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G2ThaUNiT on 16 October 2023
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SvennoJ said:

Yeah makes sense.

Half-Life: Opposing Force came out this year as well, but is just an expansion to Half-Life (and not as good), just like Blue Shift in 2001. It's basically the same while playing as a different protagonist and much shorter.

Well maybe not just any old expansion if Wikipedia is to be believed:

Half-Life was followed by an expansion pack, Opposing Force, on November 1, 1999,[6] developed by Gearbox Software.[7] Players control US Marine corporal Adrian Shephard, who fights a new group of aliens and black operations units.

Opposing Force was received favorably by critics,[8] many citing the game as being as influential on setting expansion pack standards as the original game had been in influencing the overall genre.[9][10][11] The game won the Computer Game of the Year Interactive Achievement Award of 2000 from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.[12]

It definitely lacked the impact the original game had on me, I was more interested in replaying the original campaign instead.

Still waiting on a modern remake of half-life, but there's Black Mesa which I think is actually finished. Lol how did I miss that releasing 3 years ago after following the project for years. 16 years in the making, now it's in my Steam library :)

Nice of Valve to allow selling it on Steam (I guess they have no plans for a remake themselves). Although probably why I didn't notice the release:
"This game doesn't look like other things you've played in the past. As such we don't have much information on whether or not you might be interested in it" while it's recommending Half-Life: Alyx to me based on my library lol.

Edit: Damn that makes me all emotional playing the fan made remake, goose bumps all over again. I'm going to take my time with this, awesome. It's pretty much exactly as how I envisioned a remake. Worth the wait (and forgetting about it haha)

Dude I re-played this remake like 5 times during lockdown. This game looks the way I pictured Half-Life looked all those years ago. Loved every second of it. I know there's that RTX remix of Half-Life 2, which looks amazing, but I would love if this fan run studio can work on a remake of HL2.