Life 1 better. However, the graphics engine in my opinion lives up it's name very well!
The Cry Engine (FarCry) is sweet. It's so good at doing wide open terrain. But the source engine can do everything the Cry Engine can do, Plus the player models are SOOO much more complicated.
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twad
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yeah. in HL2 the charracters are much more credible and you can see what they are feeling.. like when mossman says to Alyx taht the gravgun is not a toy, Alyx goes like lol!!!
lol!!!
