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TWRoO on 26 December 2011
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zarx said:
TWRoO said:
Well, I just doubled my PC game collection according to my VGC game collection.

Bought Riven (sequel to Myst) and then the Half-Life pack.

I'm guessing a number of the games in Half-Life are actually episodic, or in the case of HL Deathmatch... just the multiplayer portion?

I've started playing Half-Life, but I'm just familiarising myself with it and not playing through it till after Christmas (I don't have a mouse at the moment, but I am getting one for Christmas)

I presume there will be a lot of people familiar with HL here, what kind of content is in all the extra bits.... and what are the "source" games?


The source games are the games upgraded to run in the newer source engine.

Oh, so I probably should have started playing HL:Source then, damn... I'm already a few hours into HL, not gonna start again.

So from what I understand of it.
Half-Life is the first game, which is extended with a couple of extra parts (Blue Shift and Opposing Force)
Half-Life 2 is the second game, which has 3 extra parts (Episode 1, Episode 2 and Lost Coast)

Then there is Half-Life: Source which is just an upgraded version of the original game (Is the Source engine the one they used in HL2? also does this version have Blue Shift and Opposing Force added into it as well, or is it just the original?)

And I also got Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, which will be the multiplayer portion of the original game (I didn't get a non-source version... was there not a MP part originally? or did they just not bother putting it in the pack?)
And Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, the MP part of HL2.

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I still have a couple of questions though:
1. Which if the extra episodes for Half Life is meant to come first? (BS or OF)
2. Just read someone mentioned HL2: Ep 3 isn't released, or may even just end up being HL3... in which case what is Half-Life 2: Lost Coast?
3. As asked above, are Blue Shift and Opposing Force added into Half-Life: Source? because if they are then I might stop my playthrough of Half-Life and just do Half-Life: Source.

 

(Oh, also got Team Fortress Classic in the pack, but I don't have any questions about that, unless I am missing something and TF is related to HL)