[FREE] [Steam] Half-Life

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Steam says "Release Date: 8 Nov, 1998"

... Huh. I actually own that sub. Wow.

Watching the documentary right now. Can recommend. 👍

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I played Blue Shift and Opposing Force for the first time a few years ago. I think they hold up just fine. There's a reason "boomer shooters" is a trend in indies now. Gameplay focused game>game focused on some shit story via "cinematic quality" These FPS will always hold up.

I think they would hold up pretty well. I remember them being a bit different since they were not made by Valve but given all the work was done for them and they only had to make new maps they were good. It won't be Doom 2016 levels of speed but should still be fun.

I played through Blue Shift for the first time about three or so years ago. "Unremarkable" is the word I'd use to describe it. It plays fine, but I didn't find it that interesting.

Graphics are basically the same as Half-Life so you can decide for yourself whether you're okay looking at 1998 polygons.

Opposing Force is a high-quality expansion, decently long with lots of new content. (Don't forget to do the tutorial, it's completely changed from the Half-Life Hazard Course and quite amusing.) The final battle is easier than in Half-Life but still memorable in its own way.

Blue Shift is shorter and has less new content. I think it's worth playing for completion's sake, the actual level design and story are decent, there's just less of it compared to Opposing Force.

At the time they were clunky but fine. They're still clunky but fine. Same as HL1 really.

Just by the way, if you're patient, people are working on remaking these two (similar to how Black Mesa remade Half-Life). A half-finished remake of Blue Shift already exists as a workshop item for Black Mesa and it's really good!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2424633574

It wasn't so shortly after this was announced. It was in fact no longer on the list from the steamdb link by the time I saw it. There were threads specifically complaining about the apparent reversal because of that, and it was only recently put back on throught their store page. So, it wasn't "still available", it was just accidentally turned free too early, locked that down to the way it were before, and they put it back on later and you just happened to catch thiis soon after they reverted.

Not really, even if you never played the original. From what I see, there's some slight improvements to water/guns/ragdolls but that came at the cost of this not being properly made for source, so there's some bugs.

Seems like people only buy this for GMOD since it uses some models..

But at least your half life collection would be complete xD.

My main reason to buy Half Life Source was the option to play the campaign on Garrys Mod with overpowered and goofy weapons.