/vr/ - Retro Games

Back when HL came out, all the talks were about 2 things: the "interactive cutscenes" and the soldiers AI and how amazing they were.

Meanwhile, I absolutely love the first part of the game, but I think the entire Surface part with soldiers is terrible.

The first part of the game has amazing atmosphere, there are a lot of design cues taken by survival horror. After that the game becomes power-house vs power-house and the tension is gone.

Also I genuinely like Blue Shift best. Yes it's short, yes it's missing some weapons and doesn't have a lot of new content, but it's perfect summary of what makes Half Life and the level design is amazing, I actually like the soldiers in BS, those are the best soldier encounters in the game.

Meanwhile Op Forces is all over the place, it's all quantity over substance.