Although, I will admit there were times when I felt the games dragged on. Half-Life 2 and the episodes definitely take things considerably further with the story, but they still don't have all the fluff of today's games and that gives them the "less is more" feeling as well. Substitute Doom with Half-life and HL would probably be pretty crappy. "If Doom were made today" (youtube that for people who don't know it) is pretty spot on. Regardless of the technical standpoint, I think this game actually has a "less is more" thing going for it. how did we get along without it?!Īs far as story goes, this game was created during a time when having all the fluff of today's games was simply not practical or even possible, especially from a technical standpoint. for me I guess it was like the invention of the printing press. When I first started using the mouse+wasd to play an fps I found it to be a difficult transitiion but after 30 minutes or so the idea of not using the mouse. I remember playing Wolfenstein 3d and Doom 1+2 using the arrow keys, control, space, and shift. I don't understand how wasd+mouse could possibly be bad controls. Also as a general rule, this game is pretty linear, not completely, but a good enough portion of it is. Though as a general rule, if you see something to shoot then you probably move in that direction. I do remember getting stuck in plot advancement a couple times, but as I wasn't familiar with the game, I kinda expected that to happen. I don't recall ever getting stuck on anything in the environment, whether visible or invisible, so I have nothing to say in that regard. Gliding on ice is far older than Half-Life, and someone who's played NES games should know this. Terrible controls were practicaly a staple of NES games. There's a reason "Nintendo-hard" exists as a term. Playing video games since the days of the original NES and finding this game difficult simply doesn't compute.
I want to preface all this by saying that I've been playing video games since the 80's as well, and that I didn't get to play any of the Half-Life (including Portal) games until some time within the last 2 years.
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