Originally posted by Venom
just for my defense ( and for the sake of your Opinion Wars 
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You're so kind.
saying that HL is pointless is not exactly what I call a reasoned explanation.
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By pointless, I simply mean I could see no point. It WASN'T fun to me becuase it felt like Quake (all run and gun, no real story). Further reading reveals that I should have played another three or four hourse to find actual story. Unfortunately, I'm the sort of person that does not continue playing games that don't catch my eye within the FIRST several hours.
I can see many points to HL-> it's fun, at the point it was quite beatiful, so it was nice just running around ( yeah, I'm that kind of guy, I like to look at beautiful gi... things ),
Beautiful? I'll take your word for it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I thought Shock2 and Thief were beautiful, but Half Life didn't look particularly good to me. The colors were mostly very drab and the models were uninspired. Then again, no one ever gave Shock2 big ups for the character models either.
I didn't feel as much excitement as fighting the marines in any other FPS, save for a couple others, the feeling that you were acting in a movie, with all that stuff going on ( ok, it's completly beaten by, say, renegade now, but the game is what, 3, 4 years old? ), the fact that it was fun, etc etc etc.
I didn't have fun playing it at all. I don't groove on running around gunning things down either. I like to play sneaky, and HL was ill suited for that.
When did your name change?
