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Topic	Somebody explain Half-Life's popularity to me.
Red Shifter 10/24/18 10:33:50 PM #11:	KanzarisKelshen posted... Xiahou Shake posted... Both Half-Life and HL2 were absolute breakthroughs in FPS game design on a magnitude that would be difficult to explain if you weren't playing games at the time. This. Basically RS, you know how we have cover shooters these days? Half Life invented the language they speak. Like, completely. It's the source of everything they do. If you've got time to kill and a mind for technical discussion of what HL did right or wrong, look at this. It should explain quite a bit of why it was so revolutionary: http://thegamedesignforum.com/features/rd_hl_1.html KanzarisKelshen posted... cover shooter This gives me a "why I should hate it with every fiber of my being", but not a "why other people like it to the point that it killed off the entire FPS genre". --- It's F-Zero. F-ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERO! <cite>Red Shifter posted [p:911113760] in Somebody e... [t:77129137]...</cite> <quote><cite>KanzarisKelshen posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Xiahou Shake posted...</cite> <quote>Both Half-Life and HL2 were absolute breakthroughs in FPS game design on a magnitude that would be difficult to explain if you weren't playing games at the time.</quote> This. Basically RS, you know how we have cover shooters these days? Half Life invented the language they speak. Like, completely. It's the source of everything they do. If you've got time to kill and a mind for technical discussion of what HL did right or wrong, look at this. It should explain quite a bit of why it was so revolutionary: http://thegamedesignforum.com/features/rd_hl_1.html</quote> <cite>KanzarisKelshen posted...</cite> <quote>cover shooter</quote> This gives me a "why I should hate it with every fiber of my being", but not a "why other people like it to the point that it killed off the entire FPS genre". --- It's F-Zero. F-ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERO!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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