Should I just give up on Half-Life?

Half-Life was one of those games I had always been kinda interested in, but my PC was terrible, so I couldn't get it.

Earlier in the year, I found a (very) cheap used copy of it for PS2, but it was scratched to all hell and locked up before anything really happens.


Recently I found another very cheap used copy for PS2, which does work. :)

But, due to the 'realistic' movement (leaning when you strafe, for example) it makes me feel kind of sick if I play it for more than an hour or so (no other FPSes do that to me, btw), which isn't good because I'm enjoying it apart from that.

So what do I do? I can't play the PS2 version, is it any different on PC?

Also, does HL2 have the same kind of thing?

Just play the PC version; it's dirt cheap and much more fun. HL is more for mouse 'n keyboard anyway. As for leaning, I don't recall anything drastic on the PC, but since it doesn't bug me like it does you then I probably wouldn't have even noticed.

That said, play HL2 if you can run it WELL. It's an awesome experience at 60FPS on full graphics, but otherwise it loses its power.

Half Life 2 is over rated. I'm not saying it is bad but going as far to say that it is the best game of all time is a little irresponsible, Quake 4 is a far superior FPS

The PS2-version is the best version. It has better graphics and mouse and keyboard support.

Better graphics than the PC original with high-res texture packs?

I think so. The PS2-character-models have much more polygons therefor.

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Originally Posted by AxelStone

Half Life 2 is over rated. I'm not saying it is bad but going as far to say that it is the best game of all time is a little irresponsible, Quake 4 is a far superior FPS

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Saying Quake 4 is better than Half-Life 2 is just a lie in my eyes. Half-Life 2 has a way better story and alot more interesting and devoloped characters. Quake 4 is not a bad game, but you just can do alot better.

Lots of people get headaches from HL and HL2. This has to do with the FOV which is slightly different frm the average FPS. You can change the FOV in the PC versions.

How many degrees is it different?

I've got to admit the sequence in HL2 in the graveyard got my adrenaline pumping, there is also a good mod called Nightmare House which is pretty cool.

I have been playing FPS's since Wolfenstein 3d and HL also gives me a slight head ache when no other fps really has. That being said the Half Life series including HL2 and its episodes create the best story driven universe that FPS gaming has ever seen imho.

What kind of computer did you have when you first played it?!

I played the first Half Life, and it wasn't really that great.

I'm more of a Unreal fan, but those flies completely scare the bejezzus of me me so much that I can't even properly play the game. :(

The second one wasn't too bad, now that I've played it again, thanks to the Unreal Anthology, but you're character moves too slow. But the tournament games are the BEST.

Unreal tournament is quite good, 2005 is perfection.
I first played Half Life on my old 700 Mhz Pentium 3 with an NVIDIA Riva TNT2 graphics card...those were the days.

I've been out of the PC scene for a LONG time now, so I'm now getting back in to it, and a LOT has changed, some good and some bad.

I will say, I did first play Half-life on a Celeron at 500mhz with a Nvidia TNT 2, or the like. Or was it my prior computer, a AMD K6 at 200mhz with a 3Dfx Voodoo 1? Oi...

lol, Celerons are so crap - my Celeron can barely run anything let alone Half Life...I don't even know why I keep it?

I had no issues back in the day, But then again I don't need to run everything at the highest resoultion with all of the fancy graphics setting.

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Originally Posted by 108 Stars

The PS2-version is the best version. It has better graphics and mouse and keyboard support.

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I'm very sorry "108 Stars".Even though you and me ussually agree, I slightly disagree with opinion on the ps2 version. I do like the keyboard and mouse support, but the only issue is that the loading times were every few minutes, LITERALLY each time i play i always wonder that if i turn the next corner if i'd get slammed with a 7 minute loading screen. and occansionally it won't stop loading, it just crashes. Overall, the ps2 is just a fair port. its definatly not the best but i like the pc version a lot better;)

Hmh, interesting. I don´t think it ever crashed when I played, but of course loading times may be disturbing (though 7 minutes is exaggerating; maximum loading time is 6 minutes 30 seconds!).
Well, for me the nicer visuals and the fact that sitting in front of a PC somewhat kills atmosphere for me were more important. But like always, it is a matter of taste.

Yeah, the loading times are quite horrible.

Especially if there's a bad alien guy jumping at you and then it starts with the 'LOADING' and have to wait for 3 minutes to shoot it. :?

I think the DC beta actually had shorter loads than the PS2? (The dev team promised near-instantaneous loads in a build shortly after the commonly circulated one.)