[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Duck duck DEATH [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] forriedude is Half-life a good game just because you like it?[/quote]No games are objectively good, but from a subjective viewpoint, the answer is obviously yes. [quote]Level design? Sure, it's alright I guess, if you like on-rails shooters.[/quote]It would be inappropriate to give Half-Life an open world due to it's story and event-driven nature. It was one the first games to utilize in-game events to drive a story rather than cut-scenes, creating a very immersive effect for the gamer rather than the generic movie moment that changes the game. [quote]Story? Sure, it's fine if you like scripted setpieces that you have no control over,[/quote]Some of the best stories give the players no control. A story does not enabled the player control for it to be good. This is just silly. Half-Life and its subsequent series have a riveting story. [quote]you never cause, and never do anything about.[/quote]Half of the scripted events are triggered by the action of the player, be it pressing buttons, obtaining items, or fighting battles. Have you even played the game you're reviewing? [quote]Characters? Sure, if you like Mary-Sues with absolutely 0 flaws.[/quote]The majority of characters in half-life die. Do you even know what a Mary Sue is? It's an all-powerful, perfect character. Gordon Freeman dies when trying to climb ladders. [quote]Gameplay? Sure, if you like fighting enemies that just stand still and shoot (or run up to you as fast as they can in Half Life 1).[/quote]The AI was on-par for its time. With the updates in Half-Life 2, much of the AI became more dynamic, soldiers would hide behind cover and flank you, gunships would even shoot down incoming rockets. [quote]Physics? If physics are the best part of your gae, then your game really frigging sucks.[/quote]Physics was largely a component of one weapon in Half-Life 2, other than gravity, which is present in virtually every game today. I also noted you like to compare Half-Life with games such as Bioshock. Any intelligent critic, or just really any person who isn't dumb, would see the obvious error in this. Half-Life is FPS with puzzles, while Bioshock is an FPS-RPG. While they may have similarities, their clear difference in genre means they cannot be objectively compared in terms of one being better than the other. At first I thought this was a troll thread, but considering the effort put into it, I would guess the OP is just dumb.[/quote] A Mary Sue is a character with aboslutely no flaws, and exists solely for the purpose of wish-fufulment (Also, the only character that dies other than the player is Eli Vance, and that's in an expansion pack, not the vanilla game). Bella from Twilight is a Mary Sue. She exists for the single purpose of letting teenage girls imagine what it would be like to have 2 arcane beasts fighting over her. Wesley Crusher in Star-Trek exists for the sole purpose of letting early-teen Star-Trek fans know what it would be like to be on a spaceship like the Enterprise. Not someone who is all powerful, but a character who's only role is to be the very model of a human being that everyone wants to be. [Edited on 05.21.2012 9:29 AM PDT]