/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5113595]

>he plays half-life by slowly moving around with the MP5 and glock like it's a modern fps instead of rushing everything with the shotgun and constantly using explosives and energy weapons to turn everyone into a pile of gibs like he's in quake

[Anonymous No.5113702]

>>5113595
>he doesn't shoot marines with the pistol from a distance then rushes them with the MP5

[Anonymous No.5113712]

>>5113595
>He doesn't use high alpha weapons to kill shit shit using headshots the millisecond they appear

[Anonymous No.5113732]

>>5113595
>He doesn't play the game whatever the way he finds most entertaining, instead having "one true way"

[Anonymous No.5113741]

>>5113595
>he plays
LMAOO

[Anonymous No.5113768]

>>5113741

>he actually plays video games instead of watching reviewers on youtube and parroting what they say when other people discuss a game

[Anonymous No.5113775]

>>5113768
>Playing video games
>Not buying them just to post pictures of the title screen on your Sony PVM then go back to internetting

[Anonymous No.5113781]

>>5113775
>screenshotting
>not buying games mindlessly on steam then never opening them

[Anonymous No.5113787]

HALF LIFE IS FOR ZOOMERS . DOOM AND QUAKE FOR BOOMERS. FUCK VALVE GAMES

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[Anonymous No.5113812]

>>5113787
tl;dr your pictures after the first line since the opening sentence was wrong - half-life didn't allow valve to make steam, counter strike did. It was CS 1.6 being steam-only and the MASSIVE CS player-base that got onto steam.

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[Anonymous No.5113874]

>posting a bunch of screenshots from the extremely bitter fucks at rpgcodex nobody is going to read to show how enlightned and contrarian you are

[Anonymous No.5113878]

>>5113874
RPGCODEX IS THE ELITE HQ OF GAMING
BETTER TASTE THAN HERE.

[Anonymous No.5113880]

[Anonymous No.5113884]

>he plays half-life and thinks rushing everything and using explosives matters when you can just step behind any geometry or entity and have the AI crash and have a 4 second opening to kill any opponent in the game because HL1 is a piece of shit that even so much as switching weapons causes the AI to break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNy42Wd9gfI

[Anonymous No.5113889]

>>5113884
THIS FUCK HALF LIFE>>5113880
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[Anonymous No.5113896]

REFUTE THIS>>5113884

[Anonymous No.5113925]

>>5113787
I wish Half-Life still had much of a singleplayer modding scene like Doom and Quake.

[Anonymous No.5113932]

>>5113925
Shit game dont deserve it

[Anonymous No.5113942]

>>5113925
HL2 killed it i think, so many people were excited to migrate from goldsrc to src, then src modding kind of petered out. I had a play with the source SDK back in the day and from what i remember it really upped the difficulty for modders - eg introducing materials, mapping needed more detail (thus more effort), client modding was a mess and quite painful. To contrast I would venture a guess that doom still has a strong modding scene because it's so easy to mod.

[Anonymous No.5113947]

>>5113942
Or maybe because valve games are shit unlike quake and doom

[Anonymous No.5113949]

>>5113932

[Anonymous No.5113953]

>>5113925

I like how cozy HL1 mods are.

[Anonymous No.5113954]

>>5113947
Nah

[Anonymous No.5113956]

>>5113953
Super comfy, there was a real flourishing there for a few years.

[Anonymous No.5113957]

>>5113949
>>5113954
Did you read the codex excerpts valve drones?

[Anonymous No.5113960]

>>5113942
HL2 probably had an effect but there's nothing technically stopping people going back to GoldSrc. I think the thing these days is that there's just nothing you can do with Half-Life that you couldn't just do in Unity for about the same effort. Like the big thing with HL was that it was cinematic, you could make your own little "movie" with a story and set-pieces and everything, but that's not a unique thing anymore.

Maybe if the combat was better, the scripting options just a little bit more advanced, it'd still be considered relevant.

>>5113953
Right?

[Anonymous No.5113963]

>>5113960
Half life was inferior to quake and doom. garbage fps.
Rip off of Cybermage

[Anonymous No.5113973]

>>5113957
>>5113963
You need to introspect and ask yourself why you're so thirsty for attention and validation.

>>5113960
Good point, i agree goldsrc doesnt offer anything unique to modders anymore. If the community had maintained momentum that would be something, but as it stands i agree either a modern engine makes more sense, or if you want a classic (and much easier) modding environment you choose doom (or less often quake.)

[Anonymous No.5113980]

>>5113973
Maybe you need to read the excerpts. There is a good reason why /v/, /vr/ and rpgcodex like quake and doom more than half life..

[Anonymous No.5114000]

>>5113953
I wish there were thousands of SP maps of the same comfy levels as the original

[Anonymous No.5114023]

>>5113595
>he plays half-life

[Anonymous No.5114024]

>>5113781
delet

[Anonymous No.5114034]

>>5113812
>It was CS 1.6 being steam-only
Wat?
You are confusing it with Source.

[Anonymous No.5114040]

>>5113794
I wish Quakespasm supported HL.

[Anonymous No.5114059]

>>5114034
I'm certainly not, i wasted some golden teen years playing CS 1.3-1.6 and was annoyed by the steam-only release like everyone else.

[Anonymous No.5114068]

>>5114023
SEE>>5113980
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>>5114034
>>5114059
REFUTE THE EXCERPTS

[Anonymous No.5114093]

>>>/v/435871887
>>>/v/435872269
HEY half life fags check this.

[Anonymous No.5114114]

>>5113963
>Rip off of Cybermage
Nobody ripped off your precious obscure gem you bitter fucking rpgcuck because noone played it back in the day and even the ones who did mostly remember shitty controls.

[Anonymous No.5114120]

>>5114114
Seething hlfag

[Anonymous No.5114143]

>>5114120
If /v is good at anything, it's at dealing with faggots like you.

[Anonymous No.5114145]

>>5114120
haha, you've been waiting hours for someone to acknowledge your desperation, i bet that felt good
> posts 20 tl;dr walls of text
> posts in uppercase
> keeps posting
> one person calls you bitter
> "ABSOLUTELY SEETHING"
thanks for the laugh anon

[Anonymous No.5114152]

>>5114143
>>5114145
Half life and Counter Strike ruined fps gaming.
i reiterate this>>5113980

[Anonymous No.5114156]

>>5113953
Comfy indeed.

[Anonymous No.5114194]

valve drones cant cope with the fact that their games dumbed down fps gaming and killed arena shooters

[Anonymous No.5114305]

>>5114194
Except arena shooters were at their peak when HL was around.

[Anonymous No.5114308]

>>5114305
cs killed them just like hl killed doom clones. valve ruined gaming

[Anonymous No.5114345]

>>5114034
CS 1.6 was literally Steam you gold fish brain

[Anonymous No.5114352]

>rpgcodex
>consulting forum retards to back up your opinions

[Anonymous No.5114359]

>>5114352
see>>5114308

[Anonymous No.5114365]

>>5114359
You’re still a retarded faggot who parrots other retarded faggots
I’m sure even the Doom general shitposters would laugh at you

[Anonymous No.5114370]

>>5114365
>>linear level design is good
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[Anonymous No.5114387]

>>5114370
Still consulting retarded faggots

[Anonymous No.5114394]

>>5114387
i posted that

[Anonymous No.5114561]

>>5113973

I think HL1 hit that sweet spot of being open and advanced enough to really let people's imaginations work, but simple enough that it wasn't too difficult to work with. It helped that it was based on Quake 1, so any experience with Quake 1 or 2, particularly with mapping and the model-making pipeline, was still very useful for HL1 modding. I don't think it's a coincidence that guys that started with Quake 1 modding, like Gooseman and Neil Manke, made their magnum opuses with HL1.

With the advancement of technology, many of HL1's benefits have been poached by Doom and Quake thanks to source ports, so HL1 has much less to offer than it did back in November 1998. And, I think today's modders are generally unwilling to learn how to work with HL1's systems, instead preferring the ultra-simple stuff you see in Doom, and to a lesser extent, Quake.

[Anonymous No.5114716]

>>5114561
>mfw I made maps for Half Life but never for Doom or Quack
>got so used to having four different screens that I systematically suck every other map making model

[Anonymous No.5114728]

>>5113963
Just watched a YT vid of Cybermage.
The artstyle looks like dogshit and the levels are all Wolf3D tier block corridors.

I bet you think Marathon is "patrician" too.

[Anonymous No.5114750]

>This entire thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6668kWsS_4

[Anonymous No.5114797]

>>5114728
Cybermage had interesting lore and artstyle, and was innovative for its time, with vehicles and hub areas, but the controls were absolute mess.

[Anonymous No.5114850]

>>5114728
The level geometry is multi-floored, 4 floors, if I remember correctly, and you are jumping between floors constantly. Walls, if I remember correctly, can only have 8 directions though, like in System Shock 1. Regardless, it's fairly complex layouting-wise, not primitive at all, and it's used in the game quite well.
The artstyle went heavily for the dirty comic look (and not only the artstyle, the whole game is heavily stylized for being comicbook-like), I don't think it's THAT well realized, but it's tolerable, I guess.

>>5114797
They just needed to be reassigned properly.

I used cursor keys for forward/backward/turning (don't know if using numpad is a viable solution, but I'd try to use it for the right hand if I was playing now), and used WASD shifted to some adjacent position (like FXCV or something) for strafes, jumping and ducking, while grouping all the other necessary keys around it and using space for shooting. It worked really well, I didn't have a single inconvenience during playing.

[Anonymous No.5114854]

>>5114114
It was more of a case of "HUH? D.W.Bradley doing a DOOM CLONE?! HERESY! WHERE IS MUH WIZARDRY??!".

This game just didn't have a core audience. The Wizardry 6-7 audience utterly despised Doom, while Doom audience just didn't know who the fuck D.W.Bradley was. There was simply no overlap.

It was also, from what I understand pretty heavy on the computer hardware, SVGA, detailed spriting and all. And yes, default controls didn't help either.

It's a genuinely curious, playable and unique game though, it's a real shame it ultimately fell through the cracks.

And yes, claiming it influenced HL1 in any way is wishful thinking at best.

[Anonymous No.5114857]

>>5114854
In other words, Cybermage was a genuinely good game, absolutely noone fucking asked for.

[Anonymous No.5114861]

>>5113595
Alien Trilogy is better than Half Life

[Anonymous No.5114884]

>>5113980
It's literally contraryfags, there is nothing to refute. It's the same kind of people who prefer D3 to HL2 or Scary Movie to Airplane, there is literally no arguing with the utter lack of taste one would have to not enjoy Half-life. If you agree with those pics you are a fucking idiot and need to go back to /v/

[Anonymous No.5114892]

>>5114884
>muh taste elitard

[Anonymous No.5114910]

>>5114884
Just passing by.
At least, I do acknowledge, that my tastes change over time. You - I am not so sure about. It really seems like it's you nostalgia speaking, not current you.

[Anonymous No.5114920]

>>5113980
>>5114884

[Anonymous No.5114940]

>>5114920
Your two linked anons are very obviously not the same person.

>>5114561
Totally agree, and for single-person endeavors it makes sense to stick to doom modding, so things actually get finished.

[Anonymous No.5114968]

>>5113790
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>>5113880
RPG Codex is a shithole that should be burned to the ground.

[Anonymous No.5114986]

>>5114968
>RPG Codex is a shithole that should be burned to the ground.

like 4chan is any better

[Anonymous No.5115031]

>>5114986
Unironically, yes. Get on the pyre, fatass.

[Anonymous No.5115272]

>>5114968
>>5114986
they have better taste than here.
Also half life is shit.

[Anonymous No.5115287]

BASED

[Anonymous No.5115289]

BTFO

[Anonymous No.5115290]

>>5115272
No you don't.

[Anonymous No.5115303]

>all that ranting about EMPTY SPACES!!!!
I remember one of the things that many people from back then were talking about was how Half-Life's world actually felt like a real place since it wasn't streamlined. I find it a little odd how much that guy rants about empty spaces and graphics, when more valid complaints would be shit like On A Rail, Xen or whatever that final area was called, or that warehouse full of tripmines and missiles. It's almost like he just wants to find something to bitch about.

[Anonymous No.5115305]

>>5115303
REFUTE THIS>>5115289
>>5115287

[Anonymous No.5115306]

>>5115305
Sure thing, the exact moment you point out where in my post I called Half-Life innovative.

[Anonymous No.5115309]

>>5115306
t. cant refute it
Cybermage rip off

[Anonymous No.5115312]

>>5115309
Oh no, it's retarded.

[Anonymous No.5115327]

>>5115312
Cybermage, unreal, jedi knight and goldeneye deserve all the recognition.Half life deserves to be forgotten.

[Anonymous No.5115338]

>>5115303

I don't get it either. There's plenty of details for a game developed in 1998 and things to do. Barring the intro and the first part of Residue Processing, enemies are attacking you often and there are tricks and traps to avoid or use to your advantage. Even On A Rail, which should be extremely boring on paper, has plenty of stops and side paths to spice things up, like the guys on the rocket turrets and the completely optional path that leads to the bottom of the rocket launch pad and the broken elevator room that has your first Satchel Charges. Just because there aren't armies of enemies in every room and hallway like in your nostalgia-riddled version of Doom and Quake doesn't mean it's empty.

[Anonymous No.5115358]

>>5115338
Did you read the Doomworld posts?
Also>>5115327

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[Anonymous No.5115389]

>>5115362
Still no argument. Sad.
the Doomworld and Rpgcodex posters are correct

[Anonymous No.5115396]

half life still a pretty good game, it´s better than hl2 and whatever fps garbage comes out nowadays

[Anonymous No.5115415]

So all the anti-half life posts in this thread are the same anon right? I mean, all but one read like the same person. They read like the ramblings of a (and i say this in earnest rather than malice) aggressive and heavily autistic child/teen. It's fine (you) don't like half life man, there might even be valid reasons buried under all your hysterics, but you need to take about 80% off.

[Anonymous No.5115440]

>>5115415
valve is fucking unoriginal.
Stop sucking gaben's dick

[Anonymous No.5115452]

>>5115440
That you have these numbered is sad.

[Anonymous No.5115456]

>>5115452
min 31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wmqrkRTwOc
SAME SCRIPT SHIT LIKE HALF LIFE
Embarrassing . Valve paid game magazines back then.

[Anonymous No.5115458]

>>5115415

He's been shitting up Valve discussions on /v/ for several days now.

https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/text/cybermage/
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/435851716/
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/435569465/
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/435517889/

As far as I can tell, he's basically Barneyfag, but with a huge hateboner for HL1. His hate for HL1 seems to be part of a larger crusade against Valve since he dumps his anti-HL1 screenshots in Valve threads.

I'm not sure if he's a troll or genuine, since he seems to constantly respond to himself or has accomplices in order to trash Valve. His screenshots against HL1 are 50% criticism, 50% incoherent shitting on the game.

Whatever he is, he's a fucking autistic retard.

[Anonymous No.5115465]

>>5115456
fuck cybermage and fuck reddit

[Anonymous No.5115468]

>>5115465
t. didnt watch the video

[Anonymous No.5115479]

>>5114861
true

[Anonymous No.5115520]

Ripoff of Another World, Goldeneye and Cybermage thats what it is

[Anonymous No.5115548]

As linear as it is, I would still say that HL is a good game

[Anonymous No.5115560]

>>5115520
>If I repeat myself enough, people will agree with me!

[Anonymous No.5115569]

>>5115548
Half-Life does linearity pretty well, Half-Life 2 is far more egregious about it, having much less interesting and exciting levels (but I don't think they're bad, either).

[Anonymous No.5115572]

>>5115569
>>5115548
LINEARITY IS CANCER>>5114093

[Anonymous No.5115578]

>>5115572
That's literally nonsense.

[Anonymous No.5115582]

>>5115578
You know im correct thats why you cant refute it

[Anonymous No.5115583]

>>5115327
Goldeneye is trash desu. Only fun if you've never played a PC FPS in your life

[Anonymous No.5115585]

>>5115583
Seething mustard and hlfag.At least its not linear

[Anonymous No.5115587]

>>5115582
Most videogames are linear. Games considered to be good tend to be linear.

[Anonymous No.5115589]

>>5115582
You're arguing subjectively, you're just saying that it's bad without elaborating on why.

>inb4 more screenshotted forum posts by people who's dick he really wants to suck

[Anonymous No.5115590]

>>5115569

I think the issue people have is that HL1's linearity focused on gameplay and cool setpieces involving the gameplay. HL2's setpieces and linearity are much more interested in wowing you with impressive landscapes and unusual-looking locations than the gameplay. If you don't like how HL2 looks, then you're going to be in for a rough time with it.

[Anonymous No.5115591]

>>5115572
This just in; Super Mario Bros. is now a bad game.

[Anonymous No.5115594]

>>5115548
>>5115569
IMO half-life is a good game not because it was the first to do anything in particular, but because it converged multiple genres and most importantly was heavily play-tested. It tied together storytelling, FPS action, and puzzles, but alone that could have sucked. Valve spent ages playtesting and refining it until players seamlessly flowed through 99% of the time without getting 'stuck'. I think this is why, despite being linear, the game doesn't feel restrictive - we're subconsciously led down the right path so consistently that we never hit annoyances or intuitive sections that bring us out of the immersive experience.

I loved a lot of 3d games before half-life, like quake and descent. And i played a lot of story games prior to HL, but HL was the first action game i played where the story drew me in.

[Anonymous No.5115614]

>>5115591
Super mario is a better game

[Anonymous No.5115627]

BASED

[Anonymous No.5115652]

>all this samefagging
wew

[Anonymous No.5115659]

>>5115652
>>Moving the goalposts

[Anonymous No.5115662]

>>5115659
Blow it out your ass

[Anonymous No.5115668]

>>5115662
yeah duke nukem is a better game and mario has better linearity>>5115614

[Anonymous No.5115672]

>>5115668
Douk, Half Life and Mario are all good games, no amount of shitposting will change that

[Anonymous No.5115675]

>>5115672
No half life is the shittiest of classic fps. it shouldn't be considered a classic game.
there is a reason why people prefer doom, quake and any other classic fps over hl.

[Anonymous No.5115687]

>>5115594

This is a good point. HL1 worked because it managed to fuse both Quake (player speed and movement systems) and Duke Nukem 3D (focus on realistic areas and some weapons) in a way that the influences are obvious, but the game still feels like it is its own thing by going beyond them instead of merely copying them. It gave you things to do that were more than "shoot the monster until it dies" and "press the switch" while still being firmly rooted in two proven successful games. Basically, HL1 managed to advance the genre while being planted in solid and proven fundamentals that made the transition from Quake and similar games to Half-Life painless.

[Anonymous No.5115704]

>>5115687
No its the worst classic game>>5115675

[Anonymous No.5115761]

I'm not a fan of Half-Life but screencapping multiple posts made by some randoms on the internet to prove your point, and not being able to do it bo yourself is pathetic as fuck

[Anonymous No.5115768]

>>5115761

You don't even need to give an explanation. Just say "I don't like Half-Life" and leave it as that if someone presses you on it instead of being an autist that spams threads with screencaps of anti-HL posts and posts in semi-broken English that parrot what the screenshots say any time someone mentions it.

[Anonymous No.5115787]

>>having high standards in fps games is bad.
the absolute state of this thread.
No self-respecting fps gamer likes half life.

[Anonymous No.5115826]

>>5115787
We're not the ones carrying around a suitcase full of newspaper clippings to try to convince people of something entirely subjective.

[Anonymous No.5115831]

>>5115826
Nope, its an objectively bad game.

[Anonymous No.5115834]

what the fuck is going on in this thread

[Anonymous No.5115835]

>>5115787
>No self-respecting fps gamer likes half life
Like who? Only people you mentioned are a few literal whos from rpgcodex

[Anonymous No.5115857]

what's wrong with rpgcodex?

[Anonymous No.5115981]

>>5115857
They make posts like in this thread.

[Anonymous No.5115994]

>>5115981
they are based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.5116052]

>>5115857
dey r smrt an knot dum dum liek me

[Anonymous No.5116064]

>>5116052
>>5116052
they know that half life is shit. At least the smart ones.
Unfortunately they are rpgcodex posters who like hl.

[Anonymous No.5116205]

I enjoy half-life despite it popularizing connected levels with a focus on scripted sequence which I see has a downgrade from how FPSes originally handled level design with its focus on intricate, distinct levels.

[Anonymous No.5116235]

>>5116205
No fuck half life and counter strike, like you said they are downgrade from prior fps.they casualized fps gaming.

[Anonymous No.5116238]

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[Anonymous No.5116246]

MAZES ARE SUPERIOR. FUCK LINEAR FPS

[Anonymous No.5116250]

overrated crap

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[Anonymous No.5116260]

BASED

[Anonymous No.5116261]

>he's still at it

[Anonymous No.5116268]

>>5116261
Look at the posts. its obvious that linear level design is inferior. valve drones should know that /vr/ dont like half life.

[Anonymous No.5116270]

>>5115834

Mental illness.

[Anonymous No.5116272]

>>5116270
yeah hlfags are mentally ill

[Anonymous No.5116309]

HALF LIFE STARTED LINEAR LEVELS AND KILLED CLASSIC FPS

[Anonymous No.5116314]

[Anonymous No.5116317]

BASED

[Anonymous No.5116318]

>>5116309
>>5116309
>>hlbabby cant defend his game

[Anonymous No.5116324]

>>5116318
REFUTE THIS>>5116309
>>5116314
>>5116317

[Anonymous No.5116326]

we're reaching levels of autism that shouldn't be possible

[Anonymous No.5116329]

>>5116326
>>5116324
is just valve drones making fun of me because their shit game got exposed as the trash it is.

[Anonymous No.5116341]

So, which game is better, Cybermage or Dual Orb 2?

[Anonymous No.5116351]

It's simple valve drones,prove me ONE positive contribution or ONE good game influenced by half life and i will shut up. PROTIP: YOU CANT

[Anonymous No.5116361]

>>5116351

If Half-Life ripped off Cybermage, and Half-Life did everything wrong, does that mean that Cybermage is also a terrible game that did everything wrong? Are you going to shit on your own favorite game?

[Anonymous No.5116373]

>>5116361
See>>5116361
Cybermage did it right because the characters just stay talking to you in one place and have one animation. It doesnt have shit like the tram intro.Doesnt lock you in one room. Is just audio
. No needlesly complex like hl.

[Anonymous No.5116375]

>>5116373
Also see>>5116205

[Anonymous No.5116973]

>>5115687
I think that quasi-realism like in Duke Nukem 3D and Half-Life is a great way to do an FPS, you can have these partial locales and environments which are detailed and fairly believable, but you then build more abstract elements around it, sci-fi or fantasy theming allowing you to make excuses for less believable environments (to a point).

Like, Half-Life has environments which are completely believable, but it's also loaded with environments and setpieces which, as commonly joked about, are complete and utter OSHA nightmares (pic related being one of my favorites, for how retardedly unsafe and illegal this would be IRL). Likewise for Duke Nukem 3D.
These two games go for realism, for the purpose of detail and immersion, but they never go so hard for realism as to sacrifice fun and exploration.

[Anonymous No.5116985]

>>5113953
Few things can rival the comfiness of a good GoldSource mod.

SvenCoop and The Specialists were my favorites, it's a real goddamn shame it's so hard to find people to play with these days.

[Anonymous No.5116991]

>>5116985
I played a lot of hl mods but never got around to checking out sven until last year. Still kicking myself i didn't pay it attention years ago.

[Anonymous No.5117343]

>>5113956
>The Specialists
Best mod ever, even today

[Anonymous No.5117358]

>>5117343
I'm honestly really surprised that nobody has ripped off The Specialists for a new mod or for an indie game, because it's good as shit.

[Anonymous No.5117368]

>>5117358
I recall a few efforts to recreate it on the source engine but nothing ever came about. It really is a great concept.

[Anonymous No.5117369]

>>5113781
Damn that took me back to the YTMND days.

[Anonymous No.5117370]

>>5114940

God that webm... Sven co-op was a blast. So much random and crazy shit and no one ever taking it seriously.

[Anonymous No.5117504]

>This entire thread post-purge

[Anonymous No.5117580]

>>5117343

>The Specialists
>mod based on high-octane action inspired by classic movies like the matrix
>community turns it into a goldsrc darkrp

[Anonymous No.5117903]

>>5115458
What a shame. Cybermage deserves better legacy.

[Anonymous No.5118183]

>>5117903
Cybermage actually looks pretty cool for its time (having just youtube'd it), though i don't see much of a connection to half-life. I'd never heard of it back in the day, must not have made it onto the shareware floppies or computer magazine cover CDs.

[Anonymous No.5118823]

I hate fun

[Anonymous No.5118834]

half life modding died because people today are too lazy to extract a zip file to the half life directory folder

[Anonymous No.5118862]

>>5117580
I really wish people would have played their CS knock off mode
what counter strike really needs is bullet time, shoot dodging, ridiculous and fun weapons, and manually rackable shotguns

[Anonymous No.5119292]

>>5116985
I'm actually trying to put together a weekly group to play stuff like this (mostly goldsrc mods, but also other dead games) on Saturdays. We're going to play Vampire Slayer this Saturday starting around 10pm PST. Open the game a little after that and join the server with people on it if you're interested.

[Anonymous No.5119404]

>>5119292
I'm not sure what PST is, so i guess i'm too far away for a reasonable ping. What are you +/- from GMT?

[Anonymous No.5119415]

In case anyone hasn't come across this yet
http://vfilesarchive.bgmod.com/files/
Just about every version of most (popular) mods for HL1 archived there.

[Anonymous No.5119528]

>>5119415
This is sweet, thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.5119759]

hlbabbies still cant defend their game

[Anonymous No.5119761]

[Anonymous No.5119767]

BASED

[Anonymous No.5119769]

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[Anonymous No.5119776]

REDPILLED

[Anonymous No.5119781]

You know there's rules against spamming, right?
This is why we're better than you.

[Anonymous No.5119783]

>>5119781
refute the posts

[Anonymous No.5119807]

>>5118862

If you want that, there's Action Quake 2 team mode. It's not fully Specialist-like, but it does mix CS' "one death and you're out" gameplay with fast action. Last I heard, there were some Finns and Scandinavians still playing it. Might want to brush up on your Quake 2 movement skills if you do try it, though.

[Anonymous No.5119810]

based mods

[Anonymous No.5119840]

>>5119807
no i meant the specialists has a game mode that adds the bomb and one death kill from CS, it's better since it also has all the specialist features

[Anonymous No.5119847]

>>5119840

Oh, I never knew that. I thought there was only DM and TDM. Interesting.

[Anonymous No.5119869]

>>5119840
Fuck, it did? I must have totally missed that, that shit would have been way more fun than Counter-Strike (though I actually do like CS).

[Anonymous No.5119957]

>>5119404
-5 GMT. You might get okay ping but you'll probably have to see day of. I have a fully dedicated server on a fiber connection for each weekend we play stuff that has run fairly well without any real incident, though latency could be an issue if you're overseas. Haven't really had anyone overseas try yet.

[Anonymous No.5119968]

>>5119957
Should say, the server is in -5 GMT area, but that 10pm is a -8 GMT timezone.

[Anonymous No.5120345]

>>5113595
the game's design teaches you to play it like a slow paced "horror" "cinematic" fps

[Anonymous No.5120403]

>>5120345
At times, but there's a lot of places where you really need to keep your ass moving.
Further, something you can do is to rush past enemy encounters.

You can kind of adapt your pace as you see fit.

[Anonymous No.5120450]

>>5120345
Still seething all this years , it seems

[Anonymous No.5120504]

>>5120403
my problem is that the level design doesnt really teach you that as an approach nor forces you to confront and challenge said approach, at least on medium (i havent played the game on hard i probably should)

>>5120450
it's perfectly servicable, probably a 6
dont have much of an emotional connection to it

[Anonymous No.5120517]

>>5113595
>he doesn't sit around watching alien cockroaches for hours

[Anonymous No.5120521]

>>5120504
Its objectively an 8 or 9 at least.

[Anonymous No.5120529]

>>5120521
just because something is ironic doesn't automatically mean its funny, like yeah yeah people who think art is objective are stupid but just pretending to be someone who thinks that without injecting anything else into it is low-effort

[Anonymous No.5120552]

>>5120504
>my problem is that the level design doesnt really teach you that as an approach
I can actually see that.
I'm just instinctively methodical in playing shooters, so I can take my time with exploration, even combat, if it lets me, so I end up just kind of doing that and thinking of it as "the default".

[Anonymous No.5120941]

>>5120504

Hard heavily limits the amount of weapons you can use because the HP buffs enemies get make most weapons a good way to get yourself killed. You go from playing it like you want to the only effective weapons being the .357, Gauss, SMG grenades, pistol, and Satchel.

[Anonymous No.5120943]

>>5120941

Almost forgot the Hivehand. That thing is ridiculously OP in Hard, even though it takes a while for it to kill Alien Grunts.

[Anonymous No.5120990]

>>5118823
let me guess, #Removerandomcrits ?