Favorite moments in Half Life

[Roland Deschain]

Half Life 2 finally being in the horizon (or so we think, it might turn out to be just a box shaped stone), we gotta look back where it all started.

What was your favorite thing/moments in Half Life.


My favorite moment (and I'm talking about the first time I played through) was when you are on the car lift and all those head-crabs are sliding down and your dodging them like crazy.

Favorite thing had to be the AI, I mean the monsters were actally running away from me. "Is that sonofabitch hiding behind a box. ****ing pussy; the like a Doom monster and come streight at me so I can shoot you up nicely."

 

[Neutrino]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24645&highlight=favorite+moments

:bounce:

 

[Roland Deschain]

lol, oh well, this is for those that didn't post it. I really need to spend some time and look through all the posts.

 

[Dalamari]

Prolly when I was playing the PC Gamer demo or whoever released one and my friend was playing actually. Well, we were doing the intro, in a tram, weeeee. Walking thru a facility, wow this game sucks, im sure glad this was just a demo. Put the crystal in the laser? is this a joke or someth- HOLY S**T WTF IS GOING ON. If it wasn't for the aliens so early in the game I almost woulda passed HL off as some science simulator.

 

[ShadowFox]

The tentacle... so badass.

The first time you reach the surface.

 

[InsaneCow]

The fights between the marines and aliens in Questionable Ethics/Surface Tension and the resonance cascade.

 

[Gojin]

I know it's very early on, but a great part was when the scientists are like, "Well, there is a slight discrepancy but -- Nevermind. It's probably nothing". Creepy at like 2 am with all lights off.

 

[|Star Runner|]

I just love the start when all the scientists are saying creepy and ominous things like
"they're waiting for you gordon.......in the TEST CHAMBER" and basically the whole atmosphere at the start.
My favorite thing would have to be the creepy things with the beaks in the rocket test chamber love the way their AI works

 

[crabcakes66]

The scientists food exploding in the microwave....and pushing the alarm button in the beginning.

 

[brokenjago]

I loved the entore game, personally, I can't really say an exact moment I liked, I loved the entire game.

 

[Chadda]

When I hid behind some crates, crouching, and I here something land, I look down 'bout four feet away and it's a grenade...I'm like "ohhhhhh"....WOOOOHOOOOOOO. Jumping up and down. :frog: :bounce:

EDIT: Apart from playing multiplayer C&C and choppering a commando in to someone's base and destroying his tiberian factory, war factory etc before he could respond...the above was my all time favourite gaming moment. I really pray there is something similarly profound in HL2.

 

[EC]

When you are in a vent room with barnicles on the ceiling, and skulls on the vents. You climb into a vent and turn left. A couple of turns later, a headcrab jumps at you. That little bastard scared me and made me scream. God I love it.

 

[egon]

since you asked, ill post this again

ANOMALOUS MATERIALS/ WELCOME TO BLACK MESA

ok first of all who all agree with me that not only is half life the best game ever made, but half life : uplink is the best demo ever made. it captures the essence of half life with brilliant scripted events and combat situations. i played it a long time after finishing half life and it brought back a bit of the magic.

the memorable moments - all I can remember

the train ride, absolutely awesome with the robot the radioactive goo, the helicopter. and at that time the game was pure eye candy with my new 3d card.

the conversation before entering the test chamber ( we have assured the administrator nothing will go wrong, well i dont know how u can say all that, gordon doesnt need to know all this, he's a highly trained professional)

the dream sequence after the cascade, the breathing sound.

UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES

the falling elevator

the part after taht with the lasers cutting ppl, the alarm sound everything was incredibly scary

the first headcrab, when uve no idea what to do, and u have no weapons.

first zombie esp. in hard it manages to kill the guard n comes after u.

the first alien slave.

the scientist who keeps popping out of the ventilator (?) and going back in

the stream of headcrabs who call on you as you go down the lift.

first bullsquid

OFFICE COMPLEX

zapping headcrabs

where u get the shotgun

battling huge number of aslaves in the complex

freezer with the galloping bullsuid

near the end when the zombie throws someone thru a glass wall

the scientist hanging on for dear life as you climb down to the elevator

WE'VE GOT HOSTILES

sentry guns and lasers, had lot of fun beating them

the slippery place where u turn round a corner sliding and a sentry gun starts firing

the scientist who is happy to see the military, only to get murdered.

first fight with the marines.

the osprey dropping unlimited marines down the shaft (really cool)

BLAST PIT

seeing the tentacle for the first time, snatching the scientist, i cudnt dare walk down the room for some time

creeping past the tentacles wearing headphones , the banging noise when it kills you.

the huge fan u use to fly up

the scientist near the power switches who erfuses to go anywhere

the rusty pipe collapsing in the end.

POWER UP

first sight of gargantua, murdering marines

some incredible fights with the marines

going to switch on the main power with the gargantua chasing you

ON A RAIL (incredible level)

really all the encounters with enemies, brilliantly thought out

where your railcar starts rising and marines shoot at you

the marines with missile launchers

the oh so irritating box puzle before launching the rocket

launching the rocket

APPREHENSION

suddenly you find a bigger, well protected railcar and are zooming happily on it, and some marines blast the rails and you go deep in water, real coolnes.

frantically searching for a place to catch your breath while in water

first ichthyosaur, bloody scary.

the slippery place with two ichthyosaurs

assassins, how they kill the guard and then the fight with them.

the getting captured part and dragging scene (body what body)

RESIDUE PROCESSING

hmm nothing really memorable here, probably the least interesting level.

QUESTIONABLE ETHICS

first alien grunt you meet, and killing him with whatever you have left, magnum bullets, and glock bullets and crowbar.

zapping headcrabs in the labs.

fighting marines with whatever little ammo u have, for the first 3-4 its like kill one, take his ammo n kill next etc.

( you dont have this problem if u find the secret stach in residue processing, but it was real fun this way)

some more cool encounters
the gauss gun scene (overcharge? what do you mean overcharge)

SURFACE TENSION

what can i say, the most incredible level, full of memorable moments.

the first scene with the helicopter overhead, the fish in the water. real scary to go in the water, and somehow the helicopter took ages to kill the fish.

helicopter no. 2 ( i shto it down and it fell on top of me, really amazing. somebody else hada similar experience here i think.

the cliffside, first sight when the aircraft goes past. way cool. and as you peep out, the sentry gun starts shooting at you.

the headcrab as you reenter a new pipe, scared the crap out of me and i fell over the cliff (.

the big marine fight after taht, one of the best.

airdropping alien grunt.

the almost dead guard before the minefield.

the room wired with explosives and meetign a headcrabs there, when youre utterly scared that theyll blow up the room, but ur scaered to shoot them thinking taht might also disturb something

when u come out after getting the hornet gun, the tank vs grunt encounter

the room full of ammo (lovely stuff) esp if u switch on the light which shines on it.

the osprey again dropping unlimited marines.

going down a shaft only to meet snarks head on.

the marines shooting, light thru the tunnel thing (already mentioned)

blasting marines with the cannon outside.
the fake tank (i emptied my gauss on it )

the satchel in the tunnel, crawl for your life part.

the gargantua, overturning cars, running away from him and calling the airstrike. absolutely incredible.

FORGET ABT FREEMAN

falling ceiling in forget abt freeman

the huge fight near the endof the level b/w marines n aliens

LAMBDA CORE

assassins: the second encounter, nuff said.

conversation with scientist who lets you in the core ( we drew straws to see who will stay back and i drew the shortest one.) typical dry dark half life 2 humour. ownage.

scientist picks up shotgun then puts it down as he recognises you.

shooting alien controllers, waiting for the teleporterto open.

XEN

first sight of xen.

first encounter with little light plants taht dont like u.

GONARCH's LAIR

seeingl lots of ammo and power running towards it only to hear a funny noise. turn around to seea giant shelob like creature. scary.

INTERLOPER

encounter with gargantua.

teleporting to barrel factory. its eerie when the slaves ignore you.

XEN(2)

hearing all voices in your head as you approach nihilanth. cool touch.

NIHILANTH

final conversation with gman. absolutely incredible. best ending ever.


phew. thats all i can remember.

 

[ShadowFox]

Heh.. basically you just outlined the game.

Your right about the area right before Nihilanth. I love the colors too. The red glow was eerie.

 

[Kschreck]

Stop making a big deal if it was posted already.

Posted May 2003 -OLDDDDDDDDDDD!!!

I think it's safe to make a new post like this now. Thats all you people do is say "Search" well maybe some people want to RE-Discuss something.

My favorite parts are:

1. Scientist gets sucked into the vent and guts fly out.
2. Throwing a gernade in the dumpster when the scientist peeks out.
3. When you hit the elavator button or try to go in and all the scientist go crashing down to their death. :cheers:

 

[Estevan]

After the accident gordon has to go back to the main lobby(from the beginning). Well if you break the button to the door you entered the offices it will open and you see a scientists hanging from a rope and he says "Get back gordon!" and then you get close enough so that the bridge falls and then "WAAAAAAAAA!" the scientists goes falling

 

[Burn]

My fav has too be the start, when your walking around BM, gives a nice feel of the place before it gets bust up. And when your topside in a small area with alot of bunkers and unground tunnels, with the marines throwing granades at you repeatedly.

 

[tokin]

I loved the little scene where the headcrab zombie pulled barney or scientist up through vent and ate him....and marines cming down through bvent shaftt

 

[Wsh]

I loved the scene after the big dam.. Trying to dodge the chopper and a dozen marines in that rocky area.. the atmosphere simply rocked. The apache's sound made it even more cool >:]

 

[Absinthe]

In the game:
When you had your first battle with the soldiers. The kickass music starts in, the cool radio chatter increases, you only catch glimpses of the grunts running from cover to cover behind the crates... And then it all erupts in machine gun bursts and grenades. That was way cool.

In anything Half-Life related:
Probably the Half-Life: Uplink demo. I remember me and my friend were playing it late at night and were completely psyched about it. Everything was so damn cool. But then we reached the end and then the Garg came bursting out, knocking shit everywhere, breaking everything, killing security guards. And then the platform we were on fell, and we were right there, face to face with a hulking mean blue badass. Soon, the screen begins to fade out and me and my buddy are still yelling "HOLY SHIT! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD...."

 

[Chris D]

Surface Tension always sticks in my mind as being the best part of HL; along with the bit before (?) it where you first get the guass gun.

 

[SMT]

The skirmish on the side of the cliff. It was genius; nobody else was doing stuff like that in 1998. Scrambling on tiny ledges while avoiding enemy fire, rocks crumbling at your feet, battling an Apache helicopter from a tiny cave (!) and, finally, getting scared to death by a headcrab leaping out of the pipe. Brilliant. I hope there are moments like this in Half-Life 2.

 

[Urbanebula]

"getting scared to death by a headcrab leaping out of the pipe"

I fell off the ledge and then had to go to the toilet.

My favourite bit. The first tentacle encounter. I'd seen it an a video the year before and when i heard the clanging my heart started pointing. I tried so hard to save that bloody scientist. Nihalanth's death was pretty memorable too. I was so pleased with myself and then...then i finally got to speak with..."Him."

 

[NeLi]

When I first met a Garg.

When I for the first time encountered the tentacles...

 

[acme420]

My favorite moment in halflife 2 was WHEN SOME MORON ASKED ME ABOUT MY FAVORITE MOMENT IN A GAME THAT NO ONE HAS EVER ****ING PLAYED!

 

[Axyon]

This belongs in General Gaming.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

The absolutely best part of the game to me:
Office Complex, infront of the big silo doors, the scientist banging the glass at the booth with a barney inside.
"For God's sake! Open the silo doors, they're coming for us it's the only way out! Oh my God we're doomed, doomed!"
Also.
"Don't shoot, I'm with the science team!"
I felt sorry for them.

 

[Xenome]

The best part of the game for me was, the whole big part from the beginning where you tried to reach the surface, and then you finnaly did.

A scientist warns you "it's hell out there, it's completely under military control".

Oh wait i think that means that the second part ( @ the surface) is also my favorite part

but to be specific: I REALLY liked the part where a scientist says to you "i ain't going any further, take one look trough that door and you'll see what i mean"

and then you see all those laser beams LOL

 

[Foxtrot]

I don't remember which part, but when you meet Barney and he says: Gordon I have to tell you somthing|||| Then he dies(I know that isn't how it goes but that is close enough) and then there are all these assasins then you finnaly get to threw the door only to find out that was the trap.

 

[ACLeroK212]

Stop making a big deal if it was posted already.

Posted May 2003 -OLDDDDDDDDDDD!!!

I think it's safe to make a new post like this now. Thats all you people do is say "Search" well maybe some people want to RE-Discuss something.

My favorite parts are:

1. Scientist gets sucked into the vent and guts fly out.
2. Throwing a gernade in the dumpster when the scientist peeks out.
3. When you hit the elavator button or try to go in and all the scientist go crashing down to their death. :cheers:

you know what's really funny, is when a noob DOES use "search", finds something they wanna talk about, then gets eaten alive for digging up old posts. lol, it's a lose lose situation.

 

[ACLeroK212]

My favorite moment in halflife 2 was WHEN SOME MORON ASKED ME ABOUT MY FAVORITE MOMENT IN A GAME THAT NO ONE HAS EVER ****ING PLAYED!

he was asking about the orginal half-life jackass.

 

[Ralfst3r]

My favorite moment:

Crouching through a ventilation shaft, and the marines hear you, and start shooting at the vent.
And you see light coming through the bulletholes. Awersome! :farmer:

 

[Rocketman9mm]

I just had a good one today. Thought I'd fire up HL for one last romp through the single player before HL:Source is in my hands. Anyway I'm going through the game unaided (no all guns cheat) and I'm working my way through and I got to the part where you can back track through the level in the vents. I was just before the part near where you first get the mp5 where the grunt complains about killing 12 defenseless scientists. I was in that dark vent, I knew that headcrab was waiting for me in the darkness. Anyway, I didn't have my flashlight on for some reason and I heard the little bastard start to screetch as it started to come at me. I knew it was there but that sound still startles, i whip out my glock and fire..."click" its empty. I had one of those "oh shit" momemts. Even though it was no threat to gordon, still having those experiences playing through the game for the xxxxE18th time is just one reason why HL owns all ass forever.