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uk First person classic The new rumours about Half-Life 3 come at a surprising time for me, as I only played the first two games, via the fan remakes, a few weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to write in about my experiences anyway. I don’t know how controversial they are, but I actually enjoyed the first one quite a bit more than the second, now that the mods make the graphics less of an issue. The biggest problem is that Half-Life 2 feels too long and, for me at least, lacked momentum.
All those awkward semi-open world sections with the buggy and just the sense of every idea being dragged out for just a bit too long. I’m sure it was all amazing at the time but in the present day it just drags. I also felt the gunplay was pretty mediocre.
For some reason I didn’t really think of Half-Life as a first person shooter before I played them but even with the gravity gun it totally is. Predictably, the problem with the first Half-Life is the ending in the alien world, which is pretty terrible even in the remake, but beyond that I had more fun with it. Although the fact that either of them hold up at all well after all this time is a sign that their classic status is still pretty much deserved.
Normturtle Asset denial To be honest, if I was Sony I would’ve bought Bungie .