Blue Shift - your views?

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I started Blue Shift today, and finished it. I reckon that Blue Shift's puzzles were far better than Half Life and Opposing Force. Even though it was incredibly short, it was quite good.
The ending was intense aswell.

What do you guys think?

PS: It didn't lag.
 
Why would it lag?

Anyway, it's a great game.
 
Eh, bit meh. I sorta used to quite like it, then I grew some gaming balls and realized wow, this is actually kinda shit! I don't know; it kicks off pretty good then goes down the crapper shortly afterwards. I mean, it's as though they put little to no effort into certain parts. Sure, it does some things better than Opposing Force (distinct lack of lackluster alien race and new, OTT weapons), but it seems so cack handed in its approach. Lets look at a few things. First, Sewer level. Utterly terrible gameplay in every sense of the word. Second: "No I'm not Dr. Rosenburg." I didn't ask? And thirdly, "We made it Mr. Calhoun, we made it!" Cheese.

Some bits are cool, but on the whole there's nothing pretty stand out about it.

Oh, and Xen was awful.
 
Loved it, was a nice length for an expansion, and Gearbox seemed to have learned their lesson from Op4. If you can't make new enemies and weapons that actaully WORK, don't do it at all.
 
Samon said:
"No I'm not Dr. Rosenburg." I didn't ask?
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Isnt it quite obvious you have to ask to get that answer?
That in mind wouldnt the "Lead the way" in HL1 be pathetic too?
In my opinion Gearbox did make a rather good job in those expansions.
And no one needs gamer balls.
 
Blue Shift was the first HL game I ever played, so obviously I was amazed and thought it was the coolest game ever. Then I played Half-life and Opposing Force and I've never stopped loving Half-Life...

I haven't played Blue Shift in years though...I think I'll download it from steam right now :)
 
I played Blue Shift after HL2, which probably spoiled it for me. As Samon said, it just kind of felt shoddy and cackhanded. At least it didn't introduce all manner of weirdshit and mess up canon like OF, but at the same time it didn't seem to have as much effort put into it as OF either.

Some bits were good, others I felt like 'I wish I was playing HL'.
 
I quite enjoyed Blue Shift. Altough it might have felt repeatitive, I liked most of the puzzles and the High-Definition pack released that time also improved my game experience alittle. The only downside was, that it was bit too short. I would have gladly played it longer. Op4 just felt alittle more worthy than this one. But thats just my opinion.
 
For me it was more of the same Half Life goodness - I wish more games with strong storylines would allow you to experience the storyline from different points of view. Alien v. Predator II did this pretty well too.
 
HL1 > Op4 > BS

op4 would have been better if they changed the story/situation.
 
I disliked Blue Shift, just not as much action as Half-Life and Opposing Force had.

My opinion doesn't count as much as yours does though, since I haven't finished the whole game, I will finish it this week, I swear.
 
nutcrackr said:
Opposing force is betterer to the max.
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Oppossing force was disgusting. Silly weapons (Barnacle gun) silly character (faceless marine, how interesting) and the fact it pissed all over the canon. There was so many ways it could go, hunting down scientists and the like with more squad-based action. Lackluster at best.

I reckon that Blue Shift's puzzles were far better than Half Life and Opposing Force.
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Some were silly, like breaching a gap between to explosive wires with a metal barrell. Others were creative, like sending explosives down a canal.
 
the puzzles were good, but there were no good bosses. that's how much i remember about it.
 
I love Blue Shift. I played parts of it over and over. As others have said the puzzles were well done and much more challenging than those in the other two games.

As for Oppossing Force my only gripe with it is that Squads were under-used.
 
I enjoyed Blue Shift, if only for being able to see a little more of Black Mesa and more time on Xen. The puzzles WERE pretty good. The only 'negative' comment I have is that the shortness combined with the lack of any real epic setpieces made the game seem rather anticlimactic.

Blue Shift was good.

Azure Sheep was better.

Samon said:
Oh, and Xen was awful.
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YOU'RE awful! :flame:
 
azure sheep is better than blue shift
played blue shift once
playing azure sheep 12 times
 
Blue shift was enjoyable enough. I've been thinking about replaying it as I've forgotten a lot of it. Two scenes I do remember enjoying was a fight at a train station (I remember thinking it was one of the best fights in HL) and the old Teleporter.
 
Blue shift was good, until it ended... god,I never saw that coming.

I was always hoping that Dr.Rosenberg would double cross me and leave me behind, or the Teleportar would conk out at the final moment but noooo...

Just to clear things up Barney from BS is the Barney from HL2, right?
 
Blue Shift wasn't as good as Opposing Force. Opposing Force wasn't as good as Half-Life. I'd explain now but I'm sure I'll anger some people with this post and I'm smarter while arguing so bring on argument.:hmph:
 
I thought it was ok...





Joking, of course. It was recycled garbage, and pales in comparison to HL, which was released two f*cking years before it. :x
 
corporal sheperd said:
Blue Shift wasn't as good as Opposing Force. Opposing Force wasn't as good as Half-Life. I'd explain now but I'm sure I'll anger some people with this post and I'm smarter while arguing so bring on argument.:hmph:
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That is a safe road to go to avoid an argument but yeah half life was great followed by the Xen part of BS and the OP4 which had some new Xen creatures around
 
OP4 didn't have new Xen creatures, Gearbox thought inventing a new alien nation, without any references in the original game whatsoever, would be intelligent.
 
They didnt realize you could just say that they came from Xen but you have never for some reason seen them before like the Antlions that was annoying should have said they came with the Citadel or some such explanation for that stuff
 
Antlions are often referred to Xenofauna but I've never seen any real reference to it?
Assumption, or It might have something to do with Race X?*
It would have been cool, having an army of bullsquids instead:p
*Highly unlikely. I gotta stop saying this crap.
 
Xen is massive. We've only went through a tiny part of it and that si only thanks to teleportation. The "Standart" Xen Aliens and Race X might be related in some way, but they might've not known about each other before the BF Incident.
 
Frentzen said:
Antlions are often referred to Xenofauna but I've never seen any real reference to it?
Assumption, or It might have something to do with Race X?*
It would have been cool, having an army of bullsquids instead:p
*Highly unlikely. I gotta stop saying this crap.
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I stopped liking the Bullsquid after I played the Half Life 2 beta, so glad they are not attacking but the Antlions should have come with the Citadel as hiding stowaways cause Xen is not so interesting for this fight
 
I hope the Black Mesa Source team knows about the beta Bullsquids. It could save them a lot of time and energy.
 
And make their mod even more illegal than it already is :rolleyes:
 
It's illegal now? C'mon, tell me, I'll love to hear D:
 
Xendance said:
If it was illegal, why would Steam feature it in its news?
"Congratulations to the Black Mesa team for winning the award on Moddb" or something.
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Just because it's illegal doesn't mean that Valve cares :p
 
Legal,illegal...whatever...I cant wait for this mod to come out ;)
 
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