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Does anyone know where I can get the entire HL story up to HL2 (including all mission packs) in a text format?

I'd love to read it just before playing half life 2, it would really set the scene.

Maybe one of you guys with too much time on your hands and good writing skills could write the story out for people to read, I'm sure this would be a big hit with the hl community.


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Jemook.
 
That sounds like a good challenge but since I'm not the writing type I don't think I could do it.So maybe one of these HL2 nut cases here :) might do it.
 
Well, I don't know about the expansion packs or anything, but if you're looking for the essential story this site is great:

http://www.geocities.co.jp/NeverLand/7842/

It mainly deals with voiceovers but its a good page until somebody finds/writes one that includes 100% of the players actions (now that would be a long job!)
 
What would really "set the scene" is going through HL again and its' expansions.
 
havent played blue shift yet :( how is it compared to hl & op4?
 
A little more advanced and you also get a high extention pack, but the game is quiet short. :/
 
Gordon arrives at work in a research lab that cares for its employees. Gordon Blows up Big Research lab in a resonance Cascade f*ck-up.
Aliens start appearing around the complex. These include crabs that jump for his head. Things that fire lightening, and dog like things that create sonic waves. Gordon and everyone trying to get out. Gordons Hazard Suit protects him. Gordon fights his way to get out. Gordon and some Scientists find some Army Grunts to help them out. Army Grunts shoot Scientists. Gordon has a quick rethink of approach tactics, Grunts die. Grunts here to silence facility, not help.
Gordon Keeps on trying to reach the surface, fighting off aliens and Grunts. Gordon spots a mysterious man in a suit, who also opens new doors for him, thus saving his life.

Eventually he reachs a missile testing bay in which 3 powerful but blind alien tentacles have taken up residence. Gordon turns on the Oxygen and Fuel supplies and burns tentacles to a crisp. Gordon continues.

Gordon reaches surface. Lots of grunts around, no escape. Gordon reaches scientists that tell him he needs to take the complex's train system to launch an orbital sattelite delivery rocket. Intrepid Gordon sets off. Gordon arrives at train tracks to find a big motherf----- of an alien at the start of the train system. Gordon is reminded of parents and christens it big momma. Gordon now turns on the tracks generators and lures the alien into power station, then frying it with lots of volts.

Gordon now jumps on the train system and merrily drives along. Killing any pests on the track he finds. Stopping for a snack, he trips over the rocket, and then launches it. Then jumps back on the trains. Train then jumps off the rails into water. Gordon finds a large alien in a tank, and a crossbow to shoot it with. Putting 2 and 2 together he makes light work of the alien. After passing a few more he cools down with a quick run through a freezer. Then meets some black clad ladies. Who are never to be trusted, so he kills them. Comments about chat up lines made here by player. Once done he is captured by the Grunts and put in a trash compacter, before making his escape.

Gordon meets a new alien firing wasps, after a few experiments with a laser he makes a hole to get out. Here he sees that aliens have already been discovered, and are being tested on in labs in this section of the complex. Finding some scientists who help him escape out of the lab, he reaches the surface. Tensions mount here.

Gordon dodges Helicopters and the army to get through a dam and a minefield. A tank, some more grunts, a walk around the side of a cliff, he finds a rocket launcher and takes down an apache. More soldiers and hes into a complex housing nuclear missiles. A subtle entry through the roof and a bit of tripmine avoidance, away through a hole in the bottom of the main building. more tanks, men, aliens and hes around another part of the surface an into another area on Black Mesa. Using a few machine gun emplacements to eradicate more aliens, he meets another big momma, and makes a dash for the exit. Having escaped temporarily over a wall, A carelessly left radio and airstrike control panel tell him the army are bugging out, and if he wants an airstrike, hes got it. A fond farewell to the big momma and hes away. Things go quiet as he makes he way around, before blowing up another tank. A pitched battle between aliens and the army allows him to grab a tank and cause some mayhem. Moving on Gordon finds that the other section of the complex he knew nothing about, and that they have been experimenting with teleporters to alien worlds. He is now told he must get 1 of these to the alien worlds in order to try and stop the invasion. The brave man steps up.

After running around the aliens worlds for a while Gordon meets a headcrabs mother. Not a pretty sight by all accounts, and takes some serious firepower to beat. Then he finds an alien factory where their Grunts are made. The Electric aliens seem to be running the place, and the Grunts come out of pods. After carelessly falling into a teleporter twice he arrives to find a big alien whos been in charge of everything it seems. This alien is so utterly confident of victory he forgets his head, which Gordon splits open and in which puts a Piece of high explosive, causing internal hemorraging to the alien, and death. Now hes transported onto what seems to be a train car thats flying through space. And the spook man who saved his life, and appeared at other places in glimpses, puts himself forward as "the administrator" and offers Gordon to either Join him, or be teleported back to Xen to die. According to recent super-string theory and CY Orbifolds, Gordon accepts promotion.
 
I never finished Op Force, what actually happens to Shephard in the end?
 
==============OP4 Spoiler==================








After defeating the alien creature he ends up with the G-man aswell and the G-man says that he will be transfered to a place where he can come to no harm and where no harm will come to him.
The G-man says that he can probably imagine that there are worse alteratives.
 
Did the original Half-Life come with a manual of some sort? I have the original version but I don't recall there being a manual of any kind...
 
Originally posted by CommieX
Did the original Half-Life come with a manual of some sort? I have the original version but I don't recall there being a manual of any kind...
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Yes, and it was full of inaccuracies. Talking about Scientists giving you health jabs.
 
yes they do... not all of them but i remember one or two going something like your looking pretty banged up gordon... let me help you and he pulls out a needle and dopes him up :)


therook
 
GOOD GOD. You're right.

I've played though the entirity of Half Life about 5 times and I've never encountered it.

Oh well, it has other stuff wrong. I think.

I'm embarrassed now.
 
I encountered it the first time I played. ;) The first time I saw it, I was like... "AHH! HE'S GOING TO KILL ME WITH THAT GIANT NEEDLE!" and I tried to run.
 
I've only encountered it once I think....it occurs when the player's health drops below 15% and you tell a scientist to follow you. Guess we're all too 1337 to have ever gone to that level of health though... ;)
 
Haha I used to love getting health from the scientists
They give me a shot to the arm, I get life
Then I give them a shot to the temple, they get death
 
I only had that happen to me once in OP4, and it was while I was in the process of swinging the wrench at his head.
 
Originally posted by Wraith
this one is very long and detailed, a great read!

http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1403658
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I dunno, whilst it's interesting to see other people's take on the same story, it's not so good to see them boll*ck their way through a story you know, trying to flesh out details and act like they thought of it first. Especially when the writing style's not that great.
No offence to the person that wrote it, mind. I know it's difficult to write sometimes and you need all the practise you can get.
I've seen things like this before and they're generally not that great.
It'd be interesting to see Laidlaw doing something similar though :)
One thing that surprised me was that the marines were primed for this "operation" - as mentioned in the Op4 manual. My take on this is that it was a precautionary measure and not a dead cert. Does anyone agree?
 
el chi, i for one would be glad to read your story should you make one to outdo the other! :) nothing like some friendly competition..

maybe someone could quickly some up the story for me bc i havent played the expansion packs..

tenks!
mook of jem.
 
Originally posted by jemook
el chi, i for one would be glad to read your story should you make one to outdo the other! :) nothing like some friendly competition..
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Fair comment:)
Persionally, I'd feel really weird about re-writing someone else's story from a game or film or whatever. I think I've tried it once or twice before and it was difficult and not that rewarding. No, really.
Anyway, it was only a little criticism. Although not constructive, so not that great. :)
 
The marines were not told what the mission was, only that it was a mission. The command was told it was precausionary. The G-man probably knew it was going to happen. And the marines were scrambled to their ospreys minutes after the accident, arriving just in time for We've Got Hostiles, at around 11:00am, i believe.

And if you want the full half-life story, buy the generations pack. Come, on, It's only 20 quid. You get Cs, Firearms, Redemption, Uplink and both expansion packs. You know you want to. And if you havn't got a suitable computer, go to a freinds house every day for a week and complete them all there.
 
Has anyone ever read any of Laidlaw's actual fiction works? I'm considering ordering "Dad's Nuke" from Amazon, it looks like a humourous read, but it would be most interesting to see what his writing style is like.

Personally, I enjoy the fan fiction because I have to confess to being a half life fanboy and its really cool to read others interpretations of an already great story.
 
Can anyone tell me what happend at the end of blue shift?
 
Barney Calhoun successfully managed to escape with a couple of scientists (one being Dr. Rosenberg?) and the other possibly Eli Vance I believe. The last scene was them in an outside car park of Black Mesa, after the player managed to teleport himself and the scientists out of the facility.
 
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