Half-life The Original

KungFuDiscoMonkey · April 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">What are some of your best memorys?</div> My best Half-Life memory involves the intro train ride all the way to the disaster. A friend had invited me over to his house to show me this game. We loaded it up. I remember being in awe the entire opening tram ride thinking, this is SO AWSOME! Then the ride ended and he showed me where to pick up the HEV. I was thinking how cool it was that you weren't just dropped into a battle but the entire time the anticipation was building. I remember all the scientists saying, "Nothing will go wrong". When I pushed the crystal into the beam and the room starting falling apart, I was hooked. My friend let me borrow the game and I played nothing else for a long time, till I finally beat the game and I felt like I had just taken part in this great movie. When I found out about Opposing Force, I quickly borrowed it from another friend and played that all the way through. I thought it was so cool to see the same incident from another perspective. By the time Blue Shift came out, I had my own copy of Half-Life, which I had, beat several times, and wanted to see Half-Life from Barneys perspective. It was a bit short but I enjoyed the return to one of the best game story I have ever seen.

CanadianWolverine · April 2003

Here's mine: When I had managed to make it all that way to the surface, I was running over to where the soldiers were waiting. I was elated, finally my character was going to get the hell out of this place and the scientists would be rescued. I was all prepared to try to guide the soldiers back to where I had to leave other scientists behind, then I overhear another scientist getting to the soldiers before me...
"Oh thank god, I thought I would never make it out of there..."
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat... Argh!!!
Oh, I was so **** off! I was like, oh hell no, you did not just do that! Its on, I'm gonna get me some! I charged those **** and must've whiped out an entire platoon before I slowed down. Intense. I still get those cool shivers down my back when I remember it. Kinda like how that scene in the Matrix where they walk into the government building makes me feel.

Salty · April 2003

Gettin killed 50,000 times by the first worm thing you have to throw a nade at to get it to go into the hole so you can run by it.

I prefered Q2 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Mouse · April 2003

playing through the first few levels again and finding all these vents that I never knew existed

Sycophant · April 2003

I honestly don't see what the big deal was. <b>IMHO</b>, the graphics were mediocre and failed to impress, the story was a bit on the predictable side, and it reeked of 'vanilla FPS'.

It wasn't until NS that I actually <i>bought</i> a copy of HL. Before that, I was using a friend's copy because I simply couldn't justify the cost of buying the game (<i>and yes, this includes the $9.99 bargain bin copies</i>).

Dunsby · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Salty @ Apr 25 2003, 12:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Gettin killed 50,000 times by the first worm thing you have to throw a nade at to get it to go into the hole so you can run by it.

I prefered Q2 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
You didnt aim down the hole silly, you chucked where you wanted them to start hitting, then WALKED to the doorway.

I hate the end boss... Why on earth do you have to go <b>in</b> his head?

My favourite bit was the worm, my least favourite bit is.. ANY bit with female assassins.

PanzerOx · April 2003

I'd have to say the first part with the assassins, I HATED THEM! They scared the crap out of me!

(I got HL for Christmas just after it came out)

Marik_Steele · April 2003

I vividly remember my very first online game with more than 4 players (I'd played JK1 multiplayer plenty, but that doesn't count.) It's TFC. I've just finished reading the entire manual, and after half a dozen in-game-browser refreshes with a 28.8kbps connection (each of which took 5-15 minutes), I finally get onto a server with over a dozen people. The map is "Well". It's pre-netcode patch, so my ping is in the quadruple digits. My 266mhz, 32MB of RAM, and ATI Rage Pro Turbo with 2 megs of video ram is getting me < 3 frames per second, less than that when there are explosions.

I press "2" to the class selection screen. Sniper.

I zoom in, and hold down the button. I see the laser dot and assume the sniper rifle is "charging up"--just like the manual said. Never having seen the map to know there are better sniping spots, I go out of the respawn room (I spawned into the one with the water) and hang a left, then a right. I see a huge door opening, which I soon learn is the entrance to our base. What I later learn to be a demoman is spamming pipebombs through the door. A turret inside our base is firing its chaingun like mad.

I see a figure silhouette against the explosions on the outside come through the door. I later learn it was a heavy weapons guy, but for the moment I see it's red, and that's good enough for me. I let go of the button. The slowness of everything I saw, and the subconscious action, made it seem like the war was all a dream.

A full five seconds later, when my computer renders the next frame for me to see, I see my view skewed to an odd angle, looking up from the floor. I've died.

In the upper right hand corner, I see "Player" in blue, the orange silhouette of a head being shot through to the right of it, and the other person's name in red on the right side of that. I don't even pay attention to what weapon I was killed with, I'm already pressing "tab" to confirm -- yes, yes it's there -- one frag, one death, and I get the warm fuzzy feeling of 100% accuracy.

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That was probably my biggest of all time for any HL mod. What are some of my best memories from the original HL?

1. Inviting a friend to play it for the first time at his house, and seeing the expression on his face when he *literally* jumped out of his office chair when the very first headcrab leapt at him. When he saw it crawling so slowly, he had just kept backing up and asking me "What is that thing?" I just stayed silent.

2. Throwing a grenade at a marine, and actually seeing him run away.

3. Going down a long, wide, curved hallway, I come towards the open area at the other end. I see a marine shooting his mp5 wildly, and running away. Another marine or few are already dead on the floor, and I keep hearing big noises from the fight. I think to myself "All right! Someone's taking out those marines for me!"
I turn around the corner to go into the opening. I see it's not someone, it's some<i>thing</i>, it's blue, and it's not done yet.

4. In Opposing Force, any part where I had squad mates. They should've had that be the whole game.

I may list more later.

Windelkron · April 2003

The most memorable part for me was when the worm thing took the scientist through the window. That blew my mind.

Scythe · April 2003

In he very start of the game, after the incident where that scientist pushes that filing cabinet onto that head crab and is cheering. Then another one leaps up and takes him in the back of the head.

And when you first got sucked up by a barnacle and crapping yourself when it's munching on your scalp.

And when you see a scientist trying to pull a barney out of a vent where he's being pulled in by some unseen foe. Then seeing both of them sucked in and a shower of gibs sprays out along with unpleasant crunching and screaming sounds.

And when you first hear the Nihilanth saying “I want you alone… want you aloonnnee, Freemannnnn.”

And when you first see one of those massive things with the flamethrowers on their arms slaughtering hoards of marines.

And in Opposing forces when you see one of them crush a couple marines against a wall with a car.

And when you lead a hoard of headcrabs into a room and then turning the auto-turret back on.

And when you launch the satellite to help destroy Xen.

Or in opposing forces when that scientist teleports into Xen with the displacement cannon and falls to his death.

Soooooo many memories.

--Scythe--

Salty · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Silent But Violent @ Apr 24 2003, 07:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Salty @ Apr 25 2003, 12:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Gettin killed 50,000 times by the first worm thing you have to throw a nade at to get it to go into the hole so you can run by it.

I prefered Q2 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
You didnt aim down the hole silly, you chucked where you wanted them to start hitting, then WALKED to the doorway.

I hate the end boss... Why on earth do you have to go <b>in</b> his head?

My favourite bit was the worm, my least favourite bit is.. ANY bit with female assassins.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Wait it hears you?

Scythe · April 2003

...

Yes.

The barney says "The goddamned thing <b>hears</b> you!".

--Scythe--

Madjai · April 2003

best part was getting the NPC's killed by either using them as a shield, pushing them through the doorway to the giant listening worm and watching them get gibbed, or leading them to the barnacles and watching the gib action.

MonsieurEvil · April 2003

The feeling of 'Oh man, did I ever just **** up', during the resonance cascade.

The dam. All of it.

Figuring out the trick to beating the giant attack plant.

Every moment of seeing the Administrator (i.e. The G-Man).

(I am replaying it all over right now, at high res and 32bit color - such a great experience!)

MonsieurEvil · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sycophant @ Apr 24 2003, 08:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I honestly don't see what the big deal was. <b>IMHO</b>, the graphics were mediocre and failed to impress, the story was a bit on the predictable side, and it reeked of 'vanilla FPS'.

It wasn't until NS that I actually <i>bought</i> a copy of HL. Before that, I was using a friend's copy because I simply couldn't justify the cost of buying the game (<i>and yes, this includes the $9.99 bargain bin copies</i>).  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Teen angst... so delightful...

^_^

Greedo · April 2003

I can't remember if it was HL or Op4, but there was one part where you came to some kind of bridge, I believe, and there was a scientist and a Barney on the other end, but you couldn't see them (maybe it was around a corner, or something), but you hear them discussing something.
"Hey, check this out"
"What is that thing?"
"I wonder what this does.."
"Careful with that you might--"
*boom* *splat* *gib*

And you get yourself a nice new gun of some kind I can't remember. Probably an egon.

Oh, and, yah, playing through it again now has reminded me why this game is easily one of the greatest SP games I've ever played. Nothing like running away from a garg to get your heart pumping.

tbZBeAst · April 2003

Taking out the helo with the (I think it was) gluon gun.

Watching the Walther plummet to his doom in the busted lift.

Trying to save scientists stuck behind unbreakable glass.

Align · April 2003

Beast and Greedo, you two are both wrong, it's the Tau Cannon, aka Gauss Gun...
Barney:"What is this thing?"*sound of wobbly pitch increase*
Sci:"Put that down... it's a prototype." BZANG!! Yellow line passes through wall and blows stuff up near you
B:"Man, why aren't we using this?" *charging up again*
S:"It's too unpredictable... Don't let it overcharge!" *charge sound nearing climax*
B:"w, Whaddaya mean, overcharge?"
BZANG "DOOH" "UAH" ""¤!&#¤BANG"
Bunch of computers explode.

Sycophant · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Apr 25 2003, 01:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Teen angst... so delightful...

^_^</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
....at 24? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Venmoch · April 2003

<u>Half-Life</u>

Train Ride (Pure Gaming Bliss, None of this cutscene lark. You are the story)
First time against the grunts ("Now if I hide around this corner they'll come and charge me, Uh Oh thats a gren- BOOM!")

<u>Opposing-Force</u>

Helicopter Start
Any moment with fellow grunts
All of it pretty much <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Dunsby · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Scythe @ Apr 25 2003, 02:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> In he very start of the game, after the incident where that scientist pushes that filing cabinet onto that head crab and is cheering. Then another one leaps up and takes him in the back of the head.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Oh that was so funny. I laugh every time i see it.

I started HL again and im just past the Office Complex...

TychoCelchuuu · April 2003

Heh, mine has to do with the opening train ride also...

My friend had just lent me Half-Life. He had bought both it and Counterstrike, so he just gave it to me so I could play CS. I loaded it up, and started the single player. Sat there watching the screen. Pretty. The train stopped. I sat there. I just stared at the screen. I didn't realize you could move around. I just sort of sat there for five minutes, gave up, uninstalled HL, and didn't touch it for weeks.

Later, I reinstalled it, and decided to hit a few buttons. Hey, look, you can move around! Heh.

Dread · April 2003

Damn you all! Now I have to play it through <b>again</b> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

I think the most memorable part was the three tentacles and the moment when that scientist tried to get the crossbow and that big fish jumped and ate him <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

*memories filling my head*

Hot damn, this game is just so innovative, impressive. Ingenious! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Edit: started playing it now in expert mode and i think im in chapter3(We have hostiles). I just realized that HL is even more scary than NS <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>

MonsieurEvil · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sycophant @ Apr 25 2003, 09:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Apr 25 2003, 01:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Teen angst... so delightful...

^_^</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
....at 24? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
That just means you need to catch up!

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

juice · April 2003

OMG before I saw this post, yesterday I played through the ENTIRE game! And beat it for the first time. When I played it before I got to Gonarch and a glitch made him invincible. Anyway.... "Time to chooooose....." <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>

Be0w · April 2003

1- The beginning, all of it, from the train ride to the first Barney firing away at zombies.

2- Uhh... Dont remember if it was the first time you see G-man after the 'accident' but your staring through a glass window in a door and watching him look at you, then walk away. First time this happened I literally screamed at my computer calling him all kinds of nasty things. "OMG WTH IS WRONG WITH HIM!!! COME BACK HERE AND OPEN THIS DOOR!!!!"

edit - I shot the Barney following me after that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

roachems · April 2003

i always loved watching the scientists dangle on the railing screaming for help in the beginning of the game.
ahhh thats funny stuff. i think i'm going to go play half life now

DrSuredeath · April 2003

Getting hit in the dark by the marines and dragged to the trash.

Jesus, that was unexpected, brilliant twist.

PS: If you include Opposing Force, the time of crawling through that tunnel with night vision, going pass the giants bugs takes the cake.

BOZO · April 2003

My favorite part is when you are on the cliff and that damn helocopter is shooting missles at you. Great fun.

Loke · April 2003

When I first played Hazard Course and the textures was all white, but I thought that the graphic roxxored even if it was ugly as hell.
But that the textures were white was because I dident have any real graphics card in my computer.
I bought a TNT2 Ultra Gamer after some months and the graphics was... omg, incredible nice!

Liku · April 2003

My post Memorable part...

Walking through the vents and coming to some grating...

Hit the grating to open it...

"Sir, I hear something."

Then hearing the Grunts shooting the vents I'm in and the bullets make holes in the vent where light beams through...

The holes keep coming my way and once they reach me the floor of vent I'm in breaks under me and I fall into the Garage where the two Grunts are...

Best. Part. Ever.

Half-life The Original

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