I like the series but the story being all over the place is so bad, plus the first game is honestly a slog to get through and it has the most boring worlds in the franchise. I get it's the first game and they didn't think it would grow so much but oof.
Yeaaaaaaaah I'll confess the gameplay is nice, but the story is as coherent as a self-insert fanfiction with no punctuation. And frankly it DOES feel like Disney was the self-insert into an otherwise mainline Final Fantasy title
I will say there's a slew of excellent mods to play with the original Half-Life, if you don't want to play Half-Life I say at least check out the mods.
OG Half Life is a hard to swallow pill. Black Mesa is the way to play the original and only after beating It I would recommend the original. HL2 is the goat by the way.
I'll give HL1 a pass, because it really did progress narrative-driven FPSs, but HL2 is a boring, crappy physics-driven slog that is only remembered for it's tech, and not because it was actually fun.
Doom 3 is fantastic and didnt deserve the hate it got, it still is divisive and like really? I like it, I like how it's horror instead of blood pumping demon slaying. Not that I hate the latter but Doom 3 spooked me a lot, it's even scarier playing the VR version.
Completely disagree. I think it's the exact opposite, HL2 was everything doom 3 wanted to be. I honestly despise doom 3, one of the worst experiences I ever had with a game. It was so boring and unfun, and the horror was terrible. The flashlight being a separate weapon was just annoying as well.
I really don't get the appeal of Half-Life 2, yes there are some fun parts but most of it is just a bit dull. There's a lot of fantastic mods for both games and ironically I find most of them better than the original games.
I played through it once and while I know it is a very important game and it was amazing for it's time...I'd rather just play Black Mesa. There are a lot of games I didn't grow up with and Half-Life is one of them. I appreciate it for what it is but I can't enjoy the original a second time around.
It hasn't aged well, heh. As others have said, Black Mesa is the best way to experience it and even then it still feels a bit archaic by design. I do think it was important for the FPS genre, and walked so that games after it could run.
Now my hot take...Half Life 2? Overrated. Glorified tech demo.
I played Half Live exactly once. Wonderfully horrifying! Incredibly tense! Great variety of weapons and enemies! It's also Very Old and you probably couldn't pay me to play it again.
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Case in point, MY controversial game opinion;
Kingdom Hearts f@#$%# sucks
I can't fully hate doing what has to be done by me and helping my brother to defeat the enemys.
But yeah nothing in the series is what I'm looking for in a FPS.
(I promise I will not argue or fight you about this. I'm seriously just curious.)
Now my hot take...Half Life 2? Overrated. Glorified tech demo.
Played it when I was a kid yeaaaaars ago and was like "eh" tried it again as an adult and was like "Eh"
For me personally I despise halo X3