We now know that gearbox sucks, but how were the expansions for half life they made ?

We now know that gearbox sucks, but how were the expansions for half life they made ?

OF is great, BS is more puzzle oriented. Both worth a play.

opposing force is OK, race x looks terrible and out of place. blue shift was a waste of time.

You can feel a level of "unprofessionalism" when it comes to the gearbox ones with how they approach puzzles and combat sections.
Still decent expansions.
I remember liking opposing force more.
I think I just liked shooting a lot back then.

They only amde one
and its better than the main game

Opposing force is an all time classic. Golden age of PC.

But it was 1999, I'm sure everyone involved is long gone now.

how pretentious can you be to think that highly of opposing force

Indeed, only Half Life was good because Valve is teh best and Gerabox is teh suk, lol.

Opposing Force is really good. The new weapons, new environments and enemies are all nice. The displacement gun is awesome since you can get into modified versions of the HL maps at times. The level design and new physics are pretty fun.

Blue Shift is meh. No custom content. Just mostly more of the same except Half Life handled things a bit better.

half-life is as OK as opposing force, both are really nothing special

Nice job buddy

BS has no custom content at all ? I thought it was made after OF.

maybe a high mark for PC gaming but I don't really care about irrelevant platforms

>>>/a/

Opposing Force is just as good as Half-Life, if not better. Blue Shift is pretty good but doesn't try anything new.

blue shift was great man

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Well I will say that I played Half-life and Opposing Force when it came out. If you play them TODAY you might not understand what's so great about them.

Take the beginning of Half-life on the train. That blew people's minds back then.

It uses some of the HL weapons. It has a few custom model scientists. Same enemies as HL. More basic levels than HL. A lot more events with speaking where you can't do anything than HL. Escorting scientists. It's quite disappointing.

played hl1 when it came out and the train scene was nothing special


are you that paranoid that you think everyone disagrees with you is just one person

I played half life only after getting a computer that could play more than solitaire, two months before the release of HL2, so I did miss on what made it groundbreaking. Still, I really liked it and still do. The expansions just came to mind today for some reason.

Prefer Blue Shift over Opossing Force, mostly because somehow the marines refused to open doors and heal each other.
Still, liked them both.

nothing made the opening cutscene groundbreaking, most people interpreted it as it was, an in game cutscene. Nothing new, and hardly anything interesting. I've only ever seen journalists parrot the line that it was something revolutionary and "you had to be there!" Anything revolutionary for games I can describe clearly, concisely, and in a way that someone who wouldn't know about it would know exactly what I'm talking about.

Jerking off over HL1's first person cutscenes is a mark of a pretentious faggot.

The revolutionary part was that you were not exactly restricted in your actions during cutscenes. You could move and do shit, which at the time was mind-blowing. In the CURRENT YEAR it no longer is though, you really had to be then and there to get the full experience, as retarded as that sounds. It was real innovation in vidya.

that's not real innovation, because you can't fucking do anything. Fucking Chrono Trigger was more innovative by making it possible to move around with dialog on screen.

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OF is really good, but very short. You'll beat it in ~2 hours.

How can one person be so bad at lying?
Even with just text

Blue Shift was designed just as a set of bonus maps for the Dreamcast port, so I wouldn't really count it, but Opposing Force is amazing. The perfect expansion to Half-Life. Gearbox understood the concept and style of the setting perfectly.

Opposing Force:
Better than the base game.

Blue Shift:
More like Blue Shit.

No you're just a nu-gamer who thinks videogames is about a bunch of autists yelling over a mic thinking they have gaming skills.

It was a different time.

OF: Cooler setting and perspective playing as black ops soldiers who in turn are being hunted by other black ops but like Half-Life as a whole it's overrated
BS: Not bad but unnecessary, worth $5 at most, came with shitty HD pack.

Some other things that I still remember that was spectacular back then:

The Half-life tutorial
The resonance cascade scenario
The hazmat suit

In Opposing force:

Playing the story from the other side, even seeing Gordon Freeman
Radio chatter

I should play it again one of these days. Before Half-life there was only Unreal that I'd consider a good shooter from back then.

Oh and Half-life has a killer soundtrack.

go on then

What's the name of the HL2 mod where you play as a Combine squad and it's basically SWAT 4 on Source.

Human Error? They just released another mod recently, too - From Earth they made the main character diverse right before they released it :^)

what, was the original plan to have clases with different skills available? i dont know what you mean

I WANT CORPORAL SHEPARD BACK!

Are you deliberately laying bait? Claud can you please stay in /a/, opposing for was some of the best when it comes to FPS back in the day. Yeah ok it wasn't like it was the new Quake or anything but it and its versus were fun as fuck to play and had very little wrong.

Oh, no, see these two images? Same character, just that in one image she's white and in the other she's BLACKED. She even has her original ethnicity everywhere but in the actual game - in the Steam page, on the main menu… it's pretty bizarre.

isnt that shitting lion or whatever her name is from mgsv?

what is this a bootleg movie recording from an iphone?

As it should be.