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captainduncan  ·  4078 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Valve registers Half Life 3 trademark in Europe...

Given its influence on the genre, it probably doesn't hold up terribly well against modern standards. If you consider it in context though, it was released alongside DOOM 3, Fable, GTA: San Andreas, Star Wars: Battlefront, and Far Cry, making it much more appreciable. It's definitely worth playing if you haven't already. As for the original Half-Life, you can buy it fairly cheaply on Steam or you can play the fan-developed remake Black Mesa, which gets the gist across in a modern framework. Bear in mind, though, that Black Mesa requires that you own at least one Source game (Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, etc. Not sure if TF2 counts).





captaincbc  ·  4059 days ago  ·  link  ·  

GTA: San Andreas came out 9 years ago? Wow.

DStow  ·  4078 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That does put it more in context. It would of been nice to play it when it was released. Sadly I missed that opportunity and trying to play Half Life 2 now is difficult due to the (in my opinion) slightly dated feel to the combat system.