I decided to replay through half-life 1. It's OK, not really as good as everyone in the world wants you to believe...

I decided to replay through half-life 1. It's OK, not really as good as everyone in the world wants you to believe. Xen is genuinely bad and incredibly boring. Poor level design leads to combat becoming a snipe fest. Game seems to have become less stable over time too, I had numerous crashes at several points.

Anyone had any similar issues? I verified the integrity of the game cache after the first two crashes happened in the same map early on, but there was a lot of problems with stability. Seems to be a PC gaming thing these days. Shame older games are getting neglected like that.

A lot of the weapons are kinda shit. Gluon gun uses too much ammo to be useful compared to the gauss gun, pistol is a headcrab killer only, crowbar is a joke weapon, hive hand is pretty much worthless in both fire modes. crossbow's reload time and projectile travel makes it less useful than the revolver, seems bizarre they would balance the weapons so poorly.

What were your feelings on hl1? Have you played through it recently or has it been a while? I used to love playing the multiplayer games like day of defeat 1.3 but that game is long since dead.

Well, thank you for your insight on one of the most famous and influential games ever, random dumbfuck.

Half-Life's weapons exist as backup for when your revolver ammo runs out.

it did some cool things for the time, however I feel it aged rather poorly.

he's not wrong though, actually he's completely right.

pretty much how I went through everything. revolver, and double shotgun. plentiful explosives made them consistently useful, at least.

The game which had no problem with my Voodoo and TNT graphics card kill a modern current year pc
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I decided to start playing opposing force to see if my views had changed on it at all, it does start out a lot better than HL1, and the arsenal is immediately more interesting apart from a useless knife. Better paced too.

Still crashes when it wants to.

I replayed it last week and played through Opposing Force today. Not a single crash on either of them. And I only got a single bug (in HL:OF), which stuck me in an elevator.
Did you play the Source version? I hear they fucked it up in the most recent patch or something like that.

Wolfenstein 3D?

No, I wouldn't play the source version for game play reasons alone. goldsrc physics > source physics.