misterd on 06 January 2008
| MrMarc said: To be honest, I love Half Life 1 and 2 as excellent first person shooters. But anyone praising the games for their story telling are either blind or playing a very different game to me. Both games have barebones, completely minimal storyline going for them. There's a difference between telling a story in a very subtle manner, and not telling any story at all, and HL falls into the latter. I could ask a million questions for both games, What is this, Why that? And I guarantee you that playing through the games with the sharpest eyes possible would not answer any of them. Half life = Excellent shooter - Rubbish story which frankly is almost non-existant. |
You have to put Half Life 1 in perspective. It was the first notable FPS to incorporate a narrative successfully into it's game play, even if that was a fairly simple narrative.
As for questions, name me one game where you couldn't ask "a million" questions about that world without getting any answers. Hell, you can ask them about this world too!
