Alice Uncovered!

Hutama,

Please come up with a reason of why Half Life is a great game and doesn\'t degenerate into a press the button, find the key crap game?

That is all I have asked, but of course, since that is the truth, that the game starts off great, but then quickly plummets into shit.

I mean, wishing people getting colon cancer is interesting, but you fail to bring any meaningful conversation to the discussion.

Be gone, stroke yourself to half life while other people actually enjoy good games.

MOnkeyStrangler, you can go back to your MUD then faggot.

Colon cancer preferably, so they have to cut out half your intestine and you\'ll have to shit into a bag thru a hole in your stomache for the rest of your life.... Ya I hope that happens to you. I\'m sure it will happen too since that kind of thing usually effects dumb farmers from Nevada.

White trash from Nevada, I hope you get cancer.

For the record, graphics have very little to do with you being immersed in the game. They can enhance it, but they are only a small fraction of the overall whole.

Look at Quake3, or UT, both have great graphics, but am I immersed? No, not in the least.

I explain the facts, and all you can say is for me to go fuck myself. I\'m sorry that the truth hurts so bad, maybe you should sit in your room, jerking off to pictures of Gabe Newell as opposed to revealing your complete lack of intelligence here.

Hmm. Well, the scariest game I ever played was \"Alone In The Dark 1\" (Infogrames). Crank that sound at midnight in the dark, and one of those lurching demons pops out at you...... scared me and my friend to pieces.

I think HL: Opposing Force stands a better chance of impressing anyone who wasn\'t by HL -- at least they know what the people want now.

Oh, and I wanna bend Alice and her inverted cross over a chair. Go concept art!

#41, Skid and MonkeyStranger... I think it was SS2\'s ass graphics that really didnt impress me. I felt like I was playing the daikanaka demo or something... And then there was all the fucking HUD bullshit. what a pain in the ass. I Think it sucked ass. So go fuck yourselves.

#40 Starcraft a good game? AoE? Oh boy now those are immersive games! Fuckin Dork

Half-Life was cool at first. I thought it was kickass to talk to all the guards and scientists at the beginning. The guy who said that Gordon had mail, but the server was down, I just FLIPPED! He was banging the keyboard and shit. But then, about 2/3 of the guys would say \"Hello Gordon\"... \"I\'m terribly busy\"... Basically, Valve didn\'t want to spend the time making up dialogue...

Xen sucked so much serious ass-
1) Jump around on the rocks
2) Shoot the bad guys
3) Figure out how to destroy the spider thing
4) Destroy the spider thing
5) Find the big yellow-ish thing
6) Try to destroy the big yellowish thing
7) Slowly learn not to get hit by the green balls, and that you have to shoot the yellow spikes
8) Figure out how to kill the yellow-ish thing
9) Kill it
10) Try to stop your suicidal feelings when the game ends in the WORST way I\'ve ever seen...

Yes, both endings sucked BAD...

Sorry to break the bandwagon for half life, but it is fairly common knowledge that the game, while being one of the best first person shooter games ever, was crap when compared with the best of damn near every other genre. If all you play are FPS games, then yes, you should be mindlessly jerking off to it (as appears to be the case)

However, if you\'ve played just about any other game, you\'ll see that Half life is the same FPS crap, with just a slightly better \"intro\". It still reverts into the old find the key, press the button crap. And if you try to deny that, then you are seriously on crack.

And don\'t even get me started on the ending.

The fact of the matter is, the game is not immersive, and quite frankly isn\'t that good when you compare it against the best other genres have (Fallout anyone? System Shock 1 and 2, Starcraft, AOE2, etc...)

I will freely admit it is the best SINGLE player FPS game released, but is far from the best game, not even in the same class.

uhh, im admitting that I\'ve never bothered playing it ??
either you are retarded, or just being annoying on purpose.
let me try to explain it again, since you obviously didnt get it the first time.

I\'ve played the entire game. The first 1/4th part was interesting. It had some new elements and was very well done. Then it started to decay into the same old stuff. And by the time i got to the Xen levels, it was utter crap and completely boring. The so-called story sort of existed in the first 1/3rd of the game or so. But there wasnt any relevancy to anything after that. Just stuff thrown together in the hope that the momentum built up in the start would carry it through to the end.

So please try to get it through your retarded skull that it doesnt automatically mean that i havent played it entirely if im not its bandwagon.

So your admitting you never bothered playing it. The first 1/4 was the slowest part of the game. But your a fan of System Shock 2 so that says it all right there.

#34
Speaking of local law enforcment authorities, anybody notice how well armed these guys are these days? Friggin no gang member having North Dakota Fuzz pull out AR-15s (M-16s) and full body armor for a disgruntled guy who just wanted to shoot himself.

Last thing I saw - they\'ve got this robotic rifle thing now, cops sits back, drinks his coffee, eats his donuts, then pops a few caps into some unsuspecting teenagers who were J-walking.

I don\'t have anything against cops in general, but they get alittle too carried away with themselves and how important they think they are. A police force, \"to serve and protect,\" should not be better equiped than the military. What\'s that saying... \"power corrupts?\"

sorry, wasnt aware of any walkthrough sites,
but since you obviously are, can you give me a url or something.
i\'ll see if i missed something special that might have made that game immersive, because from what i\'ve played it sucked ass after 1/4th of the way. it was fun until the leaked IHV part ended, stuff after that was just repetitive.

No you probably didnt. You probably went to one of those \"walkthrough\" sites and cheated your way through the game because your too fuckin stupid to do it yourself!! Monkey.

#30
so i guess you know more than me whether if i played it or not.
you know, you could make a lot of money with that talent.
im sure the local law enforcement authorites will find something for you to do. give it a go, dude !

I think your right hutama
;)

#18 I guess your one of the people I was referring to in post 13. Oh well

Anyone played the redemption map pack yet?
pretty c00l if i do say so myself

anyone who says halflife is not immersive, or that the level transitions were the only thing that caused immersion obviously didnt play it.

I have played the single player 7 times, and have found it different every time.

oh man Xen just sucked it hard. They put so much in the first part and i loved it, they didnt seem like they had a clue how to end it, so they stuck some stupid ass alien shit in there.

You know, when I first heard of the game, I was hoping Alice would be this hot goth chick, but then I thought people might think of the game as Tomb Raider, where Lara was a last minute addition to save a bad game. Maybe this is what Tokay was thinking too....

-Ze BFF d00d

Man, System Shock 2 was lame. Its the same engine as Thief, and even uses the same skeletal system for some of its characters! Its the same \"Press button, go get key\" BS we had to put up with in Quake2, only with pretty graphical interfaces and lame ripoffs of other games.

-Ze BFF d00d

Take out the smooth level transitions and the so-called immersive game design of the Half-life goes out the window. I agree with #18 that the first quarter was very interesting, but it decayed rapidly after that.
If you wanna play a scary and immersive game, try SystemShock2. Yes, there are some key elements in it, but it destroys HalfLife in terms of immersiveness. I was literally getting too scared to play it in the dark on many occasions :) . Perhaps it just isnt my cup of tea, but i just fail to see how those extremely stupid Xen maps could be called immersive.

As for Alice, im all for dark and twisted looking games. Hope they dont screw it up, cause the premise looks very promising.

Erm, Duke, did you even look at the screenshots?

Hate to burst your fantasy, but Alice does look the way you\'d like her to.

Alice should be a sexy, 16 year old nympho, not a ridiculous Lara Croft knock off, but suggestive, you know?

yeah

oh, and its late where I am so I\'m babbling

#18: Uhm, maybe _you_ had a bad experience with Halflife, or maybe it just wasn\'t yer cup of Joe. But a majority of the people I\'ve talked to, or seen posts by, have nothing but praise for the game. I was riveted the first AND second times I played the game, not to mention scared shitless when those little crawling bastard jumped at me in dark places.

Maybe Alice will suck, maybe it will rock. The first friggin\' screenshot just came out, for Christ sakes! GIVE IT A FUCKING CHANCE.

#17

Half life immersive? EVERQUEST?

Sorry but half life is the same find this, press that crap, if not worse. The first 25% of the game (if that) is great, but from there it decays very rapidly into something that is basically Earth Quake2.

Half life is, I\'ll admit the most immersive FPS out there, but honestly that isn\'t saying much, and for decades, every other genre has had atleast as much depth as half life.

Everquest is about the most non-immersive game in existance. I mean, how does sitting and waiting exactly 19 minutes for a creature to magically appear, immerse me? The answer is that it doesn\'t. While the game is more immersive than UO, I\'d hardly call it a good example of immersion.

You really need to get out if those are the two most immersive games that you\'ve played.

Key-card type single player games are just as unexciting.
But half-life was totally immersive
so is EverQuest.

I want more depth to my games, more dimensions...