So Yas Forums I decided to do an experiment since HL1 is now free for a limited (nice one greedy valve) time I decided to play it in 2020.
I finished HL2 and it was a OK-ish game. Played HL1(in 2002 or 2003) and remember it to be a terrible peace of garbage and quit when the ninjas showed up.
So now in 2020 I decided to play it and record my experiences and all the problems with HL1.
I want HL 1 fanboys to defend this terrible peace of shit of a game. I'm just saying now that literally nothing of value would be lost if this game was purged form every hard drive in existence.
So first things first I did play whatever steam gives to download in 2020. The game has a HD support by creating black bars this is good. What is not good is that the sound is broken.
The sound system sabotages you ! The character voices are to quiet while the music blasts on an ungodly volume. I want to boost what the characters are staying or minimize the music volume.
I think the MP3* category is for character voices however who the fuck knows. I was thinking music is categorized under “Sound effect volume”.
Only it looks like the character voices and environmental sounds are linked. So I have no choice other then to boost and live with terribly loud environmental sounds like foot steps and switches and doors opening to hear what the characters are saying.
I pity any headphone users!
If anyone knows the solution to this I can not wait for the help.
>says game is shit and should be purged from existence >proceeds to rip on definition and sound quality in a game from 1999 You already fucked up. Count your losses and move on.
Josiah Hill
And we hit our first bullshit! For everyone who did never play HL1 or does not live and breath HL tell me what this room is.
You get introduced to the environment and the setting of the game you fucking idiot.
Nolan Baker
My ears hurt from the environmental sounds how can this be fixed in 2020 is the game has a fix for not getting stretched on HD displays?
This is the vanilla shit I got from steam in 2020.
Robert Morales
You sound like retarded kid. I bet you stayed up all night and eat a lot of sugar
Hudson Sanchez
Behold the HL fanboy is butt hurt that his shit game gets evaluated in 2020.
Jackson Taylor
If you figured out its the toilet you be correct!
At first I was thinking I entered the washing room and backtracked to get the suit. Only after checking every other room and not finding the suit I checked out this room again. Look at the previous picture do you see the solution?
I'm giving you a (you) because it's obvious you're trying hard with this when other people would merely just post a wojack or another thread about how gay Alucard ruined their lives.
Thank you, the effort's appreciated.
Andrew Young
I don't even like half-life. This is just some stupid bullshit. Nobody is going to fall for your shitty baits.
Since the game is free, can’t people just play it themselves? I don’t really see a need to evaluate it as if you’re advising other people to buy it or not. And screenshots are not a good way to do this, a video would be better
Carson Scott
>t.zoomer with intense autism
Nathaniel Diaz
>free Only for a limited time that's valve for you. >it themselves? People have limited time(in like valve will remove it from your steam library after some time if you got it for free) This is faster for them also can be screanshoted to counter HL fanboys.
> a video would be better Yes for showing the details. However I'm can not be arsed to record this shit game and then cut the video and upload it. Especially that from this point it will be with specific aspects and problems of the game.
Nathaniel Gray
how did a zoomer play it when this zoomer remembers playing HL2 on launch?
Camden Collins
Anyone onese waiting for the bhl update to replay?
Ah yes here it was all this time. Practically invisible once you enter the room. These sweet columns doing their best to block it from view and direct your eyes to the toilet area. This little part is not some meaningless closet.
Terrible level planning for gameplay. Ignoring the unrealistic scenario of keeping your hazmat suits next to the shitter with no doors or anything.
This is horrendous level design for the player. This area is full of optional areas and living spaces so you be excused for not exploring what clearly looks like the toilet area.
Maybe the guns are hidden next to/in the kitchen?
Terrible objective placement and I get the feeling that this will only escalate with the games progression.
If only they swapped the toilet area with this room. I mean seriously your eyes are drawn to the toilets while this area is doing its best to hide itself.
yeah what kind of fucking morons would put something you wear at work in the locker room
Levi Jones
You're really trying too hard here. Please kill yourself
Levi Hernandez
aw man as a HL fanboy i was excited to really have to defend and discuss some critiques of the game, but oh no of course this is Yas Forums so all I got was some fucking autistic zoomer being barely intelligible.
Ethan Jones
How to install it?
Jace Cook
Bad level design not visible to the player.
> in the locker room Yes place the suit that is exposed to the radiation and alien shit there. Oh wait.
>exploration bad >if the goal in a level isn't immediately noticeable once you enter the level then it's bad game design brainlet tryhard baiter
Bentley Martinez
Eh it wasn't enough for me. Brutal Doom? That modifies enemy AI, gives them new attacks. SMOD? Anywhere from 15-30 new weapons depending on your version, 5-10 new enemies, hundreds of new enemy encounters. BHL is more ehhh. Especially when you consider the most intense of combat encounters against soldiers, where the mod really shines, are incredibly sparse. HL1 is more of an exploratory game than anything else.
But as stated, where combat really shines with the soldiers isn't the majority of the game. And the bullsquid always fight the HECU in that part. I won't make this any more of a pissing contest, I just want more from it and hope it gets that way someday because I am dying to replay an enhanced HL1.
Are you playing the source engine port or original?
Jace Sanchez
Looks like a locker room
Angel Bennett
If you weren't retarded and stopped for 5 seconds to look around the room, you would've seen the light coming from the doorway on the left side to guide you to the HEV suit. If you headed all the way to the toilets, you're almost guaranteed to see the doorway on the left when you leave. It's obvious you only took a cursory scan of the room instead of actually exploring. This is laughable considering that Valve made it a point to try and guide players naturally to the objectives with lighting and geometry. I was never lost in HL1 or HL2. Please try to use some actual criticisms of the game instead of just being autistic
>source engine port or original Whats the difference?
Oliver Martinez
So I’m somewhat into the game. And we start getting into real shit territory.
The weapon switching is extra special. Every weapon is in its own category so you need to press the category number then pres FIRE to do the switch. So you need to do do extra steps to give the command to equip the weapon you want.
The worst part? Because the game is so retarded it does not let ou rebind this shit to normal keys on the keyboard to just select the thing you want. NO. You must be forced to use its retarded special snowflake system.
In contrast Duke 3D did have 10 weapons and assigned them to keys. Doom II 6 weapons and the same.
This will be incredibly frustrating the more weapons you get. I give it this it simulates for you how a scientists trying t get the right weapon out feels like.
>Valve made it a point to try and guide players naturally to the objectives with lighting and geometry Objectively bullshit! look at the screenshot the only thing that is the most visible is the shitting area.
>the light coming from the doorway on the left side to guide you to the HEV suit You see the screenshot get MS Pain out and show me these magical lights.
Your desperation is laughable HL fag. >I was never lost it was a short pause in going to the objective however this can be systematic further in the game.
Next stuff I encountered another NPC that I need to trigger and get to a point so he can open for me a closet full of weapons. Triggering the NPC was hard like the first E press did not activate him. And only the next did.
I think this will be more problematic and annoying further into the game.
I needed to use water to get to a top of something exiting the water was a problem in itself. God how I miss doom 2016 and how the character can actually grab on things in HL even if 99.999999% of your body is above however that little part of you is not the character will not exit.
You move like a box on wheels and the devs decided to create acrobatics segments.
