/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3078325
>HL is a linear cinematic scripted shooter
It's linear to a point, you often have to take divergent paths to progress, and there's lots of exploration (which the game rewards you for), something that CoD simply doesn't do. CoD is always a straight line, and every level is basically a separate instance, while levels in Half-Life are largely interconnected and near seamless.

As for cinematic, no, not really, there's some scripted set-pieces but the game doesn't take away control from you at any point (except at the very end, after the final boss).
Anytime you run into someone who has something to say, you can usually just ignore them if you choose to, and move along.

Enemies will not be fought by anyone but you 85% of the time, you can't sit and hide behind a box, because the enemy will go and find you, your health doesn't regenerate, A.I partners are seldom helpful or reliable.

Enemies are also different, there are soldiers with guns, yes, but there's a vast cast of aliens who all do different things and which require different tactics and thinking. The soldiers will also fight you in a number of different ways, using gun emplacements, booby traps, snipers, land mines, airstrikes, ambushes, tanks and infantry combat vehicles.

>>2582128
I honestly never really -loved- On A Rail, but I still hate that they'd cut it short.
Always kinda liked the chapter in the old silo, you know the one, where you gotta blast the big bastard with the test rocket? It was a fun romp through old disused facilities and bearing down that big old jet on the bastard felt so triumphant.

I'll also say that the Freeman's Mind thing kind of rejuvenated my love for Half-Life, I'd have kind of forgotten about it a bit, and though it showcased a lot of the kind of odd and out of place things in the game, it also reminded me of all the good times.

I haven't actually played Black Mesa yet. Is it actually good? It doesn't have to mimic the gameplay to a tee, but as long as it plays as something of an inbetween of 1 and 2 I think that'd be neat.
I always loved swapping out the models and skins for weapons, and sounds, to change up the feel of the game a bit, shame that there wasn't always the options you would have wanted.
Game always made me want to get a SPAS-12, despite the fact that it's really kind of a piece of shit IRL, it's just a really cool gun.