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fumanstan 02-26-10 07:49 AM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
Half-Life 1 AND the Orange Box on PC. :)

Ghym 02-26-10 10:24 AM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
Originally Posted by fumanstan (Post 10019868)
Half-Life 1 AND the Orange Box on PC. :)
:thumbsup:

I agree with this. PC is the best way to play the HL series, IMO.

RichC2 02-26-10 10:29 AM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
I had no issue with HL2 + Ep 1 + Ep 2 on the 360, but for HL1 PC is really the only way to go.

chess 02-26-10 10:52 AM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
Originally Posted by kgrogers1979 (Post 10017569)
-ohbfrank-

That is such archaic thinking to assume that PC gaming means you have to hunch over a desk.
I'll bet you're hunched over your desk right now! ;)

kgrogers1979 02-26-10 12:08 PM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
Originally Posted by chess (Post 10020151)
I'll bet you're hunched over your desk right now! ;)
I don't even have a computer desk. I have my monitor, keyboard, and mouse set up on a TV dinner tray and have the tower sitting on the floor beside the couch. It's a bit redneck, but hey it works. :lol:

A laptop would probably be better than a desktop for a situation like that, but laptops suck for gaming. You could also potentially hook up your PC to an HDTV and not even need a monitor, but I don't have an HDTV.

So really I stand by my statement that being hunched over a desk is archaic. :)

davidh777 02-26-10 12:16 PM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
I haven't PC-gamed since Civ for Windows and Doom. Back in those days it was such a hassle to mess around with drivers etc. just to get stuff to work. I stopped gaming altogether until I got an Xbox.

Boba Fett 02-26-10 02:07 PM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
Originally Posted by kms_md (Post 10018828)
crossover games can set an instance of steam up without problems. it basically is installed in a "bottle" (a reference to the WINE code base for crossover). you start the instance of steam, go to my games, and run whichever steam game you like.
I gave it a try last night, but WINE was sending my CPU into overdrive. I ended up installing XP.

msdmoney 02-26-10 03:35 PM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
Originally Posted by davidh777 (Post 10020261)
I haven't PC-gamed since Civ for Windows and Doom. Back in those days it was such a hassle to mess around with drivers etc. just to get stuff to work. I stopped gaming altogether until I got an Xbox.
PC games still have there issues, but they have come a long way since then. I don't remember the last time I had a driver issue with a game. Even some of the games that supposedly have lots of problems, like Red Faction Guerrilla for the PC, I never had any issues with. Of course it's not plug and play like the consoles, but it's nothing like it was in those days.

gerrythedon 09-30-20 12:50 AM
Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
 
Originally Posted by Michael Corvin (Post 10016308)
Skip it and go straight to The Orange Box on 360?

I was behind myself and gave HL1 a shot on PS2 or Xbox(can't recall which) before getting TOB. Gave it a few hours and was not feeling it at all. It felt like playing Goldeneye, which isn't a bad thing, just hard to do with all the advancement in shooters. Closed the book on it and moved on to HL2 and loved it.
10 and a half years later!

I just started my first play-through of this (series) and I wish I would have read this post before I played this on the PS2.

:thmbsdwn: All that damn loading
:thmbsdwn: Too much damn fall damage
:thmbsdwn: Sloppy controls
:thmbsdwn: having to manually save a lot...
:thmbsdwn: ... and having to manual load a lot because of always dying

Don't know how the fuck this game got all the praise unless the PC version is a totally different game (other than better graphics).

I started HL2 on the 360 and man that's a great game. Everything wrong with the first one is gone, other than some minor loading during game.


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