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General discussion (archive)Yet Another Everything Half-Life Sale(38 posts)(38 posts)
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Posted October 17, 2009
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Navagon: I actually got the HL1 Anthology just for registering an old copy of Blue Shift with Steam.

Oh you suck.
Posted October 17, 2009
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phanboy4: Well, it's DOOM 2.0, and that's enough to garner major love right there.
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anjohl: Technically it's Quake 2.0.
Half Life and it's sequels have been surpassed *many* times. Stalker, Bioshock, Fallout 3, and several others have taken the crown repeatedly. That being said, they are worth playing at this price for almost anyone that likes FPS/Adventure games.

The only one of those that's remotely similar is BioShock, and even that is tenuous.
Half-Life is, and always has been, a corridor shooter. What it brought to the genre was more integrated storytelling and more scripting in the action sequences. It's direct ancestors are Doom and Duke Nukem. The first two games you mentioned are much more closely related to something like System Shock, and Fallout 3 is firmly in the mold of everything else Bethesda, which can trace their lineage to Ultima Underworld.
I'm not a big Half-Life fan, all things considered, it just didn't seem like the best comparison to me.
Posted October 17, 2009
Bought Half-Life: Blue Shift. Will play it sometime next week. I missed this one when it came out.
Post edited October 17, 2009 by KavazovAngel
Posted October 17, 2009
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TheCheese33: GameSpot's users voted Gordon Freeman the greatest game hero of all time by 55.8%, so guess what Valve's doing? That's right, all Half-Life games are 55.8% off! If you don't have any of them, now's a great time to get them. I especially liked Half-Life 2 Episode 2, but if you've never played one I'd recommend starting with Half-Life 2 (Half-Life 1 is amazing but entirely optional).

... http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gaming_deals_thread/perm=546/#p_b_546
Posted October 17, 2009
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phanboy4: I meant spiritually, not technically.

Well, I would argue that Spiritually it's closer to Quake than Doom, and closer to Aliens than either.
Posted October 17, 2009
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Navagon: I actually got the HL1 Anthology just for registering an old copy of Blue Shift with Steam.
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Rohan15: Oh you suck.

Actually the exact same thing happened to me. I got a used CD copy of HL1 from eBay, and registered the key on a lark. Got the whole shooting match.
Posted October 17, 2009
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phanboy4: Actually the exact same thing happened to me. I got a used CD copy of HL1 from eBay, and registered the key on a lark. Got the whole shooting match.

Oh you both suck.
Posted October 18, 2009
I felt I kind of deserved to get the Half Life (1) anthology for registering my old Sierra boxed copy with steam.
Being that I tried to install Half Life on my new pc from the CD, and it wouldn't run, so I tried to uninstall it, and it promptly wiped 90% of my hard drives files. That sierra uninstaller is a BITCH.
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