Half-Life?

[UncleTestes]

As much as I've heard about the games, I'm not even sure what order they're in. All of the episodes and versions have confused me. Searching "Half-Life" in the Steam Store doesn't produce anymore promising results.

What games do I need to get to understand JUST THE STORY? I don't have any excessive desire to play its multiplayer, just the single player campaigns.

[Thret]

Start with Black Mesa. It's HL1 but with updated graphics. I'd play all of them. Mostly because they're fun.

[Nikki Wolf]

Half-Life/Black Mesa, Opposing Forces, and Blue Shift all take place at the same time. Half-Life 2 takes place years after the events of the Seven Hour War (HL1), HL2: Episode 1 takes place directly after HL2, and HL2: Episode 2 takes place after E1.

[UncleTestes]

I'll look into those, thanks.

[Rosey]

HLs multiplayer was never really anything to begin with.

its like someone was playing through the HL games, decided "what if we made this multiplayer" and just kept every gun the same, planted spawn points for them in the map and called it multiplayer
not really any thought put into it and its more disappointing then you think

HL is all about SP.

[Balubish]

HLs multiplayer was never really anything to begin with.

its like someone was playing through the HL games, decided "what if we made this multiplayer" and just kept every gun the same, planted spawn points for them in the map and called it multiplayer
not really any thought put into it and its more disappointing then you think

HL is all about SP.

Well me and friends had many fun game hours under HL lan so dont see why it's not a MP game but sure, the story and SP mode is even better.

[Rosey]

HLs multiplayer was never really anything to begin with.

its like someone was playing through the HL games, decided "what if we made this multiplayer" and just kept every gun the same, planted spawn points for them in the map and called it multiplayer
not really any thought put into it and its more disappointing then you think

HL is all about SP.

Well me and friends had many fun game hours under HL lan so dont see why it's not a MP game but sure, the story and SP mode is even better.

HL2DM is similar to old, faster paced MP games like Quake or UT, which I've never played of either, but I find that HL2 makes a terrible multiplayer. It seems like there's no thought put into balance, and it's MP for the sake of having MP. There's basically no appeal to the game overall. You could just play sandbox gmod and have that be HL2DM

[Ron Swansons Stache]

Have you tried Sven Co-op? I'm not sure if it's still in development or if they even bothered for any other HL game but the idea was that it turned Half Life into a co-op game played over LAN/internet. It was pretty cool.