Oh, by the way: the Mac (and Linux) version of HL1 is now official. The corresponding Steam page now sports the SteamPlay logo.
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Started by Janichsan, Jan 26 2013 01:46 PM
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Posted 12 February 2013 - 02:11 PM
"We do what we must, because we can."
"Gaming on a Mac is like women on the internet." — "Highly common and totally awesome?"
"Gaming on a Mac is like women on the internet." — "Highly common and totally awesome?"
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Posted 13 February 2013 - 02:43 AM
Don't really care anymore now that Black Mesa is out. Pity that isn't getting a mac version.
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 08:02 AM
Nice. Guess I'll have to get this one when it goes on sale. I played it probably about half-way through on the PS2, but never got a chance to finish it.
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 08:06 AM
XxtraLarGe, on 27 February 2013 - 08:02 AM, said:
Nice. Guess I'll have to get this one when it goes on sale.
"We do what we must, because we can."
"Gaming on a Mac is like women on the internet." — "Highly common and totally awesome?"
"Gaming on a Mac is like women on the internet." — "Highly common and totally awesome?"
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 08:09 AM
I'm a cheapskate and I'm patient. :-D
My New Year's resolution last year was to buy "no new games". I didn't buy a single game last year, though I did donate $13.37 for the CodeHero Kickstarter. I saw that more as an investment, since I was teaching web programming at the time and wanted to show my students some neat ways to get into programming.
My New Year's resolution last year was to buy "no new games". I didn't buy a single game last year, though I did donate $13.37 for the CodeHero Kickstarter. I saw that more as an investment, since I was teaching web programming at the time and wanted to show my students some neat ways to get into programming.
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 09:31 AM
XxtraLarGe, on 27 February 2013 - 08:09 AM, said:
I'm a cheapskate and I'm patient. :-D
My New Year's resolution last year was to buy "no new games".
My New Year's resolution last year was to buy "no new games".
"They're everywhere!"
And now, time for some Legend of Zelda.
And now, time for some Legend of Zelda.
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 04:22 PM
Pretty cool, but I to will wait for Black Mesa to be finished.
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I picked it up in the sale and finished it a few days ago. Conclusion: worth the $2.50. 
It clearly has some innovations for its day, and is fun enough for the most part. Some sections really drag on though, and others stop being fun entirely and just get annoying. (Oh yeah, and they pull the "spawn monsters behind you" routine several times, though fortunately not constantly.)
The optional high res models are quite nice, except that they make the MP5 look like an M16, which makes its low effective range even more confusing. (The 9mm pistol is, as per tradition, much more accurate somehow.)
There were a couple of bugs that I'm giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming weren't there in the original. Sometimes the enemies and NPCs would turn at a ridiculously low speed, I'd say around 30 degrees per second. This made it incredibly easy to just stay behind an enemy while shooting them, and really annoying when waiting for an NPC to follow you around a corner. And secondly, while pushing crates worked correctly, pulling them would usually send them flying across the room. Inconvenient at the best of times, and much worse when you're
So, best PC game ever at the time of its release? Not by my reckoning; I liked Unreal better, so it's not even the best PC shooter of 1998. Worth playing? Sure.
It clearly has some innovations for its day, and is fun enough for the most part. Some sections really drag on though, and others stop being fun entirely and just get annoying. (Oh yeah, and they pull the "spawn monsters behind you" routine several times, though fortunately not constantly.)
The optional high res models are quite nice, except that they make the MP5 look like an M16, which makes its low effective range even more confusing. (The 9mm pistol is, as per tradition, much more accurate somehow.)
There were a couple of bugs that I'm giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming weren't there in the original. Sometimes the enemies and NPCs would turn at a ridiculously low speed, I'd say around 30 degrees per second. This made it incredibly easy to just stay behind an enemy while shooting them, and really annoying when waiting for an NPC to follow you around a corner. And secondly, while pushing crates worked correctly, pulling them would usually send them flying across the room. Inconvenient at the best of times, and much worse when you're
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.So, best PC game ever at the time of its release? Not by my reckoning; I liked Unreal better, so it's not even the best PC shooter of 1998. Worth playing? Sure.
