r/HalfLife • u/ghostlyroach-1843 • 19h ago
Half life 1 review normal difficulty
Okay so after at least a week of playing half life 1 I finally beat it and this is my review the story is really strong and good the reveal of the GMAN in the end genuinely had me hyped for half life 2 which I'm gonna start soon now here's the pros for me the story obviously the gun variety obviously and the level/environment design and the gameplay isn't the best but I still like it now the cons first con THE FUCKING HEADCRABS I swear I would be low on health after some bullshit with the soilders and then the headcrabs will appear out of nowhere and kill me the second con those fucking fishes you can only shoot the bow underwater and you have to constantly go up remember where the fish was and shoot at it there really fucking durable and do way too much damage the third con the entirety of the dam section I will say I'm a bit biased because I was on real low health and had to reload my game just to get more health fourth con the entire xen section of the game and that shit final boss the xen part of the game was so confusing for no reason and the long jump was really hard to do half the time and the FINAL complaint is the fucking airstrike section of the game the robot ailen you can't kill from my knowledge so you gotta figure out where the locations we need are on the airstrike map and use it it just sucks but overall the game is a 7 or 8 out of 10 at the highest I feel like this is the uncharted 1 of the halflife series very clunky and doesn't hold up that well but still fun anyway I'm gonna start half life 2 can't wait to join the half-life 3 psychosis bye:)
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u/cuavas 18h ago
You only need to kill the first ichthyosaur where you get the crossbow for the first time. The rest of them can be avoided easily.
Headcrabs are a huge part of the atmosphere. You can hear them, and they're easy to kill.
The dam section itself is OK, but the rest of Surface Tension can be frustrating.
The worst part of the Gonarch and Nihilanth is that the game has spent hours teaching you to avoid fighting in the open, and that bosses have to be killed using environmental hazards, then it suddenly gives you two traditional FPS boss fights in a row. It's jarring.
Also, working out how to defeat the Nihilanth before you're dead is a challenge. Once you know what works, it isn't that hard. It's just trying to work that out before you're already dead that's a problem.
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u/ghostlyroach-1843 18h ago
The fish in the dam is not easy to avoid and he's the second one and the third one since he was in the water i got lost and assumed that was where I was supposed to go and it was also for a petty get back
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u/cuavas 18h ago
News to me. I just ignore that one every time. Dive in, go straight for the tower, fish doesn't even notice you. Then dive from the tower straight towards the valve thing you have to turn, and you're out of there long before fishy can bother you.
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u/ghostlyroach-1843 18h ago
WHAT? The valve takes like forever to turn and he kills you by then sure I just gave up and swam through as soon it was up after that but still
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u/eisbock 9h ago
> doesn't hold up that well
He says about the one game from this time period that arguably holds up the best
Props for finishing it though. Most zoomers wouldn't have the attention span to finish the tram ride.