Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
02-26-10, 10:24 AM
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02-26-10, 10:29 AM
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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.
02-26-10, 10:52 AM
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02-26-10, 12:08 PM
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Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
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. 
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.
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.
02-26-10, 12:16 PM
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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.
02-26-10, 02:07 PM
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Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
I gave it a try last night, but WINE was sending my CPU into overdrive. I ended up installing XP.
02-26-10, 03:35 PM
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Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
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.
09-30-20, 12:50 AM
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Re: Starting the Half Life series... PC or PS2?
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.
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.
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.
All that damn loading Too much damn fall damage Sloppy controls having to manually save a lot... ... and having to manual load a lot because of always dyingDon'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.
