Is it strange that i enjoyed OPPOSING FORCE more than HALF-LIFE 1 ?? (spoilers)

ok ,i recently got myself the hl anthology. After completing half life 1 completely and playing upto the chapter "The package" in opposing force .....i have to say im having alot more fun playing it than hl1.

Now thats not to say i didnt enjoy hl. It was fantastic. Especially upto questionable ethics. Surface tension was good, but not as great as i had heard about it. From lambda core onwards i really started disliking the game. Espcecially Interloper.wow that level got on my nerves.horrible.Those flying creatures that open their head to fire golden orbs.......ughh. That horrible noise made me mute the game for that level. Xen is self explanatory. Though nihalinth and the ending were pretty enjoyable. Was the game rushed.... is that the reason why the last few levels felt so .....unsatisfying? The chapters upto residue processing(and to some extent questionable ethics.....i really loved using the console to blow up the gates and the gargantua) were pure gold.brilliant.

But the last levels really made me forget about all the good.So after completing it i played oppsing force and am loving it!!! Its consistently good.i love the huge labs. You meet fellow soldiers more often.So many cooler and scarier aliens(especially the huge dudes that dwell in darkness.dam their scary!). A couple of awsesome new weapons. The bee gun replacement is much better. The gun with the lizzard head which eats green balls is great too,and some others(the barnacle thing).The outdoor levels are more aesthetically pleasing than SURFACE TENSION.

For some reason it feels better paced and a little more challenging.I Just love all the levels.Though i still have 2 levels left to go ,but its been great uptil now. Though i do miss the assassins though.(black ops just arent that challenging).My heart jumpeda beat when i entered the portal dome in which freeman is running into the the portal.EPIC moment.

so i was wondering if anyone else has the same or similar feeling about these games?? I almost never hear comments on opposing force so i wanted to know the general opinion on it.

PS: i though the opening level to blushift ....where the lift breaks down was done brilliantly. a great into.

Is it just me or is hl1 and its mods MUCH harder than half-life2? i may be wrong but i dont remember being very challenged by hl2. maybe i havent played it in a long while. But i can swear the AI in hl1 is really good even by todays standards. In one level these soldiers pressed a button and the car lift crushed me!! that was awesome.

one last thing.....who's eli in hl1? there are like 3 scientists in the entire game. is he all of the black scientists?are all the security guards- barney? i had played hl2 before and it felt like gordon knew everyone.HL1 had close to no story or any connection to hl2. I finally understood why barney mentions the drink/beer in hl2.

Also ........please no "BLOG IT" comments.(no-one would read it) :).

ok ,i recently got myself the hl anthology. After completing half life 1 completely and playing upto the chapter "The package" in opposing force .....i have to say im having alot more fun playing it than hl1.

Now thats not to say i didnt enjoy hl. It was fantastic. Especially upto questionable ethics. Surface tension was good, but not as great as i had heard about it. From lambda core onwards i really started disliking the game. Espcecially Interloper.wow that level got on my nerves.horrible.Those flying creatures that open their head to fire golden orbs.......ughh. That horrible noise made me mute the game for that level. Xen is self explanatory. Though nihalinth and the ending were pretty enjoyable. Was the game rushed.... is that the reason why the last few levels felt so .....unsatisfying? The chapters upto residue processing(and to some extent questionable ethics.....i really loved using the console to blow up the gates and the gargantua) were pure gold.brilliant.

But the last levels really made me forget about all the good.So after completing it i played oppsing force and am loving it!!! Its consistently good.i love the huge labs. You meet fellow soldiers more often.So many cooler and scarier aliens(especially the huge dudes that dwell in darkness.dam their scary!). A couple of awsesome new weapons. The bee gun replacement is much better. The gun with the lizzard head which eats green balls is great too,and some others(the barnacle thing).The outdoor levels are more aesthetically pleasing than SURFACE TENSION.

For some reason it feels better paced and a little more challenging.I Just love all the levels.Though i still have 2 levels left to go ,but its been great uptil now. Though i do miss the assassins though.(black ops just arent that challenging).

so i was wondering if anyone else has the same or similar feeling about these games?? I almost never hear comments on opposing force so i wanted to know the general opinion on it.

PS: i though the opening level to blushift ....where the lift breaks down was done brilliantly. a great into.

Is it just me or is hl1 and its mods MUCH harder than half-life2? i may be wrong but i dont remember being very challenged by hl2. maybe i havent played it in a long while. But i can swear the AI in hl1 is really good even by todays standards. In one level these soldiers pressed a button and the car lift crushed me!! that was awesome.

one last thing.....who's eli in hl1? there are like 3 scientists in the entire game. is he all of the black scientists?are all the security guards- barney? i had played hl2 before and it felt like gordon knew everyone.HL1 had close to no story or any connection to hl2. I finally understood why barney mentions the drink/beer in hl2.

Also ........please no "BLOG IT" comments.(no-one would read it) :).

bawathegamer

yeah Opposing Force is my favorite HL game, i really hope Valve plans on bringing back Adrian sometime to do something in the HL2 story, or mabey HL3 :)

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ok ,i recently got myself the hl anthology. After completing half life 1 completely and playing upto the chapter "The package" in opposing force .....i have to say im having alot more fun playing it than hl1.

Now thats not to say i didnt enjoy hl. It was fantastic. Especially upto questionable ethics. Surface tension was good, but not as great as i had heard about it. From lambda core onwards i really started disliking the game. Espcecially Interloper.wow that level got on my nerves.horrible.Those flying creatures that open their head to fire golden orbs.......ughh. That horrible noise made me mute the game for that level. Xen is self explanatory. Though nihalinth and the ending were pretty enjoyable. Was the game rushed.... is that the reason why the last few levels felt so .....unsatisfying? The chapters upto residue processing(and to some extent questionable ethics.....i really loved using the console to blow up the gates and the gargantua) were pure gold.brilliant.

But the last levels really made me forget about all the good.So after completing it i played oppsing force and am loving it!!! Its consistently good.i love the huge labs. You meet fellow soldiers more often.So many cooler and scarier aliens(especially the huge dudes that dwell in darkness.dam their scary!). A couple of awsesome new weapons. The bee gun replacement is much better. The gun with the lizzard head which eats green balls is great too,and some others(the barnacle thing).The outdoor levels are more aesthetically pleasing than SURFACE TENSION.

For some reason it feels better paced and a little more challenging.I Just love all the levels.Though i still have 2 levels left to go ,but its been great uptil now. Though i do miss the assassins though.(black ops just arent that challenging).

so i was wondering if anyone else has the same or similar feeling about these games?? I almost never hear comments on opposing force so i wanted to know the general opinion on it.

PS: i though the opening level to blushift ....where the lift breaks down was done brilliantly. a great into.

Is it just me or is hl1 and its mods MUCH harder than half-life2? i may be wrong but i dont remember being very challenged by hl2. maybe i havent played it in a long while. But i can swear the AI in hl1 is really good even by todays standards. In one level these soldiers pressed a button and the car lift crushed me!! that was awesome.

one last thing.....who's eli in hl1? there are like 3 scientists in the entire game. is he all of the black scientists?are all the security guards- barney? i had played hl2 before and it felt like gordon knew everyone.HL1 had close to no story or any connection to hl2. I finally understood why barney mentions the drink/beer in hl2.

Also ........please no "BLOG IT" comments.(no-one would read it) :).

redbaron3

yeah Opposing Force is my favorite HL game, i really hope Valve plans on bringing back Adrian sometime to do something in the HL2 story, or mabey HL3 :)

i finished opposing force and blue shift about a month ago. i finished HL1 for the first time last summer and went straight for HL2 + episodes. after playing those i didn't think i'd enjoy the HL1 expansions much, but OF was pretty good. i don't know that i'd say i liked it better than HL1, but i had fun playing it. blue shift was okay, too. you may also want to try adam foster's HL1 mod called somewhere else; it's pretty challenging in some spots but was a fun half-hour. even better is his HL2 mod minerva; it was very well-done and i found it as engaging as HL2. it's a few hours long, and i was very impressed by it.

z

other than bs and of any other good singleplayer mods/expansions. my pc cant run hl2 so i need only hl1 based games.

btw guys please dont post any spoilers involving hl2's episodes. i havent played them yet so.....